Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

Then in 1947 he opened the Wills Point nightclub in Sacramento and continued touring the Southwest and Pacific Northwest from Texas to Washington State.

* 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

He later formed subsidiaries: the Pacific Fur Company, and the Southwest Fur Company ( in which Canadians had a part ), in order to control fur trading in the Columbia River and Great Lakes areas.

* Pacific Southwest Airlines, defunct airline that formerly used the IATA airline designator

It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and is found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.

* December 7 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

Research stations include Northern, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Southern.

Hake fish are mostly found in the Southwest Atlantic ( Argentina and Uruguay ), Southeast Pacific ( Chile and Peru ), Southeast Atlantic ( Namibia and South Africa ), Southwest Pacific ( New Zealand ), and Mediterranean and Black Sea ( Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece and France ).

In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area.

In the spring of 1942, President Roosevelt needed his own reports on what conditions were like in the Southwest Pacific.

From a suggestion by Forrestal, President Roosevelt assigned Johnson to a three-man survey team of the Southwest Pacific.

The Northeast Monsoon brings in more rainfall compared to the Southwest Monsoon, originating in China and the north Pacific.

The Pacific Southwest Championships directed by Jack Kramer, had announced a 12: 1 ratio in the prize money difference between what males and females would win.

A major decline in manufacturing in northern cities, with a shift of jobs to suburbs, the South and overseas, has led shifts in numbers of residents of all races increasing in suburbs, plus major shifts in population from the North to the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and South.

Valparaíso (, ) is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation ( Greater Valparaíso ), is located 69. 5 miles northwest of Santiago and one of the country's most important seaports ; it is an increasingly important cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, the HBC controlled nearly all trading operations in the Pacific Northwest, based out of the company headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.

Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

satellite earth stations based in Honiara and Gizo-Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean ).

Tankers based in Europe were reassigned to United States Air Forces in Europe ( USAFE ), while regular air force tankers in the Pacific, as well as Alaska Air National Guard tankers, were reassigned to Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ).

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning System is based in Honolulu,

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

* Pacific Northwest: based in Portland, Oregon the Pacific Northwest Region ( R6 ) covers two states ( Washington and Oregon ), twenty-one National Forests and one National Scenic Area.

Dewey became the leader of moderate-to-liberal Republicans, who were based in the northeastern and Pacific Coast states, while Taft became the leader of conservative Republicans who dominated most of the Midwest and parts of the South.

In 1842 Darwin explained the creation of coral atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean based upon observations made during a five-year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836.

A similar pattern emerged in a study in 2009 based on morphology, including color, dermal denticles and teeth: A smaller species, up to about in width, M. alfredi is found in the Indo-Pacific and tropical east Atlantic, and a larger, up to at least in width, M. birostris is found throughout tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans, but it has not yet been documented from most islands in the southwest Pacific.

* The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ( based on an earlier bill in 1856 ) authorized land grants for new lines that would " aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean ".

In 2011, Pacific Northwest Ballet presented a reconstruction of the work as close to its narrative and choreographic sources as possible, based on archival materials dating back to 1842, the year after its premiere.

Mbira has now become so well known due to the worldwide stage performance and recordings of Thomas Mapfumo whose music is based on and includes the mbira, and the work of Dumisani Maraire who brought marimba and karimba music to the US Pacific Northwest, Ephat Mujuru who was one of the pioneer teachers of mbira in the US, and the writings and recordings of Zimbabwean musicians made by Paul Berliner.

Mare Island is the location of Touro University California, the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Office, and the administrative offices of the Vallejo City Unified School District.

In the early 1900s, Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, " the man who carried the message to Garcia ," lived on Vallejo St. Also on Vallejo street at that time was Mrs. Mary Curtis Richardson, a portrait painter whose painting of the mother and child was copied a million times in postcards during the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915.

Economic optimism increased in Washington when the California Pacific Railroad reached the town in November 1868, and Washington was the railhead of the line that started in Vallejo.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

He spent 1860 in Kentucky until December 21, when he sailed for California to take command of the Department of the Pacific.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

Southeast Alaska is a temperate rain forest within the Pacific temperate rain forest zone, as classified by the World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion system, which extends from northern California to Prince William Sound.

* Pacific Bell, the name of the Bell System's telephone operations in California

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

To the west and southwest the Columbia watershed borders a number of smaller watersheds that drain to the Pacific Ocean, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California and the Puget Sound Basin in Washington.

* Central Pacific Railroad ( usually: CPRR ), between California and Utah

After honeymooning at the Smith cabin, they moved to Pacific Grove, California, where he set up a household with their children.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

When Stanford was Governor of California, the Legislature passed on April 22, 1863, " An Act to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to take and subscribe One Million Dollars to the Capital Stock of the Western Pacific Rail Road Company and the Central Pacific Rail Road Company of California and to provide for the payment of the same and other matters relating thereto " ( which was later amended by Section Five of the " Compromise Act " of April 4, 1864 ).

It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

635 ) and in 1865, a legal judgment against Loewy ( The People ex rel The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California vs.

Luz II, Ltd. plans to use the solar array to test new technology for the three new solar plants to be built in California for Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

* Episcopi Vagantes and the Challenge to Catholic Ministry, an MA thesis by James Ford, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, 1991.

Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.

La Niña causes above-average precipitation across the North Midwest, the Northern Rockies, Northern California, and the Pacific Northwest's southern and eastern regions.

* 1935 –, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

Crick died of colon cancer on 28 July 2004 at the University of California San Diego ( UCSD ) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla ; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

Historical records show Vancouver enjoyed good relations with native leaders both in Hawaii – where King Kamehameha I ceded Hawaii to Vancouver in 1794 – as well as the Pacific Northwest and California.