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Introduction

State Capital: Sacramento (From the Spanish word "Sacramento" meaning "The Blessed Sacrament.")

Major cities: Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Barbara.

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Great Californians

This section is devoted to great people with strong ties to California. It contains (will do so soon, hopefully) a table of names (in alphabetical order), together with some information: years spent in Caliornia (CA y's) + the domain of the activity of the person, and references (hard & links). This table is selective about Hollywood or else it'd be too extensive.

Name	CA y's	domain	ref's
Paul Cohen	1961-2007	mathematics; Fields medalist	[1]
Richard Feynman	1950-1988	physics; Nobel prize	[2]
Michael Friedman	whole life but 1969-73	mathematics; Fields medalist	[3]
Czesław Miłosz	1961-2004	poetry; Nobel prize	[4][5]
Roman Polański	1968-9 & 1973-8	movie directing
Ronald Reagan	1937-1980&1989-2004	politics, acting
Arnold Schwarzenegger	1968-...	bodybuilding, acting, politics
Alfred Tarski	1942-1983	mathematics	[6]
Steve Wozniak	whole life	creator of Apple computer	[7]

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Talk About Your Self

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Knol Authors of California State:

Please include your name, city and the area in which you write knols in the alphabetical order

Allan Elder, Long Beach, CA, Consultant, Coach, & Educator
Amy Markowitz, San Francisco, CA, Editor and Scientific Writing Specialist;
Barry Burns, Thousand Oaks, CA - Message says account has been blocked
Bryna Siegel, San Francisco, Developmental psychologist, University of California
Casey Batten MD, San Francisco/Berkeley, CA, Sports Medicine Physician
Cedric Dupont, San Francisco, CA, Google Knol Product Manager;
Christopher Regan, Newport Beach, CA, Hotels, IT Director;
Diane Sliwka, San Francisco, CA, Hospitalist
Edward McNulty, San Francisco, CA, Physician
Gregory Grothaus, Bay Area, CA
Ilya Yakubovich, West Hollywood, CA, Product manager at Geni, Inc.
Inderjeet Singh, Milpitas, CA

Jennifer Petoff, San Francisco, CA, Training

Jennifer Taylor, Palo Alto, CA, Software Engineer

Joseph Neri, West Covina, CA, Printer

Katrina Eagle, San Diego, CA, Attorney;

Keith McCarty, Los Angeles, CA, Marketing Manager, Geni Inc.

Marc Cohen, San Francisco, CA, Orchid Enthusiast, www.AboutOrchids.com Orchid Enthusiast

Matt Ghering, San Francisco, CA, Google Product Marketing Manager,

Michael McNally, Mountain View, CA, Tech Lead, Google Knol;

Michael A Rizzotti, Los Angeles, Publisher, writer

Mike Delgado, Los Angeles, CA

Mike Lee, Bay Area, CA;

Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, San Francisco, CA, Director, Melanoma Center, University of California San Francisco

Murry Shohat, Santa Rosa, CA 95403, http://www.mediabistro.com/murryshohat

Narayan Thakur, San Jose, CA, Research Inorganic Chemist, Mumbai, India

Norah Terrault, San Francisco, Associate Professor, University of California at San Francisco

Paul Morrison, Los Angeles, Change Agent

Ronald Labuguen, San Francisco, CA, Family Physician

Ross Grossman, Los Angeles, CA, Talent Agent

Ryan Moulton, Mountain View,CA, Software engineer (google), Backpacking

Sagar Kamdar, Mountain View,CA, Product Manager, Google

Vladi Sytnik, Los Angeles, CA, Photographer

The Judge, hunting, fishing, and camping

Wendy Fleet

William Wynn, Santa Barbara, CA, Student at UCSB

Will Johnson Computer Guru, Professional Genealogist and Biographer at CountyHistorian.com, Santa Cruz, California

Włodzimierz Holsztyński, Silicon Valley, CA, Art of Agreeing, dabanese, mathematics

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Congratulations Will Johnson - Author from California

First English Language author to register more than 500 knols with 1000 page views and more. Actually there are 519 knols (15.2.2011) with 1000 page views and more.

67,490 weekly page views.

Will Johnson is also the first English Language Individual author to register weekly page views above 50,000. Adsense income follows page views.

Knol has traction and if any author writes valuable and useful content he will have the reader support.
Johnson is a role model and will be followed by many knol authors.

There are more knol authors who wrote more than 500 knols and many of them will soon follow Johnson to increase promtion for their knols.

Good Things - Happenings in Knol
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/good-things-happenings-in-knol/2utb2lsm2k7a/153#

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Recruit One More Author this Quarter and Double Knol Authors.

Knols Authors Join in this Endeavor to Make Knol a Success.

Knol Author Recruitment - Double the Number of Knol Authors

Authors are invited to join

Knol Author Foundation

Mission: To support knol authors in their endeavor to provide knol visitors the knowledge that they are seeking.

Knol Author Foundation Members from California:

Michael A Rizzotti- Los Angeles, CA, Writer, Publisher

Włodzimierz Holsztyński -Silicon Valley, CA, hi-tech consultant