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The National Weather Service issued a high-surf warning for Southern California, with waves as high as 8 feet expected on southwest-facing beaches.

Forecasters said the waves will peak Saturday, a day when thousands are expected to head to the beaches because of the continuing heat wave. Some minor flooding in low-lying coastal areas is possible, officials said.

“If you plan on swimming, always stay near staffed lifeguard stations. But the safest plan is to stay out of the water completely,” the NWS said in its statement. “Stay off rocks and jetties as large waves can fatally force people into the water without warning.”

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Dune buggies? Where are all those dune buggies you used to see all over Southern California? Well, on July 11 of this year, over one hundred of them, with their drivers and passengers, were in the parking lot of B’s Back Yard Barbeque in Big Bear, California for a rare group photo. Why rare? Dune buggy owners are a hard group to pin down. Most of the time, they would rather be driving their cars on one of the rough, dusty roads that take them up and around the pine covered mountains that surround the Big Bear Lake. Getting all these cars and people together for a photograph was a major organizational triumph, and the Manx Dune Buggy Club was up to the task…  Details & Pictures

If you’ve watched F1 drivers on the telly and thought ‘I could do that’, here’s your chance to prove it in a competition that could put you behind the wheel of a Formula One car for five laps.

Run by Philips Consumer Lifestyle, which sponsors the Williams F1 team, the competition will narrow down entrants in a series of driving tests and evaluations until one emerges as the winner.

Starting on the Philips website with a few Williams-related quiz questions and an online ‘test track’ called the Driving Academy, the competition will heat up for the 10 fastest who will win an expenses-paid trip to the UK from wherever in the world they happen to be based.

Then the contest really gets going, with …  Details