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The Altamont Pass is a mountain pass in Northern California, United States, located between Livermore in the Livermore Valley and Tracy in the San Joaquin Valley. The pass carries Interstate 580 and a railroad route, originally owned by Western Pacific and today used for the Altamont Commuter Express with service to Pleasanton and San Jose. Altamont Pass - Wind Farm. The pass is known for its wind farm, one of the earliest in the United States. The wind farm is composed of over 6000 relativel ...

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BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, Richmond, Fremont, Hayward, Walnut Creek, and Concord. It also serves San Francisco International Airport and, via AirBART buses, Oakland International Airport. The BART acron ...

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Barbara Boxer (D) California is a U.S. state located on the west coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous state in the U.S., as well as the most physically diverse, with the highest and the lowest points in the lower 48 states located within 150 miles of each other. If California were an independent nation, it would have the sixth largest economy in the world (after the rest of the U.S., Japan, Germany, Britain and France; see economy of California). The state's official nickname is "The Golden State" in refer ...

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Location of Alameda County within California.    District One    District Two    District Three    District Four    District Five Scott Haggerty Gail Steele Alice Lai-Bitker Nate Miley Keith Carson Alameda County is a county in California, USA's San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 1,443,741. The county seat is Oakland. Alameda County ...

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Ames Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Ames, Iowa. Compared to most other DOE laboratories, it is small, employing about 500 people. It is located on the campus of Iowa State University. Ames Laboratory - History. The lab was started as part of the Manhattan Project. Its purpose was to produce high purity uranium from uranium ores. Frank Spedding lead the effort to develop the thermite process for this purpose. Most of the uranium used in the first sel ...

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Location of Contra Costa County within California.      District One      District Two      District Three      District Four      District Five      John M. Gioia      Gayle B. Uilkema      Mary N. Piepho      Mark ...

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WHEELS is a bus service that provides public transportation in Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin, California. Started in 1986, WHEELS offers service to various locations in the three cities, and connects to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system. WHEELS is operated by the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority. ...

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The Altamont Commuter Express (also known as ACE, pronounced "ace") is a commuter train service in California connecting Stockton with San Jose. It is named for the Altamont Pass, through which it travels. The service was started on October 19, 1998 with two trains daily in each direction, and as of August 2005 runs three trains daily in each direction. There are ten stops along its 86 mile (138 km) route, resulting in a total travel time of approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes end-to-end. Tracks are owned by Union Pacific, and ...

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• Altamont Commuter Express - Fremont to Pleasanton
• Altamont Commuter Express - Pleasanton to Livermore
• Altamont Commuter Express - Livermore to Tracy
• Altamont Commuter Express - Tracy to Stockton

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The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and an endowment of just over $5 billion (7th largest in the United States). Its first campus (now UC Berkeley) was founded in 1868, while its tenth and newest campus opened in the fall of 2005 near the city of Merced. The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every fie ...

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The University of California has a long tradition of involvement in many interesting enterprises that are often geographically or organizationally separate from its general campuses, including national laboratories, observatories, hospitals, continuing education programs, travel and conference facilities, and an art institute. University of California - National laboratories. The University of California manages three national laboratories on behalf of the United States Department of Energy: E ...

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Yes, indeed, I said to myself, look out now, and I hung on. You never saw a driving fool like that. He made Tracy in no time. Tracy is a railroad town; brakemen eat surly meals in diners by the tracks. Trains howl away across the valley. The sun goes down long and red. --Jack Kerouac, On the Road The poet summed up best the birth of Tracy, California. The town sprung from the new line of the Central Pacific Railroad on September 8, 1878 out of the San Francisco Bay, and kept growing since. The area, once home and hunting ...

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Pleasanton is located at 37°40'21" North, 121°52'57" West (37.672530, -121.882517)GR1. It is adjacent to Livermore, California and Dublin, California. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 56.5 km² (21.8 mi²). 56.1 km² (21.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.78% water. ...

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List of California politicians - Board of Supervisors. Scott Haggerty Gail Steele Alice Lai-Bitker Nate Miley Keith Carson List of California politicians - Politicians. Alameda [1] Mayor: Beverly Johnson Council: Tony Daysog, Marie Gilmore, Doug Dehaan, Frank Matarrese Albany [2] Council: Jewel Okawachi, Robert Lieber, Robert H. Good, Farid Javandel, A ...

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The western terminus of I-580 is north of San Francisco in San Rafael, at a junction with U.S. Highway 101. The eastern terminus is with I-5 southeast of Tracy. It was named after General Douglas MacArthur in 1968. Leaving San Rafael, I-580 runs next to the San Quentin State Prison before crossing San Francisco Bay over the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. The road then passes Point Richmond and follows a right-of-way formerly named Hoffman Boulevard, once designated Route 17. In Albany I-580 joins I-80 and then splits five miles later in Oakland ...

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List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities - Alabama. VA Medical Center Birmingham VA Medical Center Montgomery Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System West Campus Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center Tuskegee Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System East Campus Outpatient Clinic Mobile VA Gulf Coast Health Care System - Mobile Outpatient Clinic Community Service ...

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List of music festivals - Jamaican Reggae Festivals. Splash Festival, Jamaica Reggae Sunsplash, Ocho Rios, Jamaica Sting reggae music festival, Kingston, Jamaica Reggae Sumfest, Montego Bay, Jamaica List of music festivals - International Reggae Festivals. Bob Marley Outernational Day, Perth, Western Australia Seasplash Reggae Festival, Pula, Croatia [2] MIDEM Reggae Showcase, Cannes, France Chiemsee Regga ...

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Note: the cited French villages were destroyed during WWI. Almanor, California Antarctica - no permanent population Arab al-Samniyya, Israel Ball's Pyramid Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Meuse, France Bezonvaux, Meuse, France Brewster, Florida Burhou, Channel Islands, UK Caribou, California Chisana, Alaska Cramond Island, Scotland (tidal) Crystal Lake in Broward County, Florida Cumières-le-Mort-Homme, Meuse Fleury ...

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Sandia National Laboratories' roots go back to World War II and the Manhattan Project. Prior to the United States formally entering the war, the U.S. Army leased land adjacent to an Albuquerque, New Mexico airport known as Oxnard Field, to service transient Army and Navy aircraft. In January 1941 construction began on the Albuquerque Army Air Base, leading to establishment of the Bombardier School-Army Advanced Flying School near the end of the year. Soon thereafter it was renamed Kirtland Field, after early Army military pilot Colone ...

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Lang has been interested in folding paper since he was a child. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. Lang had a long career as a laser physicist and engineer, with a background in NASA. Lang specializes in finding real-world applications for the various theories of origami he has developed. These included designing folding patterns for a German airbag manufacturer. He is working with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. A team at the laboratory is developin ...

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The county has a total area of 663 km² (256 mi²). 659 km² (254 mi²) of it is land and 5 km² (2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.73% water. The county is transected southeast to northwest by Green River, the longest river entirely within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Bridge crossings of Green River are at Calhoun, Livermore and west of Beech Grove. Green River is navigable throughout McLean County, with Army Corps of Engineers L ...

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