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• 15 pro tips for starting vegetables in the May garden

  10-05-2024 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  May is the busiest month in my garden. Spring blooms give way to early summer blooms. Perennial bloom takes over for bulbs. The vegetable garden gets planted, fruit trees get attention and, if I’m lucky, the earliest stone fruits are ready to pick by month’s end. May is a glorious time to garden!
  Vegetable gardensAre you new to vegetable gardening? Or have you had trouble starting summer vegetable, herb and flower seeds in the past? Enroll in my Easy Seed Starting Online Course to le
  
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• Rivian laying off 92 employees at Orange County facilities

  10-05-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based Rivian Automotive is laying off 92 people at several Orange County facilities, effective June 18, the latest in a series of cost-cutting efforts by the electric automaker.
  The cuts come just two months after the automaker trimmed 191 salaried jobs based in the county. That round focused on product teams and those in the company’s commercial EV business. The latest round of cuts mostly affects support and office workers.
  Also see: Are EV sales declines in California just a
  
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• May Revise sets up California for painful spending choices and tax increases

  10-05-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Giving credit where it is due, Gov. Newsom’s “May Revise” budget proposal recognizes the seriousness of the situation. He proposes real cuts, opposes tax increases, and suggests some efficiency improvements – which are all positive steps.Unfortunately, the proposal still relies on too many budget gimmicksand fund shifts. The Newsom plan also underestimates the severity of the current budget shortfall that must be addressed. Making matters worse, growing economic headwinds
  
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• Here’s a look at motherhood and pregnancy in the U.S.

  10-05-2024 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  There are about 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. each year, which is an average of 9,863 a day. Here’s a look at pregnancy and birth in the U.S.
  Conception to birthdate
  The length of the average pregnancy is approximately 266 days. As the exact estimate of the ovulation is usually not known, an estimate of the birthdate is made using the day of the last menstrual period. This is usually 14 days before ovulation, so 14 days are added to the figure of 266, making a total of 280 days, or 4
  
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• When CHOC is the dinner table talk, you get three generations of nurses

  10-05-2024 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Like grandmother. Like mother. Like daughter.
  If you’ve walked the halls of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in the last 50 years, you’ve likely had a chance encounter with at least one generation of the nurses from this family tree.
  Lezlie Brown-Zoller began her CHOC career 51 years ago as a nurse in the Orange hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit. Her daughter, Meghen Reahm, joined CHOC in 2002 and as a daytime nursing supervisor oversees staffing safety and
  
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• McDonald’s readies $5 meal deal to lure customers back into stores

  10-05-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s Corp. is looking to launch a $5 meal deal in the US that the burger chain is betting can lure penny-pinching consumers back in.
  The deal could include a McChicken or a McDouble along with fries and a drink, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. On the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski said McDonald’s had to be “laser-focused on affordability” given how price-w
  
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• The Book Pages: A forgotten Los Angeles novel is rediscovered

  10-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1970s-era Los Angeles, something was in the air. Much of that was smog, but there were other atmospheric troubles in those days of Me-Decade malaise.
  Call it a feeling of uneasiness, a sense that the overripe paradise of Southern California had gone off. Author Gavin Lambert captures some of that dread – as well as L.A.’s toxic air – in his 1971 novel, “The Goodby People.” (Yes, he spelled it “Goodby,” which, like so
  
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• Angels Deals: Free food and discounts for fans based on Angels games

  10-05-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Angels partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items all season long based on how the Angels play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  McDonalds
  Free medium fries with a minimum purchase of $2 when the Angels win a home game.
  Chick-fil-A
  Free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich if the Angels score 7 or more runs at any home game. Offer available by opening the Chick-Fil-A App until 11:59 p.m. the night of the game and using within 3 busine
  
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• Bill would ban some production quotas for U.S. warehouse workers

  10-05-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Getting a few more packages out shouldn’t injure workers or force them to skip lunch or a bathroom break, according to a new U.S. Senate bill that seeks to regulate production quotas for warehouse workers in the Inland Empire and nationwide.
  The Warehouse Worker Protection Act, unveiled Thursday, May 2, would ban quotas that the bill’s authors say require workers to move at an unsafe pace, miss restroom breaks or cut corners in their work in order to keep up with expectations.
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• Sam Rubin, KTLA 5 entertainment reporter, dies at 64

  10-05-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Sam Rubin, one of the most recognizable and likable entertainment reporters in the business and a fixture on the KTLA Morning News since 1991, died Friday at age 64.
  TMZ reported that Rubin suffered a fatal heart attack Friday morning. A KTLA source told Variety that Rubin died at his home in Brentwood.
  KTLA technology reporter Rich DeMuro wrote on X that he is “in absolute shock.” He posted a picture of himself with Rubin and wrote, “Thinking the most of your family right now.
  
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• Mark Wahlberg opens Mexican restaurant in Huntington Beach

  10-05-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Actor and Boston native Mark Wahlberg — who, along with his brothers, co-owns casual burger joint Wahlburgers — has moved into the fine-dining landscape with his own culinary project: Flecha Cantina, a nearly 10,000-square-foot Mexican-American restaurant located inside the Bella Terra shopping center in Huntington Beach.
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• Dodger Deals: Free food and discounts for fans when the Dodgers score

  10-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Dodgers partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items throughout the season based on how the Dodgers play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  Panda ExpressWhen the Dodgers win, you win! Visit https://t.co/4iaClE6WWA to learn more and get your $5 Panda Plate. pic.twitter.com/S0wToGF5RL
  — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 7, 2024Panda Plate for $5 until 11:59 p.m. the following day by using the code “Dodgerswin” in
  
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• Newsom says state has $27 billion budget shortfall, but it can be balanced without raising taxes

  10-05-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s state budget has a $27.6 billion deficit, but it can be balanced without new taxes or major cuts to core programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
  Unveiling his revised $288 billion May state budget for 2024-25, Newsom laid out a plan that relies on taking some money from “rainy day” reserves set aside in prior years, while also delaying some state programs, leaving 10,000 state jobs unfilled, and reducing spending on other programs — from new water storage to
  
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• See a collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork at Fullerton’s Muckenthaler

  10-05-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  About a year ago, Annabella Pritchard, a local art curator, was chatting with a good friend, an learned about a recently acquired,  unique collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork.
  The owner of the collection, financier Benjamin Feldman, the friend told Pritchard, was interested in sharing the art with a nonprofit and preferably showing it as its own exhibition.
  Guests view the Dali artwork during the Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s opening reception for an exhibit of Salvador Dali&
  
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• Can Missouri GOP remove candidate for governor with alleged KKK ties? Judge to decide

  10-05-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Kacen Bayless | (TNS) The Kansas City Star
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Cole County judge will decide whether the Missouri Republican Party can block a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican.
  Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker held a one-day trial in Jefferson City on Thursday over a lawsuit from the state party seeking to remove the candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan III, from the August ballot.
  McClanahan, who resides in Milo, a small vil
  
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• Sean Burroughs, Long Beach baseball icon, dies at 43

  10-05-2024 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Sean Burroughs, a celebrated baseball standout who led the Long Beach All-Stars to back-to-back Little League World Series titles and played seven seasons in the major leagues, died Thursday. He was 43 years old.
  Long Beach Little League announced Burroughs’ death in a statement posted on Instagram. The cause of death was not immediately known.
  Burroughs was one of the most decorated amateur baseball players in history. The son of 1974 American League Most Valuable Player Jeff Burroughs, S
  
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• Ex-Fatburger, Johnny Rockets CEO accused of ‘cover-up’ in $47M scheme to avoid taxes

  10-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal grand jury indicted the former CEO of Fat Brands, Inc. this week for what they said was a years-long scheme to distribute $47 million of shareholder funds disguised as loans to himself to avoid paying taxes.
  Andrew A. Wiederhorn, of Beverly Hills, who is still the controlling shareholder of the company behind such restaurant chains as Fatburger and Johnny Rockets, was accused of conspiring with the company’s CFO and an accountant to hide the disbursements to himself over more tha
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian diver Grant Schneider soars to CIF State championship

  10-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGrant Schneider’s future appears bright with his commitment to attend Stanford.
  His view at the CIF State diving championships on Thursday also was sparkling.
  The Capistrano Valley Christian junior became the third Orange County boy to claim a state title with a strong performance at Clovis West High.
  Schneider scored 612.60 points to outdistance runner-up Gunnar Grubbs of Palo Alto by just over 28
  
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• Though noncitizens can vote in few local elections, GOP goes big to make it illegal

  10-05-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.org
  Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud.
  Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming to keep noncitizens away from the polls. They’re using state constitutional amendments and new laws tha
  
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• Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

  10-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY TANG (Associated Press)
  Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
  So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
  “It’s a huge, huge honor. I think a lot of pride comes along with it, not just recognizing the Olympic achievement, but also being recognized during AAPI Month and following i
  
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• Stormy Daniels unfavorably compares Trump to ‘real men’ after hush-money trial testimony

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  David Matthews | New York Daily News
  Stormy Daniels blasted Donald Trump on social media Thursday night, just a few hours after she finished testifying against the former president in his Manhattan hush-money trial.
  “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” she wrote in a post on X — a taunting reference to Trump not testifying in the case and using his own social media accounts to rail against the proc
  
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• Amgen plows ahead with costly, highly toxic cancer dosing despite FDA challenge

  10-05-2024 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Arthur Allen | (TNS) KFF Health News
  When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary. Crosslin started the drug that July. His tumors shrank, then stabilized.
  But while the drug has helped keep him alive, its side effects have gradually narrowed the confines of his life, said Crosslin, 76, who lives in Ocala, Florida: “My appetite has been minima
  
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• 25 years to life for man who kidnapped, raped 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana 2 decades ago

  10-05-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A Chicago man who kidnapped and repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl in Santa Ana more than two decades ago was sentenced Friday, May 10 to 25 years to life in prison.
  Ismael Salgado, now 44, was convicted earlier this year of five counts of rape, as well as kidnapping to commit a sex crime, related to a series of sexual assaults over a roughly two hour period on Feb. 3, 1999.
  The sexual assaults of the 11-year-old girl  went unsolved for more than 15 years until a DNA hit led police to Sal
  
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• ‘Birthing friendly’ label requires little effort by hospitals

  10-05-2024 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jessie Hellmann | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — Six months after the launch of the Biden administration’s “birthing friendly” designation for hospitals, advocates are questioning the next steps for the tool aimed at incentivizing better care for patients.
  Beginning last fall, hospitals that achieved the designation received an icon on Care Compare, a federal website aimed at helping consumers pick health care providers.
  But it’s not difficult for hospitals to
  
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• Part-time Huntington Beach actor found guilty of soliciting investments for fraudulent COVID-19 cure

  10-05-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A part-time actor from Huntington Beach who in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic had fraudulently touted a cure and treatment for the virus was found guilty by jury Friday, May 10, of 11 counts of wire fraud for soliciting investors for his bogus treatments, federal authorities said.
  Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 56, faces a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Ciaran McEvoy said. His sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 9.
  Middlebr
  
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• Trump response to sex tryst allegations key focus as hush money trial resumes

  10-05-2024 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Molly Crane-Newman, Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News
  A bid by Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money trial resumed.
  Former top White House aide Madeleine Westerhout, who famously lost her job after saying she had a better relationship with Trump than his daughters, testified that she couldn’t recall Trump m
  
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• USC’s Daily Trojan publishes text of valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s canceled speech – redacted

  10-05-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The Class of 2024 valedictorian whose canceled USC commencement address spurred controversy, protests and the scuttling of the main university graduation ceremony, has shared the text of that speech — though not how you might expect.
  Asna Tabassum, in a nod to how her planned address was silenced by the university, shared her speech with the Daily Trojan on Friday, where it was published in the school newspaper — redacted.
  “President Folt, Provost Guzman, faculty, staff, famili
  
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• Former UCLA doctor wins $14 million in retrial of gender discrimination suit

  10-05-2024 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL HETHERMAN
  A jury has awarded $14 million to a former UCLA hematologist who said she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated administration ignored her complaints of gender discrimination.
  The Los Angeles Superior Court panel reached its verdict Thursday in a retrial of Dr. Lauren Pinter-Brown’s long-running lawsuit originally filed against the UC Regents in June 2016.
  Pinter-Brown, now 69, won $13 million in the
  
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• New COVID ‘FLiRT’ variants are spreading nationwide. Health experts urge up to date vaccination

  10-05-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A new family of COVID variants nicknamed “FLiRT”is spreading across the country, as vaccination rates nationwide remain concerningly low for some public health experts.
  While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more transmissible, said infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy.“A new, more contagious variant is out there,” said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institu
  
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• Black homeowners start to close gap in property values

  10-05-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Tim Henderson | Stateline.org (TNS)
  Black homeowners’ property values are on the rise across the country, with some of the biggest upswings in Midwestern and Southern states. The boon to Black homeowners, after decades of lagging property values, could help them close a racial wealth gap that has kept the American dream out of reach.
  Home values increased on average 84% in majority-Black ZIP codes between 2016 and 2023, outpacing growth in white ZIP codes, where values grew 69%, according
  
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• What’s wrong with protesting about something you’re mistaken about?

  10-05-2024 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  In the 1960s, while the United States was in the midst of the war in Vietnam, massive protests broke out against the draft and our involvement in the war. Students across the country marched and chanted against what they perceived to be an unjustified war and a racist and classist conscription. Supporters of the war argued that the protesters were misguided and that the war was necessary to halt the spread of communism. 
  During the same general period, thousands of students were demonstrati
  
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• Santa Clarita mom shares story of her daughter’s long recovery from brain cancer

  10-05-2024 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  After 21 years, Amy De La Cruz still remembers in detail the day in 2003 that her little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
  Her daughter, Sabrina Schiermeyer, was 10 when a school nurse contacted De La Cruz to inform her that her fourth-grader was suffering from headaches, dizziness and nausea. After work, De la Cruz took her girl to an urgent care facility. After blood and urine tests, she was sent for an MRI.
  Following long and anxious hours, De La Cruz received a call from a doctor who re
  
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• Analysis: Takeaways from Biden’s candid CNN interview as he warns Israel

  10-05-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed back to California to raise more campaign cash Friday and Saturday after he sent shockwaves around the globe with a potential landmark change to U.S. foreign policy.
  Biden sat down with CNN anchor Erin Burnett Wednesday during a campaign stop in battleground Wisconsin. As he did during recent official White House and campaign events, he jabbed at Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidentia
  
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• Pomona College shifts graduation events as encampment enters 5th day

  10-05-2024 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Pomona College commencement stage enters its fifth day, commencement activities scheduled for today have been moved to different locations.
  On Tuesday, May 7, the college’s website said the Baccalaureate Service of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium that includes Pomona College, was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today at Bridges Auditorium.
  This morning, the website listed a new location for the event — Balch Auditorium at Scripps College, another m
  
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• Previews of the CIF Southern Section boys volleyball championships

  10-05-2024 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  FRIDAY
  DIVISION 6
  Samueli Academy (28-3) vs. Riverside Poly (26-9)
  Where, when: Riverside Poly High, 6 p.m.
  Outlook: Samueli Academy, a private school in Santa Ana that opened in 2013, is in a CIF-SS boys volleyball final for the first time. The Firewolves, champions of the Academy League, take a 15-match winning streak into this final. In the playoffs they beat Bassett 3-0 in the first round, Rio Hondo Prep 3-1 in the second round, Tahquitz 3-1 in the quarte
  
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• Saturday’s detonation should free the ship that hit the Key Bridge. What’s next?

  10-05-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The Dali has sat, entangled with the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that it knocked down, for the past six weeks, becoming a Baltimore landmark as crews work to clear the channel around it of debris.
  But in the most dramatic step yet to free the ship, authorities plan to use explosive devices Saturday evening to slice up a huge piece of bridge sitting atop the container ship, paving the way for it to be freed and pushed from the incident site in the coming days.
  If all goes as plan
  
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• Famed Ansel Adams photos of Yosemite, Golden Gate to be featured on new U.S. stamps

  10-05-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than 150 years, visitors have taken hundreds of millions of photographs of Yosemite National Park.
  But many of the park’s most iconic images — timeless, internationally famous shots of Half Dome, Tunnel View, Mirror Lake and other wonders that strikingly depict America’s natural heritage —  were made by Bay Area native Ansel Adams.
  On Wednesday, the U.S. Postal Service will issue 16 commemorative stamps featuring some of Adams’ most renowned photograph
  
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• Crestline’s sole grocery store reopens 14 months after historic blizzard destroyed it

  10-05-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time in 14 months, Crestline residents are able to shop at their local grocery store.
  The devastating blizzard that hit the San Bernardino Mountains in February and March 2023 caved in the roof of Goodwin & Son’s Market, destroying Crestline’s only grocery store.
  “It was the hardest thing our company has ever gone through,” company vice-president Mike Goodwin said Wednesday, May 9. “We literally watched our livelihood and everything we had known fa
  
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• Should you be worried about bird flu? Here are 5 things to know about the virus

  10-05-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Irene Wright | The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
  As a new virus takes center stage at the heart of a global outbreak, it’s easy to get flashbacks of March 2020.
  Now more than four years after the world was rocked by a pandemic, H5N1, or avian or bird flu, has exploded in bird and livestock populations, and at least one human case has been confirmed by health officials.
  This isn’t the first time.
  There have been major outbreaks around the world in the recent past, including four from
  
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• Democrats forgo idealism, as Biden risks losing the youth vote

  10-05-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Leading Democrats press an odd response to campus uprisings across the nation: dismiss and stigmatize the persisting tide of students pleading for peace in the Middle East. This flat-footed rejection of youthful idealism jeopardizes Joe Biden’s ability to secure the youth vote this fall.
  The president first tried a law-and-order stance, implying that  pro-Palestinian students — staking-out tent settlements in campus quads from USC to Columbia — are “threatening
  
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• Irvine med tech team meet those whose lives they saved

  10-05-2024 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Chad Darby’s life turned upside down after he felt a twinge in his chest during a CPR class.
  The 51-year-old thought he was in good health, he was there to learn life-saving techniques should anything happen at home with his newborn twins.
  Instead, he soon needed what was likely a life-or-death surgery. And, this week he met the Irvine-based team of medical device manufacturers at the heart of his recovery.
  A group of employees at Edwards Lifesciences talks with heart valve recipient Chad
  
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• Galaxy starts busy stretch vs. 1st-place Real Salt Lake

  10-05-2024 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  After the first 11 games of the season, the real season is preparing to start for the Galaxy.
  Starting Saturday, the Galaxy will play three games in eight days, with two on the road along with their first midweek game of the season.
  Surviving three-game weeks is a good test for potentially successful Major League Soccer seasons.
  “It’s a busy week,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “Physically, I think we’re in a pretty good spot. Obviously, we’ve had some guys w
  
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• Rescheduling is good news for California’s marijuana industry, but the state still needs to reduce regulations and taxes

  10-05-2024 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Despite being among the largest and most mature legal marijuana markets in the country, the cannabis industry in California is struggling. Regulatory hurdles, high taxes, and a still-thriving illicit market have left legal cannabis companies in California fighting to stay afloat.
  The recent news that the Drug Enforcement Administration plans to reclassify cannabis into a less restrictive category under federal law could provide some much-needed financial relief to licensed California cannabis bu
  
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• The overlooked crisis of escalating commercial insurance rates in California

  10-05-2024 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  As California business owners grapple with rising operational costs, predatory labor codes, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation, there’s yet another challenge squeezing their budgets: skyrocketing commercial property insurance rates. Business owners are seeing their commercial property insurance rates double, triple, and, in some extreme cases in Southern California, increase by as much as 400 percent.
  Why are insurance prices out of control? It’s a combination of bad lu
  
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• Will the Haunted Mansion return to Disneyland in time for Halloween?

  10-05-2024 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Clues are beginning to materialize suggesting Disneyland crews hope to wrap up the extended refurbishment of the Haunted Mansion in time for the Halloween season that kicks off earlier than ever this year.
  Disneyland has about three months to finish the Haunted Mansion renovation if the Anaheim theme park hopes to open the classic dark ride by the start of Halloween Time 2024 on Aug. 23 at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
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• Santa Ana staff complaints of councilmember’s “over-involvement” in cultural events leads to review

  10-05-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Staff allegations that Councilmember Johnathan Hernandez was being “overly involved” in the planning and execution of cultural events in Santa Ana, such as last year’s Juneteenth and the Chicano Heritage Festival, stepping on the toes of the parks and recreation department were sent by a council committee to an outside investigator.
  A letter addressed to former City Manager Kristine Ridge lays out concerns raised by staff, accusing Hernandez of attending planning meetings witho
  
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• Pathways Conference provides academic direction to young men of color

  10-05-2024 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Motivated by its mission to give male students of color in ninth and 10th grade insight into college life, Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Educational Partnerships started the Male Youth Empowerment Conference in 2016.
  Offering workshops, panel discussions, keynote speakers and other features, the conference drew hundreds of young male students of color from throughout Southern California each year and helped to demystify the uncertainties of a post-secondary education, particularly for t
  
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• California job losses jump 20% in a year

  10-05-2024 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  California, we have a job-loss problem.
  All the noise about rising California layoffs – especially at technology companies – is adding up to real pain. Consider a Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of household employment surveys that shows 482,700 Californians lost their jobs in the year ending in the first quarter.
  My trusty spreadsheet found California job losses are No. 1 in the nation, though the state was followed by other economic heavyweights. Texas was No. 2 at 274,900, the
  
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• Real estate news: Downtown Santa Ana property destined for 15 lofts sells for $1.16 million

  10-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A nearly third-of-an-acre parcel in Santa Ana entitled for 15 apartments sold April 5 for $1.16 million, according to CBRE and public records.
  “The buyer was drawn to the strategic location of this fully entitled property, situated in an opportunity zone and less than a mile from Downtown Santa Ana,” said Michelle Jefcoat at CBRE.
  The development at 1212 East 4th St. has been dubbed 4G Lofts and will include studio units and one- and two-bedroom units, with one apartment home designa
  
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• Alexander: If only the Lakers could do this with LeBron James

  10-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I was just kidding when I slipped the line into a column last week. But the more I thought about it, the more I believed I’d stumbled across the solution to the Great Lakers Coach Search: Make LeBron James the player-coach.
  Seriously.
  I’m not alone here. A couple of readers have made the same suggestion in recent days. And Byron Scott, someone with intimate knowledge of Jeanie Buss’ organization – a member of the family, practically – came to the same conclusio
  
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