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Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- With Planned Parenthood having built a massive new abortion center in Aurora, Illinois and the zoning board ruling against pro-life advocates trying to stop it, there hasn't been much in the way of good news from this city. However, new reports indicate a former abortion center has been turned into a pre-natal clinic helping women. Dr. Gustavo Sanchez received significant support at last week's zoning meeting for his plan to move his OBGYN practice to 523 W. Galena Blvd. The answer is because his practice will be housed in the former West Suburban Gynecology Clinic abortion...

AURORA, Illinois, December 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A YouTube video shows police monitoring a peaceful protest in a Chicago suburb who threatened to arrest a man that was not part of the protest because he was praying while walking his baby in a stroller on the sidewalk near a huge Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Aurora resident Roger Earl was walking his baby and praying from a prayer book on November 17 when police confronted him and told him he couldn't be there. "I wasn't planning to be part of the protest today," said Earl. "I didn't realize that I was...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of the spectacular color displays seen in the northern lights. New data from NASA's Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth's upper atmosphere to the sun. The energy is then abruptly released in the form of a shimmering display of lights visible in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, said principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California, Los Angeles....

Aurora becomes AuschwitzEric Scheidler just sent over photos of the striking fence Safeway/Dominick's erected around its vacant lot across from Planned Parenthood Aurora late last night. I'm sure neighbors will be pleased as Aurora begins to look more like Auschwitz by the day. Here, I'll show you. You won't know unless I explain, but Aurora PP is on the left and Auschwitz on the right: Again, PP Aurora on the left, Auschwitz on the right: And again, PP Aurora left, Auschwitz right:

Friday Five: Jill Stanek by Jennifer Mesko, associate editorA life-changing event catapulted her into the pro-life movement, and now she's obsessed with it. (Editor's Note: This is the second in our series of Friday interviews with people of interest to family advocates. The format is simple: five questions every Friday.)When Planned Parenthood tried to sneak an abortion clinic into suburban Chicago this year, it forgot to do its homework on local life advocate Jill Stanek. She, along with thousands of other pro-lifers, helped to delay the opening of the nation's largest abortion clinic for 14 days.Eight years ago, Stanek...

  AURORA, ILL, October 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At 10am this morning the largest Planned Parenthood abortion facility in the United States opened in Aurora despite the fact that it had deceived the city when applying for its building permits.  Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner said that a review into the legality of the procedures claimed there was nothing illegal about the process.  However, Eric Scheidler, who has been heading up the pro-life action against the center, has filed an emergency appeal of the decision. "The city of Aurora has no legal basis to deny Planned Parenthood an occupancy certificate," Weisner...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. If the Aurora Planned Parenthood site in the Illinois prairie lands is ground zero, then the Denver Planned Parenthood site in the Mile High City is sky zero. Last month, with a reporter in hot pursuit, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, or PPRM, was forced to come clean about its secret purchase of a city block of property and plans to break ground on a 50,000 square foot mega-mill this November.

Planned Parenthood Sued Today for Libelous Statements Against Pro-Life Advocates Maximum damages sought on behalf of protesters in Aurora accused of advocating violence AURORA, IL, October 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In Kane County District Court this morning, a libel lawsuit was filed against Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area (PP/CA), its CEO and Director Steve Trombley, and Gemini Office Development LLC, based on a letter sent to Aurora's Mayor and Aldermen and released to the press and one or more advertisements that PP/CA placed in the Aurora Beacon News accusing those who oppose their facility as having "a well-documented history of violence and...

In less than 10 minutes, the 22,000 square foot monstrosity that is the Planned Parenthood office in Aurora, Illinois will open for the first time. It is NO coincidence that it's opening on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. As many pro-life commentators have stated throughout the years, the battle against abortion is part of a greater spiritual warfare that is going on. We should pray with all our heart that his office is shut down. Human lives are at stake.

Activists Continue To Fight Clinic As It OpensAnti-Abortion Activist: 'It Won't Be Over Until Planned Parenthood Leaves Aurora'(CBS) AURORA, Ill. After weeks of delays, protests and legal challenges, a women's health clinic that performs abortions has opened in Aurora, but activists are committed to driving it out of town. The Planned Parenthood clinic on Aurora's East New York Street officially opened on Tuesday morning. Its opening was delayed because Aurora officials would not issue occupancy permits while a review was under way into Planned Parenthood's use of a subsidiary, Gemini Office Development, to build the clinic. On Monday, Mayor Tom...

Aurora Gives Up Fight Against Planned ParenthoodAURORA, Ill. (AP) -- A Planned Parenthood clinic that has been shuttered while city officials reviewed how it obtained its building permits will be allowed to open, city officials said Monday. Mayor Thomas Weisner said reviews by three different attorneys found no legal basis to deny the clinic an occupancy permit. It was not clear when the clinic would open, but Weisner said the building department could issue a temporary occupancy permit as early as Monday. The 22,000-square-foot, $7.5 million building clinic, which was supposed to open last month, has been the target of...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorSeptember 27, 2007Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Aurora city officials have investigated the city code and found that Planned Parenthood didn't need a special use permit in order to build its massive new abortion facility. While the revelation may stop one approach pro-life groups are using to stop the center from opening, other issues are still in play.A pro-life attorney discovered that the abortion business may have failed to obtain a special use permit and hold a public hearing on how it would use the new facility.Aurora-based lawyer Vincent Tessitore has talked with city officials about his analysis...

Abortion Centers in 80 Cities in 33 States to be Prayerfully Picketed for 40 Days Starting Tomorrow WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Today, people of faith and conscience from more than 80 cities in 33 states are kicking off the largest simultaneous pro-life mobilization in American history - the groundbreaking 40 Days for Life campaign," said David Bereit, national campaign director for 40 Days for Life. 40 Days for Life is an intensive pro-life campaign that focuses on 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil at abortion facilities, and grassroots educational outreach. The 40-day time frame is...

Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates are using another new tactic in their efforts to stop a new Planned Parenthood abortion center from opening in this northern Illinois city. An attorney has discovered that the abortion business may have failed to obtain a special use permit and hold a public hearing on how it would use the new facility. Aurora-based lawyer Vincent Tessitore has talked with city officials about his analysis of city zoning codes. Tessitore found that one section appears to mandate a special permit for health facilities that aren't operated by non-profit groups. While Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area is...

Abortion Opponents Prepare Nationwide Campaign Following Victory in Aurora, IL 40 Days for Life campaign begins Sept. 26 AURORA, Ill., September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "On September 26, more than 80 cities in 33 states will follow the courageous example set by Aurora, Illinois, and join together for the largest and longest simultaneous pro-life mobilization in American history," said David Bereit, national director of the 40 Days for Life campaign. The 40-day pro-life campaign in Aurora that thwarted the scheduled opening of a new Planned Parenthood abortion facility was inspired by 40 Days for Life. Local pro-life leaders have collaborated...

Largest Abortion Center in the U.S. Refused Permission to Open Today a federal judge stopped Planned Parenthood of Aurora, Illinois from opening as scheduled tomorrow By John-Henry Westen AURORA, September 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A victory celebration will be underway tonight as citizens in Aurora celebrate the fact that they have at least delayed the opening of the largest abortion center in the United States.  Today a federal judge stopped Planned Parenthood of Aurora from opening as scheduled tomorrow.  The massive Planned Parenthood facility applied for a building permit under false pretences and outraged the community.  Led by the Pro-Life...

CHICAGO - A federal judge Thursday refused to order Aurora officials to let a controversial Planned Parenthood clinic open while officials investigate whether the organization broke any laws when it applied for building permits. U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle rejected a motion to allow the suburban clinic to open as early as Friday. He said Planned Parenthood needed to provide more proof that it is being discriminated against by officials in the Chicago suburb — something the organization's attorneys could do in future filings. "By no means is this case over. By no means," Norgle said.

Why wasn't Planned Parenthood Aurora's nonopening party busted?Roger from FamiliesAgainstPlannedParenthood.org took photos of Planned Parenthood Aurora's nonopening party last night, with, of course, pro-lifers were on hand to also celebrate. See more photos on page 2. Meanwhile, the Aurora Beacon reported today: City officials said Tuesday they will not ask Planned Parenthood's staff to vacate their East New York Street building, despite the expiration of their temporary occupancy permit Monday. "At this point, the city has opted to maintain the status quo," said city spokesman Carie Anne Ergo. Ergo said ordinarily, a building owner in violation of the occupancy permit...

Federal Judge Says that Planned Parenthood Emergency Injunction to Evade Building Permit Investigation is without MeritContact: Eric Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League, 773-251-8792; Tom Ciesielka, TC Public Relations, 312-422-1333, 312-403-1333 cell, tc@tcpr.net<AURORA, Ill., Sept. 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Today's court action demonstrates that truth still matters in America. This is exactly what we've been praying for these past 40 days, that Planned Parenthood would not open on September 18," said Eric Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League, "We trust that the judge will allow Aurora to fully investigate how Planned Parenthood tried to come into town without disclosing who they were and...

Planned Parenthood Files Injunction Request to Allow Opening of Aurora Clinic Desperate move to circumvent local laws By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman AURORA, ILLINOIS, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)--In a desperate move to circumvent local laws, Planned Parenthood filed an emergency injunction petition yesterday in Federal court to allow its new clinic in Aurora, Illinois to open. The city government is reviewing Planned Parenthood's permit filing based on accusations that the real purpose of the "health center" was hidden from city officials: to provide abortions.  The original filing, on March 22, 2007, stated that the occupant would be the "Gemini Health Center",...

City of Aurora Initiates External Investigation Into Planned Parenthood's Deceptive Building Permit Applications Applications as late as March, 2007 state that tenant is "Unknown at this time" By Meg Jalsevac AURORA, Illinos, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The proposed Planned Parenthood clinic being built in the city of Aurora, Ill has been peacefully opposed by dedicated pro-lifers that have garnered national attention with their rallies and round the clock vigils in an effort to halt the building process.  However, Planned Parenthood officials must now also wade through possible legal conflict as the city searches for a new attorney to examine...

Outcome of this morning's Planned Parenthood/Aurora hearingPosted by the Chicago Tribune: After a hearing this morning, Planned Parenthood and Aurora officials are waiting to hear which federal judge will hear their dispute over whether a Planned Parenthood clinic can open Tuesday as scheduled. Planned Parenthood filed suit Thursday seeking an emergency court order requiring the city to permit a new clinic to open, and the case was assigned randomly to U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle. But at a hearing before Norgle this morning, lawyers from both sides agreed that the case might properly belong in front of U.S. District Judge...

Last week, I detailed how it appears Planned Parenthood mega mills popping up across the country are not happenstance but the culmination of a five-year plan not only to expand, but also exterminate competition. Planned Parenthood launched the plan in 2002 by opening Planned Parenthood Expresses in target locations across the country. They now number 42. Expresses are easily established in strip or shopping malls without need to fulfill zoning or building requirements. Expresses are abortion cullers. They sell illicit sex, sell unguaranteed methods to avoid consequences of illicit sex, sell mop-ups for their anticipated failures, and restart the process....

SIMPLY AMAZING: Fox News Special Details Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Deception, Concealing Rape etc. by John-Henry Westen September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - No write-up can adequately describe this Fox News segment from "Hannity's America". It accurately depicts Planned Parenthood as money hungry abortion peddlers. It follows the controversy of the largest abortion mill opening in Aurora, Illinois after having constructed the premises under false pretenses. The video plays audio recordings of Planned Parenthood employees caught on tape covering up statutory rape. See this video and send it to your friends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18IKmx6wsYk

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorSeptember 6, 2007Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood abortion center in Aurora, Illinois if fighting back after a massive protest over its building a secret abortion center there. The outcry has been so strong that thousands of local residents have attended protests and meetings with local officials, who are looking into the construction process.Pro-life advocates have asked officials to prevent the abortion center from opening.They want Mayor Tom Weisner to complete an investigation into whether or not it followed the law in approving Planned Parenthood's application, even though it didn't use its name during the approval...

Planned Parenthood, trying to pressure Aurora, Ill., officials to allow a new superstore abortion clinic to open quickly even though it was deceptive in its permit applications, has launched an attack on area pro-lifers by citing their "violent tendencies," even though the claims at issue were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court three times, including a rare unanimous decision just last year. The attack came from Steve Trombley, president of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, who sent a three-page letter to all 12 Aurora aldermen and Mayor Tom Weisner following accusations the abortion business defrauded city staff about the medical building, which...

Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of pro-life teenagers gathered outside the new abortion center in Aurora over the weekend to show their support for a campaign seeking to shut it down. Planned Parenthood upset pro-life advocates and surprised local officials by building the abortion facility entirely in secret using another name. Pro-life groups have been working overtime with protests and meetings with city officials in an attempt to close the abortion facility. The young Aurora residents rallied on the East side of town where the new center is scheduled to open in two weeks. They are calling themselves Youth for...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 28, 2007 Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- The city of Aurora has hired an attorney to determine if the new Planned Parenthood abortion business there is legitimate. The abortion center has seen thousands of protesters after pro-life advocates discovered Planned Parenthood used a separate name to get its construction permits.Planned Parenthood got around public knowledge and opposition by calling the building the Gemini Health Center in all of its building plans and documents.Now, responding to the controversy that generated, the city has hired an outside law firm to review the approval process and make sure the city...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 27, 2007Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- The new abortion center in Aurora that Planned Parenthood is expected to open within weeks saw more than 1,200 pro-life advocates protest and pray there over the weekend. What started as a small group of local pro-life advocates weeks ago has turned into a national movement against the new facility.The pro-life activists gathered at 3051 E. New York, the site of a new abortion business that was built entirely in secret until just weeks ago.Planned Parenthood got around public knowledge and opposition by calling the building the Gemini Health Center in...

Pro-Abortion Protestors Arrested for Harassing "40 Days for Life" Witnesses By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, Illinois, August 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two pro-abortion protestors were arrested on misdemeanor battery charges, for harassing a group of pro-life witnesses outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility during a prayer vigil on Sunday. The Chicago Tribune, normally silent on pro-life events, reports that 24-year old Shawn R. Pawlak and 27 year old Kelly L. Maha, shouted obscenities at pro-life witnesses who were peacefully participating in the 24-hour, 40-day prayer rally to prevent the newly-constructed abortion facilities from opening near Chicago this fall. Joseph Williams, from...

Over 1,300 Illinois Citizens Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, Illinois, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday over one thousand pro-lifers met to protest before the recently erected facilities or what is said to be the nation's largest Planned Parenthood center in Aurora, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Schiedler told LifeSiteNews.com that at least 1,300 pro-lifers participated in the protest. About 900 formed two large picket lines on York Street and another 250 were at a prayer vigil sight next to the new Planned Parenthood center. Another 75 people participated...

Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago Pro-Life Action League to hold major protest on Aug. 25 By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A huge new abortion clinic, said to be the largest Planned Parenthood Center in the United States, has been constructed near Chicago. In response Illinois pro-lifers have launched a major grass-roots campaign to prevent it from opening on its scheduled date this September. If the 22,000 square-foot, $7.5 million facility opens, it will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests, sexually transmitted disease testing and abortions. Officials expect to receive 8,000 patients and...

Aurora, IL (LifeNews.com) -- As more reports surface on the new abortion center Planned Parenthood is building Aurora, Illinois, pro-life advocates are concerned about how it was built with so little advanced notice. The 22,000-foot building is one of the largest abortion centers in the nation but Planned Parenthood was able to build it under the radar. As LifeNews.com reported Tuesday, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area will open the abortion business in the 200 block of North Oakhurst Drive, located in the DuPage County section of Aurora. But the new facility escaped the attention of pro-life advocates and area residents until recently...

AURORA -- A lack of women's health services in the region, particularly abortion providers, prompted a full-service Planned Parenthood medical office on Aurora's far northeast side. Scheduled to open the middle of September, the medical complex will offer reproductive and women's health-care services, with an estimated 10 percent of that coming from abortions. If women need abortion services now, many have to travel to Chicago's North Side, where Planned Parenthood operates a clinic, said Steve Trombley, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area. "Because of the limited number of providers unfortunately women have to travel long distances," he said. An...

STOP PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN AURORA, ILLINOIS NOW! PLANNED PARENTHOOD = PLANNED BARRENHOOD Planned Parenthood is not a benign organization. Their name would be more correct in fact, if it were changed to: Planned BARRENHOOD. That's because if they stand for anything, it's definitely not for women having children. Oh no. Babies are are not in their agenda or vocabulary. But instead they call their services "Reproductive Health Services". Again, a misnomer, because they have no intention of helping women to conceive and bear children. They only want to prevent children from being born, aka, "birth control". And they will try...

7-27-2007 Abortion Clinic Sneaks into Chicagoland A $7.5 million Planned Parenthood abortion clinic that will open in September in Aurora, Ill., is taking the Chicago area by surprise, the Chicago Tribune reports. Neighbors thought they were seeing the completion of the "Gemini Health Center," just as the sign says. So did the painters, carpenters, electricians and other tradesmen who have been working on the project for the last eight months. Just last week, Aurora Councilman Chris Beykirch learned that Planned Parenthood was moving in."Frankly, I'm surprised we were able to keep it a secret for so long," Steve Trombley, president...

Something big is in the works at Nevada's legendary Area 51 military base. A massive new building is under construction at the top secret location. Aviation experts say there's a good chance that a new, highly classified aircraft might soon be zipping around the Nevada skies. What kind of aircraft? One possibility is a successor to the SR-71 spy plane, the SR-72. The SR-71 Blackbird is widely regarded as the greatest airplane ever built. It sliced through the sky at Mach 3 and still reigns, officially anyway, as the fastest plane in history. Groom Lake, also known as Area 51,...

An amputee who discovered a burglar inside his home was shot while fighting him off with a crutch. Roger Baxter survived the Tuesday incident after a cell phone apparently slowed a bullet to his chest. "I just got it programmed," Baxter said of the phone. Baxter lost his right leg after being hit by a tractor-trailer in October. He was returning from getting a haircut when he discovered the man with a gun inside his house. "He was pointing it at me," Baxter told KDVR-TV. "He kept coming toward me and he got within 5 foot of me and that's...

Sacramento -- Two appointees tapped by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to study ways to rein in public pension costs receive income from firms that invest $750 million annually for the California Public Employees' Retirement System, business ties that some say could call the panel's independence into doubt. Gerald Parsky, the former head of the state Republican Party, is a partner in a Los Angeles firm, Aurora Capital Partners, which invests $150 million for CalPERS. Schwarzenegger appointed him chairman of a 12-member commission responsible for recommending ways to overhaul public pension systems, ... Commission member Matt Barger is a senior adviser at...

A barking dog runs up and down the length of the chain-link fence. His frenzied warning: Come any closer, I'll tear you to pieces. I knock on the door. No answer. I knock again and hear a voice. I knock one more time and notice two eyes peeking from behind some blinds. Flashing my badge, I explain I'm doing a story about the alien. It takes awhile, but she pries open the door a third of the way. "I'm not sure I can be of any help," she says, in a girlish voice. "Do you know where he was buried?"...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis. The two-year mission, dubbed THEMIS -- an acronym for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms -- will be coordinated by a team from the University of California at Berkeley. Once deployed, the satellites will align below North America every four days to observe the formation of the aurora borealis, a bright play of lights in the night sky above the polar area, commonly known as the northern lights. On the...

Lisa Swisher left New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina hit and survived a four-year tour of duty in the Marines. But she was killed in Aurora early Saturday, returning home from the National Western Stock Show, when a wrong-way driver hit her car on Interstate 225. The 22-year-old was planning to pursue a criminal-justice degree, her father, Rodney Swisher, said Sunday. Lisa Swisher was stationed in New Orleans for two years and left just before Hurricane Katrina hit. She was sent to Okinawa, Japan, where she completed her tour, her father said. She started attending college classes Tuesday. "She was...

A Primer on Space Weather Our Star, the Sun We all know that the Sun is overwhelmingly important to life on Earth, but few of us have been given a good description of our star and its variations. The Sun is an average star, similar to millions of others in the Universe. It is a prodigious energy machine, manufacturing about 3.8 x 1023 kiloWatts (or kiloJoules/sec). In other words, if the total output of the Sun was gathered for one second it would provide the U.S. with enough energy, at its current usage rate, for the next 9,000,000 years....

The severe geomagnetic storm bombarding the Earth on Thursday was expected to disrupt radio, television and cell-phone communications worldwide and could force airlines to reroute passenger flights that normally fly over the North Pole. Power-grid operators will have to make sure their systems do not overload from induced current, and satellites in close Earth orbits will need to have their positions constantly monitored as the atmosphere expands from the additional heat and frictional drag increases. "It's really hitting the Earth's magnetic field pretty hard," Joseph Kunches, lead forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., told FOXNews.com. "It's...

**** GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS **** A geomagnetic storm began on December 14 at 1416 UTC (9:16 A.M. EST). The Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO), operated by the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder Colorado, is allowing SEC to use their latest H-alpha and Helium-I images while the SEC GOES SXI images are unavailable. A solar flare on 13 December at 0240 UTC (12 December, 9:40 P.M. EST) from NOAA Region 930 produced strong radio blackouts (R3) ... R 3 Strong HF Radio: Wide area blackout of HF radio communication, loss of radio contact for about an hour on sunlit...

Updated: 06:15 UTC on 13 December 2006 Solar Terrestrial Dispatch www.spacew.com VALID BEGINNING AT: 00:00 UTC ON 14 DECEMBER VALID UNTIL: 23:00 UTC (5 pm EDT) ON 15 DECEMBER HIGH RISK PERIOD: 14 DECEMBER (UTC DAYS) MODERATE RISK PERIOD: 14 - 15 DECEMBER PREDICTED ACTIVITY INDICES: 15, 70, 30, 15 (13 - 16 DECEMBER) POTENTIAL MAGNITUDE OF MIDDLE LATITUDE AURORAL ACTIVITY: HIGH POTENTIAL DURATION OF THIS ACTIVITY: MAIN BELT = 12 HOURS MINOR BELT = 12-24 HOURS ESTIMATED OPTIMUM OBSERVING CONDITIONS: NEAR AND AFTER LOCAL MIDNIGHT EXPECTED LUNAR INTERFERENCE: MODERATE AFTER LOCAL MIDNIGHT OVERALL OPPORTUNITY FOR OBSERVATIONS FROM MIDDLE LATITUDES:...

A decade after the final retirement of Lockheed Martin's Mach-3 SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, the Air Force is preparing to test a plane that flies more than three times as fast. Two Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicles, built by Lockheed Martin with input from NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), will take to the air in 2008. The $100-million program aims to field a Mach-10 unmanned aircraft that can spy on foreign powers, drop bombs or even lob satellites into orbit. The Blackbird, which was first retired in 1990 then briefly resurrected between 1995 and 1997, reached its...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2006 – Country music star Tammy Cochran has enlisted to perform at the Freedom Walk in Aurora, Colo., on Sept. 9, according to event organizers. Cochran is slated to perform at the Aurora Municipal Center, along with recording artist Allen Asbury, as well as the Kory Brunson Band, North-40 and other artists and groups. “Tammy Cochran is so generous to come and join us for this special event, and we are happy to have her,” said Leo Pacheco, executive director for the Beacon of Hope Outreach Center, which is sponsoring Aurora’s Freedom Walk. Aurora’s Freedom Walk also...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/22/06 - Beirut, Rmeileh, Nabatiyeh, Maarjyounat, Zrariyeh, Chebaa Farms, Haifa, Nahariya, Israel, Avivim, Shlomi, Zaura, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Baquba, Haditha, Kirkuk, Muqdadiyah, Sadr City, Basra, Iraq, Aurora, Colorado Israeli Response to Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian and Syrian technology BREAKING: Beirut - U.S. Navy sailors and Marines rescue American adults and children out of Lebanon BREAKING: Beirut - southern suburbs of Hizb'Allah pounded BREAKING: Rmeileh, Lebanon - destroyed bridge, attacked by Israeli warplane missiles BREAKING: Nabatiyeh - precision retaliation by Israeli warplanes BREAKING: Maarjyounat - precision retaliation against terror BREAKING: Zrariyeh -...

'The Parsky team" is now famous -- as well as infamous -- in Rancho Santa Fe. There is another "Parsky team" in the secrecy- shrouded Caribbean tax haven of the Cayman Islands, but that's barely known at all, just as its creators intended. Until recently, multimillionaire Gerald "Gerry" Parsky -- chairman of the University of California board of regents and George W. Bush's main advisor in California -- was better known in the state than he was in Rancho Santa Fe, where he has occupied a horsy estate for 16 years. He takes his own jet in the morning to...