Santa Monica Daily Press, April 18, 2011

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Concord Prep rising from the ashes

BY EMILY SKEHAN Special to the Daily Press

MID-CITY Things are looking up for Concord Prep.

It’s Sunday and a handful of teenagers from the small private high school are dressed in medieval garb, practicing lines in a student’s back yard in preparation for a school production of “The Tempest.”

The scene is fitting for the general state of the school these days. There are only a few students in the Shakespearean play and just 37 enrolled at Concord Prep, formed on the fly following the closure of its parent, Concord High, which filed for bankruptcy in November and had to close its doors, putting the futures of roughly 50 students and their teachers in jeopardy.

But despite the small numbers and lack of an auditorium to stage the play in, the students are having fun — a tight knit gaggle of adolescents that seem truly energized by each other and the drama teacher.

The play is being held at Santa Monica’s Main Library instead of a school auditorium because Concord Prep doesn’t own its own Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com

SMO BUDDIES: Members of Friends of the Santa Monica Airport Jonathan Dekhtyar (left) and Rob Himmler at SMO on Sunday.

New group wants to give new rep to airport

BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

SMO The Santa Monica Airport has its share of enemies, or at least vehement detractors, but now it can claim to have a group of friends.

A new community organization called Friends of the Santa Monica Airport, or FOSMO, formed in November 2010 with the aim of promoting aviation and educating neighbors and others about what actually goes on at the embattled airport.

FOSMO’s membership, approximately 130-strong, is comprised of pilots, flight instructors and mechanics dedicated to the art of flight.

It’s continuing mission: To promote aviation at Santa Monica Airport; to educate the public as to the past, present and future benefits of aviation and thereby protect its community.

“FOSMO was formed to give pilots, certified instructors and mechanics a voice and place to rally for aviation,” said President Robby Robotham.

And aviation, at least in Santa Monica, needs the support.

The airport has found itself embroiled in controversy, both in litigation between the Federal Aviation Administration and City Hall, as well as complaints from neighbors regarding noise, pollution and perceived danger.

Those fears were fueled by the 2010 death of a pilot who crashed into the nearby Penmar Golf Course.

In March, Los Angeles City Council members Bill Rosendahl and Janice Hahn further attacked SMO by introducing a resolution to support the closure of flight schools at the airport.

Rather than take on City Hall, or any of the other groups politicizing the airport and its flight schools, FOSMO wants to build goodwill by having open, honest and educational conversations with the public.

Youth outreach is a huge part of the agenda, from presentations in schools to SEE CP PAGE 11

SEE CONCORD PAGE 12

Job cuts for senior citizens could lead to homelessness SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER Associated Press

LOS ANGELES For $700 a month, 65-year-old Esmeralda Calderon cares for children parttime through a federal community service job that’s in jeopardy because of cuts to the proposed federal budget for 2011. It’s the only source of income for a woman who has no one to rely on and lives alone in public housSEE CUTS PAGE 11

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Learn to “Bounce Back from Stress” during a lecture by chiropractor Quentin Williams. Stress is the biological term for the consequences of the body’s failure to appropriately respond to emotional and/or physical threats.

Although the stress response is known for leading to disease and illness, it also provides us with the strength to adapt and react to our environment.

The focus of Williams’s lecture will be to address three forms of stress and how to manage them so that they don’t adversely impact your health. For more information, call (310) 458-8606.

‘The Merchant of Venice’ The Broad Stage 1310 11th St., 7:30 p.m.

Academy Award winner, F. Murray Abraham attacks the role of Shylock in this riveting update of the bard’s darkest of comedies, where religion, race and sexuality collide with love, family and justice. The currency of society and humanity has never been so changeable in this Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned production, the first production by an American company to be invited to the RSC’s Complete Works Festival. This production runs through April 24. For information, call (310) 434-3200.

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‘Rio’ rocks box office, ‘Scream 4’ not so much DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES Movie fans are going to “Rio”

PALM SUNDAY

Brandon Wise brandonw@smdp.com Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson (center) blesses the palm branches of people who attended the morning Palm Sunday service at St. Monica.

2012 presidential candidates want you to ‘like’ them BETH FOUHY Associated Press

NEW YORK Republican Tim Pawlenty disclosed his 2012 presidential aspirations on Facebook. Rival Mitt Romney did it with a tweet. President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a digital video emailed to the 13 million online backers who helped power his historic campaign in 2008.

Welcome to The Social Network, presidential campaign edition.

The candidates and contenders have embraced the Internet to far greater degrees than previous White House campaigns, communicating directly with voters on platforms where they work and play. If Obama’s online army helped define the last campaign and Howard Dean’s Internet fundraising revolutionized the Democratic primary in 2004, next year’s race will be the first to reflect the broad cultural migration to the digital world.

“You have to take your message to the

places where people are consuming content and spending their time,”said Romney’s online director, Zac Moffatt. “We have to recognize that people have choices and you have to reach them where they are, and on their terms.”

The most influential of those destinations include the video sharing website YouTube; Facebook, the giant social network with 500 million active users; and Twitter, the cacophonous conversational site where news is made and shared in tweets of 140 characters or less.

All the campaigns have a robust Facebook presence, using the site to post videos and messages and to host online discussions. In the latest indication of the site’s reach and influence, Obama plans to visit Facebook headquarters in California this coming Wednesday for a live chat with company founder Mark Zuckerberg and to take questions from users who submit questions on the site.

Candidates have embraced Twitter with an intensity that rivals pop star Justin Bieber’s. Twitter was the Republican hope-

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“The president’s plan will kill jobs and increase the deficit,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned in a tweet, attaching a link to a more detailed statement posted on Facebook.

In the past, candidates would have pointed supporters to their websites for such a response. Now, as Moffatt puts it, “the campaign site may be headquarters, but it needs digital embassies across the web.”

Republicans once seemed slow to harness the power of the web. The party’s 2008 nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, told reporters he didn’t even use email. The 2012 hopefuls have worked hard to prove their Internet savvy, particularly with social media.

in big numbers, but they’re not quite screaming over the latest installment of a horror-comedy franchise.

The 20th Century Fox animated family flick “Rio,” featuring the voices of Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg, led the weekend box office with a healthy $40 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It was the best debut so far this year, topping another animated comedy, “Rango,” by about $2 million.

The slasher comedy “Scream 4,” released by the Weinstein Co. banner Dimension Films, opened at No. 2 with just $19.3 million. That’s a fraction of the business for the previous two sequels, which both debuted at over $30 million more than a decade ago.

Business finally climbed for Hollywood, which has been in a prolonged slide. Revenues rose for only the second time since last November, coming in at $134 million, up 12 percent compared to the same weekend last year, when “Kick-Ass” led with $19.8 million.

“I’m going to be so bold as to say this may be the beginning of the turnaround,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “Summer’s almost here and it’s the most important movie-going season.

It couldn’t be coming at a better time.”

After two weekends in the No. 1 spot, Russell Brand’s Easter bunny tale “Hop” slipped to third-place with $11.2 million. Released by Universal,“Hop”raised its total to $82.6 million.

The weekend’s other new wider release, director Robert Redford’s Lincoln-assassination drama “The Conspirator,” premiered at No. 9 with $3.9 million. The movie stars Robin Wright and James McAvoy in a courtroom tale of a woman accused of aiding Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Released by Roadside Attractions, “The Conspirator” played in narrower release of 707 theaters, roughly one-fifth the cinema count for the weekend’s top three movies.

“Rio” opened well above Fox studio expectations. A tale of romance and smuggling involving rare birds, “Rio” opened overseas a week earlier and has climbed to a $168 million total worldwide.

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Watch out, bike riders Editor:

So, Santa Monica wants to make a bike friendly city.

I am for it, as soon as the riders become more respectful to cars. This is my second letter about an experience with riders on Arizona Avenue where there is a bike path. Thursday, April 13, I was driving south on 15th Street from Wilshire. I am always cautious at Arizona because of so many pedestrians due to the medical buildings and the hospital. I made a complete stop at the stop sign, and was signaling for a right turn onto Arizona when I noticed someone coming from my left, and yes, it was a man probably in his 60s blowing right through the stop on Arizona. I had to stop quickly, so as not to hit him. As I passed him I said through the passenger window that he is to stop at such intersections. His reply was “cut me some slack, lady, when did you become a policeman.”

I think I did cut him some “slack” by not hitting him.

I am all for having a safer city for riders, but they have to obey the “law of the road” and not be so arrogant toward drivers. I have three children who grew up in Santa Monica and went through Franklin, Lincoln and Santa Monica High School. They were all born at SM Hospital and have bricks from the old hospital building.

I can remember having to go to court, before a judge, if they violated the law on their bikes. This happened only two times, as they had to pay a $5 fine. Now riders hardly get a slap on the hand and are adults who should know better. The problem today is that too many think they are “entitled” to do as they please.

Maybe the city will start addressing the problem if a few people make them aware of how problematic this is becoming.

Barbara Barnard Santa Monica

Palms, Pico and procrastination

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LAST WEEK, GEORGINA AND MARGUERITA

residents told the City Council that City Hall was barking up the wrong tree.

Neighbors had received flyers from City Hall advising that the iconic, 100-yearold Canary Island Palm trees that line their streets between Ocean Avenue and 14th Street would be supplemented with sycamore trees.

Residents told City Council they didn’t want any other kinds of trees visually interfering with the majestic palms that defined their streets.

I talked to Barbara Stinchfield, director of Community and Cultural Services who now oversees the city’s urban forest.

“The flyer stated that sites adjacent to their homes were selected for new sycamore trees because of the need for increased canopy cover on their street. The proposed planting of the sycamores did not include taking out any palms,” she said.

Stinchfield told me there’s a need to add a second tree species to mono-species streets like Marguerita and Georgina to fill in, act as a replacement for trees that are removed and to help prevent the spread of an incurable fungus that’s always fatal to giant palms.

She said that after the flyer was distributed, she met with some of the neighbors last month and informed them planting would be suspended and sycamores would be removed from the draft “street tree species list.”

Stinchfield, the Urban Forest Management Plan Task Force (UFMPTF) and city arborists are working on selecting both alternative and replacement trees for the list. She assured me that the selection process will be well vetted “in open public workshops to be held in May and June.

Everybody will have a chance to participate.”

What about the existing palms on Marguerita and Georgina? According to Stinchfield, “On Georgina, there are currently 12 declining palms of which two were removed in 2010. No replacement trees were planted. Marguerita currently has 32 declining palms with no removals since the mid1990s.”

Since replacement palms can also acquire the fungus, alternate species are needed.

Even though Stinchfield and members of the UMPTF had met with Marguerita and Georgina residents, a handful of neighbors appeared at council last week complaining that their majestic palms would not have exclusivity on their streets under City Hall’s plans.

They predicted declines in property values if other tree species were added and therefore vowed political retaliation against future school parcel tax ballot measures.

Ouch! These folks play hardball.

There’s only one problem. There may not be a choice. As Stinchfield pointed out, planting more palms could exacerbate the spread of the fungus. The only alternative to

planting non-palm species may be no trees at all.

City Hall’s notification process is frequently criticized. The timing of this flyer was poor she told me.

“There was a communication error,” she said. “Planning got ahead of public opinion.”

In this case, it may be these residents — many of them veterans of the “hedge wars” seven years ago — are skeptical of proposed changes to their streets and distrust City Hall. They might have felt it would be a good idea to acquire some political clout as a back-up in case the planning process doesn’t suit their fancy.

PICO VEGGIE GARDEN IS BACK

Last May 24, I wrote about an unused landscape planter in the Farmers’ Market area of Virginia Park. As a community project, farmers and Pico market folks planted vegetables and herbs in the empty planter.

Although the spontaneous community garden was a very cool idea, had an educational component and neighborhood support, a City Hall grinch spotted the veggies and said, “Oh No! That can’t happen."

The Community Maintenance Department quickly dispatched groundskeepers to obliterate the offending veggies. Nondescript bushes took their place.

Recently, someone put a bug in Mayor Richard Bloom’s ear about “the little garden that was” and he got involved. City Hall bureaucrats backed down and wisely decided to surrender the planter to the farmers.

The decorative bushes were removed.

New lettuce, cilantro, corn, zucchini and other herbs and vegetables were planted by market staff. The planter is "blooming” again. Hurrah!

TREES FOR 20TH AND CLOVERFIELD — AT LAST

Speaking of planting street trees, there’s a streetscape proposal for new landscaping on 20th Street and Cloverfield Boulevard in the Pico Neighborhood that’s been waiting for implementation for a dozen years.

This proposal, approved by Pico neighbors and City Council, would bring new shade trees and hardscaping to sidewalks and parkways on 20th and Cloverfield between Pico Boulevard and the I-10 freeway. There’s good news in the form of a timetable to finally complete the work.

City engineer Lee Swain e-mailed: “The design is scheduled to be completed in the next month or so and submitted for plan check review and final approval. The bid documents will be prepared and the project is anticipated to be advertised in July with council approval for an award of a construction contract in September. A construction start date is anticipated in October 2011 with completion of construction anticipated for summer 2012.”

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China, India at war over water DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press

BAHIR JONAI, India The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions and livestock.

No one knows exactly how the disaster happened, but everyone knows whom to blame: neighboring China.

“We don’t trust the Chinese,” says fisherman Akshay Sarkar at the resettlement site where he has lived since the 2000 flood.

“They gave us no warning. They may do it again.”

About 800 kilometers (500 miles) east, in northern Thailand, Chamlong Saengphet stands in the Mekong river, in water that comes only up to her shins. She is collecting edible river weeds from dwindling beds. A neighbor has hung up his fishing nets, his catches now too meager.

Using words bordering on curses, they point upstream, toward China.

The blame game, voiced in vulnerable river towns and Asian capitals from Pakistan to Vietnam, is rooted in fear that China’s accelerating program of damming every major river flowing from the Tibetan plateau will trigger natural disasters, degrade fragile ecologies, divert vital water supplies.

A few analysts and environmental advocates even speak of water as a future trigger for war or diplomatic strong-arming, though others strongly doubt it will come to that. Still, the remapping of the water flow in the world’s most heavily populated and thirstiest region is happening on a gigantic scale, with potentially strategic implications.

On the eight great Tibetan rivers alone, almost 20 dams have been built or are under construction while some 40 more are planned or proposed.

China is hardly alone in disrupting the region’s water flows. Others are doing it with potentially even worse consequences. But China’s vast thirst for power and water, its control over the sources of the rivers and its ever-growing political clout make it a singular target of criticism and suspicion.

“Whether China intends to use water as a political weapon or not, it is acquiring the capability to turn off the tap if it wants to — a leverage it can use to keep any riparian neighbors on good behavior,” says Brahma Chellaney, an analyst at New Delhi’s Center for Policy Research and author of the forthcoming “Water: Asia’s New Battlefield.”

Bike friendly A pair of recent workshops have explored what can be done to further the “no new trips” agenda laid out in City Hall’s recently updated land use and circulation element. Making it easier for bike riders to navigate the city was a major concern during these meetings.

Analyst Neil Padukone calls it “the biggest potential point of contention between the two Asian giants,” China and India. But the stakes may be even higher since those eight Tibetan rivers serve a vast west-east arc of 1.8 billion people stretching from Pakistan to Vietnam’s Mekong river delta.

Suspicions are heightened by Beijing’s lack of transparency and refusal to share most hydrological and other data. Only China, along with Turkey, has refused to sign a key 1997 U.N. convention on transnational rivers.

Beijing gave no notice when it began building three dams on the Mekong — the first completed in 1993 — or the $1.2 billion Zangmu dam, the first on the mainstream of the 2,880-kilometer (1,790-mile) Brahmaputra which was started last November and hailed in official media as “a landmark priority project.”

The 2000 flood that hit Sarkar’s village, is widely believed to have been caused by the burst of an earthen dam wall on a Brahmaputra tributary. But China has kept silent.

“Until today, the Indian government has no clue about what happened,” says Ravindranath, who heads the Rural Volunteer Center. He uses only one name.

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has also warned of looming dangers stemming from the Tibetan plateau.

“It’s something very, very essential. So, since millions of Indians use water coming from the Himalayan glaciers... I think you (India) should express more serious concern. This is nothing to do with politics, just everybody’s interests, including Chinese people,” he said in New Delhi last month.

Beijing normally counters such censure by pointing out that the bulk of water from the Tibetan rivers springs from downstream tributaries, with only 13-16 percent originating in China.

Officials also say that the dams can benefit their neighbors, easing droughts and floods by regulating flow, and that hydroelectric power reduces China’s carbon footprint.

China “will fully consider impacts to downstream countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu recently told The Associated Press. “We have clarified several times that the dam being built on the Brahmaputra River has a small storage capacity. It will not have large impact on water flow or the ecological environment of downstream.”

For some of China’s neighbors, the problem is that they too are building controversial dams and may look hypocritical if they criticize China too loudly.

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As for how to protect ourselves from still problematic air pollution, ALA recommends checking air quality forecasts and avoiding exercising or working outdoors when unhealthy air is present. The federal government’s AirNow website provides daily air quality updates for more than 300 cities across the U.S., as well as links to more detailed state and local air quality web sites.

And if air quality problems in your area continue to be bothersome, consider picking up and moving. Fargo, North Dakota or Lincoln, Nebraska, anyone? According to ALA’s “State of the Air: 2010” report, these two cities rank among the cleanest in all of the air pollution categories studied.

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Climate change case headed to Supreme Court MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with.

But they’re on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants in 20 states to cut their emissions.

The administration is siding with American Electric Power Co. and three other companies in urging the high court to throw out the lawsuit on grounds the Environmental Protection Agency, not a federal court, is the proper authority to make rules about climate change. The justices will hear arguments in the case Tuesday.

The court is taking up a climate change case for the second time in four years. In 2007, the court declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. By a 5-4 vote, the justices said the EPA has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under that landmark law. The same reasoning applies to power plants.

The administration says one reason to end the current suit is that the EPA is considering rules that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the administration also acknowledges that it is not certain that limits will be imposed.

At the same time, Republicans in Congress are leading an effort to strip the EPA of its power to regulate greenhouse gases.

The uncertainty about legislation and regulation is the best reason for allowing the case to proceed, said David Doniger, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which represents Audubon and other private groups dedicated to land conservation.

“This case was always the ultimate backstop,” Doniger said, even as he noted that the

council would prefer legislation or EPA regulation to court decisions. The suit would end if the EPA does set emission standards for greenhouse gases, he said.

The legal claims advanced by six states, New York City and the land trusts would be pressed only “if all else failed,” he said.

When the suit was filed in 2004, it looked like the only way to force action on global warming. The Bush administration and the Republicans in charge of Congress doubted the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

Federal courts long have been active in disputes over pollution. But those cases typically have involved a power plant or sewage treatment plant that was causing some identifiable harm to people, and property downwind or downstream of the polluting plant.

Global warming, by its very name, suggests a more complex problem. The power companies argue that any solution must be comprehensive. No court-ordered change alone would have any effect on climate change, the companies say.

"This is an issue that is of worldwide nature and causation. It’s the result of hundreds of years of emissions all over the world,” said Ed Comer, vice president and general counsel of the Edison Electric Institute, an industry trade group.

The other defendants in the suit are Cinergy Co., now part of Duke Energy Corp. of North Carolina; Southern Co. Inc. of Georgia; Xcel Energy Inc. of Minnesota; and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority. The TVA is represented by the government and its views do not precisely align with those of other companies.

Eight states initially banded together to sue. They were California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. But in a sign of the enduring role of partisan politics in this issue, New Jersey and Wisconsin withdrew this year after Republican replaced Democrats in their governor’s offices.

Agencies plan suit over sucker fish habitat GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

SANTA ANA Twelve Southern California water agencies said Tuesday they have taken the first step to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over a ruling that would expand protections for the threatened Santa Ana sucker fish but could reduce future water supplies for residents in the region.

The ruling, which went into effect in January, adds 1,026 acres to the fish’s habitat, bringing the total protected area to more than 10,000 acres. The federal agency expanded the habitat for the small brownand-black mottled fish after an environmental organization sued in 2005, alleging the fish was not protected in its namesake river, the Santa Ana River.

The legal notice, filed Monday, gives the federal agency 60 days to respond before a lawsuit is filed.

Jane Hendron, a spokeswoman for the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Carlsbad office, did not immediately return a call or e-mail seeking comment.

The habitat designation does not mean any human water supplies will be shut off or altered, but it does mean that local water districts and cities must consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service before doing work on

any new or existing water projects with any federal involvement and could face stricter limits on what they can do.

The expanded habitat includes upstream areas that have no sucker fish living in them now — and that sometimes dry up entirely — because those areas hold the gravel that is critical for the fish’s survival, said Ileene Anderson, a biologist with Center for Biological Diversity, the group that sued in 2005. That gravel needs to be washed downstream to help the fish, she said.

"The whole reason is to identify areas that may not have any animals in them anymore, but historically did. The critical habitat looks at recovery opportunities as well, rather than just keeping them on life support,” Anderson said of the fish.

The water agencies that filed the notice said Tuesday they were most concerned that they would be required to use water that currently goes to residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties to push gravel downstream to areas where the creatures reproduce.

That could mean diverting water that could supply more than 500,000 people and impact the water supply for about 3 million residents who live downstream, said Douglas Headrick, general manager of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District’s sucker fish task force.

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church across the road from the chocolate waters of Bayou Lafourche, the Rev. Joseph Anthony Pereira unbuttons his collar as the last parishioners pull out of the lot. Tonight, nearly a year after the BP oil spill began, he’s asked his congregation of shrimpers and oil industry workers to think about lessons learned when survival is in jeopardy.

But Pereira doubts many from the 5 p.m.

Mass are ready to take his Lenten message to heart.

“You speak about this to them because they forget what they went through,” says Pereira, who pastors at St. Joseph’s Church in Galliano, La., a community that ties its fortunes to the Gulf of Mexico. “Because BP has spoiled them, given them all this money, they’ve gone back to the old ways. They give them big bucks and they forget.”

A year after BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 and triggering a fourmonth battle to cap the gusher, the people who make their lives along the Gulf coastline face countless variations of the trade-off that troubles Pereira.

They are anxious to banish the spill to memory. But that is very different from being ready to forgive. They are proud to call themselves independent, yet unsettled to be relying on a company and government many distrust. They want nothing more than for their home places to go back to the way they used to be, and in some of the most visible ways, they have.

But uncertainty lingers, and anger, too.

What might be hidden under the waves?

When, if ever, can people so tied to the water be made whole?

As the anniversary of the spill approached, an Associated Press reporter traveled more than 600 miles along the Gulf Coast, from Louisiana’s bayous to the beaches of the Florida Panhandle, through many twists and turns in the region’s ever-evolving state of mind.

At every milepost, there were reminders of the region’s bounty and its resilience.

People, voicing faith in the Gulf ’s power, are eager to tell anyone who will listen that that their seafood is safe to eat, that tourists are returning, that the crisis was overblown — that they will not be bowed.

If only, some say more quietly, it was that simple.

At dawn, the sky south of New Orleans is fringed with violet and pockets of thick fog mix with the odor from Chevron’s Oronite fuel additives plant. But another 14 miles down Louisiana Highway 23, the sun breaks through and Mark Brockhoeft motors into a marshland that is its own world.

Mottled ducks erupt from the high grass.

Redfish slice the water like torpedoes.

Brockhoeft has plied this bayou as a fly fishing guide since 1993. But the familiar scene still kindles a smile.

“You can take it for granted,” he says. “We did. Until we were about to lose it.”

Before the spill was capped, thick slicks moved into Barataria Bay, about 10 miles south. The oil was the last in a series of setbacks for Brockhoeft, who before the last two recessions and Hurricane Katrina, worked on the water 250 days a year. When BP flooded the region with money, he hired out his boat for the cleanup for $1,560 a day.

Meanwhile, he sent back customers’ deposits and talked with friends about moving.

Crews kept the oil at bay long enough to keep these backwaters open to fishing and to cap the well. Now, when clients call to ask, Brockhoeft assures them that “it’s beautiful.

Come on down.”

But the guide says he’ll be glad this year to get bookings for more than 130 days on the water. And, while he’s upbeat about the health of the estuary, he watches for signs oil and dispersant might eventually filter into a world that sees fish and other wildlife migrate between bayou and Gulf.

“I wouldn’t bank on the way things are going to be five years from now,” he says.

“We might not even be here.”

Across the Mississippi River in Pointe a La Hache, oysterman Stanley Encalade is more certain of the spill’s toll. Encalade and others say they are barely hanging on after officials flooded shellfishing grounds with river water to keep out the oil, but killing oysters.

Before Katrina, Encalade says he made about $50,000 a year. But BP payments are based on the most recent years’ business, when he was climbing out of hurricaneinduced debt. So far, he’s gotten a $12,000 check from the compensation fund set up for those whose livelihoods were affected by the spill.

Encalade worries it could be years before the oyster come back. So he’s refitting his boat, Lady Pamela, with shrimping nets. But that is not a long-term answer.

“You’re going to put me out of business for five or six years and you’re going to pay me for the worst two years of my life? No man, I don’t think so,” Encalade says. “It’s not over by a longshot.”

At Gulfport, Miss. the next morning, Susan Joseph is out on the sand for sunrise, a devotion from Micah 6:8 ("O people, the Lord has told you what is good...") on her smartphone.

Joseph, from Prosper, Texas, is here to see her newborn grandchild, returning to the area where she spent childhood summers, at her grandmother’s house a block from the beach.

“I have a strong faith in God and I’m just really thankful he spared this area because it really is coming back,” Joseph says. “It’s just kind of sweet to know that in a few years I’ll be able to bring my granddaughter out here and play with her and tell her the stories.”

The stories Melvin and Christy Barnes’ five daughters are hearing, though, are very different. In 2004, the couple — she’s a former Allstate agent, he was a boiler operator — used retirement savings to buy a seafood restaurant and market in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

Katrina put the restaurant, Cuz’s, under more than 20 feet of water. The Barneses rebuilt and business was good enough that they employed 22.

But the spill closed waters that supplied much of the catch sold in the market.

Customers stayed away from the restaurant, too, repulsed by the idea of eating Gulf seafood. Christy says they’ve lost “an easy half a million” in sales. The business now employs six — its owners included.

When Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer supervising the BP spill compensation fund, met local business owners at the American Legion post in January, Melvin Barnes unloaded. Fund workers had lost his claim twice. They didn’t seem to understand he was barely making it.

“One of the guys (from the compensation fund) got on the phone, he says, ‘Well Cuz, it’s not costing you as much to operate,’” Melvin Barnes recalls. “I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’”

The Barneses have talked about closing and reopening inland, but doubt there would be as many customers for a seafood place. So they wait for an interim compensation offer to arrive.

"It’s going to be all right,” Melvin says, SEE SPILL PAGE 9

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FROM PAGE 8 sounding anything but convinced. “I want to stay positive. Negative attracts negative. But we’re doing OK. Each day gets better. Today wasn’t a good day, but ...”

The uncertainties facing the Barneses are very different from the ones occupying minds down the coast at The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport. Inside a white vinyl Quonset hut, workers huddle over tanks, tending to 50 sea turtles hooked accidentally in Mississippi Sound last spring and summer. Another 300 turtles washed up dead. In a normal year, the institute might take in two or three.

But after months of observation, the institute’s staff can only guess about possible connections between the strandings and spill, theorizing that the turtles swam in to escape the oil, or were chasing fish that were trying to escape.

“It’s a little tricky. You see changes. You make observations. But sometimes you don’t necessarily know what caused it,” research assistant Megan Broadway says. “It’s really a long-term process. It’s not like next week you’ll have answers.”

By afternoon, we’re heading down twolane highway 88 to Bayou La Batre, “the seafood capital of Alabama.”

Stan Wright has been mayor of this community of fishermen, shipbuilders, and shrimp and oyster processors for 11 years.

Once, he split his time between the elected post and running his family’s oyster business. But it’s been closed since last May, when the spill choked off supply.

“What happens with a hurricane is when the wind stops blowing, we start rebuilding,” says Wright, who wears blue mechanic’s clothes to city hall and owns a pickup with an “OYSTERS” license plate. “But we don’t know when the wind’s going to quit blowing with the oil spill.”

This confounds Wright, who used to consider himself expert at marshaling forces and working the system for aid. After Katrina, he turned his house into a command center.

The town used aid dollars to buy 74 acres on high land and build 100 houses for residents who lost theirs to the storm.

Since the spill, Bayou La Batre — which has a population of 2,800 — has filmed its own television commercial, promising its seafood is safe.

But mayor and town remain hamstrung.

Wright turns his pickup on to Shell Belt Road, pointing out the seafood plants shut by the spill. His spirits are buoyed when he pulls up alongside Dominick Ficarino, who tells how his shrimp processing business is up and thriving, promising customers its product can pass any test.

“Boy, I need you to get you some pompoms. You could be my cheerleader,” the mayor tells him.

But the feeling doesn’t last. Wright, who

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has been oystering for 48 of his 54 years, misses getting up at 4 a.m. to go to the family plant on Faith Street. And while he’s financially secure, he’s doesn’t know how long many of his town’s people can stay sidelined.

“People live here because they’ve got a job here. It’s not because they love it here. It’s because they work here and this is their life,” he says. “It’s hard to know what to tell them.”

The sign proclaims our arrival at the “world’s whitest beaches.” And a year after Pensacola Beach, Fla., was licked by the oil, the sand looks like sugar under a crystal sky.

At the Paradise Inn, a 55-room, tangerine-and-coral-hued motel, manager John Turk is busy sorting through reservations, but hasn’t forgotten last year.

“Boy, it just killed us to see that oil,” Turk says. “You could open the patio door of the house and smell it.”

Two years ago, he and his wife shelved their lives in Chicago to follow a dream and move down for a life of beach walks and kayaking.

At the height of the spill, Turk’s wife worried the school where she teaches might be closed to protect children from the fumes. In the hotel, with most rooms going begging, Turk watched endless news of the oil on the TV in the lobby. Now, he marvels at how quickly the spill was capped, although he remains disappointed in the federal government’s supervision of oil exploration.

“I can’t believe they let somebody go down that deep, 5,000 feet, and there weren’t five or six backups,” he says. “Mother Nature was very forgiving. But one of these days, she’s not going to be.”

On this sun-filled afternoon, though, the allure that has drawn people to Florida’s waters since the days of Ponce De Leon remains intact.

Down U.S. 98, it has made a believer of Steve DeNeef, unpacking supplies for his new scuba diving shop.

Late last year, DeNeef learned his scuba store in Oceanside, Calif., was losing its lease.

About that time, his wife, Amy, flew east to see their son, an Army helicopter pilot soon to leave for Afghanistan. She drove down to walk the beaches and called to report water so clear she could see the bottom.

DeNeef was intrigued. He remembered how, on a trip to New Orleans months after Katrina, he’d been amazed to find Bourbon Street rollicking. So he visited Florida, too, taking note of crews in Hazmat suits “trying to find oil,” although he didn’t see any. “That didn’t scare us. It’s like stuff comes, stuff goes,” he says.

Now, a year after the spill’s start, DeNeef ’s 27-foot Sea Ray is parked out back, testament to faith in the Gulf ’s resilience. Soon, the first customers will come in with questions about the waters that are this region’s greatest treasure. And DeNeef knows just what to tell them.

“Hey, I just got here,” he’ll say. “Let’s go experience it together.”

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CP FROM PAGE 1 helping with field trips to the airport.

On March 5, the group hosted Boy Scout troops from as far as Palmdale and Long Beach for a day of activities to help the boys earn their aviation merit badge.

The scouts learned about emergency procedures, participated in quiz games, got to build paper planes and then sit in the real thing.

It’s a great place for kids to appreciate the discipline, training and dedication it takes to become a pilot, said Howard Israel, a flyer with 32 years flight experience.

Joe Justice, owner of Justice Aviation, the largest flight school at SMO, hosts many of the events.

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Under the Department of Labor’s Senior Community Service Employment Program, more than 75,000 elderly Americans living in poverty in all 50 states earn their keep by the slimmest of margins. To qualify, participants must be over 55 and earning less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level — $13,600 a year.

In the budget bill signed Friday by President Barack Obama, the program was slashed by 45 percent, from $825 million to $450 million a year. Advocates say it could mean as many as 58,000 fewer jobs if states or national groups are forced to discontinue the program because of the reductions.

For 20 hours a week, Calderon bounces toddlers on her hip, feeds them cereal and cleans up after the at-risk children at downtown Los Angeles’ Para Los Ninos, a child-

gers of the airports, and the threats against his own business and livelihood.

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But the budget situation is dire, with the federal government borrowing 43 cents for every dollar it spends, which will lead to economic catastrophe unless federal spending is drastically cut, according Brian Riedl, research fellow in federal budget policy at the Heritage Foundation, a research institute that aims to promote conservative principles. His organization has recommended terminating the program entirely.

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FROM PAGE 1 facilities. It is currently housed in the Boys & Girls Club. Concord High was located in an office building on Wilshire Boulevard, but when former director Susan Packer-DavisHille fell behind on rent, the landlord filed for eviction.

Packer-Davis-Hille resigned, along with her husband, Eric Hille, and left three parents to deal with the aftermath. The newly formed board of directors of Concord High said they had no choice but to file for bankruptcy after pouring over the school’s finances, finding questionable expenditures made by PackerDavis-Hille. Classes were cancelled.

The school is suing the former director, her husband and son for allegedly misusing more than $1 million in school funds.

Concord High, which was founded in 1973 by Packer-Davis-Hille’s mother and which had a reputation for helping troubled teens go on to Ivy League schools, is operating in name only so that students can receive transcripts.

While rocked by the school’s closure and alleged mismanagement by Packer-DavisHille, parents and teachers have rallied and created a new school that students are fiercely defending as a haven of supportive, successful learning.

Teachers said they have solidified plans to continue Concord Prep at the Boys & Girls Club in the fall, and the administration is optimistic about next year’s enrollment.

The administration, comprised of teachers from Concord High with hopes of carrying on its legacy, admits the bankruptcy shook up the faculty, but is confident that the resulting changes will be for the better.

“I see that it was a sort of monarchy where [Packer-Davis-Hille] knew who to keep happy and how happy to keep them as to not cause questions or concerns to surface,” said Max Duganne, director of finance, and a math and social science teacher, “The fact of the matter was that the school was too successful and people were generally too happy to question anything.

“With a background now in corporate finance, I can see that there were no checks and balances and no real business plans to govern a well functioning business.”

These things have already been addressed with Concord Prep, said Duganne.

“There is no longer one person filling the roles of head of school, admissions, operations, and the board. We have different people for all of those roles as to better perfect and specialize. We also have moved away from a system of financial aid where special deals are made for subjective reasons and now use a more objective system along with the majority of private schools” Other changes include the creation of an endowment and a focus on fundraising, aspects that were never on Packer-DavisHille’s radar, Duganne said.

The viability of Concord Prep, though initially unsteady, has impressed parents and students.

“When Susan was at the helm there was no communication, community or involvement,” said Debbie Mahdessian, whose son is in his second year at Concord. “The change has allowed a community to form. I have developed close friendships, and a sense of being a part of a community that is unique and is worth fighting for.”

Students say that while the location shift was abrupt and the class size reduced, they are loyal to the school for the education it provides.

“I am amazed at how the teachers have been able to make the transition seem so seamless, and have continued to provided the exact same level of academics at the old Concord despite the turmoil of this year,” said Miwa Sakamoto, who praises the school’s focus on traditional academics and personal responsibility.

“The teachers are there to teach and to help when things don’t make sense but they are not there to simply hold our hands and do most of the load,” said Sakamoto. “I feel that concord is one of the few places that truly prepares young adults for the reality waiting beyond high school.”

Parents and students emphasized how unique the school is in providing a traditional academic focus while fostering close relationships between teachers and their classes, which are usually comprised of only five to 10 students.

“One of the parents remarked to me that families often have a difficult time connecting with their children in the teenage years,” said Head of School and English teacher Andrew Taylor, “but our teachers seem to have a special knack for it. We get through to them, revive their interest in learning, and instill a sense of ambition again, which can go adrift in middle school.”

Sakamoto recalled how her history teacher made learning exciting through her passion and enthusiasm for each lesson.

“She is able to make these 100-year-old facts into exciting stories that will be forever in my head,” she said.

Marissa DeSiena, who is now vice principal and director of admissions, and who also teaches history, reported that 100 percent of this year’s graduating class was admitted to four-year universities, among them UCLA, Berkeley, John Hopkins University, University of Chicago, Skidmore, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

“I think that many people are not aware of just how successful we are,” said DeSiena.

DeSiena is now coordinating admissions for a summer school session, and hopes that enrollment in the fall will grow to 60 students, now that the price of tuition at the school has dropped significantly — from $29,000 a year to $17,000.

Teachers have foregone benefits for the upcoming year to keep costs at a minimum, and the schools operating budget has shrunk to $650,000, just enough to pay rent and teacher salaries.

“We never gave up,” said DeSiena. “Our hearts and souls are in this school.“ news@smdp.com

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Conway comes back to win at Long Beach JOHN MARSHALL

by one of the most frightening crashes in Indianapolis 500 history. Colliding with future teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay, Conway’s car went hurtling through the air and smashed into barrier,leaving him with multiple fractures in his lower left leg and a compression fracture in his back.

Never doubting he’d return, Conway went through a grueling rehabilitation with an eye at returning before the 2010 season ended. He was still on crutches in August, though, and never made it back.

Racing for Andretti Autosport this season, Conway had an uneven return, finishing 23rd in the season opener at St. Petersburg, 22nd at Alabama last week.

Once he got to California, everything seemed to fall in place.

The 27-year-old English driver started third after a surprisingly-good qualifying session and was able to hang with the leaders on the 11-turn, 1.968-mile circuit through the streets of downtown Long Beach while avoiding the multiple late-race crashes.

Charging out of a final caution, he whipped past two-time defending series champion Dario Franchitti and Briscoe with 14 laps left, then extended his lead from there, up 6 seconds on the final lap before taking the checkers.

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LONG BEACH His left leg broken in pieces, his back fractured as well, Mike Conway wanted to know just one thing after his horrific crash at the Indianapolis 500: When can a get back behind the wheel?

Once he wrapped his mind around the reality of a long layoff, Conway went about fixing his body.

His nearly yearlong recovery complete, Conway earned his first career IndyCar victory in impressive fashion, zipping past Ryan Briscoe late to win the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday in just his third race since that bone-breaking crash at Indy.

“As soon as it happened, I wanted to know what the timeframe was until I could get back into the car,” Conway said. “I was kind of over it, really, and the physical things just kind of take time. It was a long offseason, but there was a lot to keep my mind on and when I got a chance to get back into the car, I was ready.”

It was questionable whether he’d get the chance when the wreck happened.

Driving for Dreyer & Reinbold, Conway saw his future become shrouded in a cloud of smoke

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★★★★ Don't be surprised if you are tired. You have pushed and fought for certain key elements. Others play devil's advocate; they like this role! Let these same people run with the ball while you worry about other matters. Tonight: Chat over munchies.

★★★ Try not to use negativity to restrict others. You might be making a judgment that is not valid for other people, though it could be for you. Note the power of positive thinking.

Tonight: Go over your budget. Pay bills.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

★★★ Understand the role of timing. Though you might be pushed to make a presentation or express your thoughts on an important matter, irritation keeps mounting within. There are simply days that are better than others. You are experiencing this now. Tonight: Listen to suggestions.

★★★★★ You'll strengthen your position through leadership, charisma and communication. You wonder how anyone can say no to you. Just watch and maintain a sense of humor.

Take criticism with a grain of salt. Tonight: What would make you smile?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

★★★ Maintain a more solid and direct pace.

You know what is possible, but are you prepared to go to battle? Others will not cave in to your ideas without some convincing. Honor someone's suggestion. Tonight: Working late.

★★★★ You could be exhausted. Do stop and look to see if this fatigue could be taking its toll on you. You might need to take steps to recycle, whether it is taking part of the day off or changing your plans. Tonight: Make yourself primary.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ Tap into your imagination if you are feeling frustrated or exhausted. Your ability to move through your emotions will help you.

Realize what is happening within you. Do you feel negative? Tired? Not cared about?

Tonight: Have a little fun on the way home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ Distraction occurs if you are having a disagreement or are too much in your head. Do be careful, knowing you might be accidentprone. You'll find out how little control you have. Laugh and relax when dealing with a frustrating person. Understand where he or she is coming from. Tonight: Let your mind roam.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ Zero in on what you need, and ask for support. You might keep finding yourself among a crowd of friends or associates. Listen and see where a boss or respected leader is coming from. Rethink your position. Tonight: Whether it's pushing the broom or taking a walk, get some exercise.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★ Others make demands, and you need to make a statement about what you think. Many people look to you for leadership. Make an effort to learn more and expand your intellectual perspective. Tonight: You could go till the wee hours.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

★★★ You might see a problem arise financially.

By now, you could be an expert at handling money problems. Understanding evolves to a new level. See someone as realistically as possible. Make it OK not to agree. Use these differences positively. Tonight: Have an inevitable talk.

★★★★ Push to gain a different perspective.

Don't get locked in a struggle of wills that could be unusually difficult. The only way out is to clear out your present thinking and find a new route. Tonight: Put on a favorite piece of music.

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JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: ★★★★★Dynamic ★★ So-So ★★★★ Positive ★ Difficult ★★★ Average

This year, you might act, only to wonder later if there was a more effective path. Consider taming your innate enthusiasm. Taking your time to act on key decisions can only help, but it will demand unusual self-discipline. If you are single, you want what you want. Of course it is good to know what you want, but perhaps you could be stomping on a valid tie. If you are attached, realize the impact of your unusual strength this year.

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Speed Bump

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■ Laney Wallace, 16, won the beauty contest at the 53rd Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas, in March and the next day fulfilled the first duty of her reign: to behead and skin a western diamondback.

"You have to make sure you don't pop the bladder," the 2011 Miss Snake Charmer said shortly after taking a few swipes with a machete. "That (would be) a huge mess." (Three years ago, News of the Weird informed readers of the annual beautycontest/muskrat-skinning festival in Maryland's Eastern Shore region, in which the "beauty" part and the "skinning" part are separate -- but in which that year, two teenage girls entered both, with Dakota Abbott edging out Samantha Phillips for the crown.)

■ Record companies have enjoyed recent successes in court by suing individuals who have shared music by trading files through specialized websites that avoid paying copyright licensing fees, including Lime Wire (which shut down last year).

Thirteen record companies won a summary judgment last year, and, applying a formula they believe was set out in federal law, the companies demanded that Lime Wire pay damages of up to $75 trillion -- an amount more than five times the entire national debt. In March 2011, a federal judge said the companies should modify the formula and lower their expectations.

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Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

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Name Changes ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. NS023829 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of KRISTI LYN CARROLL for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner or Attorney: KRISTI LYN CARROLL filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: KRISTI LYN CARROLL to KRIS LANDON CARROLL . The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 5/9/11 Time: 1:30PM, Dept. G, Room. 51 The address of the court is Superior Court, 415 W. Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: 4/1/11 DOUGLAS HAIGH SUPERVISING JUDGE 4/4/11, 4/11/11, 4/18/11, 4/25/11 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. SS020585 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of THOMAS BENNETT EELLS for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner or Attorney: THOMAS BENNETT EELLS for filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: THOMAS BENNETT EELLS for to THOMAS BENNETT CHAMBERLIN The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: MARCH 5, 2011 Time: 8:30AM, Dept. A., Room 104 The address of the court is 1725 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90401.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: MARCH 25, 2011 GERALD ROSENBERG Judge Of The Superior Court 3/28/11, 4/4/11, 4/11/11, 4/18/11 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. YS022351 Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles Petition of JASON JAMES LEAL for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

Name Changes Petitioner or Attorney: JASON JAMES LEAL filed a petition with this court for a decree of changing names as follows: JASON JAMES LEAL to JASON JAMES THOMAS. The court orders that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Notice of Hearing: Date: MAY 31, 2011 Time: 8:30AM, Dept. B The address of the court is Los Angeles Superior Court, 825 Maple Ave, Torrance, CA 90503 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Monica Daily Press.

Date: 4/14/2011 MARK S. ARNOLD SUPERVISING JUDGE 4/18/11, 4/25/11, 5/2/11, 5/9/11

DBAS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110312853 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/28/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as DOGS DAY OUT. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JOYCE KANG 9600 SEPULVEDA BLVD #15 NORTH HILLS, CA 91343. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)02/27/2011. /s/: JOYCE KANG; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/28/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110441860 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/24/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as BARBARA LIPSCOMB; BARBARA LIPCOMB COACHING . The full name of registrant(s) is/are: BARBARA LIPSCOMB COACHING 417 BAY STREET #3 SANTA MONICA, CA 90405 . This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)01/01/2011. /s/: BARBARA LIPSCOMB; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/24/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110441859 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/24/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CEDAR DALE HOWEOWNERS ASSOCIATION. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: . This Business is being conducted by: . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/24/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110441862 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/24/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TanGO CLOTH USA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: KEVIN HOMAIZAD 2445 RUE LE CHARLENE RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA 90275. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above.

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/s/:KEVIN HOMAIZAD; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/24/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0446650 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TOP SERVICE TOURS, 4405 W. RIVERSIDE DR. #204, BURBANK, CA 91505. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) LEN AND CLO TRAVEL, LLC, 4405 W. RIVERSIDE DR. #204, BURBANK, CA 91505.

This Business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: LEONARD EDELSTEIN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/24/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/18/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110441863 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/24/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PRO SUP SHOP. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: NICOLE VONRIESON; MICHAEL VAUGHAN 1833 18TH ST SANTA MONICA, CA 90404. This Business is being conducted by: a Partnership. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/21/2011. /s/: NICOLE VONRIESEN; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/24/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FILE NO. 2010-0438363 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: TRINH CARE & SANDWISHES, 14426 S. CRENSHAW BLVD., GARDENA, CA 90249. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on 10/10/2006, in the county of Los Angeles. The original file number of 20062247221. The business was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 03/23/11. The business 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: CHRISTINE TRINH/OWNER. Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FILE NO. 2010-0423227 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: LA YALALTECA MEAT MARKET, 2596 W. PICO BLVD., L.A., CA 90006. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on 04/12/2006, in the county of Los Angeles. The original file number of 06-0802268. The business was conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on 03/21/11. The business 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: EUCARIO MIRELO/OWNER. Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0423398 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TRIO LOS FRANCO ENTERTAINMENT, 7251 IRWINGROVE DR., DOWNEY, CA 90241. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) LUIS MENDOZA, 7251 IRWINGROVE DR., DOWNEY, CA 90241. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: LUIS MENDOZA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/21/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0438360 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TRINH CAFÉ AND SANDWICHES, 14426 S. CRENSHAW BLVD., GARDENA, CA 90249. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) MICHAEL MINH NGUYEN, 15009 EAST WOOD, LAWNDALE, CA 90260. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MICHAEL MINH NGUYEN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/23/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0423955 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THANK GOD FOR CLEANING, 16818 E. DEVANAH ST., COVINA, CA 91722. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) PORFIRIO EDGAR GARCIA, ARLENE CELESTE GARCIA, 16818 E. DEVANAH ST., COVINA, CA 91722. This Business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: PORFIRIO EDGAR GARCIA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/21/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0423234 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RINCONCITO OAXAQUENO MARKET, 2596 W. PICO BLVD., L.A., CA 90016. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) LUIS M. LOPEZ, FRANCISCO AQUINO, 2596 W. PICO BLVD., L.A., CA 90016.

This Business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: LUIS M. LOPEZ. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/21/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0430104 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MONTALVO‘S MOBILE CAR WASH, 8116 RANCHO PODEROSA RD., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) MARICELA MONTALVO, 8116 RANCHO PODEROSA RD., PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MARICELA MONTALVO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/22/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0417722 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ENTERPRISES FLOORING SUPPLIES, 10837 REICHLING LN., WHITTIER, CA 90606. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) FLOORING IMPROVEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC., 10837 REICHLING LN., WHITTIER, CA 90606. This Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: SAUL NAVARRO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/18/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/18/2011. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. March 28, April 04, 11, 18, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0417807 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: E X 3, 816 LAKE AVE., LA VERNE, CA 91750.

Full name of registrant(s) is (are) VIRGINIA ESPINOZA, 816 LAKE AVE., LA VERNE, CA 91750. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: VIRGINIA ESPINOZA. This statement was

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110337978 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/04/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SHAWN MAKINTELLE. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: SHAWN HILLARD 319 S NEW HAMPSHIRE #104 LOS ANGELES, CA 90020. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/04/2011. /s/: SHAWN HILLARD. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/04/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110421449 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/21/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as WILLIAM ZATTARA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: WILLIAM BARDINI 1014 HILL ST APT 5 SANTA MONICA, CA 90405 . This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:WILLIAM BARDINI; SOLE PROPRIETOR . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/21/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110423058 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/21/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as QWERTY GUYS. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JOEL CARDINAL 45662 BARHAM CT LANCASTER, CA 93534. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual.

The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:JOEL CARDINAL ; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/21/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code).

SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110422836 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/21/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as DJ MARVELOUS EVENTS; TAMALA GREEN ENERGY . The full name of registrant(s) is/are: MARVIN BUTLER 3701 MONTCLAIR ST #1 LOS Angeles, CA 90018. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/21/2011. /s/: MARVIN BUTLER; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/21/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110413975 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/18/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SOLANEE. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: STEPHANIE GALLET 101 MARGUERITA AVE #A SANTA MONICA, CA 90402. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:STEPHAINE GALLET; OWNER OF SOLANEE. This statement was

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filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/18/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110393068 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/15/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as STUDIO R3 ARCHITECTURE. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: PETER RITTNER 1069 PALMS BLVD VENICE, CA 90291. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/01/2011. /s/: PETER RITTNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/15/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

business name or names listed above on 03/22/11. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/28/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/28/11. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

as: EDGE-UP BARBER SHOP; EDGE-UP; EDGE-UP KIOSK; EDGE-UP BARBER SHOP KIOSK, 6000 SEPULVEDA BLVD., CULVER CITY, CA 90230. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) PERCY SOUDER, 8717 S. 3rd AVE., INGLEWOOD, CA 90305. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: PERCY SOUDER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/31/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/31/2011. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110335797 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/03/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as LIQUID ALCHEMY GROUP. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JOHN GRONDORF 1037 11TH STREET #2 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:JOHN GRONDORF; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/03/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110347906 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/07/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as HEALTHY BY NATURE; HEALTHYBYNATURE. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: STACY KUPPERMAN 7924 CLINTON STREET, APT 8 Los Angeles, CA 90048.

This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:STACY KUPPERMAN; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/07/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110324711 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/03/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as HOUSE HEALING CONSTRUCTION. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: MICHAEL BRENNAN 1640 ARMACOST AVE #6 LOS ANGELES, CA 90025. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:MICHAEL BRENNAN; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/03/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110363028 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/09/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as WHOLE CIRCLE; WHOLE CIRCLE PRESS. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JESSICA MARTINSON 10584 SANTA MONICA BLVD #104 LOS ANGELES, CA 90025. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual.

The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:JESSICA MARTINSON; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/09/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110430784 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/22/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as RED VIOLIN GROUP. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: TIM MIKLAUCIC; REIKO NAKANO 1429 N. TIGERTAIL RD; 3676 VINTON AVE #102 LOS ANGELES, CA 90049; LOS ANGELES, CA 90034. This Business is being conducted by: a Partnership. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:TIM MIKLAUCIC; PARTNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/22/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 03/28/2011, 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0475492 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THE COFFEE, 1940 LAS PALOMAS DR., LA HABRA HTS., CA 90631. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) RAUL ALVARADO, 1940 LAS PALOMAS DR., LA HABRA HTS., CA 90631. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: RAUL ALVARADO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/30/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/30/11. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0482236 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EDGE-UP BARBER SHOP; EDGE-UP, 6000 SEPULVEDA BLVD., CULVER CITY, CA 90230. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) PERCY SOUDER, 8717 S. 3rd AVE., INGLEWOOD, CA 90305. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: PERCY SOUDER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/31/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110430283 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on-* 03/22/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as ZODIAK USA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: RDF MEDIA USA, INC 225 SANTA MONICA BLVD, 5TH FLOOR SANTA MONICA, CA 90401. This Business is being conducted by: a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/14/2011. /s/: TRACEY MITCHEL-LAI; VP OF FINANCE. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/22/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110449394 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/25/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as THE ASHER GROUP. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JERRY ASHER 2102 CENTURY PARK LANE, #416 LOS ANGELES, CA 90067. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)02/01/2011. /s/: JERRY ASHER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/25/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110480000 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/31/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as HOTEL COLORADO. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: STEP UP ON SECOND STREET 1328 SECOND STREET SANTA MONICA, CA 90401. This Business is being conducted by: a Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/17/2010. /s/: STEP UP ON SECOND STREET; OWNER . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/31/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110379817 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/11/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as KOCA PHOTO. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: OMAR GALVEZ 12310 PACIFIC AVENUE #2 LOS ANGELES, CA 90066. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:OMAR GALVEZ; PRESIDENT . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/11/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110347030 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/07/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CHRYSALIS COUTURE. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: CASSANDRA STEARNS 229 SAN VICENTE BLVD, UNIT K SANTA MONICA, CA 90402. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:CASSANDRA STEARNS; OWNER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR DESIGNER . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/07/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

ICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0452573 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RELIIABLE REPAIR AND PRESERVATION, INC., 2648 E. WORKMAN AVE. #223, WEST COVINA, CA 91791. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) RELIABLE REPAIR AND PRESERVATION, INC., 2648 E. WORKMAN AVE. #223, WEST COVINA, CA 91791.

This Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: ARIC DEFUSCO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/25/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110479999 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/31/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as COCOON TRADING .

The full name of registrant(s) is/are: PENSRI THIENPIRAK 151 FRASER AVE SANTA MONICA, CA 90405 . This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/1990. /s/: PENSRI THIENPIRAK; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/31/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0483150 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: OIL PLANET INTERNATIONAL, 1940 LAS PALOMAS DR., LA HABRA HTS., CA 90631. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) RAUL ALVARADO, 1940 LAS PALOMAS DR., LA HABRA HTS., CA 90631. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: RAUL ALVARADO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/31/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/31/11. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0474229 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MERIDIAN DAY SPA, 808 HILLDALE AVE., WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) MERIDIAN MASSAGE & REFLEXOLOGY LLC, 808 HILLDLAE AVE., WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069. This Business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: MICHAEL LIANG. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/30/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110430599 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/22/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as AI#ON 201101310276 GREENLIGHT AVIATION LLC. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: GREENLIGHT AVIATION, LLC 2602 3RD STREET SANTA MONICA, CA 90405 .

This Business is being conducted by: a Limited Liability Company. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:GREENLIGHT AVIATION, LLC; OWNER . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/22/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0458944 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SOSA PALLETS, 14636 VALLEY BLVD., LA PUENTE, CA 91746. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) MARIO SOSA BUCIO, 14636 VALLEY BLVD., LA PUENTE, CA 91746. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: MARIO SOSA BUCIO. This statement was filed with the County

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110403155 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/16/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TIMEWARP MUSIC .

The full name of registrant(s) is/are: SHANE GUDLOW 3780 OCEAN VIEW AVE #10 LOS ANGELES, CA 90066. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/05. /s/: SHANE GUDLOW; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/16/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110483820 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/31/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as HOLLYWOOD POOL GUYS. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: MICHAEL CRANE 174 WEST FOOTHILL BLVD MONROVIA , CA 91016. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/31/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110437469 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/23/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as OMNIMEDIA MUSIC. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: ADAM LEVENSON 1315 FRANKLIN STREET #D SANTA MONICA, CA 90404. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)03/01/2011. /s/: ADAM LEVENSON; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/23/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110474590 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/30/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as AI#ON 20072750002 ANGELENO HOMES. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: GREEN BUILDING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT L.P 1223 WILSHIRE BLVD #212 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403. This Business is being conducted by: a Limited Parntership. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:GREEN BUILDING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT L.P ; PRESIDENT . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/30/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/04/2011, 04/11/2011, 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0482236 The following person(s) is (are) doing business

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0452967 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MIKE HAWK TEES, 344 CARRIONE CT., POMONA, CA 91766. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) JASON KIM, 18945 NORTHERN DANCER LN., YORBA LINDA, CA 92886, SEAN HATASHITA, 344 CARRIONE CT., POMONA, CA 91766. This Business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: JASON KIM. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/25/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0483500 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LETTY’S AUTO SALES, 9727 SAN CARLOS AVE., SOUTH GATE, CA 90280. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) LETICIA SANCHEZ, 9727 SAN CARLOS AVE., SOUTH GATE, CA 90280. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: LETICIA SANCHEZ. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/31/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0475119 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SALUD VERDADERATERAPIAS HOLISTICAS, 3425 E. 1st ST., L.A., CA 90063. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) MARIO CESAR CALDERON, 1177 W. EVANS ST., SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411, MISNORALBA RAMIREZ, 570 S. FERRIS AVE., L.A., CA. This Business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: MARIO CALDERON. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/30/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0481695 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HONG KONG EXPRESS CA, 2006 W. 6th ST. #A, L.A., CA 90057-3164. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) PEDRO A. PINEDA ROSALES, 2006 W. 6th ST. #A, L.A., CA 90057-3164. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: PEDRO A. PINEDA ROSALES. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 03/31/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 04, 11, 18, 25, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-000977 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ACTION LED LIGHTING & SUPPLY, 320 W. MADISON AVE. #B, MONTEBELLO, CA 90640. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) HAROUT ART PAYTARYAN, 320 W. MADISON AVE. #B, MONTEBELLO, CA 90640. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: HAROUT ART PAYTARYAN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/05/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 092011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2011003266 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 04/08/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CHAMBERS PROPERTY MAINTENANCE . The full name of registrant(s) is/are: MATT CHAMBERS 1037 2ND ST, APT #2 SANTA MONICA, CA 90403. This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:MATT CHAMBERS; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 04/08/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011, 05/02/2011, 05/09/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110430285 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/22/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as LA DIVINA FRENCH CREPES CATERING. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: RENE ANTONIO MENDOZA 2121 OCEAN AVE #9 SANTA MONICA, CA 90405.

This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:RENE ANTONIO MENDOZA ; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/22/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011, 05/02/2011, 05/09/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-001875 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AIRCKA MARIE‘S HOUSE, 855 W. 102nd ST. #8, L.A., CA 90044. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) BERT EVANS, 855 W. 102nd ST. #8, L.A., CA 90044. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: BERT EVANS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/06/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2011000267 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 04/04/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PREVENTIONTHRUFITNESS; PREVENTIONTHRUFITNESS.COM. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: PATRICK LOSASSO 1167 MONTECITO DR LOS ANGELES, CA 90031.

This Business is being conducted by: an Individual. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:PATRICK LOSASSO; OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 04/04/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011, 05/02/2011, 05/09/2011.

Statement of Abandonment of Use of Fictitious Business Name Document Record #2011004573 Current File No. 20110316530 State of California, County of Los Angeles The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious Business name: KRISTA HAYNES NUTRITION CONSULTING, 8238 W. MANCHESTER AVE. #205, PLAYA DEL REY, CA 90293 The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on 3/1/11 in the county of LOS ANGELES. Registered owners: KRISTA LYNN HAYNES, R.D, 8238 W. MANCHESTER AVE. #205, PLAYA DEL REY, CA 90293 This business is conducted by: INDIVIDUAL /s/ KRISTA L. HAYNES, R.D. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 4/11/11 Published: SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS 4/18/11, 4/25/11, 5/2/11, 5/9/11

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 2011003265 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 04/08/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as AI#ON 3343643 JIM MILLER RESIDENTIAL REALTY. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: JIM MILLER RESIDENTIAL REALTY 820 GLENMERE WAY Los Angeles, CA 90049. This Business is being conducted by: a Corporation. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:JIM MILLER RESIDENTIAL REALTY; PRESIDENT . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 04/08/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011, 05/02/2011, 05/09/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-002513 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ADAJET MANAGEMENT SERVICES, 1935 S. SHADYDALE AVE., WEST COVINA, CA 91790. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) CARMEN DELGADO, 1935 S. SHADYDALE AVE., WEST COVINA, CA 91790. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: CARMEN DELGADO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/07/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-003158 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WCR HOLLYWOOD STAGE & SOUND, 5630 W. VENICE BLVD. STE 10, L.A., CA 90019. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) WESLEY ROBY, 5630 W. VENICE BLVD. STE 10, L.A., CA 90019. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: WESLEY ROBY. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/08/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-007314 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TRUE TUTORS, 301 S. ALMONT DR., BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90211. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) NAZANIN MOVAGHAR, 301 S. ALMONT DR., BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90211. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: NAZANIN MOVAGHAR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/14/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25,

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May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-006523 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QUALITY EXAMINATION, 1710 MAGELLAN ST., WEST COVINA, CA 91791. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) SUE W. TANG, 1710 ,AGELLAN ST., WEST COVINA, CA 91791. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: SUE W. TANG. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/14/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-005266 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ECLECTIONS FINE UPHOLSTERY; ECLECTIONS FINE FURNITURE; ECLECTIONS FURNITURE; SUNRISE LIVING ROOMS; SUNRISE LUXURY LIVING ROOMS, 4620 SEVILE AVE., VERNON, CA 90058.

Full name of registrant(s) is (are) SUNRISE LUXURY LIVING ROOMS, INC., 4620 SEVILLE AVE., VERNON, CA 90058. This Business is conducted by: A CORPORATION. Signed: FRANK GARCIA. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/12/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-002620 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GMPOWER, 13736 SAUDER ST., LAWNDALE, CA 91746. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) GERVASIO MORALES, 13736 SAUDER ST., LA PUENTE, CA 91746. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: GERVASIO MORALES. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/07/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-003687 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PRIMO ENTERPRISES, 1046 GREENHEDGE ST., TORRANCE, CA 90502. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) LUIS A. CUELLAR, DAVID A. ULL, 1046 GREENHEDGE ST., TORRANCE, CA 90502. This Business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Signed: LUIS A. CUELLAR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/08/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-005566 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A QUICK TOW, 3817 SEPULVEDA BLVD., CULVER CITY, CA 90230. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) ABELARDO RIVAS, 12400 S. BENFIELD AVE., NORWALK, CA 90650. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: ABELARDO RIVAS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/12/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-003684 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KINGS OF SUNSET, 1460 N. SWEETZER AVE., W. HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) KINGS OF SUNSET LLC, 1460 N. SWEETZER AVE., W. HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069. This Business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: LUIS A. CUELLAR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/08/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-003591 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A BUTTERFLI AFFAIR, 468 N. CAMDEN DR. STE 200, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) JANETTE BENTLEY, 1250 ADAMS AVE. #B103, COSTA MESA, CA 92626. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: JANETTE BENTLEY. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/08/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 02/18/2010. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-006159 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JOHN CONN PHOTOGRAPHY, 5650 FAIR AVE. #7, L.A., CA 91601. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) WINSTON CONN, 5650 FAIR AVE. #7, L.A., CA 91601. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: WINSTON CONN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/13/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-005448 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: D & A TRUCKING, 406 W. GARFIELD AVE., GLENDALE, CA 91204. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) DAVID ALAS, 406 W. GARFIELD AVE., GLENDALE, CA 91204. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: DAVID ALAS. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/12/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 18, 25, May 02, 09, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0486896 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LOFT 203 PRODUCTIONS; VILLIAGE IDIOT PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTIONS, 1250 LONG BEACH AVE. #203, L.A., CA 90021. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) SCOTT BURGIN, 1250 LONG BEACH AVE. #203, L.A., CA 90021. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: SCOTT BURGIN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/01/11.

The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/01/2011. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-001477 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GRUPO LA JOYA DE MICHOACAN DE OMAR LEON, 106 S. CARONDELET ST. #7, L.A.., CA 90057. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) OMAR LEON, 106 S. CARONDELET ST. #7, L.A., CA 90057. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: OMAR LEON. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/06/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date.

The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0489665 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FOUR CAFÉ LLC, 2122? COLORADO BLVD., EAGLE ROCK, CA 90041. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) FOUR CAFÉ LLC, 5249 BAKER DR., EAGLE ROCK, CA 90041. This Business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Signed: C. WILTON. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/01/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 04/02/2010. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: 20110435883 ORIGINAL FILING This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES on 03/23/2011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as FIT LIMIT. The full name of registrant(s) is/are: MIKE LAYTON; KENDRICK RIBEIRO 1018 20TH #D; 925 SOUTH WOLLE RD SANTA MONICA, CA 90403; SUNNYVALE , CA 94086. This Business is being conducted by: a Partnership. The registrant has not yet commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above. /s/:MIKE LAYTON; CO-OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 03/23/2011. 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 PRIOR TO THAT DATE. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name statement in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411et seq.,Business and Professions Code). SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS to publish 04/18/2011, 04/25/2011, 05/02/2011, 05/09/2011.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-002828 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EK CONSULTING SERVICES; SIMPLY WILD, 4622 CADISON ST., TORRANCE, CA 90503. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) EVELYN KINSEY, 4622 CADISON ST., TORRANCE, CA 90503. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: EVELYN KINSEY. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/07/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/1990. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-0490984 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CRUZ MANAGEMENT, 16907 S. VERMONT AVE. #A, GARDENA, CA 90247. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) JOSE ALFREDO CRUZ, LAURA CRUZ, 16907 S. VERMONT AVE. #A, GARDENA, CA 90247. This Business is conducted by: HUSBAND and WIFE. Signed: JOSE ALFREDO CRUZ. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/01/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02,

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DBAS 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 11-002558 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: COUNT BENTLEYS FAMILY, 2812? HILLCREST DR., L.A., CA 90016. Full name of registrant(s) is (are) RAYMOND PAYNE, 2812? HILLCREST DR., L.A., CA 90016. This Business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. Signed: RAYMOND PAYNE. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 04/07/11. The registrant(s) has (have) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. NOTICE- This Fictitious 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 prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of 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. Business and Professions Code) Pub. April 11, 18, 25, May 02, 2011 Publish: Santa Monica Daily Press

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