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• Coronavirus: An average of about 4.2% of tests for the virus are coming back positive in Orange County as of Sept. 10

  10-09-2020 23:31
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 281 new cases of the coronavirus as of Thursday, Sept. 10, increasing the cumulative total to 50,471 cases.
  The current seven-day average for positive tests is 207 cases per day.
  There were four new deaths reported in Orange County on Wednesday, raising the death total to 1,069. The data on deaths in the county is compiled from death certificates or gathered through the course of case investigations and can take weeks to process, officials say. The m
  
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• Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park will reopen on Friday, Sept. 18

  10-09-2020 23:20
  
  Now that dining in is back, so is Pirates Dinner Adventure.
  On Friday Aug. 14, California Dinner Entertainment, which operates the dinner theater in Buena Park, laid off 230 workers, giving them notice it was permanent.
  But with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Tuesday announcement that dining-in restrictions were lifted in Orange County, the company will bring back more than 200 of those workers, said Pirates Dinner Adventure Director of Marketing, Skyler Rankin in a telephone interview on Thursday, S
  
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• Lakers vs. Rockets live updates: Game 4 from the NBA bubble

  10-09-2020 23:07
  
  LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers continue their playoff journey with Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series against the Houston Rockets.
  The Lakers are considered a favorite to win the NBA Championship this season but a pair of former league MVPs with ties to the local area, Russell Westbrook and James Harden, have intentions on stopping the purple and gold from advancing to the Western Conference Finals.
  Lakers (2-1) vs. Houston Rockets (2-1)
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• Poll: Share of young adults living with parents higher now than Great Depression

  10-09-2020 22:58
  
  More young adults are living with at least one parent than at any point in documented American history, including the end of the Great Depression, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.
  The share of 18-to-29-year-olds living at home has increased from 47% in February, before the COVID-19 pandemic, to 52% in July, the poll found. In those five months, 2.6 million young Americans have moved back in with mom and dad.
  The five percentage-point bounce in five months of 2020 is equal to
  
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• Disneyland cancels Candlelight Processional as coronavirus threatens Christmas events

  10-09-2020 22:47
  
  Disneyland has been forced to cancel the annual Candlelight Processional that fills the Anaheim theme park each December with seasonal songs as the coronavirus pandemic that has already spoiled summer and wrecked Halloween is now taking aim at Christmas.
  The Candlelight Processional will not take place this year at Disneyland, according to Disney officials.
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• Disneyland cancels Candlelight Ceremony as coronavirus threatens Christmas events

  10-09-2020 22:47
  
  Disneyland has been forced to cancel the annual Candlelight Ceremony that fills the Anaheim theme park each December with seasonal songs as the coronavirus pandemic that has already spoiled summer and wrecked Halloween is now taking aim at Christmas.
  The Candlelight Ceremony and Processional will not take place this year at Disneyland, according to Disney officials.
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• US mortgage rates hit 9th record low of 2020: 30-year at 2.86%

  10-09-2020 22:19
  
  U.S. average rates on long-term mortgages hit record lows again this week amid signs that the halting economic recovery slowed over the summer.
  Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year home loan declined to 2.86% from 2.93% last week, the ninth new low of 2020. By contrast, the rate averaged 3.56% a year ago.
  The average rate on the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage slipped to its own new record low — 2.37% from 2.42% last week.
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• Map shows where the Bobcat fire is burning in the San Gabriel Mountains

  10-09-2020 22:12
  
  The Bobcat fire continues to burn in the Angeles National Forest, north of Azusa as of Thursday afternoon, Sept. 10.
  The fire was reported at 12:22 a.m. Sunday near the Cogswell Dam and West Fork Day Use area.
  Related Articles Bobcat fire grows, but evacuation warnings lifted in Arcadia
  
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• Dominic Freeman hired to coach Capistrano Valley Christian girls basketball

  10-09-2020 22:11
  
  Capistrano Valley Christian High has hired Dominic Freeman as its girls basketball coach, the school announced Thursday.
  Freeman had been an assistant coach at Biola University since 2018. He previously served as the girls basketball coach at Lakewood and Valley Christian of Cerritos.
  Related Articles Two reported dead in auto accident involving family of Costa Mesa coach Jimmy Nolan Everything you need to know about what’s happening in high school sports College commits Thomas Bouda, Jake
  
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• CVC hires Biola assistant to coach girls basketball

  10-09-2020 22:11
  
  Capistrano Valley Christian named Dominic Freeman as its varsity girls basketball coach.
  Freeman has been an assistant coach at Biola University since 2018. He previously served as girls basketball head coach at Lakewood and at Valley Christian of Cerritos.
  
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• Jason Reynolds reveals a secret to writing for young people ahead of Orange County Children’s Book Festival

  10-09-2020 21:59
  
  Jason Reynolds says he grew up without books, so he never felt like he was missing out on reading. After all, how can you miss something you never knew?
  “It was absent from life in a way that didn’t seem to leave any kind of holes, because you don’t know what kind of hole it’s leaving — because you never had it, right?” says Reynolds, who today is a critically acclaimed poet, author of award-winning YA and middle-grade books and current Library of Congress Nat
  
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• The Eat Index: OC: Dining rooms reopen in Orange County

  10-09-2020 21:49
  
  The Eat Index: OC is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Wednesdays. Subscribe here.Main Course
  Amber Tobias, right, and Melody Conour Chat with General Manager Reggie Robinson while eating inside Fable & Spirit about an hour after California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the immediate resumption of indoor dining for Orange County in Newport Beach, CA, on Tuesday, Sept., 8, 2020. Newsom’s plan allows for at percent indoor capacity.(Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Regist
  
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• Coronavirus: California’s jobless claims march higher

  10-09-2020 21:45
  
  Unemployment claims marched higher in California last week, an indication that government efforts to gradually reopen closed business amid the coronavirus have failed to spark a now-feeble statewide economy.
  Initial unemployment claims during the week that ended Sept. 5 totaled 237,500 in California, up about 18,000 from roughly 219,500 claims filed in the week ending Aug. 29.
  California accounted for 27% of unemployment claims filed nationwide in the week ending Sept. 5.
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• Coronavirus: California jobless claims march higher

  10-09-2020 21:45
  
  Unemployment claims marched higher in California last week, an indication that government efforts to gradually reopen closed business amid the coronavirus have failed to spark a now-feeble statewide economy.
  Initial unemployment claims during the week that ended Sept. 5 totaled 237,500 in California, up about 18,000 from roughly 219,500 claims filed in the week ending Aug. 29.
  California accounted for 27% of unemployment claims filed nationwide in the week ending Sept. 5.
  The state’s workf
  
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• Halloween Haunt gone, Knott’s Berry Farm adds Taste of Fall-O-Ween food, beer festival

  10-09-2020 21:44
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm plans to add another twist to its run of food, beer and wine events with the new Taste of Fall-O-Ween while the state keeps theme park rides and attractions closed due to the global pandemic.
  The Taste of Fall-O-Ween craft beer and food event will run on 18 select dates Sept. 25 through Nov. 1 at the Buena Park theme park.
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• Angels give slumping Shohei Ohtani a day off

  10-09-2020 21:25
  
  As this dreadful season nears its final two weeks, Shohei Ohtani is still searching for the kind of performance at the plate the Angels had expected.
  Ohtani, who is hitting .195 with a .654 OPS, was benched Thursday afternoon even though the Angels were facing a right-handed pitcher.
  Previously this season, Ohtani had missed only six games against right-handers, and four of those were because of his pitching schedule or the injury he suffered while pitching. Another was the second game of a doub
  
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• Claudia Rankine’s ‘Just Us’ explores difficult conversations about race, whiteness

  10-09-2020 21:05
  
  By Jeff Rowe
  The African American man whose beating by Los Angeles Police ignited civil upheaval in 1992 famously said later: “Can’t we all just get along?”
  The answer to Rodney King’s question, which has taken on renewed importance these past months: Not yet.
  And as readers learn in “Just Us: An American Conversation,” by poet, playwright and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine — an unusual mix of essays, narratives, poems, pictures and musings &m
  
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• Agua Caliente Casino Cathedral City names executive chef

  10-09-2020 20:56
  
  The new Agua Caliente Casino Cathedral City has named its executive chef to oversee food, beverage and restaurants when it opens later this year.
  Julián González Cruz, who previously worked as the chef de cuisine at The Steakhouse at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage, will oversee recipe and menu creation and food preparation for the casino’s various dining outlets.
  Some of González’s other roles before working for the casino include working as a priv
  
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• Borrower distress is opening opportunities for private mortgage investing

  10-09-2020 20:41
  
  What are the tastiest real estate investment recipes?
  You can buy and hold. Watch as your property grows in value. And then sell.
  You can fix and flip, making money off rising prices.
  Buying and accumulating rentals may earn you a nice cash-flow.
  Investing in REITS, or real estate investment trusts, allows you to invest in property the way you’d invest in stocks.
  And you can certainly earn compensation for selling real estate as a licensee.
  But real estate investments have gotten
  
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• Rams 2020 schedule: Game-by-game breakdown and predictions

  10-09-2020 20:26
  
  THOUSAND OAKS — There’s no roller-coaster on the SoFi Stadium property, said to be 3 1/2 times the size of Disneyland. Instead, that thrill ride is built into the Rams’ schedule. Get ready for some ups and downs.
  The first Rams schedule of the SoFi era starts with a steep climb and ends with twists and turns. In between, fans might have reason to shout.
  The Rams are counting on unproven talent to replace leaders of last year’s 9-7 team. They’re widely forecast to mi
  
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• Matt Fuerbringer shined at Estancia and in his sporting career since

  10-09-2020 20:19
  
  Matt Fuerbringer, one of Orange County’s stand-out athletes, does not forget his roots.
  A U.S. Olympic men’s indoor volleyball coach and associate head coach for Long Beach State’s women’s volleyball team, Fuerbringer is a former Estancia High basketball and volleyball star and one of only two players to be a four-time volleyball All-American at Stanford.
  The 6-foot-8 Fuerbringer was named Stanford’s Freshman of the Year, Outstanding Senior Athlete and starred on th
  
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• Escape rooms open up to virtual thrills because of the coronavirus

  10-09-2020 19:58
  
  In Temecula, a gold rush-era cabin, complete with wooden walls and mining equipment, attracts groups of people on a quest to find a secret mine full of gold. The seekers leave no object untouched, no clue unexamined.
  These participants aren’t actually in a cabin, but are watching online as an employee of MindTrap Escape Room takes their suggestions to find the loot and get out in less than an hour in an escape room in a strip mall off Ynez Road. Their guide, dressed as 19th century miner &
  
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• West Marin wildfire evacuation threat lifts as smoky tint descends

  10-09-2020 19:54
  
  Evacuation warnings in West Marin were lifted Wednesday afternoon as the Woodward fire in Point Reyes National Seashore nears total containment.
  Meanwhile, smoke from wildfires elsewhere mixed with a thick marine layer blocking the sun, turning the sky a doomsday orange throughout Marin and the Bay Area.
  “It’s overcast with smoke over the entire state,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Drew Peterson. “It’s just a complete smoke-out.”The view from "M
  
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• CSUF’s Constitution Day Jeopardy promotes fun, competition and community

  10-09-2020 19:54
  
  It may be July Fourth that gets all the attention as our nation’s birthday, but it was on Sept. 17, 1787, that the U.S. Constitution was ratified, thus bringing our form of government to life.
  As such, each Sept. 17 is marked as a day to celebrate the creation of the document that begins with the words, “We the people.”  At Cal State Fullerton, Constitution Week is a time set aside for the Titan community to participate in a number of activities that encourage engagement,
  
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• Recipes: When the pandemic gets you down, bake cookies

  10-09-2020 19:47
  
  In my quarantine kitchen, nothing seems to bring more cheer than a big batch of homemade cookies. It helps alleviate the blues. First, in preparing them, the process fills the house with luscious scents accompanied with the bang-clang noise of productivity. And second, the anticipation of sharing them with family and friends brings a feeling of accomplishment, something that brings joy in tough times.
  Fortunately, I’ve accumulated a regiment of airtight glass jars in a variety of sizes and
  
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• Cooking: Zooming in on plans for Rosh Hashana celebrations

  10-09-2020 19:46
  
  First it messed with Passover. Now it’s Rosh Hashana. Thanks, coronavirus!
  I asked my Facebook friends how they will celebrate the Jewish New Year in the year of COVID. “Virtual at home,” responded Helene Kahan of La Habra, a recurrent theme.
  This will be the first Rosh Hashanah as a rabbi for Miriam Van Raalt of Fullerton. “I’m going to have the immediate family at my house,” she said. “We have been together throughout the past five to six months, so I
  
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• Orange glow turns dark and gray in Bay Area as wildfires rage

  10-09-2020 19:41
  
  The air around the Bay Area looked better Thursday morning, as a strange orange glow that blanketed the region a day earlier sky gave way to a more typical dark and gray overcast.
  Looks can be deceiving.
  “The sky may not be as orange as it was,” National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Gass said. “But the quality is going to worse than it looks.”
  The northern peak of Mount Diablo is barely visible through the thick smoke as the morning sun turns the sky a bright orang
  
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• Whicker: Sports had to make changes, some for the better

  10-09-2020 19:05
  
  On Wednesday, Kyle Lowry played 53 minutes for the Toronto Raptors and scored more than 30 points in an elimination game for the third time in his career.
  Nikita Kucherov cashed a puck-on-tape pass from Ryan McDonagh and gave Tampa Bay a 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders with nine seconds left.
  The golfers play the U.S. Open next weekend, the stock car drivers are into their playoffs, the NFL started Thursday night, Serena Williams can win her 24th Grand Slam this weekend, and the horses f
  
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• Needed Assembly Bill 5 relief signed by Newsom

  10-09-2020 18:59
  
  On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation exempting a number of occupations from the grasp of Assembly Bill 5.
  With his signing of Assembly Bill 2257, Californians working jobs as diverse as musician, photographers, registered professional foresters, home inspectors, narrators, cartographers and some landscapers are freed from the confines of the destructive AB5.
  Assembly Bill 5, signed into law last year by Newsom, was enacted as a means of codifying a California Supreme Court decision re
  
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• Santa Ana school board has no date for the start of in-person instruction

  10-09-2020 18:56
  
  Santa Ana Unified School District leaders have yet to set a day for when students might be returning to its campuses for in-person learning.
  On Tuesday, Sept. 8, Orange County was dropped a tier on the state’s coronavirus tracking system, which in turn set Sept. 22 for when schools should be allowed to start in-person learning, if current positive trends in health conditions continue. But several districts are holding back on setting opening dates to further watch what happens with the spr
  
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• Edward Snowden was right, the NSA has violated our rights

  10-09-2020 18:53
  
  Seven years after it was exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, a federal appeals court has ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone metadata was illegal and unnecessary.
  Once again, Americans are reminded that government will too often trample over our rights in the name of security when it is neither just nor necessary to do so.
  A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled on Sept. 2 that “the metadata colle
  
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• What’s the risk of catching coronavirus on a plane?

  10-09-2020 18:51
  
  By Noah Y. Kim | Kaiser Health News
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to alleviate fears of flying during the pandemic at an event with airline and rental car executives.”The airplanes have just not been vectors when you see spread of the coronavirus,” DeSantis said during a discussion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Aug. 28. “The evidence is the evidence. And I think it’s something that is safe for people to do.”
  Is the evidence really
  
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• Lakers, Rockets Game 4: Highlights and Social Media updates, 4 p.m.

  10-09-2020 18:49
  
  Follow Southern California Newspaper Group reporters Kyle Goon and Mirjam Swanson as they cover the Lakers and Clippers in the NBA playoffs.  Social media reaction, video highlights of Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal playoff series between the Lakers and Rockets, (Lakers lead series 2-1).PREGAME
  No travel during playoffs gives Lakers, and other NBA teams, more time for recoveryAn appreciation of Playoff Rondo, 2020 edition
  LeBron James played his best two-way game as a Laker, enf
  
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• Amazon’s fulfillment center in Beaumont is open and hiring

  10-09-2020 18:49
  
  Amazon’s new 640,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Beaumont began churning out packages Wednesday.
  The facility employs more than 1,000 full-time workers so far, and the e-commerce giant is looking to hire more employees to help pick, pack and ship books, electronics, school supplies and home goods.
  Amazon’s already has a massive presence in the Inland Empire, including nine fulfillment centers, three cross dock locations, two sort centers and one Amazon Air facility. Those opera
  
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• Photographers capture Wildfires racing through dry, windy Northern California

  10-09-2020 18:43
  
  Over the last month, California wildfires have chased thousands of families from their homes, destroyed more than 3,600 buildings, blackened huge expanses of land and killed 12 people.
  In all, more than two dozen major fires are burning around the state, some of them among the largest in recent California history.
  Feeding off strong winds and dry brush, the fast-growing blazes have chewed through old-growth redwoods and chaparral and forced evacuations in wine country north of San Francisco and
  
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• Titan Athletics video campaign takes action in pursuit of justice for all

  10-09-2020 18:42
  
  “It’s not a moment, it’s a movement,” is a guiding principle of Voices of the Heard, a new anti-racism campaign by Cal State Fullerton Titans Athletics.
  Voices of the Heard started taking shape in the aftermath of the May 25 death of George Floyd, which fueled nationwide protests, and is part social media campaign, part making actionable steps. The centerpiece of the campaign is a series of videos made by Titans — athletes, coaches and administrators — sharing
  
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• How feminist icon Helen Reddy created the hit ‘I Am Woman’ out of troubled times

  10-09-2020 18:40
  
  Tilda Cobham-Hervey admits she really didn’t know a lot about singer Helen Reddy when the script for the biopic “I Am Woman” reached her several years ago.
  “At the time, I knew the song ‘I Am Woman’ and I knew Helen Reddy’s name, but I’m very ashamed that I didn’t know a lot more about her,” she says. “And it has been one of my greatest joys to learn about her life.
  “She’s a truly extraordinary woman, and it deeply cha
  
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• Family of Costa Mesa coach Jimmy Nolan injured in auto accident

  10-09-2020 18:36
  
  The wife of Costa Mesa football head coach Jimmy Nolan and three of their four children were involved in a car accident Wednesday in South Carolina.
  Nolan described the accident on his Facebook page: “ … head on (collision). just heard from state trooper. Car caught on fire immediately. by the time help arrived, they could only pull 3 out.”
  One of their children, son Paisley, was with Nolan in Southern California when the accident occurred. Nolan posted on Facebook that he is
  
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• Comic Monty Franklin reveals how Irvine Improv’s drive-in series brings comedy to your car

  10-09-2020 18:27
  
  Nearly six months into the pandemic, comedian Monty Franklin said he wasn’t feeling very funny.
  With touring and live events — especially those in intimate indoor comedy clubs — severely impacted by COVID-19, he hadn’t been able to get in front of a live audience and he’d stopped getting laughs at home from his quarantine crew.
  “I’d kept in contact with several comedians and every one I talked to in the last six months said they found it hard to be creat
  
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• There’s a plumeria serial killer in the garden, and here’s how to stop it

  10-09-2020 18:13
  
  Q: Help! I’m a serial killer of plumerias. I plant the plumeria (Plumeria sp. aka Frangipani) in my sunniest place available against a south-facing wall.  None of my soil drains especially well in Redlands (zone 18/19). Several of my neighbors have beautiful mature plumerias, but my plantings always end up dead.  What am I doing wrong?
  A: Plumerias are usually considered easy to grow if you are in a frost-free location. Redlands does experience frost on a regular basis, but if yo
  
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• Virtual but personal: Cal State Fullerton rolls out a welcome 

  10-09-2020 18:06
  
  Those first-day-of-school jitters that students usually experience when they step foot onto a new campus have taken on a different feel this year as Cal State Fullerton virtually welcomed nearly 12,500 freshmen and transfer students to the Titan family last month.
  A typical scenario for providing guidance to these new arrivals involves more than 20 in-person orientation sessions that are held throughout the summer months prior to the start of school. But with this year being anything but typical
  
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• COVID-19 may have been circulating in LA in December, UCLA finds

  10-09-2020 17:52
  
  LOS ANGELES — UCLA researchers and colleagues have found that there was a significant increase in patients with coughs and acute respiratory failure at UCLA Health hospitals and clinics beginning in late December, suggesting that COVID-19 may have been circulating in the area months before the first definitive cases in the US were identified, it was announced Thursday.
  This sudden spike in patients with these symptoms, which continued through February, represents an unexpected 50% increase
  
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• California Legislature fails on police reform promises

  10-09-2020 17:45
  
  When the California Legislature folded up its tent 10 days ago, it left an extraordinary number of high-profile bills still awaiting final votes, and the finger-pointing has been underway ever since.
  It’s not unusual for the last day of any legislative session to be a madhouse but the 2020 version was especially so for a variety of reasons, including the public eruption of long-simmering animosity between the Legislature’s two top figures, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon an
  
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• Laguna Woods Village Performing Arts Center needs reassessed; board rescinds $2.5 million for renovations

  10-09-2020 17:39
  
  Golden Rain Foundation directors Bert Moldow and Egon Garthoffner participated in a walk-through of the Performing Arts Center to breakdown items listed in the original PAC renovation plans — voted down in June — as independent projects.
  On Tuesday, Aug. 18, VMS Recreation and Special Events Director Brian Gruner and a staging manager joined the two maintenance & construction committee members in the assessment.
  Moldow reported the task force’s findings during a regular mee
  
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• Why your flowers are dying and what you can do about it

  10-09-2020 17:35
  
  “We’ve lived in our house for 35 years. For the first 20 years, we planted white petunias up the front walkway to our house from about May to September. Beautiful in the summer. About 10 years ago, they started to die soon after they were planted. We had our gardener change the soil (one year), change the watering frequency, and other things so that we could continue to enjoy the pathway of white during the heat of summer. Nothing has worked. We even substituted white vincas and they
  
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• HOA Homefront: The reserve fund – how much is too much?

  10-09-2020 17:34
  
  Q: Something has been bothering me for a while regarding the reserve funding level that is appropriate for a given association. Many associations strive (and set the dues) to achieve 100% funded. Do they really need to carry such high balances? Wouldn’t it be enough to carry only sufficient balances to meet the future projected reserve expenses (with a sufficient contingency cushion for uncertainties)?
  Why should we be paying dues to maintain an unnecessarily high reserve fund balance? Wou
  
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• Jane Fraser to become Citi CEO; 1st woman to lead major bank

  10-09-2020 17:30
  
  By Ken Sweet | The Associated Press
  Citigroup’s Jane Fraser will become the first woman to ever lead a Wall Street bank when she succeeds CEO Michael Corbat in February.
  The New York bank announced the succession Thursday.
  Fraser is currently head of Citi’s global consumer banking division, a major part of the bank that oversees checking and savings accounts but also Citi’s massive credit card business. She’s been with Citi for 16 years and had recently been tasked with l
  
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• Titan Voices: A letter from Cal State Fullerton President Fram Virjee

  10-09-2020 17:18
  
  In what is now a three-year tradition, my first Titan Voice of the academic year is an abridged version of the “welcome back” email I sent to all faculty, staff, and students to begin our semester. Under normal circumstances, this is a joyful piece welcoming Titans back to campus after what is most often a restful and rejuvenating summer. But as we all know — some more viscerally than others — this summer was far from normal, and for most Titans, restful and rejuvenating
  
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• Open houses are serious business in the time of COVID

  10-09-2020 17:00
  
  Unless you’ve been locked in a windowless room with no contact with the outside world, you are aware that the world is different today than it was just six months ago.
  We have a whole new vocabulary that includes terms like social distancing, PPE, where’s your mask, and don’t touch anything. That’s in addition to no social gatherings, and who knows when we’ll be able to physically attend church, a ball game or a live concert?
  The way real estate works has changed al
  
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• Laguna Beach fire chief calls for residents to better prepare homes as fires blaze across the state

  10-09-2020 16:52
  
  Fire Chief Mike Garcia is asking residents in Laguna Beach to take personal responsibility to shield themselves and their community from fire danger and clear defensible space around their homes as the community prepares for what’s expected to be an extreme fire season.
  “The ‘natural look’ of vegetation may look beautiful,” he said of the homes that are terraced among canyons and hillsides and surrounded by highly flammable eucalyptus and pine trees. “But unle
  
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