BRIEFLY : GRAVEL TRUCK, VAN COLLIDE, KILLING ONE.VENTURA - A two-vehicle collision on Highway 118 left one person dead and closed a one-mile stretch of road Saturday afternoon, California Highway Patrol officials said. A truck hauling gravel collided with a Ford Aerostar at 1:40 p.m. near the Grimes Canyon Road exit. The force of the collision caused the minivan to overturn, killing its occupant, said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. Kathleen Foster. The crash took up several lanes and caused the closure of a stretch of highway from Grimes Canyon Road to Broadway. The closure remained in effect until late Saturday evening. The driver of the gravel truck was unhurt. The victim was not identified pending notification of relatives. - Daily News Valley Fair sees big boost in attendance BURBANK - Attendance at the Valley Fair was up 33 percent over last year, according to preliminary figures released Friday. ``We know that it's up significantly. We just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. the exact figures,'' said Jana Collins, a Valley Fair spokeswoman. ``I think the cooler weather brought a lot more people out.'' The fair, which ran June 4-7 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, also broke a seven-year record in the carnival area, bringing in $70,000 over the 3-1/2-day event, with $30,000 of that coming in on Saturday alone in the carnival area, Collins said. ``That's really great,'' she said. ``We had better publicity and more school involvement.'' - Daily News Southland surf sets to swell from storm Heavy surf is on its way to the Southland, with waves as high as 10 feet expected to pound some beaches in Los Angeles and Orange counties today and Monday, according to the National Weather Service. ``A strong storm last weekend in the Southern Hemisphere generated large swells that continue to move toward the Southern California coastal waters,'' the weather service said in a statement. South-facing beaches are expected to receive surf in the 5- to 8-foot range today, with occasional sets to 10 feet. - City News Service NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. letting people put names on craft PASADENA - Your name can be written among the stars, or at least near a comet. NASA's Stardust spacecraft, a scientific mission to study a comet, also is going to carry silicon chips engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. with the names of people who sign up at the project's Web site. More than 200,000 names have been submitted so far for the mission, set for launch in February and due to reach the comet Wild-2 in 2004. The names are being engraved on silicon microchips, each no larger than a fingernail fin·ger·nail n. The nail on a finger. . The writing is so small that 80 letters equal the width of a human hair. The names can only be viewed with an electron microscope electron microscope: see microscope. . The probe is to collect samples of dust spewed out by the comet, and then return the samples and the name-bearing chips to Earth in 2006. ``Participants become vicarious vicarious /vi·car·i·ous/ (vi-kar´e-us) 1. acting in the place of another or of something else. 2. occurring at an abnormal site. vi·car·i·ous adj. 1. passengers on a space voyage that they can follow over the next seven years,'' said Aimee Whalen, public outreach coordinator for the Stardust project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. . The Stardust project can be found online at http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov. - City News Service |
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