BRIEFLY AUDIT: PRISON FILM FUNDS MISHANDLED.A state audit released Wednesday found state prison employees in Los Angeles County mismanaged $3,300 collected from television and motion picture production companies that filmed at the prison. The money was supposed to be collected for costs prison staff incurred when providing security for film production activities. Among other problems, an employee responsible for coordinating with production companies reportedly misappropriated mis·ap·pro·pri·ate tr.v. mis·ap·pro·pri·at·ed, mis·ap·pro·pri·at·ing, mis·ap·pro·pri·ates 1. a. To appropriate wrongly: misappropriating the theories of social science. $1,500 that the Los Angeles County Prison received from a television show by placing it into the prison's employee association fund, an association used to support activities boosting employee morale. - Daily News Girls' coach says he dealt drugs FILLMORE - A former Fillmore High School Coordinates: Fillmore High School is a secondary school that is located in the Santa Clara River Valley in Fillmore, California. It can be found by the middle of California State Route 126 between Ventura and Valencia, California. girls' soccer coach pleaded guilty to drug-dealing charges. Jose Nolasco, 27, entered the pleas Tuesday to two counts of selling a controlled substance controlled substance n. a drug which has been declared by federal or state law to be illegal for sale or use, but may be dispensed under a physician's prescription. and one count of possessing a controlled substance for sale. He also admitted he initiated drug sales within 1,000 feet of the high school. Deputy District Attorney Ryan Wright said there was no evidence students were buyers. - Associated Press Planetarium planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium consists of as many as 150 motor-driven projectors mounted on an axis. talk targets Jupiter NORTHRIDGE - The Bianchi Planetarium at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , will present a special lecture by John Olson at 7 p.m. Friday. Olson is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , and a member of UCLA's Astrobiological Society. His lecture will examine the possibility of a presence of liquid water and perhaps even life on Europa, one of the four largest moons of Jupiter Jupiter has sixty-three known natural satellites. Discovery of the moons Although claims are made for the observation of one of Jupiter's moons by Chinese astronomer Gan De in 364 BC, the first certain observations of Jupiter's satellites are those of Galileo . There will be a star show preceding the lecture at 6 p.m. For more details, call (818) 677-5601. For tickets, which are $5 for one show, $8 for both, call (818) 677-2488. - Daily News 5 Pierce students win competition Five Pierce College students took first place in the community college division of the Society for Manufacturing Engineers/Westec's 2004 Manufacturing Challenge Competition at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . The five Pierce students - Alejandro Guiterrez, Eli Attarian, Gabriel Spriegel, H. Bruce Joseph and Femi Adegoke - entered a roller-gearing mechanism, a low-friction alternative to conventional toothed gearing, said Ron Smetzer, professor of industrial technology. The conference continues through Friday. It was the second year in a row Pierce students have won the contest. - Daily News Police seek trio in bank robbery PORTER RANCH - Police were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. three suspects who robbed a supermarket bank branch Wednesday evening after they fired a warning shot into a wall. A female customer who was kicked by one of the suspects was hospitalized after the robbery at the Union Bank of California Union Bank of California is one of the 30 largest commercial banks in the United States. It has 327 branches, the majority of which are in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange Counties. branch in the Ralphs supermarket at Rinaldi Street and Corbin Avenue. The masked suspects fled in a car with an undisclosed amount of cash before patrol officers arrived. Norrell Nelson, a Daily News circulation manager who arrived minutes after the robbery, said people in the store were very shaken up. ``The employees were crying and hugging each other.'' - Daily News Literacy program lauded nationally An innovative program launched by the city to improve literacy among Los Angeles residents has been honored by a national organization. The L.A. Workforce Literacy Project developed by Mayor James Hahn was presented with an award by the National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions for its commitment to improving literacy and bringing together more than 80 organizations. The program was developed last year after studies showed fully 53 percent of the city work force was undereducated. Under the program, the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , community colleges and a variety of business organizations joined forces to offer the literacy program. - Daily News |
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