Few good men in Indian politics part-2This part of speech covered election expenditure, freebies, separation of powers, local parties vs. national parties, first pass the post system vs. proportional system, multi member parliament etc. Jayaprakash Narayan, a physician, joined public administration after making it to IAS in 1980 standing all India second. He worked on agriculture, irrigation, technology and youth rehabilitation projects in various capacities in various districts of Andhra pradesh. He had an eventful 16-year-long career in the government. Some of his achievements include : Led rehabilitation of 8000 youth from displaced families of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. Designed the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in Krishna, Prakasham and Godavari deltas. He successfully mobilized the farmers on a large scale to take up irrigation schemes to bring two lakh acres came under irrigation. Strengthened the credit cooperatives and making them inde pendent of government control. Served as Secretary to both Governor and Chief Minister NT Ramarao of Andhra Pradesh. He also had several major policy initiatives to his credit. Empowerment of parents in schools. Economic reform and restructuring of AP. Development of the Infocity Hitec city Empowerment of local governments and stakeholders. Law for self-reliant cooperatives (1995).
LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" An expert has determined that a surfer was killed off California's Central Coast by a 15- to 16-foot great white shark.
Ralph Collier of the Shark Research Committee examined the body of 39-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt before making the determination Wednesday.
The surfer was bitten in the upper torso in the waters off Surf Beach in Santa Barbara County on Tuesday. He died at the scene despite a friend's efforts to save him.
"His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid," sheriff's Sgt. Mark A. Williams said.
Friends said Solorio had ridden the waves there since he was a boy.
"He was a really good surfer," friend Nathan Winkles told KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara.
The beach, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, also was the site of an October 2010 fatal attack.
Lucas Ransom, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, died when a shark nearly severed his leg as he body-boarded.
Surf Beach is near Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Air Force said Solorio was not affiliated with the base, which allows public access to some of its beaches.
All beaches on the base's coastline were closed for at least 72 hours as a precaution, Col. Nina Armagno said.
Great white sharks are found from tropical to polar regions and are not uncommon up and down the California coast, experts said.
However, they do not attack humans as a rule, experts said.
"If white sharks were going to target humans for prey, I would never talk to any survivors," Collier said. "Because there's no way you or I could ever survive an attack by a 17-foot shark that weighs 4,000 pounds."
There have been nearly 100 shark attacks in California since the 1920s, including a dozen that were fatal, according to the California Department of Fish and Game. But attacks have remained relatively rare even as the population of swimmers, divers and surfers sharing the waters has soared.
An average of 65 shark attacks happen each year around the world that typically result in two or three deaths, according to the Pew Environment Group.
Last month, warning signs were posted at Santa Barbara Harbor, about 65 miles southeast of Surf Beach, after a 14-foot great white shark was spotted by a surfer.
In July, a man escaped injury near Santa Cruz after being thrown from his kayak by a great white shark that bit through the vessel. An almost identical incident occurred off the coast of Cambria in May.
Hundreds of miles south near the coast of San Diego, a 15-foot great white shark is believed to have killed triathlete David Martin in 2008.
Great white sharks are inquisitive and use smell, vision and taste to identify objects in the water, which can be more difficult if the ocean is churned up or murky, he said.
It is likely that the shark that bit Solorio failed to identify the surfer and "struck out at this shape assuming it was a natural prey," Collier said.
"The way it investigates is by taking a gentle bite but unfortunately, what seems like a gentle bite to a shark can cause a devastating injury to a human," Nosal said.
Some sharks come closer to shore from around October to January because that is when some of their favorite prey â€" nutritious, blubber-rich seals and elephant seals â€" are abundant on land, said Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz.
"Shark-tober is a phrase we coined," he said.
Collier said he has seen sharks as close as 20 feet to beaches.
No large seal colonies are near Surf Beach, a locally popular rural area that is known for its treacherous riptides, said Robin Dunaetz, who owns a surf shop in nearby Lompoc.
Since the deadly attack two years, surfers have been aware that sharks may lurk offshore.
"They take it into consideration, like with anything" she said. "When you get on a highway you take a risk; when you get out in the water, you take a risk."
Shark sightings appeared to have become more frequent in the past four to six years but that may simply be a result of more people being in the water, she said.
In fact, experts said humans pose more of a threat to sharks. Collier said shark populations have been decimated by fishermen, shark-fin poachers and others who have killed 60 million to 100 million sharks annually in the past decade.
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