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Pasadena California is a city with 133,936 people in the Los Angeles County area.

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  1. A state of the western United States on the Pacific Ocean. It was admitted as the 31st state in 1850. The area was colonized by the Spanish and formally ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). California is often called the Golden State because of its sunny climate and the discovery of gold during its pioneering days. Sacramento is the capital and Los Angeles the largest city. Population: 36,600,000.
  2. Gulf ofCalifornia An arm of the Pacific Ocean in northwest Mexico separating Baja California from the mainland.

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  • California California is the computer crime and fraud capital of the world. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 31 -- Reality Bytes: Computer Security and the Law
  • Why the Migrant's Dream Has Ended in California - California was the land of opportunity for —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • LOS ANGELES - California, which is on the brink of running out of cash, will notify 20,000 state workers on Tuesday their jobs may be eliminated, a spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Monday. —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • All of those factors add up to a more optimistic forecast for California, which is seen as a harbinger of things to come for the rest of the country. —  Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
  • In California, that is a market that still had not totally worked itself out of maybe the commercial overbuild from the late 1990s and early 2000s, sort of the dot com boom and bust and so it really wasn't necessarily overheated from the commercial standpoint, so while it's slowing down, it's not that significant. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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