Mendocino power plant site ecological study, Quarterly Report No. 1; July 1 - September 30, 1971

This report is the first quarterly report submitted in partial fulfillment of Research Contract No. S-1902 between the Department of Fish and Game and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Through this contract the Department of Fish and Game is to conduct a pre-operational ecological study to establish a base line inventory of the marine biota with special reference to fish and to abalone, including food chains. Quarterly reports will be followed by annual reports. The first annual report will cover all work from September 1971 through December 1972. Full tables and species lists will be included in each annual report

Mendocino power plant site ecological study, Quarterly Report No. 5; July 1 - September 30, 1972

This report is the fifth quarterly report submitted in partial fulfillment of Research Contract No. S-1902 between the Department of Fish and Game and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Through this contract the Department of Fish and Game is to conduct a pre-operational ecological study to establish a base line inventory of the marine biota with special reference to fish and to abalone, including food chains. Quarterly reports will be followed by annual reports. The first annual report will cover all work from September 1971 through December 1972. Full tables and species lists will be included in each annual report

Mendocino Power Plant site ecological study annual report; July 1, 1971 to December 31, 1972

This report is the first annual report submitted in partial fulfillment of Research Contract No. S-1902 between the Department of Fish and Game and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Through this contract the Department of Fish and Game is to conduct a preoperational ecological study to establish a base line inventory of the marine biota with special reference to fish and to abalone, including food chains. This first annual report covers all work from September 1971 through December 1972. This annual report covers the first 18 month period of the project from July 1, 1971 through December 31, 1972. The report includes results (discussion and tables) of our subtidal, intertidal, sportfishery, fish collection, fish food habit, and plankton studies. The quarterly report for October 1 to December 31, 1972 is included herein and these data are incorporated in this annual report. (86pp.

Identification of a gene from Neurospora crassa with similarity to a glucoamylase gene from Schwanniomyces occidentalis

Glucoamylases are important industrial enzymes used in the conversion of starches to syrups and in other fermentation processes. Previously, the gene encoding the major glucoamylase activity of N. crassa was characterized (Stone et al. 1993 Curr. Genet 24:205-211). Here we report the identification of a possible second glucoamylase (gla-2) that is similar to a member of a class of glucoamylases represented by the GAM1gene of S. occidentalis (Dohmen et al. 1990 Gene 95:111-121)

A Common Law of Choice of Law

For more than a generation, choice of law has been the victim of a historical contingency. The “conflicts revolution” of the mid-twentieth century and its legal realist leaders bundled together three concepts that, although all typifying the traditional approach, are not inherently connected: the “scientific formalism” of Bealean territorialism, attention to “system values” like uniformity and predictability, and judicial activism. The revolutionaries tied an anchor to formalism, sinking the regard for system values and judge-led decision-making in the process. This Essay argues that the rejection of system values and judicial lawmaking in the choice-of-law context was a mistake—and it offers a means of reintegrating them into postrevolution choice-of-law thought. Waving the flag of “legislative supremacy,” modern choice-of-law theory has asserted that standard techniques of statutory interpretation ought to be determinative of how courts resolve choice-of-law problems. However, the modernists have failed to grapple with what “interpretation” means in a context that is almost never contemplated by legislatures. In recent years, those studying statutory interpretation have become increasingly sophisticated in their understandings of the ways in which courts use expansive sets of resources to counter difficult cases, leading to recognition of the “common law” of interpretation. But, so far, choice-of-law theorists have been left behind—continuing to adhere to a primitive conception of statutory interpretation that shuns the role of the judge and the importance of broader goals, including the facilitation of system values. The Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws, currently being circulated in draft form, continues that error, wholeheartedly endorsing an outdated and unworkable mode of interest analysis. This Essay offers a means of modernizing the modernists and rescuing the Restatement (Third) in the process. The key insight is to recognize that judicial creativity and attention to the facilitation of a workable system of choice of law is fully consistent with realism. Moreover, the principle of legislative supremacy is better protected by a methodology that does notmask metaphysical invention behind empty phrases like “interests” but instead recognizes explicitly the important yet limited role of the judiciary. In line with these recommendations, this Essay advocates for the embrace of a “common law of choice of law” methodology, an approach that recognizes judicial, common-law rulemaking and that does not rely on sharp, fictive lines drawn between “interpreting” the law and developing system-oriented rules

Shark attacks off the California and Oregon coast: an update, 1980-84

In 1981 Miller and Collier reported on 47 unprovoked shark attacks which had taken place off California and Oregon from July 1926 to November 1979. Since that date, 12 shark attacks involving humans have taken place: two in 1980, one in 1981, four in 1982, one in 1983, and four in 1984. Encompassed in these 12 attacks were: six surfers, three skin divers, one paddle boarder, one scuba diver, and one swimmer. In ten of the twelve attacks the white shark was the species of implication. by geographic area: one attack occurred off southern California, four off central California, four off northern California, and three off Oregon. (Document has 22 pages