There is no joy in SoCal baseball fandom, the mighty local teams have struck out.

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In fact, all of SoCal is in the midst of some kind of too-big-to-fail madness.

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Now imagine hospitals loading up with enough server power to make google nervous, more power that the private SoCal utility can handle.

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Filtered water stations dotted the set, letting people fill up, plastic bottle-free, with ease a necessity under the hot SoCal summer sun.

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Born in northern California and raised in Orange County from about third grade on, Tomlinson soaked up every part of the gnarly lifestyle that is SoCal.

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SoCal has fallen far in the crunch.

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SoCal was busy, very busy indeed.

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Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.

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Still, with wireless Skype handsets, portable Vonage adapters, and all manner of VoIP software for WiFi-enabled cellphones, it seems like the early adopter crowd Earthlink has its sights on in Anaheim might need a little more incentive to drop a couple hundred on a handset that may or may not only make calls on Earthlink's SoCal WiFi rollout.

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