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• National Signing Day quotable: Clay Helton breaks down where USC signees fit into team next season

  18-12-2019 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are the highlights from USC head coach Clay Helton’s press conference on Wednesday for the early signing period:
  Opening statement:
  “For us, you could tell, it was a big man’s day. We knew coming in we’d be a small class. We just had not had attrition and not a lot of seniors. This is a young team so when you look at losing only four starters, two on offense, two on defense, and you have only seven total scholarship seniors, it’s gonna be a smaller class. And w
  
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• CSUF professor shares untold stories of Korean War’s toll on women and children in new book

  18-12-2019 23:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Susie Woo found the focus for her social history of the Korean War through photographs.
  In the United States, Woo pored through government documents and magazines such as Look and the Saturday Evening Post from the 1950s and 60s to find stories of Korean civilians and their life during and after the war.
  What she discovered was photo after photo of what appeared to be happy Korean children hanging out with U.S. soldiers, dressed in pint-sized military uniforms, wearing cowboy boots, sitting on S
  
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• National Signing Day: Who is UCLA LB Damian Sellers?

  18-12-2019 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Player: Damian Sellers
  Position: Linebacker
  Size: 6-4, 235 pounds
  High school: Saguaro High School (Scottsdale, Arizona)
  Rankings: 4-star (247Sports.com); 4-star (ESPN)
  Other schools: LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Arizona State, USC
  Info: Totaled 166 tackles, 23.5 sacks and three fumble recoveries in his last three years of high school.
  Outlook: Sellers is huge addition to the Bruins’ linebacker unit and will most likely see immediate playing time as it’s the position group with the
  
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• CSUF’s Pollak Library gets new family study room, makerspace and research areas

  18-12-2019 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  With finals coming up, Sandra Morales Luna was looking for a quiet place to study where she could bring her 5-year-old son, Edgar, and keep him entertained.
  She found it last week when she saw an email from Cal State Fullerton’s Children’s Center, where Edgar stays three times a week when she’s in class. The email reported that Pollak Library has a new Family Room where parents can bring their children while they are studying.
  “We go upstairs and we see the library was pa
  
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• Football Signing Day: Orange County players who signed a letter of intent Wednesday

  18-12-2019 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA list of the Orange County football players who signed a letter of intent Wednesday, Dec. 18.
  Schools, coaches and parents can email signing information to [email protected].
  The list includes players who received commitment letters from Ivy League and service academies that don’t use the National Letter of Intent system.
  CAPISTRANO VALLEY
  Jake Muller, TE, Cal
  EDISON
  Mike Walters, LB, UC Davis
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• Park Life: West Coast Racers ready to roll at Six Flags and the most expensive Disneyland auction items

  18-12-2019 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  When will the new West Coast Racers roller coaster open at Six Flags Magic Mountain? How much would you pay for a Space Mountain coaster train? When will Star Wars droids roam freely around Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers in this week’s Park Life newsletter.
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• Doc Rivers hints at Clippers’ championship potential

  18-12-2019 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The guy running this experiment says he’s noted several positive indicators, but he’s quick to caution that it’s too early to confirm his hypothesis.
  “I think I do know about this team. I just … have no proof of it,” said coach Doc Rivers, whose Clippers will host the 18-9 Houston Rockets on Thursday (7:30 p.m., TNT).
  Twenty-nine games – and 21 victories – into their 2019-20 campaign, the Clippers still have not had every membe
  
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• Suspense novelist Dean Koontz drops $11.6 million in Irvine’s Shady Canyon

  18-12-2019 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The executive office. (Courtesy of Jacqueline Thompson of Surterre Properties, Inc.)
  The great room. (Courtesy of Jacqueline Thompson of Surterre Properties, Inc.)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsThe billiards lounge. (Courtesy of Jacqueline Thompson of Surterre Properties, Inc.)
  The fitness center. (Courtesy of Jacqueline Thompson of Surterre Properties, Inc.)
  A view of the swimming pool with spa at dusk. (Courtesy of Jacqueline Thompson of Surterre Properties, Inc.)
  The exterior of the ho
  
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• White supremacist gang member convicted of fatal stabbing at Laguna Niguel bar

  18-12-2019 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  An admitted white supremacist gang member was convicted of murder Wednesday, more than four years after he stabbed a 22-year-old Iranian American man to death following an argument at a Laguna Niguel bar.
  Jurors deliberated for more than two days before finding Craig Matthew Tanber, 41, guilty of second-degree-murder, along with a sentencing enhancement for the use of a knife, for killing Shayan Mazroei at Patsy’s Irish Pub over Labor Day Weekend in 2015.
  Mazroei’s family members exp
  
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• Financial aid desperately needs rethinking

  18-12-2019 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  As promised by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education recently released its new “groundbreaking redesign” of the College Scorecard.
  Launched in 2015, the College Scorecard tool was created to help families weigh the costs and benefits of their college options. But it only included institutional-level data on a range of average factors like first-year median earnings and median debt loads. The new version of the Scorecard is certainly an improvement. It provides
  
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• Devilish details in Angel Stadium deal

  18-12-2019 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The general parameters of the city of Anaheim’s proposed deal to sell Angel Stadium and the surrounding 113 acres to the Angels for around $325 million certainly seem encouraging.
  The deal would keep the team in Anaheim until 2050 and avoid taxpayer funding of stadium improvements. But the devil is in the details, and city officials need to provide more crucial details before moving forward with the plan.
  The only publicly available information is a three-page brochure that’s publish
  
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• Purple & Bold: Kostas Antetokounmpo prepares for a Milwaukee reunion with his MVP brother

  18-12-2019 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: This is the Wednesday, Dec. 18 edition of the Purple & Bold newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.In an NBA locker room, the ultimate sign of respect is an extra cubby. Even when teams travel, their best players get more room in cramped visiting quarters.
  LeBron has two cubbies. AD has two cubbies.
  It should tell you a little bit about the status of 22-year-old Kostas Antetokounmpo to know that, on Sunday evening in Atlanta, he didn&rsqu
  
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• Football Signing Day: San Clemente’s signees

  18-12-2019 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Preston Rex, a receiver/defensive back, signed with Brigham Young University. He was the Tritons’ leading receiver this season with 43 catches for 445 yards and seven touchdowns.
  Receiver/defensive back Cian Smith (32 receptions) signed with Drake University.
  Kicker/punter Cole Thompson signed with Navy. Thompson was 37 for 37 on extra-point kicks and 9 for 10 on field goals.
   
  
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• Football Signing Day: San Clemente’s Preston Rex, Cian Smith and Cole Thompson sign

  18-12-2019 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowPreston Rex, a receiver/defensive back, signed with Brigham Young University on Wednesday. He was the Tritons’ leading receiver this season with 43 catches for 445 yards and seven touchdowns.
  Receiver/defensive back Cian Smith (32 receptions) signed with Drake University.
  Kicker/punter Cole Thompson signed with Navy. Thompson was 37 for 37 on extra-point kicks and 9 for 10 on field goals.
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• San Clemente City Manager James Makshanoff resigns position to take on same role in Pomona

  18-12-2019 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  San Clemente City Manager James Makshanoff will leave the city effective Jan. 17 and will take on the same role for the city of Pomona, where he is expected to start Jan. 21.
  The official announcement from Makshanoff came Tuesday, Dec. 17 during the San Clemente City Council meeting, when Mayor Dan Bane read Makshanoff’s letter of resignation. Makshanoff did not attend the meeting.
  “It came as a surprise,” said Bane, who said he received an email from Makshanoff Dec. 12 announc
  
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• Great Escape: Having a Tuscan time in Temecula

  18-12-2019 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  When I moved to Southern California 30-some years ago, Temecula was pretty much nothing but cattle ranches. Now, past the sprawling suburbia, a beautiful burgeoning wine country beckons. Or so everyone seemed to be telling me. I decided to escape for a weekend to see it for myself.
  My destination for the weekend: the Carter Estate Winery and Resort. As we all know, leaving on a Friday afternoon from Orange County is challenging, no matter where you are going. As I creep my way through the endles
  
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• Critic Brad A. Johnson picks Orange County’s 5 best drinks in 2019

  18-12-2019 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  This is where I’m not supposed to admit that I drink a lot. But I only drink so that I can come up with lists like this every year. No, seriously, it’s a necessary part of my job, and I promise I’m not drunk while writing this — wink, wink. 
  5. Michelada at Tamarindo
  I drank a lot of micheladas this year, none better than the namesake Tamarindo michelada at this cute new Mexican restaurant in San Clemente. It is lighter, brighter and fruitier than most, and the defau
  
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• Artistic Vision: Layered meaning in Ann Phong’s images

  18-12-2019 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  WHO: Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ann Phong fled communist Vietnam in her early 20s and immigrated by boat to Southern California, where she has lived ever since. Phong received her MFA in painting from California State University, Fullerton. A passionate, prolific artist, she balances her time between her studio and teaching drawing and painting at Cal Poly Pomona.
  WHAT: Water has been a constant image and theme in Phong’s work. As she explains it, “The sea saved me.” Many of her
  
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• First Person: Brownies make magic between a son and his sick mother

  18-12-2019 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  On a gray day I was driving my mother to a doctor’s appointment near downtown Honolulu, the least Hawaiian part of the entire Hawaiian Islands chain. She peered out the Prius window and said, “Wow, I never noticed how beautiful those buildings were before.”
  I looked out the window. “Mom, those are some of the ugliest buildings I’ve ever seen.”
  She stared at me for a beat. Then she started to giggle.
  For 20 minutes straight.
  My 79-year-old mom was stoned off he
  
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• The Taste: Taco Maria’s Michelin-starred chef shares a secret sauce

  18-12-2019 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s your birthday lunch. You arrive at SOCO in Costa Mesa and park your car in the vast lot surrounded by interior design showrooms. You enter a building hived with small boutiques, Portola Coffee Roasters, an artisanal cheese shop … the space is labyrinthine and vaguely disorienting. Keep walking past the cheese shop and the vestibule for restrooms and, finally, arrive at Taco Maria.
  There could not be a more unlikely and mysterious location for a Michelin-starred restaurant. Helm
  
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• Are U.S. homebuilders partying like its 1999?

  18-12-2019 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  U.S. homebuilders haven’t been this giddy since 1999.
  The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index jumped 5 points to 76, the biggest monthly increase since the end of 2017. The November figure was also revised higher.
  The reading topped all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists that had called for 70. (FYI: Readings above 50 indicate more builders view conditions as good than poor.)
  This 20-year confidence high parallels other brighter assessments of
  
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• National Signing Day: Who is new USC lineman Jonah Monheim?

  18-12-2019 19:22 via ocregister.com
  
  A quick breakdown on new USC signee Jonah Monheim:
  Player: Jonah Monheim
  Position: Offensive lineman
  Size: 6-foot-5, 280 pounds
  High school: Moorpark
  Ranking: 4-star (Rivals), 3-star (247Sports)
  Other schools: Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State
  Outlook: Monheim leads a wave of new offensive linemen heading to USC in the 2020 class. Every one of those linemen are 6-foot-5 are taller, making the class a big reinforcement for the trenches and a position tha
  
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• House marches toward Trump impeachment; he claims ‘assault’

  18-12-2019 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. House marched toward a historic evening vote to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, with Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisting Congress must “defend democracy” by evicting him from the White House. Trump would be just the third American president to be impeached, a distinctive dark mark on his tenure.
  Trump said that despite the Democrats’ patriotic talk, they were actually perpetrating &
  
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• House heads toward Trump impeachment vote over GOP opposition

  18-12-2019 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. House pressed toward its historic votes to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, arguing over the charges he faces and the legitimacy of the probe that brought Congress and the day that will leave a lasting mark on his tenure at the White House.
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who arrived at the back of the chamber as the day long session was underway, has the Democratic votes needed to make Trump just the third U.S. president to b
  
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• Gardening: That rare endangered species? Turned out to be a common plant

  18-12-2019 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The longer you spend time hanging out with plants, the more fascinated you become with atypical foliage. Of course, atypical is a relative term. I discovered a plant the other day whose foliage was unlike any I had ever seen. I thought that perhaps this was a rare and endangered species. Little did I know. It turned out to be the most widespread woody perennial in the world!
  I am talking about what is known simply as common juniper (Juniperus communis). It grows wild from Canada to Crimea to Jap
  
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• Here’s why Angel Stadium is worth less than an Orange County resort or Mike Trout

  18-12-2019 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Pool at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point. (File photo)
  The Monarch Bay Beach Club, previously called the Monarch Bay Club, has had a multimillion-dollar renovation makeover in Dana Point. The club offers private access to the beach where umbrellas, towels and chair service is complimentary and available to resort guests and members. Elements of the club’s redesign include: new canopies, lawn furniture, better accessibility and enhanced ocean views. (Courtesy of Monarch Bay Beach Club
  
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• Here’s why Angel Stadium is worth less than a seaside resort or Mike Trout

  18-12-2019 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Pool at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point. (File photo)
  The Monarch Bay Beach Club, previously called the Monarch Bay Club, has had a multimillion-dollar renovation makeover in Dana Point. The club offers private access to the beach where umbrellas, towels and chair service is complimentary and available to resort guests and members. Elements of the club’s redesign include: new canopies, lawn furniture, better accessibility and enhanced ocean views. (Courtesy of Monarch Bay Beach Club
  
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• Alexander: Clippers are 21-8 and still uncertain exactly what they have

  18-12-2019 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — On Thursday night, the Clippers play their 30th game of the season when the Houston Rockets come to town. The Clippers are 21-8, they have the best home record in the Western Conference at 14-1, and the expectation is that they will at the very least be playing in late May.
  All of this means it’s a good thing that’s still five months away, so they’ll have time to figure out exactly how all these parts will mesh.
  On Tuesday night against Phoenix the whole gan
  
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• Football Signing Day: Cardona signs with Boise State

  18-12-2019 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Yorba Linda offensive lineman Nathan Cardona (6-4, 280) signed his letter of intent today with Boise State.
  Cardona was Crestview League lineman of the year this past season.
  Boise State is getting a strong and durable football player.
  “He played three seasons for us and didn’t miss a game,” said Yorba Linda coach Jeff Bailey.
   
  
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• Photos: CSUF students gather for bowling, billiards, silent disco to gear up for finals week

  18-12-2019 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Cielo Penilla, a second-year psychology major came to win at billiards. Charisa Dorn, a fourth-year kinesiology major showed off her moves at the silent disco. And Nick Kinnaman, a fourth-year business major, enjoyed the free bowling.
  The three were among the Cal State Fullerton students who came to the first of two Study Night 2019 events on Dec. 12 to kick off finals week.
  The event was hosted by Associated Students Inc. to help students celebrate the end of the semester and to gear up for fin
  
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• Americans near 50, not 30, are buying homes, by this math

  18-12-2019 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The vision underpinning the American dream — of fresh-faced young people buying a first home with a white-picket fence — hasn’t held up well.
  It turns out that the median age of the U.S. home buyer is now 47, compared with 31 in 1981, Deutsche Bank chief economist Torsten Slok wrote in a note.
  “This is driven by an aging population, affordability, higher student debt levels, and tighter mortgage lending standards for young people and individuals with lower credit scores,&
  
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• Living Textbook: As landmark privacy law takes effect, advocates push for more protection

  18-12-2019 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jason Shepard
  California’s new digital privacy law takes effect on Jan. 1, but privacy advocates are pushing for a 2020 ballot initiative for even tougher protections while federal legislation stalls in Congress.
  The California Consumer Privacy Act, passed in 2018 and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, is the nation’s most stringent digital privacy law.
  Silicon Valley-based technology companies are uncertain how the new laws will affect their business models, but it is expected to have a
  
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• How might Anaheim council members vote on proposed Angel Stadium deal Friday?

  18-12-2019 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Angels baseball fans who want their team to remain in Anaheim aren’t likely to be disappointed Friday, Dec. 20, when city leaders take a key vote on a proposal to sell the stadium and lock the team in for at least 30 more years.
  Though several City Council members say they have unmet wishes or serious concerns with the stadium sale, there appears to be enough support to move the deal past the first big hurdle.
  Councilmen Trevor O’Neil and Stephen Faessel said residents they’ve
  
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• What’s in the Angel Stadium deal? Here’s what we know and are still wondering

  18-12-2019 18:07 via ocregister.com
  
  After months of preparation and a whirlwind negotiation over about two and a half weeks, information on a proposed deal to sell Angel Stadium and develop the land around it has been gushing out since the deal went public Dec. 4. But plenty of unanswered questions have arisen as well. Here are some of the issues surrounding the potential sale of one of Anaheim’s biggest assets:
  Q: Who is buying the stadium property?
  A: The Angels’ billionaire owner Arte Moreno is one of the partners &
  
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• Corky Carroll: New short film blends surfing, skiing and music from the Grateful Dead

  18-12-2019 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I get tons of email every single day promoting one thing or another. I look at all of it just in case there might actually be something worth checking out. Most of the time it’s stuff like somebody wanting me to interview someone who has a new cooking show online, or some hype for the “most wonderful new product to hit the world ever, and you get a free Ginsu knife as a bonus gift.”
  Usually none of this stuff has to do with surfing, beach culture, or anything else that I might
  
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• National Signing Day: Who is new UCLA QB Parker McQuarrie?

  18-12-2019 17:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Player: Parker McQuarrie
  Position: Quarterback
  Size: 6-7, 220
  High school: St. Paul’s School (Concord, New Hampshire)
  Rankings: 4-star (247Sports.com); 4-star (ESPN)
  Other schools: Boston College, Massachusetts, Miami and Michigan
  Info: Totaled 1,573 passing yards and 17 touchdowns while completing 55.2% of his passes in his last two years of high school football.
  Outlook: McQuarrie will be the seventh quarterback on the Bruins’ roster as last season’s starter Dorian Thompson-R
  
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• National Signing Day: Who is new UCLA WR Logan Loya?

  18-12-2019 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Player: Logan Loya
  Position: Wide Reciever
  Size: 5-11 ½ , 185 pounds
  High school: St. John Bosco High School
  Rankings: 3-star (247Sports.com); 3-star (ESPN)
  Other schools: Arizona State, Colorado, Iowa State, Nebraska
  Info: Totaled 1,109 yards with 72 receptions and nine touchdowns in his senior season with the Braves. He led the team with 10 receptions for 132 yards and one touchdown in last weekend’s CIF Open Division State Championship victory – the Braves’ first stat
  
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• Ohio State commit Clark Phillips III of La Habra expected to sign Thursday

  18-12-2019 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clark Phillips III recruiting watch will extend until Thursday.
  La Habra’s Ohio State-committed cornerback is not expected to sign on National Signing Day’s kickoff on Wednesday, Dec. 18 but instead sign the following day at 11 a.m.
  Phillips said the reason for the delay is that Thursday also is his 18th birthday.
  His recruiting is being closely watched after the two-time Freeway League MVP made a trip Utah last weekend.
  But before the trip to Utah, Phillips talked positively abo
  
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• Despite quick fixes, Kaiser Permanente mental health care lags

  18-12-2019 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
  By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News
  After years of state sanctions and fines, Kaiser Permanente claims it has gone a long way toward improving its mental health care. The national managed-care giant — California’s largest insurer with 9 million members — touts more than 1,200 thera
  
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• National Signing Day: Who is new USC WR Josh Jackson?

  18-12-2019 17:21 via ocregister.com
  
  A quick breakdown on new USC wide receiver signee Josh Jackson:
  Player: Josh Jackson
  Position: Wide receiver
  Size: 6-foot, 179 pounds
  High school: Narbonne
  Rankings: 3-star (247Sports, Rivals)
  Other schools: Arizona State, California, Colorado, Florida
  Info: 37 receptions for 587 yards and 4 TDs as a senior
  Outlook: Jackson likely won’t be a year-one contributor; USC just has too many talented young receivers for that. But he will give the Trojans a
  
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: How to make it through the holidays by inventing an invisible friend

  18-12-2019 16:55 via ocregister.com
  
  For those of you lucky enough to know me, you might guess what’s coming next. Yes, the holidays are upon us,  so it’s time for me to update my annual lecture on how to create an Invisible Friend.
  People ask me this all the time, and I’m happy to share my wisdom on the subject. I know some of you are rolling your eyes and saying to yourselves, “Marla, I am no longer 6 years old, so I don’t need Invisible Friends any more. I have a real friend named Asher.”
  
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• Lawndale defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu signs with USC

  18-12-2019 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  USC added its first new commitment of early signing day with the announcement that Lawndale defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu had signed with the Trojans.
  The program announced the addition of Tuipulotu early Wednesday morning. The younger brother of USC defensive tackle Marlon entered the day uncommitted.
  The younger Tuipulotu is a three-star prospect who held offers from UCLA, Stanford, Nebraska and California, among others.
  Related Articles USC football signing day: Live updates as players sig
  
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• As House convenes on impeachment, Trump declares disbelief

  18-12-2019 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI
  WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump woke up in the White House Wednesday morning and expressed utter disbelief that he will likely become just the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
  With the House taking up two articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Trump started his day as he often does: by airing his grievances on Twitter.
  “Can you believe that I will be impeached today by the
  
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• New Year’s Eve: 5 free events where you can celebrate and what to do around them

  18-12-2019 16:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The biggest party night of the year is coming up and you want to have fun, you want to let loose, but you don’t want to be driving around looking for things to do and getting stuck in traffic.
  So to help you plan your New Year’s Eve night, here are five free public events plus a places things to go near the big celebrations. Some of the places recommended may not have special New Year’s Eve events happening, but they’re still worth checking out.
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• USC football’s complete 2020 signing class

  18-12-2019 16:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The early signing period for football starts on Wednesday. Here is a look at all of the players signing with USC (this list will be updated as more players commit to USC):
  4-star prospects:
  Jonah Monheim, OL, Moorpark, 6-foot-5, 280 pounds
  3-star prospects:
  Casey Collier, OL, Barbers Hill (Texas), 6-foot-7, 300 pounds
  Andres Dewerk, OT, Los Gatos, 6-foot-7, 297 pounds
  Courtland Ford, OL, Cedar Hill (Texas), 6-foot-6, 305 pounds
  Josh Jackson, WR, Narbonne, 6-foot, 179 pounds
  Parker Lewis, K, Sagu
  
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• A ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ star lit her hair on fire, another hid in a bush

  18-12-2019 16:39 via ocregister.com
  
  This is the image I will cherish: Tamra, wailing like a toddler and throwing the mother of all tantrums, and then, because some part of her realizes people might notice, she literally walks into a bush to hide.
  Winter is coming for “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” but through those dark, cold months when the housewives are at rest until Bravo reanimates them for the next season, I will think about Tamra Judge and her sad little hideout in a shrub, and life will be good again.
  
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• Where to eat on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at Southern California’s casinos

  18-12-2019 16:21 via ocregister.com
  
  If you want to end your 2019/start your 2020 with an elegant or filling meal, Southern California’s casinos will have some options from buffets packed with an assortment of dishes to fine dining meals with unique and fancy ingredients.
  We’ve compiled this list of nearly two dozen different meal options; most of the meal specials are for New Year’s Eve but a few of the specials are for New Year’s Day. Note that some of the restaurants require reservations.
  If you’re
  
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• UCLA football signing day: Live updates as players sign NLIs

  18-12-2019 16:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Like Coach Chip Kelly and the UCLA football program, the fan base will find out Wednesday, Dec. 18 which players will make up the Bruins’ 2020 recruiting class as players can officially begin to sign their national letters of intent.
  Follow along for live signing day updates from UCLA beat reporter Maggie Vanoni:
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  Related Articles LIVE: UCLA signs five players to its 2020 class in early signing period UCLA looks to fill linebacker gap with early signing period
  
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• Court stops Garden Grove’s Willowick development deal in Santa Ana

  18-12-2019 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A controversial property deal involving Willowick Golf Course is now off of the table until next year, when stricter laws kick in involving public lands.
  A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday, Dec. 17, granted an Orange County community organization a preliminary injunction that prevents Garden Grove from inking, for now, a 55-year deal to lease the golf course to a developer.
  The Garden Grove City Council – scheduled to take up a vote on its deal with MWillowick Land Tuesday night
  
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• Football signing day updates: Justin Flowe, Bryce Young and DJ Uiagalelei

  18-12-2019 15:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California News Group high school sports reporters will provide updates throughout the day as football players sign their National Letters of Intent on the first of a 3-day signing period.
  St. John Bosco quarterback DJ Uiagalelei, Mater Dei quarterback Bryce Young and Upland linebacker Justin Flowe among the players to follow on National Signing Day.
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