Everything I Ever Needed to Know Several years ago, author Robert Fulghum wrote a sweet little book of essays called, “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” The book is a collection of musings on the lessons taught children – play well with each other, share, be kind to each other – […]
Coming off the successful Sunday landing, the Mars rover is already busy sending images to Earth. By Mary O’KEEFE The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity has been on Mars for four days as of today and has already sent back pictures described by scientists in terms like “spectacular” “amazing” and “better than we could have […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Although she is still recovering from injuries received after her vehicle plunged down a cliff off Angeles National Forest highway about four months ago, on Thursday Tracy Granger returned to the scene of the accident. She met with members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Montrose Search and Rescue Team and […]
By Ted AYALA Last May the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) held open houses throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Northeast Los Angeles area that detailed the progress of the contentious 710 Freeway extension. The open houses allowed the public to not only observe the various possibilities for the long-fought project, but also allowed them to […]
With high temperatures forecast in many parts of Southern California today and throughout the week, Southern California Edison (SCE) is urging customers to conserve power. SCE anticipates having sufficient resources to meet forecast electricity demand. But with energy use rising during extreme heat conditions, conservation can provide an added reserve should an unexpected power emergency […]
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UPDATE: New Pics added below from Curiosity on Mars. Mars Science Laboratory has landed safely on the surface of Mars inside Gale Crater. Despite the high risk landing expected earlier today, it landed exactly as expected with no malfunctions encountered. This landing was met with much celebration and well wishing by everyone here at […]
The landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars has spectators turning to NASA and JPL for their information. But what if you want to live the exciting decent into the martian atmosphere yourself? Well now you can. On XBOX 360, you can download a game that allows you to become the lander craft as you […]
By Mary O’KEEFE UPDATE: TO FOLLOW THE ROVER LANDING, CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIVE BROADCAST OR CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COMPUTER MODEL. “It is a fine Martian day, warm and sunny,” said Doug McCuistion, Mars Exploration Program director from NASA headquarters. He was describing the day on Mars and the last […]