Spirit

LA CAÑADA — Engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Tuesday filled a ramp full of powdery earth and slowly rolled a test rover onto the geological cocktail as they tried to simulate the rover Spirit’s unfortunate circumstance on Mars. Since May 6, the golf cart-sized Spirit has been embedded in an area on the west side of what scientists have named “Home Plate” on Mars. The rover’s wheels can still rotate but slip in the soft soil, so engineers won’t move it until they work out an extraction plan on Earth.

Showing their school spirit (and love of doughnuts), Rosemont Middle School held their first spirit rally for the 2008-2009 school year on Oct. 3. Seventh and eighth graders competed against each other in several events, from simple ones like how many in each grade wore their Rosemont T-shirt to traditional tug of war. Then there was the bungie doughnut eating contest. This was a unique competition where an eighth grader was tethered back-to-back to a seventh grader with a giant bungie-type rope.

?The Spirit? is a colossal embarrassment for all involved, including the audience, who will feel like complete fools once they realize what they?ve actually paid money to see. Created in the 1940s by visionary writer/artist Will Eisner, ?The Spirit? has been adapted for the screen by another comics legend, Frank Miller. Too bad the movie is more about Miller and his retrograde obsessions and considerably less, if at all, about Eisner?s ?The Spirit.? Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht)

Johnny was born on July 12, 1966 in Visalia, CA to John and Vicki Ventura, and was later joined by his sisters Lisa DeLaura and Leah Ventura.  After earning his degree at UCSD, he married Natasha Ventura and had two sons, Dylan Lee, 11, and Gavin Jason, 8. Forever a California surfer boy, Johnny loved the beautiful power of the ocean and felt the soul in music.  His thoughtful heart and compassionate spirit will be forever remembered.

Dianna Jean Schneider passed away unexpectedly on April 6, 2011 in Glendale, California. Dianna was born September 8, 1951 to Evelyn Strovas and Joseph A. Schneider in Pueblo, Colorado. Caring and sweet-natured, Dianna met and took all of life’s challenges in stride with a positive attitude and willingness to find a little humor and the spirit of goodness in her journey. This spirit of goodness was reflected in her art and love for life. Dianna grew up and spent her early life in Pueblo and Black Diamond Colorado.

I came across the following portion of scripture two times in the past week ? in two different Bibles. It is about living our lives in the spirit, where we can find the most contentment and joy. I know that there are often reasons we have certain portions of Scripture cross our paths. It spoke to my heart and I pray it speaks to yours as you read today. ?.?.?. live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature.

NASA's long-lived Mars rovers demand care as they age and the Martian winter approaches. Dr. John Callas, newly named project manager for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, is coordinating the work to meet these challenges. He is a JPL scientist who was named project manager after earlier roles as science manager and deputy project manager for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. "It continues to be an exciting adventure with each day like a whole new mission," Callas said in a prepared statement.

Letter to Mr. Gregg re: Oakmont Project. I have attended the planning board meeting. I have listened to your side of the argument. I wanted to understand your psyche. I have noticed that you have a good heart after all. Mentally, I have tried to place myself in your shoes. Having listened to the elementary school kids, I have come up with a thought that I would like to relay to you. The message those kids are sending to you is the following: " Mr. Gregg, you can please your family.

Thoughts from Dr. Joe by Dr. Joe Puglia The past couple of weeks, I've been giving myself a doggone headache trying to intellectualize the phenomenology of "Christmas," and "Belie-ving." It ain't easy; especially when you have to think. Quoting one of my Brownie Scouts from troop 889, "What the heck!" Enough is enough; I'm going back to the basics. You know, Vince Lombardi - the fundamentals. So, when the world becomes a bit too esoteric, I fondly remember Mrs. Venola, (Mrs.

Rosette Gonzales Temple Sinai of Glendale will resonate with the sounds of celebration Sunday as the adult and youth choirs and the youth orchestra performs their pre-Hanukkah concert. Cantor Mariana Gindlin will offer an eight-part seasonal message through music as she conducts the choirs and orchestra during a 90-minute performance, starting at 3 p.m. "Each one of the candles is going to represent one theme, one thing that we want to high- light from Hanukkah, from the spirit of the holiday," she said.

Johnny was born on July 12, 1966 in Visalia, CA to John and Vicki Ventura, and was later joined by his sisters Lisa DeLaura and Leah Ventura.  After earning his degree at UCSD, he married Natasha Ventura and had two sons, Dylan Lee, 11, and Gavin Jason, 8. Forever a California surfer boy, Johnny loved the beautiful power of the ocean and felt the soul in music.  His thoughtful heart and compassionate spirit will be forever remembered.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - Whether his team is coming off a win or a loss, Flintridge Prep boys' volleyball Coach Sean Beattie knows what to expect from his young squad - a high energy, upbeat group of players. The Rebels dropped their first Prep League match of the season just three days prior against Pasadena Poly, but were back on their home court Friday afternoon to take on Rio Hondo Prep in another league showdown. With their high-energy mantra not missing a beat, the Rebels won, 25-17, 25-23, 18-25, 25-19 and improved to 10-8 overall and 2-1 in league.

He was a scoring frenzy, a one-man tour de force who raised the level of those around him, ignited the sporting spirit of a campus long absent of much to get excited about and made literal and figurative waves by lifting a historically struggling program to CIF prominence while leaving his statistical signature upon state chronicle. A 6-foot, 185-pound muscled phenom with a lighting bolt for a right arm, he took a lightly regarded program and put it on the map. Along the way of four seasons of scoring parades and CIF triumph, Hoover High senior Hakop Kaplanyan provided record-breaking revelry, clutch histrionics and left a school and an area as a three-time All-Area Boys' Water Polo Player of the Year, as voted for the third consecutive time by the sports editors and writers of the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, La Cañada Valley Sun and Pasadena Sun. "We were happy to have him here all four years and he made everybody around him good," says Jack Van Patten, Hoover's athletic director.

When the freak windstorm was knocking down power lines and toppling giant trees on roofs and cars, Scotty Sorensen was pounding 42-inch stakes into the ground with a sledgehammer to keep the 95-mph gusts from blowing away the tents at his Christmas tree lot in Pasadena. It was an exercise in futility as the raging winds bent the aluminum poles holding up the tents. It was the same at his lot in South Pasadena where the giant tent - Big Red - was in danger of blowing away and damaging someone else's property.

Neither cold nor wind deterred Glendale resident Pamela Rowles and her family from securing front-row seats at the Montrose Christmas Parade, where they staked out their position on Honolulu Avenue three hours early Saturday. “We love this area, we love the people, we love the community,” Rowles said. “We come out and see Santa every year.” She was surrounded by thousands of like-minded people who descended on the shopping park to kick off the Christmas season in traditional Montrose fashion.

In the slanguage of the saloon, “neat” means a measure of alcohol served without ice, water or anything else. Ordering a drink “neat” also means you enjoy the taste of a particular alcoholic beverage. And if you do, then Neat - which opened last month in Glendale - is, just like the bar in the Talking Heads song “Heaven,” for you. But Neat isn't a place where you'll find Jack Daniel's No. 7 among the 250-plus bottles behind the 30-foot bar. Instead, Neat's owner/operator Aidan Demarest - a Boston émigré who made his “sultan of the shaker” reputation at downtown L.A.'s Edison and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Spare Room - has stocked his shelves exclusively with super-premium spirits of such price and rarity that it borders on “booze porn.” You enter Neat through a façade of river rock - longtime area residents will recognize it as the former Side Bar - into a candlelit world of dark polished woods, settle into one of the comfortable, high-backed barstools, and survey the posted “menus.” One's a list of available libations, which extends to pisco, a South American brandy.

LA MIRADA - Maybe it was the excitement of playing the defending divisional champions or perhaps it was the thrill of being in the postseason. For whatever reason, the Crescenta Valley High boys' water polo team mounted arguably its best effort of the season and nearly notched a major upset before falling to host La Serna, 11-8, in Wednesday afternoon's CIF Southern Section Division V first-round game at Splash Aquatics Center. The defeat capped the Falcons' final record at 10-19.

Mixology fever has swept Los Angeles, with house-made syrups, fresh juices and craft spirits popping up on menus from downtown to West Hollywood. Now AKA Bistro, in Old Town Pasadena, is betting that thirsty patrons in the area are ready to stir up their drinking habits at their new series of spirit tastings, hosted by bartender Brady Weise. “Cocktails are now blasting onto the scene in a big way, and you see a lot of bars in Pasadena adopting what would be called the downtown cocktail style,” Weise said.

Dianna Jean Schneider passed away unexpectedly on April 6, 2011 in Glendale, California. Dianna was born September 8, 1951 to Evelyn Strovas and Joseph A. Schneider in Pueblo, Colorado. Caring and sweet-natured, Dianna met and took all of life’s challenges in stride with a positive attitude and willingness to find a little humor and the spirit of goodness in her journey. This spirit of goodness was reflected in her art and love for life. Dianna grew up and spent her early life in Pueblo and Black Diamond Colorado.

Sitting in his Glendale office, Steven Hovagimian clicks through Facebook pictures at his desk. One shows him in a dress, wig and jewelry pretending to be an old Armenian woman in a comedy skit to raise money for Glendale’s Unified Young Armenians group. In that same photo, the real woman standing next to him, he said, is his wife. “She says I’m crazy, but says, ‘You’re doing all this for the kids, so, why not?’” He supports Unified Young Armenians (UYA) with encouragement, time and his endearing sense of humor when he’s not working as a social worker for Los Angeles County or as a deacon with the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church or as a TV show host on “Cornerstone” (“Himnakar” in Armenian)