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Today's top headlines Friday, December 18, 2015  |  uniondemocrat.com

Cultural exchange: Event celebrates PG&E discovery of Me-Wuk tribal artifacts Ancestors of the oldest people in the Sierra Nevada ventured to California's Golden Gate city on Thursday to share song and dance, evoking harvests and families in language that comes from grandmothers and grandfathers going back thousands of years. It was a mountain tribe saying thanks Continue reading →

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Today's Headlines   Immunization campaigns successful Immunization public information campaigns in Tuolumne County have cut the number of personal belief exemptions in half. In 2014, the Tuolumne Continue reading →   Dunlavy Field to close for upgrades Sonora runners, walkers, and sports teams will have to search for an alternative venue when the Sonora High School stadium Continue reading →   Abandoned dogs need homes for Christmas Dexter, a black coonhound mix breed dog, fills up on food each night and settles into his spot on the Continue reading →   Grant funds student hospitality jobs A near million-dollar grant will give Columbia College students paying jobs while earning an associate's degree, and do it all Continue reading →   Boutique wins top decorating prize Joan's Boutique was awarded first place in the seventh annual Historic Downtown Sonora Best Dressed Window or Holiday Display Contest Continue reading →   Sonora leaders mull new landscaping rules The Sonora City Council is scheduled to consider passing an ordinance Monday to comply with new water-efficiency standards for landscaping, Continue reading →   O Holy Nights: Candles, stories of Jesus and holiday hymns will mark Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve, churches throughout the Mother Lode will take a moment to slow down, sing by candlelight and focus Continue reading →   Archive, others get funding boost Christmas came early on Tuesday at Tuolumne County's archive. Sonora Area Foundation directors Roger Francis, Gary Dambacher and Mark Kraft surprised Continue reading →

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Attorney General Bondi's Weekly Briefing

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PROTECTING FLORIDIANS | TEXT VERSION | EN ESPAÑOL Attorney General Bondi's Weekly Briefing We learned this week, about one of what, hopefully, will be many arrests connected to the testing of a previously unprocessed sexual assault kit in Florida. Rodrecius Hamilton was arrested after a sexual assault kit from a 2009 rape was recently submitted to the state crime lab. Forensic evidence extracted from the kit allegedly matched Hamilton's DNA, which was previously collected and stored in a criminal database. This is just the beginning. As we continue our mission to eliminate the state's backlog of unprocessed sexual assault kits, we expect many more matches and many more arrests; not only in Florida, but nationwide. Finding these rapists and taking them off our streets will help make Florida an even safer place to live and raise a family, but we must also think of the victims. Each one of these kits represents a person who was violated in the worst possible way. Sexual assault is a horrific crime that profoundly changes the lives of victims and their families. The number of forcible rapes and violent sexual assaults in Florida is on the rise, and we must do everything in our power to stop the rapists and child molesters who prey on vulnerable Floridians. These monsters belong behind bars and eliminating the backlog of unprocessed kits is a major step to that end. This arrest serves as a reminder that testing these kits is a vital public safety issue, and I will continue to work diligently with lawmakers, law enforcement and victims' advocates in the upcoming legislative session to help eliminate the backlog. In The News Newly tested rape kit from 2009 leads to arrest, WTSP Bondi announces dismantling of Volusia County gift card, shoplifting scheme, Tallahassee Democrat 23 now arrested in Volusia racketeering operation, News 13 Bondi shuts down air conditioning, air duct service scheme, Palm Beach Post Avoiding Real Estate Scams, Fox News Protecting Floridians Attorney General Bondi Shuts Down AC Service Scheme Attorney General Pam Bondi's Office obtained a temporary injunction to shut down an air conditioning service scheme targeting vulnerable Floridians. According to the complaint, 11 companies and individuals named as defendants used false claims, intimidation and scare tactics to coerce hundreds of consumers, many of them seniors, into purchasing expensive air conditioning parts and services that were not needed or rendered. The scheme cost consumers millions of dollars. The defendants allegedly used bait and switch tactics, enticing consumers with offers of massively discounted air conditioning services but then convincing the consumers to sign up for much higher priced services instead. According to the complaint, the defendants used weekly mailers and online ads to advertise air duct cleaning services, often for less than $20. Air duct cleaning services typically cost between $450 and $1,000. Once consumers signed up for these services, a representative of the companies visited the consumer's home and attempted to sell other, more expensive services. More. 18 Arrested in Major Gift Card and Shoplifting Scheme Attorney General Pam Bondi's Office of Statewide Prosecution and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office announced the dismantling of a massive racketeering operation resulting in 18 arrests. The defendants allegedly shoplifted merchandise from superstores, such as Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, Toys R Us and Wal-Mart, and then returned the stolen goods for in-store credit loaded onto gift cards. After obtaining the fraudulent gift cards, the defendants then sold them at Cash For Gift Card businesses in Deltona and Daytona Beach. Among those arrested is a father-son duo, Dale Holcombe, 52, and James Holcombe, 27, who are the owners of the Cash For Gift Card businesses. More. Florida Announces Two Multi-Agency, Multi-State Life Claim Settlement Agreements Totaling More than $5.5 Million The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation Florida Department of Financial Services and the Florida Office of the Attorney General announced national life claim settlement agreements have been signed with Jackson National for $2.5 million and AXA for $3.28 million. These settlement agreements focus on the one-sided use of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File (DMF) to stop paying a deceased person's annuity, but not using the same information to find and begin paying the deceased's family or other beneficiaries for life insurance policies. More. Events Attorney General Bondi on Fox News Channel's The Property Man, hosted by Bob Massi, discussing how homeowners can protect themselves from fraud and scams. Watch the segment that aired over the weekend here.

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Noted astronomer urges viewers to unlock the secrets in the soil

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Noted astronomer urges viewers to unlock the secrets in the soil Learn more about the basics and benefits of soil health. Dr. Laura Danly of California's Griffith Observatory is helping USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service promote its "healthy soils" campaign. But why is an astronomer talking about soil, rather than the stars? "Studying Earth is just like studying the planets. Earth is a planet, and it's the most amazing planet we know. It's the only one we know that has life on it, so it's a natural for me to want to talk about Earth and share some important messages with people about how we can make Earth healthier," Danly says. Watch the video (2:20) USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.        Questions for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service?  Contact us STAY CONNECTED: SUBSCRIBER SERVICES: Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe All  |  Help USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users). This email was sent to guyperea1@gmail.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service · Public Affairs Division · 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Room 6221-S · Washington, D.C. 20250 · 1-202-720-3210

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Analytical Biochemistry Volume 494 ,  Pages 1-114, 1 February 2016 Methods in the Biological Sciences, submit your next methods paper today. Editorial Board    Pages ii-iii   Regular Articles Identification of peptide inhibitors of penicillinase using a phage display library   Original Research Article Pages 4-9 Qiongjing Zou, Kun-Lin Yang Electrochemical immunosensor based on Pd–Au nanoparticles supported on functionalized PDDA-MWCNT nanocomposites for aflatoxin B1 detection   Original Research Article Pages 10-15 Songbai Zhang, Youming Shen, Guangyu Shen, Sha Wang, Guoli Shen, Ruqin Yu Multicolor-based discrimination of 21 short tandem repeats and amelogenin using four fluorescent universal primers   Original Research Article Pages 16-22 Masaru Asari, Katsuhiro Okuda, Chisato Hoshina, Tomohiro Omura, Yoshikazu Tasaki, Hiroshi Shiono, Kazuo Matsubara, Keiko Shimizu Unaided trifluoroacetic acid pretreatment solubilizes polyglutamine peptides and retains their biophysical properties of aggregation   Original Research Article Pages 23-30 Gunasekhar Burra, Ashwani Kumar Thakur Integrated pathway-based and network-based analysis of GC-MS rice metabolomics data under diazinon stress to infer affected biological pathways   Original Research Article Pages 31-36 Vahideh Mahdavi, Faezeh Ghanati, Alireza Ghassempour High-resolution melt analysis of DNA methylation to discriminate semen in biological stains   Original Research Article Pages 40-45 Joana Antunes, Deborah S.B.S. Silva, Kuppareddi Balamurugan, George Duncan, Clarice S. Alho, Bruce McCord Definitive localization of intracellular proteins: Novel approach using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, with glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase as a model   Original Research Article Pages 55-67 Netanya Y. Spencer, Ziying Yan, Le Cong, Yulong Zhang, John F. Engelhardt, Robert C. Stanton Identification of Vibrio cholerae serotypes in high-risk marine products with non-gel sieving capillary electrophoresis   Original Research Article Pages 68-75 Chen Zhou, Ming Li, Chengjun Sun, Haimin Zou, Xin Wu, Liyin Zhang, Siyuan Tao, Bingyue Wang, Yongxin Li An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-based system for determining the physiological level of poly(ADP-ribose) in cultured cells   Original Research Article Pages 76-81 Chieri Ida, Sachiko Yamashita, Masaki Tsukada, Teruaki Sato, Takayuki Eguchi, Masakazu Tanaka, Shin Ogata, Takahiro Fujii, Yoshisuke Nishi, Susumu Ikegami, Joel Moss, Masanao Miwa Multichannel quartz crystal microbalance array: Fabrication, evaluation, application in biomarker detection   Original Research Article Pages 85-92 Wenyan Tao, Peng Lin, Yanqing Ai, Hairui Wang, Shanming Ke, Xierong Zeng Electrophoretic mobility shift in native gels indicates calcium-dependent structural changes of neuronal calcium sensor proteins   Original Research Article Pages 93-100 Jeffrey Viviano, Anuradha Krishnan, Hao Wu, Venkat Venkataraman Graphene oxide supported rhombic dodecahedral Cu2O nanocrystals for the detection of carcinoembryonic antigen   Original Research Article Pages 101-107 Taotao Feng, Xiaoyu Chen, Xiuwen Qiao, Zhao Sun, Haining Wang, Yu Qi, Chenglin Hong A novel approach for oxidation analysis of therapeutic proteins   Original Research Article Pages 108-113 Iva Turyan, Nikhil Khatwani, Zoran Sosic, Shiranthi Jayawickreme, Daniel Mandler   Notes And Tips Quencher-free hairpin probes for real-time detection of T4 polynucleotide kinase activity    Pages 1-3 Changbei Ma, Haisheng Liu, Junyan Du, Hanchun Chen, Hailun He, Shunxin Jin, Kemin Wang, Jun Wang Rapid method for protein quantitation by Bradford assay after elimination of the interference of polysorbate 80    Pages 37-39 Yongfeng Cheng, Haiming Wei, Rui Sun, Zhigang Tian, Xiaodong Zheng Dual emission fluorescent silver nanoclusters for sensitive detection of the biological coenzyme NAD+/NADH    Pages 46-48 Yufeng Yuan, Kehan Huang, Mengfang Chang, Cuifang Qin, Sanjun Zhang, Haifeng Pan, Yan Chen, Jianhua Xu A PCR-based approach to assess genomic DNA contamination in RNA: Application to rat RNA samples    Pages 49-51 Bhaja K. Padhi, Manjeet Singh, Nicholas Huang, Guillaume Pelletier HPLC determination of α-ketoglutaramate [5-amino-2,5-dioxopentanoate] in biological samples    Pages 52-54 Yevgeniya I. Shurubor, Arthur J.L. Cooper, Elena P. Isakova, Yulia I. Deryabina, M. Flint Beal, Boris F. Krasnikov Next-generation sequencing-based 5′ rapid amplification of cDNA ends for alternative promoters    Pages 82-84 Bambarendage P.U. Perera, Joomyeong Kim

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GDACS daily newsletter for 18/12/2015

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Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 18/12/2015

This daily newsletter provides an overview of the natural disasters that happened in the last 24 hours and response measures for ongoing disasters. GDACS currently covers earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and floods. The color coding (red, orange, green) is related to the estimated humanitarian impact of the event.

Disaster events in the last 24 hours

GDACS detected the following potential disasters. For up-to-date media coverage, latest maps and ReliefWeb content related to these disasters, please go to GDACS homepage.

	Green alert for tropical cyclone TWENTYNINE-15. Population affected by Category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.
	From 16/12/2015 to 18/12/2015, a Tropical Depression (maximum wind speed of 46 km/h) TWENTYNINE-15 was active in NWPacific. The cyclone affects these countries: [unknown] (vulnerability [unknown]). Estimated population affected by category 1 (120 km/h) wind speeds or higher is 0.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 6.6M, Depth:93.72km) in Mexico 17/12/2015 19:49 UTC, 743880 people within 100km.
	On 12/17/2015 7:49:54 PM, an earthquake occurred in Mexico potentially affecting 743880 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 6.6M, Depth:93.72km.

	Green earthquake alert (Magnitude 5.4M, Depth:72.57km) in Philippines 17/12/2015 12:44 UTC, 1903377 people within 100km.
	On 12/17/2015 12:44:03 PM, an earthquake occurred in Philippines potentially affecting 1903377 people within 100km. The earthquake had Magnitude 5.4M, Depth:72.57km.

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Myanmar Floods 3-August-2015 updated: 13-August-2015

7.9M Earthquake in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 06:11 UTC 25-Apr-2015 updated: 9-August-2015 EQ-2015-000048-NPL

Typhoon Maysak - FS Micronesia 31-March-2015 updated: 14-Apr-2015

Chile - floods 26-March-2015 updated: 27-Apr-2015 FL-2015-000027-CHL

Tropical Cyclone Pam 11-March-2015 updated: 30-July-2015 TC-2015-000023-VUT

Typhoon Chan-hom 11-July-2015 updated: 11-July-2015

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