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(a) A seaman on a fishing vessel, fish processing vessel, or fish tender vessel shall notify the master or individual in charge of the vessel or other agent of the employer regarding any illness, disability, or injury suffered by the seaman when in service to the vessel not later than seven days after the date on which the illness, disability, or injury arose.
Source(Pub. L. 100–424, § 6(a),Sept. 9, 1988, 102 Stat. 1592.)
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Ulfat Shaikh, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
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Dr. Ulfat Shaikh is the Director for Healthcare Quality at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and is a board-certified pediatrician at the UC Davis Children's Hospital.
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Dr. Shaikh's expertise is in measuring performance in healthcare and supporting clinicians in designing, implementing and evaluating quality improvement initiatives. She has led training and coaching programs in health care quality improvement methods for public, private and academic organizations.
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M.P.H., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1997
M.S., UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California, 2007
Michigan State University, Michigan, 2002
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Education, UC Davis School of Medicine, 2012
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de la Torre A, Sadeghi B, Green RD, Kaiser LL, Flores YG, Jackson CF, Shaikh U, Whent L, Schaefer SE. Ninos Sanos, Familia Sana: Mexican immigrant study protocol for a multifaceted CBPR intervention to combat childhood obesity in two rural California towns. BMC Public Health. 2013, 13:1033.
Shaikh U, Berrong J, Nettiksimmons J, Byrd RS. Impact of Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support on the Management of Pediatric Obesity. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2014, 29 (1): 1-9.
Lipana LS, Bindal D, Nettiksimmons J, Shaikh U. Telemedicine and face-to-face care for pediatric obesity. Telemedicine and E-Health. 2013;19(10):806-808.
Shaikh U, Meyers FJ. Decentralizing quality improvement. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2013. 28(3):261-2.
Shaikh U, Natale JE, Nettiksimmons J, Li ST. Improving pediatric healthcare care delivery by engaging residents in team-based quality improvement projects. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2013.28(2):120-126.
Shaikh U, Nettiksimmons J, Joseph J, Tancredi D, Romano PS. Collaborative Practice Improvement for Childhood Obesity Prevention in Rural Clinics: The Healthy Eating Active Living TeleHealth Community of Practice. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2013. 28(6).
Shaikh U, Nettiksimmons J, Joseph JG, Tancredi DJ, Romano PS. Clinical practice and variation of care for childhood obesity at seven clinics in California. Qual Prim Care. 2012;20(5):335-44.
Nelson R, Buss S, Shaikh U. Using examination room computers to facilitate patient education: is it practical and does it work? California Pediatrician. Spring 2012. 22-23.
Shaikh U, Nettiksimmons J, Bell RA, Tancredi D, Romano PS. Accuracy of Parental Report and Electronic Health Record Documentation as Measures of Diet and Physical Activity Counseling. Academic Pediatrics. 2012.12(2):81-87.
Mulgrew K, Shaikh U, Nettiksimmons J. Comparison of Parent Satisfaction with Care for Childhood Obesity Delivered Face-to-Face and by Telemedicine. Telemedicine and E-Health. 2011.17(5):383-387.
Shaikh U, Nelson R, Tancredi D, Byrd RS. Presentation of Body Mass Index within an Electronic Health Record to Improve Weight Assessment and Counseling in Children and Adolescents. Informatics in Primary Care. 2011.18(4):235-244.


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The Saracon solar cooker is a trough style solar cooker, which heats water to the boiling point to create steam. The steam is then directed into an insulated cooking box. The cooker is used to prepare meals for 15 - 30 residents of Auroville, an "experimental" township in the Viluppuram district, in Tamil Nadu, India, near Puducherry in South India.
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It is as yet too early to skim the breadth of political benefits that President Jakaya Kikwete and the ruling party are likely to obtain, on account of a less vaunted 'skin shedding' exercise, that of a number of cabinet ministers, close to a quarter of the list.
It is even possible sections of the media will remember it as 'the Friday night massacre' for it is evident that in history Friday night is best for massacres, whether it was editorial shuffles during the first phase administration, or now, ministers. One thing is that the shake up took a little long to come about, and in the end it is unclear how it is harnessed.
Were it that all what is needed is a political gesture that the president is awake and listening – for everything to return to normal in terms of active regime support that also shores up the prestige of CCM as a party to be relied upon for solutions and hope – the gesture would be enough.
But the trouble is that this is a major step about one third of the problem, namely accountability, while there is still a problem of workable administrative systems and especially controlling expenditures. Here it is hard to say what Parliament is even demanding in that direction, as a plethora of demands is heard, not a clear solution.
In that case it can be contended that the shake up has the hallmark of becoming a lost chance of opportunity for reform, a situation where people awake to new expectation, and glad about the change, could have taken up new challenges.
But since the government – by which meant chiefly the president and perhaps the party central committee – are happy with the state of affairs and are at best worried about drifting popularity, it will be easier for them to bask in the sunshine of public support for that measure. Bureaucrats as usual will feel the water, find out the limits of change, thus reasonably adapting to the situation.
Were it that the change at the level of cabinet composition is followed up with at least a review of procedure so that the Budget is at least spent as planned, and even improved in his money is allocated, change could go a little further.
But ideas given in that direction have hardly gone beyond seeking prosecution powers for the Controller and Auditor General, and at some point the parliamentary committee for local government finances also wanted to have powers of prosecution.
All this risked degenerating into chaos, as hauling government officials to court can't be done randomly, requiring the law to stay.
The principal problem here is that the three stages need to be taken together so as to really solve the problem at the foundation, while even making the first step is exhaustive to the top levels of state, and can hardly go any further.
Changing a few compromised ministers is one thing, altering procedures to ensure supervision of government finances is another, but the key is finally bringing up policies that enhance productivity at all levels. This way, public officials will live on their salaries and inspectors can do their job.
Basically that is what the parliamentary outcry is all about, but it is immersed in a camera obscura, a dark chamber of comprehending graft and misallocation of public funds as just an ethical problem.
Dr Karl Marx wrote in 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' in 1875 that 'right can never be higher than the economic foundation on which it is based,' in
which case 'marginal productivity of salaries' has to change if ethics, probity are to be fostered.
A basic change in the purchasing power of what government officials are paid can't be willed by the state but is a result of the policies that the country has chosen to implement.
It is difficult to imagine how at some point in future – one could say 'I have a dream' like Dr Martin Luther King – MPs and political parties shall grasp the truism that probity in the government is linked with purchasing power of salaries, and that is tied to policies.
They have no idea that the policies that are now followed by the government, in Tanzania as in most or virtually all African states propel a minimal productivity of labor, and a marginal ability to purchase goods and services with salaries. In that case frenetic action ensues to decide who shall be allocated service delivery for exorbitant pecuniary reward.
Ministries spend ten times on 'other charges' than they spend on salaries, the reason being the low marginal productivity of salaries, related to the social imperative of living as senior executives in the government.
Precisely how this need for a particular level of endowment socially is expressed relates to the wider socioeconomic reality, especially the presence of quasi-state organizations of an economic character, specialized authorities and agencies of various sorts.
Their artificial endowments at the salary level act as a cost push as others rush to equalize benefits or image in social terms, fostering misallocations.
At the same time there is a prevalent quasi-feudal hierarchy arising from the culture of allowances, as usually such income is badly spent, on luxuries. When people obtain means of transport by using salaries and entering personal loans, chances that top level government officials will all go for cars worth 100m/- and above are absolutely limited, not to say negligible.
But when this endowment comes at an absolute discount at the expense of public coffers, no personal loss criteria is exercised against that choice, and instead a different kind of hierarchy takes precedence, of 'who has' this or that vehicle.
That is why rectification efforts arising from a parliamentary uproar are unlikely make any real gains in terms of compliance with procedures, though admittedly this may help to contain a few excesses.
Worse, in many cases even those who tendered resignation letters or were expected to do so aren't convinced of their own wrong doing, and history testifies to the fact that resignation is often needed so as to calm the public psyche. If that is the case for the majority of those tendering resignations, it means that the event doesn't even ignite change of ministry habits but is seen as accidental; everything remains as it is.
Transportation minister Eng. Omari Nundu battled accusations against him all the way, and in many cases resignation is seen as political convenience, to calm public feelings.
That means efficiency of the payments system, project implementation etc will remain the same, on account chiefly of prerogatives of a legal character that the state maintains. It denies the state plenty in terms of capital inflows for infrastructure, while igniting graft.
In the final analysis there is no likely use of this contention of probity at top ministerial levels to also examine the sort of procedures and implementation results that either force an impression of graft, or indeed cultivate graft as such, despite denials.
The point is that in economic terms bribes arise from wide options on the part of executives or any official which can be exercised discretionally without any consequence on the part of a decision maker. When capital (investment, purchaser, procurement agent, etc) seeks things to go in a particular way, perhaps a little indulgent on his part, and an executive official can bring about such a result without harm to his own office, pecuniary consideration helps.
So long as policy insists on a myriad of state prerogatives on each and everything, it will not be possible to resolve problems of graft that are encountered all the way, for it is this graft that actually motivates those who hold those offices.
The reason executives refuse economic reform is that it reduces prerogatives for public officials in a way that is almost always detrimental to the public interest and in favor of personal interest, as when foreign researchers say investors are 'sold' land at 2.5m/- per acre, which is peanuts to say the least.
The price of land might be marginal but someone pays to be sold the land, as an expression of privilege since several investors could be looking for it and one is picked.
When it comes to complaints as to how the railways for instance is administered and what the government should do to improve it, and always the answer is that a Chinese company has shown 'interest' in the project, MPs are satisfied with the response.
The reason is that MPs like the government operate from the bottom-line of not privatizing the railway system, and at most contemplated, and invited an Indian firm, to invest in the business itself (transporting goods, purchasing equipment, paying the staff) but without being allowed to take over the property.
Refusing to convert public goods into properties that can be traded, thus provide the condition for appropriate capitalization, is a problem.
MPs and other experts often make references to how countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai (Emirates), Thailand, Korea and others have made great gains in economic growth in the past 50 or 60 years since becoming independent.
But they always go back to the same solutions, in like manner as Peter Serukamba (Kigoma Urban-CCM) underlined in
relation to constructing two extra ship anchoring facilities at the port of Dar es Salaam, urging that 'the loan be signed quickly' so that the work can proceed.
We also heard that Tanesco was waiting for a 480bn/- loan guarantee to be 'expedited' by the government (that is, the Treasury), while alert comes up of an astronomical level of the public debt.
The core of the issue was well presented by Mwalimu Nyerere in his Arusha Declaration background speech in 1967, seeing a rising instability on that account and that is why he brought about the Declaration.
It was to create an economic basis or environment for the proper exercise of party supremacy, so that parliamentary anger for unmet expectations – in liaison with major foreign companies – does not destabilize the government.
He said "when an MP stands up to demand something for his constituency, he believes that the money is there but the problem is the minister, or the government." This is still the way Parliament thinks despite 50 years of global economic change, on account of a negative nationalism which can't think of private property, or converting state assets into property.


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To do the unexpected. To deviate from the norm.
I flipped the script on that bitch when I told her I was leavin her stank ass.
by Jeff Killeen June 27, 2003
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Commonly used in rap battles, it means to take what somebody said against you and to use it against them.
When he started hittin' at people I was with that night, I flipped the script by talking about how he didn't have anyone even with him.
by P. Noland July 18, 2005
to gain control in a dialogue that is being dominated by another person so that you are now in charge.
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Eddie turned out to be a dominating ***hole, then Shanon flipped the sript now he stays home everyday and cries like a baby.
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To turn the tide, blaze a new trail, or otherwise go against a pre-established or preconcieved rule, idea, norm, or expectancy.
Lupe Fiasco would flip the script of the rap game when he released an album that didn't rely on cliched rap tenets such as drugs, sex, and violence to be commercially successful.
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When someone does something deceitful to you, you forgive them, and they take your kindness as a weakness and think they have the upper hand. Now you turn around and do the exact same thing to them, but they never see it coming because they thought you were weak! Gotcha.
Mike made plans with me, later confirmed the plans, seemed really excited about everything and called two hours before to cancel, turns out he had no means to keep the date from the start. I laughed it off, accepted another date and flip the script, this time I no-showed for the date.
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When two individuals have certain roles in a relationship, and once separated for a while, become more like the other person than who they used to be.
He was such a drunk addict always wanting to party, telling me I didn't need to worry about book smarts because I needed to gain street smarts. Then he went to jail and I got drunk and partied, whiled he studied books in his cell. Now that he's out I'm addicted and he's telling me all he learned from his books, and about getting high on life. Why did we flip the script?
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Facebook introduces shared photo albums
Jeff Keller | Published: Aug 26, 2013 at 23:57 UTC15
Facebook has started rolling out shared photo albums to select users of their social network. Currently, photo albums are limited to the user that created it, but shared albums will allow users to create a gallery that can be used by as many as 50 friends, each of whom can upload up to 200 photos. The album will have three privacy settings, which include public, contributors, and friends of contributors.
According to Bob Baldwin, the Facebook engineer that spearheaded the project, the problem with the 'old' way of sharing pictures is that 'right now, if you were at a party and there were three different albums created, you might not be able to see all the photos [based on privacy settings], which is kind of confusing and frustrating'.
The idea for shared albums apparently came from Facebook users and was realized during one of Facebook's company-wide 'Hackathon' sessions.
English-speaking users can be expect to see this feature soon, while those in other countries may have to wait a bit longer.


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Critical Thinking on Sustainable Food Production and Consumer Habits
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Students are assigned to research, write, take a position and present it on the complex issue of sustainable food production and consumer habits.
Bioregion Scale: Regional, National/Continental, Global
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Social & Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Agriculture, Lifestyles & Consumption
Delocalized Diets: Globalization, Food, and Culture
Mary L. Russell, Pierce College
This assignment addresses cultural sustainability by asking students to go beyond distinguishing between five subsistence strategies to examining the impact of globalization on diet and culture.
Bioregion Scale: National/Continental, Local Community/Watershed, Regional, Global
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CLEVELAND -- It all ended just after 5 p.m. Sunday when the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force, with assistance from the Cleveland Police, arrested fugitive Carvon Catron, 28.
Catron was wanted by the Cleveland Police for murder.
It is alleged that on July 29, 2013, Catron was involved in a shootout with his brother, John Catron, over a female friend. The gunfight took place near the 10500 block of Columbia Avenue in Cleveland.
During the exchange of gunfire, an innocent bystander was shot and killed.
John Catron was arrested by the NOVFTF in early August for his role in the murder and the NOVFTF continued the hunt for Carvon Catron.
Catron was profiled in the media as the Fugitive of the Week and was also added to the NOVFTF's "Dangerous Dozen."
Several tips came from the public.
On Sunday, task force officers were conducting surveillance near E. 105th Street and Kimberly Avenue in Cleveland, attempting to locate Catron.
About 4:45 p.m., Catron was seen entering a business.
The NOVFTF called in the Cleveland Police for assistance and all officers then moved in to arrest Catron.
Catron noticed law enforcement approaching and attempted to flee out of the back of the business.
When Catron saw that the building was surrounded, he then gave up without incident.
A small amount of crack cocaine was found on Catron and he was taken to the Cleveland Police Central Processing Unit.
U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said, "Violent offenders need to know that the NOVFTF will stop at nothing to bring fugitives to justice. Great work by the Task Force and the Cleveland Police Department."
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California coastal sage and chaparral
Northern Baja coastal chaparral along the coast highway. @ C. Michael Hogan
The California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion, situated along the southern and central coast of California, and extending along the Pacific coast of the northwest Baja Peninsula, exhibits very high levels of species diversity and endemism. The coastal sage scrub is an endangered ecosystem that holds a number of endangered species. The California gnatcatcher is currently used as an umbrella species to protect the endemic flora and fauna of this region from urban development. The region is listed as an Endemic Bird Area with a large number of avian endemic scrub species. Generally located on high value coastal zone real estate and threatened by land development, the ecoregion represents the struggle between ecological preservation and human population expansion.
Location and general depiction
The California coastal sage and chaparral encompasses coastal terraces, plains, and foothills along the Pacific coast of northwestern Mexico and southern California, USA. The Santa Rosa Mountains of the Peninsular Range are included, although the San Jacinto Mountains just to the northwest are considered under the adjacent ecoregion. The eight Channel Islands are also an element of this ecoregion, as are Isla Guadalupe and Isla Cedros. The climate is Mediterranean, with cold wet winters and arid hot summers. Precipitation levels range between 150 to 500 millimeters per annum. Vegetation typically occurs on soils made of volcanic rocks on the base of the San Pedro Martir Mountains and on soils of sedimentary origin closer to the coastal zone.
The California Coastal Sage and Chaparral supports a diversity of habitats including montane conifer forests, Torrey pine woodland, cypress woodlands, southern walnut woodlands, oak woodlands, riparian woodlands, chamise chaparral, inland and coastal sage scrub, grasslands, vernal pools, and freshwater and salt marshes. Coastal sage scrub, chamise chaparral, and oak woodlands dominate much of the landscape. Coastal sage scrub is a diverse and globally rare habitat type occurring in coastal terraces and foothills at elevations below 1000 meters (m), interspersed with chamise chaparral, oak woodland, grasslands, and salt marsh. This habitat type is characterized by low, aromatic and drought-deciduous shrublands of Black Sage (Salvia mellifera), White Sage (Salvia apiana), Munz's Sage (Salvia munzii), California Sage (Artemisia californica), California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), California Brittlebush (Encelia californica), Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), Lemonade Berry (Rhus integrifolia), and a diverse assemblage of other shrubs, herbaceous plants, cacti and succulents. Opuntia, Yucca, and Dudleya are some of the most common succulent genera, with the latter represented by several species endemic to the ecoregion.
In the more arid southern portion of the ecoregion, Shaw's Agave (Agave shawii), Coastal Cholla (Opuntia prolifera) and Golden-spined Cereus (Bergerocactus emoryi) appear as the most abundant plant elements of the southern part of the ecoregion. Like other chaparrals, coastal sage scrub is a fire-adapted community with many species that resprout quickly from root crowns or rapidly germinate after burns. A number of plants lie dormant in the seed bank for decades, only germinating and flowering after periodic fires. Fire frequencies in sage and chamise chaparral habitats are estimated to generally range between twenty and forty years. Unlike chamise chaparral, Coastal Sage is primarily active during the cool, wet winters and largely sheds leaves during the dry summers. Chamise chaparral generally occurs in higher elevations than Coastal sage scrub on the lower slopes of the ecoregion's ranges, but can also be found near the coast in areas with deeper soils and increased moisture. Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum), Manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp.), and Buckthorn (Ceanothus spp.) are some of the dominant chaparral plants.
Southern oak woodlands once covered much of the foothills and plains of the ecoregion. The Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley of California were noted for their extensive savannas of Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) and Valley Oak (Quercus lobata). Canyon Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis) is a more prevalent tree at higher elevations. California Walnut (Juglans californica) woodlands once occurred in foothills around inland valleys in the northern portion of the ecoregion. A few vernal pools are scattered among the oak savannas and grasslands. Riparian woodlands once lined streams and supported several species of willow, cottonwoods, sycamore, coast live oak, ash, white alder, along with a diverse flora of herbaceous plants, shrubs and vines.
Many species of wildlife depend on riparian habitats for resources and habitat. Some of the higher inland areas support many of the same conifer communities found in the Transverse Range, including Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana), Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi), Coulter Pine (Pinus coulteri), and incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens). Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii), Canyon Live Oak, and Manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp.) are common associates in these montane forests. Arizona Cypress (Cupressus arizonica arizonica) and Tecate Cypress (Cupressus forbesii) occur only on a few isolated peaks. Much of the Channel Islands are covered in coastal sage and chamise chaparral, with some oak woodlands on the larger islands.
Biodiversity characteristics
A large number of specialist and endemic species of plants and animals are found here, including the Quino Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha quino), Hermes Copper butterfly (Lycaena hermes), San Diego Thorn-mint (Acanthomintha ilicifolia), San Diego Ragweed (Ambrosia pumila), Coast Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus viridescens),
The ecoregion supports between 150 and 200 species of butterflies, has the highest species richness of native bees in the United States, and has a number of relict species such as the Riverside fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus woottoni), found in vernal pools.The Mexican portion of the ecoregion constitutes the second largest area of scorpion diversity in Mexico, with 21 species; moreover, it is a prime zone of diversification for spiders, with 332 species of the roughly 1000 known in Mexico.
The Channel Islands are noted for endemic and relict plant and animal species and subspecies, many being restricted to single islands. Buckwheats, locoweeds, oaks, and the succulent Dudleya's are noted for several island endemics. The Catalina Ironwood (Lyonothamnus floribundus) is a good example of a relict species once found throughout the mainland. Near the city of San Diego, the rare Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana) woodland occurs in Torrey Pine State Reserve and limited adjacent coastal areas. This tree occurs only here in a small population and on Santa Rosa Island.
Island Fox, Channel Islands. Source: U.S.National Park Service Mammals
The Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis), and Santa Catalina Shrew (Sorex willetti) are endemic mammals found in the ecoregion. Some of the specialist mammalian species found in the California sage and chaparral are: San Diego Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus fallax), Merriam's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys merriami), and Stephens's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys stephensi).
The Rosy Boa (Charina trivirgata), California Legless Lizard (Anniella pulchra), and several relict salamanders are examples of the unusual and distinctive herpetofauna. Some endemic reptile species found in the ecoregion are: San Clemente Night Lizard (Xantusia riversiana), found only on the Channel Islands; Red-diamond Rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber), San Diego Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus abbotti), and Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii).
Nutall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) is endemic to the California sage and chaparral ecoregion, as are several endemic subspecies, which occur in the Channel Islands. Virtually all of the ecoregion is included in the California Endemic Bird Area. The California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) is a further relict species found in the ecoregion. The coastal populations of the Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) are a notable occurrence of this bird, which is usually found in more arid regions.
Ecological status
Much of the ecoregion has been lost to agricultural and urban expansion. Currently, only fifteen percent of the region is intact. Some scrub communities, such as Riversidian Alluvial Fan Scrub, are now confined to remnant patches along unaltered streams and washes. The vast majority of oak savannas and walnut woodlands have been destroyed. Most coastal habitats have been highly altered throughout the ecoregion. The Channel Islands have experienced widespread loss of original habitats and degradation from overgrazing and introduced species. In general, remaining coastal sage habitats are extremely fragmented and isolated in areas of intensive development, precluding effective dispersal of most species. Field studies suggest that isolated fragments of less than one square kilometer will lose their native vertebrate species within a few decades. Isolated canyons in southern California may lose at least half of their bird species within 20 to 40 years after isolation, although some relict species have been observed in narrow residual biological corridors.
Isolated blocks of relatively intact coastal sage scrub occur in Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, Santa Monica Mountains parklands, San Joaquin Hills near Laguna Beach, and Irvine Ranch in Orange County. Patches elsewhere are quite small and highly fragmented. Chamise chaparral still occurs in relatively large blocks on some inland foothills. California walnut woodlands were formerly most abundant in the Puente Hills, but the last remaining patches occur only in the San Jose Hills south and east of Covina. Tonner Canyon and Soquel Canyon once had well-developed walnut forests, but these have been largely destroyed.
Torrey Pine State Reserve protects one of only two known populations of this rare conifer. The fragile coastal sage understory is often damaged by visitors. Native grasslands, vernal pools, and oak savannas with Engelmann oak (Quercus engelmanii) are conserved in the Santa Rosa Plateau Reserve near Elsinore, which is managed by Riverside County, California Department of Fish and Game, and The Nature Conservancy. Existing laws offer only minimal protection; these include the Natural Communities Conservation Planning Program of 1991 that restricts destruction of some coastal sage scrub, and the Endangered Species Act listing of the California gnatcatcher, which created restrictions on destruction of habitat for extant birds. Some native habitats on Santa Cruz Island are being restored by The Nature Conservancy, which manages the island as a reserve. In Mexico, several sites have been identified as Important Bird Areas, including Isla Guadalupe and Isla Cedros, and lower parts of Sierra Juarez and Sierra San Pedro Martir. Furthermore, CONABIO identified Santa Maria-El Descanso as a terrestrial priority within this ecoregion.
The Baja California portion of the ecoregion in Mexico is suffering rapid degradation, due to massive uncontrolled grading and poorly planned land development in the near coastal zone. A general lack of adequate zoning policies in Mexico is an underlying cause of this habitat destruction, while human population expansion is the proximate cause of this ecological deterioration.
Ecological threat profile
Native habitats continue to be cleared for housing, golf courses, orchards, and other forms of development. Much of the remaining habitat, particularly near the coast, occurs only in very small patches and is highly isolated, fragmented, and surrounded by development, which is generally hostile environment for most native species. Small habitat blocks face numerous threats, including invasion of alien species, predation by introduced animals and people, frequent fires from human activity, dumping, and pollution. Type conversion of chaparral and shrub communities to grassland is carried out through burning, grazing, and herbicide eradication of shrub species. Consequently, grasslands dominated by introduced species have greatly increased in the area. Decades of fire suppression in chaparral have allowed the accumulation of senescent vegetation, creating conditions for catastrophic hot fires that kill dormant seed beds and individual plants that are usually resistant to low-intensity fires.
Grazing by domestic livestock, particularly sheep, can have a serious impact on coastal sage scrub communities. Santa Cruz Island has been heavily damaged by 130 years of feral sheep grazing, with only six percent of the island still covered by degraded coastal sage scrub. Cattle, rabbits, deer, and wild pigs also contribute to similar situations throughout the Channel Islands. Plowing for agriculture or development destroys root crowns, thereby reducing any opportunities for regeneration. After fires and intense grazing, several invasive species can dominate, including Foxtail fescue, Red brome, and Wild oats. Planting of Ryegrass after fires as a short-term measure to prevent erosion can impede regeneration of native species. Controlled burns and brush removal are not necessary, because coastal sage scrub does not accumulate high fuel loads.
Photochemical oxidant air pollution from smog are implicated in plant damage and reduction in growth of coastal sage scrub. Numerous species of alien plants and animals compete for resources and effectively reduce native species. Alien plant species comprise about 23 percent of the flora here. Riparian woodlands are impacted by clearing, overgrazing, and the reduction of flow in streams, which alters successional patterns. The salt extraction industry is a threat in the Mexican portion of the ecoregion. An abundance of introduced and alien species of plants and animals compete for resources and directly kill native species.
Seventy-seven species in southern California are currently listed under the USA federal Endangered Species Act, and another 378 are under consideration. Some of the USA federally recognized threatened and endangered species include: the California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica), San Diego banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus abbottii ), Cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami), Flannel-mouthed sucker (Catostomus latipinnis), Western patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexalepis), and several Cheeseweed moth lacewings (Chrysoperla spp.). Thirteen different plant species of the coastal sage scrub are recognized as threatened or endangered. Unfortunately, many other species are threatened with extinction and extirpation, but the present USA administration's listing practices as of 2014 by federal agencies preclude their formal recognition.
The earliest documented human occupation period of the northern portion of the ecoregion dates from the Chumash people Millingstone Horizon, 6500 to 3500 BC It is logical that these early peoples were migrants from the even earlier Chumash settlement slightly inland (e.g. from the Cross Creek site, where the archaeological record indicates Paleoindian habitation). This theory would also fit with the known environmental evolution, which demonstrates that, prior to the Millingstone Horizon, the northern Chumash estuarine region at Morro Creek was a less sheltered, more saline environment, which would have made the estuarine food supply less diverse and also more difficult to harvest with rougher, rockier waters. The Chumash used tule balsa canoes rather than the wood plank canoes of the Santa Barbara Channel tribe.
A variety of Chumash stone tools have been recovered including drills, bifaces, cores, hammer-stones, grooved stones, flaked tools, battered cobbles, milling-slabs, mortars and pestles. Early Period cobble tools are chiefly of Franciscan chert or meta-volcanic rock. Considerable numbers of Early Period cobble cores were recovered, mostly of Monterey or Franciscan chert.
A variety of plant materials were found to be consumed by the ancient Chumash; specific vegetative species found in archaeological recovery include plantain, acorn, sunflower, maygrass, fiddleneck, bean, wild cucumber, manzanita, sage and a variety of seeds. Finds of mortar and pestle implements at the start of the Early Period suggest the use of experimental if not full scale acorn processing, which finding places an earlier seriation of acorn storage among California tribes than thought before study of the Chumash. The wide diversity of vegetative species from the Early Period illustrates a sophistication of gathering skills; more importantly, decline of this diversity by the Late Period indicates an increasing reliance on a narrowing crop palette, a very early precursor to the ecologically adverse monoculture farming of modern times.
Shellfish in the Millingstone Horizon were dominated by estuarine species such as Saxidomus nutalli, Protothaca staminea, Macoma secta, Ostrea lurida, Clinocardium nutalli and Macoma nasuta. In the Early Period, rocky shore species rose in relative numbers, which species include Tegula funebralis, Polycipes polymerus, Cryptochiton stelleri, Nucella canaliculata, Crepidula norrisiarum, Ocenebra circumtexta, Epilucina californica and Littorini scutulata. By the Middle Period in Chumash habitation, rocky shoreline species were in decline, possibly from overharvesting as well as more sandy beach formation from a rising ocean level millennia ago. Open sandy coast species such as Tivela stultorum and Olivella biplicata were exploited in all periods,
Justification of ecoregion delineation
In the United States portion this ecoregion matches Omernik's (1995) Southern and Central California Plains and Hills. Bailey (1994) maps the coastal portion of this ecoregion as the Southern California Coast Section (261B) and the interior portion as the Southern California Mountains and Valley Section (M262B). The latter section extends further inland than Omernik's boundaries, encompassing more montane and desert habitats. Küchler (1975) identifies several vegetation types within the ecoregion, including valley oak savanna, southern oak woodland, coastal sagebrush, chaparral, California prairie, southern Jeffrey pine forest, and coastal salt marsh. The ecoregion is coded as NA1201 by the World Wildlife Fund. In Mexico, the classification followed herein is per INEGI (1996) maps, from which "chaparral" and "subtropical matorral" are lumped together, along with all enclosed agricultural vegetation types. This ecoregion is distinguished by species endemism (see description above) and unique species assemblages and processes. Linework was reviewed by experts during ecoregional priority setting workshops in Mexico.
Neighboring ecoregions
The following ecoregions are directly adjacent to the California coastal sage and chaparral:
- California montane chaparral and woodlands, to the north
- Sonoran Desert, to the east
- Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests, to the southeast
- Baja California Desert, to the south
- L. Arriaga, J.M. Espinoza, C. Aguilar, E. Martínez, L. Gómez, y E. Loa (coordinadores). 2000. Regiones Terrestres Prioritarias de Mexico. Escala de trabajo 1:1,000,000. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico.
- L. Arriaga et al., editors. La Reserva de la Biosfera "El Vizcaíno" en la Peninsula de Baja California. Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas de Baja California Sur, A.C. Baja California Sur, México.
- R. Ayala, T.L. Griswold, y S.H. Bullock. 1993. Las abejas nativas de México. Pages 179-226 in T.P. Ramamoorthy, R. Bye, A. Lot, y J. Fa (editors). Diversidad Biológica de México. Orígenes y Distribución. Instituto de Biología, UNAM, México.
- R.G. Bailey. 1994. Ecological classification for the United States. Washington, DC: USDA Forest Service.
- H. Benitez, C. Arizmendi, y L. Marquez. 1999. Base de datos de las AICAS. CIPAMEX, CONABIO,FMCN y CCA, Mexico:
- Castellanos, A.V., y S.R. Mendoza. 1991. Aspectos Socioeconómicos. A. Ortega, y L.
- A. Challenger. 1998. Utilización y conservación de los ecosistemas terrestres de México. Pasado, presentey futuro. Conabio, IBUNAM y Agrupación Sierra Madre, México.
- CONABIO Workshop, 17-16 September, 1996. Informe de Resultados del Taller de Ecoregionalización para la Conservación de México.
- CONABIO Workshop, Mexico, D.F., November 1997. Ecological and Biogeographical Regionalization of Mexico.
- D. Fleishmann and D. D. Murphy. 1993. A review of the biology of the coastal sage scrub. Stanford, CA: Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Morro Creek Chumash site. Megalithic Portal. ed. A. Burnham
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Torrey Pine: Pinus torreyana. iGoTerra. ed. N. Stromberg
- INEGI Map. 1996. Comision Nacional Para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) habitat and land use classification database derived from ground truthed remote sensing data Insitituto Nacional de Estastica, Geografia, e Informática (INEGI). Map at a scale of 1:1,000,000.
- A. Küchler. 1975. Vegetation maps of North America. Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries.
- Omerinick, J.M. 1995. Ecoregions: A framework for managing ecosystems. George Wright Forum 12(1):35-51.
- Reid, N., and D. D. Murphy. 1995. Providing a regional context for local conservation action: A natural community conservation plan for the Southern California coastal sage scrub. Science & Biodiversity Policy (BioScience Supplement): 84-90.
- Robles-Gil, P., G. Ceballos, and F. Eccardi. 1993. Mexican diversity of fauna. Cemex & Sierra Madre, México. ISBN: 9686397388
- Stattersfield, A.J., M.J. Crosby, A.J. Long, and D.C. Wege. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the World, priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
Disclaimer: This article contains some information that was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund. Topic editors and authors for the Encyclopedia of Earth have edited its content and added new information. The use of information from the World Wildlife Fund should not be construed as support for or endorsement by that organization for any new information added by EoE personnel, or for any editing of the original content.


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Healthy Paneer Tikka Wraps...!!!Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: Kebabs N Rolls, Paneer Dishes
This Paneer Tikka Wraps are very quick to make and very tasty to...Till now to who ever i have served this wraps they have just loved them a lot and have asked for more...:-) So i am posting their recipe here.
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- 2 capsicum s cut into 1" squares
- 2 big onions
- 1/2 cup thick curd
- 2 tea spoon besan
- 1/2 tea spoon amchur powder
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- 1/2 tea spoon garam masala
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- 1/2 tea spoon chili powder
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- 1/2 cup shredded carrot
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- 1/2 cup shredded capsicum
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Mix all the ingredients listed under marinade. Cut the onion into 4 quarters and then separate each layer.Now take a big bowl and add the paneer cubes,chopped capsicum & onion. add the prepared marinade over them and mix it properly with the paneer n veges. Keep aside for 15 mins.
Take satay sticks or skewers and prick one piece of capsicum, then one paneer cube then one onion pieces and so on. Continue this pattern till the end of stick. Similarly prepare such tikka sticks.
Now heat a flat griddle and sprinkle 2 tea spoons of oil all over it. Put each satay stick over it and sprinkle little oil over them and keep on turning them after 1-2 mins. After 4-5 mins when they are almost done take each satay stick and hold it over naked flame and keep on turning and roasting it till little black patches appear on the onion, paneer and capsicum.This gives the paneer tikka the perfect tandoori flavor. When the tikkas are done remove them from fire and keep aside.
Mix all the veges listed under salad in a bowl and sprinkle little salt and chat masala over them. Take a roti and spread the green chutney all over it on one side. Then above it spread 2 tea spoons of mayonnaise .Sprinkle the shredded veges salad all over it. Then place one paneer tikka stick over it and carefully separate the stick from the panner cubes and let the paneer cubes be in a line over the roti. Carefully roll the wrap and prick with a toothpick.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Finally, the question of whether or not West Virginia still has any sort of chance to compete for an NCAA tournament berth might be ready to be put to rest.
The bigger question now is this: Do the Mountaineers have a chance at any sort of postseason invitation at all?
It certainly didn't appear that way for most of Monday's game with No. 13 Kansas State.
In front of a loud and rowdy crowd of 12,329 at Bramlage Coliseum, West Virginia fell behind from the start and was seldom even competitive in losing, 71-61. WVU scored the game's final 10 points to make the final score seem closer than the game itself.
The loss once again extended West Virginia's string of frustrations against the best teams in the Big 12. The Mountaineers (13-13, 6-7 Big 12) still have yet to defeat a team ranked among the top six in the league (0-7), while feasting only on the bottom three of Texas, Texas Tech and TCU (6-0).
Yet despite that, coach Bob Huggins isn't ready to give up on his .500 team quite yet.
"I guess it means we're due, aren't we,'' Huggins said when he was reminded of his team's futility against the better teams on the schedule.
Well, if that's true then WVU gets another shot at one of those top teams on Saturday when it plays Oklahoma State at the Coliseum. It's first of consecutive homes games for the Mountaineers, who then host Baylor next Wednesday.
Kansas State, long an also ran in college basketball until Huggins ignited the program during his one season as the team's coach in 2006-07, improved to 21-5 overall and 10-3 in the Big 12. The Wildcats temporarily moved a half game ahead of Kansas and Oklahoma State in the league standings with the win.
In a sometimes-sloppy, generally tedious game marked by an almost uninterrupted barrage of whistles, West Virginia did little right from the start. It began with Deniz Kilicli and Eron Harris -- who two days earlier combined for 40 of the team's 66 points in a win over Texas Tech -- both exiting in less than eight minutes because of foul trouble.
It continued with a run of four straight turnovers during a span of more than five minutes in which the Mountaineers didn't score a point and managed only three shots. By the time that was over, Kansas State had built an 18-4 lead and never again would the margin even approach single digits.
But as non-competitive as the game was, it was made even worse by the constant whistles that interrupted play. No less than 49 fouls were called, 28 of them against Kansas State.
By the time it was over, Huggins and Harris had both gotten technical fouls, Huggins for complaining about one of the few times a whistle wasn't blown during the game. Harris got his -- and fouled out in the process -- with 9:24 to go when he pushed Will Spradling down near halfcourt.
Kilicli, despite playing just seven minutes in the first half, led West Virginia with 16 points and missed only two shots from the field.
"The second half I just told myself I have to be clean on every possession,'' said Kilicli, who committed only one foul after halftime. "I could have helped in the first half if I'd been in there and played the way I did in the second. Maybe it would have been a closer game.''
Harris' troubles pretty much summed up how bad West Virginia was. Easily the team's most consistent scorer for the last month, he played only eight minutes, attempted just two shots and didn't score a point.
Spradling led five Wildcats in double figures with 19 points, becoming the latest in a long line of shooters who have torched the Mountaineers.
"We didn't guard him,'' Huggins said of Spradling. "He's a good player. If you let him shoot the ball he'll make shots. We let him shoot the ball.''
The Wildcats shot 50 percent and survived 18 turnovers.
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Kansas State 71, West Virginia 61
West Virginia (13-13, 6-7)
Deniz Kilicli 6-8 4-5 4 0 16
Jabarie Hinds 3-7 0-0 1 0 8
Gary Browne 0-2 5-6 4 2 5
Kevin Noreen 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Eron Harris 0-2 0-0 0 1 0
Aaric Murray 4-12 1-2 9 3 9
Juwan Staten 0-3 8-8 2 6 8
Keaton Miles 1-2 3-5 2 0 6
Terry Henderson 1-3 1-2 1 0 4
Matt Humphrey 1-2 1-2 1 2 3
Dominique Rutledge 1-1 0-0 0 0 2
Totals 17-42 23-30 24 13 61
Kansas State (21-5, 10-3)
Will Spradling 5-9 7-7 4 2 19
Angel Rodriguez 3-7 3-3 1 7 11
Rodney McGruder 3-10 3-5 5 1 10
Shane Southwell 1-1 0-0 0 2 3
Jordan Henriquez 0-1 2-2 7 2 2
Nino Williams 6-8 1-2 4 2 13
Thomas Gipson 4-6 3-4 4 1 11
Omari Lawrence 1-1 0-0 0 0 2
Martavious Irving 0-3 0-0 0 2 0
Adrian Diaz 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 23-46 19-23 24 19 71
Halftime - KS 33-20. 3-point goals - WVU 4-13 (Hinds 2-3, Browne 0-1, Harris 0-1, Murray 0-3, Miles 1-1, Henderson 1-3, Humphrey 0-1). KS 6-16 (Spradling 2-4, Rodriguez 2-5, McGruder 1-5, Southwell 1-1, Irving 0-1). Fouled out - Harris, Henriquez.


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Plum is the color of the season and we love it! It's versatile enough that it can be worn in almost any facet of your outfit, from makeup to accessories to boots! We've put together a board of some of our favorite ways it has surfaced this season.
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There has been a lot of effort by the ECSF, PEN and the Alumni Band to promote the Northeast community. The event was worthy of coverage in your paper and yet was almost completely ignored. That seems like a sad reflection on your priorities. I hope you rethink some of the stories you deem worthy of coverage.
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The Vortex is a hovercraft in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
The Vortex is a single-seat hovercraft, and being an amphibious vehicle, is capable of moving both on land and water. The vehicle has rather poor handling and average speed, due its primary source of locomotion being a large fan with a rudder attached to the back and gliding across the ground, thus having no grip. The Vortex is also capable of gliding short distances if the player sends the vehicle flying off of a high location, which behaves similarly to controlling an airbourne car.
Like the Kart, the Vortex will only spawn in specific locations after the mission "Cut Throat Business", appearing in the following locations:
- The Panopticon, northeast Red County in a shed
- On a pier at the end of a short river in Marina, Los Santos (beside a Gang Tag)
- Inside the aircraft carrier in Easter Basin Naval Station, San Fierro
- Available at Easter Basin docks for importing after third list completion for $20,800 on Sunday
- At the Pirates In Men's Pants casino, The Strip, Las Venturas
- Spawns on a beach in Bayside, and is known as the 'Ghost Vortex' because it moves by itself off the beach and into the water.
- On a jetty near Valle Ocultado (near a unique stunt jump)
The vehicle can also be spawned using a cheat code and it is used for two tests in Boat School, although in the latter you cannot exit the vehicle.
Variants with unique colors
Three Vortexes with unique color schemes can be found during "Cut Throat Business". Two of them, which are used by the player and Madd Dogg to chase OG Loc, are all-white, while the third Vortex driven by OG Loc is black with a white stripe. The player can only store any Vortex's in a garage by failing the mission, as the chase eventually switches to a Kart chase at a pier, forcing the player to abandon the hovercrafts. In addition, while it is possible for the player to use any of the hovercrafts to chase OG Loc while he is on a Kart, the player will ultimately lose the vehicle upon completion of the mission.
The white Vortex is more easily attainable, requiring the player simply ignore the instruction to chase OG Loc at any point of the hovercraft chase, failing the mission and gaining full control of the vehicle. OG Loc's hovercraft is attainable after he ditches the vehicle at the pier, and also requires the player cease to pursue him and fail the mission. Another method involves simply having to kill Madd Dogg in the beginning of the pursuit before OG Loc is out of sight to gain access to any one of the three hovercrafts.
- According to the game's files, the Vortex is considered an aircraft rather than a boat or a car. Because of this a moving Vortex will not experience motion blurring and when it's about to explode it will first become engulfed in black smoke, and the resulting explosion will be significantly stronger and noticeably more violent than a regular car. In addition, Hydras will attempt to shoot the player down at a four or five-star wanted level and Police Mavericks will not engage the player. However, the player will not attract missiles if the Vortex is driven into or around Area 69.
- The Vortex plays Radio X by default when entered.
- In the PS2 version of San Andreas, exiting a Vortex while going at high speed will freeze the game. This may be explained by either the lack of code for the "exiting animation while running at high speed", or by how the game handles the Vortex (it is considered to be an aircraft)
- A Vortex left floating on the water may suddenly sink when out of the player's camera view.
See also
- Bovver '64, GTA Vice City Stories equivalent.


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Vol State Generates $81 Million Annual Economic Impact
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Volunteer State Community College pumped an average of $81.2 million each year into the local economy over the past five years, a recent study shows. The analysis of the economic impact of the college on its service area revealed that the value of business volume and individual income generated amounted to about $406 million in the 2004-2009 period, plus more than 15,000 jobs being created.
The study was conducted by Knoxville educational consultant Fred H. Martin. It shows that local business volume-the total amount generated locally by businesses from the college's direct and indirect expenditures-was $206 million for the five-year period. Of that total, $150 million came from non-local revenues, such as state appropriations, state/federal contracts and grants, and state/federal student financial aid revenues.
Although Vol State had an average of only 383 full-time-equivalent employees per year during the period, the total employment created by the college's expenditures was estimated at 15,173 jobs for the five years. Of that number, 10,855 jobs were created by external or new funds.
Using the more conservative of two different calculations, the study estimated that the impact of the college's expenditures on individual income amounted to about $200 million during 2004-2009, of which $149 million came from external or new funds.
Of the college's $406 million total economic impact, about $299 million ($60 million each year) could be attributed to the infusion of new non-local revenues. This impact would likely not have occurred without the presence of Vol State in the area.
The economic impact study notes that each dollar of local revenue coming into Vol State generated a "return on investment" of about $2.48 in local business volume. The individual income return on investment was at least $2.40, for a total ROI of at least $4.88 on the local dollar.
The study also estimated that an Associate degree graduate could expect to earn about $350,000 more over their work lifetime than if they only had a high school diploma. For the most recent class of Vol State graduates, this difference could mean an additional $207 million in lifetime earnings, plus about $1,123,000 in additional annual tax payments.
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The Denver Broncos insist they're not the NFL's new bad boys.
They've racked up $134,000 in fines already for crossing the line on both tackles and talk and watched three of their players get served with suspension letters from the league office.
They say it's coincidental.
If the NFL upholds his punishment, the Broncos will have to face the Oakland Raiders, the league's longtime renegades, without linebacker Joe Mays, whose vicious hit last weekend sent Matt Schaub's helmet and a chunk of his left ear flying.
The Broncos (1-2) are already thin at linebacker with Nate Irving (concussion) hurt and D.J. Williams serving a six-game suspension for violating the league's banned-substances policy, the same infraction that sidelined tight end Virgil Green for the first four games.
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Team Minato was a team that was headed by the future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha and Rin Nohara were the members of the team.
In the Kakashi Gaiden, which was set during the Third Shinobi World War, the team went to Kusagakure to destroy Kannabi Bridge to cut off supplies for Iwagakure ninja. Rin was captured by Iwagakure ninja during the mission. Kakashi and Obito rescued her but Obito was crushed by a cave-in caused by the Iwagakure ninja Kakkō. Obito gifted Kakashi his remaining Sharingan and tells them to flee, before the second cave-in seemingly killed him. However, in reality, Obito was saved by Madara Uchiha and was recuperating for an unknown period of time.
After Rin's death, despite his earlier intent to rejoin her and Kakashi, Obito decides to have everyone continue to believe he died. Some time later, Minato would sacrifice his own life to seal away the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, who was released on Konoha by the masked man who was Obito in disguise. Prior to the climax of the Fourth Shinobi World War where he finds out that Obito still lives, Kakashi believed he was the sole survivor of Team Minato.
- The team makes a cameo before their actual introduction in chapter 122 and Naruto episode 72 during a flashback of the Third Hokage, and on the cover of chapter 16.
- Kakashi noted many times that the current team he looks after shares similar dynamics to his childhood group. The resemblance is furthered with a photograph of Team Minato being nearly identical to the photograph of Team Kakashi that was taken when Sasuke was still a member.
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Sheila Roberts is married and has three children. She lives on a lake in the Pacific Northwest. Her novels have appeared in Readers Digest Condensed books and have been published in several languages. Her holiday perennial, On Strike for Christmas, was made into a movie for the Lifetime Movie Network. When she's not writing songs, hanging out with her girlfriends or trying to beat her husband at tennis, she can be found writing about those things dear to women's hearts: family, friends, and chocolate.
You can visit Sheila at her website or find her on Twitter and Facebook.


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47 U.S. Code § 615b - Definitions
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As used in this Act:
(2) State
The term "State" means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States.
(3) Public safety answering point; PSAP
The term "public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means a facility that has been designated to receive 9–1–1 calls and route them to emergency service personnel.
(4) Wireless carrier
The term "wireless carrier" means a provider of commercial mobile services or any other radio communications service that the Federal Communications Commission requires to provide wireless 9–1–1 service.
(5) Enhanced wireless 9–1–1 service
The term "enhanced wireless 9–1–1 service" means any enhanced 9–1–1 service so designated by the Federal Communications Commission in the proceeding entitled "Revision of the Commission's Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 9–1–1 Emergency Calling Systems" (CC Docket No. 94–102; RM–8143), or any successor proceeding.
(6) Wireless 9–1–1 service
The term "wireless 9–1–1 service" means any 9–1–1 service provided by a wireless carrier, including enhanced wireless 9–1–1 service.
(7) Emergency dispatch providers
The term "emergency dispatch providers" shall include governmental and nongovernmental providers of emergency dispatch services.
(8) 1 IP-enabled voice service
The term "IP-enabled voice service" has the meaning given the term "interconnected VoIP service" by section 9.3 of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations (47 CFR 9.3).
(8) 1 Other emergency communications service
The term "other emergency communications service" means the provision of emergency information to a public safety answering point via wire or radio communications, and may include 9–1–1 and enhanced 9–1–1 service.
(9) Other emergency communications service provider
The term "other emergency communications service provider" means—
(A) an entity other than a local exchange carrier, wireless carrier, or an IP-enabled voice service provider that is required by the Federal Communications Commission consistent with the Commission's authority under the Communications Act of 1934 [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.] to provide other emergency communications services; or
(B) in the absence of a Commission requirement as described in subparagraph (A), an entity that voluntarily elects to provide other emergency communications services and is specifically authorized by the appropriate local or State 9–1–1 service governing authority to provide other emergency communications services.
(10) Enhanced 9–1–1 service
The term "enhanced 9–1–1 service" means the delivery of 9–1–1 calls with automatic number identification and automatic location identification, or successor or equivalent information features over the wireline E911 network (as defined in section 9.3 of the Federal Communications Commission's regulations (47 C.F.R. 9.3) as of July 23, 2008) and equivalent or successor networks and technologies. The term also includes any enhanced 9–1–1 service so designated by the Commission in its Report and Order in WC Docket Nos. 04–36 and 05–196, or any successor proceeding.
[1] So in original. Two pars. (8) have been enacted.
Source(Pub. L. 106–81, § 7, formerly § 6,Oct. 26, 1999, 113 Stat. 1289; renumbered § 7 and amended Pub. L. 110–283, title I, § 101(1), (3), title II, § 201(b),July 23, 2008, 122 Stat. 2620, 2623, 2624.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 106–81, Oct. 26, 1999, 113 Stat. 1286, known as the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, which enacted sections 615 to 615b of this title, amended sections 222 and 251 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 609 and 615 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1999 Amendments note set out under section 609 of this title and Tables.
The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in par. (9)(A), is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.
Section was enacted as part of the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, and not as part of the Communications Act of 1934 which comprises this chapter.
2008—Par. (8). Pub. L. 110–283, § 201(b), added par. (8) defining "other emergency communications service".
Pub. L. 110–283, § 101(3), added par. (8) defining "IP-enabled voice service".
Pars. (9), (10). Pub. L. 110–283, § 201(b), added pars. (9) and (10).
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The national boxing team which competed unsuccessfully at the Africa Olympic Games qualifying event in Morocco will return home on Monday.
Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) Secretary General Makore Mashaga said yesterday that the six-man team will arrive in Dar es Salaam in the afternoon.
The team comprising four boxers and two officials did not qualify for standard set for the London Olympics Games to last from July 17 to August 3.
Emilian Patrick was beaten by18-year- old Isaac Zion Dogboe from Ghana in a quarter final bantam weight match while Selemani Kindunda also lost to Moroccan Mehdi Khalsi in another quarter final match in the same category.
The other two, Victor Njaati and Kassim Abdallah, were eliminated in the preliminary rounds. Makore said BFT will mow wait for official results from International Boxing Federation (AIBA) on boxers who have qualified for the Games as best losers.
According to the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) two best losers in the qualifying games will get tickets to compete.
Mashaga said if local boxers would not go through, the team would start preparing for the Commonwealth Games.
Three local athletes have so far qualified for the London games. They are Zakiah Mrisho (marathon), Samson Ramadhani (marathon) and Magdalina Moshi (swimmer)


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Carbon Storage In Geological Formations
Strategies for carbon storage in geological formations.
Video: Curt Oldenburg, who heads Berkeley Labs Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program, focuses in this lecture on the challenges, opportunities, and research needs of this innovative technology. From UCTV and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 2009 Summer Lecture Series.
Injection of CO2 into geological formations is currently the most practical option for long-term CO2 storage. The oil and gas industry routinely conducts analogous procedures for several purposes, including disposal of acid gas (natural gas contaminated with large amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide) or liquid waste into spent wells, storage of natural gas in geological formations, and injection of CO2 into wells to enhance oil and gas recovery. Large commercial facilities for geological CO2 storage have been operating for several years at two sites in Salah, Algeria and Sleipner, Norway, and a number of similar facilities are under construction. The cost of such storage is significantly less than that of other CO2 storage approaches.
Current and planned facilities for carbon storage in geological formations.
Several types of geological formations in sedimentary basins are suitable for geological CO2 storage. These include depleted oil or gas fields, deep coal seams, and saline formations. The density of injected CO2 increases with depth; it becomes a supercritical fluid at between 800 m and 1000 m, depending on the rate at which the temperature increases with depth. Supercritical CO2 can remain trapped underground in porous rock formations, which hold or have previously held oil, natural gas, coal, or salt water, that are situated below a layer of impermeable, confining shale and clay rock (caprock). In the absence of deteriorating wells, open fractures, or geological faults, these rock formations should retain nearly all of the injected CO2 for millennia.
Global capacity for geological CO2 storage is large but highly uncertain. [1] Depleted oil and gas reservoirs may store from 180 to 250 Gt C (gigatons of carbon), coal formations may store from 1 to 55 Gt C, and deep saline formations may store from 270 to 2700 Gt C. Potential storage sites are broadly distributed in most of the world's sedimentary basins, near many of the emission sources. Given that the world's total cumulative emissions from fossil fuels may amount to roughly 5000 Gt C, geological CO2 storage would be able to handle a significant proportion of those emissions.
Other carbon dioxide storage methods include pumping CO2 into the sea and converting CO2 into mineral carbonates.
[1] IPCC (2005) IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Metz, B., O. H. Davidson, C. de Coninck, M. Loos, and L. A. Meyer, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York.
This is an excerpt from the book Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines by Dr. Arnold J. Bloom and taken from UCVerse of the University of California.
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Aiming High
Rewarding Ambition in Wind Energy
November 2015
Wind energy already plays a significant role in the European power sector. In 2014, the wind industry installed 11,791 MW in the EU - more than gas and coal combined. Today wind energy can meet 10.2% of Europe's electricity demand with a cumulative capacity of 128.8 GW at the end of 2014.
Wind Energy Scenarios for 2030
September 2015
Recent regulatory and economic developments in the EU have significantly changed the wind energy perspective for the next 15 years. In light of uncertain governance towards achieving EU climate and energy binding targets, EWEA updated the European wind energy industry's vision to 2030.
Economic grid support services by wind and solar PV
A review of system needs, technology options, economic benefits and suitable market mechanisms
September 2014
REserviceS was the first project to investigate wind and solar based grid support services at EU level. It provides technical and economic recommendations for the design of a European market for grid support services, as well as for future Network Codes within the Third Liberalisation Package.
Wind energy scenarios for 2020
July 2014
EWEA's previous wind energy scenarios were published in 2009 ("Pure Power 2") following the adoption of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive. They were subsequently re-published in 2011 ("Pure Power 3"). The scenarios looked at both annual and cumulative installations and included a country breakdown for 2020, but not for intermediate years. The headline figure was 230 GW (of which 40 GW offshore) producing 581 TWh of electricity, meeting 15.7% of electricity consumption. EU electricity consumption for 2020 was projected to be 3,689.5 TWh.
EWEA Annual Report 2013
Building a stable future
June 2014
EWEA saw some significant developments in 2013 with Thomas Becker becoming its new CEO, and Andrew Garrad the new President. The association developed a new strategy in order to reflect the changing nature and situation of the European wind industry, and to turn EWEA into a stronger industry association. Read the 2013 Annual Report to find out more about EWEA's new strategic framework, its services to members and the work undertaken to make it one of the most influential industry associations in Brussels.
Saving water with wind energy
June 2014
Water is a precondition for life, an indispensable resource for the economy, and it plays a fundamental role for the climate. Each EU citizen consumes 4,815 litres of water per day on average, including direct water use (household consumption) and indirect water use (water required to produce industrial and agricultural products) (Vanham & Bidoglio, 2013). All these uses include energy production.
Strategic Research Agenda / Market Deployment Strategy
March 2014
In 2013 the wind energy sector reached 117 GW of installed capacity in Europe, and would, in a normal wind year, produce 257 TWh of electricity, enough to cover 8% of the EU's electricity consumption.
Avoiding fossil fuel costs with wind energy
March 2014
During 2011 Europe spent €406 billion (bn) on importing fossil fuels rising to €545 bn in 2012. This is around three times more than the cost of the Greek bailout up to 2013. Europe imports over half its energy in the form of fossil fuels, resulting in exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices.
Where's the money coming from?
Financing offshore wind farms
November 2013
The European offshore wind energy industry needs to attract between €90 billion and €123 billion by 2020 to meet its deployment target of 40 GW.
TWENTIES project
Final report
October 2013
TWENTIES is a grids project that looks into how to operate grid systems with large amounts of wind and other renewables. It is the largest renewable energy project ever funded by the EU.
The aim of the TWENTIES project is to advance the development and deployment of new technologies which facilitate the widespread integration of more onshore and offshore wind power into the European electricity system by 2020 and beyond.


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