Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, February 23, 2019

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Mountain View News Saturday, February 23, 2019 

InSight Is the Newest 
Mars Weather Service

YWCA Empowerment 
Program Girls Lend a Hand 

158 Citations Issued During 
Feb. Traffic Enforcement

 On Friday, February 15, 
officers assigned to the 
Pasadena Police Department 
Traffic Section conducted 
a traffic enforcement detail 
throughout the city between 
the hours of 6 a.m. and 3 
p.m. Officers were on the 
lookout for dangerous 
driving behaviors, including 
speeding, red light and 
right-of-way violations, and 
other violations that lead 
to traffic collisions. The 
goal of these programs are 
to enhance public safety 
through enforcement and 
education.

 Officers conducted 
enforcement at various 
locations on Friday and 
issued a total of 158 
citations, 60 of which were 
for speeding. Two people 
were cited for running a 
red light, and the remaining 
96 citations were issued for 
other dangerous driving 
behaviors, such as right-of-
way violations and failing to 
stop for posted stop signs. 
Two motorists were found to 
be driving while unlicensed.

 “A majority of our 
enforcement efforts focused 
on locations suggested to us 
by community members,” 
said Traffic Section 
Lieutenant Mark Goodman. 
“We want to be engaged 
and address community 
concerns regarding 
traffic safety.” Lieutenant 
Goodman reports that 
citizens frequently stop to 
thank officers monitoring 
driving at problem locations 
reported by community 
members. “Just this week, 
I received a note written 
by a community member 
thanking us for our efforts 
at a particular location,” said 
Goodman. “Please keep the 
suggestions coming.”

 
“Women helping women” 
sums up the efforts of the 
girls from YWCA Pasadena’s 
Girls Empowerment After-
School Programs on two 
consecutive Tuesdays this 
month. 

 This army of 15 teen-
aged girls busily filled 
treat-bags and folded and 
wrapped blankets for the 
100 care packages destined 
for women who are being 
treated for cancer. The 
effort was in service of 
the Foundation for Living 
Beauty, an organization that 
has provided supportive 
services to women along 
their cancer journey since 
2005.

 The Foundation for Living 
Beauty distributes between 
150 – 200 bags each year, free 
of charge. These Wellness 
Kits are an important part 
of Living Beauty’s services 
for women with cancer. 
“Chemotherapy can be a 
very taxing journey, and 
our Wellness Kits are filled 
with wonderful products 
to help keep women 
comfortable while receiving 
treatment,” says Ariana 
Barnett, Assistant Director 
at the Foundation for Living 
Beauty, “We want women 
to know they are loved and 
supported as they go through 
this challenging time.” The 
kits are made up of donated 
items from supporters such 
as organic body butter from 
ellovi, lip balm from Weleda, 
a cap to keep their heads 
warm from Craft’d with 
Love, a soft fleece blanket 
made by the Saint Mark’s 
Episcopal Church Youth 
Group, CBD products from 
Budberry, other items like 
fuzzy socks, ginger candy, a 
Chemo Companion Guide, 
a note from a Living Beauty, 
and the bag itself from The 
Dollar Fund. 

 “It was fun,” said Gabriela, 
a YWCA participant, “I love 
doing this kind of thing for 
other people.”

 The effort was coordinated 
by friend of the YWCA 
Pasadena, Raquel London, a 
cancer “thriver” and former 
client of the Foundation. 
She shared some of her 
involvement with the 
Foundation for Living 
Beauty and what the kits 
meant to her. Of the girls’ 
volunteer work Ms. London 
said, “You touched me right 
at the center of my heart. 
[It] makes me so happy you 
are young leaders that are 
willing to help others.”

 The YWCA’s Girls 
Empowerment After-School 
Program is a free multi-
disciplinary After-School 
Program for girls ages 10-14. 
Registration is open from 
October-May. Activities 
include science experiments, 
robotics, 3D- Printing and 
Design, painting, drawing, 
screen-printing, conflict 
resolution, discussion, and 
volunteer work. You can 
find more information on 
the program at the YWCA 
Pasadena-Foothill Valley’s 
Website at bit.ly/GEAP2018.

 “Our girls not only practice 
empowering themselves, but 
also practice empowering 
others around them,” says 
Jomie Liu, a Program 
Coordinator for the Girls 
Empowerment Programs, 
“By volunteering and taking 
the time to create care 
packages for women fighting 
cancer, the girls are given 
the opportunity to create 
positive change in their 
community and are shown 
that their actions can make a 
difference.”

 No matter how cold your 
winter has been, it’s probably 
not as chilly as Mars. Check 
for yourself: Starting today, the 
public can get a daily weather 
report from NASA’s InSight 
lander.

 This public tool includes stats 
on temperature, wind and air 
pressure recorded by InSight. 
Sunday’s weather was typical 
for the lander’s location during 
late northern winter: a high 
of 2 degrees Fahrenheit (-17 
degrees Celsius) and low of 
-138 degrees Fahrenheit (-95 
degrees Celsius), with a top 
wind speed of 37.8 mph (16.9 
m/s) in a southwest direction. 
The tool was developed 
by NASA’s Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory in Pasadena, 
California, with partners at 
Cornell University and Spain’s 
Centro de Astrobiología. JPL 
leads the InSight mission.

 Through a package of sensors 
called the Auxiliary Payload 
Subsystem (APSS), InSight 
will provide more around-
the-clock weather information 
than any previous mission to 
the Martian surface. The lander 
records this data during each 
second of every sol (a Martian 
day) and sends it to Earth on 
a daily basis. The spacecraft 
is designed to continue that 
operation for at least the next 
two Earth years, allowing it to 
study seasonal changes as well.

 The tool will be geeky fun for 
meteorologists while offering 
everyone who uses it a chance 
to be transported to another 
planet.

 “It gives you the sense of 
visiting an alien place,” said Don 
Banfield of Cornell University, 
in Ithaca, New York, who leads 
InSight’s weather science. 
“Mars has familiar atmospheric 
phenomena that are still quite 
different than those on Earth.”

 Constantly collecting weather 
data allows scientists to detect 
sources of “noise” that could 
influence readings from the 
lander’s seismometer and 
heat flow probe, its main 
instruments. Both are affected 
by Mars’ extreme temperature 
swings. The seismometer, 
called the Seismic Experiment 
for Interior Structure (SEIS), 
is sensitive to air pressure 
changes and wind, which create 
movements that could mask 
actual marsquakes.

 “APSS will help us filter out 
environmental noise in the 
seismic data and know when 
we’re seeing a marsquake and 
when we aren’t,” Banfield said. 
“By operating continuously, 
we’ll also see a more detailed 
view of the weather than most 
surface missions, which usually 
collect data only intermittently 
throughout a sol.”

 APSS includes an air pressure 
sensor inside the lander and 
two air temperature and 
wind sensors on the lander’s 
deck. Under the edge of the 
deck is a magnetometer, 
provided by UCLA, which will 
measure changes in the local 
magnetic field that could also 
influence SEIS. It is the first 
magnetometer ever placed on 
the surface of another planet.

 InSight will provide a unique 
data set that will complement 
the weather measurements of 
other active missions, including 
NASA’s Curiosity rover and 
orbiters circling the planet. 
InSight’s air temperature and 
wind sensors are actually 
refurbished spares originally 
built for Curiosity’s Rover 
Environmental Monitoring 
Station (REMS). These two 
east- and west-facing booms 
sit on the lander’s deck and 
are called Temperature and 
Wind for InSight (TWINS), 
provided by Spain’s Centro de 
Astrobiología.

 TWINS will be used to tell the 
team when strong winds could 
interfere with small seismic 
signals. But it could also be 
used, along with InSight’s 
cameras, to study how much 
dust and sand blow around. 
Scientists don’t know how 
much wind it takes to lift dust 
in Mars’ thin atmosphere, 
which affects dune formation 
and dust storms — including 
planet-encircling dust storms 
like the one that occurred last 
year, effectively ending the 
Opportunity rover’s mission.

 APSS will also help the mission 
team learn about dust devils 
that have left streaks on the 
planet’s surface. Dust devils 
are essentially low-pressure 
whirlwinds, so InSight’s air 
pressure sensor can detect 
when one is near. It’s highly 
sensitive — 10 times more so 
than equipment on the Viking 
and Pathfinder landers — 
enabling the team to study dust 
devils from hundreds of feet 
(dozens of meters) away.

 “Our data has already shown 
there are a lot of dust devils 
at our location,” Banfield 
said. “Having such a sensitive 
pressure sensor lets us see more 
of them passing by.” 

Pet of the 
Week

 

 

 Jerm (A464569) has 
unofficially won over 
the affection of the PHS 
Volunteers. Jerm, one of the 
cats currently residing at Pet 
Food Express in Pasadena, 
is so social and confident 
with people that they all love 
him. He is very vocal and 
playful. He doesn't mind 
entertaining himself (he 
could chase a rolling plastic 
ball all day) but loves when 
you step in and play too. 
He enjoys catching a furry 
mouse on a wand toy and 
struts off with his "prey". 
He'll drop it somewhere and 
wait for you to bring it back 
to life for more play. He likes 
to be petted, but if petted for 
too long will wonder why 
you aren't playing instead. 
Visit this adorable black cat, 
Jerm, and other available 
cats at Pet Food Express.

 The adoption fee for cats 
is $90. All cats are spayed 
or neutered, microchipped, 
and vaccinated before being 
adopted. 

 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. 


ArtNight at the Library

Art Night is Friday, March 8 • 6 
p.m.-10 p.m. 

Wild, Wild West

Yeehaw! It’s a Western Shindig, 
featuring music, dance, shows 
and art honoring Pasadena’s 
2019 One City, One Story 
selection, In the Distance by 
Hernán Diaz

Quilting Bee

Quilting Bees or parties were 
social gatherings in the West, 
where everyone worked 
together on completing a quilt. 
Join us and color a quilting 
square to take home with you. 

6-9 p.m. • Centennial Room

Western Line Dance

Line dancing is fun and easy-
to-learn. This group dance 
involves people dancing in one 
or more lines or rows facing the 
same direction, and executing 
the steps at the same time. 
The steps are straightforward. 
Presented by Francisco 
Martínez. 

6-6:30 p.m., 7:30-8:30 p.m. 
& 9:30-10 p.m. • Great Hall/
Center 

Reiyukai America 

Create a memory of ArtNight 
to take home with you.

6-9 p.m. • Great Hall/East

Graphic Novel Salon & 
Gallery

Focusing on women creators, 
writers, artists and publishers in 
the comics field and learn how 
they create their characters and 
plot. Featuring creators from 
the west; Cecil Castellucci, 
Leslie Hung, Kristen Gorlitz, 
Xanthe Bouma, Nilah 
Magruder, Barbara Randall 
Kesel, Anne Toole, some or 
all of the creators of Hex 11, 
Madeleine Holly-Rosing and 
more. 

Throughout the evening • 
Reading Wing

Pueblo Revolt in America 96 
Years Before the American 
Revolution

Multi-media presentation by 
documentary filmmaker and 
abstract artist Patricia Cunliffe, 
who shares the obscure 
story and presents abstract 
depictions surrounded by 
projections of raw footage from 
her upcoming documentary, 
The Pueblo Revolt.

Throughout the evening • 
Humanities Wing

Crown City Chamber Players

Enjoy a variety of classical 
music performed by members 
of the Crown City Symphony.

Throughout the evening • 
Children’s Room 

We’re Ok, if you’re Ok at the 
OK corral

Bring your boots and cowboy 
hats and be ready to stomp 
the night away with Theatre 
Americana. Enjoy memorable 
and contemporary Country 
Western music, games, a “two-
step” contest and lots of other 
activities. You’ll be a cowboy 
or cowgirl by the end of the 
evening! Y’all come by now, ya 
hear?

6:30 & 8:30 p.m. • Donald 
Wright Auditorium

Western Beat

DJG plays special Western 
music and tempos to Chill Out 
2 while enjoying an artwork 
display. 

7-9:30 pm. • East Patio 

Commemorating the 
Stonewall Rebellion 

San Gabriel Valley Pride’s 
contribution will be a literary 
panel presentation saluting 
the 50th anniversary of the 
Stonewall Rebellion, which 
took place in NYC in June 
1969. The Rebellion is widely 
considered the beginning of the 
modern fight for LGBT rights 
in the United States.

Throughout the evening • Teen 
Central

Free parking is available in the 
north lot. Coffee and treats will 
be available for purchase.

 Central Library is located 285 
E Walnut Street. For more call 
(626) 744-4066.

ALTADENA CRIME BLOTTER

Free Monthly Events at 
Pasadena Senior Center

Sunday, February 10th

11:00 AM – A vehicle 
burglary occurred in the 
1700 block of N. Altadena 
Drive. Suspect(s) entered 
the vehicle by shattering 
the window. Stolen: brown 
Michael Kors purse, pink 
Guess wallet, currency and 
personal documents.

7:17 PM – Porfino 
Guadarma, 61 years old of 
Altadena was arrested in the 
area of Fair Oaks Avenue 
and Woodbury Road for 
drunk in public.

Monday, February 11th

3:00 AM – A petty theft 
from an unlocked vehicle 
occurred in the 600 block 
of E. Palm Street. Stolen: 
miscellaneous documents.

7:30 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
200 block of E. Altadena 
Drive. Suspect(s) entered 
the garage by prying the 
door. Stolen: black Vizio 
television, black suitcase and 
food. 

8:00 AM – A residential 
burglary occurred in the 
3300 block of Raymond 
Avenue. Suspect(s) 
attempted to enter the 
residence by prying the 
window. 

Tuesday, February 12th

2:00 PM – A residential 
vandalism occurred in 
the 2400 block of Lincoln 
Avenue. Damage: shattered 
window and stolen 
surveillance camera.

Wednesday, February 13th

8:45 PM – A domestic 
violence incident occurred 
in the 200 block of E. 
Woodbury Road. Suspect 
has been identified.

Saturday, February 16th

9:30 AM – A vehicle 
burglary occurred in the 
4000 block of Chaney 
Trail. Suspect(s) entered 
the vehicle by shattering 
the window. Stolen: black 
Fossil leather purse, black 
Nine West wallet containing 
credit cards and personal 
documents.

5:00 PM – A residential 
vandalism occurred in the 
2100 block of Garfias Drive. 
Damage: shattered window. 

6:30 PM – A domestic 
violence incident occurred 
in the 1000 block of E. 
Mariposa Street. Suspect 
was taken into custody. 

 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. 

 Tax Time – Wednesdays 
and Fridays through April 
12 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. 
Representatives from the 
AARP Foundation’s Tax-
Aide program will assist 
low- to middle-income filers 
in preparing their federal 
income tax returns. There is 
no age limit. Appointments 
are required: 626-795-4331.

 Friday Movie Matinees – 
Fridays, March 1, 8, 15 and 
22, at 1 p.m. Everyone enjoys 
movies and the pleasures 
they bring. March 1: “First 
Man” (2018, PG-13) starring 
Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy. 
Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s 
legendary space mission 
leads him to become the first 
man to walk on the moon 
on July 20, 1969. The film is 
based on true events. March 
8: “The Old Man & the Gun” 
(2018, PG-13) starring Robert 
Redford and Casey Affleck. 
A lifelong bank robber 
escapes from San Quentin at 
the age of 70 and goes back to 
robbing banks again with a 
detective in hot pursuit. The 
film is based on true events. 
March 15: “The Wife” (2018, 
R) starring Glenn Close and 
Jonathan Pryce. A man with 
an acclaimed and prolific 
body of work is about to be 
awarded the Nobel Prize 
for Literature when he must 
confront the fact that he 
and his wife, after 40 years 
of marriage, have shared 
compromises, secrets and 
betrayals. March 22: “Sinbad 
the Sailor” (1947, NR) 
starring Douglas Fairbanks 
Jr. and Maureen O’Hara. An 
ocean of adventure awaits 
Sinbad as he sets out in search 
of the fabled lost treasure of 
Alexander the Great.

 Mardi Gras Celebration 
– Tuesday, March 5, from 
8:30 to 11 a.m. In celebration 
of Mardi Gras, come to the 
Pasadena Senior Center 
coffee bar for free coffee 
and treats, and enjoy New 
Orleans-style music spun by 
DJ Joe in the Lounge. Feel 
free to wear your brightest 
Carnival attire.

 LA Opera Talk – Monday, 
Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. An LA 
Opera community educator 
will make a presentation 
titled “It Can’t Be an Opera if 
Nobody Dies.”

 Brain Attack! – Thursday, 
Feb. 28, at 10 a.m. Strokes 
can happen at any time. 
Educating yourself now is 
the key to a better outcome. 
Learn about different types of 
strokes, how to help prevent 
a stroke from happening 
and what to do in a stroke 
emergency. Presented by 
Health Care Partners.

 For more information visit: 
pasadenaseniorcenter.org or 
call 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.


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