Special Olympics, Southern California is a nonprofit organization that empowers individuals with intellectual disabilities to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition." ...
However, one of the most anticipated quakes in California is drawing close. ... However, the last big one to hit the southern region of the San Andreas was in 1857 (Schulz 1). ... This means that we are due for a large earthquake in southern California within the next couple of decades. ... This means that we can expect the next major earthquake in southern California to be within this range. ... This single quake will affect those throughout southern California for months to come. ...
The Drought in California California is a great place to live but has been troubled in the last few years with a terrible drought. ... What is the solution to the California drought? ... The fire departments in Northern California during winter hired 125 additional firefighters and kept seasonal firefighters on the payroll in Southern California. ... Many politicians and the governor of California Jerry Brown argue about water in California. ... There have been new regulations in central and southern California. ...
I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989. African-Americans had lived around and beside me the whole time I lived in California and I never thought anything about it. ... He also explained to me that Oklahoma was a southern state and in most southern states people still thought of black people as a lower form of humanity. Kind of like how people in California think of Mexican-Americans. ...
The first record of this stingray in Southern California waters was in autumn 1959, after nine years of supposedly subnormal water temperatures. The distribution off California was determined from by-catch of the California drift gill-net fishery for swordfish form 1990 to 1999 which was conducted around 32 degrees to 42 degrees North. ... These specimens were caught on research cruises between Central America and Baja California. The author of the attached article also included 65 rays caught on a shark-abundance cruise in the Southern California Bight, November 24, 1994. Apparently the C...
The Southern California environment was completely different from the harsh, cold urban environment of London. ... The youths of Southern California did not face the same despair as the youths of Britain in the seventies. Moreover, Blink182 gained popularity by producing songs that reflected the "skater- and teen culture of Southern California. ... This warm, melodic riff creates a light, carefree sound for the song, evoking the playful attitude of Southern California punk. ... - reflects the warm, mellow attitude of Southern California. ...
Or maybe it's just the sunshine and the beach that draws the immigration "crowds" to California. Whatever it is, native-born Californians are fast becoming the minority in the state. Today 22% of Californians are foreign born, and up to one-quarter of all immigrants to the U.S. have settled in the Southern California region. ... Southern California just appeals to all the senses. ... Some see the California that we once had as dead. ...
As if moving away from home isn't hard enough as it is, I am no longer going to be with my old friends. I'll have to meet new people and form new friendships with these people who have come to the same place as me, with the same goal as me; To start their lives as adults and learn ...
(Wind Energy in California, n. pag.) ... All these forms of power are used in the state of California. As we all know the population in California has been growing rapidly. ... The large deserts in southern California make a perfect place for solar power plants. ... The northern part of California makes a great location for hydroelectric power. ...
California has more tagging now than any other state. ... Southern California estimates for that same year exceeded $100 million. ... The Tagger Trap system has been a success in some cities in Southern California, that is has caught the attention of the U.S. ... California has more tagging than any other state, due in part to its good weather, whick is perfect for a tagger's favorite hours of vandalism, 2:00am to 6:00am. ... These tagger's should be aware of Tagger Trap, the system is doing so well in Southern California, that the technology is going to spread like wild fire in the ...
California Earthquakes In 1989, a major earthquake devastated business and residential sections of San Francisco and the surrounding area, destroying a section of the Bay Bridge and an elevated freeway and killing over 75 people. California is earthquake country! ... TRANSFORMATION A good example of this type of motion is the San Andreas Fault, which runs through California. Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg to make more quantitative measures of the relative sizes of earthquakes in southern California originally developed the Richter magnitude scale. ...
Growing up as a child, like every other kids, in a world where one wrong move can break apart ones bright future, I am surely pleased to have overcame my childhood without laying a finger on any illegal substances. Marijuana, a lethal enemy to the mind, is the most commonly used drug amongst illega...
"The water that is available here in Southern California comes from the rain and snowfall and the Klamath and Colorado rivers at the opposite ends of our state. ... (California Farm Water Correlation) For the rest of the US and other countries the process of retaining water is generally the same, it comes from the rain fall or a river of some sort. ...
This year, for instance, there was a big mishap when USC, University of Southern California, who was by far the best team in college football was not granted a bid into the Bowl Championship Series title game, despite being ranked as the number one team in the nation (Carroll Not Complaining about BCS Ranking, net). ...
Outsiders From the time we are taught to write, read, or speak a certain language, we learn certain words that have multiple meanings. For some words, sometimes we even create our own meanings for them based on our personalities or what we observe from others. The word "alien" for example, has ac...
School is Hell Reform Number 1: Each student should have their own hot tub Number 2: Have a professional typist go to your classes to take notes for you ~"Back to School" starring Rodney Dangerfield" School reforms are a necessity in this country. I have witnessed soul-shrouding ambivalenc...
With this stunt at being a performer not working Woody set out for California. ... He hitch-hiked, rode freight-trains, and even walked to California. Once in California it was not everything that Woody had hoped it to be because they were rejecting the outsiders. ... In his words "I got disgusted with the whole sissified and nervous rules of censorship on all my songs and ballads, and drove off down the road across the southern states again." During this time going to the Southern states he met his next wife and a turning point in his life. ...
And when Lee's forces turned back at Gettysburg, the last Confederate offense in the North, Southern momentum for winning the war was finally broken. ... Southern Democrats held a separate convention and nominated John C. ... In the South the contest was between Bell and Breckinridge; Lincoln's name did not appear on the ballot in ten of the Southern states. ... His tone is moderate, however, when addressing the Southern rebels. ... April 3, 1861 The first PONY EXPRESS run arrives in Sacramento, California. ...
During the 1940s, in Southern California, drag racing had started to become a very popular thing to do. ... These races, held in dry lake beds in Southern California, gathered a lot of people. ... Not only was this vision limited to California, but had expanded into the entire country. By 1952, there were 6 drag race strips in Southern California and 9 in the rest of the country and by 1955; the number grew to 68 drag strips in 31 states. ...
As we get off the freeway and turn the corner, there it looms, my new home, one of California's largest and oldest correctional facilities. ... Then as you look around there is a mural around the whole cafeteria depicting California at different stages in history and a plaque stating that this was done in 1977 by inmates. ... For the Mexicans you have your Northern and Southern gangs. The blacks have northern and southern gangs also, the Crips (southern) and the Bloods (northern). ... The white people can only back up the southern Mexican gangs and vice versa. ...
California came up with three different college systems to fulfill the needs of every college bound student. Each system is set up to meet the demands and future of the California students. One system is the University of California or the UC system. ... The second system is the California State University system also known as CSU. ... There are a total of 108 campuses- 15 in North California, 35 in Central California, and 58 in Southern California. ...
"The most extensive aqueduct system in the world is that which supplies water to southern California, including the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego" (Funk & Wagnalls, 1983). ... The Colorado aqueduct, completed in 1941, can supply southern California with up to 1 billion gallons of water a day. To increase the amount of water available to southern California, the State Water Project was constructed (Funk and Wagnalls, 1983). The California State Water Project, composed of canals, pipelines, and tunnels, is based on a unique concept taking into account possible earthquake damage. .....
At the dawn of the 19th century, slavery was largely a southern thing, although slavery still existed in some parts of the north. ... Many Southern congressmen felt they had been strong armed into a bad deal by abolitionist congressmen. ... Garrisons scathing articles and comics frequently drew the ire of slave holders and Southern congressmen alike. ... Southern slave owners blamed the rebellion in part on abolitionists. ... The first component of the compromise was that California would be admitted to the Union as a free state. ...
., she enrolled at the University of California at San Diego, where she began pursuing her master's degree, and career as of professor of philosophy. She began intensely involved in the Southern California black community. ... This caused Davis to be watched very closely by the United States government and dismissed from her professor position at the University of California at Los Angeles. ... She was falsely charged with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California. ... Finally, Davis was discovered in a Greenwich Village hotel, a...
[Sim10] My client Cody Jones, a 14 year old boy who lives in Southern California with his mother and two brothers are the definition of a broken home. ... Cody was not the one who stabbed the elderly man but in the state of California, he is considered an accomplice. ... California Penal Code 187 says murder is the unlawful killing of a human being. ... In California a14 year old can be tried as an adult and possibly face up to 25 years in prison with no parole. ... Secondly, California offers an outreach a program called the California Youth Outreach; it is dedicated to reaching out to all ...
