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The article reports that the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) issued a white paper on October 6, 2016 stating social stigma as a major issue in accessing mental health treatment. Topics discussed include the potential of marriage and family therapists in rendering mental health services on issues like depression, anxiety and addiction, the approach of CAMFT in promoting access to mental health treatment, and the formation of a public outreach committee.

Reports on the lawsuit filed surfers, the Surfrider Foundation in Los Angeles, California against two papermills for polluting the sea that they surf in. Payment of fines and damages by Louisiana-Pacific Corp. and the Simpson Paper Co.; Pollution limits for the companies; Provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1984; Recommendations to reduce the toxic content of their effluent.

Deals with the University of California's Social Sciences eScholarship Repository of working papers which eases the editorial and administrative labor of creating e-print repositories. Preservation strategies of librarians in the university; Technique used by the university to stimulate interest in the repository; Strategic value of repository.

The article focuses on painter Darrell Fusaro and his pastel painting technique on wet paper in California. It notes that Fusaro creates still lifes of objects like clothespin, paint tubes, mushrooms, and coffee pots in large color masses of pastel on wet printmaking paper. Accordingly, Fusaro likes using wooden figures to express his narratives because they are faceless, limbless, and have no connections with superheroes.

Ensuring the human right to water requires monitoring at national or subnational levels, but few comprehensive frameworks exist for industrialized contexts. This paper introduces a subnational-level framework - known as the California Human Right to Water Framework and Data Tool (CalHRTW) - developed by the authors at the California EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. This paper has two objectives: (1) to present the theoretical foundations and methodology used to develop the first version of CalHRTW (CalHRTW 1.0) and (2) to showcase how results can be used. CalHRTW 1.0 measures three components of the human right to water: drinking water quality, accessibility and affordability for community water systems in California. Nine individual indicators grouped by component, and three indices that summarize component-level outcomes are used to quantify system-level results. CalHRTW allows users to: (1) summarize system-level conditions statewide and identify challenges, (2) explore social equity implications and (3) centralize information for planning. CalHRTW draws on approaches from existing international monitoring efforts and complements existing California efforts by being the first US effort to comprehensively and explicitly monitor the HRTW under one umbrella. This work offers other US states and countries a model to build monitoring efforts to realize the human right to water. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the sensitivity of the neural network (NN) outputs to device parameter uncertainties (non-idealities) in inverter-based memristor (IM) crossbar neuromorphic circuits is mathematically modeled and verified using exhaustive circuit and system-level simulations. The NN sensitivity is obtained by modeling the sensitivity of the IM neuron output to the non-idealities of its circuit elements. The analysis reveals a higher sensitivity of the output voltage of the IM neuron to the non-idealities of the inverters compared to the conductance variation of the memristors. Among the inverter non-idealities, horizontal shift of the inverters voltage transfer characteristic (VTC) shows the highest impact on the output voltage of the neuron. To reduce the accuracy loss due to the variations, a training approach which includes a sensitivity term in the cost function of the training phase, is suggested. The achievable improvements through the said NN training approach are evaluated. In the evaluation, the California Housing, MNIST, and Fashion MNIST datasets are employed. The results show up to 50% reduction in the NN output variations in the presence of circuit elements’ non-idealities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the development of an electronic grants management system (GMS) by Los Angeles, California-based Community Development Commission (CDC) for its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. It states that GMS offers external and internal users all contact information and payment requests. It adds that the system helps improved the efficiency of CDC and its sub-recipients.

The article presents a documentation of the career of American independent politician Quentin L. Kopp. It was in 1972 when he was first elected to the public office, to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California. After attaining success as member of the board, he decided to run as mayor in 1979 but he lost to Dianne Feinstein. In 1985, he ran for the California State Senate and won the election.

The article offers information on the LCD technology used by manufacturers in the electronic paper (e-paper) display. It states that today's e-paper has readability, low power and liquid crystal display (LCDs) have brilliant colors as well as full video motion. Moreover, the multimode display from Pixel Qi, in San Bruno, California, has taken a brute-force approach, which combines reflective and transmissive liquid crystal technologies.

The author comments on membership at the Pechanga tribe in California. John Gomez Jr. has been disenrolled from the tribe due to questions about his ancestry. The Concerned Penchanga People released a memorandum containing the first claims that Gomez's family did not meet the criteria for membership. The disenrollment of Gomez's family led them to lose their federally funded Indian health care.

Features a prospectus for developing a request for proposal (RFP) for a system to host the California Digital Library (CDL) databases. Scope; Objectives for a system to host CDL databases; RFP checklist.

Presents information on several tilapia studies presented at the Aquaculture America conference held in San Diego, California from January 27 to 30, 2002. Rates of masculinization in Nile tilapia; Details of a feeding trial with juvenile hybrid tilapia; Effects of environmental and dietary factors on the susceptibility of Nile tilapia to low temperature.

The article reports on the performance history of the theatrical production "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons as of 2012. Details are given describing the partial tour of the show in China in November and December 2011. Details about a similar show on the same subject entitled "Pentagon Papers," by J-Powers, running at Santa Monica Playhouse in California between February 5 and March 25, 2012 is also given.

Stormwater utility fees provide dedicated revenues for managing stormwater. In setting fees, household-level affordability should be considered. Existing research does not address methods to evaluate the affordability of stormwater utility fees, especially alongside other household water costs. This paper aims to fill that gap. We present a scenario-based approach to evaluate household affordability of stormwater utility fees in a municipality, which considers other essential household water service charges. We estimate the relative contribution of stormwater utility fees to total household water costs and evaluate affordability across income brackets by integrating data for socioeconomic status, land use, water utility charges, and impervious surface cover. Using data for a case study region, results indicate that stormwater utility fees are small contributors to overall household urban water costs and comprise no more than 2% of the median household income across nearly all income quintiles. For low-income households, stormwater charges only exceed 1% of the household income for the lowestincome brackets (,$20,000) and still represent a small portion of household water costs. The analysis demonstrates a generalizable approach that can be applied everywhere when evaluating a stormwater utility fee as a funding strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that like California's ailing economy, Stanford Business School took big hit in 1993. Applications which plunged 20%: Comments by Admissions Director Marie Mookini; Percentage of the class of 1993 who landed jobs within three months of graduating; Rankings for the top 50 American graduate schools of business (Stanford was number one); Rankings of school that are tops in various business specialties.

Reports that the Nixon Presidential Library opens this week in Yorba Linda, California, amid controversy over the `obsessive' control Nixon still has over his papers. Private library; Papers tied up in lawsuits.

Focuses on the yearly average volume of paper used in the legal profession in California. Percentage share of paper in the total solid waste volume of the state; Proposal to require all lawyers to use recycled paper; Position of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund on the issue.

Provides information on the investigative reporting conducted on the proliferation of methamphetamine drugs in California. News coverage on illegal drug use; Opinion from several newspaper editors on drug addiction; Details on the Mexican drug cartels; Details on the investigative reporting strategy of journalists.

Presents an interview with author Paul Auster in San Francisco, California. In 1985 "The New York Trilogy" was finally published by Sun and Moon Press in San Francisco, this came after many denials for publishment from other companies. Even tough he regularly wrote reviews, translations and his prose poem "White Spaces" published in 1988, the Trilogy was the beginning of his literary career. The year after "The New York Trilogy" was released he released the other two novels "Ghost" and "The Locked Room." In the late sixties he attended Columbia University then moved to Paris to start The Living House, a publishing house, with his first wife. This company is where his first novel was published and since then he has published one every year. Austers work is viewed as remarkable because he has so many types of literary writings; novels, essays, translations, poems, plays, songs and collaboration various artists. When asked of his writing technique he says always notebook with a fountain pen, sometimes pencil, it seems to be more primitive and he remains more creative. He does say though that the paper also has to be in notebooks, he has a fetish of writing on quadrille line paper, the little squares.

Reports on California Judicial Council's ruling on using recycled paper for original documents until 1996. Amount of paper used by California's 116,000 lawyers; Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund petition; Lack of enforcement mechanism.

Profiles Dominique Schurman, a fine-paper entrepreneur in San Francisco, California. Expansion of Papyrus shops with Marcel Schurman Fine Paper creations; Importance of marketing acumen and creative ideas in franchising businesses; Description of the Schurman line paper designs.

The article presents information about several conferences related to the computer industry. Technical Symposium on Computer Science and Education, will be held in Anaheim, California, during February 12-13, 1976 and the conference will be organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Biennial International Codata Conference will be held in Boulder, Colorado, on November 1, 1975. 1976 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1975.

The author reminisces his childhood experience in making paper airplanes and studying aeronautics. He says that he was able to make different paper airplanes when he was a child by reading origami books. He adds that his paper fighters came along when he began college at the University of California at Berkeley. He relates making paper airplanes with his life as a struggling aviator.

Reports on the battling of a plan by environmental activists of a plan to construct a recycled newspaper mill in West Sacramento, California. Complaint by the Sacramento Valley Toxics Campaign of the handling of air emissions and wastewater treatment of the plant; Benefits of newspaper recycling to California; Air pollution caused by trucking newspapers.

Reports the acquisition of the papers of British novelist Hilary Mantel by Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Novels of Mantel; Inclusion of literary drafts, correspondence, journals, photographs and ephemera in the papers; Awards received by Mantel.

Features Susan Bahl, an interior designer from Sebastopol, California, about remodeling houses for resale. Sensitivity of Bahl to chemical-filled products she used in her work; Information on outgassing; Coverage and decorative possibilities of low- and zero-volatile organic compound paints. INSETS: Color Cues;Palatable Paints.

Describes an electronic paper in a laboratory in Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. Comments from scientist Robert Sprague; Reputation of the center; Information on the development arm of Xerox called Xerox New Enterprises; Future plans of Xerox.

Reports that Philip Cushway's gallery Artrock in San Francisco, California displays blotter paper soaked in liquid LSD as folk art. Description of several blotter paper works.

The article focuses on the digitization of the operations and processes at California Distribution. The company provides business logistics solutions for clients ranging from coordinating shipments of raw materials and components to overseeing the finished products. The company purchased a multi-functional digital copiers from Ricoh Co. Ltd. and a ShareScan OP document scanning and distribution software from eCopy Inc. to fully digitize the company's paperwork and boost efficiency in the entire process. The software could email and electronically transfer digital scans to a shared network server.

Reports on the dismissal of a case against a man suspected of drug trafficking after a Los Angeles, Calif. court found no evidence clearly connecting the man's drug-tainted money to drugs. Proliferation of bills that contain traces of cocaine or another illicity drug actually stuck to the paper.

This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

The article focuses on the financial status of campus newspaper "Daily 49er" at California State College in Long Beach, California. It states that the newspaper enjoyed a boost in the financial commitment of the university. However, the newspaper encounter a controversy on going on-line only in 2007, resulting to the dismissal of William A. Babcock, chairman of Journalism.

The article discusses environmental scientist Steven Stein's habit of following garbage trucks as part of his research on how to reduce litter such as the debris that falls off of waste management vehicles as of January 2014. According to the article, Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags each year. It states that these types of bags have been outlawed in 90 municipalities in California, including the city of Los Angeles, California. Reusable shopping bags are examined.

The article reports on the decision of the Orange County District Attorney's office to withdraw a subpoena for notes, unedited video footage and other documents from "Lariat," a student newspaper at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. The decision was made after the newspaper asserted its right to withhold the material under the state's shield law and after the defendant agreed to plead guilty. The case involves "Lariat's" coverage of the arrest of student Zach Chanoski for allegedly assaulting a campus safety officer in April 2008.

This article offers information on Brondell, a bidet manufacturer based in San Francisco, California. The company manufactures Swash, a bidget that can be installed on toilet seats. Owners of the company are Scott Pinizzotto and David Samuel. Its revenue in 2007 was $2.28 million. Its projected revenue for 2008 is $6.15 million.

The article reports the findings of a newspaper regarding the alleged misuse of his Pentecostal ministry assets by a California TV preacher. Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), whose network airs some of the most prominent figures on the Religious Right has been accused of using donations from supporters to finance a lavish lifestyle. The investigations carried out by the Los Angeles Times reveals that TBN pays Paul Crouch $403,700 a year and his wife Jan Crouch $361,000. The ministry owns 30 homes in the U.S. that are at the disposal of the Crouches.

The article provides information concerning use of electronic papers in Long Beach, California. The author said that electronic paper seems to be coming of age. E Ink Corp. has exhibited a slew of launched products at the Society for Information Display conference in May 2007. The company has also showed flexible-display prototypes from half a dozen E Ink customers.

Reports on the controversy over the decisions of California State Secretary Kevin Shelley and Nevada State Secretary Dean Heller that touch screen voting machines must provide a paper trail by 2006. Comments of Shelley and Heller on the electronic voting system; Advantages and disadvantages of producing a paper trail; Issue on the reliability of the data produced by the system.

Reports the launch of a Web site and associated digital services by the California Digital Library. Intent to distribute academic research results and working papers; Features of the eScholarship Repository; Focus on working papers from the humanities and social sciences; Background on the tools behind the eScholarship Repository.

The article reports the completion by the California State Library of the Quentin L. Kopp papers and the Clark-Burr Family Archives. Kopp is a former California State senator and a judge with the California Superior Court of San Mateo County. The article also mentions that JoAnn Fujikawa and Sarah Boone collaborated to complete the processing of the Clark-Burr Family Archives representing five generations of the cattle and dairy industry in the Hanford area of Kings County.

The article reports on an ordinance enacted by Manhattan Beach in California to ban the use of plastic bags. The town decided it was inappropriate to file an environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. There was a concern that the ordinance might encourage much bigger cities to enact similar restrictions. It was said that the state spurns the zone of interest test and allows public interest and taxpayer standing.

The article focuses on Eli Broad, a powerful billionaire who is one of the most philanthropic men in Los Angeles, California. He is the major mover behind the city's downtown redevelopment and a liberal Democrat who made his money in real estate and insurance. Along with Ron Burkle, another successful businessman, he is making bids for the news paper company Tribune Co.

The article reports that concern over the environmental dangers of plastic shopping bags recently caused San Francisco, California to ban them. The bags are difficult to recycle, take centuries to decompose, and litter landscapes. A hosts of other cities, including Phoenix, Boston, Berkeley, Oakland and Santa Cruz, California, and Portland, Oregon, are considering similar measures.

Focuses on Enron Corp. The complexity of the company's global business, including its involvement with the energy industries in the United States; Investigation of the company for allegedly manipulating markets and price gouging; Efforts of California to limit the electricity prices which Enron can charge customers; History of the company. INSET: Enron's biggest assets are on paper, by Anne Kates Smith.

Reports on the preservation of the papers of Walter Kohn, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the University of California. Research tool for students and scholars; Part to the Special Collections in Davidson Library; Advocacy of Kohn for international peace and human rights.

Explores why the documents in the custody of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California is still not available. Law that calls for the release of the documents; One issue regarding the release; Suspicion on the administration of United States President George W. Bush with regards to the release of the papers.

Reports the acquisition of the papers of poet Hannah Weiner by University of California's Mandeville Special Collections Library in San Diego, California. Publication of the book 'The Magritte Poems' in 1966; Components of Weiner's archives; Illustration of Weiner's compositional strategies in her notebooks; Titles of the published works of Weiner.

Makes observations about distinctions that have been made about possible recipients of an earthquake-relief package of $8.6 billion signed by President Bill Clinton. Illegal immigrants versus citizens; Argument that long-term aid should only go to legal residents; Why the discrimination may be hard to practice; Amount of undocumented immigrants in California; Figures from Governor Pete Wilson; How illegal immigrants contribute to California.

The article reports on the letters of gratitude from cadet members of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps Sacramento Division in California who received grant funding from the Navy League STEM Institute to attend the Aerospace Museum of California's (AMC) summer Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Camp. The cadets share their experience and the lessons they learned including about engineering, paper rocket building, planets and stars.

Reports that Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California has implemented a memorandum to warn its employees from destroying any paper or electronic records dealing with the proposed merger as a result of the anticipated federal antitrust investigation. Details on the proposed merger; Contents of the memorandum; Anticipated effects of the merger.