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“Aladdin”

“Arabian Nights” - the dazzling opening production number choreographed by director Casey Nicholaw. Photo Deen van Meer

Sublime Theatrical Magic at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre Lady Beverly Cohn It is not a traditional way to begin a review, but adjectives to describe opening night of “Aladdin,” in its L.A. premiere at the iconic Hollywood Pantages Theatre, kept flashing in my mind as I sat through the thoroughly amazing opening night performance.

Words that came to mind include: Dazzling. Delightful.

Exciting. Magnificent.

Glittering. Radiant. Luminous.

Astonishing. Wonderful.

Spectacular. Awesome.

Eye-Popping. Stunning.

Wondrous. Mind-Boggling.

Breathtaking. Glorious.

Brilliant. Colorful. Glowing.

Vibrant. Sparkling. This might give you an idea of what unfolded before the audience whose enthusiasm and approval matched the

By Desert Star Staff Celebrities are making news again at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, PSIFF, on Monday, January 8th, Diane Kruger and her director Fatih Aking attended the screening of the film, In The Fade. The movie is so relevant in today’s culture. Kruger stars as a grief-stricken mother and wife when she learns a bomb killed her husband and son at his office. She is bombarded with accusations by the media and her own family. The killers are caught but freed by the courts for not enough evidence. She takes it upon herself to find these killers

to bring them to justice. In the end, she finds revenge in her way. The Q&A noted this killing was by Neo-nazis that are still prevalent in Europe.

Actress Andie MacDowell also came for the screening of her film, Love after Love.

MacDowell was accompanied by the Director Russell Harbaugh for a Q&A after the movie. The film depicts a family that has been torn apart by the passing of its Patriarch.

It shows how the widow.

MacDowell and son bring this family to life again in complex and compelling ways. Chris O’Dowd played the son.

on-stage extravaganza.

The other non-traditional way to begin a review is with a “thank you” and once more I shall ignore tradition and first give shout-outs to the awardwinning production team beginning with memorable Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics

by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin, Book by Chad Beguelin, the rainbow colored glittering Costumes

by Gregg Barnes, Lighting Design by Natasha Katz, who saturated the stage with an artist’s palette of glittering lights, and Bob Crowley’s awesome Arabian Scenic and Sound Design. Tying all the elements together into one cohesive beautiful theatrical knot is Casey Nicholaw’s brilliant direction and exciting choreography under the guidance of dance

captain Michael Callahan.

With his highly professional, talented cast, the imaginative director gathered together all the elements creating one amazing giant iridescent bow.

Now to the story: The play opens with the Genie, played wonderfully by Michael James Scott, who originated the role in the Australian Continues on Page 9

Diana Kruger, Andie MacDowell at the PSIFF

Actress-Diane Kruger. Photo by Pat Krause

Director-Russell Harbaugh and actress Andie MacDowell. Photo by Pat Krause

Scotty and ‘The Secret Story’

Grace Robbins and Jere Ring by Scotty Bowers, seated. Photo by Pat Krause.

Al Gore. Photo by Pat Krause Story and Photos by Pat Krause The Palm Springs International Film Festival, PSIFF, brought 94-year-old Scotty Bowers, the star of the film, Scotty and The Secret History of Hollywood, to do a Q&A after the movie with the Director, Matt Tyrnauer The film was one of many Gay-la films shown. The film is a documentary of the life of Scotty Bowers who was

known in the 50s and beyond as the Pimp of Hollywood.

He says he was not a pimp as he never took money for helping people with sexual encounters. He describes many of Hollywood elite as gay or lesbian that the public was not aware of it. Artists had a Morals Clause, which made it impossible to come out of the closet or participate in those activities. Scotty

provided a safe place for them as he was friends with the vice squad and the police, so everything was kept entirely.

Scotty owned a gas station with a trailer in the back for such encounters.

He was also a bartender, and he worked from there.

He was also a hustler and said his clients were lovely friends. Many were in the entertainment industry including its most famous movie stars of the time, both men, and women.

The language and photos were sometimes graphics, and the Q&A after the film was very enlightening. His

book, Full Service, tells all of the names and times. The movie was based on the book, and many of the truths in the film and book were corroborated by his friends that were in the business of providing these encounters.

The movie included local friends of ScottyGrace Robbins, Michael Childers, and Peter Bart.

Another part of the, PSIFF, is the Talking Pictures segments. Famous names and actors took part in these discussions about the movie.

Former Vice-President, Al Gore, came to talk about his film, An Inconvenient Sequel,

Bedrooms and Boyfriends

Bedrooms and Boyfriends, a series of four short one-act plays

Come To Laugh. Come To Cry. Come To Bed!

By Desert Star Staff Rancho Mirage, CA - The Desert Rose Playhouse, the Coachella Valley’s LGBTQ+ Stage Company and Compulsion Dance & Theatre, will present BEDROOMS AND BOYFRIENDS for three performances over the weekend of February 9, 2018. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 2 PM, through February 11, 2018.

BEDROOMS AND BOYFRIENDS is a series four

short plays by Samantha Ginn, Jonathan Hammond, Michael Mizerany and Ryan Roach. All four plays are staged on the same bedroom set and explore themes of love, lust, sex and romance.

Surprising, innovative, and provocative, BEDROOMS AND BOYFRIENDS is a bold, complex and unapologetic look at relationships.

The cast includes Drew Bradford, J.D. Burke, Brendan Cavalier, Katherine Harroff, Juan Hernandez,

, Joey Landwehr, Patrick Mayuyu, Markuz Rodriquez, and Justin Tuazon-Martin.

“One of the best surprises of this year’s Fringe fest are these charming and hilarious short plays about love, lust, sex and boyfriends.”

Critic’s Pick, Pam Kragen, San Diego Union Tribune “The performances are superb and the humor is sharp…these playlets should have a long life together.” Pat Launer, Times of San Diego

Truth to Power. Gore was VP to President Clinton, served in the House and the Senate and is an Environmental Activist today. He won a Nobel Prize in 2007 for his work on Global Warming. Other celebrities that took part in this series were Sam Rockwell for, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour. Directors that took part were from films, Stronger, The Square, Thelma, and BPM. PSIFF screened a few extra films that were not part of the original list of movies and even a Secret Film that is not released yet.

Winner of Outstanding Writing – San Diego International Fringe Festival Tickets are $35 for Friday and Saturday evening performances and $32 for the Sunday matinee.

Performance information and tickets are available online after January 15, 2018, at www.desertroseplayhouse. org or by calling our Box Office 760-202-3000.

Where: The Desert Rose Playhouse, 69620 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 When: February 9 - 11, 2018; performances Friday and Saturday evening at 8 PM; Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets: $35.00 Friday & Saturday evening and $32.00 Sundays matinee To order: Online at www. desertroseplayhouse. org or call 760-202-3000 after January 15, 2018

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New Year’s Resolutions Part IV - The Service Provider

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL [This is the fourth and final installment of this series, which previously addressed the director, the homeowner, and the manager] As the association’s service provider, I resolve to: NUMBER ONE 1. Follow the Golden Rule. [treating others how I want to be treated] PROPOSALS 2. Give the board the best proposal I can. If I think the association’s request for

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proposal is missing important elements of the work, I will add those elements to my proposal but will also disclose the extra costs of those items.

3. Tell them if they really don’t need my services right now.

4. Explain my recommendations, and never tell them just to “trust me”.”

5. Promise only what I know I can deliver.

6. Not seek a contract of more than one year in length, unless there is no way to complete the work in less than a year.

10. Explain my company’s charges, taking no offense.

11. Take instruction only from the manager or from the person designated in the contract.

12. If a homeowner, even a committee chair or director, interferes with the work, I will immediately alert management.

13. If work outside the contract is needed, will get written authorization for that work, for which I have quoted a price.

14. If I recognize work outside my expertise is needed, I will not attempt the work but will immediately advise the association.

membership on progress.

18. At the end of each work day, I will make sure the work areas are clean and safe for the residents.

19. Not start work each day too early, nor end it too late, to avoid disturbing residents.

SERVICE 9. Answer the board’s or manager’s questions promptly.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS 15. Always be courteous to every resident, aware that my work might be occasionally disruptive to those residents.

16. Regularly provide updates to the board and management on major projects.

17. Volunteer at no charge on major projects to attend occasional “town hall” meetings to update the

ETHICS 20. Never offer commissions to managers, or incentives of any kind. If a manager or director asks for improper benefits, I will refuse and disclose that request to the board.

21. Not give expensive gifts to managers or directors.

22. Never give preferential treatment or free services to directors, but will treat all association members equally.

23. Not advise or assist any homeowners to keep or attain a position on the board. I as a vendor will be neutral at all times.

24. If my company has any business relationship with the management company, I will not assume the manager has disclosed

By Janice Gough Regardless of how the bill is being sold, it is intended primarily as a tax cut for corporations. Businesses receive over two times the benefit than that which individuals get under the bill (measured by government lost revenue). This balance reflects the Trump administration’s belief that permitting businesses to keep more of their funds will grow the economy, which ultimately will benefit individuals through greater employment and higher wages.

The permanent rate reduction on “C corporations from 35% to 21% is expected to consume virtually the full $1.5 trillion revenue loss permitted under the bill. Accordingly, all of the other provisions in the bill must be revenue neutral in the aggregate. Every dollar of revenue lost must be offset by a dollar of revenue gained. And special benefits must “sunset” after years.

An individual taxpayer thus might end up paying less tax, more tax, or the same tax depending on how the gainers and losers apply to his or her situation.

The bill would reduce federal revenues by $1.47 trillion, but additional economic growth would raise an additional $600 billion in revenue. With the dynamic revenue feedback, expiring provisions, and

the functional repeal of the individual mandate, the progressive revenue loss would be $448 billion.

These are the Five fundamental changes to U.S. tax law for individuals and businesses that have emerged from the final Republican bill.

1. Retirement Plans: The final bill includes the following provisions impacting retirement plans. It repeals the ability of individuals to recharacterize a contribution to a Roth to a traditional IRA. It also extends the rollover period for plan loans. The bill also reduces taxes on pass-through businesses, which may cause an unintended consequence, by undermining the incentives for small-business owners to sponsor a retirement plan for their workers.

The following areas that were included in either the House and Senate versions that were taken out of the final bill. Proposals to require ‘Rothification’ of 401(k) plans; cutting or freezing retirement plan contribution limits; eliminating 403(b) and 457 plans, and eliminating all forms of nonqualified deferred compensation.

2. College Planning: The final tax cut bill also makes changes to 529 college savings plans. Under the law, Section 529 plans would be able to distribute up to $10,000 per year to cover the cost of K-12 expenses while enrolled in a public, private or religious school. Today, the only tax-preferred way to save

for those costs is by using a Coverdell Education Savings Account. No changes would be made to the rules regarding Coverdell accounts. The definition of qualified expenses for a 529 account would be expanded to include specific homeschooling expenses, and if a student loan is discharged due to the death or permanent disability of the student, that discharge would no longer be considered taxable income.

The release of debt provision would expire after 2025, while the other two changes would be permanent.

3. Estate Tax Changes: The GOP plan would double the estate exemption beginning in 2018. The exemption is currently scheduled to be $5.6 million, meaning it would become $11.2 million per person or $22.4 million per couple.

Those who had already used their estate exemption in prior years would be able to make additional tax-free gifts to non-spouse beneficiaries next year. The increased estate tax exemption would expire after 2025 and revert to the law in effect for 2017 with inflation adjustments.

4. Alternative: Minimum Tax The final GOP bill follows the Senate version and increases the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) exemption amounts, which would reduce the number of taxpayers who are subject to AMT. Under the proposal, the AMT exemption for couples would increase from $78,750 in 2017

KNOWLEDGE 7. Pursue professional designations and attend seminars to keep me up to date.

8. Take the Educated Business Partner course from CAI, to make sure I am familiar with the unique needs and characteristics of common interest communities.

it, but will disclose that relationship to the board.

PERFORMANCE 25. Always carry proof of workers compensation and liability insurance, and will provide that along with my proposal.

26. If there is work requested which my company is not licensed to perform, I will alert the association as early as possible.

27. Stand behind my company’s work, and will promptly correct any mistakes.

LAST 28. Follow the Golden Rule.

Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. is a Fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers and Senior Partner of Richardson Ober PC, a California law firm known for community association expertise. Submit questions to Kelly@RichardsonOber. com. Past columns at www.

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Five Changes to the New Tax Laws Which will Effect You

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to $109,400 in 2018 (and from $50,600 to $70,300 for singles). The Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) level at which the exemption is phased out would also be increased, from $150,000 in 2017 to $1,000,000 in 2018 for couples (and from $112,500 to $500,000 for singles).

As a result, executives looking to exercise Incentive Stock Options should consider delaying those exercises until 2018. The people who have AMT credit carryovers will find it much easier to recover those with these more substantial AMT exemption levels.

These increased exemptions and phase out levels would expire after 2025 and would revert to their 2017 levels.

5. Health Care Change: The ACA now requires many people to have what the government defines as “minimum essential coverage,” or else pay the penalty. The penalty amounts to 2.5% of modified adjusted gross income over the income tax filing threshold. These penalties are eliminated from the Affordable Care Act under the new tax law.

Janice Gough is a Financial Advisor in Palm Springs, Ca. You may contact Janice via email at janice@ goughfinancialsvcs.com or call us at (760) 251-7724 or Mobil: (650) 200-8291.

Our First consultation is complimentary and enables us to discover if we are a fit for working together, with no sales pressure.

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5 Things to Know this Benefits Enrollment Season

By Desert Star Staff Benefits open enrollment season can be a confusing time for many employees. But rather than make decisions you don’t feel confident about, take a bit of extra time to become better informed. Luckily, these days, there is a wealth of resources available online, and getting your questions answered is easier than ever, according to experts.

Here are five reasons insurance professionals say you should take your benefits conversation online.

1. Benefits explained in plain language. Of course, you can bring your questions to your human resources team, but you may get responses that are difficult to process or in language that can create more questions than answers. You might have a better conversation online, using free tools like DuckChat, a new 24/7 platform provided by Aflac, offering relatable and easy to understand answers to some common benefits enrollment questions. DuckChat helps

users with topics such as enrollment, benefits options, providing insights that will help you better understand how insurance works. Best of all, you do not have to be an Aflac customer to use the service. To learn more, search for the Aflac Duck in Facebook Messenger or visit Aflac.com/DuckChat. Aflac DuckChat is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a solicitation.

Aflac herein means American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.

2. Access around the clock. The truth is that many employees are not making important benefits decisions during working hours. Seeking out information about your benefits online can help you find solutions while the questions you have are still fresh in your mind, when you need them most.

3. Gives you more control.

Get empowered to make the right choices about coverage for you and your family. There is nothing worse than entering a new year unsure of your

coverage or coasting by with a plan that will not fully protect you if you are hurt or sick. A whopping 92 percent of those surveyed in the Aflac 2017 Aflac WorkForces Report, said they are not moved to try anything new. Instead, they often sign up for the same benefits year after year. Getting expert tips online can help you assess how your benefit needs have changed and how policies have changed, which

could lead to you and your family being better protected.

4. Faster Answers.

Benefits enrollment is already frustrating and stressful for many people. Make the process of having your questions answered the least of your concerns. By going online and having your questions answered via a chat service, you may be able to bypass sitting on hold or navigating a complicated

a phone tree system.

5. Bite-sized information.

One of the best parts about having your benefits questions resolved online is that you can receive crucial information in writing and in digestible, bitesized chunks. That way you can break it down and not have to flip through hundreds of pages of information that may actually create additional confusion. StatePoint

Congress fails to fund the federal government’s share.

Today is the 101st day since the authorization for CHIP expired. Congress has simply extended funding on a short-term basis while they work on a deal.

Hardy said some groups are particularly vulnerable, waiting for Congress to act.

“Coverage for 32,000 pregnant women and kids is at risk if CHIP funding is not extended soon,” she said. “So it’s just more reason for the federal government to take care of what should have been a slam-dunk re-authorization. “ California enjoys a $19 billion surplus this year.

Hardy said she’d like to see a larger investment in early-childhood care.

is its potential use for general, covert surveillance systems.

Children’s Advocates Praise Brown’s Proposed Budget

By Desert Star Staff SACRAMENTO, Calif.

-- Gov. Jerry Brown’s new

$131.7 billion budget is earning praise from children’s advocates because of

the investments it makes in supporting health and combating poverty.

The budget includes $26.7 million for a voluntary pilot program to send community health workers to visit struggling families.

Kelly Hardy, senior managing director of health policy at Children Now, said this program will benefit low income kids and their parents.

“It really helps young families reach self-sufficiency by supporting healthy development of the kids and connecting parents to services like CalFresh and employment services,” Hardy said.

She said she’s also glad to see that the state is committed to keeping kids enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP - at least in the short term - even if

A new feature of Google’s Art & Culture app, which allows users to find their art doppelganger by uploading a selfie, is being dubbed by some as a “facial recognition database.”

The new update to the app, which has been in existence for more than a year, has unleashed a frenzy of activity online as users post images of their painting lookalike.

To find out if you’re a dead ringer for the Mona Lisa, users have to take a real-time selfie instead of using one from your camera roll. The technology then matches your

photo to five similar paintings that could be generally found in a museum and ranks the closeness of the match.

Users are reporting mixed results about the accuracy of the results, but appear to be having a lot of fun in the process Amid all the hype, however, are serious privacy concerns from some who have dubbed the frivolous selfie feature as a “facial recognition database.”

According to Google, the feature is experimental and is currently available only to US users. It states that the data from any images uploaded

won’t be used for any other purpose and will be deleted after the match is made.

Google already uses facial recognition technology in Google Photos and revealed last year that the AI even works on dogs and cats.

Last year privacy concerns were expressed about Apple’s iPhone X Face ID which allows you to unlock your phone by holding it to your face and Facebook’s use of facial recognition to notify users when someone has uploaded a photo of them even if they haven’t been tagged in it.

The ACLU have warned

that the biggest danger with facial recognition technology

Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget includes more than $26 million for home visits by health-care workers. (Children’s Action Alliance)

Google’s new art selfie app sparks privacy concerns

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

By Desert Star Staff With speeches, music, and awards, Wisconsin’s official state observation of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday will begin at noon in the Capitol rotunda in Madison.

This year’s theme is “Do You Remember,” featuring remarks from Milwaukee native Muhibb Dyer, who founded an organization dedicated to empowering youth.

While the nation has made progress in attempting to achieve racial equality, the president and CEO of the Urban League of Madison, Ruben Anthony, says there are troubling signs that the nation may be sliding backward

in achieving that goal.

“People need to stand together in a peaceful way, in the way that Dr. King encouraged, and that we need to say, ‘There’s no turning back now,’” he states.

“There is no turning back now. As a nation, we’ve come too far to turn back.”

The Martin Luther King branch of the Milwaukee Public Library will again host a full day of activities honoring King’s life and legacy.

Activities include music, poetry, dance and community service events.

In recent years, a number of studies have concluded that Wisconsin is one of the worst states in the nation for

racial disparity between whites and African-Americans.

Anthony says Wisconsin needs to focus on greater access to jobs, job training and higher education for African-Americans.

“We have to create greater access to opportunities for our women and minority owned businesses,” he stresses. “If we don’t do those things, I think we will continue to be described as a state that’s not making much progress, or a state where there’s much disparity among the races.”

Wisconsin’s annual ceremony to honor King’s legacy is the oldest official state celebration in the nation.

Wisconsin’s annual ceremony to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. is the oldest state celebration in the nation. (Wikimedia Commons)

Condi Rice warns “Let’s not turn women into snowflakes”

By Desert Star Staff Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned against turning women into “snowflakes” as she weighed in on the ongoing #MeToo movement. She called it a positive thing that risks doing more harm than good.

In an interview with

CNN’s David Axelrod on ‘The Axe Files,’ Rice said that the ongoing movement to reveal sexual improprieties committed by certain men is a “good thing,” but she warns it could go too far.

“I do think we have to be a little bit careful. Let’s not turn women into snowflakes. Let’s

not infantilize women,” Rice said, using the derogatory term ‘snowflake’ used to describe the new generation of youth who – as their critics contend – are overly politically correct and prone to take offense when challenged by ideas that do not conform to their worldview.

America’s first black secretary of state, Rice candidly admits that during her career she had some people say, “some inappropriate things,” while qualifying that statement by saying: “I don’t know a woman alive who hasn’t had somebody say or do something that was inappropriate at best, and aggressive at worst.”

Rice said she was worried that the movement might “get to a place that men start to think, ‘Well, maybe it’s just better not to have women around.’

“I’ve heard a little bit of that. And it, it worries me,” she said.

Indeed, although there

By Desert Star Staff Police are investigating after residents in northern Virginia complained of receiving leaflets from the Ku Klux Klan. The flyers refer to Martin Luther King Jr, the slain civil rights leader.

“The preliminary investigation revealed that the fliers appear to contain propaganda material and were most likely distributed due to the proximity of the day the nation honors the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday,” said Leesburg police spokesman Sam Shenouda in a released statement.

The first complaint was received late Friday evening. By Saturday morning there were four reports. Police have refused to release images of the flyers due to the ongoing investigation.

“While all these incidents

are taken very seriously, at this time, the material appears to have been distributed randomly and was not specifically targeting any particular individual(s),”Shenouda added.

One of the flyers read: “On Martin Luther King Day … You Are Honoring a Communist Alcoholic Pervert,” according to WTOP. Investigators with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office are working with the FBI and police departments in Leesburg and Purcellville, where similar incidents have been reported.

“We can probably predict that when people start waking up this morning, there’s going to be more coming in just because we went through something like this before in October,”Shenouda said.

Last year in Leesburg,

many residents received bags filled with candy and messages warning of “white extinction” on Halloween.

Each bag contained a few pieces of candy and three sheets of paper containing cartoons and literature from the KKK. The cartoon read: “Attention White America! We are nearing the end of the line,” and warned of “white extinction.”

The literature villainized African-Americans, Jews and liberals, and included the insignia of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Leesburg police said this happens in random neighborhoods every couple of years. It is one of several cities considering the future of Confederate statues.

Residents in other states,

has been a lot of vocal support for the #MeToo campaign, the social media phenomenon has also had its fair share of detractors.

Just last week, a hundred prominent French women, including actress Catherine Deneuve, denounced the #MeToo movement in a letter published in Le Monde. They said the campaign patronizes women and attempts to punish men without a fair trial.

“Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone’s knee or try to steal a kiss,” reads the letter.

Following mixed reactions to the comments, Deneuve penned a letter that was published Monday

by Liberation daily where she apologized to victims of sexual abuse.

However, she held firm in her belief that males are becoming victims of a “media lynching” and that the toxic

atmosphere now pervasive between the sexes threatens a setback to sexual freedoms.

Rice also responded to questions about Oprah Winfrey, the billionaire television star who appears to have stolen the show at the Golden Globe. Indeed, some say her acceptance speech – which at one point rehashed the 1944 story of Recy Taylor, who was “abducted by six armed white men, raped, and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church” – her first foray into the thick of politics, possibly as a challenger to Trump himself in 2020.

Axelrod asked Rice if she had any advice for Winfrey over rumors she may make a presidential bid.

“I would just say, if you’re contemplating running for office, just recognize that we put people through a brutal process,” Rice responded. “And they don’t come out quite the same.”

including Texas, New York, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, California and Michigan have found plastic

bags containing candy and KKK literature in recent years, according to news reports.

KKK leaflets posted in Virginia ahead of Martin Luther King Jr weekend

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PAWS Act Protects Pets, Human Victims of Domestic Violence

By Desert Star Staff Killing, harming or threatening to harm beloved pets are weapons used by domestic abusers to manipulate victims into silence, but new legislation by Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine would extend protections to survivors and their pets.

The Centers for Disease Control describes “intimate partner violence” as sexual, physical or psychological harm by heterosexual or same-sex partners.

Rob Blizard, executive director at the Norfolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said he’s heard of many situations where women would not leave their abusers to go to a battered women’s shelter because they are concerned about leaving their pet behind.

Blizard said the PAWS Act is needed to stop those who would use the comfort animals provide to harm others.

“And this Act, one of the

things it does is authorize a grant program to help women’s shelters open spaces to accept pets,” Blizard said; “meaning that they could both get out of a bad situation.”

Blizard said only 3 percent of domestic violence shelters in the U.S. accept pets. The legislation would expand existing federal domestic violence protections to include threats or acts of violence against a victim’s pet.

The bill also requires the full amount of the victim’s losses for purposes of restitution in domestic violence and stalking offenses to include any costs incurred for veterinary services relating to physical care for the victim’s pet.

Blizard said there are multiple studies showing that victims have a lot of consideration for their pets.

One study found that as many as 25 percent of survivors returned to an abusive partner out of concern for a pet.

“They will go after the pet,

According to the ASPCA, a study in Wisconsin found 68 percent of domestic violence survivors reported their abusers were also violent toward their animals. (Pixabay) according to what I have read and heard,” Blizard explained; “sort of implying, like you know, ‘If you don’t do what I want, this is what I’m going to do to your dog or cat,’ with the message

that ‘I will also do this to you at some point if you’re not doing what I want you to do.’”

Several agencies in Virginia would be aided by the PAWS Act by placing companion

animals out of harm’s way so that survivors can seek safety for themselves. You can find those agencies by visiting awionline.org.

boycotted the Republican National Convention, wrote a book denouncing the president, criticized him from the Senate floor in October, and announced last November he would not seek a second term this November.

After delivering a speech in the lawmakers’ home state in August, Trump tweeted that he was “not a fan of Flake.”

In the interview with MSNBC, Flake said he has not ruled out challenging Trump in the Republican primary in 2020.

“What I am trying to do with this speech is nudge the presidency to where he should be,” Flake told MSNBC. “I am not the only the Republican who is saying ‘I am sure this is my party.’ We used to stand for limited government, free trade, free enterprise, and not this kind of nationalist protectionist, kind of party. I am not the only.”

When asked if he would rule out challenging the president in 2020, he said: “No I won’t rule it out.”

Trump will “certainly” have a challenge from an independent candidate, and will “likely” have a Republican primary challenger.

The Santa Ana Police Department said in a statement that the vehicle was driving at high speed at the time of the crash. Police said the driver had admitted to using narcotics and was taken to hospital for observation.

Stalin comparison sends Senator Flake attack on Trump viral

By Desert Star Staff Pre-released segments of an upcoming speech by Republican Senator Jeff Flake, in which the frequent Trump critic compares the US President to communist leader Joseph Stalin, have gone viral on social media.

The quotes were shared by the Washington Post and spread like wildfire on Twitter. “‘The enemy of the people,’ was what the

president of the United States called the free press in 2017,” the statement said.

“Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies. It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use,

telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader,” it said later.

Senator Flake is due to make the comments in a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday. On the same day, Trump will be handing out “Fake News Awards” to news outlets he thinks are covering him unfairly.

“Well he borrowed that phrase. It was popularized by Joseph Stalin, used by Mao as well, ‘enemy of the people,’” Senator Flake told MSNBC on Sunday. “It should be noted that Nikita Khrushchev, who followed Stalin, forbade its use saying that it was too loaded. That it maligned a whole group or class of people, and it shouldn’t be done.”

“I don’t think we should be using a phrase that had been rejected as too loaded by a Soviet dictator.”

On February 17, 2017, Trump tweeted his belief that the US news media “is the enemy of the American people,” and has often referred to the media as an “opposition party” to his administration. He has blamed news organizations for stymieing his agenda.

The Twittersphere was quick to point out Flake’s hypocrisy for criticizing Trump while continuing to work with him.

Flake recently said Trump’s attack on the news media damages the country’s standing in the world and empowers dictators everywhere. The lawmaker was elected to the Senate in 2012,

By Desert Star Staff By some improbable fluke of physics, a speeding car went airborne and plowed into the second floor of a California office building. The bizarre crash left two people injured.

The vehicle became partially wedged in the side of

a dental office building after it hit a road divider in the Orange County city of Santa Ana shortly before 5:30am, Sunday.

Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) posted images of the unbelievable scene online, revealing a white sedan firmly

stuck in the building.

The fire authority initially reported that one person was still trapped inside the vehicle while another person had escaped from the car.

According to an eyewitness report to NBC Bay Area News, the driver freed himself but was

left dangling off the bottom of the vehicle until rescue crews helped him down.

An hour later the OCFA reported that both victims had been extricated with only minor injuries. The crash also caused a small blaze that was quickly extinguished by fire crews.

U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Senator Jeff Flake. © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

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2018: Year to Clean Up the Great Lakes

Drug and Cosmetic Act to ban personal-care products containing plastic microbeads.

But the Alliance for the Great Lakes said that’s not enough. Microbeads only make up 16 percent of the plastic pollution. Box said microfibers also are under a lot of scrutiny because they can cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem.

“Synthetic clothing is now shedding plastic into our waterways,” she said. “So it’s going down our sinks and down our drains from our washing Plastic waste is broken down by currents and sunlight and is often ingested by wildlife. (usgs.gov) machines and heading to baby steps to eliminate it. the wastewater treatment

By Desert Star Staff She said plastic is trapped There’s a petition drive on plants and making its way MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. within currents, taking at least Change.org asking Royal out into the waterways.”

-- Advocates say they’re are 10 years to cycle back out - if Caribbean International to Box said lawmakers hoping 2018 will be a year it doesn’t get eaten by marine reduce the use of disposable and businesses need to of better water quality in the life or sink to the bottom first. plastic utensils.

The group step up, but individuals Great Lakes and oceans.

“It’s breaking down from The Last Plastic Straw has can help too by buying as Carolyn Box, science wave action and sunlight, so said on average, each person little plastic as possible, program director at 5 Gyres, it’s breaking down into smaller particularly water bottles. in the U.S. uses about said by the year 2050, there and smaller pieces,” Box said.

A study by the Rochester 38,000 straws between will be more plastic in the “And it’s also attracting other Institute of Technology the ages of 5 and 65. water than fish, with 95 contaminants to the plastic found nearly 10,000 metric In 2015, Congress passed percent of it coming from itself, which is making those tons - or 22 million pounds and President Barack Obama land. That comes from trash pieces of plastic more toxic.”

- of plastic debris enter the Box said more people are signed into law the Microbead that ends up in storm drains Great Lakes every year.

Free Waters Act, which and rivers, then flows into the talking about plastic waste, amended the federal Food, Great Lakes and oceans. and companies are taking

Will marijuana make your kiss go amiss this Valentine’s?

Should you pucker up after you’ve smoked pot?

By Desert Star Staff Recreational use of marijuana has been legalized in eight states and the District of Columbia, but anyone inclined to include it in their Valentine’s Day plans may find that – legal or otherwise – marijuana is not the best bet for a romantic evening that ends in a kiss.

“Marijuana can cause dry mouth, and dry mouth can lead to bad breath,” says Dr. Harold Katz, a dentist, bacteriologist, and developer of TheraBreath Dry Mouth Oral Rinse and Lozenges (www.therabreath.com).

“That’s because, when there isn’t enough saliva in the mouth, the bacteria that cause bad breath can thrive.” And that could quickly kill any bubbling passion at your Valentine’s Day rendezvous. Marijuana www.desertstarweekly.com

as a bad-breath culprit may not be a subject that most people have been exposed to in any mainstream way, especially since the legalization of recreational use is a relatively recent phenomenon limited to a few states.

“Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have seemed likely that we would ever be discussing the bad-breath implications of legally available marijuana, yet here we are,” Katz says.

At one time, there was an assumption that smoking marijuana naturally dried the mouth out due to heat and smoke, but the blame lies with the chemical compounds at work, Katz says. Research by the University of Buenos Aires has linked the saliva reduction to THC, the ingredient that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.

“That means there is a great chance of dry mouth even when the method of cannabis consumption doesn’t involve smoking,” Katz says.

“Edibles, vaporizing and other methods also act as THC delivery systems.”

Katz is no killjoy, though, so he offers tips to those who suffer from dry mouth to help them avoid bad breath that could severely dampen the Valentine’s Day mood: • Drink more water. Katz

suggests at least six to eight glasses a day, which comes to about 48 to 64 ounces assuming an 8-ounce glass.

• Avoid alcohol. This advice isn’t limited to just alcoholic beverages, although it’s important to avoid them, too. But some mouthwashes are as much as 27 percent alcohol, Katz says. Like marijuana, alcohol is a cause of dry mouth.

• Avoid spicy, acidic and sugary foods. Without saliva, there to offer some protection to the lining of the mouth, spicy and acidic foods can be irritating. Also, saliva helps to break down the sugar in foods. If the saliva isn’t there to properly do that job, then there’s an increase in the risk of such dental problems as tooth decay.

“Marijuana isn’t the only cause of mouth dryness – not by far – but it is one of the less-discussed,” Katz says.

“The legalization of cannabis products has brought a new reason to pay attention to dry-mouth symptoms. From alcohol to sugars, items that block the natural production of saliva are fairly common.”

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PALM SPRINGS Kal David Unplugged on

Thursdays at 8 p.m. at 1900 E. Palm Canyon Drive. For information, 760-322-4422 Palm Springs Villagefest Street Festival every Thursday The Congo Room presents “Wet Wednesday” 10pm2am P: 760-322-7353 Coachella Valley Symphony: Piano Forte III Jan 21 @ 3:00 PM Concert Under The Palms: Latin Jam II at The Spa Resort Casino Jan 20 @ 7:30 PM Desert Friends of Music Concert Series at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church Jan 23 @ 7:00 PM Palm Springs Health Run and Fitness Expo Jan 27 @ 7:00 AM LunaFest Palm Springs Jan 27 @ 9:30 AM T-34 Fly-In: Meeting of the Mentors at Palm Springs Air Museum Jan 27 @ 10:00 AM Palm Springs Art Museum Gala 2018 at The Palm Springs Art Museum Jan 28 @ 6:00 PM Neave Trio at The Richard Center For The Arts Jan 29 @ 7:30 PM

PALM DESERT Eisenhower Medical

Center Five Star Cup at Indian Ridge Country Club Jan 18 Adult Park After Dark at The Living Desert Zoo Gardens Jan 19 @ 6:00 PM Nathan Gunn, Baritone and Julie Gunn, at The McCallum Theatre Jan 22 @ 8:00 PM Palm Desert Documentary Film Series at UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center Jan 25 @ 6:00 PM Chita&Tune: Two For The Road at The McCallum Theatre Jan 25 @ 8:00 PM A Chorus Line at The McCallum Theatre Jan 26 The Gardens on El Paseo 20th Annual Concert Series Jan 27 Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel at The McCallum Theatre Jan 29 @ 7:00 PM Palm Springs Legends IV at The McCallum Theatre Jan 30 @ 8:00 PM Meow Meow In Concert at The McCallum Theatre Jan 31 @ 8:00 PM Almost Elton John at The McCallum Theatre Feb 1 @ 8:00 PM Kinky Boots, Comes to The McCallum Theatre Feb 2 Star Party at the Monument Mar 10 @ 6:00 PM San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center Continued on page 18

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JANUARY 17 – 23, 2018 ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST BY RISA D’ANGELES

CANCER

In the next several years you will make critical decisions concerning your work, reputation and professional image. There will be rewards, achievements, accomplishments. There will be learnings about limitation and yearnings to create a firm foundation for the future.

There is a ladder you must be climbed. Strength, security and leadership will be cultivated.

You rise up slow and steadily.

Be aware of changes in relationships. All types of relationships. Intimate and close friendships, too. There may be a need for compromise and flexibility, or perhaps a call to strengthen the “other”, or to let them go. Some may feel loneliness, seek a marriage partner. Some will feel the need to commit, or be urged to.

Relationships may feel serious and demand to be redefined.

Everyone’s true needs emerge.

touch more discipline than usual. Just have fun, Virgo.

LIBRA Everything domestic, homelike, personal, nourishing and nurturing are the points on the family compass you are drawn to. You will realize all the past, including childhood, was your field of experience, where you learned a certain discipline, a realism and a way to structure your adulthood.

Now, you seek to create traditions that sustain selfsufficiency. All family ancestries, backgrounds and heritages are good, unique and just what we all needed spiritually.

finances and a place called home. The upcoming years will see a steady, slow and sturdy flow of energy. Be sure to maintain your perception of self as effective, financially savvy, responsible, resourceful, realistic and always useful.

These are true, you know.

CAPRICORN

If it’s at all possible for Capricorns to become even more capable, responsible, serious and mature, this will definitely happen in TAURUS LEO the next two plus years.

Here is what all Capricorns You sense a seriousness, All things in daily life will must understand and repeat somberness, depth in thinking. be challenged. Daily work, daily, hourly, moment by You wonder what you’ve been routines, habits, structures, moment. “I am always enough SCORPIO doing for the past years and tending to self and to health and I always DO enough and what will the future bring? You – all these will call you to be there is always enough in my take one step forward and present, responsible and It will be good to take up a new life.” These words will create a two steps back. Starting over conservative. Everything will be course of study or a training deep sense of inner strength and over every day. You call like the order and organization that interests you. If you haven’t and a confidential sense of upon Spirit to sustain, direct, of Virgo. You may need to yet trained in Compassionate true identity. These words guide and hold you. You may tend to things neglected Communication, the next two define your true identity. even speak quietly with Mary, and put aside. Every day will years prove to be the right Mother of the World to assist AQUARIUS be a no-nonsense day. You time for this. A restructuring you. Mary listens at dawn. will learn how to manage of your mind, thinking and everything quietly and with belief system takes place, You may sense you’re living GEMINI care. Especially health. entailing detail and research a life of contemplation even you’re excellent with. You will when out and about in the VIRGO You will find it’s a time to tend participate in challenges and world. You may sense a to things financial, to taxes, tests. They will be serious, feeling of discontent which is insurances, legacies, trusts – So many things will come your satisfying and life-affirming. usually a divine discontent. all things shared with others, way to relax, lighten and loosen Remember not to worry.

Ask what this discontent too. You may wonder who you up. Your task is to play with is...for discontent tells us SAGITTARIUS truly supports you emotionally. them in all ways possible. First, something needs changing.

You will question intimacy your creative expression will You may consider all the things and if your needs of intimacy come forth in a more structured Saturn left your sign in you hope to accomplish in have changed. You will need way, and this is good. You will December and the seriousness your life, eliminating what greater independence from seek children out, discover and somberness worn like a is no longer important or someone or something. Desires new hobbies, take tests for cloak is gone. The past years necessary. You may begin to and attachments come forth. fun, think about romance with have been introspective, attend church. Or pray more.

New ones. You’re surprised. no commitment, yet with a concerned with self and work, You find comfort there.

5 Creative Gift Ideas for Your Valentine

By Desert Star Staff Looking to surprise your loved one this Valentine’s Day with something a bit different? Check out these five creative gift ideas that will help make the day special.

1. Take a trip around the world with your taste buds.

Cooking dinner for your partner on Valentine’s Day is nothing new, but kick it up a notch with an “Around the World” theme.

Pick some destinations you’d love to travel to and get into the kitchen together to create their signature dishes. For extra points, track down drinks specifically found in those regions to pair with your food.

You’ll have fun experiencing new cuisine, and it may even ignite a spark to book a trip!

2. Make more time together. Use some creativity to show your Valentine that you want to spend more time together. Pair a new timepiece with roses for a unique presentation. Consider classic fashion choices with Casio’s Vintage timepieces, which feature stainless steel bands in different metallic color combinations, a daily alarm, hourly time signal and an auto-calendar, ensuring you are never late for a date.

3. Commission a custom family portrait. Whether you

have kids, pets or it is just the two of you, a custom family portrait is a sweet gift and a great piece of artwork for your home. Find an independent portrait artist on a site like Etsy or put your own artistic abilities to the test and create the portrait yourself.

4. Create an at-home spa day. Get pampered without leaving the house.

Book a travelling masseuse or create DIY bath products like bath bombs or scrubs

with essential oils. Create a spa-like atmosphere with low lights, candles and flower arrangements. Order dinner in afterwards and enjoy the special time together as relaxed as can be.

5. Write a love song.

Whether you write it yourself or pick a favorite that’s personal to you, performing a love song is a touching way to show you cherish someone. Enhance your performance with a portable keyboard that makes

PISCES You will need to set aside time each day for the tending to your own health and welfare. In the future, you will be called to do even more work with groups and people who depend upon you. This work is important for it contains your purpose, the plan for your life....and lives yet to come. You can make long term plans for the future.

Allow nothing to frustrate those plans. Your life moves forward, upward. It’s a good time for the fishes. Visualize your warm pool and new home.

Risa D’Angeles is the founder and director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies Research Institute: Risa’s Esoteric Astrology. She can be reached at risagoodwill@gmail.com.

learning easy, such as Casio’s CTK-2550. It features 61 fullsize keys, 400 high-quality tones and 150 built-in rhythms to ensure you have all the tools you need to create a beautiful musical number for the one you love. Or, connect to your iOS or Android device to use the free Chordana Play app, which uses the keyboard’s display to show you how to play your favorite songs. Just download your favorite MIDI files, connect your device’s headphone output to the keyboard’s audio input, and explore an endless library of music. StatePoint

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Billy Idol At Fantasy Springs Resort Casino

By Desert Star Staff INDIO, CA - Billy Idol was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, and now he’s bringing his latest world tour to The Special Events Center at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Sunday, May 27, 2018.

Billy Idol has sold 40 million albums and has scored numerous platinum albums worldwide. He’s had nine Top-40 singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including the smash hits “Dancing With Myself, “White Wedding,” “Rebel Yell,” “Mony

Mony,” “Eyes Without A Face,” “Flesh For Fantasy,” and “Cradle Of Love.”

Idol’s New York Times bestselling 2014 autobiography Dancing With Myself is an electric, intelligent, brutally honest and entirely self-written account of Billy Idol’s journey to fame. From his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to a long and often decadent life that was lived while loving sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and motorcycles.

Kings & Queens of the Underground is Billy Idol’s first album of new material in nearly a decade. Released in 2014, the album’s sound, which includes incredible contributions from Idol’s

longtime collaborator and lead guitarist Steve Stevens, is instantly familiar to lovers of classic Billy Idol, while announcing a firm step into the future. Produced by Trevor Horn (with two tracks co-written and produced by 2017 Grammy Producer of The Year winner Greg Kurstin), the album is full of thumping, cinematic songs about sin, redemption and the love of rock ‘n’ roll.

Tickets for the 8 pm Billy Idol show on Sunday, May 27, 2018, go on sale Friday, January 19, 2018, for $99, $79 and $59 at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via telephone (800) 827-2946 or online at www.

FantasySpringsResort.com.

“Aladdin” – Sublime Theatrical Magic at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre

Zachary Bencal (Babkak), and Mike Longo (Kassim). Now, where would a good story be production. Breaking the without a couple of villains so fourth wall, he engaged the enter the wicked Jafar, played audience in his story telling wickedly by Jonathan Weir with the evening kicking off and his evil cohort, the very with “Arabian Nights,” the funny Reggie De Leon as Iago. first of twenty* eye-popping Jafar is plotting the overthrow ensemble and solo pieces of the Sultan, well acted and with distinctly recognizable sung by JC Montgomery.

Arabian movements. We Moving the story along, get to meet Aladdin, a waif enter the beautiful, rebellious of a boy played by a most princess Jasmine played by talented Adam Jacobs who created the role on Broadway. Isabelle McCalla. She’s under pressure from her father, the Aladdin is a ne’er-do-well Sultan, to find a husband to orphan who steals food for take care of her. Jasmine sustenance. Backed up by will have none of that and the gifted ensemble, he sings about his “criminal” activities in asks why she can’t take care “One Jump Ahead.” He’s also of herself and run the castle after her father dies. (Big a sensitive, loveable kind of a guy and desperately wants his audience response to that deceased parents to be proud idea!) Along with her three Adam Jacobs as the ne’er-do-well Aladdin.

Isabelle McCalla as Princess Jasmine who longs to attendants (Mary Antonini, of him as he sings “Proud of Olivia Donalson and Annie Your Boy.” Aladdin hangs Photo: Cylla von Tiedemann be in control of her own life. Photo by Deen van Meer Wallace) she sings “These around with three partners Palace Walls” and before you the streets and mingles with in crime excellently played to wish that he become a blessings. This fabulous know it, she runs away into the people for the first time.

by Philippe Arroyo (Omar), prince and presto so he does. evening of theatre ends in the Aladdin, not knowing that In describing his princely reprise of two of the rousing she’s the princess, becomes outfit, along with the other production numbers - “Arabian immediately smitten, as does costumes, ablaze in radiant Nights” and “A Whole New she. They sing a lovely ballad sparkles, imagine midnight on World” following which the “A Million Miles Away.” But New Year’s Eve with colorful audience jumped to their alas, the Sultan’s henchmen balloons, confetti, and swirling collective feet displaying their track her down and drag colors, and that will give you approval with applauding, her back to the palace. an idea of what delicious eye whistling, yelling and wellMeanwhile, the wicked Jafar is candy unfolds on stage. deserved lots of clapping. plotting how to find the magic Rounding out the cast *Including reprised lantern so he can make his are Michael Bullard, Michael numbers. wish to be the Sultan come Callahan, Cornelius Davis, true and coerces Aladdin to Bobby Daye, Lissa deGuzman, “Aladdin” go into the forbidden cave to Mathew deGuzman, Michael Hollywood Pantages search for this magic lantern.

Everett, Karlee Ferreira, Theatre Aladdin reluctantly enters the Michael Graceffa, Clinton 6233 Hollywood Blvd. cave and in one of the most Greenspan, Adrienne Howard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 dazzling moments, what Albert Jennings, Kenway Run: Tues – Fri: 8:00 pm we saw made the audience Hon Wai K. Kua, Jason Sat: 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm gasp, and then break out in MacDonald, Angelina Mullins, Sun: 1:00 pm & 6:30 pm thunderous applause as the Celina Nightengale, Jaz Individual Tickets set design looks like solid gold Sealey, Charles South, Manny start at: $49-$125 walls, with sparkling jewelry Stark, and Michelle West.

VIP Tickets $205 and trinkets dripping from I’m not giving away the Phone: 1-800-982-2787 or every crevice. Aladdin finds climax, but this is a fairy tale, Theatre Box Office or the magic lantern, accidentally and like most fairy tales, Ticket Master Outlets rubs it and presto, the playful “Aladdin” offers up a delicious Closing: Saturday, Genie appears informing him happy ending. The bad guys March 31, 2018 that he can grant three wishes. get their just rewards and (Daily digital lottery for Princess Jasmine (Isabelle McCalla) falls in love with Aladdin (Adam Infatuated with the princess, the princess and the young a limited number “prince” receive her father’s of $25 orchestra seats) Jacobs) who she thinks is a wealthy prince. Photo: Deen van Meer this street urchin decides Continued from Page 1

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MUSIC

BY ROBERT KINSLER

Cinematic Sounds Abound: Soundtracks, essential MST3K Whether you enjoy listening to soundtracks for a favorite film or watching a cult TV show that combined a love for all things pop culture, there are a score of recommended new titles available now.

known for his signature music for franchise winning “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jaws,” “Jurassic Park” and “Harry Potter” films, his music seldom fails to impress no matter the genre. Just listen to the 85-year-old master’s work on “The Post: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” which includes the beautifully DVD Title: Mystery tense “The Presses Roll,” Science Theater 3000: Vol. disquieting “Nixon’s Order,” XXXIX (Shout! Factory) jazzy piano-anchored “The You might like if you enjoy: Oak Room, 1971” and alluring MST3K, Cinematic Titanic “Mother and Daughter” to Tell me more: Likely appreciate the nuanced and the final collection of new stylish handiwork of Williams. episodes from the original run The 12-page booklet that of Mystery Science Theater accompanies the soundtrack 3000 that ended after 10 includes a short overview seasons in 1999, “Mystery on Williams’ approach and Science Theater 3000: Vol. strength in scoring for “The XXXIX” delivers intelligent Post,” as well as a number wit and laughs at every turn. of photos from the film and The box set includes the a listing of the many talented final three available episodes members of the orchestra previously unreleased by Shout! who performed under the Factory (“Girls Town,” “The baton of Williams. Information: Amazing Transparent Man” SonyClassical.com. and “Diabolik”); throughout the series, musical references and songs were among the key elements of the television series. For example, on a single episode here, references or sung bits linked to Pink Floyd, Gregg Allman, the Troggs’ “Wild Thing,” the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ Safari” and The Beatles help enhance the B-movie viewing. One of the extras, “Showdown in Eden Prairie: The Final Experiment” takes an Artist: Carter Burwell in-depth look at the production Title: Three Billboards of the final episode (“Diabolik”) Outside Ebbing, Missouri: of the series’ original run, Original Motion Picture including interviews with the Soundtrack (Varèse cast and key production Sarabande Records) members. Another must-see Tell me more: A strong extra is titled “The Last Dance” blend of instrumental music and it includes raw behind-the- composed by Carter Burwell scenes video footage taken on and artful mix of songs the set during the production delivered by the celebrated of “Diabolik.” Of course, the likes of Monsters Of Folk, cult show has returned with folk singer Joan Baez and creator Joel Hodgson and a Motown’s The Four Tops make new cast; new episodes began for an eclectic listen across airing on Netflix in 2017 and the “Three Billboards Outside another season of episodes Ebbing, Missouri: Original are being produced now.

Motion Picture Soundtrack.”

Information: shoutfactory.com. The winner of the Best Motion Picture - Drama at the 75th Artist: Composer Golden Globe Awards, “Three John Williams Billboards Outside Ebbing, Title: The Post: Original Missouri” is enhanced by Motion Picture Soundtrack Burwell’s wonderfully evocative (Sony Classical) music. The Americana-styled Tell me more: Although “Mildred Goes To War,” lovely composer John Williams is best keyboard-adorned “The

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Deer” and the foreboding “A Cough of Blood, A Dark Drive” are among Burwell’s affecting compositions heard here. Information: VareseSarabande.com.

Artist: Miklos Rozsa (composer); City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus Title: Ben-Hur: World Premiere Digital Recording of the Complete Film Score (Tadlow Music) Tell me more: The 1959 film “Ben-Hur” stands as one of Hollywood’s greatest-ever films but the Academy Award winner’s complete 157-minute score has only recently been released via a world premiere digital recording performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, and conducted by Nic Raine. The ambitious score was originally composed by Miklós Rózsa and ultimately proved to be the longest original score composed and recorded for any film of the 20th century.

The new “World Premiere Digital Recording of the Complete Film Score” is an

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Information: tadlowmusic.com.

Artists: Composer Thomas Pierson; singersongwriter Harry Nilsson Title: Deluxe Edition: Music from the Motion Picture Popeye (Varèse Sarabande Records) Tell me more: This writer somehow missed the essential, expanded edition reissue of the soundtrack for the 1980 film “Popeye” when it was released in September 2017. The good news is that no matter when listeners discover this fantastic soundtrack, they will not be disappointed. The first disc of this 2-CD title features original music and songs from the film, while the second disc includes demo versions written by noted singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. Two of those songs (“Everybody’s Got To Eat” and “I’d Rather Be Me”) presented on that second disc were never released prior to this special edition. Fans of the film’s stars (Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston) will enjoy the famed actors featured in the musical selections. formation:

VareseSarabande.com.

Artists: Iggy Pop, the Isley Brothers, New Order, more Title: Gold - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande Records) Tell me more: With the Golden Globe-nominated original title song from groundbreaking Iggy Pop leading off the disc, the “Gold” soundtrack mines similar territory for a sonic journey that enhances the Matthew McConaughey-starring 2017 film; the lineup of cuts also works perfectly as a standalone collection of great songs.

The rousing little-heard rocker “Ron Klaus Wrecked His House” (from Big Dipper), a cover of David Byrne’s “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” performed by Kishi Bashi and inviting gems from New Order (“Temptation”), Joy Division (“Atmosphere”) and Television (“1880 Or So”) are among memorable songs on the set. Of special note is the Isley Brothers’ take on the 1970 classic Eric Burdon / War collaboration “Spill the Wine.” VareseSarabande.com.

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‘S***hole’ projected in huge letters onto Trump hotel emoji’s appear to explode out of the main entrance.

The prankster in question is Robin Bell, the founder of video projection company Bell Visuals, who has made a habit of voicing his dislike of both President Trump and his policy decisions.

“The president distracts us from politics that are harming us,” Bell added in his expletiveladen protest projection. The hit-and-run hilarity lasted approximately 40 minutes before Bell left the area, The Washington Post reports.

Bell has targeted Trump’s DC hotel before with similar messages, including “Pay Trump bribes here” with an animated arrow pointing to the lobby. He has also taken projected pot shots at Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, with the line, “I thought the KKK was

OK until I learned that they smoked pot,” projected onto the Department of Justice.

The latest projection stunt relates to Trump’s alleged comments regarding Haiti, El Salvador, and several African nations when speaking with lawmakers about immigration reform last week. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he reportedly said. The remarks received widespread condemnation.

“There is no other word one can use but ‘racist,’” UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said of the reported remarks, according to Reuters. “You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as ‘s***holes’ whose entire populations, who are not white, are therefore not welcome.”

By Desert Star Staff The dust has yet to settle from Donald Trump’s alleged ‘s***hole’ gaffe which swept the headlines across the world this week, but one prankster took it upon himself to

emblazon the offending phrase directly onto a Trump hotel.

Guests and passersby alike were stunned to see the word ‘s***hole’ projected in huge letters onto the Trump International

Hotel in Washington DC Saturday night.

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By Desert Star Staff “A Man and His Prostate gives the audience one hilarious ‘you-just-can’tmake-this-stuff-up’ scenario after another.” - Huffington Post “In spite of the odd/ serious nature of the subject at hand, this is a damn funny show!” - Front Row Center In this one-man comedy written by Ed. Weinberger and based on the writer’s true-life Experience, a man discovers his inner self in more ways than one. A MAN AND HIS PROSTATE is a seriously funny show, based on a serious subject. A life-changing week in a foreign hospital included exams, enemas, the fear of post-surgery impotence and sex after 70. A MAN AND HIS PROSTATE gives the audience each hilarious scenario.

Prostate cancer is no laughing matter, but A MAN AND HIS PROSTATE puts a decidedly funny spin on what it’s like to develop the symptoms in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language. Richard Kind, Drama Desk Award Winner and Tony Nominee for the Broadway Hit, The Big Knife, is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor who continues to redefine the term character actor.

Richard has appeared in the 2013 Academy Award Winning Best Picture, Argo and starred as “Bing Bong” in

the hit Pixar Film, Inside Out. He is starring in the hit Amazon series, Red Oaks, now filming its second season. He had a starring role in The Hereafter directed by Clint Eastwood, and his role as Uncle Arthur in A Serious Man was critically lauded worldwide. Additional film credits include All We Had, The Lennon Report, The Paper Store, The Visitor and The Station Agent, among many others, as well as voicing characters in A Bug’s Life and Cars.

In television, besides his infamous roles on Spin City and Mad About You, Richard starred in the acclaimed HBO series, Luck, and has guest starred on, many shows, has had a recurring role in Curb Your Enthusiasm and currently has recurring characters on Fox’s Gotham and Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here.

On stage, Richard has starred in Guys and Dolls in London, the smash hit Broadway musical The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Candide, and Bounce, among others.

Richard started his career in Chicago with the Practical Theatre Company, founded

by Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Brad Hill, and Gary Kroeger.

Ed. Weinberger began his career in the early 1960s with Dick Gregory and had written for such diverse comedians as Bob Hope, Richard Pryor,

and Johnny Carson (for five years on The Tonight Show).

He wrote and produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show, cocreated Taxi, Dear John, and The Cosby Show. He also executive-produced and created Amen, Sparks, Lou Grant, Phyllis, The Betty White Show and Good News. Ed. has won three Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody and nine Emmys. In 2000, he received The Writer’s Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

According to Weinberger, the use of the dot after his name is an affectation that started at a young age “and got out of control.” He believes that only a Comedy Writer can find funny underwear.

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Dezart Performs Theatre company hits a home run with “Rabbit Hole”

(L-R) Phylicia Mason and Yo Younger in Dezart Performs’ production of RABBIT HOLE. Photography by Clark Dugger

By Jack Lyons Theatre and Film Critic There is nothing in life more devastating or tragic than the death of a young child in a family. Those of us who never experienced that shattering trauma are fortunate. One can only imagine what takes place within the family unit and the aftermath of such a life altering tragedy. Worlds are turned upside down never to be made whole again.

Dezart Performs the Palm Springs-based theatrical company is currently presenting the powerful and insightful Pulitzer Prizewinning drama “Rabbit Hole”,

written by David LindsayAbaire that is now on stage at the Pearl McManus Theatre, in Palm Springs.

Grief, in any of its forms is difficult to endure. When it occurs inside a family unit – husband, wife, and a four-year-old son - it is especially shattering and so personal an experience that each must grieve in their own way. Lindsay-Abaire’s affecting and touching story is wonderfully directed by Scott Smith, who sensitively weaves both dramatic and light comedy moments producing a necessary obbligato of empathy and hope.

(L-R) Yo Younger and Michael Shaw in Dezart Performs’ production of RABBIT HOLE. Photography by Clark Dugger

The story in short, centers around devoted parents Beca (Yo Younger) and Howie Corbett (Michael Shaw) who are grieving the loss of their four year-old son Danny, as the result of a traffic accident when the toddler ran into the street chasing his dog and was struck and killed by 17 year-old High School student Jason (Jonathan Hatsios).

Beca’s mom Nat (Deborah Harmon) is a victim and a survivor of a drug addicted son who took his own life.

Beca’s pregnant unmarried sister Izzy (Phylicia Mason) are the visiting ‘support group’.

Unfortunately, they are clumsy

(L-R) Deborah Harmon, Michael Shaw, Phylicia Mason and Yo Younger in Dezart Performs’ production of RABBIT HOLE. Photography by Clark Dugger

and gaffe-prone in their small talk. Not thinking before saying things that are painful for Beca to hear. Howie endures his in-laws but grieves in his own way. He is moody and depressed, withdrawing into bouts of temperament and is enrolled in grief therapy as a way of dealing with his guilt feelings of: If only we had, If only I had, is the mantra he hears in his head. He and Beca are headed on a marital collision course following Danny’s death.

He thinks Beca is consciously trying to erase all memory of Danny. She puts up the house for sale, gets rid of the dog (which Howie loves), removes pictures of Danny, his toys, and family videos that Howie cherishes; viewing them nightly – all reminders of happier days. Even when young Jonathan attempts to contact the Corbett’s to apologize, Howie rebuffs Jonathan’s act of apology asking him to leave the house.

It’s difficult for the audience too. We’re the omniscient observers and we recognize the silent cries for closure on all sides. This is a family in crisis on several levels.

Beca is so deep in her grief she cannot see the forest of healing because of all the obstacles and the memory leafs residing in the trees that obscures her healing process.

Beca and Howie are not alone in these feelings. One wouldn’t be human not to feel their pain and the pain of others in similar circumstances.

The highly-nuanced, dynamite performances of Yo Younger and Michael Shaw are staggering in their brilliance. In theatre, we often hear the phrase ‘great stage chemistry’. Younger and Shaw are so totally immersed in the characters of Beca and Howie, one forgets we are watching a stage play and not guiltily peering through the windows of someone’s home. Not many plays do that anymore.

The technical team led by director Smith features a fully functional set design by Thomas L. Valach, providing the splendid ensemble cast plenty of room create their on-stage magic. The creative lighting design by Phil Murphy delivers many poignant mood-inducing moments.

The costume designs of Frank Cazeres and the Sound Design by Producer/ photographer Clark Dugger, complete the creative team.

“Rabbit Hole” is currently performing at The Pearl McManus Theatre, located at 314 S. Cahuilla Road, Palm Springs, through January 21st. For tickets call the Box Office at 760-322- 0179. But Don’t wait. The first week’s performances were Sold Out.

Elvis 83th Birthday

By Desert Star Staff Justin Shandor will perform two great shows at 1 pm and 4 pm on January 20, 2018, to celebrate Elvis’s 83 birthday at the Poolside at Elvis’s honeymoon hideaway. You will find out why everyone gets “ shook up” when you hear, see, and rock along with him. You will understand why he won the 2010 ultimate Elvis tribute award and David Letterman called him the country’s best.

Justin, the look, the moves, and most of all, the voice. The

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JUSTIN SHANDOR DOES IT ALL in a setting that is like the electrifying ‘68 come back special. It is perfection in a venue that will surround him and put him next to you. James King will also perform the great stars of the era. Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly did compliment them to perfection. Discover what everyone is raving about.

The essence of Elvis comes alive and lives again. Shandor is at home in the king’s house and with the Kings’ music.

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Eve Ensler’s award winning play ‘The Vagina Monologues’

By Desert Star Staff Join Us As We Celebrate The 20th Anniversary of The Vagina Monologues & the Founding of V-Day, the Global Activist Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls.

This one-night only benefit reading will be held on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at The Riviera–Palm Springs, located at: 1600 North Indian Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, CA. Show starts at 7pm. (Doors open at 6pm.)

Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of communities and college campuses have staged V-Day benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues – and other artistic works, campaigns & Risings– in over 200 countries and territories. V-Day activists have raised consciousness, changed laws to protect women and girls, funded rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters (often these much-needed funds kept them

from closing), educated their communities, and raised well over $100 million in urgently needed funds for groups doing the essential work of ending violence and serving survivors and their families.

What are The Vagina Monologues The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues, “probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.” The play first performed Off-Broadway and in locations around the world by Ms. Ensler - dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement in women’s experiences. V-Day grew out of the play, which exploded onto the scene in 1998, breaking taboos about women’s sexuality and shattering silence around violence done to women and girls.

Date: February 3, 2018 Location: The Riviera - Palm Springs – 1600 North Indian

Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, CA Ticket Cost: $25 (Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferable)

“Stay Hungry”

By Desert Star Staff A string of recordbreaking sold-out comedy appearances, a new topranked show on SiriusXM. “The Pete & Sebastian Show,” and inclusion on Forbes’ 2017’s “The World’s Highest Paid Comedians” who praised, “thanks to his enthusiasm and willingness to work, Maniscalco will likely continue to be on Forbes’ list for years to come,” comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is having an incredible year.

People Magazine’s “The people’s comedian” is hitting the road for 15 cities in 2018 beginning with a January 5 opening in Montreal, Canada, where he was dubbed “Stand Up Comedian of the

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to include a voice-over for character Johnny the Groundhog in the animated feature “Nut Job 2” and appearances in films including Year” at Just For Laughs the Will Ferrell-starring New Festival. Tickets on sale Line Feature comedy “The now at sebastianlive.com.

House” and a role in 2018’s The tour title is “TAG,” starring alongside Ed appropriate as not only is Helms and Jeremy Renner.

“Stay Hungry” the name Dubbed “one of the of his forthcoming 2018 hottest comics” by Newsday and “one of the funniest book for Simon & Schuster, but it is also his motto. comics working stand-up “The Stay Hungry tour today” by Esquire, Sebastian’s marks the release of my book live performance has become while I also venture into this a critically-acclaimed event. new chapter of my life: being a with the Los Angeles Times dad. Lately, I’ve found myself reflecting on my path and all of the hard work it has taken to get to this point in my career.

I hope to one day pass these values on to my daughter and encourage her to stay hungry for more,” shares Maniscalco.

Who has expanded his major motion picture portfolio

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raving, “onstage, there’s an impatience to Maniscalco’s delivery as well, a hair-trigger exasperation with people and modern life, punctuated with baffled expressions, percussive thumps on the microphone and wide-swung leg kicks more associated with an Olympic speed-skater than a stand-up comic.”

Instead of asking questions – a theme that has served as the foundation of his previous comedy specials and shows like Aren’t You Embarrassed?

And Why Would You Do

That? – Maniscalco’s new tour has the affable performer instead encouraging fans to follow in his footsteps and “stay hungry.”

Shares the man The New York Times raved for his “own kind of panache,” “Even though I’ve achieved some success, I will always stay hungry for more.”

Check out his larger than life animated comedy style that elevated him to the top of his game https://vimeo. com/levityentgroup/ sebastianmaniscalco.

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By Desert Star Staff NEW YORK, - NOW That’s What I Call Music, the world’s best-selling multiartist album series, presents today’s biggest hits on NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 65 set for digital and physical release on Friday, February 2.

NOW 65 features 16 major current hits from today’s hottest artists including Taylor Swift; Demi Lovato; Camila Cabello; J Balvin & Willy William featuring Beyoncé; Sofi Tukker featuring Nervo, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno; G-Eazy featuring A$AP Rocky & Cardi B; NF; Post Malone; Khalid; Calvin Harris featuring Kehlani & Lil Yachty; Selena Gomez X Marshmello; Niall Horan; P!nk; Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line, and watt; MAX featuring gnash; and Marshmello featuring Khalid.

‘New California’ declares independence from state

By Desert Star Staff A group hoping to breakaway from California because of high taxes and their unhappiness with how the state is run has declared independence for ‘New California.’

The group’s leaders released a Declaration of Independence on Monday in the hopes that it will eventually lead to independence from the state capitol, Sacramento.

Unlike the Calexit movement, which is looking for independence from the United States for the entire state of California, the New California group wants to remain a part of the US but it no longer wants to be governed by the state of California.

“After years of over taxation, regulation, and mono party politics the State

of California and many of its 58 Counties have become ungovernable,” the group said.

“The nature of the State becoming ungovernable has caused a decline in essential basic services such as education, law enforcement, fire protection, transportation, housing, health care, taxation, voter rights, banking, state pension systems, prisons, state parks, water resource management, home ownership, infrastructure and many more.”

The proposed state would mostly consist of the state’s rural counties, while the urban areas along the Pacific coast would remain part of California. “We are going to split off like mitosis to form the 51st state to make a more perfect union,” founder Paul Preston explains in a video on the movement’s website.

Another member of the movement explained in a video that the group is concerned that the US “doesn’t do nearly enough

to assimilate people from other countries and other cultures into the US and American culture.”

The group is insistent

that it is following correct procedures in establishing the proposed new state under Article 4, Section 3 of the US Constitution.

By Desert Star Staff Each year a Darmstadt University panel singles out a phrase that it feels runs counter to the principles of democracy or human dignity.

German linguists have declared the phrase “alternative facts,” popularized

by White House aide Kelly Anne Conway, the non-word of 2017.Conway used the phrase last year when asked why President Donald Trump’s then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer mischaracterized the size of the inauguration crowd.

A team of six language experts at Darmstadt University chose “alternative

facts” from among 684 suggestions. German news agency DPA quoted the head of the panel as saying Tuesday the phrase represents the growing practice of “replacing factual arguments with claims that cannot be proven.”

Each year the panel singles out a phrase that runs counter to the principles of democracy or human dignity. Last year it chose the German term “Volksverraeter,” roughly “traitor to one’s people,” used by far-right groups to label politicians who they disagree with.

German Linguists: ‘Alternative Facts’ Are the Non-Word of 2017

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By Desert Star Staff Astonishing newly released footage shows a team of Georgia firefighters displaying incredible athletic skill and bravery, catching children as they’re thrown by their desperate father from a ladder two stories up.

More than 45 firefighters battled a raging inferno at a Georgia apartment complex in DeKalb County outside Atlanta on January 3, rescuing a total of 12 people in the process. A firefighters’ union released footage of the heroics, which has quickly become an online sensation.

“We were catching babies like a football - literally,” Fire Captain Eric Jackson said at the scene, reports CBS News.

“There were adults that were

on the balcony that were dropping their babies right into our arms. We had a couple firefighters catching babies, so it was just really incredible.”

In the footage, thirdgeneration firefighter Captain Scott Stroup is seen catching a child dropped by the youngster’s father, Lance Ragland. Stroup wasn’t the only receiver at the scene, as Captain Jackie Peckrul also caught another of the family’s children.

Four adults and eight children between the ages of one month and three years were rescued from the blaze, with many suffering from smoke inhalation. However, thanks to the heroics of the DeKalb County fire team, no one was killed.

The fire at the Avondale Forest Apartments displaced

approximately 80 people in total. Investigators

have yet to determine the cause of the blaze.

Medicaid requirements could leave Utahans’ without coverage

Having health insurance has been associated with better health, increased work capacity and higher earnings. (Getty Images)

By Desert Star Staff SALT LAKE CITY – The Trump administration’s recent decision to add work requirements for people with Medicaid benefits may sound reasonable, but critics say the move would end up taking health insurance away from more than six million Americans, including 97,000 Utahans’.

Stacy Stanford, a health policy analyst with the Utah Health Policy Project, says taking health coverage away from people who are unemployed won’t help them find work any faster.

“A majority of people on Medicaid across the country are working, and that’s true in Utah as well,” she says.

“They’re either already employed or they’re disabled, they’re caregivers, or they’re

By Desert Star Staff It took Pyongyang almost two weeks to respond to US President Donald Trump’s bragging about the size of his ‘nuclear button,’ but a staterun newspaper has now called it “spasm of a lunatic” and the “bark of a rabid dog.”

The response came in the latest edition of Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of North Korea’s ruling party. In the controversial tweet, Trump mocked North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un for saying in his New Year address to the nation that he had a nuclear button on his desk and could order a strike against America if the country is threatened. The American president said, “his button” was “a much bigger and more powerful one” that worked.

North Korea, which for

berate Trumps’ mental capacity.

The US president invented the nickname “little rocket man” for the North Korean leader and shamed him as “short and fat” in one of his tweets.

Trump’s brand of rhetoric is not solely reserved for Kim Jong-un, nor is it confined to his Twitter feed. One of his latest controversial remarks targeted Haiti, Honduras and African nations, which he reportedly dismissed as a “sh**hole countries” while arguing against admitting immigrants from those nations into America. The US president has denied making the remarks.

The denial didn’t stop a flurry of outraged responses both domestically and from foreign commentators, who accused Trump of being racist and unsuitable for office.

students going to school.”

Utah is one of 10 states that has filed for a waiver to implement Trump’s plan that would allow states to place work requirements on certain Medicaid recipients, more than 7 in 10 of whom are caregivers or in school, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Proponents of the move argue that people are healthier if they’re employed or contributing to their communities as volunteers, and claim that reliance on government programs such as Medicaid can lead to dependency.

Studies have found that hhaving health insurance is connected to improved health, increased work capacity, and higher wages and earnings. Stanford says for many people struggling

with health issues, requiring work first is like putting the cart before the horse.

“The first thing that needs to happen is to have your health care taken care of, to be able to go see the doctor and address any chronic issues or acute issues,” she explains. “And then you can look for employment and be able to hold a job better.”

Stanford adds that politicians who believe work requirements will help lift people out of poverty are out of touch. She notes that jobs that pay a living wage are not available in all areas of the state, and argues that the common refrain that poor people just don’t want to work is untrue because many people living below the poverty line are already working at least one job.

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decades used a unique style of communication involving flamboyant threats and insults against its enemies, seems to have found a more-thanwilling counterpart in the Oval Office. Trump and Kim exchanged personal insults, as well as promises of death and destruction, as Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked over the North’s latest advances in rocket and nuclear technology, which have given new credibility to the country’s race for a nuclear deterrent against America.

Unlike Trump, Kim has no Twitter page, so the exchanges come at a slow pace, with insults traded days – or, as in this case, even weeks apart.

Nevertheless, Kim at one point managed to amuse Englishspeakers by rediscovering the little-used word “dotard” to

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS PELLE LULU, 45120 SAN PABLE AVE., PALM DESERT, CA 92260.Riverside County. Full name of registrant: MIRIAM VIVIANA GUTIERREZ, 81927 CAMELOT WAY, INDIO, CA 92203.

Business is conducted by: Individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: MIRIAM VIVIANA GUTIERREZ. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on December 14, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201716028. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW18-1013 January 10, 17, 24, 2018 AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BETSY GRACE BALSZ CASE NO. INP 1700684 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of BETSY GRACE BALSZ. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by LAVONNE L HARRINGTON in the Superior Court of California, County of RIVERSIDE. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LAVONNE L HARRINGTON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: January 24, 2018 at 8:45AM in Dept. 1A located at 46-200 OASIS STREET, INDIO, CA 92201 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner DAVID D. L. HORTON, DAVID D. L. HORTON & ASSOCIATES, 777 E. TAHQUITZ CANYON WAY, SUITE 200-092, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262 (760) 364-5815. Publish January 10, 12, 17, 2018. DSW18-1008

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS ASDUNELIGHT, 42215 WASHIGHTON STREET, SUITE A 820, PALM DESERT, CA 92211.

Riverside County; 79340 DESERT WIND CT, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. Full name of registrant: JOEL PATRICK MONROE, 42215 WASHINGTON ST SUITE A 820, PALM DESERT, CA 92211. Business is conducted by: Individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: JOEL PATRICK MONROE. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on December 20, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201716290. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE).

DSW18-1012 January 10, 17, 24, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS: BLUE RIBBON LEADS, 43850 RENDOVA PLACE, TEMECULA, CA 92592. Riverside County.

Full name of registrant: TAYMO ENTERPRISES, INC., 43850 RENDOVA PLACE, TEMECULA, CA 92592/CA. Business is conducted by: CORPORATION. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on January 1, 2018. I declare that all the information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: STEVEN P. SCHATAN, VICE PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on January 4, 2018. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201800148. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW18ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF 1011January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018 NAME, CASE NO. PSC 1707159, SUPERIOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE COURT OF CALIFORNIA 3255 E. Tahquitz Can- FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSIyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92263, COUNTY OF NESS AS: MANUEL DE ANDA GARDENING RIVERSIDE TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. SERVICE, 68790 E ST APT #1, CATHEDRAL CITY, LOAN TRAN filed a petition with this court for a CA 92234.Riverside County; PO BOX #715, CAdecree changing names as follows: 1a. Present THEDRAL CITY, CA 92234 . Full name of registrant: Name LOAN TRAN to Proposed Name: LORAN IRMA LETICIA HERNANDEZ CASILLAS, 68790 E TRAN. 2.THE COURT ORDERS that all persons ST APT #1, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234; HECinterested in this matter shall appear before this TOR MANUEL DE ANDA CASILLAS, 68790 E ST court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, APT #1, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Business if any, why the petition for change of name should is conducted MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant has not be granted. Any person objecting to the name not yet begun to transact business under the changes described above must file a written objec- fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the tion that includes the reasons for the objection at information in this statement is true and correct. (A least two court days before the matter is scheduled registrant, who declares as true, information which to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) cause why the petition should not be granted. If no Signed: IRMA LETICIA HERNANDEZ CASILLAS. written objection is timely filed, the court may grant This statement was filed with the County Clerk the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING of Riverside County December 18, 2017. Peter a. Date: February 14, 2018 Time: 8:30 a.m., Dept.: Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. PS3, b. The address of the court is: 3255 E. Tahquitz R-201716169. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSICanyon Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262, County of NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS Riverside 3.a. A copy of this Order to Show Cause FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE shall be published at least once each week for four OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED the petition in the following newspaper of general cir- BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEculation, printed in this county (specify newspaper): MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN DESERT STAR WEEKLY 13279 PALM DRIVE SUITE THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 5, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240 Dated: IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER December 28, 2017, Judge of the Superior Court, UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW Publish January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018. DSW17-1006 (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW18-1009 January, 10, THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING 17, 24, 31, 2018 BUSINESS AS MARTINEZ INCOME TAX, 81860 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE CAMELOT WAY, INDIO, CA 92201.Riverside FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSICounty; P.O. BOX 7084, LA QUINTA, CA 92248. NESS AS: AMP SPORTS LOUNGE, 68-718 E. Full name of registrant: MARIA LUCINA MARTI- PALM CANYON DR. STE #201, CATHEDRAL NEZ, 81860 CAMELOT WAY, INDIO, CA 92201. CITY, CA 92234.Riverside County. Full name Business is conducted by: Individual. Registrant of registrant:PAUL CLINTON COCHRAN, 1164 has not yet begun to transact business under the SOUTH FARRELL DRIVE, PALM SPRINGS, CA fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the 92264; ANTONIO- -LOPEZ III, 1164 SOUTH FARinformation in this statement is true and correct. (A RELL DRIVE, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92264. Busiregistrant, who declares as true, information which ness is conducted MARRIED COUPLE. Registrant he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) has not yet begun to transact business under the Signed: MARIA LUCINA MARTINEZ. This statement fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County information in this statement is true and correct. (A on January 8, 2018. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County registrant, who declares as true, information which Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201800256. NOTICE — he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Signed: PAUL CLINTON COCHRAN. This statement EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. December 28, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-CounA NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATE- ty Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201716513. NOTICE MENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEFILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTI- IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY TIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES SEQ., BUSINESSAND PROFESSIONS CODE). NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE DSW18-1015 January 10, 17, 24, 2018 OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, NESS AS: VEGA’S GARDENING, 53950 AVE HER- ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

RERA, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. Riverside County. DSW18-1007 January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 Full name of registrant: JOSE VEGA MALDONADO, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE 53950 AVE HERRERA, LA QUINTA, CA 92253. FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSIBusiness is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL. Registrant NESS AS: D B CONSTRUCTION, 67 995 FOOTcommenced to transact business under the fictitious HILL RD, CATHEDRAL CITY, CA 92234. Riverside business name(s) listed above on January 2005. County. Full name of registrant: MUJDIN- -BALI declare that all the information in this statement LAZHI, 67 995 FOOTHILL RD, CATHEDRAL CITY, is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as CA 92234. Business is conducted INDIVIDUAL. true, information which he or she knows to be false, Registrant commenced to transact business under is guilty of a crime) Signed: JOSE VEGA MALDO- the fictitious name(s) listed above on 12/26/2017.

NADO. This statement was filed with the County I declare that all the information in this statement Clerk of Riverside County on January 9, 2018. Peter is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. true, information which he or she knows to be false, R-201800377. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSI- is guilty of a crime) Signed: MUJDIN- -BALLAZHI. NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE Riverside County on December 26, 2017. Peter OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED R-201716398. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSIBEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATE- NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATE(SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESSAND MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW18-1014 January 17, THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 24, 3, 2018, February 7, 2018 IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER

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UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW18-1004 January 3, 5328 December 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 10, 17, 24, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSITHE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING NESS AS: SNUG HARBOR, 66275 IRONWOOD BUSINESS AS: GEEK GIRL FACTORY, 3472 DESET HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240.Riverside County.

ANDERSON AVENUE #85, RIVERSIDE, CA 92507. Full name of registrant: JEFFREY GLENN COLLINS, Riverside County. Full name of registrant: LILLICE 66275 IRONWOOD DR., DESERT HOT SPRINGS, INC., 3472 ANDERSON AVENUE #85, RIVERSIDE, CA 92240. Business is conducted INDIVIDUAL. CALIFORNIA, 92507/CA. Business is conducted Registrant has not yet begun to transact business CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun to under the fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare transact business under the fictitious name(s) listed that all the information in this statement is true and above. I declare that all the information in this state- correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, informent is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares mation which he or she knows to be false, is guilty as true, information which he or she knows to be of a crime) Signed: JEFFREY GLENN COLLINS. false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: DOREEN HIROMI This statement was filed with the County Clerk of WONG, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with Riverside County on December 19, 2017. Peter the County Clerk of Riverside County December Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. 22, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk- R-201716208. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSIRecorder File No. R-201716342. NOTICE — THIS NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATE- BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTI- IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER TIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17-5327 December SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 DSW18-1002 January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSIFOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- NESS AS: KAY CUBE DESIGNERS, 12049 PALM NESS AS: MOBILE DOCX’S, 42751 STATE HIGH- DR., DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240.Riverside WAY 74, HEMET, CA 92544, HEMET, CA 92544. County. Full name of registrant: ANA VERONICA Riverside County;PO BOX 5015, HEMET, CA 92544 VALENCIA, 12049 PALM DR., DESERT HOT . Full name of registrant: ANDREW- -TORRENSEN, SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted INDI42751 STATE HIGHWAY 74, HEMET, CA 92544. VIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact Business is conducted INDIVIDUAL. Registrant business under the fictitious name(s) listed above. has not yet begun to transact business under the I declare that all the information in this statement is fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, information in this statement is true and correct. (A information which he or she knows to be false, is registrant, who declares as true, information which guilty of a crime) Signed: ANA VERONICA VALENhe or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) CIA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Signed: ANDREW- -TORRENSEN. This statement of Riverside County on December 6, 2017. Peter was filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. December 13, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-Coun- R-201715609. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSIty Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201715980. NOTICE NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATE- FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE MENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATESTATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND STATE OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17-5322 December ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 DSW18-1001 January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSIFOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- NESS AS: KAREN’S PARTY SUPPLIES, 12049 NESS AS: OMNI TILE AND STONE, 66068 SAN PALM DRIVE, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240.

JOSE RD, DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA., 92240. Riverside County. Full name of registrant: ANA Riverside County;66068 SAN JOSE RD, DESRT VERONICA VALENCIA, 12049 PALM DR., DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA., 92240 . Full name of registrant: HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is conducted MIGUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ, 66068 SAN JOSE INDIVIDUAL. Registrant commenced to transact RD, DESRT HOT SPRINGS CA 92240. Business business under the fictitious name(s) listed above on is conducted INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet 2012. I declare that all the information in this statebegun to transact business under the fictitious ment is true and correct. (A registrant, who declares name(s) listed above. I declare that all the informa- as true, information which he or she knows to be tion in this statement is true and correct. (A regis- false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: ANA VERONICA trant, who declares as true, information which he or VALENCIA. This statement was filed with the County she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: Clerk of Riverside County on December 6, 2017.

MIGUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ. This statement was Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County De- No. R-201715613. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS cember 27, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201716473. NOTICE — YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTIEXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS TIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATE- STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE MENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHAUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTI- ER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW TIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17-5321 December OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE).

PLEASE BE ADVISED, PETERS & FREEDMAN, DSW18-1000 January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 L.L.P. IS ACTING IN THE ROLE OF A DEBT COLFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT THE LECTOR AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING BUSI- WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.RE: Creditor NESS AS: GEM CANDY CREATIONS; LUXE Association: Sandhurst Cove Community AssoCANDY GEMS, GEM CANDY JEWELERS, 3715 ciation Recorded Owner:Armin R. Callo Property MOUNTAIN GATE, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262. Address: 41560 Goodrich Street,Indio, CA 92203 Riverside County. Full name of registrant: GEORGE- Mailing Address:41560 Goodrich Street, Indio, -TOWNSEND, 3175 MOUNTAIN GATE, PALM CA 92203NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTE: SPRINGS, CA 92262. Business is conducted INDI- THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION VIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun to transact IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED 注：本文件包含 business under the fictitious name(s) listed above. 一个信息摘要참고사항: 본 첨부문서에정보요약서 I declare that all the information in this statement is 가있습니다 NOTA: SE ADJUNTA UN RESUMEN true and correct. (A registrant, who declares as true, DE LA INFORMACIÓN DE ESTE DOCUMENTO information which he or she knows to be false, is TALA: MAYROONG BUOD NG IMPORMASYON guilty of a crime) Signed: GEORGE- -TOWNSEND. SA DOKUMENTONG ITO NA NAKALAKIP LƯU Ý: This statement was filed with the County Clerk KÈM THEO ĐÂY LÀ BẢN TRÌNH BÀY TÓM LƯỢC of Riverside County November 28, 2017. Peter VỀ THÔNG TIN TRONG TÀI LIỆU NÀY YOU ARE Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder File No. IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT R-201715256. NOTICE — THIS FICTITIOUS BUSI- LIEN (CIVIL CODE SECTION 5675) RECORDED NESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE YEARS OCTOBER 4, 2011, AND ANY AMENDMENTS, FROM THE DATE IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR OF THE COUNTY CLERK. A NEW FICTITIOUS PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING OF THIS STATE- NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, MENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN YOU SHOULD CONSULT A LAWYER. NOTICE THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IS HEREBY GIVEN that on FEBRUARY 22, 2018, IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER at 10:00 AM, PETERS & FREEDMAN, L.L.P. as UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR COMMON LAW Trustee, or Successor Trustee or Substituted Trustee (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND of that certain Notice of Delinquent Assessment PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17-5330 December which was caused to be recorded by Sandhurst 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 Cove Community Association(“Creditor Association”) pursuant to the authority of Civil Code Section FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 5675 in order to secure obligations in favor of the THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING Creditor Association, which Notice of Delinquent AsBUSINESS AS: HARRIS MECHANICAL, 71370 sessment was recorded on October 4, 2011, as File/ 18TH AVE., DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92241. Page No. 2011-0439176, and any amendments,of Riverside County. Full name of registrant: HARRIS Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of & SONS FLOOR COVERING INC., 71370 18TH Riverside County, California, and pursuant to that AVE., DESET HOT SPRINGS, CA 92241/CA. Busi- certain Notice of Default and Election to Sell reness is conducted CORPORATION. Registrant corded on September 19, 2013, as File/Page No. has not yet begun to transact business under the 2013-0456170, and any amendments, of Official fictitious name(s) listed above. I declare that all the Records of said County, will sell at public auction, information in this statement is true and correct. (A under the power of sale conferred by Civil Code registrant, who declares as true, information which Section 5700, to the highest bidder for cash in lawful he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime) money of the United States of America or cashier’s Signed: ERICA LEIGH HARRIS. This statement was check made payable to the creditor Association, filed with the County Clerk of Riverside County on at the offices of Peters & Freedman, L.L.P., 43100 December 8, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Cook Street Suite 202, Palm Desert, CA 92211, in Clerk-Recorder File No. R-201715759. NOTICE — the City of Palm Desert, County of Riverside, State THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT of California, all that right, title and interest in the EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS property situated in said County and State which FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. is legally described in Exhibit A Street address or A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT other common designation of Property to be sold: MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING 41560 Goodrich Street,, Indio, CA 92203, The OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHO- record owner of which is Armin R. Callo, (“Owner”).

RIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS Names and Address of Creditor Association at BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS whose request the sale is being conducted: SandOF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR hurst Cove Community Associationc/o Peters & COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411, ET. SEQ., Freedman, L.L.P.43100 Cook Street Suite 202Palm BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE). DSW17- Desert, CA 92211(760) 773-4463 Directions to and 5329 December 27, 2017, January 3, 10, 17, 2018 a detailed description of the above-described real may be obtained by requesting the same FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT property writing to the above-named beneficiary (“CrediTHE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS (ARE) DOING in tor Association”) ten (10) days from the first BUSINESS AS: PERFECT EYEBROWS, 34300 publication of thiswithin Said sale will be made MONTEREY AVENUE, SUITE 101, PALM DESERT, without covenant ornotice. warranty, or implied, CA 92211.Riverside County. Full name of registrant: regarding title, possession or express encumbrances, to RAJESH KUMARI KAUSHAL, 68946 PEAK DRIVE, satisfy the unpaid balance currently due and owing DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240. Business is under the aforesaid Notice of Delinquent Assessconducted INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet be- ment and/or late fees, costs of collection (including gun to transact business under the fictitious name(s) attorneys’ fees), and interest, which said Owner listed above. I declare that all the information in this is obligated to pay Creditor Association under statement is true and correct. (A registrant, who Civil Code Section 5650, and fees, charges, and declares as true, information which he or she knows expenses of the Trustee. NOTE: THE PROPERTY to be false, is guilty of a crime) Signed: RAJESH IS BEING SOLD SUBJECT TO A RIGHT OF REKUMARI KAUSHAL. This statement was filed with DEMPTION CREATED BY CIVIL CODE5715. The the County Clerk of Riverside County on December total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation 11, 2017. Peter Aldana, Assessor-County Clerk- secured by the Property to be sold and reasonable Recorder File No. R-201715777. NOTICE — THIS estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT of initial publication of the Notice of Trustee’s Sale EXPIRES FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE IT WAS is $31,258.88. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK. If you are considering bidding on this property lien, A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT you should understand that there are risks involved MUST BE FILED BEFORE THAT TIME. THE FILING in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT ITSELF AUTHO- a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest RIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS you to free and clear ownership of the property. You OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE OR

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should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may visit this Internet Web site www.hoalaw.com/foreclosureinfofor information regarding the sale of this property, using the file/TS number assigned to this case: 214200102-3675.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: ____________________Sandhurst Cove Community Association By: ___________________________ Christina Baine DeJardin, for Peters & Freedman, LLP, as Trustee, Attorney, and Authorized Agent for Sandhurst Cove Community Association. A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness accuracy, or validity of that document. State of California County of Riverside)On _______________________ before me ,____________________________, a Notary Public, personally appeared Christina Baine DeJardin, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity (ies), and that by her signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument. I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WITNESS my hand and official seal Signature ______________________ ______________ (seal) EXHIBIT “A” All of that certain real property located in the City of Indio, County of Riverside, State of California, described as follows: PARCEL NO. 1Lot 122 of Tract No. 30778, as shown on a Subdivision Map thereof, recorded in book 349, Pages 1, et seq., of Maps, in the Office of the Riverside County Recorder. PARCEL NO. 2 Nonexclusive easements for access, ingress, egress, maintenance, repair, drainage, encroachment, support, and for other purposes, all as described in the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Reservation of Easements for Sandhurst Cove, recorded on April 8, 2004, as Instrument No. 20040252716 (“Declaration”) and the Supplemental Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Reservation of Easements for Phase 2 of Sandhurst Cove recorded on April 8, 2004, as Instrument No. 2004-252717 (“Supplemental Declaration”), both in Official Records of Riverside County, California.

Publish January 10, 17, 24, 2018, DSW18-1010 T.S. No. 060258-CA APN: 633-062-001-9 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 7/18/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 2/6/2018 at 3:00 PM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 7/20/2006, as Instrument No. 2006-0532412, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: KIM A. HEMMES AND MARGARET B. TAKEDA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN

BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: AT THE FRONT STEPS TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE FORMER CORONA POLICE DEPARTMENT, 849 W. SIXTH STREET, CORONA, CA 92882 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 75255 DESERT PARK DR INDIAN WELLS, CA 92210-8351 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $798,920.99 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code.

The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 060258-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 Publish January 3, 10, 17, 2018 DSW18-1003

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The report out Friday shows flu and pneumonia deaths crept up last week to push flu to an epidemic level. Flu reaches that threshold most winters, even during seasons that are not considered particularly bad.

Hospitalizations of the elderly are climbing. So far they’re not shooting up quite like they did in 2014-2015, but health officials are watching the numbers closely.

The CDC estimates there are tens of thousands of deaths each year from flu and pneumonia.

One suburban San Diego case shows how serious the flu (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren). Ana Martinez, a medical assistant at the Sea Mar Community Health can be.

Jennifer Burrough and Center, gives a patient a flu shot, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018 in Seattle. her family didn’t get flu shots this year after hearing reports chief medical officer.

By Mike Stobbe end up,” she added. that suggested it might not In Chicago, paramedics NEW YORK - Flu is now Many flu seasons work very well this season. have been forced to wait widespread in every state don’t really get going until Her 12-year-old son came at ERs with patients for as except Hawaii, but the good around Christmas, and don’t home with the bug around long as two hours for an news is the season appears crescendo until February. the holidays, then her two open spot.

That means the to already be peaking.

That’s how last year’s flu youngest kids got sick and she ambulances can’t be used It’s been a rough few season played out. This season did, too.

They all recovered for other calls, said Larry weeks: Hospitals have set got off to an early start and quickly.

But her 48-yearLangford, a spokesman for up tents to handle patient cases surged over the holidays. old Navy veteran husband, the city’s fire department. overflow. Doctors are putting Patients who went to Shawn Burrough, landed in the What had some people in double and triple shifts. the ER at Palomar Medical hospital. There, he had trouble worried about this U.S. flu Ambulances have been Center Escondido, north of breathing and his kidneys season was the bad season sidelined while paramedics San Diego, then had to wait started shutting down. He last year in Australia.

That waited to drop off patients. as long as nine hours. The was medically sedated and hospital this week took down country was hit hard by a “This morning, I couldn’t put on a breathing machine. flu bug that’s notorious for stand up. I was really weak,” a tent it used to handle the “We didn’t figure it would causing severe illness, and said Margaret Shafer, who went overflow but is still seeing a lot be like this,” said Jennifer of patients with fevers, aches, flu viruses spread around the to a Seattle emergency room world.

Preliminary estimates Burrough.

“You don’t expect chills and other flu symptoms. this week after a bout with the suggested the vaccine barely to wake up with sniffles and “We’re having to treat flu was followed by pneumonia. worked there, and the U.S. was two days later find yourself in people in hallways, in chairs, But an update out Friday again facing the same H3N2 a medically induced coma. wherever we have space,” said from the Centers for Disease virus with the same flu shot.

It was rapid, just rapid.”

Control and Prevention Michelle Gunnett, the director That virus caused one of shows patient traffic for flu is of emergency services. the worst U.S. flu seasons in AP writers Julie Watson in no longer skyrocketing the There’s a tent in place at San Diego, Paul Elias in San recent years, 2014-15, when way it was in December.

Kaweah Delta Medical Center the vaccine was a poor match. Francisco, Manuel Valdes in “It looks like it’s starting in the Central California city Seattle and Don Babwin in of Visalia, where doctors this It was back last winter but to level out,” said the CDC’s week have been pulling double the vaccine was a better fit.

Chicago contributed to this Lynnette Brammer, who Health officials say this report. Source: KMIR/AP and triple shifts to keep up. oversees flu tracking. year’s shot targets the strains “It’s like a MASH unit,” said Still, flu is unpredictable. that are making Americans “I don’t know where it will Dr. Ed Hirsch, the hospital’s ••••••••••••••

CV Dentists Speak Out About Dental Migration

KMIR Lauren Day Coachella Valley Region - Los Algodones, otherwise known as Molar City, sits just on the other side of the U.S.Mexico border near Yuma, Arizona. People who go there claim they get cheaper dental work. But is there a price to pay for the medical migration?

“Everything today including the x-rays was $150. At home, just the x-rays alone would cost almost about $100,” says local resident Jason Freed.

But some local dentists in the Coachella Valley say the lower cost isn’t worth it.

“The level of care is not the same as in the U-S in my opinion. We’ve seen the cases that have come back, some of them quite disastrous,” says Dr. Nicholas Baumann of Baumann

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and Baumann Dentistry. “Just a lot of things that have been done poorly and need to be redone in the short term.”

Dr. Mina Narula of Rancho Mirage says dental clinics in Mexico don’t have as high of standards as they do in the U.S. “The people who go down to Mexico to get dental treatment, are not quite aware if they are being given the best options possible in treatment.

Number one. And number two, they don’t know if the sterilization standards are as up to mark as they would be in the United States,” she says.

But Freed feels the quality of care he receives in Mexico is worth it, “This is a good option for me.

Maybe it isn’t for everyone.”

Dr. Baumann wants

people to think twice, “I’ve never talked to anyone who went to Mexico because of the quality or because of the speed or because of anything else. The number one thing is the cost. There’s other options in the United States that do have less cost.”

And this March, you can get free dental care no questions asked. “March 2325, we provide free dental, medical and vision. But for the

dental you can get a cleaning a filling, extraction and we’re seeing a lot of people who haven’t been to the dentist in 15 or 20 years,” he says.

Dr. Baumann says another option for people is to get cheaper dental work done at dental schools here in the U.S. He says it may take longer, but they are working to standards in the United States. Source: KMIR

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German thriller brings into sharp focus the dynamics of loss and revenge

By Jack Lyons Theatre and Film Critic Powerful emotions drive behavior in most of us. The larger the issue or the event, the greater the emotional response. If the event is life altering the more erratic and unpredictable the behavior and the outcome will be.

Cinema is a potent vehicle for exploring emotion-rich stories and moments. The mobility of the camera along with its unique implementation of the close-up lens - that misses nothing - is what draws gifted directors and cinematographers to the medium of cinema as a method of telling intimate and compelling stories.

The German film industry over the last five or ten years has shown strong evidence of returning to its glory days of the 1930’s. The 2007 Best Foreign Film Academy Award for Germany’s outstanding film “The Lives of Others” catapulted the German film industry back into Oscar competition mode. Thanks to a string the solid foreign language films hits: “Two Lives” (2013), “Labyrinth of Lies” (2015), “Toni Erdman” (2016), Germany has become a perennial contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Once again, its industry is competing for another win with the emotion-packed thriller “In the Fade”, starring

Diane Kruger. Kruger won as Best Actress at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival last year.

“In the Fade”,co-written

by Hark Bohm and directed by journeyman filmmaker Fatih Akin, is told in a series of flashbacks and is divided into three sections or sequences: The Family, The Justice system and The Sea, or the Grecian sequences.

Ms. Kruger as Katja, a grief-stricken young mother learns that while she was away from the office her husband and her six year-old son Rocco (Rafael Sanana) have been killed in a bomb explosion outside her Kurdish husband Nuri’s (Numan Acar) store front business in the Turkish section of Hamburg. The authorities are investigating it as a terrorist attack, Katja, however, views it as murder.

In a flashback sequence, she volunteers her feelings to the police, because earlier, she saw a young German girl on a bicycle park her new bike near the building who didn’t chain it to the stand.

Katja also noticed a package near the bike’s saddle as she watched the girl walk away.

The police reject her claim that a growing ‘neo-nazi/ white supremacist group of thugs in the neighborhood are behind the attack. Katja and her attorney (Denis Moschitto) protest that there are no Turkish or Kurdish terrorists or anyone

from the Turkish community involved. Based on Katja’s testimony and eyewitness account, two suspects - the young German girl on the bike and her husband both of whom are white supremacists - are arrested and placed on trial for the bombing murders.

What looks like a slamdunk for the prosecution, becomes an acquittal for the defense due insufficient evidence. Katja is beside herself and ends up attacking the pair in the courtroom.

Americans not familiar with Germany’s judicial procedures will probably feel confused

and/or frustrated by the Judge’s ruling and the trial’s outcome as well. The ruling, however, sets in motion Katja’s unbridled thirst for revenge.

It’s at this point that writer/ director Akin, sort of shoots himself in the foot. There is a clear shift in the tone of the story and its execution in the sequence labeled “The Sea”.

The film now begins to drift into predictability; losing its edge and footing in what began as a promising thriller about the return of right wing extremists groups now plaguing many European countries today.

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audience, no shift in the tone of the film can negate the terrific performance of Ms. Kruger.

She’s a hypnotic on screen presence reminiscent of the great Marlene Dietrich. And, her scenes of grief, despair, and rage, are achingly poignant. It’s an award-winning star turn, and she is this year’s winner of the 2017 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a foreign language film. Keep an eye out for this beautiful English speaking German actress in future American and British films.

“In the Fade” goes into select theatres in January 2018.

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