PUBLIC FORUM : LOCKS WOULD MAKE GRILLES IN WINDOWS SAFE.I read with interest the Daily News article March 7 regarding the security grates on classroom windows. This same issue arose in regard to earthquakes and ``vandal-proof, nonbreakable plastic'' windows. All the doors and windows Doors and Windows is a multimedia disk by the Irish band The Cranberries. Track listing
Loma Prieta is a Northern California mountain with elevation 3,786 feet (1,154 m) and located at approximately 37.114° N, 121. Elementary School elementary school: see school. , situated almost on the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. The earthquake lasted approximately 15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1). , became inoperable inoperable /in·op·er·a·ble/ (in-op´er-ah-b'l) not susceptible to treatment by surgery. in·op·er·a·ble adj. Unsuitable for a surgical procedure. due to ground shifting. Although no one was trapped - it had been a warm day, and the doors to the classrooms in use at the time of the quake were open - the staff quickly realized that if the doors had been closed, the pupils and teachers would have been trapped. I think that at least one grille per room should have a keyed latch on it. Students would be unable to open it for later, unauthorized entry, but the grille could be unlocked in an emergency. - Diana Dixon-Davis Chatsworth Freeway frustration ``Beyond road rage See Web rage. ,'' Editorials, March 9, prompted me to write and express the frustration that is felt by most commuters on the 14 Freeway between the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Construction of the federally mandated car-pool lane and not the expansion of the freeway has been in progress for more than two years. The miles of concrete barriers, the narrowed lanes and the changing number of lanes - from two to three and back to two - have traffic backing up and colliding as frustrated drivers continually have to change lanes. Every morning the freeway crawls due to accidents and incidents that would not be there if not for the limited number of lanes and endless construction. The lane spacing alone does not allow two large trucks to travel side by side between the concrete barriers. It will probably take a serious accident that kills a large number of people before something is done. The addition of a single car-pool lane is the cause of all the construction, delays and accidents. The original two lanes, first constructed in 1965, will remain the same. The population of the Antelope Valley was a fraction of what it is today. If the expansion of Palmdale Airport Palmdale Airport may refer to: A very large airport in Palmdale, California which has 2 facilities that share its runways:
- James A. Murad Acton Hal Singer's March 2 letter, ``Double-decking could relieve traffic jams,'' is exactly what we need to solve the country's traffic problems. I have had thoughts, as I sit in traffic almost every day, on how we invest in bridges to cross rivers and lakes. Why not build a bridge over traffic? I would go a step further and suggest that we plan for the future by building a double deck and eventually adding a third deck Noun 1. third deck - the deck below the main deck lower deck deck - any of various platforms built into a vessel , and on the bottom of each deck, put rails that commuter trains can hang from. This plan would give people the most freedom and flexibility far into the future of any solutions ever proposed, and greatly strengthen the ability of cities to grow and attract talented, freedom-loving people. Part of the real American dream should be building a future for us and our children that is free from 24-hour gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. and keeps us at least as mobile as our grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl were. - Joe Wagner Woodland Hills I presume most people of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. saw on TV the nightmare on the 101 Freeway on March 5. It's a shame a man was killed, many injured. We need a monorail monorail, railway system that uses cars that run on a single rail. Typically the rail is run overhead and the cars are either suspended from it or run above it. system built not next week or next year, but right now. The freeway was jammed, with nowhere to turn or go. If we had a bad earthquake at this time of day, I 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. how many people would be killed. - Eli Moonitz Encino Editorial rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. Your Feb. 19 editorial, ``Piling on,'' displays a surprising ignorance of the Personal Privacy Protection Act, our system of federalism and the Constitution's commerce clause. The bill in question is the first legislation specifically directed at safeguarding individuals from abusive behavior abusive behavior Public health Any of various behaviors–aggressive, coercive or controlling, destructive, harassing, intimidating, isolating, threatening–which a batterer may use to control a domestic partner/victim. See Domestic violence. by the ``stalkerazzi.'' Although other laws can certainly be used when the stalkerazzi engage in illegal conduct, this would be the first statute directed at controlling harassment and trespass by these predatory ``journalists.'' Unfortunately, the problems associated with the stalkerazzi are not limited to California; they are perfectly willing to cross state lines to chase their prey. Laws vary from state to state, so that is why we need a uniform national standard to control abusive, illegal behavior. The editorial also shows a real lack of understanding of federalism's dual-sovereignty doctrine, one of the touchstone concepts in the American system of government. Suffice to say, nothing in the Personal Privacy Protection Act prevents a state from enacting similar legislation, nor does the bill pre-empt pre·empt or pre-empt v. pre·empt·ed, pre·empt·ing, pre·empts v.tr. 1. To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. a. or supplant any existing state laws. - Richard Masur President Screen Actors Guild Los Angeles `Celebrity criminals' Your March 6 editorial, ``Celebrity rules,'' correctly condemns celebrity criminals treated with kid gloves. Choked up over Latrell Sprewell? It's not the first time we've seen celebrity criminals ``go for the throat'' and get treated like royalty on both the court on which they play and in the court of law. When will we drop the political correctness, put on the gloves, knock out and lock up celebrity criminals who literally get away with murder when they know they have ``the juice''? - Charles T. Davies Los Angeles Neighborhood victory The support and assistance of our elected officials have prevented the mighty Metropolitan Transportation Authority from erecting a storage facility, surrounded by a 16-foot plywood sound wall, on the Chandler Boulevard median in a residential area between Colfax Avenue and the 170 Freeway in Valley Village (``MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. scraps Valley Village sound wall project,'' Daily News, March 6). We extend our appreciation and gratitude to county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; our councilmen, Joel Wachs and Michael Feuer; state Sen. Herschel Rosenthal; Assemblyman Robert Hertzberg; and congressman Howard Berman. These public officials listened to our plea for help and acted accordingly. This is an example of the best kind of government in action. We are so very thankful. We also thank the Daily News for the attention it has given to this matter. Again, we thank you on behalf of our grateful community. - Lori Dinkin President Valley Village Homeowners Association Downpours nothing new Re ``Is El Nino sign of more to come?'' by Thomas E. Braun in Public Forum on March 7, in which he laments that we have been unwilling to acknowledge the threat of climate change on the planet: I am one of those who does not believe the last rainstorms were a bit unusual for Southern California, even though the forecast and ``hypermedia'' told us they were. I constantly ask the question of individuals who agree with the concept of El Nino: ``Just how long have you lived in Southern California?'' Almost to a person, the answer to my question shows a lack of experience in the overall climatic conditions here. It's interesting to note that in February and March 1994, the year of the earthquake, we had extremely strong downpours in the San Fernando Valley, which lasted off and on for about six weeks. In 1995, we had a downpour that actually breached part of our repaired ``lifetime'' roof and caused some plaster damage on the inside of a wall. And, of course, we have our times of drought; witness the few wet years in the 1980s and early '90s. Every day that our motorists drive south on the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. and approach the Ventura Freeway interchange, they drive by a massive edifice built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers known as the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin. If you take a really good look at that structure, you'll see that in reality it is a dam; indeed, some people call it Sepulveda Dam. I wonder if Braun knows that it was built because of the quite-massive floods that occurred in 1938. - Paul Cooper Chatsworth Photo illustrated what's at stake in Pierce land dispute One of the color photos on the front page of the Daily News on March 3 featured a wild rabbit nibbling nibbling Nutrition The consumption of multiple–up to 17–'mini-meals' per day, as opposed to the usual 3 meals/day. Cf Bingeing, Gorging. on the grass at Pierce College, showing how lush the area looks now after the rains. This caused me to realize with sadness and frustration that if the administration of Pierce College has its way, there will no longer be a natural area at Pierce where one can go to take such photos. Area residents should contact the Task Force to Save the Farm, or this part of the college will be lost forever as an area for plant and animal study. The college administration seems dead set on converting this area into a golf course. I do not think people realize what a loss this would be for our Valley community and its children. - Brenda Vasquez Sylmar CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Chatsworth High teacher Sheldon Fried says existing grilles are dangerous. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News (2) Campus cottontail cottontail a wild rabbit, Sylvilagus spp. is in clover David R. Crane/Daily News |
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