Friday, May 18, 2012
Find out the most popular baby names in your area. A few picks may surprise you.
Legions of babies named Sophia and Jacob are populating the U.S. as the two names are the most popular on birth certificates across the nation, according to The U.S. Department of Social Security. Those names are followed by Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Ava, Emily, Abigail, Madison, Mia and Chloe for girls; for boys are Mason, William, Jayden, Noah, Michael, Ethan, Alexander, Aiden, and Daniel. But what about the top names for the San Gabriel Valley area? The Baby Namescape feature compiles the top baby names by state, city and even hospital. A hospital close to La Cañada, Pasadena's Huntington Hospital, has the following names recorded. Pasadena – Huntington Hospital Girls: Sophia, Isabella, Amelia, Emma, Emily, Abigail, Victoria, Madison, …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
May 21 is deadline in Los Angeles County for registering to vote in the upcoming election.
Los Angeles County residents wanting to vote in the June 5 primary must register by May 21. If you’re not sure if you are registered, you can check your status online. This year’s ballot will feature open primaries, in which the top two vote-getters in state or federal races advance to the November election—no matter what party they represent. Here is a list of races on the ballot in La Cañada. Citizens can get a registration form online here and those who are uncertain of whether they are registered or not can check here. For more information, visit the Registrar of Voters website.
The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
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Thursday, May 17
A city official said Thursday crews would remove the spray-painted invitation scrawled across a rock before the end of business Friday.
It's unclear who painted the prom proposal on a rock formation in Cherry Canyon, but the city's crystal clear about cleaning it before it breeds additional graffiti. Arabo Parseghian, management analyst for the City of La Cañada Flintridge Public Works Department, expects crews to have the spray-painted invitation cleaned before the end of the day Friday, he said Thursday. Scrawled in black paint across two rocks in Cherry Canyon, the word "Prom,'' followed by a question mark, showed up recently on the Owl Trail. "This is the first we’ve seen of graffiti on the trail,'' he said, noting the city did not contact the sheriff's department,, as the damage was not so significant as to warrant a report. City officials were alerted to the …
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Password Protection Act of 2012 would the enhance current law to prohibit employers from compelling or coercing employees into providing access to their private accounts.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), along with eleven other co-sponsors, introduced the Password Protection Act Of 2012 last week to hopefully curb employers who require that employees provide access to password-protected accounts, like Facebook and Twitter. Individual states, including Maryland and California, have already introduced legislation to ban the increasingly popular practice. In a press release, Schiff explained why he's backing the Password Protection Act Of 2012, which would protect users across the country: This common sense legislation would prevent employers from mandating that job applicants or current employees disclose confidential passwords to their social networks, like Facebook. Someone's personal page should be just that—…
They've displeased hillside homeowners, but the storm barriers, K-rails, deflect debris and mudflow away from homes and need to stay put for another year or so. The concrete rails have lined hillside streets since the aftermath of the 2009 Station Fire.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory will open its doors to the public June 9 and 10 for "Great Journeys," which will take visitors on a "ride" through the wonders of space.
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Wednesday, May 16
Monday, May 14, 2012
Data collection is part of plan for environmental impact report for the 710. Traffic counters record the number of vehicles as they pass under the Gould Avenue overpass in La Canada.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Scientists tested the rover, similar to Curiosity, currently flying to Mars with an August landing date.
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Friday, May 11
Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curiosity, currently flying to Mars for an August landing. Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the mission for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The test rover that they put through paces on various sandy slopes has a full-scale version of Curiosity's mobility system, but it is otherwise stripped down so that it weighs about the same on Earth as Curiosity will weigh in the lesser gravity of Mars. Information collected in these tests on windward and downwind portions of dunes will be used by the rover team in making decisions about …
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Council members unanimously rejected a request by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority to have city planning commissioners represent La Cañada on the State Route 710 Stakeholder Outreach Advisory Committee. The city wants to council membe
