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Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing You that the New Year be a Messenger of Happiness, Joy, Peace and Prosperity, Fun, Love and Luck. May this New Year bring you Wealth, Longevity and Good Fortune! While rats may not have the most outstanding reputation as animals in the West, the characteristics associated with the Chinese Zodiac sign are very positive. So should this be your Chinese zodiac sign, take heart. You are in good company.  Mozart, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rosa Park, Milton Friedman and Mark Zuckerberg were all born in the Year of the Rat. In Chinese culture, rats are used to symbolize wealth and surplus. Traditionally married couples would pray to these rodents hoping some of their reproductive success would rub off on them. Rats are found all over the world and regarded in the Chinese zodiac as being smart and nimble with plenty of vitality and enterprising spirit. Personality People born in Rat years are said to share some of these characteristi...

Alisa Walsh recently had the pleasure of touring a very exciting addition to local hotel and event space offerings, the Sheraton Los Angeles San Gabriel. The 288-room Sheraton opened a little earlier this year and it has already achieved a peak occupancy rate of 85% as well as nationwide media attention due to the most modern staffers; 8 TUG robots. The Sheraton L.A. San Gabriel is currently the only U.S. hotel to feature these high tech "staffers". The hotel also offers a lot of extra features to accommodate Asian visitors' specific wishes and needs. We are happy to share more details. Above: the Sheraton Los Angeles San Gabriel. A lot of expansion is underway in the City of San Gabriel, just East of Downtown Los Angeles, and a hub for Asian communities. The Valley Boulevard Specific Plan, an urban redevelopment project for this thoroughfare, was launched in December 2006. Nearly 12 years later the area is booming.  The new Sheraton is a cornerstone of this ex...