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• Open to change, Dodgers’ Justin Turner gets boost from new stance

  18-08-2018 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE – After three months of living with the good days and bad days that have characterized his return from a fractured wrist, Justin Turner has figured something out.
  “Every time I make an out, it’s my wrist’s fault and every time I get a hit, it’s nothing, I guess,” Turner joked Saturday at Safeco Field.
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• Speaking of respect, Accelerate runs it down at Pacific Classic

  18-08-2018 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Hronis Racing’s Accelerate and jockey Joel Rosario win the Grade I, $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic, Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA.
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  Hronis Racing’s Accelerate and jockey Joel Rosario win the Grade I, $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic, Saturday, August 18, 2018 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA. (Photo courtesy of Benoit Photo)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsHronis Racing’s Accelerate and jockey Joel
  
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• Kelly Claes reaches Manhattan Beach Open semis with ‘mentor’

  18-08-2018 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  April Ross and Alex Klineman win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Emily Day and Betsi Flint in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
  (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
  Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Kelly Larsen and Emily Stockman in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
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• Versatile Rams rookie Noteboom makes case to fill in up front

  18-08-2018 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The night his future replacement was drafted by the Rams, left tackle Andrew Whitworth called his soon-to-be protege with a piece of advice.
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  It was nothing Joe Noteboom hadn’t heard before. In fact, just about everyone had offered up the same suggestion. But since, Whitworth has hammered that advice home, again and again, and now, as the Rams continue to cycle N
  
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• LAFC hopes to slow down possession-happy Colorado Rapids

  18-08-2018 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  From his view protecting the Colorado Rapids goal, Tim Howard has welcomed the improved passing, increased control, and points-producing performances from his teammates over the last month.
  Holding their own during four matches in 15 days against Major League Soccer’s California teams, Colorado faces the Los Angeles Football Club on Sunday seeking 10 out of a possible 12 points in that stretch.
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• Angels’ Shohei Ohtani throws another bullpen session, live hitters are next up

  18-08-2018 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani watches his team play the Texas Rangers during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jim Cowsert)
  Fans wait out a rain delay before the baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Texas Rangers on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsA fan takes a photo of the storm clouds during a rain delay before a baseball game be
  
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• Sounders top depleted Galaxy 5-0 for record 6th straight win

  18-08-2018 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Seattle Sounders’ Harry Shipp leaps over LA Galaxy’s Daniel Steres during an MLS soccer game Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, in Seattle. (Rebekah Welch/The Seattle Times via AP)
  LA Galaxy goalkeeper David Bingham, right, and teammate Ashley Cole fail to block a goal by the Seattle Soundersduring an MLS soccer match Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, in Seattle. The Sounders won 5-0. (Rebekah Welch/The Seattle Times via AP)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsSeattle Sounders’ Christian Roldan
  
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• Photos: Saturday’s action from the AVP Manhattan Beach Open

  18-08-2018 20:44 via ocregister.com
  
  April Ross and Alex Klineman win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Emily Day and Betsi Flint in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
  (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
  Kelly Claes and Brittany Hochevar win their quarterfinal match in the winner’s category against Kelly Larsen and Emily Stockman in the AVP Tour’s Manhattan Beach Open on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
  (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photo
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday (8-18-18)

  18-08-2018 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and player stats for the Orange County games on Saturday, Aug. 18.
  GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
  LAKEWOOD TOURNAMENT
  Edison def. Long Beach Wilson, 18-25, 25-19, 25-13, 25-23
  NISD CLASSIC
  ROUND 3 CONSOLATION BRACKET SILVER
  Corona del Mar def. Cedar Hill, 25-13, 25-17
  Highland Park def. Corona del Mar, 25-23, 26-24
  Corona del Mar def. Northwest, 21-25, 25-17, 25-19
  TESORO VARSITY CLASSIC
  Orange Lutheran def. Capistrano Valley, 25-14, 25-21
  Trabuco Hills def. Orange Lutheran, 25-23, 25-23
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• Orange County high school schedule: Monday, Aug. 20

  18-08-2018 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County high school sports schedule for Monday, Aug. 20.
  GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
  Tesoro Varsity Championships (Tesoro, San Clemente, Trabuco Hills, Woodbridge, Orange Lutheran), Capistrano Valley Christian at Anaheim, Montebello at Fullerton
   
  
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• Downey’s historic McDonalds at 65: Memories bitter and sweet shared under the golden arches

  18-08-2018 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brooke Bechner, contributing reporter
  A billboard in black hangs over Stanley Meston’s mid-century, Googie creation complete with red and white tile-trim and slant roofing hugged by two iconic 30-foot golden arches. It houses the world’s longest-operating McDonald’s, which opened here in Downey on Aug. 18, 1953.
  Year-round in white text, the billboard warns “don’t let history pass you by.”
  The longest-running and the third original McDonald’s restaura
  
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• Sparks’ playoff seeding on line entering regular-season finale

  18-08-2018 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Victims of a buzzer-beating fall-away basket Friday night, the Sparks’ last regular-season game Sunday will determine whether they host a second-round single-elimination game Thursday or whether they face the Dallas Wings or the Minnesota Lynx in a single-elimination first-round game Tuesday at Staples Center.
  The WNBA’s eight playoff teams were set Friday. Now Sunday’s five-game slate — including the Sparks’ game on the road against the fourth-place Connecticut Sun
  
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• No apologies necessary for being a Catholic — the Church needs to apologize

  18-08-2018 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  I am not a recovering Catholic.
  I am a Catholic, period. I was born, raised and educated Catholic, K through college. I served as an altar boy for seven years. The focal point of my childhood was my parish school and church. I played baseball and basketball for St. Aloysius CYO. My Boy Scout troop, 103, was sponsored by St. Al’s and met in the school gym. While I make no claims to being a good Catholic, even a practicing Catholic, I have never repudiated my religion or rejected my faith. Y
  
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• California takes the prize for environmental virtue signaling — but not much else

  18-08-2018 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  If there’s an award for environmental virtue signaling, California would win the prize. Yet for all the constant self-promotion, shameless grandstanding and endless moralizing, perhaps it’s time to reconsider the impact, and failures, of our current green obsessions.
  Take the recent fires that Gov. Jerry Brown, predictably and with little evidence, blamed squarely on climate change. If he wanted to find the immediate culprit, he might be better off looking in a mirror. Earlier this y
  
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• Kelli Tennant on the uproar over the photo of Kiké Hernandez and a bucket

  18-08-2018 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The photo was taken in April of 2017, and those who follow the Dodgers and the club’s telecasts on Spectrum SportsNet LA understood it was all in fun: Kiké Hernandez, all 5-foot-10 of him, standing on a bucket to conduct a postgame interview with Kelli Tennant, 6-2 and wearing heels, the continuation of a long-running gag.
  And then, almost 15 months later, someone who didn’t know the context or didn’t care decided to weigh in on Twitter:Siri: show me fragile masculi
  
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• Alexander: Kelli Tennant busy again with AVP coverage and podcast

  18-08-2018 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  MANHATTAN BEACH — One door closes, and another opens.
  Kelli Tennant stepped away for a while after the conclusion of the 2017 Dodgers season. After five seasons with the Time Warner and then Spectrum SportsNet networks, working on baseball, basketball and soccer telecasts and studio shows, she left Spectrum last fall, shut down her social media accounts for a few months, and regrouped even as viewers wonder where she went.
  She’s been back for a while, and her next chapter is multi-fa
  
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• USC QB competition still unsettled after scrimmage

  18-08-2018 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It was a coming-out party for JT Daniels in USC’s first preseason scrimmage last week.
  On his first snap, Daniels floated a pass of at least 50 yards to receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and finished throwing for four touchdowns.
  Anticipation for the true freshman’s follow-up act grew over the next seven days. When the Trojans held their second scrimmage Saturday to conclude training camp, players’ parents, boosters and reporters lined the entire east sideline at H
  
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• Mr. Foo the tuxedo mix cat would be good for you

  18-08-2018 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Mr. Foo likes dogs and most other cats, but he’d do best in an adults-only home. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue)
  Mustafa is a 6-year-old tuxedo-Turkish van mix. He’s 6 years old. (Courtesy of DREAM Animal Rescue)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsShow Caption of Expand
  Breed: Domestic medium-hair tuxedo-Turkish Van mix
  Age: 6 years
  Gender: Neutered male
  Size: 10-12 pounds
  Mufasa’s story: Mufasa was found as a stray running around in La Mirada, his coat severely matted
  
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• Rams reserves post 19-15 preseason win over Raiders

  18-08-2018 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Rams’ Fred Brown can’t make the catch under pressure from the Oakland Raiders’ Rashaan Melvin during their NFL exhibition game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday Aug. 18, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Los Angeles Rams quarterback Sean Mannion throws the ball against the Oakland Raiders during their NFL exhibition game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday Aug. 1
  
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• Pot, at least certain forms of it, is for pets too

  18-08-2018 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Stitch was stressed. Not just a little, which is kind of typical for him, depending on the circumstance, but a lot.
  My Pekingese boy is, like most dogs, a creature of habit. He likes – no, he adores – his routines. But in January, his routines took a big hit.
  That’s when we brought the Aussie puppy home. JetBlue (yes, our second Aussie with that name. He doesn’t know any better, my roommate loves the name, and having known the first JetBlue, the name fits) was a
  
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• Teenager arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after stabbing incident in Costa Mesa

  18-08-2018 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  A 19-year-old Costa Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the stabbing of a man who was out for a walk near Fairview Park, authorities said Saturday.
  Gavin Christopherflo Delgardo Jr. was arrested just past 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 and was being held on $500,000 bail, Roxi Fyad of the Costa Mesa Police Department said. He is scheduled to be transferred to the Orange County Jail.
  The incident occurred just before 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, Fyad said. Costa Mesa police officers
  
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• The twin tunnels are best water fix for California

  18-08-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Let’s start with this: California WaterFix, Gov. Brown’s $17 billion twin-tunnels project, is the best and most affordable long-term solution to our great state’s water woes. If we’re going to call it a time machine, we should acknowledge it will transport us to a brighter future, where there’s clean, reliable water for generations to come.
  The boondoggle rhetoric that has recently appeared in these pages is classic political redirection. Opponents have been serving
  
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• Joshua Kelley makes an impression with UCLA football

  18-08-2018 16:44 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Chip Kelly called Joshua Kelley to break the huddle after a team meeting this summer. The walk-on running back obliged.
  Then the news came: He wasn’t a walk-on anymore.
  “It was humbling,” Kelley said of the team meeting that ended with him on scholarship, “because I was thinking about where I was a year ago.”
  A year ago, Kelley wasn’t even listed properly on the UCLA roster. On the first day of 2017 training camp, reporters had to ask then-
  
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• By all means, let’s educate the voters about Proposition 13

  18-08-2018 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This week, progressive interest groups announced they had sufficient signatures to qualify an initiative for the 2020 ballot that is a direct attack on Proposition 13. Specifically, this so-called “split roll” initiative would raise property taxes on the owners of business properties to the tune of $11 billion every year, according to the backers. Because many small business owners rent their property via “triple net” leases, they too would be subject to radical increases
  
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• 1 person dead, 1 injured in single-vehicle freeway crash in Irvine

  18-08-2018 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A single-vehicle crash on a freeway transition road in Irvine left one person dead and another in critical condition early Saturday morning, Aug. 18, authorities said.
  Just after 12:45 a.m., firefighters with the Orange County Fire Authority were called to assist the California Highway Patrol with the crash, which occurred on a transition road connecting the northbound I-5 Freeway to the northbound I-405 Freeway, Capt. Carlos Huerta said.
  Two victims were located by firefighters on scene. One wa
  
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• Olympic champion Bode Miller and wife Morgan share devastating photo of daughter in hospital to raise drowning awareness

  18-08-2018 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Olympic Gold medalist Bode Miller and his wife Morgan are reaching out on social media in their mission to help prevent child drownings.
  The Millers lost their 19-month-old daughter in June when she drowned in a Coto de Caza swimming pool.
  The devastated couple has decided to include a heartbreaking image of their daughter as part of their message.
  On Friday, they published a photo of the little girl, Emeline Gier Miller, hooked up to tubes at Children’s Hospital of Orange County before sh
  
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• Kartje: Don’t be the idiot who drafts a fantasy football quarterback early

  18-08-2018 14:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Nineteen years ago, in the first round of my first-ever fantasy football draft, I looked my dad’s boss in the eyes and called him an “idiot”.
  I was 10 years old, the youngest person at the draft by at least two decades. A few losing seasons in his work fantasy league had made my dad desperate, and so, he turned to his football-obsessed, preteen son, whom he knew pored over newspaper box scores every Monday morning, just to add up his fantasy results.
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• Video: Joshua Kelley on his road from UC Davis to UCLA

  18-08-2018 14:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Running back Joshua Kelley talks about how he landed at UCLA after two years at UC Davis, what it was like to earn a scholarship this year and what he imagines his first game at the Rose Bowl to be like.Related Articles Waldner: UCLA’s Mique Juarez on the cusp of a comeback Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 13 UCLA adds Auburn, Hawai’i, New Mexico State to football schedule over next decade UCLA offense bolstered by deep tight ends group Video: Jordan Wilson on the role
  
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• Fantasy football rankings: Top 100 players

  18-08-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Fantasy football season is fast approaching. Your draft is right around the corner. But we’ve got you covered. Here are our rankings of the top 100 players. Happy drafting!
  1. Todd Gurley, RB1, Rams
  2. Le’Veon Bell, RB2, Steelers
  The consensus top two backs in fantasy football are basically interchangeable. Both are going to get a ton of touches. Both are incredibly versatile. Gurley may not be able to reproduce his 19 touchdowns from a year ago, but Sean McVay’s promise t
  
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• Del Mar racing consensus picks for Saturday, Aug. 18

  18-08-2018 14:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Consensus box of picks come from Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Saturday Aug. 18 at Del Mar.
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• Football Fandemonium: Capo Valley’s ‘The Cage’ is top student section for Week 0

  18-08-2018 14:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Manny Alvarez will be writing for OCVarsity about the Orange County high school Student Sections throughout the football season. Follow him on Twitter at @MAlvarez02. 
  It is time for the high school football season, which means it is time for those hard tackles, fantastic catches and amazing runs to the end zone.
  It is also time for the loud and funny chants, the painted faces, the themed T-shirts, the rowdy mascots and of course the baby powder.
  The Student S
  
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• With death of solar farm project, warring cities explore shared control of Tres Hermanos Ranch

  18-08-2018 12:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Diamond Bar, Chino Hills and the City of Industry are negotiating a joint partnership that would give each city partial control over the 2,500-acre Tres Hermanos Ranch, one of the largest swaths of open space left in the region, according to sources close to the discussions.
  Late last month, Diamond Bar and Chino Hills agreed to freeze their lawsuits against Industry for 90 days to give the parties more time to negotiate, court records showed.
  If an agreement is reached, it would put an end to y
  
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• Holy fire containment reaches 85 percent

  18-08-2018 12:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The Holy fire burning in Riverside and Orange counties was 85 percent contained Saturday, Aug. 18, with the number of acres burned standing at 22,986, the U.S. Forest Service said.
  Twelve cabins were destroyed in Orange County and six single-family residences were destroyed in Riverside County before Aug. 13.
  Crews are repairing affected areas including roadways and drainage lines and are cleaning up scattered brush that is being used to block and discourage illegal off-highway vehicle activity,
  
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• Holy fire containment reaches 85%

  18-08-2018 12:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The Holy fire burning in Riverside and Orange counties was 85 percent contained Saturday, Aug. 18, with the number of acres burned standing at 22,986, the U.S. Forest Service said.
  Twelve cabins were destroyed in Orange County and six single-family residences were destroyed in Riverside County before Aug. 13.
  Crews are repairing affected areas including roadways and drainage lines and are cleaning up scattered brush that is being used to block and discourage illegal off-highway vehicle activity,
  
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• Waldner: UCLA’s Mique Juarez on the cusp of a comeback

  18-08-2018 12:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Is this the year Mique Juarez comes out of UCLA’s football shadows to become an impact linebacker for the Bruins?
  Possibly.
  Probably.
  Maybe even definitely.
  It would not surprise Josh Woods, the senior leader of UCLA’s linebacker corps.
  “He’s been one of the most reliable guys in what we call the front seven box,” Woods said.
  The comment was offered last month during the Pacific-12 Conference football media day in response to an inquiry about Juarez.
  “He&rsquo
  
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• Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 13

  18-08-2018 12:35 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA has just two weeks until its season-opener against Cincinnati and one week of training camp remaining. The Bruins seem to be losing some depth on defense, including a key senior who was not at practice Saturday, but saw the return of a senior running back. Here are notes and observations from the open period of Day 13:
  Injury notes
  Colin Samuel was the same status: yellow jersey on the sideline.
  Elijah Wade, who was in a yellow jersey but not participating on Thursday, was a limited partici
  
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• Chris Stapleton delivers a flawless set and pays tribute to Aretha Franklin in Anaheim

  18-08-2018 12:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Chris Stapleton is an undeniable talent and the kind of artist you’d wished you’d stumbled upon early on in his career on a random night at a venue like the Troubadour in West Hollywood or the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano.
  He’s got that approachable vibe of someone that will play his guitar, sing you a song and shoot some whiskey with you after the show. However, Stapleton’s gift has been rightfully and widely recognized and he’s been launched to arena-headlin
  
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• Social media threat, rumors cause panic at football game at Diamond Bar High School

  18-08-2018 12:28 via ocregister.com
  
  DIAMOND BAR – A social media threat of a shooter at a high school football game on Friday night caused panic as players, school officials and crowds rushed for safety, but authorities confirmed the threat was not credible.
  Sheriff’s deputies with the Walnut/Diamond Bar Sheriff’s Station were dispatched to Diamond Bar High School about 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 17 after receiving a call about the threat on social media, Sgt. Tim Jimenez said. Deputies arrived and found no evidence of a
  
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• Equal pay for equal work in Orange County hospitals

  18-08-2018 12:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Equal pay for equal work — it’s a pretty simple fairness doctrine that says no worker, no matter their gender, race or where they live should be paid anything but a fair and equitable wage for the work they do.
  So would you believe that more than 100 caregivers at West Anaheim Medical Center earn drastically less than the same workers at another hospital owned by the same corporation just a couple miles away?
  The nurses, therapists and other caregivers have spent much of their career
  
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• What Henry Kissinger can tell us about the digital future

  18-08-2018 11:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Henry Kissinger is back in the spotlight. At his well-advanced age, Kissinger has clearly been troubled enough by world events to make public his views on what’s at stake. Many elder elites belonging to the world Kissinger helped create are responding with increasingly vocal alarm to what they rightly suspect is the end of their era. Kissinger is considerably more coy or careful in his analysis. But in other places he is very blunt. At a time when more and more voices, no matter how well-c
  
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• Allen Buchanan: Random commercial real estate advice – this one appeals to all!

  18-08-2018 10:30 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re reading this, chances are you have some stake in commercial real estate. Otherwise, you’d be focused upon Mark Wicker’s review of the Laker’s roster.
  What’s unclear is the vantage point from which your interest lies. As an example, our neighbor Sam (name changed to protect the innocent) is a retired project manager from a large SoCal general contractor. Expected in our driveway is an instant critique of Sunday’s topic — either Pulitzer worthy,
  
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• Rock & Brews at San Manuel Casino dishes up a musical brunch

  18-08-2018 10:23 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s no shortage of brunch options at Southern California casinos and Rock & Brews at San Manuel Casino is among the venues offering the weekend favorite — and it comes with its own soundtrack.
  Served 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, guests can dine at the rock-themed restaurant, and listen to some tunes. The brunch menu includes items such as spicy corned beef hash ($12.95), fried chicken and waffles ($12.95) and blueberry pancakes with homemade blueberry whipped crea
  
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• Drivers: This might be a good week to avoid the 5 Freeway at night

  18-08-2018 10:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Drivers may want to avoid the 5 Freeway late at night next week as a result of ongoing widening construction. Closures are planned Sunday night and later Wednesday and Thursday nights.
  First, the northbound 5 Freeway lanes will be closed at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, continuing until 5 a.m. Monday from Rosecrans Avenue to the 605 Freeway.
  The closure will allow paving of the new lanes that are being added to the freeway, according to Caltrans.
  Then on Wednesday and Thursday nights, the freeway will
  
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• Gardening: With fruit trees, you can have quality or quantity, but not both

  18-08-2018 10:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Question: I have banana trees that bloom and produce fruit of the Ice Cream (also known as Blue Java) variety. I have heard that I should trim the flower off after a single cluster of bananas has formed or, alternatively, that I should let the flower continue to grow after fruit formation. What is your opinion? — Don Whitlatch, Laguna Beach
  Answer: Once bananas in the initial cluster have reached full size, even while still green, you should cut the still-growing flower stalk several inche
  
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• Women on Money: When your brain needs more focus

  18-08-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you are noticing you need more focus, or you find it difficult to concentrate, it’s likely you are experiencing an imbalance somewhere in your work or life. I am not talking about work-life balance (that’s another topic), but about a habit or approach that doesn’t support the brain’s larger operating system.
  Now, I’m a proponent of working smarter and not harder, and like many of you, happen to love those brain games and methods of project management. But before
  
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• Our bond with dogs runs deep — here are some of the reasons why

  18-08-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Known as man’s best friend, the dog has a relationship with humans that dates back tens of thousands of years. Today, research has shown us that that bond is more than a pretty picture; science has proved that being around one another is beneficial to humans and dogs.
  Your brain on dog
  In 2000, the Life Sciences Research Institute in South Africa published a study that measured the effects of animal-assisted therapy. Research showed that dogs are incredibly good “therapists.” S
  
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• By this measure, more Californians can “afford” their home

  18-08-2018 10:00 via ocregister.com
  More and more Californians can “afford” the home they own.
  Yes, I know how pricey it is to buy a home. But at least a growing number of those folks who’ve become homeowners are paying the house payment on time.
  In recent years when we typically talk about home “affordability” in California, we’re chatting about the financial challenges of buying. But the juggling of the household budget doesn’t stop when the deal is closed.
  It was not too long ago that m
  
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• 2 people rescued from house on fire in Santa Ana

  18-08-2018 09:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Two people were rescued from a house fire in Santa Ana on Friday night, a fire official said.
  One person was critically injured; the other had minor injuries, according to Capt. Alan Wilkes of the Orange County Fire Authority.
  Firefighters were dispatched at 10 p.m. to the 1000 block of North Olive Street. They encountered flames and smoke coming from a home and learned people were trapped in the house, Wilkes said.
  Two people were rescued, Wilkes said. Both were brought to the hospital. No one
  
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• It takes a village to shop for a home virtually

  18-08-2018 09:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes it takes a little extra help to get the job done when you’re buying a house in Southern California.
  Especially if you currently live in Hawaii, have been scheduled for months for a medical procedure that will prevent you from traveling to Southern California to actually see the house you think you’d like to buy, after reviewing all of the pictures and details online.
  And it’s even more complicated when your son, who also currently lives in Hawaii and also cannot be in
  
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• Pedestrian struck, killed by suspected DUI driver in Huntington Beach

  18-08-2018 09:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A pedestrian was struck and killed in Huntington Beach Friday night by a man suspected of driving under the influence, police said.
  The accident occurred at about 8:57 p.m., when the pedestrian entered the westbound lanes of Warner Ave. at Rotterdam Lane, Huntington Beach police said. The 54-year-old driver was in a black 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche heading west on Warner Ave.
  The 51-year-old pedestrian was transported to UCI Medical Center, where he died.
  The Chevrolet driver, who had remaine
  
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