Checkpoint 10 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Indianapolis 500: The Simulation came with a manual that had pictures of Indy 500 winners, arranged in chronological order, and I remember noticing how the cars would look faster and faster throughout the decades (this made perfect sense, as it kept with the progress of technology). I also remember learning the names Wilbur Shaw and Johnny Rutherford, who seemed to keep popping up as multi-race winners....
Checkpoint 10 (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is my first memory of auto racing... or, maybe not precisely the event depicted in the video, but something close to it. From an early age, I always associated Marlboro with racing, even before cigarettes. And I have this vague memory of seeing a Marlboro-liveried, open-wheel formula car, racing around a parking lot on a television newscast. Somehow, I'm sure it wasn't Formula 1, and it must have...
LAist (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The holiday season always means more and more DUI checkpoints. With thousands of hit-and-runs and drinking-related crashes so far this year, the LAPD has two Sobriety & Drivers License Checkpoints set up for the weekend. The first is tonight 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. at West Florence Avenue and South Main Street in South L.A. Then tomorrow from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m., a checkpoint will be set up on Figueroa...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Kakha Chitaya: Georgian side in such cases considers the hard situation faced by Armenia.
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
From personal experience , I can tell you that a blind one legged narcoleptic could attack any number of Canadian Forces Bases with ease. Access to Canadian bases is so poorly monitored, that in one case I know of a major highway passes through the base and anybody can simply drive in and walk around without so much as having to go through a checkpoint. In most cases, anybody can get on base and commence...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Slovakia will close on Sunday all border crossings with Ukraine, except for the car checkpoint in Vysne Nemecke, amid fears of spreading the A/H1N1 virus, the Slovakian interior minister said on Saturday.
Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | yesterday
1981. A loop to East Berlin via Dresden with a college class. Some snippets from my journal at the time (I was twenty years old, and, after the Soviets occupied Afghanistan, had been required to register for Selective Service in 1980): Expecting smart jackbooted submachine gun carrying helmeted border guards, I was underwhelmed by the bureaucratic border police who processed us. . . Driving through...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
East Germans may have arrived in West Berlin hours before history records according to an elderly checkpoint commander who has disputed an excomrade's claim to be the first raise the barriers along the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
akbw (Free subscription) | yesterday
Finally we arrived at the Tuas checkpoint in Singapore around 7.10pm. However it took us more than half an hour to pass through immigration and customs and get the EZ-Link pass for driving in Singapore. Sorry about the blur photo. The car was moving. Stuck in this queue for half an hour. Waiting for my dad who got down to pass the immigration cards and passports for checking to the officer. Photos...
akbw (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 18th Sept which was a Friday, we left KL for Singapore. We took a short detour before leaving to Singapore and left KL around 2.30pm. Drove through KL traffic heading towards the SMART tunnel and after that we used the E2 highway to Tuas checkpoint in Singapore. On the early part of the journey, man, the highway was jammed up! All three lanes were subject to a bumper-to-bumper crawl for more than...
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filmed on the 29 October 2009 in Shin Kalay British soldiers at Patrol Base Zoo (PB Zoo) near Shin Kalay, form part of the 2 YORKS Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT). Their primary mission is to mentor the Afghan National Army by conducting joint patrols with them and teaching them basic soldiering skills. The patrol base, nicknamed PB Zoo by the soldiers who call it home, is in Shin Kalay...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Alleging that anti-communist paramilitaries from Colombia are invading Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez has dispatched 15,000 National Guards to six states bordering its neighbor. On Thursday Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister Ramon Carrizalez announced to reporters that the soldiers will be deployed to the southern states of Amazonas, Apure and Bolivar, and the southwestern states of Barinas,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sergeant Phillip Scott of 3rd Battalion the Rifles died in Helmand province explosion A British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan yesterday was named by the Ministry of Defence tonight as Sergeant Phillip Scott of 3rd Battalion the Rifles. Scott, a married father of two who lived with his family in Edinburgh, deployed to Afghanistan in September alongside his brother Robin, also a sergeant in...
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Larson Electronics added a new model of the Magnalight HML-5M equipped with the NATA slave cable plug. The popular 24 volt military spotlight is a component of the Escalation of Force Kit and the Vehicle Checkpoint Kit provided to deployed soldiers overseas. (PRWeb Nov 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/hml-5m/11/prweb3165914.htm
Gadling (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Airports Airport security took a bit of blow this week when Brttney Spears passed through LAX security carrying... a Big Gulp! I'm not a big fan of paparazzi (or Britney Spears for that matter), but the underlying story is interesting enough to deserve a closer look. When Britney passed through the checkpoint, she was carrying her Big Gulp, something you and I would be told to throw away....
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