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 […]
UPDATE: TO FOLLOW THE ROVER LANDING, CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIVE BROADCAST OR CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COMPUTER MODEL. The stage is set for Sunday’s landing of Mars Science Laboratory. The landing MSL with its rover Curiosity is scheduled for Sunday at 10:30 p.m. The world will be watching via social […]
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 came back to the scene of the accident. She met with members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Montrose Search and Rescue Team […]
Rep. Schiff Joins in Introducing Calvert Bill to Transfer 14 C-27J Aircraft to U.S. Forest Service Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) joined other colleagues led by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) in introducing the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Act of 2012, which would transfer 14 C-27J Spartan Aircraft from the Department of Defense (DOD) to the […]
A Mob of Help I love to dance. Until this darned ankle slowed me down (which is still giving me grief since I fell about five weeks ago now), I’d prance around like a fairy looking I’m sure ridiculous, but having fun. In fact, before the end of the 2011, I had signed up to […]