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China trip builds ties for Sacramento
Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization CEO Barbara Hayes spent almost ten days in China, listening to presentations and meeting with Chongqings business bigwigs to tout the Sacramento region. In April, California Gov. Jerry Brown took a China trip to tout Californias trade and investment opportunities. This month, it was Sacramentos turn. The city sent a delegation to Chongqing, a ...
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Records law changes face opposition
Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to save money by lifting certain requirements of the California Public Records Act is getting some pushback from at least one corner of the ...
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Ports of Long Beach LA Seek Technologies to Cut Vessel Pollution
The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles are seeking information about technologies that could substantially reduce air pollution from main engines on ships calling at the ports.Vendors of such technologies are being asked to submit information by July 19, ...
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Sacramentos Skips Music to mark 40th anniversary with all-star concert
May 23--Let's rewind for the moment, back to the '70s. In the early years of the "Me Decade," a music festival was launched called the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee. Around that same time, a small shop called Skip's Music had opened at 24th Street and Florin Road. It was stocked with guitars, drums and all the other tools for local musicians with dreams of rock ...
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What Hollywood Can Learn From The Fast Furious Franchise
Less CGI means more exciting stunts. Memorial Day weekend is traditionally one of the most important in Hollywood. The official start of summer (complete with an extra day off) is the perfect time for high-grossing blockbusters. Back in 2009, when the franchise started, no one would have ...
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San Franciscos Michael Crabtree tears Achilles but not expected to miss entire season
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coach Jim Harbaugh confirmed that 49ers No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and that Crabtree underwent surgery Wednesday morning. Harbaugh also said that Crabtree is not expected to miss the entire 2013 season, though he declined to give a timetable for Crabtree's return. The injury happened Tuesday during a 7-on-7 drill ...
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China Silicon Valley nonprofit boosts ties Video
Why Silicon Valley is important to China and what San Jose and the region is doing about it, according to Victor Wang of Hanhai Investments and zPark Venture, and Kim Walesh, San Jose's Economic Development. Interviewed by Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth after they spoke at the Silicon Valley Business Journal's International Business Forum on May 23. Victor Wang of Hanhai ...
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Western Health Advantage picked for Covered California coverage
Western Health Advantage is one of 13 plans to land a spot in the individual marketplace for the state's health benefit exchange. Western Health Advantage CEO Garry Maisel says rates for plans came in under projections because of intense competition. "WHA and other California plans wanted to be part of Covered California and part of history," Maisel said. Sacramento-based Western ...
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Knife-Wielding Suspect Dresses Up As Chipotle Employee
The attempted robbery – which turned into a double stabbing – happened around 11:35 p.m. at a Chipotle restaurant located at 1025 Camino De La ...
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Chez Panisses grand reopening
Robin MacSwain, left, and June Johnson, background, work on a new frame installed on the fire damaged Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Tuesday April 30, 2013. The restaurant has been closed since the March 8 fire. (Doug Oakley/Bay Area News Group) (Doug Oakley) its reservation phone line May 27 at 9 a.m., and online reservations can be made ...
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Third Calif. law student charged in Vegas bird killing
Three University of California-Berkeley law school students are accused in the Oct. 2012 killing and decapitation of a helmeted guinea-fowl, like the one seen above, that was part of a Las Vegas resort ...
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Messaging app imo.im raises $13.3 million
MSN , Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. The service enables private and group chat, sharing of multimedia files and photos, voice and text messaging and searching of chat histories. The company claims more than 7 million mobile downloads, 750,000 unique daily visitors and delivery of an average of 50 million messages per ...
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CA debuts health care exchange plans $54-$383 Valley premiums
A snapshot of plans that will be offered on California's state health care exchange, Covered California, to qualified individuals in Santa Clara County. Ahead of the official launch of California's state health care exchange on Jan. 1, 2014, the agency charged with implementing new system on Thursday debuted benefit plans that will be available to qualified individuals. Though some ...
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Kaiser goes for the gold LEED certification for all major projects
"By adopting the LEED standard for all new major construction, we are demonstrating our commitment to green building strategies and to the total health of our communities," said Don Orndoff, Kaiser's senior vice president of National Facilities Services. Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based healthcare giant, plans to score LEED gold certification for all its new major projects ...
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Six ways to bridge the Silicon Valley-China gap
What's your company's strategy for doing business with China? Not news: Chinese investment is pouring into Silicon Valley, and local companies are going after a piece of that action. News: This morning I spoke with six executives at that business crossroads who delivered six tips on bridging cultural and economic divides between Silicon Valley and China. Those were just some of the tasty ...
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Californias new car industry driving to recovery
Californians registered more than 400,000 new light vehicles in the first quarter of this year. From Californias new car industry, heres another example of a recovering economy. The California New Car Dealers Association reported today that the Golden States new car market in the first quarter was the strongest first three months of the year since 2008. Californians registered more than 400,000 ...
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NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
PASADENA, Calif. -; The head of NASA is visiting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where engineers are working on a proposed mission to lasso a small asteroid and drag it closer to Earth for astronauts to ...
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Calif. man faces medical eval in grandpa killing
WILLITS, Calif. -; A Northern California man accused of torturing his 84-year-old grandfather by dragging him behind a pickup truck for nearly six miles is set to be evaluated by a second ...
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Report Most Calif beaches had clean water in 2012
LOS ANGELES -; Less winter runoff has allowed visitors to enjoy mostly clean water at California beaches, according to a report released ...
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Calif. beach water quality mostly good last summer
The organization Heal the Bay on Thursday released its annual beach report card, which rated the water quality of 445 beaches in California. Because of back-to-back dry winters in Southern California, there was less runoff polluting the ...
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James Hunter Six headlines Sacramento Music Festival
He's not trying to break your heart or revive the soul-and-R&B past. He just wants you to dance.That's the sentiment of 50-year-old British soul rocker James Hunter. He'll tell you as much, conveyed with urgency and a thick working-class British accent. In any conversation with Hunter about his music, you quickly learn that he doesn't care to dissect his ...
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The Record Stockton Calif. Tony Sauro column
May 23--When the Doors are mentioned, Jim Morrison's name immediately follows. Yet, Ray Manzarek's always-inventive keyboard adventures were an equally indelible aspect of the Los Angeles band's mysterious, striking and strangely spooky sound. While Morrison provided the vocal dramatics, sexual tension, tortured persona and most of the darkly poetic lyrics, Manzarek's ...
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California bill to establish task force to tackle metal thefts
State lawmakers want to crack down on the chronic problem of metal theft by setting up a task force to help local law enforcement and district attorneys catch and prosecute thieves. The California Farm Bureau Federation is sponsoring the bill to establish the panel as part of the Board of State and Community ...
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James Bryant voted to All-NBA first team
NEW YORK — LeBron James was a unanimous pick for the All-NBA team and Kobe Bryant earned his record-tying 11th first-team selection. James received all 119 votes for the first team from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joining the league's MVP and Bryant on the first team Thursday were Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, San Antonio center Tim ...
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Purported psychics arrested in Southern Calif.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a Southern California couple arrested on felony grand theft charges purported to be psychics and promised at least one customer they could rid her of negative ...
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LAX gets a facelift
Los Angeles International Airport has decided to go under the knife again; the sixth busiest airport in the world is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar face lift of its international terminal, aimed at bringing the airport back up to world class standards in design and service and now there is talk of even further redevelopment for the domestic terminals as well.
LAX was once considered a pioneering facility in the early days of the jet age, the famous Theme Building, built to resemble a flying saucer that has just landed is testament to this period of advancement and modernism. The building features a circular restaurant below four concentric spider-like legs, in-keeping with the space-age theme of the building, this restaurant is called Encounters. Read more
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