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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana

to legal clairvoyance and citizenship within the human infrastructure package in the reconciliation project. The first two attempts were rejected by the Senate parliamentary expert on the grounds that they imply changes in immigration laws and do not correspond to a budget project.

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smán es un “dreamer” que ha esperado con paciencia el estreno de la carretera que lo lleve de su estado de incertidumbre al de la certeza de la legalización migratoria. Pero no ha esperado con los brazos cruzados: Obtuvo con mucho esfuerzo y sacrificio una licenciatura, y actualmente se desempeña profesionalmente en una importante empresa de comunicaciones para la comunidad hispana.

Su esperanza estaba cifrada en la promesa del presidente Joe Biden y del liderazgo demócrata de incluir la ruta a la videncia legal y ciudadanía dentro del paquete de infraestructura humana en el proyecto de reconciliación. Los dos primeros intentos fueron rechazados por la experta parlamentaria del Senado por considerar que implican cambios en las leyes migratorias y no corresponden a un proyecto presupuestario.

Para muchos de nosotros será evidente que el tema migratorio nunca fue una alta prioridad en las negociaciones. Pero tres legisladores, Jesús Chuy García, Lou Correa y Adriano Espaillat, bautizados como Los Tres Amigos lanzaron una cruzada personal para presionar a la líder Nancy Pelosi ya que se incluyera esa carretera en el proyecto de infraestructura humana.

Al final, la realidad política, incluida la oposición del senador demócrata de Virginia del Oeste Joe Manchin, se impuso. En busca de un punto intermedio, los demócratas incluyeron una versión migratoria “Light”. Luego la ruta a la residencia legal en la naturalización, y en cambio se planteó un proceso de permisos de trabajo y protección contra las deportaciones por cinco años, renovable por un periodo adicional.

“Otros quieren más, yo también quiero todo... Nos hubiera gustado tener la legalización, pero las perspectivas no son buenas en el Senado”, reconoció Pelosi. García, Correa y Espaillat suavizaron las presiones, en parte, por una promesa de Pelosi de mantener el tema en el radar de las prioridades de los demócratas, es decir, preparar el terreno para una pelea política posterior.

Osmán entiende con claridad las circunstancias políticas, pero eso no impide que se sienta, al igual que muchos “dreamers”, decepcionado. “Uno como un peón, usado estratégicamente como una jugada política para lograr una meta, pero el pilar no se logra. En este momento siento una gran tristeza porque me doy cuenta de que quizá nada va a pasar”.

Algunos activistas consideran que un pequeño avance, es decir lograr permisos de trabajo y protección contra las deportaciones por cinco años, es mejor que nada. Pero para muchos de estos cientos de miles de jóvenes que han esperado pacientemente, la opción intermedia no es un consuelo.

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“Para mí no lo es. Es una resolución que tiene fecha de expiración. Cómo ir pintando rayas en la pared cada día que pasa”, nos dice Osmán.

Osmán no le echa la culpa a nadie en particular, ni al presidente, ni a los demócratas ni a los republicanos. Pero la clase política toda debería darse cuenta de cómo ha tratado este grupo ejemplar de Dreamers, beneficiarios del TPS y trabajadores esenciales que siguen en las trincheras de combate a la pandemia con un patriotismo y sentido de responsabilidad que la clase política debería imitar.

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smán is a "dreamer" who has patiently waited for the opening of the road that will take him from his state of uncertainty to the certainty of immigration legalization. But he has not waited with his arms crossed: he obtained a degree with great effort and sacrifice, and is currently working professionally in a major communications company for the Hispanic community.

His hope was based on the promise of President Joe Biden and the Democratic leadership to include the path

For many of us it will be evident that the immigration issue was never a high priority in the negotiations. But three legislators, Jesús Chuy García, Lou Correa and Adriano Espaillat, baptized as ‘Los Tres Amigos,’ launched a personal crusade to pressure the leader Nancy Pelosi to include that path to citizenship in the human infrastructure project.

In the end, political reality, which included opposition from West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, prevailed. In search of a middle ground, the Democrats included an “immigration light” version. Initially touted as a route to legal residence in naturalization, there is instead now there is a proposed process of work permits and protection against deportation for five years, renewable for an additional period.

"Others want more, I also want everything ... We would have liked to have legalization, but the prospects are not good in the Senate," acknowledged Pelosi. Garcia, Correa and Espaillat eased the pressure, in part, because of a promise by Pelosi to keep the issue on the radar of the Democrats' priorities, that is, to prepare the ground for a later political fight.

Osmán clearly understands the political circumstances, but that does not prevent him from feeling, like many other Dreamers, disappointed. “We’re like a pawn, used strategically as a political move to achieve a goal, but that pillar is not achieved. At this moment I feel a great sadness because I realize that perhaps nothing is going to happen.”

Some activists believe that a small advance, namely obtaining work permits and protection against deportation for five years, is better than nothing. But for many of these hundreds of thousands of young people who have waited patiently, the middling option is no consolation. "For me it is not. It is a resolution that has an expiration date.

Like painting stripes on the wall with each passing day,” Osmán tells us.

Osman does not blame anyone in particular, not the president, not the Democrats, not the Republicans. But the entire political class should realize how it has treated this exemplary group of Dreamers, TPS beneficiaries and essential workers who remain in the trenches of fighting the pandemic with a patriotism and sense of responsibility that the political class should emulate.

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COVID AND THE FLU: IS A ‘TWINDEMIC’ THREAT LURKING AGAIN? F

Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters

munized against COVID, that still leaves pockets of people who can flood hospitals this winter.

“It can still get bad,” said Dr. George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology at University of California, San Francisco. “I do think all of this will be revealed in November — if we start to see a surge in early November, it will get worse during the holidays.”

irst, the good news: The flu was practically nonexistent last year.

The bad news: Little flu last season means increased risk this fall and winter.

Health experts are also keeping an eye on the delayed uptick of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, another seasonal virus. This virus usually peaks in the winter, but in some places, cases spiked this summer, much later than usual, Rutherford said.

The so-called “twindemic” that public health officials in California and elsewhere warned about last year — the combined threat of influenza and COVID-19 — was largely eased by the wide use of face masks, physical distancing and reduced travel, experts say.

But their concerns are back this year.

“If we start to see a surge in early November, it will get worse during the holidays.”

Flu activity during the 2020-21 season was the lowest recorded since data began being collected in 1997, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Because of so little disease last year, population immunity is likely lower, putting us all at increased risk of disease this year, especially among the most vulnerable including our children,” CDC director Rochelle Walensky said at a press briefing earlier this month.

The agency was notified of one pediatric death last flu season, compared to 199 flu deaths reported among children the year before. The CDC did not have estimates for last season’s flu deaths among adults.

A potentially bad flu season is especially concerning as hospitals are facing severe understaffing. Last week, a third of all California hospitals reported critical shortages in staffing due in part to burnout, CalMatters reported.

For example, during the 2017-18 flu season, considered severe by the CDC, about 710,000 people were hospitalized nationwide — including about 100,000 people in California, health officials have estimated.

Flu shots continue to be the best protection against severe illness. Doctors and public health experts are urging people to get vaccinated — ideally by the end of October — noting that flu shots will ultimately reduce the number of people who will need ambulance

-DR. GEORGE RUTHERFORD, PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AT UCSF

Experts hope continued masking will reduce this season’s dual threat of COVID and flu.

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respectively.

“We saw virtually no flu last year and are uncertain about what this year will hold,” said Dr. Penny Borenstein, San Luis Obispo County’s health officer.

California fared better with flu shots for kids — about 58% of children were immunized last season. In Massachusetts, immunization among kids was close to 84%.

“We do know that the most recent flu season was relatively mild in the Southern hemisphere and that the vaccine was a good match for the strains circulating there,” she said. “We are hoping for a similar outcome during our soon-to-arrive Northern hemisphere flu season.”

According to CDC estimates, 47% of adults in California received a flu shot last year, similar to the 2019-20 flu season — that’s among the lowest in the country and slightly lower than the national average of 50%.

By comparison, Massachusetts and Rhode Island had the highest flu shot uptake last year at 62% and 64%,

This virus can result in common cold symptoms or even pneumonia. People of any age can become infected with RSV, but babies and older adults, especially those with compromised immune systems, are at increased danger of severe cases.

Like the flu, respiratory syncytial virus diminished last winter likely because of distancing and masking. Surveillance reports from the CDC show that, in California, the percentage of tests that come back positive for RSV has been on the rise since June.

“That’s also a concern, maybe even more than influenza,” Rutherford said.

Last year, many people skipped holiday gatherings, college students weren’t traveling home, and masking and physical distancing was required in most places — all factors that probably helped mitigate flu activity.

Researchers who looked at the most recent RSV spike in New York recently wrote in the Journal of American of Pediatrics that hospitals should be planning for an increase in pediatric emergency visits.

There is no vaccine for this virus.

“Unfortunately, this year we have relaxed most of these measures,” said Shira Shafir, an epidemiology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

That’s bad news for both COVID and non-COVID respiratory infections, she said.

The burden respiratory illnesses will have on this fall and winter depend largely on how much masking continues, Rutherford said. Besides getting the flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine, he recommends that people plan to celebrate Thanksgiving outdoors.

And the pandemic isn’t quite over. While close to 80% of Californians aged 12 and over have been im-

“Also, you don’t need to have 60 people over for Thanksgiving. Keep it small, make life simpler,” he said.

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COVID Y LA GRIPE: ¿ESTÁ AL ACECHO UNA AMENAZA ‘DOBLEDEMIC’ DE NUEVO?

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gripe en el hemisferio norte”.

Según estimaciones de los CDC, 47% de los adultos en California recibió una vacuna contra la gripe el año pasado, similar a la temporada de gripe 2019-20, que se encuentra entre las más bajas del país y un poco más baja que el promedio nacional del 50%. En comparación, Massachusetts y Rhode Island tuvieron el mayor consumo de vacunas contra la gripe el año pasado con 62% y 64%, respectivamente.

rimero, las buenas noticias: la gripe fue prácticamente inexistente el año pasado.

La mala noticia: la poca gripe la temporada pasada significa un mayor riesgo este otoño e invierno.

El llamado “dobledemic” que los funcionarios de salud pública en California y otros lugares advertido sobre el año pasado – la amenaza combinada de la influenza y el COVID-19 – se alivió en gran medida con el uso generalizado de máscaras faciales, el distanciamiento físico y la reducción de los viajes, dicen los expertos. Pero sus preocupaciones han vuelto este año.

Actividad de la influenza durante la temporada 2020-21 fue el más bajo registrado desde que se comenzaron a recopilar datos en 1997, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades.

“Debido a tan poco contagio el año pasado, es probable que la inmunidad de la población sea menor, lo que nos pone a todos en mayor riesgo de enfermedad este año, especialmente entre los más vulnerables, incluidos nuestros niños”, dijo la directora de los CDC, Rochelle Walensky, en una conferencia de prensa a principios de este mes.

La agencia fue notificada de una muerte pediátrica la última temporada de influenza, en comparación con las 199 muertes por influenza reportadas entre niños el año anterior. Los CDC no tenían estimaciones de las muertes por influenza entre los adultos durante la última temporada.

Una temporada de gripe potencialmente mala es especialmente preocupante, ya que los hospitales se enfrentan a una grave escasez de personal. La semana pasada, un tercio de todos Los hospitales de California informaron una escasez crítica en la dotación de personal debido en parte al agotamiento, CalMatters informó.

Los expertos esperan que el enmascaramiento continuo reduzca la doble amenaza de COVID y gripe de esta temporada. Photo Credit: Engin Akyurt / Unsplash

Por ejemplo, durante la temporada de influenza 2017-18, considerada grave por los CDC, alrededor de 710,000 personas fueron hospitalizadas en todo el país, incluidas aproximadamente 100,000 personas en California, han estimado los funcionarios de salud.

Las vacunas contra la gripe siguen siendo la mejor protección para evitar que la enfermedad se agrave. Los médicos y los expertos en salud pública instan a las personas a vacunarse, idealmente a finales de octubre – señalando que las vacunas contra la gripe reducirán en última instancia la cantidad de personas que necesitarán transporte en ambulancia y la sala de emergencias.

“Prácticamente no vimos gripe el año pasado y no estamos seguros de lo que nos deparará este año”, dijo la Dra. Penny Borenstein, funcionaria de salud del condado de San Luis Obispo.

“Sabemos que la temporada de gripe más reciente fue relativamente leve en el hemisferio sur y que la vacuna fue una buena combinación para las cepas que circulan allí”, indicó. “Esperamos un resultado similar durante nuestra próxima temporada de

A California le fue mejor con las vacunas contra la gripe para niños: aproximadamente el 58% de los niños fueron vacunados la temporada pasada. En Massachusetts, la inmunización entre los niños estuvo cerca del 84%.

El año pasado, muchas personas se saltaron las reuniones navideñas, los estudiantes universitarios no viajaban a casa y en la mayoría de los lugares se requería enmascaramiento y distanciamiento físico, todos factores que probablemente ayudaron a mitigar la actividad de la influenza.

“Desafortunadamente, este año hemos relajado la mayoría de estas medidas”, dijo Shira Shafir, profesora de epidemiología de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles. Esas son malas noticias para las infecciones respiratorias COVID y no COVID, indicó.

Y la pandemia aún no ha terminado. Si bien cerca del 80% de los californianos de 12 años o más han sido inmunizados contra COVID, eso todavía deja focos de personas que pueden inundar los hospitales este invierno.

“Todavía puede ponerse peor”, dijo el Dr. George Rutherford, profesor de epidemiología en la Universidad de California en San Francisco. “Creo que sabremos realmente como se desenvolverá todo en noviembre; si comenzamos a ver un aumento a principios de noviembre, empeorará durante las vacaciones”.

Los expertos en salud también están atentos al au-

mento tardío del virus sincitial respiratorio, o RSV, otro virus estacional. Este virus generalmente alcanza su punto máximo en el invierno, pero en algunos lugares, los casos aumentaron este verano, mucho más tarde de lo habitual, dijo Rutherford.

“Si comenzamos a ver un aumento a principios de noviembre, empeorará durante las vacaciones”.

-DR. GEORGE RUTHERFORD, PROFESOR DE EPIDEMIOLOGíA EN UCSF Este virus puede provocar síntomas de resfriado común o incluso neumonía. Las personas de cualquier edad pueden infectarse con RSV, pero los bebés y los adultos mayores, especialmente aquellos con sistemas inmunológicos comprometidos, están en mayor peligro que el caso llegue a complicarse.

Al igual que la gripe, el virus respiratorio sincitial disminuyó el invierno pasado probablemente debido al distanciamiento y el enmascaramiento. Los informes de vigilancia de los CDC muestran que, en California, el porcentaje de pruebas que regresan positivo para RSV ha ido en aumento desde junio.

“Eso también es una preocupación, tal vez incluso más que la influenza”, dijo Rutherford.

Investigadores que observaron el pico de VSR más reciente en Nueva York escribierón recientemente en el Journal of American of Pediatrics que los hospitales deberían planificar un aumento de las visitas de emergencia pediátricas. No existe una vacuna para este virus.

La carga que tendrán las enfermedades respiratorias en este otoño e invierno dependerá en gran medida de la cantidad de enmascaramiento que continúe, dijo Rutherford. Además de recibir la vacuna contra la gripe y la vacuna COVID-19, recomienda que las personas planeen celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias al aire libre.

“Además, no es necesario invitar a 60 personas para el Día de Acción de Gracias. Hagan algo pequeño, haz las cosas de la vida más simple”, dijo.

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COVID MISINFORMATION PLAGUES CALIFORNIA’S INDIGENOUS SPEAKERS

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the lack of focus on Indigenous immigrant communities in wildfire planning exacerbates inequality, said this plays into a “Latinization” of these groups, which are often seen as Latinos despite distinct languages and cultures.

smael Patia and his family arrived at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in downtown Fresno on a recent Saturday afternoon. His decision to get vaccinated had been a difficult one. But he finally was persuaded by an interpreter who talked to him in his native language, Mixteco, and eased his fears.

“Not having appropriate — culturally, linguistically — disaster planning and response can mean life or death for many of these Indigenous communities.”

-MICHAEL MÉNDEZ, UC IRVINE

“I’ve been hearing about people dying of the vaccine,” Patia, a farm worker from Lagonia Yucutini in Guerrero, said in Mixteco.

Méndez’ research highlights how translation services, among other disaster preparedness measures by the Office of Emergency Services for Indigenous people, have been overlooked for years despite California’s sizable population. The state auditor’s office 2019 report lambasts the state for not prioritizing those with limited English-language proficiency.

Patia’s language has no written form, and he is one of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala in California who speak Indigenous, non-Spanish languages and have struggled to stay informed and healthy during the pandemic.

Often unvaccinated, with limited access to information about the vaccines, many of these immigrants are farmworkers who live in poverty, with low wages, less access to health care and crowded housing. Combined with the language barriers that allow pandemic misinformation to spread, they are particularly vulnerable to infection and serious illness.

State and county officials have tried to reach them: They have provided COVID-19 materials translated into Mixteco and other Indigenous languages. And many counties teamed with Indigenous community groups to launch their own extensive outreach programs and clinics.

But so many migrants in California — including 350,000 Indigenous Oaxacans — speak such a vast variety of languages that advocates say the efforts are insufficient. And they worry that many people are still falling through the cracks and remain unvaccinated. “(Indigenous farmworkers) are extremely poorly vaccinated, especially in the rural areas,” said Rick Mines, a former U.S. Department of Labor researcher who has conducted farmworker surveys for more than 40 years, including 12 years directing the National Agricultural Workers Survey.

“The Indigenous earn less, pay for rides more, live in more crowded apartments and are covered by health care less often. So, though we can’t know that they get fewer vaccines on average, we suspect that it is true due to these associated conditions,” he said.

When the Delta variant sent California’s COVID-19 rates spiking again during the summer, many Indigenous Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants were hit hard.

“Not having appropriate — culturally, linguistically — disaster planning and response can mean life or death for many of these Indigenous communities,” Méndez said.

Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Qaxaqueno (CBDIO) organized and ran a vaccination drive outside their Tulare Street offices in Fresno on Oct. 9, 2021. Photo Credit: Alex Horvath / CalMatters

munity organizers say outreach on COVID-19 is most effective when it’s done in person or through audio and video formats.

“If it’s just written, it’s not going to reach these Indigenous communities,” said Aurora Pedro, who translates in Akateko for Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo and the Center for Indigenous Languages and Power, both based in Los Angeles.

Some migrants speaking Indigenous languages cannot read forms or retrieve the documentation necessary to get aid from state-sponsored medical programs.

“Part of the challenge (for Indigenous groups) has often been having access to someone’s guidance to be able to get the vaccine, and also, obviously, inform them about that vaccine and the reaction (side effects),” said Miguel Villegas Ventura, immigration project coordinator at Centro Binacional.

Ventura said he and other interpreters have gained trust by reaching out to people in the fields and knocking on doors, informing people to get vaccinated and guiding people through the registration process. With that trust, they’ve persuaded people to get vaccinated.

“Everyone knows someone that has passed away, or multiple people that have passed away because of COVID,” said Sarait Martinez, director at Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño, which serves Indigenous people in the Central Valley and Central Coast.

-ELVIA VASQUEZ, WORKER

Indigenous-speaking immigrants told CalMatters that the myths and misconceptions that proliferated focused on fear that the vaccine would harm them, even kill them. One person said after his first dose he was afraid to get another because he thought the side-effects were a sign that the vaccine was harming him.

Elvia Vasquez, an agricultural worker in Fresno who is Mixteco, from Peña Larga, Oaxaca, knows many people who lost loved ones to COVID. “Luckily, thank God, that with us it didn’t happen,” Vasquez said in Spanish, “But all my family had COVID except me, my son and my husband. We are a family of 20. Everyone got it except us.”

Most of the people who speak Indigenous languages live in farm regions — primarily the Central Coast and the Central Valley. Others live in cities and are essential workers in sectors like the restaurant or garment industry.

Although she does not speak Mixteco, she lives around people who do. Many are not vaccinated because they have not had access to accurate information and many have doubts because of how quickly vaccines became available, she said.

The variety of languages and dialects hampers health officials’ efforts to communicate vital, complex and highly personal health issues related to COVID-19. “(Indigenous farmworkers) are extremely poorly vaccinated, especially in the rural areas.”

-RICK MINES, RETIRED RESEARCHER, US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR In California agriculture, workers speak 23 Indigenous languages, representing 13 Mexican states, according to the 2010 Indigenous Farmworkers Study, which Mines directed. Most spoke a variation of Mixteco, Zapoteco or Triqui. In Guatemala, Indigenous people speak 24 languages, including 22 Mayan languages, according to Translators without Borders. In California, they speak K’iche, Q’anjob’al, Mam and Akateko, among others. Many of these languages have dialects that vary from town to town.

Indigenous languages are usually not written, and many Indigenous immigrants are not literate. Com-

“All my family had COVID except me, my son and my husband. We are a family of 20. Everyone got it except us.”

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Vasquez, like many of those at the Oct. 9 vaccine clinic in Fresno, chose to get vaccinated because organizations like Centro Binacional and Comunidades Indígenas walked them through every step of the process. Translators also parse convoluted materials to fit Indigenous languages — a pandemic, for example, would be described as “a sickness going around” — to make it easier to inform community members on everything from the latest variants to vaccine announcements.

Community organizers say they need more interpreters and staff to run their outreach programs and clinics. In August, nearly 120 people attended vaccines at Centro Binacional’s monthly clinic in Fresno.

Although these outreach efforts have been significant in making sure people are vaccinated, “it’s not enough,” Ventura said.

A lack of COVID data To those working with Indigenous people from Mexi-

co and Guatemala, the problems with vaccination access seem clear. But there is little data to back it up.

Advocates and researchers say data about the infection and vaccination rates among the state’s indigenous-speaking people doesn’t exist, even though there are hundreds of thousands of them.

This poses a problem for community groups that want to quantify which language gaps still exist and for agencies trying to determine where vaccine outreach is still needed.

Because governments only ask for broad identification, such as Latino or Black, when people get their vaccines, Martinez said many Indigenous people will either identify as Latino or “other.” In state and county health data, people might be counted as Spanishspeaking, despite speaking languages like Mixteco, Zapoteco and Triqui.

Sara Bosse, director of public health at Madera County, said she “highly suspects” Indigenous farmworkers there are poorly vaccinated. “But I actually just don’t know because the data isn’t collected,” she said.

Some small-scale efforts have been made to track Indigenous-language populations, such as We are Here, a mapping of some of Los Angeles’ populations.

It’s the first time anyone has mapped the ZIP codes of these language groups in the city, Pedro said, providing vital information that affects government support and funding.

The California Department of Public Health said in a statement that while it may be able to estimate COVID figures for these groups in the future, it doesn’t have the resources to do so at this time.

Experts say examining individual ZIP codes can offer a snapshot of the vaccination problem. For instance, the 93268 area code of Taft in Kern County is identified as having predominantly Mixteco speakers from San Pablo Tijaltepec in Oaxaca, according to Mines’ research on Indigenous hometown networks. In this area code, only about 36% of the population was fullyvaccinated as of Nov. 2, according to state data.

Migrant communities are growing Pedro said the need for more Guatemalan translators reflects the growing immigration from Guatemala to the United States. Pedro canvasses the MacArthur Park neighborhood in South Los Angeles and said she sees increasing demand for Q’eqchi’, Mam and Q’anjob’al — all Indigenous languages from Guatemala.

Many of these migrants already faced widespread medical inequality before the pandemic, according to the Indigenous Agricultural Worker report. Language barriers, lack of funds or insurance and deep-seeded medical mistrust all play a role.

County and state outreach The state’s COVID-19 Health Equity Pilot Projects Program awarded $5 million in grants to 19 community-based organizations. Two of them — Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project and United Way Fresno and Madera — serve Indigenous communities. The state also put together a vaccine advisory committee that included Indigenous immigrant advocates.

But Bosse of Madera County said the state money is spread thin statewide among a lot of large community organizations, and their programs “don’t necessarily get into… niche outreach” for groups like Indigenous language speakers.

In response, some counties like Madera started their own extensive efforts. Eight of 11 counties contacted

by CalMatters — Madera, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Angeles, Tulare, Kern and Fresno — partnered with a community organization that could translate information into Indigenous languages. Kern County asked the state for translation services to assist with outreach. Two counties, Kings and Ventura, did not respond for comment and one, Yolo, said it did not provide Indigenous language services.

Santa Cruz County’s Health Services Agency established a Language Line a year ago to connect nonEnglish speaking residents with COVID resources and vaccine appointments. Spokesperson Jason Hoppin said 30% of calls are in Mixteco and 2% are in Triqui.

Operators scheduled 200 vaccine appointments.

Fresno, Monterey, Tulare and Madera counties partnered with Centro Binacional to provide outreach services in Indigenous languages and host vaccine clinics. Santa Barbara County partners with multiple organizations including Mixteco Indígena to provide vaccine outreach to Indigenous farmworker communities.

Los Angeles County works with community health workers to do outreach and translate materials in languages such as Kaqchikel, K’iche, Kanjobal. The county has also partnered with Comunidades Indigenas for vaccine outreach and to distribute aid.

“That helps us with the immediate things and it is definitely not enough,” Martinez said. “At least it ended up covering some of the Central Valley and some parts of the Central Coast, but there’s other communities that we’re not touching.”

Ventura, who translates Mixteco, said increasing numbers of Mam language speakers from Guatemala have settled in the Central Valley. Centro Binacional is working to find them, he said.

The state health agency says it’s continuing to provide grants for future projects. The Office of Health Equity contracted with UC Davis Health and community organizations to run vaccine and testing clinics for immigrant and farmworker populations in Sacramento and Yolo counties from October to March 2022. The initiative will include Mixteco speakers.

Centro Binacional is one of the few organizations in the state to employ multiple Indigenous-language translators. Yet it did not have “sufficient staff or resources to scale up their outreach” at the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Indigenous Agricultural Worker report, released in October by the California Institute for Rural Studies.

In Fresno, Patia said without community-based help, he would have struggled to find reliable information about the safety of the vaccine. Now he says he will encourage others to get their shots, too.

Michael Méndez, a professor of environmental policy at the University of California, Irvine who studies how

Outreach is labor-intensive, but reaching out personally to individuals may be the only way some people ever get vaccinated.

“I will tell people to come,” he said, “because everything is okay.”

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importantes para garantizar que las personas estén vacunadas, “no es suficiente”, dijo Ventura.

smael Patia y su familia llegaron a una clínica de vacunación en el centro de Fresno un sábado por la tarde. Su decisión de ponerse la vacuna COVID había sido difícil. Pero finalmente fue persuadido por un intérprete que le habló en su lengua materna, Mixteco, y alivió sus miedos.

Para quienes trabajan con personas indígenas de México y Guatemala, los problemas con el acceso a la vacunación parecen claros. Pero hay pocos datos que lo respalden.

cios de traducción, entre otras medidas de preparación para desastres de la Oficina de Servicios de Emergencia para Pueblos Indígenas se han pasado por alto durante años a pesar de la considerable población de California. Un informe de 2019 de la oficina del auditor del estado arremete contra el estado por no dar prioridad a aquellos con un dominio limitado del idioma inglés.

Los defensores e investigadores dicen que no existen datos sobre las tasas de infección y vacunación entre las personas de habla indígena del estado, aunque sí cientos de miles de ellos.

“No contar con una planificación y respuestas adecuadas ante desastres, cultural y lingüísticamente, puede significar la vida o la muerte para muchas de estas comunidades indígenas”, explicó Méndez.

Esto plantea un problema para los grupos comunitarios que desean cuantificar qué brechas de idioma aún existen y para las agencias que intentan determinar dónde aún se necesita la difusión de vacunas.

Muchos de estos migrantes ya enfrentaban una desigualdad médica generalizada antes de la pandemia, según el informe del trabajador agrícola indígena. Las barreras del idioma, la falta de fondos o seguro y la desconfianza médica arraigada son factores importantes.

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“He escuchado sobre personas que mueren por la vacuna”, dijo en Mixteco Patia, una campesina de Lagunilla Yucutuni en Guerrero.

El idioma de Patia no tiene forma escrita, y él es uno de los cientos de miles de inmigrantes de México y Guatemala en California que hablan idiomas indígenas y han luchado por mantenerse informados y saludables durante la pandemia.

A menudo no vacunados, con acceso limitado a información sobre las vacunas, muchos de estos inmigrantes son trabajadores agrícolas que viven en la pobreza, con bajos salarios, menos acceso a la atención médica y vivienda abarrotada. En combinación con las barreras del idioma que permiten que se propague la información errónea sobre la pandemia, son particularmente vulnerables a infecciones y enfermedades graves.

Los funcionarios estatales y del condado han tratado de comunicarse con ellos: han proporcionado materiales de COVID-19 traducidos al mixteco y otros idiomas indígenas. Y muchos condados se unieron a grupos de comunidades indígenas para lanzar sus propios programas y clínicas de alcance extensivo.

Hay muchos migrantes en California, incluidos 350,000 indígenas oaxaqueños, quienes hablan una variedad de idiomas tan amplia que los defensores dicen que los esfuerzos son insuficientes y les preocupa que muchas personas sigan cayendo en el olvido y sigan sin vacunarse. “(Los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas) están extremadamente mal vacunados, especialmente en las áreas rurales”, dijo Rick Mines, un ex investigador del Departamento de Trabajo de Estados Unidos que ha realizado encuestas a los trabajadores agrícolas durante más de 40 años, incluidos 12 años dirigiendo la Encuesta Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas.

“Los indígenas ganan menos, pagan más por los viajes, viven en apartamentos más abarrotados y reciben atención médica con menos frecuencia. Entonces, aunque no podemos confirmar que reciben menos vacunas en promedio, sospechamos que es cierto debido a estas condiciones”, comentó.

Cuando la variante Delta hizo que las tasas de COVID-19 de California volvieran a dispararse durante el verano, muchos inmigrantes indígenas mexicanos y guatemaltecos se vieron muy afectados.

“Todos conocen a alguien que ha fallecido, o varias personas que han fallecido a causa de COVID”, dijo Sarait Martínez, directora del Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño, que atiende a los pueblos indígenas del Valle Central y la Costa Central.

Los inmigrantes de habla indígena dijeron a CalMatters que los mitos y conceptos erróneos que proliferan se centraban en el temor de que la vacuna los dañara, incluso los matara. Una persona dijo que después de su primera dosis tenía miedo de recibir otra porque pensó que los efectos secundarios eran una señal de que la vacuna lo estaba perjudicando.

La mayoría de las personas que hablan idiomas indígenas viven en regiones agrícolas, principalmente en la Costa Central y el Valle Central. Otros viven en ciudades y son trabajadores imprescindibles en sectores como la restauración o la confección.

La variedad de idiomas y dialectos obstaculiza los esfuerzos de los funcionarios de salud para comunicar problemas de salud vitales, complejos y altamente personales relacionados con COVID-19. “(Los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas) están extremadamente mal vacunados, especialmente en las zonas rurales”.

-Rick Mines, ex investigador del Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. En la agricultura de California, los trabajadores hablan 23 idiomas indígenas, que representan a 13 estados mexicanos, según un estudio realizado en el 2010 a trabajadores agrícolas indígenas, que dirigió Mines.

La enfermera Alyssa Evidente administra la vacuna Pfizer a Ismael Patia en una campaña de vacunación del Centro Binacional en Fresno el 9 de octubre de 2021. Photo Credit: Alex Horvath / CalMatters

La mayoría hablaban Mixteco, Zapoteco o Triqui. En Guatemala, los pueblos indígenas hablan 24 idiomas, incluidos 22 idiomas mayas, según Traductores Sin Fronteras. En California se habla K’iche, Q’anjob’al, Mam y Akateko, entre otros. Muchos de estos idiomas tienen dialectos que varían de una ciudad a otra.

Las lenguas indígenas no suelen estar escritas y muchos inmigrantes indígenas no saben leer y escribir. Los organizadores comunitarios dicen que la divulgación sobre COVID-19 es más efectiva cuando se realiza en persona o mediante formatos de audio y video.

“Si está escrito, no va a llegar a estas comunidades indígenas”, comentó Aurora Pedro, quien traduce en Akateko para Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo y el Centro de Lenguas y Poder Indígenas, ambos con sede en Los Ángeles.

Algunos migrantes que hablan idiomas indígenas no pueden leer formularios ni recuperar la documentación necesaria para obtener ayuda de los programas médicos patrocinados por el estado.

“Parte del desafío (para los grupos indígenas) a menudo ha sido tener acceso a la orientación de alguien para poder recibir la vacuna y también, obviamente, informarles sobre esa vacuna y la reacción (efectos secundarios)”, explicó Miguel Villegas Ventura, coordinador de proyectos de inmigración en el Centro Binacional.

Ventura dijo que él y otros intérpretes se han ganado la confianza al acercarse a la gente en los campos y tocar puertas, informar a la gente que se vacune y guiar a la gente a través del proceso de registro. Con esa confianza, han persuadido a la gente para que se vacune.

“Toda mi familia tenía COVID excepto yo, mi hijo y mi esposo. Somos una familia de 20. Todos lo obtuvieron menos nosotros”.

-Elvia Vasquez, trabajadora agrícola Elvia Vasquez, una trabajadora agrícola en Fresno, conoce a muchas personas que perdieron a sus seres queridos por el COVID. “Afortunadamente, gracias a Dios, que con nosotros no sucedió”, comentó Vásquez en español. “Pero toda mi familia tenía COVID excepto yo, mi hijo y mi esposo.

Somos una familia de 20. Todos lo obtuvieron menos nosotros”.

Aunque no habla mixteco, vive rodeada de personas que sí lo hacen. Muchos no están vacunados porque no han tenido acceso a información precisa y muchos tienen dudas debido a la rapidez con la que las vacunas estuvieron disponibles, concluyó.

Vásquez, como muchos de los que estaban en la clínica de vacunas el 9 de octubre en Fresno, eligió vacunarse porque organizaciones como Centro Binacional y Comunidades Indígenas los guiaron en cada paso del proceso. Los traductores también analizan materiales complicados para que se ajusten a los idiomas indígenas (una pandemia, por ejemplo, se describiría como “una enfermedad que circula”) para facilitar la información a los miembros de la comunidad.

Debido a que los gobiernos solo piden una identificación amplia, como latino o negro, cuando las personas reciben sus vacunas, Martínez dijo que muchos indígenas se identificarán como latinos o como “otros”. En los datos de salud del estado y del condado, las personas pueden contarse como hispanohablantes, a pesar de hablar idiomas como mixteco, zapoteco y triqui.

Sara Bosse, directora de salud pública del condado de Madera, dijo que “sospecha mucho” que los trabajadores agrícolas indígenas allí están mal vacunados.

“Pero en realidad no lo sé porque los datos no se recopilan”, explicó.

Se han realizado algunos esfuerzos a pequeña escala para rastrear las poblaciones de lengua indígena. Estamos aquí, es un proyecto que apoya a algunas de las poblaciones indígenas de Los Ángeles y participa en el rastreo. Es la primera vez que alguien ha rastreado los códigos postales de estos grupos lingüísticos en la ciudad, dijo Pedro, proporcionando información vital que afecta el apoyo y la financiación del gobierno.

El Departamento de Salud Pública de California dijo en un comunicado que, si bien puede estimar las cifras de COVID para estos grupos en el futuro, no tiene los recursos para hacerlo en este momento.

Los expertos dicen que examinar los códigos postales individuales puede ofrecer datos exactos del problema de la vacunación. Por ejemplo, se identifica que el código de área 93268 de Taft en el condado de Kern tiene en su mayoría hablantes de mixteco, originarios de San Pablo Tijaltepec en Oaxaca, según la investigación de Mines sobre redes de pueblos de origen indígenas. En este código de área, sólo alrededor del 36% de la población estaba completamente vacunada hasta el 2 de noviembre, según datos estatales.

Las comunidades de migrantes están creciendo Pedro dijo que la necesidad de más traductores guatemaltecos refleja la creciente inmigración de Guatemala a Estados Unidos. Pedro inspecciona el vecindario MacArthur Park en el sur de Los Ángeles y dijo que ve una creciente demanda de q’eqchi ‘, mam y q’anjob’al, todos los idiomas indígenas de Guatemala.

Ventura, que traduce mixteco, dijo que un número cada vez mayor de hablantes de lenguas indígenas de Guatemala se han establecido en el Valle Central.

El Centro Binacional está trabajando para encontrarlos, comentó.

El Centro Binacional es una de las pocas organizaciones en el estado que emplea a varios traductores de lenguas indígenas. Sin embargo, no contaba con “personal o recursos suficientes para ampliar su alcance” al comienzo de la pandemia, según el Informe del trabajador agrícola indígena, publicado en octubre por el Instituto de Estudios Rurales de California.

Michael Méndez, profesor de política ambiental en la Universidad de California, Irvine, que estudia cómo la falta de enfoque en las comunidades de inmigrantes indígenas en la planificación de incendios forestales exacerba la desigualdad, dijo que esto juega en una “latinización” de estos grupos, que a menudo son vistos como latinos a pesar de los distintos idiomas y culturas.

“No contar con una planificación y respuestas adecuadas ante desastres, cultural y lingüísticamente, puede significar la vida o la muerte para muchas de estas comunidades indígenas”.

Los organizadores comunitarios dicen que necesitan más intérpretes y personal para ejecutar sus programas de extensión y clínicas. En agosto, casi 120 personas asistieron a vacunarse en la clínica del Centro Binacional en Fresno.

-Michael Méndez, profesor en UC Irvine

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La investigación de Méndez destaca cómo los servi-

Alcance del condado y del estado El estado cuenta con un programa de proyectos piloto de equidad en salud y otorgó $5 millones en subvenciones a 19 organizaciones comunitarias. Dos de ellos, el Proyecto de Organización Comunitaria Mixteco Indígena y United Way Fresno y Madera, sirven a las comunidades indígenas. El estado también armó un comité asesor de vacunas que incluía defensores de inmigrantes indígenas.

Pero Bosse, del condado de Madera, dijo que el dinero estatal se distribuye escasamente en todo el estado entre muchas organizaciones comunitarias grandes, y sus programas “no necesariamente entran en vigor” para grupos hablantes de lenguas indígenas.

En respuesta, algunos condados como Madera comenzaron sus propios esfuerzos extensos. Ocho de los 11 condados contactados por CalMatters – Madera, Santa Bárbara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Los Ángeles, Tulare, Kern y Fresno – se asociaron con una organización comunitaria que podía traducir información a idiomas indígenas. El condado de Kern solicitó al estado servicios de traducción para ayudar con la divulgación. Dos condados, Kings y Ventura, no respondieron para hacer comentarios y uno, Yolo, dijo que no brindaba servicios de idiomas indígenas.

La Agencia de Servicios de Salud del Condado de Santa Cruz estableció una Línea de Idiomas hace un año para conectar a los residentes que no hablan inglés con los recursos de COVID y las citas para vacunas. El portavoz Jason Hoppin dijo que el 30% de las llamadas son en Mixteco y el 2% en Triqui. Los operadores programaron 200 citas de vacunas.

Los condados de Fresno, Monterey, Tulare y Madera se asociaron con el Centro Binacional para brindar servicios de extensión en idiomas indígenas y albergar clínicas de vacunas. El condado de Santa Bárbara se asocia con varias organizaciones, incluida Mixteco Indígena, para brindar difusión de vacunas a las comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas indígenas.

El condado de Los Ángeles trabaja con trabajadores de salud comunitarios para traducir materiales en idiomas como Kaqchikel, K’iche, Kanjobal. El condado también se ha asociado con Comunidades Indígenas para la distribución de vacunas y otras ayudas.

“Eso nos ayuda con las cosas inmediatas y definitivamente no es suficiente”, dijo Martínez. “Al menos terminó cubriendo parte del Valle Central y algunas partes de la Costa Central, pero hay otras comunidades que no estamos tocando”.

La agencia estatal de salud dice que continúa otorgando subvenciones para proyectos futuros. La Oficina de Equidad en Salud contrató a UC Davis Health y organizaciones comunitarias para administrar clínicas de pruebas y vacunas para las poblaciones de inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en los condados de Sacramento y Yolo de octubre a marzo de 2022. La iniciativa incluirá personas que hablan mixteco.

La divulgación requiere mucha mano de obra, pero llegar personalmente a las personas puede ser la única forma en que algunas personas se vacunen.

En Fresno, Patia dijo que sin la ayuda de la comunidad, habría tenido dificultades para encontrar información confiable sobre la seguridad de la vacuna. Ahora dice que animará a otros a que también se pongan sus vacunas.

“Le diré a la gente que venga porque todo está bien”, concluyó.

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EXPERT TIPS FOR MANAGING ASTHMA CONSEJOS DE EXPERTOS PARA CONTROLAR EL AND ALLERGIES DURING THE HOLIDAYS ASMA Y LAS ALERGIAS EN TEMPORADA FESTIVA ESPAÑOL cupante. Incluso si pasan gran parte de su tiempo al aire libre, a medida que bajan las temperaturas pueden permanecer dentro con mayor frecuencia, y esto implica un aumento de la caspa por toda la casa.

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hat's in those delicious holiday cookies? How come it's hard to breathe while decking the halls? Is that adorable puppy in the big red bow causing you to have a big red nose?

"The holiday season is full of fun festivities and beloved traditions, many of which present unique challenges to people with allergies or asthma," explained Dr. Mark Corbett, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). "Fortunately, with a thoughtful mindset and proactive approach, you can enjoy a season full of merriment and good cheer."

Corbett and the experts at ACAAI share tips for managing asthma and allergy triggers throughout the winter holidays: Don't let achoos interrupt celebrations Indoor allergens are often invisible. When rotating holiday decor in your home, make sure to wipe down items to remove triggers like dust and mold. Additionally, whether you're decorating for Hanukkah or Christmas, opt for allergy- and asthma-friendly decorations to set the holiday mood.

Try battery-operated flameless candles rather than traditional candles which produce smoke and can cause an asthma flare.

this means increased dander throughout your home.

To help with pet allergies, try to keep your pets only in certain rooms rather than giving them access to the whole home. It can be especially effective to keep them out of bedrooms to facilitate better sleep. If you're staying at someone else's home with a pet, close the door to the room where you're sleeping. You should also be mindful of limiting how much you pet your cat or dog, and when you do, wash your hands immediately afterward.

Food allergies don't bring good cheer If you or a loved one has a food allergy, it's important to remain vigilant in asking about ingredients before trying foods. Never assume that just because you cook something without certain ingredients, other people will do the same. People with severe allergies might be sensitive to even trace amounts of certain foods, so it's important to ask. When in doubt, pass on a treat with unknown ingredients. And always carry two epinephrine auto injectors in case of an emergency.

When visiting someone's home for a gathering, make sure they are aware of your allergy so they

can plan accordingly. To ease the ask, offer to bring a dish to share that you know is safe to eat. That way if options are limited, you know there is something you can enjoy. And remember, if you are hosting an event in your home, extend kindness by asking if any of your guests have allergies so you can prepare a thoughtful menu.

It's the most sniffle-filled time of the year In addition to the ongoing pandemic, the holiday season aligns with respiratory illness season. If you have asthma, it's particularly important to wash your hands regularly. The best way to eliminate germs is to wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. That's about the time it takes to sing the chorus of Jingle Bells twice.

If you haven't already, get a COVID vaccination and your annual flu vaccination. It's OK to get them at the same time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you've been invited to other people's homes, you may want to ask in advance if they are vaccinated against COVID. Some people choose to wear masks indoors and at private gatherings, so continue to do this if it makes you more comfortable.

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"La temporada de fin de año está llena de festividades divertidas y tradiciones queridas, muchas de las cuales implican desafíos únicos para las personas con alergias o asma", explica el Dr. Mark Corbett, presidente del Colegio Estadounidense de Alergia, Asma e Inmunología American College of Allergy, Ashtma and Immunology, ACAAI). "Afortunadamente, con una mentalidad reflexiva y un enfoque proactivo, se puede disfrutar de una temporada llena de alegría y júbilo".

Corbett y los expertos del ACAAI nos ofrecen algunos consejos para controlar el asma y los desencadenantes de alergias durante la temporada festiva invernal: No deje que los estornudos interrumpan las celebraciones Los alérgenos existentes en el interior de la casa son a menudo invisibles. Al rotar la decoración festiva en su hogar, asegúrese de limpiar los artículos para eliminar desencadenantes como el polvo y el moho. Además, indepen-

dientemente de que esté decorando para Jánuca o Navidad, para crear el estado de ánimo festivo opte por soluciones que no provoquen alergias ni asma.

Pruebe a usar velas sin llama que funcionan con baterías, en lugar de las tradicionales que producen humo y pueden generar un brote de asma.

Si bien puede tomar medidas para limitar los desencadenantes de alergias y asma en su propia casa, cuando viaja no puede ejercer tanto control. Ya sea que se trate de una celebración por la tarde o una escapada de una semana, planifique con anticipación llevando consigo todo lo que necesita, incluidos los medicamentos para la alergia y los inhaladores para el asma. Algunas personas optan por viajar con su propia almohada o funda a prueba de alergias, y otros artículos personales para garantizar su comodidad si se quedan a pasar la noche fuera de casa.

Planifique una temporada festiva a prueba de mascotas Independientemente de que las acurruquemos, juguemos con ellas o tratemos de captar una imagen especial, las mascotas pueden contribuir a que la temporada festiva sea brillante. Sin embargo, cuando las mascotas están cerca, la caspa es un factor preo-

Para controlar las alergias a las mascotas, en lugar de darles pleno acceso a toda la casa, trate de que permanezcan solo en ciertas habitaciones. Puede ser especialmente efectivo mantenerlas fuera de los dormitorios para propiciar que usted duerma mejor. Si se queda en casa de otra persona que tiene una mascota, cierre la puerta de la habitación donde va a dormir. Tenga en cuenta también que debe limitar la frecuencia con la que acaricia a su gato o perro. Y cuando lo haga, lávese las manos inmediatamente después.

Las alergias alimentarias afectan el espíritu festivo Si usted o un ser querido tiene alergia alimentaria, es importante estar atento a esta situación, y preguntar sobre los ingredientes que contienen antes de probar los alimentos. Nunca asuma que solo porque usted prepara algo sin ciertos ingredientes, otras personas harán lo mismo. Como las personas con alergias graves pueden ser sensibles incluso a pequeñas cantidades de ciertos alimentos, es importante preguntar primero.

En caso de duda, no coma una golosina si no conoce los ingredientes que contiene. Además, lleve siempre dos autoinyectores de epinefrina para tenerlos a mano en caso de emergencia.

Cuando visite la casa de alguien para una reunión, asegúrese de que estén al tanto de su alergia para que puedan hacer sus planes teniéndolo en cuenta. Para hacer más fácil el proceso, ofrézcase a llevar un plato para compartir, cuyo consumo sea seguro para usted. De esa manera, si las opciones son limitadas, siempre habrá algo que podrá disfrutar. Y recuerde, si está organizando un evento en su hogar, haga extensiva su amabilidad preguntando si alguno de sus invitados tiene alergias, a fin de que pueda preparar un menú adaptado a esas circunstancias.

La temporada más olorosa del año Además de la pandemia en curso, la temporada de fin de año se corresponde con la de enfermedades respiratorias. Si tiene asma, es particularmente importante lavarse las manos regularmente. La mejor manera de eliminar los gérmenes es lavarse las manos con agua y jabón al menos durante 20 segundos. Ese es el tiempo que demora cantar Jingle Bells dos veces.

While you can take steps to limit allergy and asthma triggers in your own home, you have less control when traveling. Whether it's an afternoon celebration or week-long escape, plan ahead by bringing everything you need, including allergy medicine and asthma inhalers. Some people opt to travel with their own allergy-proof pillow or pillow case and other personal items to ensure comfort if staying overnight.

Si aún no lo ha hecho, vacúnese contra la COVID y contra la influenza. Según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) no hay problema ninguno si le ponen ambas a la misma vez. Si ha sido invitado a casa de otras personas, es posible que desee preguntar con anticipación si están vacunados contra la COVID. Como algunos optan por usar máscaras en interiores y reuniones privadas, siga haciéndolo usted si eso lo hace sentir más cómodo.

Plan a paws-itively fun holiday Whether it's cozy snuggles, playing games or capturing a special picture, pets can help make holidays bright. However, when pets are around, dander is a concern.

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and decreasing working conditions.

“Instead of offering good-faith proposals that address the underlying problems contributing to labor shortages and congestion at our ports, the industry-backed proposal is a thinly veiled attempt to cut costs on the backs of essential workers and skirt future enforcement efforts,” she wrote.

f you’ve never really thought about California’s ports or the global supply chain before the past month, that’s normal. But they’re having problems now, driven by the pandemic, and it’s causing a shortage of everything from computer chips to kitchen supplies.

When asked if the administration would reconsider laws regulating warehouses, Myers didn’t offer a conclusive response. “I think we’re willing to look broadly; I think there’s some things that we won’t be willing to change,” she said. She also said the administration may relax regulations such as some weight limits for trucks.

California’s problem is a national one, too: The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together bring in 40% of all goods shipped to the U.S. by water. So now everyone from port directors to President Joe Biden is interested in fixing the situation.

The backlog’s origin story is complicated.

Early in the pandemic, factories had to shut down or reduce their output. Shipping companies reduced their schedules, assuming people would be buying less stuff. Protective gear was sent to locations across the globe that don’t export many goods, so some of those shipping containers didn’t get returned.

Then, people did buy stuff — a lot of stuff.

Warehouses struggled to hire enough workers to keep up with demand and they started getting backed up, leaving containers full of new goods at the ports, where they started to create traffic jams, said Chris Tang, a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management who studies supply chain issues.

On November 3rd California lawmakers talked with experts and stakeholders about what the state could do in the near term to resolve the backlog, and in the longer term, to prevent similar backups in the future.

“I mean, the simple answer to this crisis is that people stop buying stuff, but that’s not going to happen,” said Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Democrat whose district includes both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. “So we need to respond, and we need to respond quickly.”

Already, federal, state, and local policy makers have taken action. On Oct. 13, Biden announced the Port of LA would operate around the clock, a decision that came after the Port of Long Beach also decided to extend its hours. A week later, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing state agencies to look for land that could be used as temporary storage, identify freight routes that should be exempted from vehicle weight limits and identify training partnerships with private industry for port and logistics workers.

In late October, the federal Department of Transportation said it would offer billions of dollars in loans to shore up California’s port and supply chain infrastructure. At the local level, authorities have allowed containers to be stacked four high, rather than the usual two, and said companies would be fined for leaving containers too long at the ports.

But, experts say the backlog may not be resolved until sometime next year. In the meantime, loitering ships are causing pollution and businesses across the country are facing shortages.

“It has become clear that this is a multifaceted problem, and it will require multifaceted action,” said O’Donnell at the hearing. “There is not one switch you can flip.”

So what can the state of California actually

Global supply chain problems have led to a massive backup at Southern California ports. California lawmakers are asking experts about what the state could do to help — including locating temporary storage, growing the truck driving and warehouse workforces, suspending regulations and creating a new inland port. Photo Credit: Tom Fisk / Pexels

do to help?

Find land that can temporarily store containers Dee Dee Myers, director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, said the solution she’d heard most frequently is for the state to identify parcels of land, either inside or outside port complexes, that can be used as additional temporary storage for containers.

Myers said the agency now has a list of several dozen potential sites, though there are complications for each. The government has a deadline of Dec. 15 to complete its survey, though they may be done sooner, Myers added.

Using other locations as temporary storage is something that private marine terminal operators have been doing for some time, said Robert Leachman, a professor in UC Berkeley’s Industrial Relations and Operations Research program. It makes sense, he said, as a short-term solution.

But leaving goods strewn across Southern California could create new problems, such as how best to retrieve them later and negotiate with communities opposed to having a ton of big rigs coming and going, experts said.

Grow the truck driving workforce Contributing to the backup is a shortage of truck drivers. Truck drivers are independent contractors and are paid per delivery rather than by the hour, Leachman said. When they’re stuck waiting at the ports for hours to get their container, it means they’re working more hours for the same take home pay.

Fewer drivers are willing to take that deal.

There’s also a shortage of warehouse workers. “The jobs are hopelessly unattractive so we can’t get enough people to fill them,” Leachman said. He thinks wages will need to rise to fill those positions.

California transportation secretary David Kim said he’s met with the White House, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the Department of Food and Agriculture to discuss driver recruitment and retention. The federal trans-

portation department will also be working with states to expedite the licensing process for truck drivers.

“The jobs are hopelessly unattractive so we can’t get enough people to fill them.”

-ROBERT LEACHMAN, PROFESSOR IN UC BERKELEY’S INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAM The state can work with universities and community colleges to provide technical training and build the pipeline of people prepared for trucking and logistics jobs, said Nick Vyas, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. But in the longer term, if it’s hard to interest enough workers in these kinds of jobs, automation may be part of the solution, he said.

Tang agrees. In the short run, there’s a huge need for truck drivers, but, said Tang, “I think that the long-term prospects for truck drivers (are) not good.”

Suspend regulations and laws A coalition of more than a dozen business groups sent Newsom a letter requesting that he suspend several regulations and laws to help solve the supply chain issues. Among their proposals: • Suspend a variety of environmental regulations and pollution laws; • Suspend the state’s landmark worker status law passed in 2019 that reclassified many independent contractors as employees; • Suspend a new law passed this year which requires warehouses to disclose to workers any quotas or work speed standards.

A quick response came from Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who introduced both worker laws.

She pointed out that the independent contractor law does not currently apply to truck drivers; a battle over an exemption for the drivers is currently wending its way through the legal system. Additionally, the warehouse law isn’t slated to go into effect until January of 2022, leading Gonzalez to call the proposals “deceptive.” She also said the shortage of truck drivers has been decades in the making, driven by deregulation of the industry

“The industry-backed proposal is a thinly veiled attempt to cut costs on the backs of essential workers and skirt future enforcement efforts.”

-ASSEMBLYMEMBER LORENA GONZALEZ An inland port?

Another, longer term solution suggested was the creation of an inland port — sometimes called a dry port — to function as a distribution point for incoming goods. Inland ports are connected to sea ports by road or rail.

“An inland port in the Central Valley would do wonders in terms of relieving choke points, and facilitating the movement of cargo from the San Pedro Bay ports up to northern and central California by truck or rail,” said Transportation Secretary Kim at the hearing.

He said a proposal is currently being developed by the Fresno Council of Governments, which has secured a $1 million grant from the federal Transportation Department to study the idea.

This would alleviate some of the pressure at water ports, Vyas said.

But Leachman is dubious of the value of a new inland port. It would require building additional terminals for cranes to unload containers, he said, which is costly. He contends those investments could be better made elsewhere. If a new inland port was built somewhere in the middle of the state, like Fresno, it could result in a lot of extra miles for truck drivers. Most of the distribution facilities are in the Inland Empire and near Southern California ports.

“If you end up needing to go to those warehouses anyways, it’s sort of wasted miles right? You go to Fresno, they’re going to have to double back to Ontario or Pomona,” Leachman said.

So how much can the state really do?

In short, not a lot, Vyas said. The California ports are just one point in the very long supply chain — stretching from manufacturers across the globe, to consumers in small Midwest towns and large East Coast cities.

California’s state government has limited influence on the international actors involved, and the millions of consumers across the U.S. who order goods. There aren’t quick fixes for growing the warehouse and truck driving workforces.

But the issues could be resolved before too long anyway: Tang expects things will calm down by February or March of 2022.

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ESTO ES LO QUE CALIFORNIA PODRÍA HACER PARA SOLUCIONAR EL PROBLEMA PORTUARIO DE LA CADENA DE SUMINISTRO Grace Gedye CalMatters

tado gestando durante décadas, impulsada por la desregulación de la industria y la disminución de las condiciones de trabajo.

i nunca pensó en los puertos de California o en la cadena de suministro global antes del mes pasado, eso es normal. Pero ahora están teniendo problemas, impulsados por la pandemia, y está provocando una escasez de todo, desde chips de computadora hasta suministros de cocina.

“En lugar de ofrecer propuestas de buena fe que aborden los problemas subyacentes que contribuyen a la escasez de mano de obra y la congestión en nuestros puertos, la propuesta respaldada por la industria es un intento poco velado de reducir los costos en las espaldas de los trabajadores esenciales y eludir los futuros esfuerzos de aplicación”, dijo. escribió.

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El problema que afronta California es en realidad uno que se está viviendo a nivel nacional: los puertos de Los Ángeles y Long Beach juntos traen consigo 40% de todas las mercancías enviadas a los EE. UU. Por agua. Entonces, ahora todos, desde los directores de puertos hasta el presidente Biden, están interesados en arreglar la situación.

La historia del origen de la acumulación es complicada. Al principio de la pandemia, las fábricas tuvieron que cerrar o reducir su producción.

Compañías de envío redujeron sus horarios, asumiendo que la gente compraría menos cosas.

El equipo de protección se envió a ubicaciones en todo el mundo que no exportan muchos productos, por lo que algunos de esos contenedores de envío no fueron devueltos.

Entonces, sucedió en lugar de lo que se esperaba que la gente compró cosas, demasiadas cosas. Los almacenes lucharon para contratar suficientes trabajadores para satisfacer la demanda y comenzaron a tener productos para apoyar la demanda en reserva, dejando contenedores llenos de productos nuevos en los puertos, donde comenzaron a crear atascos de tráfico, dijo Chris Tang, profesor de la Escuela de Administración Anderson de UCLA que estudia problemas de la cadena de suministro.

El 3 de noviembre Los legisladores de California hablaron con expertos y con las partes interesadas sobre lo que el estado podría hacer a corto plazo para resolver el atasco de contenedores y, a largo plazo, para evitar que se acumule mercancía a manera similar en el futuro.

“Quiero decir, la respuesta simple a esta crisis es que la gente deja de comprar cosas, pero eso no va a suceder”, dijo el asambleísta Patrick O’Donnell, un demócrata cuyo distrito incluye los puertos de Los Ángeles y Long Beach. “Así que tenemos que responder, y tenemos que responder con rapidez”.

Los formuladores de políticas federales, estatales y locales ya han tomado medidas. El 13 de octubre, el presidente Joe Biden anunció que el Puerto de Los Ángeles operaría las 24 horas, una decisión que se tomó después de que el Puerto de Long Beach también decidiera extender sus horarios. Una semana después, el gobernador demócrata Gavin Newsom firmó un orden ejecutiva para instruir a las agencias estatales para que busquen terrenos que puedan usarse como almacenamiento temporal, identifiquen rutas de carga que deberían estar exentas de los límites de peso de los vehículos e identifiquen asociaciones de capacitación con la industria privada para trabajadores portuarios y logísticos.

A fines de octubre, el Departamento de Transporte federal indico que ofrecería miles de millones de dólares en préstamos para apuntalar a la infraestructura del puerto y la cadena de suministro de California. A nivel local, las autoridades han permitido que los contenedores se apilen en cuatro alturas, en lugar de los dos habituales, y dijeron que las empresas serían multadas por dejar contenedores demasiado tiempo en los puertos.

Pero los expertos expresan que es posible que el retraso no se resuelva hasta el próximo año.

Mientras tanto, los barcos vagabundos están causando contaminación y las empresas de todo el país enfrentan escasez.

“Ha quedado claro que este es un problema multifacético y requerirá una solución multifacética”, dijo O’Donnell en la audiencia. “No hay un inter-

Cuando se le preguntó si la administración reconsideraría las leyes que regulan los almacenes, Myers no ofreció una respuesta concluyente. “Creo que estamos dispuestos a mirar de manera amplia; Creo que hay algunas cosas que no estaremos dispuestos a cambiar”, dijo. También dijo que la administración puede relajar las regulaciones, como algunos límites de peso para los camiones.

Los problemas de la cadena de suministro global han llevado a obtener un respaldo masivo en los puertos del sur de California. Photo Credit: Cottonbro / Pexels

ruptor que puedas accionar”.

Encontrar un terreno que pueda almacenar contenedores temporalmente

mento de Alimentación y Agricultura para discutir la contratación y retención de conductores.

El departamento federal de transporte también trabajará con los DMV estatales para agilizar el proceso de concesión de licencias para los conductores de camiones.

Dee Dee Myers, directora de la Oficina de Desarrollo Económico y Comercial del Gobernador, dijo que la solución que había escuchado con mayor frecuencia es que el estado identifique parcelas de tierra, ya sea dentro o fuera de los complejos portuarios, que se pueden utilizar como almacenamiento temporal adicional para contenedores.

-Robert Leachman, profesor del programa de Investigación de Operaciones y Relaciones Industriales de UC Berkeley

Entonces, ¿qué puede hacer realmente el estado de California para ayudar?

Myers dijo que la agencia ahora tiene una lista de varias docenas de sitios potenciales, aunque hay complicaciones para cada uno. El gobierno tiene como fecha límite el 15 de diciembre para completar su encuesta, aunque es posible que se haga antes, agregó Myers.

El uso de otras ubicaciones como almacenamiento temporal es algo que los operadores de terminales marítimos privados han estado haciendo durante algún tiempo, dice Robert Leachman, profesor del programa de Investigación de Operaciones y Relaciones Industriales de UC Berkeley. Tiene sentido, dijo, como una solución a corto plazo.

Pero dejar objetos de tanto valor, esparcidos por el sur de California podría crear nuevos problemas, como la logística de como recuperarlos más tarde y negociar con las comunidades que se oponen a tener una tonelada de grandes plataformas entrando y saliendo, dijeron los expertos.

Hacer crecer la fuerza laboral de conducción de camiones Y contribuyendo al estancamiento de mercancías, es la escasez de conductores de camiones.

Los conductores de camiones son contratistas independientes y se les paga por entrega en lugar de por hora, dijo Leachman. Cuando están atrapados esperando en los puertos durante horas para obtener su contenedor, significa que están trabajando más horas por el mismo pago para llevar a casa. Menos conductores están dispuestos a aceptar ese trato.

También hay escasez de trabajadores de almacén. “Los trabajos son desesperadamente poco atractivos, por lo que no podemos conseguir suficientes personas para cubrirlos”, dijo Leachman. Él piensa que los salarios deberán aumentar para cubrir esos puestos.

El secretario de transporte de California, David Kim, dijo que se reunió con la Casa Blanca, la Oficina de Desarrollo Económico y Empresarial del Gobernador, la Agencia de Desarrollo Laboral y de la Fuerza Laboral de California y el Departa-

“Los trabajos que se ofrecen carecen totalmente de atractivo, por lo que no podemos conseguir suficientes personas para ocuparlos”.

El estado puede trabajar con universidades y colegios comunitarios para brindar capacitación técnica y construir la línea de personas preparadas para trabajos de transporte y logística, dijo Nick Vyas, profesor de la Escuela de Negocios Marshall de la Universidad del Sur de California.

Pero a largo plazo, si es difícil interesar a suficientes trabajadores en este tipo de trabajos, la automatización puede ser parte de la solución, dijo.

Tang está de acuerdo. A corto plazo, existe una gran necesidad de conductores de camiones, pero, dice Tang, “creo que las perspectivas a largo plazo para los conductores de camiones no son buenas”.

Suspender regulaciones y leyes Una coalición de más de una docena de grupos empresariales envió a Newsom un carta solicitando que suspenda varias regulaciones y leyes para ayudar a resolver los problemas de la cadena de suministro. Entre sus propuestas: • Suspender una variedad de regulaciones ambientales y leyes de contaminación; • Suspender la histórica ley estatal de estatus de trabajador aprobada en 2019 que reclasificó a muchos contratistas independientes como empleados; • Suspender una nueva ley aprobada este año que requiere que los almacenes revelen a los trabajadores cualquier cuota o estándar de velocidad de trabajo.

Una rápida respuesta vino de la asambleísta Lorena González, la demócrata de San Diego que introdujo ambas leyes laborales. Ella señaló que el ley de contratistas independientes actualmente no se aplica a los conductores de camiones; Actualmente se está librando una batalla por una exención para los conductores. abriéndose camino a través del sistema legal. Además, la ley de depósitos no entrará en vigor hasta enero de 2022, lo que llevó a González a calificar las propuestas de “engañosas”. También dijo que la escasez de conductores de camiones se ha es-

“La propuesta respaldada por la industria es un intento poco velado de reducir los costos en las espaldas de los trabajadores esenciales y eludir los futuros esfuerzos de aplicación”.

-Asambleísta Lorena Gonzalez, demócrata de San Diego ¿Un puerto interior?

Otra solución a más largo plazo sugerida fue la creación de un puerto interior, a veces llamado puerto seco, para funcionar como un punto de distribución para las mercancías entrantes. Los puertos interiores están conectados a los puertos marítimos por carretera o ferrocarril.

“Un puerto interior en el Valle Central haría maravillas en términos de aliviar los puntos de estrangulamiento y facilitar el movimiento de carga desde los puertos de la Bahía de San Pedro hasta el norte y centro de California por camión o ferrocarril”, dijo el Secretario de Transporte Kim en la audiencia. Dijo que actualmente el Consejo de Gobiernos de Fresno está desarrollando una propuesta, que ha obtenido una subvención de 1 millón de dólares del Departamento de Transporte de Estados Unidos para estudiar la idea.

Esto aliviaría algo de la presión en los puertos de agua, dijo Vyas.

Pero Leachman duda del valor de un nuevo puerto interior. Requeriría construir terminales adicionales para que las grúas descarguen contenedores, dijo, lo cual es costoso. Cree que esas inversiones podrían hacerse mejor en otros lugares. Si se construyera un nuevo puerto interior en algún lugar en el medio del estado, como Fresno, podría resultar en muchas millas adicionales para los conductores de camiones. La mayoría de las instalaciones de distribución se encuentran en Inland Empire y cerca de los puertos del sur de California.

“Si terminas necesitando ir a esos almacenes de todos modos, es una especie de millas perdidas, ¿verdad? Si vas a Fresno, tendrán que regresar a Ontario o Pomona”, dijo Leachman.

Entonces, ¿cuánto puede hacer realmente el estado?

En resumen, no mucho, dijo Vyas. Los puertos de California son solo un punto en la cadena de suministro muy larga, que se extiende desde los fabricantes de todo el mundo hasta los consumidores en las pequeñas ciudades del medio oeste y las grandes ciudades de la costa este. El gobierno del estado de California tiene una influencia limitada sobre los actores internacionales involucrados y los millones de consumidores en los EE. UU. Que realizan pedidos de productos.

No existen soluciones rápidas para el crecimiento de la fuerza laboral de conducción de camiones y almacenes.

Pero los problemas podrían resolverse en poco tiempo de todos modos: Tang espera que las cosas se calmen para febrero o marzo de 2022.

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igmund Freud (1856–1939), médico austriaco, fue quien desarrolló las teo¬rías centrales para el psicoanálisis, la psicología de la sexualidad humana, y la interpretación de los sueños. Aunque todas sus teorías publicadas a fines del siglo XIX fueron muy controversiales durante su época, la aceptación de su traba¬jo se reconoció a finales de su vida. Quizás sus contribuciones más importan¬tes se refieren a la conexión entre la aberración de la conducta humana y la mente inconsciente.

En sus observaciones, Freud encontró pruebas claras de la represión y re¬sistencia del mecanismo mental. Él describió la represión como un artificio de defensa inconsciente para hacer inaccesible a la mente consciente el re¬cuerdo de eventos dolorosos y amenazantes. Y definió la resistencia también como una defensa inconsciente para prevenir la ansiedad emocional que cau¬sa el conocimiento de experiencias reprimidas. Para observar la operación del proceso inconsciente, Freud usó la libre asociación del paciente para que le guíe en la interpretación de los sueños y errores de lengua.

El análisis de los sueños le llevó a descubrir la sexualidad infantil y el llamado complejo de Edipo, que se manifiesta como atracción erótica del niño hacia la madre y de la niña hacia el padre, junto con sentimientos hostiles hacia la madre o el pa¬dre, respectivamente.

Freud también desarrolló la teoría de la transferencia, definida como el proce¬so por el cual las actitudes emocionales, establecidas originalmente hacia la figu¬ra paterna durante la infancia, son transferidas a otras personas. El trabajo más importante de Freud, “La Interpretación de los Sueños”, fue publicado en 1900. Aquí él analiza muchos de sus sueños registrados en el período de tres años de su auto análisis que comenzó en 1897. Según Freud, la mente que sueña está do¬minada por un proceso diferente del que rige la vigilia. Y dice que este “proceso

primario” se distingue por sus mecanismos más primitivos, sus rápidos cambios de energía y emociones, y su contenido sexual y agresivo derivado de la infancia.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), psiquiatra suizo, fue quien fundó la “Escuela Analítica de Psicología". Jung manifestó durante su infancia una inclinación hacia los sueños y las fantasías, y esto influenció posteriormente en sus estudios de investigación.

Jung amplió el concepto psicoanalítico de Freud interpretan¬do los disturbios mentales y emocionales para hallar una integridad personal y espiritual. Sus estudios tuvieron reconocimiento internacional y le llevaron a una colaboración más cercana con Freud.

Pero con la publicación de su obra “Psicología del Inconsciente”, Jung se separa del concepto freudiano sobre la libi¬do o deseo sexual, por considerarlo muy estrecho y materialista. Jung demues¬tra que hay afinidad entre los mitos antiguos y las fantasías psíquicas, y explica las motivaciones humanas en términos de enorme energía creativa.

Jung desarrolló sus teorías basándose en su amplio conocimiento de la mitolo¬gía y la historia; en las experiencias de sus viajes a Nuevo México, India y Kenya, y especialmente en los sueños y fantasías de su infancia. Su obra “Tipos Psicológicos”, publicada en 1921, trata de la relación que existe entre el consciente e incons¬ciente y presenta los tipos de personalidad extrovertida e introvertida.

Según Jung, la gente, de todas las culturas, es parte de un inconsciente co¬lectivo, con iguales sentimientos, pensamientos y memorias. Jung creía que las imágenes del inconsciente colectivo, llamadas <<arquetipos>> o imágenes pri¬mordiales, se revelaban a través de los mitos. Estas imágenes se relacionan con experiencias tales como enfrentarse a la muerte o elegir una pareja, y se mani¬fiestan simbólicamente en religiones, mitos, cuentos de hadas y fantasías.

Carl Gustav Jung y Sigmund Freud, fueron los pioneros modernos en el estudio, análisis e investigación del mundo onírico, el mundo de los sueños.

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EARTHTALK Q&A: RESEÑA AMBIENEARTHTALK Q&A: ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF BIDEN'S ADMINISTRATION TALISTA DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN BIDEN Dear EarthTalk: Are environmental advocates happy with the Biden administration so far? -- B.C., Philadelphia, PA

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revocando el permiso para el controvertido oleoducto Keystone XL (aprobado por Trump en 2017) y deteniendo la construcción del infame muro fronterizo de Trump que, entre otras cosas restringió el rango de hábitat de la vida silvestre que ya lucha por sobrevivir en el suroeste afectado por la sequía y el calor.

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verall, environmental advocates are much happier with Joe Biden in the White House than Donald Trump, given his administration’s interest in pursuing sustainability and climate goals. Indeed, on Day One Biden wasted no time making good on several environmentally related campaign promises.

He signed executive orders rejoining the Paris climate accord (Trump had pulled us out in 2017), revoking the permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline (green-lighted by Trump in 2017), and halting construction of Trump’s infamous border wall that among other things restricted the habitat range of wildlife already struggling to hang on in the drought-stricken, warming-addled Southwest.

While Biden couldn’t get everything done in a day, his administration has kept its eye on the conservation ball ever since. In early September, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was restoring protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The Trump administration had blocked those protections in a shortsighted effort to pave the way for construction of a massive gold mine threatening the world’s largest sockeye salmon run as well as ecosystems for hundreds of miles around. The Biden administration has also proposed cancelling controversial Trump-era petroleum drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but it’s unclear whether this provision will remain in the larger Congressional budget reconciliation bill it’s currently tied to given potential Republican backlash.

Another big move lauded by greens just weeks ago was Biden’s executive order restoring Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments in Utah to their original boundaries; Trump had reduced them by 80 and 50 percent respectively. Eco-advocates also cheered Biden’s move to restore federal rules designed to guide environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects that the Trump administration had scaled back in order to “fasttrack” construction permit approvals. Additionally, Biden has pledged to overturn Trump-era rollbacks of endangered species protections so as to preserve the ability of the federal government to designate lands as critical wildlife habitat regardless of their development potential.

While many are pleased with Biden’s actions so far, others worry they are too little too late. Activists from the grassroots Build Back Fossil Free campaign, which includes Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity, among others, decry the Biden White House for not already using executive orders to stop fossil fuel project approvals and declare a climate emergency. According to a recent analysis by the research and advocacy organization Oil Change International, Biden could stop at least 24 major fossil fuel development projects with the stroke of a pen (including the controversial Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines) and save upwards of 1.6 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions—the equivalent of taking all the cars and trucks off U.S. roads for a year.

“We are out of time for the president to take his executive powers off the shelf,” says Jean Su, energy justice director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Anything less is leaving a scorched future for people and our planet.”

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n general, los defensores del medio ambiente están mucho más contentos con Joe Biden en la Casa Blanca que con Donald Trump, dado el interés de su administración en perseguir objetivos de sostenibilidad y climáticos.

De hecho, el primer día, Biden no perdió el tiempo y cumplió varias promesas de campaña relacionadas con el medio ambiente. Firmó órdenes ejecutivas para reincorporarse al acuerdo climático de París (Trump nos había sacado en 2017),

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Si bien Biden no pudo hacer todo en un día, su administración ha estado atento a la bola de la conservación desde entonces. A principios de septiembre, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) de Biden anunció que estaba restaurando las protecciones para la Bahía de Bristol en Alaska.

La administración Trump había bloqueado esas protecciones en un esfuerzo miope por allanar el camino para la construcción de una mina de oro masiva que amenaza la migración del salmón rojo más grande del mundo, así como los ecosistemas en cientos de millas a la redonda. La administración Biden también ha propuesto cancelar los controvertidos arrendamientos de perforación de petróleo de la era Trump en el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre del Ártico de Alaska, pero no está claro si esta disposición permanecerá en el Proyecto de ley de conciliación presupuestaria del Congreso al que está vinculado actualmente, dada la posible reacción republicana.

Otro gran movimiento alabado por los verdes hace apenas unas semanas fue la orden ejecutiva de Biden de restaurar los monumentos nacionales Bears Ears y Grand Staircase Escalante en Utah a sus límites originales; Trump los había reducido en un 80 y un 50 por ciento, respectivamente. Los eco-defensores también aplaudieron la decisión de Biden de restaurar las reglas federales diseñadas para guiar las revisiones ambientales de los grandes proyectos de infraestructura que la administración Trump había reducido para acelerar las aprobaciones de permisos de construcción.

Además, Biden se ha comprometido a revocar los retrocesos de las protecciones de especies en peligro de la era Trump para preservar la capacidad del gobierno federal de designar tierras como hábitat crítico para la vida silvestre, independientemente de su potencial de desarrollo.

Si bien muchos están satisfechos con las acciones de Biden hasta ahora, a otros les preocupa que lleguen demasiado tarde. Activistas de la campaña de base Build Back Fossil Free, que incluye Amigos de la Tierra, Greenpeace y el Centro para la Diversidad Biológica, entre otros, condenan a la Casa Blanca de Biden por no haber utilizado ya órdenes ejecutivas para detener la aprobación de proyectos de combustibles fósiles y declarar una emergencia climática. Según un análisis reciente de la organización de investigación y defensa Oil Change International, Biden podría detener al menos 24 grandes proyectos de desarrollo de combustibles fósiles de un plumazo (incluidos los controvertidos oleoductos Line 3 y Dakota Access) y ahorrar más de 1,6 gigatoneladas de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero - el equivalente a quitar todos los automóviles y camiones de las carreteras estadounidenses durante un año.

“Ya no tenemos tiempo para que el presidente retire sus poderes ejecutivos del estante”, dice Jean Su, director de justicia energética del Centro para la Diversidad Biológica. "Cualquier cosa menos es dejar un futuro arrasado para las personas y nuestro planeta".

CONTACTOS: White House moves to restore key environmental review rules, https://www.reuters. com/world/us/white-house-moves-restorekey-environmental-review-rules-2021-10-06/; Build Back Fossil Free, buildbackfossilfree.org; Oil Change International, priceofoil.org; Center for Biological Diversity, biologicaldiversity.org.

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CONGRESS' ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP VOTING ACCESS STALLS

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INTENTO DEL CONGRESO DE ABRIR PUESTOS DE ACCESO A LAS VOTACIONES

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"Ambos proyectos de ley, la Ley de Libertad de Voto y la Ley de Promoción de los Derechos Electorales de John Lewis, deben aprobarse para asegurarnos de que podemos cumplir la promesa de Estados Unidos, que es que todos tienen acceso a la boleta y el derecho a votar y a que se cuente su voto ", afirmó Brandon.

ELENA, Mont. -- States such as Montana have passed legislation some advocates believe could make it harder to vote.

Meanwhile, measures at the federal level to reverse this trend have stalled. Four bills addressing voting rights have been blocked by Senate filibuster this year, including two in the last month cosponsored by Sen. John Tester, D-Mont.

En todo el país, algunos legisladores estatales argumentaron que se necesitan leyes más estrictas para garantizar la seguridad e integridad del voto. Los republicanos han acusado las medidas en el Congreso de ser un intento del gobierno federal de hacerse cargo de las elecciones en todo el país.

Robert Brandon, president of the Fair Elections Center, said the measures are important because the federal government is the final protector of the vote.

"Both those bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, need to be passed for us to make sure that we can deliver on the promise of America, which is everybody has access to the ballot and a right to vote and have their vote counted," Brandon asserted.

Across the country, some state lawmakers argued tighter laws are needed to ensure the security and integrity of the vote. Republicans have accused the measures in Congress of being an attempt by the federal government to take over elections nationwide.

Brandon pointed out the two bills recently stopped would strike down two measures in particular the Montana Legislature passed this year, including restrictions on ballot collecting, which is seen as an important way for Native Americans to cast their ballots, and changes to voter ID laws requiring additional identification if someone tries to register with a student ID, for instance.

Brandon said another measure not directly ad-

The Freedom to Vote Act would make a number of changes to the law including creating a public holiday for election day. Photo Credit: yavdat / Adobe Stock

dressed in the federal bills is Montana's end to Election Day voter registration.

"If there's a problem with your registration or if somebody messed up in terms of where your records are, you can fix that on election day," Brandon explained. "That's the ultimate fail-safe for a voter that gets stuck because there's some wrong information or something was put in the wrong place."

Montana granted same-day registration in 2005 but repealed it this year. Currently, 19 states allow voters to register on the day of the election.

Support for this reporting was provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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ELENA, Mont. -- Estados como Montana han aprobado leyes que algunos defensores creen que podrían dificultar la votación.

Mientras tanto, las medidas a nivel federal para revertir esta tendencia se han estancado. Cuatro proyectos de ley que abordan los derechos de voto han sido bloqueados por el obstruccionismo del Senado este año, incluidos dos en el último mes copatrocinado por el senador John Tester, D-Mont.

Robert Brandon, presidente del Fair Elections Center, dijo que las medidas son importantes porque el gobierno federal es el protector final del voto.

Brandon señaló que los dos proyectos de ley recientemente detenidos anularían dos medidas sobre todo la Legislatura de Montana que se aprobó este año, incluyendo las restricciones sobre la recolección de boletas, que se considera una forma importante para que los nativos americanos emitan sus votos, y cambios a las leyes de identificación de votantes que requieren identificación adicional si alguien intenta registrarse con una identificación de estudiante, por ejemplo.

Brandon dijo que otra medida que no se aborda directamente en los proyectos de ley federales es la finalización de Montana para el registro de votantes el día de las elecciones.

"Si hay un problema con el registro o si alguien se equivocó en términos de dónde están sus registros, puede solucionarlo el día de las elecciones", explicó Brandon"Esa es la máxima seguridad para un votante que queda atascado porque hay información incorrecta o algo se colocó en el lugar incorrecto".

Montana otorgó el registro el mismo día en 2005, pero lo derogó este año. Actualmente, 19 estados permiten que los votantes se registren el día de las elecciones.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York brindó apoyo para este informe.

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LATINO GDP IN US RANKS 8TH IN THE WORLD – NEW REPORT CONTRADICTS STEREOTYPES

ASOMBROSA, LA FUERZA ECONÓMICA DE LOS LATINOS EN EL PAÍS

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, co-authored a study on Latino economic performance. Photo Credit: EMS

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ters of the country’s Latino population live.

new report presents compelling data that Latinos in the United States are performing economically far beyond expectations, contradicting long-held stereotypes. 2021 State Latino GDP Report reveals that their GDP in 2018 amounted to $2.6 trillion. If Latinos were an independent nation, they would rank eighth in the world, with a GDP higher than that of Italy, South Korea or Brazil.

An essential component of the great economic performance of Latinos is consumption — $1.36 trillion in 2018 alone in those eight states. From 2010 to 2018, real consumption in this group grew 135% faster than that of non-Latinos, primarily due to population growth and strong participation in the labor market.

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Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, co-author of the study and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, says the report puts the lie to the idea that Latinos come to the United States to commit crimes or live on public assistance: “We are not lazy or criminal, we come to work, and these figures prove it.”

The U.S. Latino GDP grew 21% faster than that of India and 30% faster than China’s. In California, the statistics are just as staggering. In 2018, the state’s Latino GDP was $706.6 billion, higher than Ohio’s total economic output.

Latinos are an enormous source of economic vitality because of their hard work, family values and solid health profile, Dr. Hayes-Bautista says.

His new report offers estimates of the economic contribution of Latinos in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Texas, states where nearly three-quar-

Between 2010 and 2018, in California, for example, the non-Latino population grew 3%, while Latinos increased 13%, the growth, Dr. Hayes-Bautista says, driven not by migration but by a high fertility rate.

The report also highlights that from 2010 to 2018, the educational level of Latinos grew 2.5 times faster than that of non-Latinos in the state. And in that same period, Latinos’ labor force participation averaged 4.6 percentage points higher than that of non-Latinos.

Latinos in California have a longer life expectancy than non-Latino whites, too — 83.6 years compared to 80.8. This is due, according to Dr. Hayes-Bautista, to their health habits.

“In the case of the pandemic,” he clarified, “Latinos were very affected because they did not have the same access to Covid-19 vaccines as other groups and they could not be confined to their homes because many are essential workers.”

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l desempeño económico de los latinos en Estados Unidos es impresionante. Un nuevo informe titulado 2021 State Latino GDP Report revela que el PIB de la población latina en este país ascendió en 2018 a 2.6 billones de dólares. Esto significa que, si los latinos fueran una nación independiente, ocuparían el lugar número ocho en el mundo, con un PIB superior al de Italia, Corea del Sur o Brasil.

Más extraordinario aún resulta el hecho de que el PIB latino de Estados Unidos creció 21% más rápido que el de India y 30% más rápido que el de China.

En California, las estadísticas son igualmente asombrosas. En 2018 el PIB latino en el estado ascendió a 706.6 mil millones de dólares, mayor que la producción económica total de Ohio. Los tres principales sectores del PIB latino fueron en ese año: educación y atención médica (16.0%), servicios profesionales y comerciales (12.6%) y gobierno (8.2%).

A juicio del doctor David Hayes-Bautista, coautor del estudio y director del Centro para el Estudio de la Salud y de la Cultura Latina (CESLAC), una de las principales conclusiones de este reporte es que las estadísticas contradicen los estereotipos de que los latinos vienen a Estados Unidos a delinquir o a vivir de la asistencia pública.

“No somos flojos, ni criminales, venimos a trabajar y estas cifras lo demuestran”.

Hayes-Bautista aclaró que este nuevo informe se basa en análisis anteriores y ofrece cálculos a nivel estatal de la contribución económica de los latinos en Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nueva Jersey, Nuevo México, Nueva York y Texas donde viven casi tres cuartas partes de la población latina del país.

Un componente esencial del gran des-

empeño económico de los latinos es el consumo. De 2010 a 2018, el consumo real en este grupo creció un 135% más rápido que el de los no latinos. El consumo total de 2018 entre los latinos de los ocho estados mencionados fue de 1.36 billones de dólares. Esta cifra es 30% mayor que la producción económica total de Florida. El rápido crecimiento del consumo se debe a los avances acelerados en el aumento de la población y a una fuerte participación en el mercado laboral.

Al igual que a nivel nacional, en el caso de California, Hayes-Bautista aseguró que los latinos son una enorme fuente de vitalidad económica por su trabajo arduo, sus valores familiares y su sólido perfil de salud.

Entre 2010 y 2018, el reporte indica que en California la población no latina creció un 3%, mientras que los latinos aumentaron 13%. Este crecimiento, según el doctor Hayes-Bautista, no fue impulsado por la migración sino por una alta tasa de fertilidad en este grupo.

El reporte también destaca que de 2010 a 2018, el nivel educativo de los latinos creció a un ritmo 2,5 veces más rápido que el de los no latinos. Y agrega que, en ese periodo, la tasa de participación en la fuerza laboral de los latinos de California fue un promedio de 4.6 puntos porcentuales más alta que la de los no latinos. En 2018, la participación de los latinos en la fuerza laboral fue, en general, 5.0 puntos porcentuales más alta.

Los latinos en California tienen también una mayor esperanza de vida que los blancos no latinos (83,6 años en comparación con 80,8). Ello se debe, según Hayes-Bautista, a sus hábitos de salud. “En el caso de la pandemia”, aclaró, “los latinos fueron muy afectados porque no tuvieron el mismo acceso que otros grupos a las vacunas contra el Covid-19 y porque no pudieron estar confinados en sus casas debido a que muchos son trabajadores esenciales”.

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Almaden Lake Apartments, a 144-unit affordable community in San Jose is opening up its waitlist on November 8, 2021! This property offers affordable 1-, 2- & 3-bedroom apartments with rents from $1,044-$1,434 per month. Pre-applications for the waitlist will be distributed and accepted starting Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9 AM. Preapplications will be available starting Nov. 8th by phone request, contactless pick-up at the property, or on-line at bridgehousing.com/properties/almaden-lake/. The office is located at 978 Almaden Lake Dr. in San Jose. Office hours are Mon-Thur. from 9 AM-5 PM. Amenities include community room with kitchen, laundry facilities, Swimming pool and outdoor play areas. For more information call us at (408) 323-8020. Income and other restrictions apply. Section-8 welcome. EHO.

Se buscan Conductores de tiempo parcial (Gane $25 - $30 por hora) Entrega de alimentos de 10 a.m - 2 p.m., de lunes a viernes.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679551 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MILAGROS AUTO SALES, 3107 Monterey Rd, 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): AISHA & JASMIN INC, 3107 Monterey Rd, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/12/2021. 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/ ILYAS EBRAHIMI AISHA & JASMIN INC CEO Article/Reg#: C4771416 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/12/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 679551 November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 680155

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Essential Auto Glass Specialist, 1298 Shortridge Ave Unit B, San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jose Arteaga, 1298 Shortridge Ave Unit B, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/01/2021.

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/ Jose Arteaga This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 11/04/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 680155 November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 680202 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Las Cazuelas Restaurant, 55 Race St, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a Corporation. The

Buscamos contratar de inmediato a trabajadores de almacén en un almacén de alimentos secos en Fremont, California.

Póngase en contacto con Gayathri@ fyvelements.com. Teléfono: 917 328 3331. 1 año de experiencia en manejo de almacén, levantando pesos pesados ​​ y montacargas. Idiomas: Inglés/Español name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Las Cazuelas Taqueria, Inc, 55 Race St, San Jose, CA 95126.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 11/20/2006.

This filing is a Refile [No Change(s) in facts form 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/ Graciela Armas Las Cazuelas Taqueria, Inc Owner Article/Reg#: C3301948 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 680202 November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV386964 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Angela Jossette Vivas. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Angela Jossette Vivas has filed

a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Angela Jossette Vivas to Angela Jossette Delhonte 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: 12/21/2021 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.

Sep 23, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26,

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Almaden Lake Apartments, comunidad de 144 unidades para familias, ubicada en San Jose abrirá su lista de espera el 8 de Nov. del 2021.

Propiedad ofrece vivienda asequible con rentas de $1,044-$1,434 por mes, para unidades 1-, 2- y 3-habitaciones. Las comodidades incluyen una sala comunitaria con cocina, lavandería en el lugar, piscina y gestión profesional en el lugar. Las Pre-Solicitudes para la lista de espera estarán disponibles a partir del Lunes 8 de Nov. 2021 a las 9 AM. Podrá obtener la Pre-Solicitud sin contacto en la propiedad o solicitar la por teléfono o en internet en bridgehousing.com/properties/almadenlake/. La dirección es 978 Almaden Lake Dr. en San Jose y su horario es de Lunes a Jueves de 9 AM a 5 PM. La oficina está cerrada al público durante COVID-19. Para más información llámanos al (408) 323-8020.

Se aplican restricciones de ingresos y otras. Se acepta Sec-8.

Immediately looking to hire warehouse workers in a dry food stuff warehouse in Fremont, California. Contact Gayathri@ fyvelements.com. Phone no. 917 328 3331. 1 year experience in handling warehouse, lifting heavy weight, and riding forklift. Languages – English/Spanish December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV387027 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Seyed Abdollah Banitaba. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Seyed Abdollah Banitaba has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Seyed Abdollah Banitaba to Seyed Banitaba 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: 1/18/2022 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.

Aug 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV385677 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Raul Ortega Mora and Raul Mora Jr. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Raul Ortega Mora and Raul Mora Jr have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Raul Ortega Mora to Raul Mora Ortega b. Raul Mora Jr to Raul Jr Junior Mora 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: 1/18/2022 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.

Nov 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV390161 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thu Ngoc Anh Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Thu Ngoc Anh Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Thu Ngoc Anh Nguyen to Phoebe Anh Thu 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: 02/15/2022 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.

Nov 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389652 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Maria Cruz Guillen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Fraire, Maria Cruz has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Fraire, Maria Cruz to Guillen, Maria Cruz b.

Fraire Gonzalez, Ma Cruz to Guillen, Maria Cruz c. Fraire de Guillen, Maria Cruz to Guillen, Maria Cruz 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: 02/08/2022 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.

Nov 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV378377 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Joana Perez. TO ALL

INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Joana Perez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Issac Perez to Ashley 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: 11/23/2021 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.

Oct 21, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV386901 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Rosario Ginny BritoHerrera. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Rosario Ginny Brito-Herrera has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Daniel Joseph HerreraDuran to Daniel Joseph Herrera 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: 12/21/2021 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.

Sep 22, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389626 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Robabeh Panahy. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Robabeh Panahy has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Robabeh Panahy to Sima Panahy 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: 02/08/2022 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.

Nov 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV389605 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Zohreh MohammadiCorrea. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Zohreh Mohammadi-Correa has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Zohreh MohammadiCorrea to Zohreh Mohammadi b. Zohreh Mohammadi Correa to Zohreh Mohammadi 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: 02/08/2022 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.

Oct 29, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV390088 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Shu-Chen Chih. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Shu-Chen Chih has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Shu-Chen Chih to Jane Shu-Chen Chih 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons

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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: 02/15/2022 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.

Nov 08, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389653 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kaileen Y. Yen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kaileen Y. Yen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kaileen Y. Yen to Kaileen Yen Barnacastle 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: 02/08/2022 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.

Nov 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 680101 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Northern California Technical Sales, Inc., 101 S. Santa Cruz Avenue, #1363, Los Gatos, CA 95030, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TECHNICAL SALES, INC. 101 S. Santa Cruz Avenue, #1363, Los Gatos, CA 95030. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/4/1994. 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/ Asif Subedar NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TECHNICAL SALES, INC. President/CEO Article/Reg#: C3234958 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 11/3/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 680101 November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679705 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Twinkle Twinkle

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Home Daycare, 1571 Nuthatch Ln, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Maria Rebeca Esquivel Villanueva, 1571 Nuthatch Ln, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/06/2021.

This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts form previous filing] of previous file #: . “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/ Maria Rebeca Esquivel Villanueva This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679705 November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679868 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Anago of Northern California, 1460 Koll Circle, Ste B, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): TOFF, INC., 1460 Koll Circle, Ste B, San Jose, CA 95112. 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/ Matthew J. Sole TOFF, Inc. President Article/Reg#: C2815273 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/22/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 679868 November 5, 12, 19, 26,

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2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679924 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MAA KA KHANA, 326 Commercial St, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Married Couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Piyushkumar Shah, 138 Marylinn Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. Priti Shah, 138 Marylinn Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/25/2021. 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/ Piyushkumar Shah This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679924 November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389397 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ricardo Javier Seminario. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ricardo Javier Seminario has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Ezio Rowee Almacen to Ezio Rowee Seminario Almacen 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: 2/01/2022 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.

Oct 27, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389626 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Robabeh Panahy. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Robabeh Panahy has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Robabeh Panahy to Sima Panahy 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: 2/08/2022 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.

Nov 01, 2021 Julie A. Emede

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV387307 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cara Lee Ayala. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Cara Lee Ayala has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Cara Lee Ayala to Cara Lee DiMaria Ayala 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: 1/11/2022 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.

Oct 05, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389810 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hanson Yip & Le Truc My Tran. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Hanson Yip & Le Truc My Tran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court

for a decree changing names as follows: a. Uy Tan Diep to Wayland Leo Yip 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: 2/15/2022 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.

Oct 04, 2021; 10:19AM Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389804 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Pin Ting & Hsiuju Tsai. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Pin Ting & Hsiuju Tsai has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Wei Ting to Sheena Wei Ting b. Yu Ting to Yulissa Yu Ting 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: 2/15/2022 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.

Sep 29, 2021; 8:51PM Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389747 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Vikash Ruhil & Jyoti Rani. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Vikash Ruhil & Jyoti Rani has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Vikash Ruhil to Ranveer Singh b. Jyoti Rani to Isha Rani 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: 2/08/2022 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.

Nov 02, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV389914 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Mahboobeh Farhani. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Mahboobeh Farhani has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Mahboobeh Farhani to Sophia Farahani. 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: 2/08/2022 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.

Nov 04, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of GLORIA G. MARQUEZ Case No. 21PR191019 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Gloria

NOV 12 - NOV 18, 2021 G. Marquez, Gloria Marquez. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed

by Nicholas Marquez in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that by Nicholas Marquez 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: December 8, 2021, 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. 9. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form

DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Avenue, Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 November 5, 12, 19, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of LINDA STUART Case No. 21PR191018 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Linda Stuart, Linda Darnell Stuart, Linda D. Stuart, Linda Granada.

2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by George Granada in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that

by George Granada 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: December 8, 2021, 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 con-

NOV 12 - NOV 18, 2021 tingent 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. 9. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Avenue, Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 678977 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Grocery Outlet of Gilroy, 333 E 10th Street, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hum Char LLC, 333 E 10th Street, Gilroy, CA 95020. 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 form previous filing] of previous file #: FBN582272. “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/ Aaron McGinley Hum Char LLC Corporate Officer

Article/Reg#: 202124610581 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/22/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 678977 October 15, 22, 29 and November 5, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679809 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SELECTIVE DENTAL, 3151 S. White Rd., Suite 203, San Jose, CA 95148, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Victoria L. K. Vuong, DDS., Inc, 3151 S. White Rd., Suite 203, San Jose, CA 95148. 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/ Brandon Ho Victoria L. K. Vuong, DDS., Inc Secretary Article/Reg#: 4770680 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 679809 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679889 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DORELEX, 1515 Emperor Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Amos Dor, 1515 Emperor, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. Daphna Dor, 1515 Emperor, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com business name(s) listed above on 9/01/2021.

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/ Amos Dor This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/25/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 679889 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679200 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: La Fonda Michoacana, 1309 Vine St, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Miguel Tello Lara, 1309 Vine St, San Jose, CA 95110. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/01/2021.

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/ Miguel Tello Lara This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 9/29/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679200 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679853 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Montana Janitorial, 1495 Bluebonnet Wy, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jose Jesus Ortiz, 1495 Bluebonnet Wy, Morgan Hill, CA 95037.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious

business name(s) listed above on 11/17/2018. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN656668. “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/ Jose Jesus Ortiz This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/22/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679853 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679930 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Economical Employee Benefits, 208 S 1st St, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): David Ernesto Juarez, 208 S 1st St, Campbell, CA 95008. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/25/2021. 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/ David Ernesto Juarez This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679930 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679096 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ARTACBD, 1901 South Bascom Ave, Ste 1410, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): GREENEDGE TECH, 1901 South Bascom Ave,

Ste 1410, Campbell, CA 95008. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/19/2021.

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/ Orang Kamkar GREENEDGE TECH CEO Article/Reg#: C4735686 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 09/28/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679096 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679753 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SPECTRUM DYNAMICS, 4666 Tango Way, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): SPECTRUM DYNAMICS L.L.C., 4666 Tango Way, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/30/2021.

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/ Michael Valenzuela SPECTRUM DYNAMICS L.L.C. Member Article/Reg#: 202128010031 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 679753 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679962 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Friendship House, 1511 Princeton Dr, San Jose, CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Elizabeth Solorio, 1511 Princeton Dr, San Jose, CA 95118. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2013.

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/ Elizabeth Solorio This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/27/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679962 October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV388811 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sandra Jo Smith. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Sandra Jo Smith has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Sandra Jo Smith to Sandra Jo O’Donnell Martell 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: 1/25/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept.,

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS 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.

Oct 21, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV384345 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kum Soon Cho. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kum Soon Cho has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kum Soon Cho to Kum Christina Soon Cho 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: 12/01/2021 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.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV386814 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: John Seañez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) John Seañez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. John Anthony Seañez to Angie Veronica Seañez 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: 12/21/2021 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.

Sep 20, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV388796 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Enrique Arturo Sanchez Gonzalez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Enrique Arturo Sanchez Gonzalez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Enrique Arturo Sanchez Gonzalez to Henry Arturo Sanchez

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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: 1/25/2022 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.

Oct 21, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of GLORIA G. MARQUEZ Case No. 21PR191019 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Gloria G. Marquez, Gloria Marquez. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed

by Nicholas Marquez in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that by Nicholas Marquez 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: December 8, 2021, 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 for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Avenue, Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 Rune Date: October 29, November 5 and 12, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of LINDA STUART Case No. 21PR191018 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Linda Stuart, Linda Darnell Stuart, Linda D. Stuart, Linda Granada.

2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by George Granada in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that

by George Granada 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: December 8, 2021, 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 for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Avenue, Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 Rune Date: October 29, November 5 and 12, 2021 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of MICHAEL KEVIN SPLANE Case No. 21PR190916 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Michael Kevin Splane. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed

by Susan Splane in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that

by Susan Splane 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: December

1, 2021, 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 for Petitioner: Robert P. Bergman 3535 Ross Avenue, Suite 308 San Jose, CA 95124 Telephone: (498)2470444 Rune Date: October 29, November 5 and 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679795 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TOPETE’S FAMILY RENTAL, 4943 Zeppelin Dr., 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): Pedro Topete, 4943 Zeppelin Dr, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting busi-

ness under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/1/2021. 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/ Pedro Topete This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/20/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 679795 October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679709 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ESTESON CO., GYROS PRODUCTS, 2038 Concourse Drive, Unit B, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): ESTESON CORP, 2038 Concourse Drive, Unit B, San Jose, CA 95131. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 01/01/1999. 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/ Jim Tsiboukis, VP ESTESON CORP. Article/Reg#: C2023792 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 10/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679709 October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 679572 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JIREH HANDYMAN, 3240 Cadillac Dr Apt #1, San Jose, CA 95117, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and

NOV 12 - NOV 18, 2021 residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Luis Antonio Torres, 3240 Cadillac Dr Apt #1, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/13/2021. 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/ Luis Antonio Torres This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 679572 October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV388078 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thuy Thi Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Thuy Thi Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Thuy Thi Nguyen to Lucia 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: 1/18/2022 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.

Oct 14, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV387868 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Felix Hwan-Hsin Jan. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Felix Hwan-Hsin Jan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Felix Hwan-Hsin Jan to Hwan-Hsin Jan 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: 1/18/2022 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.

Oct 12, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV386576 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bradley Allen Arnold. TO

NOV 12 - NOV 18, 2021 ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Bradley Allen Arnold has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Bradley Allen Arnold to Bradley Allen Shipnuck 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: 12/07/2021 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.

Sep 09, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV388409 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bryan Steven Delgado. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Bryan Steven Delgado has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Bryan Steven Delgado to Voltaire Steven Castro 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

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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: 1/25/2022 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.

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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.

Oct 18, 2021 Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021

Petitioner’s name is: Jennifer Jinky Agbayani Labra

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV387113 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Samantha McClain. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Samantha McClain has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Samantha Mia McClain to Samantha Mia Ibarra.

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: 1/04/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA

October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 2021 SUMMONS (Family Law) (FL-110) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): Prince Arbal Rodrigo Labra AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre):

You have been sued.

Read the information below.

Lo han demandado.

Lea ia información en la pagina siguiente.

Nombre del demandante: Case Number (Número de caso): 21FL002067 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children.

You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web Site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para

presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante.

Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la corte NO basta para protegerlo.

las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos.

La corte también puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara Family Justice Center Courthouse Street Address: 201 N. First Street.

San Jose, CA 95113

Para asesoramiento legal, pónganse en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

NOTICE; The restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

AVISO; Las órdenes de restricción están en vigencia en cuanto a ambos cónyuges miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes.

Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and cost that the court waived for you and the other party.

Exención De Cuotas: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas.

La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo,

1. The name and address of the court is (el nombre y dirección de la corte son):

2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección, y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Jennifer Jinky Agbayani Labra 297 Grecia Court San Jose, CA 95116 (669)236-9660 Date (Fecha): June 4, 2021 Clerk, by (Secretario, por) /s/ J. GAMEZ, Deputy (Asistente): STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children: 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the

other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court.

Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective.

However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or you own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

NOTICE - ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www. coveredca.com Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506.

WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divide, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption.

You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

ORDENES DE RESTRICCION NORMALES DE DERECHO FAMILIAR En forma inmediata, usted y su cónyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido: 1. Llevarse del estado de California a los hijos menores de las partes, o solicitar un pasaporte nuevo o de repuesto para los hijos menores, sin el consentimiento previo por escrito de la otra parte o sin una orden de la corte; 2.

Cobrar, pedir prestado, cancelar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier seguro u otro tipo de cobertura, como de vida, salud, vehículo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a las partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es); 3. Transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cualquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o personal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separada, sin el consentimiento escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte, excepto en el curso habitual de actividades personal o para satisfacer las necesidades de la vida; y 4. Crear o modificar una transferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte la asignación de una propiedad sujeta a transferencia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte.

Antes de que se pueda eliminar la revocación de una transferencia no testamentaria, se debe presentar ante la corte un aviso del cambio y hacer una entrega legal de dicho aviso a la otra parte.

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cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto, por lo menos cinco días laborales antes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a la corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados después de que estas órdenes de restricción hayan entrado en vigencia. No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya separada para pagar a un abogado o para ayudarle a pagar los costos de la corte.

AVISO-ACCESO A SEGURO DE SALUD MÁS ECONÓMICO: ¿Necesita seguro de salud a un costo asequible, ya sea para usted o alguien en su hogar? Si es as¡, puede presentar una solicitud con Covered California. Covered California lo puede ayudar a reducir el costo que paga por seguro de salud asequible y de alta calidad. Para obtener mas información, visite www.coveredca.com.

O llame a Covered California al 1-800-3000213.

ADVERTENCIA – INFORMACION IMPORTANTE De acuerdo a la ley de California, las propiedades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para los fines de la división de bienes que ocurre cuando se produce una disolución o separación legal del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso llega a fallecer antes de que se divida la propiedad comunitaria de tenencia conjunta, el destino de la misma quedará determinado por las cláusulas de la escritura correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por ej. tenencia conjunta, tenencia en común o propiedad comunitaria) y no por la presunción de propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que la presunción comunitaria que registrada en la escritura de la propiedad, debería consultar con un abogado.

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Q&A: MAITE PERRONI

Mexican actress gives us an introduction to the world of animated eggs within, “Un Rescate De Huevitos”

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NOV 12 - NOV 18, 2021

Q&A: MAITE PERRONI

Actriz mexicana nos brinda una introducción al mundo de los huevos animados dentro de “Un Rescate De Huevitos”

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Arturo Hilario El Observador

te llevan para entender el cómo hacerlo y el cómo darle vida y emociones a estos personajes que surgen de un papel dibujados a lápiz y que de pronto los ves en una pantalla con vida, con sentimientos, con emociones, con color. Es increíble, es mágico, se vuelve algo mágico. Y la verdad es que ha sido una experiencia muy bonita y ya son nueve años de ser parte de esta historia y de esta franquicia que Cartoon Pictures nos ha regalado con "Un Rescate de Huevitos" y con todo lo que han hecho con cada una de estas películas. En fin, hay muchas otras que han llevado a cabo y que al final de cuentas son parte de toda esta franquicia que nos ha permitido también acercarnos al público latino y ofrecerles un proyecto de este nivel y con esta calidad.

aite Perroni has had a diverse career in the arts, from singing and acting on the breakthrough hit show “Rebelde” and its descendant, the Latin Grammy-nominated pop group RBD, to being involved with plenty of telenovelas including Netflix’s recent thriller, “Dark Desire.”

In her newest egg-cellent project, Perroni dives back into her voice acting skills for a return to the Mexican ‘Huevos’ film franchise, this one being titled “Un Rescate De Huevitos,” an animated adventure featuring anthropomorphic eggs fighting for their lives against villainous Russian egg collectors in the African Congo.

Recently we had a conversation about the film and how Perroni finds animation voiceover work compared to in-person acting, how the creators help weave together a coherent and hilarious family film out of isolated actor recordings, and why she recommends people seek out the proudly Mexican made egg adventure, which is now available on the Pantaya streaming service.

Well Maite thank you very much for taking time to talk about the movie "Un Rescate De Huevitos". To begin, could you tell me a little about your character in the film and what is happening in the story?

Yes of course. Well my character is Di. Di is a little chicken that is Toto’s love and Toto and Di have a couple of eggs, these eggs are yellow eggs that they call ‘golden eggs’ and it turns out that they are spectacular eggs and that everyone wants to have them. And then some collectors steal them and take them to Africa because they want to make a very exclusive dish and offer it at a dinner. And so Toto and Di have to get their children back and they have to travel to Africa to save them before they are put on a plate.

And this causes us to have a very funny story, a story full of action, adventure, many emotions, obviously, because imagine what it is like to lose your child, then you have to get him back - and they have to do everything to get them. And in the end, it is a story that will fill us with emotions, with fun, with adventures and what [you’re] going to see is an extraordinary production.

¿Me puedes hablar un poco sobre cómo es colaborar con los coprotagonistas y si trabajas con ellos en persona o no mientras graban sus voces?

Maite Perroni voices one of the titular characters, Di, in the new animated film, “Un Rescate De Huevitos,” which is now on the Pantaya streaming service. Photo Credit: Pantaya / Huevocartoon filming is done, that's when everyone's work comes together and that's when you start to see the interaction.

I did not have to share with any of my colleagues or among them, neither did they. It was like each one arrives, enters the cabin, you start to work, you start building together with your director and then they assemble everything. That is why it is true, we are in their hands, because they are the ones who have a super clear idea of what they want to say, what they have to say and how they are going to make everything come together and work in their favor of the story.

Thanks. And as an actress, how is voice acting different than in-person? Is it easier for you, is it difficult, or is it just different?

It’s different. I believe that each of the forms has its science and has its challenge. And the interesting thing is to learn to carry out both, to be able to do it and to be part of these different ways of telling stories.

Did you have a favorite experience, a memorable moment working on this movie?

The truth is that the result of this material is incredible in terms of the level of graphics, animation, audio, 3D quality, it is impressive. The truth is that the work they achieve makes me very proud as a Mexican, because it is a 100 percent Mexican production full of talent from this country that has so much to offer and what better than a movie like this one that is for the whole family that you love, to have fun. It will entertain you, and that personally fills me with a lot of pride and pleasure.

Yes, I think the moment I enjoy the most is when you already see the movie and see the final result. It is that moment where everything makes sense because you understand everything, you understand what the characters wanted to say, it is understood. Although you already read the script, although you already did your part, although I already gave voice to my character, when you see the end result and you look at the story and you say, "wow, I see," you enjoy it so much more..

And what was it like for you to return to this character and vibrant animated world again?

It's like the excitement of going to the cinema to see a movie, that even though you made it, you feel like you don't know what's up because it's like the first time, because when you really have the opportunity to see it is when all these elements come back as one with the final result.

The truth is that I really like this experience, it is totally different from what I am used to when I am on a set filming a series, a movie or a novela, or whatever I am doing. The experience is totally different, but it is very rewarding because it is meticulous work, it is teamwork.

There are many people who are involved with each of the steps that have to be done to carry out this production and get the final result.

And well [hats off] to the directors, who are the ones who take you to understand how to do it and how to give life and emotions to these characters that emerge from a paper drawn in pencil and which you suddenly see them on a screen, alive, with feelings, with emotions, with color. It's amazing, it's magical. And the truth is that it has been a very beautiful experience and it has already been nine years of being part of this story and of this franchise that Huevocartoon Pictures has given us with, "Un Rescate de Huevitos" and with everything they have done with each one of these films.

In short, there are many others that they have carried out and that in the end are part of this entire franchise that has also allowed us to get closer to the Latino public and offer them a project of this level and with this quality.

Can you tell me a bit about what it's like to collaborate with the co-stars and if you work with them in person or not, while they record their voices?

No, we have not worked in person. The truth is that it is very interesting because you arrive at a recording studio with your directors, which in this case our directors are the producers, the creatives, the scriptwriters, they are really very talented people. And from their hand it’s the way in which it works because you arrive at the studio and together with them you start to tell the story, give it a voice, give it life, give it feelings. Then, when the

Photo Credit: Pantaya / Huevocartoon

And it's so pretty. It's just that it's a very different feeling because you get to the booth and you start telling the character's story and you know the story and you know what it's about. And you've already read the script and you know the other actors and you know how it goes, but until you see it done, it’s not the same. Imagine, it is color, it is life, it is movement, many things. So yeah, it's the thrill of seeing it for the first time, like you don't know what it's about.

Since “Un Rescate De Huevitos” is going to be released on Pantaya in the United States, I wanted to know what the consensus is in Mexico about the film, since it came out there and has been out there for a while.

Well, it did super well, it was number one. Besides, imagine being number one after a pandemic, after everything we have lived through, after everything that has happened, the cinemas did not have much activity.

It was incredible to see the reception of the people and to see that this franchise already has a history, it has a captive audience and we are all eager to see it and to be part of what it continues to tell us.

So yes, fortunately it went super well and had very good results and well now we will be able to see it on the small screen so if you have not been able to see it, see it. And if you already saw it and liked it a lot, watch it again because it is really worth it.

Well, thanks again Maite. Now the last question: why would you recommend this movie to the public?

Because it is a fun, exciting movie for the whole family that talks about how important family unity is.

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aite Perroni ha tenido una carrera diversa en las artes, desde cantar y actuar en el exitoso programa "Rebelde" y su descendiente, el grupo de pop nominado al Grammy Latino RBD, hasta su participación en varias telenovelas, incluido el reciente thriller de Netflix "Dark Desire".

En su nuevo proyecto huevo-celente, Perroni vuelve a sumergirse en sus habilidades de actuación de voz para regresar a la franquicia de Huevos, (una producción totalmente mexicana) esta titulada "Un Rescate De Huevitos", una aventura animada con huevos antropomórficos que luchan por sus vidas contra villanos recolectores de huevos rusos en el Congo africano.

Recientemente tuvimos una conversación con Perroni sobre la película y cómo ella encuentra el trabajo de doblaje de animación en comparación con la actuación en persona, cómo los creadores ayudan a tejer una película familiar coherente y divertida a partir de grabaciones de actores aislados, y por qué recomienda que las personas vayan a buscar esta aventura de huevos que es orgullosamente mexicana. “Un Rescate De Huevitos” ya está disponible en el servicio streaming de Pantaya.

Bueno Maite muchas gracias por tomar tiempo para hablar sobre la película "Un Rescate De Huevitos".

Para empezar ¿me podrías hablar un poco sobre tu participación en la película y que está pasando en la historia?

Claro que sí. Bueno, mi personaje es Di. Di es una gallinita que es la enamorada de Toto y Toto y Di tienen un par de huevos, estos huevos son unos huevos amarillos que les llaman los huevos de oro y resulta que son unos huevos espectaculares y que todo el mundo los quiere tener. Y entonces son unos coleccionistas se los roban y se los llevan hasta África porque quieren hacer un platillo muy exclusivo y ofrecerlo en una cena. Y entonces Toto y Di tienen que recuperar a sus hijos y tienen que viajar hasta África para salvarlos antes de que los pongan en un plato.

Y esto provoca que tengamos una historia muy divertida, una historia llena de acción, de aventura, de muchas emociones, evidentemente, porque imagínate lo que es perder a tu hijo, entonces tienes que recuperarlo y tienen que hacer todo para ir por ellos. Y al final es una historia que nos va a llenar de emociones, de diversión, de aventuras y además vamos a ver una producción extraordinaria. La verdad es que el resultado de este material es increíble porque es una producción que no le pide nada a nadie en cuanto al nivel de gráficos, de animación, de audio, de calidad 3D, es impresionante. La verdad es que el trabajo que logran me enorgullece muchísimo como mexicana, porque es una producción 100 por ciento mexicana llena de talento de este país que tiene tanto que ofrecer y que mejor que una película como esta que es para toda la familia que te va a divertir, te va a entretener, y que a mí personalmente me llena de mucho orgullo y placer.

Y para ti, ¿cómo fue regresar a este mundo animado vibrante de nuevo?

La verdad es que me gusta mucho esta experiencia, es totalmente distinta a lo que estoy acostumbrada cuando estoy en un set filmando una serie, una película o una novela o lo que sea que esté haciendo, es totalmente diferente la experiencia, pero es muy gratificante porque es un trabajo meticuloso, es un trabajo en equipo. Son muchísimas las personas que se involucran con cada uno de los pasos que tienen que hacerse para llevar a cabo esta producción y este resultado final.

Y pues muy de la mano de los directores, que son los que

No, no hemos trabajado en persona. La verdad es que es muy interesante porque tú llegas a un estudio de grabación con tus directores, que en este caso nuestros directores son los productores, los creativos, los directores, los guionistas, o sea, son un talento andando, o sea, de verdad son personas muy talentosas, muy, muy talentosas. Y de la mano de ellos es de la forma en la que se trabaja, porque llegas tú al estudio y junto con ellos empiezas a contar la historia, a darle voz, darle vida, darle sentimientos y ya después, cuando está la película a la vez y es cuando ya se conjuga el trabajo de todos y es ahí cuando empiezas a ver la interacción.

Yo no tuve que compartir con ninguno de mis compañeros ni entre ellos, tampoco lo hicieron. Fue así. Cada uno llega entra en la cabina, empiezas a trabajar, empiezas a construir junto con tu director y ya luego ellos ensamblan todo. Por eso es verdad, estamos en sus manos, porque ellos son los que tienen la idea súper clara de que es lo que quieren contar, qué es lo que tienen que decir y cómo es que van a hacer que luego todo conjugue y funcione a favor de la historia.

Gracias. ¿Y como actriz, cómo es la diferencia actuar de voz que en persona? ¿Para ti es más fácil, difícil o no más es diferente?

Es diferente. Yo creo que cada una de las formas tiene su ciencia y tiene su reto. Y lo interesante es aprender a llevar a cabo las dos, poder hacerlo y poder ser parte de estas distintas formas de contar historias. ¿Tuviste una experiencia favorita, un momento memorable trabajando en esta película?

Sí, yo creo que el momento que más disfruto es cuando ya ves la película y ves el resultado final. Es que es ese, ese momento en donde todo tiene sentido porque entiendes todo, entiendes lo que los personajes querían decir, se entiende, aunque ya leíste el guión, aunque ya hiciste tu parte, aunque ya le disté voz a tu personaje cuando ya ves el resultado final y ves la historia y dices, "guau, claro," lo disfrutas muchísimo más. Es como la emoción de ir al cine a ver una película que aunque tú hiciste, sientes como que no, no sabes qué onda porque es como si fuera la primera vez, porque ya cuando realmente tienes la oportunidad de verla es cuando todos estos elementos se vuelven uno solo con el resultado final.

Y es muy bonito. Es que es una sensación muy distinta porque tú llegas a la cabina y empiezas a contar la historia del personaje y sabes la historia y sabes de qué se trata. Y ya leíste el guión y conoces a los otros actores y sabes cómo va, pero hasta que no lo ves realizado. No, no es lo mismo, no es distinto porque pues imagínate, es color, es vida, es movimiento, muchas cosas. Entonces sí, es la emoción de verla por primera vez, como si no supieras de qué se trata.

Ya que va a salir en Pantaya “Un Rescate De Huevitos” en los estados unidos, quería saber qué es lo que dicen allá en México sobre la película, ya que salió allá y ha estado ahí un rato.

Bueno, pues le fue súper bien, fue número uno. Aparte, imagina tú ser el número uno después de una pandemia, después de todo lo que hemos vivido, después de todo lo que ha sucedido, de que los cines no tenían mucho movimiento. Fue increíble ver la recepción de la gente y ver que ya esta franquicia tiene historia, tiene un público cautivo y que todos estamos deseosos de verla y de poder ser parte de lo que nos sigue contando.

Entonces sí, afortunadamente le fue súper bien y tuvo muy buenos resultados y pues ahora ya la vamos a poder ver en pantalla para que no la haya podido ver, la vea y si ya la vieron y les gustó mucho, la vean otra vez porque vale la pena, la verdad.

Bueno, muchas gracias de nuevo Maite. Ahora la última pregunta: ¿porque recomendarías esta película al público?

Porque es una película divertida, emocionante para toda la familia y que habla de lo importante que es la unión familiar.

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HONDURAS ELECTIONS A TEST FOR DEMOCRACY IN A FAILED STATE

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LAS ELECCIONES EN HONDURAS, UNA PRUEBA PARA LA DEMOCRACIA EN UN ESTADO FALLIDO

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Peter Schurmann and Manuel Ortiz Ethnic Media Services

Tales condiciones están alimentando el éxodo de migrantes del país. Los datos de este año reflejan 168,546 informes separados de hondureños detenidos por funcionarios de inmigración en los Estados Unidos y México, según un informe de junio del Instituto de Política de la Migración. El informe establecía que uno de cada cinco hondureños expresa el deseo de irse del país, con razones que van desde la inestabilidad alimentaria al temor al asalto y el desempleo.

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EGUCIGALPA – A teenage boy is crouched to the side of a building entrance, his tearstained face staring blankly past the police ribbon stretched across the intersection. Inside, a group of indigenous Hondurans are gathered, having traveled to the capital to denounce what they say is the government’s ongoing theft of their ancestral lands.

Para algunos en la capital las próximas elecciones ofrecen poca esperanza para una mejora.

“Sorry about all of this,” the security guard remarks, gesturing to the scene around him. “This is Honduras.”

On November 28, Hondurans will cast their vote for the Central American nation’s next president.

The election comes amid a pall of violence and socioeconomic conditions that rank alongside Haiti as among the lowest in the western hemisphere. For many, Honduras warrants the status of a failed state, and yet there are those here who say the coming elections offer the best — and perhaps last — chance to turn things around.

“These elections are an opportunity to recover the democratic process and to confront the multiple crises impacting the country,” says Gustavo Irias, executive director of CESPAD, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of Honduras’ marginalized communities. “This is a chance for Honduras to recover its sense as a nation.”

That sense of nationhood was shattered in 2009 when the Honduran military ousted former president Manuel Zelaya in a move the United States is thought to have played more than a passive role in. Since then, Honduras has remained under the control of the right-leaning National Party, currently led by President Juan Orlando Hernández, now finishing his second term under a cloud of suspicion over potential links to narco traffickers.

The candidates seeking to replace him include National Party favorite and current Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura, or “Papi” as he is known, and the Libre Party’s Xiomara Castro, wife to ousted former president Zelaya, who has promised to curb the excesses of the free-market policies embraced by her opponent while forging closer ties to China.

Violence, corruption, and poverty, meanwhile, remain endemic features to life here. According to the World Bank, as of 2019, 15% of Hondurans live on less than $2 per day, conditions likely worsened by Covid 19 and the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota last year, with projections of more than half the country falling below the poverty line in 2020.

Such conditions are fueling an exodus of migrants from the country, with data from this year showing 168,546 separate reports of Hondurans detained by immigration officials in the United States and Mexico, according to a June report from the Migration Policy Institute. The report noted 1-in-5 Hondurans express a desire to leave the country, with reasons ranging from food insecurity to fear of assault and unemployment.

For some in the capital the coming elections offer little hope for improvement.

“Nothing is going to change,” says Victor Manuel Mayorga, a public employee who says he has not been able to retire because the government has stolen the state’s pension funds. At 79, Mayorga is part of a tiny minority of senior citizens in a country where the median age is just 24 years old.

Sitting in the city’s central plaza talking soccer with friends, he bemoans the lack of education and health care, and accuses officials of all political stripes of abandoning the country. “I believe in democracy, but in Honduras it is broken. It’s been

The town of Yorito, around 200 km north of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Two years ago residents here drove out a mining company. Many here see the coming elections as an opportunity to change course for their community and the country. Photo Credit: Ethnic Media Services

broken since the coup.”

Still, not everyone is as despairing.

Cesar Nahun Aquino, 44, is an auto mechanic from the town of Yoritos, about 200 km north of Tegucigalpa. The town made headlines two years ago when residents successfully banded together to eject a mining company that had attempted to set up operations in the region.

A member of the Tolupán indigenous community, he ran a transportation company in San Pedro Sula before the Covid 19 pandemic, which he says eviscerated his business. Now he is back in his hometown, a largely agricultural region known for coffee, avocados, and cattle ranching.

“We’re asking for the basics, to get rid of corrupt elections, transparency, to reactivate the local economy so that it benefits people in the community,” says Aquino, a supporter of local mayoral candidate Freddy Murio, a formerly undocumented migrant who spent 12 years working construction in New York before returning to his hometown two years ago. “We have to start with our municipality before we can begin to change the country.”

Back in the capital, officials acknowledge no single election will solve the challenges confronting Honduras. But they stress protecting the integrity of the vote and securing the democratic process in November are key to repairing the ongoing damage caused by the coup in 2009.

“The only opportunity for the country to build a democratic foundation is through the coming elections,” says Rixi Moncada, a lawyer and part of a three-person rotating chair with the newly created National Electoral Council, or CNE as it’s known by its Spanish acronym.

The CNE, responsible for delivering the final vote tally once the polls close, was created following widespread irregularities and violence that marked elections in 2017. Along with the National Registry of Persons and the Clean Politics Unit — tasked with monitoring campaign finance in a nation where drug money and politics are inextricably intertwined — these three institutions are responsible for ensuring election integrity.

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“Nada va a cambiar”, dice Victor Manuel Mayorga, empleado público que dice que no ha podido jubilarse porque el gobierno ha robado los fondos de pensión del estado. A los 79 años, Mayorga es parte de una minoría diminuta de personas mayores en un país en el que la edad media es de tan solo 24 años.

Sentado en la plaza central de la ciudad hablando con amigos sobre el fútbol, se queja de la falta de educación y atención médica, y culpa a los funcionarios de todos los colores políticos de haber abandonado al país. “Creo en la democracia, pero en Honduras está rota. Ha estado rota desde el golpe”.

EGUCIGALPA – Un adolescente está sentado de cuclillas al lado de la entrada de un edificio, su cara manchada de lágrimas mirando perdidamente más allá de la cinta policial extendida a través de la intersección. Adentro, un grupo de hondureños indígenas están reunidos. Han viajado a la capital para denunciar lo que dicen es el robo continuo de sus tierras ancestrales por parte del gobierno.

Aún así, no todo el mundo está tan desesperado.

“Perdón por todo esto”, comenta el guardia de seguridad, al indicar la escena a su alrededor. “Esto es Honduras”.

Miembro de la comunidad indígena de Tolupán, llevaba una compañía de transporte en San Pedro Sula antes de la pandemia de la COVID-19, la cual, dice, destripó su negocio. Ahora está de vuelta en su pueblo natal, una región predominantemente agrícola conocida por el café, el aguacate y la ganadería.

El 28 de noviembre, los hondureños emitirán su voto para elegir al próximo presidente del país centroamericano. Las elecciones vienen en medio de una sombría ola de violencia y condiciones socio económicas que se sitúan, junto con Haití, entre las peores del hemisferio occidental. Para muchos, Honduras merece el estatus de estado fallido, y aún así hay aquí quienes dicen que las próximas elecciones ofrecen la mejor – y posiblemente la última – oportunidad para cambiar las cosas.

“Estas elecciones presentan una oportunidad para recuperar el proceso democrático y enfrentar las múltiples crisis que afectan al país”, dice Gustavo Irias, director ejecutivo de CESPAD, una organización sin ánimo de lucro que aboga en nombre de las comunidades marginadas de Honduras.

“Esta es una oportunidad para que Honduras recupere su sentido como nación”.

Ese sentido de condición de nación se rompió en 2009 cuando las fuerzas armadas hondureñas expulsaron al antiguo presidente Manuel Zelaya en una maniobra en la que se piensa que Estados Unidos tuvo un papel más que pasivo. Desde entonces, Honduras ha permanecido bajo el control del Partido Nacional, con inclinación hacia la derecha, actualmente dirigido por el Presidente Juan Orlando Hernández, que está acabando ahora su segundo cuatrienio bajo una nube de sospechas sobre posibles vínculos con narcotraficantes.

Moncada, a former member of the Zelaya administration, admits it is no easy task.

Los candidatos que buscan sustituirlo incluyen el alcalde actual de Tegucigalpa y el favorito del Partido Nacional, Nasry Asfura, o “Papi” como lo conocen, y la esposa del derrocado antiguo presidente Zelaya, Xiomara Castro del Partido Libre, que prometió contener los excesos de las políticas del mercado libre adoptadas por su oponente mientras estrecha lazos con China.

“No one is prepared for the criminality,” she says, referring to the ongoing political violence that she sees as an extension of the 2009 coup, including the recent murder of mayoral candidate and member of the opposition Libre Party, Nery Reyes, who was killed earlier this month. No one has been arrested yet in his murder. “We are prepared for the process.”

Mientras tanto, la violencia, la corrupción y la pobreza siguen siendo características endémicas a la vida aquí. Según el Banco Mundial, desde 2019, el 15% de los hondureños vive con menos de $2 por día, condiciones que seguramente empeoraron a causa de la COVID-19 y el impacto de los huracanes Eta y Iota el año pasado, con predicciones de que más de la mitad del país cayó por debajo del umbral de la pobreza en 2020.

Cesar Nahun Aquino, de 44 años, es mecánico de autos del pueblo de Yoritos, a unos 200 km al norte de Tegucigalpa. El pueblo fue noticia hace dos años cuando los vecinos se unieron con éxito para expulsar a una compañía de explotación minera que había intentado establecer operaciones en la región.

“Estamos pidiendo lo básico, la eliminación de las elecciones corruptas, la transparencia, la reactivación de la economía local para que beneficie a las personas de la comunidad”, dice Aquino, partidario del candidato a alcalde local, Freddy Murio, un antiguo migrante sin papeles que pasó 12 años trabajando en la construcción en Nueva York antes de volver a su pueblo natal hace dos años. “Tenemos que comenzar con nuestro municipio antes de que podamos comenzar a hacer cambios en el país”.

De vuelta en la capital, los funcionarios reconocen que ninguna elección resolverá los desafíos que enfrenta Honduras. Pero insisten que proteger la integridad del voto y asegurar el proceso democrático en noviembre son clave para la reparación del daño continúo causado por el golpe de 2009.

“La única oportunidad para que el país construya una base democrática es a través de las próximas elecciones”, dice Rixi Moncada, abogada y parte de la presidencia rotativa de tres personas en el recién creado Concejo Nacional Electoral (CNE).

El CNE, que es responsable de entregar el recuento final de votos una vez que cierren las casillas, fue creado después de las extendidas irregularidades y violencia que marcaron las elecciones de 2017.

Junto con el Registro Nacional de las Personas y la Unidad de Política Limpia – encargados de controlar las finanzas de campaña en un país en el que el dinero de la droga y la política están inextricablemente entrelazados – estas tres instituciones son responsables de asegurar la integridad electoral.

Moncada, antigua diputada del gobierno de Zelaya, admite que no es tarea fácil.

“Nadie está preparado para la criminalidad”, dice, refiriéndose a la violencia política continua que ve como una extensión del golpe de 2009, incluyendo el asesinato reciente del candidato a alcalde y miembro del Partido Libre de la oposición, Nery Reyes, que fue asesinado este mes. Aún no se ha detenido a nadie en conexión con su asesinato. “Estamos preparados para el proceso”.

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