Indoor and outdoor collections provide the perfect perch to enjoy summer.
This year, give dad a dive watch that is as rugged and ready for anything as he’s been through the years.
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Zak Baayoun from Woodbridge delivers a pitch Sunday night in relief against Texas at Blair Field in Long Beach. Bayouun got his second win of the year. Photo courtesy John Fajardo/LBSU Athletics.
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Jack Pabich from Northwood High is on the Cal State Fullerton baseball team that is headed to the Super Regional. Photo courtesy Cal State Fullerton Athletics
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Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team, which includes former Northwood pitching star Jack Pabich, is headed to the Super Regionals next weekend.
It will be the team’s 13th appearance in the Super Regionals.
The Titans (37-21) will have to wait until Monday, June 5, to find out who they play. Cal State Fullerton will meet the winner of the Long Beach Regional between Long Beach State (which includes former Woodbridge star Zak Baayoun) and Texas which will start at 8 p.m. at Blair Field in Long Beach.
Cal State Fullerton defeated BYU, 13-2, in the opening game of the Stanford Regional on Thursday, June 1. Pabich, a junior, pitched one inning of relief, allowing one hit in that game. Connor Seabold got the victory for Fullerton pitching the first seven innings to improve his record to 11-4.
Pabich (1-2) has appeared in 18 games with 26 strikeouts in 28 1/3 innings of work.
The Titans then topped Stanford, 4-1, on Friday, June 2 and Stanford again on Saturday, June 3, to win the regional.
In Long Beach, Baayoun, a freshman left-hander was busy with three consecutive relief appearances. He pitched both games at Blair Field on Sunday, June 4. He came on in the seventh inning to notch a strikeout against the only batter he faced against San Diego State in the afternoon elimination game. Baayoun came on with two runners on and no outs.
Eli Villalobos then was able to work out of trouble when he notched a strikeout and Long Beach ended the inning catching the Aztec runner at third on a stolen base attempt to end the inning.
The Dirtbags went on to defeat San Diego State, 7-4 to advance into the game against Texas later that night.
In the night game, also an elimination game for the Dirtbags, Baayoun pitched two innings, allowing one run and one hit while striking out two and walking one to help Long Beach State defeat Texas, 4-3, in a nationally televised game to force another game tonight. Baayoun (2-0) was credited with the victory.
Baayoun also struck out the only batter he faced in the seventh inning of Saturday’s game, which Texas won, 5-3, in 12 innings.
Long Beach State won the opener of the series over San Diego State, 6-0, as Dave Smith pitched a 5-hit shutout.
By CALVIN WOODWARD and JIM DRINKARD
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will leave the Paris climate accord came with a blast of hot air.
Here’s a reality check on some statements by Trump and his administration over the past week on global warming, jobs and other matters:
TRUMP: “The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $3 trillion in lost GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have 7,000 less income, and in many cases, much worse than that.” — Rose Garden ceremony Thursday announcing U.S. withdrawal from the worldwide agreement to curb emissions responsible for global warming. GDP is the gross domestic product, the broadest gauge of the economy.
THE FACTS: His claim is based on a study paid for by two groups that have long opposed environmental regulation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Council for Capital Formation. It makes worst-case assumptions that may inflate the cost of meeting U.S. targets under the Paris accord while largely ignoring the economic benefits to U.S. businesses from building and operating renewable energy projects.
Both groups behind the study get financial backing from those who profit from the continued burning of fossil fuels. The latter group has received money from foundations controlled by the Koch brothers, whose company owns refineries and more than 4,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines.
Academic studies have found that increased environmental regulation doesn’t actually have much impact on employment. Jobs lost at polluting companies tend to be offset by new jobs in green technology.
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TRUMP: “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” — Rose Garden ceremony.
THE FACTS: That may be so, but Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is not Trump country. It voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, favoring her by a margin of 56 percent to Trump’s 40 percent. The city has a climate action plan committing to boost the use of renewable energy.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, a Democrat, has been an outspoken supporter of the Paris accord, and tweeted after Trump’s announcement that “as the Mayor of Pittsburgh, I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future.”
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TRUMP: Claims “absolutely tremendous economic progress since Election Day,” adding “more than a million private-sector jobs.” — Rose Garden ceremony.
THE FACTS: The number is about right, but it in no way counts as “absolutely tremendous economic progress.” Private-sector job creation from October through April (171,000 private-sector jobs a month) actually lags just slightly behind the pace of job creation for the previous six months (172,000), which came under President Barack Obama. On Friday the government announced a lower figure for jobs added last month — 138,000.
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TRUMP: “Our attacks on terrorism are greatly stepped up, and you see that — you see it all over — from the previous administration, including getting many other countries to make major contributions to the fight against terror. Big, big contributions are being made by countries that weren’t doing so much in the form of contributions.” — Rose Garden ceremony.
THE FACTS: Trump is recycling a misleading claim he made in April following a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, and it’s no truer now than it was then. NATO has not substantively changed its mission toward countering terrorism as a result of Trump’s agitating.
As evidence that NATO is heeding his call to be more aggressive on terrorism, the president has cited an alliance decision last year to establish a high-level intelligence coordinator who could make the alliance more nimble in responding to threats. But that position was in the works under Trump’s White House predecessor, and came about because of worries about Russian aggression as well as from a desire to respond more effectively to the Islamic State group.
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WHITE HOUSE: The Paris climate accord “would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third of our electric power.” — information released with Trump’s announcement.
THE FACTS: The U.S. coal industry was in decline long before the Paris accord was signed in 2015. The primary cause has been competition from cleaner-burning natural gas, which has been made cheaper and more abundant by hydraulic fracturing. Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas-fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.
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VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: The Paris deal has “really put an extraordinary burden on the American economy.” — Rose Garden ceremony.
THE FACTS: If so, it’s a burden the U.S. put on itself. Each signatory to the Paris accord was left to devise its own emission goals and how to reach them; the negotiations were not a case of the world imposing standards on the U.S. The burden the U.S. placed on itself under the Obama administration is in part a function of the country’s status as the largest source of accumulated carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
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WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,” curbing temperature rise by “less than 0.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.”
THE FACTS: The co-founder of the MIT program on climate change says the administration is citing an outdated report, taken out of context. Jake Jacoby said the actual global impact of meeting targets under the Paris accord would be to curb rising temperatures by 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
“They found a number that made the point they want to make,” Jacoby said. “It’s kind of a debate trick.”
One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, “Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.”
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TRUMP: “We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany … Very bad for U.S. This will change.” — tweet Tuesday.
THE FACTS: The U.S. has the world’s largest overall trade deficit, and has for four decades. Among trading partners, Germany’s contribution to that deficit last year was $55 billion, ranking it third on the list. For a truly massive deficit, see China, No. 1 at $347 billion.
Trump made no mention, though, of the benefits from the U.S.-German economic ties. About 600,000 people in the U.S. work for German companies such as chemical maker BASF, drug company Bayer and mobile phone provider T-Mobile USA. BMW’s auto plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was America’s largest single auto exporter, sending $9.5 billion worth of SUVs to the rest of the world.
Associated Press writers Paul Wiseman, Seth Borenstein and Michael Biesecker in Washington and David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed to this report.
Find all AP Fact Checks at http://apne.ws/2kbx8bd
Where: Dodger Stadium
THE PITCHERS
DODGERS
LHP HYUN-JIN RYU (2-5, 3.91 ERA)
Vs. Nationals: Has never faced them before
At Dodger Stadium: 13-9, 3.15 ERA
Hates to face: None
Loves to face: None
NATIONALS
LHP GIO GONZALEZ (4-1, 3.03 ERA)
Vs. Dodgers: 3-1, 1.69 ERA
At Dodger Stadium: 2-1, 2.25 ERA
Hates to face: Logan Forsythe, 4 for 6 (.667)
Loves to face: Yasiel Puig, 1 for 13 (.077), 6 strikeouts
Upcoming
Tuesday – Nationals (RHP Max Scherzer, 6-3, 2.56 ERA) at Dodgers (RHP Brandon McCarthy, 5-2, 3.38), 7:10 p.m. SportsNet LA
Wednesday – Nationals (RHP Stephen Strasburg, 7-1, 2.91 ERA) at Dodgers (LHP Clayton Kershaw, 7-2, 2.28 ERA), 12:10 p.m., SportsNet LA, MLB Network (out of market only)
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Long Beach State’s Ramsey Romano (3) hits an RBI single against Texas in the fifth inning of the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field Sunday, June 04 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
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Long Beach State’s Ramsey Romano (3) hits an RBI single against Texas in the fifth inning of the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field Sunday, June 04 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
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Long Beach State’s Laine Huffman (5) celebrates with teammates after he was driven in with a single by Ramsey Romano (3) against Texas in the fifth inning of the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field Sunday, June 04 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
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Long Beach State’s Tyler Radcliffe (17) pitches against Texas in the first inning of the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field Sunday, June 04 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
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Long Beach State’s Tyler Radcliffe (17) pitches against Texas in the fourth inning of the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field Sunday, June 04 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
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LONG BEACH >> Long Beach State baseball kept its season alive with two wins in the NCAA Regional on Sunday at Blair Field. The 49ers (40-18-1) had five two-out RBI Sunday while getting unexpected and imperative pitching performances from John Sheaks and Tyler Radcliffe.
LBSU opened the day with a 7-4 win over San Diego State in an elimination game, and then held on to beat Texas, 4-3, in the nightcap. Second baseman Jarren Duran had four hits, four RBI and two runs in two games. LBSU will face Texas again tonight at 8 in an elimination game. The winner will face Cal State Fullerton in the Super Regional this weekend.
Radcliffe, a Long Beach Wilson High alum, is returning from injury and made his first start of the season. The right-handed sophomore pitched five innings against Texas (39-23) and gave up five hits and two runs. He started the game by striking out six of the first 10 batters he faced, and Texas didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning.
LBSU took the lead in the second inning when the 49ers loaded the bases with two hits and a hit by pitch. After reaching on a fielder’s choice with one out, designated hitter Luke Rasmussen came around to score on shortstop Laine Huffman’s ground ball. LBSU has outscored its opponents 91-35 in the first two innings this season.
Huffman led off the fifth inning with a single off the mound, and after a sacrifice bunt and fielder’s choice, third baseman Ramsey Romano made the score 2-0 with a two-out RBI to left field.
Texas tied the game in the bottom of the fifth inning, but a great defensive play from LBSU catcher David Banuelos ended the rally. With two on and one out, Texas catcher Michael Cantu singled off of Huffman’s glove to cut the lead in half. After a bunt single loaded the bases, Zane Gurwitz singled to left field to tie the game. Cantu was sent home, and it looked like the relay throw from Lucas Tancas and Huffman was late. However, Banuelos blocked the plate with his foot and tagged Cantu after he slid past the plate.
The 49ers retook the lead in the top of the sixth inning when Rasmussen led off with a single and came around to score on Jarren Duran’s two-out RBI single to center field on the first pitch he saw.
Zak Baayoun came out of the bullpen in the sixth for the third time in three games, but Texas tied the game 3-3 on Bret Boswell’s RBI ground out.
Duran gave the 49ers the lead again in the eighth inning when he plated Garrett Nelson with his second two-out RBI single off of Texas reliever Blair Henley. Longhorns starter Kyle Johnston gave up six hits, four walks and three runs in seven innings. The junior struck out four.
LBSU freshman Connor Riley pitched a scoreless eighth inning thanks to a double play turned by Huffman and Duran. Senior Josh Advocate pitched around a two-out walk in the ninth to record the save.
The 49ers eliminated SDSU (42-21) in the afternoon thanks to opportunistic offense and a strong start from Sheaks. The junior saved the LBSU bullpen with six innings while the 49ers scored six of their runs with the help of SDSU miscues.
The top of the LBSU order produced all game long. Duran had a pair of RBI, first baseman Daniel Jackson had three hits, and left fielder Lucas Tancas had two hits, an RBI and a run. SDSU took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a home run from shortstop Danny Sheehan, but LBSU scored twice in the second and third innings and didn’t lose the lead. The 49ers had 13 hits.
Sheaks pitched into the seventh inning and gave up eight hits and four runs with five strikeouts. It was his first win in five starts, and only the fourth time he’s pitched into the seventh.
“With his last four or five outings being a challenge, I thought Sheaks was huge for us today,” LBSU coach Troy Buckley said. “It wasn’t pretty, but no one cares at this time of year.”
Sheaks retired 10 straight after giving up the home run. He only needed 59 pitches to get through five innings.
“It’s been a mental adjustment,” Sheaks said. “I needed to let go, focus, get the ball down and give us a chance to win.”
SDSU committed three errors, and trailed 5-2 in the seventh when three hits scored two runs and chased Sheaks. Baayoun and Eli Villalobos came out of the bullpen to protect the lead, and they got some help from Banuelos, who ended the threat in the seventh by throwing out a runner at third after a strikeout. LBSU, the designated visitor, added two insurance runs in the ninth inning.
On June 10, Antonello Ristorante in Santa Ana is offering a special deal for Hello Kitty fans. The fine dining Italian restaurant is giving away bottles of Hello Kitty sparkling Rosé to guests who dine in and order an entree. Limit one bottle per table. “What better way to celebrate National Rosé Day than to offer our guests a gift that they can enjoy,” said owner Antonio Cagnolo.
Last fall, Antonello triggered a buzz among fans of the Sanrio feline when the South Coast Plaza Village restaurant began to offer the hard-to-find label on its menu. “Since we entered into a partnership with Hello Kitty, we have attracted fans of the feline by the droves,” Cagnolo said. “They’ve come from all over – even from Canada. We hope to see more of them on June 10 and others who enjoy rosés.”
Sanrio tapped Italy’s Torti winery to create several kinds of wine with the iconic Hello Kitty on the label. The Hello Kitty line includes sparkling and nonsparkling rosé and white.
Antonello Ristorante is at 3800 Plaza Drive.
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