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Highlights: On May 29, about 1,200 Culver High students will experience the award-winning, emotionally charged 'In One Instant' anti-distracted and impaired driving program, where their peers will urge them to outsmart the "100 Deadliest Days for Teen Drivers" this summer, and save lives. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 In One Instant is showing high school students they have the power to change the formula that creates the “100 Deadliest Days for Teen...
New Study Shows Access to Care, State's Economic Recovery at Risk if Cuts Are Implemented REDDING, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing the devastating impact that pending Medi-Cal payment cuts would have on the North State's most vulnerable patients, local hospital leaders in Redding today joined with patient families to call on state lawmakers to enact new legislation that would preserve the state's health care safety net. Two bills now making their way...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A green light that Tesoro's purchase of BP's big refinery in Carson complies with anti-trust laws means over time gas prices will go up in the state, Consumer Watchdog said today. The approval by the Federal Trade Commission and California Attorney General of Tesoro's acquisition of BP's Carson refinery and 800 Arco stations in the Southwest is not good for consumers or for competition, the group said. "This might be the...
Safety Encouraged As Summer Boating Season Gets Underway SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This Casual Friday marked a fun way to show support for water safety by joining "Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day." Throughout the nation today, people promoted water safety while sporting a totally different look at work by wearing their favorite life jacket in honor of "Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day," a National Safe Boating Week event promoted by the California...
New Study Shows Access, State's Economy at Risk if Cuts Are Implemented FRESNO, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by California Hospital Association: Citing the devastating impact that pending Medi-Cal payment cuts would have on the Valley's most vulnerable patients, Assemblymember Henry T. Perea (D-Fresno) joined with local hospital leaders today to call on state lawmakers to enact new legislation that would preserve the state's health...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, May 15, in response to the Governor's Budget Revise, the Women's Foundation of California held a theater performance on the North Capital steps in Sacramento. During the May 15 performance, in which each woman had one hand tied behind her back, the Foundation emphasized that damaging public policies and severe budget cuts tie women's hands and keep them trapped in poverty. Women can't embrace their futures, care...
CAL Filings Offers New, Fast and Reliable Business Incorporation Services LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Online business incorporation service, CAL Filings, has recently launched its new website at calfilings.com, allowing entrepreneurs and small businesses a fast, secure and simple way to incorporate their California based businesses online. The new website offers a seamless step by step wizard to walk users through the incorporation process, while assessing their...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Google I/O -- This week during the Google I/O developers conference, Vivante Corporation, providers of the world's smallest, fastest and coolest mobile GPU cores, announced product readiness for the latest Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 operating system update. Today's Google TV(TM) products featuring the Vivante GC1000 IP cores ready for the update include the Sony Google TV NSZ-GS7 Internet Player, the VIZIO Goggle TV...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- First 2013 SRT Tour stop kicked off May 9-12 at American Le Mans Series in Monterey, Calif. The 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8, Dodge Charger SRT8 and Chrysler 300 SRT8 along with 2014 Jeep(®) Grand Cherokee SRT vehicles to be on display The all-new 2013 SRT Viper on display at select locations The third year of SRT Tour will visit unique lifestyle events over three-month span For the third consecutive year, the SRT Tour,...
Research Findings Published in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture Gives Consumers More Reasons to Enjoy California Canned Peaches DINUBA, Calif., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Cling Peach Board announced today what growers and home canning enthusiasts have known for generations: canned peaches are nutritious, wholesome and vitamin packed. Thanks to a study conducted by Oregon State University (OSU) and the Linus Pauling Institute, the California Cling Peach...
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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...
