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Nurses Union's Political Attacks on Hospitals Undermine Access to Quality Health Care SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by C. Duane Dauner, President/CEO, California Hospital Association: Governor Jerry Brown will be issuing his May Revision to the state budget today, making this a day to focus on important and substantive fiscal and policy issues. Instead, the California Nurses Association is focused on two flawed...
IRVINE, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- INSTEON®, manufacturers of the best-selling, most reliable home automation and control technology, today announced that the new INSTEON Hub is now shipping, featuring many hardware and software enhancements. Customers will benefit from full dual-band communication, enhanced security, increased signal strength and more robust and reliable device communication. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130514/LA13662) "There's nothing...
New release of Lattice's Big Data analytics platform tells sales and marketing which product to sell to which customer at the optimal time SAN MATEO, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Lattice Engines announced the latest release of its Big Data analytics platform, Lattice salesPRISM. Lattice salesPRISM features new capabilities that turn social insights into laser-accurate leads for sales and marketing by combining social data with the predictive power of Big Data. The...
TORRANCE, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Sales & Rentals, Inc., leading distributor of portable air conditioning equipment for the non-residential market, has opened full-service offices in Miami, Fla. and Oklahoma City, Okla. A third office in Austin, Tex., opened by Atlas last year, has relocated to a larger facility. Products offered include the complete line of MovinCool(®) spot coolers and other portable equipment for cooling and heating applications. Atlas...
Average Large Truck Fuel Economy Posts Year-Over-Year Increase of 0.6 MPG SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, the automotive pricing information and analysis company that provides new car pricing trends and forecasting, today announced that fuel economy numbers from April light vehicle auto sales indicate TrueMPG(TM) have steadied at 23.7 mpg, remaining at record levels although ending a 3-month rise in industry fuel economy. Year-over-year, average fuel...
Veteran Mobile Executive Joins Driver Education and Training provider, I DRIVE SAFELY, as Chief Marketing Officer CARLSBAD, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- I DRIVE SAFELY, the nation's leading provider of driver education and training, announced today the addition of Greg Hallinan to the newly created role of Chief Marketing Officer, as I DRIVE SAFELY looks to expand its industry leading training programs into new platforms and markets. Hallinan joins I DRIVE SAFELY from Verve...
Wireless display receiver from Actiontec to deliver next generation Intel WiDi experience on your HD display SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Actiontec Electronics today announced that it is the lead OEM to design next generation receiver device for the upcoming version of Intel WiDi technology for 4th gen Intel Core processors launching at Computex 2013. Actiontec and Intel have collaborated closely on the product design for the past year. The resulting...
ShoreTel Release 14 introduces enterprise-grade DECT phone and system management capabilities SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications platforms, including business phone systems, applications, and mobile UC solutions, announces the availability of the cordless ShoreTel IP 930D DECT phone as well as enhanced diagnostics and monitoring capabilities for administrators via ShoreTel...
LA JOLLA, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TaxConnections announces that its Worldwide Tax Blogs platform continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the niche authority site of tax experts. The tax site's popularity is due in large part to the wide range of interesting tax topics that educate consumers and tax professionals alike. Worldwide Tax Blogs covers numerous topics including tax deductions, healthcare tax matters, expatriate taxes, Foreign Account Tax...
New Interface Delivers Marketer Control and Big Data Scale For Superior User Experience MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BloomReach, creators of the first big-data marketing applications, today released Continuous Quality Management (CQM) technology delivering ongoing web page quality visibility and management. CQM introduces four types of continuously updated quality metrics for every page managed by BloomReach including content, behavior, uniqueness and flux -...
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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) can be found in North America and northern areas of Eurasia. There are sixteen recognized subspecies of the brown bear. This is the most widely distributed species of bear in the world, although its range is shrinking. Its range includes the Alaska and a few other areas of the United States, areas of Russia, and Romania and other areas of the Carpathian region, as well as Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the Balkans. The brown bear derives its common name from the...
Pinnacles National Park is located in the state of California in the United States. The park is comprised of 26,606 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the Ohlone people. When Spanish explorers arrived in the area, they brought diseases that nearly wiped out all of the Ohlone people, leaving the area uninhabited until Anglo-Americans arrived in 1865. By the 1880’s, visitors like picnickers and explorers began moving into the area, with the first...
Sequoia National Park is located in the United States in the southern area of the Sierra Nevada. The park contains 404,063 acres of protected land that was once inhabited by the Western Mono Native American tribe. The best evidence of Native American inhabitants are the pictographs found on Potwisha and Hospital Rock and bedrock mortars, tools that were sued to crush acorns. When European explorers and settlers entered the area, smallpox had already decimated the Native American...
The Redwood National and States Parks, also known as RNSP, are located along the northern coasts of California in the United States. RNSP is comprised of the Prairie Creek Redwoods State, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith State Parks, created in the 1920’s, and Redwood National Park, encompassing an area of 133,000 acres. These areas protect 45 percent of the red wood old growth forests that occur along 38,982 acres of California’s coastline. Many Native American tribes including the...
Yosemite National Park is located in eastern California in the United States in the central area of Sierra Nevada, extending to the western slopes of the range. The park holds 761,268 acres of protected land. The area became very popular after Thomas Ayres, the artist who was responsible for much of the publicity of the area, and an entrepreneur named James Mason Hutchings visited in 1855. Early tourists that visited Yosemite before it was a national park could enjoy passing over the Wawona...
