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• Dodgers’ offense left out in the cold against Brewers lefty Wade Miley

  31-07-2018 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Brewers’ Christian Yelich passes Dodgers third baseman Manny Machado on his way to scoring the only run of the game on a double by Lorenzo Cain during the third inning of Tuesday’s game at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
  Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Wade Miley throws during the second inning of the team’s baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)SoundThe gallery will re
  
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• Orange County 2018 Football Preview: Players to watch in each league

  31-07-2018 22:42 via ocregister.com
  
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  Pacifica’s Rai SagastumeSoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSegerstrom’s Emerson Aldana
  La Habra’s Clark Phillips III
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  The Register’s list of the key players to watch in each league this season:
  Big 4 League: Segerstrom’s Emerson Aldana, OL/DL, Sr.
  Emerson Aldana made a big impact in the Golden West League last season as he earned All-County third-team honors and was selected Go
  
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• Whicker: On Moving Day for relievers, Dodgers hope Axford cuts to the chase

  31-07-2018 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — From July 1 to Aug. 1, 20 major league relievers changed uniforms.
  That included Roberto Osuna, a domestic-violence defendant whose trial in Toronto hasn’t started yet. Also Jeurys Familia, who was suspended for the same thing last year. Most of the rest are marching to new teams like Valley Forge combatants, bandages shaped like question marks, up and down their arms. The supply was meager and the demand was desperate.
  The Dodgers celebrated the arrival of All-Star Man
  
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• Tyler Skaggs’ breakout season interrupted by a rare bad outing in Angels’ loss

  31-07-2018 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rays’ Jake Bauers, left, celebrates with teammate Carlos Gomez after hitting a home run during the second inning of Tuesday’s game against the Angels in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)
  ST PETERSBURG, FL – JULY 31: Jake Bauers #9 of the Tampa Bay Rays hits a homer in the second inning against the Los Angeles Angels on July 31, 2018 at Tropicana Field in St Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)SoundThe gallery will resume inseco
  
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• Bonsignore: It’s time for Cowboys’ Jerry Jones to do more listening and less talking

  31-07-2018 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys. It’s his team to run, as he sees fit. He signs the paychecks. He gets to call the shots.
  His team.
  His rules.
  His call.
  And his burden to own when his rules and words expose him for what he very much appears to be right now: An out-of-touch, hypocritical, overbearing old hoot.
  With a chance to take the high road – the obvious right road, mind you – by backing his players and their NFL colleagues by displaying the smallest amou
  
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• Family fears American citizen from Orange is imprisoned in Vietnam

  31-07-2018 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Helen Nguyen went to pick up her husband at Los Angeles International Airport on July 16, the day he was scheduled to end a trip to his birth country, Vietnam, but he wasn’t there.
  Now, Helen Nguyen, of Orange, as well as other relatives and friends, fear that Michael Phong Nguyen is being detained and possibly imprisoned by the Vietnamese government.
  Friends in Vietnam recently posted on social media that the American citizen had been arrested, but details about where and w
  
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• State gives OK to Orange County mobile syringe exchange program, over local objections

  31-07-2018 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A mobile needle exchange program universally opposed by the county and four affected cities was approved this week by the California Department of Public Health.
  State officials decided Monday to let the Orange County Needle Exchange Program operate for two years starting Monday, Aug. 6, according to an email and letter from the department.
  Supporters say such programs help reduce the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C, and are often the only regular contact injection drug users
  
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• UFC 227 might lead to clash of champions

  31-07-2018 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  UFC Bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw works with training partner and Bellator fighter Juan Archuleta during practice at the Treigning Lab, in Anaheim, CA. Monday, July 23, 2018. Dillashaw will face former championCody Garbrandt during UFC 227 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 4th.(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)X
  Former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt photographed in Glendale, Monday, July 30, 2018. Garbrandt seeks to reclaim his title fr
  
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• Del Mar racing consensus picks for Wednesday, Aug. 1

  31-07-2018 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Consensus box of picks come from Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Del Mar.
   
  
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• A Nutritionist’s Guide: Uncovering the benefits of turmeric

  31-07-2018 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Turmeric root, which grows wild in Southeast Asia, originally emerged from India. It also has a long history of medicinal use that dates back 4000 years. While commonly used as a spice in cooking, turmeric has held a revered place in religious ceremonies. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine have harnessed its power for years. It contains high levels of manganese, iron, fiber, vitamin B6, potassium, vitamin C, and magnesium. Nutritionists and healers celebrate turmeric for its rejuvenate properti
  
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• Audit the Californa DMV

  31-07-2018 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If there’s any government agency that might best embody the worst of government, it’s probably the Department of Motor Vehicles.
  Inefficiency and a reluctance to innovate are longstanding hallmarks of the California DMV.
  That “their field offices remain a cross between a bus station and a Soviet bread line,” as columnist Steven Greenhut put it, is only amplified by the long, aggravating wait times experienced by many.
  It’s a problem that is apparently getting worse,
  
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• The USC quarterback battle: Jack Sears has taken Darnold’s place before

  31-07-2018 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  USC quarterbacks Matt Fink (19) and Jack Sears (13) split the majority of the snaps during spring practice, but incoming freshman JT Daniels will be involved in the competition for the starting job during fall training camp. (Photo by John McCoy)
  Jack Sears (13) during football practice at Howard Jones Field on the USC campus in Los Angeles, Friday, August 4, 2017. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsUSC quarterback Jack Sears, #13, passes
  
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• Will Orange County veterans finally get a local cemetery?

  31-07-2018 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County veterans have been fighting for a veterans cemetery here for almost 20 years. Sadly, they have recently also been used as pawns in a disgraceful political battle that parallels the mistreatment of returning Vietnam veterans.
  Since the closure of the El Toro Marine Air Station, veterans have been promised a final resting place at the historic air base time and again. However, just as that promise was about to be fulfilled, the former mayor of Irvine seized the opportunity to make th
  
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• Cities steal from your power bill and you pay for the privilege

  31-07-2018 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s sneaky, and it’s costly, and it’s probably headed for the California Supreme Court. The practice of overcharging for municipal utility services and then transferring the extra money to a city’s general fund may soon be out the window.
  Challenges to the cash transfers have dotted the courts in recent months. In May, a California appellate court threw out a challenge to the city of Riverside’s transfer of electric utility revenue to its general fund, but only bec
  
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• Westminster launches fundraising website to memorialize the Mendez desegregation case that put it on the map

  31-07-2018 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Fundraising has started to include a bronze monument in Westminster’s Mendez Tribute Park, a small park breaking ground in January to memorialize to the 1947 ruling with local ties that banned the segregation of Mexican American children in California schools.
  The City Council approved the park project in March, committing the $160,000 it will cost to convert a vacant lot at Westminster Boulevard and Olive Street into a pleasant oasis of trees and benches. However, the
  
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• Titan Voice: Grad’s data-driven vision could help those most in need

  31-07-2018 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  CSUF graduate Thabat Dahdoul, far right, traveled to Peru in the summer of 2017 with other BOLD scholars, from left, Dinorah Ortiz from CSUF and Enas Jahangir from Smith College, plus Annie Cohen, site coordinator of the program at Smith. The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network is funded by the Pussycat Foundation, established by former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown. (Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton)
  Cal State Fullerton 2018 graduate Thabat Dahdoul is flanked by CSUF President F
  
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• 9-year-old Laguna Niguel girl earns silver in first year at national taekwondo championship

  31-07-2018 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA NIGUEL — Maya Davis is a lot like most 9-year-old girls—she enjoys listening to Taylor Swift, playing Pokémon and going to the beach.
  However, most 9-year-old girls aren’t national reigning USAT taekwondo silver medalists in sparring.
  Maya competed in her first USAT National Championships July 2-9 in Salt Lake City and made quite the impression. She competed in the 8- and 9-year-old heavyweight category and won her first two matches before being bested by three-ti
  
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• High on hope, Lakers fans cash in for new LeBron James jerseys

  31-07-2018 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Marco Alvarado, visiting from his home in San Diego on a trip to Disneyland, swung by El Segundo to get a new LeBron James jersey when they went on sale at the Lakers Team Shop in El Segundo on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. (Photo by Mike Mullen, for SCNG)
  Long- time Lakers fan Shahin Ourian of the Palms area of Los Angeles, makes a photo of his 8 year-ol Shih Tzu with LeBron James t-shirts. New Lakers jerseys, designed more like the 1980s-era versions, went on sale at the Lakers Team Shop in El Segun
  
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• Essay: Another 50 Shades of Gray

  31-07-2018 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  More than anything I want to leave this design center. After three hours I start wondering what it would be like to die here and be buried among the pieces of flagstone. No grave marker, just a sad dead body clutching two tile samples and a half-eaten granola bar.
  “Which one do you like?” my husband asks.
  “The gray one,” I say.
  “You like it better than this one?” He points to another almost identical sample.
  “Yes,” I say.
  “But remember, the w
  
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• Missed visits, uncontrolled pain and fraud: report says hospice lacks oversight

  31-07-2018 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Elderly patients spent over two weeks in uncontrolled pain or respiratory distress. Acute care was rare on weekends. And recruiters went door to door pitching fraudulent schemes, luring healthy patients to sign up for hospice in exchange for free housecleaning and medicine.
  These details appear in a report on hospice released Monday by a government watchdog agency calling on federal regulators to ramp up oversight of a booming industry that served 1.4 million Americans in 2016.
  The rep
  
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• Liquid Assets: Learn how to make Mesa’s Me Gustas Tu cocktail

  31-07-2018 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Me Gustas Tu cocktail at Mesa in Costa Mesa
  Since its opening in the early aughts, Mesa has created a buzz. It boasts a retractable roof and pops of modern art that make the space feel unlike anything in Orange County. When it opened, Mesa was industrial, modern, cool, and – dare we say – sexy. The concept seemed muddled at first. Is it trying to be a restaurant or a swanky cocktail bar that serves food? But, eventually Mesa found its footing.
  Housed in The Camp, a plaza that feels d
  
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• NBA strikes unprecedented sports betting deal with MGM

  31-07-2018 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  A few years ago, Adam Silver became the first commissioner of a major American sports league to welcome the notion of legalized sports betting. Now, he’s the first to partner with the sportsbooks themselves.
  The NBA announced on Tuesday that it will partner with MGM Resorts International, signing a $25 million contract that will make the major casino company the NBA’s exclusive sportsbook partner for the next three years. The unprecedented deal will give MGM rights to the leagues&rsq
  
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• California’s new online-only community college

  31-07-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Daunting and impersonal as online education seemed more than a decade ago, there’s no question now that it has a place at the learning table.
  At the same time it is not exactly setting the academic world on fire. The novelty of those MOOCs — massive online open courses, including ones taught by Stanford professors with hundreds of thousands of “students” at least ostensibly following the coursework — has worn off. When’s the last time you heard anyone talking
  
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• No. 9 Servite believes it can succeed after high-profile departures

  31-07-2018 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Servite fans cheer on the Friars. Servite was taking on Mater Dei in a Trinity League game at Santa Ana Stadium
  Santa Ana on Friday, November 3, 2017. (Photo by Bill Alkofer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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  ANAHEIM – Servite’s football team didn’t have to search far for the perfect theme for its season.
  The Friars have been breaking huddles at practices by chanting one of the school’s best-known mottos, “Credo,” which means “I believe
  
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• California kids who didn’t learn to read and write to get day in court

  31-07-2018 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  California Supreme Justice Goodwin Liu raised court-watchers’ eyebrows two years ago when the court declined to consider a much-watched lawsuit over the adequacy of state education funding, but Liu hinted he’d welcome another case to define children’s right to a meaningful education under the California Constitution.
  “The schoolchildren of California deserve to know whether their fundamental right to education is a paper promise or a real guarantee,” Liu&n
  
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• Flailing MoviePass hikes fee, limits access to new releases

  31-07-2018 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press
  MoviePass, the discount service for movie tickets, is raising prices by 50 percent and barring viewings of most major releases during the first two weeks.
  The new $15-a-month rate for up to one movie each day still won’t make MoviePass profitable. Because it typically pays theaters the full cost of tickets — which can be $15 or more in big cities — a movie or two can put the service in the red. The old monthly rate was $10.
  MoviePass has
  
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• Trump administration considering tax break on capital gains

  31-07-2018 17:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Martin Crutsinger, The Associated Press
  The Trump administration is studying the idea of implementing a big tax break for wealthy Americans by reducing the taxes levied on capital gains, but no decision has been made yet on whether to proceed.
  Administration officials said Tuesday, July 31 that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin prefers deferring to Congress. But he does have his department studying the economic impact of such a change and the legality of proceeding without congressional appro
  
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• Mexico officials: Airliner crashed after takeoff, no deaths

  31-07-2018 17:19 via ocregister.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Aeromexico airliner crashed after taking off in the northern state of Durango on Tuesday, but the state’s governor said there were no deaths in the accident.
  The civil defense office of Durango state said the plane came down in a field near the airport for the state capital, also named Durango. The office published photos of a smoking but seemingly relatively intact plane lying on its belly in a field. Lines of ambulances were waiting at the accident site.
  
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• USC report finds lack of diversity in Hollywood films still presents ‘a status quo that skews from reality’

  31-07-2018 17:12 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Lack of diversity continues to dog the film industry, with minimal improvement in female speaking roles over the last decade and persistent dominance of white men both on screen and behind the camera, according to a USC report released today.
  The annual film diversity report by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reviewed the top 100 films of each year from 2007 to 2017. The study found that in 2017, females represented just 31.8 percent of speaking characters in the top f
  
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• Irenia reevaluates on its second anniversary, changes hours, will add brunch

  31-07-2018 17:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Irenia’s bar will have a revamped happy hour menu. (Photo by Gustavo Jaimes)
  Dinuguan, slow roasted pork shoulder, pork blood sauce, shallots is served with Anaheim peppers and watermelon radish at Irenia. (Photo by Courtnee Martinez)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsShow Caption of Expand
  As it celebrates two years in business, Irenia in Santa Ana has decided to discontinue lunch service to focus on dinner, happy hour and an upcoming brunch menu.
  “We have concluded that refocusi
  
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• Fashion File: Express your wild side

  31-07-2018 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The animal world is filled with colors, patterns and shapes that showcase nature’s evocative beauty. From this, fashion designers continue to find inspiration from feline and serpentine beauty. Jewelers harness a snake’s playful symmetry, while shoemakers transform a simple stiletto into a work of art by gracing it with large butterflies. Decorative, mandala-like patterns capture the imagination and unleash an inner beast filled with curiosity, power and grace. Like an urban chameleo
  
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• The Taste: Farm fresh flavors at EATS Kitchen & Bar

  31-07-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The lobby of the Hotel Irvine at midday on a Wednesday seems one of the more unlikely spots to encounter a farm stand of fresh produce. Yet here it is, poised on a long rustic plank just outside the expansive and novel Marketplace store, which offers everything from a deli counter to golf gloves and serves as a room service equivalent for hotel guests, who can receive deliveries from the store to their rooms.
  Offering produce from area farms, the weekly Wednesday farm stand at the hotel is appro
  
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• Toy Story: Pagani’s moving tribute

  31-07-2018 15:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Benny Caiola arrived in America at age 17 from a small town in Sicily, with an immigrant’s dream and some construction skills. He worked his way up from being a plasterer to becoming a Manhattan real estate mogul. By all accounts Caiola loved his family, he loved to dine at Mezzaluna in the city and he loved fast Italian cars. Lots of them. In fact, Forbes still lists his Ferrari collection as the most extensive in the world. He became an icon and a father figure to many in the Italian aut
  
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• Iconic Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’ to offer free public tours in Long Beach

  31-07-2018 15:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Greenpeace will be docking its iconic Arctic Sunrise ship in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor later this week as part of the environmental group’s attack on plastic pollution in the ocean and its call for California to wean itself completely off fossil fuels.
  As part of the effort, the ship will tie up at the Pine Avenue Pier and offer free tours to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. the next two weekends, Aug. 4-5 and 11-12.
  The 163-foot-long icebreaker has been the centerpiece of se
  
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• Anaheim artist painted, wrote, composed music and built miniature sets for Muzeo exhibit

  31-07-2018 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  With skills in painting, writing, musical composition and even building dioramas, multifaceted artist Geoff Mitchell could at least be considered a quadruple threat, if not more.
  The Anaheim resident created 45 paintings, two short films, three miniature sets and two soundtracks for his exhibit, “Ghost Stories and Fairy Tales,” on display through Sept. 30 at the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center.
  Mitchell and his wife also wrote stories that accompany and explain some of the pieces, l
  
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• Dodgers add Brian Dozier, John Axford before Tuesday’s trade deadline

  31-07-2018 15:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers addressed two glaring needs before Tuesday’s non-waiver trade deadline, acquiring slugging second baseman Brian Dozier from the Minnesota Twins and reliever John Axford from the Toronto Blue Jays..
  In exchange for Dozier, the Dodgers will send veteran infielder Logan Forsythe to the Twins along with two minor-leaguers – reportedly Double-A outfielder Luke Raley and left-hander Devin Smeltzer.
  The inclusion of Forsythe in the deal partially offsets Dozi
  
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• ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’: Tequila, Tamra’s tatas, and more tequila

  31-07-2018 14:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Here’s the bare truth of it: In the episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” that aired on Monday, July 30, the main thing that happened was that Tamra Judge, a 50-year-old grandmother, spent most of her screen time naked, or at least it seemed that way.
  Tamra danced on a bar in Puerto Vallarta and flashed the crowd. Tamra encouraged Shannon Beador to “show your (breasts) once in a while” if she wants to get a guy, and whipped hers out to Shannon how.
  Tamra
  
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• Woman struck and killed in Lake Forest traffic accident

  31-07-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  LAKE FOREST – A pedestrian was killed Tuesday morning after being struck by a vehicle in Lake Forest.
  The fatal collision occurred shortly before 8 a.m. near the Ridgeline and Saddleback roads intersection, said Ray Grangoff, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman.
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  It wasn’t immediately clear if the woman was in a crosswalk when she was struck.
  
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• Baby boomers celebrate a decade of happy vibes at Laguna Woodstock 2018

  31-07-2018 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LAGUNA WOODS — No one knew that the three-day “peace and music” festival known as Woodstock would go on to define a generation.
  Not the event organizers. Not the editors at Rolling Stone. Not The Beatles, who passed on being billed. Definitely not Max Yasgur, owner of the 600-acre dairy farm in southern New York that hosted the half-a-million half-naked (and some fully naked) hippies, spreading blankets and dancing across his fields during August 1969.
  Larry Anderson gets into
  
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• Irvine hosts the Pacific Symphony

  31-07-2018 14:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The Pacific Symphony got out for some fresh air by playing a concert Sunday in Irvine’s Mike Ward Community Park.
  Each summer the symphony plays a couple of community concerts; on Saturday it was in Mission Viejo.
  The concerts are free and include opportunities to meet their musicians and their instruments. Music Director Carl St. Clair also teaches children how to conduct an orchestra and then invites them to help him during the concert.
  The Triada Guitar Trio performs during a summer con
  
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• Trump ‘looking into’ 3D guns issue, says they don’t ‘seem to make much sense’

  31-07-2018 13:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY
  The Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is “looking into” the idea of a company providing plans for 3D plastic guns to the public, declaring it “doesn’t seem to make much sense!”
  Trump tweeted that he has already spoken with the National Rifle Association about the downloadable directions a Texas company wants to provide for people to make 3D-printed guns. The guns are made of a hard plastic
  
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• How chefs from all over the world are adding their flavors to Long Beach’s Dine LBC

  31-07-2018 13:55 via ocregister.com
  
  With such an intense national focus on immigrants and immigration, Terri Henry, founder and organizer of the Dine LBC restaurant week, decided to touch on the issue the best way she knew how — through food.
  So while putting together her annual Dine LBC event, which happens from Aug. 4-12 and offers multi-course prix fixe dinner meal deals ranging from $15-$85 at nearly 60 restaurants in Long Beach, she wanted to make sure immigrant chefs heading kitchens were in the mix.
  “I felt that
  
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• Lawmakers rally support for bills restricting plastic straws, foam food containers in California

  31-07-2018 13:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Two state legislators were joined by environmentalists — and someone dressed as a sea turtle — at Palisades Park near the Santa Monica Pier on Monday to tout two state bills intended to reduce the the amount of plastics that end up on beaches and in the ocean.
  Supporters of SB1335 and AB1884 at a press conference in Santa Monica for senate bill SB1335 and Assembly Bill AB1884 to help reduce the amount of plastic waste being dumped into the ocean.(Photo by David Crane, Daily News/SCNG
  
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• Mission Viejo hosts 30th birthday concert

  31-07-2018 13:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Mission Viejo had some VIP guests for its 30th birthday bash: the Pacific Symphony.
  The symphony, as part of its annual community concert program, performed at Oso Viejo Community Park on the Village Green on Saturday.
  Before the concert, the city hosted Prelude in the Park, an ’80s-themed celebration of the city’s anniversary.
  Phil Solis dances as Beetlejuice during a 1980s theme in celebration of the City of Mission ViejoÕs 30th anniversary at the Prelu
  
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• Radio: Rock en Español returns after a 20-year radio journey from Riverside to Santa Monica

  31-07-2018 13:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Entravision has brought back La Super Estrella, a Spanish rock and pop format that was last found locally on the 107.1 FM simulcast stations KSSE/Arcadia, KSSD/Fallbrook and KSSC/Ventura until a format change in December of 2016.
  This time it’s on KDLD/Santa Monica and KDLE/Newport Beach, a simulcast at 103.1 FM which actually takes the format almost back to its roots. The format originally began on KVAR/Riverside (now KLYY, 97.5 FM) in 1997, but was simulcast on then-KACD at 103.1 in 2001
  
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• 7 acts to catch at Hard Summer in Fontana Aug. 4-5

  31-07-2018 13:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Even if you’ve been a longtime fan of the Hard Summer Music Festival, there are big changes in store for 2018.
  The festival will return to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana on Aug. 4 and 5, the site of Hard in 2016, but the layout will be completely different.
  Insomniac, the festival’s producer, is reimagining the festival’s layout and stages with all of the action happening on the grass instead of on the pavement, which is key as the forecast calls for temperatures nearing triple
  
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• Movieland Wax Museum sign on Beach Boulevard in Buena Park is finally coming down

  31-07-2018 12:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Tuesday was the end of an era for Buena Park, when what used to be the biggest, tallest, brightest sign on Beach Boulevard was torn down.
  Even after the Movieland Wax Museum closed in 2005 due to low attendance, the 1960s sign that advertised it remained as a landmark recognized by longtime residents and passersby.
  “When the sign would be on at night, when it would rotate, it would turn night into day,” Buena Park Councilman Fred Smith said. “All the kids thought that was prett
  
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• Facebook finds ‘sophisticated’ efforts to disrupt elections

  31-07-2018 12:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARBARA ORTUTAY
  The Associated Press
  NEW YORK — Facebook said it has uncovered “sophisticated” efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms.
  The company said it removed 32 accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in “coordinated” political behavior and appeared to be fake.
  Facebook stopped short of saying the effort was aimed at influencing the U.S. midterm elections in November, although the timing of the
  
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• Chipotle plans to reopen Ohio store Tuesday after illnesses; stock tumbles

  31-07-2018 12:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By Craig Giammona and Shelly Hagan
  Bloomberg
  Chipotle is planning to reopen a restaurant in Ohio on Tuesday that was temporarily closed after customers reported getting sick.</p> <p>The restaurant, located in the city of Powell, was voluntarily closed for cleaning on Monday after local health officials and the company received reports of employees and customers complaining of nausea, diarrhea and cramping. The news sent Chipotle’s shares down as much as 8.5 percent Tuesday as i
  
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• Enjoy a free band concert at Historic Town Center Park in San Juan

  31-07-2018 12:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The Golden West Pops, a 50 piece concert band, performs a free concert of popular tunes from stage, screen, marches, and nostalgia at Historic Town Center Park on Sunday, Aug. 5.
  The concert starts at 4 p.m. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair, some snacks if you want, and enjoy a fun concert in the picturesque park near the historic Mission in San Juan Capistrano.
  IF YOU GO
  What: Golden West Pops concert
  When: 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5
  Where: Historic Town Center Park, 31852 El Camino Real, San Ju
  
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