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Alan Wood dies at 90; provided Iwo Jima flag in World War II
Alan Wood never claimed to be a hero, but he did play a supporting role in one of World War II's most stirring moments. It was at Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. Straining into the wind, five Marines and a Navy corpsman planted the Stars and Stripes on the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Christianity, Anglicanism
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Obituary: Alan Wood, 90, former JPL official
Alan Wood, a former official at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died at his Sierra Madre home on April 18. He was 90. A Navy lieutenant during World War II, Wood played a role in the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima. While his LST was beached under Japan's Mount...
Tags: Japan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christianity, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief
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No E-ticket for JPL
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's annual open house allows space geeks and budding young scientists a rare peek inside the missions behind the La Cañada Flintridge facility. But the popular event, scheduled for June 8 and 9, has been canceled because of...
Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Adam Schiff, Disneyland Park, Science and Technology
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Flintridge Proper: A restaurant for La Cañada
On a recent Saturday night at Flintridge Proper, well-dressed couples and multi-generational families occasionally left their tables or bar stools to talk to people they knew across the room. The 3,000-square-foot La Cañada Flintridge bar and restaurant...
Tags: Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, McDonald's, Starbucks Corp.
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JPL open house, felled by sequestration, costs about $400,000
Bracing for “significant impacts” to funding for public outreach programs next year, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided to cancel its hugely popular open house in June. The cost savings? Roughly $400,000 for the two-day event. The...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Adam Schiff, Google+, Science and Technology, Budgets and Budgeting
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Chief warns of bad fire season after Monrovia brush fire
As firefighters worked to contain a blaze that charred more than 100 acres in Monrovia, the city's fire chief, Chris Donovan, reminded residents that experts are predicting a “very dry -- and very bad” fire season. In a prepared statement...
Tags: Fires, Air Transportation Delays, Los Angeles International Airport
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JPL cancels open house because of federal budget cuts
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has canceled its popular annual open house at its La Cañada Flintridge facility because of federal spending cuts. The event, scheduled for June 8-9, typically attracts crowds of more than 15,000 each day. "Everyone here...
Tags: Science and Technology, Travel, Layoffs and Downsizing, Space Programs, Money and Monetary Policy
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory inventory check shows stolen NASA laptop
A laptop belonging to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge was allegedly stolen from a contract employee last summer, but the agency didn't realize it was missing until an inventory was conducted in January, officials said. JPL hired...Tags: Theft, Inventories, NASA
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
This post has been updated. See below for details.Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...Tags: Adam B. Schiff, Adam Schiff, Science and Technology, Space Programs, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
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Dry weather has firefighters ready for battle
Southern California is marching toward its fourth-driest year since 1877, and that has firefighters increasingly girded for battle. In the hills of Los Angeles County, tests show the brush is drying out at a significantly quicker rate this year...
Tags: Water Supply, Natural Resource Industry, Los Angeles Fire Department, Guiberson Fire (2009), National Weather Service
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JPL, citing sequestration cuts, cancels popular open house
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is suspending the open house that had been scheduled for June 8 and 9, making the popular yearly gathering the latest casualty of the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration. The “difficult decision&...
Tags: Eryn Brown, NASA
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Schiff: JPL open house suspension result of "extremely poor" federal fiscal policy
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Thursday expressed just as much disappointment regarding the suspension of the annual open house at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as just about everyone else in the science community. The Los Angeles Times reported...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Google+, Science and Technology, Economic Policy, Budgets and Budgeting
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