The non-plastic has another effect in that it often makes a sticky clay more workable in the plastic state. CONCLUSION. Moist clay is a material of many moods. The better we understand the underlying structure the more closely it can be adapted to our needs. The right clay used in the right way can be a faithful servant, but the wrong clay and the wrong use turns it into an exacting tyrant.
The average age at which a woman gets married for the first time climbed from 29.9 years in 2008 to 30 years in 2009, figures published by the Office for National Statistics said. This is the first time that the symbolic age barrier has been reached.
For men, the average age at first marriage is 28.7, while the average woman is getting married for the first time at age 26.5. In 2007, the average age at first marriage was 27.5 years for men and 25.6 years for women, according to the report. During the same time frame, fertility rates -- expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 women age 18-44 -- decreased from 69.3 to below 65.