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Should Parents be Allowed to Purchase Alcohol for Their Children Younger Than 21?
Wisconsin reportedly has a law that allows it and Colorado is considering one.
The Denver Post recently reported that a Republican lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in the Colorado legislature that would allow restaurants and bars to provide alcohol to young adults, older than 18 but younger than 21, if their parents are on hand to make the purchase. It reports that Wisconsin has a similar law.
The Post reports the congressman was introducing the bill after not being able to share a drink with his daughter on her 20th birthday. Another argument was that parents of members of the military would also then be able to buy their children a drink to celebrate their return from a tour of duty.
What do you think — good idea? Or why not leave it the way it is — another three years is not long to wait?
10:00 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I will never purchase alcohol for my children no matter what their age. I refuse to buy cigarettes for my husband as well. I don't promote bad habits.
11:44 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I agree, Becky! When we are out to eat with my adult children and I am paying, they do not assume I am paying for alcohol. They know I will not. Also, why does every celebration for some people have to be celebrated with alcohol?
Vanzetta Evans
10:13 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I'm afraid of what would happen should a parent buys their child a drink and then they go ahead and crash the car? Would the parents then be responsible?
Sherry Lambert
10:52 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
WHAT!? Heck no...21 years old to drink and only drink responsibility!!
Michael Robinson
10:58 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Only if we can be sure the < 21 person understands the biological and potential social consequences of drinking.
Darrell Moore
12:51 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
NO!! Its supplying alcohol to a minor!!! There is a law on the books forbidding that.
1:11 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Lower the age to 18. Personally I think it hypocritical that an 18 year old is considered knowlegable and responsible enough to vote and/or to offer his or her life for their country, but then we deem then not responsible or knowledgable enough to handle alcohol. That's ridiculous.....
1:27 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sorry, didn't mean to apear as if I was just duplicating your points, but I was typing while yours was getting posted and I only saw it afterwards. But obviously, I agree 100%!
Justin Rempe
1:17 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Folks, there are plenty of 30-80 year olds that are not physically or mentally responsible enough to drink alcohol.
Age is simply a number. Maturity of the individual is everything. Maybe they need a test to take (like getting a driver's license)...
1:26 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I think that this is one of the dumbest ideas ever. It puts too much judgement call on the establishment. What are they supposed to do, be checking ID's to see if names match? What if you have a daughter who married at 18 and had her last name change. Or a 19 year old meets their biological parent. Or the person who had the drug addicted parent who had to give the child over to be raised by an aunt and uncle who took on the role of parenting.
I could sit here all day rattling off such quandaries of the modern family and what is the expectation of the teenage waiter (or 22 year old manager) at Chili's supposed to be when they start hearing story after story about why an older person feels that they have the right to buy alcohol for an underage person. And there is an infinite amount of such scenarios that you could come up with that anybody could just say that one was their case and is some employee supposed to stand there and try to guess if the person is lying or not?
What we should do is simply drop the drinking age to 18 and forget about this other nonsense. It is insane that we think that somebody is old enough to vote and determine political outcomes in this nation or that we are ready to arm them and send them to foreign countries at the age of 18, yet we don't think that they are responsible enough to drink. It used to tick me off when I was 18 to 20, but even well beyond that now, it is embarrassing as a nation that we still have a drinking age of 21.
1:28 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
That's a tough one at that, old enough to serve our country, but underage to drink. Maybe those "in" the service should be able to drink at 18, but must show there ID of being in the service. Someone not in, no then? As far as parents buying for 18 till 21, then "if" someone drives and hurts another person because of them buying it for them. They should be help responsiable also. It is a good question, but what's a good anwser? Just a thought.
3:45 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I don't know if it is a state by state thing or if it even exists at all, but in college in New Haven, CT, I used to work the door of a club and military people who were 18 to 20 were allowed to drink. They had to have an active military ID and a matching state ID (any state) or matching passport, but that was as good as a valid ID from anybody else showing them to be 21. This was back in the mid 80's, so who knows if thats till applies.
Also, while I am all for extending extra social benefits like this for our military, I was talking more about anybody who is of the same age that we feel is responsible enough to enlist in our military should be seen as responsible enough to drink. As Justin very accurately pointed out above, the number itself is almost irrelevant in how responsible anybody is going to be with alcohol at any age.
12:04 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I was 18 when the drinking age was 18 so 21 has always seemed ridiculous to me if you are considered legally responsible for your actions at 18. Another point I would like to bring up is I feel that lowering the age to 18 might curb some of the excess that sometimes happens in the 18-21 year old group as they are sneaking liquor and the group is hiding themselves away to drink it. A lot more chance of everyone overdoing it there. If they were allowed to be in a controlled setting hanging out maybe there would not be as much overindulgence. Yes legally they are not allowed to drink but the majority are doing it anyway. They are hiding away in groups and driving anyway f they are irresponsible that way. As someone pointed out, an older age doesn't always bring sound judgement wit it. Most of your 18-21 year olds have been drinking since high school. And you can't say not my kid because it probably is your kid too. By college when they are no longer anywhere near home sometimes, better it be somewhere most of the time where a bartender can make a judgement call and cut them off. Where it is a little harder perhaps to overindulge. In my day there was the rats at colleges where everyone hung out. There are is also something exciting and dangerous about being in that in between and it not being legal that I thinks makes it more enticing.
Kenneth Stepp
5:55 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I have 5 children. Two are under 21, one is under 18. 21 Is a good age to legally drink in my opinion. I'd hate to see it lowered.
Tammy Osier
6:20 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
How about instead of dropping the drinking age to match the voting age, raise the voting age to match the drinking age lol
r patton
11:29 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I have a better idea, if you don't pay taxes (52% of citizens don't) you CAN NOT vote. Good idea?
Good Grief Y'all
11:36 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Sort of like those good old Jim Crow laws (poll tax), huh rp? That's unconstitutional, so not a good idea.
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10:32 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
2nd on raising the voting age to 21...
Raise the drinking age 26 if healthcare coverage is provided by the parent! 21 otherwise.
7:08 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
I don't have a problem with this. An 18 year old is considered to be an ADULT, not a minor. They can vote & risk their lives for our country. Perhaps if they have a drink with their parents they learn moderation? And to Watts talking about the teenaged waiter or 22 yr old manager, they already deal with id's every day anyway to make sure someone is 21, just saying. So yes, if they are with their parents or an adult. Better still, lower the drinking age to 18. 21 is ridiculous to start with.
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7:15 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
A lot of 18 yr olds are still in high school. That's too young a mind-set for alcohol use. Yes, some will get it anyway, no doubt. IMO it shouldn't be legal to put more alcohol-influenced drivers on the road. The law curtails most of that. There are big consequences if caught or involved in an accident. Plus, insurance rates would skyrocket for those drivers, probably all of us. There was a time when seat belts weren't required and passengers could drink in vehicles - open containers allowed, even a time when people thought nothing of driving after drinking or drinking and driving. It was a time of do as you please and, oh-well attitudes if something went wrong. Let's not add to our problems.
Good Grief Y'all
8:48 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
The military is all volunteer now. No draft as in the Vietnam era.
r patton
11:28 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Let me see now, the law says you have to be 21...........ummmmmmmm NOPE.
1:37 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
It's really about the message that is being sent by buying your kid a drink, not the age at which they should be able to drink. Are you making the statement that special occasions should be celebrated with alcohol, that they are special when they are bought a drink, or that they're more grown up and/or respected when they drink? Generally the statement that is made to the kid is "the law really isn't all that important to me so I'm going to support not only your underage drinking, but I'm also going to support your disrespect of the law". I've always found that baking a cake that they like or making their favorite dinner and spending time with them conveys the message I want to send a whole lot better! Changing the law for that reason is ridiculous! I don't truly believe that age has much to do with responsibility when it comes to drinking - I've seen some 40 year olds that shouldn't be able to drink. But, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and as parents our biggest responsibility is to teach them to respect it even when we don't agree with it.
Dusty Graham
4:14 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Why not allow adults to model and participate in behavior to train young adults on how to interact with alcohol?
We don't just give a sixteen-year-old the keys and say "now you magically know how to drive" nor to we toss a six-year-old a baseball and expect them to know how to play. We participate in these activities with them and show them how it's done.
Why shouldn't the same model be used with alcohol? At twenty-one, anyone in the USA can buy as much alcohol as they wish and use it how they wish. If they have nothing to model against, they can endanger themselves and others. Give parents the rights that many other countries already enjoy. Share a glass of wine with their children. Teach them to respect the grape, then perhaps we would not have to deal with so many unfortunate consequences.
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7:46 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Well, too many adults can't handle alcohol and are poor parental role models. I agree there should be awareness and education about using alcoholic beverages in moderation, education on the risks, recognizing destructive tendencies toward addiction, etc. Not everyone is going to be a teetotaler, religious influence or not.
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7:50 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Many parents probably do educate their older children about alcohol in the privacy of their own home. You can't and shouldn't try to legislate that. I don't think breaking the law in a public place should be encouraged, and I don't think the legal age should be lowered. There's plenty of adulthood awaiting, God willing, indulgence or enjoyment - whichever way you view alcohol.
Karsten Torch
6:47 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Dusty, thank you. Great points. In most of Europe, the drinking age doesn't really exist. In Germany, or at least it buses to be this way, there was a minimum age to be in a bar after a certain time. And they don't have the problems with binge drinking we have here.
I don't drink, but I don't think it's my place to restrict parents in that way. Moderation is the key. Too much sugar is bad for children too, yet we're ok with allowing parents to make the decisions regarding that. The trick is we have to expect people to be responsible. And that may be the problem in this country....
Amy Jellicoe
9:09 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Does anyone remember the fat smoking baby in Indonesia? The longer we put off bad habits, the better. If you're that much into celebrating with your kid, take a vacation to Mexico or French Canada where the drinking age is 18.
Shane Reynolds
9:34 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Absolutely. The country needs parents to be actually parent, and I don't want to parent anyone else's children. If they decide this is how they want to introduce alcohol to their young adults, it's not really any of my business. They would be exposing themselves to legal liability if their kids were to drink and drive or otherwise cause damage, but the alternative for most is that their sons and daughters turn 21 away from home where their only guidance is other 21 year-olds.


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Knex Semi-Auto Handle Mag Pistol
I said to Mepain "I'm going to make a semi-auto pistol with a magazine in the handle". 45 minutes later I took this picture.
I'll call it: SALSA
S**** A** Lame Semi-Auto
Yes, this is a TRUE semi-auto Knex gun. You pull the trigger and it shoots, then repeat. The magazine is in the handle and it shoots gray connectors. Range is 5-10 ft, so it's not going to win any wars.
I'll call it: SALSA
S**** A** Lame Semi-Auto
Yes, this is a TRUE semi-auto Knex gun. You pull the trigger and it shoots, then repeat. The magazine is in the handle and it shoots gray connectors. Range is 5-10 ft, so it's not going to win any wars.
Apr 22, 2012. 5:02 PMReply
Jun 13, 2008. 4:48 PMReply
Cool! I assume it works the same way as your other semi auto? I want instructions! or at least a few better pics to build from.... :-)
Jun 13, 2008. 5:15 PMReply
It's a little different than the other two. In this one, the trigger grabs the pin from the back instead of the front. I may post instructions on KI when it comes up.
Jun 6, 2010. 1:13 PMReply
I looked on KI and the instructions weren't there. I think you should re-post it, because I really want to build it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:-(
Jun 7, 2010. 4:25 PMReply
You sure? When I searched "Knex Semi-Auto Handle Mag Pistol" on KI, it just showed your two "Two-Shot Pistol" posts and your "The State of Knex As A Product" post. Could you please give me the link instead?
Nov 1, 2009. 8:34 AMReply
I never thought it was obsolete. You can't read minds, and psychics are frauds.
Nov 1, 2009. 5:30 AMReply
So? If you point out that something is old, you're either pointing out it has increased in value, or that it's obsolete.
Nov 1, 2009. 10:22 AMReply
Actually, I read DJ'as comment as saying it is great despite being more than a year old.
Nov 1, 2009. 10:38 AMReply
That's the way it should be. There are guns that are awesome even though they are a year old.
Nov 2, 2009. 1:04 PMReply
I have to get around to buying more parts so I can build it.... But I wasn't talking about the knexsayer. I was talking about guns like the morettie or DD-27. Basically classic knex guns that were good.
Nov 5, 2009. 10:17 AMReply
Lol, the original storm 220 was actually considered good back in the day...
Nov 1, 2009. 8:35 AMReply
I meant that the TOPIC was a year old. This is still the most recent posted semi auto.
Nov 1, 2009. 10:41 AMReply
You were either inferring that it was obsolete, or that guns that are over a year old are better.
Mar 9, 2011. 9:14 AMReply
This argument is utterly pointless, like most other arguments on Instructibles.
May 16, 2009. 4:12 PMReply
Cool, but you should make the trigger longer so that it can be squeezed with 4 fingers for a lot more power.
May 17, 2009. 9:48 AMReply
It can't handle any more bands than what I put on unless you superglue the parts together.
May 17, 2009. 10:42 AMReply
because that would only leave one finger to wrap around the handle. also, 4 fingers would be kinda cramping the trigger when its reset.
Oct 31, 2009. 10:39 AMReply
I have 4 fingers and a thumb. But I was saying that it would be cramped with 4 fingers on the trigger.
Oct 31, 2009. 10:49 AMReply
But the first bit, the one where you said that you'd only have one finger to wrap around the handle. I'd have zero fingers.
Nov 27, 2008. 12:58 PMReply
It was 5 months ago, and he barely ever comes on this site any more. You really think he's still going to have it? Stop necro-posting.
Aug 27, 2008. 10:50 PMReply
No wait its knex innovations isnt it! took me all of yesterday to realise that
Jul 23, 2008. 4:06 AMReply
Please post this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will build and modify. :D
Jul 23, 2008. 1:36 PMReply
alright I'll post a modified version. I'll probably combine it with my TDS. Of course I need permission from oodalumps first.
Jul 23, 2008. 3:38 PMReply
Oodalumps if your out there please give him promision!!! lol Anyway I can't wait. How far does it shoot? Just curious. Thank you!!! :D
Jul 23, 2008. 4:27 PMReply
Lol well I'm not sure if I really want to anymore. I built all up to the semi auto mech and it hardly pulls the pin back. You could probably modify this but it still wouldn't get much power.
Jul 5, 2008. 2:30 AMReply
I want it ! I want to mod it more powerful and longer barrel maybe ! ARE YOU F***ING CRAZY ? YOU WILL BE IF U DONT POST THIS ! *calm now*
Jul 22, 2008. 6:39 AMReply
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Jul 22, 2008. 3:51 PMReply
It's really not hard to build it from the picture, I suggest actually trying to do so.
Jul 22, 2008. 3:56 PMReply
no kidding. I might just end up building it myself and try making it better. I mean it's sad people couldn't even figure out how I shrunk my TDS to make the mini version...what can you do.
Jul 22, 2008. 6:35 AMReply
Jul 12, 2008. 3:30 PMReply
Damn. Beat me to it. I was gonna make one. Ahh, well. Just gonna have to make it a removable handle in the mag.
Jul 12, 2008. 5:19 PMReply
Err, removable mag in the handle. Or maybe a removable mag that is the handle.
Jul 12, 2008. 5:18 PMReply
Are you talking about the TDS? That is not semi-auto nor does it have a remoeable mag.
Jul 12, 2008. 5:25 PMReply
I knew you would say that. Well I take it you haven't looked at my instructable since I last updated it. I don't know what else you would call it if that isn't a removable magazine. You insert a device with the ammo attached that automatically loads it. Plus the device on my pistol can be used on any gun with the same magazine including this gun with a couple small mods to the gun.
Jul 12, 2008. 6:20 PMReply
That is a clip. The difference is that Magazines have to be removed, clips are either ejected with the ammo or pop out when the gun is reloaded. Clips are generally used on the old-style WWII era rifles, like the M1 Garand. Besides, that method of clip loading has been used before.
Jul 12, 2008. 6:35 PMReply
Sorry to double post but I also wanted to add this. A magazine is a device that stores and loads ammo. It may be detachable or permanent. A clip is a device to store the ammo to feed into the magazine to load a gun.
Jul 12, 2008. 9:23 PMReply
And the magazine, in the case of your gun, is the handle. It does not go into the handle, it is the handle.
Jul 13, 2008. 7:50 AMReply
Sigh...like I said it depends on the situation. I you attach the ammo to the auto loader then you have a device that stores ammo and loads it. It works like a real pistol magazine. My pistol's handle in this case stores the magazine. In any other situation it is the magazine yes.
Jul 13, 2008. 10:15 AMReply
A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into the magazine of a repeating firearm.
A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm.
Your clip happens to be inserted into a magazine that is within your gun.
A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm.
Your clip happens to be inserted into a magazine that is within your gun.
Jul 13, 2008. 10:29 AMReply
Ugh it's as if you've been completely ignoring what I've said at least twice now now. OK the sticky notes and ammo. That's the clip yes. The auto loader. That is...well the auto loader that you can put on and take off easily. When you attach the clip to the auto loader that makes the magazine. You then insert it into the handle both as once piece so it contains the ammo and loads it. A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm. A magazine it is then? I don't get why you do not consider that true.
Jul 13, 2008. 11:32 AMReply
What is the auto loader? Do you mean the rod with bands at the bottom that pushes the round into the chamber? In that case, it is just a poorly designed clip. Your mag is not removable, it is internal. You have to insert a clip. M1 Garands have an internal magazine, but the clip is loaded from the top so that you don't have to put a spring on the bottom. The C-96 Mauser is the only clip loaded hand gun (besides the Russian "Silent" 2-shot pistols) that I know of, and even it loads from the top. Every clip-fed gun loads from the top because magazines have a spring in the bottom (even internal mags).
Jul 13, 2008. 12:53 PMReply
OK dude seriously let me grab some pictures. 1. The first picture is of a pistol magazine. 2. This is the auto loader for my pistol. 3. Here is the ammo "clip" attached to the auto loader. You do the same thing as real one with it. You insert it into the bottom of the handle where a real one clicks into place you have to twist mine on. Yes mine is poorly designed but I find it works better than taking the whole handle off for example and only leaving a small shell to insert it back into.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Drop A Tear In The Ocean
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- veronika, tick tock vintage. said...
that first picture is beautiful, and i adore your coat.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- Yajaira said...
lovely dress!!
- January 10, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- Babes in Thriftland said...
Oh I love this dress! I wish I had water like this to walk to. I would be there all the time too.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Katie @ Beautifully Pure said...
Ooh! I love your dress! And that bright blue looks lovely with the lime green of your coat!! <3
~ Katie
http://www.beautifully-pure.com - January 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Iulia Romana said...
I truly admire you for offering us, your faithful readers, such great photos ! You are a gorgeous young lady and a great photographer :)
- January 10, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- tess said...
Your could be out of some romantic painting
I love that coat, what a fantastic color with your hair - January 10, 2011 at 8:29 AM
- Mae Lu said...
You're insanely lucky to live in such wonderful places with great outdoors to roam about in and take fantastic photos. Near my house is nothing but stripmalls and traffic lights and more apartment parking shelters and piles of dirty snow.
Any place that could even barely match the majesty of where you live (in WA, too) would be a 20 minute drive and not worth an hour of my time to try to snap a handful of mediocre photos. You, on the other hand, snap beautiful photos in beautiful places.
I envy you that.
I, however, will stay indoors at the comfort and safety of my computer. :)
Mae Lu, @ thereafterish. - January 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Carita said...
God, what a beautiful dress!! You look fantastic.
- January 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- GEMBEAR said...
gorgeous coat! stunning!
- January 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Raquel said...
I admire you for standing on those rocks! I'd be too afraid to fell haha.
Love the colour combination of the dress with the coat. - January 10, 2011 at 9:19 AM
- Eliise said...
Truly amazing pictures! I would like to have a walk by the sea :)
- January 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Jessica said...
I wonder if anyone else saw this and immediately thought of Meg's dress in Little Women?
Such a beautiful color! - January 10, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Courtney said...
Oh, that is such a lovely dress! And it suits you so wonderfully. :)
These are some of those photos that I just see and think, "perfect."
x Courtney - January 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Victoria / Justice Pirate said...
that blue dress is incredible!!!!!!!!!! I think it is perfect on you! I have had my eye on things in YeYe for a while but have never seen that beauty!!
- January 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Mallory | The Storm in a Teacup said...
Love that coat on you, it looks really good with your hair.
And those mossy stones are so cool! - January 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Joanna said...
The dress is beautiful. I'd love to have one like this to add to my dress challenge. And I'd love to live in a place where I could walk to such large water.
modamama.blogspot.com - January 10, 2011 at 11:07 AM
- A said...
Ooh, amazing place to take that picture...
- January 10, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- Catherine said...
The blue and the green both suit your hair so perfectly! Also, I love the scenery here.
- January 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- Fi Fi said...
Love the colours, and the dress is so cute x
http://kiss--on--the--lips.blogspot.com/ - January 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM
- goldenmeans said...
What a gorgeous series of photos. The first one especially is so stunningly composed!! And that vintage coat -- fantastic :)
- January 10, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Ashley said...
Beautiful location and gorgeous photos! Your dress is absolutely adorable as well. You look stunning!
<3 Ashley
AcuteObsession.blogspot.com - January 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- honey and salt said...
If there is any dress I envy from your closet...this is it. I'm always hoping to stumble upon its sister.
- January 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- MITICA ILLUSTRATIONS said...
Pictures like a dreams!!!
I have a giveaway on my blog about my fashion illustrations! You can choose between an illustration about you or a new header for your blog!!
xx - January 10, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- Lily Flower said...
These pictures are beyond beautiful; I love the moss on those rocks- it looks almost surreal.
http://errors-of-lily.blogspot.com/ - January 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- Mani said...
Cute pictures :) I wish I could walk to the sea from my house, haha!
- January 10, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Joey said...
wow, what beautiful colors.
- January 10, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- SWF_Terra said...
The colors of the coat and the dress are so perfect together.
Getting outside every day is so important. Even if just for a little while. So many huge societal issues stem from everyone holing up indoors. It's bitter and miserable in Pittsburgh but I am thankful for the fresh air I get when I venture out. - January 10, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- Brie at DISfunkshion Magazine said...
Those peat moss blocks/rocks--well, whatever they are--look so, so cool. A perfect backdrop for an outfit shot!
- January 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- YEYE STYLE BLOG said...
I luv that dress on you ;)
- January 10, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Shy, Chesterfield said...
I really love that colour combination. I usually dont like wearing too many bright colours but I'm really drawn to this.
Shy - January 10, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- ~Kelly~ said...
I love it! you are so pretty!! and your outfit is amazing... I wish i lived in a place like that, instead i live in the middle of the freakin desert!
- January 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- My Heart Blogged said...
I love the color combo of green, and blue.
My Heart Blogged - January 10, 2011 at 7:53 PM
- Melai said...
breathtaking photographs :)
Melai of Style and Soul - January 10, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- Wild Goose Chase said...
Your hair colour is to 'dye' for! Just love your blog! Makes for such interesting reading!
I would love for you all to take a peek at mine, and maybe even follow if you're interested!
Much love xxx - January 11, 2011 at 3:38 AM
- northwest is best said...
Lovely outfit, Rebecca! I agree on getting out and about - if I don't get enough fresh air everyday I feel really miserable.
- January 11, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Erin Cathleen said...
This is a great example of how to wear brights in the winter. I love your combination of cerulean and chartreuse... it feels so fresh! Bye bye, winter blahs. :)
- January 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Becca Jane said...
These are such beautiful shots. Your dress is lovely!
- January 12, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- AnnaBananaCupcake said...
That is the prettiest loveliest dress ever!
XOXO - January 13, 2011 at 8:22 PM


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when I signed, Bill, Jammer and other saw no chance in this league and therefore are quite busy in backbpedaling... Isn't that obvious?
Hey, Tater: The Yahoo site still shows our draft as 10:15a.m. EDT on the 20th. Or is it 8:30p.m. EDT on the 20th??? Maybe Boise is just 8 hours and 2 bricks short of the east coast. I'm loosing sleep over this..............
Relax Wood Duck or we will make you commissioner next season. Sunday October 20th @ 8:15 PM EDT. Going TWICE...
That time works for me. sombody will ahve to remind me what I did in last year's draft to cause me to finish in last place. Other than that, I'm looking forward to it.
Maybe you should auto-draft...? I've seen that work out pretty well for some folks in the bball leagues. Just make sure to check injury status. You can exclude players you don't want before the draft.
Everyone has signed up except Jammer. Last. Last to sign up. Last place. Anyone see a pattern here? We still need one more guy (or gal) to join.
Sunday October 20th @ 8:15 PM EDT. GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's final. No more changes. I will remind you guys several times as the date approaches. Jammer sign up. We also need one more person. Any ideas?
Keep your pants on ladies. I'm in. I just made it in under the wire. Only 14 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes before our draft was scheduled to start.
I meant September. Not October. September 20, 2009 at 8:15 EDT. That is our draft. I'm losing it. I also would have sworn we were one week away instead of two.
Big welcome to Winless Wonder. The league is now at full capacity. 1. Darth 2. Roscoe 3. Know All 4. Woody 5. Raxrets 6. Jammer 7. Bill Laimbeer 8. bezeach 9. Mikhail 10. Winless Wonder
Jammer, I believe there is a thread with that information. I can't find the link for it right now, though.
Go ahead and laugh. I am just trying to make sure that my friends are there to draft the best teams possible. The draft is this Sunday people!! No way do I want you stupid idiots to miss the live draft. If the computer ends up picking your teams for you then I could be in a lot of trouble this season.
This Rascoe stuff is out of control. From now on, only linwood and Woody can call me Rascoe. And Woody, only until Hockey starts, because then he becomes Woofy, barking about his team, and Woofy is not Woody.


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The Golden Dragon A beautiful giant cricket is exploited by an ant, stewardesses 30,000 feet in the air speak to boat people in the Atlantic, a tooth lands in a bowl of soup, and a dead boy is carried thousands of miles home on a river. Wielding a dreamlike kaleidoscope, making and remaking connections that span the globe, playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig tells The Golden Dragon's tragicomic tale of globalization. It's set in your local takeout, wherever it and whomever you might be. Karla Boos directs.08/02/2012
Piano sale Pittsburgh Opera hosts a piano sale of new and used Kawai, Baldwin, Yamaha, Mason & Hamlin, and other makes at significant discounts. By appointment only August 2-4. Open to the public on Sunday, August 5, noon - 5:00 PM.08/02/2012
Chekhov Celebration: Ivanov Tom Stoppard's new translation directed by Andrew S. Paul in its US Premiere. A sort of comic Hamlet, Ivanov is overcome with inertia and self-disgust. His wife is dying and he feels nothing. He is drowning in debt and despair, and he does nothing. Is it him? Is it Russia? Ivanov was the twenty-seven-year-old Chekhov's shot at dispatching the 'superfluous man' of Russian literature, and in surrounding him with a brilliantly drawn set of provincial types he created some of the finest comedy he had ever written.08/02/2012
American Idols For the 2012 election season, John Moran introduces "American Idols," a new installation of busts of all 43 U.S. presidents. This marks the first occasion that all the busts will appear together, in one location. Moran constructs his strange busts and their quirky, somewhat childlike, and absurd appearances by meshing sculpted glass heads with an array of other materials. Their clothing is laden with images and words strewn together in a seemingly haphazard manner, which begins to create an obscure narrative of their lives.08/03/2012
Flood City Music Festival Featured performers include Dr. John, the Del McCoury Band, the Smithereens, and festival favorites Black Coffee, Eilen Jewell, Los Straitjackets, and Tab Benoit.08/03/2012
Carlisle Floyd's Susannah Set in New Hope Valley, Tennessee, the story centers on an attractive but innocent girl of 19, who is falsely accused of "loose" behavior. Floyd's 1955 opera is a direct response to the anti-communist witch hunts, yet is also informed by his experiences growing up in rural South Carolina as the son of a Methodist preacher, and many of its themes — hypocrisy, mistrust and misunderstanding — remain all too relevant today. Patrick Brannan directs. Walter Morales conducts the Undercroft Orchestra. 08/03/2012
First Fridays: The Bobs Manhattan Transfer meets Monty Python…Robin Williams meets Bobby McFerrin…J.S. Bach meets Jimi Hendrix: Grammy-nominated vocal acrobats (and certifiable nutjobs), that's The Bobs. This original "band without instruments" has been skewering the classics, breaking all the rules of vocal music for over 25 years, playing everywhere from Lincoln Center to Berlin's Passionkirche.08/03/2012
Karen Barr, organ Karen Barr of John Knox Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, OH. Freewill offerings accepted.08/05/2012
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Celtic Woman in Concert When: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Venue: Heinz Hall Time: 7:30pm Regular Tickets $110 Single ticket $220 Pair tickets Orchestra/Grand Tier Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable03/26/2013
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Chautauqua: Straight No Chaser in Concert – Overnight Bus Trip Chautauqua: Straight No Chaser in Concert – overnight bus trip Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013- Sunday, June 23, 2013 Location: Chautauqua Time: 8:15pm *Depart Saturday morning, June 22; arrive for lunch. Check into hotel and enjoy the grounds. Have dinner and see SNC in concert. On Sunday, have breakfast then leave to return to Pittsburgh. Regular $400 Single (single occupancy) $750 Pair (double occupancy) General Admission Seating Credit Card Only, Non-Refundable06/22/2013
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The rec center has been years in the making, with the previous board of commissioners chipping away at site preparation, planning and design.
County Manager Chuck Wooten told the current commissioners they could move ahead with construction thanks to healthy county savings.
"Even by taking $5 million out of our fund balance we are still in really good shape financially. It would not impact the county negatively at all. We still have a very generous reserve," said Wooten, who took over as the new county manager in January along with a new slate of commissioners.
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With New Year's Eve falling on a Monday this year, many people began to celebrate early.
California Highway Patrol officers said they made more arrests in a 24-hour period this weekend than they did during the same 24-hour period, which included New Year's Eve, last year.
A toast to the new year means big business for local bars, it also means big responsibility.
"We really try to keep an eye out for signs of intoxication," said Misty Martin, manager at MVP's Sports Grill.
Martin says safety is always a top priority.
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Movie review: Tsunami tale 'The Impossible' awash in melodrama
Based on the true story of a family swept away by the deadly 2004 tsunami that pummeled Southeast Asia, "The Impossible" is about as subtle as a wall of water.
The depiction of the natural disaster itself, which killed 230,000 people, is visceral and horrifying. Director Juan Antonio Bayona has crafted an event that's impeccable from a production standpoint with its dizzying, seemingly endless sprawl of destruction, a relentless, wet menace full of things that snap and stab and strangle. And Naomi Watts gives a vivid, deeply committed performance as the wife and mother of three young boys who finds the strength to persevere despite desolation and debilitating injuries.
But man, is this thing heavy-handed. Although "The Impossible" sucks you in at the start, it proceeds to pound you over the head after that.
Watts and Ewan McGregor co-star as Maria and Henry, a happily married British couple spending Christmas at a luxury resort in Thailand with their adorable sons, played by Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin and Oaklee Pendergast. (The real-life family whose story inspired the film was Spanish, like the director himself; changing their ethnicity and casting famous people to play them seems like a rather transparent attempt to appeal to a larger audience.)
During a quiet morning by the pool, the first massive wave comes ashore, scattering the family and thousands of strangers across the devastated landscape. "The Impossible" tracks their efforts to survive, reconnect, find medical care and get the hell out of town. Maria and eldest son Lucas have managed to stick together, as have Henry and the youngest boys, Thomas and Simon. But neither group knows that the others are alive. The sense of loneliness and fear that sets in during those first quiet moments after the mayhem has settled are eerie.
Both halves of the family trudge on, though. The near-misses at an overcrowded hospital are just too agonizing to be true, and the uplifting score swells repeatedly in overpowering fashion, urging us to feel, as if we wouldn't know how on our own. Surely, the inherent drama of this story could have stood on its own two feet.
Bayona lingers almost fetishistically on Watts' wounds — the massive gash to the back of her right leg, the slashes beneath her left breast, the cuts over both eyes — then he martyrs her as she lingers near death. Meanwhile, the countless thousands of native people suffer in a blur — literally, they're fleeting images glimpsed from the back of a rumbling pickup truck on a dirt road.
Either that or they're elderly, toothless saints spouting gibberish, but they never feel like real people who've just endured the devastation of the only home they've ever known.
"The Impossible" — rated PG-13 for intense, realistic disaster sequences, including disturbing injury images, and brief nudity — is in theaters. Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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Lamborghini revealed the Veneno March 4, 2013 ahead of the Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland.
The latest in its tradition of bespoke cars, the $3.9 million Veneno is the fastest, most powerful Lamborghini ever built. It's also already sold out. Although, according to the Associated Press, the Italian car maker produced just three of the vehicles.
"[Making just three cars] gives you a high degree of freedom in terms of the design, you can test materials and new technologies, it has a halo effect on the other products," said Volkswagen Group Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann in an Associated Press story. "Last but not least, you're fulfilling dreams, at least for a few people."
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SUFFOLK COUNTY, New York—Scouts of all ages will be going door to door in the coming weeks to ask for food. Their goal will be to collect more than 85,000 pounds of food donations that will be distributed to food pantries, soup kitchens, and charitable organizations that feed the hungry across Long Island.
The Boy Scouts of America has a history of service to the community. Every Scout makes it a part of his daily life to do a good turn. This year, Long Island's pantries and soup kitchens have been hard hit by the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy. Immediately following Super Storm Sandy, the Boy Scouts of America in Suffolk County mobilized to collect food, blankets, clothing and cleaning supplies to be delivered to affected residents.
Every March, the Boy Scouts of America in Suffolk County holds a food drive to help the pantries restock after the hard winter months and passing holidays. This March 23, Scouts across Long Island will collect and distribute food donations. Residents should be on the lookout for collection flyers and bags in their neighborhood, or contact a Boy Scout Troop or Cub Scout Pack in their area to find out where they can donate non-perishable goods.
For information on where you can bring food donations, please contact the Boy Scouts of America in Suffolk County at 631-924-7000, ext. 110.
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LUMBERTON — Those who plan on mixing driving with alcohol as part of a New Year's resolution be warned: The Highway Patrol will be out in force watching for you.
Local law enforcement will be stepping up patrols and setting up checkpoints to help ensure that everyone has a safe holiday celebration, according to patrol Sgt. Daniel Hilburn.
"We're asking everyone that plans to go out and enjoy the New Year to have a designated driver if you've been drinking," Hilburn said. "Don't drink and drive and please wear your seat belt."
Hilburn said the Highway Patrol will be conducting saturation patrols and will set up random checkpoints throughout the county. Patrolmen will partner with local police departments and the sheriff's office to stop drunken driving.
Lumberton Police Chief Mike McNeill said the city will also be increasing its patrols.
"We'll have heavy personnel out," McNeill said. "We'll patrol like we usually do, but we'll have more officers out."
McNeill said that Lumberton police won't be setting up any checkpoints on New Year's Eve, but officers will be keeping an eye out for drunken drivers.
"We're just hoping everyone will have a safe one," McNeill said. "Don't drink and drive, have a designated driver."
According to state law, anyone who has a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more is considered impaired, Anyone who is charged with a DWI will lose their license for 30 days, according to Lumberton police's Maj. Tommy Barnes, and face a fine of up to $2,000 and no less than 24 hours of imprisonment.
If someone refuses to take the breath test, that person faces a one-year suspension of their license, Barnes said.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a person is killed by a drunken driver every 51 minutes in the United States.


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Serving North Providence Electrical Needs License: a-004527
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