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Santa Cruz, California facts for kids
For the community in Mariposa County formerly with this name, see Indian Gulch, California. For the island, see Santa Cruz Island. For other uses, see Santa Cruz (disambiguation).
"Santa Cruise" redirects here. For the ship, see MS Annie Johnson.
Charter city, county seat
The "Town Clock" tower at the head of Pacific Avenue
Nickname(s): Surf City
Location in Santa Cruz County and the state of California
Chartered
15.828 sq mi (40.996 km2)
3.088 sq mi (7.999 km2) 19.51%
Population (April 1, 2010)
• Estimate (2013)
3,787.34/sq mi (1,462.240/km2)
Pacific (UTC−8)
PDT (UTC−7)
GNIS feature IDs
www.cityofsantacruz.com
Surfer near Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz (/ˈsæntə ˈkruːz/, Spanish: Holy Cross) is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2013 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 62,864.
Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about 32 mi (51 km) south of San Jose and 75 mi (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area.
Santa Cruz is known for its moderate climate, the natural beauty of its coastline, redwood forests, alternative community lifestyles, and socially liberal leanings. It is also home to the University of California, Santa Cruz, a premier research institution and educational hub, as well as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an oceanfront amusement park operating continuously since 1907.
The present-day site of Santa Cruz was the location of Spanish settlement beginning in 1791, including Mission Santa Cruz and the pueblo of Branciforte. Following the Mexican–American War of 1846–48, California became the 31st state in 1850. The City of Santa Cruz was incorporated in 1866 and chartered in April 1876. Important early industries included lumber, gunpowder, lime and agriculture. Late in the 19th century, Santa Cruz established itself as a beach resort community.
The Awaswa and pre-contact period
Mission and Pueblo period
The Native People
Parks, beaches, greenbelt districts, and marine protected areas
Notable people and organizations
"Surf City" nickname controversy
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Prior to the arrival of Spanish soldiers, missionaries and colonists in the late 18th century, Santa Cruz County was home to the Awaswas Native Americans. The misnomer Ohlone, while often used to describe the native people of the Santa Cruz area, is a generalized name for the many diverse groups that lived in the region stretching from San Francisco to the Monterey Bay. The diverse and numerous tribes of this region were also earlier referred to by the Spanish as Coastanoan. The term "Ohlone" has been used in place of "Costanoan" since the 1970s by some descendant groups and by most ethnographers, historians, and writers of popular literature. Awaswa was one of the eight Coastanoan languages and made up a tribe of Native Americas living in Western Santa Cruz County, stretching slightly north of Davenport to Rio Del Mar. The Awaswas tribe was made up of no more than one thousand people and their language is now extinct. The only remnants of their spoken language are three local place names: Aptos, Soquel and Zayante; and the name of a native shellfish - abalone. The majority of Ohlone or Coastanoan tribes had no written language, and lived in small villages scattered around the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay regions. Within fifty years of the Spaniards' arrival, the Ohlone or Coastanoan culture and way of life had virtually disappeared in the Bay area. Today, two of the Coastanoan tribes, the Awaswa people 'missionized' in Santa Cruz and the Mutsun people 'missionized' at San Juan Batista, have joined together as the Amah Mutsan Tribal Band in an effort to protect and maintain the authentic and distinct cultural history and practices.
The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà, passed through the area on its way north, still searching for the "port of Monterey" described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. The party forded the river (probably near where the Soquel Avenue bridge now stands) and camped nearby on October 17, 1769. Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, traveling with the expedition, noted in his diary that, "This river was named San Lorenzo." (for Saint Lawrence).
Next morning, the expedition set out again, and Crespi noted that, "Five hundred steps after we started we crossed a good arroyo of running water which descends from some high hills where it rises. It was named Santa Cruz." (which translates as "Holy Cross Creek").
In 1791, Father Fermín Lasuén continued the use of Crespi's name when he declared the establishment of La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (also known as Mission Santa Cruz) for the conversion of the Awaswas of Chatu-Mu and surrounding Ohlone villages. Santa Cruz was the twelfth mission to be founded in California. The creek, however, later lost the name, and is known today as Laurel Creek because it parallels Laurel Street. It is the main feeder of Neary Lagoon.
In 1797, Governor Diego de Borica, by order of the Viceroy of New Spain, Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca y Branciforte, marqués de Branciforte, established the Villa de Branciforte, a town named in honor of the Viceroy. One of only three civilian towns established in California during the Spanish colonial period (the other two became Los Angeles and San Jose), the Villa was located across the San Lorenzo River, less than a mile from the Mission. Its original main street is now North Branciforte Avenue. Villa de Branciforte later lost its civic status, and in 1905 the area was annexed into the City of Santa Cruz.
In the 1820s, newly independent Mexico assumed control of the area. Following the secularization of the Mission in 1834, the community that had grown up around the Mission was renamed Pueblo de Figueroa. The name didn't catch on, however, and later reverted to Santa Cruz. After 1834, immigrants from the United States began to arrive in steadily increasing numbers. In 1848, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded the territory of Alta California to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. California was the first portion of the territory to become a state, in 1850. Santa Cruz became a city in 1866.
The Santa Cruz mission was one of the first missions to be secularized. After secularization the Indian population began to disappear and the buildings slowly began to fall apart and collapse. The church tower fell in 1840 and the church itself was destroyed in the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake. In 1858 a "modern" church was built on the original church site. The church that stands there today was built in 1889 in a gothic style. Santa Cruz was one of the first missions to be abandoned and private residencies were built on the property.
The Native Americans of Santa Cruz are known to be the Costanonan people. The Coastanoan occupied the area from Monterey to San Francisco. Coastanoan is derived from the Spanish word which means "coastal people". The term Ohlone is another general term that is used to designate speakers of the Coastanoan language. The Costanonan people spoke eight known languages and each language defines a different tribelet. After the mission era, the number of native people in the Bay Area, including Santa Cruz, began to decrease. As the missions closed, most of the Natives living on the missions became laborers on area ranches. Shortly after the missions closing there were a few communities of native people that were composed of Indians from different tribes that had lived on the missions, however as younger generations moved away, these communities diminished. No official government recognition has ever been given to the Costanonans.
Coastanoan is an anglicized word for Costanos or coast people. The ancestors of the Costanoan people are thought to have originally migrated to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River system sometime around A.D. 500. With the arrival of the Spanish, the Coastanoan people experienced a cultural disruption. During their time with the missions the Coastanoan people experienced cultural shock, mistreatment and disease brought to them from the missionaries. In 1843, 14 years after Mexico won its independence from Spain, the California missions were ordered to turn all their lands over to the new government. this missions and all their lands. After 60 years of missions, the Indian people who inhabited those lands were kicked off. After being turned out by the missions the remaining Costanoan/Ohlone people struggle to survive and many became servants or agricultural laborers or vaqueros. Some small communities were formed after this which promoted old ways but in different locations from their homelands.
California Powder Works
California Powder Works began manufacturing blasting powder for California mining when normal supplies were interrupted by the American Civil War. A powder mill built on the San Lorenzo River upstream of Santa Cruz used charcoal and powder kegs manufactured from local forests. The mill later manufactured smokeless powder used in United States Army Krag-Jørgensen rifles and guns of the United States Navy Pacific and Asiatic fleets. The mill was heavily damaged by a series of explosions on the evening of April 26, 1898. The explosions caused flaming debris to fall on Mission Hill and caused fires threatening the city. The powder works employed 150 to 275 men until operations ceased in 1914.
Santa Cruz was hard hit by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It was also hit by ocean surges caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, wherein the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor sustained an estimated $10 million of damage, with another $4 million of damage to docked boats there.
Founded in 1976, The Resource Center for Nonviolence is one of the oldest and most centrally located non-profit organizations committed to political and social activism in Santa Cruz County. The center is "dedicated to promoting the principles of nonviolent social change and enhancing the quality of life and human dignity". In 1998, the Santa Cruz community declared itself a Nuclear-free zone, and in 2003, the Santa Cruz City Council became the first City Council in the U.S. to denounce the Iraq War. The City Council of Santa Cruz also issued a proclamation opposing the USA PATRIOT Act.
As a center of liberal and progressive activism, Santa Cruz became one of the first cities to approve marijuana for medicinal uses. In 1992, residents overwhelmingly approved Measure A, which allowed for the medicinal uses of marijuana. Santa Cruz was home to the second above-ground medical marijuana club in the world when the Santa Cruz Cannabis Buyers Club opened its doors in April 1995. Santa Cruz also became one of the first cities in California to test the state's medical marijuana laws in court after the arrest of Valerie Corral and Mike Corral, founders of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, by the DEA. The case was ruled in favor of the growers. In 2005, the Santa Cruz City Council established a city government office to assist residents with obtaining medical marijuana. On November 7, 2006, the voters of Santa Cruz passed Measure K by a vote of 64–36 percent. Measure K made adult non-medical cannabis offenses the lowest priority for law enforcement; this does not apply to cultivation, distribution, sale in public, sale to minors, or driving under the influence. The measure requests the Santa Cruz city clerk send letters annually to state and federal representatives advocating reform of cannabis laws.
Notable feminist activists Nikki Craft and Ann Simonton resided in Santa Cruz, where they formed the "Praying Mantis Brigade". This collection of activists organized the "Myth California Pageant" in the 1980s protesting "the objectification of women and the glorification of the beauty myth." Myth California was staged concurrently with the Miss California pageant held in Santa Cruz since the 1920s. The protests ran for nine years and eventually contributed to the Miss California pageant leaving Santa Cruz. Simonton founded and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch" which monitors and critiques media images of women and ethnic minorities. Beginning in 1983 Santa Cruz has hosted an annual Take Back the Night candlelight vigil, rally, march, and protest focusing on the issue of violence against women.
Riots occurred on May 1, 2010, sparked when leftist extremists threw jugs of paint at police cars and painted anarchist symbols and anti-capitalist phrases onto buildings. Property damages are estimated to top roughly $100,000. Prior to the riot, a May Day rally was being held for worker and immigrant rights. According to police, the rally was infiltrated by a local anarchists group, who used the rally as a cover for attacking corporate premises. The riots started when the protesters started vandalizing nearby buildings; by 10:30 pm, approximately, a dozen buildings were already vandalized. It then intensified when a group of about ten people began breaking storefront windows at approximately 11:05 pm. Several police officers were stationed downtown, but retreated after protesters threw stones at their vehicles. After calling in backup resources from around the county, law enforcement reached the riots at 11:23 pm, over 45 minutes after it began, due to a large number of phony 911 calls, which diverted the police force all around the county.
Occupy Santa Cruz formed as an autonomous organization in solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement, a broad-based protest against perceived economic and social inequality. Occupy Santa Cruz was most active in the fall of 2011, and included over a thousand active members at its peak. The organization gained most of its publicity when members occupied an empty bank building owned by Wells Fargo. and occupied the building for 72 hours. 11 criminal charges were filed, at least seven of which have since been dropped.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers an area of 15.8 square miles (41 km2), of which 12.7 square miles (33 km2) is land, and 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2) (19.51%) is water.
Weather chart for Santa Cruz, California
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Santa Cruz has mild weather throughout the year, enjoying a warm-summer mediterranean climate characterized by cool, wet winters and warm, mostly dry summers. Due to its proximity to Monterey Bay, fog and low overcast are common during the night and morning hours, especially in the summer.
Climate data for Santa Cruz, California (1981–2010 normals)
(15.56) 68.03
Daily mean °F (°C)
(17.33) 63
(4.89) 47.28
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(1) 0.27
Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)
10.6 10.9 10.0 5.9 3.3 1.3 0.3 0.7 1.5 3.5 7.5 10.7 66.2
Source #1: NOAA
Source #2: Weatherbase
Est. 2015 64,220 7.1%
The 2010 United States Census reported that Santa Cruz had a population of 59,946. The population density was 3,787.2 people per square mile (1,462.3/km²). The racial makeup of Santa Cruz was 44,661 (74.5%) White, 1,071 (1.8%) African American, 440 (0.7%) Native American, 4,591 (7.7%) Asian, 108 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 5,673 (9.5%) from other races, and 3,402 (5.7%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11,624 persons (19.4%).
The Census reported that 51,657 people (86.2% of the population) lived in households, 7,910 (13.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 379 (0.6%) were institutionalized.
There were 21,657 households, out of which 4,817 (22.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 7,310 (33.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,833 (8.5%) had a female householder with no husband present, 862 (4.0%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,802 (8.3%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 379 (1.8%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 6,773 households (31.3%) were made up of individuals and 1,862 (8.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39. There were 10,005 families (46.2% of all households); the average family size was 2.92.
The population was spread out with 8,196 people (13.7%) under the age of 18, 17,449 people (29.1%) aged 18 to 24, 15,033 people (25.1%) aged 25 to 44, 13,983 people (23.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,285 people (8.8%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29.9 years. For every 100 females there were 100.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.7 males.
There were 23,316 housing units at an average density of 1,473.0 per square mile (568.7/km²), of which 9,375 (43.3%) were owner-occupied, and 12,282 (56.7%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.4%. 22,861 people (38.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 28,796 people (48.0%) lived in rental housing units. The median price of a home being $640,000 as of April 2013.
A main street with shops.
Recorded from the census of 2000, there were 54,593 people total with 20,442 households and 10,404 families residing in the city. The population density includes 1,682.2/km² (4,356.0/sq mi). There were 21,504 housing units at an average density of 1,715.8 per square mile (662.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 78.7% White, 17.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.7% African American, 0.9% Native American, 4.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 9.1% from other races, and 4.5% from two or more races.
There were 20,442 households out of which 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.0% were married couples living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.1% were non-families. 29.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the city, the population was spread out with 17.3% under the age of 18, 20.5% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.9 males age 18 and over.
The median income for a household in the city was $50,605, and the median income for a family was $62,231 (these figures had risen to $59,172 and $80,496 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $44,751 versus $32,699 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,758. About 6.6% of families and 16.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.5% of those under age 18 and 4.8% of those age 65 or over.
Santa Cruz has five sister cities in other nations, cities chosen to strengthen international connections. A volunteer committee of citizens organizes cultural exchange opportunities, humanitarian projects, and commercial ties between Santa Cruz and its sister cities.
Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela – since 1966
Shingū, Wakayama, Japan – since 1974
Alushta, Ukraine – since 1987
Jinotepe, Nicaragua
Sestri Levante, Italy
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain was a former sister city.
State Routes 1 and 17 are the main roads in and out of Santa Cruz, with the latter being the primary route north to San Jose and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area. Geographically constrained between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Bay, the narrow transportation corridor served by SR 1, California's Pacific Coast Highway, suffers excessive congestion. The ramp from SR 1 northbound to SR 17 southbound, onto Ocean Street, is commonly known as the "fish hook" due to its tightening curve. A project to widen the highway and this interchange was begun in 2006 and completed in the fall of 2008.
Big Trees Railroad excursion train on Chestnut St., Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County.
Amtrak serves Santa Cruz via Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach from rail connections at Amtrak San Jose Diridon Train Station operated by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District by way of a partnership with the Amtrak, Capitol Corridor, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Other rail connections such as Altamont Corridor Express and Caltrain are also available at Amtrak's San Jose passenger station.
Greyhound Lines bus service is another, albeit less commonly used, option for visiting Santa Cruz.
The nearest airports served by major commercial airlines are San Jose International Airport, Monterey Regional Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and Oakland International Airport. The nearest public airport of any kind is Watsonville Municipal Airport, about eight miles to the southeast, which serves general aviation users.
Santa Cruz has an extensive network of bike lanes and bike paths. Most major roads have bike lanes, and wide bike lanes were recently installed on Beach Street, near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Additionally, there are levee bike paths along the San Lorenzo River. A Rail Trail – a bicycle and pedestrian path beside an existing coastal train track—is under consideration.
The Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway operates diesel-electric tourist trains between the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Roaring Camp in Felton, through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, with its famous Redwood Grove walking trail.
House finch nesting in a whale vertebra, Long Marine Laboratory.
The Santa Cruz Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad that operated between Santa Cruz and Pajaro, California.
A Pacific Avenue street corner
By the 1860s, Pacific Avenue had become the main street of downtown Santa Cruz, and remains so today. Local architect Kermit Darrow and landscape architect Roy Rydell were engaged in 1969 to convert several blocks of Pacific Avenue into a semi-pedestrian street named the Pacific Garden Mall. The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 destroyed nearly all of the 19th-century buildings in the downtown area. After the earthquake, the Pacific Garden Mall theme was eliminated, and an updated downtown design plan by ROMA Design Group was implemented. As of 2016, only one empty lot remains on Pacific Avenue from the destruction of the 1989 earthquake.
Downtown Santa Cruz houses a variety of storefronts and businesses. It is also stage to many street performers, musicians, and artists, oftentimes creating the presence of background music and miscellaneous street side entertainment when visiting downtown. Consequently, Pacific Avenue serves as an outlet for the artistic and unique culture that Santa Cruz possesses.
The coastal redwood forests of Pogonip Open Space.
Natural Bridges State Beach
Santa Cruz is home to several state parks and beaches, including Lighthouse Field State Beach, Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, Twin Lakes State Beach, and Seabright State Beach.
Santa Cruz has three greenbelt open space properties along the city limits, including Arana Gulch, Moore Creek, and Pogonip. There are also five community parks and eighteen neighborhood parks.
Pogonip Open Space is located adjacent to the University of California, Santa Cruz. It includes second-growth oak and redwood forest, meadows and several streams, and is crossed by several hiking trails. Pogonip was the name of the former country club there, which once had a golf course and polo field. The name Pogonip is similar to a Shoshoni language word for a type of "ice fog" that occurs in cold-winter climates of the western U.S., forming beard-like ice crystal accumulations on almost any surface, but especially on the branches of trees and bushes. The climate of Santa Cruz is, however, too warm for that type of ice formation, and none of the native Californian peoples are Shoshonean.
Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve is a marine protected area off the coast at the northern edge of Santa Cruz. Like underwater parks, marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems. Most of the rest of the coastline of Santa Cruz lies adjacent to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Roof of the Looff Carousel building at the Boardwalk
Santa Cruz is well known for watersports such as sailing, diving, swimming, stand up paddle boarding, paddling, and is regarded as one of the best spots in the world for surfing. It is the home of O'Neill Wetsuits and Santa Cruz Surfboards, as well as Santa Cruz Skateboards and Santa Cruz Bicycles. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is California's oldest amusement park and a designated State Historic Landmark. It is family-operated, and celebrated its Centennial in 2007. It is home to the iconic Giant Dipper roller coaster, which is currently the fifth oldest coaster in the United States. Home to a National Historic Landmark, a 1911 Charles I. D. Looff Carousel and 1924 Giant Dipper roller coaster, the Boardwalk has been owned and operated by the Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915.
In one of the first published descriptions of surfing in California, three Hawaiian princes, Prince David Kawānanakoa, Prince Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui and Prince Jonah Kalanianaʻole, surfed on locally milled redwood boards at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in July 1885. Santa Cruz has 11 world-class surf breaks, including the point breaks over rock bottoms near Steamer Lane and Pleasure Point, which create some of the best surfing waves in the world. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum at Steamer Lane is staffed by docents from the Santa Cruz Surfing Club who have surfed Santa Cruz waves since the 1930s. Santa Cruz hosts several surf contests drawing international participants each year, including the O'Neill Cold Water Classic, the International Longboard Association contest, and many others.
The Santa Cruz Wharf is known for fishing, viewing marine mammals and other recreation. Local parks offer many opportunities for birding and butterfly watching, as well as outdoor sports such as skateboarding, cycling, camping, hiking, and rock climbing. The Santa Cruz Skatepark is open to the public 7 days a week and is free. In addition to its reputation in surfing and skateboarding, Santa Cruz is known for other sports such as disc ultimate and disc golf. The De Laveaga Disc Golf Course designed by hall of fame and local disc sports promoter Tom Schot, hosts PDGA tournaments, including the annual Masters Cup. De Laveaga was the disc golf and discathon venue for the WFDF-sanctioned World Disc Games overall event held in Santa Cruz in July 2005.
Sun sets on the wharf and the city skyline
In recent years, Santa Cruz has become home to several minor-league and amateur sports teams. The Santa Cruz Warriors (an NBA D-League team), and Santa Cruz Derby Girls (an amateur roller derby league) regularly play games in the Kaiser Permanente Arena.
Santa Cruz has a number of cultural institutions and other attractions, including the University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum, Mission Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Santa Cruz Art League (which includes an art gallery, theater, and classroom), the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum (housed in a lighthouse near Steamer Lane) and the Tannery Arts Center.
Surfer Memorial, Lighthouse Field State Beach.
Santa Cruz County Symphony — Founded in 1958, the Santa Cruz County Symphony is a fully professional ensemble of 65 members which presents an annual concert series at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and the Mello Center in Watsonville. Additional offerings include musician school visits, free concerts for area school children, family concerts, and pops concerts.
Santa Cruz Shakespeare — An annual summer festival. The event typically performs two Shakespeare plays and one other play every summer
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music – an annual festival of contemporary music for orchestra that has been called a "new music mecca" by the New York Times.
Santa Cruz Pride — The annual parade is a celebration of sexual orientation and diversity in Santa Cruz, held on the Pacific Avenue mall.
Open Studios Art Tour — The art fair has been run for more than three decades and draws artists and patrons from around the area.
O'Neill Cold Water Classic — An annual surfing event that draws crowds at the popular Steamer Lane.
Wharf to Wharf Race — An annual race which has been held for more than three decades.
Woodies on the Wharf — An annual woodies show that takes place on the Santa Cruz Wharf.
Santa Cruz Farmers Market – Several year-round outdoor markets showcasing the agricultural diversity of the Central Coast region with emphasis on sustainable agriculture and organic food. Regional specialties include strawberry, apple, artichoke, artisan goat cheeses and brassica. The main market is held downtown on Wednesdays.
Golden Gate Villa
Neary-Rodriguez Adobe
Landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places:
A. J. Hinds House (8/25/1983)
Allan Brown Site (6/25/1981)
Bank of Santa Cruz County (3/15/1982)
Branciforte Adobe (1/31/1979)
Carmelita Court (3/20/1986)
Cope Row Houses (1/28/1982)
Cowell Lime Works Historic District (11/21/2007)
Elias H. Robinson House (1/9/1998)
Garfield Park Branch Library (3/26/1992)
Golden Gate Villa (7/24/1975)
Live Oak Ranch (7/10/1975)
Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster (2/27/1987)
Mission Hill Area Historic District (5/17/1976)
Neary-Rodriguez Adobe (2/24/1975)
Octagon Building (3/24/1971)
Santa Cruz Downtown Historic District (7/27/1989)
US Post Office-Santa Cruz Main (1/11/1985)
Veterans Memorial Building (4/27/1992)
Landmarks on the California Register of Historical Resources:
Mission Santa Cruz
Center of Villa de Branciforte
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Lorenzo Asisara-Occupant of the Santa Cruz Mission when it was founded.
Main page: List of Notable Santa Cruzans
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After Huntington Beach, California, trademarked the "Surf City USA" name, Santa Cruz politicians tried to stop the mark from being registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because of a 10-year-old controversy over Santa Cruz's nickname "Surf City." Huntington Beach has obtained a total of seven registrations for the "Surf City USA" trademark. None of these registrations of the trademark are on the principal register, but on the secondary register, which means that Huntington Beach has no exclusive right to assert ownership over the "Surf City USA" trademark. Two Santa Cruz surf shops, Shoreline Surf Shop and Noland's on the Wharf, sued the city of Huntington Beach in order to protect the public use of the term "Surf City." The parties reached a confidential settlement in January 2008, in which neither side admitted liability and all claims and counterclaims were dismissed. The Santa Cruz surf shops continue to print T-shirts, and the Visitor's Bureau retains the right to use the trademark. In 2009 Steve Marble, of Los Angeles Times' L.A. Now news blog, wrote an article The real Surf City? It's Santa Cruz, says magazine saying: "But Surfer magazine proclaims Santa Cruz to be 'The Real Surf City, USA,' after it considered the surf, food and vibe of the nations' best known surf towns." Steve Marble quotes Surfer: "Huntington Beach may have won the right to the name 'Surf City, USA' in the California courts, but any surfer who's ever paddled out at Steamer Lane knows the judge got it wrong."
California Sea Lions at Santa Cruz coast
In the 1963 Beach Boys song "Surfin' U.S.A.", one of the verses features the lyrics, "You'd catch 'em surfin' at Del Mar, Ventura County Line, Santa Cruz and Trestles."
Much of the 1983 Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact takes place in Santa Cruz.
Several scenes in the 1985 Peter O'Toole film Creator were filmed in downtown Santa Cruz.
Several scenes from the 1987 film The Lost Boys were filmed at locations in Santa Cruz, including the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Pogonip Country Club club house and the Santa Cruz Wharf.
The 1988 film Killer Klowns from Outer Space had scenes filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, as well as in neighboring Watsonville
In the 1988 drama film The Boost, starring James Woods and Sean Young, Lenny and Linda move to Santa Cruz after they have lost everything, to "clean up."
Folk-guitarist Leo Kottke has a song named "The Other Day (Near Santa Cruz)" released in 1991 on the album Great Big Boy
Film director Quentin Tarantino references the City of Santa Cruz in Reservoir Dogs and the University of California, Santa Cruz in Pulp Fiction.
Parts of the 1995 drama film, Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, were filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The 1996 song "Paddle Out" by Sublime is about surfing in Santa Cruz. It mentions Natural Bridges, Steamer Lane, Mitchell's Cove and Stockton Avenue.
Fatboy Slim has a song named "Santa Cruz," from his 1996 album Better Living Through Chemistry.
The Ataris have a song called "Alone in Santa Cruz" on their album ...Anywhere but Here.
The 1996 TV movie Thrill starring Antonio Sabàto, Jr., about a bomb in an amusement park, was filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
Gillian Welch references the destruction of the Santa Cruz Pacific Garden Mall in her song "Wrecking Ball," off her 2003 album, Soul Journey.
Irish indie/rock band, The Thrills, released a single called "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)," from their 2003 album So Much for the City.
JJ Cale sings a song about Santa Cruz
The 2007 independent romantic-comedy Ten Inch Hero takes place in Santa Cruz.
The 2008 Pearl Jam Christmas Single was a song named "Santa Cruz."
A 2009 video on YouTube depicted a woman struggling to make a speech at a City Council meeting. The woman is now known as the "Brilliant woman of Santa Cruz."
Robert Earl Keen's song "I'm Coming Home" recalls a trip to Monterey Bay and includes the line "Life is good out in Santa Cruz."
Todd Snider's song "Beer Run" includes the line "Was a beautiful day out in Santa Cruz" plus a reference to the "Robert Earl Keen song." The song's protagonists are "frat guys from Abilene" who make an "all night" road trip, suggesting that it refers to Santa Cruz, Texas, but their attendance at the "KPIG swine and soiree dance" makes clear that they traveled to California.
The American Dad! episode "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever" referenced UCSC when Stan Smith says he would have given his daughter an A for effort (for her Christmas decorations), but he is not UC Santa Cruz.
The 2010 album Mojo from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers includes the song "The Trip to Pirate's Cove" which makes multiple references to Santa Cruz as well as other locations around California.
In 2012, Chasing Mavericks, a film based on the life of surfer Jay Moriarity and filmed in Santa Cruz, was released.
In 2012, Apple ran a nationwide TV commercial campaign for Siri, a voice assistant for the iPhone 4S, in which the user asks: "What's the best way to Santa Cruz, California?"
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El Puerto de Nador o Puerto de Beni Enzar es un puerto comercial del mediterráneo que da servicio a la zona del Rif al norte de Marruecos.
El puerto esta oficialmente en Beni Ensar y comparte su muelle y entrada con el puerto de Melilla. Es un puerto semi-artificial que utiliza la laguna de Mar Chica.

Uso
El puerto esta directamente conectado con Melilla: el puerto de Melilla usa aproximadamente el 70 % del área húmeda, mientras que el puerto de Nador usa el 30 % restante del área sureste. El puerto se utiliza como puerto de ferry/ro-ro, a granel seco y tiene instalaciones para hidrocarburos. Las instalaciones de transbordo rodado son utilizadas por los operadores de transbordadores en la ruta hacia/desde España.

En 1994 el operador FerriMaroc abrió la línea al puerto de Almería. Antes de que aquello uno sólo podría navegar al área vía Melilla o vía el transbordador-terminal en Alhucemas.

Instalaciones
El operador MarsaMaroc, que opera los principales puertos de Marruecos, ofrece las siguientes instalaciones en el puerto de Nador. El puerto se puede dividir en tres partes principales:

Terminal 2
La terminal principal tiene 700 metros de agua profunda (13 metros de profundidad) y otros 300 metros con una profundidad de 10 metros. Esta Terminal 2 es una terminal de mercancías a granel que recibe mercancías a granel como mineral y palanquillas para la acería SONASID y también se utiliza como puerto pesquero (pequeño). Un total de 14,7 hectáreas de área de tierra está disponible para almacenar o mover bienes.

Pasajeros y muelles de vehículos

El puerto de Nador es ahora una importante terminal de ferry para el noreste de Marruecos con enlaces diarios directos a España (Almería y Motril) y conexión semanal a Francia (Sète)
Para los transbordadores que operan a Europa, el puerto ofrece claves de 600 metros para transbordadores de carga/descarga con puentes elevados para que los pasajeros crucen el tráfico de automóviles en diferentes niveles y, por lo tanto, no se obstaculicen en el embarque y desembarque con también 13 metros de profundidad.

Puerto de hidrocarburos
Finalmente, hay un muelle de 100 metros de largo para la recepción de hidrocarburos con una profundidad de agua de 13 metros.

Enlaces de tren
Desde que el operador de trenes marroquí ONCF abrió la sucursal Taurirt-Nador en 2009, el puerto también ofrece conexiones diarias de trenes al resto del país. La parada de tren Beni Ensar / Aït Nsar Port es la terminal de los trenes a Tánger y Casablanca a través de Fez.

Conexiones

Enlaces de transbordador a Europa continental
Hay varias compañías de ferry que operan salidas diarias desde y hacia el Puerto de Almería en España. Los principales operadores son:

 Trasmediterránea
 Grandi Navi Veloci (de Nador a Sète en Francia)
 Africa Morocco Link
 Balearia (Sólo en  verano)

Raíl y conexiones de carretera en Marruecos
El ramal de Taurirt a Nador no termina en Nador, sino que corre hacia Beni Ensar. Beni Ensar / Aït Nsar Port es la estación terminal de la línea divisoria hacia Taurirt, donde se conecta con la línea principal Este-Oeste hacia Uchda (Oujda) en el este (sin conexión directa: cambio en Taurirt) o vía Fez a Tánger o hacia Rabat y Casablanca con más conexiones a Marrakech en el oeste.

Por carretera, la carretera nacional N19 ofrece una conexión directa con la ciudad de Nador (8 millas) y más allá.

Los aeropuertos cercanos son el Aeropuerto de Melilla  y el Aeropuerto Internacional de Nador.

Referencias

Puertos de Marruecos
Nador

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Discussion in 'iPhone Launch Meetups' started by bkoldys, Sep 17, 2014.
I'm debating going to Briarwood as well. I went up to watch the 5 launch, but was able to pick it up at Verizon without a wait. I called Apple yesterday, but was surprised when she told me there was no plan to let people line up inside.
Not sure what to do now. I'm definitely not lining up in the cold.
I think it's safest to go at 3am.
Think so. Do u think they are going to allow us to line up? And do you think they will have all colors and capacities. I'm lining up for the 6 plus. Have u ever done this before?
Nope. My first time. Spoke with someone at the Apple store and he seemed to think I could get one if I was in line early enough. Not sure about colors, though.
The mall won't let you on the property so people have lined up across the street in years past. Plan on bringing a lawn chair and sitting across the street or on the side walk.
I'll shoot you a DM if you want to meet there.
Across the street? Where? Then we run across at 5a how does that work?
No idea. The mall management didn't have a clear explanation as well. When I spoke with the Apple guy, he pretty much made it seem like it was a free for all.
Also, it doesn't seem like I can send DMs here.
Here. Saw a line at midnight and decided to come. Sorry for not posting. Completely forgot to send an update. Sounds like they have a lot of the Pluses. Only thing they seemed really short on was the unlocked T-Mobile phones.


Andrew L. Avins, MD, MPH, is a research scientist at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; he holds appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, where he remains active in the clinical and teaching programs. Dr. Avins is a board-certified general internist. His research interests include musculoskeletal and cardiovascular diseases, preventive medicine (with an emphasis on screening and treatment policies), complementary and alternative medicine (with an emphasis on clinical trials of alternative therapies), and research methodologies.
The major goal of this project is to maintain and expand the San Francisco Mammography Registry and to evaluate the performance of mammography in an ethnically diverse population.
Carotid revascularization for primary prevention of stroke (CREST-2) is two independent multi-center, randomized controlled trials of carotid revascularization and intensive medical management versus medical management alone in patients with asymptomatic high-grade carotid stenosis. One trial will randomize patients in a 1-to-1 ratio to endarterectomy versus no endarterectomy, and another will randomize patients in a 1-to-1 ratio to carotid stenting with embolic protection versus no stenting. Medical management will be uniform for all randomized treatment groups and will be centrally directed. The purpose of this trial is to determine the best way to prevent strokes in people who have a high amount of blockage of their carotid artery but no stroke symptoms related to that blockage.
The objective of this study is to evaluate a new Northern California screening program for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in terms of its effect among relevant patients on their AAA-related outcomes of care and processes of care. Aneurysms of the infrarenal portion of the abdominal aorta are generally asypmptomatic until they rupture, an event that is usually fatal. Clinical trials have shown that, despite the risk associated with interventions, repair of the aneurysm results in a lower overall and cardiovascular mortality among male smokers, aged 65-75. KPNC will invite all members in this group to a one-time ultrasound screening appointment in a stepped fashion across all facilities. We will take advantage of this stepped program implementation to investigate the effect of an invitation to screening vs. the control membership awaiting screening; the primary outcomes are total mortality, AAA-related mortality and the need for emergent surgery for a ruptured AAA.
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"Once a reputation is ruined, there's nothing left to lose" is by no means a guiding principle when it comes to good reputation management. This is particularly true when it comes to the internet, with its ability to quickly spread messages: Online reputation management (ORM) aims to make sure that the reputation of a company, person, or product always corresponds to the desired image. To do this, you need to recognise and evaluate current assessments by others in a timely manner and, ideally, influence their own reputation in the long term. The internet provides plenty of strategies for ORM to help you avoid a bad reputation. These allow you to react appropriately before you get involved in a PR nightmare. We elaborate on the technology of reputation management here and give tips about how you can improve your reputation management strategy.
Where does public opinion show?
Technically speaking, reputation management is just a subcategory of public relations (PR) developed into a slightly different discipline. In PR, the focus is on maintaining contact with the media and providing them with information and news that sheds the best possible light on your company. Typical means of a PR department are press conferences or press releases. But the internet has long been a medium in which one can no longer exactly distinguish between recipients and producers of content. Users on the internet don't need a good network of news agencies and professionally designed PR texts to influence a company's image. Using social media, they can quickly draft judgment on an existing message and share it in no time. If the comment finds sufficient resonance, the recipients can spread their own statements more quickly than most PR departments can react. This then becomes the task of social media reputation management.
Opinions of an organisation, person, product, or offer can be spread online in a variety of ways: Via blogs, blogs, social media comments, or evaluations on the respective portals and web stores, every user has the opportunity to comment. Individual comments, of course, don't influence an entire reputation – but they can trigger an involuntary image change. This is why reputation management strategy should supervise as many channels as possible to be able to quickly react to any negative developments.
Reputation management is therefore about image communication: And since the image can certainly influence the value of a brand, reputation management plays an important role in the PR mix for companies. A good brand image usually has a positive impact on sales as well – so not paying attention to moods on the internet can result in the loss of reputation from one moment to the next.
Building more range: A good reputation gets around, and the best advertising is done by word of mouth. With a positive reputation, you can make your customers into brand ambassadors and attract more users to your online channels.
Increasing sales: Range alone isn't enough if it doesn't lead to sales. A good reputation makes a boost in sales more likely, as customers will build trust in you and your brand. Good customer reviews for your products or services generate further interest.
Recruiting: Drawing in new customers isn't the only way that a good reputation helps: Reputation is a deciding factor in the competition for skilled workers. Positive comments about your company on the internet can also attract potential applicants to your vacancies.
Market value: The reputation of a brand also influences its value. Investors are ultimately interested in how a company or a brand is received by the public.
Social media: The founding principle of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr is that users can distribute their opinions and comments. The various social media platforms are consistently the trigger for viral movements, which can also be directed against companies.
Forums: Although classic forums don't usually have as much range as well-known social media channels, they still have a big influence on the online reputation of companies: Specialised forums often are full of like-minded people as well as experts on a specific topic. These users have a huge influence on each other and on the target group of the company in question. One such case is Reddit: On this website, which is a mix of forums and social media, enthusiastic fans and motivated experts meet. At the same time, the platform also has influence on the reporting of classic media.
Evaluation portals: Yelp, TripAdvisor, or Trustpilot are all platforms created solely for the evaluation of companies and their offers. On these platforms, users give out rating points (or stars) and leave complimentary or critical comments. The ratings appear prominently in the Google search results, so they're extremely important for reputation management.
Shopping sites: If your company sells its own products online, then you also need to keep an eye on reviews from merchants like Amazon. Comments collected there can have a big influence on sales.
Video portals: On YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, or other alternatives, users can share their opinions on and experiences with brands and products. Videos enable a completely different approach to the subject of the discussion than a text: They freely tell of experiences – things that went wrong can be shown directly (for example, the design or functions of products). Many of these videos are staged in a humorous way – but also often have a critical, mocking tone.
Blogs: Blogs are the place where people can extensively discuss or deal with a topic. In many cases, it's just a discussion of their own state of mind. But the attentions of bloggers can also focus on brands, products, and services – especially if the bloggers in question are unsatisfied. Monitor the blogosphere and step in if there's an emergency, as a single blog post can bring in an avalanche of criticism.
Company websites: Under certain circumstances, your own company website, for example a company blog, may invite users to give their feedback. In principle, this is good! But consider as well that quick intervention for harsh or unsophisticated criticism is also required here. Customers that search for information on your website shouldn't be directly confronted with a flood of negative reviews.
Reputation management has two major workspaces – one that is more passive, and the other active. A basic prerequisite for a good reputation is the tracking of user reviews – and in as many places as possible. On which portals of which websites are users giving their opinions on your company, brand, or products? The answer to this question, as well as the interests and wishes of customers, play a big role. It's important to find out what the target group hopes of the company.
This shows how strongly ORM as well as PR or marketing strategies are linked. In all three areas, it's essential that you know your target group. While the one part of reputation management has a lot to do with observation and analysis, the active part is dedicated to the construction of reputation. One way to do that, for example, could be through strong storytelling: An (emotional) brand story that can be distributed on all channels can help build a reputation or consolidate an existing one.
Both sides of reputation management work reciprocally and cannot be clearly distinguished from one another.
Before you start to monitor your reputation online, you should make sure that you're present on the most important platforms. Two reasons speak for this approach: First, you're only able to effectively track and react if you use the same portals as your target group. Second, to protect your brand name you need to assign accounts to your name before someone else does (the same goes for domains) You should choose account names that are as clear and simple as possible. If you appear on each platform with a different name, this confuses potential customers and decreases the recognition value of your company or brand.
What you definitely shouldn't forget – and this goes for all social media marketing – is activity: A social media account is only worthwhile if it's actively tended to. A neglected account throws a bad image on your entire business and provides an easy point of attack for critics. On the other hand, channels that are consistently maintained with active community management increase the chances that customers speak with you instead of about you. Contact with users is one of the most important pillars of social media reputation management. Another is finding the right amount: How many channels can you maintain well, taking into consideration the available time and resources?
The term "brand monitoring" refers to the observation of comments made about the brand, the products, or the company itself. With this, relevant sources are regularly checked. One side effect of this method is that you can also use it to detect trademark infringement: If somebody uses your protected terms or images in illegal ways, good brand monitoring will lead you to notice right away, so that you can take legal steps. But the actual goal of brand monitoring (in the sense of reputation management) is to gather information on how to talk about your company and its offers.
On social media, forums, blogs, and online news sites: If you're marketing, the likelihood that people are talking about you is relatively high – and that is usually in your favor. Using brand monitoring, you can find out who makes what kinds of comments about your business. As part of social media optimisation and community management, you're usually already on the network without it and can get a good overview of customers' opinions that way. If you also want to set up social media monitoring, you can find out even more quickly when you're mentioned on social media. Google Alerts can also be helpful: This service from Google shares with you when your defined terms (for example, your brand name) appear on the internet in a new form.
The so-called issue monitoring should yield essential information on how you can improve your reputation as part of online reputation management. With this type of monitoring, you observe the overall mood of the target group. But smaller opinions about brands and companies also play a role with issue monitoring – they can illuminate an overall image of community opinion. For example, you can determine how your customers stand on social and environmental issues. For this, observe mass media and influencers. A survey of your customers can also provide relevant insights.
The results of the monitoring can be used in two different ways for your reputation management: If you know what your customers really care about, then you can adjust your marketing to achieve an improved reputation. But the monitoring needs to continue consistently, because opinions and moods of customers can change. Further monitoring also serves to secure your reputation. Consistent observation allows you to register changes in public opinion quickly enough to respond.
Even if the buzzword is used too often now in the marketing industry, storytelling is an important instrument for building an image and sustainably influencing a reputation.
In principle, storytelling – as the name suggests – is nothing other than telling a story. But not telling a made-up story, fairy tale, or fable: Instead, you embed company culture, values, or future plans into an interesting story. Through storytelling you can even reach those users who don't pay much attention to hard facts, but instead prefer the emotional form of communication. Give the information a context that excites, touches, or inspires your target audience. The use of images contributes to your storytelling's emotional effect – ideally, you use a multimedia concept.
For reputation management, either pick up on an existing story or create a new one. It's important, though, that you don't run multiple different stories at the same time that dissent from one another or are markedly different in style. In the course of storytelling, you should develop a distinctive style and entirely unique type of storytelling, which you can build up as part of the ORM. The style and tonality of this story also needs to fit the style and manner with which you address your target group. This includes, for example, whether they deal with criticism rather humorously or seriously. Choose a style and approach to use with customers, and reach your target group through exciting stories.
A large part of online reputation management is working with the community. Since a reputation is built by the community, it only makes sense that you must take care of the community to maintain good reputation management. In some cases, reputation management overlaps with customer relationship management/complaint management and customer support.
You can proactively build a reputation in the community through convincing storytelling. But you also need to react appropriately when a customer from within the community approaches you with criticism. Develop a strategy on how to react to complaints that appear in a (semi)-public area such as a social media community. As many negative examples show, there are two approaches which are fundamentally wrong, and some of the responsible companies had to learn about painfully: Ignoring or firing back. Both will almost certainly annoy the community even more.
Hear: Listen to the customers when you have complaints. Show interest in your customers and convert a bad experience into a good one.
Empathise: Show your critics that you can empathise with them and understand where their anger is coming from. Focus on the feelings of the customers rather than downplaying them.
Apologise: Apologise – but obviously not just in general. Your apology should address the concrete point of the criticism, even if the error didn't lie directly with you. After all, the anger is indirectly related to you.
Resolve: Together with the customer, find a way to solve the problem. This doesn't have to be done publically anymore: Move the communication to a private channel.
Diagnose: Analyse the problem that caused the complaint and develop a strategy so that it doesn't happen again.
Unfortunately, you can't always do everything right. On the internet, everybody has an opinion: And it doesn't matter whether it's justified or not, as some kind of bad review will probably always show up somewhere.
In the first step, you responded to the negative comment or review, presented your view of the issue, and presented a solution or apologised if the user was angered by an error made by your company. Should the user continue to complain, in the rarest cases deleting the criticism can actually help: But normally, the internet community reacts allergically to censorship by an economic company. Trying to make negative comments disappear will almost certainly result in a flood of new complaints. But you can ensure that good content is found in the surrounding search results, and the negative reviews will be perceived less by users.
Users shouldn't find such negative entries before they have read good reviews and positive feedback about your company. A bad review at a higher position in the Google search results is a reputational disaster, and indicates a flawed SEO strategy. Your own website and social media channels should always be displayed in the top positions when somebody searches for your brand. Positioning in the search engine results also influences your reputation: The first page of the Google results serves as a reflection of public opinion. So, with skilled search engine optimisation, you can make sure that positive reviews from Google are ranked higher than your web pages where negative reviews are found.
You haven't done much with SEO before? There's still time: Learn the basics of search engine optimisation.
Build up your online presence: If you already have channels on the internet (website, blog, or social media), then you can build your reputation using these as well as react quickly to criticism that shows up online.
Set up monitoring: Listen when your target group converses. It doesn't matter whether they're talking about your company or discussing other topics: In this way, you can gather useful information.
React quickly: Don't ever hope that complaints about your company will just disappear on their own. React as quickly as possible before the negative mood develops its own dynamic.
Take criticism seriously: Never give your critics online the feeling that their expressed opinions are wrong or unimportant. This only fuels their (possibly even irrational) anger.
Don't engage in discussions: Don't fall into the trap and start a discussion. Even if you're in the right, you will lose. Your goal is to convert negative moods as quickly as possible. A public dispute only adds fire to the unpleasant situation.
Behave personally: Discussions between people is different than with a faceless organisation. Personalise your communication so that the critic also tries to practice more understanding.
Learn from your mistakes: If you are constantly being criticised for the same thing, then good reputation management won't help anymore. Instead, get in contact with your target group and explain that improvements are planned (of course, only if that's the case), or at least explain why known issues aren't being changed.
Hootsuite: The classic tool for managing many profiles on different social media platforms all at once.
Sysomos: With this fee-based platform, very effective social media monitoring can be run including numerous statistics.
Klout: This service measures the (quantitative) impact of social media users and calculates the Klout score. This tool is therefore very helpful for identifying opinion-driven influencers.
SocialMention: This search engine helps you find keywords (for example, your brand name) on social media and indicates the ratio of positive to negative entries.
Google Alerts: This service from Google notifies you by mail each time your specified search terms show up in the Google search results.
The internet is full of so-called PR fails: Cases in which the PR department fails or falls short. Many of these situations could have been resolved without any problems with good reputation management. But in the following examples, the organisations handled everything well and reacted quickly and appropriately.
In 2010, the Census Bureau was exposed to massive accusations, but thanks to good reputation management they did not lead to any long-term reputation damage: The Bureau's job is to take regular census counts and conduct surveys. To promote the work of the Bureau and increase the population's willingness to participate in surveys, a 30-second commercial was shown during the Super Bowl. The advertising spaces during this transmission are known to be among the most expensive in the world. In this case, the cost was around 2.5 million US dollars. This led to a great outrage, as many saw the commercial to be a waste of taxpayers' money. This negative view was supported by a tweet from Senator John McCain that reached his 1.7 million followers.
The US Census Bureau had a good monitoring system in place, though: The responsible staff members noticed the negative feedback right away and worked on a speedy response. Just a day later, a spokesman for the company was able to publish an answer on the company blog: In fact, it's assumed that the advertising even saved money. The Bureau expected that because of the advertising clip, more US citizens would send back the questionnaires and so less staff would be required to collect them. Another day later, the director himself spoke out on his own blog. The Census Bureau also activated their own social media channels to distribute this message. This could return public opinion back in its favor.
This example is a way to see how important good monitoring and quick reactions are. The agency had already introduced all necessary mechanisms. Digital and traditional media were under constant supervision, accounts for the important social media platforms had been created, and there were additional blogs available for more detailed explanations. The US Census Bureau could react using these before negative voices took over.
The brand Loft, which offers clothing for women, was subjected to great criticism in 2010 on their Facebook page. To advertise a pair of their pants, the company posted pictures of a model in the pants on the firm's own social media channel. Shortly afterward, numerous complaints came in from customers about the commentary function: The pants presented would only look good on tall and slim women (i.e., those with model dimensions). All other women wouldn't look good in them: A complaint that many fashion brands surely get. But instead of ignoring the criticism or merely appeasing it, the company (Ann Inc. is behind the Loft brand) understood the complaint as an opportunity for good reputation management.
In the following days, Loft posted photos on their company profile of their own employees wearing the pants at the center of the controversy. These women had various body types and the photos weren't professionally taken or edited. This quick and personal reaction reached customers so well that many of them commented favorably, even though they still didn't find the pants to be well suited for the women's figures. In the new comments, the users reacted positively to the fact that the company had taken their criticism seriously. Loft used reputation management to turn a potentially negative situation around and position itself as a company that reacts to the customers and their complaints humorously but appropriately.


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Workshops Graduate Ingrid Dahle Storms into "So You Think You're Funny" Final
It was an unbeatable start to the week watching one of my graduates from my stand-up comedy course at Komedia, Norwegian Ingrid Dahle, storm her way into the winners spot at her semi-final heat of "So You Think You're Funny." It was a tough one due to a very high standard of acts over all and a tense but mercifully short wait while the judges deliberated. The usual leaping into the air while clapping and cheering from all of us there to support Ingrid ensued when her name was announced. Our wonderfully quirky totally unique Ingrid Dahle triumphed last night and won her place hands down in the prestigious Final on Thurs 23rd August at the Edinburgh Festival of the longest running new act competition that is So You Think You're Funny.
Ingrid Dahle is one of the featured SYTYF 2012 Finalists in BBC2's Culture Show at 10pm on 22nd August. She's off to a fabulous start with a beautifully bright future ahead of her...

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Emirates passengers 'most likely suffering from flu'
One patient was admitted to hospital while 10 were discharged
Published: September 07, 2018 19:14 Staff Report
Dubai: The passengers who took ill on the Emirates airline flight that landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday were most likely suffering from flu and common cold, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.
Benjamin Haynes, the agency spokesman, said 11 people were taken to the hospital and tests showed the patients had influenza or other common respiratory viruses. The patients were treated at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens.
"One patient was admitted to the hospital while the rest were discharged," a hospital statement sent to Gulf News read.
Local authorities alerted the CDC on September 5 about Emirates flight EK203 from Dubai, after numerous passengers complained of coughing, fever and symptoms of gastrointestinal illness.
"It was clear people were sick before they even got on the plane, so much so that I asked the stewardess for a mask," said Erin Sykes, a passenger from New York. "People were coughing the whole flight, like phlegmy, really gross cough."
Emirates confirmed all 549 passengers and crew members were screened by local health authorities before disembarkation, as a precaution. Some 19 people were reportedly sick.
In the end, 11 were taken to hospital, contrary to the earlier CDC statement that said 100 people on board were ill.
— With inputs from agencies
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– Maybe more and more stringent action this week – E24
More and more people are infected with omicron, and Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol (Labor Party) is concerned about the development. He has not ruled out stricter measures during the week.
BOOSTER DOSAGE: Soon FHI will make a booster dose interval assessment for persons under 65 years of age. Then there will be an assessment of whether it can shorten the time from the second to the third dose, which is now six months.
Naina Helen Jåma / VG
Updated December 6th
The omicron variant is gradually becoming part of the Christmas spirit, and Minister of Health and Care Services Ingvild Kjerkol (Labor Party) hopes everyone can celebrate Christmas as usual. But it's not written in stone.
– We have control over the pandemic, but there have been some outbreaks with suspected omicron. We have regulations regarding suspected variant cases, with longer isolation and quarantine of household members. "I am concerned, and we are looking for further measures regionally and nationally," Kjerkol said.
– Multiple cases of omicron
Kjerkol said that pandemics can be volatile, and that future actions must be balanced against the stresses of infection and hospitalization.
– Now our institutions, namely NIPH and the Norwegian Directorate of Health, have the ongoing task of assessing several regional and national actions. We are following the situation closely. There was also news over the weekend, where there were several we can now safely conclude were infected by the omicron variant, Kjerkol said.
On Sunday, the director of the Line Vold department at FHI said that omikron could become the dominant variant in Norway. There are currently four suspected or confirmed outbreaks of omicron in the country: a Christmas table, a conference and one student at a school in Oslo, as well as a Christmas table in Sør-Odal. At the first-mentioned Christmas table, 120 people have been confirmed to be infected with coronavirus.
Here Espen Nakstad explains how the omicron variant is contagious:
More stringent measures
The government introduces new measures at three levels on December 2, in which, among other things, regional measures, entry restrictions and national recommendations were introduced.
– Can we expect tighter action or a possible close in the near term?
– I do not rule out that there may be more and more stringent measures for this week. We follow it continuously and in close dialogue with professional authorities. We will communicate it well when it comes, Kjerkol said.
FHI with booster dose assessment
The UK has introduced a three-month vaccine interval. This means that residents can receive a booster dose three months after the second vaccine dose.
In Norway, the current interval is six months for those under 65, and five months for those over 65.
– Are you considering reducing the vaccine interval?
– This refresher dose is important, and so far we have followed the recommendation at FHI, whereby those over 65 years of age can receive refresher doses at intervals of up to five months. I've asked them to evaluate the under 65 year interval as well, and we're expecting a quick answer on that. We aim to reach as many people as possible with a pre-Christmas refresher dose, so that municipalities can vaccinate those aged over 65 and under to 45. "Here we are waiting for a professional assessment from FHI," said Kjerkol.
– When will it come?
– We'll get it right away.
– What does it mean? Months, weeks?
– That means in a few days. I was expecting it at the start of the week. It has been a few weeks since we decided on a booster dose for those over 65, and we have plans to resume high vaccine activity in 2022.
Wild infection in Denmark and entry rules
As of Friday, there were 18 people in Denmark diagnosed with the omicron variant. On Sunday, it became clear that there were 183 cases of omicron in the country, which is struggling with many wild infections. Kjerkol said FHI is following the situation closely, both in Norway and internationally.
By comparison, there were 19 people with confirmed omicron infection in Norway as of Sunday.
– Are you considering further travel restrictions within the country or abroad?
– We saw both. We haven't decided anything on that yet, but are judging based on whether there's a new outbreak. We have introduced a number of entry steps for those coming to Norway. There is mandatory testing and admission for vaccinated and unvaccinated hotels, and quarantine of countries in southern Africa with a high incidence of omicron variants.
– Erna's hope contributes to correct communication
At the Politisk kvarter on Thursday last week, Erna Solberg said that she "expects a government that is more forward-thinking, which thinks more prepared and acts faster, listens more to professional advice and communicates more clearly" than the Labor-SP government has done.
– Are you not doing enough to prevent omicron and further infection in the country?
– I hope that Erna Solberg contributes to a properly perceived communication. We introduced travel measures the night before last Saturday, two days after we received information from South African authorities about the new variant. Then we prepared regulations for the weekend on how to handle the first cases in Norway. On Monday, the first case of infection in the gardens was discovered. It's important that everyone contributes to understanding size, says Kjerkol.
Correction: An earlier version of the case stated that Israel has also introduced three-month intervals, like the UK. Error fixed 22.51 on December 6, 2021.


I'll say it right off the top: the beard does not maketh the man.
With the recent rise in popularity, beards have taken root in every corner of society.
Many men are responsible keepers of their beard, but there remains a group of men who think that it is their beard, not their virtue or ability, that makes them a man. Those men often neglect grooming their beards, writing it off as "sissy" or "womanly".
That kind of BS attitude is not what this article is about.
We do not promote growing a beard at any cost. It is not about simply throwing out your razor.
It is about taking deliberate action, mastering a daily routine, and significantly altering the way you are perceived, both by those around you, and by yourself.
If you have chosen – or are thinking about choosing – the bearded life, we'll help you understand the reasons why men should grow a beard, and the proper path to keeping it well-groomed.
No matter what the snake-oil salesmen would have you believe, your beard growth comes down to genetics.
So if you simply can't grow the facial hair to support a beard, no problem. In fact, wet shaving has a similarly beneficial routine and deliberateness about it.
However, if you can grow a beard, you must try it.
It can significantly impact both your self-perception and the impressions you give to people around you. And it's been proven time and time again that first impressions matter, so make yours count!
What could be greater than gaining the experience of man in his natural form?
This one is about you, not the outside world.
You may find your perception of yourself changes when you have a beard. Joining the Brotherhood of Beards, all the way back to First Man, with those who's faces have been adorned by whiskers gives you a strange sense of pride, of camaraderie, of being part of something bigger than yourself.
The achievements of all men up to this point have in some way or another impacted your ability to exist, and to share in that inherently and naturally manly state of being can motivate you to be great.
A beard requires daily attention to remain healthy and attractive.
Neglect your beard, and everyone can tell.
But keep your beard pristine, and you give off the impression that you're the man who pays attention to detail. You can be trusted not to overlook something important.
Sending that signal to prospective employers, business partners, clients, or mates is a powerful cue.
Your beard forces you to remain disciplined and to establish a daily ritual, both of which are extremely important pieces of a responsible and self-sufficient man's life.
Greek soldiers shaved their beards at the command of Alexander the Great over 2000 years ago.
He thought beards were dangerous, as they gave the opponent something to grab onto in hand-to-hand combat. Beards, in his view, could be fatal.
And so a man who grows a beard, knowing that it would handicap him in a fight, exudes confidence in his ability to succeed in the face of danger.
Multiple studies have shown that men with beards appear more aggressive to their peers.
If you have a reason to look more aggressive and assertive, either in the workplace or in a social setting, facial hair, particularly a full beard, can give off this impression, whether or not you actually act more aggressively.
A beard can help you stand up to someone and stop you from being walked all over.
The full beard once again comes in as the winner when it comes to perceptions of masculinity.
As with aggressiveness, if you are feeling weak, overwhelmed, or run over by others, a boost in masculinity can help you regain the confidence you need to take control of your life and your purpose.
Beards can make people around you believe you are of "a high-ranking social position" and that you "command respect over other men in the community".
This can help position you as a leader in an organization, and when paired with the right clothing and mannerisms, can significantly improve the impressions you give to people, whether or not you are indeed of a high social status, or just starting out on the path to reach greatness.
This is a tricky one, but done right, can be a blessing for young men.
It's tricky because young men are some of the worst abusers of facial hair.
Like much in our society, there are fewer strong male role models who are able to teach young men the skills they require to succeed in all aspects of life.
As such, we see young men who cut their necklines too high, don't groom their facial hair, let it grow out too long, or choose ridiculous unappealing styles.
However – if you are troubled that your appearance is causing others to place you at a lower maturity and experience level than reality dictates, growing a neatly groomed beard can help you look a few years older.
The rule holds for all ages, according to this study, so older men must be comfortable and confident in their age, wisdom, and abilities to accept the slight appearance of aging.
A man should take his grooming habits seriously.
Without control over himself and his appearance, how can he hope to have control over any other aspect of his life?
Ground your responsibility in taking care of yourself, and grow outwards from there. Whether it is your fitness, diet, grooming habits, or knowledge attainment, work on yourself and all else may be allowed to flourish.
So how do you grow and groom a luxurious mane?
But seriously, I recommend you pick a date and stick to it. It makes it much easier to commit if you decide before hand that you will simply grow your beard until a certain date.
That way you remove will power from the equation. Will power is a finite resource, so don't rely on it for things like this!
The other, less obvious reason, is that we don't want you to start shaving, trimming, and styling it yet.
It's highly recommended that you grow out a full beard first. That's the basis of most respectable beard styles, plus you want to get a good idea of how your beard grows in before making any decisions.
It will probably itch a bit at the beginning.
OK, it can itch a lot if you do nothing but let it grow.
Know that it happens to everyone. Know that it will stop. Know that you can get through it.
And of course, know that you can do something about it!
We're talking about moisturizing, gentlemen.
And don't you dare tell me you don't want my "womanly" grooming tips because you're "a man". I literally received an email like that last month.
We've already discussed the importance of keeping up on your grooming and self-mastery.
What I mean by moisturizing is the use of beard oil or beard balm.
This is the single most important act of grooming you can incorporate into your daily routine, so if you do nothing else, make sure you stick to this.
A beard oil is good if you are not looking to add much style to your beard. It can be good for short beards, or for a first coat before applying balm on very long beards.
A beard balm is good for all beards, though particularly helpful for long beards or beards with regular "fly-away" hairs that just won't lie down. Balms typically contain beeswax to give you some extra control.
I hope this one is a given, but your beard will thrive in a clean environment.
Rinse and give your face a good scrub daily. Your hands are fine, but you can use a cloth or sponge of some type to get a good clean.
Do not shampoo your beard more than once or twice a week, and try to stick to either beard shampoos, or a decent quality hair shampoo with good oils in it – I use an argan oil shampoo.
If you want to kick it up a notch, get a comb or a brush to help your beard game.
With a longer beard, I used both.
The comb to help get the first layer of beard oil throughout the beard and get the hairs pointing in generally the same direction.
The brush to help distribute the balm and style the beard 100x better than using my hands.
Oh, and a beard brush is great for new beards and yeards alike. It doesn't just help with styling, it actually helps to clean your beard.
It'll remove discarded hairs, dead skin cells (which can lead to beardruff), and the build up of oils that otherwise would sit close to the face and cause itching or breakouts.
Oh, and it feels amazing. It's hard to stick to brushing just once each day.
Alright, you're going to have to do a bit of research on this one, because there are a load of different factors that go into choosing the right style and length.
The topic would require it's own article to cover to any acceptable degree.
However, we recommend sticking with a variation of the full beard.
And do not be afraid to experiment. It grows back.
I've spent the last 18 months experimenting, from 10 months of no trimming whatsoever, to a trimmed Verdi style with a wicked mustache, to shaving it all off to start over.
Find inspiration by looking at pictures of beards you like on men who have a similar shaped face to you, err on the side of looking natural, and remember to groom it daily.
Curt Storring is the founder of Liberty Premium Grooming Co. Liberty specializes in beard care, but has a greater mission to reverse the trend of prolonged adolescence in men. Curt is passionate about helping men become more self-sufficient, productive, and responsible for their own lives.
There is no opposition to Janet Yellen rising from Vice Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board to Chairman.
You know him when you see him – he's the guy everyone notices when he takes his first three steps into a room.
Although very different people, they both had that confidence and composure that allowed them to connect with others.
How Important Is Executive Presence to Executive Success?
That's the question that author and economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founder and CEO.
5 Do You Have 'Executive Presence'?
"You have to be at the next level," advised Steinberg. "Be the role you want to be, so that it's easy for others to see you that way".


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Q: Dense Ranking - Looping with for loop I was trying to calculate the rank of the given scores for one of my coding challenge but I am kind of struck with the output I received.
I have to create the leaderboard for the given scores (assuming the score is in an array in sorted order). I have created a method which gives the rank of the given scores,
 private static int[] assignCurrentRanks(int[] scores) {
        int[] currentRanks=new int[scores.length];
        currentRanks[0]=1;//by default the first score will be rank 1
        for(int i=1;i<currentRanks.length;i++) {
            currentRanks[i]=(scores[i]==scores[i-1])?currentRanks[i-1]:++currentRanks[i-1];
            System.out.println("Inside the loop : ["+i+"] "+scores[i]+" "+currentRanks[i]);
        }
        return currentRanks;
 }

Example Input : 100,100,50,40,40,20,10
Expected Rank : 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5
I could see the rank has been assigned properly during the looping, when I print the rank after in the main method the array returned is different.
I know there is something problem with the logic, but I cannot find it. Please help on this!!
Below is my main method,
public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[] scores=new int[]{100,100,50,40,40,20,10};
        int[] currentRanks=assignCurrentRanks(scores);

        System.out.println("Printing after the loop");
        for(int i=0;i<scores.length;i++)
            System.out.println("["+i+"]"+scores[i]+" "+currentRanks[i]);
}

Result I got is,
//index 0 is already assigned with 1 by default
Inside the loop : [1] 100 1
Inside the loop : [2] 50 2
Inside the loop : [3] 40 3
Inside the loop : [4] 40 3
Inside the loop : [5] 20 4
Inside the loop : [6] 10 5
Printing after the loop
[0]100 1
[1]100 2
[2]50 3
[3]40 3
[4]40 4
[5]20 5
[6]10 5

A: ++currentRanks[i-1];\\this increments the value of array element i-1
You increment the rank prior used inside the loop, making unexpected behavior. Should make the expected behavior changing to:
currentRanks[i]=(scores[i]==scores[i-1])?currentRanks[i-1]:currentRanks[i-1] + 1;

A: Most probably ++currentRanks[i-1] is changing the result.
Try this instead:
currentRanks[i]=(scores[i]==scores[i-1])?currentRanks[i-1]:currentRanks[i-1]+1;

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A new trailer for 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' finds Cate Blanchett traveling to Antarctica
Annapurna Pictures has released a new trailer for Where'd You Go, Bernadette, the new film from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater starring Cate Blanchett, based on Maria Semple's 2012 best-selling book of the same name.
Written by Linklater along with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo, Where'd You Go, Bernadette follows Bernadette Fox (Blanchett), a Seattle woman who seemingly has it all; a nice house, good friends, a loving husband, and a brilliantly talented daughter.
But when Bernadette becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family, she takes a leap of faith on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
In addition to Blanchett, the film's all-star cast also includes the likes of Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig, Emma Nelson, James Urbaniak, Judy Greer, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, and Laurence Fishburne.
Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and Ginger Sledge produced the film, with Megan Ellison and Jillian Longnecker executive producing for Annapurna, which pushed the film back from its original March release to late summer earlier this year.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette will open in theaters on August 16.
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Bahrain's success to maintain Tier 1 Status praised
Labour and Social Development Minister Jamil bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan, the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Board Chairman, hailed Bahrain's achievement to maintain for the second year in a row its Tier 1 status in the US State Department's 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report in the Middle East and North Africa region. He said the kingdom has been able to maintain its well-deserved international status in combating human trafficking thanks to its advanced legal and institutional infrastructure to improve the work environment and protect the labour force.
The Labour and Social Development Minister extended congratulations to His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier, describing the accomplishment as one of the dividends of the kingdom's comprehensive development march in the prosperous era of HM the King. He praised the close follow-up and valuable directives of HRH the Crown Prince to the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons which helped achieve the best practices in regulating the labour market and protecting the workers' rights. He also underscored Bahrain's commitment to honouring its obligations and confronting decisively all forms of exploitation and human trafficking. He lauded the role of the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons in this respect.
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Reunited again with blogger Ruby Park during my short trip back to Southern California. This time we shot around our neighborhood. I actually picked her up at her place, which was just a few blocks away from where my family lives. It was fun exploring parts of Diamond Bar that I haven't been to. We found this cool spot right on top of a hill. Check out her blog post for more details of her outfit: [Floral + Leather].