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See for example this thread first. A man who saw how much he drank got his horse and rode into a bank He went in the door and passed out on the floor While horse made a deposit -- which stank.

4/18/2007 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNEWS) -- The challenge for those assigned water system reconstruction work in Iraq's desert environment is not lack of water with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers running through the heart of Iraq. Rather, the challenge is water treatment. For the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's senior reservist, a civil engineer background helped him focus on water treatment during his latest deployment to the desert. Lt. Col. Joseph Fraundorfer served as deputy chief of Water Sector for the Gulf Region Division in Iraq. He worked alongside Air Force, civilian and Iraqi civil engineers in a construction...

When Eliseo Hernandez came to the United States 30 years ago, he thought he drove better after a few beers. Driving drunk had been normal back in Mexico, he said. But Hernandez, 54, learned of its perils firsthand. He quit the practice after falling asleep at the wheel and hitting a tree 18 years ago. Then, last year, a young Hispanic man who authorities say was drunk nearly killed Hernandez's only son, Diego, in a crash on a rural Johnston County road. Eliseo Hernandez's daughter, who was nine months pregnant, lost her unborn child in the accident. Hernandez has spent...

IT IS with great horror that I read Lindsay Huggins' incredibly irresponsible and error-filled column regarding Commonwealth v. Beebe ("The painful consequences of silence," Mar. 16). While I am sure every current Wahoo wants to wave the flag of school pride, such editorial laziness should not be allowed as it does not in any way help other students. That said, I am glad attention is being brought to the horror of rape. Huggins, however, needs to get some of the facts straight and stop this disgusting and disturbing "blame the victim" stance. That serves no one and shows just how...

From The Hook, a local newspaper here in Charlottesville, Virginia:Four months after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a fellow student in a UVA fraternity house in 1984, 42-year-old William N. Beebe will be sentenced for the nearly 23-year-old crime on Thursday, March 15, in Charlottesville Circuit Court. . . . . . Beebe was sentenced to 18 months in jail and 500 hours of community service on March 16, according to news reports from The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia).

Two drink minimum? Think again. Under a bill endorsed by a Florida Senate committee Wednesday, bars could no longer kick out patrons just because they aren't spending money on alcoholic drinks. The bill is inspired by a case in Pinellas Park, where a man was booted from his favorite bar for drinking a soda. He reportedly told the bar owners he was the designated driver for his friends, but he was kicked out anyway and got into a scuffle in the process. Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, who is sponsoring the bill, said the bar's policy encourages people to...

Inspired by the Russian roulette scene in the excellent Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter, for our money this is one of the most dramatic and enjoyable of all drinking games.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may function better physically than either those who abstain completely or those who abuse alcohol, a new study suggests. Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier in general than teetotalers or problem drinkers, Dr. Peggy M. Cawthon of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and colleagues note. There is also evidence that moderate drinking may reduce inflammation. Cawthon and colleagues compared functional limitations, physical performance and drinking history for 5,962 men aged 65 or older who were classified into 5 categories. Men who consumed 5 or more...

SANTA FE New Mexico is taking its fight against drunken driving to men's restrooms around the state. The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-D-W-I message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel. The top of the devices feature the state D-W-I slogan -- "You drink, you drive, you lose." Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week. And the state Transportation Department plans to distribute them to Santa Fe bars and restaurants as well as establishments in Farmington, Gallup and Las Cruces. The state...

A growing number of Baptists may have brought in the New Year by raising a glass of something a bit stronger than iced tea, some cultural observers speculate. Baptist attitudes toward alcohol consumption seem to be in transition, they insist. Consider the spirited debate—and debate about spirits—sparked last summer when messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting approved a resolution opposing the consumption of alcoholic beverages—and an amendment disqualifying imbibers from service as trustees of SBC entities. Messengers passed resolutions on such volatile issues as same-sex marriage, illegal immigration and genocide in Darfur with little discussion, but the call...

Villagers tout urine drinking's health benefit (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-11-21 11:41 Du Ximin, 50, was one of the five people who formed a healthcare research center promoting drinking urine to stay healthy in his village in 1993. Now about 400 of the village of 1,600 are in the habit of drinking their own urine, and two-thirds of them are senior people, reported state television. Du, formerly head of the Wuzhuang Village in Baqiao District of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, has been drinking his urine on a daily basis since 1990. He has been very healthy over the years, China Central Television...

Even as studies have consistently found an association between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced heart attack risk in men, an important question has persisted: What if the men who drank in moderation were the same individuals who maintained good eating habits, didn't smoke, exercised and watched their weight - How would you know that their reduced risk of myocardial infarction wasn't the result of one or more of these other healthy habits? A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helps answer this question. Reported in the...

YAKIMA, Washington (AP) -- Federal investigators were set Tuesday to begin an investigation into a fire that ruined about 4 percent of America's yield of hops, used as flavoring in the brewing of beer and ale. The fire started shortly before noon Monday in a 40,000-square-foot (3,600-square-meter) warehouse operated by S.S. Steiner Inc., one of the four largest hop buyers in the Yakima Valley of central Washington. By mid-afternoon flames engulfed most of the building, sending up plumes of smoke and a pungent aroma.

DID Mel Gibson mean it? Did he mean it when he said, according to a sheriff’s report of his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, that “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world”? Or when he asked the arresting deputy, “Are you a Jew?” snip... So where, exactly, did those words come from? ...snip...Was this alcohol-fueled soliloquy an ugly insight into Mr. Gibson’s character — in other words, in vino veritas? Or was it just the tequila talking? Science, as it happens, has been hard at work trying to understand ...if...alcohol can make people do, and...

CHILDREN from the age of five should be encouraged to drink wine at home to prevent the toll of alcohol abuse in later life, one of the country's leading experts on the problem has told Scotland on Sunday. Jack Law, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland and a member of the Scottish Ministerial Advisory Committee on Alcohol Problems, believes the practice would cut binge drinking among youngsters by taking the mystery out of alcohol. Law, who is helping ministers draft new alcohol policies to tackle the nation's appalling health record, believes parents should also drink more responsibly themselves to set...

Police have warned women "intent on getting ratted" to make sure they had waxed and were "wearing nice pants" in case they collapsed. The advice aims to keep women safe when drinking The advice was contained in a free magazine launched by Suffolk Police which officers say is aimed at keeping women safe when they go out drinking and clubbing. Safe! magazine also contained a picture of a girl in a mini skirt with the caption "if you've got it, don't flaunt it" and warned that alcohol could leave women looking like "wrinkly old prunes". Officers said they were adopting...

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) has had one hell of a run. Their success rate is the envy of the activist community; their lobbying for tougher laws and public awareness is largely responsible (or so they will tell you) for reducing alcohol-related traffic deaths since 1982 by a whopping 37 percent. Okay, they give a little credit to the maturation of baby boomers, safer vehicles, airbags and mandatory seatbelt laws. They have captured every flag they initially set out to capture. They got prison sentences for repeat DUI offenders. Flying in the face of the Constitution, they pressured the government...

A POLICE chief sparks controversy today by suggesting the number of rapes in Scotland could be substantially reduced if women drank less. Neil Richardson, assistant chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, bases his claim on new research which identified victims' alcohol consumption as significant in a third of attacks. The senior officer said "a lot" of the 1,100 rapes a year could be prevented "by people not allowing themselves to be in a vulnerable position". Richardson - who stressed he was not blaming women - spoke out after a study of more than 120 rapes revealed alcohol intake was...

Abbey Roos says she has the perfect college job. The Central Connecticut State University freshman works one day a week. Her business attire includes knee-high boots and a cut-off T-shirt, and many nights she walks away with hundreds of untaxed dollars. The slender, attractive young woman uses sex appeal to sell tubes of liquor to patrons at Club Blu in Hartford. She is a "shot girl." "It's easy for a college student," Roos said. "You're going to class all week, you're working on papers, and on weekends, college kids want to go out. So why not work at a bar?"...

Having a drink or two each day appears to be better for the heart than having a drink just now and then, at least for middle-aged men, a Danish study finds. Men who drank moderately each day had a 41 percent lower risk of heart disease than abstainers, while the risk was only 7 percent lower for those who drank on no more than one day a week, the researchers found. The team found no such benefit to daily drinking for women, however. "This is one more study suggesting that a modest to moderate amount of alcohol in the world...

A Canadian company has developed a new, more efficient process to make the alternative fuel ethanol from farm waste. With today's high oil prices, experts hope the new technology could reduce demand on fossil fuels and increase energy security. "In the past, ethanol fuel use has been limited, because the cost of production was too high," said Jim Easterly, a Washington, D.C.-based bioenergy consultant. "Ethanol produced from corn kernels and wheat grain has historically been more expensive than gasoline produced from oil." Producing corn-based ethanol, for example, uses energy from oil and electricity for everything from growing the corn to...

Drinking coffee 'is good for the heart' By Celia Hall, Medical Editor (Filed: 12/05/2006) One to three cups of coffee a day may protect people from heart disease and strokes, according to research which contradicts numerous studies that have suggested that coffee is bad for you. The good news for coffee drinkers comes from a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and is based on a study of 27,000 older women, followed for 15 years. It found a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease by about 30 per cent in women who had a moderate intake of coffee. The...

Space-Age Drinking Water System Tested The system, originally designed for NASA, may provide a short-term solution to provide residents with clean drinking water. By U.S. Army Sgt. Dennis Gravelle 138th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment DAHUK, Iraq, May 2, 2006 — U.S. soldiers assigned to the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion in Dahuk, Iraq, have found an alternative way for residents to drink clean water in the village of Bendaway. A creek running through a small village in northern Iraq is the only natural source of drinking water for the residents who live there.“We are surrounded by agriculture here,” said John...

A Claremont mother said she is “devastated and scared” after being charged with facilitating an underage drinking party Saturday. “I am a wreck,” Lori Helie, 40, of 49 Prospect St., said yesterday. “I have a year in jail hanging over my head. I spent one night in jail over this and I can’t imagine what a year would be like. “I was not hosting a party. I had gone to bed . . . I bought alcohol for no one,” Helie told the New Hampshire Union Leader. Helie said she had no idea that New Hampshire passed a law in...

While watching the most recent episode of "24" this week, I decided to play the new drinking game based on this TV show: Protocol.In this game, you take a sip/swig/big gulp whenever a character on the show utters the word "protocol." A word to the wise: Choose a low alcohol content beverage. I played with Dewar's scotch as my adult beverage of choice and was sky high in no time.

The issue of banning open containers of alcohol in vehicles was crushed in the state House March 28. Although the measure is expected to be re-introduced next week, Delaware seems on course to remain one of only 12 states without an open container restriction in place. The defeat is a new hurdle for the bill, which has easily passed in the House several years running only to be stalled each round in the Senate. “Certainly, I hope it passes in the House, but it may well hit the proverbial wall in the Senate,” said Sen. Gary Simpson, R-Milford, who supports...

Gilford – Police say they warned a local woman last October that it’s a crime to host an underage drinking party — five months before she was arrested for doing just that. Susan Hanlon, 40, told the Sunday News last week that she “had no idea” there was such a law when she allowed her daughter to hold a sleepover party with alcohol to celebrate her 18th birthday on March 11. That’s not true, according to Detective Douglas Wall, the police department’s resource officer for Gilford High School. Just before last Halloween, there were rumors at school about a drinking...

One of the most noticed problems among Bedford County's wave of illegal and legal Hispanics -- but one not talked about enough by officials -- is obvious alcoholism. Note these excerpts from last weekend's police reports involving Hispanics. See Brian Mosely's column elsewhere on this page for one example of where some of these problems may be originating. Here's where many of those at the Wartrace Pike soccer fields may end up after their day of partying. Two reports of people passing out: "A Hispanic male was lying on his back ... unconscious ... on the front porch of (a...

The American Medical Association is warning girls not to go wild during spring break. All but confirming what goes on in those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, 83 percent of college women and graduates surveyed by the AMA said spring break involves heavier-than-usual drinking, and 74 percent said the break results in increased sexual activity. The women's answers were based both on firsthand experience and the experiences of friends and acquaintances. Sizable numbers reported getting sick from drinking, and blacking out and engaging in unprotected sex or sex with more than one partner, activities that increase their risks for sexually transmitted...

"Fresno police are taking enforcement of drunken driving laws to a new level — which officers expect will bring both success and outrage. Saturday night, the traffic unit unveiled a new operation in which plainclothes police officers stake out bars and target drunk patrons. If the heavy drinkers get behind the wheel, officers in unmarked cars follow them and call in marked police cars to pull them over."

A QUEENSLAND city has swilled its way into the record books after staging the world's biggest pub crawl. Maryborough, better known for its heritage buildings and industrial background, has given itself a whole new image after Guinness World Records officially verified the city's quirky claim last Friday. About 2000 of Maryborough's 26,000 population crawled their way around 16 pubs last June in a first attempt to break the record. More than 19,000 drinks were downed after drinkers were required to sink at least one drink at each pub – alcoholic or not – to qualify. Official "crawl cards" were stamped...

Try the 92 per cent weapons-grade whisky that will take your breath away. LiterallyBy David Lister, Scotland Correspondent   A 17TH-CENTURY firewater, more than two spoonfuls of which was said to be enough to kill a grown man, is to be revived by a whisky distillery in Scotland. A single drop of the ancient drink of “usquebaugh-baul” was described by the travel writer Martin Martin in 1695 as powerful enough to affect “all members of the body”. He added: “Two spoonfuls of this last liquor is a sufficient dose; if any man should exceed this, it would presently stop...

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Men caught boozing by their wives in an Indian village now face being slapped across the face by their wives' slippers. A committee of women at Japalli, in Andhra Pradesh, introduced the punishment in a bid to 'curb the menace of liquor', reports the Press Trust of India. Any married man discovered drinking will be hauled up before village elders and slapped five times with his wife's leather slipper in front of local residents. They will also be fined the equivalent of £64. The fines will be handed over to the offenders' wives to spend as they see fit. The...

The general rules of this game are no different from any other drinking game. A drink is either a shot or a good gulp from a beer (or cider). Different events call for different numbers of drinks and all you do is watch the speech and play along. If all goes well, you'll be unconscious by the time they show the other party's response. GAME TIME This year, President Bush's State of the Union address is scheduled for Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 9pm (Eastern). It should be broadcast on all major networks and cable news/political networks. For online coverage,...

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Along with smoking and chronic infections, alcohol consumption is an important cause of several types of cancer, researchers said on Monday.

BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Jan. 23, 2006) — The people in the cities of Mahmudiyah, Lutufiyah and Yusufiyah south of Baghdad are finally getting something they have gone without for over eight years now, a working water system to provide them with clean drinking water. The water distribution system for the outlying cities of Baghdad was suffering from lack of proper and continuous maintenance, officials said. During the era of the Sadaam regime, the system was allowed to decay, forcing 300,000 residents to get their water from nearby canals, a practice they have continued until now. The Iraqi government has...

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Pound for pound, females appear to be better at holding their liquor than males, and now scientists may have found one reason why. A new study in rats suggests that hormone levels in the brain may mediate alcohol's potency, giving females a leg up at certain times during their hormonal cycle. The gender gap in alcohol metabolism is no secret. Women metabolize alcohol more slowly than men and that makes them more susceptible to alcoholic liver disease, heart muscle damage, and brain damage. Rat studies suggest that males and females in their teenage years are equally affected by the equivalent...

London — Leading members of Britain's opposition Liberal Democrats demanded the resignation of party Leader Charles Kennedy on Friday, warning that his unprecedented public acknowledgment of a drinking problem has made him a “dead man walking.� Parliamentary deputies began turning against the 46-year-old Scotsman after he acknowledged in a public statement late Thursday that he had sought medical treatment for the problem. The party's Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, handed a letter to Mr. Kennedy signed by 11 senior party legislators, saying his was position was untenable. International development spokesman Andrew George and trade and industry spokesman Norman Lamb announced that...

A new law that penalizes anyone caught hosting an underage-drinking party has nabbed dozens of young partiers, but comparatively few parents, a New Hampshire Union Leader analysis reveals. Court records show the vast majority of people arrested under the state’s “house party” law were in their teens or 20s. In 44 cases reviewed for this story, roughly three quarters of people charged were below the legal drinking age at the time of their arrest. Within that same group, just four — including a husband and wife who were charged together — were over the age of 30.

FORGET aspirins, hairs of dogs and hot baths, the only sure way of avoiding a hangover is not to drink in the first place, according to a new study. Researchers led by Max Pittler of the Peninsular Medical School at Exeter University, surfed the Internet and combed medical databases to study a range of hangover cures from the traditional to the novel. Their research roamed from the humble aspirin to fructose, artichokes and even prickly pears but found no silver bullet. However, they did hold out some hope for the potential of borage, a bright blue herb with star-shaped flowers...

Any heart gains from drinking alcohol in moderation are likely outweighed by the harm, say researchers. The findings in The Lancet suggest that drinking a glass or two of wine a day may not be such a good idea. Although past research suggests some heart benefits, the New Zealand team says the studies were flawed. Indeed, there is more evidence that heavier drinking provides the most heart protection - alcoholics have relatively 'clean' arteries - they say. Do not assume there is a window in which the health benefits of alcohol are greater than the harms The Lancet study authors...

Moderate drinking 'may not be good for you' By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent (Filed: 02/12/2005) Drinking in moderation may not be good for you after all, scientists said yesterday. Previous research has suggested that light to moderate alcohol consumption protects the heart. One study suggested drinking the equivalent of up to two pints of ordinary strength beer or three glasses of wine can reduce heart attack risk by a quarter. However, writing in today's issue of The Lancet, Dr Rod Jackson and colleagues from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, suggest the apparent protective effect of alcohol may be...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Problem drinking may dampen both a man's sex life and his chances of having children, according to a new study. Researchers in India found that men being treated for alcoholism had lower testosterone levels and more sperm abnormalities than non-drinkers did. They also had a far higher rate of erectile dysfunction (ED) - 71 percent, versus 7 percent of abstainers. Some past studies have suggested that heavy drinking can take a toll on men's reproductive health. One recent study found that couples had a higher miscarriage risk if the man had consumed 10 or more...

One day my wife and I were leaving the Mountaineer Casino and Resort in Chester, W. Va. The casino has two installations connected by a shuttle bus. One is a hotel and casino, and the other is a racetrack and casino. As we departed the racetrack, a shuttle bus from the other installation pulled up to the door. A crowd filed off the bus, and almost everyone was holding an alcoholic drink. (You normally don't carry free soft drinks from one building to the other.) Also, many of the passengers were smoking cigarettes. In this day of political correctness run...

BOURNE – Hurricane Katrina evacuees hastily handed $2,000 in federal relief money last month have been living it up on Cape Cod, blowing cash on booze and strippers, a Herald investigation has found. Herald reporters witnessed blatant public drinking at a Falmouth strip mall by Katrina victims living at taxpayer expense at Camp Edwards on Otis Air Force Base. And strippers at Zachary's nightclub in Mashpee, a few miles from the Bourne base, report giving lap dances to several evacuees. ``They were tipping me $5 a pop,'' said a Zachary's dancer named Angel. ``I told them I felt bad taking...

Photos Show Moments Before Officer Shot By OPD Apparent Badge Seen Around Jenkins' Neck ORLANDO, Fla. -- Photos snapped by a University of Central Florida grad student captured campus officer Mario Jenkins with his gun drawn and an apparent police badge hanging around his neck moments before he was mistakenly shot and killed by an Orlando police officer. Jenkins, an officer who had been working with state Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco agents to curb underage drinking, died after being shot Saturday outside the Citrus Bowl by a retired Orlando police officer working on reserve status. Witnesses said Jenkins...

Final Ballots Pouring in for Santa Rosa Liquor VoteBy Bill Kaczor Associated Press Writer Published: Sep 6, 2005 GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) - The final votes were pouring in by mail and hand delivery Tuesday to determine whether Santa Rosa County will erase the last vestiges of Prohibition by legalizing the sale of wine and hard liquor. Such spirits flow freely in adjoining Florida Panhandle counties, but remained forbidden in Gulf Breeze, Milton, Navarre and other Santa Rosa communities pending results of the mail balloting that began Aug. 18. It is the first time vote-by-mail has been used in Santa...

Take one shot of reality, add two shots of panic and a mixer of self-loathing, and you have the licensing law debate. 'Late-night drinking: the backlash' read a front-page strapline of The Times (London) on 24 August, promoting a two-page news piece on the likely fallout from the new licensing laws in England and Wales, which come into effect on 24 November. The Times reports that local councils have been 'swamped' by last-minute applications for new licenses to sell alcohol, which will give little opportunity for the public to object; that four pubs in the centre of Sevenoaks, Kent, will...