The real cowboys already living in the area (north of what is now Joshua Tree National Park) weren’t too pleased. “Back when Pioneertown Corporation was hauling in potential land buyers and weekend tourists from Los Angeles, they set up a little ambush just as the bu...
Arizona. The 1972 Eagles song "Take it Easy" inspired an installation called "Standin' On the Corner" Park," a statue of a man with a guitar standing on the corner near a red flatbed truck. The town of Winslow didn't create the park...
Tenants tend to think that since they don’t own the place, they don’t need extra protection for their stuff. That’s a very common mistake, and it’s important the tenants know they won’t be covered if a kitchen fire damages their stuff, or their laptop is stolen. Yourlandlord insu...
This work draws onpsychoacoustics— the point where sound meets the brain. Psychoacoustics is applied in research on speech perception,hearing loss, andtinnitus, or ringing in the ears, and inindustrial design. Until now, however, it has not been applied broadly to environmental sound quali...
I also LOVE boulder fields. This is much easier since I moved to Bansko and have Pirin National Park at my doorstep. I’m also a huge fan of trekking and have trekked all over the world. I do a multi-day hike or trek every year. This year it was one in the Rila Mountains in ...
19 September 1973 was the day that his friend Gram Parsons, the doomed angel of country rock, died of a drug overdose on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, in the Mojave Desert, east of Los Angeles. Parsons had been celebrating the completion of his now much- acclaimed final album,...
The only national park in Minnesota, Voyageurs is a system of lake waterways that requires a boat most of the year to see its vast beauty. Fishing in the waters of the Rainy Lake Basin yields some of thebest walleye and bass populations in the country.The park is open year-round, but ...
Why Megadump May Be Neighbor of a Desert Park Series: Visitors Relax under a Palm Oasis at Joshua Tree National Park in California. A Proposal to Site a Giant Landfill on Private Land Abutting the Park Is Drawing Fire as a Vote on the Plan Nears. R. NORMAN MATHENY - STAFF/FILE. MAP...
The difference in percentage terms.The median price of new houses (6-month moving average), is now only 7.1% higher than the median price of existing houses (6-month moving average). Now add the mortgage-rate buydowns into the mix – and ...
An interesting twist in the tale is that only bacteria that are infected with the plasmid can use the opines, meaning that cooperation by plasmids only favours other individuals that contain the plasmid, making the trait a so-called 'greenbeard' (Gardner and West, in press). Spiteful traits ...