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BIDEN ANNOUNCES NEW MEASURES ON "GHOST GUNS"

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It is estimated that there are more than 400 million weapons in circulation in the United States, not only among police and military corporations, but also among civilians.

The overwhelming majority, 98% of weapons, are in the possession of people who are not involved in maintaining law and order.

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enos de 24 horas después de que el presidente Biden anunció un relanzamiento de la campaña para un mayor control de las armas, ocurre un dramático incidente violento en el metro de Nueva York que resulta en decenas de personas heridas. Aunque aun no son claros los motivos, al parecer no se trata de un acto terrorista, sin embargo, la violencia de las armas ha cobrado una normalidad espeluznante en este país.

Se estima que existen más de 400 millones de armas de circulación en los Estados Unidos, no solamente entre las corporaciones policiales y militares, sino también entre civiles.

La abrumadora mayoría, un 98% de las armas, se encuentran en posesión de personas que no están relacionadas con el mantenimiento de la ley y el orden.

Ejercer el derecho que les otorga la Constitución a los ciudadanos estadounidenses para poseer armas es una cosa, pero lo que vemos es algo preocupante. El estadounidense que posee armas tiene en promedio cinco armas de fuego. Esto lleva a una estadística todavía más preocupante: existen 500 armas de fuego por cada 100 ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos.

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en plena pandemia se compraron alrededor de 40 millones de armas de manera legal en 2020. Se trata de la mayor cantidad de adquisición de armas de fuego de la historia. En 2019 se compraron 28 millones de armas.

La violencia de las armas ha diezmado muchas comunidades, especialmente en zonas urbanas de Estados Unidos. La disponibilidad generalizada de las armas de fuego también es un factor significativo en los suicidios en este país. Es hora de hacer algo, y está claro que sin la presión de la sociedad civil, la aguja política en Washington D.C. difícilmente se moverá en la dirección correcta.

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ess than 24 hours after President Biden announced a relaunch of the campaign for greater gun control, a dramatic violent incident occurred on the New York subway resulting in dozens of people injured. Although the reasons are not yet clear, apparently it is not a terrorist act, however, the violence of weapons has taken on a creeping normalcy in this country.

Lamentablemente, los temas de control de armas de fuego han avanzado a paso de tortuga a nivel federal. No ocurre lo mismo en muchas comunidades a lo largo del país, que han decidido actuar por su propia cuenta para establecer sus propias estrategias ante la inexistencia de soluciones integrales por parte de Washington D.C.

Pero se tiene que hacer algo, toda vez que el apetito por las armas de fuego es insaciable en Estados Unidos. De acuerdo con las estadísticas del FBI,

Unfortunately, gun control issues have moved at a snail's pace at the federal level. The same is not happening in many communities throughout the country, which have decided to act on their own to establish their own strategies in the absence of comprehensive solutions from Washington D.C. So it is refreshing news that President Biden has decided to launch an all-out crackdown on so-called ghost guns and has called for expanding criminal background checks, repealing gun manufacturer liability protections, and reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons, which has expired since 2004.

Those of us who live in Washington D.C. know that gun control is one of the most difficult issues to resolve, especially in the climate of polarization and division that exists in America's capital right now, further complicated by the fact that we are in a midterm election year, where control of the House of Representatives and the Senate is at stake in the month of November.

Por eso, es una noticia refrescante que el presidente Biden haya decidido lanzar una ofensiva frontal contra las llamadas armas fantasma y se haya pronunciado por ampliar el proceso de verificación de antecedentes criminales, derogar las protecciones a la responsabilidad de los fabricantes de armas, y restablecer la prohibición federal a las armas de asalto, que se encuentra expirada desde 2004.

Aquellos que vivimos en Washington D.C. sabemos que el control de las armas es uno de los temas más difíciles de resolver, especialmente en el clima de polarización y división que existe en la capital de Estados Unidos en este momento, complicado aún más por el hecho de que estamos en un año electoral, donde se pone en juego el control de la cámara de representantes y del Senado en el mes de noviembre.

Exercising the constitutional right of American citizens to own guns is one thing, but what we see is something concerning. The average American who owns guns owns five firearms. This leads to an even more worrying statistic: there are 500 firearms for every 100 US citizens.

But something has to be done, since the appetite for firearms is insatiable in the United States.

According to FBI statistics, in the midst of the pandemic, around 40 million weapons were purchased legally in 2020. This is the largest number of firearms acquisitions in history. In 2019, 28 million weapons were purchased.

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Gun violence has decimated many communities, especially in urban America. The widespread availability of firearms is also a significant factor in suicides in this country. It is time to do something, and it is clear that without pressure from civil society, the political needle in Washington D.C. will hardly move in the right direction.

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Un estudio de Causa Común encontró que la elección de 2020, fue la primera con boletas universales por correo en California, y vio la mayor participación de votantes en la historia del estado. Alrededor del 81% de los votantes registrados emitieron su voto. Photo Credit: Edmond Dantès / Pexels

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he June 7 midterm primary election is less than two months away, and clean-elections groups are working to clear up misconceptions and recruit nonpartisan poll monitors to make sure things go smoothly.

During the pandemic, the state started sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter, and last fall the Legislature made it permanent.

Alesandra Lozano, voting rights and redistricting program manager for California Common Cause, said many voters mistakenly thought the state did away with inperson voting.

"We've been encountering a lot of folks who think that we are exclusively a vote-by-mail state now because of the passage of Assembly Bill 37," Lozano observed. "We're reminding people that they have multiple options now whether it's by mail or in person."

Ballots will be mailed out in about a month.

Six years ago, state lawmakers passed the Voter's Choice Act, which allowed counties to expand early voting and set up local vote centers, with the option to reduce the number of neighborhood polling places.

For the June primary, Riverside and San Diego counties will transition to this model.

People can go to their county registrar's website to find out the closest place to vote.

Lozano pointed out Common Cause is also recruiting about 200 nonpartisan volunteers to do spot checks in those counties plus Los Angeles, to make sure polling places are set up correctly and election materials are translated into other languages, where it is legally required.

"Those folks are responsible for making sure that all is well and good that the location is complying with all state laws," Lozano emphasized. "And also answering any questions that voters might have."

Voters also should be aware redistricting means they may be in a new legislative district, with new candidates running. The last day to register to vote is May 23rd. You can sign up for texts to track your ballot at wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov.

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altan menos de dos meses para las elecciones primarias intermedias del 7 de junio, y los grupos de elecciones transparentes están trabajando para aclarar conceptos erróneos y reclutar monitores de encuestas no partidistas para asegurarse de que todo salga bien.

Durante la pandemia, el estado comenzó a enviar boletas por correo a todos los votantes registrados y el otoño pasado la Legislatura lo hizo permanente.

Pero Alesandra Lozano de Causa Común California dice que muchos votantes piensan erróneamente que hemos eliminado la votación en persona.

"Nos hemos encontrado con muchas personas que piensan que ahora somos exclusivamente un estado de voto por correo debido a la aprobación de la Ley No.37. Y les estamos recordando que ahora tienen múltiples opciones, ya sea por correo o en persona", comento Lozano.

Las boletas se enviaran por correo en aproximadamente un mes. Hace seis años, los legisladores estatales aprobaron la Ley de Decisión del Votante, que permitió a los condados ampliar la votación anticipada y crear centros de votación locales, con la opción de reducir la cantidad de lugares de votación en los vecindarios.

Para las primarias de junio, los condados de Riverside y San Diego harán la transición a este modelo. Las personas pueden ir al sitio web del registrador de su condado para averiguar el lugar más cercano para votar.

Lozano dice que Causa Común también está reclutando alrededor de 200 voluntarios no partidistas para hacer verificaciones al azar en esos condados más Los Angeles, para asegurarse de que los lugares de votación estén configurados correctamente y que los materiales electorales se traduzcan a otros idiomas, donde sea legalmente requerido.

"Esas personas son responsables de asegurarse de que todo esté bien y que esa ubicación cumpla con todas las leyes estatales, y también de responder cualquier pregunta que los votantes puedan tener", menciono la representante de Causa Común California.

Los votantes también deben ser conscientes de que la redistribución de distritos significa que pueden estar en un nuevo distrito legislativo, con nuevos candidatos postulados. El ultimo día para registrarse para votar es el 23 de mayo. Puede registrarse para recibir mensajes de texto que rastrean su boleta en wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov.

El apoyo para este informe fue proporcionado por The Carnegie Corporation de Nueva York.

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EN AFIRMACIÓN DE GÉNERO GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE DECREASES LA ATENCIÓN REDUCE LA DEPRESIÓN DE LOS DEPRESSION FOR TRANS YOUTH JÓVENES TRANS

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Un estudio reciente encontró que hasta tres cuartas partes de los jóvenes trans están deprimidos, pero se ha demostrado que la atención de afirmación de género ayuda a reucir ese número.

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epression and thoughts of suicide are higher among transgender youth. But studies show that genderaffirming care improves their mental health. Comments from Diana Tordoff, epidemiologist, University of Washington.

Transgender youths face increased risks of depression and suicide compared with other young people, but the latest study finds gender-affirming care helps reduce those risks.

University of Washington epidemiologist Diana Tordoff said medication such as puberty blockers has been used for more than 30 years - and not just by trans youth. Similarly, she said, gender-affirming hormone therapy, such as testosterone or estrogen, is nothing new and helps a young person experience puberty properly aligned with their gender.

compared to youth who did not receive those medications."

Tordoff said the results aren't surprising, and this is just the most recent research to show that gender-affirming care improves mental health for trans youth. She added that other studies have found the positive impacts can last into adulthood.

The UW study was done in collaboration with the Seattle Children's Hospital Gender Clinic.

Tordoff said anti-trans discrimination and stigma has effects on people's mental health. That includes inaccurate portrayals in the media and a record-breaking slate of recent legislation targeting trans people

across the country. But she also noted that trans youths can thrive when they are supported by their families and communities.

"What we keep saying over and over again, because it's true, is that gender-affirming care is life-saving care and it's also life-giving care," she said. "It really allows people to thrive and live their best lives as their most authentic selves."

She listed many barriers to getting that care, including financial and geographical, plus insurance coverage and long wait times to see pediatric providers. She added that only one in five young people who could benefit from gender-affirming hormones access them.

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a depresión y los pensamientos suicidas son más frequentes entre los jóvenes transgénero. Pero los estudios muestran que la atención en afirmación de género mejora su salud mental. Comentarios de Diana Tordoff, epidemióloga de la Universidad de Washington.

Los jóvenes transgénero enfrentan mayores riesgos de depresión y suicidio en comparación con otros jóvenes, pero el último estudio encuentra que la atención de afirmación de género ayuda a reducir esos riesgos.

Diana Tordoff, epidemióloga de la Universidad de Washington, dijo que medicamentos como los bloqueadores de la pubertad se han usado durante más de 30 años, y no solo entre los jóvenes trans. e manera similar, dijo, la terapia

hormonal de afirmación de género, como la testosterona o el estrógeno, no es nada nuevo y ayuda a una persona joven a experimentar la pubertad adecuadamente alineada con su género.

En su estudio, Tordoff siguió a más de 100 jóvenes trans de entre 13 y 20 años en el transcurso de un año.

"Los principales hallazgos de nuestro estudio" dijo, "es que los jóvenes que recibieron bloqueadores de la pubertad u hormonas de afirmación de género tenían un 60% menos de probabilidades de estar deprimidos y un 73 % menos de probabilidades de tener pensamientos suicidas, en comparación con los jóvenes que no recibieron esos medicamentos".

Tordoff dijo que los resultados no son sorprendentes y que esta es solo la investigación más reciente que

In her study, Tordoff followed more than 100 trans youths between the ages of 13 and 20 over the course of a year.

muestra que la atención de afirmación de género mejora la salud mental de los jóvenes trans. Agregó que otros estudios han encontrado que los impactos positivos pueden durar hasta la vida adulta. El estudio de la UW se realizó en colaboración con la Clínica de Género del Hospital Infantil de Seattle.

Tordoff dijo que la discriminación y el estigma contra las personas trans tienen efectos en la salud mental de las personas. Eso incluye representaciones inexactas en los medios y una lista récord de legislación reciente dirigida a las personas trans en todo el país. Pero también señaló que los jóvenes trans pueden prosperar cuando tienen el apoyo de sus familias y comunidades.

"Lo que seguimos diciendo una y otra vez, porque es verdad, es que la atención de afirmación de género es una atención que salva vidas y también es una atención que da vida", dijo. "Realmente permite que las personas prosperen y vivan sus mejores vidas como su yo más auténtico".

Enumeró muchas barreras para obtener esa atención, incluidas las financieras y geográficas, además de la cobertura de seguro y los largos tiempos de espera para ver a los proveedores pediátricos. Agregó que solo uno de cada cinco jóvenes que podrían beneficiarse de las hormonas de afirmación de género accede a ellas.

"The main findings of our study," she said, "is that youths who received puberty blockers or genderaffirming hormones were 60% less likely to be depressed, and 73% less likely to have suicidal thoughts,

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HEALTH CAROUSEL INTERNATIONAL NURSES BRING MUCH-NEEDED HELP TO U.S. NAPSI She had dreamed of this day for a decade.

As Diana Laura Lei De Leon walked into a Louisiana hospital last summer to begin as a nurse in the medical-surgical unit, she thought about the journey that had led her there, how right the move from the Philippines was for her family and how excited she was for the future.

“I’m so happy with my decision and hope my story inspires more nurses,” she said.

Most Americans have no idea about the path that brings desperately needed nurses to their bedsides from other countries. De Leon’s experience, challenging at times but ultimately triumphant, illustrates the journey of nurses who turn to experienced, ethical international healthcare staffing firms to navigate the complex process, as she did with PassportUSA, part of Cincinnati-based Health Carousel.

After earning her bachelor’s in nursing, De Leon worked in the Philippines for six years. But a U.S. hospital was always her goal.

She has relatives here, including a nurse, and her grandma had visited the country many times.

begin the journey, which took several years. She never considered tackling it on her own.

The wait for visa approval seemed like a lifetime, and De Leon was scared, but her deployment adviser called frequently and served as a support system.

“I knew it was overwhelming from friends doing it on their own,” De Leon said. “Plus, it was financially out of reach.”

The process could top $20,000 USD for passing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam; education evaluations; VisaScreen certification; training and licensing; travel and relocation costs; and countless other needs. Partnering with PassportUSA meant having a team to oversee every detail and shoulder the cost for her and most of the costs for her husband, Marvin Loyd Cabrestante, and 10-year-old daughter, Samantha, to immigrate with her. In exchange, she committed to a specified service period at the hospital.

It was the perfect solution.

“I filled out a form, and they called the next day. It was November 2017. I remember the day so clearly; it changed my life,” De Leon said.

She was assigned a team and received a contract to review.

“She told me stories about how wonderful it is and how respected nurses are here,” said De Leon, 28.

“I read it carefully with my father and husband to understand all pros and cons. I asked my PassportUSA team many questions until I was satisfied,” she said.

After doing research and talking with friends and family, she reached out to PassportUSA to

Passing the IELTS exam was one of the first hurdles. De Leon wasn’t too worried, since her grandma

When approval came, “We all screamed in excitement.”

In the days leading up to relocation, her PassportUSA team answered questions, detailed the journey and shared travel arrangements.

From left) Diana Laura Lei De Leon, her husband Marvin Loyd Cabrestante and daughter Samantha are shown around their new hometown in Louisiana by her arrival ambassador Patrick Buclatin. De Leon and her family moved to the U.S. from the Philippines through a partnership with PassportUSA so that she could work as a nurse at a U.S. hospital. Photo Credit: NAPSI

had taught her English since childhood, but it was intimidating. The exam involved months of review coursework and hours of testing in listening, reading, writing and speaking. As a nurse, she needed to pass the tougher “academic English” exam and was tested on vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, conversational form and more. PassportUSA provided study materials, counseling and a review platform. Passing scores for each of the four parts vary by state, so she was grateful PassportUSA navigated requirements for all U.S. state boards of nursing.

More stressful was the NCLEX exam, which De Leon knew was

arduous. Again, she was grateful for assistance, review materials and emotional support from her team.

Most intimidating, she said, was the process to secure visas.

“But I didn’t feel lost, because I was guided all along,” she said.

“They gave me checklists, helped me gather documents, handled details with my immigration attorney, prepared us for our interview at the embassy.”

De Leon asked her deployment adviser plenty of questions: Would her daughter need a car seat?

How did she get a driver license?

How were the schools? Which apartment would be a good fit?

After a long travel day, the family was greeted at the Georgia airport by their arrival coordinator, who shared a welcome packet and company gifts. He gave De Leon a cell phone and took the family to lunch; reviewed the company handbook and helped with insurance forms; and took them to the grocery and their hotel.

In the following days, he helped them open bank accounts, gave them a tour of the area and took them to see the hospital. De Leon also found a mentor in her arrival ambassador—a Filipino nurse who had immigrated through Health Carousel’s PassportUSA to work at the same hospital. De Leon now volunteers herself on the arrival team to help other nurses.

Nearly a year into their life in the U.S., it’s everything the family had dreamed. They love their community—family-friendly, welcoming and affordable. Samantha loves her school and friends, and De Leon is grateful her daughter will grow up in a country with so many opportunities. Marvin is taking

coursework to become an engineer here. They purchased a car, their first, a huge milestone.

“We are so thankful and happy with our decision,” De Leon said.

“We started with nothing, and even though we had professional jobs in the Philippines, they didn’t pay enough for a decent life. PassportUSA believed in me and invested in my future, and now my family can spend the rest of our lives in our adopted country.”

Perhaps the nicest surprise for De Leon was how PassportUSA continues to care for her and her family. At least weekly, her PassportUSA supervisor checks in with her.

He has helped her resolve snags in work relationships, put her in touch with other specialists when needed and provided direction on benefits and emotional support as she dealt with health issues.

De Leon also takes comfort in knowing her PassportUSA clinical nurse support team is there whenever she needs anything— she’s not just on her own.

Because of the support she and her family continue to receive from her PassportUSA team, De Leon is able to throw her whole heart into caring for patients amid a pandemic that has challenged hospital systems nationwide.

“This is a calling for me, and I’m so proud I get to do this here. I’m fulfilling a goal I set as a teen—treat every patient with the care and respect my grandma received when she was sick.”

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MES DE CONCIENCIA SOBRE EL ALCOHOL: ALCOHOL AWARENESS MONTH: PANDEMIA EMPEORA CONSUMO PANDEMIC WORSENS DANGEROUS DRINKING DE ALCOHOL

The pandemic led more people to be isolated from friends and family, increasing the risk that they started coping by drinking too much. Photo Credit: Elieseer Matos / Pexels

La pandemia llevó a más personas a aislarse de amigos y familiares, lo que aumentó el riesgo de que comenzaran a sobrellevar la situación bebiendo demasiado. Photo Credit: daniilvolkov / Adobe Stock

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pril is Alcohol Awareness Month, highlighting serious consequences of drinking too much.

Excessive alcohol use contributes to more than 95,000 deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Scott Itano, a family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente Washington in Seattle, said the pandemic has exacerbated dangerous drinking habits.

"People used to have normal coping mechanisms such as travel, sports, seeing their friends," Itano explained. "And when they were locked into their houses in quarantine, they really had fewer outlets and some of them turned to alcohol.

And then that alcohol use spiraled, I saw in some of my patients, and turned into alcohol use disorder."

Alcohol use disorder is the medical term for alcohol addiction, which is considered a disease. Itano noted it is possible to have a healthy relationship with alcohol, but as with other things, the problem is using it in excess. He advised the general rule is men should limit themselves to two drinks a day, and women one a day.

Itano pointed out alcohol use disorder has serious health consequences, including an increased risk of multiple types of cancers. He cautioned drinking is sometimes seen as a method of self-treatment for underlying mental-health concerns, such as depression or anxiety.

"If you ever feel like you're starting to go down that path where you're drinking more alcohol than you typically do, or you're feeling more stressed or anxious or depressed, and drinking at the same

time, reach out early," Itano recommended. "That's our job here as primary care clinicians, and we're comfortable dealing with this and want to help."

Given how common the disease is, Itano emphasized most people know someone who has struggled with it or still is struggling. He suggested speaking directly to the person if you feel there is an issue.

"I think the important thing is just calling it out and having a face-to-face conversation, conveying your level of concern and that you care about them, and just what you've noticed and witnessed," Itano outlined. "And then, seeing what they say from there."

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bril es el Mes de la Concientización sobre el Alcohol, destacando algunas de las graves consecuencias de beber demasiado. El consumo excesivo de alcohol contribuye a más de 95,000 muertes cada ano, según los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades y la Prevención.

El doctor Scott Itano, medico de medicina familiar en Seattle, dice que la pandemia ha exacerbado los hábitos peligrosos de consumo de alcohol.

"Las personas solían tener hábitos normales de afrontar el estrés, como viajar, hacer deportes o ver a sus amigos. Y cu-

ando estuvieron encerrados en sus casas durante la cuarentena, realmente tenían menos mecanismos de relajación y algunos de ellos recurrieron al alcohol, explico e Dr. Itano. Luego ese consumo de alcohol se disparó, lo vi en algunos de mis pacientes, y se convirtió en un trastorno por consumo de alcohol."

El trastorno por consumo de alcohol es el termino médico para la adicción al alcohol, que se considera una enfermedad. Itano dice que es posible tener una relación saludable con el alcohol, pero, como con otras cosas, el problema es consumirlo en exceso. Él dice que la regla general es que los hombres deben limitarse a dos tragos al día y las mujeres a uno.

Itano dice que el trastorno por consumo de alcohol tiene graves consecuencias para la salud, incluido un mayor riesgo de múltiples tipos de cáncer. El experto argumenta que beber a veces se ve como un método de autotratamiento para problemas de salud mental subyacentes, como la depresión o la ansiedad.

"Si alguna vez siente que comienza a tomar ese camino en el que está bebiendo más alcohol de lo normal, o se siente más estresado, ansioso o deprimido, y bebe al mismo tiempo, comuníquese temprano, aconsejo Itano. Ese es nuestro trabajo aquí como médicos de atención primaria, nos sentimos cómodos lidiando con estas situaciones y queremos ayudar."

Dado lo común que es esta enfermedad, Itano dice que la mayoría de las personas conocen a alguien que ha tenido problemas con el alcohol o que aún tiene. El especialista en medicina familiar aconseja hablar directamente con la persona si cree que existe un problema.

"Creo que lo importante es simplemente decirlo y tener una conversación cara a cara, transmitiendo tu nivel de preocupación y que ellos te importan, que lo has notado y presenciado. Y luego ver que dicen a partir de ahí", comento el especialista en medicina familiar.

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LOS NUEVOS BENEFICIOS DE CALIFORNIA PARA LOS INMIGRANTES INDOCUMENTADOS NO SON SUFICIENTES, DICEN LOS TRABAJADORES

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empleo podría atraer más inmigración no autorizada y perjudicar a la fuerza laboral de los ciudadanos de California.

aula Cortez Medrano ha trabajado en la industria agrícola desde que llegó a los Estados Unidos hace más de 25 años.

“Creo que podría haber impactos negativos en los sindicatos y los miembros de los sindicatos si continúa incentivando a las personas a venir aquí”, dijo.

Ha trabajado en el calor de los veranos de Fresno, recogiendo cebollas, tomates, uvas y ajo, y en las gélidas temperaturas de las empacadoras de productos locales, donde usaba dos capas de pantalones para mantenerse abrigada mientras ensamblaba frutas y verduras congeladas para venderlas. en supermercados de todo el país.

Pero los investigadores de UC Merced dicen que no hay evidencia de que esto suceda.

“No ha pasado cuando ampliamos la cobertura de salud; no sucedió cuando eliminamos las exclusiones del CalEITC (Crédito Tributario por Ingreso del Trabajo)”, dijo Ana Padilla, directora ejecutiva del Centro Comunitario y Laboral de UC Merced. “No hay razón para creer que sucedería en este caso”.

Contrajo COVID-19 durante la pandemia y la enviaron a casa del trabajo con solo dos semanas de licencia por enfermedad pagada. Le tomó 40 días recuperarse, pero cuando regresó a su trabajo en la empacadora, la rechazaron.

Además, dijo Padilla, muchos inmigrantes recientes se han estado mudando de California en las últimas décadas debido al alto costo de vida, lo que está causando que la fuerza laboral del estado se reduzca.

“Me dijeron que no tenían más trabajo para mí, que estaba muy lento”, dijo en español en una entrevista con The Bee.

‘No hay agua, no hay trabajo’, dicen algunos trabajadores agrícolas del Valle

La mujer de 66 años dijo que cree que la rechazaron por su edad; nunca la llamaron para que volviera al trabajo.

Hoy, vende tamales como vendedora ambulante en el centro de Fresno, ganando un promedio de $80 por día, mucho menos que los $15 por hora que ganaba en la empacadora.

Debido a trabajadores como Cortez Medrano, los legisladores demócratas de California quieren extender los beneficios de desempleo a los trabajadores indocumentados, una propuesta respaldada por un nuevo informe del Centro Comunitario y Laboral UC Merced lo que justifica por qué la economía, la fuerza laboral y las familias de California se beneficiarían.

Presentado el mes pasado por el asambleísta Eduardo García, un demócrata de Coachella, y actualmente bajo revisión en la legislatura, AB 2847 crearía el Programa Piloto de Trabajadores Excluidos, un programa de dos años que proporcionaría fondos a los trabajadores indocumentados que pierdan su trabajo o se les reduzcan las horas durante el año calendario 2023. La propuesta, estimada en $597 millones, más los costos administrativos, permitiría que las personas desempleadas que califiquen reciban hasta $300 por semana durante 20 semanas.

El informe, publicado el jueves, argumenta que los trabajadores indocumentados juegan un papel clave en la economía de California, contribuyendo con un estimado de $3.7 mil millones en ingresos fiscales estatales y locales anuales. Además, estos trabajadores tienen uno de cada 16 trabajos en el estado, muchos de los cuales fueron considerados “trabajadores esenciales” durante la pandemia de COVID-19 debido a los riesgos que asumieron al trabajar en los campos agrícolas, empacadoras de carne y otras industrias clave.

Se estima que 2 millones de personas indocumentadas viven en California con aproximadamente 1.1 millones de esa población participando en la fuerza laboral.

De los 1.6 millones de trabajadores en el centro del Valle de San Joaquín, se estima que el 7% son indocumentados, indica el informe.

Casi el 38 % de los trabajadores no ciudadanos, y más del 61 % de los niños que viven con trabajadores no ciudadanos, viven en hogares que ganan menos de un salario digno y enfrentan inseguridad alimentaria y de vivienda crónica y grave, señala el informe. “Desafortunadamente, estos trabajadores enfrentan altas tasas de extrema dificultad y no tienen acceso a los beneficios de desempleo”.

El informe concluye que es probable que los desafíos que enfrentan los trabajadores indocumentados aumenten como resultado de una serie de desafíos ambientales como incendios forestales, terremotos, calor extremo y sequía, que se suman a la actual crisis de salud pública con la que el estado ya está lidiando.

Cortez Medrano dijo que el acceso a los beneficios de desempleo de un programa piloto sería “la gloria”, y que usaría esos fondos para pagar el alquiler, las facturas y comprar alimentos durante su tiempo sin un trabajo estable.

“Necesito ayuda, urgentemente”, dijo en español. “Ya es hora”.

Más allá del acceso al desempleo, Cortez Medrano dijo que lo que realmente quiere es un permiso de trabajo para facilitar su búsqueda de empleo. “Todavía puedo trabajar”, dijo.

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Paula Cortez Medrano ha trabajado en la industria agrícola desde que llegó a los Estados Unidos hace más de 25 años. Photo Credit: Melissa Montalvo / CalMatters oral indocumentada Los investigadores de UC Merced encontraron una relación entre el trabajo en persona, el uso de beneficios de desempleo y la fuerza laboral indocumentada.

Los trabajadores de las industrias con la mayor cantidad de muertes relacionadas con COVID también informaron las tasas más bajas de uso del seguro de desempleo.

Los inmigrantes representaron casi el 60% de las muertes relacionadas con el coronavirus en las industrias de California con la tasa más alta de muertes relacionadas con la pandemia. Los inmigrantes fueron la mayoría de las muertes en agricultura con un 83 %, jardinería, 81 %, procesamiento de alimentos, 69 %, restaurantes y servicios de alimentos, 53 %, y muertes en servicios de construcción, 52 %.

Los trabajadores indocumentados en estas industrias eran especialmente vulnerables porque no tenían fuente de reemplazo de salarios en caso de pérdida de empleo. Están excluidos del cobro de prestaciones, a pesar de que cotizan al sistema de seguro de desempleo.

“Sin embargo, los bajos ingresos y la falta de una red de seguridad representan una amenaza constante para la estabilidad económica y el bienestar de los trabajadores que crearon tal riqueza”, dice el informe.

“Experimentamos una crisis única en la vida, pero luego tenemos una gran cantidad de riqueza para pensar en cómo administrarla”.

-EDWARD FLORES, PROFESOR DE SOCIOLOGÍA E INVESTIGADOR DE UC MERCED Parte de la solución, según los investigadores de UC Merced, es que el estado aborde esta “brecha de políticas” aprovechando el superávit presupuestario y las lecciones aprendidas de la pandemia.

“Se necesitó la Gran Depresión para crear el New Deal y muchas de las protecciones para los trabajadores que existen hoy en día, como el (seguro) de desempleo o el Seguro Social”, dijo Flores de UC Merced.

“Nuestro estado se encuentra en una coyuntura histórica similar en la que experimentamos una crisis única en la vida, pero luego tenemos una abundancia de riqueza para pensar en cómo administrarla”, dijo.

“Al carecer de un sistema de beneficios de red de seguridad, muchos trabajadores indocumentados a menudo sentían que no tenían otra opción que continuar trabajando, enfrentando condiciones de trabajo ilegales que causaron graves riesgos para su propia salud y la de otros, para cumplir con sus compromisos financieros”, los investigadores dijeron del informe.

California vio un superávit presupuestario estatal de $38 mil millones en 2021 y un superávit de $31 mil millones en 2022.

El acceso a las prestaciones por desempleo podría haber evitado algunas de estas muertes. “Cuando los trabajadores no tienen acceso a los beneficios de desempleo, son más vulnerables”, dijo Edward Flores, profesor de Sociología e investigador del Centro Comunitario y Laboral de UC Merced.

California ha extendido los beneficios estatales a los inmigrantes indocumentados. En 2020, el estado permitió que inmigrantes indocumentados de bajos ingresos calificaran para calificar para el Crédito Tributario por Ingresos Ganados, un crédito fiscal estatal por valor de cientos de dólares. El año pasado, el estado hizo el movimiento histórico de ofrecer atención médica pública para californianos indocumentados mayores de 50 años.

Por otro lado, los investigadores encontraron que los trabajadores en industrias que tienen bajas tasas de trabajo en persona y tasas más altas de desempleo no vieron aumentos tan altos en las muertes relacionadas con la pandemia.

Los investigadores concluyeron que “la ayuda económica es una herramienta importante que salvaguarda la salud y el bienestar de los trabajadores y sus familias durante una crisis de salud pública”.

California ofreció algo de apoyo durante la pandemia.

Los trabajadores indocumentados eran elegibles para recibir hasta $1,700 en fondos estatales: una tarjeta prepagada de ayuda para desastres por COVID-19 de $500 y $1,200 del Golden State Stimulus Fund.

Aún así, el informe calculó que estos beneficios eran 20 veces menos que los $36,000 en ayuda económica que los trabajadores ciudadanos de California recibieron de una combinación de seguro de desempleo, compensación federal por desempleo pandémico y ayuda de estímulo federal durante el primer año de la pandemia.

Mientras tanto, los empleadores de estas industrias reportaron ganancias récord durante la pandemia. En 2021, el condado de Fresno vio una producción récord, mientras las ganancias de la empresa procesadora de carne se dispararon durante la pandemia.

“Esta es una oportunidad ahora para que los formuladores de políticas cierren las brechas de políticas no solo por ahora, sino también para cualquier emergencia pública posterior que ocurra en el futuro”, dijo Flores.

Pero no todos están de acuerdo con la idea de extender los beneficios a los indocumentados.

“Al carecer de un sistema de beneficios de red de seguridad, muchos trabajadores indocumentados a menudo sentían que no tenían más remedio que seguir trabajando para cumplir con sus compromisos financieros”.

-INFORME DEL CENTRO COMUNITARIO Y LABORAL UC MERCED Durante los primeros meses de la pandemia, cuando California anunció el Fondo de ayuda de emergencia de $125 millones que brindó asistencia a trabajadores indocumentados, el Center for American Liberty y Dhillon Law Group presentaron una demanda para tratar de bloquear el paquete de ayuda que Newsom ya había aprobado.

Se estima que 852,065 inmigrantes en California perdieron sus trabajos cuando la pandemia golpeó por primera vez en la primavera de 2020, incluidos 357,867 trabajadores indocumentados, según un informe de política separado de junio de 2020 del Centro Comunitario y Laboral UC Merced.

Los trabajadores de primera línea del estado enfrentan amenazas adicionales que plantean los fenómenos del cambio climático, lo que afectará la cantidad de trabajos disponibles para dichos trabajadores, lo que provocará el desplazamiento y la pérdida de ingresos, según el informe.

Ya es un estimado El año pasado se perdieron 8,745 puestos de trabajo a tiempo completo y parcial debido a la sequía en las regiones del Valle Central, la Cuenca del Río Ruso y los Valles Intermontañosos del Norte.

La fuerza laboral indocumentada ha estado en declive durante la última década, según Flores de UC Merced, y el número de personas que se jubilan está creciendo, acontecimientos que están causando cambios demográficos “sísmicos” en la fuerza laboral del estado.

“Necesitamos tener una fuerza laboral apoyada por el estado que pueda continuar (permitiendo) vivir en el estado”, dijo. “De lo contrario, la fuerza laboral del estado seguirá reduciéndose y la economía tendrá problemas para crecer”.

Carlos Morales dejó su hogar en Coquimatlán, Colima, un pequeño estado costero de México, para trabajar en el Valle Central de California hace más de 15 años.

El hombre de 40 años ha trabajado en los campos agrícolas del condado de Fresno, cosechando cultivos como duraznos, nectarinas, ciruelas y más. Ahora le preocupan las perspectivas laborales futuras para él y sus compañeros trabajadores indocumentados. “Hay muchos campos donde los agricultores han dejado de crecer”, dijo Morales en español en una entrevista con La Abeja.

Se está comenzando a correr la voz entre ciertas partes de la fuerza laboral del condado de que “no hay agua, no hay trabajo”, dijo Morales. “No hay agua; no hay trabajo”.

Si se aprueba el Programa Piloto de Trabajadores Excluidos propuesto, California se uniría a estados como Nueva York y Colorado que recientemente lanzaron iniciativas similares. La Excluded Worker’s Fund de Nueva York ha distribuido $2 mil millones de dólares a más de 128,000 neoyorquinos indocumentados, mientras que el fondo Left Behind Workers Fund de Colorado distribuyó millones de dólares a miles de trabajadores indocumentados.

En cuanto a Morales, dijo que quiere que los líderes estatales y federales sepan que los trabajadores indocumentados han trabajado constantemente durante la pandemia y deben recibir ayuda a cambio.

“Supuestamente éramos trabajadores esenciales”, dijo Morales. “Estamos fortaleciendo a este país”.

“Volteen a vernos un poquito más”, dijo. “Date la vuelta para vernos un poco más”.

Eulalio Gómez, vocero del Partido Republicano del Condado de Fresno, dijo que el programa propuesto es un reflejo de cómo Sacramento está “desconectado” de los residentes de clase media de California.

Melissa Montalvo es reportera de The Fresno Bee y miembro del cuerpo de Report for America. Este artículo es parte de California Divide, una colaboración entre redacciones que examina la desigualdad de ingresos y la supervivencia económica en California.

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Gomez said undocumented people do “work hard,” but he thinks providing them with unemployment benefits could attract more unauthorized immigration and hurt California’s citizen workforce.

aula Cortez Medrano has worked in the agriculture industry since she arrived in the U.S. over 25 years ago.

“I think there could be negative impacts on unions and union members if you continue incentivizing people to come here,” he said.

She has labored in the heat of Fresno summers, picking onions, tomatoes, grapes, and garlic and in the freezing temperatures of local produce packing houses, where she would wear two layers of pants to stay warm while assembling frozen fruits and vegetables to be sold in grocery stores across the country.

But the UC Merced researchers say there isn’t any evidence this would happen.

“It hasn’t happened when we expanded health coverage; it hasn’t happened when we removed exclusions to the CalEITC (Earned Income Tax Credit),” said Ana Padilla, executive director of the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. “There is no reason to believe it would happen in this case.”

She contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic and was sent home from work with only two weeks of paid sick leave. It took her 40 days to recover, but when she returned to her packing house job, she was turned away.

In addition, Padilla said, many recent migrants have been moving away from California in recent decades due to the high cost of living, which is causing the state’s workforce to shrink.

“They told me that they had no more work for me, that it was really slow,” she said in Spanish in an interview with The Bee. The 66 year-old said she thinks she was turned away because of her age; they never called her back to work. Today, she sells tamales as a street vendor in central Fresno, earning an average of $80 a day, much less than the $15 per hour she earned in the packing house.

Because of workers like Cortez Medrano, California Democratic lawmakers want to extend unemployment benefits to undocumented workers, a proposal backed by a new report by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center which makes the case for why the California economy, workforce, and families would benefit.

Introduced last month by Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, a Democrat from Coachella, and currently under review in the legislature, AB 2847 would create the Excluded Workers Pilot Program, a two-year program that would provide funds to undocumented workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced during the calendar year 2023. The proposal, estimated at $597 million, plus administrative costs, would allow qualifying, unemployed individuals to receive up to $300 a week for 20 weeks.

The report, released Thursday, argues that undocumented workers play a key role in California’s economy, contributing an estimated $3.7 billion in annual state and local tax revenues. Additionally, these workers hold one in 16 jobs in the state, many of whom were deemed “essential workers” during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the risks they took working in the agriculture fields, meatpacking houses, and other key industries.

An estimated 2 million undocumented individuals live in California with about 1.1 million of that population participating in the workforce.

Of the 1.6 million workers in the central San Joaquin Valley, an estimated 7% are undocumented, the report states.

Nearly 38% of noncitizen workers, and more than 61% of children living with noncitizen workers, live in households earning less than a living wage and face chronic and severe housing and food insecurity, the report states. “Unfortunately, such workers face high rates of extreme hardship and do not have access to unemployment benefits.”

The report concludes that the challenges facing undocumented workers are only likely to increase as a result of a number of environmental challenges like wildfires, earthquakes, extreme heat, and drought, piled on top of the ongoing public health crisis the state is already grappling with.

Cortez Medrano said access to unemployment benefits from a pilot program would be “la gloria,” or glory, and that she would use such funds to pay rent, bills, and buy food during her time without stable work.

“I need the help – urgently,” she said in Spanish. “It’s high time.”

Beyond access to unemployment, Cortez Medrano said what she really wants is a work permit to make her job search easier. “I can still work,” she said.

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California’s undocumented immigrants risked themselves working during pandemic. Lawmakers want to pay them unemployment benefits. Photo Credit: Nitish Meena / Unsplash workforce UC Merced researchers found a relationship between in-person work, unemployment benefits usage, and the undocumented workforce.

Workers in the industries with the highest COVIDrelated deaths also reported the lowest rates of unemployment insurance use.

Immigrants made up nearly 60% of coronavirus-related deaths in California’s industries with the highest rate of pandemic-related deaths. Immigrants were the majority of deaths in agriculture at 83%, landscaping, 81%, food processing, 69%, restaurants and food services, 53%, and building services deaths, 52%.

Undocumented workers in these industries were especially vulnerable because they had no source of wage replacement in the event of job loss. They are excluded from collecting benefits, even though they contribute to the unemployment insurance system.

“Lacking a safety net benefit system, many undocumented workers often felt as if they had no choice but to continue working — facing unlawful working conditions that caused serious risks to their own and others’ health — in order to meet their financial commitments,” researchers said the report.

Access to unemployment benefits could have prevented some of these deaths. “When workers don’t have access to unemployment benefits, they’re more vulnerable,” said Edward Flores, professor of Sociology and researcher at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center.

On the flip side, researchers found that workers in industries that have low rates of in-person work and higher rates of unemployment use didn’t see such high increases in pandemic-related death.

Researchers concluded that “economic aid is an important tool that safeguards the health and wellbeing of workers and their families during a public health crisis.”

California offered some support during the pandemic. Undocumented workers were eligible to receive up to $1,700 in state funds: a $500 COVID-19 Disaster Relief pre-paid card and $1,200 from the Golden State Stimulus Fund.

Still, the report calculated these benefits were 20 times less than the $36,000 in economic aid that California citizen workers received from a mix of unemployment insurance, federal pandemic unemployment compensation, and federal stimulus aid during the first year of the pandemic.

Meanwhile employers in these industries reported record profits during the pandemic. In 2021, Fresno County saw record-breaking production, while meat processing company profits soared during the pandemic.

“Low earnings and a lack of a safety net, however, pose an ongoing threat to the economic stability and wellbeing of workers who created such wealth,” said the report.

“We experienced a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, but then have an abundance of wealth to think about how to manage.”

-EDWARD FLORES, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCHER AT UC MERCED Part of the solution, according to the UC Merced researchers, is for the state to address this “policy gap” by taking advantage of the budget surplus and lessons learned from the pandemic.

“It took the Great Depression to create the New Deal and a lot of the worker protections that exist today, like unemployment (insurance) or Social Security,” said Flores of UC Merced.

“Our state is at a similar historical juncture where we experienced a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, but then have an abundance of wealth to think about how to manage,” he said.

California saw a $38 billion state budget surplus in 2021 and a $31 billion surplus in 2022.

“This is an opportunity now for policymakers to close on the policy gaps not just for now, but also for any subsequent public emergencies that happen in the future,” Flores said.

California has extended state benefits to undocumented immigrants. In 2020, the state allowed qualifying low-income undocumented immigrants to qualify for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a state tax credit worth hundreds of dollars. Last year the state made the historic move of offering public health care to undocumented Californians 50 years and older.

But not everyone agrees with the idea of extending benefits to the undocumented.

“Lacking a safety net benefit system, many undocumented workers often felt as if they had no choice but to continue working in order to meet their financial commitments.”

-REPORT BY THE UC MERCED COMMUNITY AND LABOR CENTER During the initial months of the pandemic, when California announced the $125 million emergency relief fund that provided assistance to undocumented workers, The Center for American Liberty and Dhillon Law Group filed a lawsuit to try to block the aid package Newsom had already approved.

Eulalio Gomez, a spokesperson for the Fresno County Republican Party, said the proposed program is a reflection of how Sacramento is “disconnected” from middle-class California residents.

An estimated 852,065 immigrants in California lost their jobs when the pandemic first hit in the spring of 2020, including 357,867 undocumented workers, according to a separate June 2020 policy report from the UC Merced Community and Labor Center.

The state’s frontline workers are facing additional threats posed by climate change phenomena, which will impact the number of jobs available to such workers, resulting in displacement and income loss, said the report.

Already an estimated 8,745 full and part-time jobs were lost last year due to the drought in the Central Valley, the Russian River Basin, and Northern Intermountain Valleys regions.

The undocumented workforce has been in decline over the past decade, according to Flores of UC Merced, and the number of people retiring is growing — developments that are causing “seismic” demographic changes in the state’s workforce.

“We need to have a workforce that’s supported by the state that can continue to (afford to) live in the state,” he said. “Otherwise, the state’s workforce is going to continue to shrink and the economy is going to have trouble growing.”

Carlos Morales left his home in Coquimatlán, Colima, a small coastal state in Mexico, to work in California’s Central Valley over 15 years ago.

The 40-year-old has worked in Fresno County’s agriculture fields, harvesting crops like peaches, nectarines, plums, and more. Now he worries about future job prospects for himself and his fellow undocumented workers. “There are many fields where the farmers have stopped growing,” Morales said in Spanish in an interview with The Bee. Word is starting to spread among certain parts of the county workforce that “no hay agua, no hay trabajo,” said Morales. “There’s no water; there are no jobs.”

If the proposed Excluded Workers Pilot Program is approved, California would join states such as New York and Colorado that have recently launched similar initiatives. New York’s Excluded Worker’s Fund has distributed $2 billion dollars to over 128,000 undocumented New Yorkers, while Colorado’s Left Behind Workers Fund distributed millions of dollars to thousands of undocumented workers.

As for Morales, he said he wants state and federal leaders to know that undocumented workers have labored constantly during the pandemic, and should be helped in return.

“Supposedly we were essential workers,” Morales said. “We’re making this country strong.”

“Volteen a vernos un poquito más,” he said. “Turn around to see us a little bit more.”

Melissa Montalvo is a reporter with The Fresno Bee and a Report for America corps member. This article is part of The California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.

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munidad prestará más atención a las acciones de los oficiales”.

“Cuando trabajas en una gran ciudad que está bajo el microscopio como Oakland, estoy seguro de que puede ser un desafío para algunos oficiales”.

l hombre gritaba, pero los golpes no se detenían.

Era el 27 de junio de 2000, y la preciada fuerza antipandillas del Departamento de Policía de Oakland estaba trabajando en West Oakland. Los oficiales realizaban las tareas más peligrosas en una de las zonas más violentas de la ciudad. Se llamaban a sí mismos ‘Riders’ (Jinetes).

-LERONNE ARMSTRONG, JEFE DE POLICÍA DE OAKLAND La página web Oaklandside informó que, en una muestra de 30 entrevistas de salida con oficiales de policía de Oakland, la mitad se fueron debido a su insatisfacción con el liderazgo en el departamento de policía o la ciudad, y siete mencionaron la “disciplina severa”. Otros citaron razones familiares, baja moral, mejores trabajos o el equipo de vigilancia federal.

Un miembro del grupo de trabajo golpeó a Delphine Allen en las plantas de los pies con su garrote, según el testimonio del juicio. Los miembros de Riders lo rociaron con gas pimienta y lo condujeron debajo de un paso elevado de la autopista, donde la golpiza continuó, según testificaría más tarde un oficial novato que presenció la golpiza.

“He estado haciendo algunas entrevistas de salida con oficiales que están eligiendo ir a otros departamentos, y lo que les digo es que el estilo de Oakland será el estilo estadounidense en cualquier momento”, dijo Schaaf a CalMatters.

Allen llamó a su madre, que vivía cerca. “Pensé que me iban a matar”, dijo en la corte.

Lo que sucedió durante los próximos 22 años remodelaría el Departamento de Policía de Oakland y lo transformaría en un modelo progresista para las agencias de aplicación de la ley en todo California.

El oficial de policía novato que presenció el asalto a Allen presentó una denuncia en julio de 2000. El escándalo resultante trastornó al departamento y provocó una revisión masiva en la forma en que el departamento juzga la conducta de sus propios oficiales.

Hoy en día, se puede decir que Oakland se ha convertido en el departamento de policía más vigilado del estado, con un monitor federal y una fuerte supervisión civil. En esta ciudad de 435,000 habitantes al otro lado del Puente de la Bahía desde San Francisco, los civiles tienen el poder de invalidar el departamento de policía.

Un escándalo de hace 22 años que expuso los abusos de la policía de Oakland dio como resultado una mayor tasa de denuncias contra los oficiales, y muchos están abandonando el departamento en medio del escrutinio intensificado. Photo Credit: Kindel Media / Pexels

Entre las bases, ha habido consecuencias.

Los datos estatales ayudan a contar esa historia.

El Departamento de Policía de Oakland mantiene quejas contra sus oficiales a un ritmo más alto que cualquier otra entidad policial importante, excepto el Departamento de Correcciones y Rehabilitación del estado, según un análisis de CalMatters de los datos del Departamento de Justicia.

Las quejas se originan con los ciudadanos o con la unidad de asuntos internos del departamento. Una denuncia sostenida significa que el departamento creyó en la persona que se quejó y podría disciplinar a los oficiales involucrados.

En todo el estado, las agencias de aplicación de la ley recibieron el 7.6 % de las denuncias contra sus oficiales entre 2016 y 2020. En esos años, el Departamento de Policía de Oakland recibió denuncias a una tasa promedio del 11.3 %, según muestran los datos.

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En el juicio en 2004, el ex novato, Keith Batts, testificó que no informó de inmediato lo que vio. Era nuevo en el departamento y temía repercusiones por denunciar el uso excesivo de la fuerza.

Tres miembros de los Riders serían despedidos, pero los jurados luego los absolverían de algunos cargos criminales y se estancarían en muchos otros. Un cuarto miembro, el líder de los Riders, Frank Vázquez, huyó de la ciudad en noviembre de 2000 y los fiscales han dicho que cree que está escondido en México.

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“Creo que estamos haciendo una evaluación mucho más exhaustiva”, dijo el jefe de policía de Oakland, LeRonne Armstrong. “También creo que cuando tienes una comunidad con muy poca confianza en la aplicación de la ley, significa que la aplicación de la ley debe asegurarse de tener procesos legítimos y profesionales para que podamos generar confianza”.

El Departamento de Justicia de California ha recogido el número de denuncias y las sostenidas desde 2016, fruto de un proyecto de ley que ordenaba a las agencias establecer un procedimiento para investigar las quejas por el público contra los oficiales y publicar los resultados.

“He estado enviando el mismo mensaje a los oficiales, que no pueden escapar de los llamados a la reforma”, dijo. “No importa a dónde vaya, verá una mayor participación de la comunidad, la co-

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“La dirección que está tomando Oakland es el camino inevitable para un departamento de policía progresista moderno”, dijo la alcaldesa de Oakland, Libby Schaaf. “Entonces creo que estamos en la línea del frente, somos la vanguardia de la reforma policial”.

“No hemos visto este tipo de números desde que estoy en el departamento, y eso ha sido más de dos décadas”, dijo Armstrong. “Cuando trabajas en una gran ciudad que está bajo el microscopio como Oakland, estoy seguro de que puede ser un desafío para algunos oficiales.

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Más de 100 personas demandaron al departamento de policía en un tribunal federal. Los casos se combinaron en un acuerdo de conciliación negociado, en el que el departamento de policía consintió en las reformas y aceptó un equipo de vigilancia federal. El equipo supervisaría docenas de reformas propuestas en el departamento, especialmente con respecto a su política de uso de la fuerza y el proceso mediante el cual se tratan las quejas.

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El equipo de monitoreo original y su sucesor, designado en 2010, elogiaron y condenaron a la policía de Oakland por su conducta desde 2003. Pero en las siguientes dos décadas, un cambio fundamental marcó la mayor diferencia: los residentes de Oakland obtuvieron mucho más poder. sobre su departamento de policía.

Primero en una medida electoral de 2016, los votantes de la ciudad pusieron todo el departamento bajo supervisión civil. Luego, en 2020, la comisión de policía civil despidió al jefe de policía de la ciudad.

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En diciembre, la ciudad contrató a su primer inspector general para el departamento de policía, un cargo civil supervisado por la junta civil.

Rocky Lucia, abogado de la Asociación de Oficiales de Policía de Oakland y varios otros sindicatos del departamento de policía del Área de la Bahía, dijo que el nivel de supervisión en Oakland supera lo que ha visto en cualquier otro lugar.

“Le prestan mucha más atención a la conducta policial en Oakland”, dijo Lucia. “Hay más ojos en la gente. Hay políticas, programas de software, hay recursos comprometidos. Es más de lo que he visto en cualquier otro lugar del estado”.

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land deba gastar la cantidad de dinero que gasta en supervisión, dado el aumento de las tasas de criminalidad que comenzó durante la pandemia y la situación financiera siempre turbia de la ciudad, solo 18 meses después de un déficit presupuestario de $62 millones. Pero Lucia reconoce que el departamento está identificando a oficiales potencialmente problemáticos.

“Están detectando estas cosas temprano”, dijo Lucía.

Una historia de dos escándalos Dos años antes de la golpiza de Delphine Allen, estalló una controversia diferente y más infame sobre el grupo de trabajo de pandillas 350 millas al sur: el escándalo Rampart del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles.

La unidad Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, o CRASH, fue para Los Ángeles lo que los Riders fueron para Oakland: un grupo de policías de élite en un destacamento especial que hizo grandes arrestos en la División Rampart de LAPD. Los oficiales de la unidad CRASH también fueron acusados de robar un banco, robar cocaína de la sala de pruebas y reemplazarla con Bisquick, y golpear a un sospechoso hasta que vomitó sangre.

Como resultado, en 1998, LAPD instituyó una nueva política: todas las denuncias contra un oficial desencadenarían una investigación.

Las quejas contra los oficiales se acumularon, los arrestos por delitos mayores se redujeron y los oficiales comenzaron a quejarse de que el sistema los trataba injustamente.

“Las quejas contra los oficiales se dispararon”, escribió la profesora de economía de la Universidad de Chicago, Canice Prendergast, en un artículo de 2021 que analiza las consecuencias del escándalo.

“Estos se mantuvieron a tasas altas, lo que resultó en suspensiones, renuncias y despidos a niveles mucho más altos que antes”.

Cualquier queja restringía los ascensos y traslados de oficiales. Predergast descubrió que el nivel de denuncias sostenidas era aún más perjudicial para la moral de la policía.

Entonces, los oficiales redujeron radicalmente su compromiso con el público, según el artículo de Prendergast, que lleva el nombre de la práctica de no compromiso: “Drive and Wave”.

De 2016 a 2020, el último año del que hay estadísticas disponibles, LAPD recibió quejas a una tasa del 5.2 %, por debajo del promedio estatal para ese período.

Las detenciones se desplomaron. LAPD aceptó un monitor federal del Departamento de Justicia de EE. UU. en 2000 y casi el 90% de los oficiales de LAPD entrevistados por el monitor en 2001 dijeron que el temor a la disciplina les impedía hacer su trabajo de manera “proactiva”.

Luego, LAPD obtuvo una gran victoria, entre otras cosas, el propio monitor federal, que alentó al departamento a aclarar su acumulación de quejas.

Prendergast encontró la solución del departamento de policía en los archivos de LAPD enterrados durante mucho tiempo, una decisión que se hizo pública entre los empleados del departamento pero nunca se hizo pública: LAPD otorgó a sus oficiales al mando el poder de desestimar las denuncias contra sus subordinados.

Eso significaba que las quejas podían desestimarse momentos después de que se presentaran, y el superior de un oficial era el que juzgaba sus acciones.

El resultado fue que, a partir de 2003, las quejas sostenidas cayeron drásticamente y las sanciones por quejas sostenidas fueron mucho más raras, descubrió Prendergast.

De 2016 a 2020, el último año del que hay estadísticas disponibles, LAPD recibió quejas a una tasa del 5.2 %, por debajo del promedio estatal para ese período.

“Las medidas disciplinarias en todos los ámbitos se volvieron menos probables”, escribió Pender-

gast, “incluso cuando una investigación falló en contra del oficial”.

Algunos oficiales ‘simplemente cansados’ Bajo la ley de California, hay cuatro resultados para una denuncia contra un oficial de policía.

Las quejas pueden sostenerse, lo que significa que la investigación demostró que la acusación era cierta por preponderancia de pruebas.

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tion,” said Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong.

“I also think when you have a community with very low trust in law enforcement, it means that law enforcement has to make sure that they have legitimate and professional processes so we can build trust.”

Un oficial puede ser exonerado, lo que significa que el oficial hizo lo que se describe, pero no violó la ley o la política del departamento.

Las quejas pueden ser declaradas “no sustentadas”, lo que significa que la investigación no pudo probar o refutar claramente la acusación. O bien, las quejas pueden determinarse como “infundadas”, lo que significa que la investigación mostró claramente que la acusación no era cierta.

Durante gran parte del tiempo que el Departamento de Policía de Oakland estuvo bajo la supervisión federal, la mayoría de las quejas quedaron relegadas a la papelera de “infundadas”, dijo John Burris, uno de los dos principales abogados demandantes en el acuerdo de conciliación entre el departamento de policía y la ciudad después de los Riders. escándalo.

Con supervisión civil desde 2016, dijo que se descartaron muchas menos quejas por infundadas.

Burris dijo que los casos descartados como “infundados” eran los que más le molestaban. “[Los denunciantes] no mienten. Puede que no pueda probarlo, pero algo sucedió”, dijo Burris, y señaló que las quejas infundadas también desaparecen de los archivos de personal de los oficiales.

Hoy, cuando se presenta una denuncia, la policía de Oakland y la Agencia de Revisión de la Policía Civil inician investigaciones paralelas. Cada uno saca sus propias conclusiones.

Cuando hay una diferencia de opinión, la pregunta se dirige a otro grupo de civiles: la Comisión de Policía Civil, que tiene la autoridad final en cuestiones de mala conducta de los oficiales.

Tyfahra Milele, presidenta de la Comisión de Policía Civil, dijo que puede empatizar con los oficiales que sienten que sus supervisores civiles los vigilan en exceso. Ella dijo que los oficiales le dicen que tienen más miedo de involucrar a los residentes porque les preocupa una queja, lo que puede bloquear sus promociones y dañar sus carreras.

Desde los asesinatos relacionados con la policía de Ahmaud Aubrey en Atlanta, Breonna Taylor en Louisville y George Floyd en Minneapolis, “hay mucha más vigilancia en torno a la policía y la rendición de cuentas”, dijo Milele. “Algunos oficiales dicen, OK, voy a ir a trabajar y montar esta ola. Algunos [oficiales dicen] que este no es el papel para mí, todos estos otros factores lo dificultan”.

“Tenemos algunos oficiales que simplemente están cansados”.

A pesar de lo que Burris, el abogado, describió como una oposición generalizada entre las bases del departamento a la supervisión civil, los resultados han sido un mayor nivel de escrutinio del comportamiento de los oficiales, según los abogados de ambos lados del acuerdo de conciliación negociado de la ciudad en 2003.

Los abogados que representan a Allen, quienes originalmente presentaron la demanda en Oakland, esperan que el acuerdo de conciliación con el departamento de policía finalice en 2023 o 2024.

Una audiencia ante el juez del Tribunal de Distrito de EE. UU. William Orrick en San Francisco para determinar el progreso del departamento está programada para el 27 de abril.

“Ha tomado mucho tiempo, pero finalmente estamos consiguiendo tracción”, dijo Burris. “Nuestra esperanza es que arraiguemos fundamentalmente cosas en la cultura.

“Es mi peor pesadilla sobre el caso, que todo sea en vano. Que vuelva a ser como antes”.

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The California Department of Justice has collected the number of complaints and those sustained since 2016, the result of a bill that that ordered agencies to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by the public against officers and publish the results.

The Oakland police complaint process is now handled by both the department’s internal affairs division and a civilian panel that oversees the department.

Civil rights attorney John Burris is photographed outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland on March 21, 2022. Photo Credit: Martin do Nascimento / CalMatters

Among the rank-and-file, there has been fallout.

Today, officers are leaving the department in higher numbers, from an average of about four per month late last year to 10 or 15 a month since then, according to Armstrong.

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“We haven’t seen these type of numbers since I’ve been at the department, and that’s been over two decades,” Armstrong said. “When you work in a big city that’s under the microscope like Oakland, I’m sure that can be challenging to some officers.

It was June 27, 2000, and a group of rogue cops was at work in West Oakland. The Oakland police officers operated in one of the most dangerous beats in one of the most violent parts of the city. They called themselves the Riders.

“I’ve been pushing the same message to officers, that you can’t escape the calls for reform,” he said.

“No matter where you go, you’re going to see more community involvement, the community paying more attention to the actions of officers.”

Thestop.man was screaming, but the beating didn’t One officer beat Delphine Allen on the soles of his feet with batons, according to trial testimony. Riders members pepper-sprayed him and drove him under a freeway overpass, where the beating continued, a rookie officer who witnessed the beating would later testify.

Allen called out for his mother, who lived nearby. “I thought they were going to kill me,” he said in court.

What happened over the next 22 years would reshape the Oakland Police Department and transform it into a progressive model for law enforcement agencies across California.

The rookie police officer who witnessed the assault on Allen filed a complaint in July 2000. The resulting scandal upended the department and touched off a massive overhaul in how the department judges its own officers’ conduct.

Today, Oakland has arguably become the state’s most watched police department with both a federal monitor and strong civilian oversight. In this city of 435,000 across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, civilians have the power to overrule the police department.

“The direction that Oakland is taking is the inevitable path for a modern-day progressive police department,” said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. “And so I believe that we’re on the front lines, we’re the vanguard of police reform.”

Statewide data help tell that story. The Oakland Police Department sustains complaints against its officers at a higher rate than any other major law enforcement entity, except the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to a CalMatters analysis of Department of Justice data.

Complaints originate with citizens, or from the department’s internal affairs unit. A sustained complaint means the department believed the person who complained, and could discipline those officers involved.

Statewide, law enforcement agencies sustained 7.6% of complaints against their officers from 2016 to 2020. In those years, the Oakland Police Department sustained complaints at an average rate of 11.3%, the data show.

In 2018 and 2020, the department sustained more than 15.2% of complaints, double the state average, the data show.

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“When you work in a big city that’s under the microscope like Oakland, I’m sure that can be challenging to some officers.”

-LERONNE ARMSTRONG, OAKLAND POLICE CHIEF The website Oaklandside reported that, in a sample of 30 exit interviews with Oakland police officers, half were leaving because of dissatisfaction with leadership at the police department or city, and seven cited “heavy discipline.” Others cited family reasons, low morale, better jobs or the federal monitoring team.

“I’ve been doing some exit interviews with officers that are choosing to go to other departments, and what I tell them is the Oakland way is going to be the American way any minute now,” Schaaf told CalMatters.

The Oakland Riders’ legacy Before the Oakland rookie police officer blew the whistle on the Riders scandal, he was told that beating, kidnapping and planting drugs on people were simply how police work was done, he testified in court.

At trial in 2004, the former rookie, Keith Batts, testified that he didn’t immediately report what he saw.

He was new to the department and feared repercussions for reporting excessive use of force.

Three members of the Riders would be fired, but juries would later acquit them of some criminal charges and deadlock on many others. A fourth member, Riders leader Frank Vazquez, fled the city in November 2000 and prosecutors have said they believe he’s in hiding in Mexico.

More than 100 people sued the police department in federal court. The cases were combined into a negotiated settlement agreement, in which the police department consented to reforms and accepted a federal monitoring team. The team would oversee dozens of proposed reforms at the department, especially concerning its use-of-force policy and the process by which complaints are treated.

“They pay a lot more attention to police conduct in Oakland.”

-ROCKY LUCIA, ATTORNEY FOR THE OAKLAND POLICE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION The original monitoring team and its successor, appointed in 2010, have both praised and condemned the Oakland police for their conduct since 2003. But in the ensuing two decades, one fundamental change has made the biggest difference: Oak-

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First, in a 2016 ballot measure, the city’s voters put the whole department under civilian oversight. Then, in 2020, the civilian police commission fired the city’s police chief.

In December, the city hired its first inspector general for the police department, a civilian position overseen by the civilian board.

Rocky Lucia, an attorney for the Oakland Police Officers’ Association and several other Bay Area police department unions, said the level of oversight in Oakland exceeds what he’s seen anywhere else.

“They pay a lot more attention to police conduct in Oakland,” Lucia said. “There’s more eyes on people.

There’s policies, software programs, there’s resources committed. It’s more than I’ve ever seen anywhere else in the state.”

While he said he’s not certain that Oakland should be spending the amount of money it does on oversight, given rising crime rates that began during the pandemic and the city’s always-muddy financial situation, only 18 months removed from a $62 million budget shortfall. But Lucia acknowledges that the department is identifying potentially problematic officers.

“They’re catching these things early,” Lucia said.

A tale of two scandals Two years before the beating of Delphine Allen, a different and more infamous gang task force controversy erupted 350 miles south: the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart scandal.

The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums – or CRASH – unit was to Los Angeles what the Riders were to Oakland: an elite group of cops on a special detail that made big busts in the LAPD’s Rampart Division.

CRASH unit officers were also accused of robbing a bank, stealing cocaine from the evidence room and replacing it with Bisquick, and beating a suspect until he vomited blood.

As a result, in 1998 the LAPD instituted a new policy: All complaints against an officer would trigger an investigation.

Complaints against officers piled up, major crimes arrests dropped and officers started to complain that the system treated them unfairly.

“Complaints against officers soared,” wrote University of Chicago economics professor Canice Prendergast in a 2021 paper analyzing the scandal’s fallout.

“These were sustained at high rates, resulting in suspensions, resignations and terminations at levels far higher than before.”

Any complaint tied up officers’ promotions and transfers. Predergast found that the level of sustained complaints was even more damaging to police morale.

So the officers radically reduced their engagement with the public, according to Prendergast’s paper, which is named after the practice of non-engagement: “Drive and Wave.”

From 2016 to 2020, the last year for which statistics are available, the LAPD sustained complaints at a rate of 5.2%, below the statewide average for that period.

Arrests plummeted. The LAPD accepted a federal monitor from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000 and nearly 90% of LAPD officers interviewed by the monitor in 2001 said a fear of discipline stopped them from “proactively” doing their jobs.

Then, the LAPD was then handed a big win by, of all things, the federal monitor itself, which encouraged the department to clear up its backlog of complaints.

Prendergast found the police department’s solution in long-buried LAPD archives, a decision that was put out among the department’s employees but never publicized: The LAPD gave its commanding officers the power to dismiss complaints against their subordinates.

tained complaints were much more rare, Prendergast found.

From 2016 to 2020, the last year for which statistics are available, the LAPD sustained complaints at a rate of 5.2%, below the statewide average for that period.

“Disciplinary measures across the board became less likely,” Pendergast wrote, “even when an investigation ruled against the officer.”

Some officers ‘just tired’ Under California law, there are four outcomes for a complaint against a police officer.

Complaints can be sustained, which means the investigation proved the allegation to be true by a preponderance of evidence.

An officer can be exonerated, meaning the officer did what was described, but it didn’t violate department law or policy.

Complaints can be ruled “unsustained,” meaning the investigation failed to clearly prove or disprove the allegation. Or, complaints can be determined “unfounded,” which means the investigation clearly showed the allegation was untrue.

For much of the Oakland Police Department’s time under a federal monitor, most complaints were relegated to the “unfounded” bin, said John Burris, one of two lead plaintiff attorneys in the settlement agreement between the police department and the city following the Riders scandal.

With civilian oversight since 2016, he said far fewer complaints were dismissed as unfounded.

Burris said cases dismissed as “unfounded” were the ones that bothered him the most.

That meant complaints could be dismissed moments after they were filed, and an officer’s superior was the one to judge their actions.

“[Complainants are] not lying. I may not be able to prove it, but something happened,” Burris said, and noted that unfounded complaints also disappear from officers’ personnel files.

The result was that, beginning in 2003, sustained complaints fell dramatically, and penalties for sus-

Today, when a complaint is filed, the Oakland police and the Civilian Police Review Agency launch parallel

investigations. Each makes its own conclusions.

When there’s a difference of opinion, the question goes to another set of civilians – the Civilian Police Commission, which holds final authority on questions of officer misconduct.

Tyfahra Milele, chair of the Civilian Police Commission, said she can empathize with officers who feel they are over-policed by their civilian overseers.

She said that officers tell her they’re more afraid to engage residents because they’re worried about a complaint, which can tie up their promotions and damage their careers.

Since the police-related killings of Ahmaud Aubrey in Atlanta, Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, “there’s much more of a vigilance around police and accountability,” Milele said.

“Some officers are like, OK, I’m gonna go to work and ride this wave. Some [officers say] this isn’t the role for me, all these other factors are making it difficult.

“We have some officers that are just tired.”

Despite what Burris, the attorney, described as widespread opposition among the department’s rankand-file to civilian oversight, the results have been a higher level of scrutiny of officer behavior, according to lawyers on both sides of the city’s 2003 negotiated settlement agreement.

Attorneys representing Allen who originally brought the lawsuit in Oakland expect the settlement agreement with the police department to end in 2023 or 2024.

A hearing before U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick in San Francisco to determine the department’s progress is set for April 27.

“It’s taken a long time, but we’re finally getting traction,” said Burris. “Our hope is we’ll fundamentally ingrain things in the culture.

“It’s my worst nightmare about the case, that it’s all for naught. That it goes back to the way it was.”

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tions, a tenfold increase from 2016, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

un-violence prevention advocates in Nevada are applauding a new rule by the Biden administration to close a loophole allowing the proliferation of untraceable so-called "ghost guns."

David Pucino, deputy chief counsel for the Giffords Law Center, testified last year in favor of Nevada's new ghost gun law, Assembly Bill 286, which banned the sale of un-serialized gun parts in the state and required existing weapons to receive a serial number before being resold. In December, a judge blocked the ban on sales, saying the federal definition of a firearm was too vague.

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Amber Falgout, Northern Nevada manager for the group Battle Born Progress, said until now, anyone could buy the parts online, including those who are too young, have disqualifying criminal convictions, or have a history of severe mental illness.

"The ghost guns really opened up," Falgout explained. "Almost like an underground market of people being able to purchase un-serialized unregulated firearms without any types of checks and balances. " In 2021, law enforcement recovered about 20,000 suspected ghost guns during criminal investiga-

"Once this federal rule goes into effect, my belief is the portion of the law that had been blocked becomes moot," Pucino contended. "Because the federal government is doing that work anyway."

Pucino added the ruling will not affect the sale of gun parts to people who build guns as a hobby.

"Now the question is going to be are these companies going to still offer this product now that they have to comply with the laws surrounding guns," Pucino stated. "I think it's going to be a real test. Was demand driven by hobbyists, or was this driven by folks who did not want to comply with the laws."

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os defensores de la prevención de la violencia armada en Nevada aplauden una nueva regla de la administración Biden para cerrar un vacío legal que permite la proliferación de las llamadas "armas fantasma" imposibles de rastrear.

Los kits de piezas de armas sin terminar pronto tendrán que llevar un número de serie, los compradores tendrán que pasar una verificación de antecedentes y los vendedores necesitarán una licencia.

Amber Falgout, gerente del norte de Nevada para el grupo Battle Born Progress, dijo que hasta ahora cualquiera podía comprar las piezas en línea, incluidos los que son demasiado jóvenes, tienen condenas penales que los descalifican o tienen un historial de enfermedad mental grave.

"Las armas fantasma realmente se abrieron", explicó Falgout. "Casi como un mercado clandestino de personas que pueden comprar armas de fuego no reglamentadas y no serializadas sin ningún tipo de controles y equilibrio".

En 2021, las fuerzas del orden recuperaron alrededor de 20,000 presuntas armas fantasma durante las investigaciones criminales, un aumento de diez

veces desde 2016, según la Oficina Federal de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos.

David Pucino, asesor principal adjunto del Giffords Law Center, testificó el año pasado a favor de la nueva ley de armas fantasma de Nevada, el Proyecto de Ley de la Asamblea 286, que prohibía la venta de piezas de armas no serializadas en el estado y requería que las armas existentes recibieran un número de serie antes de ser revendidas.

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"Una vez que esta regla federal entre en vigor, creo que la parte de la ley que había sido bloqueada se vuelve discutible", sostuvo Pucino. "Porque el gobierno federal está haciendo ese trabajo de todos modos".

Pucino agregó que el fallo no afectará la venta de piezas de armas a personas que construyen armas como pasatiempo.

"Ahora la pregunta será si estas empresas seguirán ofreciendo este producto ahora que tienen que cumplir con las leyes que rodean las armas", afirmó Pucino." Creo que va a ser una verdadera prueba. ¿Fue la demanda impulsada por aficionados, o fue impulsada por personas que no querían cumplir con las leyes"?

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esucristo un personaje que cambió definitivamente el rumbo de la historia del mundo, por Él, se celebra, la navidad, la semana santa y la cuaresma por ejemplo. Él es la base sólida del cristianismo. Durante esta época, millones de creyentes acuden a misa, a cultos evangélicos y a servicios espirituales en honor al hijo de Dios. La historia de Jesucristo, según las sagradas escrituras, es misteriosa, se conoce de él, parte de sus vivencias desde su nacimiento hasta la edad de doce años, de esa edad hasta los treinta años, su vida es un enigma, lleno de superstición, especulaciones y teorías. A la edad de treinta años, comenzó a evangelizar a la gente, no escogía reyes ni príncipes, ni gente rica como sus seguidores; mucho se le criticaba por reunirse con personas que tenían vicios o mala reputación, eran ovejas descarriadas a quienes Él sanaba espiritualmente. En varios pasajes bíblicos, como en el Evangelio según San Lucas:

cerca de lo que imaginamos.

Muchos de los creyentes afirman que existe un antes y un después en la vida de las personas que acuden a Jesucristo. Alberto Rodríguez, un comerciante, nos relató que hubo un lapso en su vida en el que todo era un caos, enfermaba con frecuencia, no tenía suerte en el trabajo y el amor, simplemente no existía en su vida.

se relatan episodios en los que Jesucristo, sanaba a las personas, no solamente de padecimientos físicos, sino también de enfermedades emocionales y mentales, y hasta de posesiones demoníacas.

Emma Solís, una fiel creyente de Jesucristo, nos comentó que durante mucho tiempo se sintió perseguida y acosada por un mal espíritu, veía sombras, siluetas oscuras y escuchaba ruidos perturbadores, ella recuerda que fue una etapa muy difícil que no podía superar, hasta que entregó su vida al poder del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. Él escucha a los fieles creyentes, les perdona sus faltas y les brinda una oportunidad para ser felices, nos comentó, Emma.

Según las profecías del libro del Apocalipsis y otras predicciones, en esta era, Jesucristo volverá a vivir en la Tierra, vendrá a juzgar a los vivos y a los muertos el tan famoso día del juicio final.

Muchas corrientes evangélicas, predicen que estamos viviendo en tiempos de tribulación y que la segunda venida de Jesucristo al mundo, puede estar más

“Un buen día, un conocido me recomendó rezar e invocar el poder sanador de Jesucristo, y desde ese momento, todo comenzó a cambiar para bien y por mi bien. Jesucristo no quiere tener fanáticos quiere tener creyentes sensatos, señaló, Alberto”.

Photo Credit: Omar Ram / Unsplash

Grandes artistas han interpretado canciones en honor a Jesucristo, uno de los más memorables es Roberto Carlos, quien popularizó décadas atrás en portugués y en español, la canción “Jesús Cristo, eu estou aquí, Jesucristo, yo estoy aquí.”.

No importa los problemas que ahora esté enfrentando, ni los padecimientos que tenga, o si no encuentra la salida a sus preocupaciones; invoque con mucha fe,

¿Problemas con los cobradores?

Estamos aquí para usted.

Como regulador financiero de California, otorgamos licencias a los cobradores de deudas y podemos ayudar a proteger a los consumidores de prácticas injustas, engañosas o ilegales.

“Un cobrador de deudas me llamó las 24 horas del día hasta que presenté una queja ante el DFPI”.

Visite dfpi.ca.gov/info o escanee el código QR para presentar una queja.

el poder sanador de Jesucristo, Él obrará milagros en su vida y sanará su corazón de angustias, pesares y sufrimientos. Jesucristo, es la resurrección, la verdad y la vida.

Oración al Redentor Señor Jesucristo, clamando por tu remedio y creyendo con fe en ti. Dirige todos nuestros caminos hacia el bien y da felicidad a esta casa y quede permanente en ella, y así como el venir al mundo lo santificaste todo, y al ir a casa de Zacarías les llenaste de bendiciones con tu presencia corporal, asimismo bendice y santifica esta casa, para que sus habitantes honrados con tu bendición, se alegren, te sirvan contentos y conozcan a ti, “Jesús Redentor" como único Salvador. Por ti que vives y reinas en el cielo con el Padre y el Espíritu Santo.

Amén.

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022

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EARTHTALK Q&A: UKRAINE WAR ENVIRONMENTAL TOLL

Dear EarthTalk: What kind of environmental toll is Russia’s war on Ukraine taking? -- James P., Philadelphia, PA

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EARTHTALK Q&A: COSTO AMBIENTAL DE LA GUERRA EN UCRANIA Querido EarthTalk: ¿Qué costo ambiental está cobrando la guerra de Rusia contra Ucrania?

-- James P., Philadelphia, PA

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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk

Las actividades militares de Rusia amenazan el medio ambiente de Ucrania a través de la contaminación del aire, el agua y el suelo. Los materiales tóxicos se liberan no solo de las municiones, sino también de la destrucción de la infraestructura, desde edificios y carreteras hasta oleoductos y sitios de almacenamiento de productos químicos.

El paisaje altamente industrializado de Ucrania intensifica el riesgo de contaminación tóxica del país debido a la destrucción dentro y alrededor de las instalaciones industriales, como las instalaciones de almacenamiento de combustible y los sitios de almacenamiento de desechos peligrosos. La región de Donbas, en el este de Ucrania, conoce muy bien este impacto: Esa área fue escenario de combates después de la anexión de Crimea por parte de Rusia en 2014, y aún sufre por la contaminación tóxica por fugas de instalaciones industriales y municiones.

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ussia’s war on Ukraine is one of the worst humanitarian crises facing Europe since World War II. As Russian military forces continue their violent, murderous invasion, environmental organizations worldwide are raising additional concerns of the war’s far-reaching devastation to the environment.

Russia’s military activities threaten Ukraine’s environment through air, water and soil pollution. Toxic materials are released not only from munitions, but from the destruction of infrastructure, ranging from buildings and roads to pipelines and chemical storage sites. Ukraine’s highly industrialized landscape intensifies the country’s risk of toxic pollution from destruction in and around industrial facilities like fuel storage facilities and hazardous waste storage sites. The Donbas region of eastern Ukraine knows this impact all too well: That area was the site of fighting after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, and is still suffering toxic contamination from leaking industrial facilities and munitions.

Ukraine is home to Europe’s largest nuclear facility, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and fighting near the plant has caused fires to break out. Russian occupancy of the Chernobyl nuclear site, also located in Ukraine, is also deeply concerning. “Few regions on Earth are as poorly equipped to handle military conflict as the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” Senior White House Correspondent Alexander Nazaryan says. Russian movement in the area has launched radioactive dust from soil into the air, spiking radiation levels within the zone. While experts say there is no immediate danger to surrounding vicinities, the potential of nuclear disaster makes this war even more dangerous to the environment.

The country’s already deteriorating water infrastructure is further threatened by the war.

On top of Russian forces cutting off vital water resources that civilians need for drinking and sanitation, damages to wastewater infrastructure are causing untreated sewage to pollute water supplies. On the other end of the spectrum, artillery fire compacted with dry conditions due to climate change make the region susceptible to wildfires. “There is an urgent need for ecological monitoring to assess and minimize the environmental risks arising from the armed conflict,” says UN Environment Program analyst Leila Urekenova.

The war is impacting climate change talks as well. Since Russia is one of the top three fossil fuel suppliers in the world, some green groups worry the climate change agenda will be sidelined. Already, the crisis is showing that other countries, especially the U.S., need to be less dependent on foreign fuel, and fossil fuels in general. Climate analysts hope, if anything good can come from the war, it will be the advancement of renewable energy investment to secure energy independence from nations like Russia.

In its present state, the environmental toll of the Russian war on Ukraine seems boundless.

However, the full environmental impact may not be seen for generations to come. As Benjamin Franklin warned, “Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”

CONTACTS: Ukraine invasion: rapid overview of environmental issues, ceobs.org/ukraine-inva-

Russia's war on the Ukraine is creating untold environmental mayhem in the form of air, water and soil pollution. Photo Credit: Алесь Усцінаў / Pexels

sion-rapid-overview-of-environmental-issues/; The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Climate Change Policy, news.climate.columbia. edu/2022/03/07/the-impact-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-on-climate-change-policy/.

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a guerra de Rusia contra Ucrania es una de las peores crisis humanitarias que enfrenta Europa desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

A medida que las fuerzas militares rusas continúan con su invasión violenta y asesina, las organizaciones ambientalistas de todo el mundo están planteando preocupaciones adicionales sobre la devastación de gran alcance del medio ambiente debido a la guerra.

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Ucrania alberga la instalación nuclear más grande de Europa, la planta de energía nuclear de Zaporizhzhia, y los combates han provocado incendios cerca de la planta. La ocupación rusa del sitio nuclear de Chernobyl, también ubicado en Ucrania, también es muy preocupante. “Pocas regiones en la Tierra están tan mal equipadas para manejar un conflicto militar como la planta de energía nuclear de Chernobyl”, dice el corresponsal sénior de la Casa Blanca, Alexander Nazaryan. El movimiento ruso en el área ha lanzado polvo radiactivo del suelo al aire, elevando los niveles de radiación dentro de la zona. Si bien los expertos dicen que no hay peligro inmediato para las vecindades al rededor, el potencial de un desastre nuclear hace que esta guerra sea aún más peligrosa para el medio ambiente.

La infraestructura de agua del país, que ya se está deteriorando, se ve aún más amenazada por la guerra. Además de las fuerzas rusas cortando los recursos de agua vitales que los civiles necesitan para beber y para el saneamiento, los daños a la infraestructura de aguas residuales están provocando que las aguas residuales no tratadas contaminen los suministros de agua. En el otro extremo del espectro, el fuego de artillería compactado con condiciones secas debido al cambio climático hace que la región sea susceptible a los incendios forestales. “Existe una necesidad urgente de monitoreo ecológico para evaluar y minimizar los riesgos ambientales que surgen del conflicto armado”, dice Leila Urekenova, analista del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente.

La guerra también está afectando las conversaciones sobre el cambio climático. Dado que Rusia es uno de los tres principales proveedores de combustibles fósiles del mundo, algunos grupos ecologistas temen que la agenda del cambio climático se deje de lado. La crisis ya está mostrando que otros países, especialmente los EE. UU., deben ser menos dependientes del combustible extranjero y de los combustibles fósiles en general. Los analistas climáticos esperan que si algo bueno puede salir de la guerra, será el avance de la inversión en energía renovable para asegurar la independencia energética de naciones como Rusia.

En su estado actual, el costo ambiental de la guerra rusa contra Ucrania parece ilimitado.

Sin embargo, es posible que las próximas generaciones no vean el impacto ambiental total. Como advirtió Benjamin Franklin, “Las guerras no se pagan en tiempo de guerra, la factura viene después”.

CONTACTOS: Ukraine invasion: rapid overview of environmental issues, ceobs.org/ukraine-invasion-rapid-overview-of-environmental-issues/; The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Climate Change Policy, news.climate.columbia. edu/2022/03/07/the-impact-of-russias-invasionof-ukraine-on-climate-change-policy/.

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Apartamentos para personas mayores de bajos ingresos.

Position: Principal Hardware/Firmware Engineer

Wittenberg Manor es una comunidad de viviendas con subsidio federal en Hayward, California.

La lista de espera para Wittenberg Manor se abrirá el lunes 02/05/2022 y durará 5 semanas hasta el viernes 03/06/2022.

Durante ese tiempo, Wittenberg Manor aceptará solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años que cumplan con las pautas de admisión, así como de adultos con problemas de movilidad, mayores de 18 años, que requieran las características de diseño de los apartamentos accesibles.

Para solicitar un paquete de solicitud, llame al 510-785-4848, o venga a la oficina de Wittenberg Manor, de 8:00 am a 12:00 pm y de 1:00 pm a 4:45 pm, de lunes a viernes, excepto días festivos en 657 Bartlett Ave., Hayward, CA 94541. El miércoles 08/06/2022, a las 10:00 a. m., en el comedor de Wittenberg Manor. Se llevará a cabo una lotería para la colocación en la lista de espera. Le invitamos a asistir a la lotería, pero no está obligado a asistir.

Wittenberg Manor ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda.

System level design including part selection, prototyping, test/bring-up, circuit design & simulation, schematic capture, & layout review; develop software based on electronics hardware schematics & datasheets. Firmware Development including Writing drivers in C/C++, using debuggers & assemblers in IDE & command line tools.

Work on physical layer, middleware, applications layers, comply with agile development; Develop tools for validating systems for current characteristics of low power/battery powered devices; develop validation tools in Python/Bash on Linux platforms(Debian/Ubuntu) to implement Audio processing algorithms & control/interact with devices.

Job loc: Santa Clara, CA. Requirements: MS in Electrical Eng/Computers. or in the alternative BS in Electrical Eng/ Computers, plus 5 ys of exp. Contact: Xekera Systems, 2348 Walsh Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683958 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jocelyn Event Coordinator, 395 S. Fourth Street, Apt 3, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Mia Jocelyn Cital, 1522 Regency Drive, Los Banos, CA 93635. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/08/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Mia Jocelyn Cital This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/08/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683958 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684104 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LARIO’S TRUCKING, 24650 AMADOR ST APT 111, HAYWARD, CA 94544, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Maricela Para, 24650

Amador St. Apt. 111, Hayward, CA 94544.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/30/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Maricela Para This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/13/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684104 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683565 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elite Epoxy Floors, 1212 Glacier Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Sarita Santana, 1212 Glacier Drive, Milpitas, CA 95935, and Jean Pierre Bendezu Cortegana, 1212 Glacier Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/25/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or

she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Sarita Santana This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/25/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683565 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683916 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BRIGHT SIDE IMPORTS, BRIGHT SIDE, 117 Bernal Road #70-189, San Jose, CA 95119, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): 41SIXTY, 117 Bernal Road #70-189, San Jose, CA 95119. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Paulo Paredes CEO 41SIXTY INC Article/Reg#: C4091800 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/07/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy

File No. FBN 683916 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683897 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: eachCrowd.com, 2305 McLaughlin Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Cesar Plata, 2305 McLaughlin Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/06/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Cesar Plata This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/06/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683897 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV394355 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Robert Contreras, Jr. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Robert Contreras, Jr. has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. GIANNA JONES to GIANNA ROSE CONTRERAS. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all

persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/17/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Feb 15, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396746 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Leticia Grajales.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Leticia Grajales has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Leticia Grajales to Leticia Valdez. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before

this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022, at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 11, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396735 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Rafael Huizar I. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Adriana Corona Lopez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Brianna Lara Corona to Brianna Huizar Corona. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 11, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395141 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kristina Davtyan. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kristina Davtyan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kristina Davtyan to Kristina Victoria Davikoff. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/07/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks

prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

02/25/2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396392 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Dylan Voong. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Dylan Voong has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Dylan Voong to Dylan Le. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 04, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396510 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: donghong zhang and yaoxin song.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) donghong zhang and yaoxin song has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 changing names as follows: a. Sophia Song to ZiQing Song. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 07, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396509 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Regina Garcia, Efrain Barragan. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Regina Garcia has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Efrain Santino Barragan to Santino Efrain Barragan. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date:

07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 07, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396133 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Tin-Ying Hsu. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Tin-Ying Hsu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Tin-Ying Hsu to Teresa Tin-Ying Hsu. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 25. 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396363 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com the application of: ANGELINA EILIE ANDREI. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Angelina Eilie Andrei aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Angelina Eilie Andrei aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia to ALINA AUDREE LUCANTONI EILIA. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/31/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 08, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396098 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: NGHIA HUU TRAN & HUYNH NHU PHAM. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) NGHIA HUU TRAN & HUYNH NHU PHAM has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. NGOC BAO TRAN to JENNY NGOC TRAN. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

March 24, 2022 Julie Emede Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683831 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JJ TOWING AND TRANSPORT, 2751 Villa Monterey, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ramon F Garcia, 2751 Villa Monterey, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/23/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Ramon F Garcia This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683831 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683800 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NegroPapa Entertainment, 3790 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Willy Osagiede, 328 D St. Apt 3, San Rafael, CA 94306.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/04/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Willy Osagiede This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/04/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683800 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683163 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Camp Transformation Center, 2078 El Camino Real Suite C, Santa Clara, CA 95054, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Legacy Fitness Systems, Inc., 4251 Heather Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Lorena Hernandez Legacy Fitness Systems, Inc. Owner Article/Reg#: C4745179 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683163 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683359 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MY CRAFTISH SPACE, 371 Vale Dr, San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Anna Gronkowska, 371 Vale Dr, San Jose, CA 95123. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed

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above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Anna Gronkowska This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/21/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Laura Luna, Deputy File No. FBN 683359 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ON HOLD FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683674 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rinse and Shine Autospa, 1530 Chiri Court, San Martin, CA 95046, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Mason Heroux, 1530 Chiri Court, San Martin, CA 95046. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Mason Heroux This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683674 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683702 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THE WEEKLY MORNING KOREAN NEWS, 1265 EL CAMINO REAL, SUITE 217, SANTA CLARA, CA 95050, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jong Ki Min, 1265 El Camino Real, Suite 217, Santa Clara , CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is

guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jong Ki Min, This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/30/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683702 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683705 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SILICON VALLEY KOREANS, 1265 EL CAMINO REAL, SUITE 217, SANTA CLARA, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jong Ki Min, 1265 El Camino Real, Suite 217, Santa Clara , CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a Refile (changes in facts from previous filing) Previous file #660690. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jong Ki Min, This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/30/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683705 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683596 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Banya AI Lab and Banya AI, 530 Cherry Blossom Ln, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Steve Hahn, 530 Cherry Blossom Ln, Campbell, CA 95008. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Steve Hahn This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/28/2022.

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Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683596 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683838 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MERCADO CALIFORNIA, 5302 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): RAMON LUNA COMPANY, 5302 MONTEREY HIGHWAY, SAN JOSE, CA 95111.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/28/1998. This filing is a refile (changes in facts from previous filing). “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Ramon Luna, President Ramon Luna Company Article/Reg # 2110254 This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/05/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683838 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683628 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: STUDIO 1610, 1610 BLOSSOM HILL ROAD RD #7D, SAN JOSE, CA95124, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): AM 1610 LLC, 1610 BLOSSOM HILL RD #7D, SAN JOSE, CA 95124. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/09/2022.

This is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ MUMTAZ MOHAMMAD, MEMBER AM 1610 LLC A r t i c l / R e g #202207510435 This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/28/2022.

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Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683628 April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396384 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Edna Kathleen Haag.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Edna Kathleen Haag has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Edna Kathleen Haag to Dolly Edna Haag 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 05, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396245 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Mohammad Hassan Moezzi.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Mohammad Hassan Moezzi has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Mohammad Hassan Moezzi to Maziar M.H. Moezzi 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 28, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396338 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Nghi Huyen Ton Nu Phuong Cong. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Nghi Huyen Ton Nu Phuong Cong has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Nghi Huyen Ton Nu Phuong Cong to Evie Nghi Cong 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 01, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396339 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ha Thi Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ha Thi Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ha Thi Nguyen to Audrey Ha Nguyen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 01, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396376 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thy-Thy Thi Tran. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Thy-Thy Thi Tran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a

decree changing names as follows: a. Thy-Thy Thi Tran to Serena Tee Tran 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 04, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV392757 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Patricia Liliana Guerrero. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Patricia Liliana Guerrero has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Patricia Liliana Guerrero aka Liliana Miranda Guerrero Lashgan to Patricia Liliana Guerrero Lashgan. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without

a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/24/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 06, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of MARIA F. HERNANDEZ Case No. 22PR192107 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARIA F. HERNANDEZ. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by LORETTA HERNANDEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that LORETTA HERNANDEZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 25, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative

appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: JOSEPH D. DERMER DERMER LAW FIRM 15720 Winchester Blvd., Suite 200 San Jose, CA 95030 (408)395-5111 Rune Date: April 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 682742 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LUPE’S CAROUSEL CHILD CARE, INC. 533 University Ave, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): LUPE’S CAROUSEL CHILD CARE, INC., 533 University Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/19/2001. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN607748. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Guadalupe Mendoza Lupe’s Carousel Child Care, Inc. Owner Article/Reg#: C4125062 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2022.

Regina Alcomendras,

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683656 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: G-GAL BOUTIQUE, 267 Lewis Street, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Gisselle Cisneros, 267 Lewis Street, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/17/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Gisselle Cisneros This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/9/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683011 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683656 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: APPLIED ENGINEERING, 6341 San Ignacio Ave Suite 10, San Jose, CA 95119, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): ELECTRONIC INTERFACE COMPANY, INC., 6341 San Ignacio Ave Suite 10, San Jose, CA 95119. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/14/1980.

This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN629526. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jack Yao ELECTRONIC INTERFACE COMPANY, INC. President Article/Reg#: C0966890 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk-

Recorder of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683656 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683662 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GLANCHE, 4405 Pinon Pl, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hong Minh Bui, 4405 Pinon Pl, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Hong Minh Bui This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683662 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683663 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: POLENTA BAR, 201 Prague Drive, San Jose, CA 95119, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): POLENTA BAR LLC, 201 Prague Drive, San Jose, CA 95119.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Bogdan Dumitrescu POLENTA BAR LLC Member Article/Reg#: 202204510315 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683663 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683675 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CHAMPIONS COMPANY, 940 Saratoga Ave Ste 238, San Jose, CA 95129, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jordan Moreno Rico, 6520 Gamma Way Unit 306, San Jose, CA 95129.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/07/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jordan Moreno Rico This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/29/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683675 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683531 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HISAIL GLOBAL CO., 843 Hanover Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): GEMKANG NIEH, 843 Hanover Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/28/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN596150. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ GEMKANG NIEH Owner Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/24/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683531

April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683450 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AURA PERFUMERY, 22560 Alcalde Road, Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): BREV DAVID PATTERSON, 22560 Alcalde Road, Cupertino, CA 95014. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN667483. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Brev David Patterson This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/23/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683450 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683485 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PENINSULA ENDODONTICS DENTAL GROUP, 505 South Dr. Ste. 10, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): KINGSTONE C. SHIH, DDS, INC, 505 South Dr Ste. 10, Mountain View, CA 94040 and Michelle C. Olsen, DDS, INC, 505 South Dr Ste. 10, Mountain View, CA 94040.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/24/2007. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN628288. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Michelle C Olsen, DDS, Inc., General Partner This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/24/2022.

Regina Alcomendras,

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Mike Louie, Deputy File No. FBN 683485 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683540 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Under the Sky Home Daycare, 3367 Victoria Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Evelyn Roxana Ruiz Torres, 3367 Victoria Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95051.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/11/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Evelyn R. Ruiz Torres This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/25/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683540 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): ECONOMY TIRES & WHEELS, 866 South First St, San Jose CA, 95110. Filed in Santa Clara County on 11/03/17 under file no. FBN635666.

SUPER CHEAP HAULING & TIRE RECYCLING, LLC, 558 Windlass Lane, Foster City CA, 94404.

This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Alexandra M. Rodriguez Prieto This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 3/22/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683416 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): ECONOMY HAULING & TIRE RECYCLING, 866 S 1st St, San Jose CA, 95110. Filed in Santa Clara County on 04/05/18 under file no.

FBN640900.

SUPER CHEAP HAULING & TIRE RECYCLING, LLC, 558 Windlass Lane, Foster City CA, 94404.

This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Alexandra M. Rodriguez Prieto This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 3/22/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683417 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683506 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KC & ASSOCIATES INSURANCE AGENCY, 5339 PROSPECT ROAD, STE. 318, SAN JOSE, CA 95129, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): KYLE CHUANG INSURANCE AGENCY, INC., 5339 PROSPECT RD. #318, SAN JOSE, CA 95129. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/17/2012.

This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN627507. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ KYLE CHUANG KYLE CHUANG INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. President Article/Reg#: C3441914 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/24/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683506 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396131 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: JOANTHAN HUN OH. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) JOANTHAN HUN OH has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. JOANTHAN HUN OH to JONATHAN HUN OH 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 25, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395977 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Manuel Coronado.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Manuel Coronado has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Manuel Coronado to Manuel Ortega 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes

described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 22, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396243 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Patricia Perez Gaeta.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Patricia Perez Gaeta has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Xavier Adan Resendiz Perez to Xavier Adan Perez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS Mar 28, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396248 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jessica M. Townsend.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jessica M. Townsend has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jessica M. Townsend to Jessica M. Siart 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 28, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396275 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: KE SIA PO BUI. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) KE SIA PO BUI has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. KE SIA PO BUI to KESIA PO BUI 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated

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below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 29, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396274 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Soo Chan Hahn. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Soo Chan Hahn has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Soo Chan Hahn to Steve Soo Hahn 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for

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hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 29, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396104 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ching Yong Hong & Azusa Shimizu. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Ching Yong Hong & Azusa Shimizu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Eugene Hong to Eugene Huey Shimizu Hong b. Sean Hong to Sean Shoto Shimizu Hong 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 24, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of ARTHUR JEROME LYLES Case No. 22PR191694 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ARTHUR JEROME LYLES. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed

by Tia Lyles in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

3.The Petition for Probate requests that Tia Lyles be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 4. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: April 21, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Petitioner: Tia Lyles 7206 Via Maria San Jose, CA 95139 (408)482-5697 Run Date: April 1, 8, 15, 2022 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of ABERETON TAMUNO DIKIBO Case No. 22PR191890 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ABERETON TAMUNO DIKIBO. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Linda Dikibo in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Linda Dikibo be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: April 18, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate

Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney: Himat Singh Bainiwal 2797 Park Avenue, Suite 201 Santa Clara, CA 95050 (408)646-1661 Run Date: April 1, 8, 15, 2022 NOTICE OF DEATH OF ERIK R. SOLYST To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Erik R. Solyst, who was a resident of March County, State of California, and died on September 12, 2022, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 15720 Winchester Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Gatos, California 95030 (408) 395-5111 Joseph D. Dermer, Esq. DERMER LAW FIRM 15720 Winchester Blvd., Ste 200 Los Gatos, CA 95030 Tel (408) 395-5111 Fax (408) 354-2797 April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683203 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NOEL MORA MOTORSPORTS, 471 PERRYMONT AVE, B, SAN JOSE, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): NOEL MORA, 33044 CORNING CT, UNION CITY, CA 94587. The registrant

began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/22/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ NOEL MORA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683203

began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/01/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Andrew Bocanegra This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/18/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683332

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683198 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Flexnet IT, 4473 Palisade Dr, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Efrain Gomez-Velazquez, 4473 Palisade Dr, San Jose, CA 95111. Julio Cesar Herrera, 2388 Madden Ave Unit #410, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Efrain GomezVelazquez This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683198

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 682925 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BAY AREA PAINTING AND OPERATIONS, 110 Graham Ave Apt 14, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): BAY AREA PAINTING AND OPERATIONS INC., 110 Graham Ave Apt 14, San Jose, CA 95110.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Cruz Antonio ZepedaVasquez BAY AREA PAINTING AND OPERATIONS Secretary Article/Reg#: C4836446 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/04/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 682925

March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683332 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: THE COMMUTER SPECIALIST, 1900 Camden Ave, #206, San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Andrew Bocanegra, 1900 Camden Ave, #206, San Jose, CA 95124. Andrew Bocanegra, 1900 Camden Ave, #206, San Jose, CA 95124. The registrant

March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683182 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: From the Heart Vegan Cuisine, 49 Sunol Street, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Katia Rebeca

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 Peters, 49 Sunol St, San Jose, CA 95126. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/15/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Katia Rebeca Peters This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683182 March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683164 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NAIL MINUIT, 1082 E El Camino Real #4, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Gianna Soyul Park, 70 Mihalakis St Unit 302, Milpitas, CA 95035.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/01/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Gianna Soyul Park This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683164 March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683181 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Avila Fire Protection, 105 N 1st Unit 1862, San Jose, CA 95109, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Gilberto Avila, 105 N 1st St Unit 1862, San Jose, CA 95109. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/16/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I de-

clare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Gilberto Avila This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683181 March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683064 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BAY AREAS FINEST, 101 Keyes Street, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Danny Daoud, 3193 Calzar Dr, San Jose, CA 95118. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/02/2016.

This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN623111. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Danny Daoud This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/11/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683064 March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LA GARNACHA MEXICANA, 4200 The Woods Dr, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jose Luis Espinoza Arceo, 4200 The Woods Dr, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/16/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Jose Luis Espinoza Arceo This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/16/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683189 March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV394590 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: CLAUDIA VIRIDIANA SANCHEZ BALVANEDA. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) CLAUDIA VIRIDIANA SANCHEZ BALVANEDA has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. JOHANA MORALES to JOHANA DELGADO b. ISABELLA MORALES to ISABELLA DELGADO 2.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/24/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 15, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395635

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: NIDHI PRADIP CHAMPANERIA. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) NIDHI PRADIP CHAMPANERIA has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. NIDHI PRADIP CHAMPANERIA to NIDHI CHITANSHU CHAUHAN 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/14/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 16, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395499 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thu Suong Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Thu Suong Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Thu Suong Nguyen to Sara Nguyen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/07/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 14, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395706 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jennifer Truong. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Jennifer Truong has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jennifer Truong to Serena Jennifer Truong 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/21/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 17, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV392356 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: NO NAME GIVEN TANNU. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) NO NAME GIVEN TANNU has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. NO NAME GIVEN TANNU to TANNU KADIYAN 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 04/26/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 18, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395275 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Anne Elizabeth Juliana Lockman.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Anne Elizabeth Juliana Lockman has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as

follows: a. Anne Elizabeth Juliana Lockman to Anne Juliana Lockman 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/07/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 11, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395633 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kiera Elaine Pietrangelo.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kiera Elaine Pietrangelo has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kiera Elaine Pietrangelo to Valira Pietrangelo 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE

OF HEARING: Date: 06/14/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 16, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395572 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ngoc Giau Nguyen.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ngoc Giau Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ngoc Giau Thi Nguyen AKA Samantha Nguyen AKA Giau Nguyen to Giau Thi Thompson 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/14/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 15, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS OF NAME NO. 22CV395949 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Dmitry A. Shchemelinin.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Dmitry A. Shchemelinin has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Dmitry A Shchemelinin to Felix Schemel b. Valeria Leonido Shchemelinina to Valery Schemel c. Margarita D. Shchemelinina to Margaret Schemel. d.

Mark D Shchemelinin to Mark Schemel 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/28/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 21, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395704 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: CHETAN. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) CHETAN has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. CHETAN AKA UNKNOWN CHETAN AKA FNU CHETAN AKA NO NAME GIVEN CHETAN to CHETAN GUDISAGAR 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

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matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/21/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3.

A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 17, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2022

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Q&A: DETRÁS DE LAS ESCENAS DE “TOOTSIE”

Hablamos con actor Alec Ruiz sobre la comedia musical ganadora del premio Tony que llegará a San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts del 19 al 24 de abril

Arturo Hilario El Observador “Tootsie”, una comedia musical que hará su debut en el norte de california el 19 de abril, trae una historia musical llena de chiste y corazón.

Originalmente una película de comedia de 1982 con Dustin Hoffman como el protagonista, la película cuenta la historia de Michael Dorsey, un actor talentoso pero difícil que lucha por encontrar trabajo hasta que un acto de desesperación le cambia su vida.

El actor Alec Ruiz compartió recientemente sus experiencias trabajando en "Tootsie", desde cómo la historia de "Tootsie" se ha renovado para el público moderno hasta cómo la pandemia afectó las perspectivas laborales.

Hola Alec, muchas gracias por hablar con nosotros. Para empezar quería saber, ¿qué es lo que te llevó a empezar en el teatro?

Bueno, yo comencé a actuar cuando tenía diez años. Estaba en 5.º grado y mi primera obra que hice fue en mi escuela. Y mis padres pensaron que podría ser una actividad divertida después de la escuela y me animaron a hacer una audición.

Pero fue mi director, que también fue mi profesor de teatro, teatro y Ciencias Sociales, que habló con mis padres para decirles que él quería que siguiera actuando. El vio algo en mí y no quería que lo desperdiciara. Después estuve en cada show hasta el 8.º grado y continué a estudiar teatro en la escuela secundaria y en la universidad, y he estado actuando profesionalmente desde 2018.

Gracias. ¿Y para ti que es lo que te gusta más sobre ser actor y ser parte de estas tipas de obras?

Yo creo que tiene que ser oyendo la audiencia, cuando estás actuando así en un teatro grande.

Me gustan las obras y las películas también, y he hecho los dos y me encantan los dos. No te puedo decir que me gusta uno más que el otro porque los dos tienen sus propios beneficios.

Yo creo que con las obras la cosa que me encanta más es tener la audiencia y cerca de ti.

Y tú sientes el honor, tú estás cambiando las mentes de tantas personas que han pagado a ver este show, esta obra, esta historia. Porque la cosa es que entran en el teatro pensando una cosa y se van del show pensando otro. Estás cambiando a la gente, estás cambiando sus mentes y que uno tenga un efecto tan grande es bastante poderoso. ¿Me puedes hablar un poco sobre la historia de "Tootsie"?

Si se trata de un actor Michael Dorsey que tiene mucho talento, pero es difícil trabajar con él y nadie quiere trabajar con él hasta un día cuando él decide que va a hacer algo desesperado, el crea un carácter ficticio y consiguen un papel de una obra de Broadway que le cambia su vida.

Porque era una película antes, ¿antes de trabajar en esta obra habías visto la película o tenías conocimiento de ella?

Si yo vi la película. Pero esta obra es diferente de la película. Porque en la película él estaba en un soap opera y en esta obra el esta audicionando para estar en una obra de Broadway. Es un musical. Es un poco diferente también [porque] el escritor del show también quería ser una obra más en similar con los tiempos [actuales], tú sabes.

La película yo creo que salió en 1982 y el show de Broadway toma lugar en 2028. Está un

El elenco de la Gira Nacional de Tootsie. Photo Credit: Evan Zimmerman para MurphyMade

poco actualizada. La obra se actualiza con los tiempos, el idioma se actualiza para audiencias más diversas. Parte del lenguaje de la película no se sostiene, así que nos aseguramos de que se ajuste a los parámetros del mundo moderno.

Ahora, ¿puedes hablar sobre tu experiencia con tus papeles en "Tootsie"?

Sí, soy parte del ensemble y también interpreto el papel de Ron Carlisle, el director de escena de la obra dentro de nuestra obra. Y también

Alec Ruiz es actor y parte de la obra musical “Tootsie”, que estará en Broadway San Jose desde el 19-24 de abril. Photo Credit: Broadway San Jose / Tootsie

soy el suplente para Michael Dorsey el papel principal, Jeff Slater, el mejor amigo de Michael, Ron Carlisle y Stan Fields, quien es el agente de Michael.

cuatro de la tarde, el show es a las 07:30 y me dicen que, "oye el actor que juega este papel está enfermo y necesita ir, 'you're on'" como lo dicen. "Te toca".

¿Cómo es tener que estar familiarizado con todos esos roles?

¿Y qué es lo más interesante de ser parte de "Tootsie"? ¿Y hay alguna escena que sea tu favorita?

Bueno. No, no es fácil, te digo eso, pero es un honor muy grande que siento y cada semana yo practico cada papel porque hay situaciones cuando me llaman el día, ese día - son como las

Bueno, la cosa más interesante es que el conjunto, el ensemble, es muy importante en esta obra. Porque somos la voz de la audiencia, porque tuvimos el honor de trabajar con el equipo creativo original de Broadway, y ellos cambiaron el conjunto de Broadway para esta versión, para tener una voz más aparente.

Y también comentamos sobre las decisiones de Michael que de verdad son muy malas. Y también yo creo que es mi escena más favorita, no puedo decir mucho porque quiero que vengan al show y lo vean. Pero es un Act II, es una serie de cosas que le pasan a Michael en su apartamento, que otra vez no puedo decir mucho, porque yo creo que la audiencia tiene que verlo. ¿Por qué recomiendas que venga la gente a ver a "Tootsie"?

Necesitamos reír. Después de los dos años que tuvimos, porque fueron tan triste y difícil. Y este show es el show perfecto para el público, para recordarle a la gente la sensación de estar juntos, olvidar todos sus problemas y reír.

Gracias de nuevo Alec. Finalmente, ¿cualquier otra cosa que querías que supiera las audiencias o lectores?

Bueno, yo creo que la audiencia tiene que realizar que fue difícil durante la pandemia. Porque para los actores, porque no sabíamos si volveríamos, todo el mundo en nuestra profesión tuvimos que tomar grandes decisiones y fue el tiempo donde tuvimos todo el tiempo en el mundo para decidir si queríamos hacer esta profesión por el resto de nuestras vidas.

Tengo amigos que dejaron el de actuar y encontraron la felicidad en otro trabajo porque se dieron cuenta que esta profesión de verdad no es para ellos y fue muy difícil. La cosa que estamos haciendo ahí arriba en el escenario no es fácil.

No es fácil, pero estoy tan feliz de estar de vuelta en el teatro y encantado de que el público esté tan feliz como nosotros. Esa es una verdadera recompensa.

APR 15 - APR 21, 2022

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THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE: WILL SACRAMENTO SHOOTINGS INFLUENCE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S RACE? Nigel Duara CalMatters

ent story if you had two high-profile Democrats running for the office.”

suspect in connection with the shooting deaths of six people in downtown Sacramento was released from prison less than halfway through his 10-year sentence because of credits earned behind bars, handing Assembly Republicans an opportunity to decry the state’s recent wave of criminal justice reforms.

Historically, Sinclair said, attitudes on crime are reflected in the death penalty debate.

An analysis of 595 public opinion surveys convinced University of North Carolina political scientist Frank Baumgartner that “Americans support capital punishment less than they have at any time since the modern death penalty system was established in 1976.”

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“The violence we saw [April 3] should be a wakeup call that Democrats’ criminal justice policies of the last decade aren’t working,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said last week.

Their criticisms after the shootings are a common refrain among conservatives and members of law enforcement, pushing back against the last decade of criminal justice reforms in California.

Inmates released early “are going to be violent when they get out, and that’s what we’ve seen here,” Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones recently told Fox News Digital.

Whether the voting public accepts that narrative will be reflected in the closest watched election this year. The race for California attorney general embodies the most significant divide in criminal justice today: Those who believe long prison and jail sentences deter crime, and those who insist that they cause more harm than they prevent.

Crime was up statewide in 2020, the last year for which statewide statistics were published. Homicides increased 31% between 2019 and 2020.

The April 3 shooting just a few blocks from the state Capitol killed six people and wounded another 12, including two of the men arrested in connection with the violence – brothers Smiley and Dandrae Martin. A third man was arrested two days after the shootings. All three face charges related to possession of firearms.

In California, the numbers may look confusing at first. In a paper Sinclair co-authored last year, polling found that 70% of respondents supported the death penalty either for most or all types of murder, or only for the most aggravated murders.

The recent shootings that killed six in downtown Sacramento underscore the criminal justice divide in the race for California’s attorney general. Photo Credit: kat wilcox / Pexels

campaigns.

“California’s crazy train!”

Challenging that narrative are progressives, who point to statistics showing that reform-minded measures like Proposition 47, which reclassified some drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, reduced racial disparities in arrests.

Research used by the U.S. Department of Justice found that the certainty of being caught, not the length of a sentence, is the most effective deterrent to crime.

“Another child molester set free”

“I’m not surprised that the conservative forces in criminal justice are continuing to look for things to blame,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the Prosecutors Alliance of California, a progressive coalition of recently elected district attorneys.

“They have been pushing for more punishment since their existence. It benefits their members when it’s a police union, it benefits their ability to shift blame when they’re running a (prosecutor’s) office. But the reality is, it doesn’t solve the problem.”

On Tuesday, Sacramento police said they are looking for 27-year-old Mtula Payton, and that they believe five shooters are involved, including the Martin brothers.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, the sitting incumbent appointed by Newsom in April 2021, is part of the last decade’s wave of reform Democrats which supports legislation lessening penalties for smaller crimes and creating more opportunities for inmates to earn early releases.

“At this time, evidence indicates that Payton, Smiley Martin and Dandrae Martin were among the shooters,” Sacramento police said in a press release.

At the opposite pole is Anne Marie Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney running against him as an independent in the June 7 primary.

Smiley Martin, 27, was released from prison in February. The prosecutor’s office had agreed to a plea bargain in which Martin would be classified as a nonviolent offender, despite his conviction on charges of beating his girlfriend, CalMatters reported.

She hasn’t commented on the shootings because her office is prosecuting the suspects. But the press conference among Assembly Republicans last week repeated the same call for longer sentences and fewer opportunities for early release that Schubert has enunciated in press releases since announcing her run for office.

That nonviolent offender status made him eligible to earn credits toward early release.

Republicans running on a recall ballot against Gov. Gavin Newsom last year made measures to reduce prison sentences and rising crime statistics a focal point of their

Subject lines in a series of Schubert campaign emails from earlier this year spell out her position.

“Stop the Chaos!”

Schubert has taken particular issue with Proposition 57, the 2016 voter-approved ballot measure that gave prison inmates the opportunity to earn more time off their sentences. The measure shaved significant time off Smiley Martin’s 10-year sentence.

Somewhere between Bonta and Schubert is Nathan Hochman of Los Angeles, who is running as a Republican. Hochman told a CalMatters panel last week that, when he worked as a federal prosecutor, he felt mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine were too harsh compared to sentences for powdered cocaine. Yet he believes Californians are much more conservative on criminal justice issues than their statewide elected officials.

“This isn’t just a Republican level issue, it’s a Californian issue,” Hochman said. “But I believe in this respect that the Republican party’s in lockstep with the majority of Californians in viewing this as a serious problem and looking for serious solutions to solve it.”

“I’m not surprised that the conservative forces in criminal justice are continuing to look for things to blame.”

-CRISTINE SOTO DEBERRY, PROSECUTORS ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIA Practically, the election of an attorney general falls along party lines, said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Andrew Sinclair. Schubert winning as an independent or Hochman as a Republican would require them to peel off a significant segment of Democrats on a single, salient issue.

But just 51% of respondents said they disapproved of Newsom’s death penalty moratorium.

“You may see a lot of bad polling numbers for the Democrats on crime,” Sinclair said, “but when it gets down to policy implementation, (voters) may slide back to their own party.”

The election of an attorney general is just the most visible statewide representation of the policy split among members of law enforcement. Two local recall elections have generated just as many headlines, and when Schubert disparaged “soft-on-crime” policies in campaign emails, she didn’t single out Bonta – she went for two fellow district attorneys.

In a Feb. 21 press release titled “Why I Support the Chesa Boudin Recall,” Schubert wrote that she toured the Tenderloin in San Francisco, which she described as “like the scene of an apocalyptic movie.”

“This is the California created by prosecutors like Chesa Boudin in San Francisco who put radical and impractical ideology before safety and the rule of law,” she wrote.

Boudin, the San Francisco County district attorney, along with his counterpart in Los Angeles County, George Gascón, face potential recalls this year.

The implication is clear: Crime is worse in places that voted for progressives as prosecutors. But that assertion is belied by the statistics – Schubert’s own county suffered a 50% increase in gun homicides in 2020 and 2021, compared to 2018 and 2019, exceeding the 31% spike statewide from 2019 to 2020.

Crime, Sinclair said, is likely not that issue.

Los Angeles and San Francisco counties also saw more homicides than they did before the pandemic, but at a much lower rate than Sacramento County.

“There’ll be a lot of people who express some amount of frustration about how things are going on crime, on homelessness, on cost of living, those kinds of issues, but it would be hard to turn that actually into a large number of votes for an alternative candidate,” Sinclair said. “It may be a differ-

“It’s hypocritical, obviously, to suggest that crime in a more reform-minded prosecutor’s jurisdiction is their responsibility, but crime in her own jurisdiction is not her responsibility,” Soto DeBerry said. “It’s trying to have both sides of that argument.

Doesn’t measure up.”

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“También estoy orgullosa de que Bank of America cumpla con su palabra de emplear, apoyar y promover a las mujeres dentro de nuestra compañía.

El 50% de nuestro consejo directivo es multicultural e incluye a 6 directoras. La mitad de nuestra fuerza de trabajo son mujeres, como en el Área de la Bahía. Y más de la mitad de nuestro equipo administrativo es multicultural e incluye a 7 líderes mujeres”.

Raquel González Presidente de Bank of America en Silicon Valley

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