CANADIAN AIRCRAFT FOUGHT SOCAL FIRES
LOS ANGELES - 10/31/03 -A pair of Canadian-made "Super Scooper" water-dropping aircraft played a critical role in the fight to beat-down the wildfires that ravaged Southern California.
 The stubby, yellow-bodied CL-215 "Super Scooper" aircraft are leased during the fall fire season to the Los Angeles County Fire Department and are based at Van Nuys Airport in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, just northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The aircraft are unique in their ability to skim over the surface of a lake, river or sheltered bay, at about 80 mph, and "scoop" upwards of 1,200 gallons of water into its drop tanks. They have an operational "air-time" of four hours.
Designed to specifically fight forest fires, the aircraft cost about $3.5 million each and are manufactured in Quebec, Canada, by Canadair Ltd.
In addition to California, the twin-engined CL-215 amphibians are in regular firefighting service in North Carolina and Minnesota, as well as the Canadian Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland, and the Yukon.
Overseas, "Super Scoopers" are in service in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Thailand, and Venezuela.
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GLOBAL DEMAND FOR CAL ALMONDS FALLS
SACRAMENTO – 01/12/09 – A decrease in international demand and a bumper crop have combined to reduce by half the price almond growers are receiving for this season's crop; prices for the nut are about $1 per pound, down from about $2 a year ago, says the California Almond Board.
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GOLDEN SPOON ENTERS THE GLOBAL MARKET
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – 12/12/08 – Frozen yogurt giant Golden Spoon has accelerated its international expansion with the announcement of two additional stores for Japan; the new stores will be located within Tokyo Station and the Kansai International Airport and are slated to open for business this month.
PORT OF STOCKTON EXPANDS ITS FTZ
STOCKTON – 12/05/08 – The Port of Stockton has received approval from the US Dept. of Commerce (DOC) Foreign Trade Zones Board for expansion of its Foreign Trade Zone No. 231; the expansion at the nearly 475-acre Opus West Park in East Stockton is the eighth site approved in Stockton by the DOC and is sited adjacent to the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad line linking Central California with points throughout the country.
NETSUITE GOES LIVE IN SINGAPORE
SAN MATEO – 10/28/08 – Business management software developer NetSuite Inc. has launched a new venture - NetSuite OneWorld in Singapore; the move was spurred by forecasts that that Asia-Pacific software as a service (SaaS) revenues will grow from $274 million in 2007 to around $1.8 billion by 2011.
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