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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NETGEAR(®), Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, announced today that the Company will host its annual stockholder meeting at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, May 31, 2013. The meeting will be held at NETGEAR's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The event will be available via webcast at NETGEAR's investor relations website at...
New PacSun retail experience to include exclusive product & live DJ performances beginning Memorial Day Weekend ANAHEIM, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSUN) (collectively, "PacSun") today unveiled a new pop-up retail experience in New York's SoHo district. Featuring its most prominent men's and women's brands in new, creative ways, the new PacSun pop-up shop at 583 Broadway will be open Memorial weekend through Labor Day. The pop-up...
LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- An international roster of experts on malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) gathered on Saturday, May 18, in Santa Monica, Calif., to discuss their latest research findings on new lung-sparing therapies for MPM, a rare form of cancer that results from exposure to asbestos and commonly affects the pleura, the lining of the chest. Hosted by UCLA and the Pacific Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the 3rd Annual International Symposium on...
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses holds screening for attendees of its National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A documentary about the complex world of nursing reached its largest audience to date when thousands of nurses attended a special screening May 22 during the annual conference of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). The documentary, "NURSES, If Florence Could See Us Now" was...
How Technology May Just Change the Way We Park Forever FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Parker(TM) by Streetline, the award-winning real-time parking guidance app, was put to the test in several urban areas to see if - and by how much - real-time information is successful in reducing the time it takes to find that elusive parking spot. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130523/AQ20271-INFO) A 2011 global survey of commuters in 20 international cities...
CAMPBELL, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SID's Display Week 2013 is nearing the end of its week-long stay at the Vancouver Convention Centre. At yesterday's Awards Luncheon, the society celebrated the winners of the Display Industry Awards, and show-related awards for Best in Show and I-Zone. This year's winners include: 2013 DISPLAY INDUSTRY AWARDS The winners of SID's 18th annual Display Industry Awards are: Display of the Year: Granted to a display with novel and...
Celebrities Dorian Missick and Kiki Shepard committed to participate LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Food, celebrities, and fun, words we all love to hear, is what YouthBuild Charter School of California is promising at their 4th Annual Student Hunger Relief Golf Tournament. Their remarkable efforts have garnered support from celebrities Kiki Shepard of " It's Showtime at the Apollo" and Dorian Missick of TNT's "Southland". The two are scheduled to play in the...
Your Fight. Your Time. Your Legacy. REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect World Entertainment Inc. and Cryptic Studios are proud to announce that the first expansion for the award-winning, free-to-play MMORPG Star Trek Online is now live and free-to-play. In Legacy of Romulus, fans may, for the first time ever, play as a Romulan or Reman through new story-driven mission arcs written exclusively from the Romulan Republic's point of view. Denise Crosby returns to...
Nestle Japan, Nippon Television, and Dr.Ci:Labo utilize Sprocket to propel customer engagement across web, mobile and ecommerce channels KYOTO, Japan and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yumemi, Japan's market and technology leader in mobile commerce, today announced a partnership with Badgeville, the #1 gamification platform, to power Sprocket, its new engagement offering for marketers. Sprocket complements Yumemi's suite of existing marketing solutions for web,...
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled an innovative battery energy storage system pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project was held at HGST, Inc's facility in east San Jose. The Yerba Buena Battery Energy Storage System Pilot Project charges batteries when demand is low and then sends reserved power to...
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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...
