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Cabrillo previews new digital

fabrication centerBy JOHANNA MILLEROF THE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN

APTOS — For many, the pro-cess of 3D printing is still akin to magic. Witnessing a digital design take shape in a physical form through a 3D printer, creat-ing everything from architectural models to human prosthetics, seems like a miracle — until you actually understand the science behind it.

Beginning on Jan. 20, a sizable collection of 3D printers, along with laser and vinyl cutters, routers, soldering stations and more will be available to Cabrillo College students, faculty and the community at the school’s new Makerspace center.

The brainchild of Payson Mc-Nett, a former Cabrillo student who came back to the school as an adjunct art instructor a few years ago, Makerspace will be a center for people to utilize various digital fabrication equip-ment for classwork, projects and personal creations.

“The idea was to build a center for everyone to use,” McNett said. “We want it to be a cross-disciplinary space, such as a library or computer lab, where people from all departments can come and use this equipment for their own specifi c needs.”

The crew of Makerspace have been giving “sneak peeks” of the center to the public since De-cember, with two more planned for January. They invite anyone interested to come see what the center is all about.

“Even if it’s just out of pure curiosity, we want people to come check it out,” McNett said. “You never know what you might fi nd.”

Two years ago, McNett opened the Fab Lab, a digital fabrication lab within Cabrillo’s art depart-ment. But he knew that the type of equipment shouldn’t only be utilized for art; that other de-partments on campus as well as non-students should be allowed to have access.

With help from the Cabrillo Col-lege Foundation, Visual and Per-forming Arts Dean John Graulty, Santa Cruz’s Maker Factory, and many others, McNett was able to pitch the idea of the Makerspace. In July, Cabrillo received a two-year Maker Initiative grant from the California Community Col-lege Chancellor’s Offi ce to begin developing.

Just within the Fall 2017 se-mester, the center at the college’s Aptos campus has taken shape, and it will offi cially open in a few

short weeks.“It’s been a whirlwind,” McNett

said. “But we have a great team. There is an amazing community

here at Cabrillo who’ve been sup-portive since the very beginning.”

Cabrillo students and faculty will be able to use the center for

free, but only after taking the Art95A (Survey of Digital Fabrica-tion) course. Non-students who are interested in a membershipto Makerspace can sign up for a weekend workshop throughCabrillo Extension to be trainedon the equipment.

Makerspace’s primary goal, according to McNett, is to help students gain skills that will help them fi nd jobs. The Makerspace Internship Program was createdto give students a chance to gainexperience before joining the workforce. In addition, Mak-erspace staff can help to iden-tify businesses that could benefi t from people with said skills.

“Technology is evolving so fast, so of course, so are jobs,” McNett said.

At the end of the day, McNett

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Cabrillo Makerspace Director Payson McNett shows off one of many 3D printing machines that willsoon be available for use to students, faculty and the community.

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A lineup of Ultimaker 3D printers sit ready to use at Cabrillo College's new digital fabrication center, which offi cially opens Jan. 20.

A colony of seagulls looks to see what the high tide brought in Mondaymorningat Capitola Beach.Johanna Miller

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By ERIK CHALHOUBOF THE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN

WATSONVILLE — As the New Year rushed in on Monday, so did the tides. The second round of king tides of the season struck Wat-sonville and the Monterey Bay coast. King tides occur when the Earth, moon and sun are aligned at their closest points, which result in the largest tidal range seen over the course of the year. The king tides are expected

to return today at high tide, es-timated at 10:13 a.m., with low tide at 5:09 p.m. Rachel Kippen, environmen-tal projects coordinator for the City of Watsonville, said as sea levels rise, tidal events such as the king tides push seawater further inland, becoming more destructive as years go by. The king tides can give resi-dents a glimpse of what daily tides may look like in the future due to sea level rise, she said.

“This is the interesting part about shifting baselines,” Kip-pen said. “It’s challenging to recognize the amount that has changed year to year, but when you see an event like a king tide, sea level rise is actually visible. One of the most challenging parts of climate change educa-tion is that it’s often invisible.” She added that the best places to view the king tides in

King tides usher in the New Year

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Marijuana plants are shown at the KindPeoples dispensary in Santa Cruz.

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CALIFORNIA — It wasn't exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the fi rst legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who could fi nd the drug celebrated the historic day, lining up early for ribbon cuttings, freebies and offerings ranging from joints to gummy bears to weed with names like Red Dragon.

Jeff Deakin, 66, his wife Mary and their dog waited in the cold all night to be fi rst in a line of 100 people when Harborside dispensary, a longtime medical pot shop in Oakland, opened at 6 a.m. and offered early customers joints for a penny and free T-shirts that read "Flower to the People — Cannabis for All."

"It's been so long since others and myself could walk into a place where you could feel safe and secure and be able to get something that was good without having to go to the back alley," Deakin said. "This is kind of a big deal for everybody."

Harborside founder Steve DeAngelo used a giant pair of scissors to cut a green ribbon, declaring, "With these scissors I dub thee free," before ringing up the fi rst customer at a cash register.

Sales were brisk in the shops lucky to score one of the roughly 100 state licenses issued so far, but customers in some of the state's largest cities were out of luck.

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By JOHANNA MILLEROF THE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — As many Santa Cruz County residents celebrated ringing in the New Year, two new lives were just beginning at Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz.

Anissa Samudio of Watsonville gave birth to a 5-pound, 3-ounce boy named Elijah at 2:57 a.m. Monday. Just a couple of hours later, Mallory Walkup of Santa

A new year, a new life

County’s fi rst babies of the year born at Sutter Maternity Center

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credits the community at Ca-brillo for Makerspace becom-ing a reality.

“It took a lot of collaboration and a lot of hard work,” he said. “Any time you do something new like this, it’s a challenge. But it worked out. Cabrillo changed my life a long time ago — I’m glad I’m finally able to give back.”

The two remaining “Sneak Peeks” of Makerspace are oc-curring on Jan. 5 and 12, both from 5–7:30 p.m. A grand open-ing celebration is planned for Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. For informa-tion, visit cabrillomakerspace.com or call 477-3392.

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Payson McNett explains the function of a soldering station at the new Cabrillo Makerspace.

Watsonville are at Palm State Beach and the last mile of Watsonville Slough, as well as Elkhorn Slough.

“The coast shoreline is impressive as well on both the high and the low tide, because of how much is brought up on the high and then exposed on the low,” Kippen said.

The last king tide event occurred Dec. 3-5, with two rounds happening every winter, according to Kippen.

Various wildlife groups across the Monterey Bay urged locals to head to the beach to experience the king tides for themselves. There were a few planned events, as well.

At 2 p.m. on New Year’s Day, two wildlife interpreters from Seacliff State Beach led a public walk from New Brighton State Beach to Capitola Beach.

The walk was part of America’s State Parks’ movement known as “First Day Hikes,” with more than 80 hikes and other out-ings planned throughout all 50 states for New Year’s Day.

The strip of beach between New Brighton and Capitola is only accessible during a minus tide such as the low points dur-ing the king tide. It gave walkers a unique experience in nature viewing: a number of different tide pools were revealed along the sandy, rocky route — giving people a rare chance to view and document various inhabitants and species.

In addition, remnants of the natural history of Santa Cruz County’s coastline were exposed during the low tides, including many fossils — some millions of years old. One impressive sight only seen during a negative tide is the 5-million-year-old fossil of a whale backbone, embedded permanently in the shoreline.

With rain not on the horizon

today, residents are encouraged to document the king tide experi-ence by sharing photos with the California King Tides Project at california.kingtides.net.

But whether Watsonville and Santa Cruz County are in for another year of massive winter storms is still up in the air.

The 2018 Winter Weather Forecast Long Range Predic-tion, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric As-sociation, shows a variable winter season on California’s Central Coast, which means it has an equal chance of a wet or dry season.

Watsonville residents who live in areas prone to flooding are encouraged to pick up pre-filled sandbags at Fire Station #1, 115 Second St., or at Home Depot, 355 South Green Valley Road.

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Los Angeles and San Francisco hadn't authorized shops in time to get state licenses and other cities, such as Riverside and Fresno, blocked sales alto-gether.

Licensed shops are concen-trated in San Diego, Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Palm Springs area.

California voters in 2016 made it legal for adults 21 and older to grow, possess and use limited quantities of marijuana, but it wasn't legal to sell it for recreational purposes until Monday.

The nation's most populous state now joins a growing list of states, and the nation's capital, where so-called recreational marijuana is permitted even though the federal government continues to classify pot as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD.

The signs that California was tripping toward legal pot sales were evident well before the stroke of midnight. California highways flashed signs before New Year's Eve that said "Drive high, Get a DUI," reflecting law enforcement concerns about stoned drivers. Weedmaps, the phone app that allows custom-ers to rate shops, delivery ser-vices and shows their locations, ran a full-page ad Sunday in the Los Angeles Times that said, "Smile California. It's Legal."

The state banned what it called "loco-weed" in 1913, though it has been easing crimi-nal penalties for use of the drug since the 1970s and was the first state to legalize marijuana for

medicinal purposes in 1996.Travis Lund, 34, said he'd

been looking forward while working the graveyard shift to buy weed legally for the first time since he began smoking pot as a teen.

"I'm just stoked that it's finally legal," he said after purchasing an eighth of an ounce of "Mount Zion" and another type of loose leaf marijuana at Northstar Ho-listic Collective in Sacramento, where the fragrance of pot was strong. "I'm going to home and get high — and enjoy it."

Lund previously purchased marijuana on the black market through friends and said that may continue, given the high costs of the legal weed, which is heavily taxed. But he said he would indulge in retail pot oc-casionally because of controls being phased in to ensure a higher-quality product.

Shops will be able to sell marijuana harvested without full regulatory controls for six months but will eventually only be able to sell pot tested for potency, pesticides and other contaminants, and products that have been tracked from seed to sale.

The Bureau of Cannabis Control was not aware of any problems or complaints about the first day of sales, but it didn't have inspectors in the field, spokesman Alex Traverso said.

Employees at the bureau on the holiday continued to process 1,400 pending license applications for retail sales, distribution and testing facili-ties.

Traverso said they expect a flood of applications from LA and San Francisco after those are approved locally. Because

Los Angeles is the biggest mar-ket in the state, some of those shops will be approved more quickly than others waiting in line, he said.

The status of the Los Angeles shops highlights broad confu-sion over the new law.

Los Angeles officials an-nounced late last month thatthe city will not begin accept-ing license applications untilJan. 3, and it might take weeks before any licenses are issued. That led to widespread concern that long-established businesses would have to shut down duringthe interim.

Attorneys advising a group of city dispensaries have conclud-ed those businesses can legallysell medicinal marijuana as "col-lectives," until they obtain localand state licenses under the new system, said Jerred Kiloh of the United Cannabis Business Association, an industry group.

It wasn't immediately clearhow many of those shops, if any, were open.

"My patients are scared, my employees are scared," saidKiloh, who owns a dispensary in the city's San Fernando Val-ley area.

In Orange County, shops inSanta Ana received the greenlight over the weekend to openand a steady flow showed up at ShowGrow.

Ellen St. Peter, 61, shopped with her son, Bryce St. Peter, 23, both medical marijuana users.

She said she smoked pot for years — at times taking greatrisks to get it — but stopped once she started having kids.

"In high school my guy friendswould fantasize about shopswe could go into and just buy weed," she said. "I couldn't have dreamed of this place."

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Cruz gave birth to her son Wyatt, 9 pounds, 1 ounce, at 4:42 a.m.

For Samudio, special birth-days seem to run in her family. According to Elijah’s grand-mother Maria, Anissa was the final baby born in the county in her birth year, even being fea-tured in the newspaper herself as a newborn.

She says she is “very excited” about starting her life as a new mom.

Both moms weren’t expecting to give birth exactly on New Year’s Day. Samudio’s due date was Jan. 10, and Walkup’s on Jan. 15.

Walkup had been at Sut-ter Maternity Center since Thursday — it began as just a check-up, but staff recom-mended she be admitted. Lo and behold, the baby came

early.“I can’t even really put it into

words,” Walkup said. “There’s

all this build-up and then sud-denly [Wyatt] is finally here. It’samazing.”

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Mallory and Lance Walkup spend time with their new baby Wyatt on Monday at Sutter Maternity Center.

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New Year's Day baby Elijah is Santa Cruz County's first babyborn in 2018.

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WASHINGTON — The glam-our of his holiday break behind him, President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday night to face a hefty legislative to-do list, critical midterm elections and perilous threats abroad.

Trump started his second year in Washington after a lengthy sojourn at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, capped by a New Year's Eve bash. Before his departure for the capital, he fired angry tweets at Iran and Pakistan, slamming Islamabad for "lies & deceit" and saying the country had played U.S. leaders for "fools," a reference to frus-trations that Pakistan isn't doing enough to control militants.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif tweeted that his

government was preparing a response that "will let the world know the truth."

Meantime, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Mon-day the United States should be aware that his country's nuclear forces are now a reality, not a future threat. To that, Trump only said: "We'll see."

The president is hoping for more legislative achievements after his pre-Christmas success on taxes. He plans to host Sen-ate Majority Leader Mitch Mc-Connell of Kentucky and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin at Camp David next weekend to map out the 2018 legislative agenda.

Republicans are eager to make progress before attention shifts to the midterm elections. The GOP wants to hold House

and Senate majorities in 2018, but must contend with Trump'shistoric unpopularity and somerecent Democratic wins.

The president concluded 2017 with his first major legislativeachievement — a law to cuttaxes, beginning this year, forcorporations and individuals at an estimated cost of $1.5 tril-lion added to the national debtover 10 years. The tax overhaul also will end the requirement, in 2019, that all Americans buyhealth insurance or pay a fine.That's a key component of theObama-era health law that thatRepublicans have been unable to repeal; other features of the law remain intact.

The White House has said Trump will come forward withhis long-awaited infrastructureplan in January.

Perils abroad, full plate at home, as Trump opens 2nd year