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LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: QTWW) (the "Company"), a global leader in natural gas storage systems, integration and vehicle system technologies, today announced that it has agreed to sell common stock and warrants for gross proceeds of $3,000,000 in a registered direct offering (the "Offering") with Crede CG III, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crede Capital Group, LLC ("Crede"). Under the Offering,...
Picarro Analyzer Took Historic Measurement on Mauna Loa SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from SCRIPPS studying atmospheric levels at the Mauna Loa Observatory last week recorded the milestone 400 parts per million (ppm) CO(2) concentration using instrumentation from Picarro Inc. The Mauna Loa observatory is a premier atmospheric research facility, and ideal for monitoring climate change due to the undisturbed air and minimal outside influences atop the...
Safety and Car Care Features Standard on All Blue Link-Equipped Models COSTA MESA, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, all new Blue Link-equipped Hyundai vehicles will come standard with three years of complimentary Assurance Connected Care service. Announced at the 2013 New York International Auto Show in March, Assurance Connected Care is powered by the automaker's Blue Link telematics platform, which now has enrolled over 400,000 subscribers. Assurance Connected Care...
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- National Payphone, a private operator of 4,500 payphones in Texas has selected WiMacTel for full conversion to wireless services. WiMacTel, a provider of operator services, directory assistance, long distance, calling cards, wireless/VoIP services, inmate telephone systems and payphones across the USA and Canada, announced today that the company's wireless services have been selected by National Payphone to convert their 4,500 Texas...
Commissioned by The 20 Million Minds Foundation, the report and infographic provide analysis of California's online education efforts and make recommendations to increase student access and success PASADENA, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report commissioned by The 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM), authored by Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein of MindWires Consulting, The Right to Educational Access: Using Online Education to Address Bottleneck Courses in...
System to be Installed at NASA's Ames Research Center, and Operational in Q3 BURNABY, British Columbia and PALO ALTO, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that its new 512-qubit quantum computer, the D-Wave Two, will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration among NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). The purpose...
All-steel house features world-class architecture, many green features and was built with prefabricated wall and roof panels. Palm Springs, California (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 A sleek and shimmering all-white steel house designed by noted modernist architect Jim Jennings has been unveiled by Blue Sky Building Systems as the company’s newest project demonstrating better ways to build. Architectural aficionados are already touting it as an instant icon of new-century modernism. Desert...
The lack of protective footwear leaves feet – especially toes – at extreme risk for serious trauma in the increasingly popular sport of MMA, according to the California Podiatric Medical Association. Sacramento, California (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 A toe injury is not the very first thing you would think about in a sports injury, but in reality it can have debilitating effects on performance or even incapacitate an athlete. Since the toes are at the very end of the foot and move freely and...
Engineered with advanced driver technology, Aleratec's RoboJet Disc AutoPrinter upgrade prints discs at four times the speed while producing photo-quality images on up to 100 Blu-ray, DVD or CD discs. Chatsworth, California (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Aleratec Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of professional-grade duplicators for hard disk drives, USB flash drives, flash memory and optical discs, launched an upgrade to their popular RoboJet Disc AutoPrinter. With this upgrade,...
The 4th Annual BioConference Live Clinical Diagnostics Virtual Conference presents cutting-edge research in clinical diagnostics May 29-31, 2013. Yorba Linda, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 BioConference Live is a premiere producer of online conferences aimed at covering a variety of science verticals, including Clinical Diagnostics, Genetics & Genomics, Cancer Research & Discovery, and Laboratory Animal Science. Each annual conference is entirely online for easy attendance and free for...
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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...
