Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window On Scientific Process
Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard NASA’s Phoenix Lander. “Finding perchlorates is neither good nor bad for life, but it does make us reassess how we think about life on Mars,” said Michael Hecht [...]
Caltech Scientists Awarded $20 Million to “Power the Planet”
In the dreams of Harry Gray, Beckman Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, the future energy needs of the world are met with solar-fuel power plants. Now, a $20 million award from the Chemical Bonding Center (CBC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry program, will help bring this dream one [...]
2008 Women in Business Awards
Local Female Business Leader to be Recognized by Senator Jack Scott Senator Jack Scott, Assemblymember Paul Krekorian and Assemblymember Anthony Portantino will honor 20 businesswomen from across Southern California at the 9th Annual Women in Business Awards set for September 19, 2008 at the Castaway Restaurant in Burbank. Carla Christofferson and Kathy Goodman, the co-owners [...]
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer
A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is being tested for the first time on Mars in gathering sample shavings of ice. The lander has used its arm in recent days to clear away loose soil from a subsurface layer of hard-frozen material and create a [...]
NASA SPACECRAFT SHOWS DIVERSE, WET ENVIRONMENTS ON ANCIENT MARS
Two studies based on data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed that the Red Planet once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments that had the potential to support life. One study, published in the July 17 issue of Nature, shows that vast regions of the ancient highlands of [...]
Pasadena Heritage Celebrates The Colorado Street Bridge Saturday
Live music with Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, one of Pasadena’s most beloved and wacky bands, dancing , vintage cars, lots of activities for kids of all ages and of course, food and drink of every kind imaginable will accentuate one of Pasadena’s biggest parties of the year. During the Great Depression, apparently there were [...]
Feds Take Over IndyMac – Long Lines Greet Depositors Monday
Federal banking regulators closed and seized IndyMac Friday afternoon after determining the California-based mortgage lender is unsound. It’s the largest U.S. savings bank to have ever failed, a possibly casualty of the sub-prime loans it made to high-risk clients. On Saturday morning, people who have accounts with the bank were still in shock as local [...]
FastSoft, Inc. Opens Doors In Pasadena
FastSoft Inc. (www.fastsoft.com), an award winning developer of the only single-sided Internet acceleration solution for entertainment media, today announced it has moved to a new 7800-square-foot space at 150 South Los Robles Avenue, Suite 750, in Pasadena. The 40-month lease was brokered by Tri-City Ventures. “FastSoft outgrew its old space in Monrovia, and we were [...]
Drive Your British Car Week
British Car Week It’s Drive your British Car Week. As can be expected, British motorists need to consult in parking lots everywhere to keep on the road. Lucas is a four letter word to some and prince of darkness to others. Susan Motander’s 1962 beauty, an Austin Healey Sprite ‘Tiger’ and Beacon Media’s photog, Terry [...]
Beacon Media Server Stays Dry, for Now
The influx of unseasonable rain showers to the foothills has caused a leakage into the roof of the world Headquarters of Beacon Media, Inc. in Monrovia. Workers were forced to improvise a makeshift rain shield in order to ensure that the Beacon server wasn’t harmed in the indoor flash flood. Said Terry Miller, photographer for [...]