Seeing Through the Big Data Fog
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- Written by Wallace Ravven
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Berkeley, California - A neuroscientist studies how stress affects the brain’s ability to form new memories. Across the campus, another researcher looks for telltale signs of distant planets in a sliver of sky. What each of them seeks may lie hidden in an avalanche of data.
Anthropologist wins Russian book award
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Berkeley, California - Berkeley anthropologist Alexei Yurchak has received the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Prize, Russia’s most prestigious award for the best nonfiction book of the year in the humanities. The award was given for a Russian version of his Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton University Press 2006), which focuses on the last decades of the Soviet Union and its sudden collapse.
Six Bakersfield Residents Indicted for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine
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Fresno, California - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 25; Salvador Morales, 26; Jose Alejandro Jacobo, 23; Josefina Blanco, 23; Justin Alan Rivera, 20; and Henry Polin Morales III, 20 all residents of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
California Man Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorism and Being ‘Straw Purchaser’ of Assault Rifles Ultimately Used in San Bernardino, California, Attack
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Riverside, California - Enrique Marquez Jr., 24, of Riverside, California, a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, was charged today with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists based upon his role in terrorist plotting with Farook in 2011 and 2012, the unlawful purchase of the two assault rifles used in the deadly shooting two weeks ago and defrauding immigration authorities by entering into a sham marriage with a member of Farook’s family.
Four Romanian Nationals Charged in Bribery Scheme
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Sacramento, California - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Dumitru Martin, 55, a Romanian citizen residing in Long Island, New York, and Anamaria Cruceru, 48; Constantin Schiller, 62; and Marcelle Banaga, 40, all of whom reside in Romania, charging them with conspiracy to commit bribery and with bribery of a public official, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Urges Californians to Be on the Lookout For the ‘Grandparent Scam’ and Other Recently Reported Scams
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San Francisco, California - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris issued a consumer alert urging older Californians to be on the lookout for the “Grandparent Scam” and other scams targeting seniors and others that have been reported to the California Department of Justice. During the holidays, older Californians are especially vulnerable to scams perpetrated by individuals who prey on their good will.
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