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Twitter Gets Spiritual
Feb 24, 2010, by Danny Wool News
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” It’s a quote attributed to Tenzin Gyatso, known around the world as the 14th Dalai Lama. It’s also just 58 characters long, perfectly tweet-sized, as are so many others of the Dalai Lama’s insights. More quotes like this could soon become available from the source himself—on Twitter. It’s not just for devotees either. As the Dalai Lama said: “If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it” (88 characters).
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Grateful Dead Archive to Feature in ‘The Atlantic’
Feb 24, 2010, by Danny Wool News
UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive hasn’t even opened for business yet and it’s already getting plenty of attention. It will be the focus of a feature article in the March edition of The Atlantic. The article spotlights the academic and scholarly impact that the archive will have on a wide range of disciplines, some of them unexpected. Sure, music historians and ethnomusicologists will be interested, and the Dead were a historical phenomenon—the voice of a generation.
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Women Ventures Project Training Women for Construction Jobs
Feb 24, 2010, by Staff NewsThe Women Ventures Project in Santa Cruz County is using federal stimulus funding to train women for careers in construction.
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Santa Cruz Takes on Plastic Bags
Feb 24, 2010, by Danny Wool Environment
Santa Cruz joined San Jose, San Francisco, and other cities in the Bay Area yesterday when the council endorsed a ban on single-use plastic bags and a fee on paper bags. Plastic bags, which do not decompose, are a major source of litter, filling coastal areas and rivers before they make their way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. In the Bay Area alone, people use an estimated 3.8 billion bags every year. On average, they end up in the trash just 12 minutes after people get them.
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Replacing Santa Cruz City Manager Dick Wilson
Feb 24, 2010, by Curtis Cartier News
In a city where constant change is the only guarantee, Santa Cruzans have been able to count on one thing for the last 28 years: that City Manager Dick Wilson would show up to work every day, a steady hand at the tiller keeping the city on course. During his tenure, the tall, soft-spoken Wilson answered to more than a dozen city councils, steering city staff through an earthquake, an expanding university and more budget crises than just the most recent one. When Wilson retires in July, he’ll be leaving the Santa Cruz City Council with what Mayor Mike Rotkin calls “the most important decision the council will make in its tenure.
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Israel Deserves A Break
Feb 24, 2010, by Gil Stein OpinionNazi propaganda films were made to convince the world that Germany was a peace-loving nation that was forced to attack Poland. With the creation of the web and the access to 24-hour “news,” it is so much easier to spread lies and half-truths.
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Orange Is the Happiest Color … Of Rivers?
Feb 23, 2010, by Staff Environment
“Orange is the happiest color,” Frank Sinatra famously said. He obviously didn’t see Soquel Creek last week, when it started to emit a warm orange glow. State Fish and Game officials are still trying to discover the source of discolored water.
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Hands-free Law Could Be Extended to Cyclists
Feb 23, 2010, by Danny Wool News
Cyclists talking or texting on their cell phones could soon face the same penalties as drivers if State Representative Joe Simitian has his way. The author of California’s hands-free law believes that cyclists “should have the same rights, laws and responsibilities” as drivers when it comes to following the rules of the road.
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15-Year-Old Arrested in Santa Cruz Stabbing
Feb 23, 2010, by Staff NewsA 15-year-old boy was arrested in a stabbing that took place on Encinal Street yesterday. Police are still investigating what happened, though they say that the boy and his victim, a 31-year-old man, were involved in a physical argument before the boy stabbed him.
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John Laird’s Run for Senate Office in Doubt
Feb 22, 2010, by Jessica Lussenhop News
After Sen. Maldonado failed to be confirmed as lieutenant governor two weeks ago, Laird’s plans to run for his seat are up in the air.
