Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, February 2, 2019

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Mountain View News Saturday, February 2, 2019 

Pasadena Symphony’s Red-
Hot Tchaikovsky Spectacular

Pasadena’s 2019 State 
of the Youth Convening

Honored at NAMM Show

(Cont. from Page 1)

By Dean Lee

 Long time Sierra Madre 
resident Tom Seymour and his 
son and Rich Seymour were 
honored last week at this year’s 
National Association of Music 
Merchants show for 50 years 
of being in the retail music 
business. The two own and run 
the legendary Fret House music 
store in Downtown Covina.

 Tom Seymour said 1969, the 
year he opened, was a good 
year for music, “There was a 
big expansion in the mid to late 
60s and there has been some 
retrenchment in the last 10 
years.” 

 He said they started the 
store in 1969 with six acoustic 
guitars, “four of them came 
from my home living room.”

 He said before that he was 
teaching guitar while in college.

 Both Tom and Rich Seymour 
said about NAMM “We are 
looking for innovations in the 
lines that we carry and new 

 Music Director David 
Lockington returns to the 
podium next month to conduct 
the Pasadena Symphony’s 
Tchaikovsky Spectacular at 
Ambassador Auditorium on 
Saturday, February 16 with 
performances at 2pm and 8pm. 
This all-Tchaikovsky program 
features Van Cliburn winner 
Olga Kern, a direct descendant 
to Tchaikovsky himself, 
performing his wildly popular 
Piano Concerto No. 1, plus his 
exhilarating Fifth Symphony, 
exploring a romantic world 
of destiny, fate and shocking 
climaxes. The Pasadena 
Symphony’s ode to romance 
arrives just in time to celebrate 
with your Valentine.

 Joining the orchestra for 
this exclusive performance, 
Russian-American pianist Olga 
Kern will take center stage for 
Tchaikovsky’s dazzling First 
Piano Concerto. To learn more 
about Olga and her ancestral 
connection to Tchaikovsky, 
come early for Insights – a 
free pre-concert dialogue 
with Music Director David 
Lockington that begins one 
hour prior to each concert.

 Treat your Valentine to a 
one-of-a-kind experience with 
lunch or dinner in the luxurious 
Symphony Lounge, yet another 
addition to the delightful and 
elegant concert experience the 
Pasadena Symphony offers. A 
posh setting along Ambassador 
Auditorium’s beautiful outdoor 
plaza, the lounge will offer 
specialized Valentine’s themed 
menus at each concert from 
Claud &Co, fine wines by 
Michero Wines serving Riboli 
Family Wines, plus music 
before the concert and during 
intermission.

 Concerts are held at 
Ambassador Auditorium, 131 
South St. John Ave. Subscription 
packages starting as low as $99 
are still available. Single tickets 
start at $35 and purchased 
online at pasadenasymphony-
pops.org or by calling (626) 
793-7172. 

 

 Pasadena teens are invited to 
attend the Annual State of the 
Youth Convening, Wednesday 
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at John Muir 
High School Library, 1905 
Lincoln Ave., Pasadena. 
Refreshments will be provided.

 We welcome your thoughts, 
experiences and creative 
solutions in an effort to help 
address current teen issues. 
Help us increase awareness 
of Pasadena youth resources 
and priorities. Please join in 
updating the Pasadena Youth 
Master Plan. Share youth issues 
that have not been previously 
identified in the Priority Areas:

• Access to Healthy Food 
Environments – Youth should 
have access to a variety of high-
quality foods available at all 
times

• Life Ready – A Pasadena 
community that is committed 
to providing students with 
access to the arts, professional 
enrichment, higher education 
and meaningful careers.

• Feeling Free to Be Me – To 
ensure all Pasadena youth 
are living and thriving in a 
safe, supportive and bully-
free environment-especially 
at home, school and all other 
places where they interact in 
our community.

• United Youth Support – Create 
a comprehensive support 
system that connects all aspects 
of youth development

• Buses & Bikes – Access for all 
youth to an effective and more 
affordable public transportation 
system and viable methods to 
get around Pasadena

• Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco 
- Pasadena is committed to 
advancing positive health 
by providing youth friendly 
alcohol and drug prevention 
intervention and support 
services to youth.

 For more information, contact 
Jane Gov at (626) 744-4246 or 
to register visit http://bit.ly/
StateOfTheYouth.

 


 

 This is Koby (A469484), a 
very sweet black and white 
Chihuahua. He is very eager 
to put on his leash and go 
for walks that he practically 
leashes himself! Koby likes 
spending time with people 
and enjoys showing and 
receiving affection. He is a 
good boy and knows his sit 
command well. Volunteers 
and staff say that Koby is an 
overall sweet dog who loves 
interacting with others. 
Everyone is rooting for 
this sweet boy to soon find 
the forever home that he 
deserves. 

 The adoption fee for dogs 
is $140. All dogs are spayed 
or neutered, microchipped, 
and vaccinated before going 
to their new home. 

 New adopters will receive a 
complimentary health-and-
wellness exam from VCA 
Animal Hospitals, as well 
as a goody bag filled with 
information about how to 
care for your pet.

 View photos of adoptable 
pets at pasadenahumane.
org. Adoption hours are 11 
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. Tuesday through 
Friday; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Saturday.

 Pets may not be available 
for adoption and cannot be 
held for potential adopters 
by phone calls or email.

Pet of the 
Week

Senior Center Welcomes 
Board President Paul Kinney

 Paul Kinney, a member of the 
Pasadena Senior Center Board 
of Directors since 2015, has 
been named board president 
for a two-year term beginning 
this month.

 Kinney is a wealth manager 
who is a principal at The 
Kinney Group in Pasadena. 
Before launching The Kinney 
Group, he worked for 30 years 
as a financial advisor and 
wealth advisor at UBS and 
Morgan Stanley. A graduate 
of Occidental College and the 
University of Colorado, he has 
a long history of community 
volunteerism in Pasadena and 
Glendale.

 “I am honored to take on the 
role of board president, and I 
look forward to working with 
my board colleagues and the 
staff to move the Pasadena 
Senior Center’s mission 
forward in keeping with a 
carefully constructed strategic 
plan,” Kinney said. “These are 
very talented people, and this is 
a true team effort.”

 The mission of the Pasadena 
Senior Center is to improve 
the lives of older adults 
through caring service with 
opportunities for social 
interaction, recreation, basic 
support and needs services, 
education, volunteerism and 
community action.

 “Paul Kinney has been a 
tremendous asset to our 
board, and I am excited to 
being working with him in his 
capacity as board president,” 
said Akila Gibbs, executive 
director of the Pasadena 
Senior Center. “There are so 
many initiatives with which 
the center is actively engaged, 
and Paul will help lead the 
way as we achieve new goals 
while maintaining our existing 
programs and services.”

 For more information visit: 
pasadenaseniorcenter.or or call 
626-795-4331.

The Women Artists of Disney – 

A Fusion of Fine Art & Animation

 

 Celebrate Women’s History 
Month in March as historian and 
author Mindy Johnson explores 
the creative and technical 
advances of leading women 
artists whose contributions 
expanded and defined many of 
Walt Disney’s classic animated 
films. Presented in conjunction 
with the landmark “Something 
Revealed; California Women 
Artists Emerge, 1860-
1960” exhibition currently 
at the Pasadena Museum of 
History. The work of Mary 
Blair and Nelbert Chouinard, 
along with other brilliant 
California artists, is explored 
in this fascinating celebration 
featuring original clips, fine 
artistry and classic animation!

Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 
p.m. Pasadena Central Library/
Donald Wright Auditorium 
285 E Walnut Street. 

ALTADENA CRIME BLOTTER

Sunday, January 20th

11:00 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
1500 block of Atchison 
Street. Suspect(s) entered 
the residence via the rear 
sliding door. Stolen: gold 
and silver jewelry.

Monday, January 21st

4:15 PM – Alonso Garcia, 
29 years old of Pasadena was 
arrested in the 1700 block of 
Washington Boulevard for 
possession of a controlled 
substance.

5:10 PM – A battery occurred 
in the area of Woodbury 
Road and Lincoln Avenue. 
Suspect has not been 
identified.

Tuesday, January 22nd

8:35 PM – A domestic 
violence incident occurred 
in the 900 block of N. 
Weimar Avenue. Suspect 
was taken into custody.

Wednesday, January 23rd

3:24 PM – Jeisleyr Alpoche, 
40 years old of Pasadena 
was arrested in the 2200 
block of E. Crary Street for 
possession of a controlled 
substance.

Thursday, January 24th

12:19 AM – Brian Jones, 41 
years old of Altadena was 
arrested in the 2100 block of 
El Sereno Avenue for being 
under the influence of a 
controlled substance.

8:17 PM – Mark Milton, 
54 years old of Altadena 
was arrested in the 3100 
block of Lincoln Avenue 
for mayhem. Victim and 
suspect are acquaintances.

NASA ‘Mars Buggy’ Curiosity 
Measures a Mountain’s Gravity

 

 Apollo 17 astronauts 
drove a moon buggy across 
the lunar surface in 1972, 
measuring gravity with a 
special instrument. There are 
no astronauts on Mars, but 
a group of clever researchers 
realized they have just the 
tools for similar experiments 
with the Martian buggy they’re 
operating.

 In a new paper in Science, 
the researchers detail how they 
repurposed sensors used to 
drive the Curiosity rover and 
turned them into gravimeters, 
which measure changes in 
gravitational pull. That enabled 
them to measure the subtle 
tug from rock layers on lower 
Mount Sharp, which rises 3 
miles (5 kilometers) from the 
base of Gale Crater and which 
Curiosity has been climbing 
since 2014. The results? It 
turns out the density of those 
rock layers is much lower than 
expected. 

 Just like a smartphone, 
Curiosity carries accelerometers 
and gyroscopes. Moving 
your smartphone allows 
these sensors to determine 
its location and which way 
it’s facing. Curiosity’s sensors 
do the same thing but with 
far more precision, playing 
a crucial role in navigating 
the Martian surface on each 
drive. Knowing the rover’s 
orientation also lets engineers 
accurately point its instruments 
and multidirectional, high-gain 
antenna.

 By happy coincidence, the 
rover’s accelerometers can be 
used like Apollo 17’s gravimeter. 
The accelerometers detect the 
gravity of the planet whenever 
the rover stands still. Using 
engineering data from the first 
five years of the mission, the 
paper’s authors measured the 
gravitational tug of Mars on 
the rover. As Curiosity ascends 
Mount Sharp, the mountain 
adds additional gravity — 
but not as much as scientists 
expected.

 “The lower levels of Mount 
Sharp are surprisingly porous,” 
said lead author Kevin Lewis 
of Johns Hopkins University. 
“We know the bottom layers 
of the mountain were buried 
over time. That compacts them, 
making them denser. But this 
finding suggests they weren’t 
buried by as much material as 
we thought.”

Science from a Mars Buggy

 The Apollo 17 astronauts 
drove their buggy across the 
Moon’s Taurus-Littrow Valley, 
periodically stopping to capture 
25 measurements. Lewis has 
studied Martian gravity fields 
using data collected by NASA’s 
orbiters and was familiar with 
Apollo 17’s gravimeter.

 The Science paper uses over 700 
measurements from Curiosity’s 
accelerometers, taken between 
October 2012 and June 2017. 
These data were calibrated to 
filter out “noise,” such as the 
effects of temperature and 
the tilt of the rover during its 
climb. The calculations were 
then compared to models of 
Mars’ gravity fields to ensure 
accuracy.

 The results were also compared 
to mineral-density estimates 
from Curiosity’s Chemistry and 
Mineralogy instrument, which 
characterizes the crystalline 
minerals in rock samples by 
using an X-ray beam. That data 
helped inform how porous the 
rocks are.

Mountain of Mystery

 There are many mountains 
within craters or canyons 
on Mars, but few approach 
the scale of Mount Sharp. 
Scientists still aren’t sure how 
the mountain grew inside of 
Gale Crater. One idea is that 
the crater was once filled with 
sediment. How much of it 
was filled remains a source 
of debate, but the thinking is 
that many millions of years of 
wind and erosion eventually 
excavated the mountain.

 If the crater had been filled 
to the brim, all that material 
should have pressed down, or 
compacted, the many layers of 
fine-grained sediment beneath 
it. But the new paper suggests 
Mount Sharp’s lower layers 
have been compacted by only 
a half-mile to a mile (1 to 2 
kilometers) — much less than if 
the crater had been completely 
filled.

 “There are still many questions 
about how Mount Sharp 
developed, but this paper adds 
an important piece to the 
puzzle,” said study co-author 
Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s 
project scientist at NASA’s 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
in Pasadena, California. JPL 
manages the Mars Science 
Laboratory mission that 
Curiosity is a part of. “I’m 
thrilled that creative scientists 
and engineers are still finding 
innovative ways to make new 
scientific discoveries with the 
rover,” he added.

 Lewis said that Mars holds 
plenty of mystery beyond 
Mount Sharp. Its landscape is 
like Earth’s, but sculpted more 
by wind and blowing sand than 
by water. They’re planetary 
siblings, at once familiar and 
starkly different.

 For more about Curiosity, 
visit: mars.nasa.gov/msl/

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

 There is something for 
everyone in December at the 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 
E. Holly St.

 You do not have to be a 
member to attend. Some 
events require advance 
reservations as 

noted. 

 Friday Movie Matinees 
– Fridays, Feb. 8 and 15, 
at 1 p.m. Everyone enjoys 
the experience of watching 
movies and the pleasures 
they bring. Feb. 8: A Star 
is Born (2018, R) starring 
Bradley Cooper and Lady 
Gaga. A seasoned musician 
discovers natural talent in 
a woman who has given up 
on her dream of becoming a 
successful singer, then helps 
her advance her career while 
his alcoholism sends his 
own career into a downward 
spiral. Feb. 15: Tea with the 
Dames (2018, NR). In this 
documentary film, four 
legends of the British stage 
and screen – Dame Maggie 
Smith, Dame Judi Dench, 
Dame Aileen Atkins and 
Dame Joan Plowwright 
– spend a weekend in the 
country as they reminisce 
and discuss everything from 
art to aging to love. 

 Screening Mimis Film 
Discussion Group – 
Tuesdays, Feb. 5 and 19, at 
1:30 p.m. Diehard film fans 
are invited to watch a movie 
the first and third Tuesday 
of every month, preceded 
by a presentation about the 
film’s hidden history and 
followed by lively discussion. 
Feb. 5: The Gods Must Be 
Crazy (1980, PG) starring 
N!xau and Marius Weyers. 
After a Coke bottle thrown 
from a passing plane lands 
in the middle of his village, 
a Kalahari bushman believes 
it to be a gift from the gods. 
Feb. 19: Touching the Void 
(2003, R). This documentary 
film recreates the adventures 
of two young mountaineers 
who set off in 1985 to climb 
the treacherous west face 
of the Siula Grande in the 
Peruvian Andes. 

 Keep Your Heart Healthy 
– Thursday, Feb. 7, at 10 
a.m. Come learn at least five 
habits you can incorporate 
into your lifestyle to keep 
your heart health the best 
it can be. Presented by 
Huntington Hospital.

 Cultural Thursday – 
Thursday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m. 
A.R. Gurney’s play Love 
Letters, a finalist for the 
1990 Pulitzer Prize for 
Drama, will star Tom Laskey 
as Andrew and Sandy 
Mansson as Melissa. The two 
characters sit side by side as 
they read the notes, letters 
and cards they exchanged 
over the course of 50 years 
while they led separate lives.

 Rediscovering Hope – 
Thursdays, Feb. 7 to 28, at 3 
p.m. Rediscovering Hope is 
a support group for anyone 
grieving the death of a loved 
one. For more information 
call licensed clinical social 
worker Jody Casserly at 626-
918-2273, ext. 7455.

 Home Share Workshop: 
Room to Rent – Tuesday, 
Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. For any 
homeowner thinking about 
renting out a room, this 
workshop will explain how 
to list your space and find 
a good renter to share your 
home. Topics will include 
finding an online site that 
suits your needs, what type 
of home partners you are 
seeking, safe practices, how 
to spot a scam, how to set up 
your rental agreement and 
more. There will be optional 
follow-up sessions. RSVP 
at the Welcome Desk or by 
calling 626-795-4331.

 Founded in 1960, the 
Pasadena Senior Center 
is an independent, donor-
supported nonprofit 
organization that offers 
recreational, educational, 
wellness and social services 
to people ages 50 and older in 
a welcoming environment. 
Services are also provided 
for frail, low-income and 
homebound seniors.

Winter Masters Series

 

 The winter term of The 
Masters Series, with the theme 
Exploring Motion Pictures, is 
scheduled Tuesdays, to March 
5, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the 
Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. 
Holly St.

 Feb. 5 – The Rise and Fall 
of Women in Hollywood. Film 
historian Cari Beauchamp 
will discuss the early years of 
Hollywood when women were 
highly paid stars with good 
roles, powerful writers and 
producers and how today’s film 
industry is still influenced by 
that era.

 Feb. 12 – Politics and 
Popular Culture in the 
Movies. Dana Marterella, an 
English instructor at Glendale 
Community College with 
a specialty in politics and 
popular culture, will explore 
the ways social trends and 
filmmakers’ viewpoints reflect 
politics and influence what is 
shown onscreen.

 Feb. 19 – On Location in 
Pasadena. Cinematographer 
Jared Cowan will lead 
participants through clips and 
photos of familiar Pasadena 
places many may not have 
recognized in famous films, 
from Gone with the Wind to La 
La Land.

 Feb. 26 – Saving Hollywood’s 
Lost Treasures. Film 
preservationist and historian 
Hugh Munro Neely will discuss 
films of the silent era that are 
thought to have been lost and 
his worldwide searches in 
archives and vaults for film 
prints that may bring the films 
back into the public arena. 

 March 5 – Topic and presenter 
will be announced. 

Individual talks are $15 each, or 
register for the full eight-week 
term for $105. Non-members 
can try the series by attending 
their first talk free of charge.

 To register, visit: 
pasadenaseniorcenter.org or 
call 626-795-4331. 


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