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    San Jose, CA is a beautiful city filled with culture and diversity, and you should spend your weekend in. For many travelers, San Jose City is nothing more than a stop over after they fly into the international airport and move on to their next adventure in a new destination. But this pulsating cultural capital of Costa Rica is so much more than that. There are a lot of fascinating things to see and do here: museums, theaters, delicious international restaurants, and great shopping places will be

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    Jurassic Franciscan formation. Large masses of serpentine and smaller plugs and dikes of gabbro and diorite intrude these sediments; glaucophane schists and their unusual mineralogical assemblages are developed locally. The series as exposed on the San Jose quadrangle consists chiefly of sandstone, shale, and jasper; with occasional bed of heavy conglomerate. Scattered here and there throughout its area are small patches of greenstone, probably of tuffaceous origin. In several localities it is associated

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    Sunnyvale

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    SunnyVale CA About: Sunnyvale is the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the major cities that make up Silicon Valley. It is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield to the northwest, Mountain View to the west, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. It lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101. As part of California's high-tech area known as home to several aerospace/defense companies:

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    The average price for a single family home in the San Francisco Bay Area in the nine-county region was $775,000, according to the CoreLogic real estate information service. The information contains some striking data about the current market and its affordability issues. Year after year in family home sales shows a 4.4 percent increase as buyers look for more expensive homes, driving the prices up higher. The hot economy and job market in the Bay Area contributes to a severe housing crisis, which

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    Mission San Diego de Alcala was the first of all California missions as well as being California’s first mission church. This historical structure provides an experience and understanding into early american history and the spread of Catholicism throughout the west coast. Mission De Alcala still serves the community today as an active parish and is open to the public to tour the remnants of early life in our state. For thousands of years California was the home to the Kumeyaay native americans along

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    The Solar Of Solar Energy

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    Introduction Photovoltaic Solar Energy Throughout history, mankind had always wonder the mysterious secrets of nature with an attempt to make a replica of its magnificent work. Solar photovoltaic energy is the process to convert sunlight into electrical power as energy; imitating the process of photosynthesis that plants create to survive. Photovoltaic energy is not something recently discovered, it actually goes over 160 years The basic science was first discovered in 1839 but the pace of advancement

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    is Vietnam’s largest city, which is also call Saigon. Since North and South divide Vietnam, there are many political disagreements between the two. For example, I live in Northern California, for those who don’t know, part of San Jose is populated by a large group of Vietnamese. Most of us call this section of San Jose Vietnamese Town. A couple years back, there was a “political” disagreement with one of the new development in that

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    Police Hiring Process

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    procedures that result in hiring police personnel who are unable to provide effective policing in the communities in which they work. Literature reviews have identified correctable flaws based on multi-case research and data collection input. The San Jose, California Police Department, and law enforcement and community stakeholders were asked specific questions regarding their insight as to what they think are the problems that hinder their Department of Human Resources from hiring suitable personnel.

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    Caring Across Communities (CAC), support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is the initiative that has been developed for engaging innovative partnerships among schools, families, students, mental health providers, and other community organizations to build effective and easy-access school-based mental health services for children and youth, including immigrant population in 15 sites across the U.S. (McNeely, Sprecher, & Bates, 2010). According to the evaluation report, school-based mental

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    in San Jose, California is changing rapidly and it is imperative to administer sustainable policy decisions to guide vibrant, new communities into the future. To fully evaluate consideration of all benefits and drawbacks in various infrastructure for new arts and entertainment districts; a benefits to cost analysis is usually applied to each dollar allocated to issues in cities that demonstrate potential to change trajectory of their brand, image, identity and overall appearance. City of San Jose

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