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• More than 300 gather in Anaheim to rally against police brutality

  13-06-2020 23:22
  
  More than 300 people gathered Saturday at La Palma Park in Anaheim before marching to Anaheim Police Department Headquarters, seeking an end to what is seen as systemic racism in policing.
  It was one of several demonstrations in Orange and Los Angeles counties in the third weekend since nationwide protests began over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
  The park has served as a gathering spot for the recent protests in Anaheim.More than 100 people ha
  
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• More than 300 gather in Anaheim park to rally against police brutality

  13-06-2020 23:22
  
  More than 300 people gathered Saturday at La Palma Park in Anaheim seeking an end to what is seen as systemic racism in policing.
  It was one of several demonstrations in Orange and Los Angeles counties in the third weekend since nationwide protests began over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
  The park has served as a gathering spot for the recent protests in Anaheim.More than 100 people have gathered at La Palma Park in Anaheim. A pro-black life, anti-
  
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• More than 200 gather in Anaheim park to rally against police brutality

  13-06-2020 23:22
  
  More than 200 people gathered Saturday at La Palma Park in Anaheim seeking an end to what is seen as systemic racism in policing.
  It was one of several demonstrations in Orange and Los Angeles counties in the third weekend since nationwide protests began over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
  The park has served as a gathering spot for the recent protests in Anaheim.More than 100 people have gathered at La Palma Park in Anaheim. A pro-black life, anti-
  
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• More than 100 gather in Anaheim park to rally against police brutality

  13-06-2020 23:22
  
  More than 100 people gathered Saturday at La Palma Park in Anaheim seeking an end to what is seen as systemic racism in policing.
  It was one of several demonstrations in Orange and Los Angeles counties in the third weekend since nationwide protests began over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
  The park has served as a gathering spot for the recent protests in Anaheim.More than 100 people have gathered at La Palma Park in Anaheim. A pro-black life, anti-
  
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• Orange high school graduates take a victory lap with special parade

  13-06-2020 23:15
  
  A parade of students from four Orange high schools takes a victory lap around the traffic circle in Orange on Saturday morning, June 13 where they where cheered on by spectators. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A parade of students from four Orange high schools takes a victory lap around the traffic circle in Orange on Saturday morning, June 13 where they where cheered on by spectators. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume inseco
  
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• Orange graduates take a victory lap

  13-06-2020 23:15
  
  A parade of students from four Orange high schools takes a victory lap around the traffic circle in Orange on Saturday morning, June 13 where they where cheered on by spectators. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A parade of students from four Orange high schools takes a victory lap around the traffic circle in Orange on Saturday morning, June 13 where they where cheered on by spectators. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume inseco
  
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• Coronavirus: 7 deaths, 151 patients in ICUs in Orange County as of June 13

  13-06-2020 22:57
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported another seven deaths attributed to the coronavirus as of Saturday, June 13, pushing the total number of people who have died in the county to 217.
  Of the 217 reported deaths since the start of tracking the virus in O.C., 102 have been among skilled nursing facility residents.
  Sixty-five people in the county died in the past 14 days, according to a state health department database.
  The county also noted another 130 new positive tests in the last day,
  
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• Coronavirus: 217 deaths, 151 patients in ICUs in Orange County as of June 13

  13-06-2020 22:57
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported another seven deaths attributed to the coronavirus as of Saturday, June 13, pushing the total number of people who have died in the county to 217.
  Of the 217 reported deaths since the start of tracking the virus in O.C., 102 have been among skilled nursing facility residents.
  Sixty-five people in the county died in the past 14 days, according to a state health department database.
  The county also noted another 130 new positive tests in the last day,
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Sunday June 14

  13-06-2020 22:36
  
  The consensus box of picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, June 14 for racing at Santa Anita.
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• Chargers coach Anthony Lynn delivers guidance when his team needed him most

  13-06-2020 21:36
  
  Anthony Lynn didn’t ask to be the NFL’s unofficial spokesman for the state of diversity in the coaching ranks, but when you’re one of four minority head coaches out of 32, the questions automatically come.
  Lynn, the Chargers’ fourth-year coach and the organization’s first African American head coach, had a scheduled radio interview on the Zach Gelb Show last month. Before jumping on the call, Lynn noticed the NFL Network’s report on the league’s proposal
  
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• UCI graduates celebrate with virtual ceremonies

  13-06-2020 21:29
  
  Thousands of UC Irvine graduates logged on Saturday for virtual celebrations of their real world achievements.
  A pre-recorded all-school commencement video along with individual school celebrations featured all the trappings of traditional ceremonies, the strains of pomp and circumstance playing in the background, the conferring of degrees, and speakers exalting students’ success at reaching this milestone and the bright futures ahead of them.
  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National In
  
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• We can’t heal without proximity. Art can get us there: Ravi Rajan

  13-06-2020 20:48
  
  Ninety-nine years ago this year, an entire black community was massacred in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  Violence stretched over two days in the city’s Greenwood section. Thirty-six people were killed — more than two-thirds of them black. White supremacists obliterated families and their entire way of life.
  But in the 23 years I grew up in Oklahoma, I wasn’t taught a word about the Tulsa Massacre. It was never mentioned because the black experience was to be ignored. It wasn’t to be
  
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• Clippers’ Lou Williams writes that resuming play ‘in this climate … it’s a distraction’

  13-06-2020 20:48
  
  Lou Williams was among the NBA players who shared their thoughts as the conversation about whether or not to play ball continued online Friday. Earlier in the evening, nearly 100 NBA players reportedly joined a call to discuss whether to resume the stalled season, as planned, at the end of July in Orlando.
  On Instagram, the Clippers’ veteran guard suggested that the league’s proposal to resume the season, as approved last week by the NBA’s Board of Governors and the players&rsq
  
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• Recipes: Grains such as rice, farro and quinoa are indispensable during a pandemic

  13-06-2020 19:50
  
  Weeks ago, as the lockdown loomed, many worried shoppers filled their grocery carts with grains. Valued for their storage longevity and culinary versatility, folks preparing for a quarantine lined their pantries with bags and boxes of rice, quinoa and barley, wheat berries and farro.
  Over the weeks that followed, many home cooks found satisfaction in confinement cooking, using those grains to garner kudos for their ingenuity. Those hard, dry seeds lend themselves to endless variations, a handy t
  
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• Protests against police brutality continue across Southern California today

  13-06-2020 18:20
  
  LOS ANGELES — Multiple demonstrations against police brutality continue across Southern California Saturday, as has been the case every day since the in-custody death of George Floyd on Memorial Day in Minneapolis.
  Events planned in greater Los Angeles and Orange counties include:9 a.m. – “Social Workers in Solidarity with Black Lives” march from USC’s University Gate to Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street, and on to Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring St.
  9:30 a
  
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• Churches across Orange County celebrate fellowship in person again

  13-06-2020 17:58
  
  For the 12 weeks, Father Steve Sallot has been holding Mass by speaking into a camera.
  He would sit in the back of Our Lady Queen of Angels and imagine his church full of thousands of parishioners. Then, with that image in his mind’s eye, he’d step to the altar and address the camera.
  “Initially, I’d look around like I was looking at people in the church,” he said. “But, after a few weeks, people told me, ‘Look at us, we’re the camera.’ When
  
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• Alexander: As USC welcomes back Reggie Bush, a cautionary tale

  13-06-2020 17:40
  
  This will be the grand reunion. After 10 years of NCAA mandated disassociation – reduced, remember, from a lifetime ban – Reggie Bush is again allowed to be a part of the USC family. And never mind that not only was one of the Trojans’ most electrifying football players shunned for a decade, by edict of the Committee on Infractions, he still doesn’t have the Heisman Trophy he earned and his team still doesn’t have the victories and championships that it won on the f
  
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• 24 Hour Fitness closes 18 Southern California gyms, including 7 in Orange County

  13-06-2020 17:19
  
  The 24 Hour Fitness gym chain has announced it won’t reopen 18 Southern California locations despite the state’s loosening of limitations on workout facilities.
  The chain’s webpage says: “24 Hour Fitness has made the difficult decision to close the following locations. Members, we invite you to work out at any reopened location throughout 2020.”
  California’s Stage 3 reopening plan, in effect as of Friday, June 12, allows gyms, bars, communal swimming pool
  
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• 24 Hour Fitness closes 18 Southern California gyms

  13-06-2020 17:19
  
  The 24 Hour Fitness gym chain has announced its won’t reopen 18 Southern California locations despite the state’s loosening of limitations on workout facilities.
  The chain’s webpage says: “24 Hour Fitness has made the difficult decision to close the following locations. Members, we invite you to work out at any reopened location throughout 2020.”
  California’s Stage 3 reopening plan, in effect as of Friday, June 12, allows gyms, bars, communal swimming poo
  
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• Black-and white-and-read-all-over news

  13-06-2020 17:00
  
  One of the fun and heartening things about being on the board of my old college newspaper is working with smart young journalists — students who even given the parlous state of the press today positively live to get a great paper out.
  Just as at other papers, at college dailies you’ll run into far more people interested in the glamour bits — reporting, writing, photography, design — than you will to those who like to go deep into the weeds of grammar, usage, spelling, sty
  
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• Senior Living: Federal help falters as nursing homes run short of protective equipment

  13-06-2020 15:00
  
  By Jordan RauContributing writer, Kaiser Health News
  Around the country, nursing homes trying to protect their residents from the coronavirus eagerly await boxes of masks, eyewear and gowns promised by the federal government. But all too often the packages deliver disappointment — if they arrive at all.
  Some contain flimsy surgical masks or cloth face coverings that are explicitly not intended for medical use. Others are missing items or have far less than the full week’s worth of pr
  
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• 10% more Southern California homes in escrow, 7th consecutive sales gain

  13-06-2020 15:00
  
  A jogger runs through Bolsa Chica. Actress Ashley Tisdale (”Hellcats,” ‘’High School Musical”) is 31. SoundThe gallery will resume inseconds Jewelry brand Alex and Ani is opening stores at Fashion Island and Irvine Spectrum this fall, the brand’s first Southern California locations.Show Caption of Expand
  Southern California homebuying rose for the seventh straight week as house hunters put 10.3% more homes into escrow. Still, it’s a buying pace 3.1% belo
  
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• Scathing letter accompanies MLB counterproposal as impasse with players continues

  13-06-2020 06:23
  
  Negotiations between MLB and the players’ union to start the 2020 season have heated up — but not in a good way.
  Along with their counterproposal sent to the union Friday, MLB’s deputy commissioner and chief legal officer Dan Halem included a biting letter addressed to the union’s lead negotiator, Bruce Meyer. The letter (a copy of which was obtained by the Orange County Register) makes clear the ownership’s position regarding the March agreement between the two sid
  
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• Orange County residents embrace reopening of bars, gyms and pools

  13-06-2020 05:05
  
  More than a dozen people sat on stools along the bar at Swallow’s Inn Friday afternoon, June 12, sipping beers and cocktails from plastic cups and chatting about everything from politics to horses.
  It was business as usual after three months of forced closure.
  To celebrate Rebecca Jaffe, a bartender who’s worked at the San Juan Capistrano bar for 18 years, served up the “COVID Cure,” a mix of agave tequila, tonic and a splash of pineapple and lime juice.
  Kinley Pill, 5, l
  
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• Glenn Stearns buys Dean Koontz’s Newport Coast estate for a record-shattering $50 million

  13-06-2020 04:50
  
  An entertainment room. (SCNG staff file photo)
  Dean Koontz’s movie theater is so grand, it’s hard to believe it’s a home theater. (SCNG staff file photo)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsArt deco, Japanese and Frank-Lloyd Wright-inspired “Amazing Grace” is spacious and relaxing. (SCNG staff file photo)
  Best-selling author Dean Koontz holds the paw of his golden retriever Anna through most of an interview at hisspacious Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Newport Coast h
  
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• U.S. Bankruptcy judge: Nassar settlement ‘enormous’ benefit to USOPC

  13-06-2020 04:28
  
  A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge said the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee would receive an “enormous” benefit from a settlement agreement proposal to survivors that would release the organization from legal liability even though there was a “distinct possibility of liability on the part of USOPC” should civil lawsuits related to the sexual abuse of young gymnasts by Larry Nassar and others proceed.
  Robyn L. Moberly, the chief judge for U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southe
  
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• California to allow nail salons, tattoo parlors to reopen starting June 19

  13-06-2020 04:04
  
  By KATHLEEN RONAYNE
  SACRAMENTO, Calif.  — Some Californians will again be able to get a manicure, a new tattoo or enjoy a massage starting late next week under new state guidance issued Friday.
  But studios and salons won’t look the same when they do open. Workers and customers must wear face masks, adopt far more intense cleaning practices for shared reusable items like tweezers, and the services will be limited — no mouth or nose tattoos or piercings for now.
  The guidance
  
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• CIF releases guidelines for restarting high school sports in the fall

  13-06-2020 03:57
  
  The CIF State office on Friday released guidelines for high schools to follow as they restart athletic activities and begin preparations for the 2020-21 school year.
  The CIF State guidelines were devised to help schools deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak that forced all high school sports activities to be shut down during the spring. The guidelines — they are not requirements — are mostly based on recommendations made by the National Federation of State High School Association.
  
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• Santa Ana police union votes to defer pay raises

  13-06-2020 03:54
  
  Faced with growing public criticism against planned pay raises, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association has agreed to defer their salary increases.
  Santa Ana’s officers were slated to receive a pay raise starting July 1. Instead, they will defer it for six months, union president Gerry Serrano announced on the POA’s website Wednesday night.
  “Because of the current world pandemic that no one could have predicted, the Association reached out to the city administration in an eff
  
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• Poison pizza? Homeless man in Huntington Beach describes being stricken

  13-06-2020 03:12
  
  Jason Lewandowski, a homeless man in Huntington Beach, didn’t hesitate when a young boy approached him last month offering a slice of pepperoni pizza.
  The boy was with a middle-aged man who appeared to be his father. Lewandowski, 44, was with some friends. One of them accepted, too.
  At first, Lewandowski considered the offer of free pizza to be a gesture of kindness.
  But just one bite told him the food was something else; his mouth felt as if it were on fire. The slice, he now believes, wa
  
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• Vegetation fire prompts temporary shutdown of section of Highway 133 near Laguna Beach

  13-06-2020 02:39
  
  Crews with the Orange County Fire Authority fought a seven-acre blaze that burned a center divider on the 133 Highway on Friday afternoon, prompting a temporary shutdown of part of the highway at around 5 p.m.
  The vegetation fire shut down the road between the 73 toll road and the 405 Freeway, fire officials said.
  The forward progress of the fire was stopped at around 6 p.m., OFCA said on Twitter.
  “Crews are continuing to check for hot spots and will remain on scene,” officials said.
  
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• Vegetation fire prompts shutdown of section of Highway 133 near Laguna Beach

  13-06-2020 02:39
  
  Crews with the Orange County Fire Authority were fighting a fire in the central divider on Highway 133 on Friday afternoon, prompting a shutdown of a portion of the highway at around 5 p.m.
  The vegetation fire shut down Highway 133 between the 73 toll road and the 405 Freeway, fire officials said.Laguna Canyon – Crews on scene of a vegetation fire in the center divider. Both directions closed between Lake Forest & 73 Toll road. pic.twitter.com/85yDBkiFtN
  — OCFA PIO (@OCFA_PIO) Ju
  
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• Coronavirus leaves elderly and other would-be protesters feeling frustrated

  13-06-2020 02:24
  
  Never intending to become a lifelong activist, Marilyn Boehm joined her first protest in 1969 – a civil rights demonstration on the campus of what is now Cal State Northridge.
  That was also the first, and only, time Boehm landed in jail – along with about 250 fellow students after the rally was declared an unlawful assembly.
  During the brouhaha, a police officer threw her a lifeline, saying: “‘You’ve had your fun. Go on back to class.”
  “I told him, &lsqu
  
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• Major Orange County freeway closures planned: June 13-19

  13-06-2020 01:43
  
  Here are major construction project closures happening on Orange County’s freeways and toll roads between June 13 and June 19, according to the Orange County Transportation Authority, Caltrans and the Transportation Corridor Agencies.
  5 Freeway
  Northbound carpool lane between Grand Avenue and State Route 57 and southbound carpool lane between Bristol Street/La Veta Avenue and First Street:Scheduled to remain closed through the end of JuneState Route 73
  Southbound on-ramp from Greenfield Dr
  
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• The War on Drugs spurred the nation’s current policing crisis

  13-06-2020 01:35
  
  SACRAMENTO – While growing up around Philadelphia in the 1970s, I had a number of interactions with police – none of which were particularly harrowing. On the night before Memorial Day, for instance, a friend and I were drinking beer (yes, we were underage) in a cemetery by the Delaware River when we saw lights flashing and were approached by officers.
  Apparently, the police had gotten a tip that someone might be stealing the brass placards from the gravestones and we were in the wro
  
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• State lawmakers indulge in budget fantasies

  13-06-2020 01:31
  
  California lawmakers face a constitutional deadline on Monday to pass a balanced budget and another one today to post the budget online, 72 hours before they vote. If the Legislature fails to pass a budget on Monday, lawmakers won’t get their paychecks. That’s in the state constitution, too.
  Unfortunately, when voters approved these requirements, they failed to specify that the budget has to be real. What the Legislature is about to pass is a fake budget.
  In the wake of the coronavir
  
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• Dodgers coach George Lombard tries to honor the work of his activist mother

  13-06-2020 01:29
  
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the mother of Dodgers coach George Lombard over parts of nine years. The dossier on Posy Lombard is 313 pages long. It’s a page-turner.
  The Ku Klux Klan tried to thwart her from demonstrating in Mississippi in 1965 (page 96). She was suspected of abetting an accused terrorist in 1969 (page 224). In April 1974, around the time Hank Aaron was breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record, the FBI was still gathering intel on Lombard’s various
  
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• Augustine Casino to reopen June 15, minus table games

  13-06-2020 00:58
  
  Three months after Augustine Casino became the first casino in the Coachella Valley to voluntarily close to help combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the property announced its reopening plans.
  The casino near Coachella will reopen at 9 a.m. Monday June 15, officials announced on Friday, June 12, making it the final tribal-owned property in Riverside County to reopen.
  But when it reopens, guests looking to gamble won’t be able to say “hit me” — all table games have
  
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• Take a look at Bella, a striking calico cat

  13-06-2020 00:51
  
  Breed: Calico
  Age: 1 year
  Gender: Spayed female
  Bella’s story: Bella had three babies when she came to Friends of Orange County Homeless Pets. Her babies have grown and she is looking for her own home where she can relax and be loved. Unusual-looking Bella is a very sweet girl. She is current on vaccinations, microchipped, and has been tested for feline immunodeficiency and dewormed.
  Adoption fee: $100, includes vaccinations, worm treatment and microchip
  Adoption procedure: Fill out the ap
  
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• Flights double at Southern California airports as summer travel season nears

  13-06-2020 00:50
  
  Southern California airports — virtual ghost towns for more than three months due to stay-at-home orders sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic — are slowly coming back to life, as airlines double and in some cases, triple the number of departures.
  While the climb from the more-than-90% drop is slow, airlines are building on consumer confidence, adding flights and boosting revenue as the industry goes after summer leisure travelers buoyed by the reopening of restaurants, hotels an
  
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• Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Jared Dudley indicate they’re not among NBA players reluctant to restart

  13-06-2020 00:46
  
  With the volume increasing Friday on some players’ on the behind-the-scenes concern about the NBA’s return-to-play plan, a pair of Lakers made it known that they’re not among the dissenters.
  Kyle Kuzma took to Twitter, where, in response Howard Beck’s tweet reporting Kyrie Irving as a driving force in organizing a conference call for as many as 200 players worried about the NBA’s “bubble plan,” the Lakers’ forward wrote: “Some of us want to h
  
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• Siamese Paco is a happy, loving guy

  13-06-2020 00:39
  
  Breed: Siamese
  The cat is going to be happy napping in the warmth of your home. (Courtesy of Friends of Orange County Homeless Pets)
  Age: 4-5 years
  Gender: Neutered male
  Paco’s story: Sweet, stunning Paco is so sweet. He loves to nap in laps – he loves to nap a lot. He adores head rubs and getting his hair brushed. Paco is FIV-positive, but very healthy. As long as he receives regular care and is fed well, Paco should stay healthy. He does take antibiotics with his food and probably
  
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• Want to spark your curiosity? Just Google it

  13-06-2020 00:18
  
  Did curiosity really kill the cat? Probably not. Fueled by the desire to know more, some of the most intelligent and innovative figures of the past were insatiably curious — Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci. Today, countless others would agree that curiosity has a wide range of benefits from personal growth to professional success.
  Why be curious? Because curiosity keeps the mind active and strong, and it enhances focus, productivity, and motivation. It also boosts lis
  
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• Aquarium of the Pacific to reopen with new exhibits and safety guidelines

  13-06-2020 00:12
  
  The Aquarium of the Pacific will reopen to the public on Sunday, June 14, and guests can expect to see some new additions — along with new safety guidelines.
  A reimagined Tropical Pacific Gallery features new exhibits that explore coral reefs and the important role they play in the ecosystem.
  The gallery, “Coral Reefs: Nature’s Underwater Cities,” explores the many coral reefs across the globe and the biodiversity they support, the threats they face, and what visitors can
  
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• Boat charters get up close look at great white sharks in Newport Beach

  13-06-2020 00:08
  
  Boat passengers hoping to get a glimpse at one of the many humpback whales hanging out off the coast got a surprise this week, getting up close with two great white sharks that made an appearance off Newport Beach.
  The shark sightings included a young, 3- to 4-foot shark on Tuesday, June 9, as well as a much bigger great white estimated in the 10- to 12-foot range on Thursday, June 11, said Jessica Roame, marine education program manager for Newport Landing Whale Watching.During the first sighti
  
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