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...This year's National League Championship Series (NLCS) starts Thursday night, with the Los Angeles Dodgers visiting the Philadelphia Phillies. The American League Championship Series (ALCS), featuring the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, begins on Friday. The first championship series was in 1969, the year baseball added four new franchises: the San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, and Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee the following year and became the Brewers) giving both leagues twelve teams each. Prior to that year, the regular season champs from each league went straight to the World Series. So when...
Shanghai East International Medical Center, a joint venture between the privately owned U.S. Health Management Enterprises of Los Angeles and China-based Shanghai East Hospital, caters to the city's Westerners, according to CEO Paul Workman. A study conducted by Hewitt Associates, a global human-resources-services company, revealed that 55% of companies plan to boost the number of expats they employ this year, a 2% increase over 2007. About 21% of China's expats are Westerners, whose private insurers and employers often pick...
...have become less textual and more enigmatic. One of the most well known street art blogs, Streetsy.com, uploads daily photos of street art—postering, stensils, street sculpture, murals, decals, and other work whose merit transcends the pejorative “graffiti” label—in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere. What makes this site more interesting than the ordinary blog is the strange standard for attribution—the artists are anonymous, but even those artists without a consistent alias can be identified by consistent qualities in their work...
...feast, his followers were said to have been "filled with the Holy Spirit" and gained the ability to speak in many different languages, or "tongues." The modern Pentecostal movement is relatively new - just over 100 years old - and is usually dated to the Azusa Street Revival that began in Los Angeles in 1906. (The revival was a nine-year series of near continuous worship services that popularized Pentecostal worship and practices.) Pentecostalism can be best understood as a branch within evangelical Protestantism, characterized by a focus on the Holy Spirit and a belief in spiritual gifts, such as healing...
...before California's housing bubble burst, according to his former Northridge neighbor and real estate agent Sue Karns. He sold his home two years ago for $750,000, making a sizable profit on the property he and his wife had purchased in 1997 for $274,000, according to The Los Angeles Times. He then moved to the Sorrento Pointe house, planning to rent for a few years before buying again...