question: In which state did Joan Horvath work for sixteen years?
answer: California
context: Title: Elaine Bartlett
  Passage: Elaine Bartlett was a woman charged with a first offense felony for selling cocaine.  Elaine, a mother of four children, spent sixteen years in the Bedford Hills prison in New York.  During the time of Elaine's arrest, New York had just undergone some major changes with their drug laws.  The controversial Rockefeller drug laws caused a major upset and cause many to second-guess the criminal justice system's benign motives.  After he release in 2000, Elaine had no proper resources to help her get back on track with her life but that was not an excuse for her.  Bartlett was a woman on a mission who was going to prove to not only to herself, but to the world that she was going to make it.  After having lived through sixteen years in prison, she became an activist to repeal the Rockefeller drug laws.  Bartlett helped found the Mothers of the Disappeared which is an advocacy group that is fighting to try and repeal the drug laws.  Not only has Bartlett helped found this organization, but she has also gone up against New York state legislators, and delivered speeches at rallies.  Besides the Rockefeller drug laws, Bartlett has also made an impact in attending anti-drug law events in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Texas.  While Elaine was still in prison, she wanted to be involved with as many activities as she possibly could in order to keep busy and to show that she had the full potential to better herself and get an education.  In 1999, Bartlett obtained her associate degree from Mercy College while she was still in prison.
  Title: Jenny Is a Good Thing
  Passage: Jenny Is a Good Thing is a 1969 American short documentary film about children and poverty, directed by Joan Horvath.  Produced by Project Head Start, it shows the importance of good nutrition for underprivileged nursery school children.  The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
  Title: Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor
  Passage: In 1670, when the Kangxi Emperor was sixteen years old, he issued the Sacred Edict 聖諭 ("Sheng Yu"), consisting of sixteen maxims, each seven characters long, to instruct the average citizen in the basic principles of Confucian orthodoxy.  They were to be publicly posted in every town and village, then read aloud two times each month.  Since they were written in terse formal classical Chinese, a local scholar was required explicate them using the local dialect of the spoken language.  This practice continued into the 20th century.
  Title: Missouri Senate
  Passage: The Missouri Senate is the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly.  It has 34 members, representing districts with an average population of 174,000.  Its members serve four-year terms, with half the seats being up for election every two years.The Missouri State Congressional Term Limits Amendment, also known as Amendment 12, was on the November 3, 1992 ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment, where it was approved.  The measure amended the Constitution to prohibit a person from serving more than eight years in either the state house of representatives or state senate, or a total of sixteen years in both houses.
  Title: Feliciano Béjar
  Passage: Feliciano Béjar Ruíz (1920 – February 1, 2007) was a Mexican artist and artisan, best known for a style of sculpture called “magiscopios” which involved various materials along with crystals and/or lenses to play with light or create distorted visions.  He was born in rural central Mexico and was completely self-taught as an artist.  He was creative as a young child, drawing and creating his first sculpture like pieces from papier-mâché.  His art career began in New York, where he had travelled and lived for a time in Hell’s Kitchen.  His drawing the attention of Arthur Ewart and Frances Coleman, with the latter helping him have his first exhibition and whose husband helped sponsor his time in Europe.  The magiscopes arose from an intense interest in light and the sun, which began when he saw a boy in Italy playing with reflections of the sun in puddles.  Images of the sun appeared in his painting and sculpture, developing into the use of crystals and lenses.  In his later life, Béjar withdrew from the art world for about sixteen years, disillusioned with it and retreating to his ranch in the State of Mexico.  He returned in 1998, with a retrospective of his work in Mexico City and continued to show his work until shortly before his death.
  Title: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Passage: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in La Cañada Flintridge, California and Pasadena, California, United States.
  Title: John M. Rowan
  Passage: John M. Rowan was born May 17, 1829 in Craig County, Virginia.  When he was about sixteen years old he came to Gap Mills, West Virginia to work as a clerk for Andrew Summers.  He worked there for several years until the California Gold Rush in 1849.  After receiving word about this new opportunity he joined in partnership with several other man and purchased a ship at Richmond, Virginia.  The ship was provisioned for two years and then set on its journey around Cape Horn and to California.  It was here that John had a fair amount of success with his gold hunting.  After his successful time in California he returned to Gap Mills where he married Virginia Summers in 1855.  On April 23, 1857, Virginia gave birth to a son, Andrew Summers Rowan, who was named for her father.  In 1860 and 1862 he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.  He became a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, serving as Speaker of the House from 1887-1889.  In 1891 he was appointed to the newly created state board of agriculture and from 1892-1896 served as State Treasurer.  In 1904, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
  Title: Joan Horvath
  Passage: Joan Horvath is an American astronomer, aeronautic scientist, writer, and entrepreneur.  She worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for sixteen years, in the technology transfer office and on the Magellan and TOPEX/Poseidon flight projects.
  Title: Cleveland Ballet
  Passage: The Cleveland Ballet was founded in 1972 by Dennis Nahat and Ian Horvath as a dance school, the School of Cleveland Ballet.  They subsequently recruited professional dancers who by 1975 were previewing performances around Cleveland.  The company first performed at the Hanna Theatre November 16, 1976.  A few years later the Ohio Chamber Orchestra began providing live music and in 1981 the company presented its first full-length ballet, "The Nutcracker". " Coppelia", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Swan Lake" were next added to the repertory.  In 1984 Horvath resigned, leaving Nahat solely responsible for the company and school.  That year the ballet moved to the State Theater in Playhouse Square.
  Title: Samantha Nutt
  Passage: Samantha Joan Nutt, CM, OOnt, FRCPC, CCFP (born October 1969), is founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada.  She is a physician with more than sixteen years of experience working in war zones.  Her 2011 book "Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid" details her work over the course of fifteen years in some of the most devastated regions of the world.
citations: Joan Horvath Jet Propulsion Laboratory