Debra Jane Seltzer is a New Yorker on a mission to photograph roadside architecture across the country. Her travels and road trips take her all over the nation, and she documents it all, obviously a keen observer of roadside life. She meticulously categorizes and indexes her photos by state and type. A fantastic online museum [...]
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Folks if you are rattling your brain about this title, then chillax. Roadside Romeo is Yash Raj’s first animation film. YR films are collaborating with Walt Disney for Roadside Romeo. The movie has dogs in main lead, and real life lovers Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor are lending their voice to dogs. An insider from the production house revealed, “It will be a good treat to watch as it has everything - dance, romance, drama. Saif will be the voice of Romeo who is a rich, spoilt but smart dog.The insider also added, “It will be a good treat to watch as it has everything - dance, romance, drama. Saif will be the voice of Romeo who is a rich, spoilt but smart dog.The film is about his journey from a rich house to the streets of Mumbai, from five meals a day to leftovers, from soft mat
Folks if you are rattling your brain about this title, then chillax. Roadside Romeo is Yash Raj’s first animation film. YR films are collaborating with Walt Disney for Roadside Romeo. The movie has dogs in main lead, and real life lovers Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor are lending their voice to dogs.
An insider from [...]
What does Roadside Assistance Mean To Me?By: Mark Flanighan Well I know many have different names for roadside assistance such as breakdown cover, breakdown recovery services or even breakdown insurance, but roadside assistance to me is when a garage or national service provider calls out to my stricken car and tries to repair it by the roadside.By the roadside means there and then, not taking it back to the garage to look under the car to charge me more money, but someone whose whole objective is to get the car safe enough to get me and my family back on the road again.Of course I do accept there are repairs that cannot be done on the roadside and that assistance in this instance would be to arranged a recovery vehicle or tow me to the nearest garage that can help me. This
It’s sad to leave Astorga, and a few miles north we look from a plateau back to see the town bathed in the dawn light. Pleasant walking through wheat fields bring us to Hospital de Orbigo, which has a fabulous long pilgrim bridge with no fewer than twenty arches. It was built in the eleventh [...]
We all have weeks when nothing seems to go right, a tire could blow out, you could lock your keys in the car or your car battery could die. If you have added an emergency roadside assistance extension to your insurance policy, you probably feel like your problems are over. But there are some important things you should think about first. Adding emergency roadside assistance onto your insurance policy can appear to be an inexpensive way to protect yourself from an unexpected breakdown or other embarrassing problem. Many insurers, including Allstate, State Farm, Geico and Progressive, offer policy holders an add-on to their auto insurance policy for a lot loss than the cost of independent auto club services. Basic assistance included on a policy can be as cheap as $6 to $20 for an annual po
The highway authorities of Western Finland had had some problems with people vandalizing the public roadside restrooms they had installed for the urgent needs of travelers And, one might surmise, to reduce the number of patches of yellow snow along the side of the roads. The solution was not closing down the restrooms altogether, or investing in video surveillance. No, instead the Finns decided to put in text message controlled locks. The cost of opening a restroom is nothing more than the regular text message, but the senders number is kept in a database for some time, allowing maintenance to track down vandals. The state of Swedish roadside restrooms is usually somewhere between "horrible" and "core melt down", so this idea might be something for Swedish Vägverket to study?
Roadside bombs, also known as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are a powerful notorious weapon used by guerrilla fighters and terrorists against both organized armies and civilians. The war in Iraq, however, made roadside bombs more "popular" than they have ever been. Even though a huge effort is constantly being made to improve protection, according to Wikipedia, since 2003 and until today
My friend Suzi has a wonderful way with animals…and with words. Every now and then she sends me something she’s written about her pets or other animals she encounters. And each time, she manages to touch my heart with her words. She sent me this last night and with her permission, I’d like to share it with all of you…
Out in the country, on the way to my friend’s houses on the river, there’s a lone donkey in a field. I look for him every time I drive out that way. I don’t like it that he’s all by himself. I’ve stopped to say hello many times. The first few times I stopped to see if he would be at all interested in my dropping by to say hello. but I hadn’t thought to bring anything for him, like apples or carrots. Folks should never drop in on someone without a “little gift”. So I felt bad about it and vowed to remember to bring an appropriate gift next time.
I pull the car along the roadside and high-step
You know, Aquaman doesn't get a lot of respect, but he's clearly a nice guy. Here he is, acting like the seafaring version of AAA. Do you think Batman would pull over and help you if you had a flat tire? I think not.
Researchers over in the UK have developed a camera vision system that that automatically counts the number of people inside a vehicle. Such a system could be used to charge road tolls based upon the number of occupants, and monitor high-occupancy vehicle lanes. Its inventor, John Tyrer of Loughborough University, UK, claims the system is 95% accurate. "The step-change technology is the ability to look inside a car and count people," Tyrer says.Unlike previous systems that use cameras and computer algorithms to spot the number of faces through the windscreen of a car, the dtect system uses infrared light to detect human skin, and a computerized facial recognition system to double-check.The system works by shining infrared light with a wavelength of about 1550 nanometres through the windscreen of the car. This is absorbed by the skin (does not dazzle occupants) creating a dark area on the reflected infrared image. Other materials, such as hair, upholstery and clothing simply reflect the
The House By The Side of The Road
By Sam Walter Foss
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a [...]
In the past four months, I've had several people find my site through a google search for "montbresia" or "picture of montbresia". Although I mentioned montbresia in my post on the Dingle Peninsula, I didn't include a photograph. I was going to suggest trying the image search function of google, but when I did the image search, there were very few pictures of montbresia in the results.I couldn't do anything less than post some of my pictures of the montbresia we found growing all along the roadsides in Ireland, especially on the Dingle Peninsula.
Thanks to the Baghdad security plan, U.S. troops working in the city's vast northern sector are dealing with 40 percent fewer roadside bombs these days, their commander, Army Col. Paul Funk, said Friday. "I used to see somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 [improvised explosives] a month," he said. "Now I'm down to less than 65 to 70." Funk, who leads the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, spoke with Pentagon reporters in a remote briefing from his headquarters at Camp Taji, Iraq. He said that the drop has occurred since the 3,800 soldiers of the "Iron Horse" Brigade Combat Team deployed to Taji from Fort Food, Texas, in November 2006. To date, the brigade has found a total of 330 roadside bombs since formally taking over the sector in the early part of December, Funk said. Funk said that he believes the reason that his troops are encountering fewer bombs is because "the enemy doesn't have time to do as thorough a reconnaissance as they used to when they put them in." Overall, Funk s
This painting can be purchased for $100 by clicking here."Roadside Trees no.2" 7"x 4.25",, Oil on 300 lbs. Arches paper. 2007, unframed, by Nathan Bond.This and any other currently available paintings can always be found atmy eBay store.
This painting can be purchased for $100 by clicking here."Roadside Trees" 5"x7",, Oil on 300 lbs. Arches paper. 2007, unframed, by Nathan Bond.This and any other currently available paintings can always be found atmy eBay store.
We hosted the final event of our 2006 adventure racing season in the fabled province of Prince Edward Island, home of Anne of Green Gables and her escapades, countless beaches and a philosophy simply known as I.W.O.L (Island Way Of Life). But the trip from Halifax to Alberton, PEI is not a short one and the four-hour drive can be a little tedious when mixed CDs become repetitive and the impending stress of hosting a race becomes an obstacle to conversation. Thankfully, a faded sign painted on the side of an old barn, caught my attention. "Andy's Dummy Farm" it read. I was perplexed. Was "dummy" some agricultural colloquialism that I hadn't heard of before? Was this actually a farm of, or perhaps for dummies (what the politically correct might refer to as mannequins)? After seeing another sign for Andy's Farm on yet another decrepit barn I knew we must take the detour to discover the majesty spoke of in the advertisement. I had a hunch that Andy's Dummy Farm would be muc
There seems to be a war raging on the streets of Sandton today. The police are trying to get rid of the roadside hawkers who are trying to avoid the police.
I stopped at the robot on the corner of Rivonia Rd and Kelvin today to find 5 police 4x4's pull in to the road where I was meant to be turning. So instead of hooting and shouting (which would be the usual response) I took out my phone and
Spontaneous road trips are a like a treasure hunt without the clues. The prizes always appear unexpectedly. Like Goldendale’s night-shift police officer. “No, Mr. Niedermeyer, your speed was just fine. But you seem to have your high-beams on. That’s against the law within city limits. But… you’re free to go.” With those words of affirmation, our road trip to Wenatchee resumed. Adrenalin flowing, we were alert to the next roadside attraction.
{mosgoogle right}KOMAKI, Aichi -- A man who received a Buddhist altar as a gift from a friend, who urged him to become more religious, faces charges for dumping it on the side of the road because it wouldn't fit in his new apartment, police said.Police have sent documents to the Kasugai Local Public Prosecutors Office accusing the 44-year-old man from Komaki of breaking the Waste Disposal Management Law.He admits to the allegations."It was a nuisance because i [...]
