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UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey will take part in a live video chat on Tuesday at 1 p.m. PT (previously scheduled at 11 a.m.) with Times MMA writer Lance Pugmire. Viewers watching the live chat will have a chance to submit questions for Rousey to answer during the show. As Pugmire wrote earlier about Rousey , "Ronda Rousey said making her debut as the first Ultimate Fighting Championship women's champion at Anaheim's Honda Center is beyond her wildest imagination.

"He multiplieth words without knowledge." Although I might not be interpreting it the way the Biblical scholar does, that quotation from the Book of Job describes my feelings about my interactions with various county offices during the past few weeks. I have asked a lot of questions and gotten little information, expressed in complicated statements. I expect double talk during political campaigns; I resent it when staff members (whose salaries are derived from my taxes)

secondstring"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." -- George Fabricius It was unseasonably warm. And the sun shone bright. Indeed, it was anything but an ominous setting on Tuesday as kids and parents and soccer filled the Glendale Sports Complex. Frank Pace was his same frenzied self along the sideline, while Kathy Desmond was the quiet, insightful one. And, as they've been in all eight of their games this season, the Tologs of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy were the better team.

KIMBERLIE ZAKARIAN God always answers prayer. It might not be the way we want, but he always answers. Sometimes that answer is yes and sometimes it is no. I started praying a long time ago for God to change my heart according to his will -- not mine -- so I could follow the burning desires of my heart. In other words, I had wasted too much time asking God for things he didn't want me to have or do. When I was a fashion model, I prayed to obtain certain modeling jobs.

These are the answers to #1-9 of last week?s ?Civility? quiz. ? 1. Hospital Etiquette : To be a considerate visitor, one should stay no longer than 10 to 30 minutes (unless a family member who is helping to care for patient), eat nothing from the patient?s tray, ask prior to bringing in food from the outside, preferably leave children at home, and honor the fact that visitation is best at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The mornings are the busiest time for doctors and nurses. 2. International Protocol: France : To have successful business meetings in France, appointments are seldom made in July and August, are usually made two weeks in advance, and decisions are made slowly after much patience, analytical detail, and debates.

The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce proved for the second year in a row its members are top dog when it comes to a battle of the wits. Its team of representatives took first place at the annual Smart-A-Thon on Wednesday, answering 56 of 75 trivia questions correctly. Coming in second was a team from Manufacturers Bank, with 55 correct answers. Teachers from Crescenta Valley High School and representatives from the Montrose Chamber of Commerce tied for third place, with 54 correct answers.

Chuck Benedict Successful television shows (including the tee-to-green coverage of Tiger Woods) are those that pay off in the ratings books. This summer, the networks are hand-feeding couch potatoes with two new, highly promoted basic caterings. One makes it possible for people with photographic memories and/or bents for trivia quizzes to survive a series of questions in pursuit of up to a million dollars. Another format depicts groups of people who are bound together in unusual living situations to win recognition and dollars by surviving the votes of those among them who gradually want to eliminate all but themselves.

This is in response to Harry Zavos' letter ("Wound continues to fester," June 12) and to all the Armenian residents of Glendale about the lowering of the flag. I would very much like to suggest something that will make everybody happy and bring light to the subject with some questions that I want answered by every one of those yelling foul. First, anyone who wants the U.S. flag lowered to half-staff should go and buy one flag, take it home and lower it. Now for the questions.

Community leaders had the chance to prove just how smart they were at the 21st annual Smart-A-Thon on Wednesday afternoon at the Verdugo Hills Hospital’s Community Room. The event is a fundraiser for the Mary Pinola Educational Endowment Fund which has distributed thousands of dollars to educational programs in the Crescenta Valley since 1988. Thirty teams of four competed for the honor of being named “Smartest in the Crescenta Valley,” however the tricky questions seemed chosen to confound more than test contestants’ knowledge.

Alex Coolman GLENDALE -- John Robert Christopher may be running for office, but he doesn't think of himself as a politician. Moreover, the City Council candidate said, he doesn't have much fondness for the mainstream politics that dominate most of the election debate. "I believe the city should be run by neighbors, not by City Hall," he said. "We should make sure the power goes straight back to the neighbors." Christopher's platform is based on his philosophy of local government.

Shane Carruth made an impressive debut in 2004 with "Primer," which cost $7,000 and is surely the most complexly structured time-travel film ever made. For that matter, it may be one of the most complexly structured films ever made, period. Carruth seemed to have fallen off the map shortly thereafter. Now, after nine years, his second feature, "Upstream Color," opens this week. There is no real protagonist here. Carruth opts for multiple points of view; sometimes the transitions are so sudden and the durations so short that the movie suggests an "objective" point of view.

On April 15, City Councilman Rafi Manoukian steps into his new role as Glendale's elected treasurer. His soon-to-be-former colleagues have two options: have a special election to fill the two years left in Manoukian's term, or appoint someone that would have to stand for election next year to remain in office.  Appointing a replacement seems tempting. Elections are not cheap; and while the economy seems to be on the move, it's painful to spend money that might be put to any number of other purposes.

Politician and attorney. What a perfect combination to insure you never get a straight answer. Zareh J. Sinanyan is asked a direct question about posting racially divisive comments on the Internet. A simple “yes” or “no” should have been the answer. Instead, we get the great politician/attorney run-around/double talk, never get an answer; and as it turns out, the person who asked the question gets portrayed as mean-spirited. Amazing. If you would be happy having a city councilman who cannot answer a simple question with a simple answer, then most assuredly, vote for Sinanyan.

Re: " Should India send a mission to Mars? ” In Theory, March 3: When asked whether India should launch a scientific mission to Mars, Rev Griem says “Utterly ridiculous…India needs to feed itself, clean its filthy waterways, and get out of its third-world malaise.” However, India is substantially more equal than the United States based upon the Gini coefficient, the standard measure of inequality used by economists. I wonder what he thinks about our spending of more than 600 billion on defense when our infrastructure is falling apart, 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, one in five children go hungry, and our math and science students trail the rest of the world.

Teacher evaluations and budget hurdles were among the topics submitted from the public for a forum that put the spotlight on the seven candidates vying for three seats on the Glendale Unified school board. The televised forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank on Wednesday, attracted about 20 people to the district headquarters, where candidates each were given up to one minute to respond to each question. Speaking on the teacher-evaluation process, incumbent Christine Walters said statewide test scores shouldn't be the only measurement of teacher effectiveness.

A Hollywood woman was arrested Wednesday after allegedly selling bogus Disneyland tickets on Craigslist in Glendale to at least half a dozen families, some of whom didn't learn of the fakery until being turned away at the theme park's gates. The woman, Alisa Yenokyan, 22, was taken into custody about 6 p.m. after she agreed to meet officers who posed as potential Disneyland ticket purchasers at Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles, Police Det. Jonathan Owen said. The officers responded to one of her Craigslist ads and offered to buy two adult and two child tickets for $50 each, he said.

In the afterglow of the historic and riveting UFC 157 main event Saturday night in Anaheim, Ronda Rousey's grim prefight demeanor had drastically turned into a winning smile. With Rousey, who trains at the Glendale Fighting Club, and opponent Liz Carmouche entering the Ultimate Fighting Championship's octagon for the first-ever women's fight, Rousey emerged just the same as she always has in her mixed-martial-arts career - with her hands raised in victory. “I don't know how many adjectives I have right now,” said Rousey of her emotions at the postfight press conference Saturday not long after she defended her UFC women's bantamweight title.

UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey will take part in a live video chat on Tuesday at 1 p.m. PT (previously scheduled at 11 a.m.) with Times MMA writer Lance Pugmire. Viewers watching the live chat will have a chance to submit questions for Rousey to answer during the show. As Pugmire wrote earlier about Rousey , "Ronda Rousey said making her debut as the first Ultimate Fighting Championship women's champion at Anaheim's Honda Center is beyond her wildest imagination.

I was saddened to read the Rev. Bryan Griem's views on homosexuality in Sunday's “In Theory” question, “ Will society come to accept homosexuality? ” I'm usually not surprised to read his thinly veiled attacks against those he doesn't agree with, but this was rather more spiteful and thuggish. Saying “Humans who endorse homosexuality do not truly love their fellow man … “ and comparing it to prostitution and pedophilia is really going too far. I happen to believe homosexuality is a difference in genetics, not a “perversion, harmful to mankind.” Thank goodness for the Revs.

It's almost a first - I actually agree with a comment by the Rev. Bryan Griem responding to the “Looking forward?” topic in the In Theory section, Nov. 18. He says, “Obama's our president, and as such we should afford him the respectability of the office and commit to praying for him…” Well said! But then he unfortunately obliterates my feeling of praise by continuing, “…even if he [Obama] despises us.” What an absolutely absurd comment and reversal of the truth. I have seen no sign that our thoughtful president despises any of us. But Griem's comment is, in all likelihood, a mirror image of his attitude and is certainly that of the many others who irrationally despise the president.