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PDP will not participate in process to appoint SEC president

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opular Democratic Party (PDP) Electoral Commissioner Karla Angleró González announced on Wednesday that she will not participate in the process to appoint a chairperson of the State Elections Commission, alleging that it is in violation of the law.

“It is time for Gov. Pierluisi Urrutia to appoint a chairperson of the State Elections Commission, as provided for in Article 3.07 of Law 58-2020 as soon as possible,” Angleró González said in a written statement.

The official said that in her interpretation of the article, “the electoral commissioners do not have jurisdiction over the appointment of the chairperson of the SEC after the expiration of the term of thirty (30) days from the resignation of the previous chairperson.”

“The NPP [New Progressive Party] cannot circumvent the law by pretending that it has another chance to return the chair’s appointment to the State Election Commission for consideration by the Electoral Commissioners,” Angleró González said. “That stage has passed; now it is up to the Legislative Power, as established by the Electoral Code, to endorse and confirm the one who will be the chair of the Commission.”

“What the governor and the NPP intend is to continue dragging their feet on this issue and say that they are fulfilling their duty to send names, but the commissioners are not endorsing them,” she added. “This is not only an irresponsible act on the part of the NPP, but it is a violation of the law and a premeditated act of continuing to delay the processes and work that are required to prepare the Commission for an electoral event.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said in response later on Wednesday that the PDP leadership is responsible for the fact that an SEC chairperson cannot be appointed.

“They continue to hinder my attempts to have someone appointed to the State Election Commission,” the governor said in response to questions from the press.

“That is, someone presiding over the State Elections Commission on a permanent or constant basis. The law does establish the mechanism that the electoral commissioners, if all agree, can appoint the chairperson of the State Elections Commission. The law provides for that. What happens then is that they don’t want to go through that process. Again, I don’t understand them.

Because in this process, the electoral commissioner of the Popular Democratic Party can represent the party.

Just like the other election commissioners. We want consensus. That’s a consensus mechanism. They have rejected it. I’m not surprised, because what they’re

doing is constantly getting in the way. This matter is in the hands of the court and the court will express itself.”

A lawsuit is pending in the Court of First Instance regarding the filling of the top post at the SEC. On Tuesday, NPP Electoral Commissioner Vanessa Santo Domingo Cruz announced that she had submitted to the electoral commissioners at the SEC a list of three candidates to fill the chairperson vacancy.

Three parties attended the meeting: the PDP, the Puerto Rican Independence Party and the Citizen Victory Movement.

Santo Domingo Cruz said several commissioners reported that they have to consult with their parties before presenting their position on the evaluation of the candidates.

“In compliance with Article 3.7 of the electoral code and as requested by the president of the NPP, Pedro Pierluisi, we presented a shortlist of judges to fill the [SEC chairperson] vacancy … and they were asked that the matter be addressed as soon as possible,” Santo Domingo said in a written statement.

The NPP commissioner noted that the governor has already made appointments to the House of Representatives and the Senate that have been rejected outright without holding a public hearing.

“We hope that there will be openness and the seriousness that is required to address this issue,” she added.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

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Judge approves PREPA’s debt disclosure statement

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.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain has approved the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) disclosure statement, moving the process closer to the confirmation of the utility’s heatedly debated debt adjustment plan.

In a Nov. 17 ruling, the judge said the disclosure statement, which contains an explanation in laymen’s terms of the debt adjustment plan, contains adequate information within the meaning of Section 1125 of the Bankruptcy Code, and no other or further information is necessary for purposes of soliciting acceptances and rejections of the Fifth Modified Third Amended Plan. Hearings to confirm the debt adjustment plan are slated for March 2024.

The judge also said the ballot forms are consistent with official bankruptcy forms and adequately address the particular needs of U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain

the Title III case, and are appropriate for the relevant classes of claims entitled under the Fifth Modified Third Amended Plan.

The ballots to vote to accept or reject the debt adjustment plan need only be provided to: Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp.; Assured Insured Bonds & Interest Rate Swap Secured Claims in Class 4 and Assured Insured Bonds & Interest Rate Swap Unsecured Claims in Class 5; Syncora Guarantee Inc. on account of Syncora Insured Bonds Secured Claims in Class 6 and Syncora Insured Bonds Unsecured Claims in Class 7; National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. on account of National Insured Bonds Secured Claims in Class 8 and National Insured Bonds Unsecured Claims in Class 9; and Holders of Claims in Class 1 consisting of the first Settlement Bondholder Claims; Class 2 consisting of uninsured bondholder secured Claims; Class 3 comprising uninsured bondholder claims; Class 10, which are pension claims;

Class 11 or Fuel Line Loan lenders; Class 12, which are general unsecured Claims; Class 13, the Vitol Claims; and Class 16, which are federal claims.

The beneficial owners of PREPA Revenue Bonds insured by National shall be entitled to receive an election notice and make an election with respect to the form of distribution pursuant to the Fifth Modified Third Amended Plan. Beneficial Owners of PREPA Revenue Bonds insured by Assured or Syncora will be entitled to receive a notice of nonvoting status informing them that Assured or Syncora will be entitled to vote to approve or reject the Fifth Modified Third Amended Plan.

Ballots need not be provided to the holders of claims in Class 14, composed of the ordinary course customer claims; Class 15, which are Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claims; and Class 17, which are convenience claims because the holders of those claims are unimpaired.

Manufacturing Index rises 2.7% year-on-year for September

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n increase of 2.7% when compared to the same month of the previous year was recorded in the September report of the Index of Coincident Indicators in Manufacturing (IICM), Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda announced earlier this week.

“This means the 30th consecutive increase in the IICM since April 2021, which represents an increase in that period of 10.2%,” Cidre Miranda said in a written statement.

Industrial activity in September remained unchanged when compared to the previous

month, after two consecutive months (July-August) with positive values and two months (May and June) of reductions.

“This value, as well as that of August, represents the highest recorded so far this year and since May 2009,” Cidre Miranda said.

The IICM in September of this year registered a value of 114.4 points (2016=100), in which there were no changes compared to the previous month. The seasonally adjusted components -- for inflation, productivity and technological changes -- that contributed positively to the value of the Index were: payroll paid, hours worked and industrial energy consumption. The components of salaried

employment and the indexed trade balance, meanwhile made negative contributions.

The average value of the recently started fiscal year 2024 (July-September) has reflected an increase of 2.5%, when compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year, this being the third consecutive increase in industrial activity during this fiscal period.

Meanwhile, the PRM-PMI value (calculated by the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics) -- which measures the prospects of company managers and business conditions in the short term, as well as having attributes like those of the IICM -- was 50.0 points, remaining unchanged for the second consecutive month and showing a deceleration trend for the past nine months. However, in the past 33 months, since January 2021, the PMI has registered values above the 50-point threshold in 26 of them, with an average value of 54.5 points, which determines that the sector is expanding (+50).

The manufacturing sector continues to wait for the possible negative effects on global supply chains, in addition to the possible repercussions of the war between Ukraine and Russia and, more recently, between Israel and Hamas. It will depend on the duration of the aforementioned conflicts, since an extension of the war between Israel and Hamas would drive up the prices of hydrocarbons.

The impact of El Niño weather conditions on agricultural production could also push up global food prices.

These geopolitical scenarios and high

operational costs will affect the industry in the short or medium term, reflecting a possible slowdown.

The IICM is a composite index that includes a series of coincident indicators that measure the economic state and the shortterm fluctuations of economic activity in the industry in synchrony with that economic state.

It identifies and analyzes inflection points, serves as a tool for analyzing the impact of business cycles and world events, and for making projections on other indicators that highlight the general state of the economy.

The data are seasonally adjusted and those expressed in monetary value are adjusted for prices, in addition to containing adjustments for changes in productivity.

Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda

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Ex-basketball standout ‘Piculín’ Ortiz has cancer

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“My family and I are positive and looking forward to what we can do along the way,” former pro basketball standout José “Piculín” Ortiz said.

ormer professional basketball player José “Piculín” Ortiz announced on Wednesday that he has colorectal cancer.

“I want to share with you, the people of Puerto Rico and all the people who have always been, in one way or another, my followers,” Ortiz, 60, said in a video posted on his social networks. “It was found on Nov. 2 that I have colorectal cancer, which we are willing to fight.”

“It’s not easy, and people who go through that situation can say that, but my family and I are positive and looking forward to what we can do along the way,” said the former power forward, who played professionally with the Utah Jazz of the NBA as well as on various European teams, and in Puerto Rico’s Baloncesto Superior Nacional. “But I have a group of doctors and professionals who are going to be helping me in this battle.”

“We just ask that you pray for us,” Ortiz added.

He did not reveal what stage the cancer is in.

Aerostar offers recommendations for a smoother travel experience

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erostar Puerto Rico President Jorge Hernández said earlier this week that because Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) expects to receive a large number of passengers during the high travel season, which covers the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas, travelers should make the necessary preparations to avoid setbacks, “Thanksgiving week, especially that holiday weekend, is one of the busiest times of the year at airports,” Hernández said. “If you are going to travel on these days, keep in mind that there are factors that the passenger cannot control, such as the arrival of a plane, but there are others, such as preparation before a flight, that will help you speed up your passage through the airport and have a better travel experience.”

The airport management company offered a series of recommendations: * Before the trip, travelers should pack carry-on luggage in accordance with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulations to avoid delays in the boarding process. The TSA page has a list of permitted items. * Passengers must carry liquids, gels and aerosols whose content does not exceed 3.4 ounces in a transparent plastic bag with a seal (ziplock type), with one quart capacity. * All luggage destined for the United States must pass through the federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection station. There are restrictions on food in luggage. Do not bring food containing pork on domestic flights. New federal regulations prohibit it.

“If you travel with other types of food, we recom-

Aerostar Puerto Rico President Jorge Hernández urged holiday travelers to focus on the things over which they can exercise some control, “such as preparation before a flight, that will help you speed up your passage through the airport and have a better travel experience.” mend bringing it frozen, in containers that keep it cold, and secured in the checked luggage that goes to the plane’s cargo area,” Hernández said. “This will avoid inspections and delays in TSA lines. Please see the guide to items allowed on board and the USDA-approved food guide.” * Passengers must complete the registration or check-in process in advance. Most airlines allow you to do it online or from a mobile application, up to

24 hours before the flight departure. Check air traffic before you leave and verify that your flight is on time.

The Aerostar page www.aeropuertosju.com will allow you to see flight status and information for travelers in real time. * Prior to departure to the airport, passengers must make sure to have coordinated with the airline any special assistance services such as wheelchairs. * Passengers must also check with the airline what the travel policies are for regular and service pets. For the benefit of animal owners, SJU has pet areas in the terminals. * Passengers must arrive at the airport with plenty of time -- at least two hours -- in advance. * During the holidays, there is a high demand for parking spaces, and the multi-story parking lot capacity may be exhausted. * At the airport, passengers must inspect their luggage at USDA stations before arriving at theTSA security point and have official photo identification on hand.

“Prepare for TSA screening protocol,” Hernández said. “Remove any items from your pockets, including coins; remove your coat, jacket, scarf, or any overlapping piece of clothing, and your shoes; use a separate tray to store electronics such as laptops, tablets, etc.

Remember to bring your liquids and gel in containers of no more than 3.4 ounces inside a ziplock-type plastic bag.”

“You can speed up the inspection and passage through the airport process by registering for TSA Precheck, Global Entry or Clear services,” the Aerostar chief added. “The latter can be purchased through membership at the airport itself, near the main inspection point.”

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For election workers, fentanyl-laced letters signal a challenging year

By MICHAEL WINES

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or the people who run elections at thousands of local offices nationwide, 2024 was never going to be an easy year. But the recent anonymous mailing of powder-filled envelopes to election offices in five states offers new hints of how hard it could be.

The letters, sent to offices in Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, California and Georgia this month, are under investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the FBI. Several of them appear to have been laced with fentanyl; at least two contained a vague message calling to “end elections now.”

The letters are a public indicator of what some election officials say is a fresh rise in threats to their safety and the functioning of the election system. And they presage the pressure-cooker environment that election officials will face next year in a contest for the White House that could chart the future course of American democracy.

“The system is going to be tested in every possible way, whether it’s voter registration, applications for ballots, poll workers, the mail, drop boxes, election results websites,” said Tammy Patrick, chief executive for programs at the National Association of Election Officials. “Every way in which our elections are administered is going to be tested somewhere, at some time, during 2024.”

Patrick and other experts said they were confident that those staffing the next election would weather those stresses, just as poll workers soldiered through a 2020 vote at the height of a global pandemic that all but rewrote the playbook for national elections.

But they did not minimize the challenges. Instead, they said, in some crucial ways — such as the escalation of violent political rhetoric, and the increasing number of seasoned election officials who are throwing in the towel — the coming election year will impose greater strains than in any of the past.

By several measures, an unprecedented number of top election officials have retired or quit since 2020, many in response to rising threats and partisan interference in their jobs.

Turnover in election jobs doubled over the past year, according to an annual survey released last week by the Elections & Voting Information Center at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Nearly one-third of election officials said that they knew someone who had left an election post, at least in part because of fears over safety.

Another recent report by Issue One, a pro-democracy advocacy group, said that 40% of chief election administrators in 11 Western states — in all, more than 160 officials, typically in county positions — had retired or quit since 2020.

“They feel unsafe,” said Aaron Ockerman, executive director of the Ohio Association of Elections Officials.

Miami-Dade County Elections workers counted ballots during a primary election last year.

“They have great amounts of stress. They don’t feel respected by the state or the public. So they find other employment.”

A certain number of departures is normal, and in many cases, experienced subordinates can take over the tasks.

But departures can create collateral damage: Promoting an insider to a top elections job leaves a vacancy to be filled at a time when it is increasingly difficult to recruit newcomers to a profession that is only becoming more stressful. Experts also worry that the aura of nastiness and even danger attached to election work will drive away volunteers, many of them older Americans, who are essential to elections in all states except the handful in which residents largely vote by mail.

Each election requires many hundreds of thousands of volunteers to staff polls. At a recent meeting of election administrators, roughly half were “really worried” about recruiting enough help for next year’s elections, said David J. Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Like Patrick, of the election officials association, Becker said he expected that any election-season staffing problems next year would be localized, not widespread.

He noted, for example, that groups that are new to recruiting poll workers, such as sports teams, universities and private businesses, are helping to find volunteers.

One wild card is the extent to which threats to election workers and other attempts to disrupt the vote will ramp up as the presidential-year political atmosphere kicks in.

Harassment and threats against election officials were widely reported in the months after former President Donald Trump began to claim falsely that fraud had cost him a victory in the 2020 election. But election officials say that the threats have not stopped since then.

In June, the downtown office of Paul López, the Denver clerk and recorder, was attacked overnight with a fusil-

lade of bullets, pockmarking the building’s facade and a ballot drop box and bursting through a window into an office cubicle. And from mid-July to mid-August, the Maricopa County elections office in Phoenix recorded 140 violent threats, including one warning that officials would be “tied and dragged by a car,” Reuters reported.

The challenges go beyond threats to demands that can make the requirements of the job feel limitless.

In the last year, for example, election offices nationwide have been bombarded with requests, usually from election skeptics and allies of Trump, for millions of pages of public records relating to voter rolls and internal election operations. Similarly, offices in some states were hit this year with challenges to the legitimacy of thousands of voter registrations.

In both cases, the ostensible purpose was to serve as a check on the integrity of the ballot. The practical effect — and sometimes the intent, experts say — has been to disrupt election preparations and, in some cases, to make it harder for some people to vote.

“It’s impacting thousands of election officers,” Patrick said. “It isn’t the case that those who are driving the narrative are numerous. But we know there are large numbers of people listening to them and reiterating what they hear.”

Some of the language is beyond the bounds of normal political discourse.

Trump, in a speech in New Hampshire this month used language more in keeping with fascism than democracy when he threatened to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”

Such toxic language has an effect, said Rachel Kleinfeld, an expert on political violence and the rule of law at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. “There is a very clear link between the rhetoric of politicians and other leaders who both dehumanize and posit another group as a threat to incidents of political violence,” she said. “Trump himself seems to have a particular knack for this.”

“What’s distressing,” Kleinfeld added, “is not just that election officials are quite worried by these threats, but that they’re not dissipating” in what should have been a quiet period between national elections.

Patrick said she was distressed as well. “I feel like we’re in a very tenuous time, but there are bright lights to see,” she said. “In 2022, we had candidates who lost and conceded admirably and civilly. This month, we saw people continuing to serve as poll workers and people raising their hands to run for office on platforms of truth and legitimacy. As long as we have people who are willing to believe in facts, we’ll get through this.”

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Latino business advocate stung by misconduct claims resurfaces with ‘No Labels’

Javier Palomarez denied the accusations against him.

By KATE KELLY and REID J. EPSTEIN

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o Labels, the centrist organization that is vying to gain ballot access for the 2024 presidential election, has joined forces with Javier Palomarez, an advocate of Hispanic-owned businesses with a history of allegations of workplace financial misconduct and sexual harassment.

In 2018, Palomarez stepped down from his job as CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce while facing accusations that he had padded his pay and had made an unwanted pass at his female chief of staff. He denied those allegations and later sued the chamber.

He also sued one of the group’s former directors, saying that he had been sexually harassed. Both matters were ultimately settled out of court in 2019.

In an interview Tuesday evening, Palomarez said his departure from the Hispanic Chamber was a result of a witch hunt against him because he elected to work with instead of against the Trump administration. He said he “won the lawsuits” against his accusers, though he said the terms of the settlements remained confidential. He declined to reveal them. “All I can do is tell you I maintained my innocence then and I maintain it now,” he said.

Palomarez is a self-described Democrat who resigned from a diversity coalition convened by the Trump administration over its efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He appears on cable news occasionally to criticize President Joe Biden on issues such as immigration and domestic energy production. He is also the founder and CEO of an advocacy organization with a mission similar to that of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, his former employer, and is now a volunteer

leader at No Labels. party members and donors from participating with the During a video mee- organization.

They may have reason for concern. On the call Tuesting with No Labels followers on Tuesday evening, day, Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster, said a survey Palomarez spoke of the he recently conducted for the Spanish-language news importance of engaging network Univision showed that independent presidential Hispanic voters as part of candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West were any presidential ticket. pulling more support from Biden than they were from “Our nation is at a tran- former President Donald Trump. Newhouse showed a sit point. Never before have slide that had Biden and Trump tied in a two-way race, we been so disillusioned but Trump ahead in a race with several other candidates by our elected officials and on the ballot.

Jacobson has in recent weeks told potential donors our leaders,” he said to the roughly 300 participants on that the group will name a Republican to lead its presithe call. “One thing is clear: dential ticket at a planned convention in April.

The Hispanic electorate will In 2021, three years after departing the commerce orplay a decisive role in the ganization, Palomarez founded the U.S. Hispanic Business elections of 2024.”

Council, whose stated mission is to “empower HispanicPalomarez, who voted owned businesses in the United States by advocating for for Biden in 2020, said his people and policies that support their advancement.” role at No Labels would be Jacobson said that Palomarez was recommended as a conduit to the Hispa- highly to No Labels.

“Several people referred him to our organization nic community, which he said had been harmed by as an extremely competent leader who could add value the Biden administration’s and perspective as a volunteer,” she said. Jacobson said Palomarez would not be paid. She added that he would energy policies.

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What happened in the world of artificial intelligence?

By JOHN KOBLIN, KEVIN GRANVILLE and JASON KARAIAN

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he abrupt ouster of Sam Altman on Friday as CEO of OpenAI, one of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies and the maker of ChatGPT, set off a head-spinning series of twists that culminated late Tuesday with Altman’s reinstatement at the company he founded and pledges to overhaul the way OpenAI is run.

The turmoil highlighted an unresolved debate over AI, which many see as the most important new technology since web browsers but also a potential source of danger if misused.

Sam Altman was ousted as chief executive of Here’s what you need to know about OpenAI on Friday and reinstated on Tuesday.

Altman’s departure, his return and what could happen next.

What kicked this off? company’s investors. Microsoft, which has On Friday, Altman was dismissed as invested $13 billion in the company, was OpenAI’s CEO. A dispute with a colleague said to be particularly alarmed and with other appears to have played a role. investors pressed the board over the weekend Ilya Sutskever, a board member who to reinstate Altman, without success. founded OpenAI with Altman and several On Sunday evening, after 48 hours of others, was said to be growing alarmed that furious negotiations over the company’s futhe company’s technology could pose a sig- ture, OpenAI’s board said it would stand by nificant risk and that Altman was not paying its decision and named the second interim close enough attention to the potential harms. chief in two days: Emmett Shear, a former He and three other members of OpenAI’s executive at Twitch, would succeed Mira six-member board decided to dismiss Altman. Murati, a longtime OpenAI executive who The board was tight-lipped about its had been appointed interim chief Friday. reasons, noting only that Altman “was not Late Sunday, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s consistently candid in his communications chief, announced that he intended to hire with the board.” Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s Altman and Brockman, to lead an advanced president, who along with Altman also served AI research team at the tech giant. on the company’s board, quit in protest.

By Monday morning, almost all of OpeFive days of chaos ensued. nAI’s nearly 800 employees had signed a The firing led to confusion among em- letter saying they might quit to join Microsoft ployees at OpenAI and distress among the unless the startup rehired Altman and all of

the company’s board members resigned.

After all that, Sam Altman returned.

Late Tuesday, OpenAI announced an “agreement in principle” for Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI, the culmination of the campaign waged by his allies, employees and investors. Brockman also returned to the company. “We are so back,” he posted on X, along with a selfie in front of a crowd of OpenAI employees, who celebrated in the company’s office.

Altman and Brockman rejoin a changed company, starting with the board that ousted them.

Who’s in and who’s out on OpenAI’s board.

OpenAI now has a fundamentally different, three-member board. The company described the reshuffle as a “new initial board,” suggesting more members may be coming.

Nadella of Microsoft said that he was “encouraged” by the changes, calling it a “first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance.”

Incoming members: — Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise software company, will serve as OpenAI’s chair. Taylor is also the former chair of Twitter and was in the middle of last year’s clashes with Elon Musk, who initially agreed to acquire Twitter and then tried to back out of the deal. (Musk was a founder of OpenAI in 2015 but left the company three years later.)

— Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury secretary, Harvard professor and veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, remains a prominent economic voice in Washington.

Departing members: — Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist,

who was a major player in the ouster of Altman last week.

— Tasha McCauley, an entrepreneur, computer scientist and adjunct senior management scientist at the Rand Corp. She has ties to the rationalist and effective altruist movements, a community that is deeply concerned that AI could one day destroy humanity.

— Helen Toner, a director of strategy at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. She also has links to the rationalist and effective altruist movements and had attracted Altman’s scorn with a paper she had co-written recently. Altman complained that the research paper seemed to criticize OpenAI’s efforts to keep its AI technologies safe.

Remaining members: — Adam D’Angelo, CEO of Quora, the question-and-answer site. He was among those who pushed Altman out but then over the weekend led the talks to bring him back, according to two people in touch with the board.

What does this mean for AI? The upheaval at Open AI highlighted an industry split between so-called doomers, who say the technology is moving too quickly, and others who argue it can make lifesaving enhancements.

More than 1,000 tech leaders signed a letter in March calling for a pause in the development of AI’s most advanced systems, saying the tools have “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Altman, who did not sign that letter, has urged responsible management of AI while also promoting the technology and in recent months pitched ideas to investors and others.

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Israel and Hamas work to clinch details of cease-fire and hostage deal

By PATRICK KINGSLEY and RONEN BERGMAN

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ours after Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary cease-fire and the release of some hostages and prisoners, negotiators were trying to hammer out crucial details of the deal.

As of Wednesday afternoon, they had not announced specific plans for an exchange of at least 150 Palestinian women and children jailed by Israel for at least 50 Israeli women and children held in the Gaza Strip, including when it will start and who will be included. The Israeli military also said that it “continued to fight in the Gaza Strip,” highlighting that the agreement to pause fighting for at least four days had not taken effect.

Among the issues still under discussion, according to Israeli officials: — Israel’s Supreme Court was weighing a private petition against the deal, a spokesperson for the court said Wednesday afternoon, delaying Israel’s ability to start the pause until at least Thursday.

— Hamas and Israel still disagree on how many captives are held in Gaza, making it hard to work out who exactly will be released, according to four Israeli officials

Ambulances evacuating premature babies who had been in intensive care at Al-Shifa Hospital head to the border crossing with Egypt in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 20, 2023. who spoke anonymously to discuss a sensitive matter.

— Israel published a shortlist of 300 Palestinians who could be released from Israeli jails, but it had yet to narrow the list to 150 names.

— The process and route by which the hostages would be transferred to Israel was still being determined, according to a fifth Israeli official who also spoke anonymously to

discuss a sensitive matter.

— The pause would allow for an increase in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, through both the Egyptian and Israeli borders. But there was not yet agreement on the amount of supplies that would be allowed through, according to the fifth Israeli official.

Some details have been firmed up. Israeli officials have confirmed that the Israeli air force will not fly over southern Gaza and

will have a six-hour daily window in which there will be no flights in the northern end of the territory.

In an official statement, the Israeli government said that the hostages would be released in four phases during the pause in fighting, with at least 10 hostages released at each stage.

Hamas and its allies in Gaza captured about 240 hostages during their raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7, which also killed an estimated 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. Israel has responded with thousands of airstrikes and by invading Gaza with ground forces, killing more than 12,000 people in the fighting, according to health officials in the Hamas-controlled territory.

If the multiday pause holds, it would be the longest halt in hostilities since the start of the 47-day war. But with no third party on the ground to secure the deal, it could easily break down, like many other cease-fire deals in the long history of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that while it had agreed to a truce, “our hands will remain on the trigger.”

And Israeli officials have said that their war in Gaza will continue once the pause ends.

In Gaza, cease-fire deal brings ‘little bit of relief’

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esidents of the Gaza Strip greeted the news of a temporary cease-fire with mixed emotions Wednesday, expressing hope for a respite in Israel’s relentless bombardment but concern that the brief pause did not mean an end to the war.

“There’s a little bit of relief,” Ahmed Nassar, a 27-yearold taxi driver, said in a phone interview, adding that he hoped the deal would not fall through. “God willing, at midnight we will see it.”

The start of the cease-fire — which would allow for the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza and 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel — was to be announced within 24 hours and last for at least four days, said the government of Qatar, which helped lead the negotiations. The pause in fighting would also allow the delivery of more aid and fuel for civilians in Gaza, Qatar said.

Nassar, who fled his northern Gaza neighborhood of Jabalia and is now living in the central part of the Gaza Strip, said the deal raised the prospect that a longer ceasefire could come in the next few weeks, which could allow his family to go back and check on their home.

But Israeli officials have signaled that the war aimed at

eradicating Hamas, which rules Gaza, will go on. For now, they have said, the 1.7 million Palestinians displaced by the fighting will not be allowed to return to their homes during the pause.

The four-day pause is “not guaranteeing the end of the military operations in the Gaza Strip,” said Bisan Owda, who has been documenting the war on social media. “This period is not enough to pull the dead bodies from under the rubble and bury them, to search for the missing people, to open the roads, to treat the injured.”

Gaza’s health authorities say that more than 12,000 people have been killed since the start of Israel’s retaliation against Hamas for the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, according to Israeli officials.

Most of the 1.7 million displaced people fled homes in the north of the territory and evacuated to the south following repeated Israeli orders.

Firas Al-Derby, 17, who is sheltering with his parents at an overcrowded United Nations-run school in the south, said he did not hear the news of the cease-fire and prisoner exchange because of spotty communication networks in Gaza. When a reporter for The New York Times told him over the phone about the agreement that was reached overnight, he sounded underwhelmed. The news meant little

to his mother, Hanan, who is ill with cancer and has been unable to continue her treatment after Gaza’s only cancer hospital went out of service last month.

“You think my mom would be happy over a temporary cease-fire?” he said. “The only thing that would make her happy now is to be able to continue her cancer treatment.”

The mood at the school Wednesday morning was not celebratory, he said, because the pause is not meant to last.

“This deal is not a truce,” he said. “It’s resting time for the soldiers.”

Searching for casualties at the site of a strike on a house in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Wednesday.

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Political pressures on Biden helped drive ‘secret cell’ of aides in hostage talks

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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srael’s acceptance of the terms of a hostage deal with Hamas late Tuesday reflected the intense pressure brought by the Biden administration to reach an agreement that would free some of those held by the armed group and produce potential longer-term opportunities to de-escalate the conflict.

The initial approval of the deal by the Israeli Cabinet came after a “secret cell” of top aides to President Joe Biden worked furiously over the past several weeks on a web of negotiations involving Qatar, Egypt and Israel, an effort hampered by communications outages in the Gaza Strip and a series of last-minute disputes that derailed the talks.

White House officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the five weeks of sensitive negotiations that had led to a deal, said the agreement would include the release of three Americans: two women and a toddler. The officials said they would continue to push for the release of all U.S. hostages.

The deal came at a time when Democrats are increasingly divided over Biden’s embrace of Israel, particularly as the civilian toll in Gaza grows, and as polling shows the president receiving low marks on his handling of the crisis ahead of his reelection campaign.

But the arrangement was also the latest example of the widening breach between the White House and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s overwhelming response to the Hamas attacks, which has led to the deaths of about 12,000 people in Gaza. For weeks, Biden has publicly and privately tried to persuade the prime minister to pause the bombardment of Gaza to allow in humanitarian aid and to reduce civilian casualties.

Netanyahu has consistently refused to consider a wide-scale halt to Israel’s military operations in Gaza unless it would lead to the release of the hostages.

White House officials said that over the last several weeks, Biden had concluded that persuading Netanyahu to accept a dayslong suspension of the fighting — rather than more limited pauses for several hours at a time — would require linking the break to a deal to free hostages from captivity in the tunnels used by Hamas fighters.

Biden made that case with increasing urgency to Netanyahu during 13 calls since the Hamas attacks and a face-to-face meeting in Israel, officials said, underscoring the president’s willingness to ratchet up the pressure on his counterpart. Biden’s initial full-throated embrace of Israel’s right to defend itself in the hours after the Oct. 7 attacks has evolved into repeated calls for restraint by the Israeli forces in Gaza.

Aides said the president was also hopeful that the hostage release could be an early step toward a broader peace in the region once the immediate crisis ends. In an opinion article published in The Washington Post on Sunday, Biden described how far his ambitions stretch beyond

the four-day pause in fighting agreed to Tuesday.

“Our goal should not be simply to stop the war for today,” he wrote. “It should be to end the war forever, break the cycle of unceasing violence, and build something stronger in Gaza and across the Middle East so that history does not keep repeating itself.”

Biden and his top aides have repeatedly said they do not tell Israel how to respond to the slaughter of 1,200 people inside their country, and Netanyahu made it clear Tuesday that he intended to resume military operations against Hamas as soon as the hostages were freed in accordance with the deal.

“The war will continue,” Netanyahu said.

But some senior American officials have signaled they would not be disappointed if the pause became a more permanent cease-fire. If the White House tries to use the hostage deal to press for a longer-term cease-fire and start moving toward the bigger questions about occupation and a two-state solution, that could put Biden on another collision course with Netanyahu when the fighting is scheduled to resume.

A top administration official, who briefed reporters Tuesday in the hours before the deal was finalized, said the pause in fighting was a step toward an eventual push for peace. But the official cautioned that such a possibility was a long way off. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a deal that had not yet been finalized.

In the short term, the president and his aides say they are focused on ensuring that Hamas lives up to the promises the militant group made during weeks of negotiations that often seemed destined to fail.

The first sign of progress came in late October, when U.S. officials received word through intermediaries in Qatar and Egypt that Hamas could accept a deal to release women and children. In return, they wanted Israel to free Palestinian prisoners, pause the fighting and delay a ground invasion.

With Israeli troops massing outside Gaza, officials in Israel and the United States debated whether to accept the deal. Israeli officials did not think Hamas was serious about the offer and refused to delay the ground offensive.

Hamas refused to provide any proof of life about the hostages. Negotiations stalled.

At the White House, Biden and his foreign policy team kept pressing. On Nov. 14, hope swelled again after Netanyahu called the president to say he could accept the latest offer from Hamas. But just hours after the call, Israeli military forces stormed Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which they said served as a Hamas command center. Suddenly, communications between Hamas and the officials in Qatar and Egypt went silent. When Hamas resurfaced hours later, they made it clear: The deal was off.

For several days, the militant group demanded that Israeli troops withdraw from the hospital, which Israel refused. It took several days for the talks to resume, fo-

President Joe Biden is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arriveal in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 18, 2023. Biden’s initial full-throated embrace of Israel’s right to defend itself after the Oct. 7 attacks has evolved into repeated calls for restraint. llowing a call from Biden to the emir of Qatar.

Administration officials continued pressing Israel and, through the intermediaries, Hamas. After Biden’s call, top aides, including the director of the CIA, met with the emir in Qatar to go over the latest draft — a six-page text with detailed steps for implementation on both sides.

Within a week, the diplomatic pressure paid off. On Tuesday evening, as the Israeli Cabinet took its final vote to approve the deal, Biden headed out of Washington for a five-day Thanksgiving vacation with his family on the island of Nantucket.

The Israeli decision, announced by Netanyahu’s office, would allow for a pause of at least four days in the fighting in Gaza. If it holds, it would be the longest halt in hostilities since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks prompted Israel to begin its bombardment of Gaza.

In a statement Tuesday night, Biden pledged to work with regional leaders “to ensure this deal is carried through in its entirety. It is important that all aspects of this deal be fully implemented.”

But even with the deal in place, Biden faces challenges ahead. There are still Americans being held hostage in Gaza, and the tensions in the United States, and within his own party, show few signs of diminishing.

Officials said they were keenly aware that the horror for the families of those still in captivity in Gaza will not end until their loved ones are home.

For Biden, it could not happen soon enough.

“As president, I have no higher priority than ensuring the safety of Americans held hostage around the world,” Biden said in his statement, adding, “Today’s deal should bring home additional American hostages, and I will not stop until they are all released.”

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The ‘cease-fire now’ imposture

By BRET STEPHENS

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f all that’s been said and written about the war between Israel and Hamas, nothing has cut through the mental fog quite so brightly as a remark this month from Hillary Clinton on “The View.”

“Remember,” the former secretary of state said, “there was a cease-fire on Oct. 6 that Hamas broke by their barbaric assault on peaceful civilians and their kidnapping, their killing, their beheading, their terrible, inhumane savagery.”

Those three words — that Hamas broke — aren’t trivial.

They give the lie to the “Cease-Fire Now” mirage, or imposture, that has become a rallying cry at pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They are at the heart of what the war is about, and the key to how it can end. And they are the bright dividing line between those who would allow Hamas to get away with murder, and those who would refuse.

Why should it matter that it was Hamas that broke the cease-fire when Palestinian civilians are being killed in large numbers by Israeli bombs and bullets? Those saying that it shouldn’t matter argue that questions of culpability become secondary, if not irrelevant, when kids’ lives are at stake. If Israel has the power to save those kids by halting its campaign, goes the argument, then it has a moral obligation to do so.

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But wait: Doesn’t Hamas also have the power? Hamas has a long record of firing those rockets from the vicinity of schools. It has sought to prevent ordinary Palestinians from obeying evacuation orders, deliberately putting them at increased risk. It hides in a vast network of tunnels while civilians must fend for themselves above ground.

As I write, there are reports that Hamas might release some hostages in exchange for a brief cease-fire. But Hamas would do that only because it’s under intense military pressure. It could get a real and lasting cease-fire for the people of the Gaza Strip — and probably safe passage out of the territory for many of its members — in exchange for releasing all the hostages, surrendering its arms and renouncing its rule in favor of some other Arab power.

That Hamas has done none of these things isn’t shocking: It’s a terrorist death cult. What’s shocking is that people in the Cease-Fire Now crowd don’t appear to have much interest in making any demands of Hamas equivalent to those they make of Israel.

They want Israel to stop firing. But do you often hear them insisting that Hamas return the favor? They want Israel to provide Gaza with humanitarian relief in the form of electricity, fuel and other goods. But I haven’t seen those protesters in the street demanding that Hamas provide Israel with humanitarian relief in the form of immediately freeing all hostages. They claim to want a “free Palestine” for all its people. But I never hear them criticize Hamas’ dictatorship, or its contempt for the civil and human rights of its own people, or its members’ avowedly antisemitic boasts of slaughtering Jews.

There is a buried, unwitting compliment to Israel in this asymmetry — an assumption that, as a Western democracy, the Jewish state is susceptible to moral suasion, public shaming, or at least diplomatic pressure in a way Hamas and its patrons in Iran aren’t.

Yet that compliment is rarely accompanied with even a gesture of respect for Israel’s grief, or the legitimacy of its grievance with Hamas, or its need to keep its citizens safe, or even its right to exist as a sovereign state. Even when Israel’s notional right to self-defense is briefly acknowledged, every exercise of it is immediately deemed a war crime, whatever the evidence.

For Israelis, what “Cease-Fire Now” means is “Surrender Now.” No wonder they decline to heed the call.

What about for Palestinians — women, children and noncombatant men for whom the calls for a cease-fire are supposedly intended? Would they benefit? In the short term, of course: Palestinian lives would be saved if Israel held its fire.

But a cease-fire wouldn’t spare just civilians. It would spare, and embolden, the main fighting force of Hamas. It

People attend a Pro-Palestinian demonstration and a vigil in New York on Oct 17, 2023. “Of all that’s been said and written about the war between Israel and Hamas, nothing has cut through the mental fog quite so brightly as a remark this month from Hillary Clinton on ‘The View’,” Bret Stephen writes. would also embolden terrorist allies like Hezbollah. That’s a virtual guarantee for future mass-casualty attacks against Israel, for ever-larger Israeli retaliation, and for deeper misery for the people of Gaza. No Israeli government of any political stripe is going to allow the territory to rebuild so long as Hamas remains in charge.

That gives a second meaning to “Cease-Fire Now”: Either a demand for Israel’s total capitulation, or a recipe for a perpetual cycle of violence between a terrorist group sworn to Israel’s destruction and a Jewish state that refuses to be destroyed. Whatever else one thinks of Israel, no country can be expected to sign its own death warrant by indulging those who, if given the chance, would annihilate it.

There are good intentions, if also ignorance and shortsightedness, among many of those demanding a cease-fire.

But there is also the bottomless cynicism of others who accept, and even celebrate, Hamas as it uses living Palestinians as human shields and dead Palestinians as propaganda victories. The tragedy of these protests, like so many “anti-war” movements in the past, is that the naïve and earnest are again being manipulated as tools of the cunning and cruel.

Instead of Cease-Fire Now, we need Hamas’s Defeat Now. Only on that basis does a lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike have any chance to follow.

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UÁNICA – El alcalde de Guánica, Ismael ‘Titi’ Rodríguez Ramos, informó que el primer Encuentro de Coleccionistas Guánica 2023 se celebrará el domingo, 3 de diciembre de 2023 desde las 9:00 de la mañana en las facilidades del Club Puertorriqueño de Ensenada, con entrada gratis.

“Como parte de las actividades culturales y recreati-

vas que promovemos constantemente, estamos invitando a todos los interesados en este tema a darse cita y pasar un buen domingo en familia”, señaló el Alcalde. Como parte del evento, se estará premiando el artículo más antiguo autentificado presente en el evento.

Al Encuentro de Coleccionistas ya han confirmado más de una docena de exhibidores entre cómics, carritos, figuras decorativas, sellos y monedas, así como disponibilidad de carpas para coleccionistas de artículos gran-

Solicitan postales navideñas para envejecientes POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El movimiento Yo Comparto lo Bueno hizo un llamado a la ciudadanía a unirse a su iniciativa Letras de Esperanza, la cual envía postales con mensajes esperanzadores a envejecientes en hogares de cuido, égidas y asilos alrededor de Puerto Rico, con el fin de llevarles alegría en la época navideña. Es por lo que hacen un llamado a individuos, familias, grupos y empresas a unirse y enviar sus postales en o antes del 8 de diciembre.

“Aún en la distancia es posible llevar aliento a un adulto mayor a través de las postales que nos envía la ciudadanía y que distribuimos en los hogares. Lo bonito de esta iniciativa es que las postales llegan a personas que no conocemos, pero agradecerán enormemente el hecho de que un desconocido se tomó el tiempo de escribir postales para ellos”, expre-

des como bicicletas. En términos generales, cualquier objeto con un puñado de años de historia, generalmente más de 100, puede denominarse objeto antiguo. Desde joyas, pasando por documentos, hasta muebles son considerados antigüedades. Los objetos antiguos tienen el valor añadido de haber sido producidos en otro momento de la historia y a su vez conservarse en buena calidad.

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só Idia Martínez de Upfron Communication, que creó el movimiento Yo Comparto Lo Bueno y Letras de Esperanza como una de sus iniciativas de impacto social.

Las personas y grupos interesados en colaborar con “Letras de Esperanza”, pueden enviar cuantas postales deseen con sus mensajes de felicitación y optimismo, nombre y pueblo. Por motivos de seguridad, se permite indicar datos de contacto como dirección, email o teléfono. Tampoco deben enviarse postales con logos de empresas, ni mensajes promocionales.Las postales deben enviarse en o antes del 8 de diciembre a: Letras de Esperanza, Box 261390 San Juan, PR 00926 “Una vez se reciben las tarjetas el grupo de voluntarios de Yo Comparto lo Bueno nos encargamos de abrirlas y verificar que el contenido sea apropiado, para luego colocarlas en sobres oficiales de Letras de Esperanza. Los paquetes se distribuyen en las égidas, gracias a la colaboración de la empresa UPS, que respalda la iniciativa por segunda ocasión”, explicó Martínez.

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Thanksgiving movies for kids, with all the trimmings

A scene from “Free Birds.”

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rom a nostalgic, black-and-white 1947 classic to a romp about animated, time-traveling turkeys, plenty of options abound when it comes to picking a Thanksgiving movie to watch with your kids during the holiday. Our writers picked their favorite Thanksgiving-themed movies and specials that are currently streaming. Expect singing mice, dogs in chef’s hats and Goth girls burning down a Thanksgiving pageant. The stories span the last 76 years, but as the decades roll by, each one still feels timeless.

‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947) Stream it on Disney+; rent or buy it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.

For those who enjoy watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast, this classic matches up nicely: It begins at that very event, where “Kris Kringle” (Edmund Gwenn) shames a sloppy-drunk Santa and is hired on the spot as his replacement. (It would take more than a half century for a sloppydrunk Santa to find proper onscreen representation in the form of Billy Bob Thornton as “Bad Santa.”) The premise of “Miracle” — that a department store Santa is actually the real thing — was so juicy that the film was remade twice, but neither recaptured the charm and magic of this initial offering. It’s a film that truly earns its classic status, continuing to enchant viewers young and

old. — JASON BAILEY ‘Free Birds’ (2013) Stream it on Netflix.

Critics didn’t exactly gobble up this computer-animated film about two turkeys (voiced by Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson) who take a time machine back to the first Thanksgiving in a history-altering quest to prevent turkey from becoming the traditional holiday dish. (“Is Hollywood scheming to turn your little ones into strident vegetarians?” panicked The New York Post.) The movie, directed by Jimmy Hayward, also got mixed reviews for its marketing partnership with Chuck E. Cheese’s and its questionable treatment of Native American characters.

Despite the criticism, this PETA-approved film has a soft spot in the hearts of parents who opt for a meat-free Thanksgiving, and who won’t mind a bedtime chat about where meat comes from. Like a movie about a killer Santa Claus, “Free Birds” scores points for a “Babe”-like rebellious message — who needs turkey for Thanksgiving? — that calls out a hallowed holiday tradition with kid-friendly sass. It’s a misfit film that’s a great pick for families — carnivores and vegans alike — who would enjoy, as one critic put it, “one of the strangest and most unlikely family entertainments in a long, long time.” — ERIK PIEPENBURG ‘Addams Family Values’ (1993) Rent or buy it on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.

If you find yourself sharing the couch with the family’s disaffected emo youth, introduce them to the O.G. (Original Goth): Wednesday Addams, brought to uproarious life by Christina Ricci in two early ’90s big screen adaptations by director Barry Sonnenfeld.

This second chapter, released in 1993, is not only a rare example of a sequel that’s more than equal to the original.

It is also holiday appropriate, as little Wednesday takes over the reenactment of the first Thanksgiving pageant at summer camp and quite literally burns it to the ground. Keep an eye out for Christine Baranski as one of the

cheery (and thus suspect) proprietors of “Camp Chippewa.” (Also available for rental: “Edward Scissorhands,” a seasonal favorite from the Goth godfather Tim Burton.) — JASON BAILEY ‘An American Tail’ (1986) Stream it on Starz or Spectrum; or rent on Vudu, Google Play or YouTube.

The traditional Thanksgiving children’s play fell out of favor around the time Wednesday Addams vowed to scalp those pesky pilgrims in “Addams Family Values.” No loss. That simplistic history lesson had already been bested by Don Bluth’s “An American Tail,” the most unsentimental cartoon to ever star a singing mouse. Make that a family of mice — the Russian-Jewish Mousekewitzes — who flee the feline persecution of their homeland for 1880s New York, where they’ve been promised mouse holes in every wall, breadcrumbs on every floor, and most importantly, no cats. This, of course, is a lie. Young Fievel Mousekewitz is disillusioned to discover that his new country is a predatory land of ratowned sweatshops and cat-run gangs.

Upon the movie’s release, critics like Roger Ebert were taken aback to see a kiddie flick with a “bleak view of a cold and heartless universe.” But wisecracking cockroaches aside, it’s a true vision of the American dream that idealistic newcomers like Fievel struggled to attain — then and now — to make

Christina Ricci as Wednesday in “Addams Family Values” (1993), a Thanksgiving treat for the right audience.

the Statue of Liberty live up to her sales pitch. — AMY NICHOLSON ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ (1973) Stream it on AppleTV+ Long before Friendsgiving was a thing, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang bucked tradition, ditched the parents and created a Thanksgiving feast with their crew. This Emmy-winning special first aired on CBS 50 years ago this month. It’s a fun throwback that starts with Lucy coaxing Charlie to

Fievel in a scene from “An American Tail.”

fulfill an age-old (sort of) Thanksgiving tradition and kick a football. When she pulls the ball away before gullible Charlie can make contact, Lucy laments that some traditions just don’t last.

Like most Peanuts specials, this one is a little melancholy, but there are enough pranks and pratfalls to entertain children who are used to faster-paced fare like “Spy Kids” and “Elemental.”

When Charlie tries to host his friends, Peppermint Patty is scandalized that her plate is full of popcorn, toast and candy instead of turkey and pumpkin pie. All is resolved when Charlie’s grandmother invites the gang for a traditional holiday meal. It’s about friendship, teamwork and making your own traditions. The soundtrack by jazz composer and keyboardist Vince Guaraldi is a classic. — DINA GACHMAN

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How to avoid family drama this holiday season

By CATHERINE PEARSON

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or some families, tension around the holidays is quiet — all clenched teeth and subtle jabs. For others, it is big, loud and boozy.

Whatever your kin’s particular brand of friction, having a game plan to avoid conflict or shut it down is a good idea.

So we asked readers for the strategies they turn to when family relations get spicy. Hundreds wrote in offering tips, tricks and solidarity. Here is some of our favorite advice.

(Note: Submissions have been edited for length and clarity. We are publishing first names only, because we don’t want to ruin anyone’s holidays.)

Control the setting.

We have a son with special needs, and family events have been challenging for years. There have been tantrums, spilled food and conflict. Our solution?

We host. Every year, every holiday. There is no dress code and we keep things simple. It has been easier to be where we can control the environment and where we have a safe space. The downside is that everyone has to travel to us. The upside, for them, is that we do the cooking!

— Stephanie, Savannah, Georgia My husband and I have both lost our parents, who were the glue that held each of our families together. Since their deaths, our siblings and in-laws don’t feel close enough to have holiday gettogethers in each other’s homes. Old resentments surface, and it’s just un-

Sidestep old grudges and political disagreements, and give yourself the gift of peace this holiday season. comfortable. Our extended family now meets in a crowded public place, such as a brewery. You choose who you sit next to, and can’t really talk to the others because of the boisterous atmosphere.

Conflict doesn’t usually arise in public, and if it does, it’s too noisy to notice.

— Nancy, Asheville, North Carolina Find a connection.

My brother and I have very different political views. We have had a couple of fights at Christmastime that upset my mother to the point of tears. So last Christmas, we brought our guitars to

the family gathering. (We are lifelong musicians. It’s a hobby for him. I’m a professional.) When we’re singing, we can’t fight. He had such a great time, he stayed longer than planned.

— Jamie, Tucson, Arizona, and Ottawa, Ontario Stave off regression.

When spending time with family over the holidays, I bring a few mementos — my business cards, photos with friends, and my house keys — all to remind me that I have a fulfilling life elsewhere. I usually keep them where I sleep, private from other family members. These are my “anti-regression” tools. I am old, and my mother is very old. But the family dynamic, no matter the age of the participants, is usually the same forever!

— Maureen, Palm Desert, California When in doubt, talk sports.

We avoid the following at dinner: the Middle East, Donald Trump, Fidel Castro (we live in Miami), Joe Biden’s age, Grandma’s will, what any college-age child is studying in school, what they want to be when they grow up or why they have a nose ring, earring or tattoos.

Stick to: the food, football, the next ski trip, your last trip abroad. When issues arise, we enjoy the old fallback: “How about those Mets?”

— Roger, Miami Help (and hide).

I have my version of the serenity prayer: God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can — and the wisdom to get up and go do the dishes.

— Lucia, Miramar Beach, Florida My mom was an elementary schoolteacher for 25 years, and she always told me to go find the kids if I was ever overwhelmed or uncomfortable at a party. “The kids know how to have fun,” she said.

— Kendra, Philadelphia Connect with others who are struggling.

The holidays often bring intense sadness, as I am missing those who are no longer here. I make an effort to honor them, often through providing meals or gifts to families in need, donating books to the library and volunteering in their name at a local shelter. I also acknowledge my sadness, and give gratitude for what we shared, revisiting memories through photographs. I look for others, also lonely or sad, to reach out to.

— Patricia, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Celebrate on your own terms.

After divorce, the holidays became stressful for my kids because they didn’t want to hurt either parent’s feelings. I wanted to make it so they didn’t feel conflicted, so I created a holiday just for us, with competitions, fun, food, drink, prizes and lots of memory making. We agree on a date in advance around the holidays. It takes the pressure off them having to choose, and it makes me happy because I get time with them. My children call me Gimli, and this will be the five-year anniversary of Gimli Day! — Heather, Pembroke, Massachusetts As a gay couple, we are able to capitalize on the expectation we might celebrate differently. So after a few years of “un-joyfully” navigating holiday drama, my husband, Daniel, and I now pack our bags and travel to Mexico each Thanksgiving to spend time in the sun, relax and celebrate — on our terms.

— Joseph, New York

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metros con veintiocho centí- DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- 1/4”); por el SUR, con elemen- dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo SUCESION EDITH LEGAL NOTICE to común en treinta y dos pies mínimo establecido originalmetros (10.28): y por el OES- MAÑANA, y se establece como GUAS MARGARITA PEREZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANDO y dos pulgadas con un cuarto mente.

Si tampoco se produce TE, con paseo de peatones, mínima para dicha segunda suLIME HOMES, LTD MARIN T/C/C EDIS M. distancia de trece metros con basta la suma de $70,000.00, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde pulgada (32’ -2 1/4”); por el remate ni adjudicación en la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandante Vs. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PEREZ T/C/C EDITH sesenta y cuatro centímetros 2/3 partes del tipo mínima RAFAEL TORRES DIAZ ESTE, con elemento común en segunda subasta, se estable- SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SALA DE GUAYANILLA EN SAtreinta y un pies y nueve pulga- ce como mínima para la TERMARGARITA PEREZ (13.64). Enclave una estructura establecido originalmente. Si Demandados BANA GRANDE T/C/C EDITH M. PEREZ dedicada a vivienda. Existe una tampoco se produce remate ni Civil Núm.: ECD2012-0028. das (31’ -9”); y por el OESTE, CERA SUBASTA, la suma de JUAN XUANLU MUSIC LLC. con elemento común en trein- $39,750.00 la mitad (1/2) del FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ servidumbre por signo aparente adjudicación en la segunda suCOMPUESTA POR (401). Sobre: COBRO DE Demandante V. ta y un pies y nueve pulgadas precio pactado y dicha subasta establecida por la Corporación basta, se establece como míniMALDONADO DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE ROBERTO GONZALEZ vendedora en las paredes que ma para la TERCERA SUBAS(31’ -9”). Participación en los se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi- GARAGE DE MECÁNICA HC 02 BOX 6228 HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORPEREZ, JOHN DOE elementos comunes: La par- cada en el Tribunal de Primera dividen dicha estructura de las TA, la suma de $52,500.00, la DÍAZ; ÁNGEL DÍAZ DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASPEÑUELAS, PR 00624 Y JANE DOE COMO ticipación de dicha unidad es Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el estructuras enclavadas en los mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE CASTRO T/C/C ÁNGEL TEL. (787)241-0258 POSIBLES HEREDEROS solares numero cuatrocientos dicha subasta se celebrará en AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE de cero punto cero, cero, ocho, 23 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS MODESTO DÍAZ CASTRO Peticionario Vs. 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha siete, cuatro, ocho, tres, cinco, cincuenta y tres (453) por su comi oficina, ubicada en el TribuDESCONOCIDOS; DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, Demandados EX-PARTE cuatro (0. 008748354). Espa- subasta se llevará a cabo para, lindancia Este y por el numero nal de Primera Instancia, Sala EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAESTADOS UNIDOS DE Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00196. cios de estacionamientos: Le con su producto satisfacer a la Civil Núm.: KCD2013-0613. cuatrocientos cincuenta y cua- de San Juan, el 11 DE ENERO DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AMERICA; CENTRO Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOpertenece el uso y disfrute de parte demandante, el importe Sala: 902. Sobre: COBRO DE tro (454) por su colindancia Sur DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA A: LA PARTE DE RECAUDACION DE (paredes medianeras) cuyas MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se MINIO. El Estado Libre Asolos espacios de estacionamien- de la Sentencia dictada a su DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE DEMANDADA, AL (A ciado de Puerto Rico, a todo el INGRESOS MUNICIPALES paredes continuaran sirviendo llevará a cabo para, con su to identificados con el número favor ascendente a la suma HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASque tenga derecho real sobre Demandados a esta estructura y pertenece producto satisfacer a la parte LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE del apartamento, para un (1) de 75,533.80 más intereses al TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE el inmueble descrito en la Pe- Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03843. en común proindiviso en todo demandante, el importe de la tipo del 7 ¼ % anual, desde el 1 automóvil.

Consta inscrita al HACIENDA DE PUERTO tición de Expediente de Domi- Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- su actual extensión y espesor al Sentencia dictada a su favor tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca de marzo de 2011, más cargos AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE RICO Y AL PÚBLICO nio, a las personas ignoradas TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. propietario de esta edificación y ascendente a la suma global número 65,474, Registro de la por demora, equivalentes al 5% DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS GENERAL: a quienes pueda perjudicar la ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- a los propietarios de las edifica- vencida, líquida y exigible incluPropiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec- de todos los pagos atrasados DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO

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inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el Expediente de Dominio promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Macaná del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SIETE CUERDAS (1.37 cdas.) equivalentes a CINCO MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SESENTA Y CINCO METROS CUADRADOS (5,384.65 mc).

Colinda por el Norte con Héctor S. Prieto Velázquez, por el Sur y Este con José A. Velázquez Velázquez y por el Oeste con Carretera Ciento Treinta y Uno (131) y terrenos de Luisa Velázquez Maldonado. Contiene una estructura destinada a vivienda.”. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, PO. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional.

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LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Demandante vs.

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A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero Cuatrocientos cincuenta y dos (452) del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto PRHA14 denominado casas Yoyo radicado en el Barrio Halo Rey del término municipal de Rio Piedras hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento treinta y nueve metros cuadrados con setenta y cinco centésimas de metro cuadrado (139.75). En lindes por el NORTE, con franja de terreno a dedicarse para futura calle, distancia de diez metros con veinte centímetros (10.20); por el SUR. Con el solar número cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro (454), distancia de diez

ciones colindantes. Inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 1115 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca 31,928, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 31,928 de Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: 452 YOYO 2 ST SAN JOSE, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00923. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $105,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 3 de octubre de 2080. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $105,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 14 DE DICIEMBRE

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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 9 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Unidad de vivienda de forma sustancialmente cuadrada, de un solo nivel en el Edificio Cuatro (4) del Proyecto Balcones las Catalinas en el barrio del término municipal (así surge) de Caguas, Puerto Rico, construida de hormigón y bloques de hormigón, conteniendo sala-comedor, cocina, dos (2) habitaciones, y un baño.

La puerta de entrada está localizada por su colindancia Este, por donde tiene acceso a los elementos comunes; con el número, cabida Y colindancias que se describen a continuación. Apartamento Número: cuatrocientos (así surge) veintiuno (421), localizado en el segundo piso de este Edificio, del Proyecto. Cabida: Novecientos setenta y dos punto cincuenta y nueve pies cuadrados (972.59).

Colindancias: Colinda por el NORTE, con Apartamento LEGAL NOTICE Cuatrocientos Veintidós (422) ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO y elemento común en treinta DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUy dos pies y dos pulgadas con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA un cuarto de pulgada (32’ -2 yendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 30 de junio de 2021 es de $56,354.36, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de octubre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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ción Primera de Caguas. Propiedad localizada en: Balcones Las Catalinas #421, Caguas, PR 00725, t/c/c Las Catalinas, Apt. 421, Caguas, PR 00725, t/c/c Balcones Las Catalinas Condo Unit # 421, Caguas, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Mortgage securing a note in favor of the Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority, or its order, in the original principal amount of $7,500.00, without interests, due on August 25,2014, pursuant to deed number 485, issued in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on August 25, 2006, before notary Carlos Omar González Dávila, and recorded at the Karibe volume of Caguas, property number 65,474, 3rd inscription. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $79,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $53,000.00

más de 15 días de la fecha de vencimiento de dicho pago, más los que continúen acumulando hasta el total pago.

Adeuda además la cantidad de $7,950.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado relacionados con este procedimiento, más todas las costas, gastos y adelantos hechos por la parte demandante; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 27 de enero de 2020 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LA(S) 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Juan, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar comercial de forma irregular silo en la Urbanización Extensión Reparto Metropolitano, Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1332.465 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, en un área de 7.134 metros, en un punto donde convergen lasCalles Nine South East y Fifty Two South East; por el Noroeste, en 28.620 metros, con la Calle Fifty Two South East; por el Noreste, en 26.649 metros con la Calle Nine South East; por el Este, en 28.65 metros, con solar A, segregado; por el Sureste, en 20.593 metros, con la Calle Fifty Two South East; y por el Suroeste, en alineaciones de 32.210 metros y 18.251 metros, con parcela perteneciente a Gulf Petroleum, S.A. Inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 608 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, finca número 20,736. Dirección Física: Calle 54 #1256, Urbanización Reparto Metropolitano, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La pro-

18 piedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia a condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación a favor de Fullana Corporation; servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico y del Gobierno de la Capital. Por sí: SERVIDUMBRE a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, según consta de la escritura número 158, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 6 de diciembre de 1968, ante la Notario Público M.A. Yolanda Pomales Álvarez, inscrita al folio 66 de tomo 608 de Monacillos, finca número 20,736, inscripción 2ª. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $225,000.00, con interés al 7.95%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura número 270, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de diciembre de 2003, ante el Notario Público Manuel L. Correa Márquez, inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 967 de Monacillos, finca número 20736 inscripción 8ª. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca a favor de Doral Bank, por la suma de $225,000.00 que surge de la inscripción #8ª. DEMANDANTE: Doral Bank; DEMANDADO: Titular, Cantidad Adeudada $309,203.45, por concepto de principal más intereses, según Demanda expedida por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso Civil #KCD2013-0613 el día 14 de marzo de 2013, inscrito al folio 96 del tomo 967, Anotación “B” de fecha del 22 de abril de 2013. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca a favor de Doral Bank, por la suma de $225,000.00 que surge de la inscripción #8ª. DEMANDANTE: Doral Bank; DEMANDADO: Titular, Cantidad Adeudada $309,203.45, por concepto de principal más intereses, según Demanda expedida por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso Civil #KCD2013-0613 el día 11 de marzo de 2013, inscrito al tomo Karibe, Anotación “C” de fecha del 5 de abril de 2019. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta en ejecución de la Finca Número 20,736 antes descrita la suma de $225,000.00, conforme a lo estipulado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #270, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de diciembre de 2003 ante el Notario Público Manuel L. Correa Márquez. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Juan, el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LA(S) 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para

la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $150,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de San Juan, el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LA(S) 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $112,500.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a XUANLU MUSIC LLC. ascendente a la suma principal de $309,203.45, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.95% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2012, hasta el total pago de la obligación, más la suma de $22,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, más aquellas sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca por concepto de seguro y recargos adeudados desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta el total pago de la obligación. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además,

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en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 26 de octubre de 2023.

Juan A. Santana García, Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V.

FRANCISCO ALONSO CRUZ, ALBA IVETTE BERMUDEZ PAGAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV05998.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia Enmendado notificado por el Tribunal el día 2 de noviembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Urbana: URBANIZACION FAIR VIEW de Río Piedras Sur. Solar: 29 DE LA MANZANA T. Cabida: 383.95 Metros Cuadrados.

Solar radicado en en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, en lindes por el NORTE, con la calle 23A, distancia de 13.35 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 6, distancia de 12.35 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 30, distancia de 29.77 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar 28, distancia de 30.00 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio 169vto del tomo 786 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca #4332, inscripción 7ma, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. La propiedad ubica según pagaré: 718 (Bloque T) Calle Luis Armaza (23 A), Urb. Fairview, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes

hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 10 de junio de 2019, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2019CV05998, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Francisco Alonso Cruz y su esposa Alba Ivette Bermúdez Pagán, por la suma de $118,601.67 o en su defecto la venta en pública subasta, anotado el día 1 de mayo del 2020, al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 4,332, Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 1 de agosto de 2019, archivada en autos y notificada el 7 de agosto de 2019, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $118,601.67 de principal, más los intereses acumulados a razón de 7.000% anual computados desde el día 1 de julio de 2018, hasta su total saldo, recargos por demora y $15,874.60 por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado (“Sentencia”). La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $158,746.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $105,830.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del

tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $79,373.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy

COMPUESTA POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS ISLAND PORTFOLIO DESCONOCIDOS DE SERVICES, LLC COMO LAS SUCESIONES DE LEGAL NOTICE AGENTE DE ACE ONE ANA LUISA VÁZQUEZ FUNDING, LLC ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ALMODÓVAR; Parte Demandante Vs. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCENTRO DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DACHA M. SALA DE COAMO RECAUDACIONES DE ORTIZ SANTANA ISLAND PORTFOLIO INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07102.

SERVICES, LLC, (C.R.I.M.) - PARTE CON Sobre: COBRO de dinero. EMCOMO AGENTE DE INTERÉS Demandados FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMé- Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03137.

FUND, LLC RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE día 3 de enero d 2023. Juan A. Santana García, Alguacil Auxiliar, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan. ***

Demandante Vs.

ELVIN G. MIRANDA SANTIAGO

Demandado Civil Núm.: CO2022CV00241.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ELVIN G. MIRANDA SANTIAGO PO BOX 515, COAMO, PR 00769-515.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), Ia cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oIrle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará. copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sanchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchezorf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y ci sello del Tribunal, en Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELI ROLÓN RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTEESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR DE PUERTO RICO, Ss. EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN.

A: DACHA M. ORTIZ SANTANA URB LAS LOMAS 1580 CALLE 36 SO, SAN JUAN PR 0092.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá. presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunaI-eIectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección nataiie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de octubre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Michelle Rivera Ríos, Secretaria Auxiliar.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE ANA LUISA VÁZQUEZ ALMODÓVAR.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE LEGAL NOTICE DEMANDANTE: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL RUA NÚM.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIAttorneys at Law BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANSuite 209 CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE 500 Calle de la Tanca PONCE SALA SUPERIOR San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 BANCO POPULAR DE Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 PUERTO RICO rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Demandante V. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA SUCESIÓN DE ANA LUISA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 7 de VÁZQUEZ ALMODÓVAR noviembre de 2023. Carmen G.

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Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Jes- plazamiento, excluyéndose el sica Bonilla Rodríguez, Sub- día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación Secretaria. responsiva a través del Sistema LEGAL NOTICE Unificado de Manejo y AdminisESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tración de Casos (SUMAC), al DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL cual puede acceder utilizando GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- la siguiente dirección electróBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electroniCIA SALA DE HUMACAO co/, salvo que el caso sea de ORIENTAL BANK un expediente físico o que se Demandante V. represente por derecho propio, THE NEW YORK OF en cuyo caso deberá presentar MELLON BANK; JOHN su alegación responsiva en la DOE & RICHARD ROE Secretaría del Tribunal y noDemandados tificar copia de la mismas al a Civil Núm.: MB2023CV00049. la) abogado(a) de la parte deSobre: CANCELACIÓN DE mandante o a ésta, de no tener PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM- representación legal. Si usted PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. deja de presentar su alegación ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- responsiva dentro del referido RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE término, el tribunal podrá dicLOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI- tar sentencia en rebeldía en su BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. contra y conceder el remedio A: THE NEW YORK OF solicitado en la demanda, o MELLON BANK, acreedor cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en del pagaré o la hipoteca el ejercicio de su sana discrelo entiende procedente. objeto de este pleito que ción, Además, se la apercibe que, surge del Registro de la en los casos al amparo de la Propiedad, que pueda ser Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley tenedor o puedan tener para la Prevención del Maltraalgún interés en el pagaré to, Preservación de la Unidad hipotecario a que se hace Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los referencia más adelante Menores, entre los remedios en el presente edicto, que que el Tribunal podrá conceder se publicará una sola vez. se incluyen la ubicación permaSe les notifica que en la De- nente de un (una) menos fuera manda radicada en el caso de de su hogar, el inicio de proceepígrafe se alega que el 10 de sos para la privación de patria mayo de 2004, se otorgó un potestad, y cualquier otra mepagaré a favor de Banco Bil- dida en el mejor interés del (de bao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos Rico, o a su orden, por la suma b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). de $143,200.00 de principal, Se le advierte de su derecho con intereses al 6.375% anual, a comparecer acompañado(a) y vencedero el 1 de junio de de abogado(a) en los casos 2034, ante el Notario Luis Ló- que proceda. Representa a pez Gómez mediante afidávit la parte demandante el Lcdo.

11675. En garantía del pagaré Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA antes descrito se otorgó la es- #18,682, Delgado Fernández, critura de hipoteca número 31 LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernándel 10 de mayo de 2004, ante dez Juncos Station, San Juan, el Notario Luis López Gómez, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. finca 8412 de Maunabo inscri- [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ ta al tomo Karibe, inscripción delgadofernandez.com. Expe9, Registro de la propiedad de dido bajo mi firma y sello del Guayama. El inmueble grava- Tribunal, hoy 8 de noviembre do mediante la hipoteca antes de 2023. Ivelisse C. Fonseca descrita es la finca 8412 de Rodríguez, Secretaria. Keyla PéMaunabo inscrita al tomo Ka- rez Fiegueroa, Sub-Secretaria. ribe, Registro de la propiedad LEGAL NOTICE de Guayama. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré an- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tes descrito fue saldada en su DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUtotalidad. Dicho gravamen no NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ha podido ser cancelado por SALA DE GUAYAMA haberse extraviado el origiISLAND PORTFOLIO nal del pagaré. El original del SERVICES, LLC, COMO pagaré antes descrito no ha AGENTE DE ACE ONE podido ser localizado, a pesar FUNDING, LLC de las gestiones realizadas.

Demandante Vs. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. The New York of Mellon Bank fue último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este em-

ÁNGEL M. MONTANEZ RAMOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: GM2023CV00625.

Salón: 306. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL

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y un arco de siete punto nove- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto CARTAGENA T/C/C LEGAL NOTICE cientos ochenta y dos (7.982) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICRico, hoy día 10 de noviembre NORMA IRIS MERCADO de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros, con la calle número TO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS А: ÁNGEL M. COMPUESTA POR ELIEL AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- siete (7) de la Urbanización, DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENMONTANEZ RAMOS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA también conocida como Calle TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESNIEVES MERCADO, BO. RENCANSINA CARR LEGAL NOTICE SALA DE ARECIBO Dorado, por el SUR, en una TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE MIRNA NIEVES 179 KM 1.1 GUAYAMA, REINALDO GARAY distancia de dieciocho punto P.R., S.S. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MERCADO, MAYRA PR 00784 / PO BOX 1603, cero cero cinco (18.005) metros DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDAVILA Y MARILYN A: IVONNE RUIZ NIEVES MERCADO, DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA GUAYAMA, PR 00785GONZALEZ VALENTIN lineales, con terreno de la UrbaCORRALIZA. COND. BARBARA J. NIEVES NAL nización Estancias de Manatí; SALA DE BAYAMÓN Demandante V. 1603.

PARQUE ABOLICIÓN, MERCADO, EDWIN el ESTE, en una distancia ISLAND PORTFOLIO POR LA PRESENTE se le FIRSTBANK PUERTO por APT. 501, 1337 CALLE COLON MERCADO; JOHN de veintiséis punto quinientos emplaza y requiere para que SERVICES, LLC, RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO noventa y cinco (26.595) meSALUD, PONCE, PR conteste la demanda dentro de ROE Y JANE ROE COMO COMO AGENTE DE Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y tros lineales, con el solar núme- 00717; 14251 SW 276TH los treinta (30) días siguientes POSIBLES HEREDEROS FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS CUALESQUIER PERSONA ro dos (2) del mismo Bloque y ST. HOMESTEAD, FL a la publicación de este Edicto.

DESCONOCIDOS; FUND, LLC DESCONOCIDA CON por el OESTE, en una distancia Usted deberá presentar su ale33032.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Demandante Vs. de veinticinco punto cuatrociengación responsiva a través del POSIBLE INTERÉS EN Queda emplazada y notificada AMERICA; CENTRO tos dieciocho (25.418) metros OSCAR L. Sistema Unificado de Manejo y LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA lineales, con el solar número que en este Tribunal ha radicaDE RECAUDACION DE Administración de Casos (SUORTIZ SANTIAGO do Demanda sobre Cobro de CANCELACIÓN POR cuatro (4) del mismo Bloque.

MAC), la cual puede acceder INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado en su contra. Se le notiDECRETO JUDICIAL SE Enclava en dicho solar una es- Dinero Demandados utilizando la siguiente direcCivil Núm.: CY2023CV00021. fica para que comparezca ante tructura en concreto para fines SOLICITA ción electrónica: https://unired. Civil Núm.: CG2022CV04151. Salón: 501. Sobre: COBRO el Tribunal dentro del término ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy día 08 de noviembre de 2023. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 08 de noviembre de 2023. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Luz M. Guzmán Santiago. Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESION OVIDIO ANTONIO ZAYAS RIVERA T/C/C OVIDIO ZAYAS RIVERA COMPUESTA POR LIMARIE ZAYAS ROMAN, OVIDIO ZAYAS PEREZ, SOLAGNE ZAYAS PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION NORMA IRIS MERCADO CARTAGENA T/C/C NORMA MERCADO

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2023CV02113.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: OSCAR L. A: SOLAGNE ZAYAS ORTIZ SANTIAGO – PEREZ; JOHN DOE URB. EXT. VILLA A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JANE DOE COMO CAPARRA B5 CALLE Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO POSIBLES MIEMBROS GENOVA APT 1728, COMO POSIBLES DESCONOCIDOS DE GUAYNABO, PR 00966TENEDORES Y LA SUCESION OVIDIO 1728.

CUALESQUIER PERSONA ANTONIO ZAYAS RIVERA POR LA PRESENTE se le DESCONOCIDA CON emplaza y requiere para que T/C/C OVIDIO ZAYAS POSIBLE INTERÉS EN conteste la demanda dentro de RIVERA; JOHN ROE LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA los treinta (30) días siguientes Y JANE ROE COMO a la publicación de este Edicto.

CANCELACIÓN POR POSIBLES MIEMBROS Usted deberá presentar su aleDESCONOCIDOS DE LA gación responsiva a través del DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA. SUCESION NORMA IRIS Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Por la presente se le notifica Administración de Casos (SUMERCADO CARTAGENA que ha sido presentada en T/C/C NORMA MERCADO MAC), la cual puede acceder este Tribunal una Demanda utilizando la siguiente direcen su contra en el pleito de CARTAGENA T/C/C ción electrónica: https://unired.

NORMA IRIS MERCADO. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, por la suma de $26,800.00.

Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el día 28 de septiembre de 2005, ante la notario Yolanda Eileen Rivera Vega, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 60 otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 54 vuelto del tomo 566 de Manatí, finca número 18134, inscripción 5ta.

Se describe la propiedad a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización NUEVAS ESTANCIAS, localizada en el Barrio Bajura Afuera, sitio denominado TENDALES del término municipal de MANATÍ, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el piano de inscripción, con el número área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar Número: tres (3) del Bloque:” A” (A-3) Área del solar: Trescientos ochenta y tres punto setecientos ocho (383.708) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de cuatro punto cero setenta y cuatro (4.074) metros lineales

residenciales. FINCA: #18134 inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 566 de Manatí. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, dentro de los treinta 30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de noviembre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SUB-SECRETARI.

de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciando este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcdo.

Francisco Fernández Chiqués a su dirección: FERNANDEZ CHIQUES LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. 787) 722-3040; Fax (787) 722-3317; Correo electrónico ffc@ffclaw. com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de su publicación de este edicto, se le anotara la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita LEGAL NOTICE en la Demanda, sin más citarESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO le ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRIBUNAL. En Ponce, Puerto SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE Rico, hoy día 9 de noviembre MMG I PR CDGY, LLC de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ Demandante V. QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA TORRES IVONNE IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AURUIZ CORRALIZA XILIAR. Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02524.

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The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Swedish soccer prioritized fans over finances. Now, business is booming.

By RORY SMITH

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he warning sounded over and over, first in Swedish and then in English.

A fire had been detected. Please evacuate the stadium. The players left the field. Outside, fire crews were arriving. But in the stands, as a thick cloud of smoke wreathed and coiled in the floodlights, nobody moved. The fans were going to make the game happen by sheer force of will.

It was a game they had been anticipating for some time. The top two teams in the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s elite league, had gone into the final day of the season separated by just three points. A quirk of scheduling fate meant that their last game was with each other. Malmo, the host, had to win to claim the championship.

Elfsborg, the visitor, needed only to avoid defeat. It had been billed as a guldfinal: a gold-medal match.

The idea of a single game that decides the destiny of a league title is vanishingly rare in modern soccer, where championships are won over the course of a season rather than in a winner-take-all final. It has not happened in England since 1989, and Italy has not produced such a denouement in more than half a century.

It is also increasingly unusual for a title even to be in play as the season draws to a close. Over the last 30 years, soccer has become so financially stratified that many domestic tournaments are little more than monthslong processions for the wealthiest teams. Sweden, though, is different, a solitary beacon of competitive balance. In four of the last six editions of the Allsvenskan, the championship has gone to the wire.

How it has produced that is a story of rejecting orthodoxy, of asking why sports exist and whom they exist for. But it is also a story of how hard it is to stand alone, and how fragile even the most heartening success can be.

A different path The walls of Malmo’s Eleda Stadium are full of mementos of the glory days, the era when Swedish teams could compete with Europe’s giants and, occasionally, beat them.

In 1979, Malmo, fielding a team of amateurs, made it all the way to the European Cup final. It is still the only Scandinavian team to feature in the game and its successor, the Champions League fi-

Supporters of Malmo, the Swedish soccer team, set off so many flares during the season finale against Elfsborg this month that the match had to be stopped for 30 minutes. nal. In the 1980s, IFK Gothenburg twice won (lesser) continental trophies. As late as 1994, IFK beat Manchester United and Barcelona in the Champions League.

Those victories proved a last stand.

The game’s dynamic changed drastically as money rushed into soccer in the 1990s, first from broadcasters, then private investors, and finally oligarchs, corporations and nation states. The riches created a new class of unassailable domestic powerhouses.

“Big money fed the biggest clubs,” enabling them to construct squads full of superstars, said Mats Enquist, who served as general secretary of Svenskelitfotboll, or SEF, the body that runs Sweden’s professional leagues, from 2012 until early this year. For Sweden, as for many countries outside Europe’s major television markets, he said, it was “impossible to keep up.”

Instead of grasping at shadows, Sweden’s response was — effectively — to opt out. In 1999, the country enshrined in law a rule that 51% of its sports teams had to be owned by their members: the fans.

In 2007, when that rule was challenged, the fans fought fiercely to protect it.

“That was the moment that the fans first realized the power they had,” said Noa Bachner, the author of a book that examines Sweden’s rejection of soccer’s economic orthodoxy.

Yet they wielded it over a bleak landscape.

“Crowds were going down, the standard of play was not good, the league had

a lot of problems with hooliganism,” Enquist said. A survey that he commissioned as one of his first acts found that only 11% of fans regarded the Allsvenskan as their favorite competition, far behind England’s Premier League and the Champions League. “It was not a good place to be,” he said.

Enquist was an outsider to soccer when he took a leading role in it: a software entrepreneur by trade, and a volleyball and golf fan by inclination. It was his job, though, to sort it out.

His solution set Sweden on an almost heretical path in modern soccer. Unable to turn to rich investors, the SEF harnessed the country’s most obvious strength, the fans. In the face of considerable skepticism, the authorities “touched hands” with the supporters, Enquist said, and set about designing a league they wanted to watch, and watch live.

They negotiated limits on behavior, designating invading the field and throwing missiles as red lines but allowing a tacit leeway on pyrotechnics in service to spectacle. They persuaded the police to adopt a more conciliatory approach rather than “treating all fans as potential hooligans,” as Lars-Christer Olsson, the league’s president until this year, said.

A decade later, the transformation has been staggering. Almost alone among Europe’s mid-tier league, Swedish soccer is a picture of health. It has had 11 different champions in 20 years. Attendances have doubled in the last decade; this year

brought record crowds. The league’s revenues have tripled in the same period.

Now, more than 40% of Swedish fans identify the Allsvenskan as their priority.

The game of the year between Malmo and Elfsborg should have been the perfect distillation of all that work, an illustration of what makes Sweden a standard-bearer for a different version of soccer. Instead, it highlighted how fine the line is between empowering fans and losing control of them.

The start of the second half was delayed by 30 minutes as Elfsborg’s fans confronted a line of riot police officers, and then by another half-hour when Malmo’s ultras, the team’s most hardcore supporters, set off so many smuggled-in pyrotechnics that they triggered the fire alarm. When Malmo’s victory was secured, thousands of fans rushed the field.

A handful raced toward their Elfsborg counterparts and hurled lit flares into their packed sections.

“There is a thin margin,” said Pontus Jansson, a veteran defender who returned to Malmo this year after a decade abroad to draw the curtain on his career. “They stepped over it.”

For fans, by fans Everything Swedish soccer has become has been constructed by, and for, the people who go to watch it in stadiums. Bachner reels off the start of a long list of examples: the absence of corporations, sovereign wealth funds and “multiclub projects” from the ranks of club owners; sustained investment in women’s teams; an unofficial ban on holding training camps in authoritarian states; a rule stating that the league has to give at least two months’ notice before moving games for television.

There are things that Sweden’s democratic tradition cannot vote out of existence. Malmo’s championship, for example, means another potential infusion of Champions League income that might be enough to give the club — already Sweden’s richest — an insurmountable competitive advantage.

The issue of the ultras, too, poses a problem. “It feels as though there are two games taking place,” Bachner said. “One on the field, and one in the stands, where these groups are seeing how they can display their power, and they don’t mind if 20,000 other people have to wait around while they do it.”

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

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HOROSCOPE 22 Aries

(Mar 21-April 20)

Uncertainty about your financial future might have you developing some sort of savings or investment plan to give you more security. You’ll probably find the help you need, as today’s planets show that you should succeed at anything you try. A slight malaise could cause you to turn to vitamins, herbs, yoga, or some other sort of healing method that can put you back on your feet.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

A joint endeavor with a partner could lead to imaginative and creative opportunities. You feel energized and ready to take on just about anything. Whatever you start today, especially creative projects, should succeed in spite of any obstacles that come up. Relations with partners and others should be recharged by the day’s activities.

Today, you might have an irresistible impulse to put your home in order. You want to give it a thorough cleaning, do a little decorating, or perhaps make some minor but necessary repairs. A new object, either a sculpture or painting, might inspire this desire. Your place should look fabulous by the time you’re done. Go for it!

Cancer

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Unknown skills or talents that you didn’t know you had might set you on a course that leads to increased income, if you’re willing to put in some hard work. This will undoubtedly lead to heightened self-image and self-confidence, setting off a domino effect that makes your future brighter. Whatever comes up today, strange as it may seem, go with the flow!

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

An unwitting communication from a friend could set you off on a path that changes your life. This could involve business opportunities, or you could discover a new interest or group you’d like to join. Whatever it is, it may capture your attention and keep your energies focused for a long time. This should be a positive development.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Whatever difficulties may have arisen over the past few days, you have the power to overcome them, gain new strength, and move on. Your physical energy is good - you won’t wear out.

You’ll probably push on and take care of each chore as it comes up. If you’ve been thinking of starting a new project, this is the day to do it.

Obstacles won’t stop you.

A specific task or goal could have you making a lot of calls, writing a lot of letters, or doing a lot of running around in the car. You’re feeling especially determined. You’ll succeed at this or anything else you try today. Conversations will be productive and could spur you on to new projects.

Your association with a group could enable your spiritual progress today. Past emotional issues could come up, but don’t despair. Look at it as an opportunity to release old traumas that have limited you. Transcending limitations of any kind - emotional, spiritual, or physical - is an especially productive approach.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

If you’ve been thinking about working out of your home, this is the time to put your plans into action. Anything regarding money or the home could succeed now. All signs indicate that your hard work and determination will bring the results you want. An older visitor might drop by, perhaps with advice or ideas you’ll want to consider.

Money or other resources could be made available to you today so you can increase your career prospects or advance in your occupation.

You’ll find this very encouraging, as you’ll throw a lot of energy into this interest. This is the time to be ambitious. You have what it takes to push forward with just about anything you want to do.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Although you occasionally want to spend a whole day alone, this isn’t the time. You have a lot of specific goals in mind that you want to take care of today, perhaps involving writing or speaking. There won’t be any question of putting them off. This is a great time to start almost any kind of project. The planets indicate success at whatever you try.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Doubts about a romantic or business partnership could have an energizing effect on you today. You’re determined to resolve any problems or disagreements you may have with your partner. You’ll probably do it, as success through determination and hard work is strongly indicated. You might also make an advantageous new friend.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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