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Recession hits recyclers extra hard

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MID-CITY Instead of a black Monday it was a black month last October for one of Santa Monica’s leading recyclers, Allan Co. Depending on the commodity, prices for recycled goods have dropped anywhere from 10 to 40 percent, and even more in some cases, said Adam Holt, general manager of the Allan Co. Santa Monica Recycling Center.

As consumer demand for autos, appliances and new homes dropped, so did the steel and pulp mills’ demand for scrap, paper and other recyclables.

“For the most part it was the global economic situation, it was the main factor,” Holt said. “This time of year is pretty notorious for being slow, but not like this. It happened really fast. October was a bloodbath, it was going down — sometimes 10 to 15 times a day. It was scary.”

Holt was referring to the price on their most commonly received commodity, old corrugated containers (OCC), a paper product. Holt said in the summer the price for OCC was as high as $130 for a ton.

“The price today is $10 [a ton] — just a complete meltdown,” Holt said.

Jose Ramirez is a regular paper recycler at the Santa Monica Recycling Center. He takes excess papers from the L.A. Times and recycles them. Ramirez said the price drop has affected him “big time.”

Before the month of October Ramirez would average $80 to $100 for every truck load he brought in. Now, for the exact same amount he’s getting $14 to $18.

The recycling job takes him about three

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Local artist stands up for elephant

BY TAYLOR VAN ARSDALE Special to the Daily Press

L.A. ZOO The fate of a lone elephant here hangs in the balance but not if artist/animal activist and longtime Santa Monica resident Katina Zinner has anything to say about it.

The ebullient Zinner, who fuses her personal connection to nature and love of animals into thought provoking, emotionally turbulent yet sometimes playful “Flowing Abstracts” — magnificent contemporary oils that also suggest a contemplation of space and movement — has long been involved with the Los Angeles Alliance for Elephants and was part of the recent protests at Los Angeles City Hall over the L.A. Zoo’s proposed “Pachyderm Forest” and their one remaining elephant, Billy.

“The city is proposing to spend $42 million to expand the elephant exhibit, and bring in six, seven, or eight more elephants.

These creatures need proper room to grow.

They should be at a sanctuary,” said Zinner who believes the 3.6-acre compound would not provide suitable growing room for its occupants.

According to reports, 13 elephants have died at the L.A. Zoo since 1975 from captivity related diseases varying from foot disease to arthritis.

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State offices to close first and third Fridays due to lingering fiscal crisis

BY DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO Californians — and their state government employees — will start feeling the pain of the state’s fiscal crisis in February when offices will be closed two days a month.

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The Schwarzenegger administration announced the move on Friday, revealing how it planned to implement the executive order the governor signed last month mandating furloughs for state workers.

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L.A. officials reveal new tourism marketing slogan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES The city last week unveiled a new marketing campaign built around the slogan “That’s So L.A.” to keep tourists coming despite the nation’s economic turndown.

“Tourism is the lifeblood of our economy,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told a press conference in Hollywood. “We can’t afford

to let the benefits of the industry stop flowing to the heart of the city.”

The campaign will feature ads spotlighting unique sites in the city, its major attractions and images of celebrities including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, basketball stars Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Baron Davis of the Clippers, soccer star David Beckham and Lauren Conrad of MTV’s “The Hills.”

City officials say tourism is the secondlargest industry in Los Angeles and supports more than a quarter-million jobs. In the past year, tourism brought in $14.2 billion, the mayor’s office said in a statement.

“We don’t have the luxury of losing tourists,” Villaraigosa said at the news conference attended by Universal Studios President Larry Kurzweil and other officials.

“With 26 million visitors hitting our streeets

in 2008 we know that people still want to come to the city of the angels.”

The campaign — online marketing and print and radio ads — will initially have a regional focus, trying to draw in visitors from the rest of Southern California and around San Francisco Bay, which is L.A.’s largest feeder market. An online campaign will then target domestic and international markets.

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Santa Monica Library on the lookout for sustainable scribes

BY DAILY PRESS STAFF CITY HAL And who said books no longer make green?

The Santa Monica Public Library has announced a call for entries for its third annual Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Awards.

The awards, sponsored by the Environmental Programs Division and the

Santa Monica Public Library, was created to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality books that make significant contributions to, and broaden public awareness of, sustainability.

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Green prizes will be awarded in the categories of Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Adult Reference, Youth Fiction, Youth Nonfiction, and Youth Picture Book. In addition, an adult and youth title will also be selected as Local Impact Winners.

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Criteria include effective presentation of material; distinctive literary quality; and originality of scholarship.

Youth titles to be considered should have potential for classroom use and be appropriate for students in grades K-12, library officials said.

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Regarding the Santa Monica Police captain (”Smiley, City Hall settle for $500K,” page 1, Jan. 8, 2009) who is going to get a smooth half-million-dollar lawsuit settlement from us taxpayers because of the way he was treated by the chief and his assistant, how can I say this politely: What a F$#%-ed up mess!

Will Chief Jackman and Deputy Chief Sanchez be fired over this? Reprimanded? These two public servants and their “smear campaign” against Capt. Smiley just cost us a half million dollars! Think what we could do with a half million dollars.

Let me write this again: $500,000 lost from us because these two professional administrators apparently acted illegally.

Or, maybe they didn’t really do anything wrong, and the city attorney’s office just wanted to sweep it all away with money. In that case, the city attorney should be fired.

Will the city manager act? If he doesn’t fire somebody, he should be fired. Will the City Council — Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc and the rest — do something? Anything?

Mark Shepherd Santa Monica

Taking issue with McKeown Editor:

This letter is in response to (City Councilman) Kevin McKeown’s letter printed Jan 2, 2009. I must take issue with his point of view. His title “Preserve our Neighborhoods” is code for his isolationist views and failed support on Prop T. When Mr. McKeown proposes we reduce new market-rate housing he is destroying the motivation of moving Americans from the rental market into home ownership. I have head Mr. McKeown frame arguments, he is articulating, knowledgeable and purposeful, but his position opposes that of our free market society. His views of home ownership and private property rights are destructive and hurt our residents.

His desire to “reduce economic incentives” cripples tenants from moving up in our society. Year in and year out tenants hang on to their rentals as if they were in a lifeboat. The fact is, below market units are an anchor around many of our resident’s necks. These tenants enjoy reduced rents at a cost of their self-esteem and their pursuit of the American dream. I know many folks who have turned down jobs, did not marry, and failed to advance their carriers, or simply gave up on their goals in order to hold on to their rent controlled units. This distortion of decision-making by renters is harmful to them and all our residents. Friends, your units are protected by our Rent Control laws, but life if more then just low rent.

Robert Kronovet Rent Control Board Commissioner

ODDS OF A CHILD BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE: 1 in 16,000 ODDS OF A CHILD BEING DIAGNOSED WITH AUTISM: 1 in 166

Drinking our way to oblivion A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ON “THE

proximity to alcohol being a factor in youth drinking” in the Jan. 3-4, 2009, Daily Press caught my attention.

The piece was about a RAND study that indicated adolescent binge drinking and driving while intoxicated were two adverse behaviors associated with living within walking distance of an alcohol outlet whether it be a bar, restaurant or a retail store.

The study indicated the highest prevalence of alcohol abuse occurs in people between the ages of 18 to 29 increasing the risk of alcohol-related problems in adulthood. Research indicates alcohol sales (but not necessarily consumption) were higher around minority and low income neighborhoods.

The study suggests that changes should be made in the issuance of State of California alcohol licenses and this would also include city Conditional Use Permits for alcohol sales here in Santa Monica.

According to the study’s author, more attention was needed to curb opportunities for youth to get alcohol from commercial sources — whether through tightening the permitting/licensing process or stricter enforcement of drinking laws.

Santa Monica is awash in alcohol licenses.

As of June 30, 2008, according to the ABC, there were 291 alcohol licenses in Santa Monica. The vast majority of them were “on-sale” (eating place) and “off-sale” (grocery, drug, convenience and liquor stores and mini-marts, etc.).

I’ve written previously about how easy it is to get and hold an alcohol license in Santa Monica — whether it be for on-site consumption such as in a restaurant (bona fide public eating place) or for off premises consumption such as from a store selling prepackaged alcohol.

The city requires a Conditional Use Permit for businesses to dispense alcohol.

Location, type of sales (beer and/or wine or full bar), number of licensees nearby, seating capacity and hours of operation are among the considerations leading to the issuance of alcohol CUPs which must be approved by the Planning Commission in an open public meeting.

At the same time, a license to sell alcohol is required by the State of California. This is issued by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Approval and conditions by local authorities as stated in the city’s CUP are integral to the state licensing process.

Alcohol is big business, here. The large number of restaurants, bars and other “onsale” alcohol dispensers, especially those on Main Street and on or around the Third Street Promenade generate millions of dollars in revenue for the city. Sales for off-

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premises consumption adds millions more.

Alcohol revenue is so important to the city’s economy that a few years ago City Hall approved increasing the number of alcohol outlets in the downtown area to facilitate alcohol sales, attract more tourists and keep the bucks flowing. The Planning Commission routinely approves alcohol CUPs for everything from sushi parlors to drug stores despite the already high concentration of alcohol outlets in a city of our size.

There’s a dark side beyond just youth purchase and consumption. Alcoholism is a major problem with the homeless.

Numerous studies over the years indicate that about three-quarters of “homeless” persons suffer from alcoholism and/or drug addiction.

Alcohol addicts are attracted to Santa Monica because of the high number of “onsale” and “off-sale” licensees. Money from panhandling facilitates the procurement of “Demon Rum." Those dependent on alcohol (including the homeless) are never far from a source of liquor which includes 70 off-sale licensees as well as Santa Monica’s 19 licensed bars. It’s why we have so many drunks on our streets.

The cost of health care, law enforcement and public services associated with dealing with and treating irresponsible alcohol consumption offsets much of the gain derived from alcohol revenues.There’s also the loss in human terms as a result of those who drink, drive, maim and kill.

In the zeal to fill city coffers and to be friendly to overly-friendly to businesses dispensing alcohol, we do ourselves and the community harm.

City Councilman Herb Katz passed away last Wednesday. He just began his fifth term on the council. Katz, who was an architect of note, generously gave many years of service to the community. While he and I often differed on issues, I found him to be a class act and a man who cared deeply about the community in which he served so long and well.

Activist, Clyde Smith passed away on New Years Day. Smith was a driving force and worked hard to improve the quality of life in the Pico Neighborhood where he lived. He was a warm and generous person and an advocate for the community and its youth. He was active in numerous charities.

I’d bump into Smith at the Pico Farmers’ Market from time to time. We’d chat about local politics, the neighborhood and anything else on his or my mind. I will miss him and our conversations.

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Fond memories The passing of Councilman Herb Katz last week got us thinking of the many things he accomplished as a civil servant.

So this week’s Q-Line question asks: What are some of your fond memories of the longtime lawmaker?

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standing in the world community to press for peace, calling on world leaders to end the arms race and warning Americans against the rise of the military-industrial complex.

To our detriment, we have failed to heed Eisenhower’s warning and frittered away our global goodwill. The military-industrial complex of which Eisenhower warned (largely made up of private corporations whose existence and profit margins rely on military defense contracts and perpetual wars) now exercises an inordinate influence in the American government, and it is largely exempt from congressional oversight and answerable to practically no one.

Its influence continues to pervade every facet of the American economy. As MarketWatch’s Paul B. Farrell points out, ours is no longer a manufacturing economy or an agricultural economy or even a consumer economy but a war economy, which requires Americans “to surrender 54% of their tax dollars to a war machine.”

The numbers alone are staggering: the United States presently spends more than $700 billion on its military, which accounts for 48% of the world’s total military spending. The military-industrial complex has also helped erect a national security-surveillance state while perpetuating a military empire worldwide (American troops are stationed in 147 countries and 10 territories, roughly 70% of the world’s countries).

Thus, while America was once viewed as the hope for freedom, it has since come to be seen by much of the world as a hated, warring, military empire bent on destruction.

Yet this, too, can be changed.

In assuming his role as the leader of the free world, Barack Obama has a chance to unify a torn, weary, splintered world. To do so, however, he will have to heed Martin Luther King’s advice and reorder his priorities “so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.” As King warned in his 1967 Christmas Eve sermon: “Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools."

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

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The Middle East is a boiling cauldron of violence, ready to erupt at any moment. The civilian death toll is mounting in Gaza, as Palestine and Israel engage in a military showdown. Tensions continue to increase between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. And the Russians are preparing to sharply increase production of their strategic nuclear missiles as part of a massive rearmament program.

Clearly, what the world desperately needs from America and its new president is a peacemaker, not another warrior.

Media pundits are calling on Barack Obama to borrow a leaf from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal playbook to handle the current economic crisis.

However, he would do well to look to Dwight D. Eisenhower for ideas on how to deal diplomatically with the brewing international crisis.

A five-star military general who led American troops to triumph in World War II, Eisenhower believed that an influential world leadership is needed to guide nations toward peace and put an end to war.

In the midst of the Cold War, President Eisenhower persistently pushed for peace negotiations with America’s chief adversary, the Soviet Union. To this end, Eisenhower invited the often-caustic Khrushchev for a transcontinental tour of the United States “for one last chance” to move toward peace.

Khrushchev’s tour ended at Camp David, Maryland, where Khrushchev and Eisenhower successfully fostered a mutual agreement to pursue diplomatic peace measures between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Following this, Eisenhower embarked on his own global journey. On Dec. 3, 1959, he set forth on a 22,000-mile “goodwill tour.”

People crowded in the streets to get a glimpse of him. They shouted, “We love you, Ike” in Turkey and “Take back our love, Ike” in Pakistan. In India, crowds prepared for Eisenhower’s reception by decorating their homes with traditional brass vessels, festooned with mango leaves in recognition of a high presence. In New Delhi, the president drew crowds numbering in the thousands and was compared to one of India’s most revered figures, Mahatma Gandhi.

Inevitably, such international goodwill for Eisenhower translated to international goodwill toward the U.S. Yet Eisenhower didn’t rest on his laurels. Instead, he used his

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North and South bound PCH traffic delays may occur Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the months of October and November for the installation of utilities, curb and gutters and a traffic signal at PCH and the entry to parking lot 10. Beach Parking Lot 10 will be closed for rehabilitation until project completion in early 2009. Beach users are advised to use the beach bike path or park in Beach Lot 9, just south of Lot 10. The self-pay machine in Lot 9 allows payment for either all-day or two-hour parking.

Annual Tree Trimming Project

City trees will be trimmed at the following locations: 10th Street from San Vicente to Wilshire boulevards, 12th Street from Georgina to Montana avenues, 17th Street from Ocean Park Bouevard to Pier Avenue, Bay Street from Ocean Avenue to Sixth Street, Bicknell from Ocean to Fourth Street, 32nd Street from Pico Boulevard to Ocean Park, Franklin Street from Colorado to Nebraska avenues, Lincoln Boulevard from San Vicente to Montana, Ocean Park from Lincoln to 14th Street, Fourth from Hill Street to Southern City Limits, Fourth Median from Pico to Hill Street, Fifth Street from Marine Street to Dewey, Fifth from Ocean Park to Hill, Sixth from Ocean Park to Dewey, Fifth from Bay Street to Ocean Park, Ninth Street from Montana to Washington, 10th Street (dead end north of Michigan) to Pico, 10th from Pico to Ocean Park, 11th Street from Pico to Ocean Park, 11th Street from Pico to Ocean Park, 12th Street (dead end at freeway) to Pico, 21st Place from San Vicente to Montana, Delaware from Stewart Street to Warwick, Pier from 17th to 23rd streets, Washington from 20th Street to Stanford Street, Wilshire from Ocean to Centinela Avenue, 15th Street from Michigan to dead-end, and 24th Street from end of cul-de-sac to Broadway. There will be minimal lane closures from 7:30 a.m. — 3:30 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The annual tree trimming schedule is subject to change without notice due to inclement weather, emergencies, community events, budget conditions, street repairs or other public improvements. Residences and businesses will be notified in advance of tree trimming operations, blocks will also be posted with no parking signs.

Back On the Beach Café (445 Pacific Coast Hwy.) North and South bound PCH traffic delays may occur Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the months of October and November for the installation of utilities, curb and gutters and a traffic signal at PCH and the entry to parking lot 10. Beach Parking Lot 10 will be closed for rehabilitation until project completion in early 2009. Beach users are advised to use the beach bike path or park in Beach Lot 9, just south of Lot 10. The self-pay machine in Lot 9 allows payment for either all-day or two-hour parking.

Big Blue Bus Campus Expansion (1620 Sixth St.) No public parking at the eastside of Sixth Street (South of Colorado), March 3, 2008 to Aug. 25, 2009: No parking along, and no pedestrian access to west sidewalk of Seventh Street, between Colorado and Olympic Boulevard. March 16, 2009 to June 12, 2009. No parking along, and no pedestrian access to south sidewalk of Colorado, between Sixth and Seventh streets.

Colorado Ocean Relief Sewer Project Traffic from the I-10 Freeway will be directed to avoid Colorado by either using Pico Boulevard or east-west streets north of Colorado. This work will start in January 2008 and is scheduled for completion in May 2009. A minor detour will be set up in one eastbound lane at Second Street. Pedestrian access around the work area will be maintained.

Traffic Signal Upgrade Work to repair and upgrade traffic signal equipment at the intersection of Second Street and Broadway may require occasional traffic and pedestrian delays during work hours (7:30 a.m.—5 p.m.). Crews will be painting traffic and pedestrian stripes on the street pavement for short durations during the week of Sept. 29 at the following locations: Seventh Street and San Vicente, 26th Street and San Vicente, Fifth Street and Lincoln Boulevard and 28th Street and Ocean Park Boulevard.

East Colorado Improvement Project Pedestrian and neighborhood traffic improvements on Colorado Avenue between 20th Street and Centinela Avenue. Streets will be reduced to one lane both east and west bound from 20th Street to 26th Street. Some parking lanes will be removed during various construction phases. Pedestrian walkways will also be reduced during the construction period.

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The contractor will finish placing concrete on the sidewalk along the south side of Olympic Boulevard from 20th to 21st streets. In addition to this street, there will be minor sidewalk repairs on Virginia Avenue between 21st Street and Cloverfield Boulevard.

There will also be sidewalk removal and replacement on Second street from Montana to California avenues. There will be "No Parking" signs posted. Please use the yellow temporary permits being passed out for parking within a two-block radius of affected street.

Street and Park Lighting Project Potholing, asphalt patching, and underground electrical conduit installation by boring/drilling on Main Street from Ocean Park to Pico boulevards. until Dec. 3, 2008.

Please follow posted detour signs. One lane may be closed as needed.

Parking Structures Façade improvement This project will entail repainting and maintenance repairs of the existing downtown parking structures (1 through 6). Construction is currently underway on Parking Structures 2-5. The various locations are as follows: (Parking Structure 2 — 1235 Second St., Parking Structure 3 — 1318 Fourth St., Parking Structure 4 — 1321 Second St., and Parking Structure 5 — 1440 Fourth St.). Possible detours are anticipated.

Please follow posted detours signs. There may be a lane reduction on southbound Fourth (south of Wilshire) between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. All travel directions will be maintained. This work may temporarily affect a maximum of 25 parking spaces at all parking structures.

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Quick tapping of unspent $350 billion in the works

BY ANDREW TAYLOR AND PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON Senate Democrats prepared Sunday to answer a request for the remaining $350 billion in financial industry bailout funds as the Bush administration and President-elect Obama undertook a tagteam effort to obtain the money from reluctant lawmakers.

A vote in Congress is likely as early as this week, several senators predicted after receiving a rare Sunday briefing from top Obama economic adviser Larry Summers on the Wall Street bailout, as well as on Obama’s separate $800 billion-or-so economic recovery plan.

President Bush would request the additional money for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, but the incoming administration would make the case for it by laying out a series of changes in how the program is run. More of the money would go directly to relieve homeowners threatened with foreclosure, said Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. A fuller accounting of the money already spent is needed as well, Dodd said.

“Larry Summers made a very strong argument for why it’s important and critical for the overall recovery,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. “And I think that’s an argument that most senators understand.”

Summers sought to win over Senate Democrats even as the GOP leader of the House, John Boehner of Ohio, warned that any effort to release the additional money would “be a pretty tough sell.” Boehner appeared on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

A request would force a vote within days on whether to block the funding, but the deck is stacked in favor of Bush and Obama winning release of the remaining $350 billion. Congress can pass a resolution disapproving the request, but the White House could veto the resolution; then, just onethird of either chamber would be needed to uphold the veto and win release of the money. Senate leaders would prefer to win a majority vote, Dodd said.

The idea is to make the money available to the new administration shortly after Obama takes office Jan. 20. The unpopular bailout has featured unconditional infusions of money into financial institutions that have done little to reveal what they’ve done with it.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson originally promised the money would be used to buy up toxic mortgage-related securities whose falling values have clogged up credit markets and brought many financial institutions to the brink of failure.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Sunday that Bush and Obama officials are near agreement on submitting notice to Congress about using the remaining $350

billion.

“We’re waiting to hear from President Bush and or President-elect Obama as to what, if anything, they’re going to do,” said Reid, D-Nev., “and that’s occurring as we speak.”

“The likelihood is that we’ll have some kind of vote on that somewhere in the course of the week,” Kerry said.

But to prevail, Obama and his team must soothe senators who feel burned by the way the Bush administration has used the TARP. “The (incoming) administration ... is going to fundamentally alter how this is being managed,” Dodd said. “The concept is still very sound and solid and it is needed.

But it’s not going to pass around here unless there’s a strong commitment to foreclosure mitigation.”

Dodd said lawmakers were demanding other conditions, such as more concrete steps to limit executive compensation and make recipients of the funds be more accountable.

The Congressional Oversight Panel raised detailed questions last week about how banks are spending the first $350 billion, how the money will combat the rising tide of home foreclosures and Treasury’s overall strategy for the rescue. In instance after instance, the panel said, the Treasury Department did not offer adequate responses.

In an interview aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Obama said he has asked his economic team to develop a set of principles to ensure more openness about how the money is spent. Under consideration by Obama aides and congressional Democrats are proposals to limit executive pay at institutions that receive the money and to force such institutions to get rid of any private aircraft they may own or lease.

“I think that when you look at how we have handled the home foreclosure situation and whether we’ve done enough in terms of helping families on the ground who may have lost their homes because they lost their jobs or because they got sick, we haven’t done enough there,” Obama said.

Work continued through the weekend on Obama’s economic recovery plan, which features aid to cash-strapped state governments, $500-$1,000 tax cuts for most workers and working couples, and a huge spending package blending old-fashioned public works projects with aid to the poor and unemployed and a variety of other initiatives.

Advocates for using tax cuts to promote alternative energy won concessions and the Obama team promised to make a $3,000 job creation tax credit — which has attracted considerable criticism — more workable.

Meanwhile, transition officials were resisting efforts to use the economic recovery bill to address the alternative minimum tax, which has affected more and more middle-income families.

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Rainforest wood at issue in beach town repairs

BY WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer

WILDWOOD, N.J. New Jersey’s most popular beach town is about to make a decision that has been criticized by environmentalists around the world — using wood cut from Amazon rainforests to repair a section of its boardwalk.

Wildwood, voted the state’s best beach last summer by vacationers and others, will become just the latest of several New Jersey communities that have opted to use highly durable wood from the Brazilian ipe (pronounced “EE’-pay") tree to build or fix boardwalks.

The wood looks good, lasts for decades, is strong, and can withstand moisture and the corrosive effects of salt better than other species of wood, making it popular for use in boardwalks.

Environmental groups contend the world’s tropical rainforests are being wiped out by logging to satisfy demand for this kind of wood.

Mayor Ernest Troiano Jr. said Wildwood reluctantly turned to ipe wood only because a shipment of domestically grown black locust wood arrived in unusable condition.

“I’m not advocating tearing down the

Brazilian rainforests,” he said. “We wanted to use black locust, to do the right thing and the environmentally responsible thing. But the wood we ordered is not the wood that was delivered.”

Unless a last-minute alternative can be found, Wildwood will start using ipe wood within the next few weeks to replace aging planks in front of the skee-ball arcades, body-piercing stands and fortune teller booths that line its boardwalk.

“We have the boardwalk torn open and it needs to be fixed and ready to go by Easter,” Troiano said. “If we don’t get that hole closed up, it will be a nightmare for our merchants.”

The move comes a year after Ocean City, a fellow Cape May County beach town, was criticized by environmentalists for using Brazilian ipe to replace part of its boardwalk.

Thousands of protest e-mails from as far away as Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and New Zealand flooded the mayor’s computer.

Ipe is a flowering tree that can grow to 100 feet, towering above the forest canopy. It is Brazil’s largest timber export, with half of it sold to customers in the United States.

Ipe wood has been used in boardwalk projects from coast to coast, including

Atlantic City, N.J.; New York; Baltimore; Chicago; Miami Beach, and Long Beach and Santa Monica.

Environmentalists have been trying for years to promote the use of abundant, domestically grown species like black locust as an alternative to rainforest wood. And Wildwood agreed to use black locust for its boardwalk project — a decision that was hailed by Tim Keating, executive director of Rainforest Relief, a New York volunteer group that opposes the use of rainforest wood.

However, a shipment of black locust from a New York supplier arrived in poor condition with pieces of bark, large knots and cracks.

“I equate it to our having paid for a new Cadillac, and having a beat-up 1972 Ford Pinto show up in the driveway,” Troiano said. He estimated 90 percent of the wood was unusable.

The locust wood cost about $100,000, part of a $3.5 million boardwalk repair project. Ocean City, about 20 miles up the coast, spent $1.1 million for Brazilian ipe for its boardwalk; that wood was supposed to be certified as having been harvested responsibly from trusted sources in the Amazon, making it more expensive.

Keating said he is worried that the poor

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condition of the black locust shipped to Wildwood will give the species a bad reputation among shore towns and discourage its use in other projects. He said he is trying to identify other suppliers of black locust that could be used for the rest of Wildwood’s boardwalk project, even if the current threeblock section is rebuilt with ipe wood.

Environmental groups have suggested Wildwood consider using planks made from recycled plastic, which is slowly catching on in boardwalks around the nation. At the Jersey shore, the towns of Belmar and Spring Lake are using it.

But Troiano said the current project has to be done with the same general type of material as ipe or black locust. He also raised aesthetic questions about plastic lumber.

“When people go to a boardwalk, they want to walk on a boardwalk; they don’t want a plastic walk,” Troiano said. “It’s a traditionalist thing. They want wood under their feet.

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STAYING WARM: It may be shaping up to be an especially cold winter, but heating costs can be minimized a number of ways, including caulking leaky spots around windows and doors, adding or updating insulation, replacing single pane windows with sealed double or triple pane windows, insulating heating ducts and your hot water tank, and upgrading to a programmable thermostat.

That toasty feeling Dear EarthTalk This winter is shaping up to be one of the coldest in recent memory where I live.

What can I do to reduce my home heating bill now and in the future?

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somehow to blame or not, much of the United States is getting walloped this winter.

The Seattle area has suffered its most significant and lingering snowfall — and lower than average winter temperatures — in decades.

Even Los Angeles is getting a nasty taste of winter, with several days topping out at the freezing mark on the thermometer. And other parts of the country more used to challenging winter weather have been getting an extra dose of wind, snow and ice this year as well.

Besides the cold, another challenge this wintry weather presents, especially during such trying economic times, is higher heating bills. Heating typically accounts for about 28 percent of the average American home’s energy use, but this year staying warm might occupy a larger slice of the household expenditure pie. Homeowners who take a few simple steps to make their homes more weathertight, though, just might be amazed to see their heating bills go down while they languish inside their toasty and warm homes.

If you’re a handy person and your draft issues are minor, you might want to go around and assess just where cold air seems to be coming in — and then caulk, putty or insulate to your heart’s content. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC’s) green-living oriented SimpleSteps.org Web site, small gaps around windows, light fixtures and plumbing are easy to cover with caulk. Large drafty areas that are protected from moisture and sunlight can be covered with expanding foam sealant, while a little weather-stripping around door jambs goes a long way toward

keeping the cold out.

Beyond these easier fixes, adding or updating insulation can pay dividends on your utility bills.

NRDC says that if you do it yourself, be careful not to cover or close up attic vents, as proper air flow is key to keeping indoor air quality good. Replacing single pane windows with sealed double or triple pane windows will also improve your home’s energy efficiency significantly. Other tips include insulating heating ducts and your hot water tank, and upgrading to a programmable thermostat which allows you to heat your home when you’re there and lower the temperature when you’re sleeping or at work. Switching ceiling fans to rotate in a clockwise direction will help circulate warm air throughout your home.

Older, inefficient furnaces can also lead to large heating bills. New models which qualify for the federal government’s Energy Star program will use far less gas or oil and reduce your utility bill handily. The nonprofit American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) rates different furnaces and boiler options and reports on their findings for free via the consumer guide section of its Web site.

For those of us less qualified or less interested in doing our own home repair, bringing in a professional energy auditor might be just the ticket. Many local and regional utilities offer free basic energy audits.

Meanwhile, the trade group Residential Energy Services Network, as well as the federal government’s Home Performance with Energy Star program, offer free searchable online databases of trustworthy local contractors with experience keeping homes in your area nice and warm.

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Zinner wants exhibit closed FROM CP PAGE 1 walking enough and if they’re not walking enough it gets to the point where the problem can’t be fixed, and they die,” Zinner said. “Billy is really alone. He spends his time unnaturally bobbing his head. Elephants are social creatures and Billy’s head bobbing is indicative of frustration and boredom, behaviors that are not natural in the wild.”

Zinner has worked tirelessly with L.A. City Council member Tony Cardenas who also believes the elephant exhibit should be shut down.

“The fees for treating an animal with a vet discount are 20K per month. L.A. city should step up … and close the elephant exhibit. We need to be progressive and we’re not. To spend this kind of money when we have so many other [zoo related] issues where money could be allocated in more humane ways is a crime,” Zinner said.

As for her work ... Zinner’s exhibitions have ranged from the sublime such as her “Tides of Emotion” at the James Coleman Gallery — shared with her famous sculptor mother Christa Zinner — to the downright outrageous Live Draw! — a provocative event held at DCA Fine Arts Gallery, in which guests sipped wine and watched as Zinner created on-the-spot vibrant pastels from live nude models.

Fortunately it’s not often that Zinner’s job requires intense concentration under such nerve wracking public scrutiny, but Zinner — who spent her formative years traveling between California and Europe while her father, Peter Zinner, the late Oscar winning editor (“The Deer Hunter”), worked with luminaries in cinema — is no stranger to attention. Encouraged to draw at a young age, and one time allowed to cover an entire kitchen in felt pen drawings, Zinner had her first solo art show when she was only 11 years old.

“My father was working on “The Godfather,” we were living in San Francisco at the time and this woman [at the show] was really enjoying the drawings and was so enthusiastic about them but to me it was just kind of natural. I would just doodle. I was just a kid, so I wasn’t making the connection, ‘Wow, this is a great opportunity to show my work,’” Zinner said.

Creativity didn’t end at the canvas. Zinner also learned the skill of film editing from her father who taught her to cut 16mm by hand. Of the two mediums — editing and painting — Zinner said, “They’re both very focused, but editing is meticulous and collaborative. I put together great moments already captured on film. Somebody’s lit the set. Someone’s directed the piece … so it’s really not your own work. A white canvas is such a gift because nobody else has had laid a hand to it. It’s yours.”

When she’s not painting or editing she volunteers at Martine Colette’s Wildlife Way Station, the California Wildlife Center and the Los Angeles Alliance for Elephants or is busy rescuing animals, recruiting members and volunteering time and money to these organizations.

On Wednesday, Jan. 14 the motion to halt the elephant exhibit construction and send Billy to a sanctuary goes to the Los Angeles City Council Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee. Its members will support, oppose or make recommendations on the issue and on Friday, Jan. 16, those recommendations will be put to the Los Angeles City Council for a vote.

“People should call the City Council members to indicate their support for shutting down, halting construction and for sending Billy to a sanctuary. Or better yet, show up at the City Council meeting this Friday,” Zinner said.

For more information check out www.helpelephants.com and www.helpbilly.org Taylor Van Arsdale is a writer/producer and movie reviewer for the Daily Press. She can be reached at Tailfish@roadrunner.com.

Deadline to submit is March 31 FROM GREEN LIT PAGE 3 Books may be submitted by following the guidelines on the library’s Web site, www.smpl.org/greenprize.htm.

The submission deadline is March 31. A selection committee consisting of librarians and local authorities on sustainable issues will choose the winning titles that demonstrate outstanding achievement in their respective categories. The winners will be announced at a presentation ceremony at the Main Library in October. news@smdp.com

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SEE YA’: People recycle their cans and plastics at Allan Co. Santa Monica Recycling Center Wednesday afternoon.

Paper recyclers in distress FROM RECYCLE PAGE 1 hours a day and he is losing money doing it. However, Ramirez keeps working to maintain a good relationship with the L.A. Times so he can continue to collect their papers. He is optimistic that the prices will go up.

“I see a light at the end of the tunnel,” Ramirez said.

Ramirez is one of few paper recycling regulars at the center. Holt said during the summer they had nearly 40 regular customers bringing in cardboard every day. Now they are seeing an average of five.

“A lot of these guys, with the little trucks, they go from $130 to $10 — all of a sudden that doesn’t even pay for their gas,” Holt said.

There just isn’t a demand for recycled paper. Regardless, Allan Co. keep their doors wide open for all recyclables, even the material they can’t sell.

“You got to be able to hold onto that material until the [paper] mills start buying,” Holt said. “A month, six months, two years, that’s the burning question.”

Currently Allan Co. has three warehouses where they are storing excess recycled material. Holt was firm when he said they would not be throwing anything away.

“If we have to get more [warehouses] we will and we’ll wait it out,” Holt said. “It’s all we can do.”

In addition to stockpiling their recyclables they have had to trim their workforce hours. Allan Co. has made sure to cut back on overtime. The recycling sorters are no longer specialized sorters, they have to help each other out and “do every job” to finish the work faster.

“The most important thing is we haven’t had to lay anyone off,” Holt said.

Amidst falling prices on recyclables there is some good news. The prices for glass and plastic bottles, and aluminum has not fallen significantly.

For the past 10 years Curtis Young has trekked from West Hollywood to the recycling center to redeem bottles and cans.

Young said Allan Co.’s prices are worth the journey. In West Hollywood he would get $8 and at Allan Co. he gets $20 for the same amount of bottles and cans.

“They told me about [the price drop],” Young said. “It

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FALLING: Price list for Allan Co. Santa Monica Recycling Center.

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While the recyclables continue to pile up in Allan Co.’s warehouse, Holt remains optimistic that the economy will turn around.

“We’ve taken every precaution we can,” Holt said. “We’re waiting for a brighter day.” news@smdp.com

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Workers furloughed FROM OFFICES PAGE 1 Exceptions to the alternating Friday schedule will be made for prisons, hospitals, parks and some other agencies, mostly if they generate money for the state, Department of Personnel Administration spokeswoman Lynelle Jolley said. Employees at those agencies will be furloughed on a rotating schedule.

“Typically, state government is less active on the whole on Fridays,” said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Schwarzenegger.

“Secondly, by shutting down entire buildings, we will realize savings by not having facilities open. Lastly, we understand how difficult this is for state workers. Hopefully, having a three-day weekend will help soften the blow.”

McLear said the order could be amended before it takes effect if the administration finds other ways to run government offices more efficiently with less inconvenience to citizens and employees.

The furlough program also could be stopped before it begins.

State employee unions have sued to prevent it, saying the administration acted illegally. They argue the furloughs must be agreed to by the unions or enacted by the Legislature.

On Friday, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge scheduled a hearing on the challenge for Jan. 29, a week before the first scheduled furlough day. While Judge Patrick Marlette might not rule that day, he could issue an injunction preventing Schwarzenegger’s executive order from taking effect.

“We respect that they are trying to make this easier on state workers. But the bottom line is they’re not doing us any favors,” said Jim Zamora, spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the largest state employees’ union.

He said closing state offices twice a month will affect taxpayers — meaning longer lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles and more frustration for those seeking unemployment benefits.

“If they’re shut two days a month, that’s just more Californians who are going to be denied services, who are going to have to wait longer for services,” Zamora said.

Many prison and health care employees already work mandatory overtime to cover vacant shifts, so it is unclear how they can cover two additional open days a month, he said.

Some employees who are not on the alternating Friday schedule, including those at prisons and hospitals, will be able to save their furlough days and use them within two years after the mandatory program ends.

Schwarzenegger’s order does not affect employees of the Legislature, judiciary, university systems or constitutional offices such as treasurer, attorney general or secretary of state, who are outside the governor’s control.

The Friday closures are an effort to cut spending while ensuring that essential services are not jeopardized, said David Gilb, director of the Department of Personnel Administration.

He said the department is consulting with state labor unions, despite their lawsuits to stop the furloughs.

Three state employee unions have filed separate lawsuits, each alleging that Schwarzenegger exceeded his authority and violated the collective bargaining process when he announced the furloughs.

The unions say Schwarzenegger’s order amounts to a nearly 10 percent pay cut for the 235,000 affected state workers.

California Highway Patrol officers are exempt because their union is the only one with a contract still in effect.

Contracts covering the state’s other employee groups have expired and are being negotiated.

Schwarzenegger’s lawyers are seeking to have the lawsuits challenging his furlough order dismissed on technical grounds. They say the issue should be decided by the Public Employment Relations Board, whose five members are appointed by the governor.

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Beckham gets the start

BY ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer

SURF CONDITIONS

WATER TEMP: 56°

SWELL FORECAST ( 4-6 FT ) Size should back down further. A small burst of NW is expected, but waist high at west facing breaks is all that's expected.

LONG RANGE SYNOPSIS

IN SOCAL, HIGH TIDE WAS ONCE AGAIN FLOODING OUT MANY SPOTS EARLY THIS MORNING, HINDERING SIZE MOST WEST FACING BREAKS WERE RUNNING KNEE TO WAIST, AND SOUTH FACING SPOTS KNEE HIGH AT BEST.

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ROME David Beckham was plesantly surprised by his unexpected start.

Beckham started in his AC Milan debut Sunday, playing 89 minutes in a solid if not outstanding performance in a 2-2 draw against AS Roma.

The star English midfielder was replaced

by Mathieu Flamini in the 89th minute with the score tied. He exited mostly to boos from the Roma crowd.

“I felt good in the game, very strong and I enjoyed it,” Beckham said. “I enjoyed playing with these players and in this city.”

Beckham joined Milan on a two-month loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, hoping to stay sharp so he can earn a spot on the English national team.

“I don’t want to have regrets in my career,” Beckham said. “I am very lucky to have this chance with this great club and I want to enjoy it.”

Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said Saturday it would be “difficult” to start the former Manchester United and Real Madrid player because he had been inactive for two

months. However, Beckham lined up in his traditional spot on the right wing, leaving Flamini and Massimo Ambrosini on the bench at the start.

“I never expected to play from the beginning of the game,” Beckham said. “I’ve been working on my fitness and I felt good during the match. The manager told me before the match (that I would be starting).”

Wearing No. 32, Beckham was positioned alongside Andrea Pirlo and Clarence Seedorf in midfield, with Kaka, Ronaldinho and Pato up front in attack.

“He showed what he showed in training, that he is disciplined and plays the ball simply,” Ancelotti said. “Beckham is a Milan player; he will play with us for two months.”

Beckham rejected speculation that he plans to remain with Milan beyond the loan period.

“My contract runs through March 8,” he said. “After that I have to go back to the Galaxy.”

The 80,000-seat Stadio Olimpico was nearly full. Although there was no sign of England coach Fabio Capello, Italy coach Marcello Lippi did attend. “(My aim) is to play as many games as possible, work on my fitness and to be a part of this Milan team,” Beckham said.

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DAILY LOTTERY 23 25 30 45 50 Meganumber: 8 Jackpot: $22M 25 29 30 31 38 Meganumber: 25 Jackpot: $47M 14 15 18 26 35 MIDDAY: 0 5 8 EVENING: 9 1 4 1st: 12 Lucky Charms 2nd: 04 Big Ben 3rd: 03 Hot Shot RACE TIME: 1.43.29

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H. Beatty Chadwick, 72, is approaching his 14th consecutive year behind bars, though he has not been charged with a crime. In a 1995 divorce hearing, a judge thought Chadwick was lying about $2.5 million in assets (his wife said he was hiding them; he said he lost them in a business deal) and locked him up for contempt of court, and he has been there ever since. News of the Weird first mentioned him in 2002, when he was closing in on the American record for contempt of court, which he now holds. Chadwick has never wavered in his story, and after an independent retired judge investigated in 2004 and failed to find any money, Chadwick's lawyer compared the "missing" money to Saddam Hussein's "missing" weapons of mass destruction (and also pointed to some Pennsylvania murderers who do less time than Chadwick has).

TODAY IN HISTORY Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally called Tamla Records) in Detroit.

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

The first public museum in America was organized, in Charleston, S.C. The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, after serving out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt re-established the National War Labor Board.

The Supreme Court ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.

President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression there was ended. the New York Jets of the American Football League upset the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 167 in Super Bowl III, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

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Notice of Divided Publication Pursuant to Sections 3702, 3381, and 3382, Revenue and Taxation Code, the Notice of Sale of TaxDefaulted Property Subject to the Power of Sale in and for the County of Los Angeles, State of California, has been divided and distributed to various newspapers of general circulation published in said County for publication of a portion thereof in each of said newspapers.

Public Auction Notice (R&TC 3702) Of Sale Of Tax-Defaulted Property Subject To The Power Of Sale (Sale No. 2009A) Whereas, on October 21, 2008, I, MARK J. SALADINO, Treasurer and Tax Collector, was directed by the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, State of California, to sell at public auction certain TaxDefaulted properties which are Subject to the Power of Sale.

Public notice is hereby given that unless said properties are redeemed prior thereto, I will, on February 9 and 10, 2009, at the hour of 9:00 a.m., at the Fairplex Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, 1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Building 8, Pomona, California, offer for sale and sell said properties at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier's check in lawful money of the United States for not less than the minimum bid. If no bids are received on a parcel, it will be re-offered at the end of the auction at a reduced minimum price.

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Prospective bidders should obtain detailed information of this sale from the County Treasurer and Tax

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If the property is sold, parties of interest, as defined by Section 4675 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, have a right to file a claim with the County for any proceeds from the sale, which are in excess of the liens and costs required to be paid from the proceeds. If excess proceeds result from the sale, notice will be given to parties of interest, pursuant to law.

MARK J. SALADINO Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector State of California

All information concerning redemption, provided the right to redeem has not previously been terminated, will upon request be furnished by MARK J. SALADINO, Treasurer and Tax Collector.

If redemption of the property is not made according to the law before 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 6, 2009, which is the last business day prior to the first day of auction, the right of redemption will cease.

The Assessor's Identification Number (AIN) in this publication refers to the Assessor's Map Book, the Map Page, and the individual Parcel Number on the Map Page. If a change in the Assessor's Identification Number occurred, both prior and current Assessor's Identification Numbers are shown.

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DBAS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082194274 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SHELL ESSENCES AMERICA, 3631 SO. SEPULVEDA, NO. 1, LOS ANGELES, CA 90034, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : JES CHRISTENSEN, 3631 SO. SEPULVEDA, NO. 1, LOS ANGELES, CA 90034; SAM ALIANO, 6530 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, NO. 107, CANOGA PARK, CA 91303 This Business is being conducted by, a general partnership. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: JES CHRISTENSEN, GENERAL PARTNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/15/2008. 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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082194272 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TAYLOR-MADE TRAINING, 54 THORNTON AVE, #7, VENICE, CA 90291, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : MARIELLE TAYLOR, 54 THORNTON AVE, #7, VENICE, CA 90291 This Business is being conducted by, an individual.

Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)3/12/2007. /s/: MARIELLE TAYLOR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/15/2008. 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 12/22/2008, 12/29/2008, 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082194273 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as VENICE BICYCLE WORKS; VENICE CYCLE WORKS, 906 1/2 VICTORIA AVENUE, VENICE, CA 90291, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : STEVEN H. MATTSON, 906 1/2 VICTORIA AVENUE, VENICE, CA 90291 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/8/2008. /s/: STEVEN H. MATTSON This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/15/2008. 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

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BLVD., SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 This Business is being conducted by, a corporation. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/1/2008. /s/: READERS FINE JEWELERS, INC., EDWARD A. GUERBOIAN, PRESIDENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/24/2008. 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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082184510 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as JSM TRANSPORTATION, 8215 ELBURY ST. PARAMOUNT, CA 90723. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : JUVENCIO SOLIS MACIAS 8215 ELBURY ST. PARAMOUNT, CA 90723 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: JUVENCIO SOLIS MACIAS This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/11/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082265280 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CHICO'S AUTO BODY SHOP, 9421 S. VERMONT AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90044. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : FRANCISCO ALONSO PADILLA 707 W, 41ST PL. LOS ANGELES, CA 90037 This Business is being conducted by, an individual.

Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: FRANCISCO ALONSO PADILLA This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/29/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082274587 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TRIDENT SOLUTIONS, 760 LOMA AVE. LONG BEACH, CA 90804. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : TRIDENT SOLUTIONS, INC. 760 LOMA AVE. LONG BEACH, CA 90804 This Business is being conducted by, a corporation. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/31/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082265881 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as TRINEEN & STEVEN'S VARITY STORE, 1943 W. 76TH LOS ANGELES, CA 90047. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : TRINEEN PRATT 1943 W. 76TH STEVEN ANDERSON 1943 W. 76TH LOS ANGELES, CA 90047 LOS ANGELES, CA 90047 This Business is being conducted by, co-partners. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: TRINEEN PRATT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/29/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082207739 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PRESTIGIOUS WESTSIDE PROPERTIES INC., 620 SANTA MONICA BLVD., SUITE B, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : PRESTIGIOUS WESTSIDE PROPERTIES INC., 620 SANTA MONICA BLVD., SUITE B, SANTA MONICA, CA 90401 (CALIFORNIA) This Business is being conducted by, a corporation.

Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: PRESTIGIOUS WESTSIDE PROPERTIES INC., PRESIDENT, SANDRA L. MILLER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/16/2008. 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 12/22/2008, 12/29/2008, 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082191861 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as SANTA MONICA DENTAL GROUP ON PICO, 3231 PICO BLVD., SANTA MONICA, CA 90405, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : DOUGLAS R. OSWELL, DDS, INC., 2204 CANYONBACK RD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90049 This Business is being conducted by, a corporation. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: DOUGLAS R. OSWELL, DDS, INC., PRESIDENT, DOUGLAS R. OSWELL, DDS, INC. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/12/2008. 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 12/29/2008, 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082208902 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as AUTUMN CREATIONS; AUTUMN DESIGNS, 7605 W. MANCHESTER AVE, #3, PLAYA DEL REY, CA 90293, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : MELISSA FOX WESSELY, 7605 W. MANCHESTER AVE, #3, PLAYA DEL REY, CA 90293 This Business is being conducted by, an individual.

Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: MELISSA FOX WESSELY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/16/2008. 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 12/29/2008, 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082174775 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as FAST UNDERCAR, 1051 W. AVENUE M. #202, LANCASTER, CA 93534, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : FPA LANCASTER, L.P., 1051 W. AVENUE M. #202, LANCASTER, CA 93534 This Business is being conducted by, a general partnership. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)1/1/2008. /s/: FPA LANCASTER, L.P., GENERAL PARTNER, TOM BEHM This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/10/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082256423 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as 5TH GENERATION READERS FINE JEWELERS; 5TH GENERATION FINE JEWELERS; AI #/ON 1133657, 331 WILSHIRE BLVD., SANTA MONICA, CA 90401, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : READERS FINE JEWELERS, INC., 331 WILSHIRE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082256421 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as POPARAZZI, 6924 GLASGOW AVE, WESTCHESTER, CA 90045, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : AMBER KESSEE, 6924 GLASGOW AVE, WESTCHESTER, CA 90045 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: AMBER KESSEE This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/24/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082220240 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as EL PARAISO SALVADORENO, 8109 CALIFORNIA AVE. SOUTH GATE, CA 90280. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : LETICIA CASTRO 1037 W. 65TH ST. LOS ANGELES, CA 90044 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: LETICIA CASTRO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/17/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082256422 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as LORI POWERS; LA1 PRODUCTS, 3513 ROSEWOOD AVE, LA, CA 90066, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : LORI POWERS, 3513 ROSEWOOD AVE, LA, CA 90066; ADAM GRERMEK, 3513 ROSEWOOD AVE, LA, CA 90066 This Business is being conducted by, co-partners. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: LORI POWERS, CO-PARTNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/24/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082209563 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as WL CREATIONS, 51 ARGONNE AVE. LONG BEACH, CA 90803. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : JENNIFER LYNN FONDRY 51 ARGONNE AVE. LONG BEACH, CA 90803 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: JENNIFER LYNN FONDRY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/16/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082270428 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as A1 WIRELESS, 15355 SHERMAN WAY # S VAN NUYS, CA 91406. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : YERVAND TITZYAN 8601 SUNLAND BLVD. #9 SUN VALLEY, CA 91352 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/30/2008. /s/: YERVAND TITZYAN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/30/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082269268 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as BROKE MILLIONAIRES MARKETING, 4438 MAYBANK AVE. LAKEWOOD CA 90712. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : JEROME D. MANGRAM 4438 MAYBANK AVE. LAKEWOOD CA 90712 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: JEROME D. MANGRAM This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/30/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082240832 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as MI PUEBLITO SAN JUAN RESTAURANT, 1341 N. WILMINGTON BLVD.WILMINGTON, CA 90744. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : MARTIN PADILLA This Business is being conducted by, an individual.

Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/22/2008. /s/: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/22/2008. 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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082261709 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as LEON BROS. TRUCKING, LEON BROTHERS TRUCKING, 1080 HERMOSA ST. POMONA, CA 91767. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : ERNIE T. LEON 1080 HERMOSA ST. POMONA, CA 91767 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: ERNIE T. LEON This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/26/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082247528 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CHRISTIAN VISION T.V. MCALLEN, 1221 W. WHITTIER BLVD, MONTTEBELLO, CA 90640. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : EDGAR RACANAC 25 LOS FELIS DR. PHILLIPS RANCH, CA 91766 RUFINO A. RACANAC 25 LOS FELIS DR. PHILLIPS RANCH, CA 91766 This Business is being conducted by, a general partnership. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/11/2008. /s/: EDGAR RACANAC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/23/2008. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082232007 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CASAS FINANCE CO., 800 S, BARRANCA AVE. #530 COVINA, CA 91723. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : CASAS GROUP, INC. 800 S, BARRANCA AVE. #530 COVINA, CA 91723 This Business is being conducted by, a corporation. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date)12/5/2008. /s/: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/19/2008. 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 2008223808 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as XCLUSIVE TRANSPORTATION & SECURITY SERVICES, USA, 12110 DOWNEY AVE. APT. T20 DOWNEY, CA 90242. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : ANTONIO NARANJO CHAVEZ 12110 DOWNEY AVE. APT. T20 DOWNEY, CA 90242 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: ANTONIO NARANJO CHAVEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/19/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082233569 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as MARQUEZ TRUCKING, 4420 BOGART AVE. BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : VICTOR MARQUEZ RODRIGUEZ 4420 BOGART AVE. BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: VICTOR MARQUEZ RODRIGUEZ This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/19/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082220392 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as PACIFIC COAST JUDGEMENT RECOVERY, 9917 ARKANSAS ST. BELLFLOWER, CA 90706. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : REGINO ARIZMENDI JR. 9917 ARKANSAS ST. BELLFLOWER, CA 90706 This Business is being conducted by, an individual.

Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein.. /s/: REGINO ARIZMENDI JR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/17/08. 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 1/5/2009, 1/12/2009, 1/19/2009, 1/26/2009 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082256420 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as REAL ESTATE RESEARCH CORPORATION, 1801 CENTURY PARK EAST, SUITE 2210, LOS ANGELES, CA 90067, COUNTY OF LA. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : REAL PROPERTY DYNAMICS, INC., 1908 FOX HILLS DRIVE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90025, (CALIFORNIA) This Business is being conducted by, a corporation. Signed: Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed herein. /s/: REAL PROPERTY DYNAMICS, INC., PRESIDENT, WILLIAM L. CORBIN This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on 12/24/2008. 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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES STATEMENT FILE NO. 20082224184 FIRST FILING. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as Heather Hoeksema Environmental Arts Lab, 555 Rose Ave, #2, Venice, CA 90291. The full name of registrant(s) is/are : Heather Hoeksema, 555 Rose Ave, #2, Venice, CA 90291 This Business is being conducted by, an individual. Signed: The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed on (Date).12/18/2008 /s/: Heather Hoeksema This statement was filed with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES County on . NOTICE: THIS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT EXPIRES FIVE

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