However, in January 2011, the Spanish government denied a request by the U. S. ambassador to return the painting to the Cassirer family in California, which claims with proof that it was among those illegally taken by Nazis in Germany.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

Carson was a courier and scout during the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848, celebrated for his rescue mission after the Battle of San Pasqual and his coast-to-coast journey from California to deliver news of the war to the U. S. government in Washington, D. C ..

Even though in the 1960s, a couple ( of more than two thousand ) municipalities were governed by opposition parties, the first state government to be won by an opposition party was Baja California, in 1989.

The modern legal definition of " assault rifle " is of significance in states like California, where according to state law, certain weapons that cosmetically resemble true assault rifles, but are only capable of semi-automatic ( or autoloading ), are categorized as " assault weapons " and are illegal to purchase or own by civilian residents of the state, even after a less restrictive ban by the federal government was allowed to lapse after having no impact on these weapons ' use in crime.

Others received a land grant from the Mexican government and settled in the Guadalupe Valley in Baja California, Mexico.

The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:

* New California Republic, a fictional government in the post-apocalyptic game franchise Fallout

Following the expiration of the original ARPANET contract with the U. S. federal government, the Internet Society ( acting on behalf of the IETF ) contracted with the Networking Division of the University of Southern California ( USC ) Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) to assume the editorship and publishing responsibilities ( under the direction of the IAB ).

Otto, Leila, a secret government agent, and rival Mexican repo men, the Rodriguez Brothers ( Del Zamora and Eddie Velez ), all compete with each other to find and deliver the Malibu, which is being driven around Los Angeles by a scientist ( Fox Harris ), who originally stole the aliens from Los Alamos National Laboratory and drove to California, slowly losing his sanity on the way due to the radiation emitted by the aliens.

Bono entered politics after experiencing great frustration with local government bureaucracy in trying to open a restaurant in Palm Springs, California.

SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project " Phoenix ", backed by private sources of funding.

Similarly, in Samson v. California,, the Court ruled that government offices may be searched for evidence of work-related misconduct by government employees on similar grounds.

By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the government blamed crashing fish populations on overfishing, especially off the Northern California and Oregon coast, which lie directly adjacent to the migration paths of Sacramento River salmon.

Her government work began as a result of her longtime friendship with Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, both of whom she had known in California ; Gilbreth had presided over the Women's Branch of the Engineers ' Hoover for President campaign.

Before the Compromise: < ul >< li > California Gold Rush | Gold Rush California applies to become free state < li > Southern United States | South wanted Southern California as slave territory < li > Texas claims territory as far as the Rio Grande < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico resists Texas, applies to be free state < li > Texas takes El Paso, Texas | El Paso February 1850 < li > Mormon pioneers apply to become State of Deseret </ ol >

Territorial results of the Compromise: < ul >< li > California is admitted List of U. S. state partition proposals # California | undivided as a Slave and free states | free state, denying Southern expansion to the Pacific < li > Texas trades some territorial claims for debt relief < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico and State of Deseret | Deseret are denied statehood and become New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory with slavery left to Popular sovereignty in the United States # Emergence of the term “ popular sovereignty ” and its pejorative connotation | popular sovereignty </ ol >

During the deadlock of four years, the Second Party System broke up, Mormon pioneers settled Utah, the California Gold Rush settled northern California, and New Mexico under a federal military government turned back Texas's attempt to assert control over territory Texas claimed as far west as the Rio Grande.

The California government pressed for action by the national government, as many citizens were alarmed about potential activities by people of Japanese descent.

This is largely because of the unpredictability of the man who operates the helm of the state government and is the elected leader of its two million inhabitants -- Gov. Ross Barnett.

The government operates under a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor of American Samoa is the head of government.

Boone operates under a mayor-council government.

Although the economy operates on a free-market basis, the lack of private and government investment, shortages of skilled labor and experienced managers, and inflation and the devaluation of the Turkish lira continue to plague the economy.

The European Council is similar to a configuration of the Council, it operates in a similar way and but is composed of the national leaders ( heads of government or state ) and has its own President, currently Herman Van Rompuy.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

As of 2006, the federal government operates the largest voucher program, for evacuees from the region affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Ghana National Agricultural Export is the government arm that operates, maintains, overlooks the planting of cocoa, cashew etc.

The City Council ( Conseil administratif ) constitutes the executive government of the City of Geneva and operates as a collegiate authority.

… ( It ) is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from the Vatican City State.

Unlike the current modern state of Switzerland, which operates under a federal government, the thirteen states were nearly independent, conducting their own domestic and foreign affairs.

The county government operates the county jail, maintains township roads, operates the major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and other social services.

The government of the Marshall Islands operates under a mixed parliamentary-presidential system as set forth in its Constitution.

In the book, the authors discuss a theory of how the United States ’ media industry operates, which they term a “ propaganda model .” The model describes a “ decentralized and non-conspiratorial market system of control and processing, although at times the government or one or more private actors may take initiatives and mobilize co-ordinated elite handling of an issue.

Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) has flown to Yangon in the past and still operates Hajj charter flights on behalf of the Burmese government.

The consultative principle operates at all levels of government, including the government of villages and tribes.

Imports of all kind are controlled by the Seychelles Marketing Board ( SMB ), a government parastatal which operates all the major supermarkets and is the distributor and licensor of most other imports.

The North Korean government operates six large political prison camps, where political prisoners and their families ( around 200, 000 people ) in lifelong detention are subjected to hard slave labor, torture and inhumane treatment.

The City Council ( Stadtrat ) constitutes the executive government of the City of Zurich and operates as a collegiate authority.

Although in many senses the centre operates as one community, it has parallel municipal governments and state government services.

A non-governmental organization ( NGO ) is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any form of government.