Los Pobladores 200 is an Ancestral Heritage Association, founded in 1981 by Joseph Murillo Northrop (a founding family descendant) and his wife Marie E. Northrop. The primary goal was to locate and organize present day descendants of the original founding families of Los Angeles. Since then the organization has grown to 250 current members with descendants throughout the US. The name Los Pobladores 200 was used because it was organized on the 200th anniversary of the founding of Los Angeles, Sept. 4th 1981. Los Pobladores means “the towns’ people”. It’s main purpose is to perpetuate Los Angeles’ early history through its involvement and ongoing research in genealogy and family history. Our membership is comprised of direct descendants of the original 11 families and 4 escort soldiers (escolta). The original Founding Families names are listed on our Members page along with current descendants and membership quidelines.

If you were like me and looking forward to demanding Dodgers On Demand on cable (or at least finding it), I finally tracked it down tonight. Rather than being under something obvious like, say, the “Sports” category at the top level of the In Demand menu, it is underneath “Local”, then under “Sports”, then under “Dodgers On Demand”. Finally! Now I’ll have to find some time to watch all the content.

In the New York Daily News, an article by Mike Lupica about everybody’s favorite embattled 3rd baseman, the hyperbolically titled Personal hell for Alex is getting worse by the day:

“Could you move Alex Rodriguez?” one front-office guy said to me not long ago. “Yeah, you could. It would probably have to be to another big city, like one of the Chicago teams or Los Angeles. But here’s the thing to remember about him: People constantly call him a $25 million ballplayer. Well, that’s what he gets, sure. But the Yankees are only paying, what, about $15 million of that? If you wanted to, you could move a $15 million player who puts up numbers like his.”

Not that him coming to the Dodgers would ever happen in a million years outside of a video game fantasy draft, but it’s fun to think about.

I like a story with science, history, environmentalism, irony, and birds:

Bolsa Chica Wetlands and the Pacific Meet Again - The marshland restoration effort takes a major step with the opening of an inlet to bring in seawater.

In the foggy, predawn hours Thursday, bulldozers and giant excavators shoved aside the remaining mounds of beach sand and reunited the Pacific Ocean and the Bolsa Chica wetlands for the first time in more than a century.

It was the most significant and visible step in the long, ambitious effort to revive the degraded wetlands. The flow of ocean water — cut off by members of a duck hunting club in 1899 — is expected to help transform the saltwater marshes into a major wildlife sanctuary.

According to a blurb in an LA Times article:

The Dodgers plan to announce formal plans Wednesday for a Dodgers On Demand channel that will be distributed by Time Warner Cable in Southern California. The year-round channel will broadcast classic Dodgers games as well as player profiles, game highlights and news conferences.

Coincidentally, Adelphia (my cable company) just got replaced by Time Warner.

Ahem: w00t! :)

Update

Official announcement