This gentlemen actually asked me to take his photo and then proceeded to shy away. His sobriety level was heavily in question.

We celebrated a special gift tonight. Lindsay's one year anniversary of sobriety. I asked for her permission to share this shot and she said - absolutely. I believe that the gift of her example and her willingness to share her journey will give others the courage to seek help and be their best selves. She is an inspiration to me.

Clackamas County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Stinson conducts field sobriety tests on a motorist.

Slo H3's Otter See My Clam, Eugene H3's Panama Jackoff and SF H3's Finger Nips try leaning on each other to maintain some semblance of sobriety! No one was fooled though.

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Beck’s Beer Guerrilla Marketing Mobile App Forces You to Drive Sober

Agency Leo Burnett Belgrade, Serbia has created a guerrilla marketing mobile app for Beck’s Beer. In the guerrilla marketing app, the user must insert a key into a moving keyhole and keep the key in the moving keyhole for another 25 seconds.

If you fail, the application will automatically call a cab to come pick you up. The guerrilla marketing beer app also features a GPS service to help navigate the taxi driver to come pick you up.

The guerrilla marketing mobile app campaign for Beck’s beer is part of their “When I drink, I don’t drive” campaign.

Beck's Sobriety Test Mobile App from Lab604 on Vimeo.

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The following was quoted from the Vimeo page.

Can you fit the key into a keyhole?

We want people to drink Beck’s responsibly – that’s why we created a mobile app that tests your sobriety. When drunk, one cannot perform even the simplest task – like fitting a key into a keyhole. And, as we all know, Beck’s logo is - a keyhole with a key! So, we designed the simple sobriety test app: in order to test your driving ability, you need to keep a key in a moving keyhole for 25 seconds. Fail to do so, and the app automatically dials the cab company in your area. When you drink and drive, there’s no going Beck’s!

Links to the App:

iPhone - itunes.apple.com/us/app/becks-when-i-drink-i-dont-drive/id461786214?mt=8

Android - market.android.com/details?id=air.com.whiterabbitworks.becksDND&feature=search_result

(Android 2.2 Froyo required):

If you fail, the app will call you a taxi that is available in your city / area. NOTE: Taxi and GPS service available only in Serbia.

A few questions come to our mind…

A.Do you think people will (remember to) use this when they are drunk?

B.Do you think people will follow through with the phone call to the cab driver or hang up and dial again?

C.How hard is this to do while sober?

What do you think?

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SMITH, ALEXANDER MORTIMER, soldier, businessman, militia officer, and politician; b. 8 May 1818 in Monymusk, Scotland; m. Mary Ann Barnes; d. 19 Jan. 1895 in Toronto.

Alexander Mortimer Smith was born in a rural parish in Aberdeenshire. As the son of a poor man, he had limited opportunities, and after receiving a basic education he eagerly embraced a career in the military. In 1836 he enlisted in the 93rd Foot, like many young men in his native county. By November 1838 the regiment had reached Toronto, where for six years it would maintain, in the words of one inspecting officer, “its character for comparative sobriety and good order amidst the dissipation with which it appears to be surrounded.”

Listening to the pleas of friends and family rather than the offer of a commission from his commanding officer, Smith left the regiment in 1840 to enter commerce. He soon found work with a grocery merchant, and his industry and sound business sense brought about a quick improvement in his position. By 1846 he was operating his own general store on Queen Street, and over the next decade his operations moved south, closer to the mercantile heart of the city, where he expanded into two stores and dealt in retail groceries and crockery. In partnership with John Smith* (no relation) he ventured into the wholesale grocery trade in the late 1850s, and at roughly the same time became briefly involved in selling lumber, a business that was then growing rapidly in Toronto.

Success in his commercial endeavours soon brought Smith considerable security and reputation. In 1855 he had been solicited by a number of influential citizens to run for the city council, and after his election he served for a year as a councillor. In 1858 he was elected alderman for St James’ Ward, with Oliver Mowat*. Smith was returned in 1859, but by February he had submitted his resignation. Although his reasons are not clear, later descriptions indicate that he could be difficult to work with and was not the stuff of which politicians are made. Nevertheless, the respect of Smith’s peers for his hard work on many of the most important committees was reflected in their reluctance to accept his retirement.

Smith’s rising prominence had also been marked by his rejuvenated military career. As one contemporary noted, Smith was a “born soldier,” and in 1856 he was offered the command of a Highland rifle company formed in response to the Militia Act of 1855. Three years later the unit amalgamated with five other volunteer companies to form a battalion eventually known as the Queen’s Own Rifles. Smith received his majority on 26 April 1860, but in November 1865 he waived his claim to command the battalion, presumably because of the pressures of public office. After briefly commanding a provisional battalion, he resigned on 13 July 1866. He would never lose his keen interest in military affairs. Nor did he lose interest in things Scottish. Along with other officers of his company, in September 1858 Smith had participated in the formation of the Caledonian Society for the encouragement of Scottish arts and athletics. He also belonged to the benevolent St Andrew’s Society, serving as its president in 1866 and 1867.

The clearest expression of Smith’s priorities, however, was his involvement with the Toronto Board of Trade. He joined in 1856, served as president in 1877, and was consistently elected to the council. His appointments reflected the extent to which his ideas mirrored those of the members, the majority of whom were foreign-born wholesalers. The board was a staunch supporter of projects designed to enhance Toronto’s economic domination of its hinterland, and Smith was a leading proponent of one such scheme, the Toronto and Nipissing Railway. Although it failed financially (it would be absorbed into the Midland Railway in 1882), this and similar narrow-gauge railways gave added security to wholesalers by providing more direct access to markets, thereby eliminating the need for jobbers and middlemen. Very aware of the fragility of the province’s economic framework after the depression of 1857–58, the board was also anxious to develop more sophisticated financial institutions. Smith typified this diversification of interests by his election during the 1860s to the boards of the Provincial Mutual and General Insurance Company, the Western Assurance Company, the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce. He was also president of the Royal Canadian Bank, where he experienced a brush with scandal in 1869 after cries of mismanagement were raised by Senator Donald McDonald*.

The Board of Trade often articulated its concerns through provincial politics, and the election of 1863 gave Smith an opportunity to voice many of these issues on the hustings. Nominated as the Reform party’s candidate for Toronto East when George Brown* refused to stand, Smith ran on a platform which embraced not only the usual party policies but also a number of proposals designed to enhance the economic position of Toronto and its merchants. Although he was attacked by James Beaty’s Leader as “a man of mediocre acquirements and talents,” unable to “speak a half-dozen sentences respectably,” the criticisms could not deflect attention from the support expressed for the government’s Separate School Bill by the incumbent, John Willoughby Crawford*. Led by Alderman Francis Henry Medcalf*, a Conservative, the Orange vote that had elected Crawford three years earlier went to Smith. His substantial majority and John Macdonald*’s victory over John Beverley Robinson in Toronto West gave the Reform party unprecedented success in the city.

Smith’s term in the Legislative Assembly gave some credence to Beaty’s opinions, for he seldom spoke, save for brief comments on commercial and militia matters. Nevertheless, he would probably have been renominated for the federal election of 1867 had it not been for his support in the assembly for the Taché–Macdonald coalition government. In spite of his election upon the Reform slate, he vowed at the nomination meeting in August 1867 never to “offer a continual, factious opposition to any Government” should it lead to the defeat of reasonable measures, and he challenged anyone to win Toronto East without Conservative support. Such talk of independence led to a vociferous attack by George Brown and Smith’s withdrawal from the contest on 23 Aug. 1867. His eventual successor, William Thomas Aikins, was soundly defeated by Beaty, the Conservative candidate.

Smith’s retirement from politics was interrupted by a campaign for the mayoralty in 1874. He was brought into the race by several leading citizens after it had been suggested that there was some impropriety in the relationship of the incumbent, Alexander Henderson Manning*, with contractors employed to construct Toronto’s waterworks. Smith’s campaign was plagued by aspersions on his conduct in 1867, and many of the city’s leading Reformers supported a late candidate, Francis Medcalf. It was ironic that Smith’s final foray into politics should end in defeat at the hands of the man responsible for his victory in 1863.

Around 1871 Smith formed a partnership with William Walker Keighley, who had been manager in Toronto for Reford and Dillon, importers and wholesale grocers. Smith and Keighley was the successor to this Montreal-based operation, and the firm grew into one of the major wholesale outlets in Toronto. With other interests in Toronto and Owen Sound it organized the Canada Lake Superior Transit Company in 1880. This company was established to carry on a forwarding business on the Upper Lakes, but by the 1890s its steamers were bound for American ports such as Rochester, N.Y. Because of his interest in shipping, Smith was a frequent choice as one of the Board of Trade’s representatives on the Harbour Trust, and he petitioned his former parliamentary colleagues for federal funds to improve the western entrance to Toronto Harbour.

Although a severe bout of influenza in 1891 slowed him down, Smith remained involved with a number of financial institutions, serving as vice-president of the Ontario Bank and president of the Western Assurance Company. Early in 1894 his health began to deteriorate, and he died a year later. His will left large sums of money to family members and to a number of charities such as the Hospital for Sick Children, on whose board he had sat. It revealed a man who, through industry and the judicious diversification of financial interests, had risen from modest beginnings to achieve prosperity and considerable respect from his peers. Although he did not share all their talents, his breadth of interests and involvement in military, commercial, and public affairs mark him as an exemplar of his contemporaries.

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The Church of St. John of Malta , at the corner of the street of Italy and the Cardinal Street in Aix-en-Provence is the first Gothic church in Provence . It is located at the eastern end of the Cardinal Street. It was built on the site of the first chapel built by the Hospitallers at their facility in Aix, the xii th century . Its construction would spread from 1272 to 1277 , although these dates are not proven. The church tower is 67 meters. This is the highest point of the city of Aix-en-Provence.

Today St. John of Malta is a parish church entrusted to the Society of apostolic Moines. Thanks to the monastic offices, it is frequently opened and can be visited. It surprises with its inner light, the color of the stone, his sobriety, his contemporary organ built by Daniel Kern and his many paintings.

This church is the subject of a classification as historical monuments by the 1840 list.

History

The first religious building constructed on the site is a chapel that Hospitallers erect their installation at Aix, the xii th century , the Italian path to the current location of the apse . This is because the counts of Provence of the House of Barcelona Alfonso II and his son Raymond Berenger IV have decided to elect their burial business that is building a much larger building. Thus, on the instructions of the will of the Countess Beatrice of Provence , daughter of Raymond Berenger, the Church of St. John of Malta was built between 1272 and 1277 in a style Gothic Provençal nave unique and chapels between the buttresses, outside the walls of the city, making it the oldest Gothic monument in Provence. But dating problems make uncertain estimates.

Dating problems

Statue of Alfonso II , Church of St. John of Malta Aix-en-Provence.

Statue of Raymond Berenger IV , Church of St. John of Malta.

It seems almost certain that, on the foundations of Saint-Jean-de-Malte previously found another building. Some historians argue that it is a temple to Minerva . This assertion comes from the fact that an altar to Minerva was unearthed during the construction of the fortification of the church before 1593. The earliest date attested on a religious building in this location is an act of 1192 in which is mentioned a house in Aix Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem , whose commander was Pierre de Naisa. Historians estimate that the construction of the commander is to be between 1180 and 1192 .

The church was built on it can be dated precisely. If it seems certain that it was during the xiii th century , it is difficult to give a specific date. If a religious building has been dedicated to Aix on May 3, 1251 by Cardinal Peter Colmieu , it is not known where they are, but some believe that this building may be the Church of St. John of Malta, or unless the building that preceded the church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte 8 . Indeed, in 1256 , Alfonso II , Count of Provence , and his son Ramon Berenguer IV have their burial. In 1272 , Charles I st of Anjou for the enlargement of the church to welcome them the tomb of Beatrice of Provence , his wife. It is possible that it is then the choir and transepts which are added as ordinarily Malta Order of churches have no transept, while they are supposed to host the tombs. Choir and transepts were completed at the latest by 1277 , even if the side chapels will be built later.

Description

Its nave was built on the foundations of an older church xiii th century and was used as a church of the Hospital who was at the site of the present Musée Granet . The church was then in the service of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, hence its name. The flat apse and transept are only slightly later. She then became commander of Rhodes and of Malta 3 . It becomes dependence of the Grand Priory of Saint-Gilles . They say it is the city of Aix which saw the most out of the Knights of Malta 3 .

Bell

Bell tower of Saint-Jean-de-Malte.

In 1292 , the Hospital received approval to place four bells atop the church tower, indicating that, at that time, it must already be of significant size. Today, this tower is 67 meters high, making it the highest point in the city of Aix-en-Provence. If we add to this gothic features, all close to many religious buildings in northern France by its rigid and austere. Estimates as to the date of completion vary greatly. If the tradition is the 1376 , recent research would tend more to situate the middle of the xv th century . In one case as in the other, one can not fail to highlight the architectural audacity of the book completely contradict the canons of his time, whether the portal of the cathedral of Aix , or the chapel of Helion de Villeneuve , his contemporaries.

The lower part of the tower is mounted on a massive square and supported by buttresses. The brand does not have an opening. The first floor, however, has four windows elongated in the direction of the height and houses the only bell. Above the arrow is surrounded by four pinnacles and pierced by eight skylights. In the Middle Ages it was all topped with a metal spike topped with a Latin cross . It was replaced in September 1755 by a Maltese cross , after a storm that occurred in November 1754 who shot the spike . Lightning kills them elsewhere regularly, which implies the need to renovate the arrow once or twice per century. Historian Aix Ambroise Roux-Alphéran read on registered today stones registration "XPS [Christus] venit in pace Rex Deus homo factus est " ("Christ the King came in peace, God's "made man"), a message to the glory of Christ.

Four bells that adorned the bell tower from the beginning, only one remains today. The reason is the siege of Toulon led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1793 . All materials cast iron available in Provence then requisitioned for melted and participate in the construction of weapons. The three smaller bells of St. John of Malta are then removed from the steeple and melted. Only the heaviest ( 1 260 kg ) is kept in its place. Despite the victory of Bonaparte Toulon besieged the three missing reparues bells are no longer in the church tower. On Sunday 1st September 2013, on the occasion of the traditional blessing of Calissons, the three bells "back". Malta St John's friends got the city of Toulon on donating a portion of bronze cannons stored at the arsenal and the Paccard foundry melted three new bells. They are currently on display in the church waiting for the consolidation of the bell tower, which will put them in their place.

Front

Facade with effects of the sun.

The facade as we can see today was rebuilt in the xvii th century , although it was built in the xiii th century . The gear that dominates is surmounted by a Maltese cross . The roof tiles of the frame are nailed due to risk of wind that could weaken them . Until 1906 , it was possible to see the sky through the gears when they were open.

The architectural detail is most striking in view of the facade is two octagonal towers, high thirty-two meters, which stand to either side of the building. They are pierced with loopholes narrow and topped with a cap pyramid. At their peak, balcony connects and overcomes a great pink 4 meters in diameter . The left tower dates from the construction of the tower, while the right one was conducted along the balcony, in 1691 .

The portal, meanwhile, has two leaves dated to the end of the xvii th century or beginning of the xviii th century . They were decorated with Maltese cross originally, but this decoration was removed. Above, you can see two gargoyles dog-headed that we can approach the crest of the prior Jean-Claude Viany. The door is divided both windows and above them is a tympanum decorated with clover and trefoil arches.

The entire facade is restored by the architect Aix Henri Révoil between 1851 and 1858 .

Bedside

The church flat bed can be observed rue d'Italie. A house built against the wall once obstructed the large window in third spot with a height of 11 meters. It is the acquisition of this house by the city of Aix-en-Provence in 1855 allowing the demolition and restoration of the whole as it stood originally

A small collection of CoDA 'sobriety' tokens. CoDA is Codependents Anonymous, a group that functions very similarly to AA, except for people who suffer from Codependency, rather than Alcoholism. Tokens would be awarded based on a period of time in which the person has remained "sober". I'm not exactly sure what the sobriety equivalent is for Codependency. Anyway, should I ever find myself afflicted, I'm set on tokens for the first year at least.

Random sobriety test: PASSED.

5/12/14

The normal version where you just have to walk a straight line.

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District of Columbia Police Department Sgt. Alex Pope demos one element of a field sobriety test.

Actually she seemed to be teaching a bunch of kids how to skimboard, or at least to take their bruises with a sense of humor.

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Explaining the Field Sobriety Tests

An officer from the Beaverton Police Department gives a field sobriety test to volunteer Brandon Callein.

The Twelve Steps Quotes c 2011

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From the AIA guide:

One time Hemsley Building (offices)/originally The New York Central Building/later New York General Building

230 Park Ave, bet. E. 45th & E. 46th Sts

1929

Warren & Wetmore

The Helmsley ownership accounted for the gilding of the ornament and the spectacular nighttime illumination of the building’s crown. A restoration is underway that may tone it down.

Photo by Andrew Ferguson

I am proud beyond measure!

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Police Activity in Modesto. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

The Fellowship of Freedom & Reform (FFR) were a temperance-based movement who campaigned for more responsible trading within licensing premises. Unlike other temperance organisations, the FFR had no religious affiliations nor seeked a ban on the sale of alcohol. Rather, they campaigned to reform and fight against abuses within the licensed trade and for improved family-orientated public houses. The FFR also published their own periodical called Sobriety.

The badge is made from die-stamped brass with three enamels (blue, red & white) and a gilt finish. There is a buttonhole clasp (horseshoe shaped stud) on the reverse and the maker’s name – Denton & Down, London. The badge measures 1 1/8” x 11/16” (about 29mm x 17mm).

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This is a gorgeous piece! It is made of amethyst (AA grade) chip beads, light amethyst beads, labradorite coin beads, black bicone glass beads, seed beads and its a three stranded necklace. It measures 18 1/2" in length.

*Metaphysical Properties of Amethyst:

Also known as the "Sobriety Stone". Amethyst is purple quartz, and is a meditative and calming stone. It works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace. Amethyst is also beneficial when dealing with legal problems and money issues, which can lead to prosperity and abundance. Amethyst has a gentle, sedative energy that promotes peacefulness, happiness, and contentment. Amethyst can help get rid of addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.) and compulsive behaviors of all kinds. In the psychic and spiritual realms, amethyst is an excellent all-purpose stone that can increase spirituality and enhance intuition and psychic powers of all kinds. It does this by making a clear connection between the earth plane and other planes and worlds. Amethyst also protects against psychic attacks, especially during spiritual work, and protects one from thieves, and protects travelers. Physically, amethyst is beneficial for reducing withdrawal symptoms of all kinds, blood sugar imbalances, depression, general healing, left brain imbalances, headaches, arthritis, insomnia, nightmares, other sleep disorders, ADD/ADHD, generalized anxiety, ear aches, circulatory system issues, endocrine system problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, immune system deficiencies, and general healing.

Primarily, amethyst is associated with the third eye and crown chakras but can also open the heart chakra.

*Metaphysical Properties of Labradorite:

Labradorite has always been one of my favourite gemstones. balances and protects the aura, raises consciousness and grounds spiritual energies. It strengthens intuition and promotes psychic abilities. Powerful in revealing the truth behind illusions, labradorite banishes fears and insecurities, and strengthens faith in one's self and trust in the universe. It stimulates the imagination and calms an overactive mind, developing enthusiasm and new ideas. Labradorite treats disorders of the eyes and brain, stimulates mental acuity, and relieves anxiety and stress. It regulates metabolism, balances hormones and relieves menstrual tension. Labradorite treats colds, gout, and rheumatism, lowers blood pressure, and aids in digestion.

Labradorite is a feldspar mineral, and is also known as Spectrolite.

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US Air Force Security Forces members conduct Field Sobriety Tests on a suspected alcohol intoxicated individual in the early hours of the morning.