BRIEFLY : SAN FERNANDO GETS NEW PUBLIC-USE TRAIL.SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - The city of San Fernando has replaced a milelong stretch of unused railroad tracks with a pedestrian and bike trail that opened to the public Friday following a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Mission City Trail, a project of the city's Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. director. The trail, funded entirely by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, cost $990,000 and took seven months to complete, Drake said. The trail begins at the Metrolink station on Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. , goes through the city limits and ends at the recreation park on Park Avenue and First Street. ?13Daily News City issues video on building design The city of Los Angeles
Developed by a task force of police officers, planners and other city officials, the video, ``Design Out Crime,'' provides tips that include covering walls with foliage to prevent graffiti, putting up fences around residences to reduce access by burglars, and installing lighting and landscaping that provides the least cover for criminals and the most visibility for users of the property. Councilwoman Laura Chick won city approval two years ago for $25,000 to pay for the video, an education campaign and a training program for city officials on the guidelines. ``As the city of Los Angeles addresses crime, we must look beyond traditional methods of policing and examine all possible ways to enhance public safety,'' Chick said. ?13Daily News CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). highlights hate sites on Web Officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center  This article is currently semi-protected to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. released a CD-ROM on
Friday designed to alert the public to the growing number of hate sites
on the Internet.
``Racism, Mayhem and Terrorism: The Emergence of an Online Subculture of Hate'' lists many of the 600-plus World Wide Web sites devoted to such topics as racism, bigotry, weapons manufacturing and other illegal activities. The disc was published in part to highlight the rapid growth in Internet hate sites over the past year, said Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the center. He said the number of ``problematic'' Web sites is up 300 percent in just the past few months. ``We're here to let everyone know that something very important has changed'' in the world of hate groups, he said. ``The extremist groups we have monitored have immigrated onto the Internet.'' ?13City News Service Researcher to helm probe of Milky Way PASADENA - A 28-year 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. veteran will head a National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), mission to locate stars and search for other planetary systems within the Milky Way galaxy Milky Way Galaxy Large spiral galaxy (roughly 150,000 light-years in diameter) that contains Earth's solar system. It includes the multitude of stars whose light is seen as the Milky Way, the irregular luminous band that encircles the sky defining the plane of the galactic by detecting the wobble wobble /wob·ble/ (wob´'l) to move unsteadily or unsurely back and forth or from side to side. See under hypothesis. wob·ble n. 1. of stars created by planets orbiting around them. The mission, scheduled for launch in 2005, will also look for signs of planet formation in disks of material orbiting other stars. Christopher P. Jones will oversee the design, development and testing aspects of the mission. It's one of several planned for NASA's Origin's program, designed to study galaxies and stars, and look for other solar systems beyond the sun. ?13City News Service County, appraisers have tentative deal Los Angeles County and its 800 appraisers reached a tentative contract agreement Friday. However, state-mediated talks for 1,400 county engineers broke off. The engineers and technicians unit of the California Association of Professional Employees set a strike deadline for 1 a.m. Nov. 18. The appraisers gained a three-year contract that includes a 10 percent pay increase, 3 percent pay inequity increase and certification bonus of $90 per month. Appraisers, engineers and technicians have been working without a contract for eight months. They have not received a raise in five years. ?13Associated Press |
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