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GINSBURG’S IMPACT on women spanned age groups, Backgrounds

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By Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writer

Sure, there were the RBG bobbleheads, the Halloween getups, the lace collars, the workout videos. The “I dissent” T-shirts, the refrigerator magnets, the onesies for babies or costumes for cats. And yes, the face masks, with slogans like: “You can’t spell TRUTH without RUTH.” See IMPACT page 2

By Barbara Feder Ostrov CALMatters

As schools throughout California tiptoe toward reopening, decisions about whether to routinely test teachers, staff and even students for the COVID-19 virus are proving controversial – and potentially costly.

In addition to prevention measures like mandatory masks, handwashing and social distancing on campus, regular testing of school employees could help prevent new outbreaks if the virus is still circulating in the community, public health experts say.

California public health officials largely have left testing choices to individual counties, suggesting only that school districts work with county health officers to periodically test teachers and staff, depending on community transmission levels and “as lab capacity allows.”

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In this Oct. 29, 2015, photo provided by The Lower Eastside Girls Club, members of the club pose with author Shana Knizhnik, second from right, at a book launch event for “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Irin Carmon and Knizhnik, in New York. Younger women and girls say they were inspired by the late justice’s achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. (Allana Clarke/The Lower Eastside Girls Club via AP)

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America is still healing from several violent murders of unarmed Black men and women at the hands of law enforcement officers across the country. But that climate in the country, volatile and fraught with distrust and disagreement, did not stop members of the California Correctional Peace Officer Association (CCPOA) from placing a gun target on the photo of a Black lawmaker in California.

The CCPOA, in a two-minute political video, clearly displayed an image of a “crosshair” symbol over the face of State Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) at the 1-minute-20-second mark of the clip, which was widely circulated before it was deleted.

“From what I saw, there were no Black correctional officers in the video, no Black representation,” the Rev. Jonathan E.D. Moseley, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Action Network, told California Black Media (CBM).

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“It was a despicable piece of propaganda. It was not just targeting elected officials, it targeted an elected Black official,” he continued.

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Glen Stailey, a correctional officer and CCPOA’s state president, posted the video on Facebook.

CCPOA is supporting a candidate who is running against Jones-Sawyer in the November General Election.

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Brooklyn where Ginsburg was born, and whose family comes from Mali and Senegal. “She’s what I’ve always wanted to be, and still want to be.”

But the pop culture status that Ruth Bader Ginsburg found _ or rather, that found her _ in recent years was just a sideshow, albeit one that amused her, to the unique and profound impact she had on women’s lives. First as a litigator who fought tenaciously for the courts to recognize equal rights for women, one case at a time, and later as the second woman to sit on the hallowed bench of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg left a legacy of achievement in gender equality that had women of varied ages and backgrounds grasping for words this weekend to describe what she meant to them.

Sall says she was fascinated by what she learned about Ginsburg when she attended an event at the Lower Eastside Girl’s Club in Manhattan for the 2015 book, “Notorious RBG,” by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik (the title played on the name of Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G.) That book was part of a wave of rock-star like fame that enveloped Ginsburg in her later years on the bench, making her a hero to a younger generation: There was also a famed impression by Kate McKinnon on “Saturday Night Live,” a feature film, starring Felicity Jones as Ginsburg, and the hit documentary “RBG,” both in 2018.

“She was my teacher in so many ways,” said Gloria Steinem, the nation’s most visible feminist leader, in an interview. But even if she hadn’t known her personally, Steinem said, it was due to Ginsburg, who died Friday at 87 of complications of cancer, that “for the first time I felt the Constitution was written for me.”

“Now, it wasn’t written for me _ it left out most folks, actually, when it was written,” Steinem added. But, she said, by forcing the courts to address issues like workplace discrimination, sexual assault and a host of others, Ginsburg “literally made me feel as if I had access to the law, because Ruth was there.”

But the extent of Ginsburg’s influence was felt not only by older women like Steinem, 86, who understood from experience the obstacles Ginsburg faced, such as not being able to find a job at a New York law firm despite graduating at the top of her class at Columbia Law School.

Younger women and girls also say they were inspired by the justice’s achievements, her intellect and her fierce determination as she pursued her career. Hawa Sall, 20, a first-generation college student in New York, said it was Ginsburg who inspired her to attend Columbia, where she’s now an undergraduate studying human rights and planning on law school.

“Her resilience, her tenacity, her graciousness through it all _ she’s always been one of my biggest inspirations in life,” said Sall, who lives in

Julie Cohen and Betsy West, who co-directed “RBG,” saw firsthand how women of all ages quickly identified with Ginsburg.

“We’d go to screenings ... and afterward older women who had been through the kind of discrimination she faced as a young woman would be sobbing ... because they knew what she was up against, and what she did to help them and their daughters and granddaughters,” West said.

But also, Cohen added: “She became a huge symbolic figure for young women and even girls in a way that we hadn’t anticipated. So many children came to the movie, often little girls dressed in little robes. ... Girls seemed to find her just mesmerizing.”

West theorizes the fascination might have come from Ginsburg’s small stature. Her legacy, though, was nothing less than enormous, she said: “She changed the world for American women.”

It wasn’t just Democratic-leaning women who praised Ginsburg. Stacey Feeback, a 33-year-old Fayetteville, North Carolina, voter at a weekend rally for President Donald Trump, said the justice was “an inspirational woman.”

“She meant a lot to the (women’s) movement,” Feeback said. “She’s been an inspiration. She’s brought America and women forward in a generation.”

Ginsburg first gained fame as a litigator for the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil

Liberties Union, which she directed in the ‘70s.

The project marked “a real turning point for situating women’s rights not just as a gender issue, but as a civil rights issue that affected all of us,” said Ria Tabacco Mar, its current head.

At the time, the Supreme Court had never applied the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws” to strike down a law because of gender discrimination. That changed in 1971 with a case in which Ginsburg helped persuade the high court to invalidate an Idaho law that called for choosing men over women to administer the estates of the dead.

Two years later, she again prevailed _ making her first oral argument before the high court she would later join _ in the case of a female Air Force officer whose husband was denied spousal benefits that male officers’ wives automatically received.

“For every gender injustice that we see today, Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw it first, and she fought it first,” said Tabacco Mar. Devi Rao, one of Ginsburg’s law clerks in 2013, said the justice had taught her that “law isn’t just about the law _ it’s about the people whose lives are impacted by those laws.”

Rao, who now works on appellate cases for a civil rights firm, said Ginsburg “distinguished herself in a man’s world and on a man’s court without looking like them or sounding like them, but simply because they couldn’t deny the power of her ideas. She teaches women and girls not to count themselves out even though they don’t look like those in power.”

It’s that lesson that mothers like Brianne Burger hope their daughters will understand. Earlier this year, Burger posted a photo of her daughter Adi, 5, on Facebook, outfitted as RBG in black robe and glasses for a school dress-up day in Washington, D.C. The girl came home delighted, her mother said, that so many people recognized her costume.

“She still talks about that day,” said Burger.

Asked what Adi understands about Ginsburg, the mother replied: “She knows that RBG made girls equal to boys.’’

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The crosshair symbol is commonly used figuratively to connote that someone or something is being targeted. Whether it’s a sniper, police officer, or a citizen practicing at a range, shooters rely on actual crosshairs in firearm viewfinders to mark the object of their impending gunfire, before they squeeze the trigger.

“It is unconscionable that the president of a peace officer’s association would use such a scare tactic that could incite someone to take action and cause harm,” said Jones-Sawyer, who has asked the Assembly Sergeant-at-Arms for additional security. He has also requested that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra investigate.

In the video, Stailey is shown staring at a wall lined with photos.

Other individuals are standing by him. He is specifically pointing his finger at the photo of Jones-Sawyer, which is covered by the crosshairs target symbol.

“CCPOA is prepared to take the lead and speak the loudest. We are going to demand that the increased violence and assault on peace officers are addressed and the perpetrators are held accountable to the highest degree,” Stailey says in the video, pointing to Jones-Sawyer’s photo.

Alice Huffman, president of the California-Hawaii branch of the NAACP, watched the video. She told CBM that it was “heartbreaking.”

“This is hurtful and despicable,” she said. “At its best, this video See POLICE page 16

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Trump and The Senate’s

Adding Fuel to the Fire of Our Pandemics

Trampling of The Constitution

By Rev. Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

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Our Constitution deliberately contains three branches of government. They are designed to provide checks and balances and they are what makes democracy work for “We the People.” But we, the people, have been removed from the equation when those like the President, the Senate and the Attorney General conspire to compromise the Constitution by consolidating the powers of each Branch of Government under one person.

Let’s be more specific. Article I of the Constitution gives the Legislative Branch - the Congress - composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the power to make laws.

Article II of the Constitution gives the Executive Branch the power to carry out those laws, with the Congress retaining oversight and appropriation controls over the agencies under the Executive Branch. Article III gives the Judiciary authority over handling disputes, when they arise. Dispute between the actions of the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch over how their actions affect “We The People.”

When the President and the Senate, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell, conspire to stack the U.S. Supreme Court with their judicial appointments absent any “true Advise and Consent” selection elements as required by the Constitution, representation of the people - which should be reflected in Court appointments - no longer exists.

Hence, the concept of separation of powers as envisioned by the Founding Fathers is compromised.

The solution rests with “We the People.”

“We the People” must rise up and take control of those usurping the powers of the Constitution. In this case, we must use the coming November election to change the Executive Branch of Government by replacing Donald Trump as President, first and foremost.

Next, we must continue to change the Legislative Branch by retaining Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives and replacing those Republican Senators who have forsaken their Oath of Office to “Protect and Defend” the Constitution in exchange for an unwritten Oath to Mitch McConnell. To McConnell, the man, and not the institution to which they were elected by “The People.” We need the American people to contact the Republican Senators from each of our states to demand that they not vote to fill the Supreme Court vacancy before the election and installation of the President following this November 3rd election.

If Trump, God forbid, is re-elected, then he would be within the Constitutional right to represent “The People” in making his judicial appointment. It would be preceded by a hearing on such a nominee in the U.S. Senate which will have some new members as a result of “We the People” voting on such vacancies. Why is this so important in spite of the Pandemic? If Trump is allowed to use McConnell to place a third member on the U.S. Supreme Court, the judges will reflect a 6 to 3 conservative majority for generations to come. This means that the Court’s decisions on such issues as the Affordable Care Act with its pre-existing conditions coverage will be wiped out with no replacement offered by the Republicans in the Congress.

“We the People” lose. Decisions affecting a “woman’s right to choose”, labor issues and most laws granting power and relief to the people will then go in the direction of the interests of business and people of wealth. Like the billions of dollars under the CARES legislation that went to corporate america instead of healthcare providers and “We the People”.

For better understanding, the following example is offered.

In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy vs. Ferguson decided that “Separate But Equal” would be the law of the land. It segregated Black people from Whites and created the “Jim Crow” culture that deemed Blacks inferior and not allowed to use public facilities with Whites on an equal basis as we do today. It took the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision to reverse that 1896 ruling and grant “Equal Protection of the Laws” as allowed under the 14th Amendment. 60 years. The protection did not exist at the time of the Plessy Decision by the Court. This is the difference between who sits on the Bench of the Supreme Court and what views they represent.

LET’S FLOOD THE U.S. SENATE WITH TELEPHONE CALLS AND EMAILS DEMANDING THAT THE WISHES OF THE LATE JUSTICE RGB CONCERNING HER VACANCY BE HONORED. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES AND THE GENERATIONS TO COME.

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The Omission of Blacks In Local Political Polling If we have missed something then we offer our most sincere apologies, but it appears as though Black people, which includes African Americans and Africans in San Diego County, are not being counted by local pollsters.

The recent Poll released by Channel 10 and the San Diego Union Tribune reported a sampling of 534 persons to determine the distance between Georgette Gomez and Sara Jacobs in the 53rd District Congressional Race. The Poll reported the number of Whites, Hispanics and Asians that were contacted for polling opinions on the race between Gomez and Jacobs. The Poll did not show any sampling of African Americans or other Black voters nor the Native American community. Citizens by birth and naturalization in all these communities are registered voters. They are probably some of the 38% undecided mentioned in the Poll. But where are these communities listed?

An earlier poll concerning the race for Mayor of San Diego reflected the same omission of African Americans and Africans as well as other naturalized citizens as registered voters. These omissions are very important considering the national efforts of voter suppression, purging of election roles, removal of mail boxes and mail sorting machines which the Courts recently demanded be restored.

To the residents of these omitted categories of potential voters, we remind you that you must participate in order to be counted. Hopefully there will be no more selective polling at the expense of the very people who were responsible for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because of efforts to restrict voting by many of the methods mentioned in this editorial.

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Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis.

The great Rome fire took place in the first century AD. The fiddle wasn’t invented until the eleventh century, so it is unlikely that the hedonistic emperor played the fiddle while his city was burning. More likely, he was engaged in some trivial or sybaritic act, regardless of the crisis.

Our 45th President puts Nero to shame. Our country is burning, with COVID cases rising, racial tensions rising. The President is pouring fuel on an already-flaming fire with his callous indifference, ineffective leadership, and irresponsible proclamations. He has so utterly failed to provide a national plan to combat corona that Republican governors have called him out. Notably, Maryland governor Larry Hogan, who chairs the National Governor’s Association, excoriated Mr. Trump in a July 16 Washington Post op-ed noting that our President seemed “more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans.” That’s fiddling while Rome burns.

Forty-five fanned the flames of fear and uncertainty about COVID-19 with false comments about the virus. First, he said it was going to go away, and that it was no more severe than the flu. Then he suggested a drug, hydroxychloroquine, that has proven to be ineffective. Then he “jokingly” suggested Lysol or bleach to cure the virus. He has prioritized the economy over human lives, urging governors to open their states up for commerce, even as the number of COVID cases has risen. Still, he and his Education Secretary are urging the full reopening of schools for full-time in-person instruction, even though the numbers suggest otherwise.

They are saying they schools that fail to meet their demands will forfeit federal dollars— fuel to the fire.

Since the economy closed in late March, there has been plenty of time to develop a coordinated response to COVID 19, develop a back-to-school plan, and get school districts the additional resources they need to serve our nation’s young people effectively. Instead, he says

he is leaving it to the states, just like he left the acquisition of personal protective equipment to the states. Why doesn’t he do his job instead of playing golf?

Fiddling while Rome burns, the President and his daughter Ivanka, are auditioning as shills for Goya Foods. The President photographed in the Oval Office with an assortment of Goya Foods and a maniacal grin. The First daughter posted a picture of herself, holding a can of black beans. More than 135,000 people are dead, and the first family is hawking beans!

The President’s comments on both masks and race are incendiary. It is irresponsible to making face coverings a matter of individual choice while COVID infections are rising. Politicizing masks causes tension among citizens who share public space. In Tulsa, Rev. Robert Turner has rallied outside xxx for reparations every Wednesday for the past two years. On July 15, a rabid anti-mask white mob surrounded him, poured water on him, called him “boy,” and assaulted him. Confederate flag-loving Trump has empowered these racists to behave horribly.

And the President’s idiocy on the Confederate flag suggests he does not know history. His refusal to utter the words “Black Lives Matter” reminds us (but we already knew) that he doesn’t think Black Lives Matter. His request that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace apologize for reacting when he found a noose in his area was spacious. His response to a CBS interviewer who asked him about Black people’s police shooting was to note that white people are shot by police, too. “More white people, by the way,” the deflector-in-Chief said. Black people are 2.8 times as likely to be killed as whites, but perhaps the President does not understand the concept of disproportionality.

Since the President refuses to develop a national plan to address the corona pandemic, even as the death toll increases, deaths increase, let him hawk beans. He is far more adept at that task than he is ar running the country.

Dr. Julianne Malveux is a DCbased economist and author.

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STATE AND LOCAL NEWS SANTEE COUPLE

Awarded $6K in Housing

Discrimination Case HUD Approves Agreement involving California Housing Providers Accused Of Denying Rental to Family with Children

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Monday that it has approved a Conciliation Agreement between Woodglen Vista Housing Partners, LP, which owns rental properties in Santee, California, and its management company, FPI Management, Inc., and a couple who alleged that the housing providers refused to rent a two-bedroom unit to them because they have three children. Under the settlement, the housing providers agreed, among other things, to pay $6,000 to the couple.

The Fair Housing Act makes it unlawful to deny or limit housing because a family has children under the age of 18, make statements that discriminate against families with children, or impose different rules, restrictions or policies on them.

“Having children shouldn’t be a reason to be denied a place to call home,” said Anna María Farías, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal

U.S. SURGEON GENERAL

TOURS CITY AND COUNTY COVID-19 RESPONSE SITES The Nation’s Doctor Visits Operation Shelter to Home, Helix Lab that Have Protected Homeless, Minority Communities

Opportunity. “HUD is committed to taking appropriate action when housing providers fail to meet their obligation to comply with the Fair Housing Act.” “In addition to providing monetary compensation to the couple and issuing a modified Tenant Selection Plan to all staff and residents under their purview, the housing providers will have their staff undergo fair housing training ,” said Regional Administrator Christopher Patterson. “HUD will continue working with housing providers to assure that families with children are afforded the same housing choices as those without them.”

Persons who believe they have experienced housing discrimination may file a complaint of discrimination by contacting HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at (800) 669-9777 or visiting How to File a Complaint on HUD’s website at www.hud.org. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing may contact the Department using the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

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Making a stop in San Diego last week, Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams, U.S. Surgeon General, met with Nick Macchione, Director of the County’s Health and Human Services Agency; Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer; and other County of San Diego Public Health Officials to tour Operation Shelter to Home at the San Diego Convention Center and the diagnostic testing service developed by Helix – two key actions taken locally to help protect San Diegans during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

“From the pandemic’s outset, the County recognized innovative partnerships and a health-equity approach were critical to our response,” said Macchione, who is overseeing the County’s T3 strategy for testing, tracing and treating.

“My time in San Diego has given me unique insight to bring back to Washington,” Dr. Adams said. “I especially appreciated the opportunity to learn about these local efforts to protect both the most vulnerable among us, the minority populations who have been more susceptible to the virus, and the cross-sector partnerships supporting the health of San Diego’s citizens.”

Clients and staff at the Convention Center are screened daily by temperature check and tested regularly for COVID-19. So far, only 21 residents and staff at the shelter have tested positive out of more than 7,700 tests administered. The shelter is a collaborative effort between the City, County, Regional Task Force on the Homeless, San Diego Housing Commission, Convention Center and shelter providers.

Following a tour of the shelter, Dr. Adams visited Helix, a San Diego-based lab that launched a PCRbased COVID-19 diagnostic testing service in early June to meet the needs of health systems, governments, employers and other organizations in California and across the country. The public-private partnership increased countywide testing capabilities by 2,000 tests per day.

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claims for 2 weeks Employment Development Department for more than 21 days, the state said in a news release.

There are also 1 million cases where residents received payments but are awaiting a resolution to their modified claims.

The Employment Development Department has been hampered throughout the pandemic by outdated technology at a time when California is seeing an unprecedented wave of unemployment claims. While the department estimates that about 2.1 million residents were out of work statewide last month, California’s unemployment rate fell to 11.4% in August, down from 13.5% in July.

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Operation Shelter to Home launched on April 1 to protect San Diegans experiencing homelessness by allowing for greater physical distancing, strict health guidelines and proactive COVID-19 testing. The shelter has been lauded for its ability to successfully manage a population of more than 1,000 individuals every night and keep a low positivity rate among shelter clients, staff and volunteers.

California will not accept new unemployment claims for the next two weeks as the state works to prevent fraud and reduce a backlog as more than 2 million people are out of work statewide during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said late Saturday.

Anyone who files new claims until Oct. 5 will be asked to provide contact information so the Employment Development Department can reach out after the two weeks is over. Californians who are already in the unemployment system are not expected to see an interruption in their payments during the two-week period.

Nearly 600,000 Californians are part of a backlog where their unemployment claims have not been processed by the state’s

The state has 1.6 million pending unemployment claims that still need eligibility verification, according to the Sacramento

Bee. Officials officials do not expect that to be resolved until late January.

The state plans to implement a new online identity verification tool during the two-week period that would reduce the number of claims needed to be processed by hand and potentially reduce suspected fraud. ``New claimants should not see a delay in benefit payments, and in fact many of them will actually get their payments faster as they avoid the older time-intensive ID Verification process,’’ Employment Development Department Director Sharon Hilliard wrote in a letter dated Friday to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Hilliard’s actions, including the two-week pause on new claims, stem from recommendations made by an unemployment ``strike team’’ that was appointed

by Newsom in July. The governor wanted the team to address the current unemployment issues from the pandemic, as well as consider long-term solutions to get the department better suited for future economic downturns.

GLEANS LESSONS FOR THE NATION Congress heard testimony Wednesday from Executive Director Peter V. Lee on lessons learned from the pandemic and how to improve the Affordable Care Act Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

Covered California issued a new report on Tuesday that detailed how it set a record for enrollment by meeting the needs of Californians and promoting enrollment in the face of pandemic and recession. The report, “Coverage When You Need It: Lessons From Insurance Coverage Transitions in California’s Individual Marketplace Pre- and Post- the COVID-19 Pandemic,” shows that as of June 2020, 1.53 million people were actively enrolled in Covered California, which represents the highest figure since the marketplace first opened its doors in 2014.

“This recession is the first test for the Affordable Care Act in a down economy,” said Peter V. Lee, executive director of Covered California. “We do not celebrate higher enrollment, since it is evidence of too many people losing job-based coverage, but we are showing that when people need us most, Covered California is here to help.”

Covered CA Executive Director Peter V. Lee in 2015 credit: State of Reform

The record enrollment was bolstered by 289,000 people who signed up for coverage during the COVID-19 special-enrollment period, including 21 percent who were previously uninsured and likely ineligible to enroll under federal rules. Covered California established a COVID-19 special-enrollment period from March 20 to Aug. 31, which allowed any eligible uninsured individual to enroll.

In addition, the exchange spent $9 million on an ad campaign to spread the word to those who needed coverage during the crisis.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Verdict against young artists

in Sudan stirs controversy

By Samy Magdy Associated Press A Sudanese court’s decision to send five young artists to prison has stirred controversy both in Sudan and abroad, with activists and rights groups calling for judicial reforms following last year’s pro-democracy uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

The artists—known for their support for the uprising—were convicted and sentenced Thursday to two months in prison on charges of public disturbance and violating public safety measures by a criminal court in the capital, Khartoum, their lawyer Othman al-Basry said.

The artists were also fined 5,000 Sudanese pounds ($90) each, the lawyer said. The verdict can be appealed.

Among the jailed artists is award-winning filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, whose films “Beats of the

Antonov” and “aKasha” were exhibited at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. Kuka was invited earlier this year to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.

“The judiciary system continues to be heavily influenced by the militant Islamist ideology of the ex-regime, which criminalized freedom of association and arts and undermined the existence of women in the public sphere,” said the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, or SIHA. Sudan has been on a fragile path to democracy since the popular uprising led the military to overthrow al-Bashir in April 2019. A military-civilian government now rules the country, with elections possible in late 2022.

The Sudanese Professionals’ Association, which spearheaded

the uprising against al-Bashir, condemned the verdict against the artists.

The ruling has also grabbed the attention of film professionals worldwide, many of whom sent an open letter to the government calling for the artists’ release.

Cameron Bailey, the artistic director of Toronto Film Festival, voiced his frustration in a tweet Friday: “Hajooj is an exceptional filmmaker. . Now he’s been jailed in Sudan. We need to make some noise about this.”

The case dates back to August, when a group of artists was rehearsing with the Civic Lab artistic group in Khartoum. Neighbors complained about noise, and the event organizers lowered the volume, but the neighbors did not leave and continued to shout at them, according to al-Basry, the

lawyer.

One of the neighbors Filmmaker Hajooj Kuka, one of the sentenced artists p hy s i c a l l y jailed in Sudan. Photo by YouTube attacked Duaa Tarig, video shared online. an artist and office manager for Civic Lab, before others started SIHA, the women’s rights NGO, beating the artists and staff as accused authorities of handling well as throwing stones at them, the case in a “biased and politial-Basry said. cized environment.” It said Tarig’s attempts to file a complaint against Police forces arrested eleven artists the investigator who allegedly including Tarig, who has accused an investigator of slapping her until assaulted her were denied several she fainted after she took issue times. The group called for their with him photographing her with immediate release. his phone, their lawyer said. The remaining six are awaiting their A government spokesman did not trial on similar charges Thursday, respond to phone calls by The he said.

Associated Press on Sunday seeking comment. Sudan’s Youth and While in detention, the artists proSports Minister Walaa al-Boushi tested and chanted slogans simivisited the jailed artists on Saturday lar to those they’d used during the to show solidarity with them. uprising, according to a 30-second

Chef wants to give African food a bigger stage

By Ian Mcnulty The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate Serigne Mbaye sees links to the food of his ancestral home of Senegal all around his adopted home of New Orleans, in the gumbo, the rice dishes, even the beignets.

The young chef wants to build new connections through modern New Orleans cooking, and one avenue is a series of collaborations with local restaurants.

That series begins next week (Sept.

22) in conjunction with chef Marcus Jacobs, of Marjie’s Grill, the MidCity restaurant known for its own exploratory approach of different cooking cultures. Kin, Willie Mae’s Scotch House, MoPho, Bywater

American Bistro, Turkey & the Wolf and Mosquito Supper Club are all on deck for the weeks ahead.

“African cuisine doesn’t get as much credit as it should, so how can I show people how it connects to other cuisines?” said Mbaye. “Making dishes with these different chefs, I think it shows how Senegalese cuisine is part of so many cuisines and can be related to them.”

At 27, Mbaye had already racked up a remarkable resume in the highest levels of American cuisine, cooking at Commander’s Palace and the Michelin-starred restaurants L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon in New York and

Atelier Crenn in San Francisco.

Today, he runs a recurring pop-up called Dakar NOLA at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum. Mbaye is working to eventually turn Dakar NOLA into a full-service New Orleans restaurant.

He’s driven by a mission to see the flavors of Senegal recognized and celebrated in the same way as French or Italian cuisine, both through traditional preparations and the kind of creative energy chefs bring with their own interpretations.

“My idea is to bring classic and modern together in a way that makes sense for people of different gener-

ations,” said Mbaye. “The dishes I cook are traditional to Senegal but based on my technique and style and what I’ve learned.”

His changing pop-up menus for Dakar NOLA show the cornerstones of Senegalese cooking—with its prevalent French, Portuguese and regional African elements—with nods to the local Creole style, itself a tapestry of influences. At a recent pop-up, redfish yassa paired a deftly cooked local catch with aromatic caramelized onion and roasted sweet potato; fonio, an ancient millet grain of Africa, soft and earthy, became a salad with tomatoes and cucumber and lemon vinaigrette; akara, the

Photo of Serigne Mbaye by YouTube

black-eyed pea fritters, filled a sandwich heaped with more melting, caramelized onions on crusty ciabatta from Gracious Bakery.

By showcasing traditional food in new ways, Mbaye hopes he can keep the story of its roots and global reach alive.

“If that doesn’t happen, I’m worried the culture will die,” he said.

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Pandemic retools diplomacy as world leaders gather virtually

By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press With COVID-19 still careening across the planet, the annual gathering of its leaders in New York will be replaced this year by a global patchwork of prerecorded speeches, another piece of upheaval in a deeply divided world turned topsy-turvy by a pandemic with no endpoint in sight.

As U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put it: “The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis unlike any in our lifetimes, and so this year’s General Assembly session will be unlike any other, too.”

This is the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations that there will be no in-person meeting. Gone will be the accompanying traffic jams, street closures for VIP motorcades, stepped-up security to protect leaders and noisy crowds in the halls of the sprawling United Nations complex overlooking New York’s East River.

Only one diplomat from each of the U.N.’s 193 member nations will be allowed into the vast General Assembly hall. All will be socially distanced and masked.

Guterres said the virtual meeting will see speeches from “the largest number of heads of state and government ever”—171, according to the latest speakers list.

World leaders are not barred from

coming to speak in person. But presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and ministers travel with large entourages and at a time of pandemic and quarantine requirements, including in New York City, the General Assembly members agreed that crowds needed to be avoided.

They recommended that leaders each deliver a 15-minute pre-recorded speech, to be shown in the assembly hall and introduced by the ambassador or a diplomat from the country.

Turkish diplomat and politician Volkan Bozkir, who took over the one-year presidency of the General Assembly on Tuesday, said 10 leaders wanted to come to the U.N. to speak including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He lamented that they aren’t able to because of US quarantine requirements.

Even though reports said U.S. President Donald Trump as the one leader who could travel to New York. Even though reports say he will not be appearing in person, the metal barricades police always put in place for a presidential visit went up Friday along First Avenue outside the United Nations.

The high-level meetings began Monday with a commemoration of the U.N.’s 75th anniversary, including statements from world leaders and formal adoption of a declaration

approved by all 193 member nations.

It recalls the U.N.’s successes and failures and calls for “greater action” to build a post-pandemic world that is more equal, works together and protects the planet.

The United Nations was born out of the horrors of World War II with a mission to save succeeding generations from the scourge of conflict.

The declaration says the U.N. has helped mitigate dozens of conflicts and saved hundreds of thousands of lives through humanitarian action.

But it points to a world “plagued by growing inequality, poverty, hunger, armed conflicts, terrorism, insecurity, climate change, and pandemics.”

“The stakes could not be higher,” Guterres told a news conference Wednesday.

He pointed to an “out-of-control” pandemic that has claimed nearly a million lives and stressed the need for a deeply divided world to unite not only to defeat the coronavirus and ensure that “a people’s vaccine” is available to all people but to make a collective push for peace.

Monday’s anniversary commemoration was followed by Tuesday’s opening of the virtual high-level meeting, starting with Guterres’ in-person speech on the state of the world in which he repeated his March 23 call for a global cease-fire, this time by the end of the year.

Photo of the United Nations Secretariat Building. Photo byWikimedia Commons

“Today, from Afghanistan to Sudan, we see hopeful new steps toward peace,” the U.N. chief said. “In Syria, Libya, Ukraine and elsewhere, ceasefires or standstills in the fighting can create space for diplomacy. In Yemen, we are pressing for a ceasefire, confidence building measures and resumption of the political process.”

year there are only a few meetings, including ones on digital cooperation, climate action, biodiversity and accelerating the pandemic’s end. Two meetings commemorate the 25th anniversary of the U.N. women’s conference in Beijing and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Guterres was followed by addresses Tuesday from Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Trump, leaders from Turkey, China, Cuba, Russia, Jordan, Iran, France and dozens of others through Sept. 26. The speeches conclude on the morning of Sept. 29 after a two-day break.

Guterres, the General Assembly’s Bozkir and many U.N. diplomats say the key issue for world leaders today is how to build a post-pandemic world that is more peaceful and united and focuses on eradicating extreme poverty, preserving the environment and achieving gender equality by 2030.

Usually, hundreds of side events take place during the gathering. This

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MORE NATIONAL NEWS Ginsburg Passing Threatens Civil Rights Gains, Black Leaders Fear

By Barrington M. Salmon and Hazel Trice Edney Civil rights leaders are alternating between sadness over the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and deep concern about what her death could mean to the composition of the US Supreme Court – and ultimately what it could mean for freedom, justice and equality for Blacks, women and other historically oppressed people.

Ginsburg reportedly told her granddaughter on her deathbed, Sept. 18, that “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

But shortly after news of Ginsburg’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his intention to try to confirm

Ginsburg’s replacement before the presidential election in 44 days. And Within minutes of learning of the open seat Arizona Sen. Martha McSally jumped out as the first senator to declare that she will vote for whoever McConnell and Trump instruct her to as soon as possible.

“Justice Ginsburg performed a great sacrifice by not allowing herself to rest and selflessly stay and fighting to the very end,” said Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, a political commentator, public speaker and author. “Her dying wish was for her seat to not be filled. It was on her mind. What this means largely, is that we’re up the creek without a paddle. We know this because Trump is

unscrupulous, has no principle, no integrity.”

She added, “We’re in perfect storm. We have the most unscrupulous president that we’ve known in recent history. The very same things can be said about McConnell who is even more dangerous. These two individuals are in power and have the power to shape the court.

I would expect them to go ahead and try to put another Republican on the court.”

As legal minds expressed some of their worst fears, national civil rights representatives recalled the contributions of Ginsburg and what might now be lost.

“Justice Ginsburg’s 27-year tenure on the Supreme

Court was marked by a passion for justice and the rule of the law,” said Derrick Johnson, president/CEO of the NAACP in a statement. “Her long, remarkable record includes her legendary opinions involving disability rights in Olmstead v. LC, and gender equality in the military, the United States v. Virginia. She was also known for her powerful dissents, many of which she delivered from the bench.

These include dissents in the voting rights decision of Shelby County v. Holder, the gender equity case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire Company Co., and the affirmative action case of Ricci v. Stefano…Our nation has lost its north star for justice tonight. As we move forward

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

in the weeks and months ahead, we must honor Justice Ginsburg’s memory and extraordinary contributions and remember that the

Supreme Court is the ultimate guardian of all of our civil rights and liberties.”

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ARTS AND CULTURE Zendaya becomes

Story of the Underground

Railroad to Mexico youngest lead drama actress to win Emmy gains attention

By Russell Contreras Associated Press While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across the two unique families of the Jacksons and the Webbers living along the Rio Grande. White men headed both families. Both of their wives were Black, emancipated slaves.

But Bacha-Garza, a historian, wondered what they were doing there in the mid-1800s.

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By Jonathan Landrum Jr. AP Entertainment Writer Zendaya said her “heart was filled” when she saw her fellow nominees, including Jennifer Aniston, cheering on the “Euphoria” actress for becoming the youngest drama lead actress to win an Emmy.

The 24-year-old Zendaya became emotional after she took home the trophy for her role in the HBO series, scoring one of the few long shot victories Sunday night.

She is only the second Black actress to claim the lead drama actress award, following Viola Davis’ groundbreaking 2015 win for “How To Get Away With Murder.”

Zendaya along with her gleeful family and friends screamed, cheered, hugged and cried behind her as the stunned actress accepted the award in what appeared to be a hotel suite.

“I usually don’t cry,” she said in a virtual backstage interview. “I got through it without letting it take over me. It was a very emotional moment. I still can’t believe it myself. It’s pretty crazy.”

On “Euphoria,” Zendaya plays Rue Bennett, a teenage

addict struggling with her sobriety and recovery on the series that delves into sex, drugs, trauma and identity among high-schoolers.

“I just want to say there is hope in the young people out there,” she said. “I know our TV show doesn’t always feel like a great example of that,” but she thanked them for “doing the work.”

Zendaya said she was grateful to share the moment with family and friends despite the coronavirus pandemic, which has restricted interaction with loved ones.

“I think it’s moments like this that we really have to hold on to and cherish,” said the actress, who overcame a strong group of nominees that included Aniston, Olivia Colman, Jodie Comer, Laura Linney and Sandra Oh. “I definitely felt like this wrapping of love around me as I was sitting here,” Zendaya continued. “I’m just trying to take it all in.

Just being grateful for the moments that we do have of joy and happiness.”

As she dug into oral family histories, she heard an unexpected story. The two families’ ranches served as a stop on the Underground Railroad to Mexico, descendants said.

Across Texas and parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas, scholars and preservation advocates are working to piece together the story of a largely forgotten part of American history: a network that helped thousands of Black slaves escape to Mexico.

“It really made sense the more I read about it and the more I thought about it,” Bacha-Garza said of the secretive route.

Like the more well-known Underground Railroad to the north, which helped fugitive slaves flee to Northern states and Canada, the path in the opposite direction provided a pathway to freedom south of the border, historians say. Enslaved people in the Deep South took to this closer route through unforgiving forests then desert with the help of Mexican Americans, German immigrants, and biracial Black and white couples living along the Rio Grande.

Mexico had abolished slavery in 1829, a generation before President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

But just how organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico was and what happened to former slaves and those who

Photo by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

helped them remains a mystery.

Some archives have since been destroyed by fire. Sites connected to the route sit abandoned.

“It’s larger than most people realized,” Karl Jacoby, co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, said of the route.

Slave owners took out newspaper ads offering rewards and complaining that their “property” was likely heading to Mexico, Jacoby said. White Texans banished Mexican Americans from towns after accusing them of helping slaves escape.

Slave-catching mobs ventured into Mexico only to face armed resistance in small villages and from Black Seminoles _ or Los Mascogos _ who had resettled in northern Mexico, said Jacoby, author of “The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire.”

Escaped slaves adopted Spanish names, married into Mexican families and migrated deeper into Mexico _ disappearing from the record and history.

Historians have known about the secretive path for years. “ The Texas Runaway Slave Project “ at Stephen F. Austin State University includes a database of runaway slave advertisements that detail the extent of the trail. The Federal Writers’ Project of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration gathered stories as part of its Slave Narrative Collection, including ones from former slaves openly talking about the Underground Railroad to Mexico. Former Texas slave Felix Haywood told those interviewed in 1936, for example, that slaves would laugh at the suggestion they should run north for freedom.

“All we had to do was walk, but walk south, and we’d be free as soon as we crossed the Rio Grande,” Haywood said.

And in 2010, the U.S. National Park Service outlined a route from Natchitoches, Louisiana, through Texas to Monclova, Mexico, that could be considered a rough path of the Underground Railroad south.

A bill that President George W. Bush signed six years earlier designated El Camino Real de los Tejas as a National Historic Trail and encouraged the development of partnerships to create more understanding around this overlooked freedom road.

But this Underground Railroad is just starting to enter the public’s consciousness as the U.S. becomes more diverse and more people show an interest in studying slavery, said BachaGarza, a program manager for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools in Edinburg, Texas.

Bacha-Garza said Nathaniel Jackson, a white southerner, purchased the freedom of Matilda Hicks, a Black slave who was his childhood sweetheart, as well as Hicks’ family.

Jackson married Hicks and moved from Alabama to Texas before the U.S. Civil War. There, along the Rio Grande, they encountered another biracial couple, Vermont-born John Ferdinand Webber and Silvia Hector, who was Black and also a former slave.

The examination of the Underground Railroad to Mexico comes as the U.S. is undergoing a racial reckoning around policing and systemic racism. Also, this year Mexico counted its Afro-Mexican population as its own category for the first time in its census.

Over the last 50 years, the

fields of African American and Chicano Studies have boomed with groundbreaking research and new work redefining the U.S. experience.

But rarely do the two fields interact beyond 20th century civil rights tensions, said Ron Wilkins, a recently retired Africana Studies and History professor from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

And as a result, stories about African Americans and Mexican Americans working together to fight racism are not shared, Wilkins said, including the history of the Underground Railroad to Mexico.

“If we knew this history, we would come together and strengthen that solidarity,” said Wilkins, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Some Mexican American families are finding themselves having uncomfortable conversations about race in the wake of their newfound awareness of the Underground Railroad to Mexico. Ramiro Ramirez, 72, a psychologist, rancher and descendant of the Jacksons, said family members often argued among each other when they found out Matilda Jackson was a former slave and they had “Black blood.”

“I was very proud. But I was also very angry,” said Ramirez, who lives in the border city of Mercedes, Texas. “Even after 200 years, racism is very strong. People don’t want to talk about it.”

He said he’d like to meet the descendants of the slaves who, with his family’s help, escaped to Mexico. He pictures them looking a lot like him, but with different lives south of the border.

“Or maybe,” Ramirez said, “they now live back up here.”

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HEALTHY LIVING SENIORS:

Get Your Flu Shot

This Fall – It’s Important!

By Seema Verma Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Getting vaccinated for the flu this fall is more important than ever. Not only will a flu shot help keep you and your family healthy, it can help reduce the strain on our healthcare system and keep hospital beds and other medical resources available for people with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Your body needs two weeks after a shot to develop a protective response to the influenza virus, so your best bet is to get vaccinated before the flu rate begins to climb.

What’s the difference between flu and COVID-19?

This is no ordinary flu season; it’s a flu season amid a pandemic.

With two dangerous viruses going around at once, it’s time for us to protect our communities by getting the vaccine we already have: the flu vaccine.

A flu shot won’t protect you against COVID-19, but it has many other important benefits. Flu vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of flu illness, hospitalization, and death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there’s no evidence that a flu vaccination increases your risk of getting sick from a coronavirus, like the one that causes COVID-19.

Those at high risk for flu complications include young children, pregnant women, people 65 years and older, and people with certain chronic health conditions. Anyone who is six months old or older should get a yearly flu vaccine.

The CDC recommends getting vaccinated in September or October, but a flu shot anytime during the flu season can help protect you. Flu season in North America rarely begins before early October and usually lasts from December to March. In the past two years, the peak activity has occurred around mid-to-late February.

months old who qualifies for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), you may also qualify for a flu vaccination at no cost to you.

Workplaces and other settings that usually provide flu shots may not do so this season because of the challenges of maintaining social distancing. For more information on where you can get a flu vaccine, visit www.vaccinefinder.org.

When going to get a flu shot, please practice everyday preventive actions by washing your hands often, practicing social distancing and wearing a mask. Ask your doctor, pharmacist, or health department if they are following CDC’s vaccination pandemic guidance. Any vaccination location following CDC’s guidance should be a safe place for you to get a flu vaccine.

Medicare Part B covers one flu shot per flu season per beneficiary. You pay nothing for a flu shot if your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider accepts Medicare payment for giving the shot.

If you have a child over six

Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they’re caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a new coronavirus (called SARSCoV-2) and flu is caused by infection with influenza viruses.

Because some symptoms of flu and COVID-19 are similar, it may be hard to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone, and testing may be needed to help confirm a diagnosis.

It is possible to have flu and COVID-19 at the same time.

Health experts are still studying how common this can be.While it’s not possible to say with certainty what will happen in the fall and winter, CDC believes it’s likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both be spreading.

CDC has developed a test that will check for A and B type seasonal flu viruses and SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This test will be used by U.S. public health laboratories. Testing for these viruses at the same time will give public health officials important information about how flu and COVID-19 are spreading and what preventive steps should be taken.

So please protect yourself, your family, and your community by getting a flu shot this fall.

UCSD:

E-cigarettes Don’t Help

Smokers Quit!

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire UCSD Health Sciences Communications E-cigarettes are now the most popular product used for smoking cessation in the United States, ahead of all U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)approved cessation aids combined, from nicotine patches and gum to prescription medications.

However, two recently published analyses of a large nationally representative longitudinal study report that e-cigarettes are not effective in helping adults to quit smoking. However, more research is needed to identify whether these findings also extend to newer e-cigarette designs, which may deliver nicotine as effectively as cigarettes.

The analyses were led by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers using data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a longitudinal study of tobacco use and its effect on the health of people in the United States.

Published online September 2, 2020 in the journal PLOS ONE, the analyses considered 2,770 daily smokers.

“We found no evidence that e-cigarettes were helpful in the quit attempt,” said John P. Pierce, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Cancer Prevention at UC San Diego Moores Cancer

Center and the study’s first author. “This lack of effectiveness was also apparent in the sub-sample who used e-cigarettes on a daily basis for this quit attempt.”

In a second analysis of 2535 daily and non-daily smokers, there was, again, no evidence that cessation rates differed from closely matched smokers who did not use e-cigarettes. From the analysis, published online on July 27, 2020 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, it was clear that participants who used e-cigarettes to quit smoking were less likely to be nicotine-free at follow-up. This was largely because many of those who did quit smoking cigarettes were still u s i n g e-cigarettes, which also contain nicotine.

quit without using e-cigarettes,” said Karen Messer, PhD, professor of family medicine and public health, director of biostatics at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and senior author on both papers. “Our results suggest that these smokers would have been just as successful in quitting smoking without the use of e-cigarettes. However, without the use of e-cigarettes they would have been more successful in breaking their nicotine dependence.”

“In these analyses, we carefully matched each smoker w ho used e-cigarettes as a cessation aid with up to two similar smokers who tried to

EDUCATION

A CHECKLIST

Back to School: How Prepared is Your School?

The questions below can help you address your views about how your school has prepared for the school year 2020-2021. If you answer “unsure” to any items regarding your school’s plan, consider reaching out to your school administrator for more information.

SOURCE: CDC

DOES NOT APPLY I feel comfortable with my school’s reopening plans for reducing risk of spreading COVID-19.

I believe my school has the resources needed to effectively implement their reopening plan (e.g., staffing, supplies, training).

I feel comfortable with my school’s plan if a student or staff member test positive for COVID-19.

I believe my school has a plan to provide an effective program of instruction every day of the regular school week (generally five days).

I am satisfied with how my school communicates with families about the changes it is considering.

I am satisfied with how my school is addressing parents’ or caregivers’ concerns and questions.

My child knows how to properly wear a cloth face covering and understands the importance of doing so.

My child can wear a cloth face covering for an extended period of time, if required by the school.

My child has a reliable mode of transportation to and from school (e.g., school bus, carpool, walk/bike, public transit).

I am comfortable with how my child’s mode of transportation to and from school is reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 (e.g., decreased bus/transit capacity, wearing masks, increased cleaning and disinfecting practices).

DISAGREE

UNSURE

AGREE

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DEAR BIG TOBACCO, WE ARE DYING. But you already know that.

Smoking kills more African Americans than AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, car crashes, and murder combined.

And 70% of us who smoke use menthol cigarettes.

That’s no coincidence.

You’ve spent decades pushing menthols into Black communities with cheap prices and slick advertising.

And the worst part is, you think you can keep getting away with it.

You come after our brothers, sisters, parents, and friends.

Now, we’re coming after you.

We want you out of Black neighborhoods, because our lives are worth more than your bottom line.

We are people, not profit.

Signed,

The Communities You Are Trying to Erase Fight back at

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P.O.E.M. SD

IN THE PARK

Photos by Cori Zaragoza

By Cori Zaragoza Contributing Writer

The day started warm across the long stretch of grass in Balboa Park.

The air was thick and hazy with smoke from fires burning miles away but that didn’t deter P.O.E.M. SD from their task at hand: hosting an afternoon devoted to uniting San Diegan voters and informing them about the upcoming election. As the group began setting up sound equipment and tents, people slowly trickled into the large space.

One of the group’s leaders looked around gleefully and said loudly through her sparkly purple mask, “I definitely think a good amount of people will show up.”

P.O.E.M. SD stands for “Participate, Organize, Educate, and Mobilize San Diego” and they mean it.

The group was founded by a group of community activists who were frustrated at being slowed down

by COVID-19. When founding the group, their main questions were “How do we demonstrate our activism in a safe way and what issues matter the most?” The answers: a socially distanced afternoon in Balboa Park featuring local performers while addressing a pressing issue: voter education and registration.

“We are just trying to get people to care about voting, to look into what things are on the tickets, to care about local elections, as well as the national elections,” Said one group member. “[We want people] to really get out, do your research, vote, and be involved.”

While waiting for performances to start, attendees could browse a small selection of vendors, some offering free clothes, free food, and free hand sanitizer. Among the vendors was a local branch of Headcount, a completely non-partisan organization that checks individual’s voter registration or will register voters

from any party. The group started in 2004 and has registered over 700,000 people since then. Speaking with their team leader, they expressed that 2020’s goal is to register over 200,000 voters and they have almost reached it.

As performances in the park started, small crowds began to appear and set up blankets among the shaded trees. Local poet Alfred Howard stopped Balboa Park walker-bys in their tracks with his powerful, rhythmic spoken word poetry. His words reverberated across the grassy fields: “I LOVE AMERICA” he bellowed, “It’s Sam Cooke with the gospel giving me chills, it’s a young Aretha Franklin making time stand still, Afrocentrism, black culture with wisdom, it’s late 60s hippies no belief in the system, it’s Berkeley students and Panthers standing hand in hand with a mission.”

Almost every performer was either a BIPOC or member of the LQBTQ+

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community, and each took the opportunity to use the afternoon as a safe community space to pour their frustrations, fears, and hopes into the microphone. As the day went on, the mood shifted into a more musical and celebratory tone with performances by local rapper Riston Diggs and local folk artist Jack Jupiter. Local dancers from the Vixtorious Mime Ministry and the Junkyard Dance crew drew even more onlookers and soon half the crowd was dancing and clapping along.

Local musician Angel Farrah, who was voted as the 2020 Best Musician in San Diego by Black SD Magazine, stole the show with her hypnotic saxophone playing. As her melodies drifted across Balboa Park, for a moment, the world felt normal.

Ready to tether us back to reality was our entertaining emcee—a local P.O.E.M. member who would take the stage between acts to read out propositions that are coming out on our local ballot in November.

As props were read aloud, crowd members were able to talk amongst themselves and see where the local community was standing on these issues.

“But always remember to google these yourselves!” our emcee shouted enthusiastically.

As the day wound down, a sense of accomplishment and hope rippled through the park. Each person was there as a member of the same community, coming together to use their voices for change.

A P.O.E.M SD member took the microphone and left the audience with one final thought: “There’s a lot of push to tell people that their votes don’t matter, especially in California. And they still really do.”

You can find P.O.E.M. SD online at www.instagram.com/poem_sd/

CARE VIEW HEALTH CENTER In June 1 of 2020, San Ysidro Health and Care View Medical Group, formally merged operations, creating a system of health care for more than 107,000 individuals across San Diego County. Under the San Ysidro Health network, Care View Medical Group has been renamed San Ysidro Health Care View Health Center. Through this partnership, San Ysidro Health and Care View Health Center have an opportunity to provide a wider range of comprehensive health services to patients.

Care View Medical Group was founded in Southeastern San Diego in 1980

by Dr. Rodney Hood and the late Dr. Richard O. Butcher, two prominent doctors and leaders in medicine. Dr. Hood and Dr. Butcher are well-known pioneers in establishing a system of care and providing essential health services for residents and families.

Dr. Rodney Hood and Dr. Richard O. Butcher Founders,Care View Medical Group

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Voting Guide for 2020 The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Makes the Initial Endorsements for 2020 Those not listed were not endorsed The following is a partial list of endorsements for the November 3rd Election. These names are only listed as suggestions based on our observations and knowledge of the candidates. You, as the readers, are encouraged to make up your own minds. The important thing is that you vote and that you understand the importance of your vote. You should not vote for people you have no knowledge of. Those who care about our vote should be making efforts to inform you as to why you should vote for them.

This list will be expanded in the days ahead and will appear on our website as well.

President of the United States

U.S. Representative 49th Cong. District

U.S. Representative 50th Cong. District

U.S. Representative 51st Cong. District

U.S. Representative 52nd Cong. District

U.S. Representative 53rd Cong District

JOE BIDEN

MIKE LEVIN

CAMPA-NAJJAR, AMMAR

JUAN VARGAS

SCOTT PETERS

SARA JACOBS

County Offices

State Offices

Next week: City Candidates, Propositions and Ballot Measures State Senate, 39th District

State Assembly 77th District

State Assembly 79th District

State Assembly 80th District

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TONY AKINS

BRIAN

DR. SHIRLEY WEBER

LORENA GOZALES

TIM NADER

MAIENSCHEIN

SD County Board of Supervisors, District 1

SD County Board of Supervisors, District 2

NORA VARGAS

STEVE VAUS

SD County Board of Supervisors, District 3

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Presidential General Election November 3, 2020 The San Diego County Registrar of Voters reminds you to Vote Safer at Home. All active registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail for the upcoming election.

Ballots have already started going out in the mail. Once you receive yours – don’t delay! Make voting decisions and complete your ballot in the comfort and safety of your home. Seal your ballot in your postage paid envelope, sign it, date it, and return it by mail promptly so it is received before Election Day. Sign your name just like it appears on your driver’s license or identification card.

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COVID-19 and Pets Animals, including pets, can be infected with COVID-19 A small number of pets worldwide have been reported to be infected, mostly after close contact with people with COVID19. Based on the limited information available to date, the risk of pets spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low.

There is no vaccine There is currently no vaccine to protect pets or people from SARS-CoV-2.

Protect your pet • Keep cats indoors when possible.

• Walk dogs on a leash at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from others.

• Avoid public places where a large number of people gather.

• Do not put masks on pets. Covering a pet’s face could harm them.

• Do not wipe or bathe your pet with chemical disinfectants, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, or other products not intended or approved for use on animals.

• If you get sick with COVID-19, avoid contact

with pets and other animals during your illness.

• Have another member of your household care for your pets while you are sick.

• Avoid contact with your pet including petting, snuggling, being kissed or licked, sharing food, and sleeping in the same bed.

• If you must be around animals while you are sick, wear a mask and wash your hands before and after you interact with them.

Symptoms of SARSCoV-2 infection in pets Include fever, coughing, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, lethargy, sneezing, nose or eye discharge, vomiting, or diarrhea.

SARS-CoV-2 If your pet gets sick after contact with a person with COVID-19, call your vet first and let them know the pet was around a person with COVID-19. Some veterinarians may offer telemedicine consultations or other plans for seeing sick pets.

At this time, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading SARSCoV-2 to people.

COVID-19 is mainly spreading from person to person through close contact. There is no reason to give up or euthanize pets because of SARS-CoV-2.

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After being on the brink of falling into the most restrictive Purple Tier, the County will remain in Tier 2, or the Red Tier, of the state’s system of assessing COVID19 risk, the state announced today. The change means indoor activities that recently reopened can continue for at least two more weeks.

San Diego County Status: Substantial COVID-19 cases per 100k: 6.8 Positivity rate: 3.8%

The region could drop to the Purple Tier if the local case rate goes above 7.0 per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks. It would take three weeks for the County to be able to move to Tier 3 (Orange Tier) but not before driving its case rate down below 3.9 cases per 100,000 residents for 14 consecutive days.

“The only way for the case rate to continue going down is if all local residents take the necessary precautions to avoid getting and spreading COVID-19,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer.

The California Department of Public Health assesses counties on a weekly basis, and the next report is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 29.

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“At a time when some are questioning the value of the Affordable Care Act, the COVID-19 pandemic underscores why health care for all is not only the right thing to do, but it is also sound public health policy,” said Lee. The federal marketplace — which is operated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and provides coverage to Americans in 38 states — has cut back on marketing and outreach and opted not to offer a special enrollment period specific to COVID-19.

Covered California’s analysis found an additional 500,000 Americans would

have been insured during the pandemic if the federal marketplace had equaled California’s pace.

“Policies matter,” said Lee. California expanded its Medicaid program (known as Medi-Cal) and outlawed short-term plans that do not cover pre-existing conditions or provide essential health benefits. Compared to the rest of the nation, California’s individual market health care premiums are estimated to be about 20 percent lower than what they would have been if the state’s enrollment looked more like that of the federally facilitated marketplace.

Lee took the lessons from California to Congress on this Wednesday when he testified at the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health.

During the hearing, titled “Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Lee’s submitted written testimony and called on Congress to look at national solutions to lower premiums, expand available marketplace subsidies and provide Americans with adequate coverage that addresses the health-related inequities and disparities spotlighted by the COVID19 pandemic that are faced by communities of color.

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OBITUARIES James O’Neal

William Leroy Downs

Terald Christopher Downs

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JAMES O’NEAL, affectionately known by all as “Neal,” was born on November 16, 1949 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was one of six children born to Silver and Homer O’Neal. James received his formal education in Cincinnati. He attended and graduated from Taft High School in 1968. Early in his life, he was introduced to the Roman Catholic faith and was baptized at St. Ann Catholic Church in Cincinnati, where he served as an altar boy for many years.

Services will be held on Friday, September 25,2020 at New Seasons Church, Spring Valley, CA; interment at Greenwood Memorial Park. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. Due to the COVID limitation, Services are invitation only from family. Link to view service will be provided on Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary website.

Services will be held on Friday, September 25, 2020 at New Seasons Church, Spring Valley, CA; interment at Greenwood Memorial Park. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. Due to the COVID limitation, Services are invitation only from family. Link to view services will be provided on Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary website.

WILLIAM LEROY DOWNS was one of nine children born to the late Thad and Velma Downs in McComb, Mississippi.

TERALD CHRISTOPHER DOWNS began his schooling at San Altos Elementary, Lemon Grove, CA. He attended the School of Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA), San Diego, and Mt. Miguel High School, Spring Valley, CA. As a youth he attended Bayview Baptist Church participating in various youth activities.

James was a natural born leader. He enlisted and served in the United States Navy where he became a squadron leader. Following his military service, he returned to his native home where he worked for the City of Cincinnati as a gardener. James later returned to San Diego, California and worked at Advanced Machine and Tooling. He retired in 2016 after bravely facing challenges with his health.

“Mack”, as he was lovingly known by family and friends, attended Fernwood Elementary and Eva Gordon High school in Magnolia, Mississippi. He attended Southern University of New Orleans, obtaining a B.S. degree in Accounting.

James was also a handyman. He found tranquility when fishing with his brother-in-law Craig Canady. What started as a hobby eventually led to an annual fish fry, a celebration where family, friends, co-workers, and even strangers, converged at the O’Neal residence for a day filled with music, dancing, laughter, and of course some good fried fish.

As Mack focused on his studies a special young lady named “Lydia” also captured his attention. Lydia would become Mack’s love and his wife. They were united in Holy matrimony on July 31, 1971 and to their union were born two beautiful sons, Terald Christopher and William Anthony.

James enjoyed music and dancing. He was known as a great “swing dancer.”

When the music started at the fish fry, a wedding reception, or family reunion, James would be seen on the dance floor with his beloved wife, dancing to his favorite song, “Be My Girl” by The Dramatics.

Mack was employed with several local banks. After retiring he worked in the cafeteria at Freese Elementary, (San Diego).

James’ love extended to his entire family. He loved and enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren. When they came to the house, he would put them to work in the backyard. After all, the O’Neal residence was known as the entertainment and party house. Hosting family and friends outside was the joy of James’ life.

James was preceded in death by mother Silver O’Neal; father Homer O’Neal, Sr.; son Jamie O’Neal; and brother Homer O’Neal, Jr. Left to cherish Neal’s memory are wife Nattie O’Neal; son James O’Neal, Jr. of San Diego; daughter Kesha Marie O’Neal of Iowa; step-son Bennie Hamilton of San Diego; step-daughter Taisha Wells of San Diego; sisters Barbara Linville, Linda Shugars (James), Diana Hill, and Brandy O’Neal all of Cincinnati, Ohio; twelve grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; along with a host of aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and many friends.

The Downs family served at Bethel AME and Bayview Baptist churches before joining Lakeview Church under the Pastorship of Reverend Milton Foster.

Mack served on the Trustee Board and the Deacon Board at Lakeview.

William “Mack” Downs made his departure for his heavenly reward on Thursday, August 27, 2020.

On August 30, 2020, his beloved son Terald Christopher succeeded him in receiving his heavenly wings.

Cherishing Mack’s memory are his wife Lydia, (San Diego); son William Anthony Downs (Marielena) of Chula Vista; grandchildren Yazue Garcia of Apple Valley, Ixchel, Nubia and Maya Downs, of Chula Vista; sisters Rosa Rowell (James) of Lemon Grove; Frankie (Vern) Mallard, (McComb, of MS; Katherine Faye Hudsonia (Jerome), Charlotte of North Carolina; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.

Terald played cello and he played trumpet in the school bands at Mt. Miguel.

He performed with the Sea World Summer Jazz Band as well as with the legendary Rose Bowl Parade. He loved sports, competing in football, baseball, tennis and soccer.

Terald attended Southwestern College, San Diego, and Southern University (New Orleans) graduating from National University, San Diego, (B.S. / Business Administration) and UEI College, Chula Vista, CA. (computer systems).

Former employers were Jack In The Box and UPS. Terald’s last employment was with Ace Parking where he worked in Human Resources.

Terald Christopher Downs received his heavenly wings on Sunday, August 30, 2020. His beloved father, William “Mack” Downs, preceded him gaining his wings on Thursday, August 27, 2020.

Left to cherish Terald’s memory are his son, Yazue Garcia; mother, Lydia Downs; brother, William Downs (Marielena); nieces, Ixchel, Nubia and Maya Downs; aunt, Rosa Rowell (James) all of San Diego County, aunts, Frankie Mallard (McComb) of Mississippi, Katherine Hutsonia (Jerome) of Charlotte, North Carolina, Carolyn Durall and Patricia Washington (Melvin) of Iberia, Louisiana, Vanessa Bell of Houston, TX; Uncle, Ray Anthony Bell (Ann) of Lafayette, LA; Godson, Luis Vargas of Apple Valley), and a host of family and friends.

Samantha Thornton SUNRISE 9/3/81

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Samantha was educated in Detroit’s school system, as well as the Brighthall Vocational School, where she obtained her certificate of Completion in the field of Cosmetology. She graduated from Mumford High School receiving several scholarships and grants to colleges.

Samantha married D’Mario Thornton in 1998. From that union was born their only son, D’Mario, Jr. In September 2001 they relocated to San Diego, California, in which she explored various employments before returning to her first love, cosmetology.

Samantha exuded many traits that drew others to her. Among them was an infectious smile and spirit. Affectionately called Sam, she never met a stranger and enjoyed taking selfies at any moment.

Sam was our family’s historian, playwright, and publisher. Among her credits was “There’s A Stranger in Town.”

Samantha also became a fisherman of Souls for the Kingdom of God. She would turn every test into a testimony and every mess into a message. Succeeding the death of her son, she became an advocate for Black men and women that had

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emotional or physical trauma to help them rehabilitate. She went to San Diego City College to enter the field of nursing.

Sam later became known as “The Champ”. She inspired many people and someone made her a green Heavy-Weight Champion Belt. Her words of victory were, “I ain’t afraid of cancer! Cancer better be afraid of ME!” This is what also catapulted into a Radio Personality on Godradio1.

Samantha had countless TKO’s in the fight against cancer, until the afternoon of September 6, 2020, when our Heavenly Referee declared that she had won the fight and did not have to fight anymore.

Samantha was preceded in death by son D’Mario, Jr.; grandparents Hunts and Ballards.

Samantha Jasmine leaves to cherish her memory husband D’Mario Thornton; stepdaughter D’Maria (Detroit); parents William and Carolyn Hunt; brothers William Jason Hunt (Angela), Kevin Johnson (Lauren), Reginald, Sr.; sisters Lydia White, Jamie Williams, Tami Gilbert (Reggie), Nobie; godsister La Toya Curry; aunts Anita (uncle/daddy David) Hill, Cynthia Moore (Detroit), and Diamond McCain, (Detroit); uncles Victor Ballard (Lansing) and Johnny Ballard, (Detroit); nephews Reginald White, Jr, Kevin Hunt, and Joc-quin Hunt; nieces Renee White, Kayla and Kiyah Hunt; god family; best friend Angela Pope, Coretta Gardener, (Detroit); and a host of cousins

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Located at: 2145 Berryland CT Lemon, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 09/08/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Heng Ly Aun 2145 Berryland CT Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 15, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 15, 2025 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9015467 Fictitious business name(s): Theoretical Zeolite

Located at: 4119 Eagle Street San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 08/20/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Rebecca Anne Cloudy 4119 Eagle Street San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 16, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 16, 2025 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9015014 Fictitious business name(s): Dickie Baby Greetings

Located at: 5764 Andros Pl. #4 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego --6161 El Cajon BLVD Suite B-471 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above

LEGAL NOTICES This business is hereby registered by the following: Ida Lynn Campbell 5764 Andros Place #4 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 5, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 5, 2025 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014917 Fictitious business name(s): Ethnicity's Unique Boutique

Located at: 5065 Logan Ave #102 San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego --5102 Logan Ave San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 04/01/2009 This business is hereby registered by the following: Candace Renee Davis 5102 Logan Ave San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 5, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 5, 2025 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014069 Fictitious business name(s): Lipz and Lashez by Z --Remeber Me

Located at: 608 Kirtright St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A General Partnership Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Donna Zakiya Hamilton 608 Kirtright St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego --Rosalyn Victoria Milner 608 Kirtright St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on

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Located at: 6161 El Cajon Blvd, Suite B435 San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/01/2002 This business is hereby registered by the following: William Thomas Houston 4911 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 17, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 17, 2025 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9015102 Fictitious business name(s): Premier Realty

Located at: 7710 Balboa Ave., Suite 324 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Premiere Real Estate Group 7710 Balboa Ave., Suite 324 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 05, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 05, 2025 09/17, 09/24, 10/01, 10/08 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014586 Fictitious business name(s): Rascal Construction LLC

Located at: 772 Jamacha Rd 107 El Cajon, CA 92019 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Rascal Construction LLC

772 Jamacha Rd 107 El Cajon, CA 92019 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 02, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 02, 2025 09/17, 09/24, 10/01, 10/08 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014126 Fictitious business name(s): TealTech MMO --TealHeal Mobile Medical Office

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TealHeal MMO Inc 12760 High Bluff Dr, Ste 370 San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 27, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 27, 2025 09/10, 09/17, 09/24, 10/01 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014100 Fictitious business name(s):

County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 11, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 11, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9013308 Fictitious business name(s):

a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made:

objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Located at: 4142 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Jeowsauce Company LLC 4142 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 07, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 07, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9013497 Fictitious business name(s):

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

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 a 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.

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Located at: 2038 Siegle Dr Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Married Couple Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Robert Duane May 2038 Siegle Dr Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego --Shanae Delicia May 2038 Siegle Dr Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 26, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 26, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9013351 Fictitious business name(s): PleasurHer

Located at: 950 S. Magnolia Ave Apt 7 El Cajon, CA 92020 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Latoya Althimease Brown 950 S. Magnolia Ave Apt 7 El Cajon, CA 92020 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 11, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 11, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9014107 Fictitious business name(s): Kushaak Construction

Located at: 3643 1/2 Altadena Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Raul Gonzalez Jr 3643 1/2 Altadena Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 26, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 26, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9013423 Fictitious business name(s): Creatively Crafted Events

by Candice

Located at: 8703 Lake Murray Blvd #5 San Diego, CA 92119 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Candice Marie Alexander 8703 Lake Murray Blvd #5 San Diego, CA 92119

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Located at: 1110 East 8th St Ste 313 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 08/04/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: James E Harris Jr 1110 East 8th St Ste 313 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 12, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 12, 2025 09/03, 09/10, 09/17, 09/24

NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division Hall of Justice 37-2020-00031977CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Kya Louise Williamson To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Kya Louise Williamson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Kya Louise Williamson PROPOSED NAME: Kya Louise BaxterWilliamson 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 a 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: October 27, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses

The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division Hall of Justice 37-2020-00031985CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Nyla Aileen Williamson To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Nyla Aileen Williamson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Nyla Aileen Williamson PROPOSED NAME: Nyla Aileen BaxterWilliamson 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 a 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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 27, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division Hall of Justice 37-2020-00032726CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi Kashkooli To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi Kashkooli filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi Kashkooli PROPOSED NAME: Ryan Kashkooli THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 2, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 09/24, 10/01, 10/08, 10/15 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Central Courthouse 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2020-00029763CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Sophia May Fialko To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Sophia May Fialko filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:

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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.

To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner PROPOSED NAME: Tara Denise Alston Sofia May Fialko filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names THE COURT ORDERS that as follows: all persons interested in this matter appear before this PRESENT NAME: court at the hearing indicated Tara Denise Alston below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of PROPOSED NAME: name should not be granted.

Nevaeh Rain Jones Any person objecting to the name changes described THE COURT ORDERS that above must file a written all persons interested in this objection that includes the matter appear before this reasons for the objection at court at the hearing indicated least two court days before below to show cause, if any, the matter is scheduled to why the petition for change of be heard and must appear at name should not be granted. the hearing to show cause Any person objecting to the why the petition should not name changes described be granted. If no written above must file a written objection is timely filed, the objection that includes the court may grant the petition reasons for the objection at without a hearing. least two court days before the matter is scheduled to NOTICE OF HEARING be heard and must appear at Date: October 14, 2020 the hearing to show cause Time: 8:30 A.M. why the petition should not Dept. 61 be granted. If no written NO HEARING WILL objection is timely filed, the OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE court may grant the petition without a hearing.

(Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses NOTICE OF HEARING a substantial risk to the Date: October 05, 2020 health and welfare of court Time: 8:30 A.M. personnel and the public, Dept. 61 rendering presence in, or access to, the court's The address of the court is: facilities unsafe, and 330 W. Broadway pursuant to the emergency San Diego, CA 92101 orders of the Chief Justice 09/10, 09/17, 09/24, 10/01 of the State of California and General Orders of the PROBATE Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior NOTICE OF PETITION TO Court, the following Order ADMINISTER ESTATE OF is Made: Florence Marie Wiggers NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

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37-2020-00028560-PR-LA-CTL

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both, of Florence Marie Wiggers

A Petition for Probate has been filed by Lazeeta Wiggers If all requirements for a in the name change have been met Superior Court of California, as of the date specified, and County of San Diego. no timely written objection has been received (required The Petition for Probate at least two court days requests that before the date specified), Lazeeta Wiggers the Petition for Change of be appointed as personal Name (JC Form #NC-100) representative to administer will be granted without a the estate of the decedent. hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the The Petition requests Petition will be mailed to the authority to administer the petitioner. estate under the Independent If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Attorney for Petitioner: Antoinette Middleton, Esq. Law Offices of Antoinette Middleton 1761 Hotel Circle South, Suite 115 San Diego, CA 92108 (619) 235-9501 09/10, 09/17, 09/24

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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.

If you are a creditor or a 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

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1825 FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER BORN Author, lecturer, abolitionist, and suffragist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a household name in the nineteenth century. Her 1859 short story about women’s education in the Anglo-African Magazine, “The Two Offers”, was the first short story published by an African-American woman. Her 1892 novel, Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted, made her the second Black woman known to have a novel published in the United States.

Born to free black parents in Baltimore, MD, she was orphaned at the age of three and raised by abolitionist relatives. When she was twenty-six years, Harper left Maryland to teach in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Soon after she left, Maryland passed a law stating free African Americans were no longer allowed to enter the state; if found, they would be sold into slavery. Harper moved in with William and Letitia George Still of the Underground Railroad, and began writing poetry for antislavery newspapers. She traveled across the United States and Canada as a lecturer for organizations such as the Maine Anti-Slavery Society and the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. In addition to antislavery, Harper was committed to women’s rights and temperance. She was a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women.

1935 JOE LOUIS DRAWS HIS FIRST $1,000,000 GATE In the summer of 1935, Joe Louis started the baseball team, the Brown Bombers and heavyweight champion Max Baer lost the title to James Braddock. Desperate to regain the title, Baer accepted a match against Louis in September. Two hours before the match, Joe Louis married Marva Trotter. Later that evening, he took down Baer in four rounds, securing himself a chance at the title. After the fight, Max Baer was quoted as saying, “I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.” This match made Joe Louis the first Black boxer to draw a million dollar gate; Louis entered the ring at Yankee Stadium as a 2-1 betting favorite. The fight drew over 95,000 live spectators and brought in $1,000,832.

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Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many 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 consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on November 5, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 503 located at the Any Petition for the name Superior Court of change of a minor that is California signed by only one parent County of San Diego must have this Attachement 1100 Union St. served along with the San Diego, CA 92101 Petition and Order to Show Central -Probate Division Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof If You Object of service must be filed with to the granting of the petition, the court.) you should appear at the The address of the court is: 330 W Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 09/17, 09/24, 10/01, 10/08 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Superior Court 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2020-00021433 CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney:

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.

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On President Eisenhower’s order, soldiers of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division were deployed to Little Rock, Arkansas to prevent further interference with school integration at Central High School. The students destined to be known as “The Little Rock Nine” were escorted by the troops on September 25th to attend their first full day of classes.

Issued by President Johnson, Executive Order 11246 enforced affirmative action for the first time. It required government contractors to “take affirmative action” toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment, documenting their specific measures to ensure equality in hiring.

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Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Lessie Benningfield Randle, a 105year old Black woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of two known survivors of the tragic Tulsa massacre that is still alive, has filed a lawsuit demanding reparations. She alleges that the act of racial violence is still haunting the community after almost 100 years.

Randle leads the lawsuit claiming she still experiences flashbacks of the burning streets filled with stacked up bodies, according to her attorneys.

The lawsuit accuses the city of Tulsa, Tulsa County, the then serving sheriff of Tulsa County, the Oklahoma national guard, and Tulsa regional chamber of being directly involved in the massacre and having “unjustly enriched themselves at the expense of the black citizens of Tulsa and the survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.”

As a child, Randle witnessed the race massacre that occurred on May 31 and June 1, 1921. Around 300 Black people were killed by a white mob, allegedly backed by local authorities and police, who burned down a thriving black neighborhood.

The great-granddaughter of JB Stradford, who owned the Stradford Hotel which is the largest blackowned hotel in the US at that time, is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Damario Solomon-Simmons, part of a team of attorneys who filed the lawsuit, said that the events in 1921

served as a factor in the problems Black people in Tulsa face. In Tulsa, 34% of black people live in poverty, in comparison to 13% of white people, according to Human Rights Watch.

For decades, the survivors of the massacre fought for justice. In 2001, it was found that the city indeed conspired with white citizens against Black residents. Direct payments to survivors and descendants were then suggested but no payments were ever made and they were only given a medal by the city.

Moreover, a renewed outrage sparked after Donald Trump set a campaign rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, intended to commemorate the end of slavery in the US. Since it drew negative feedback, Trump moved the rally on the next day.

This article originally appeared on BlackNews.com.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION TEACHERS: continued from cover In its guidance for schools, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the usefulness of routine testing of school employees and students is unknown and declined to recommend it. But some U.S. lawmakers are investigating whether the CDC’s guidance was compromised by political interference from the Trump administration, which has pushed for schools to reopen quickly, the Washington Post reported.

California recently contracted with a Massachusetts diagnostics company to double the state’s COVID19 testing capacity, allowing “our schools, not just to open, but to stay open and with some confidence,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said at a Sept. 15 news conference.

But so many questions remain: Should testing be mandatory for teachers and staffers to return to school?

Should students be tested?

What about school volun-

teers? Who will pay for the testing? How often should it take place, if at all?

“I think regular testing would make me feel a little bit safer, but only if it was part of a full set of precautions and only entered into at a point where community transmission was low enough,” said Sarah Ciccarello, who remotely teaches third grade at James Franklin Smith Elementary School in San Jose and is secretary of her local teacher’s union.

recently extended distance learning until January, hasn’t yet finalized its return-toschool plans.

“All we really want is to get back into the classroom and have things be normal again, but in the meantime we’ve got to do what it takes to keep our kids safe,” said Ciccarello, who recently tested negative for COVID19 after experiencing respiratory symptoms.

COVID-19 testing remains a contentious topic as public schools negotiate with teachers’ unions. In a strongly worded letter, the California Federation of Teachers demanded that state lawmakers ensure that school staff and students are regularly tested to prevent outbreaks. But some union representatives told CalMatters that some teachers are concerned about mandatory tests and their medical privacy.

Other states and large school districts have announced widespread COVID-19 testing programs for schools.

But the sheer scale of school surveillance testing in California is daunting.

Some school districts serve more students than entire states. More than 6.1 million students attend more than 10,000 California public schools, taking classes from nearly 320,000 public school teachers. That doesn’t even include tens of thousands of other public school employees and employees of the state’s many private schools.

Ciccarello’s district, which

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Parents and students mill around the McGaugh Elementary School parking lot during morning and afternoon changeover on Sept. 17. Los Alamitos Unified School District, in Orange County, has reopened its elementary schools for hybrid in-person instruction with students attending either morning or afternoon sessions in the classroom in addition to distance learning.

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reopen—or have reopened— in 11 counties, according to state reopening criteria.

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In a deeply divided American electorate, both Democrats and Republicans have been pushing efforts to motivate their respective party bases to get out and vote. And in an election year when a few votes in a handful of swing states will likely determine who will win the U.S. presidency, poll watchers are predicting that young people could be the deciding vote in several places.

“Don’t let anyone keep you from exercising your sacred vote. Make your plan to vote. Grab your vote and head to the polls the first day they are open,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, calling out young people in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Across California, young voters are speaking out about the issues that concern them this election, and decisions that will affect their future. On Sept. 11, Power California, a civic engagement organization that encourages young people of color to participate in government, hosted their “Fight For Our Future Campaign Kick-Off.” Young activists aim to reach more than 150,000 California voters between the ages of 18 and 35 through virtual phone banking and texting. Annie Gonzalez, the actress known for her role as Lidia Solis on Netflix’s comedy-drama series “Gentefied”, hosted the virtual event. She addressed the struggles that young people of color are facing in the lead up to the election.

Ac c ord i ng t o Powe r California’s 2020 Youth Poll, 46 % of young people surveyed had difficulty buying food, household supplies or medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 67 % said their state govern-

ment is not doing enough to address the impact of COVID-19.

“Young people of color have been hit hard by these crises, and their needs and futures must be centered in this election, and always during the recovery, from young essential workers risking everything to take care of us to college students unsure about their future to everyday young people struggling to afford rent,” said Gonzalez.

Kendrick Sampson, activist and actor known for his role as Nathan Campbell on HBO’s popular comedy-drama series “Insecure,” addressed the young people watching the event as well.

He stressed the importance of activism and participation.

“I’m inspired by all the young people. It’s what keeps me going and motivated, because y’all are leading the movement across the country. Young people like yourselves are rising up and fueling movements for justice, from Black Lives Matter and calls to defund the police to climate change and immigrant rights. You are the leaders and the moral compass of our nation in every major movement for justice that has been true in our past, and it is still true today.”

Tyler Okeke, a 19-yearold organizer with Power California, asked young people to sign a letter asking Gov. Newsom to endorse Proposition 15. The ballot measure would require commercial and industrial properties to be taxed at their market value. According to Ballotpedia, 40 % of the revenue generated will fund school districts and community colleges.

“It will require decisive action from our elected leaders, especially leaders

like Governor Newsom,” he said. “We need leaders who will put people over corporations and take steps to meet California’s most essential human needs while recognizing that young people are the central force of this future that we want for this state.”

Ixchel Arista, a 15-yearold youth organizer with Oakland Kids First, advocated for Measure QQ, a ballot initiative in Oakland which will allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in school board elections.

“Students feel the most impact as we spend most of our lives at school, yet have no say in decisions being made for our education. We need to be able to decide who is making these impactful decisions,” said Arista.

Te’Ausha Garcia, a civic engagement organizer with Californians for Justice in Fresno, said, “It’s important that we fight for the solutions that we need, because who else will fight for us?

We have to be willing to stand up and fight for what we want. Otherwise the change we desperately need will not be showcased. We must stand up for our rights and really name what it is that we need.”

“We must continue to fight for our right to the future that we deserve. The right to have our most basic human needs met: Clean and fresh air and water, housing, healthcare and education.

The right to be free and to live with dignity and without discrimination, the right to determine the future of our democracy and our economy, and we will not stop until we secure these rights.

We will not stop until we secure these rights,” said Eugene Vang, a 19-year-old activist from Merced, who organizes with 99 Routes and Power California.

Understanding the financial burden for both tenants and landlords, the County of San Diego Board of Supervisors allocated $24 million in funding for an Emergency Rental Assistance Program to ease that burden for thousands of county residents.

The County of San Diego will be accepting applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program from September 24, 2020 –to October 8, 2020.

Eligible applicants will then be selected at random.

Interested people can find more information about the program and apply during the two-week application period at www.SDHCD. org. Those who apply will be able to check their application status online at any

ties placed in California’s moderately restrictive “red tier,” including heavily populated Orange and San Diego

point in the process.

To be eligible, households must be renting and have experienced a financial hardship directly related to COVID-19. This includes a loss or reduction of income due to COVID19 or an increase in medical expenses incurred as a direct result of COVID-19.

Households must also fall under 60% Area Median Income to qualify. For example, to be eligible, a single-person household can earn up to $48,540 and a four-person household can earn up to $69,300. The program will be able to assist about 8,000 households.

Residents who live in cities with their own COVID19 rental relief program

counties, may reopen if their county’s COVID-19 transmission rates remain stable or decline over 14 days.

would not be eligible for the County program unless their cities’ funds have already been depleted.

Also, applicants must not receive any other forms of rental subsidy such as Section 8 or other rental assistance programs, rapid rehousing assistance or rental assistance from nonprofit agencies.

Only one application per household will be accepted and the applicant’s landlord must agree to participate in the program for the County of San Diego to process the one-time emergency rental assistance grant.

For more program information, including how to apply and detailed eligibility criteria, visit www.SDHCD.org.

Police: continued from page 2 shows a violation of the trust that we place in our law enforcement authorities. At its worst, this is a dangerously suggestive, racist, calculated and terrifying act perpetrated by people who should know better. These are people we count on to protect us – not to use symbols we all can identify to instill fear in us,” Huffman said. “An apology just doesn’t cut it.”

After a slew of comments on Twitter and Facebook reacting to the video, most of them in opposition, the CCPOA deleted the video.

Jones-Sawyer is the chairperson of the Assembly Public Safety Committee.

“This is unacceptable.

Putting crosshairs on a sitting Assemblymember with whom you have political disagreements crosses a line big time. Reggie JonesSawyer is a great leader for CA, particularly on criminal justice & prison reform,” State Sen. Scott Wiener

(D-San Francisco), wrote on his Twitter account.

After two Los Angeles County sheriff ’s deputies were shot at close range while sitting in a patrol vehicle on Sept. 13 in Compton, Jones-Sawyer called the crime “cowardly.”

The two deputies survived the ambush.

“I’m against police violence,” Jones-Sawyer told a Southern California radio station on Monday, Sept.

14. “And that’s not only police violence when it involves African Americans or Latinos, but also when violence goes against law enforcement officers. That act was a cowardly act.”

Jones-Sawyer, who represents the 59th Assembly District, is currently in a fight to hold on to his seat.

He trailed Efren Martinez, also a Democrat, in the primary election, which forced a runoff in the Nov. 3 General Election.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, established in 1957 as the California Correctional Officers Association, has over 30,000 members. The labor union advocates for enhancement of wages and other benefits for its members.

Jones-Sawyer says his family has a history of involvement in the 1960s civil rights and other social justice movements, so he’s aware that threats like the CCPOA’s are not always idle or harmless. His uncle was one of the “Little Rock Nine,” a group of Black students who famously integrated Arkansas’s Central High School in 1957.

“The men and women of the CCOPA deserve better representation and a board that communicates their needs rather than personal biases and hatred,” JonesSawyer said.

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BUSINESS NEWS BUSINESS DIRECTORY

CAROL H. WILLIAMS RECEIVES

Ad Age’s Prestigious Vanguard Award

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Carol H. Williams will receive Ad Age’s Vanguard Award during this year’s Women to Watch Awards event scheduled tonight.

Williams, the CEO of Carol H. Williams Advertising, is being honored for a lifetime of significant achievements, including being named to the AAF Advertising Hall of Fame.

According to a news release, now in its second year, the Vanguard Awards is given to women like Williams, who have inspired, mentored, and blazed trails for other women in the industry.

“Carol H. Williams personifies the best and the most effective advertising genius mind in the global advertising industr y,” said National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F.

Chavis, Jr. “The NNPA congratulates and salutes Carol H. Williams not only for her outstanding leadership but also for her longstanding commitment to freedom, justice, and equality.

Our society and the world continue to be made better because of leaders like Carol H. Williams.”

The first African American female to be named a VP and creative director at Leo Burnett Co., Williams opened her firm in 1986.

Among the Fortune 500 clients she has created work for are General Motors, General Mills, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, the U.S. Army, and Walt Disney Co. Williams is also the first African American creative inductee in the Advertising Hall of Fame and a 2020 Matrix Award honoree.

Photo of Carol H. Williams, the first African American creative inductee in the Advertising Hall of Fame and a 2020 Matrix Award honoree.

Her creative credits include Secret’s “Strong enough for a man but made for a woman,” and campaigns for brands including New Freedom and Pillsbury while at Burnett.

Williams reportedly has led and motivated more than 5,000 employees over a more than 30-year career and has exceeded $30 million in revenue during high-performance and growth periods.

The agency previously won an award for its multicultural online and interactive campaign during the 2018

Chevy/NNPA DTU campaign.

“Powerful narratives are the shaping force in our lives and thereby creates empathy and motivates action at their most profound level,” Williams told NNPA Newswire in a statement on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

“Narratives that ignite and nurture passions within us, envision new possibilities, develop confidence, and inspire us to overcome any obstacles that we face in making what was once unimaginable, imaginable,” she stated.

DR. RICKY SHABAZZ SELECTED

as Dean of Men of Color

Student Leadership Institute Voice & Viewpoint Newswire T h e P r e s i d e n t s’ Round Table (PRT) has selected San Diego City College P r e s i d e nt R i c k y Shabazz as the dean of the Men of Color Student Leadership Institute (MOCSLI) —a prog ram to develop and promote ef for ts to increasing the attendance, persistence, and completion of u n d e r r e p r e s e nt e d males in community colleges.

“I am excited to take on the role as dean for the Men of Color Student L e a d e r s h ip In s t it ut e ,” Shabazz said. “This provides a national platform to promote programs that are designed to help men of color succeed across the country.”

The PRT was founded in January 1983 to bring together African American community college leaders for the purpose of ensuring their success as campus leaders. The group initially focused on advocacy for each other and mentorships to ensure the African American legacy in campus leadership positions.

According to San Diego City College, programs like Hermanos Unidos Brothers United (HUBU) are increas-

San Diego City College President Ricky Shabazz, right, surprises a student with a book and cash at the 2018 Fall HUBU Conference. Photo courtesy of San Diego City College

ing the success of Black, Chicanx, and other men of color via “intrusive counseling and cohort models with linked learning.” The MOCSLI and HUBU aim to motivate and prepare students to succeed both academically and personally. The HUBU mission is to increase faculty and student interaction; promote community, cultural, and gender identity development; and encourage peerto-peer interaction between students.

“I look forward to promoting programs such as HUBU and other male cohort programs as a national model for advisors, college presidents, and faculty who attend t he MO CSLI,” Shabazz said. “Serving as the dean of MOCSLI affords

me the opportunity to bring attention to the success that programs such as HUBU have with students when they are collaboratively led by great people such as Dr. Nesha Savage, dean of Student Development and Matriculation; Assistant Professor/Counselor and HUBU Coordinator Rasheed Aden; Professor/ Counselor Rudy Zamora; and others.”

Upcoming Events include the 9th Annual Virtual Men of Color Student Leadership Institute, October 20-23, 2020 and the 10th Annual HUBU Conference — Tu Lucha es Mi Lucha, Your Fight is My Fight October 29, 2020. For more information visit www.sdcity.edu.

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CHURCH DIRECTORY

Bishop / Pastor Adlai E. Mack, Pastor

Christians’ United in the Word of God

St. Paul United Methodist Church

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego

7965-B Broadway Street Lemon Grove, California 91945

3094 L Street San Diego, CA 92102

3085 K Street San Diego, CA 92102

619.232.5683

619.232.0510 • www.bethelamesd.com

Conference Call Worship Service: SUNDAYS 10 : 30 AM Call: 1-701-802-5400 Access Code 1720379 #

10 A.M.Sunday Service Live Stream on Facebook www.facebook.com/stpaulsumcsd Rev. Dr. Eugenio Raphael

Food distribution Monday walk up noon-3 P.M., Wednesday drive up noon-3 P.M., Thursday walk up noon-3 P.M. Diaper Program Thursday Noon - 2 P.M.

All are Welcome to Join Us.

Pastor Milton Chambers, Sr. & First Lady Alice Chambers

“Come Worship With Us”

New Hope Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

New Assurance Church Ministries

Mesa View Baptist Church

2205 Harrison Avenue San Diego, CA 92113

7024 Amherst Street San Diego, CA 92115

13230 Pomerado Road Poway, CA 92064

619-234-5506 • Fax 619 234-8732 Email: newhopeadm@gmail.com

619.469.4916 • NABC.ORG Email: newassurancebaptistchurch@yahoo.com

858.485.6110 • www.mesaview.org Email: mvbcadmin@mesaview.org

10 A .M. Sunday Service Live Stream on Facebook, Youtube, Sunday School Lesson Immediately following service.

12 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study Live Stream on Facebook, 2P.M. on Youtube

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD! ” Psalms 122:1

Rev. Dr. Obie Tentman, Jr.

9 : 30 A .M. Sunday Service Live Stream on Facebook, Youtube and on bethelamesd.com

Rev. Harvey L. Vaughn, III

Pastor Rodney and Christine Robinson

8 : 45 A .M. Sunday School - Contact Office for details 10 A .M. Sunday Service Live Stream on Facebook 7 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study on Zoom - Contact Office for details

10 A .M. Sunday Service Live Stream Facebook 6: 30 P.M. Wednesday Live Stream Bible Study

“A new Hope, A new Life, A new Way through Jesus Christ 2 Corinthians 5:17 A change is coming”

Pastor Dr. Darrow Perkins Jr.

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Lively Stones Missionary Baptist Church

Phillips Temple CME Church

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church

605 S. 45th Street San Diego, CA 92113-1905

5333 Geneva Ave. San Diego, CA 92114

1728 S. 39th Street San Diego, CA 92113

619.263.3097 • t.obie95@yahoo.com

619.262.2505

619.262.6004 • Fax 619.262.6014 www.embcsd.com

Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 10 : 30 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer 11: 00 a.m. - 12 : 00 noon Wednesday Bible Study 7: 00 p.m.

Sunday School 8 : 30 a.m.

Morning Worship 9 : 45 a.m.

Tuesday Bible Study 10 : 00 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6: 00 p.m.

Pastor Jerry Webb

Sunday School 9 : 30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 11: 00 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study 12 p.m. & 6 : 00 p.m.

Pastor Jared B. Moten

“A Life Changing Ministry” Romans 12:2

Bethel Baptist Church

Total Deliverance Worship Center

1819 Englewood Dr. Lemon Grove, CA 91945

1962 N. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105

2701 East 8th Street National City, CA 91950

619.724.6226 • www.coyhm.org

619.266.2411 • www.bethelbc.com bethel@bethelbc.com

619.670.6208 • www.totaldeliverance.org Fax: 619.825.3930 • Mail : P.O. 1698, Spring Valley, CA 91979

The Church of Yeshua Ha Mashiach Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah”

Pastor Dennis Hodge First Lady Deborah Hodges

Pastor Dr. John E. Warren

Sunday In the Know Bible Study 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 9 : 00 a.m.

Saturday Shabbat Service 1: 00-2 : 30 p.m.

Dr. John W. Ringgold, Sr. Pastor

Sunday Morning Prayer 6 : 00 & Worship 7: 30 a.m.

Sunday School 9 : 30 a.m.

Morning Worship Youth & Children’s Church 11: 00 a.m.

Community Prayer (Hemera) Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat . 7: 30 a.m.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7: 30 p.m.

Mid Week Prayer Wednesday 12 : 00 noon and 7: 00 p.m.

Suffragan Bishop Dr. William A. Benson, Pastor & Dr. Rachelle Y. Benson, First Lady

“It Takes Team Work to Make the Dream Work”

Eagles Nest

Christian Center

Mount Olive Baptist Church

Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church

3619 College Ave. San Diego, CA 92115

36 South 35th Street San Diego, Ca 92113

4995 A Street San Diego, CA 92102

619.266.2293 • jwarren@sdvoice.info www.facebook.com/EaglesNestCenter

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619.264.3369

Sunday First Worship 9 : 30 a.m.

Second Worship 11: 00 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study & Prayer 7: 00 p.m.

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Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

Morning Service 10 : 45 a.m.

New Membership Orientation BTU 6 : 00 p.m.

Wednesday Eve Prayer Service 6 : 00 p.m.

Sunday Services Are Now Available.

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Service: 11 - 12: 00 p.m.

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Eagles Nest Christian Center “We are waiting for You”

Sunday Early Morning Worship Service 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Christian Education (Sunday School) 9 : 30 a.m.

Wednesday Noon Day Bible Study 12 : 00 p.m.

Wednesday W.O.W. • Worship on Wednesday (Bible Study) 7: 00 p.m.

Church of Christ

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church

580 69th Street, San Diego, CA 92114

625 Quail Street San Diego, CA 92102

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Sunday Bible Study 8 : 45 a.m.

Sunday Morning Service 10 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Bible Class 5: 00 p.m.

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Wednesday Bible Class 7: 00 p.m.

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Sunday Morning Service 11: 00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service 6: 00 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6: 00 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6: 30 p.m.

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COMMUNITY NEWS The Southeast Art Team Is

Photos by Brian Goodin

Giving Our Community

A New Look

By Brian Goodin Contributing Writer

The Southeast Art Team is on a mission to change the face of Southeastern San Diego. They are a group of volunteer artists from the local community. They have brushed and painted from 45th to 69th and Imperial Avenue.

Their artistry is an exhibit of eye-catching beautification that can be seen on many of the San Diego Gas & Electric boxes along the Imperial Avenue Corridor of businesses and family dwellings. On Tuesday, the 15th of September, five of the art team members could be found giving a face lift to an abandoned business building scheduled for demolition sometime next year.

The building is located just west of the area dubbed as the “Four Corners of Life” and officially known as Euclid and Imperial Avenue. The team of artists are quickly building a resume of empowering culture through the

Mural Restoration Project San Diego and are looking for more opportunity to express their love of art and culture.

5K, Jacobs Center For Neighborhood Innovation, Councilwoman Monica Montgomery’s office and San Diego Gas & Electric.

The art is a welcome and an interesting sight wherever this talented and vibrant group of Picasso’s congregate. They brush over matters that desperately need touching up during a time that so many of us are looking for a reason to smile.

Kim stated, “None of this would be possible without Barry Pollard, who once ran for City Council in the 4th District. He got me started by inviting me to paint a mural in The Community Spot, a building on Oceanview Blvd, which proudly promotes these kinds of involvement in the Southeast community.” Raquel Rhone said, “My efforts were geared towards drawing something empowering. So I chose a book store front for my assignment.” The time and talent that the Southeast Art Team has contributed to help beautify our community is much appreciated and exemplifies a commitment to improve the aesthetics in areas of need within the Southeastern community.

Kim Phillips-Pea, the President of the Southeast Art Team, can be seen in her yellow shirt along with Raquel Rhone, the group’s Vice President, wearing her long braids.

They create beautiful artistry using the building as their canvas. The other artists are Ami YoungHill, Joe Nathan Segura and Shirish Villase who also showcase their talent along the building walls.

The project has been supported by SD Hip Hop

A Love For Ice Cream Becomes A Dream Come True

By Brian Goodin Contributing Writer

AJ Williams is a former Vice President in the world of Information Technology of corporate America where he spent 25 years who, to a certain degree, would agree that he has gone sweet, meaning he sells one of the best tasting ice cream in San Diego. Williams has an (MBA) Masters of Business Administration from San Diego State University in Business Information Systems. He is the proud owner with good reason of Hammond’s Gourmet Ice Cream commitment to serve his community which has two locations in San Diego at 3740 Sports Arena Blvd # 6 and 3077 University Ave. Mr. Williams has managed to survive in business through COVID-19 largely because of his ability to cut corners by trimming finances. Prior to

the pandemic Hammond’s Ice Cream was served on Jet Blue but now relies much on new ways to sell his product like GrubHub , DoorDash & the likes.

Williams said, “The good will of the community has kept the business afloat.”

Hammond’s Gourmet Ice Cream has been around since 2014 but was recently acquired by Williams in 2019. The uniqueness of Hammond’s ice cream is that it comes to us directly from Hawaii by means of a deep freeze process that preserves the flavor during its transport by boat to the mainland. There are over 300 flavors of this super premium ice cream which is creamy, rich in texture, and handmade with 18% butterfat, making your taste buds smile with satisfaction. The flavors range from Apple Caramel Pie to White Pineapple Sorbet

and just about everything in between; so many your taste buds might explode from excitement.

Hammond’s ice cream business certainly brings joy and happiness to those who partake in the many delicious flavors. We could all agree that it would be difficult to think of a time when eating ice cream did not make us feel better. That is exactly how Williams reflected on his childhood days in New Orleans while making homemade ice cream with his mother. His mother happens to still love ice cream, even in the wisdom of her eighties.

The Voice & Viewpoint is extremely happy to encourage and support black owned businesses in our city. We tip our hat to AJ Williams and others like him.

A J Williams, owner of Hammond_s Gourmet Ice Cream. Photos by Brian Goodin

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