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Everyone knows that all the best ideas for anything, ever, have been jotted down on beer mats first. Always seeking to be topical rather than typical, we want to make a valuable contribution to the endless public debate about our giddy drinking culture. Here is some culture about drinking. Know your limits. It is time to celebrate all that is good about having a tipple. Stuff by artists, stuff by the good people of Halifax. Contributors include: Rodney Adams, Amber Alsaigh, Christian Alsaigh, Julia Arnez, Joe Aspinall, Raffaella Avolio, Dorothy Baldwin, Tom Bamforth, Elizabeth Barlow, Louisa Barlow, Richard Bates, Alexandra Baybutt, Kate Beckett, Steve Beever, Jacqui Bellamy, Linda Bevan, Daniel Blamires, Edie Boniface, Georgia Boniface, Kevin Boniface, Molly Boniface, Andrew Bracey, Alice Bradshaw, Phil Bradshaw, Laurie Bradshaw, Ayla Bragard, Kiki Bragard, Katie Brier, Camilla Brueton, Becky Bruton, Ian Calvert, Daniel Carr, Liam Carter, Sheila Carter, Matthew Chambers, Peter Chappe, Ami Clark, Odin Conquest, Jeff Corey, Cynthia Cotterill, Edward Cotterill, Genna Cotterill, John Cotterill, Holly Crawford, Jake Crawshaw, Ashton Davison, Simeon Dear, Andrea Dietz, Dirtcheap, Max Doig, Adam Doyle, Maia Duka, Harry Edwards, Rachael Elwell, Catt Everett, Chris Fallowfield, John Fawcett, JenniLea Finch, Lynn Fisher, Elliot Flynn, Joseph Flynn, Victoria Foster, Liam Gec, Jak Gill, Janet Gledhill, Dominic Harris, Katy Goldstein, Jennifer Grant, Gill Greenhaugh, Jessica Grimshaw, Laurence Guntert, Joe Hakim, Fiona Helen Halliday, Chris Hallowfield, Eden Hanson, Lisa Hanson, Louise Hanson, Stephen Hanson, Steve Hanson, Taome Hanson, Sam Hardacre, Sarah Hardacre, Maya Harding, Jenna Harris, Dalia Hawley, Krishna Hazarika, Rhea Henningham, Holly Beth Herbert, Aimee Lou Hewitt, Georgia Hey, Graham Hey, Madison Hey, Olivia Heywood, Ann Hirst, Charlotte Holdsworth, Leyao Huang, Rebecca Hutch, Stephanie Ingham, Elsie Irvine, John Irvine, Ashley Jackson, Andrew Jenkin, Mike Jessop, Alison Jones, Danielle Jones, Imran Jogee, Hannah Jones, Ben Jowett, Ryan Paul Kaye, Christine Keeler, Marc Kershaw, Joanne Kilner, Clinton Kirkpatrick, Olwen Kitson, Buffy Klama, Chris Laine, John Ledger, Sally Lemsford, Elliot Lilley, Imogen Lilley, Jorge Galan Liquette, Duncan Lister, Alison Little, Sophie Littlewood, Liz Lock, Simon Edgar Lord, Robert Luzar, Ellen Mace, Katherine MacDougall, Jude MacPherson, Sadie Mansell, Joanne Matthews, Nicola Maude, Bill McCall, Phil Middleton, Brian Midwood, Kirsty Midwood, Yvonne Midwood, Milk, Two Sugars (Bob Milner & Tom Senior), Kenton Scott Mills, Amelia-Jane Milner, Anna Milner, Freyja Milner, William Milner, Patrick Milsom, Kevin Mitchell, Mon 53, Paul Morris, Nathan Morrisson, Liz Murphy, Paul Murphy, Mikk Murray, Ewan Neville, Patrick Neville, Ettienne Ordway, Maya Ordway, Pete O'Toole, Carol Pope, Georgia Power, Anna Ricciardi, Oliver Russell, Jenny Parkin, Sarah Parker, Nuala Pavey-Garside, Simone Peacock, Rebbeca Pearson, Nancy Porter, Heather Preston, Stacey Price, Martha Ross-Parry, Marc Renshaw, Eleanor R Richardson, Daniel Rode, Lisa Rodgers, Tammy Ross, Chris Rusby, Jayne Rusby, Finlay Russell, Ailie Rutherford, Eileeen Ryan, Antonietta Sacco, Katie Scholefield, Sarah Scott, Alan Senior, Jack Senior, John Senior, Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Richard Shields, Anna Shirron, Lucienne Simpson, Ruby Simpson, Mike Slater, Maria Slovakova, Fran Smith, Helen Smith, Natasha Smith, Steve Staindale, Lucy Stefane, Lucy Stefani, Adele Stevenson, Matthew Stutely, Jun Tan, Gary Tann, Siobhan Tarr, Cecila Tat, Gabrielle Tattersford, Billy Taylor-Woodhouse, Alice Thickett, Ian Thomas, Lynda Thomas, Stuart Thomas, Poppy Thompson, Diana Thorpe, Georgina Tonge, Matthew Tonge, Nathan Tudor, Jayde Tunnacliffe, Helen Turner, Naomi Turpin, Caroline Twidle, Lauren Tyler, Jean Wagstaff, Jamilia Walker, Gregory Wallace, Phoebe Wallace, T Walshaw, Tom Ward, Ryan Ware, Irena Wegrzyn, Lyndon White, Harriet Wickens, Madeleine Wickens, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford, Witshop, Elizabeth Wood, William Wood, Kris Woodhead, Peter Wright, Mark Yates (more to be announced)
A high-profile public information campaign to ensure Scotland is ready for a new lower drink drive limit has been launched at the start of Road Safety week.
الحمد لله
المركز الأول في مسابقة
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الحملة الوطنية للتوعية بأمراض السرطان
و كان المطلوب فيها صور تعبر عن الأكل الغير صحي
1st place in CAN photography competition - KUWAIT
the main theme is photos about the unhealthy food.
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نقاط القوة و الضعف من وجهة نظر زملاء الهواية
Strength and weakness from Photographers point of view
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Even though it's the monsoon season, it's quite hot here in Pune. ;)
Made that sugar candy stick to make the regular ol' drink a little more interesting.
For some people, especially the ladies, certain beverages can be quite sour for their taste. Stir your drink with the sugar candy and it's all good.
This little brick building used to house the pump used for our water supply. It is situated in a quiet area in the woods. When I was a child, I used to love the sound - it was like a heart-beat. We now obtain our water from a bore hole, no where near as romantic, but cleaner water!
Chears ! !
*Happy St. Patrick's Day*
Bar e Restaurante Villa Imperial
Brasília - Distrito Federal, Brasil
(dez. 2009)
Drinking and driving...
I know this will open a giant can of worms here, but I like to make social observations and commentary, and all of this is based on factual life experience, so here goes.
First, has my family ever been touched by a drunk driving accident? Yes...my old lady’s parents were nearly killed by a head-on collision with a drunk driver and spent long months in the hospital and recovering. The emotional trauma they all suffered (she was in the car with them when the accident happened) was massive.
I’ve known people (as most of us have) who were killed or injured by drunk drivers.
See that Cemetery archway in the background of this photo? It’s a good mix with this bottle of Bud, because alcohol puts a lot of people in the cemetery, one way or another.
But I sincerely believe that most of our concerns about drinking and driving are motivated by other than honest intentions. I’ll get to those reasons in a moment.
I grew up with a strangely different perspective: my stepfather owned a bar; it was a family joint and I grew up in it and have a lot of fond memories of the patrons. During the day the contractors and odd-job specialists would stop by to have a few beers to take the edge off of the fierce West Texas summer heat and then drive to their next jobs. None of our friends ever killed anyone with their vehicles or even suffered so much as a ticket. Lucky? Perhaps; I don’t really know.
In Texas when I was a young man the legal drinking age was lowered to 18, and of course my friends and I celebrated accordingly.
Now check this shit out if you want a real mindbender: I’m not saying it was legal to drink and drive, but if a cop pulled you over for your brake lights not working and you had an open can of beer between your legs it was no big deal...as long as you weren’t speeding, driving recklessly, up on the sidewalk, etc., the advice from the cop was “Get your brake lights fixed and keep your beer down low and take it easy.” That was it!
My biological family to a person is a family of massive drinkers. I can’t exaggerate that fact enough to make you understand it. We can start at 6 in the morning on hard liquor if desired, drink all damn day and into the night, eat anything we want to with the booze, mix any combination of beers and hard liquors, and never get sick, never throw up, never have a hangover, never miss a day of work, never forget the night before, never had a DUI or a DWI, no one has ever become sick from the lifelong years of massive drinking, everyone has the liver of a healthy 20-year-old (I just had mine checked and that was the verdict for me too) and we all live very long lives. Genetics, pure and simple.
My stepfather, on the other hand, didn’t handle booze all that well...not a good combination when you own a bar...he would drink with his patrons and get too damn drunk! Back in those days rather than get thrown in the drunk tank the local cops would hang around when he was closing the bar down and follow him home to make sure he made it okay and then go on about their business.
A whole other day and time.
I am not justifying anything I tell you now, just stating a fact: I drank and drove from the time I was a young man into the late years of my life. I don’t now, but I thought nothing of it then. I never had a DUI or a DWI and was never in a wreck. Lucky as fucking hell?...probably. All of my buddies did it too...our social life was to meet at the bar every night and drink and talk the night away. Likewise none of them ever had any problems either.
Would I do the same thing now if I had it to do all over again, knowing what I know now? Probably not.
It’s a very strange thing to think about.
But the whole question about the honesty and integrity about the anti-drunk driving campaign boils down to this for me:
over the years (and NOT from being in trouble with the law) I have known, both casually and very well, law enforcement officers from all ranks, including locals, sheriffs, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, etc. Every single LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) of any stripe or affiliation that I personally know, and I know a LOT of them, every single LEO that drinks...drinks and drives. Without exception. And many of them drive drunk...waaaay drunk. I know this for a fact, because I’ve been with them when they have, and I’ve also seen it occur many, many times.
It’s a strange love affair we have with our drugs, no matter what they are, and it’s a very strange way that we handle our personal and national perception of them, and a lot of that seems to depend on who is in office and who is currently yelling the loudest among the supporters or protestors or lobbyists, and seems to have little to do with what’s actually happening in peoples’ lives on a day-to-day reality basis.
Want a fun bit of research to do? Did you know that cocaine, yes, that hideous, evil, dreaded drug, used to be legal in the U.S.? You could buy the shit mail-order through the Sears catalog!
Here’s some interesting links to get you started:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act#Domestic...
adamjamesjones.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/bad-medicine-a-hi...
So what’s my point, and where do I come down in all of this? I don’t think I have a real point other than to get you thinking and let you see alternate points of view and different experiences and histories, and to let you know that whether something is considered an evil or something beneficial (or at least benign) depends purely on time, place, and circumstances, and whether or not you’re the one writing the ticket or receiving the ticket.
And on who’s in power and calling the shots at the time, making decisions that are based on political expediency and not necessarily what’s true, factual, or “good” for any of us as a whole.
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Some of the sights from Bike Week 2013.
More in my set, "Bike Week 2013:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157632152340699/
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