Breakfast With ... Linda Greenhouse Oct 12, 2009
That case that was argued [recently, Mojave Desert Cross as World War I war memorial,] isn't necessarily the most fruitful framework -- they got kind of way off the point. It is not a clean church-state case. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A father's battle experience unearthed Oct 11, 2009
and trained with their unit in California's Mojave Desert and Louisiana's swamps. They traveled to Great Britain aboard the Queen Mary. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Signs point toward possible fight if lawsuit comes over Zunker memorial Oct 10, 2009
Until the Mojave Desert case is decided, the county has taken a wait-and-see approach, she said. A lawsuit remains just a potential action. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
- From the Left: Correct is not the same as right 0 Oct 10, 2009
No, I m only trying to tease out an opinion I can live with in a case the court heard last week, about a cross in the Mojave Desert. The original cross (it has been replaced a number of times over the years) was erected in 1934 as a tribute to the dead of World War I and sits in a remote corner of what is now the Mojave National Preserve. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Schofield Stryker brigade will return to Iraq Oct 9, 2009
Col. Malcolm Frost, commander of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade, said to prepare for the year-long tour his unit will go to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in Southern California's Mojave Desert in February ... Col. Malcolm Frost, commander of the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade, said to prepare for the year-long tour his unit will go to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in Southern California's Mojave Desert in February. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Desert cross before US Supreme Court Oct 8, 2009
A long legal fight involving a cross in California's Mojave desert is being considered by the US Supreme Court. The cross, put up 75 years ago as a World War I memorial, has been covered up since lower courts ruled that it was illegal because it was on public land. (BBC News -- Americas)
ACLU Pushes High Court to Destroy Cross Memorial Oct 8, 2009
In 1934, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) erected a cross on Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert as a memorial to all those who served in World War I, along with a plaque dedicating it to those servicemen. This cross in the middle of the desert also happens to be in the middle of a national park. (Townhall.com)
Supreme Court weighs arguments over Mojave cross Oct 8, 2009
On Tuesday, a sharply-divided high court plunged into a controversy over a five-foot-tall white cross in a Mojave Desert preserve owned by the federal government ... Kagan told the justices that the federal preserve in the Mojave Desert is riddled with about a thousand private land owners. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
EXCLUSIVE: In Afghanistan With Air Force 911 Oct 7, 2009
Stegall notes that he met with the same division this past summer during a major training mission in the middle of the Mojave Desert in California. Oddly enough, in Afghanistan the surroundings are very similar. (Fox News)
Supreme Court takes up case of cross on federal land Oct 7, 2009
But what happens when the cross in question has been on the same remote hilltop in a federal preserve in the Mojave Desert since 1934. On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court takes up a case involving not just a cross in the desert, but a host of thorny issues that could significantly change the national debate over religious symbols and monuments erected on government property. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Now in session Oct 6, 2009
Cases involving US gun laws, videos depicting dog-fighting and the presence of a cross in the Mojave desert are among those expected to dominate a fresh session of the US Supreme Court which opens on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a new addition to the nine-member panel, replacing liberal Justice David Souter, who retired. (BBC News -- Americas)
Introduction to Historical Markers ... Oct 6, 2009
One example is the thematic designation for the detention camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II; another is the folk art series, which includes the junk-yard house of Nitt Witt Ridge in Cambria and the Desert View Tower in the middle of the Mojave Desert. There are more. (Suite101.com)
Voters Seeing Red Over ACLU Attack Oct 5, 2009
The object at the center of the case is a small, unadorned cross sitting in a remote part of the Mojave Desert Preserve in Southeast California. A veterans' group erected this memorial cross on private land in 1934 to honor the dead of all wars. (Townhall.com)
Roberts, Alito poised to make mark on Supreme Court Oct 4, 2009
That will be at issue when the court next week considers the case of a war memorial cross that stands on government land in the Mojave Desert. Roberts will also be key in both cases, especially the one regarding campaign finance. (Boston Globe)
5 Arizona ghost towns Oct 1, 2009
After the town's last major mine, the Tom Reed, shut down in the 1930s, Oatman became simply the last stop of note for motorists before they passed into California and crossed the Mojave Desert. But when the highway was rerouted in the 1950s, the town shrank to just a handful of stalwarts. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Biologist Eric Hansen carries on his father's legacy of preserving a threatened Central Valley snake (686) Sep 30, 2009
edumacation wrote on Sep 27, 2009 12:40 AM:" jbhiker---I agree, but remember the Lodi Unified Shool District has two megabucks educrats who get paid to COUNT TEXTBOOKS. And they don't even do that. Instead they "supervise" retired principals who volunteer to count books. All that edumacation to literally count books. Thes job are required by the Williams act and is one more number found in each schools SARC report card.The Fish and Wildlife Service have a GS-13 job to count tortoises in the... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot Sep 30, 2009
A FULL moon rises over the Mojave Desert and the town of Barstow, California. Gabriela (Olivia Stambouliah) is awaiting the return of her soldier husband Benito in something like emotional and sexual suspended animation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Editorial: ACLU runs amok in crusade against cross Sep 26, 2009
On Oct. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case the culmination of a 10-year battle by the American Civil Liberties Union to determine whether a 5-foot cross erected as a war memorial by veterans on a rock in California's Mojave Desert 75 years ago must be torn down. Unless the Supreme Court overturns the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the cross now shamefully covered with a plywood box be toppled, say goodbye to religious symbols or symbols of sacrifice in the form of a cross... (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Fire breaks out in LA County's desert hills Sep 26, 2009
Investigators say a drunken felon fired bullets into the ceiling during his teenage daughter's birthday party, sending Mojave Desert house guests scampering for cover. The San Bernardino County sheriff's office says 43-year-old Glenn Robert Nottle had been quarreling with his wife during Sunday's birthday party when he suddenly pulled a. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Greens Vs. Solar Sep 24, 2009
Anyone who has set foot on a dry lake bed in California's Mojave Desert knows the meaning of barren. There's not much growing or moving there just hot sun beating down on parched earth. (Investors Business Daily)
Space shuttle returns to Florida ... on a jet Sep 22, 2009
The touchdown at the shuttle fleet's home base came at the end of a two-day, cross-country flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. Discovery had to land at the Edwards backup site when it returned from the international space station on Sept. 11, due to stormy weather at the Kennedy Space Center's runway. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Renewable power decisions create a tangled web Sep 22, 2009
(09-20) 19:25 PDT -- More big solar power plants in the Mojave Desert. Fewer solar panels on homes and businesses. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Huge solar farms proposed in Valley Sep 22, 2009
That means the solar potential of the two sites is about 90% of what it is in the scorching Mojave Desert, Peterson said. Other factors are existing Pacific Gas ric Co. high-power transmission lines that cross overhead, offering a ready connection to the power grid; and the relative isolation of the two sites. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Mining of boron can be done responsibly Sep 21, 2009
It also usually consumes large amounts of water, which can be taxing in already arid regions, such as the Mojave Desert, one of two regions of the world (along with parts of Turkey) with large boron deposits. Typically, boron is extracted in open-pit mines by drilling, blasting, crushing and hauling all activities fueled by petrochemicals. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Space shuttle Discovery stays overnight in Louisiana Sep 21, 2009
The US space shuttle Discovery touches down in the Mojave Desert on September 11, at Edwards Air Force Base near Rosamond, California, ending a 13 day-mission to the ISS. The successful landing came after the Discovery was twice on September 11 and twice on September 10 unable to land at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida because of poor weather conditions. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Renewable power play Sep 21, 2009
(09-20) 19:25 PDT -- More big solar power plants in the Mojave Desert ... Renewable power decisions create a tangled web Articles More big solar power plants in the Mojave Desert. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Yes, zombie snacks will be served Sep 20, 2009
Music performers include J Parson, a cowboy from Bakersfield who actually worked on a ranch running cattle to the Mojave Desert. (He also has a really fantastic cowboy mustache. (Boston Globe)
Privately Built Rockets Compete for Top Prize Sep 18, 2009
LOS ANGELES A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call off the attempt until next month. The flight of Masten Space Systems' unmanned "Xombie" at Mojave Air and Space Port comes just days after another competitor, Armadillo Aerospace, qualified for the $1 million top prize with two flights in Texas. (Fox News)
Discovery's return to KSC may start Friday Sep 17, 2009
It was the 54th time in 128 missions that a shuttle landed at the Mojave Desert base. Roughly 200 technicians, mostly United Space Alliance employees from KSC, have been working around the clock since Sunday to prepare the shuttle orbiter for its ferry flight atop a modified Boeing 747. (Florida Today)
War-tested soldiers on a holy mission Sep 17, 2009
SIERRA VISTA Six soldiers dedicated to the preservation of a cross erected atop a hill in the Mojave Desert as a war memorial passed through Sierra Vista on Tuesday on their way to visit the controversial site ... on Monday and will arrive Thursday at the Mojave Desert Memorial ... The group of six GIs from Fort Polk, who all served recently in Iraq, plan to attend a rally in California to support the Mojave Desert War Memorial, a cross atop a hill. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Lodi-area astronaut Jose Hernandez full of stories about space (454) Sep 15, 2009
Hernandez, 47, who landed safely with six other astronauts Friday night at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, spent the weekend relaxing with his parents and a brother at his home in Houston. He's getting reaccustomed to the Earth's gravity, which caused him to have poor balance for four to five hours after landing. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
More Pets Found On Convicted Animal Abuser's Property Sep 15, 2009
Bemis's property in the Mojave Desert has seen new life in the form of week-old puppies, but it's also seen plenty of death over the years. What was formerly the home of both Bemis and her roommate Cynthia Trapani has transformed into a desolate landscape, with empty broken dog houses and open gated kennels. (KERO 23, CA)
Soldiers fight for desert cross (20) Sep 14, 2009
But for Sgt. Zachary Thomson, a cross on a hill in California s Mojave Desert has a different meaning ... The problem began when a former National Park Service employee, who now lives 900 miles from the Mojave Desert filed a complaint a few years ago saying he was offended by a religious icon being on federal land ... Also sitting in the courtroom will be representatives of the Liberty Legal Institute, one of the organizations that has taken up the campaign to save the Mojave Desert Memorial... (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Shuttle astronauts prepare for Texas homecoming Sep 14, 2009
Discovery took a cross-country detour to the Mojave Desert on Friday after bad weather scuttled a return to its Florida home port. The crew will attend a welcome ceremony in their honor at Ellington Field in Houston. (WCAX.com, VT)
Shuttle Discovery home safely after 14-day mission Sep 12, 2009
NASA diverted the spaceship to Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert after waiting in vain for two days for rain and clouds to clear over the shuttle's home port in Florida, the originally scheduled landing location. Under partly cloudy desert skies, the shuttle landed at 8:53 p.m. EDT on Friday (0053 GMT on Saturday). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Discovery Prepares for Another Landing Try Sep 12, 2009
So flight director Richard Jones opted for the sunny skies of the Mojave Desert ... The two chances for landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, are at 8:53 p.m. and 10:28 p.m., reports CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood. (CBS News)
Discovery lands in California Sep 12, 2009
The space shuttle Discovery glided to a day-late Mojave Desert touchdown on Friday, leaving a fresh crew member and nine tons of equipment and supplies behind aboard the International Space Station ... Approaching from the southwest, Sturckow monitored a steep computer-controlled descent across the Los Angeles Basin before taking manual control 50,000 feet above the Mojave Desert and guiding the shuttle to a crisp landing at 8:53 pm. (India Times, India)
Bad Weather Sends Shuttle to California Sep 12, 2009
So flight director Richard Jones opted for the sunny skies of the Mojave Desert. The delivery trip to the international space station has spanned 14 days and 5. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
Space Shuttle Lands Safely in California Sep 12, 2009
So flight director Richard Jones opted for the sunny skies of the Mojave Desert. Landing time was 5:53 p.m. PDT, well before sunset. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Weather may mean landing at Edwards Sep 11, 2009
An Edwards landing would result in 100 KSC employees flying to the Mojave Desert base to join a 50-person "A Team" already there. They would help prepare the shuttle for its cross-country flight home. (Florida Today)
The U.S. Must Prioritize Its Carbon Strategy [Extended version] Sep 10, 2009
The Mojave Desert alone could provide up to half of electricity needs in the U.S. if a high-voltage direct current transmission grid were available to carry the power to major population centers, and if the remaining technological obstacles and cost factors can be resolved. If ever there were a case of learning-by-doing, it s this one. (Scientific American)
Discovery due home at dinnertime Sep 10, 2009
If landings are waved off today, NASA would consider activating its back-up landing site at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert as early as Friday. But with the forecast at Edwards looking excellent there through the weekend, that decision could wait until Saturday. (Florida Today)
Bechtel to build solar plants for BrightSource Sep 9, 2009
Bechtel Corp., a San Francisco engineering company long associated with nuclear power and fossil fuels, will build big solar plants in the Mojave Desert for BrightSource Energy, one of the renewable-power industry's rising stars. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Renewable Energy Plan Divides Environmentalists Sep 9, 2009
He wants to put these new utilities on federally owned lands like this stretch of the Mojave Desert, one of the sunniest places on Earth. Related. (ABC News)
Renewable energy plan creates rift Sep 8, 2009
Nearly half the solar proposals are in the Mojave Desert, home to the threatened desert tortoise, Indian petroglyphs and an intact stretch of Route 66, the historic highway dotted with vintage diners and derelict gas stations. Not far from the iconic Roy's Motel and Diner, PG&E consultant Scott Galati tells environmentalists that surveys reveal no rare plants or threatened species on a planned solar site. (USA Today -- Money)
Can Budget-Strapped California Afford More Wildfires? Sep 7, 2009
The advancing fire has cut a moonscape swath through the middle of the mountain range that forms a barrier between the greater Los Angeles area and the Mojave Desert. Related. (Time.com)
1 dead, others injured in Miss. prisoner van crash Sep 7, 2009
Two French teenagers and their driver remained hospitalized Monday after a weekend crash that claimed two lives when the driver fell asleep on a tour through the Mojave Desert, officials said ... Two French teenagers and their driver remained hospitalized Monday after a weekend crash that claimed two lives when the driver fell asleep on a tour through the Mojave Desert, officials said. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Getting ready for the real Iraq Sep 2, 2009
At the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, in the vastness of the Mojave Desert, fiction has a way of blurring into reality. When the Muslim call to prayer sounds across the sandy wilderness, villages fill with sights and sounds of distant lands. (Boston Globe)
Virgin Founder Richard Branson Sep 1, 2009
The first spaceship will be unveiled in the Mojave Desert in December. You've developed a reputation for the outlandish stunt. (Time.com)
Recession grinds at an iconic Western hotel Aug 30, 2009
Local laws have banned casinos, curbed the number of bars, and slowed growth to the pace of a Mojave Desert tortoise. In fact, Boulder City s wariness of development - it allows 120 building permits a year - has mostly shielded it from the recession. (Boston Globe)
Kidnap Suspect Linked to Prostitute Slays? Aug 29, 2009
Or if we feel like we don't trust the death penalty for s 0000003B ome reason, we need to have compounds in the Mojave Desert 00004000 for these freaks. We put them out there. (CBS News)
Las Vegas in 5... Aug 27, 2009
Less than an hour from the strip you can immerse yourself in the beauty of the Mojave Desert at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The brightly colored rocks, true in color to their name, are strewn with more than 30 miles of hiking trails, guided horseback riding, rock climbing and a 13-mile scenic drive with lookout points offering amazing views of the desert and plenty of Kodak moments. (Fox News)
UK team steam ahead to break long-standing land speed record Aug 26, 2009
06km/h) at Edwards air base, in the Mojave Desert, smashing the 1906 record. For the Federation International Automobile record, the Hampshire-based team had to finish two runs in opposite directions, less than an hour apart. (BBC News -- UK)
Steam car speed record smashed Aug 26, 2009
A team of British engineers has broken the longest-standing land speed record in the Mojave Desert, California. The steam car, Inspiration, recorded an average speed of 139. (BBC News)
Vegas jobless rate hits all-time high of 13.1%... Aug 22, 2009
As economists and policymakers nationwide hover over the tender little economic tendrils that herald recovery from recession, Nevada s economy looks as barren as the Mojave Desert. As a trickle of data points to the national downturn s end, Nevada s economy continues its descent. (The Drudge Report)
Solar energy deal OK'd Aug 21, 2009
(08-20) 18:49 PDT -- California energy regulators on Thursday gave Pacific Gas and Electric Co. permission to buy electricity from two large solar power plants that an Oakland firm plans to build in the Mojave Desert ... PGhtSource deal for solar energy OKd Articles California energy regulators on Thursday gave Pacific Gas and Electric Co. permission to buy electricity from two large solar power plants that an Oakland firm plans to build in the Mojave Desert. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Paparazzi Snaps Photos of Newest Car Models Aug 20, 2009
We followed Priddy to a strip of land in the Mojave Desert, which has become the ground zero for every car company on the planet to test their newest rides under intense triple-digit heat. Photo Courtesy Brenda Priddy. (ABC News -- Business)
Team bids to break longest-standing land speed record Aug 19, 2009
They hope their steam car, Inspiration, will achieve speeds of 170mph (274km/h) at Edwards air base, in California's Mojave Desert. The Hampshire-based team says it unofficially beat the steam car record of more than 127mph (204km/h), set in 1906, during test runs on Saturday. (BBC News -- UK)
Going All-in: Early honor for Felder Aug 16, 2009
All it took was a little fiscal discipline (words they may utter in Sacramento one of these days, most likely followed by glaciers forming in the Mojave Desert), and barring any massive midcourse corrections, there will be another year of action for Bullpups, Huskies and Golden Bears alike. Admittedly I'm biased, as someone who earns his daily bread as part of the sports industry, but in my book, a solid sports program (not to be confused with a winning one, but that's certainly an extra added... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Plotting renewable power lines Aug 14, 2009
If created, the Mojave Desert National Monument could block the development of 11,700 megawatts of renewable power, according to the report. Report online: To read the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative's findings, go to. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Officials: abused 5-year-old boy found in closet Aug 14, 2009
Authorities are investigating the deaths of a couple found in their home in the Mojave Desert town of Apple Valley. San Bernardino County sheriff's officials say the bodies of 62-year-old Brent Miles and his wife, 55-year-old Tina Miles, were found Sunday afternoon by a relative. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Are you confused about global warming? Let our world-renowned expert enlighten you Aug 14, 2009
danielh wrote on Aug 13, 2009 8:15 PM:" aimee: Pretty good.I'm going through a career move right now. I'm down in the Mojave Desert.Tomorrow is the absolute last day for my libelees to respond with payment.Next, I get a nihil dicit. You might know what that is, but if you don't, it's worth a look-up in Black's.It's a pretty bad legal term, if you're a libelee. Good for me, though, because I will have perfected a maritime lien, and there isn't anything they can do about it. Did you understand the... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Pets Rescued From Hoarder Ready For Adoption Aug 12, 2009
-- Two years ago authorities discovered more than 250 dogs and cats crowded into a Mojave Desert home and yard ... Some of the dogs from the Mojave Desert rescue will be up for adoption at an event called Big Dogs Rock" at Fiesta Island on Saturday. For more information about that event .Copyright 2009 by . All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The following are comments from our users. Opinions expressed are neither created nor endorsed... (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)
Graffiti Entertainment Ships C.O.... Aug 12, 2009
- Signature Devices, Inc. (OTCPK: SDVI) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Graffiti Entertainment, Inc., has released its highly anticipated first-person shooter, C.O.R.E., to North American retail outlets and is available exclusively on Nintendo DS."C.O.R.E. delivers a classic first-person shooter experience that has been missing in the DS library," says Kenneth Hurley, CEO of Signature Devices, Inc. and Graffiti Entertainment, Inc. "It's a unique story-driven sci-fi shooter that... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
How Green Are Boron-Based Household Cleaners? Aug 12, 2009
How Green Are Boron-Based Household Cleaners. How Green Are Boron-Based Household Cleaners. (Scientific American)
