BH Courier 02-10-2012

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THIS ISSUE

Beverly Hills residents become certified.

Renovations for the Beverly Hills Public Library begin with a bang.

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Harkham Hillel Academy of celebrated its 63rd Scholarship banquet .

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St. John’s Health Center sponsors free community forum.

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George Christy, Page 6 Vanity Fair’s 18th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Has A Threefold Cover With 18 Cinema Beauties In Satin Gowns From Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Carolina Herrera And Other Major Designers Editorial from Rabbi Pressman AND MORE

CLASSIFIEDS • Announcements • Real Estate • Rentals • Sales • and More

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MTA Attacks City Tunnel Analysis

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Indoor cyclists raise money for cancer research.

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READY TO RIDE—Three world-class cyclists, Amgen Tour of California participants and likely U.S. Olympic team members, along with avid race supporter and actor Patrick Dempsey, were led up Rodeo Drive on their bikes Wednesday by BH police motor officers to a press conference announcing the upcoming 2012 Amgen Tour of California road race. The largest cycling event in America, the race is a Tour de France-style cycling road race, presented by AEG, nearly 750 miles through the state, ending in Los Angeles on May 20. Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive will play a key role on the final day. Pictured from left are: Chris Horner, David Zabriski and Dempsey. Not pictured is Tom Danielson.

Photo Courtesy Of Getty Images

City Plans For New Roxbury Project Failed To Meet Code Beverly Hills Mayor Barry Brucker revealed to Monday’s Beverly Hills Municipal League executive board meeting that the architects’ plans for the proposed Roxbury Park Community Center failed to comply with Beverly Hills building codes.

City staff caught the errors and sent the plans back for revision.

Beverly Hills paid approximately $1.4 million for the plans, prepared by the firm, The Albert Group Architects. (see ‘ROXBURY,’ page 23)

Staff Wants To Foreclose On Homes; City Council Says ‘No’

By Marla Schevker The City Council unanimously rejected a scheme proposed by City staff to place a lien on Beverly Hills homes and properties for delinquent sewage, water and storm water services and penalties. The lien would allow the City to foreclose

on property owners who fail to pay their bills.

“I find this whole concept offensive,” Councilwoman Lili Bosse said. “This is government overstepping our bounds. It was a complete waste of staff time

By Marla Schevker and The Courier Staff The Metropolitan Transit Authority this week attacked the scathing critique of its subway tunnel study prepared for the City Council of Beverly Hills by Exponent-Failure Analysis Associates.

The Exponent report was obtained and first reported exclusively by The Courier last Thursday. As expected, MTA CEO Art Leahy attacked the Exponent report and defended his own study.

Leahy wrote, “The MTA reports released last October were prepared in accordance with well-established protocols by highly qualified scientists and engineers including Dr. James Dolan of USC and Dr. Thomas Rockwell of San Diego State University,” he wrote. “Further, they were independently reviewed by two separate panels of experts geology, seismology and engineering.”

In response, Exponent Corporate VP and Principal Engineer Piotr Moncarz said Exponent is highly qualified with engineering and seismology experts and the conclusions drawn in the review are 100 percent independent and not influenced by Beverly Hills or its elected officials.

Moncarz said. “We are very cautious and convey messages that are truth. We have really taken those reports word by word drawing by drawing apart. We went into each picture. We are just saying that those reports are not complete enough to draw a conclusion which route is.”

The Exponent analysis stated that Metro needed to conduct additional studies to accurately determine which location would be better for the station.

Exponent also cited many safety risks ignored by the MTA study, such as methane gas pres(see ‘METRO,’ page 22)

THE NEW ROMANTIC TEAM—Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams costar in The Vow, directed by Michael Sucsy, which opens this weekend.

More photos in George Christy’s column on page 6, and check his Pick of the Week on page 15, which explores the history of St. Valentine’s Day, which dates back to a martyred saint from the Roman Empire. Photos are included of floral suggestions from designer Eric Buterbaugh, who’s based at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Janet Gough /Celebrity Photo

(see ‘WATER,’ page 23)

LATE BREAKING NEWS: Beverly Hills High School Academic Decathlon Team places third at County-Wide Competition Congratulations to the Beverly Hills High School Academic Decathlon Team. Our team earned third place and 35 individual medals at the LA County Competition. They have qualified for the state competition, which will take place March 15 to 18 in Sacramento. The students in Dina Yoseph’s Academic Decathlon class are: Adina Babaian, Jenny Chieu, Alec Chiu, Eunice Choi, Jeremy Deustch, Max Eagle, Kiya Eshaghian, Heidi Hart, Alexander Kern, WooSuk Kim, Han Ung Lee, David Mnitsa, George QiaoGuan, Chloe Revery, Parmis Sahrapima, Camille Weins and Jiangyue Yang.

For the complete story, see www.bhcourier.com.

Audi Beverly Hills Now Open Fletcher Jones Jr. has opened Audi Beverly Hills at 8850 Wilshire Blvd. (west of Robertson).

The new facility is the latest addition to the “Fletcher Jones Family of Fine Dealerships” and provides new and pre-owned sales and factory authorized service for the popular German luxury brand. The service department, the only one in Beverly Hills, is across the street at 8833 Wilshire Blvd.

Audi veteran Mike Bradford formerly from Rusnak, Pasadena,

has been named general manager of the dealership, which will employ 60.

Since 1991, Fletcher Jones Jr. has grown the family business to become one of the most successful privately held automotive groups in the United States.

Audi Beverly Hills is the 19th in the collection, representing eight automotive brands in four states; Illinois, Nevada, California and Hawaii.

The flagship of the group, Fletcher Jones Motorcars, New(see ‘AUDI,’ page 22)

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New BHHS Attendance Policy Shows Improved Results After First Semester

By Marla Schevker This semester was the first one that Beverly High enacted its new attendance policy, approved by the Board of Education last June 28. Both unexcused absences and tardies results in a deduction from the semester grade.

Per semester for a yearlong class, one unexcused absence result in a 3 percent grade deduction, two unexcused absences a 6 percent grade deduction and three unexcused absences a 9 percent grade deduction. Per semester

for a year-long class, each tardy counts as 1/5 of an unexcused absence, or a .06 percent deduction, from the semester grade. A tardy is counted when the student is not in the classroom by the time the bell rings.

Beverly High principal Carter Paysinger said the concept of docking a student’s grade for unexcused absences and tardies is nothing new.

Years ago, he said, if students had five unexcused absences they were automatically (see ‘ATTENDANCE,’ page 21)

HONOREES—Toni and Bruce Corwin (Humanitarian Award) and Corinne Verdery (Community Spirit Award) will be honored at the Feb. 29 Purim Ball in The Beverly Wilshire for their dedication and contributions to Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and the local community. The evening will be chaired by Michelle Kaye and Claudia Resnikoff. For ticket or tribute information, contact Kerstin Leavitt at 310-288-1755.

City Postpones Approval Of High-Impact Convenience Store Conditional Use Permit

CERT-IFIED—Members of the Beverly Hills Fire and Police Departments and residents became certified CERT(Community Emergency Response Training) Instructors last week. The group spent three days training at the Santa Monica Fire Training Facility as a step toward bringing the CERT program back after it was cut by the City Council in 2009. Back row (from left): David Seidel, Marty Geimer, Fire Marshall Chris Heyer, Sgt. Greg Mader, Fire Marshall Mike Newell, Les Bronte, and Pete Landau. Front row (from left): Pamela Meadow, Brian Rosenstein, and Ami Barton.

By Marla Schevker A change made by staff regarding the wording of a section of the ordinance caused the City Council to send the amendment of the high-impact convenience store ordinance back to the Planning Commission for discussion. It will come back before the council at its Feb. 21 meeting.

The amendment to the ordinance is needed to make the idea behind the urgency ordinance passed in April 2011 permanent. The amendment

gives definition to a “high impact convenience store” and requires any business that falls under the definition to have a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to operate in the City. High Impact convenience stores do not include newsstands, coffee shops or pharmacies. The definition in the draft ordinance is: “Any retail store with the following characteristics: (1) More than half the square footage is dedicated to the sale of general food and drink products not intended for home

Burglary Suspect Arrested by BHPD; Property Recovered An individual believed to be a prolific burglar was arrested by a Beverly Hills Police Officer on Jan. 25 after the officer stopped the individual for a traffic violation. Recovered from the vehicle were numerous items including, but not limited to: cash, jewelry, and electronics.

preparation and consumption, tobacco, magazines, toiletries, or any combination thereof; (2) The store is open to customers before 7 a.m. or after 10 p.m.

Monday through Friday or before 9 a.m. or after 10 p.m. on Saturday or Sunday; and (3) has one of the following characteristics — is served by onsite surface parking, located in a fuel station, or located within 300feet of a residential zone.”

To grant a potential high (see ‘CONVENIENCE,’ page 21)

KNOCKING DOWN THE BLOCKS TO PROGRESS—Pictured from left: City Manager Jeff Kolin, Vice Mayor Willie Brien, Councilmembers John Mirisch, Lili Bosse and Julian Gold, Beverly Hills Friends of the Library President Charlotte Skura and Mayor Barry Brucker help Willa Libaw (front row) ceremoniously knock down the first blocks for the library renovation, Tuesday.

Photographs of the items recovered may be viewed at the BHPD’s website at www.beverlyhills.org (search for Recovered Property).

If someone believes one or more of the items pictured may be theirs, they are urged to call BHPD detectives at 310-2882656.

8500 Block Of Clifton Way Gets New Parking Zone The City Council approved the modification of preferential parking zone “x” on the 8500 block of Clifton Way and the adjacent corner of Le Doux Road. It unanimously agreed to change the parking zone to “No Parking Anytime, Permit

‘X’ Exempt.”

The residents of the 8500 block of Clifton Way turned in a petition signed by 83 percent of the households on the block requesting the alteration.

The Traffic and Parking Commission unanimously sup-

ported the change at its Dec. 15 meeting.

Parking increased from 36 percent to 58 percent in the 8500 block of Clifton Way after zone “af” was established in the 8600 block of Clifton Way.

Council Ok’s Commissioned Art Piece For Park

GOING PRO—Young musical theater performers from the City of Beverly Hill’s “Taste of Broadway” class were given the opportunity to perform in a professional stage production alongside their instructor Jennifer Gordon and many other musical theater professionals for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of Fullerton Civic Light Opera. Back row (from left): Solomon Margo, Daniel Kohanbash and Ben Holtzman.

Front row (from left): Alessandra Maresca, Jennifer Gordon, Emma Maurer and Lauren Aviram.

By Marla Schevker At the recommendation of the Fine Arts Commission, the City Council commissioned the creation of the piece “Endless III” by Juame Plensa and the movement of “Erratic” by Roxy Paine from it’s current location to a different area in the Beverly Gardens Park during its study session Tuesday.

Assistant Director of Community Services Nancy Hunt-

Coffey said “Endless III” is a stainless-steel sculpture in the shape of a seated human created by welding together letters from eight different languages.

The piece is about 8 feet tall and 8-feet, 4-inches wide.

The $350,000 to commission “Endless III” includes shipping. The City will incur costs for installation, creating a base and providing appropriate lighting. The relocation of “Er-

ratic” will cost the City about $10,000.

Administrative Services Director and Chief Financial Officer Scott Miller said the City was self-insured for $1 million.

All of these costs will be paid for out of the Fine Arts Fund.

Hunt-Coffey said the Fine Arts Fund is generated from developer fees and the balance of the fund as of Jan. 12 was $960,020.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CYCLE TO SURVIVE—The Cycle for Survival indoor cycling event, co-sponsored by The Courier, brought more than 400 cyclists to Equinox Westwood on Saturday. More than $15 million has been raised through these rides, funding rare cancer research through Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Among celebrity riders were (from left): ex-Laker A.C Green, L.A. Galaxy’s Cobi Jones and Stacy Keibler, actress and model.

The program was created by a cancer victim, the deceased wife of David Linn (third from left). Photo © 2012 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Indoor Cycling Event Raises Money For Cancer Research Last Saturday, more than 10,000 people nationwide participated in Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center’s sixth Cycle for Survival event.

Equinox, the founding sponsor, hosted the event in New York City, Long Island, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

An indoor team cycling event, Cycle for Survival funds much-needed research into

better understanding and treating rare cancers.

Within six months of Cycle events, every dollar raised is allocated to research projects led

by MSK, so patients can see the benefits of donations in the form of new clinical trials and investigational treatment options.

Through 2011, Cycle for Survival has funded 25 clinical trials and research studies on

rare cancers that might not have otherwise received funding.

Together with Equinox, in just five years, Cycle for Survival has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing athletic fundraisers, bringing in more than $14 million and growing from a single location in NYC to six locations nationwide.

For more information, visit www.cycleforsurvival.org.

Heritage To Host Work Of Photographer Jim Arkatov Heritage Auctions will show the work of photographer Jim Arkatov, and the artists who inspired his work, Feb. 20 to 26. All photographs will be available for purchase to benefit the Los Angeles chapter of Autism Speaks.

Arkatov has documented the history of art and the artist

with an eye toward featuring the individual at work or surrounded by his or her works to provide a visual context between the artist and medium.

His latest subjects include flowers shown at the peak of beauty. Other artists and musicians include Herb Alpert, John Baldessari, Billy Al

Bengston, Dale Chihuly, Ed Moses, Isaac Stern and Igor Stravinsky.

Heritage Auctions will host a wine and cheese reception on Feb. 23 from 5 to 7 p.m at its gallery, 9478 W. Olympic Blvd. To RSVP for the reception call 310-492-8600 or email RSVP@ha.com.

CELEBRATING SCHOLARS— The Harkham Hillel Academy of Beverly Hills celebrated its 63rd annual Scholarship banquet on Feb. 5. The featured keynote speaker was Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (center) of England. The banquet also featured the “Shabbaton Choir” a 30men choir directly from London.

Former Mayor Jimmy Delshad (left) represented the City of Beverly Hills in welcoming Rabbi Sacks. Uri Harkham is on the right.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day In Beverly Hills In honor of the day of love, Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau has compiled some romantic and unique Valentine’s Day offerings in the City.

View all Valentine’s Day dining happenings at www.lovebeverlyhills.com/eve nt-detail/Valentine%27s-Day-

Dining-in-Beverly-Hills.aspx.

The Blvd In The Beverly Wilshire (www.foursea sons.com-/content/fourseasons/en/properties/beverlywilshi re/dining.html) Dine at The Blvd for a 6course meal where guests can choose among octopus carpaccio, carrot soup, roasted

quail and more. For dessert, choose between dark chocolate palet d’or, verrine of milk chocolate, banana and pomegranate, or white chocolate, coconut and strawberry pavlova with passion fruit curd. (see ‘VALENTINE,’ page 23)

Higher-Education Notes Christopher Rogers, of Beverly Hills, graduated from Eastern Oregon University in La Grande during the 2010-11 academic year.

Rogers earned a bachelor of science degree in philosophy/politics/economics. ***** Danielle Hausner of Beverly Hills was named to the fall semester dean's list at Curry College in Milton, Mass.

To qualify for the list, students must earn a 3.30 GPA, have no incompletes, and have no grade lower than a “C” for

the semester. ***** Gerard J. Williams of Beverly Hills received a B.A. degree in philosophy from the College of Arts & Sciences during the 208th commencement ceremonies last month at the University of Vermont in Burlington. ***** Christopher Kim of Beverly Hills was among more than 1,800 students to make the fall dean’s list. at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. *****

Amanda Lee Kallis, a member of the class of 2014, has been inducted into the chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national scholastic honorary society that recognizes academic achievement of firstyear students, at Colgate University in central New York.

Kallis is the daughter of Matthew D. and Cheryl Kallis of Beverly Hills Kallis earned the distinction by having a GPA of at least 3.5 during the 2010-2011 academic year. A banquet was (see ‘COLLEGE NEWS,’ page 7)

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CestVibe Co-Sponsors Art Exhibit CestVibe.com is co-sponsoring art exhibits with The Interfaith Center of Beverly Hills.

CestVibe.com recently entered into a partnership with The Interfaith Center (IFC) of Beverly Hills to display the works of contributing artists at the center, 315 S. Beverly Dr. New exhibits will be on display every four weeks to allow the individual artists to be recognized throughout the year.

To commemorate this relationship, CestVibe.com and the IFC will host an evening event on Sunday from 3 to 8:30 p.m.

Art by Janet Hyun and Jessica Ostrander will be featured for

the month of February and will be introduced at the evening event, Creation. RSVP for this free event at http://creat ionart.eventbrite.com.

The art, motivated by the faith of the artists, may not overtly show Christian symbols.

However, one can see the act of creation and an interpretation of the heavenly host.

And, so too, one gets a sense of people’s struggles and hope in the life-giving images of the paintings.

For more information, contact Cestvibe. com at info@cestvibe.com, or visit C’est Vibe Prophetic Expressions online at cestvibe .com.

GEORGE CHRISTY

Where to begin?

That’s the question with Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue that arrives every year during Oscar month.

This being the “18th Anniversary Collector’s Edition,” as described on the threefold cover with its bevy of 11 cinema beauties in clingy satin gowns designed by Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Carolina Herrera, etc. The young stars were posed by photographer Mario Testino against a white Art Deco background inspired by that all-white signature décor of Syrie Maugham, the Brit decorator from the ’20s who was wed to author Somerset Maugham.

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rresting articles by fine writers and layouts of glamorous photographs fill the 392 pages.

We count on VF editor-in-chief Graydon Carter for a Los Angeles story or two, and, yes, they’re here.

Ned Zeman reports on the “craze for human growth hormone with top stars, filmmakers, and studio executives touting its benefits. Ripped abs, fewer wrinkles, increased sex drive, more energy (and aggression), etc.”

Several physicians at the

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ophia Loren -- “one of the last living goddesses” – is photographed in alluring splendor by Annie Leibovitz in Sophia’s luxurious apartment on Geneva’s Vieille Ville. “I would never have won the Oscar if I had stayed in Hollywood,” she tells Sam Kashner. She suggests giving young actresses everywhere this advice: “Learn how to kiss. Today they kiss in another way, like they are devouring each other. They should see people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant kiss in Notorious.

Do they eat each other’s faces?

No!”

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ow starring in NBC’s Smash about backstage backstabbing during the making of a Broadway musical based on Marilyn Monroe, Anjelica Huston, donning a Cleopatra hairstyle, plays the bitchy Broadway producer who tosses martinis in faces. “They work you hard in TV, and it goes faster than film … refreshing to have a role actually written for me,” she says to the New Yorker’s Lillian Ross who was present at Anjelica’s birth. Lillian wrote the unforgettable New Yorker article about Anjelica’s father John Huston directing The Red Badge of Courage.

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nvited to attend a party with stepmother Cici at Jack Nicholson’s house, Anjelica recalls, “Jack opened the door, and smiled, and I fell in love. It led to 17 years of on-and-of togetherness. He had a great impact on my life. He’s a friend.”

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query toplining the issue’s cover: What’s the most influential movie of the past 30 years? Is it Barry Levinson’s 1982 comedy Diner, budgeted

James Wolcott takes on the

new male frontal nudity.

Shame’s Michael Fassbinder, Mark Wahlberg’s Boogie Nights, Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s Hall Pass, and those Judd Apatowproduced films, The Hangover Part II, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, etc. “The stampede only stiffened Judd Apatow’s resolve, making him more determined to rid the country of its fear of the fugitive organ and ‘get it in every movie from now on.’”

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feel my inheritance as a film director is from art,” Federico Fellini revealed to Charlotte Chandler, “and Michelangelo Antonioni’s is from literature. My films, like my life, are summed up in circus, spaghetti, sex and cinema.”

Antonioni’s response: “Federico was more concerned with the outer life of people in his films.

I am concerned with their inner lives – why they do what they do.”

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icky Martin arrives on Broadway as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s revival of Evita, which debuted in 1976. “He’s been circling the role for three years,” writes Laura Jacobs, who quotes Ricky that “it’s different from my pop singing … more classical …the range is pretty aggressive … it’s about challenges, and the character of Che is giving me the push I need now.”

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s always, there’s the annual Hollywood portfolio of portraits … plus features on Brigitte Bardot (The Temptress Of St. Tropez) … Planet Tollywood, the Mumbai-based

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anity Fair’s Fanfair section include photos of Brian Grazer’s private desk that’s alongside his three television screens, always on CNN, ESPN, BET … Universal’s Ron Meyer’s 26-seat screening room in Malibu is complete with a pool table -- Ron watches four to five movies every weekend … Sofia Coppola’s Stuff (Vuitton, Chanel, Marc Jacobs) … Harry “Strip King” Morton, son of Hard Rock Cafe’s Pope Peter, who’s opening a new Pink Taco at the former three-level Miyagi/ Imperial Gardens adjoining the Chateau Marmont, in addition to an Asian-flavored burger spot on Cahuenga Boulevard … 18year-old singer-songwriter Kathryn Gallagher is a student at our USC Thornton School of Music. She’s written music for the forthcoming film Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, starring dad Peter Gallagher, premiering next month at the Miami International Film Festival.

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hen there’s that “Get Back to Your Roots” newcomer in Fanfair’s Private Lives.

Nothing, however, to do with L’Oreal hair care -- rather, it aims at getting your health back!

The Pressed Juicery opened in Brentwood last year, added a branch in West Hollywood, and now has a Pressed Juicery truck in the Malibu Lumber Yard, reports Punch Hutton.

Founders Carly Brien, Hayden Slater and Hedi Gores are Los Angelenos. “Brien had been living in New York City, and returned home to take care of her mother who had fallen gravely ill. She immersed herself in the teachings of holistic medicine, consulted with Slater who’d

Harry Morton, son of Hard Rock Cafe’s Pop Peter Morton is opening another Pink Taco, among other news.

returned from a wellness-andcleansing workshop in Asia, also consulted with Gores, who was well versed.” Brien couldn’t find “pressed-juice shops where I could get my mom the nutrients she needed.” Voila, the Pressed Juicery.

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unch mentions the varied “types of elixirs, from the stable of green and root blends (which include ingredients such as kale, spinach, ginger, and carrots to detox brews (lemon, cayenne, mint, grapefruit, and so forth … fruitier concoctions … threeand five-day cleanse kits … supplements for specific needs including energy, antioxidants and cold- and fluster-busters – are also available … not to be missed are the delicious signature drinks: coconut mint chip, coconut cinnamon, and almond milk – they taste like dessert, but they’re actually good for you.”

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nward to Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue 2013!

Online at www.bhcourier.com/georgechristy.cfm

Mario Testino, exclusively for Vanity Fair

forefront of this “miraculous” or “hazardous” treatment are located in Beverly Hills. They are Dr. Uzzi Reiss and Dr. Andre Berger. While the article quotes users Suzanne Somers; Alana Stewart, who suffered from side-effects and stopped; Sly Stallone, it also rings a bell about long-term H.G.H use.

Ned’s research cites two of the country’s leading “academic endocrinologists,” UCLA’s Dr. Stanley Korenman and Northwestern’s Mark Molitch, who are not thrilled and remain critical.

Ned adds that the medical community anticipates “increased rates of cancer, heart disease, and early mortality …

risks of edema, high blood pressure, prostate cancer and breast cancer.”

film industry, home to the largest studio complex on the planet … Pasadena’s Laura and Kate Mulleavy, the sisters behind the Rodarte fashion label favored by Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. An early fan and a close friend, Natalie says.

“You get the sense you’re wearing a work of art.”

Lisa Eisner, exclusively for Vanity Fair

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at $5 million. “Yet no movie from the 1980s proved more influential,” insists S. L. Price, “serving as the launching pad for Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Timothy Daly … everyone was raw, egos were huge, but held in check because no one had been warped by fame and money.”

Vanity Fair’s 18th Anniversary Collector’s Edition has a threefold cover with 11 cinema beauties.

Vanity Fair cover girls include Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Elizabeth Olsen, Adepero Oduye, Shailene Woodley, Paula Patton, Felicity Jones, Lily Collins, and Brit Marling

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COLLEGE NOTES (Continued from page 5)

held in honor of the approximately 150 students who qualified. ***** Two students from Beverly Hills were named to the dean’s list, and one to the dean’s honor list for the fall semester at the University of WisconsinMadison.

Named to the lists were:: • Emily Nicole Litvak, School of Human Ecology, dean’s honor list; • Daniel Jacob Litvak and Madeline Elizabeth Miller, College of Letters and Science, dean’s list.

To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must complete a minimum of 12 graded degree credits in that semester. ***** John Phillip Gornik of Beverly Hills, received his B.S. degree in business administration in commencement ceremonies last month at Fontbonne University in St. Louis. ***** The Ottawa University Braves football team, of which Brentwood native Skyler Parker is a member, won the 2011 Buffalo Funds Five Star Champions of Character award, which recognizes one college team in every sport for “exemplary character and sportsmanship displayed during practice, competition, on campus, and in the community.”

The Champions of Character program, developed by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), teaches student-athletes the importance of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership.

Parker, #40, is a 6-1, 220 pound linebacker who transferred from Los

February 10, 2012 | Page 7 Medanos College. * **** Daniel Bleiberg of Beverly Hills,, a member of the class of 2013, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester at Tufts University, located on three Massachusetts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, and in Talloires, France, Dean’s list honors require a semester GPA of 3.4 or greater. ***** Nikolai Beshkov of Beverly Hills made the fall quarter 2011 dean’s list at DePaul University in Chicago.

To qualify for the list, students must earn above a 3.0 GPA on a four-point scale. ***** Four BHHS seniors have received their acceptance notifications to USC. The students were notified early because they are candidates for USC Scholarships.

Andrew Schwab and Matthew Spector have been awarded the Dean’s Scholarship and Sara Newman and Steven Kearns are finalists for the Presidential Scholarship award.

Presidential Scholarship finalists will be hosted for a special two-day event at the campus which will include interviews with their academic departments. ***** Nicholas Everett Harper is a recipient of the Dean's award for academic excellence during the 2011 fall term at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. Harper, a member of the class of 2015, is a BHHS graduates and the son of Robert E. and Deborah L. Harper.

To be eligible for the award, a Colgate student must achieve a 3.30 or higher average while enrolled in four courses.

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Fashion News & Notes Pikolinos Bows New Line to Benefit Maasai Tribes Spanish comfort brand Pikolinos is bringing a new line to the U.S. to benefit the Maasai tribes of Africa.

The limited-edition collection of sandals will be handmade by tribal women.

According to Fernando Palazzo, country manager for North America, all profits from the hand-beaded styles will be used to support educational initiatives in the Maasai communities.

Additionally, the 1,400 Maasai women are paid salaries for their work. For many, he said, this is the first time they've had the opportunity to work at jobs outside their communities and receive monetary wages.

and Europe.

The luxury firm said revenues rose 15.8 percent in the three months to Dec. 31 to 852.5 million euros, or $1.15 billion. Stripping out the impact of currency fluctuations, sales were up 14.3 percent during the period. All dollar rates are calculated at average exchange rates for the period concerned.

In 2011 as a whole, sales rose 18.3 percent at constant exchange rates, beating the company’s forecast of a 15 to 16 percent rise. Hermès, which will announce full results on March 22, again raised its forecast for the current operating margin, which it now expects to exceed 30 percent in 2011 versus 27.8 percent in 2010.

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Happenings Around Town

• More Than 100 Wineries, Breweries Set For BH Wine Fest More than 100 wineries, breweries and spirits are participating in the Beverly Hills Wine Festival to showcase their select varieties at The Beverly Hilton on Feb. 26.

Presented by ABM Medical, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini of Beverly Hills, net proceeds benefit the Los Angeles Animal Alliance.

The wines’ flavors will be enhanced by pairing them with international cheeses.

One of the featured wineries will be Todd and Tammy Schaefer’s 13-year old Pacific Coast Vineyards, composed of

tral Coast region of California.

The Schaefers’ 2008 pinot noir scored a gold medal at the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle national wine competition, the largest in the world. Pacific Coast Vineyards also produces syrah, malbec, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and chardonnay.

These boutique wines are structured in small lots and barrelaged in custom French oak barrels for 18 months or longer.

The festival includes live music and entertainment. For information, visit: www.beverlyhillswinefestival.com.

• Jonsson Cancer Center To Honor NBC’s Jennifer Salke The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation hosts its 17th annual “Taste for a Cure” fundraiser at The Beverly Wilshire April 20 honoring Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment.

Event features a premier food and wine tasting reception followed by awards program with live auction, tasting menu of savory selections and enterTodd and Tammy Schaefer of tainment. Jon Holman, Larry Pacific Coast Vineyards Maguire, Gary Newman, Jay estate grown vines hand select- Sures and Dana Walden will coed and crafted to produce the chair. Individual tickets $500. top quality of wines for the Cen- For information, call 310-201-

5033 or visit www.tasteforacure.com.

•Dreams Of The Washer King Premieres At Theatre 40 Christopher Wall’s new play Dreams Of The Washer King is having its West Coast premiere through Feb. 26 at Theatre 40’s Reuben Cordova Theatre on the BHHS campus.

“Christopher Wall is a unique new voice in the theater” says Director Andre Barron. “His work fuses evocative visual imagery, gripping stories, and a deep understanding of the psychological traps we set for ourselves.

“He is a master of time manipulating the nonlinear narrative forward in amazing ways.

There is a curious sense of the supernatural and fantastical elements that run through the play that captures the imagination.”

Performances are 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, and 2 p.m., Sunday. Tickets are $23 on Thursday and Friday and $25 on weekends. Call 310-3640535 and for online ticketing, visit www.theatre40.org.

• Three BH Rare Booksellers To Display At Weekend Book Fair Three Beverly Hills rare booksellers will be among the 200 international and U.S. dealers

GRAND OPENING–A new PetSmart store had its grand opening last Saturday at 330 S. La Cienega Blvd. The all-encompassing facility has a PerSmart PetsHotel for boarding cats and dogs and Doggie Day Camp plus Banfield Pet Hospital for veterinary services. The facility has such services as grooming, training, adoptions and charities.

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flocking to the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St. Joining Bruce Howard of Bookbid will be Benjamin Weinstein of Heritage Book Shop, who will be bringing such items as a first edition of Cicero, the first book published in English

by William Caxton in 1481, and a first edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Erye.

Mark Hime of Biblioctopus) will bring such diverse items as Paul McCartney’s hand-written manuscript for Lovely Rita from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, valued at $175,000 and a fourth folio 1685 edition of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories And Tragedies, priced at

$180,000.

The Book Fair will feature volumes from five centuries of printing, as well as original manuscripts that predate Gutenberg from booksellers from across the country and around the world. The fair gives visitors the opportunity to see, learn about and purchase the finest in rare and valuable books, manuscripts, autographs, graphics, prints, maps, photographs and more.

Fair hours are 3 to 8 p.m. today; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets good for all three days are $25 and Saturday or Sunday at $15. For information, visit www.labookfair.com or call 800-454-6401.

A Retired Bel-Air Couple That Cares: Helping Foster Children Via CASA/LA Inta and Richard Kipper of Bel-Air have been married for 40 years and raised four children together during that time. They share a bond that continues to provide each with love and joy every day. However, three years ago, during jury duty, Richard Kipper chanced across another way for them to share an experience while also helping a child along the way: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) of Los Angeles.

Nonprofit CASA/LA works with the L.A. Department of Children and Family Services, advocating for children in the foster care system. The responsibilities are wide-ranging from attending court dates and working with the judge to representing the child’s educational interests. Oftentimes, a CASA is the most stable presence in a foster child’s life and for many foster children, the CASA volunteer is the only person not paid to care for them.

“While on jury duty, I saw an ad for CASA. It sounded interesting and since we were about to retire, we agreed to find out more about the program,” said Richard Kipper, a former tax lawyer and CPA. “My wife was a retired high school teacher with extensive experience working with teenagers. With both of us having very different backgrounds, we could see ourselves far more effective together than acting alone.”

The couple does everything together (i.e. speaking with social workers, caregivers, therapists, school officials, teachers, psychiatrists, and, of course, meeting with the CASA child for whom they hold educational rights.

“After the various meetings we discuss what each of us heard and our respective reactions. Sometimes we agree completely but other times we disagree and have to find a middle ground which can be difficult frustrating. But when we deal with our CASA child, we always try to be of one mind,” said Kipper.

Because of his legal background, he prepares the court reports. Then his wife thoroughly edits them and the couple discusses the changes for the final report and recommendations.

“For me, being a CASA is an opportunity to help an at risk foster child. I wish every one of them could have a CASA,” said Kipper. “For my wife, being a CASA is an opportunity to stand by, support, encourage, advocate and care for, journey with, and be involved on behalf of a child who needs someone ‘in his or her corner’ to make a difference in their difficult life.”

More information about CASA/LA can be found at the organization’s website: www. casala.org

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HOW DO YOU FEEL? St. John’s, Topanga Film Institute Strive To Educate Community

M E D I C I N E , H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

‘Neuro-Cinema & Beyond’ Series Gains Momentum Valentine’s Day Is Time To Last month, the art and healthcare communities came together to celebrate neurosurgery and learn about the brain. More than 130 guests attended the kick-off dinner for the “Neuro-Cinema & Beyond” a film series focused on the brain, cancer and physicians involved in treating these conditions.

The series marks the first collaboration of St. John’s Health Center, the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) and the Topanga Film Institute (TFI), a division of the Topanga Film Festival.

“This series allows us to not only bring attention to independent films that explore important issues, but also gives us the opportunity to educate the community about these conditions and get them thinking,” said Daniel F. Kelly, M.D., director of St. John’s Brain Tumor Center and Pituitary Disorders Program and faculty member at JWCI, who is speaking at several of the screenings.

“Programs like this help educate the public on complex medical issues, such as the advances and limits of healthcare and the capabilities of both the brain and body to recover

Think About A Healthy Heart Valentine's Day is the time of year for people to remind themselves to embrace lifestyle choices that help maintain a healthy heart.

UCLA cardiologist Dr. Karol Watson says that social connections, a healthy diet and stress reduction are just a few of the things that support the heart.

“Taking a walk on the beach with someone special, eating delicious healthy foods or taking time to relax can contribute to a healthy heart,” said Watson, associate professor of cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “Much of heart disease can be prevented so it is very important to follow a healthy lifestyle and to control your cardiovascular risk factors.”

Here are some other tips: • Get the heart pumping.

New recommendations for a healthy heart are to participate in aerobic exercise for 30 to 60 minutes daily. The good news is that new research confirms this can be done in increments as short as 10 minutes at a time.

So doing anything that gets the heart rate up such as a brisk stroll around the block, active gardening, or even walking in the mall all count. Exercise helps maintain a healthy weight and a strong heart.

• Eat well to maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight or obese has been shown to increase the risk of heart attacks, heart failure, and diabetes. A healthy diet is one of the best ways to maintain a normal weigh • “Follow your heart.”

“Your loved ones will appreci-

FILM SERIES—Daniel F. Kelly, M.D., director of JWCI’s Brain Tumor Institute, being presented the “What Is Your Favorite Part Of The Brain” board by LG Taylor of the Topanga Film Institute.

from illness.”

The series kick off featured a screening of The English Surgeon, a film about the experiences of neurosurgeon Dr. Henry Marsh while working in poverty-stricken Ukraine, followed by a Q&A over Skype with Emmy-winning filmmaker Geoffrey Smith.

“Neuro-Cinema & Beyond has provided a dynamic platform to shed light on the humanitarian efforts of neurosurgeons, such as Dr. Marsh,” Smith said.

“I am thrilled to have been a part

of it.”

• The next screening in the series will be at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 19. Jonna's Body, Please Hold, is a dark comedy directed by Adam Bluming that explores the film’s producer, writer and actress Jonna Tamases’ own experiences with breast cancer.

Winner of Audience Award at the Ashville Film Festival and part of TFI’s “Beyond” series, the movie’s stunning visuals and hilarious characters take viewers on a wild and sometimes bizarre ride into the realm of health, illness, joy and the beauty of life.

Following the film showing will be a Q&A with Tamases and Saint John’s surgical oncologist and breast specialist Dr. Maggie DiNome, who will offer insight into breast cancer and treatment options.

• The third movie in the series is Marwencol, a documentary by Jeff Malmberg, about Mark Hogancamp, a man who is left brain damaged and broke after a vicious attack. Hogancamp seeks recovery in “Marwencol,” a miniature World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.

Winner of the South by Southwest Film Festival Grand Jury Award , the film will be shown at 2:15 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 and followed by a Q&A with Malmberg and a discussion about brain injury and recovery with Dr. Kelly.

• The final film will be Moving Forward by Conor and Danny Toumarkine (time, date and location of filming still being decided). The film follows Danny Toumarkine after he suffered from a traumatic brain injury last year. (see ‘SERIES,’ page 14)

Dr. Karol Watson

ate you taking care of your heart throughout the year,” says Watson. “Remember to get the appropriate screening tests that you need for cholesterol levels, blood pressure and blood glucose, and see your doctor regularly.”

•Take medications as recommended by a physician.

Many patients stop taking their prescribed medications without discussing this with their physicians. Studies show individuals who stop their cardiovascular medications are at much higher risk for heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and reduced survival compared to those who adhere to their medical regimen.

•Reduce stress. Finding a positive outlet, like exercise, meditation and spending time with family and friends, can relieve stress and also improve your health.

•Quit smoking. Smoking increases the risk of heart attacks and heart failure.

Health Happenings...

‘Women & Heart Disease’ Topic Of St. John’s Lectures One in three women has some form of heart and blood vessel disease. This year, heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases will claim the lives of more women than the next five leading causes of death combined.

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tery disease (PAD), a common but serious disease that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

To underscore the importance of this health challenge for women, St. John’s Health Center is sponsoring a free community forum “A Woman’s Health—Heart Disease” from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 13, and repeated from 2-4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14 at the Santa Monica Public Library Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.

Among the lectures to be presented by St. John’s physicians are: • “Diet, Nutrition and Heart Health including Metabolic Syndrome” by Dr. Sandra Fallon, cardiologist; • “Skipped Beats, Rapid Heart Rates and Rhythm Disorders including Atrial Fibrillation” by Dr. Sarina van der Zee, cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, and;

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COMMAND PERFORMANCE—More than 30 inpatients and their family members were treated to a very special visit and private performance last week by Grammy-winning vocalist and singer-songwriter, Seal. The interactive music session was hosted by the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) Music Therapy Team in the fifth floor Family Lounge. Guitars, keyboards, drums, tambourines, shakers and other musical instruments were handed out so patients could play along and showcase their own style of music.With several music therapists strumming along as backup, Seal kicked off the performance with Secret, a song he wrote for his daughter.

Presents

New Jerusalem The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation in Amsterdam: July 27, 1656 by David Ives

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• “Coronary and Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) including stent procedures” by Dr. Prabhtej S. Brara, FASCA&I, interventional cardiologist.

Registered dietitians from St. John’s Nutrition and Diabetes Education Department will provide a “Healthy Hearts” food and nutrition exhibit at the Auditorium 30 minutes before the beginning of each forum: Monday, 6 to 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday, 1:302 p.m.

Part of St. John’s “Women’s Health Lecture Series,” the program is made possible through a grant from The Harold McAlister Charitable Foundation.

Seating is limited. Required reservations may be made by calling 310-829-8453.

Program Addresses Teen Challenges “One Life To Live,” a program of the Iranian American Parents Association (IAPA) “to help solve dangerous challenges facing teens” will be held from 3-6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 19 at The Beverly Hilton.

With the theme, “Community Together To Save Lives,” the seminar will address the topics of drugs, sex, legal issues, alcohol and tragic incidents.

With special guest Sheriff Lee Baca, the event will feature presenters: Dr. Nanaz Pirnia, BHPD Sgt, Mark Cripe and Gary Woods, BHUSD superintendent and panelists Cameron Yadidi, Alaleh Kamran, Sam Sharafshahi, Ardy Pirnia, Danni Rabbani and Sepehr Dardashti.

Tickets,$20 for those 13 and older, are available at Kebar Corporation, Sound City, Elat Market, Q Market and Avakian. Or online at www.IranianHotline.com or by phone at 310-3583337.

For more information, email info@iapabh.org or call Pirnia, 310-286-1480. Event sponsors include The Beverly Hilton and KIRN Radio Iran 670AM.

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For 15 years, Danny and his brother had shared a dream of creating a season-long snowboarding video.

After starting a production company called Shreddy Times in 2007, together they documented Danny's path to stardom within the snowboard industry.

While filming in Montana, with a group of close friends, Danny fell on a routine jump and sustained a severe head injury. After nearly two weeks in a medically induced coma and four brain surgeries, Danny was discharged from the hospital 33 days after his fall.

The film takes the audience through the ups and downs of his recovery process. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Conor, Danny and Dr. Kelly.

To RSVP for any of the free screenings at the Martin Luther Jr. Auditorium in Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. call 1-800- 7856467 or visit www.new stjohns.org/neurocinema.aspx.

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George Christy’s Pick Of The Week: The Love Connection

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ho is this mysterious Saint Valentine who bestowed this annual holiday to the world? We’ve discovered he’s a Christian martyr from the Roman Empire who later became linked to romance by Geoffrey Chaucer during the 14th century.

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hakespeare wrote about the holiday in Hamlet (16001601), when Ophelia sighs, “Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day/All in the morning betime/And I’m a maid at your window/To be your Valentine.”

And that old-fashioned Valentine’s Day poem is attributed to an English nursery rhyme: “Roses are red/Violets are blue/The honey is sweet/And so are you/Thou are my love and I am thine/I drew thee to be my Valentine.”

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during the Middle Ages it was generally believed that February 14th was the beginning of the birds mating season, which spawned the idea that this should be a day of love.

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t the beginning of the 19th century, fancy Valentines were made with ribbons and lace, and by mid-century Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts imported paper lace and floral art from England to design Valentines for her father’s stationary store.

Her cards inspired personal handwritten messages. By the middle of the 20th century, the mass-produced cards took off, and the U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that more than 190 million Valentine cards are exchanged every year.

When counted with the cards made in classrooms, the estimate rises to one billion – with teachers being the most popular recipients.

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ith the Internet, other traditions are taking hold.

Original computer-created art has become fashionable, with an estimate that more than 20 million e-valentines are being sent. But the past is not forgotten, as antique and vintage Valentines, pop-up and mechanical ones are treasured as collecn France and England tor’s items.

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t. Valentine’s Day is celebrated the world over. A figure known as Jack Valentine leaves sweets at the back door for children in Norfolk, England.

Scandinavian lovers gift their mates with red roses.

In Finland, the day remembers friends as well as lovers. In Lithuania and Latvia it’s not uncommon for the citizenry to add stickers of hearts to their faces and shirts. Young Israeli girls from centuries past wore white dresses and paraded in vineyards while young boys looked on. Today they celebrate it as a “festival of love,”

Leno on The Tonight Show.

Amy Poehler finds, “In a recent Valentine’s Day posting, Britney Spears says, ‘Oh, that … who cares?’” While Garry Shandling admits, “I’m dating a woman now, who, evidently, is unaware of it.”

world’s “fun” holiday.

He’s created special Valentine’s Day arrangements for lovers, and shares favorites in our Pick of the Week.

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n Los Angeles, floral designer Eric Buterbaugh, based at the Four Seasons Hotel and whose clients range from Maria Shriver to European and Asian royals, reflects that it’s the

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t’s the “Day of Love and Friendship” in Latin America.

Women commit to rituals in Brazil with hopes of finding Mr. Right.

Chinese and Koreans spend generously on Valentine gifts. In Japan, chocolates are expected. By 1992, the holiday caught on in India with love letter competitions.

Several of floral designer Eric Buterbaugh’s favorite gifts for Valentine’s Day lovers.

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audi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia have banned any celebrations. Last year, more than 100 couples were arrested in Malaysia while embracing St. Valentine’s Day.

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oday is Valentine’s Day … or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” chimed Jay

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f you’re in love, there will be hell to pay in many households if you don’t remember St. Valentine’s Day on February 14. Greeting cards are charming and thoughtful, but flowers, chocolates in heart-shaped boxes, a romantic champagne dinner or a lovers’ getaway are a classy way to go. As are diamonds. Sapphires. Rubies.

Emeralds. Or perfect South Seas pearls.

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BEVERLY HILLS street dripping wet in an ill fitting salon gown to feed the meter and suppose you run into someone you haven’t seen in 20 years and only have 20-minutes to get reacquainted. If you talk fast that gives you a minute per year. Who wants to be placed in those kinds of pressure packed situations.

Predictably this results in the issuance of large numbers of parking citations, which I expect represent a major source of revenue for the City so why change anything. Then there is the proliferation of metered spaces that have been commandeered by restaurants usually from 6 p.m. to midnight. This practice is completely out of hand.

Restaurants should be limited to no more than one metered space per establishment which will undoubtedly prove to be troublesome for those eateries that regularly accommodate stretch Hummers and tour buses. On the other hand those that cater to the Mini-Cooper crowd should be in good shape.

It has now occurred to the cash starved City that additional meter revenue can be generated by extending the hours to include 6-9pm Monday through Saturday and just when you thought it was safe to venture into town on Sundays, a new tariff has been applied during the hours of noon-6 p.m. Should you be cited for an expired meter, the tab will be rather substantial and probably require an insanity plea in order to get you off.

To complicate matters further, you now have the option of using a credit card in lieu of coins providing, of course, that you have the technical know how to navigate your way through the eco-friendly parking meters very challenging FlexPay instruction menu which in sunlight is almost impossible to read even if you have mastered Braille.

Adjusting the time on the meters can also be challenging unless you are one of the chosen few who have training as a bombmaker. Having a Mensa card in your wallet will also serve to accelerate your learning curve. I recently failed to get my credit card to buy me some additional time and had to resort to using the meters toll free hotline number to reach out for help. Predictably, I reached a techie in Bombay and though he failed to solve my problem, he was able to provide me with a list of Zagat recommended restaurants on the West Side serving high quality Indian cuisine.

Adding to the frustration of finding a metered parking space are the number of automobiles displaying the familiar blue or red handicap sign dangling from the rear view mirrors of cars with occupants who, almost without exception, appear to be in excellent health. I once watched a dog limp out of a car with a handicap sign and head straight for (see ‘ROGER LEFKON,’ page 25)

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BEVERLY HILLS COURIER | FEBRUARY 10, 2012 VALENTINE’S DAY & WEDDINGS— VD & W2 Luxury Jewels Of Beverly Hills Lucy De Castenou Relocates Features House Of Taylor Couture Salon To New Studio uxury Jewels of Beverly Hills is the exclusive retailer of pieces from House of Taylor Inc., items designed by Dame Elizabeth. The Los Angeles-based international jewelr y company had Dame Elizabeth Taylor as a principal shareholder.

In addition to a variety of Taylor’s designs and some of her original pieces, House of Taylor offers a wide selection of watches and fine jewelry from other notable designers.

Luxury Jewels also carries vintage jewelry and watches along with the Taylor brands, and offers appraisal and consignment, buying gold, jewelry and watches.

Dame Elizabeth was designer for her jewelr y line, House of Taylor Jewelry (HOTJ). All the pieces were sketched and designed by Dame Elizabeth and inspired by her personal treasures.

The owner of the largest private jewelry collection in the world, Dame Elizabeth’s collection, recently auctioned by Christie's, was ranked number three in W Jewelry magazine’s list of the top 10 collections worldwide, following those of Queen Elizabeth of England and Farah Pahlavi, the former empress of Iran.

Her personal collection contained some of the most exquisite jewels in history. The 33-carat Krupp Diamond ring, La Peregrina pearl (a Valentine present from Richard Bur ton), an antique diamond tiara (gift from Mike

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Todd), Taj Mahal heart-shaped yellow diamond necklace (gift from Richard Burton), the Duchess of Windsor diamond brooch, a 29-carat diamond ring (gift from Mike Todd), the pear shaped 69-carat Taylor-Burton diamond (sold to fund a hospital) and the Grand Duchess of Russia emeralds are some of the most notable pieces.

In her book, Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelr y, Dame Elizabeth shared some of the most sumptuous pieces in her collection of one-of-a-kind diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. “I knew that I wanted to give others a glimpse of the thrills and pure happiness that these beautiful creations have given me.”

Shop hours are 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday.

Luxury Jewels of Beverly Hills is at 203 S. Beverly Dr., and their knowledgeable staff will guide client in purchasing the perfect piece of jewelry for any occasion.

For more information, call 310205-0093.

The store’s celebrity-studded 2009 grand opening included actresses Lauren Maher, Theresa Randle, Marilu Henner and Maria Conchita Alonso and Frances Fisher, and actor Kevin Sorbo.

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ucy De Castenou has relocated her popular couture boutique to a studio on South Beverly Drive.

In her former Brighton Way location for almost 22 years, De Castenou is looking forward to the valentine and wedding season, and greeting her local clientele—many who have been with her for 20 years, Known for custom, made-to-measure clothes, she also kicking off the season launching a new number two line of pret-a-porter garments along with her bridal collection including gowns and mother-of-the-bride dresses.

Featured in high-gloss magazines, De Castenou has a history of dressing the most elegant, most chic women in the world, including celebrities, dignitaries, royalty, lawyers and business and arts leaders.

“I use very, very high-end natural fabrics,” De Castenou relates. Many are one-of-a-kind original prints on fabric. All finished designs are also lined with silk.

Her repertoire ranges from cocktail dresses and evening gowns to bridal parties. But she’s renowned for business attire, par ticularly her suits—“because of the fit and the fabrics.”

Creating clothes is something De Castenou has been doing all her life.

“It was a family trait that was passed on from my mother, a dressmaker. We learned sitting next to her; that was

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basic training.” She also attended design school in Mexico.

“I am a designer and manufacturer,” says De Castenou.

Often when clients come in she makes a sketch right on the spot, taking into account what a client is looking for.

She shows swatches and fabrics for them to select from, and before the final version creates a mock up of the dress “to ensure everything is working well.” Clients keep coming back to her for the fit of her clothes; something they can’t get anywhere else.

Once everything is perfect, she cuts the material and does the styling. All the manufacturing is done in Los Angeles by her staff of pattern makers, sewers and cutters.

“Our garments are recognized for the high-end work and hand finishing,” De Castenou adds.

“It’s wonderful to make people look beautiful,” De Castenou enthuses. She was a stylist at the salon of iconic hair stylist Gene Shacove, the model for Warren Beatty’s character in Shampoo, before moving into fashion. “It was a natural transition,” she says.

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Dicker And Dicker Is The Source Latest Facial, Body Contouring Technology at Moy-Fincher-Chipps For Fur, Leather & Fur Accessories oy-Fincher-Chipps Facial Plastics & Dermatology is offering its clients the latest in facial and body contouring technology.

Three weeks ago, the clinic introduced its new Apollo RF (radio frequency) device, making it the only area provider with the machine.

The controlled RF is delivered through three or more electrodes while the temperature of the skin is constantly monitored.

The painless, and even pleasant, procedure is especially good at treating loose skin, like for mothers wanting to tighten skin and eliminate stretch marks after giving birth; and for treating cellulite on the thighs.

With three different sized heads, the device can be used on areas like the buttocks and arms with the medium sized one; and on the jowls and fine lines of the face with the small one.

The Apollo is an example of TriPollar RF Technology, overcoming the limitations of mono- and bi-polar technology. Most radio frequency devices have to grounded, but not the Apollo. There is no risk of shock and the safe and effective device is a lot easier for a practitioner to use, with a lot more control.

RF is delivered deep into the skin without damaging healthy tissues.

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strands are pulled closer, resulting in immediately tightened skin.

The deep heating effect in turn accelerates the fat-cell metabolism to augment collagen regeneration over the full treatment course. (Clients typically have 6-8 treatments). Targeted facial treatment stimulates collagen fibers in the dermis layer resulting in tighter, younger-looking skin.

• For fat reduction, heating the cells accelerates fat metabolism and causes the fat cells to shrink. The rise in temperature forces the fat to secrete fatty acids (liquid fat) which is disposed of via the blood and lymph system.

When the RF device is used on the body, the result is fat and circumferential reduction and improved cellulite appearance. Targeted body treatments shrink fat cells in the hypodermis layer and accelerate collagen regeneration.

Clients have responded to the immediate results, lack of down time, and cost effectiveness. The price is based on the area being treated (small or large surface) and multiple treatments are taken into account. Moy Fincher Chipps will soon be offering Saturday clinics not only for the already popular treatment, but also for Botox, Dysport, fillers, laser resurfacing, fotofacials and laser hair removal.

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ome and discover Southern California’s largest collection of fur, leathers and fur accessories at Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills.

The company is renown for its wide array of fur coats and accessories from sable and chinchilla to mink, sheared mink, lynx, fox, rex rabbit, knitted furs, cashmere and furs, shearlings and more. The fashionable, chic and stylish designs originate from all over the world. The Dicker and Dicker Beverly Hills showroom on S. Robertson Boulevard.

It has always been the goal at Dicker and Dicker to restyling of outdated furs. Delivery design and manufacture the highest and pick-up are available.

The company can also create comquality furs at affordable prices by sellplete custom-made furs specifically to ing direct to the public. Each handcrafted coat is made from the finest a client’s design requirements “or we materials and all the garments are can work with you to create your own comfortable and lightweight, allowing custom-made fur from our vast style collections,” Becker said. for almost any activity.

The newly redecorated Dicker and The Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Dicker showroom is at 215 S. Hills name has long-been synonymous Robertson Blvd. in Beverly Hills; open with furs of the finest quality. “We sew from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday our label into our garments only after they meet our high quality standards,” through Saturday.

The company also operates a facsaid Larry Becker, owner. tory outlet at 9428 Eton Ave. in Dicker and Dicker is a true fullChatswor th, 818-998-4387; and a ser vice furrier offering customers expert fur cleaning, glazing and cold seasonal location at 109 Main St., storage in its temperature-controlled Ketchikan, Alaska (open May through facility as well as expert repairs and September).

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CONNIE MARTINSON Talks Books

Joan Mangum

SUPER SUPER BOWL PARTY–Cherna and Dr. Gary Gitnick hosted their annual Super Bowl party Sunday with more than 300 on hand. Pictured above (from left) are: Kelly Katz, the Gitnicks, and Brighton Way jeweler Martin Katz. Adjacent (top): actor Sean McNabb and KTTV news anchor Christine Devine; (below): actress Julia Alexander and KNX Business Hour’s Frank Mottek.

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For the 26th consecutive year, Gary Gitnick, chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA School of Medicine, and his wife, Cherna, opened their home to 300 pals for their annual Super Bowl party. The Gitnicks are founders of the Fulfillment Fund, the mentoring nonprofit that provides numerous educational and scholarship opportunities for L.A. youth.

Besides dozens of current and wannabe state and local politicos on hand, additional guests included Fulfillment Fund CEO/President Andrea Cockrum, Diane Sherman Smith, Jan and Bob Goldman, KTTV’s Christine

Devine and actor/musician Sean McNabb, KNX’s Frank Mottek, Daphna Ziman, Tony Oppenheimer, Joan and Charles Fox, Janet and Barry Cooper, Sybil Bergman, Fran Huddleston, Doreen and Fred Solomon, Edie Singerand many more.

For information on the Fulfillment Fund, visit www.fulfillment.org. ****** Prior to the Feb. 26 Academy Awards ceremonies, Oscar nominated costumes and 100 outstanding designs from 2011 films can be reviewed in the annual “Art of Motion Picture Costume Design” exhibition.

Opening Feb. 14 (through April 28), the exhibit celebrates its 20th anniversary presented by the FIDM Museum downtown at 919 S. Grand Ave. For information, call 213-623-5821, ext.

3367.

This annual, free to the public event is the only one in the world that pays homage to the creativity of the costume designer for film with a museum show of outstanding costumes and Oscar nominated designs. The unique showing has generated increased national and international attention throughout its two decade history.

Visitors will see costumes from Alice In Wonderland by Oscar-winner Colleen Atwood, who created the costumes for the film.

Recently, FIDM Museum presented “High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture” featuring the museum’s permanent collection donated by Holmby Hills’ resident Betsy Bloomingdale.

Beverly Hills’ novelist Stephen Maitland-Lewis has followed up Hero On Three Continents with Emeralds Never Fade (Glyd-Evans Press $25.95). As well as emeralds, friendships last as do memories. For Leo, his mother’s emerald pendent used to press into his chest when she hugged him close had belonged to his grandmother and was the talisman of his family. Leo had been taught to play the piano by Bruno Franzman while his father tutored the latter in math.

Leo was living with his cousins in Nice, where he had been sent for safety at the rise of the Nazis in Germany. His parents were academics in a secular world where being loyal Germans came before being Jewish but eventually joined their son there. Leo began learning about Judaism from Rabbi Aaron who trains him for his Bar Mitzvah.

As the Nazi strength gets strong in Vichy France, the British with Churchill’s help will allow an unlimited number of Jewish children into Palestine. Leo is sent on the boat where he meets Uri who BH Novelist Stephen Maitlandwill become his lifelong friend. Lewis with Connie Martinson They go to the Kibbutz and Leo joins the British Army. He is sent to England where he meets the DeSola family with the beautiful daughter Elizabeth whom he marries after the war.

The second story in this novel belongs to Bruno whose club foot kept him out of the German army. During one of the riots against the Jews, he stole the emerald pendent. It did not keep him out of Dachau where he was in charge of bookkeeping which the Germans highly praised. As the Germans are losing the war, Bruno with the help of the Catholic Church escapes to Argentina. Thanks to his record book, he is able to blackmail Germans who are there. He, too, will make a great success in banking.

Years later Leo has been a banker is Switzerland until he realizes he has been used by the bank to smuggle German money and art to Italy used to get Nazis to Argentina. No one wants to do anything about this and Leo returns to England and New York. How Leo and Bruno meet again and the history of the emerald pendent is a thriller, murder mystery.

When I did ask Stephen (who had been a banker in Europe) about this plot, he seemed reticent to discuss the Swiss involvement. Instead, (see ‘MARTINSON,’ page 24)

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dropped and failed from the class.

“A committee was put together last year to research a way of putting some teeth in the attendance policy,” Paysinger said. “The committee spent quite a bit of time researching and going through the (education) code and came up with a policy we thought was fair. It was really to address the unexcused tardies and unexcused absences.”

Paysinger said detention had not been much of a deterrent for students, but with the new policy teachers have said there has been tremendous improvement.

“We won’t know for sure until the end of the school year, but staff believes it has been a lot better to this point than its been in recent years,” Paysinger said.

Parent Michael Eisenberg said he thought the policy was a “ridiculous solution” to the issue.

“If they have a tardy problem, there are better ways to deal with it,” he said. “They are trying to get the kids into

better schools, why (damage the grades)? I think they’d want to instill in the students the feeling to try to do better, not to take away from them.”

Board President Brian Goldberg said the board is serious when it says it intends to have consequences for missing instructional time.

“If people aren’t following our policies, there are going to be repercussions,” Goldberg said. “I want to see students get the grades they deserve but when a student is tardy, it disrupts the educational flow for other students who were there on time.”

Goldberg said the policy was enacted to create a culture change.

“We have certain expectations on behavior and academics we’re going to enforce, and we’re no longer going to make excuses, and no longer going to accept anything less than our standards to earn a diploma or a grade,” Goldberg said.

“If we’re going to really turn around our academic profile and the way that people view us both in the district and outside the district, we felt this was important.”

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-impact convenience store a CUP, the reviewing body would need to make the following findings: “1. The proposed use is compatible with the surrounding area and uses; 2. The proposed use will have adequate buffering between the use and residential areas, schools, parks, and other locations where children gather; 3. The proposed use will not create an adverse traffic impact or a traffic safety hazard to pedestrians or to vehicles, including, but not limited to, an adverse impact on traffic circulation or parking; 4. The proposed use will

not create excessive noise, unpleasant odors, noxious fumes, excessive lighting, increased litter, or substantial interference with neighboring properties or uses due to the activities associated with the proposed use or its hours of operation; 5. The proposed use will not create an overconcentration of convenience stores in the vicinity; and 6. The proposed use will not be: (1) at a location that is an entry to the City, where the City has, or intends to develop, substantial landscaping or other improvements to mark the entrance to the City, (2) at a prominent intersection, or (3) at an anchor location.”

When approved by the Planning Commission, Item six allowed for the reviewing

February 10, 2012 | Page 21 body to use discretion when determining whether or not to allow a high-impact convenience store in a gateway, prominent or anchor location.

It was changed by City Attorney Larry Wiener because they “weren’t comfortable that language… could be implemented in the long term.”

Because of the change, the Council determined the ordinance needed to go back to the Planning Commission for approval to ensure it maintained the commission’s intent. As of press time, the Planning Commission had not yet begun its scheduled discussion on the ordinance.

The interim urgency ordinance expires April 20 and the council will discuss the ordinance again on Feb. 21.

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Fickett Honored by L.A. Conservancy

EATING FOR THE HEART—St. John’s Health Center is sponsoring a free community forum “A Woman’s Health—Heart Disease” from 6:308:30 p.m., Monday, and repeated from 2-4 p.m., Tuesday, at the Santa Monica Public Library Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Registered dietitians from St. John’s Nutrition and Diabetes Education Department will provide a “Healthy Hearts” food and nutrition exhibit at the auditorium 30 minutes before the beginning of each forum: Monday, 6-6:30 p.m. and Tuesday, 1:30-2 p.m. Showing the importance of a balanced diet, are (from left): Mary Rotolo RD, CDE; Lori Walker RD, Sandy Andrews RD, CDE, CPT, and Joan DeVito-Agins RD, CDE.

Coldwater Canyon Fire Station To Be Closed for Two Weeks The Coldwater Canyon Fire Station, known as Fire Station #2, is undergoing renovations that will require closure of the station for two weeks beginning Sunday. The station will receive electrical system and other upgrades.

During the time of closure, the engine and crew will move to fire station headquarters at the Civic Center at 445 N. Rexford Dr., where they will continue to serve northern Beverly Hills with no interruption in

service. The response time of less than four minutes, one of the best in the region, will be maintained for medical, fire suppression and other emergency requests.

Signs placed at the Coldwater Station will notify visitors that the station is temporarily closed and they can call the 911 for an immediate response to an emergency.

Call the BHFD at 310-2812703 with questions about the station or fire service.

Former Beverly Hills resident and City commissioner Edward H. Fickett, FAIA, was honored by the Los Angeles Conservancy with its Modern Master award in December.

Regina O’Brien, chair of the Conservancy’s Modern Committee, made the presentation to Fickett’s widow, Joycie, in a ceremony at UCLA’s Faculty Club.

The late architect left a large impact on the built environment of Southern California with lavish homes, resort hotel complexes like La Costa, Mammoth Mountain Inn and Hotel Cabo San Lucas; restaurants like Bistro Gardens, Nick’s Fish Market and Ollie Hammond’s;

and infrastructure projects.

He master planned entire communities including Trousdale Estates, where he designed more than 30 homes including is on at 164 Loma Vista.

All together he designed more than 60,00 “Fickett Homes” throughout his career.

In the 1950s he designed thousands of homes in the San Fernando Valley that sill hold up as prime examples of “midcentury modern.”

The Conservancy was founded in 1978 in response to a plan to demolish the historic Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. The Modern Committee was established after the

demolition of Ships Coffee Shop and Tiny Naylor’s on Sunset Boulevard.

Fickett, a fourth-generation Angeleno was widely honored during his lifetime. He is the only architect to have been decorated by a U.S. president.

He received numerous international and national awards, such as one for the design of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.

The Conservancy previously honored Fickett in 1989 with a Preservation award and in 1999 for his replication, to the most minute detail, of the oldest fire station in L.A. to house the African American Firefighter Museum.

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than 100,000 Mercedes-Benz automobiles during the past 20 years.

Fletcher Jones Sr., opened his first auto dealership in Los

Angeles in 1946. Now his son (who also grew up in Beverly Hills) continues the legacy, 66 years later.

Metro has operated subway systems for nearly 20 years in a methane gas area downtown, Moncarz said Metro should have acknowledged that methane gas would be a problem and offer ways to deal with it.

Lastly, in a statement hotly disputed by BHUSD Board President Brian Goldberg, Leahy claims Metro gave BHUSD “answers to their questions, copies of requested reference documents and allowed their representatives to review core samples at the offices of our technical consultants.”

MTA also asked to visit the trenching now being conducted on the high school campus while the trenches are open, even though Board President Brian Goldberg said the BHUSD has experts from the United States Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey viewing the trenches, and by request from those organizations has even dug additional trenches at the district’s expense.

Leahy’s effort is seen as a way to discredit in advance results of the trenching now underway. Even MTA concedes trenching is much more accurate than coring to determine underground conditions.

Goldberg explicitly stated Metro has not provided the BHUSD with all of the data it requested and the district experts were not granted access to the coring data until only a few weeks ago.

“They’ve provided bits and pieces of what we’ve requested but not all of the data,” Goldberg said.

“As a public entity, they should be providing (us with the data). It’s my personal opinion that they’re intentionally stalling so we don’t have adequate time to respond to the final EIS/EIR report.”

The BHUSD requested Metro allow the district additional time after the EIS/EIR has been released to ensure that the reports from the USGS and the CGS are available. Goldberg said Metro denied that request.

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ence in the area of the proposed Constellation station location, risk of damage to Beverly Hills water mains, and safety of students and staff at Beverly Hills High School.

In his letter, Leahy said the MTA reports that Exponent reviewed were only a part of the final Environmental Impact Statement/ Environmental Impact Report.

“The full report will contain a great deal of information including the main document itself and numerous appendices and technical reports,” the letter stated.

Moncarz said while Metro has thoroughly studied Santa Monica Boulevard, it would need to study Constellation just as closely to accurately determine which station is better suited for a station.

He also said he took issue with Leahy’s casual attitude toward the methane gas under Beverly High.

Although Leahy’s letter said

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City Manager Jeff Kolin disclosed the failure to comply when questioned by Brucker in September to explain why the project had not yet gone to bid.

The noncompliance involved structural steel.

“As is often times the case, through our staffs thorough plan checking process, we noticed some steel framing calculations were erroneously submitted,” Brucker said. “We went back to the architect and they, at their dime, recalculated the structural framing parameters based on the latest code. There was about a four-week delay.”

Municipal League Chairman Thomas White said the organization considered the project “backwards” because “the plans were put ahead of the project approval.”

“I don’t even know how the architect was given the context or the concepts that were proposed because that level of detail never arose during any hearing in which the matter was approved, so it’s anybody’s guess how they got from here to there

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and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. If this was an issue that’s told to us is happening again and again (it might be worth it to look into) but we’re hearing this doesn’t happen that often. I don’t believe we should be in the business of starting to be a bank or a loan agency.”

Assistant Director of Administrative Services Noel Marquis said the City would not place a lien on a resident’s property without approval of the council and would only oc-

menu along with special Valentine's Day dishes & cocktails.

Special dishes include the Farmers' Market salad, showcasing blood oranges, Jerusalem artichokes and ricotta cheese and a Nova Scotia lobster risotto and veal chateaubriand. For your “sweet,” passion fruit beignets with chocolate ice

cream will be a divine finish to the meal.

A two-for-one champagne offering will be available during lunch at the Bouchon Bistro and Bar Bouchon for those starting their celebration early.

The bakery is offering a selection of Valentine's Day treats beginning Feb. 6, including

with the approval of an expenditure for building plans,” White said. “We’ve been dragged through an enormous unnecessary process only to find out in the end there was a substantial error.”

In response to a direct question from one of the League’s board members, Brucker said he would have approved the proposed community center project if the bid proposals had come back within budget.

“There were three councilmembers in August who approved the plans sufficient to put them out to bid,” Brucker said. “Had it come in on or under budget, I would supported it.”

The three were the usual council majority of Brucker, Vice Mayor Willie Brien and Councilman Julian Gold.

White said it was serendipity the bids came back over budget.

“I don’t think the public process is well served when information is concealed from the public and I think from the council,” White said. “So many errors and abuses have oc-

curred over a long period of time and the council majority seems determined to put their decision above the interest an the will of the electorate.”

Both reform councilmembers, Lili Bosse and John Mirisch, opposed the rush to build.

The City Council unanimously agreed to reject the bids for proposed Roxbury Park Community Center after they came back $2 million plus over budget in December. The council then held a town hall meeting in January, although residents were not afforded any dialogue with the councilmembers on the issue.

Now the Recreation and Parks liaisons, Brien and Gold, are meeting to discuss ways to lessen the size and scope of the project.

Once they have concluded, they will come back to the council.

Civic groups have protested Brucker assigning Brien and Gold – supporters of the oversized project to which most in the community object – to the liaison committee thus squeezing out Bosse and Mirisch.

cur on rare occasions, although City Attorney Larry Wiener said the discussion would have to take place in open session.

“This is not something we would take during the normal course of business,” Marquis said. “It would be used as a last resort when the City cannot collect under any other way or in a circumstance where we have an individual that for whatever reason wasn’t able to pay.”

According to Director of Administrative Services Scott Miller, if a resident does not pay their bill and it goes to collection, the City and the rest of the

rate payers have to “shoulder that burden for the person who did not pay their water.”

City Manger Jeff Kolin said the City could take a resident to court but “the cost oftentimes outweighs the amount in the bill.”

Vice Mayor Willie Brien said he also didn’t believe the City should get into what is essentially the business of banking.

“I’m not sure that’s a good thing,” Brien said. “(Having your) water turned off is very impactful. The City has other options.”

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Six-Course Candle-Lit Dinner at Erbe Matte (www.erbe matte.com) Join Erbe Matte for a sixcourse candle-lit dinner with an elegant ambiance and live soprano. Take this opportunity to taste Executive Chef Louis Kim’s traditional Italian and Korean cooking while being serenaded.

Montage Beverly Hills’ Afternoon Tea, Custom Pastrie and Scarpetta (http://w ww.montagebeverlyhills.com/) Taste a collection of teas in the Lobby Lounge that pair perfectly with chocolate, made by Food Network award-winning Executive Pastry Chef Richard Ruskell. Enjoy the decadent Chocolate Lover's Tea, featuring Fortunato #4 chocolate, cacao.

Delight sweethearts with our luscious, customized cupcakes created by Executive Pastry Chef Richard Ruskell, winner of the Food Network’s Last Cake Standing. Purchase individual personalized cupcakes with chocolate covered strawberries for only $10.

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February 10, 2012 | Page 23 Executive Chef Scott Conant's Valentine's Day menu of Italian seasonal specialties and wine selections and pairings. Available on Valentine's Day from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. starting from $95 per person.

Three-Course Italian at Oliverio (www.avalonbeverly hills.com) Enjoy a three-course meal crafted by Executive Chef Mirko Paderno. Guests will start off with an “Akaushi Kobe Beef 3way” which features Sonoma foi gras over akaushi tenderloin carpaccio, a seared akaushi rib eye and a slow-baked akaushi short rib. For the main entrée, choose from a homemade garganelli pasta, a roasted Caribbean lobster tail or akaushi rib eye.

Taberna Mexicana’s Tasting Menu Featuring Modern Mexican Cuisine Kiss & Tell Chef's Tasting Menu exclusively paired with Tantao Tequila. Five course Chef's Tasting menu for $55 inspired by some of our favorite kisses such as the first course “Butterfly Kiss” Tuna Tartare or the third course “French Kiss” Nantucket Bay scallops or the dessert “Love Kiss” ginger doughnuts, warm chocolate sauce, flourless chocolate cake with horchata ice cream.

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ANOTHER B I RT H D AY ! ?

Joyce Essex

Sandra Krause

Frank Fenton

Lee Barab

Florence Rhodes Jane Seymour

Annette Goodman

Jennifer Aniston

George Segal

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS—Celebrating birthdays are Roberta Flack, Laura Dern, Joyce Essex, Greg Norman, Mark Spitz, Leontyne Price, and Robert Wagner (Feb. 10); Dona Powell, Lee Barab, Jennifer Aniston, Sheryl Crow, Sergio Mendes, and Burt Reynolds (Feb. 11); Sandra Krause, Arsenio Hall, Joanna Kerns, and Simon MacCorkindale (Feb. 12); George Segal, Kim Novak and Stockard Channing (Feb. 13); Florence Henderson, Meg Tilley, Gregory Hines, and Hugh Downs (Feb. 14); Claire Bloom, Chris Farley, Keene Curtis, Frank Fenton, ( Melissa Manchester and Jane Seymour (Feb. 15); Annette Goodman, Florence Rhodes, John McEnroe, Levar Burton and James Ingram (Feb 16).

Astrology

By Holiday Mathis TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 10).It’s your turn to have fun. Your internal search engine scans the world at large for the data that will contribute to your happiness. Professional achievement will be good for your finances in March. Humor will be a cornerstone of your attitude. April’s “setbacks” are a blessing, as they guide you to more fruitful efforts. Taurus and Gemini people adore you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Follow-through is a strength of yours. You’ll commit fully to whatever action you take. And because you are feeling impulsive now, you might not think it through first. Luckily, your instincts won’t steer you wrong.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). A former sweetie may romanticize about your past together, or an old pal might want to gab with you about the good old days. Gently nudge everyone into the present because there’s a lot of good in what’s going on now.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). You realize relationships often are built over encounters few and far between. For the relationship to gain momentum, someone has to take initiative. That someone is you.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). Your many successes will be the subject of inquiry. People want to know how you did what you did. Additionally, some would like to know if you can help them achieve similar results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Mood swings are not always a negative occurrence. Today’s shifts in feeling will be the cause of spontaneous excitement. In the future, you’ll look back on today in wonderment.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Due to the uninspiring nature of mundane chores, it’s often difficult to get started, though satisfying to finish. Handle things quickly, and it soon becomes second nature to keep the orderly groove going.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you don't have the buy-in and support of your family, it will be difficult to be successful in today’s big tasks.

Communicate your desire clearly, and try to get people on board.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There will be a financial reversal in your household. The one who usually wants to save will spend, and one who usually spends will save. Everything balances out in the end.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re a little obsessed right now with an object of desire. When you really want something, there’s no point in putting it off. Move forward so you can check this one off your list and start thinking of other things.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Even though you are a strong individual, right now you are quite impressionable. Use this to your advantage.

Surround yourself with people you want to be more like.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Something is not working in your daily routine, and this may be causing you to feel tired or unwell. This is an easy fix once you pinpoint the exact problem. Greater health and vitality will soon be yours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll work on your mindset and make a conscious effort to think like a winner. Your mental take on things will have an effect on how you look, the way you carry yourself and how convincing you are to others.

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this excellent story teller was happier talking about his friendship with jazz musicians. ****** Susan Bernard’s father, the great Hollywood glamour photographer Bruno Bernard, will be forever remembered as the photographer who discovered Norma Jean who would become better known as Marilyn Monroe. He left Susan his files and photographs. The result is a coffee table size book, Marilyn: Intimate Exposures by Susan Bernard with forwards by Lindsay Lohan and Jane Russell.

Marilyn was a luscious 18 when Bernard saw her walking down the street. He introduced himself and told Marilyn he would like to photograph her for a magazine. And did he ever as she was on the cover of more than 50. She wanted to be a star like Betty Grable but her subsequent contracts with the studios amounted to nothing. Included in the book are her agreements with Bernard for the photos and his diary entries about their friendship (or was it more?). When he took her to Palm Springs for a photo assignment, while on a diving board, a short little man was also taking photos–Johnny Hyde, VP of the William Morris Agency. There is an unforgettable shot of Hyde and Marilyn and the look on the latter’s face was of a cat who swallowed the canary.

Under Hyde, she had plastic surgery to make a film face, he ordered no more two piece bathing suits or pin ups. By 1950 she was in Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve and on the verge of stardom when she called Bernard in hysterics because Hyde had a heart attack.

Her career continued and Bernard took the famous Seven Year Itch photos of her white dress blown up around her throat as she stood on the subway grill. Standing over to the side is an unhappy Joe DiMaggio with Walter Winchell.

This is just the tip of the pictures in this book. Susan has written in a novelist’s voice and has had readings by actors in various theatres. In order to set the facts out about Marilyn’s death and Robert Kennedy, she pursued the John Bates family where Bobby and his family were spending the weekend.

There was no way he could have been in Los Angeles that day as shown by the camera shots from the Bates farm. On the other hand there are folks for hire and who knows?

You can see this interview on Yo u Tu b e / u s e r / C o n n i e M a r t inson’sChannel

Frances Allen Desert Roundup

It would be far too easy a pun to say, “Everyone was in the pink,” but that is the only way to describe the Palm Springs Art Museum’s major fund raiser of the season: the Pink Martini Gala, named in honor of this year’s internationally-acclaimed headliner (but more about them later).

In an unique arrangement, approximately 400 black-tie attired guests attended a catered dinner in a pink hue that prevailed throughout the museum and the adjacent Annenberg Theater. Afterwards, dinner guests proceeded into the theater for a performance by Oregonbased “Pink Martini,” a hugely-talented ensemble of a dozen bi-lingual musicians plus China Forbes, the g r o u p ’s Harvard-educated “diva next door,” who are described best by its founder and pianist, T h o m a s Lauderdale as, “If the U n i t e d PINK MARTINIS–At the Pink Martini Gala, from left are Nations had co-chairs Jamie Kabler and Helene Galen, and Joan a house band Dale Hubbard.

Photos by Sherman Fridman we’d be it.”

As the curtain came down on the concert and the final energetic rendition of Brazil, Pink Martini led a troupe of Brazilian dancers, the Desert Hot Springs Samba Band, and any guests whose hearts could take it, in a conga line back into the museum for an after-party of dancing and a lavish dessert buffet.

Gala co-chairs Helene Galen and Jamie Kabler put a year’s effort into booking Pink Martini and producing this affair–along with Shari Kelly Events and Carousel catering–so precise in its execution that it ran effortlessly. The result: the gala and separate after-party admission for those who did not attend the dinner and concert, generated $800,000, the highest per-capita amount raised for a society event in Coachella Valley history. ****** Over the years, we’ve heard some of the ladies in attendance for the Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Foundation Celebrity Invitational golf tournament say that most of the media coverage garnered by the event is focused on the golf and entertainment, and not enough attention paid to the fashion show luncheon that is an integral part of the Sinatra Weekend.

This year’s luncheon and fashion show takes place on Friday, Mar. 2, and Barbara Sinatra devotes a lot of attention to the details. She rounded up close friend and luncheon co-chair Nelda Linsk, along with friends Rita Vale, Renata Young, and tournament director Mary Martin for a specially-prepared tasting by Executive Chef Freddy Rieger in The Bistro at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, the tournament’s host venue.

Each course has three dishes to choose from. The ladies chose a Caprese salad consisting of vine ripe tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella greens and a prosciutto rose petal. The winning entrée: chicken with brioche, dates and apple and lobster ravioli accompanied by fried green tomato, rice cake and grilled vegetables.For dessert is a white chocolate-lemon mouse tower with dark chocolate and a lemon/raspberry swirl.

With a menu like this, the lunch, alone would be worth attending.

However, the fashion show portion will feature the one-of-a-kind designs of Ali Rahime of Mon Atelier in Los Angeles. Not only are his designs beautiful, Rahime insures they fit well with multiple fittings and skillful hand finishing.

Proceeds of the luncheon support the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center at Eisenhower. For tickets or further information, call 760-6748447.

BEVERLY HILLS

POLICE BLOTTER BURGLARY Occurred between 4:30 and 7 a.m. on 2/4 in 300 block of N. Canon Dr. Unknown suspect stole victim’s laptop from office desk.

Loss $400 Occurred between noon on 1/17 and 3:41 a.m. on 1/30 in 600 block of N. Roxbury Dr. Unknown suspect accessed second story balcony with ladder and stole property from residence.

Occurred between 10:30 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. on 1/31 in 400 block of S. Swall Dr. Unknown suspect gained entry to residence through French doors, ransacked bedrooms and stole property.

Occurred about 12:04 p.m. on 2/1 in 300 block of N. Elm Dr. Unknown suspect broke rear bedroom window which he attempted to open but activated alarm.

Loss $12,300 Occurred between 7:50 and 9:10 a.m. on 2/2 in 300 block of S. Palm Dr. Unknown suspect removed window screen and louvred panes, entered residence and stole property. Loss $23,300 GRAND THEFT Occurred at 12:30 p.m. on 2/2 in 400 block of N. Beverly Dr. Suspect #1: Male Hispanic, 30, 5'03'', 150, black hair. Suspect #2: Male Hispanic, 30, 5'00'', 150, black hair and brown eyes–entered store, made purchase. exited setting off alarm, was chased by victim who recovered merchandise.

Loss $150 Occurred between 10 p.m. on 1/7 and 1:30 a.m. on 1/8 in 1100 block of Summit Dr. Unknown suspect opened victim’s bag and stole camera.

Loss $1,200 Occurred about 5:15 p.m. on

1/30 in 400 block of N. Beverly Dr. Unknown suspect stole property from unattended bag.

Loss $113,000 Occurred between 2 and 5 p.m. on 1/31 in 1100 block of Calle Vista Dr. Unknown suspect entered victim’s backyard and stole swimming pool water heater.

Loss $3,500 Occurred between 9 p.m. on 1/27 and 9 a.m. on 1/31 in 9800 block of S. Santa Monica Blvd.

Unknown suspect entered business and stole diamond ring.

Loss $5,950 Occurred between 8 a.m. on 9/1/09 and 5 p.m. on 1/29 in 900 block of N. Beverly Dr. Suspect: Female Hispanic, 48, 5'03'', 150, brown hair and eyes–several missing items found by victim in suspect’sclothing.

Loss 19,700 Occurred between 2:30 and 3 p.m. on 2/2 in 100 block of S. Maple Dr. Suspect: Male Hispanic, 30, 5'08'', 165, black hair and brown eyes–went into victim’s apartment to wash hands, then stole cash from vase.

Loss $12,000 ASSAULT Occurred about 2:10 a.m. on 1/23 in 9200 block of W. Olympic Blvd. Suspect #1: Male White, 30, 5'09.'' Suspect #2: Male White, 30, brown hair–grabbed victim’s wrist and forcibly removed him from taxi after the latter complained about the fare and threatened to call police.

Occurred between 1:40 and 1:55 a.m. on 1/24 in 100 block of S. Spalding Dr. Suspect kicked and bit victim during physical altercation, then fled while damaging

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the latter’s property.

Occurred between 12:10 and 12:20 a.m. on 1/27 in 200 block of S. Doheny Dr. Suspect: Female White, 30, 5'08'', 150, brown hair and green eyes–sprayed victim in eyes with cleaning solution, then used knife to cut the latter’s forehead and hands.

Occurred about 4:30 p.m. on 1/27 in 200 block of S. Beverly Dr. Suspect: Male White, 16, 6'00'', 150, black hair and brown eyes and other unknown suspects–chased victim, surrounded him, then hit victim with fist.

Occurred at 4:50 p.m. on 1/27 in area of S. Canon Dr. and Charleville Blvd. Suspect #1: Male Black, 20, 5'08'', 200.

Suspect #2: Male Black, 20, 6'02'', 200. Suspect #3: Male Black, 20, 5'11'', 210. Suspect #4: Female Black, black hair–approached and assaulted victim.

Occurred about 3 p.m. on 1/28 in 9200 block of Alden Dr. Suspect: Male White, 47, 5'08'', 185, gray hair and brown eyes– struck and intimidated victim after being told to move out and get a job then fled location in victim’s vehicle.

Occurred around 11 p.m. on 1/28 in 9800 block of Carmelita Ave. Suspect: Male Black, 30, 6'00'', 220–hit victim at private residence attending party.

Occurred around 1:40 a.m. on 2/5 in 9900 block of Robbins Dr. Suspect: Male White, 38, 5'09'', 220, brown hair and eyes– grabbed phone from victim, pushed her and spat on her face and threw cell phone on ground.

the front of the line at Pinks for the sole purpose of socializing with other dogs. When he returned to the car the limp was gone. It is not uncommon to walk down high traffic streets here and find five, six and sometimes seven cars parked one behind the other, all displaying handicap signs. Can there possibly be enough orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists in town to service all these people?

Furthermore, the dwindling number of available parking spots has been exacerbated by virtue of the City and special interest groups appropriating an alarming number of spaces for film production, construction, glitzy store openings, block parties and tree pruning, which oddly enough appears to have evolved into a year round activity much to the chagrin of those of us who favor a little protection from the sun’s deadly ultra violet rays.

Here is a tip for you. If you arrive early at one of the outdoor metered parking facilities between big and little Santa Monica Boulevard, you may have an opportunity to park as a guest of the City. Simply examine each of the meters until you come across one that is defective and then ease your car into that space and you are home free. You can always count on finding a couple of broken Longtime Beverly Hills resident meters. If not, you may park for Roger Lefkon is a veteran TV up to 3-hours providing of writer/producer and former executive of Merv Griffin Entertainment

(see ‘POLICE BLOTTER,’ page 35)

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For any three answers, call from a touch-tone ANSWERS FOUND phone: 1-900-285-5656, IN minute; NEXT or, $1.49 each with a credit card, 1-800WEEK’S PAPER… 814-5554.

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February 10, 2012 | Page 25 course you are in possession of a bucket full of quarters. You cannot depend on the change machines. They are temperamental and are seldom in working order. Furthermore, it is unlikely they will dispense quarters unless you are lucky enough to have a $1 bill that is in mint condition with a serial number ending in 711. If so insert the bill slowly, with the picture of George Washington facing in the direction of the Santa Monica Pier and you may be rewarded with the sound of captive quarters tumbling into the change bin, not unlike a big payoff at the Vegas slots.

The message is clear, most Beverly Hills residents would prefer to work in the entertainment industry rather than embark on a career as a meter maintenance professional (MMP) where the likelihood of success is infinitely greater.

One final word, don’t panic when you see the sign reading you cannot park here if you and the occupants of your automobile are taller than 8-foot, 2inches or weigh more than 5,000 pounds. Unless you have a car full of 8-foot Amazons or Japanese Sumo wrestlers you should not have a problem. In the unlikely event you’re over the limit proceed immediately to the parking lot of the nearest “Big & Tall” shop where they will gladly welcome you with open arms.

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Page 26 | February 10 , 2012 T.S. NO.: 2011CA006158 Loan Number: 160001128240018 Order No.: 5903533 NOTICE OF UNIFIED TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/10/2007 AND SECURITY AGREEMENT DATED 1/10/2007.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 3/2/2012, 9:00 AM, R.E.F.S. INC., A California Corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded on 1/17/2007, as Document No. 20070086277, Book N/A, Page N/A , of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles, California, executed by 1345 HAVENHURST LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, as Trustor, FIRST REPUBLIC BANK, as Beneficiary. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a cashier's check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a cashier's check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is, where is".

The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1345 HAVENHURST DRIVE WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 A.P.N.: 5554-017-003 Legal Description: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, condition, suitability for a particular purpose, or the location or existence of any personal property, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust and Security Agreement, and any advances thereunder, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of

Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trust created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $1,944,203.45 estimated. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase the figure prior to sale. Notice is further given pursuant to 9604(a)(1)(B) of California Commercial Code section, and by reason of default under that certain financing statement dated 01/10/2007 and that the Trustee will sell simultaneously with the above described property covered by the Deed of Trust, at the same public auction and under a single bid, certain personal property covered by the Security Agreement dated 01/10/2007, given by the trustor to Beneficiary as Secured Party.

Beneficiary reserves its right to evoke its election as to some or all of said personal property and/or fixtures, or to add additional personal property and/or fixtures to the election herein expressed, as Beneficiary's sole election, from time to time and at any time until the consummation of the Trustee's Sale to be conducted pursuant to the Deed of Trust and this Notice of Trustee's Sale.

See the Deed of Trust, if applicable. The personal property which was given as security for trustor's obligation is described as follows: ALL FURNITURE, FURNISHINGS, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY, MERCHANDISE, GOODS AND OTHER TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NATURE OWNED BY DEBTOR AND LOCATED ON OR USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED, ALL A C C O U N T S , ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, CHATTEL PAPER, MONEY, INSURANCE CLAIMS, GENERAL INTANGIBLES, CONDEMNATION AWARDS, CONTRACT RIGHTS, INSTRUMENTS, DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RIGHTS OF DEBTOR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO DEBTOR'S OWNERSHIP OR OPERATION OF SUCH REAL PROPERTY, TOGETHER WITH ALL PROCEEDS, INCREASES AND PRODUCTS OF AN ACCESSIONS TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING. No warranty is made that any or all of the personal property still exists or is available for the successful bidder and no warranty is made as to the condition of any of the personal property, which shall be sold "as is" "where is". The beneficiary under the Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned, a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a Written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to

BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES Sell to be recorded in the County here the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-573-1965 or visit this Internet Web site "http://www.priorityposting.com" www.priorityposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2011CA006158. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder(s) sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the trustee and successful bidder(s) will have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the

Mortgagee's Attorney.

2/2/2012 R.E.F.S. INC., A California Corporation Gabrielle Leach, Trustee Sale Officer R.E.F.S. INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION IS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. R.E.F.S. Inc. 9070 Irvine Center Dr. #120 Irvine, California 92618 (949) 474-7337 Sale Line: 714-5731965 P921572 2/10, 2/17, 02/24/2012 —————————— Loan No. 09-1350 / WILLIAMS RESS Order No. 74709 A.P. Number 4339-015-037 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED October 14, 2009, UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given, that on 3/2/2012, at 09:00 AM of said day, Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA, RESS Financial Corporation, a California corporation, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the power of sale conferred in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kathy Williams, A Widow recorded on 10/23/2009, in Book n/a of Official Records of Los Angeles County, at page n/a, Recorder’s Instrument No. 20091604776, by reason of a breach or default in payment or performance of the obligations secured thereby, including that breach or default, Notice of which was recorded 11/2/2011 as Recorder’s Instrument No. 20111486006, in Book n/a, at Page n/a, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, lawful money of the United States, evidenced by a Cashier’s Check drawn on a state or national bank, or the equivalent thereof drawn on any other financial institution specified in section 5102 of the California Financial Code, authorized to do business in the State of California, ALL PAYABLE AT THE TIME OF SALE, all right, title and interest held by it as Trustee, in that real property situated in said County and State, described as follows: UNIT 115, LOT 1, TRACT 34502, PER BOOK 931, PAGE 42, OF MAPS The street address or other common designation of the real property hereinabove described is purported to be: 968 LARRABEE STREET UNIT 115, West Hollywood CA. 90069

The undersigned disclaims all liability for any incorrectness in said street address or other common designation.

Said sale will be made without warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, or other encumbrances, to satisfy the unpaid obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest and other sums as provided therein; plus advances, if any, thereunder and interest thereon; and plus fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust.

The total amount of said obligations at the time of initial publication of this Notice is $177,087.24 Dated: 2/3/2012 RESS Financial Corporation, a California corporation, as Trustee By: Bruce R. Beasley, President 1780 Town and Country Drive, Suite 105, Norco, CA 92860-3618 (seal) Telephone: (951) 2700164 or (800) 343-7377 Fax: (951) 270-2673 Trustee’s Sale Information: (714) 5731965 HYPERLINK "http://www.priorityposting.com" www.priorityposting.com P921808 2/10, 2/17, 02/24/2012 —————————— NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.: 9551-0261 TSG Order No.: 110519277CA-LMI A.P.N.: 4340024-049 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/16/2005.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NBS Default Services, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 08/26/2005 as document number 05-2058438 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, made by: Shams D. Javid, an unmarried man, as Trustor(s), WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time: March 1, 2012 at 01:00 PM Sale Location: At the Pomona Valley Masonic Temple Building, located at 395

South Thomas Street, Pomona, California The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 906 N Doheny Dr Apt #303, West Hollywood, CA 90069 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $ 3 5 1 , 8 7 0 . 6 9 (Estimated).

Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

The Declaration pursuant to California Civil Code, Section 2923.5(a) was fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded on 10/26/2011 NBS Default Services 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Sale Information Contact: RSVP (925) 603-7342 NBS Default Services, Mandi Harvey, 2/6/12 “We are attempting to collect a debt, and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.” (RSVP# 283740, 02/10/12, 02/17/12, 02/24/12) —————————— NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Title Order No.: 5056811 Trustee Sale No.: 73480 Loan No.: 9903103080 APN: 4332-013-011 You are in Default under a Deed of Trust dated 09/21/2006. Unless you take action to protect your property, it may be sold at a public sale. If you need an explanation of the nature of the proceedings against you, you should contact a lawyer. On 03/01/2012 at 01:00PM, FCI Lender Services, Inc. as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 10/11/06 as DOC #06 2256920 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: Beverly Hills Medical Management Co., LTD., a California corporation, as Trustor Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., a New York corporation, as Beneficiary WILL

SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state).

At: the Pomona Valley Masonic Temple Building, located at 395 South Thomas Street, Pomona, California, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describing the land therein: As more fully described in said Deed of Trust. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 475 South Robertson Boulevard, Beverly Hills CA 90211.

The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $1,335,758.75 (Estimated) Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation.

Date: 2/1/12 FCI Lender Services, Inc., as Trustee 8180 East Kaiser Blvd., Anaheim Hills, CA 92808 Phone: 714-282-2424 For Trustee Sale Information log on to: www.rsvpforeclosures.com or CALL: 925-603-7342 or 877 RSVP-ADS or 877 7787237. Vivian Prieto, Vice President FCI Lender Services, Inc. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (RSVP# 283563)(02/10/12, 02/17/12, 02/24/12)

BEVERLY HILLS NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS # C A - 11 - 4 6 0 5 4 8 - L L Order #: 110367919CA-GTI YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 4/13/2008.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below.

The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): ROMEO REDFORD, AN UNMARRIED MAN Recorded: 4/28/2008 as Instrument No. 20080738202 in book xxx , page xxx of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 2/24/2012 at 9:00 A.M. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza Pomona, CA Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $374,357.93 The purported property address is: 1230 NORTH HORN AVENUE #309 WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069 Assessor’s Parcel No. 5559-006158 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by

PUBLIC NOTICES sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney.

Date: Quality Loan Service Corp. 2141 5th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 714-573-1965 or Login to: www.priorityposting.com Reinstatement Line: 619-645-7711 Ext. 3704 Quality Loan Service, Corp. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only.

THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED

BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.

IDSPub #0021592 2/3/2012 2/10/2012 2/17/2012 —————————— APN: 4340-022-066 TS No: CA08002240-11-1 TO No: 6036750 P R O P E R T Y ADDRESS: 9000 CYNTHIA STREET NO. 302, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 2/4/2005.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 2/28/2012 at 09:00 AM, Behind the fountain

located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA, MTC FINANCIAL INC. dba TRUSTEE CORPS, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded on 02/18/2005 as Instrument No. 05 0380432 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CA, executed by: LIOR MATIAN, SINGLE MAN, as Trustor, in favor of DOWNEY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, F.A., as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: As more fully described in said Deed of Trust The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 9000 CYNTHIA STREET NO. 302, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $ 4 7 9 , 3 6 8 . 8 4 (Estimated), provided, however, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale.

Beneficiary`s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier`s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings

and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee`s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right.

The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder`s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

DATE: 1/25/2012 TRUSTEE CORPS TS No. C A 0 8 0 0 2 2 4 0 - 11 - 1 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 949252-8300 Ernie Aguilar, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714573-1965 TRUSTEE CORPS IS A DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. P918992 2/3, 2/10, 02/17/2012 —————————— T.S. No.: 2011-01687 Loan No.: 902258576 APN: 5554-003-048 TRA No.: 01319 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 3/7/2007 UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown

below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: Alan P Moore, a married man as his sole and separate property, Beneficiary Name: ING Bank, FSB, Duly Appointed Trustee: Integrated Lenders Services, a Delaware Corporation and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 3/16/2007, as Instrument No. 20070592635, in book -, page --, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California. Date of Sale: 2/23/2012, at 9:00AM. Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $693,742.28. The property heretofore is being sold "as is." The street Address or other common designation of real property is purported to be: 1420 North Laurel Avenue, Unit 404, West Hollywood, CA 90046.

As more fully described on said deed of Trust.

A.P.N.: 5554-003-048.

The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT.

February 3, 2012 | Page 27 ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: 1/24/2012. Integrated Lenders Services, a Delaware Corporation, as Trustee, 2411 West La Palma Avenue, Suite 350 – Bldg. 1, (800) 232-8787, For Sale Information please call (619)590-1221.

Linda Mayes , Trustee Sale Officer. (20/03/12, 02/10/12, 02/17/12. R402942) —————————— NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE TSG No.: 6071355 TS No.: CA1100236522 FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN:4385?016?003 Property Address: 9611 ARBY DRIVE BEVERLY HILLS AREA, CA 90210 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 06/08/05.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On February 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM, First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 06/14/05, as Instrument No. 05 1389163, in book , page , of Official Records in the Office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of California.

Executed by: DALE W. TALBERT AND BETH C. TALBERT, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, C A S H I E R ' S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) INSIDE THE LOBBY OF THE BUILDING LOCATED AT 628 NORTH DIAMOND BAR BLVD., SUITE B, DIAMOND BAR, CA. All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 4385?016?003.

The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be:: 9611 ARBY DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS AREA, CA 90210.

The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and

other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust.

The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $958,116.86.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's Trustee.

The beneficiary or servicing agent declares that it has obtained from the Commissioner of Corporations a final or temporary order of exemption pursuant to California Civil Code Section 2923.53 that is current and valid on the date the Notice of Sale is filed and/or The timeframe for giving Notice of Sale specified in subdivision (s) of California Civil Code Section 2923.52 applies and has been provided or the loan is exempt from the requirements.

Date: 01/28/12, First American Title Insurance Company First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC 3 First American Way, Santa Ana, CA 92707 Original document signed by Authorized Agent, Chet Sconyers -FOR TRUSTEE'S SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916) 939-0772.

First American Trustee Servicing Solutions, LLC May be Acting as a Debt Collector Attempting to Collect a Debt. Any Information obtained may be used for that purpose.

NPP0195826 02/03/12, 02/10/12, 02/17/12

Page 28 | February 10 , 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE T.S No. 1324307-10 APN: 4339-015-134 TRA: 001349 LOAN NO: Xxxxxx6884 REF: Jones, Christopher IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED March 23, 2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On February 16, 2012, at 9:00am, Cal-Western R e c o n v e y a n c e Corporation, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded March 30, 2007, as Inst. No. 20070746490 in book XX, page XX of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, executed by Christopher L Jones A Single Man, will sell at public auction to highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank Behind the fountain located in civic center plaza, 400 civic Center Plaza Pomona, California, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: Completely described in said deed of trust The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 960 Larrabee St #219 West Hollywood CA 90069 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $277,594.87.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder's sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. For sales infor-

mation: Mon-Fri 9:00am to 4:00pm (619) 5901221.

Cal-Western R e c o n v e y a n c e Corporation, 525 East Main Street, P.O. Box 22004, El Cajon, CA 92022-9004 Dated: January 26, 2012. (R401564 01/27/12, 02/03/12, 02/10/12) —————————— NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 11-0123333 Title Order No. 110103642 APN No. 5554026-112 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 11/10/2003.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by SANDRA LEA SMALL, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, AND LORRAINE ANNE SZYBIST, A SINGLE WOMAN AS JOINT TENANTS, dated 11/10/2003 and recorded 11/19/2003, as Instrument No. 03 3491013, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, will sell on 02/21/2012 at 1:00PM, At the Pomona Valley Masonic Temple Building, located at 395 South Thomas Street, Pomona, California at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1221 NORTH KINGS ROAD NO. 204, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA, 90069. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $356,422.52. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, posses-

BEVERLY HILLS

PUBLIC NOTICES sion or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office.

DATED: 01/25/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.151494 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2012 —————————— NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 11-0125250 Title Order No. 110105536 APN No. 4336018-003 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 07/27/2004.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by CHRISTINE S EDWARDS, A WIDOW, dated 07/27/2004 and recorded 8/12/2004, as Instrument No. 04 2072845, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of California, will sell on 02/21/2012 at 1:00PM, At the Pomona Valley Masonic Temple Building, located at 395 South Thomas Street, Pomona, California at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 8842-8844 ROSEWOOD AVENUE, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA, 90048. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of

the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $527,065.39. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of section 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office.

DATED: 01/26/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-91401-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FEI # 1006.151534 1/27, 2/03, 2/10/2012

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2011157113 The following is/are doing business as: YANINA’S KITCHEN DELIGHTS 360 S. Elm Dr. #3, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Yanina Zajdman 360 S. Elm Dr. #3, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Yanina Zajdman; Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: December 29, 2011; Published: January 20, 27, February 03, 10, 2012 LACC N/C

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 20101470543 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: JM BLOW DRY 9410 Dayton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; The fictitious business name referred to above was filed on (date): October 14, 2010 in the county of Los Angeles; Joseph B. Kendal 504 Walden Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Martin D. Fassnidge 9255 Doheny Dr. #1805, West Hollywood, CA 90069; The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP declare that all information in this statement is true and correct, Signed: Joseph Kendall, Partner; Statement #2012005546 is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 11, 2012; Published: January 27, February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012005547 The following is/are doing business as: JM BLOW DRY 9410 Dayton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; Paul Lindsey 445 N. Rossmore Ave. #313, Los Angeles, CA 90004; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein December 21, 2011: Paul

Lindsey: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 11, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2012; Published: January 27, STATEMENT 2012001162 The followFebruary 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC N/C ing is/are doing business as: HEAD SPACE 8000 Sunset Blvd. #26, West FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Hollywood, CA 90046; Joseph Grover STATEMENT 2012005555 The follow803 N. Spalding Ave., Los Angeles, CA ing is/are doing business as: LA 90046; The business is conducted by: SWEET STOP 12121 Wilshire Blvd.

AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has #555, Los Angeles, CA 90025; Gabul begun to transact business under the LLC 12121 Wilshire Blvd. #555, Los name(s) listed herein January 01, Angeles, CA 90025; The business is 2012: Joseph Grover: Statement is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY filed with the County of Los Angeles: COMPANY, registrant(s) has begun to January 04, 2012; Published: January transact business under the name(s) 27, February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC listed herein September 22, 2011: N/C Gabriella Namvar, Owner: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME January 11, 2012; Published: January STATEMENT 2012013765 The follow27, February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC ing is/are doing business as: FLEA N/C KIT.COM 835 S. Sycamore Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036; Matthew W. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Tenggren 835 S. Sycamore Ave., Los STATEMENT 2012005560 The followAngeles, CA 90036; The business is ing is/are doing business as: FACconducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, regisTOR’S FAMOUS DELI 9420 W. Pico trant(s) has NOT begun to transact Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035; Factor’s business under the name(s) listed Famous Deli, Inc. 9420 W. Pico Blvd., herein: Matthew Tenggren: Los Angeles, CA 90035; The business is Statement is filed with the County of Los conducted by: A CORPORATION, regAngeles: January 25, 2012; Published: istrant(s) has begun to transact busiFebruary 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC ness under the name(s) listed herein N/C May 28, 2010: Susan Markowitz, President: Statement is filed with the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County of Los Angeles: January 11, STATEMENT 2012013773 The follow2012; Published: January 27, ing is/are doing business as: ADAM’S February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC N/C LIMO 11601 Gorham Ave. #12, Los Angeles, CA 90049; Afshin Nouri FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 11601 Gorham Ave. #12, Los Angeles, STATEMENT 2012005567 The followCA 90049; The business is conducted ing is/are doing business as: H & H TV by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has PRODUCTIONS 100 S. Doheny Dr. NOT begun to transact business #818, Los Angeles, CA 90048; Howard under the name(s) listed herein: Pearlstein 6283 Del Valle Dr., Los Afshin Nouri: Statement is filed with Angeles, CA 90048; Helaine Ross 100 the County of Los Angeles: January 25, S. Doheny Dr. #818, Los Angeles, CA 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 90048; The business is conducted by: 24, 2012 LACC N/C A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business under the name(s) listed STATEMENT 2012013780 The followherein: Howard Pearlstein: ing is/are doing business as: 1) Statement is filed with the County of Los FORKED 2) FORKED.COM 3750 S. Angeles: January 11, 2012; Published: Robertson Blvd. #100, Culver City, CA January 27, February 03, 10, 17, 90232; LA Bite.Com Inc. 3750 S. 2012 LACC N/C Robertson Blvd. #100, Culver City, CA 90232; The business is conducted by: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has STATEMENT 2012005580 The followNOT begun to transact business ing is/are doing business as: 1) EVER under the name(s) listed herein: EVOLVING PRODUCTIONS 2) THE James Lee, CFO: Statement is filed MEN CAVE BARBER SHOP N SPA with the County of Los Angeles: 848 S. Sherbourne Dr. #4, Los Angeles, January 25, 2012; Published: February CA 90035; Cresent Moon Inc. 848 S. 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C Sherbourne Dr. #4, Los Angeles, CA 90035; The business is conducted by: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has STATEMENT 2012013813 The followNOT begun to transact business ing is/are doing business as: JM under the name(s) listed herein: BLOWDRY 9410 Dayton Way, Beverly Cresent Moon Franklin, CEO: Hills, CA 90210; Blown LA LLC 445 Statement is filed with the County of Los N. Rossmore Ave. #313, Los Angeles, Angeles: January 11, 2012; Published: CA 90004; The business is conducted January 27, February 03, 10, 17, by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 2012 LACC N/C registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME herein December 21, 2011: Paul STATEMENT 2012008105 The followLindsey, Member/CEO: Statement is ing is/are doing business as: EXCLUfiled with the County of Los Angeles: SIVE GUARDS INC 501 Eastmont January 25, 2012; Published: February Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90022; 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C Exclusive Guards Inc 501 Eastmont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90022; The busiFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME ness is conducted by: A CORPORASTATEMENT 2012013826 The followTION, registrant(s) has begun to transing is/are doing business as: LANEY & act business under the name(s) listed CO 9940 Robbins Dr. #204, Beverly herein January 01, 2007: Mario A. Hills, CA 90212; Melaney Wyzykowski Gasca, President: Statement is filed 9940 Robbins Dr. #204, Beverly Hills, with the County of Los Angeles: January CA 90212; The business is conducted 13, 2012; Published: January 27, by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC N/C begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein January 01, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2011: Melaney Wyzykowski: STATEMENT 2012008790 The followStatement is filed with the County of Los ing is/are doing business as: 1) LIFE Angeles: January 25, 2012; Published: INSIDE THE CEL 2) CAPITAL FOUR February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC SUPPLY 333 Washington Blvd. #333, N/C Marina Del Rey, CA 90292; Joseph Mariam 333 Washington Blvd. #333, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Marina Del Rey, CA 90292; The busiSTATEMENT 2012014713 The followness is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, ing is/are doing business as: 1) DOUregistrant(s) has NOT begun to transBLE 19 TALENT 2) DOUBLE 19 MANact business under the name(s) listed AGEMENT 8205 Santa Monica Blvd. herein: Joseph Marion: Statement is #1-287, Los Angeles, CA 90046; filed with the County of Los Angeles: Double 19 Productions 8205 Santa January 17, 2012; Published: January Monica Blvd. #1-287, Los Angeles, CA 27, February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC 90046; The business is conducted by: N/C A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME under the name(s) listed herein: Julie STATEMENT 2012013477 The followStevens, President: Statement is ing is/are doing business as: 1) PERfiled with the County of Los Angeles: FECTION CONNECTION 2) CABLEJanuary 26, 2012; Published: February MAN 1 8765 S. Denker Ave., Los 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C Angeles, CA 90047; Damon Glaude 5440 Tanook Ln. #242, Agoura Hills, CA STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT 91377; The business is conducted by: USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NAME 20081035785 The following begun to transact business under the person(s) has/have abandoned the use name(s) listed herein December 16, of the fictitious business name: ELE2003: Damon Glaude: Statement is MENTS ENTERTAINMENT 1635 N. filed with the County of Los Angeles: Cahuenga Blvd. 5th Flr., Los Angeles, January 24, 2012; Published: January CA 90028; The fictitious business name 27, February 03, 10, 17, 2012 LACC referred to above was filed on (date): N/C June 11, 2008 in the county of Los

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012004427 The following is/are doing business as: DESDE AQUI LOS ANGELES 2091 W. 30th St., Los Angeles, CA 90018; Desde Aqui TV.Com LLC 2091 W. 30th St., Los Angeles, CA 90018; The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein October 08, 2008: Josefa Interiano, President: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 09, 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012012300 The following is/are doing business as: 1) SHOE RELATED 2) TAINTED PEPPER 11308 Joffre St. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90049; Kim Pollock 11308 Joffre St. #7, Los Angeles, CA 90049; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Kimberly Pollock: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 23, 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012010870 The following is/are doing business as: 1) DINNER MATTERS 2) DINNER MATTERS... THE TIME THAT BINDS 10376 Ilona Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064; Mary Cleary 10376 Ilona Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064; The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL, registrant(s) has NOT begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein: Mary Cleary: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 19, 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012015158 The following is/are doing business as: RENTTODAY.US 18730 Oxnard St. #216, Tarzana, CA 91356; WCPS Management Tarzana, Inc. 18730 Oxnard St. #216, Tarzana, CA 91356; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein January 01, 2012: Artin Arefian 26, 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2012015159 The following is/are doing business as: RENTTODAY.US 175 N. Indian Hill #203, Claremont, CA 91711; WCPS Management Claremont, Inc. 175 N. Indian Hill #203, Claremont, CA 91711; The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, registrant(s) has begun to transact business under the name(s) listed herein January 01, 2012: Artin Arefian, Treasurer: Statement is filed with the County of Los Angeles: January 26, 2012; Published: February 03, 10, 17, 24, 2012 LACC N/C

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N O T I C E — 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 before that time. 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 14400, et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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RENTALS Rentals to Share ................................404 Wanted to Rent ..................................405 Garage/Storage Rentals .....................407 Rooms for Rent...................................415 Hotels & Motels...................................416 Boarding House/Senior Living ............418 Houses for Rent Furnished ................420 Houses for Rent Unfurnished.............425 Apartments for Rent Furnished..........435 Rental Referral Services ....................439 Apartments for Rent Unfurnished ......440 Vacation Rentals ................................449

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Antiques/Paintings for Sale................460 Antiques/Paintings Wanted.................461 Jewelry ...............................................468 Furniture For Sale ..............................469 Miscellaneous for Sale........................470 Miscellaneous Wanted ........................471 Pianos For Sale ..................................472 Pianos Wanted....................................473 Fashion ...............................................474 Garage/Estate Sales...........................475 Pets ....................................................480 Auctions .............................................488

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CENTURY PARK EAST $549,000 2 Bdrm Suites, 2 Bath.

Updated Kitchen & Baths Wood Lam Floors, Large Balcony City Views, Quiet Location

$700,000 Sub-Penthouse 2 bed, Den, 2 Baths Extra Large Corner 2 Jumbo Balconies Unobstructed Views of Los Angeles & Bev Hills Quiet Location

$825,000

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2 Bed, 2 Baths Unobstructed 270 degree views Sky Lounge with 2 Balconies Walk-in Closet, Stone Island Kitchen, Stainless Steel Appliances

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1 blk W. of La Cienega, 500sf. - 1,000sf.

Black Marble, Granite, Stainless within a full-service suite, Close to Beach .

Move-in cond, formal Single Studio Offices.

Steel Kitchen, Luxurious Baths w/ excellent views, dining rm, living rm, 310/394-7132 2 Jumbo Balconies Unique space, all located on Wilshire brkfst area, fireplace, amenities, skylights, hrdwd flrs, granite, Blvd. Secretarial bays, high ceilings. Above 425 PREMIER COLLECTION new S/S appl, cent standard improvements. interior offices, & storHOUSE air/heat & w/d in each $1,100,000 age also available.

BELOW FOR RENT Corner Penthouse. Lowest high unit, huge back yard & MARKET RATE! rise penthouse in West LA $1-2K per office detached 3 car garage.

OFFICE & STORES FOR LEASE

“You worked hard taking care of others. Now, let us take care of you in your home. You deserve the best !”

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Up to 3,800 Available immediately Building signage available Contact Kosha 310/691-5520

Corner High Floor, Extra Large Condo, Totally Renovated 2 Bed, 2 Baths Travertine Floors, Stainless Steel Appliances, Granite Counters Unobstructed 270 degree views Huge Spa Tub, 2 Large Balconies

Heated Pools, Sundeck, Tennis, Doorman, Houseman, Gardens & Lawns, Security Staff, Switchboard, Saunas, Business Center CENTURY PARK EAST CENTURY TOWERS PARK PLACE CENTURY HILL LE PARC CENTURY WOODS For Lease See our Ad Sec. 440

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2 bdrm. + 2 ba.

Upper in small building.

Brand New Kitchen: • Single + ••••• Dishwasher, microwave, • • • • • Loft+11/2 Ba. granite counters; (•)(•)(•)(•)(•) hardwood floors, Central air/heat, A/C, laundry. fireplace, patio, MUST SEE! controlled access, Call 818/881-0949 pool, elevator, parking, laundry facility.

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2 BDRMS + 2 BATHS Fireplace, balcony, wet bar, dishwasher, Hardwood floors, new laundry facility, kitchen, central air & elevator, parking. heat, laundry, parking. CLOSE TO SHOPS+DINING. Near Cedar Sinai and 818/669-1990 The Beverly Center. **CENTURY CITY** Susann 310/560-4092 2220 S. Beverly Glen Michael 310/497-9193 • • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. • • • • Single • •

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Near Whole Foods.

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Character & Charm! Spacious,, microwave, Alcove fireplace, fridge, intercom entry, on-sight laundry facility, gated laundry & parking. parking, intercom Very close to UCLA entry and more. & Westwood Village .

Controlled access, • 310/552-8064 • 310/208-5166 * * * * * * * * Control access, pool, garage, laundry facility. Utilities Included. Rooftop jacuzzi with 323/851-3790 Close to Beach. panoramic city views. W E S T W O O D dishwasher, elevator, Close to Everything.

310/394-7132 10905 Ohio Ave. on-site laundry In The HEART of and parking.

••••• •••••• BEV. HILLS TRIANGLE • BRENTWOOD BRENTWOOD 213/385-4751 • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. •• 11640 Kiowa Ave. 519 S. Barrington Ave. 170 N. Crescent Dr. ••• •• 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath Bright, controlled access, • BRENTWOOD • Newly Updated Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ Δ ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ ˚ balcony, pool, elevator, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 125 N. Barrington Av. 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath Large & Bright. laundry fac., prkg.

••••••• Bright unit.

Pool, a/c, balcony, Close To U.C.L.A. •• •• •• •• •• 1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath N EWLY R EMODELED Dishwasher, On-site fridge, stove, laundry 310/477-6856 Balcony, dishwasher, • 2 B drm. rm., prkg., intercom laundry, parking. a/c, heated pool, + 2 B ath • entry, elevator.

• WESTWOOD • Close to elevator controlled L O S E T O S H O P S 672 Kelton Ave. C Upscale, Bright, Brentwood Village. & R ESTAURANTS .

X-St. Strathmore Gorgeous & Spacious. access, on-site laundry, 310/472-8915 310/385-9169 • • • parking. Close to With Pool, balcony, • 2• Bdrm. +1 Bath •• • Brentwood Village, central air, fireplace, Shops & Restaurants. ~ WEST L.A. ~ BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. • 1 Bdrm. +1 Bath • stove, elevator, 120 S. Swall Dr. Controlled access, 1675 Colby Ave. intercom entry, prkg. • 310/826-4889 • • • • • • • • • • parking, laundry facility.

1 Bdrm.

• 310/476-2181 • • 1 Bedroom •• Close to U.C.L.A. + 1 Bath • Close to shopping. BEVERLY HILLS • 1 Bath • 310/208-3085 • Spacious & Bright.

Very Spacious, A/C, • • • • • • • A/C, balcony, • SANTA MONICA • 1 Bedroom intercom entry, BRENTWOOD dishwasher, stove, on-sight laundry, prkg. 11640 Kiowa Ave. • • CONDO QUALITY • • 1 B a t h • GORGEOUS UNITS • wet bar, intercom entry, Close to Cedars-Sinai, Newly Updated 8 4 3 4 th S t .

Beverly Center, 2 Bdrm. + 2 Bath • 2 Bd. + 2 Ba. Central air, large on-sight laundry, prkg. shops, cafes ••••••• • 1 Bd. + 1 Ba. balcony, pool, elevator, 310/477-0072 & transportation.

1 Bdrm. + 1 Bath on-site laundry, Heated pool, balcony, a/c, 310/597-9750 Balcony, dishwasher, intercom entry. dishwasher, controlled WESTWOOD a/c, heated pool, 320 N. La Peer Dr. 1380 Midvale Ave. access, elevator, • WESTWOOD • elevator controlled laundry room, parking. • 310/246-0290 • • • • • • • • 10933 Rochester Ave. access, on-site laundry,

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303 N. Swall Dr. Lrg. 2 Bd.+2 Ba.

BEAUTIFUL 1 & 2 Bdrm. Apt’s Available • • • • • • • • • Beverly Hills & Beverly Hills Adj.

CALL FOR MORE I N F O R M AT I O N Dan: 310/273-9626

* * * * * * Key-controlled intercom ————— entry, subterranean parking, laundry facilities, large private balcony, huge closets, tiled floors, ceramic tile bath floors, central air. No Pets.

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A . laundry facility, LIVING. •• •• S•i n•g l•e •• •• 12333 TeXaS Ave. “The Mission ”

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310/207-1965 Balcony, dishwasher, • • 1 Bd.+1 Ba. • • elevator, intercom Old World Charm!

WILSHIRE entry, on-site Bright, intercom entry, C O R R I D O R fridge, stove, laundry fac.

L.A.’S FINEST, MOST laundry, parking.

LUXURIOUS APT. RENTAL Close to restaurants 10530-10540 Please Call: * * * * * * & shopping.

Wilshire Bl. 310/435-3693 • 2 Bd.+2 Ba. 323/651-2598 ∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞ ••••• • 2 Bdrm.+1 Bath • 6-Month Lease Avail.

WESTWOOD 1628 Westgate Ave. ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ 1409 Midvale Ave. * * * * * * Every Extra Luxury: Luxury Living ~ Single ~ ••• ••• •••• custom cabinets, granite with valet, Bright & Airy. countertops, stone entry, • • 2 Bd.+1.5 Ba. • • lush garden Balcony, Dishwasher, pool, health club, spa.

•• •• •• • Close to UCLA • Intercom entry, on-sight surrounding pool, A/C, pool, intercom gym, elevator, etc. parking, on-sight 1350 S. Midvale Ave. entry, laundry facility, Dishwasher, L.A., 90024 laundry facility. elevator, parking.

Contact Mgr.: CLOSE TO TRANSPORTATION. central air, balcony. Close to U.C.L.A. • 310/864-0319 • Call: 310/470-4474 310/820-1810 310/478-8616

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BH CONDO 2600+ S.F. 2 BD. + DEN + 2.5 BA. WEST L.A. 1433 Armacost Ave. Large dining room, full 1 Bdrm. security building with + 1 Bath Bright & Spacious. pool, gym & doorman. $5,500/MO. Dishwasher, controlled access Call 310/433-3326 on-sight laundry, prkg. or 818/458-6188 213/663-8513

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*KELEMEN* REAL ESTATE (310) 966-0900

• PRIME • BEVERLY HILLS

BEVERLY HILLS ADJ. BEVERLY HILLS 8747 Clifton Way Upper Duplex

Immaculate Owner’s Unit Lrg 2 Bd+3 Ba • $2,750 Hrwd., den, dining area, wet bar, a/c, 2-car garage, laundry fac., 2-entrances. Total privacy.

Spacious 2 Bd.+1 Ba. 1 BDRM. 1 3/4 BATH

BEVERLY HILLS • ROOFTOP POOL • 3 Bdrm. + 2 Bath 2,000+sf., granite gas kitchen, washer/dryer, balcony, central air, huge closets. Quiet bldg. $4,800/Month

310/600-2350 N EAR P ENINSULA H OTEL AND BHHS

WEST HOLLYWOOD LUXURY PENTHOUSE

Appx. 1,800sf., faux wood flrs., walk-in closet, patio. central a/c. Quiet bldg.

NEAR PENINSULA HOTEL AND BHHS. $3,800/Month

wood floors, central a/c & heat, upper floor. $3,300/MO.

174 SWALL DRIVE 213/447-4832

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PRIME BEVERLY HILLS IN 4-UNIT BUILDING Large 2 Bdrm + 2 Ba. BEVERLY HILLS Hardwood floors, central A/C, All appliances in 145 S. MAPLE kitchen included, new BEAUTIFUL bathroom, laundry room.

PENTHOUSE $2950/MO. 2 BD + DEN + 2.5 BA Call 310/8439355

310/471-2737

3 BDRMS + 2.5 BATH Remodeled kitchen with granite counter tops.

With locked elevator, New hardwood floors.

Large living room with private rooftop patio, BEVERLY HILLS floor to ceiling windows huge deck. large kitchen and breathtaking views. with new appliances Beautiful Well Lit Master suit with gran- and granite countertops, 2 BD. + DEN + 2 BA washer & dryer in unit, ite counters, private elevator entry to unit, central air and heat, Front 3rd Floor Unit central air, w/d hook-up Subterranean parking.

Large patio off living/ Plenty of storage space. Balcony, central air/heat dining rooms, pool, $3,750/MO. granite counter tops, parking in gated sub- CALL 310/385-7188 wet bar, ample closets, terranean garage.

Limited access bldg. hardwood floors, 2 car $3,950/MO. • WESTWOOD • parking and strorage.

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Call 323/944-0270 Newer Construction Cell 310/351-0729 2 Bd.+2 Ba. • $3,650 Gourmet granite kitch. w/ Viking appl. Lrg. master w/ double sinks, spa-tub, *** PRIME *** walk-in closet. Hrwd.

BEVERLY HILLS flrs., high-ceilings, w/d 2 BD. + DEN + 2 BA. in unit, central air, balcony.

————— Beautiful apt. Lots of lights, washer/dryer in unit, 2 prkng space.

Furnished $4,295 Unfurnished $4,200 Call: 310/927-2140

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ELEVATOR OPENS DIRECTLY INTO UNIT. Lisa Sherman • Broker

310/786-1851

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Yard, laundry & parking.

UPPER DUPLEX FOR LEASE 3 BDRM. + 2 BATH New kitchen, fire$3,500/MO. place, 2 car garage. Call 213/804-3761

Nr. Horace Mann School

$4,200/MO. 211 ARNAZ DRIVE

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CENTURY PARK EAST 1 BDRM, 1 BATH $2,750/MONTH High Floor Partial Ocean Views.

Huge Master Bedroom. Walk-in Closet, Separate Stall Shower Renovate Stainless Steel Kitchen.

Real Hardwood Floors. Heating & Air Conditioning Incl. Valet or Self Parking Extra Storage.

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1 BED, 1 BATH $2,750/MONTH High Floor, Renovated, Large Balcony Manhattan Views

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$2,900/MO. Call 310/385-7188

2 Large Balconies. Renovated High Floor. Granite Counters. Hardwood Floors. City & Ocean Views

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HANCOCK PARK ADJ LUXURY 3 BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT Bay windows, new kitchen, wall-to-wall carpet, owner occupied.

No garage. Retired professional couple preferred. No Smokers. $2,800/MO. Call 323/829-2933

Upper with balcony, NEWLY DECORATED Granite kitchen, marble XL Living Room 26’x17’ floors, jacuzzi tub with + Den with bar 17’x13’. separate steam shower. Laundry facility, balcony, Deluxe Unit.

ELEVATOR, gated, $3,400/MO. QUIET 12 units, no pets.

(Minimum 2 year lease) 10966 OHIO AVE. Daytime: 310/466-6567 By appointment only $2,800/MO. (No Calls after 8 PM)

Call for latest properties

137 S. MAPLE DR.

Plus Den, 3 Baths.

Formal Dining Room, Living Room, Central Heating & Air, Security System and Laundry Hook-ups. No Pets.

Available April 1st. $4,250/MO.

818/679-6747

NEW LISTINGS EVERYDAY

2 BDRM, 2 BATHS $3,150/MONTH

Call 323/829-4256 CHATEAU ————— FRENCH *BEVERLY HILLS* 342 N. PALM DR. ————— NORTH OF WILSHIRE 2 BEDROOM + DEN WESTWOOD Spacious 3 Bedrooms + 2.5 BATHROOM TOP FRONT 2 BD/DEN

Evenings & Weekends 562/943-6627

all listings are on centurycityliving.com Valet and Guest Parking. Huge Heated Pool, Security Staff, Doorman & Houseman, Switchboard Tennis, Fitness Center Business Center

Call 310/653-2551

2 Large Balconies. Renovated Kit & Baths/ Hardwood Floors Quiet Corner

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CENTURY TOWERS $3,250/MONTH 1 BED, 1 BATH

Totally Renovated. Marble Floors, Stainless Steel Kitchen, Huge Living Room Walk-in Closet, Recessed Lights, Luxurious Marble Bath, High Floor Breathtaking City & Ocean Views

CENTURY PARK EAST CENTURYTOWERS PARK PLACE CENTURY HILL LE PARC CENTURY WOODS For Sale See our Ad Sec. 270

Close to Rodeo Dr. Appt: 310/271-4207

BEVERLYHILLS Adj. 2+2 Top Flr • $2,495

Lrg. living, dining & breakfast rms., Italian tiled bath, hrwd. flrs., high celings, decorative fireplace, 2-lrg balconies, remodeled granite countertop kitchen, new fridge & oven, 5-lrg. closets, newly painted.

$1,675/MO. Central air, dishwasher, microwave, parking, laundry facility, gated entry, elevator, upgraded kitchen, rooftop patio.

Ron:310/990-1730

Excellent Area. $1,950/MO. Call 310/908-1919

PRIME LOCATION BEVERLY HILLS & BRENTWOOD

2 Entrances, lrg living Roof Garden Panoramic B.H. Views LIKE-A-HOME Hi-ceilings, tile+carpet. CEDARS-SINAI AREA Pool, sauna, Large 2 Bd.+1 Ba. elevator, central air, ~ Duplex ~ prkg., marble lobby. Beautiful neighborhood.

1259 S. Camden Dr. Fridge, stove, central air,

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By Appt. Only Hrwd., drapes, granite kitch/bath, s.s. appl., w/d Beverly Hills Schools hook-ups, hi-ceilings. 9633 W. Olympic Bl. Adj. Roxbury Park Also 2 Bdrm. • $2,490 2 Bd.+1 Ba. • $1,875 310/271-6811 Cell: 310/994-4122 Updated kitchen w/ Must see! 439 S. Rexford granite, hrwd. flrs., d/w, fridge, a/c, restricted entry.

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Choice location Near Beverly Center,CedarsSinai, Restaurants, Etc. No Pets. $2,200/MO. Shown By Appointment.

Available March2012

8544 BURTON WAY CALL 310/273-6770 or 323/653-6100

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From $1,500-$2,200 Shown by appointment

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COMPLETELY RENOVATED New fridge, stove, carpet, blinds, paint, floors, ceiling fan, fixtures. Covered prkg., laundry facility Quiet 6-unit bldg. $1,440/Mo. • No pets

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1 BDRM.+ 1.5 BATH WESTWOOD VILLAGE COURTYARD VIEW Spacious living room and berber carpets, kitchen all amenities, including microwave, washer/dryer in the unit, , balconies, fireplace, central A/C, and secured building.

Close to Beverly Center, Restaurants, Shops and Cedars-Sinai.

Please no pets. $1,850MO. 8544 BURTON WAY By appointment call

1 Bd.+1 Ba. • $1,200 Upper, hrwd. flrs., prkg.

2 Bd.+1 Ba. • $1,550 Upper, extra storage rm. hrwd. flrs., prkg.

• 1 Year Lease • FOR: 323/653-3112 APPT: 310/826-4380

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1/2 Month Free Rent (OAC) Lower unit, hot plate, BEVERLY HILLS Available March2012 microwave, laundry 403 S. PECK DR. *** 310/273-6770 *** and compact fridge.

Near Roxbury Park *** 323/653-6100 *** Call 310/278-8999 1 BEDROOM, 1 BATH $2,100/MO. Elegant, completely remodeled. Central air and heat, hardwood floors, wood burning garage parking.

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From the Publisher CLIF SMITH

TO STALL ...OR NOT TO STALL That is the question now facing the majority of the Beverly Hills City Council as a direct result of the conclusions of its own experts, Exponent – Failure Analysis Associates, about the MTA seismic study for the Westside Subway Extension.

To date, Mayor Barry Brucker, Vice Mayor Willie Brien and Councilmember Julian Gold have refused to ACT to oppose MTA’s tunnel under Beverly Hills High School. Instead, they only “said” they were opposed and then commissioned the Exponent study. The council’s own experts essentially gave MTA an “F” and raised many serious safety issues MTA failed to deal with. At a minimum, the Exponent study confirmed practically everything the Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education has said publicly and told the council majority privately.

There is no doubt and no ambiguity: the proposed MTA tunnel route jeopardizes the safety and future of Beverly High and endangers private homes in the City.

For those who expected Exponent to rubber-stamp MTA to provide cover for its local supporters, they are sorely disappointed. Already, the tiny pro-MTA faction in Beverly Hills has set its usual mouthpieces to work again bad-mouthing the School Board and The Courier. MTA funds its own propaganda outlets and may even have paid a San Francisco political firm to set up still another anti-BHUSD/anti-Courier web blog. MTA CEO Arthur Leahy is in high gear trying to control the damage done by Exponent’s report.

So, we’re really back where we were a year ago, but this time the BHUSD and The Courier can say without any hesitation, “We told you so.” Until now, Mayor Brucker has spread tales that the school board leadership was “hysterical,” that its experts are “discredited” and engaged in other attempts to undercut the message. Vice Mayor Brien, when asked by a colleague: “Will you now vote that if MTA proposes to go under the high school, you will oppose the Westside Subway Extension?” We are told he refused. We assume our mayor and vice mayor are so heavily invested in the pro-MTA side that they cannot be counted on to ACT to protect Beverly Hills. Julian Gold may be a different story – that remains to be seen – but so far he has sided with Brucker and Brien. If we’re wrong, we’ll gladly admit it and give credit where credit is due.

Today, The Courier calls for action, not more words: “Resolved, that the City of Beverly Hills will use all legal means to oppose administratively, politically, and judicially the design, construction and operation of a subway through the City of Beverly Hills in the event the Metropolitan Transit Authority elects to place a tunnel underneath the campus of Beverly Hills High School. The city manager is hereby instructed to prepare for the council a list of all permits, ordinances, approvals and other acts that can be taken, denied, implemented or otherwise employed to prohibit or that act to prevent any such activity on the part of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The city attorney is authorized and directed to enter into a Joint Defense Agreement to support and assist the Beverly Hills Unified School District on terms acceptable to the Board of Education of the Beverly Hills Unified School District to oppose and stop construction of any subway tunnel underneath the campus of Beverly Hills High School. Funding for implementation of this Resolution shall be provided from the $1 million reserve previously designated for such purpose. The city clerk is authorized and directed to prepare copies of this Resolution and transmit it to each member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., United States Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Rep. Henry Waxman, and the Secretary of Transportation of the United States. The City of Beverly Hills will not settle, dismiss or withdraw any litigation commenced or engaged by it consistent with this Resolution without the prior consent of the Board of Education of the Beverly Hills Unified School District.”

We believe reform councilmembers John Mirisch and Lili Bosse will present this or a similar resolution at the next City Council meeting. Our council has every single piece of information it needs to decide whether or not to protect and defend the City of Beverly Hills and its high school. Not one more study is needed. Delay only helps MTA which has its final board voting coming up.

It comes down to this: are they councilmembers for Beverly Hills or not?

Every Beverly Hills community member deserves an answer to that question.

You got your study. The results are in. Time is up. Act or admit you serve MTA.

POLICE BLOTTER (Continued from page 25)

Occurred at 8:40 a.m. on 2/2 in 400 block of N. Beverly Dr. Unknown suspect approached counter, asked for empty cup, stole money from tip jar and punched victim in face. Loss $13 Occurred around 4:40 a.m. on 1/30 in 100 block of N. Le Doux Rd. Suspect #1: Male Black.

Suspect #2: Male Black, 5'10.''

Suspect #3: Male Black. Suspect #4: Male Black–entered residence and attacked two victims with crowbar and fled.

Occurred at 12:10 p.m. on 1/31 in 400 block of N. Beverly Dr. Suspect: Female White, 40, 5'06'', 110, brown hair and eyes–struck victim in left temple with hand, proceeded to use ATM and drove away.

ROBBERY Occurred at 7 a.m. on 1/20 in area of N. Santa Monica Blvd. and Wilshire Blvd. Unknown suspect approached victim from behind, struck him on back of the head and stole property from backpack.

Loss $3,500 IDENTITY THEFT Occurred between 11/18 and 1/9 in 1100 block of Geneva St. Unknown suspect obtained victim’s credit card information, then

made purchase.

Occurred on 1/14 in 200 block of S. Rexford Dr. Unknown suspect used victim’s credit card information to purchase merchandise.

Occurred between 12/20 and 1/17 in 100 block of S. Linden Dr. Unknown suspect used victim’s identity to obtain credit cards, then made purchases.

Occurred between 1/12 and 1/16 in 900 block of N. Crescent Dr. Unknown suspect attempted to open bank account with victim’s information, then made online purchase.

Occurred at 3:10 p.m. on 11/25 in 400 block of S. Camden Dr. Female suspect used victim’s checking account information to write a check.

Occurred between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. on 10/19 in 300 block of N. Rodeo Dr. Unknown suspect used victim’s personal information to obtain credit, made purchases.

Occurred about 6 p.m. on 1/19 in 9700 block of Wilshire Blvd.

Unknown suspect utilized victim’s information to fraudulently open credit account.

Loss $4,077 Occurred between 10:37 a.m. on 11/25 and 10 a.m. on 1/23 in 1000 block of Summit Dr. Unknown suspect used victim’s identity to open and online account.

Occurred between 11/9 and 1/19

in 600 block of N. Sierra Dr. Unknown suspects used victim’s debit card and made fraudulent charges.

Loss $18,345 Occurred at 4:02 p.m. on 1/28 in 400 block of S. Spalding Dr. Unknown suspect used victim’s personal information to open account with utility company.

Occurred between 8 a.m. on 1/23 and 5:30 p.m. on 1/24 in 600 block of West Ave. Unknown suspect obtained victim’s financial information and withdrew funds from checking account.

Occurred at 4:24 p.m. on 8/25 in 700 block of N. Alpine Dr. Unknown suspect obtained victim’s Social Security number and filed tax return not belonging to victim.

Occurred about 8 a.m. on 1/31 in 200 block of S. Almont Dr. Suspect made telephonic account withdrawal, then transferred funds into another account created with victim’s identity.

Occurred at 5 p.m. on 2/2 in 300 block of N. Beverly Dr. Unknown suspect opened accounts and made purchases without permission.

Occurred between 1/27 and 1/30 in 200 block of S. Willaman Dr. Victim contacted by bank fraud employees regarding fraudulent activity on her account.

Rabbi Jacob Pressman WHEN A PHONE CALL COST A NICKLE My telephone rings constantly. Don’t get me wrong. I am not that popular. The rings are a nuisance. By 8:45 A.M. it rings and a terminally cheerful voice asks: “Jacob Pressman?”

Already I am suspicious. “Yes?” “Jacob, our men have just finished a renovation in your neighborhood and have their truck and workman available to make needed repairs on your house.”

“No, thank you we like it as it is.” Click, the voice hangs up.

This kind of nuisance goes on all day. Cheerful professional phone salespersons are on my case offering to clean my air ducts, my carpets, install a walk-in-shower-tub, get me a security system, or save me megabucks by providing me with a solar-powered electricity system. The only cure is to change my number for a new, unlisted one. Actually, my real friends rarely telephone me. They are using e-mail and g-mail.

For many, their automobile is their phone exchange. They sit in the driver’s seat, do nothing that I can see and suddenly someone’s voice is booming through the car. I feel so out of touch with the times. I do not Twitter or Tweeter or Facebook or anything.

It all goes back to my childhood telephone experience. In the 1920’s I grew up in a home without its own telephone.

Fortunately, our home was located on a very busy avenue with two streetcar lines and a bus route. Across this steeplechase there was a candy store which had a public telephone booth.

When anyone wanted us they called the number in that booth.

The very accommodating owner would answer, then come outside and scream above the traffic noise: “Jack! Oh, Jackie!”

Then I would take my life into my hands and thread my way through the heavy traffic to get to the candy store, give the owner a nickel for the courtesy, and answer the phone. Now that was communication with a personal twist, which is lacking today. The man in the big car speaking into the thin air without using his hands can’t possibly have as thrilling a time as when I crossed the busy avenue where we lived. Nor was my call ever from someone offering to clean our air ducts.

Happy Valentine’s Day 2012 Cartoon for The Courier by Janet Salter LETTERS POLICY–The Courier welcomes “Letters to the Editor.”

Please remember the following guidelines: (1) The shorter the better; (2) Refrain from personal attacks or insults; (3) Keep to one topic; (4) Do not send letters which have appeared elsewhere. ****** Email: myopinion@bhcourier. com; Fax 310-271-5118; Mail to: The Courier, 8840 W. Olympic Blvd. Beverly Hills CA 90211

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