Alice Zhai and Jonathan Jiang. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you or someone you know has been in a science fair. Chances are that your project did not lead directly to a collaboration with a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California, and a paper in the professional journal Environmental Research Letters. Alice Zhai’s pr... More »
 The newly announced Tournament of Roses® Royal Court. Left to right: Princess Ashley Thaxton, Princess Kinsey Stuart, Princess Katherine Hernández, Princess Michelle Van Wyk, Princess Natalie Innocenzi, Princess June Ko, Princess Lauren Rogers The seven members of the 2010 Tournament of Roses Royal Court were announced today at Tournament House from a group of 26 finalists. As ambassadors of ... More »
When Juan Ruelas was its principal in 2011, Roosevelt Elementary School lost its Blue Ribbon School nomination because it was caught cheating on student testing. Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Brian McDonald justified ignoring the Madison Elementary School community by appointing Ruelas as Madison’s Principal because of Ruelas’ supposed solid educational accomplished in improving ... More »
The Tournament of Roses revealed today that the heroic pilot who masterfully landed US Airways Flight 1549, Captain Chesley B. “Sully†Sullenberger, III, will serve as the Grand Marshal for the 2010 Tournament of Roses festivities. Themed 2010: A Cut Above the Rest, the 121st Rose Parade will pay tribute to everyday heroes and the effort to always improve and enhance. As Grand Marshal, Sul... More »
Residents, businesses and institutions play a major role in helping Pasadena meet its sustainability goals, as outlined in the 2010 Green City Report. For example, the city’s water use dropped by 15 percent with the help of Pasadena ’s residents, workforce and visitors. The report has plenty more to share.  Pasadena reduced its annual peak power demand by 4.45 megawatts, or the energy consu... More »
The Pasadena-based Community Bank, an independent business bank with 15 business centers in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties, today reported a 12.2% increase in net income to $6.8 million for the third quarter of 2011 compared to $6.1 million for the similar quarter in 2010. For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Bank reported a net income of $18.5 million comp... More »
The 2010 Mercedes Benz G550 is huge. It’s like a pit bull :all steel and muscle. I honestly thought I wasn’t going to like driving it. Boy was I wrong. Even my tree-hugging friend had to admit she was smitten with it when we went out for our weekly lunch. And what really turned my head was when I went to retrieve it from the valet at a black tie event and found out they’d parked it front and cente... More »
On January 3, 2010, retired Deputy Sheriff Charlene “Charlie” Rottler, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, died from injuries she sustained while working on patrol at Altadena Sheriff’s Station. Most people are unfamiliar with Charlie’s story. This is unfortunate but not surprising. She and her training officer were involved in a traffic collision with a drunk driver on November 5, 1972. That... More »
Changes in Australia’s mass as reported by data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites from June 2010 to February 2011. Areas in greens and blues depict the greatest increases in mass, caused by excessive precipitation. The contour lines represent various land surface elevations. A new study co-authored and co-funded by NASA finds extensive flooding in Australia, co... More »
At left, the extent of the 2005 megadrought in the western Amazon rainforests during the summer months of June, July and August as measured by NASA satellites. The most impacted areas are shown in shades of red and yellow. The circled area in the right panel shows the extent of the forests that experienced slow recovery from the 2005 drought, with areas in red and yellow shades experiencing the sl... More »
