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Pasadena Press
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2014 - DECEMBER 28, 2014
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Rep. Schiff Announces Federal Funding for Earthquake Early Warning System By terry miller
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City of Torrance Honors Louis Zamperini with Rose Float Tournament of Roses Honors Zamporini in a Car That Belonged to Joseph Stalin By Terry Miller
Congressman Adam Schiff (D¬Burbank) announced that Congress has included $5 million in funds this year towards the Earthquake Early Warning System during a press conference at Caltech Monday morning. – Photo by Terry Miller
On Monday morning Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congressman Adam Schiff (DBurbank) announced that Congress has included $5 million in FY 2015 funding bill, also known as the CROmnibus, for a West Coast Earthquake Early Warning System, the first time Congress
has ever provided funding specifically for the system. A limited system developed by Caltech, UC-Berkeley and University of Washington, in conjunction with the United State Geological Survey (USGS), has already been deployed and has proven that the early warning technology is
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The inspirational life story and recent passing of the City of Torrance’s hometown American hero, Louis Zamperini, is celebrated in this floral tribute to the 2015 Tournament of Roses Grand Marshal. Books and movies have been written about his remarkable life, his courage, resilience and ability to forgive his captors. Growing up poor in Torrance he discovered running as a means to better himself and to help out his family. He set world interscholastic racing records while attending Torrance High School helping him gain a scholarship at the University of Southern California where he held the national collegiate mile record which stood for 15 years. He was America’s best finisher in the 5000 meter race at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and while on a rescue mission the B-24 Liberator plane he was flying in crashed
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sound. This $5 million in funding will allow those developing the statewide system to begin purchasing and installing additional sensors, build new stations, speed up the ShakeAlert system, and come closer to deploying Please see page 4
Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight at The Pasadena Playhouse by JENNIFER SCHLUETER If you want to know how adult jokes about Victoria’s Secret models, Tinder, Fridayafternoon-405-traffic, Amazon Prime, waitresses/actresses, and Facebook can vamp up an antiquated Grimm fairytale, you should see Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight (Sleeping Beauty hereafter) at The Pasade-
na Playhouse. If you want to take your kids, they surely will enjoy this modernized version just as much due to highly engaging audience participation. Sleeping Beauty stars Disney’s Olivia Holt as Aurora, the Princess of Pasadena, and Garrett Clayton as the Prince of Alhambra who fall in love