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Chadam (b. October 31, 1979) is a character created by Alex Pardee who is made to represent the music of the band The Used in their third studio album Lies For The Liars. He is also featured in videos on their YouTube as well as the video for The Used's third single from Lies For The Liars, Pretty Handsome Awkward. The first part of his story may be found on his MySpace, told chapter by chapter in the blog entries. He will also star in his own Internet movie in the summer of 2008.

The Newman Travel Team league consists of eight Mexican named brand teams. Only Teens aged 15 through 17 are eligible to play. Chivas, America, Santos, Atlas, Toluca, Pumas, Pachuca, and Cruz Azul are the eight teams that teenagers can play in. Newman, California is one of three cities that host the tournament twice every year. Players actually get paid to play. These teams can draft any player they want from the lower division called the City League.

While Newman contains the "Mexican Teams", Patterson and Gustine groupings serve different leagues. Patterson hosts the International Teams which are Riverplate(ARG), Boca Juniors(ARG), Barcelona(SPN), Inter Milan(ITL), Liverpool(ENG), Arsenal(ENG), Real Madrid(SPN), and Newcastle(ENG). Gustine carries the MLS teams: Fire, Galaxy, Chivas USA, Dynamo, United, Dallas, Rapids, and Revolution.

After the Newman Travel Team(NTT) league is over, the drafting to the Westside League begins. The Newman CA coach, Jose Bautista, can receive any player he wants from the FMF League. So does the coach from Patterson CA and Gustine CA. After the drafting, two teams play each other to face the previous year's champions.

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Stages
A player can only play if he or she started playing in one of the teams playing in the City League Division.


Strikers


Bullets


Sharks


Lightning


Chaos


Cougars


Thunder


Strays


Infinits


Lions


Miracles


Eagles


Metals


Ravens


Angles


Nightngales


Lemonheads


Falcons


Musketeers


Soldiers


Extraordinary


Earthquakes


Tornados


Twisters


Drafting
Players sign up at the age of 11 to play for the City League. Any of the teams above will sign a player up to play with them. Coaches from the higher league, which is the FMF League, can pay officially $10 to play. This will teach players how life will be if they decide to reach the professional goal later in life. A soccer player can get paid up to $10 a game and $3 each goal they can score. After the season is over, coaches from other teams can "buy" players to play in their team. If the player does not want to change teams, he or she can stay in their current team. They can get paid more with other teams, the player decides, more money or a chance to play with their desired team. Coaches from the Patterson Travel Team or the Gustine Travel Team can also buy players from either city.

The Teams

*Chivas
*America
*Atlas
*Pachuca
*Toluca
*Pumas
*Cruz Azul
*Santos (coming in for Tigres)

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*Rivals: America, Atlas

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*Rivals: Chivas

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*Rivals: Chivas

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*Rivals: Toluca

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*Rivals: Pachuca, Cruz Azul

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*Rivals: Santos

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*Rivals: Toluca

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*Rivals: Pumas

Championships

Chivas - 6


America - 5


Pumas - 3


Santos - 1


Toluca - 1


Pachuca - 1


Cruz Azul - 1


Champions Matches
The Champions Matches are games played by the teams that are the current champions for each travel team city. The Champions Mathes takes place 2 months after the FMF, MLS, and ITN leagues are over. October 20, 2007 is when FMF Champions; Chivas, MLS Champions; Galaxy, and ITN Champions; Barcelona will face each other to see who is the real Champ of champions.


Chivas VS Galaxy


Galaxy VS Barcelona


Barcelona VS Chivas

The two better teams will face off to determine the Champions. Barcelona will defend their spring Champs of Champions.

Club Facts
*Has the player with most scored goals in history of the NTT, Andres Bueno
*Contains the only Argentian player in the Westside League, Raul Cerna
*Has the most wins among the three cities

Awards
At the end of every season, the NTT President hands out awards for almost every topic. Here are the awards of the Fall 2007.

-Quickest Player-
Erasmo Martinez


-Most Powerful Kick-
Andres Bueno


-Best Defensive Player-
Nelson Mendez


-Best Curves-
Ulises Gonzales


-Most Spirited Player-
Carlos Ochoa


-Best All-Round Player-
Alberto Estrada


-Longest Goal Shot-
Josh Fantazia


-Best Corner Kicks-
Raul Cerna


-Best Free Kicks-
Jesus Gallardo


-Best Center Passes-
Tyler Stevenson


-Best Passes-
Samuel Luquin


-Most Improved-
Jesus Gallardo


-MVP-
Andres Bueno


Sponsers
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*Splash 'N' Dash
*La Nueva Imagen
*J.J's Liquor

Chiral Life Concept involves the recreation of regular lifeforms as identical, but mirror-reflected (in the molecular sense), versions of themselves. It is thought that such mirror organisms can be highly incompatible with existing microbes (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, etc). Hypothetically, it is possible to recreate our entire ecosystem from the bottom-up, in chiral form. In this way, the creation of an Earth ecosystem without microbial diseases is possible. In the more distant future, Chiral Life can employed to create robust, effective and disease-free ecosystems for use on other planets.

The creation of chiral humans is the basis of Arthur C. Clarke's story "Technical Error", from The Collected Stories.

Reconstructing regular lifeforms in mirror-image form, using the mirror-image (chiral) reflection of our cellular components is achieved by replacing left-handed amino acids with right-handed ones, in order to create mirror reflections of all regular proteins. Analogically, we could get reflected sugars, DNA, etc, on which reflected enzymes would work perfectly. Finally we would get a normally functioning mirror reflection of a natural organism - a chiral counterpart organism - with which natural viruses and bacteria couldn’t interact. Electromagnetic force (chemistry) is unchanged under such molecular reflection transformation (P-symmetry). There is a small alteration of weak interactions under reflection, which can produce very small corrections, but these corrections are many orders of magnitude lower than thermal noise - almost certainly too tiny to alter any biochemistry.

Such a chiral lifeform would obviously need to be feed with reflected food, produced by reflected plants. The great advantage, though, is that such chiral organisms should enjoy a disease-free life, completely immune to all viruses and microbes (which virologists are now beginning to understand underlie a huge number of diseases).

Viruses would be completely incompatible with the reflected cellular structures; and bacteria, protozoa and fungi could not function because they would not be able to find normal sugars inside reflected organisms. The reverse sugars circulating in the chiral organism's body would be indigestible as far as normal bacteria are concerned, so any bacterium entering a chiral organism would simply starve to death. The chiral environment is absolutely hostile for normal viruses, protozoa, bacteria, etc.

In order to infect a chiral organism, existing bacteria would have to evolve their own mirror image structure from scratch. This is extremely unlikely to happen (since DNA holds the genes, the alphabet of evolution, but DNA itself is a priori to genes, and therefore untouched by the process of evolution). Terrorist acts, however, are a concern. In the case of sabotage, though, it may be easier control the spread of any terrorist-engineered chiral virus, using anti-terrorist measures already in place today.

How do we create a chiral organism, such as a reflected human? The synthesis of every molecule, a reflected zygote is difficult, because we don’t have chiral enzymes. But the real problem is creating the correct structure of membranes with specific concentrations … fill it with life. Nevertheless, with advancing nano-engineering, this could be possible in let’s say 50 years, when we could slowly transform our ecosystems, starting from the bacterium E. coli, which will act as our factory, and later plants. Finally, if all goes well, the human being.

But in such a sterile environment, would we have perfect health? Maybe the stresses created by small infections can, like small amounts of radiation, have positive long-term influence? For example, infection helps to get rid of damaged and weak cells in an organism. And the hygiene hypothesis states that the actual absence of exposure to microbes can lead to autoimmune diseases (although more probably, autoimmune diseases are due to chronic underlying infection from viruses and bacteria that have insinuated themselves deeply inside a living organism and its cells, rather than the lack of exposure to microbes; so we should eliminate autoimmune conditions in once we have shifted into chiral life).

There are other dangers too: imagine a reflected unicellular organism, which needs only light and symmetric molecules like H2O, CO2, O2. Such a chiral unicellular organism could spread, evolve, and could even overthrow plant life.

So the main rule from the beginning should be: in the case of chlorophyll organisms: only plants whose population can be controlled should be transformed!

Transformation of our ecosystem would be expensive, but in the future we may need to create completely new ecosystems for populating other planets like Mars. In these situations, the effectiveness of such an ecosystem will be very important. We would need many kinds of microorganisms. Symbiotic ones wouldn’t need to have aggressive mechanisms; aggressive microbes would only re-emerge if they evolved from zero. I cannot imagine that chiral viruses would be needed; they wouldn’t be transformed at all. Thus chiral viruses would just re-appear if they evolved from zero, like free DNA, which is unlikely. Furthermore, the last time this happened, the viruses evolved in parallel with their targets; now organisms have very advanced specific/non-specific defensive systems, which will make it hard for any chiral virus to appear and establish itself in a chiral ecosystem.

Of course, once our ecosystem is transformed, if in the distant future, we find a new major problem, we can always reverse again!

Another option, which is much easier: just switch human to chiral form, leaving the rest of the ecosystem untouched. In the near future, it is likely that we will bio-engineer some of our food, so we could just bio-engineer our own factory-made chiral foods, without needing to introduce chiral plants for our crops, or chiral animals for our meat.

This humans-only approach would be much easier and safer than converting the whole ecosystem, and we could then enjoy all of nature in its pure and natural form, without ever having to worry about parasites or infections, which we will have jumped beyond forever.