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Jack Daniel’s, the Old No. 7 Brand, is a name most adults recognize as smooth sippin’ Tennessee whiskey made in Lynchburg, Tennessee, population 361. Jack Daniel’s is a sour mash that differs from bourbon because it goes through an extra ten day process that involves dripping the new whiskey through sugar maple charcoal, refining the taste and the aroma. This great smooth taste can be enjoyed straight up, on the rocks, or mixed with water or soda. Jack Daniel’s Cocktails are another pleasurable way to enjoy this spirit, with seven different Country Cocktails to choose from, including Lynchburg Lemonade, Watermelon Spike, Wildberry Jack, Blackberry Jack, Downhome Punch, Hurricane Punch, and Black Jack Cola. All cocktails are conveniently packaged too, so no time is wasted preparing refreshments! Just get the glasses and the ice and you’re ready to go!

Visitors to the Lynchburg, Tennessee area can take tours of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery and sample the product throughout tour. If visiting Jack Daniel’s online, go to www.jackdaniels.com for interesting facts and a virtual tour. The Jack Daniel’s online store sells many unique items for the Jack Daniel’s connoisseur, like a cribbage board made from pieces of used whiskey barrels. The golf enthusiast will enjoy Gentleman Jack golf balls or a Gentleman Jack polo shirt. Also available at the Jack Daniel’s Online Store is glass barware, decorative mirrors, playing cards, cocktail shakers, tee shirts, flasks, key chains, decanters, ornaments, and much more! Limited edition items may also be purchased and the selection differs depending on what is in stock at the time order is placed. Rest assured that any of these would make a great gift for anyone who loves Jack Daniel’s!

For Jack Daniel’s Recipes visit “Around the Tennessee Table” for cooking with Jack Daniel’s in the kitchen or on the grill. Great mouth watering marinades, cocktails, desserts, holiday, and party food suggestions using Jack Daniel’s smooth sippin’ sour mash whiskey, a Tennessee tradition. There is also a forum for recipe swapping and cooks can post their recipes if they like, and share how they incorporate Jack Daniel’s into their favorite creations. Jack Daniel’s doesn’t have to be just for sippin’!

Remember to drink (and eat!) responsibly, and visit Jack Daniel’s online at (one more time) www.jackdaniels.com, or at the legendary Lynchburg, Tennessee distillery, where visitors’ pictures are snapped while in the rickyard and posted on the website, so say “Cheers”!

Remember when tattoos and random body and face piercings were actually considered unique? Well, now take a gander at our present society. If you’re trying to be unique these days, I suggest you steer clear of the redundant and all too played out tattoos and body piercings. They might as well be a brand on cattle anymore. Who doesn’t have a tattoo on their lower back or a cliche tongue piercing? Other than yours truly, I don’t know too many people who don’t flaunt some type of body art or piercing. So if you’re shooting for originality, go for something a little more creative, and hopefully less painful.

One of the most common and most popular bodily holes to acquire these days is the tongue piercing. It appears that every rebelling teenager wants one. Do they even know the story behind the tongue piercing? I doubt it. While you may find the standard barbell though the tongue rather refreshing and different, you might want to think twice before heading to the local tattoo/piercing parlor downtown. Have you ever considered the repercussions to this trite attempt at autonomy? What if your tongue piercing becomes infected? Did you know that the hole in the tongue seals back up incredible fast? I hope you’re not planning on taking it out.

Probably the biggest factor of all concerns your precious choppers. Have you been to the dentist lately? What does your oral physician have to say about the almighty tongue piercing? I was absolutely shocked a couple years back when I visited my dentist with a cracked molar. This was the first tooth I had ever cracked in 30 years. I will NEVER chew hard candy again. And that goes the same for ice cubes. These are the usual culprits when it comes to cracked or chipped teeth. After conversing a little with my dentist, he started reeling off about the dangers of a simple tongue piercing. He claimed the standard barbells are terrible for your teeth. Apparently teenagers are constantly flipping them around in their mouths, which sadly results in a split tooth. He said the trend’s appeal baffles him, however brings him loads of business.

Therefore if you are considering a tongue piercing, I suggest you do your research first. Although the concept may sound appealing, it just might cause you future grief, not to mention a fat dentist bill.

Happy New Year - yes - but New Years Eve tends to be one of those days that is very depressing for people. There are so many expectations that come with new years eve that people are often left feeling let down by themselves or others. One of the reasons for this is the tradition of new years resolutions. This tradition requires that each person states on new years eve, what they are going to change about their life, or what they are going to accomplish in the coming year. Often times these resolutions are broken before the confetti is cleaned up from the New Years Eve celebration. A good resolution to make is to not make any resolutions.

Another reason that New Years Eve often is disappointing is that it marks the end of the celebration of the holiday season. During the holiday season people tend to eat too much, drink too much, and spend more time with relatives that they manage to avoid during the rest of the year. There is usually traveling involved and time off from the regular routines of school and work. All of these factors combined with broken resolutions makes for a New Years Eve that is not a cause for celebration.

New Years Eve does not have to be this way. If New Years Eve is a day that depresses you do something different. Start a tradition of your own that will make new years eve a true celebration. There are many ideas of things that you can do. If you live in an area where there is snow, go sledding or ice skating as a family. If you live in a warmer climate check out a hiking trail or build a fire on the beach.

One of the safest ideas is to create a fun New Years Eve event at home. Prepare a special meal together as a family. Eat it in a room that you ordinarily do not eat in. Play some board games while you listen to each others favorite music. Spend time talking about the holiday season that is coming to an end and what each person’s favorite memory is. Often times people fear that this type of family gathering is going to meet resistance from the children, but children crave spending quality time as a family and what better day to do this but on new years eve, which marks a fresh start. Many people do not stay at home because they feel obligated to go to a new years eve party. Feeling obligated does not usually put one in the best party mood, so why go.

New Years Eve has the potential to be a great day if you just allow yourself to develop new traditions to celebrate the passing of one year and the beginning of another. New Years Eve does not have to be filled with regrets and thoughts of failure, it is up to you to allow yourself a positive beginning to the new year. So, say it again - Happy New Year!

Not everyone who plays card games is a gambler. At least, that was the belief before the advent of the Internet. In the pre-internet era, playing card games was a sole preserve of the rich and the idle. In fact, the modalities of playing card games ensured that only those with ample time, money and resources could sustain the hobby. You needed to be a member of a card club or group, you needed to visit the club frequently, you also needed to have a regular group of players. It was all fine for the idle rich. But most professional people didn’t have the time and the convenience of indulging in such elaborate affairs. Casinos too demanded a stiff entry fee, ample time and the convenience of visiting and playing for hours. It was not accessible to many people. Whether the games were played for money or not is an altogether different question, but given a choice, most players indulged in these games in order to make a quick buck.

But the advent of the internet changed all that. These days, with online card games being all the rage, the participants have increased a million fold. For one thing, the internet made it possible for people spread all over the globe to get together and play games. Suddenly, it didn’t matter if the urge to play struck you at some odd hour. When you got online to access online card games, you could be sure of finding at least a few people to play with. And in games where other players were not required, you could play against an automated dealer.

Online card games truly democratized the gambling sphere and anyone with a computer, an internet connection and a credit card could get online and play to their heart’s content. Nearly all conventional card games have morphed into online card games. A look at any of the thousands of online card game sites will reveal that early all regular card games like poker, bridge, canasta, cribbage, euchre, hearts, rummy, solitaire, spades and whist exist as much loved and often played online cad games. Of course, the staunch favorites whether offline or as online card games have been blackjack and poker!

Today, there are online card game sites that enable multi player games where none of the players could be in close proximity with each other. And the convenience and the ease of accessing online card games have made the industry a serious money spinner (or loser as the case may be!). Online card games today constitute a multi billion dollar industry. And at the rate at which people continue to get online to indulge in online card games, the day is not far when there will be a virtual Vegas on the net that is as profitable, if not more, than its offline counterpart.

When we hear a name like Pembroke Pines, Florida, we might think most immediately of a sleepy, squeaky with crickets and frogs retirement community. Well, we’d be partially right. Pembroke Pines, Florida is highly accessible as a community for older citizens—with emphasis on activities, services, and events such as antiques and collectibles shows, university classes, and advanced facilities at such places as The Southwest Focal Point Senior Center. But in the same respect, this sizeable municipality in Broward County is home to thirty-somethings (the average age at Pembroke Pines being 36.5), kids, families, and individuals, living in apartments, single-family homes, dorms, and other swellings, as well. In other words, the city of Pembroke Pines, Florida brings with it multiple meanings of the phrase, “a place to settle.”

The tenth-largest city in the state, Pembroke Pines, Florida has a population of 137,427. The average temperature is between 70 and 80 degrees; and the average income is between 40k and 60k, while the average real estate value is in a range of $100,000 to $200,000.

A number of schools and colleges are established in Pembroke Pines, Florida, among them Bright Beginnings Pre-school, Chesterbrook Academy, Charter Elementary School, Charles W. Flanigan High School, Keiser College, and Florida International University.

The arts thrive in Pembroke Pines, Florida, with an arts festival held annually in the River of Grass Arts Park on Sheridan Street; seasonal theatre; and artist shows, art competitions, and themed exhibits year round at the Glass Gallery on Pines Boulevard.

The Pembroke Parks and Recreation Center is home to sports, activities, and events for residents of all diversities and specializes in programs for people with disabilities, for example, offering everything from wheelchair basketball, bowling, and adult socials, to Special Olympics games and arts and crafts.

International cuisine is an understatement in this city, where at almost any hour one can find a bagel, a donut, a burger, Cuban food, Mexican food, Japanese food, and a range of meals and deals—from pizza to poppers, from ice cream to Italian ices.

Health care and fitness programs abound here, as do sports and entertainment venues. After a day on the greens at the Family Golf Center, your group can hit the many fine shops, take to the coast to Dania, Golden, or Sunny Isles Beach, take in a concert at the famous Sportatorium, or take a short jaunt to find entertainment galore in Fort Lauderdale, less than fifty miles away by I95.

From youth programs and summer camp to creative writing and dance and gardening classes to basketball and Bingo… Pembroke Pines, Florida is no slouch in the world of places to live, vacation, play, and/or stay—for anyone of any age.

Punk earrings are always in vogue. I mean really… how can you complete your punk rock outfit without the punk earrings to go with it? I tried, and you just can’t. Part of this goes back to the philosophy and origins of punk rock. You see, punk is about rebellion. Adolescent rebellion to begin with, followed by a lifetime as someone different. As such, marking your body is a way of owning it, and taking ownership over who you are. For me, it started when I was very young. I was looking for jewelery on the internet. I had looked at some 14k gold earrings, and fondly day dreamed of how it would be when I grew up to be a real rebel like in the movies.

Yeah, okay, so I was naive then. But who really cares, when you get down to it. My first punk rock earring was nothing but a safety pin, which a friend of mine had the consideration to shove through my ear after we got drunk for the first time at the age of thirteen. We “sterilized” it with some dish soap. Needless to say, the infection was a little gross. But soon, I got other punk earrings from an online store, ones that were a bit more legit, I would say.

My ears are now pierced all up and down, from the lobe all of the way up to the cartilage at the very top. They look pretty cool, filled out with punk earrings and trinkets of various sorts, not to mention a few safety pins. I’ve never regretted any of my punk earrings even for a minute, but they don’t really make my whole look all by themselves. Besides them, there are of course many other things that I have to do to look really cool.

One of the things is to wear the right belt. You can barely notice punk earrings until you get close to someone, but a good belt with a big fat buckle can show off for 50 feet in all direction. I’ve got a four-alarm one, complete with rhinestones. I mean that it is rad! When I walk down the street on a sunny day, I literally look blinding with all the flash and sparkle that I’m giving off. But it is the little touches, like punk earrings, which really make the look complete so that everyone will see what I’m about.

Is it Halloween yet? Man, it is taking forever to get here! I just can’t wait to scare some tiny trick-or-treaters. That is always my favorite part. I can whip out my handy vampire makeup, glue in my fake fangs and pull on my dark cloak. You should just see how well I actually resemble Dracula. Okay, minus the whole bug eating thing.

Anyway, that night full of spooks, strange sounds, and howling monsters sure can be a blast if you do it right. Last year I was able to scare at least a dozen little witches, goblins and ghouls out of their wits. Of course then I gave them a hefty portion of candy to smooth things over. This way they get the full effect of that eerie autumn night that only comes around once each year. They get the trick and the treat. Anyone else up for a little Halloween fun and excitement? That spooky evening is drawing near.

What are you going to be for Halloween this year? Have you tried the new Freddy costumes yet? Or maybe you’re more of a Jason fan. There is certainly something to be said about all that 80s slasher flick propaganda. It seems like we horror movie nuts can’t get enough of it. Why else would we spend our Halloweens prancing around like a cinema serial killer?

Personally I tend to go with the same costume every year. I know what you’re thinking; how boring. Well, when it comes to vampire makeup and a good set of fangs, I just have trouble saying no. Surely there is a costume or character that has this same effect on you. Is it a witch, warlock or werewolf? Or do you like to invent your own monster get-up?

Regardless of what you like to be, the best place to shop for supplies is the World-Wide-Web. Where did you think I got my fangs and vampire makeup? The reason I prefer cyberspace is because of the selection. Compared to Halloween shops and other stores, there is simply no question. I don’t care if you’re searching for mere vampire makeup or an entire King Kong costume, the Internet is the place to look. Not to mention you can do it easily from the privacy of your own home. You can hardly beat that.

So if you’re ready to go costume hunting or just need to pick up some fake blood and vampire makeup, hop online and check out the selection. They literally have prices that compete with anyone.

I’ve been indulging in online casino gambling ever since this form of gaming gained widespread popularity several years ago. Like all gamblers, I’ve had some great sessions that I’ll remember for a long time. You know the kind I’m talking about: the dealer is busting left and right, I’m drawing five-card 21s, and the number of credits in my account just keeps growing and growing. But I’ve also had horrible sessions where the opposite happened and nothing went my way. These ups and downs are all part of the game; the key to long-term success in online casino gambling is to try to smooth out the peaks and valleys in order to gain some consistency. This is where a good betting system comes into play.

I know a lot of gamblers who would immediately dismiss any betting system as useless before they even review how it works. But you’d be doing yourself a huge disservice by engaging in online casino gambling without arming yourself with some kind of strategy first. You see, online casino gambling differs from traditional gaming establishments in a very important way: they sometimes offer slightly better odds or free credits to induce you to play on their websites. As a gambler, you know that even the slightest variation in odds will affect basic playing strategies for games such as blackjack and Jacks or Better video poker. In addition, because some gaming websites offer free credits, you don’t have to bet as big to come out ahead. Combining these factors means that for online casino gambling, you have to toss everything you thought you knew about blackjack, slots, roulette, poker, and craps out the window and learn a whole new strategy.

Of course, in order to develop a workable basic strategy for games of chance, you’d either need a PhD in mathematics or you’d have to work through hundreds of thousands of hours of simulations. The good news is there are enough math and computer wizards interested in blackjack and other games that we’re in no danger of running out of strategy guides tailored to online casino gambling. The bad news is there’s no real way to verify the claims about someone’s system without actually purchasing the strategy and reading through it first. What I’ve discovered is that many of these guys are making money from selling their systems rather than using their own advice to win at online casino gambling. That should give you some idea of how “valuable” their systems really are!

But if you dig in and do some checking, you’ll find that there are a few choice strategy guides out there that are quite effective at helping people earn a fairly steady income from online casino gambling. The best places to start your intensive research would be forums where gamblers hang out. Usually, at least one member of the forum has tested a particular strategy guide and would be more than happy to give you an honest review of the system. Once you find one that works, you’ll never look at online casino gambling in the same way again.

No matter what you do, you won’t be able to eliminate all the risk involved in online casino gambling. There will always be a chance that you can lose your money. But with the proper strategy guide in hand, you can reduce your risk to a fraction of a percent, which would give you the edge over the house. Start researching strategy guides now, and make your next online casino gambling session a winning one.

Do you like dressing up? What am I asking such a stupid question for? Of course you do. Why in the heck wouldn’t you? It’s a blast to put on bizarre and creepy outfits and pretend you’re someone else. That’s why we all go gaga over that big night that only comes once a year. Yes indeed, I’m talking about Labor Day. Okay, well maybe I’m not. It’s Halloween that gets my juices flowing. When else can you find a sexy schoolgirl hanging out and laughing with Frankenstein? Or how about Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and Superman in the same room?

I just can’t wait to hit up all the cool costume stores. You know the ones that have all the eerie freak-show stuff like Spencer’s Gifts. That one is probably my absolute favorite. It’s always loaded with ghoulish demons, scary witches, and terrifying monsters. Although none of these things are real, they’re still rather stimulating to say the least. Are you getting anxious for that cool autumn night when the moon is full and the spirits move about carelessly? I know I am. I had better get ready for all those costume stores. It’s always prudent to shop early.

Where did you find your costume for last Halloween? Did you hit up Target or Wal-Mart? You cheap-skate! You never want to belittle All Hallows Eve with such cheesy garbage. What you need is some real Halloween costume stores. You know, the ones that go all out with gobs of fake blood, pools of rising mist and authentic Freddy Kruger costumes and Michael Myers masks.

One nuance that I especially love these days regards the classic vampire. Remember how they used to sell those cheap plastic fangs every year? Yeah, you remember the ones. They were uncomfortable, tacky looking and swamped with saliva every time you pulled them out. Yuck! Well, fortunately these days technology has increased. Now you can buy realistic fangs that literally glue on your K-9 teeth. I’m talking "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" real. These things look great once you’ve got them on. I think mine cost me around 20 bucks at one of the local costume stores. But I must say they were well worth it.

Now that I think of it, you can probably even find them cheaper on the World-Wide-Web. This is also a choice place to search for Halloween costumes, decorations, and props. Not to mention a variety of other costumes for any random occasion. So hop online and check out all the virtual costume stores today. You’re bound to save some big bucks.