Taking advantage of the Morrill Land Grant Act, the California Legislature established an Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in 1866.

On October 9, 1867, the College's trustees reluctantly agreed to merge with the state college to their mutual advantage, but under one condition — that there not be simply a " Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College ", but " a complete university ", within which the College of California would become the College of Letters ( now the College of Letters and Science ).

The city's proximity to Southern California and its large, skilled, diverse, and relatively inexpensive workforce, makes it an attractive city for foreign companies looking to establish extensive industrial parks composed of assembly plants that are called maquiladoras, even more so than other cities in the US-Mexican border zone, taking advantage of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) to export products.

However, the city's liberalism is only relative to its surroundings as registered Democrats have only a slight 2 percent advantage over Republicans in the Laguna Beach making the city considerably more conservative than California as a whole.

The FAA-certified California Spaceport took advantage of Vandenberg's existing launch pads, runways, payload processing facilities, telemetry and tracking equipment.

Around 1910, the East Coast filmmakers began to take advantage of California winters and after Nestor Studios, run by Canadian Al Christie, built the first permanent movie studio in Hollywood a number of the movie companies expanded or relocated to the new Hollywood.

Shelby had taken advantage of a loophole in the California system that allowed one to obtain a duplicate title for a vehicle only on a written declaration, without the vehicle identification number appearing in the DMV's database or the declarant ever presenting an actual vehicle for inspection.

He relocated from Detroit to California to take advantage of 1962 legislation allowing an osteopath to convert his degree to an MD.

Acorns are such an important resource to the California populations that Acorn Woodpeckers may nest in the fall to take advantage of the fall acorn crop, a rare behavior in birds.

In some areas of dense human population, such as California in the United States, they take advantage of a plentiful food supply and have seen a surge in their numbers.

She revealed in a 2000 interview how the 66-year-old director had prepared her for the role by taking her on a drink-fuelled tour of northern California, during which he took full advantage of the opportunities offered by the casting couch.

It initially operated from an animation facility in Van Nuys, California, but later moved to Dublin, Ireland to take advantage of government investment and incentives.

To take advantage of the uncongested skies and the usually superb flying weather, the test pilot school was officially moved to its present location at Edwards Air Force Base in the northwestern Mojave Desert of Southern California on 4 February 1951.

Takes advantage of contracts with the French Electrical and Metallurgy Fédérations, the magazine Architecture d ’ aujourd ’ hui, and the publishing house Éditions Gallimard to travel around the world ( visiting Japan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Greece, Crete, California, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil ).

California stations have sued satellite providers who distributed New York signals nationally, as the distant stations would have an unfair advantage by broadcasting the same programming three hours earlier.

On 20 November 2009, Datel filed a legal complaint against Microsoft in the Northern District of California for violations of §§ 1 – 2 of the Sherman act and § 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act ; for unfair competition ; and for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage.

In order to assure a more neutral environment, and to take advantage of a large and relatively well-off pool of Mexican football fans, all matches were held in the United States in California and Texas, two states with large Mexican populations.

Suburban municipalities can offer tax breaks, specialized zoning, and regulatory incentives to attract industrial land users to their area, such as City of Industry, California. The overall effect of these developments is that businesses as well, and not just individuals, now see an advantage to locating in the suburbs, where the cost of buying land, renting space, and running their operations, is cheaper than in the city.

Lincoln ’ s national campaign to rescind hundreds of life insurance policies it willingly issued during 2004-2008 to seniors looking to take advantage of the life settlement market suffered another disappointing setback on May 17, 2011 when the California Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ’ s decision that had been issued in favor of Lincoln.

MGM, which had decided to use a show collie trained by Frank Inn in the movie, took advantage of a massive flooding of the Sacramento River in northern California to obtain some spectacular footage for the film.

During the course of filming, a decision was made to take advantage of a massive flooding of the San Joaquin River in central California in order to obtain some spectacular footage for the film.

* In a 2000 interview, Susan Tyrrell revealed how John Huston, the 66-year old director of Fat City, had prepared her for the role of the tawdry, cream sherry-swilling girlfriend of broken-down boxer Tully ( Stacy Keach ), by taking her on a drink-fuelled tour of northern California, during which he took full advantage of the opportunities offered by the casting couch.

Hezekiah and Alena, with seven of their eight living children ( including Moses ), departed for California in 1849, seeking to acquire wealth by taking advantage of the Gold Rush, but they returned to Utah in 1857.

The trading party usually left New Mexico in early November to take advantage of winter rains to cross the deserts on the trail and would arrive in California in early February.

Another advantage of using reinforced concrete structure is that it is more flexible to cope with changes in structural layout, sizes and height according to the site conditions by using table form system.

The third form of inheritance is the transfers of bulk estates at the time of death of the testators, thus resulting in significant economic advantage accruing to children during their adult years.

The black form may be an example of heterozygote advantage ; breeding in captivity is not yet conclusive on this.

The advantage over a hard-wired CPU is that internal CPU control becomes a specialized form of a computer program.

* 2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30, 000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.

Pulleys are assembled to form a block and tackle in order to provide mechanical advantage to apply large forces.

An advantage to using the symbolism is a derivation of a function by " nesting " of the operators one inside the other is easier to write in a compact form.

Stevens took advantage of the dissatisfaction with the ruling SLPP among some prominent politicians from the Northern part of Sierra Leone to form the APC ; and Stevens used the Northern part of Sierra Leone as his political base.

However, the offer came in the form of five discount vouchers to the value of £ 10 each, which were difficult to take advantage of.

Although most major 3G systems are primarily based upon CDMA, time division duplexing ( TDD ), packet scheduling ( dynamic TDMA ) and packet oriented multiple access schemes are available in 3G form, combined with CDMA to take advantage of the benefits of both technologies.

In Satisficing Consequentialism Michael Slote argues for a form of utilitarianism where “ an act might qualify as morally right through having good enough consequences, even though better consequences could have been produced .” One advantage of such a system is that it would be able to accommodate the notion of supererogatory actions.

Although early word processors used tag-based markup for document formatting, most modern word processors take advantage of a graphical user interface providing some form of what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing.

The Zeppelin company tended to use spark-ignition engines fuelled by Blaugas, a form of Naphtha, named after its inventor, Dr. Hermann Blau rather than its colour, which had the advantage of being stored in a gaseous state at roughly the same density as air, resolving issues of buoyancy and trim found when using liquid fuels.

On 28 March 1981 Powell gave a speech to Ashton-under-Lyne Young Conservatives where he attacked the " conspiracy of silence " between the government and the opposition over the prospective growth through births of the immigration population and added, "' We have seen nothing yet ' is a phrase that we could with advantage repeat to ourselves whenever we try to form a picture of that future ".

This means that an advantage of keeping documents in digital form rather than on paper is that they can be more easily searched for specific contents.

This alliance encouraged Old Catholic intellectuals to present their arguments in ' liberal ' and ' reasonable ' form — the argumentative advantage in this being that it presented Catholics as enlightened and tolerant, and their opposition as prejudiced and bigoted.

In another derivation it might be from ἕω " hurl " and βίη " violence ", " hurling violence ", * vesbia, taking advantage of the collateral form.

The portion of the trucker's hitch which differs in the following variations is the method used to form the loop which the working end slides through to produce the mechanical advantage.

By way of analogy, the allele ( a particular version of a gene ) which causes sickle-cell anemia when two copies are present may also confer resistance to malaria with a lesser form of anemia when one copy is present ( this is called heterozygous advantage ).

Cable modems are primarily used to deliver broadband Internet access in the form of cable Internet, taking advantage of the high bandwidth of a HFC and RFoG network.

The form teaches how to cut through the opponent's defenses if his Chum Kiu reactions are precise enough that the attacker cannot find a mistake in his defense to take advantage of.

The middle ear couples sound from air to the fluid via the oval window, using the principle of " mechanical advantage " in the form of the " hydraulic principle " and the " lever principle ".

The Shannon form has the advantage that the ID is always non-negative, and has been shown to better fit measured data.

A further advantage of using a single hydraulic cylinder on the rear is that the opposite pivot may be made in the form of a double-lobed cam that is rotated by the action of the parking brake system.