Sentences with phrase «from open desert»

At launch the variety of maps on display are impressive, ranging from the open deserts of the Middle East to war - torn no man's land, destroyed European villages to dense forests.

Not exact matches

When his friends stole his body from the LA airport, drove it to Joshua Tree National Park, poured five gallons of gasoline into his open coffin, and lit it with a match, they fulfilled his dying wish to be cremated in the desert.

Adrian Sedlin, CEO of Southern California cannabis - growing operation Canndescent, earlier this year raised $ 6.5 million from investors to help fund a new, 9,600 - square - feet cultivation facility in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., with plans to open more facilities in the area over the next few years.

New York Times: One - Stop Sunday Mornings for Cowboys and Cowgirls in an Arizona Town From an improvised pulpit nestled on a slice of desert sand between a bull - riding ring and a bar serving biscuits and $ 3 beers, the preacher opened his last sermon of the year with a question and a revelation.

The desert weather in the winter although might not have snow it becomes so much colder than at yours since it is being open to the cold dry or humid winds that could break the bones of any human or animal if not well covered with wool and protected by some thing from direct blows... heat is there during sunrise and sunset but after that it is too much to bear.

Instead, after withdrawing from the Dubai Desert Classic with what he termed back spasms, the 711th - ranked golfer in the world pulled out of the Honda and the previous Genesis Open.

The opening of the Price Rite earlier this year, in an area considered a food desert, was meant to show a coming together of financial help from the city, county and state according to then - Executive Director of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency, Ben Walsh.

Biological soil crusts form in open desert areas from a highly specialized community of cyanobacteria, mosses, and lichens that cover up to 70 percent of open spaces.

The shoes take a cue from festival - inspired rock and roll style: A pair of open - toed sandals just doesn't cut it on a muddy field or at a live concert in the desert — and Kate Moss, the queen of rock and roll model - off - duty style, has been rocking the look for years now.

Switching from an open threat such as the desert to the enclosed dangers of the Vietnamese jungle has caused Conflict: Vietnam to effectively cut out much of the need for having a squad in the first place; instead of having more freedom and creativity in taking down your enemies, your team become more like fish trapped in a jungle - shaped barrel.

The wide open plains of the Wild West (and, ultimately, Mexico) might appear to mimic the empty spaces that spoiled San Andreas but, as if taking cues from the likes of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, there's pockets of interest throughout and eager gamers will get much more out of the traveling sections, populating their journal with a myriad of side - quests as they go, and completists will no doubt find things hidden amongst the cacti and deserts that a gamer rushing through will never even hear about.

Both pieces talk about the movie's origins (spawned from a title and open - ended concept) and filming in the desert, while the commentary finds Corman with apparently no idea how bad his movies are.

From Dusk Till Dawn opens in an isolated liquor store in the Texas desert.

The film opens in a deserted French coastal town with leaflets raining down from the sky.

Although opening with a smoky gambling den and an enigmatic woman on the periphery (Isabelle Adjani), Hill quickly switches lanes away from the recognisable landscape of film noir and heads for cheap motels, abandoned warehouses and nearly deserted streets.

One of the most obvious contrasts with his earlier films, apart from its glorious outdoors setting in the open desert of Texas (California is too concreted over to provide its own setting), is that There Will Be Blood is more overtly engaged with politics than his previous films.

Season One opens in the aftermath of a plane crash on a deserted tropical island where (we come to discover) a polar bear lives, a rumbling monster crashes through the jungle, a distress signal emanates from the hills, and person or persons unknown continue to keep their presence hidden... for the time being.

The open desert and its lack of shelter offers no hiding place from them.

Admittedly, when the film opens with Howard galloping off into the desert away from the film set, my stomach began to churn as I had flashbacks to Electric Horseman.

The Desert Sands school opened in Los Angeles County in 2001 with financial backing from two area businessmen.

In his unique Finds and Discoveries column, which has appeared regularly since we started publishing 30 years ago, Mike Worthington - Williams chronicles an astounding variety of older vehicles salvaged from barns, collapsing sheds, farmyards, hedgerows and even the open desert all over the world.

The present was the open expanse of sand grit, where the only mark of human habitation was the single - storey building of concrete blocks, which was thirty kilometers from the mid-point of the road that ran for nine hours of driving between the Saudi desert communities of Hafr Al - Batn, to the south - east, and Arar, which was north - west; where he sat, ate and talked he was not more than a kilometer from the border.

From here, you can drive across the open desert to Rissani, a former slave market and now center of the huge oasis around it: the Tafilalet.

This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston, by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.

Desert Haven Animal Refuge is open to visitors every Tuesday from 9AM - 4PM or by appt.

Check out these 11 amazing pictures from Spiegel of the newly - opened Burj, «Dubai's newest symbol of megalomaniacal opulence [that] can be seen from Bedouin oases in the desert up to 100 kilometers away.»

South of Petra the trail continues to the true desert of Wadi Rum over miles of open sands, before finally climbing the jagged faulted mountains that separate it from the Red Sea.

With reasonably priced accommodation in places like the newly opened Begadang Backpackers, as well as easy access to dive sites around Gili Trawangan and Gili Meno, you couldn't ask for much more from a desert island.

Opening this fall on the edge of Yala National Park, in southeastern Sri Lanka, Wild Coast Tented Lodge features 28 podlike tents set back from a deserted beach.

Journeying in comfort and style by train is the best way in which to fully appreciate Zambia's sublime scenery, which ranges from rough - hewn mountain plateaus to verdant floodplains and from vast expanses of open grassland to terracotta - hued desert.

Here, unspoilt and sparsely - populated terrain varies from impressive mountain ranges and frozen tundra to temperate forests, desert and open grasslands that stretch to the horizon.

It was Bugsy Siegel who pioneered the transformation of this one - time desert stopover into a glittering tourist mecca, opening the $ 6 million Flamingo hotel on the fledgling Las Vegas Strip in 1946 with financial backing from Lansky.

Meals are served from an open kitchen to tables that look out through floor - to - ceiling windows over the ever - changing colours of the Utah desert

Past Hana and the Seven Sacred Pools (Oheo Gulch) the country opens up and changes from rainforest to arid «desert».

The second world, for example, is an open desert patrolled by a huge birdlike monster, forcing players to run from shelter to shelter and avoid getting caught.

Taking its inspiration from Mad Max, the arcade action and story of Ashworld takes place in an open world desert wasteland, which is broken up between 3 factions of characters - the good guys, the Ragers (bad guys who find pure enjoyment in acts of death and destruction), and Skellies (essentially nocturnal zombies).

In mixing its scrolling shooter DNA with RPG mechanics, Gryphon Knight Epic opens up a world map and lets players decide in which order they wish to tackle the levels ahead, with these missions encompassing all types of locations from deserts to jungles, castles and dank caverns.

Now, players can get a peek at some of that open world, which has features that include everything that a player can imagine from the title's Bolivian setting: deserts, mountains and forests.

There are 4 - 5 different planets you can visit in the game — all of which are open to explore — ranging from the desert sands of Jakku to the snowy landscapes of Starkiller Base.

The wide open plains of the Wild West (and, ultimately, Mexico) might appear to mimic the empty spaces that spoiled San Andreas but, as if taking cues from the likes of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, there's pockets of interest throughout and eager gamers will get much more out of the traveling sections, populating their journal with a myriad of side - quests as they go, and completists will no doubt find things hidden amongst the cacti and deserts that a gamer rushing through will never even hear about.

Maps range in size from less than 1 square kilometer for urban maps up to 25 square kilometers for battles that took place in more open places such as the desert of North Africa.

Meanwhile, the Open contest, which is judged on a single image, saw shortlisted works including beautiful imagery of frozen lakes, sunlit deserts and hidden forests; stunning portraits of faces from around the world, and unique insights in cultures and traditions that might otherwise be unseen.

Horizon line 2 December Opening tomorrow at London's Michael Hoppen Gallery, «Measuring Infinity» — on view until 23 December — is a solo exhibition from photographer Chloe Sells, who spent the last two years documenting the heart of Botswana's Kalahari Desert, the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan.

The «Dayton Desert Chronicles» exhibit opens Friday, Dec. 9 from 6 - 9 p.m. and runs through early January at the UD Index Project Space at Front Street Building Co., 1001 E. Second St. in Dayton.

Judd retreated from New York City in 1971 to Marfa's open deserts, and brought with him a new chapter in the city's history.

Made in the Desert, the inaugural exhibition at form & concept, opens Friday, May 27 from 5 - 7 pm.

They work in interior and exterior settings, ranging from institutions to public spaces, sometimes with a twist, such as Prada Marfa, a Prada boutique replica in the Texan desert — or staged domestic interiors with open - ended narratives.

Landscape is evoked everywhere in Martin's oeuvre: the orientation of the work suggests the horizon that demarcates the open skies from the vast expanses of desert; the coloring is reminiscent of cool dawns and damp river clay; the gravelly texture effects the touch of sand.

Palm Springs is not the High Desert, but I was persuaded to attend some openings not too long ago where I was introduced to Kat Green, a self - taught abstract painter originally from the South.

RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER The Desert November 8 — December 22, 2012 Opening Reception: November 8th from 6 - 8 pm David Nolan Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of thirty recent pastel on paper landscape drawings by Richard Artschwager (American, b. 1923).