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• Powerball winner bought ticket in La Palma

  14-05-2017 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Somebody just got very lucky in La Palma.
  The California Lottery announced Sunday, May 14, that the winning $2 ticket in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing was sold at Granada Liquor on Orangethorpe Avenue in the Orange County city.
  That person has 180 days to claim his or her prize of $796,289, by mail or in person at a lottery district office.
  The ticket matched the numbers 68-17-20-63 and 32, missing only the red Powerball number 19 — falling just short of the $185.1 million
  
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• Runners take flight in Tinker Bell Half Marathon

  14-05-2017 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Confetti and congratulations were showered on Kate Farrell of New Hampshire who wins the 6th Annual Tinker Bell Half Marathon with a winning time of 1:23:27. What’s next? She looks for mom at the Disneyland Resort, Anaheim. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)Georgette Esqueda of Mexico gets emotional as she finishes her first half marathon. She held her one-year-old daughter Hannah every step of the way at the 6th Annual Tinker Bell Half Marathon. The female-centric run
  
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• Ducks vs. Predators: Game 2 live updates

  14-05-2017 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Live updates from Game 2 of the Ducks-Predators Western Conference Finals playoff series. Reporters Eric Stephens, Elliott Teaford and columnist Mark Whicker contributing.Schedule: Predators at Ducks, 4:30 p.m., Sunday, May 12, NBCSN
  
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• Box office: ‘King Arthur’ flops, ‘Guardians 2’ still rules

  14-05-2017 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The first major box office flop of the summer movie season has arrived.
  Studio estimates Sunday say director Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” opened to a bleak $14.7 million from more than 3,700 locations against a costly $175 million production budget.
  The gritty reimaging of the Excalibur myth starring Charlie Hunnam as Arthur debuted in third place behind box office leader “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Snatched” at No. 2.
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• Three people injured in two-car collision in Irvine early Sunday

  14-05-2017 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Three people were injured in a two-car traffic collision in Irvine early Sunday morning, May 14, according to Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Dohman.
  It took firefighters 25 minutes to extricate a male driver trapped inside a mangled car. He was transported by ambulance to UCI Medical’s trauma center in Orange.
  His female passenger and the male driver of the second vehicle were taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. No other passengers were inside the cars
  
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• At a lively Wango Tango, pop and partying reign supreme

  14-05-2017 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Miley Cyrus performs during KIIS FM’s Wango Tango on Saturday. (Photo by Kelly Swift, Contributing Photographer)Miley Cyrus performs during KIIS FM’s Wango Tango on Saturday. (Photo by Kelly Swift, Contributing Photographer)Miley Cyrus performs during KIIS FM’s Wango Tango on Saturday. (Photo by Kelly Swift, Contributing Photographer)Miley Cyrus performs during KIIS FM’s Wango Tango on Saturday. (Photo by Kelly Swift, Contributing Photographer)Miley Cyrus delivers a birth
  
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• Pacific Chorale, John Alexander at their finest during conductor’s fond farewell

  14-05-2017 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  John Alexander is retiring after leading the Pacific Chorale for 45 years. He directed the chorale in his final concert at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register/SCNG)The Pacific Chorale performs for John Alexander for the final time. Alexander is retiring after leading the Pacific Chorale for 45 years. He directed the chorale in his final concert in Costa Mesa on Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange C
  
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• Clapper: U.S. government ‘under assault’ by Trump after Comey firing

  14-05-2017 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOPE YEN
  WASHINGTON  — Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday described a U.S. government “under assault” after President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to fire FBI director James Comey, as lawmakers urged the president to select a new FBI director free of any political stigma.
  “I think, in many ways, our institutions are under assault, both externally — and that’s the big news here, is the Russian interference in
  
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• First blue whale of the season spotted off Dana Point

  14-05-2017 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT  The season’s first blue whale has been spotted just off the coast.
  The whale was spotted four miles out of Dana Point Harbor slowly moving up the coast on Saturday by Capt. Tom Southern aboard a catamaran operated by Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari.Southern sent another boat to the area where he first spotted the whale. It watched for 25 minutes until he returned, he said.
  “When I got there it came up under the bow,” he said. “It was
  
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• This week’s best deals: OC Fair passes, free contact lenses, free candy for May 14-20

  14-05-2017 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Consider buying an earlybird OC Fair Super Pass, which grants passholders unlimited access to the 2017 fair express entry at all gates and 2-for-1 tickets for select events at the Pacific Amphitheatre, The Hangar and Action Sports Arena. The Super Pass is on sale now for $30 for adults, $23 for kids and seniors, plus a $5 handling fee, until May 31. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)Hi, it’s me, Marla Jo, your columnist and deals maven. If you know a great deal, let me k
  
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• 5 free things you can get for your birthday

  14-05-2017 15:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Venison is served at the stylish glass restaurant Leatherby’s Cafe Rouge inside the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa. Diners can get a birthday discount of $30 off a meal at the restaurant. (File photo by Cindy Yamanaka, Orange County Register/SCNG)This is my birthday month, and it’s fun to already watch the birthday freebie deals start to roll in. So far, here’s what I’ve collected, after only a couple of days:
  A $25 birthday reward credit on my next
  
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• Deal of the week: Kids ski free at Mammoth Mountain until the end of the season

  14-05-2017 15:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Kids have fun at Mammoth Mountain. (Photo by Pete Morning, MMSA)From now until the end of the ski season, lift tickets for kids 12 and under are free at Mammoth Mountain, which will be open through at least for two more months, through July 4, and possibly longer. Seriously, my friends were just up there for spring break and it snowed on them! Warmer spring temps make it a perfect opportunity to get the little ones going. No cold fingers and toes, no lift lines, a much more laid back vibe and pl
  
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• At least 100,000 groups in 150 countries hit by ransomware

  14-05-2017 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By SYLVIA HUI, ALLEN G. BREED and SARA BURNETT
  LONDON— An unprecedented global “ransomware” attack has hit at least 100,000 organizations in 150 countries, Europe’s police agency said Sunday — and predicted that more damage may be seen Monday as people return to work and switch on their computers.
  The attack that began Friday is believed to be the biggest online extortion attack ever recorded, spreading chaos by locking computers that run Britain’s hospital ne
  
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• Housing shortage: Does California have a crisis problem?

  14-05-2017 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For the 30 years I’ve been a journalist at the Orange County Register, it feels like we Californians have hopped from crisis to crisis to crisis.
  I’m beginning to think with have a crisis of crises.
  We apparently just got over our water crisis, aka “the drought.” That followed the budget crisis with the ongoing prison and pension crises, after the foreclosure crisis which preceded old housing crises and the state’s hand in the savings and loan crisis, not to mention
  
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• ‘A persistent and growing underclass’ in Orange County, report shows

  14-05-2017 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Parents holding down two or three jobs each.
  Families doubled and tripled up in cramped apartments.
  Underachieving students.
  Poor health and nutrition.
  A dwindling working-age population.
  It is not all bad news, but Orange County’s new Community Indicators Report, an annual study by government agencies, businesses and philanthropies, points to many woes woven into the fabric of the county’s sunny suburbs.
  One thread links them all: a calamitous shortage of affordable housing.
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• Woodward and Bernstein: We need you more than ever

  14-05-2017 09:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Like America’s 45th president, Joe DiMaggio wasn’t a reader, so literary symbolism wasn’t his thing, and the allusion to him in the Simon & Garfunkel hit “Mrs. Robinson” initially irritated Joltin’ Joe. “What do they mean, ‘Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?’” he’d grouse to his pals at Toots Shor’s. “I’m still here. I haven’t gone anywhere.”
  DiMaggio met Paul Simon at a restaurant years later and
  
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• OCC speech and debate team preserving discourse

  14-05-2017 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes the best place to look for inspiration is close to home. And sometimes, those close to you can make a national splash delivering the goods. At a messy, frustrating moment in America’s political discourse, Orange Coast College’s speech and debate team has earned a first-place countrywide finish — for the third consecutive year. In 40 years, no other team has pulled off a threepeat.
  Milestones like these often come complete with remarkable details, and, here, OCC plays
  
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• 43 partygoers busted at unauthorized rave in Costa Mesa

  14-05-2017 09:07
  Costa Mesa police detained 43 people early Saturday after being called to an unoccupied commercial building by a security guard who reported an unauthorized rave taking place. The partygoers, who numbered about 200, were inside a building in the 3300 block of Harbor Boulevard that had been broken into, said Costa Mesa police Sgt.
  
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• Customers want cheap flights, not congressional regulation of airlines

  14-05-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  From a brawl aboard a plane at Burbank Airport to the disturbing video of United Airlines having a passenger dragged off one of its flights, airlines and air travel are under heavy scrutiny.
  In response to the United incident, members of Congress introduced a bill to prohibit passengers from being involuntarily bumped from overbooked flights and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., proposed a passenger bill of rights. But before Congress passes new legislation, it’s important to remember why
  
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• CdM pushed to the brink by Laguna Beach, but advances to volleyball semifinals

  14-05-2017 09:04 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH >> Corona del Mar hadn’t lost a set in five consecutive matches going into its CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinal against Laguna Beach on Saturday at Corona del Mar High.
  No. 3 seed Corona del Mar had also swept the Breakers earlier this season and there was no reason to think the Sea Kings wouldn’t dominate again.
  But Laguna nearly matched their rivals set for set and point for point, until the Sea Kings finally put forth enough of a surge at the end to defeat the Br
  
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• Fight over ‘commies’ shows ongoing Capitol silliness

  14-05-2017 09:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — When I was a precocious teenager, I worked at a book store in a shopping mall and was responsible for stocking the politics section with books. For sheer shock value, I ordered Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book” and other tripe from communist dictators.
  For some reason, it seemed funny (to me, but not my manager) to watch suburban shoppers peruse reading material with such great insights as, “The same limitless creative energy of the masses is also visible
  
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• Letters: Jurors are the frontline against lawsuit abuse

  14-05-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Most of us have been there. We receive the dreaded summons that it is our time for jury duty. There’s a reason it’s called a “duty.” Instead of viewing this as a chore, it should be viewed as an incredible opportunity to directly participate in one of our country’s greatest processes — ensuring our fellow citizens have fair access to justice.
  In order to do this, and for our court systems to be fit for purpose, we need good jurors. Good jurors come from all ba
  
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• A veterans cemetery within reach

  14-05-2017 09:01 via ocregister.com
  
  I am honored to have authored legislation in 2014 that put us on a path toward state and federal approval of plans that will lead to the construction and operation of Orange County’s very own veterans cemetery project.
  The law I wrote for that purpose brought funding to pay for preparation of a site agreed to by veterans and local, state and federal officials. Now, there is still more work to be done to see this through, and I will continue to push the state to do its part on the project.
  
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• Foothill boys, Crean Lutheran girls win CIF swimming titles in dramatic fashion

  14-05-2017 08:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Foothill reacts after winning the team overall during the CIF-SS Division 2 swimming finals at the Riverside Aquatic Complex in Riverside, Calif., on Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)Foothill reacts after winning the team overall during the CIF-SS Division 2 swimming finals at the Riverside Aquatic Complex in Riverside, Calif., on Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)Foothill reacts after winning the team overall d
  
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• Santa Margarita girls, Dana Hills boys win Division 1 titles

  14-05-2017 08:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Dana Hills’ Boys Swim team jumps in the pool to celebrate their championship after Saturday evening’s CIF Southern Section Division 1 Swimming Finals at the Riverside Aquatic Complex in Riverside, CA Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Photo by Mark Dustin for the Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)Santa Margarita Girls Swim Team celebrates with the championship plaque in the pool after Saturday evening’s CIF Southern Section Division 1 Swimming Finals at the Riverside Aquatic Complex in Riversi
  
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• Los Alamitos leads way at Division 1 track and field preliminaries

  14-05-2017 08:51 via ocregister.com
  
  MISSION VIEJO >> Finals qualifications were spread around Orange County schools at the CIF-SS Division 1 track and field preliminaries on Saturday at Trabuco Hills High.
  Los Alamitos picked up the most qualifiers with 10 total across the boys and girls. Dana Hills qualified nine entries, and Trabuco Hills had seven.
  Jose Rubio led the way for Los Alamitos with three of their four boys qualifiers. Rubio, a triple-winner at the O.C. Championships, easily qualified in his three top events, 11
  
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• Whicker: The most polarizing penalty in hockey

  14-05-2017 07:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Fickle Flip of Fate reached its current infamy in 2006.
  Buffalo and Carolina were playing in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals (yes, it was a while back). They were tied 2-2 in the third period.
  Brian Campbell of the Sabres tried to hoist the puck out of his zone. It flew over the glass, and that was that. No appeal process, no replay. Campbell went to the penalty box.
  In the next minute, Rod Brind’Amour put the Hurricanes ahead, 3-2. They won, 4-2. Of course they did; they had J
  
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• The path was rocky, but Rams TE Gerald Everett is where he always believed he’d be

  14-05-2017 06:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Every single one of the 30 or so dreamers lining the Rams practice field this weekend in Thousand Oaks has a story to tell. You don’t just pull up at an NFL rookie minicamp, a place where lifetime dreams are allowed to continue or meet their bitter ends, without toting an extraordinary amount of baggage the result of roads less traveled.For every high draft pick with a lucrative contract on the way, there’s three undrafted free agents hoping to make enough of an impression to get a t
  
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• Galaxy start important stretch of four consecutive road games against New York Red Bulls

  14-05-2017 06:39 via ocregister.com
  
  After a dismal early stretch of the season, the Galaxy and coach Curt Onalfo believes things are about to start turning around.
  Their optimism stems from the second half of last week’s 2-2 draw against the Chicago Fire.
  The Galaxy trailed 2-0 after 16 minutes, yet, despite two first half subs of their captain (Jelle Van Damme) and vice-captain Jermaine Jones (injury), they managed to score two second-half goals to secure a 2-2 draw.
  The draw extended the Galaxy’s (2-5-2, eight points
  
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• Undrafted free agent Jake Eldrenkamp will compete for Rams’ center job

  14-05-2017 06:38 via ocregister.com
  
  THOUSAND OAKS — The only real benefit to going undrafted in the NFL is the player’s ability to choose, as a free agent, his destination. Offensive linemen Jake Eldrenkamp chose a challenge.
  Even before the end of the seventh round last month, the Rams already had been in touch with Eldrenkamp’s agent, to signify their desire to sign him. The interest came with one caveat: the Rams wanted Eldrenkamp to be a center, a position he hadn’t played since high school.
  No problem.
  
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• J.D. Martinez and the Tigers outslug Angels in 4-3 victory

  14-05-2017 06:26 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Los Angeles Angels’ Jefry Marte, left, is forced out at second by Detroit Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler, right, on a fielder’s choice hit by Los Angeles Angels’ Andrelton Simmons as shortstop Jose Iglesias runs in during the second inning of a baseball game, Saturday, May 13, 2017, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ORG XMIT: ANS107Detroit Tigers right fielder Tyler Collins can’t get to a ball hit for a single by Los Angeles Angels’ Martin Mald
  
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• Amgen Tour of California to feature toughest field

  14-05-2017 06:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The race for the Amgen Tour of California individual title appears wide open.Julian Alaphillipe, who became the event’s youngest winner last year, had knee surgery on Wednesday in Belgium. Rohan Dennis, who was second last year, dropped out of the concurrent Giro d’Italia last week with a non-race injury. Mark Cavendish, who has won 10 ATOC stages, is suffering from mononucleosis and is out.That does not mean the 12th edition of the race, which begins its first of seven stages Sunday
  
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• 80-year-old woman found dead in backyard pool of Villa Park home

  14-05-2017 05:37 via ocregister.com
  
  An 80-year-old woman appears to have drowned Friday night in the backyard pool at a Villa Park home, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
  The woman was discovered in the pool around 9:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead by respondents from Orange County Fire Authority.
  The Sheriff’s Department declined to release her name Saturday.  The exact cause of death is pending an autopsy, said Lt. Wayne Rehnelt.
  “She could have had a heart attack potentially and fallen
  
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• Investors gather in Huntington Beach to talk taxes, stocks and marijuana

  14-05-2017 05:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Want proof that marijuana is going mainstream? Look no further than a wealth management conference that kicked off Thursday, May 11, at the Hyatt in Huntington Beach.
  Between discussions on tax strategies and building a real estate portfolio, experts offered tips on investing in cannabis real estate to guests that paid upwards of $2,000 a pop to soak it in.
  The new rules on pot in California and other states are starting to rouse the curiosity — if not yet the money of — investors of
  
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• Report: Eric Gomez confirms Dodgers offer to host Golovkin-Canelo

  14-05-2017 04:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Eric Gomez, president of Golden Boy Promotions, on Saturday confirmed a report that Magic Johnson and the Dodgers have made an offer to host the Sept. 16 middleweight title fight between champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan and Canelo Alvarez of Mexico at Dodger Stadium.De La Hoya told the L.A. Times that he had a conversation with Johnson on Friday. Gomez said that talk came after he had three with Dodgers executive vice-president and chief marketing officer Lon Rosen.“I had the initia
  
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• Ducks feeling the urgency in Sunday’s Game 2

  14-05-2017 04:11 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – Winning a Stanley Cup isn’t supposed to be easy and some roads to that are more difficult to manage than others. Take the three won by Southern California’s two NHL teams.
  The Ducks dropped only five games in their 2007 Cup run. The Kings motored through the 2012 postseason, falling just four times. But their 2014 victory was arduous, with seven-game victories needed in the first three rounds.
  So the Ducks have their turn this spring and they’re on the more chal
  
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• Thousands watch homemade rocket launches in Huntington Beach

  14-05-2017 02:35 via ocregister.com
  
  As homemade bottle rockets zigged and zagged overhead, Newport Beach resident Andrei Leontieff knelt next to his two sons and started a 10-second countdown.
  Moments later, the family’s rocket made from a two-liter soda bottle and foam fins shot into the sky and veered wildly to the right before crashing into the ground.
  Despite the result, Leontieff cheered and hugged Anton, 5. It was time to repair the rocket and try again.
  “He wants to be a future aero
  
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• Maryanne Dell: Why do the most vulnerable puppies suffer?

  14-05-2017 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Innocence.
  Gone.
  Permanently.
  The latest category of neglected dogs appears to be puppies. Young – too young in many instances – and sick, unable to sustain their own lives, these dogs enter our shelter system fighting for their lives. Many have parvovirus, a disease that is often deadly to little lives that don’t have the immune systems to fight the things ravaging their bodies.
  Others, like little Takaani, a sweet, 5-month-old husky pup, were born with congenital deficiencies
  
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• On deck: Dodgers at Rockies, Sunday, noon

  14-05-2017 00:49 via ocregister.com
  
  DODGERS AT ROCKIES
  When: Sunday, 12:10 p.m.
  Where: Coors Field
  TV: SNLA (where available)
  THE PITCHERS
  DODGERS LHP JULIO URIAS (0-0,1.06 ERA)
  vs. Rockies: 0-0, 5.14 ERA (2 games, 7 innings)
  At Coors Field: 0-0, 9.00 ERA (3 innings)
  Hates to face: Nolan Arenado, 2 for 2 (1.000), double
  Loves to face: Mark Reynolds, 0 for 4 (.000), 2 Ks
  ROCKIES RHP ANTONIO SENZATELA (5-1, 2.86 ERA)
  vs. Dodgers: He has never faced them before
  at Coors Field: 3-1, 3.12 ER
  
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• Dodl.es Animation App Brings Collaborative Creativity to Social Media

  14-05-2017 00:21
  Users of its mobile app can rapidly create animated scenes using their own content or by mixing, matching and tweaking animated characters and content created by others. ?Over the past decade, social media has evolved from text-based posts, emojis, and photos to more visually engaging memes, stickers, and videos.
  
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