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ctualmente, la comunidad latina es más consciente de los efectos negativos que está causando el cambio climático, e incluso se ha convertido en un tema de preocupación directo debido a que muchos de los trabajos que desempeñan los latinos en Estados Unidos son en exteriores, expuestos al calor y al incremento en las temperaturas que son consecuencia del calentamiento global.

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deberíamos enfocarnos en apoyar e implementar energías limpias, tales como los paneles solares.

El presidente del Comité de Recursos Naturales de la Cámara de Representantes, el congresista Raúl Grijalva, expresó que “Estamos viendo un patrón de discriminación, racismo, daño desproporcionado, en las comunidades afro y latinas”. Según la EPA, el 43% de los latinos podría perder horas de trabajo y salario debido a los intensos calores.

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urrently, the Latino community is more aware of the negative effects that climate change is causing, and it has even become a matter of direct concern due to the fact that many of the jobs that Latinos perform in the United States are outdoors, exposed to the heat and the increases in temperature that are a consequence of global warming.

Climate Change held a conversa-

Climate Change realizó un conversatorio con los líderes políticos latinos sobre cómo la acción climática es una prioridad para los votantes latinos, quienes tienen en su agenda el calentamiento global como una de las principales amenazas para el futuro y el bienestar de su familia y sobre todo las generaciones más jóvenes. De hecho, según un reporte de la EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), el 86% de los latinos apoyaría un paquete legislativo que proporcione incentivos en impuestos para acceder a productos de energía renovable a bajo costo.

According to Danielle Deiseroth, Lead Climate Strategist at Data for Progress, 87% of US Latinos express concern about climate change. And it is not for less, because many Latino neighborhoods are surrounded by oil industries, exposing their inhabitants to high levels of pollution.

What are we waiting for to stop climate change?

"We already have the technology and the money, what we need is the will of the government and more commitment from the corporations, especially the oil companies," says Ramón Cruz, president of the environmental organization Sierra Club.

Likewise, he states that it makes no sense to continue investing in technologies from centuries ago, and that we should focus on supporting and implementing clean energies, such as solar panels.

De acuerdo con Danielle Deiseroth, Estratega Climática Líder de Data for Progress, El 87% de los latinos en EE.UU. manifiestan preocupación sobre el cambio climático. Y no es para menos, debido a que muchos vecindarios latinos están rodeados de industrias petroleras, exponiendo a sus habitantes a grandes niveles de contaminación. ¿Qué estamos esperando para detener el cambio climático?

“Ya tenemos la tecnología y el dinero, lo que necesitamos es la voluntad del gobierno y más compromiso de las corporaciones, sobre todo las petroleras”, asegura Ramón Cruz, presidente de la organización ambiental Sierra Club. Así mismo, manifiesta que no tiene sentido seguir invirtiendo en tecnologías de hace siglos, y que

tion with Latino political leaders about how climate action is a priority for Latino voters, who have global warming on their agenda as one of the main threats to the future and well-being of their families and, above all, the younger generations.

In fact, according to a report by the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), 86% of Latinos would support a legislative package that provides tax incentives to access low-cost renewable energy products.

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The chairman of the Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representatives, Congressman Raúl Grijalva, stated that "We are seeing a pattern of discrimination, racism, disproportionate harm, in the Afro and Latino communities."

According to the EPA, 43% of Latinos could lose work hours and wages due to intense heat.

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ince the start of the pandemic, Americans have been postponing routine care. With more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, medical experts are urging patients to return to routine health care and get caught up on delayed or foregone preventive health screenings.

“While we know that prevention is the best medicine, the pandemic has caused many Americans to delay important routine health services vital to keeping themselves and their families healthy, particularly critical immunizations and preventive cancer screenings. We urge everyone to get up to date on their routine health care needs,” says Gerald E. Harmon, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA).

According to the AMA, you and your family should take these six steps to get your health back on track: 1. Get screened: Estimates based on statistical models show that since April 2020, 3.9 million breast cancer, 3.8 million colorectal cancer and 1.6 million prostate cancer diagnoses may have been missed due to pandemic-related care disruptions. Check in with your health care provider. If you’re due for preventive care, tests or screenings, make an appointment. These measures are designed to keep you healthy and help your doctor spot certain conditions before they become more serious.

2. Don’t wait: An estimated 41% of adults with one or more chronic health conditions reported delaying or forgoing health care since the pandemic started. Additionally, one in three of those adults reported that doing so worsened one or more of their health conditions or limited their abilities to work or perform other daily activities.

Whether you have a chronic health condition or not, don’t wait until something is wrong before seeing a doctor. If something does feel off, schedule an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible.

3. Consider telehealth: If you’re uncom-

fortable or unable to go in person to your physician’s practice, check on telehealth options, which have greatly increased over the past two years.

4. Visit your pediatrician: During the pandemic, pediatric immunizations decreased.

As public health measures are rolled back, people gather in groups, and traveling resumes, non-COVID-19 infections that decreased during the pandemic are likely to increase again. Well-child visits and recommended vaccinations are essential to helping ensure children stay healthy and protected from serious diseases. If your child is due for a check-up, schedule one immediately.

5. Get vaccinated: Adolescents and adult immunizations also sharply declined during the pandemic and an estimated 26 million recommended vaccinations were missed in 2020 as compared to 2019. Get up to date on vaccinations, including the COVID-19 vaccine. Everyone who’s eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, including booster doses, should get vaccinated as soon as possible to protect themselves and their loved ones. If you have questions, speak with your physician and review trusted resources, including getvaccineanswers.org.

6. Don’t neglect mental health: While mental health screenings via digital health tools are up, routine care for mental health is down. Approximately 52% of adults with mental health conditions delayed or forewent care since the pandemic began.

Given the adverse effects the events of the past two years have had on mental health, such as increasing anxiety, depression and loneliness, it’s especially important to prioritize this aspect of your health now.

For more resources, visit ama-assn.org.

“We encourage everyone to contact their trusted medical professional to schedule their annual physical and other vital care to help prevent serious health repercussions that could potentially last long past the pandemic,” says Dr. Harmon.

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esde el comienzo de la pandemia, los estadounidenses han estado posponiendo los cuidados rutinarios. Con más estadounidenses vacunados contra la COVID-19, los expertos médicos están instando a los pacientes a que vuelvan a la atención médica de rutina y se pongan al día con los exámenes de salud preventivos retrasados o previstos.

“Si bien sabemos que la prevención es la mejor medicina, la pandemia ha provocado que muchos estadounidenses retrasen importantes servicios de salud de rutina que resultan vitales para mantenerse saludables ellos mismos y sus familias, especialmente las vacunaciones críticas y las pruebas preventivas de detección del cáncer. Animamos a todos a ponerse al día sobre sus necesidades de atención médica de rutina”, dice Gerald E. Harmon, M.D., presidente de la American Medical Association (AMA).

De acuerdo con la AMA, usted y su familia deben dar estos seis pasos para volver a poner a su salud en el buen camino: 1. Hágase la prueba: Las estimaciones basadas en modelos estadísticos muestran que desde abril de 2020 pueden haberse omitido 3.9 millones de diagnósticos de cáncer de mama, 3.8 millones de cáncer colorrectal y 1.6 millones de cáncer de próstata debido a interrupciones en la atención relacionadas con la pandemia. Compruebe con su proveedor de atención a la salud. Si tiene previsto recibir atención preventiva, análisis o exámenes de detección, haga una cita. Estas medidas están diseñadas para que usted se mantenga saludable y para ayudar a garantizar que su médico descubra ciertas afecciones antes de que se vuelvan más graves.

2. No espere: Se calcula que 41% de los adultos con una o más afecciones crónicas de salud informaron de que retrasaron u omitieron la atención médica desde que comenzó la pandemia. Adicionalmente, uno de cada tres de esos adultos informaron de que hacerlo empeoró uno o más de sus trastornos de salud o limitó sus capacidades para trabajar o realizar otras actividades diarias. Ya sea que tenga un trastorno de salud crónico o no, no espere hasta que algo esté mal para ver a un médico.

Si algo se siente mal, programe una cita con su médico lo antes posible.

3. Plantéese la telesalud: Si se siente incómodo o no puede ir en persona al consultorio de su médico, revise las opciones de telesalud, que han aumentado considerablemente en los últimos dos años.

4. Visite a su pediatra: Durante la pandemia, las vacunas pediátricas disminuyeron. A medida que se revierten las medidas de salud pública, las personas se reúnen en grupos y se reanudan los viajes, es probable que las infecciones no relacionadas con COVID-19, que disminuyeron durante la pandemia, aumenten nuevamente. Las consultas de niño sano (Wellchild) y las vacunas recomendadas son esenciales para ayudar a garantizar que los niños se mantengan saludables y estén protegidos contra enfermedades graves. Si ya es momento de que su hijo se someta a una revisión, prográmela de inmediato.

5. Vacúnese: Las vacunas de adolescentes y adultos también disminuyeron drásticamente durante la pandemia y se estima que se omitieron 26 millones de vacunas recomendadas en 2020 en comparación con 2019. Póngase al día en sus vacunas, incluida la vacuna contra la COVID-19. Todas las personas elegibles para la vacuna de la COVID-19, incluidas las dosis de refuerzo, deben vacunarse lo antes posible a fin de protegerse a sí mismas y a sus seres queridos. Si tiene preguntas, hable con su médico y revise recursos confiables, entre ellos DeTiDepende.org.

6. No descuide la salud mental: Si bien hay disponibles exámenes de salud mental a través de herramientas de salud digitales, la atención de rutina para la salud mental ha bajado. Aproximadamente el 52% de los adultos con afecciones de salud mental retrasaron o abandonaron la atención desde que comenzó la pandemia.

Dados los efectos adversos que los eventos de los últimos dos años han tenido en la salud mental, como es el aumento de la ansiedad, la depresión y la soledad, es especialmente importante priorizar este aspecto de su salud ahora.

Para obtener más recursos, visite ama-assn.org.

“Animamos a todos a ponerse en contacto con su profesional médico de confianza para programar su revisión física anual y otros cuidados esenciales para ayudar a prevenir graves repercusiones en la salud que podrían durar mucho más allá de la pandemia”, dice el Dr. Harmon.

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SOME CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT GREW DURING THE PANDEMIC FEEL SHORTCHANGED

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hile the vast majority of California’s school districts lost students during most of this past decade, hundreds of districts — mostly small and rural — have grown, emerging from the height of the pandemic with higher enrollment.

Most districts would welcome an enrollment increase and the perstudent state funding boost that usually comes with it. But these growing districts were shortchanged when the state implemented blanket COVID-19 policies protecting districts that lost enrollment during the pandemic.

“The decision to hold districts harmless for declining enrollment came from a well-intended solution,” said Peter Birdsall, president of lobbying firm Education Advocates. “Even at the time, the concern was raised that some districts were growing. ‘Hold harmless’ actually hurt them.”

Because schools are funded on a per-student basis, when attendance drops, so does district revenue. For the 2020-21 school year, the state froze funding for school districts at pre-pandemic levels. So districts that saw enrollment and attendance plummet during the pandemic maintained their funding levels. But those that grew ended up with less money per student.

Education Advocates and the Small School Districts’ Association, an advocacy group representing these districts, estimate that 169 school districts, mostly small and rural, weren’t funded for all their students last school year.

“I think a lot of people look at the statistics and they say, ‘Where are the kids going?’” said Nicole Newman, superintendent at the Wheatland Union High School District, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. “But that’s not the case for every school district.”

And while the shortchanged districts are asking the Legislature to make up the difference, key lawmakers appear to be split: Some say the state has an obligation to make these districts whole, but others say the districts should forget about the past and look forward to unprecedented funding headed for all California schools next year.

According to a CalMatters analysis, 189 of the state’s 940 school districts grew between the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 school years. The combined enrollment at those districts is about 10% of California’s total publicschool enrollment.

Valley Unified School District didn’t budget for growth in the 2020-21 school year. Superintendent Peter Livingston said he submitted a budget to his county office of education that anticipated stable enrollment.

He says if he had budgeted for growth, the county wouldn’t have believed him.

“The county would’ve kicked back our budget,” he said. “They would’ve said, ‘Where are these kids coming from?’”

But when the district’s enrollment, excluding charter schools, increased by about 40 students, the district budget was short $460,000, Livingston said. In a typical year, the state usually adjusts funding for growing districts, but because funding was frozen at pre-pandemic levels, Lucerne Valley Unified never got the money. The 840-student district had to hire four additional teachers and pay their salaries with reserve funds.

reverted to normal and did pay growing districts the full amount this year, based on real per-student enrollment. Even as school funding will reach another historic high this year, these superintendents still say their schools are still owed for last year’s growth.

Newman is still hoping to get the $385,000 dollars her district should have received last year.

State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Sacramento Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s education finance subcommittee, said districts shouldn’t expect to be reimbursed for any growth in the last school year.

Instead, he said, they should focus on the “bigger picture” of unprecedented public-school funding on its way next school year.

“I had to hire three more teachers, and those teachers had to get paid when I didn’t get the funding for those students,” Newman said. “In smaller school districts, that’s a significant amount.”

Newman said she had to dip into the district’s reserve fund to pay for extra staff. In total, Newman estimates that the 169 districts that grew in the last school year are owed $76.7 million — “a speck of water in the bucket for California,” she said.

San Benito High School District in Hollister, about 30 miles east of Monterey Bay, gained 160 students between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. It grew by an additional 142 students this year. Since the start of the pandemic, enrollment has increased by nearly 10%.

Superintendent Shawn Tennenbaum estimates the district should have received about $1.2 million more in funding for the 2020-21 school year.

“We need every dollar we can get to support our students,” he said.

“All we’re asking for is the funds that were not paid during that anomaly.”

Wheatland Union High has also continued to grow. This school year, the district’s enrollment increased by 14%, to 1,066. Lucerne Valley grew by a hundred students, or about 5%.

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esperar un cambio en el futuro. Todas las escuelas de California recibirán la financiación el próximo año.

i bien la gran mayoría de los distritos escolares de California perdieron estudiantes durante la mayor parte de la última década, cientos de distritos, en su mayoría pequeños y rurales, han crecido, emergiendo del apogeo de la pandemia con una mayor inscripción.

Según un análisis de CalMatters, 189 de los 940 distritos escolares del estado crecieron entre los años escolares 2019-20 y 2020-21. La inscripción combinada en esos distritos es aproximadamente el 10% de la inscripción total en escuelas públicas de California.

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“My concern is that it sets a precedent,” Livingston said. “If we don’t fund growth, we’re not supporting students.”

The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates a 3.5% increase, about $4 billion more, in guaranteed K-12 education funding next year thanks to recent increases in state revenues.

McCarty said districts are worrying about small dollar amounts when there’s plenty of money heading their way.

“We have more funding for schools than we’ve had in the history of California,” McCarty said. “If you have to dip into your reserves for a year, that’s a small price to pay.”

But Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Long Beach Democrat who chairs the education committee, said districts that grew in enrollment last year “should be made whole” through the state budget. He said the decision to fund schools based on 2019-20 attendance was “made in haste” during the early months of the pandemic.

“We paid more attention to declining enrollment than we have to the few districts that have increased enrollment,” O’Donnell said. “Those districts that have increased enrollment deserve a seat at the table.”

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La mayoría de los distritos recibirían con beneplácito un aumento de inscripción y el aumento de fondos estatales por estudiante que generalmente viene con él. Pero estos distritos en crecimiento se vieron perjudicados cuando el estado implementó políticas generales de COVID-19 que protegieron a los distritos que perdieron inscripciones durante la pandemia.

“La decisión de eximir de responsabilidad a los distritos por la disminución de la inscripción provino de una solución bien intencionada”, dijo Peter Birdsall, presidente de la firma de cabildeo Education Advocates. “Incluso en ese momento, se planteó la preocupación de que algunos distritos estaban creciendo. ‘Mantenerse inofensivo’ en realidad los lastimó”.

Debido a que las escuelas reciben fondos económicos basados en la inscripción, cuando la asistencia disminuye, también lo hacen los ingresos.

Para el año escolar 2020-21, el estado congeló los fondos para los distritos escolares en los niveles previos a la pandemia. Entonces, los distritos que vieron caer la inscripción y la asistencia durante la pandemia mantuvieron sus niveles de financiación. Pero los que crecieron terminaron con menos dinero por estudiante.

Defensores de la educación y Asociación de Distritos Escolares Pequeños, un grupo de defensa que representa a estos distritos, estiman que 169 distritos escolares, en su mayoría pequeños y rurales, no recibieron fondos para todos sus estudiantes el pasado año escolar.

“Creo que mucha gente mira las estadísticas y dice: ‘¿Adónde van los niños?’”, se preguntó Nicole Newman, superintendente del Distrito de Escuelas Secundarias Wheatland Union, a unas 40 millas al norte de Sacramento. “Pero ese no es el caso de todos los distritos escolares”.

Y mientras los distritos defraudados le piden a la Legislatura que compense la diferencia, los legisladores clave parecen estar divididos: algunos dicen que el estado tiene la obligación de hacer que estos distritos estén completos, pero otros dicen que los distritos deben olvidarse del pasado y

“Esto nunca ha sucedido en las finanzas de California donde a un distrito no se le paga por servir a un estudiante”, dijo Tim Taylor, director ejecutivo de la Asociación de Distritos de Escuelas Pequeñas. “Sé con certeza que si esto le hubiera sucedido a cualquiera de los distritos grandes, se les habría pagado”.

Para fines del año escolar 2019-20, Wheatland Union High tenía alrededor de 900 estudiantes. El siguiente año escolar, creció a 932 estudiantes, un aumento del 4%. Mientras tanto, la inscripción en las escuelas públicas en todo el estado aumentó un 3% ese mismo año.

El crecimiento entre muchos distritos pequeños reflejó la disponibilidad de viviendas asequibles, comentó Newman y otros administradores del distrito en todo el estado. Los residentes de las áreas urbanas costeras comenzaron a comprar casas cuando los empleados cambiaron al trabajo remoto durante la pandemia.

En el condado de San Bernardino, el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Lucerne Valley no tuvo crecimiento en el año escolar 2020-21. El superintendente Peter Livingston señaló que presentó un presupuesto a la oficina de educación de su condado que anticipó una inscripción estable. Dice que si hubiera presupuestado para el crecimiento, el condado no le habría creído.

“El condado habría recortado nuestro presupuesto”, explicó. “Habrían dicho: ‘¿De dónde vienen estos niños?’”.

Pero cuando la inscripción del distrito, excluyendo las escuelas chárter, aumentó en unos 40 estudiantes, el presupuesto del distrito se quedó corto en $460,000, agregó Livingston. En un año típico, el estado generalmente ajusta los fondos para los distritos en crecimiento, pero debido a que los fondos se congelaron en los niveles previos a la pandemia, el Distrito Escolar Unificado de Lucerne Valley nunca recibió el dinero. El distrito de 840 estudiantes tuvo que contratar a cuatro maestros adicionales y pagar sus salarios con fondos de reserva.

Newman aún espera recibir los $385,000 dólares que su distrito debió haber recibido el año pasado.

“This has never happened in California finance where a district isn’t paid for serving a student,” said Tim Taylor, executive director of the Small Schools Districts’ Association.

“I know for a fact that if this had happened to any of the big districts, they would’ve been paid.”

“Tuve que contratar a tres maestros más, y a esos maestros se les tuvo que pagar con las reservas”, dijo Newman. “En los distritos escolares más pequeños, esa es una cantidad significativa”.

Newman explicó que tuvo que recurrir a los fondos de reserva del distrito para pagar personal adicional. En total, Newman estima que a los 169 distritos que crecieron en el último año escolar se les debe $76.7 millones, “una gota de agua en el balde para California”, dijo.

El distrito de escuelas secundarias de San Benito, en Hollister, a unas 30 millas al este de la bahía de Monterey, inscribió 160 estudiantes adicionales entre los años escolares 2019-20 y 2020-21. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, la inscripción ha aumentado en casi un 10%.

El superintendente Shawn Tennenbaum estima que el distrito debería haber recibido alrededor de $1.2 millones más en fondos para el año escolar 2020-21.

“Necesitamos cada dólar que podamos obtener para apoyar a nuestros estudiantes”, agregó. “Todo lo que pedimos son los fondos que no se pagaron durante esa anomalía”.

Wheatland Union High también ha crecido. Este año escolar, la inscripción del distrito aumentó en un 14%, a 1,066. Lucerne Valley creció en un 5%.

Este es un problema momentáneo debido a la pandemia: el estado volvió a la normalidad y pagó a los distritos en crecimiento el monto total este año, según la inscripción por estudiante. A pesar de que la financiación escolar alcanzó otro máximo histórico este año, estos superintendentes dicen que a sus escuelas todavía se les debe el dinero por el crecimiento que tuvieron el año pasado.

“Mi preocupación es que no se está haciendo nada para solucionarlo”, comentó Livingston. “Si no financiamos el crecimiento, no estamos apoyando a los estudiantes”.

El asambleísta estatal Kevin McCarty, un demócrata de Sacramento que preside el subcomité de financiación de la educación de la Asamblea, dijo que los distritos no deberían esperar recibir un reembolso por ningún crecimiento en el último año escolar.

La Oficina del Analista Legislativo estima un aumento del 3.5%, alrededor de $4 mil millones más, en fondos garantizados para la educación K-12 el próximo año gracias a los recientes aumentos en los ingresos estatales.

McCarty explicó que los distritos se preocupan por las pequeñas cantidades de dólares cuando hay mucho dinero en camino.

“Tenemos más fondos para las escuelas de lo que hemos tenido en la historia de California”, agregó McCarty. “Si tiene que echar mano de sus reservas durante un año, es un pequeño precio a pagar”.

Pero el asambleísta Patrick O’Donnell, un demócrata de Long Beach que preside el comité de educación, dijo que los distritos que aumentaron en inscripción el año pasado “deberían recuperarse” a través del presupuesto estatal. También comentó que la decisión de financiar las escuelas en función de la asistencia de 2019-20 se “tomó a toda prisa” durante los primeros meses de la pandemia.

By the end of the 2019-20 school year, Wheatland Union High had about 900 students. The following school year, it grew to 932 students, a 4% increase. Meanwhile, public school enrollment statewide decreased by 3% that first year of the pandemic.

The growth among many small districts reflected the availability of affordable housing, Newman and other district administrators across the state said. Residents from coastal urban areas started buying homes further inland when employers shifted to remote work during the pandemic.

“Prestamos más atención a la disminución de inscripciones que a los pocos distritos que han presionado las inscripciones”, concluyó O’Donnell.

“Aquellos distritos que han perdido la inscripción merecen un asiento en la mesa”.

Este artículo fue publicado originalmente por CalMatters.

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If the constitutional amendment passes both houses of the state Legislature by a two-thirds margin, it would be placed onto the November ballot.

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The author of the draft opinion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, argued that the privacy rights and the due-process clause don't apply to the termination of a pregnancy. Other opponents cite religious objections.

State Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said she wants the state to establish a fund that would accept private donations to help people from other states travel to California for abortion care.

"People that are denied access to abortions are four times more likely to end up in poverty," she said.

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os líderes del Caucus Legislativo de Mujeres de California prometieron proteger el derecho de una persona a abortar en el Estado Dorado después de que un borrador de opinión filtrado parece mostrar que la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. está lista para anular la decisión conocida como Roe v. Wade este verano. Eso pasaría el asunto a los estados.

Abortion is and will remain legal in California, but now some lawmakers want to cement that right by putting it into the state Constitution. Caucus Chair Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, said she feels if the Supreme Court issues this ruling, it would be an unprecedented rollback of people's rights.

Jodi Hicks, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said low-income women of color from conservative states would be disproportionately affected.

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eaders from the California Legislative Women's Caucus vowed to protect a person's right to have an abortion in the Golden State after a leaked draft opinion appears to show the U.S. Supreme Court is ready to overturn the decision known as Roe v. Wade this summer. That would turn the matter over to the states.

"Overturning Roe v. Wade is not going to stop abortions," she said, "but rather it's going to lead to unsafe and deadly abortions, especially for our most marginalized and vulnerable communities."

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"California will continue to be a beacon of hope for women and families who need access for reproductive care and abortion, here in our own state and across the country," she said. "We will not leave the women and families impacted by the backwards, reckless policies of other states without options."

El aborto es y seguirá siendo legal en California, pero ahora algunos legisladores quieren consolidar ese derecho incluyéndolo en la Constitución estatal. La asambleísta presidenta del caucus Cristina García, DBell Gardens, dijo que siente que si la Corte Suprema emite este fallo, sería un retroceso sin precedentes de los derechos de las personas.

"Anular Roe v. Wade no detendrá los abortos", dijo, "sino que llevará a abortos inseguros y mortales, especialmente para nuestras comunidades más marginadas y vulnerables".

Si la enmienda constitucional es aprobada por ambas cámaras de la Legislatura estatal por un margen de dos tercios, se pondría en la boleta electoral de noviembre.

El autor del proyecto de opinión, el juez de la Corte Suprema Samuel Alito, argumentó que los derechos de privacidad y la cláusula del debido proceso no se aplican a la interrupción de un embarazo. Otros oponentes citan objeciones religiosas.

Jodi Hicks, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, dijo que las mujeres de color de bajos ingresos de los estados conservadores se verían afectadas de manera desproporcionada.

Las personas a las que se les niega el acceso al aborto tienen cuatro veces más probabilidades de terminar en la pobreza", dijo.

La presidenta pro tempore del Senado estatal, Toni Atkins, demócrata de San Diego, dijo que quiere que el estado establezca un fondo que aceptaría donaciones privadas para ayudar a personas de otros estados a viajar a California para recibir el servicio de aborto.

"California seguirá siendo un faro de esperanza para las mujeres y las familias que necesitan acceso a la atención reproductiva y el aborto, aquí en nuestro propio estado y en todo el país", dijo. "No dejaremos sin opciones a las mujeres y familias afectadas por las políticas retrógradas e imprudentes de otros estados".

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30-YEAR-ANNIVERSARY OF L.A. UPRISING: WHAT HAS CHANGED?

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cial profiling of Black and Brown motorists and, far too often, results in violence and even death. But the city's transportation department has been accused both by activists and the City Council of dragging its feet on completing a promised study as a first step toward implementing alternatives to policing in traffic stops.

hirty years ago, in the wealthy Southern California city of Simi Valley, a majority-White jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of all charges in the videotaped assault of a Black man named Rodney King. The acquittals sparked five days of violence that came to be known as the "1992 L.A. Uprising" (some preferred the term "riots," others "rebellion," or even "civil unrest") during which an estimated 63 people were killed, at least 16 of them Black, 14 Latino, and the rest White, Asian, or unidentified by race. More than 2,000 people were injured.

In the meantime, Community Coalition is building a Center for Community Organizing that, in Johnson's words, will help "train up more organizers from across the country to be well-versed in the strategies and methods that have proven to be successful."

Johnson's definition of rebuilding her city includes expanding access to arts and culture for low-income communities of color. Community Coalition's "cultural organizing" is based on the premise that "art is power." Musical concerts and art exhibits provide opportunities to engage local communities in progressive causes and to encourage civic duties, like registering to vote. Moreover, she explains, "Black and Brown people ... are interested in changing the community around them and the outcomes for their families. We also want joy. We appreciate beauty."

Thousands of buildings were burned down, and more than $1 billion worth of property was damaged. A massive multitiered army consisting of tens of thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement agents, including from the U.S. Border Patrol, was mobilized to end the rebellion and arrest more than 16,000 people.

It was a stunning chapter in Los Angeles and United States history, one that continues to mark local decision-making around issues of race, policing, inequality, community investment, gentrification, and political representation.

In the months that followed, political commentators on the Right increasingly linked the uprising to a "poverty of values," to quote then-Vice President Dan Quayle. President George H. W. Bush asserted that the actions during the uprising were "purely criminal." Such logic framed the official city, state, and federal government pledges to investigate the causes of the uprising and provide restitutionpledges that either remained unfulfilled or exacerbated existing problems.

Most of the progressive changes in L.A. since 1992 have instead been led by grassroots organizers and community members who have rooted their work in cross-racial solidarity, finding common cause in the abolition of incarceration and police, tackling the housing crisis, uplifting arts and culture, and encouraging civic engagement.

After the Uprising: How Authorities Failed South L.A. Leslie Cooper Johnson, vice president of organizational development at Community Coalition, explains that her South L.A.-based organization was founded just two years before the uprising. One of its first campaigns was to tackle the heavy concentration of liquor stores, which local residents identified as a major source of crime and other social problems.

"As we were engaging in the campaign ... the civil unrest happened and hundreds of liquor stores were burned down," says Johnson. "And so the campaign then shifted to rebuild South L.A. without liquor stores," she adds.

Former Mayor Jim Hahn remembers South L.A. being the site of "1,100 liquor stores down there, which I think was more than the entire state of Pennsylvania had."

L.A.'s first Black mayor, Tom Bradley, immediately promised to rebuild the devastated parts of the city and announced a public-private partnership that would take the form of a privately funded nonprofit organization called Rebuild L.A. Initially headed by a White corporate executive from neighboring Orange County named Peter Ueberroth, Rebuild L.A. seemed doomed from the start.

Although the organization's leadership was eventually diversified in response to complaints, it never managed to accomplish what Bradley set out to do, either in rebuilding what was destroyed, or in changing police-community relations.

Thousands of buildings burned down during the Los Angeles uprising of 1992, prompting community groups to lead a multiracial effort to rebuild. Photo Credit: Mick Taylor / Wikimedia Commons or the development in those spaces."

As to the fundamental issue of police violence, she adds, "We haven't been able to move the needle as much as we would like to."

A Backdrop of Inter-Community Tensions King's beating ignited a fiery debate about police brutality and race in the early 1990s in the city. Communities of color, especially Black residents, had long charged that police brutality was commonplace, but city officials ignored them. The nearly allWhite jury that eventually acquitted King's assailants believed the victim had resisted arrest and that the police had acted reasonably to subdue him.

"What prompted the unrest was just anti-Blackness, to be frank," says Johnson.

Less than two weeks after King was beaten and a year before the uprising, Soon Ja Du, the Korean American owner of Empire Liquor in South L.A., shot and killed a young Black teenager named Latasha Harlins, who Du believed was stealing orange juice.

Although convicted of voluntary manslaughter, Du did not serve a prison sentence for the shooting, and anger over the incident simmered within South L.A.'s Black community, where convenience and liquor stores were largely owned and operated by Korean Americans.

When jurors in Simi Valley acquitted King's assailants, hundreds of protesters gathered in the San Fernando Valley, near the site where the assault took place, and marched to the local divisional headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department.

In South L.A., anger spilled out into the streets centered on the corner of Florence and Normandie, an intersection that is now considered "ground zero" of an uprising that went on to spill into neighboring areas. There was a collective rage at the injustice of the acquittals, exacerbated by Black-Korean tensions. Residents set fires, demolished liquor stores, and beat those perceived as outsiders.

Korean American immigrants, many of whom in the early 1990s were relatively recent arrivals to the U.S. and L.A., were deeply impacted by the uprising: 40% of economic losses during the five days of violence were borne by Korean American businesses, according to Edward Chang, a professor of ethnic studies and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

According to an in-depth analysis by Melissa Chadburn writing for Curbed Los Angeles, "The board operated on the assumption that the neighborhoods and its residents were insolvent, inefficient, lazy, corrupt thieves, and that an overreliance on public subsidies had run them into the ground."

The date was such a momentous incident for the Korean American community that it is still referred to as "Sai-i-gu," which means April 29 in Korean, "just like 9/11," says Chang. He calls it a "watershed event," and "one of the most important historical events for more than 100 years of Korean immigration history."

Johnson says, "There are still to this day lots in South L.A. that were made vacant during the civil unrest. ... And we still haven't seen the investment,

"They had to leave, they had no choice," says Chang of South L.A.'s Korean American store owners.

"Many of them decided to relocate to other cities,

such as Las Vegas, Seattle, or even Atlanta." Others who decided to stay restarted their businesses as stores in indoor swap meets.

Although there has been less attention paid to the role of Latinos, Chicanos, and Latin American immigrants, the uprising directly affected them as well. Latinos were among the victims of violence, in addition to comprising 51% of those charged with crimes. Many Latinos also lost businesses in the uprising.

Local Communities and Leaders Are Rebuilding South L.A. Eunisses Hernandez was only 2 years old when the uprising happened, and in adulthood, she went on to become the co-founder of La Defensa, an abolitionist organization tackling mass incarceration in L.A. To Hernandez, the horror of the '92 uprising highlighted systemic social problems in the city that persist even today, and that are "a constant reminder that not many things have changed," she says.

"We have taken some steps toward progress," Hernandez says, "but the systems that have harmed us-law enforcement, special interest groups, corporations-have continuously beat all the efforts that we have made."

"Paying more people to have guns and badges in our communities doesn't make us safe," she says.

In addition to her work with JusticeLA, which helped to push for the closure of the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail and to stop the expansion of new jails, Hernandez was co-chair of Measure J, a countywide ballot measure passed by voters in November 2020 to divert funding from incarceration into a "care-first-jails-last" approach to social problems.

Activists have identified community-based needs on which the county can spend money freed from the building of jails. Hernandez explains that the ballot measure stipulates moving "10% of locally generated tax dollars into two buckets: community investment, such as youth, minority-owned businesses, and housing, and the second bucket, which is alternatives to incarceration."

Those alternatives include community-based pretrial services (such as conducting needs-based assessments, trauma support, and alternatives to pre-trial incarceration), mental health services, drug treatment, and job creation. The first year of funding under Measure J has already been distributed toward projects aimed at mental health and youth services that serve primarily "Black trans women, elders, young people, LGBTQ communities," says Hernandez.

Johnson's organization has a similar approach. "We want to see investment in prevention," she says. Today, Community Coalition is working on a campaign with other organizations to explore alternatives to armed police enforcement of traffic stops. What should be a routine interaction often starts with ra-

"What does a human being need to thrive and to be happy?" Johnson asks. The answer to that-public safety, affordable housing, living wages, health care, arts and culture-is what she and other local activists are demanding for their community. "It's not so radical, it's not so different than what anyone else would want for their family."

Solidarity Between Communities of Color While Hernandez sees little progress by city authorities to rebuild South L.A. since 1992, she says, "We have grown in certain areas, like around solidarity between Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of color and other low-income communities." Hernandez, who is running for a seat on the L.A. City Council, cites the strong multiracial coalitions she works with as integral to making progress on such issues as transitioning L.A. County and L.A. away from a carceral system.

Another example of solidarity between racial groups was the evolution of KIWA, a grassroots organization that was launched two months before the uprising as Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, and years later renamed itself the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance. The organization's new name reflected the growing evolution of an area where Korean Americans had traditionally lived into one that has become increasingly populated by Latinos and other immigrant groups.

According to Chang, Asian Americans have been part of this cross-racial solidarity. "There is a conscious decision made, particularly by the 1.5 and second-generation organizations, that are trying to reach out to other communities," he says, calling younger Korean Americans the "children of Sai-i-gu."

Alongside KIWA, Chang cites Koreatown Youth and Community Center, an organization founded in 1975 to serve primarily new Korean immigrants, as another example of a Korean American-led community group that pivoted to multicultural organizing.

According to its website, "After the L.A. civil unrest in 1992, KYCC expanded from being an ethnically focused agency to one that included the surrounding community, aligning with its evolving needs." Another local grassroots group, Korean Resource Center, has similarly evolved, and, according to Chang, its main activities now are centered around "building coalitions with African American and Latino communities."

The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were a stunning display of cross-racial solidarity in L.A., where young people of color, starkly aware of ongoing systemic racism, marched together against racist police brutality.

"In 1992, South L.A., Koreatown burned down," says Chang. "But in 2020, they made a conscious choice to protest in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood, White affluent neighborhoods." Chang sees that decision as "a signal that racism is part of White America, and White America needs to take ownership and participate in eradicating racism."

Johnson agrees, saying, "The only way that we're going to achieve what we want is together."

Sonali Kolkatkar wrote this article for YES! Magazine.

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“Cuento una, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis allá abajo, siete, tal vez ocho tiendas de este lado”, dijo Jason Pu, administrador regional de HUD a cargo de California, Arizona, Hawái y Nevada, señalando al otro lado de la calle tenuemente iluminada en una hilera de tiendas de campaña y lonas al lado de la autopista 50. “¿Qué piensas?”.

ientras se dirigía a su automóvil después de dos horas de contar y encuestar a la población sin hogar de Sacramento, el principal funcionario de vivienda del estado reconoció que hay un largo camino por recorrer.

Las ciudades con una disminución de voluntarios debido a la pandemia en curso pueden informar una disminución en la población de personas sin hogar, incluso si en realidad creció, dijo Chris Weare, profesor de la Universidad de California en Berkeley que investiga la falta de vivienda. Weare cree que algunas jurisdicciones mantienen su cuenta artificialmente baja para la óptica política, a pesar de que la participación de una ciudad en dólares estatales y federales para personas sin hogar se basa en estos números.

“Estamos construyendo el sistema, construyendo la capacidad, construyendo los datos, y las comunidades están a la altura de las circunstancias. Sé que la gente está muy frustrada porque sienten que no ven ese cambio”, dijo Lourdes Castro Ramírez, secretario de la Agencia de Negocios, Servicios al Consumidor y Vivienda.

“Pero no creo que puedas ver un cambio que sea duradero de la noche a la mañana”.

Mientras hablaba, a solo unas pocas cuadras de distancia, un campamento para personas sin hogar se estaba incendiando.

Nadie resultó herido, a diferencia de un incendio el mismo día en un campamento de San Francisco, que mató a una mujer y que El gobernador Gavin Newsom llamó “inconcebible”.

Pero docenas de personas, que habían estado acampando debajo de la rampa de acceso a la autopista 50 en una de las noches más frías del año, vieron cómo los bomberos rociaban cientos de galones de agua en el infierno que una vez llamaron hogar.

“No sé qué va a pasar”, dijo John Vasquez, quien dijo que había estado viviendo allí durante casi dos años. “Nosotros no tenemos nada. Todo se quemó. Ropa, tiendas de campaña, documentos de identidad.

La llamada al 911 vino de otro voluntario para el recuento puntual de Sacramento, un recuento similar al censo de personas sin hogar que tuvo lugar en California la semana pasada. A medida que esos números se filtran durante el verano, los expertos creen que los datos ayudarán a ilustrar la realidad que los californianos ya no pueden ignorar: la falta de vivienda ha llegado a un punto crítico.

California contó por última vez su población de personas sin hogar en enero de 2020 y encontró al menos 161,000 personas sin techo sobre sus cabezas en una noche cualquiera, con la mayor concentración en Los Ángeles.

La mayoría eran adultos solteros, alrededor de un tercio estaban crónicamente sin hogar y los californianos de raza negra eran sobrerrepresentado en el conteo casi cinco veces.

El mundo ha cambiado mucho durante la pandemia más mortífera en un siglo.

El estado invirtió miles de millones de dólares para aliviar la falta de vivienda, creando miles de nuevas camas de refugio y unidades de vivienda. Pero la crisis de asequibilidad de la vivienda, a la que la mayoría de los expertos atribuyen la falta de vivienda, solo empeoró a medida que millones perdieron sus trabajos y los alquileres se dispararon. Los refugios también redujeron la capacidad de camas y funcionarios federales instaron a las fuerzas del orden locales a no disolver los campamentos como el de Sacramento para protegerse contra el coronavirus, haciendo que las ciudades de carpas sean más visibles que nunca.

Es por eso que la mayoría de los investigadores no se preguntan si el nuevo número de personas sin hogar mostrará un aumento. La única pregunta es, por cuánto.

Es muy probable que el resultado del conteo de

“Piensen en los titulares”, dijo.

John Vasquez, de 61 años, revisa los restos de un incendio en un campamento para personas sin hogar debajo de la autopista 80, cerca de la calle 14, en Sacramento el 24 de febrero de 2022.

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California sea un conteo insuficiente, en parte porque el Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de EE.UU., que ordena el conteo, excluye a las personas que viven en el sofá o se hospedan en moteles baratos en su definición de personas sin hogar. Los investigadores dicen que eso significa que es más probable que se pase por alto a las familias con niños que se

tambalean al límite.

También depende en gran medida de los voluntarios para contar lo que creen que ven, y de las agencias locales para calcular la población de las áreas que no cubren, estimaciones que luego verificó HUD.

CONDADO DE SANTA CLARA DEPARTAMENTO DE VIVIENDAS (Office of Supportive Housing) AVISO DE PROPUESTA DE ENMIENDA AL PLAN DE ACCIÓN ANUAL FY 2022 (FY22) PERIODO DE REVISIÓN Y COMENTARIOS DEL PÚBLICO El Departamento de Viviendas (Office of Supportive Housing) del Condado de Santa Clara esta proponiendo una segunda enmienda al Plan de Acción Anual para el año fiscal 20212022 (FY22), que cubre el periodo del 1 de julio de 2021 al 30 de junio de 2022. La Junta de Supervisores aprobo el Plan de Acción Anual para FY22 el 4 de mayo de 2021.

El Plan de acción anual establece metas y estrategias para el uso de recursos de viviendas, tanto federales como estatales, y locales para la asistencia de viviendas para personas de bajos ingresos y también establece otras necesidades de desarrollo comunitario, como proyectos de construcción, y servicios públicos.

Para hacer cambios an un Plan que ya fue aprobado por la Junta de Supervisores y por El Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de EE. UU. (HUD) el condado tiene que presenter un borrador que demuestra los cambios. Este aviso informa al público que pueden brindar sus comentarios con respeto a los cambios propuestos en la Enmienda al Plan de Acción Anual para FY22. Este documento se puede revisar en el sitio de Internet: https://osh.sccgov.org/housing-community-development/urban-county-program PERIODO DE REVISIÓN PÚBLICA: El borrador de la Enmienda 2 del Plan de Acción Anual para FY22 estará disponible para revisión del público por un periodo de 30 días a partir del 6 de mayo de 2022, y concluirá en la audiencia pública que se realizará el martes, 7 de junio de 2022, en la reunión de la Junta de Supervisores del condado. El público puede compartir sus comentarios a través de los siguientes métodos: 1.

Asistiendo la Junta de Supervisores el 7 de junio de 2022; o

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Enviando un correo electrónico a: alejandra.herrera@hhs.sccgov.org; o

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Enviando una carta a la atención de Alejandra Herrera Chávez: Office of Supportive Housing, 2310 N. First Street, #201, San Jose, CA 95131.

Comentarios se incluirán en Enmienda 2 del Plan de Acción Anual que se va presenter a HUD. De conformidad con las Leyes de Derechos de Discapacitados y la Ley Brown (American with Disabilities Act and The Brown Act), personas que requieran adaptaciones para estas reuniones deberían ponerse en contacto con la oficina del Clerk of the Board del condado 24 horas antes de la junta al (408) 299-5001 o boardoperations@cob.sccgov.org.

¿Todo el dinero hace una diferencia?

A pesar de todos sus defectos, el conteo sigue siendo una invitación para que los legisladores interactúen con las personas afectadas por sus decisiones, dijo Castro Ramírez en un pequeño evento de inauguración en CSU Sacramento.

“Muy pocas personas vienen aquí y hablan con nosotros”, dijo Jessica Hud, quien ha estado sin hogar durante cinco años y se ha estado quedando en el campamento en la calle X y 10 durante unos siete meses.

Pero al igual que sus vecinos alojados, que en encuestas recientes han expresado desesperación por el manejo del gobierno de las personas sin hogar; muchos también dicen que la situación está en su peor momento.

“He vivido en Sacramento toda mi vida y nunca lo había visto así”, dijo Rocknie Simon, socio de Hud, quien ha estado sin hogar durante unos 10 años. ¿Por qué el gasto generoso del estado no es más visible en las calles del estado?

Funcionarios y defensores lo atribuyen a décadas de desinversión. En 2012, por ejemplo, el estado comenzó a desmantelar sus agencias de redesarrollo, que estaban a cargo de revitalizar áreas “deterioradas” en todo el estado. Con el final del redesarrollo llegó el fin de la fuente más grande de dinero no federal para viviendas asequibles. vivienda en el estado, y los legisladores de California no comenzaron a tapar ese agujero hasta alrededor de 2019.

“No solucionamos un problema que se ha estado gestando desde Vietnam y exacerbado durante las últimas dos décadas por la tecnología y otras cosas en cinco años”, dijo Jennifer Loving, directora ejecutiva de Destination: Home, una organización sin fines de lucro para personas sin hogar en San José. Por cada dos personas que se albergan en su comunidad, otros tres se quedan sin hogar.

Pero si el seguimiento de los datos sobre cuántas personas están sin hogar es difícil, el seguimiento de los beneficios de miles de millones de dólares que el estado está gastando ahora para ayudarlos es aún más desafiante.

“Sé que (el gobernador) está frustrado, sé que la Legislatura está frustrada, el público está frustrado”, dijo el presidente de presupuesto de la Asamblea, Phil Ting, demócrata de San Francisco, durante una audiencia reciente. “Hemos destinado miles y miles de millones de dólares a este tema. Y no está claro dónde hemos progresado”.

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se debe, en parte, a que las entidades locales que atienden a las personas en el terreno no siempre estaban obligadas a informar los resultados al estado, y ningún organismo estatal proporcionó una supervisión efectiva de las innumerables agencias que abordan la falta de vivienda, encontró el Auditor estatal. Se supone que una serie de leyes aprobadas el año pasado cambiarán eso.

Este verano, usando $ 5.6 millones, el recién creado Consejo Interinstitucional sobre Personas sin Hogar publicará un informe que detalla los resultados del gasto estatal entre 2018 y 2021, al que seguirá un informe final en diciembre. Los dólares recién asignados están vinculados a requisitos más estrictos de planificación e informes: las ciudades y los condados establecerán metas para los $2 mil millones que recibirán del estado durante dos años para abordar la falta de vivienda, y alrededor de un quinto de ese dinero se reservará como fondos de bonificación para aquellos que cumplan con sus objetivos.

Las métricas recientemente disponibles recopiladas por los funcionarios locales aún revelan cierta información sobre cómo están sirviendo a la población sin hogar. En el transcurso de 2020, por ejemplo, el estado informó que las agencias locales sirvieron más de 246,000 personas, y casi el 40% de ellos se mudaron a algún tipo de vivienda. (Ese número es más alto que la instantánea de una noche porque es posible que alguien no haya tenido hogar a principios de año, pero que haya tenido vivienda al final). Lo que los datos no revelan es a dónde fue la gente, qué tipos de programas funcionaron mejor que otros, o qué proveedores de servicios sobresalieron y cuáles quedaron rezagados.

“Estamos en este estado que está impulsando la revolución de los datos y simplemente no aparece en el campo de las personas sin hogar”, dijo Weare, de UC Berkeley.

“Hemos destinado miles y miles de millones de dólares a este tema. Y no está claro dónde hemos progresado”.

-PHIL TING, PRESIDENTE DEL COMITÉ DE PRESUPUESTO DE LA ASAMBLEA El verano pasado, con un presupuesto inesperado histórico, los legisladores estatales asignaron $ 12 mil millones para personas sin hogar, la mayoría de los cuales no ha salido a la calle.

Este año tienen un superávit aún mayor, pero la escasez de datos hace que sea difícil evaluar el gasto adicional que Newsom propuso: $ 1.5 mil millones para viviendas puente temporales y $ 500 millones para lidiar con campamentos, aprovechando los $ 50 millones en subvenciones Newsom anunció la semana pasada para albergar o realojar a 1,400 personas ahora en campamentos.

“Estamos atascados”, dijo Wendy Carrillo, asambleísta demócrata de Los Ángeles que dirige el subcomité de presupuesto de la Asamblea estatal que se ocupa de las personas sin hogar.

“Estamos liberando estos fondos para poder ayudar a abordar el problema, pero a cambio, los datos no regresan lo suficientemente rápido como para que la Legislatura pueda tomar una decisión informada sobre si vamos a poner más dólares en algo, y funciona?

Los legisladores republicanos han pedido una sesión especial para abordar la falta de vivienda paralelo a la sesión legislativa en curso, una idea que dicen que no ha tenido ningún impulso en la legislatura demócrata de mayoría calificada.

“Cuando tienes una sesión especial, puedes concentrarte por completo en eso. Así que esperamos que el gobernador preste especial atención a lo que tal vez viene inmediatamente después del conteo de personas sin hogar”, dijo la senadora estatal Patricia Bates, republicana de Laguna Hills.

Sobre el terreno en Sacramento “Contar personas es diferente de ayudar a las personas a salir de las calles”, dijo el alcalde de Sacramento, Darrell Steinberg, en el evento inaugural del 23 de febrero, antes que alrededor de 600 voluntarios se desplegaron. La última encuesta puntual encontró al menos 5,500 personas sin hogar en el condado en 2019, un número que espera que solo aumente este año.

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“Aquí en la ciudad y el condado de Sacramento, estamos comprometidos a hacer de la vivienda y el refugio un derecho humano y legal, y la atención y el tratamiento de la salud mental como un derecho humano y legal”, continuó. “Ese tiene que ser nuestro compromiso al salir de este punto en el tiempo”.

Steinberg se refería a una ordenanza presentada en noviembre pasado eso requeriría que la ciudad cree suficientes unidades de vivienda o espacios de refugio temporal para todos los que los necesiten para 2023. Si una persona que vive en la calle rechaza dos opciones de vivienda o refugio disponibles, se vería obligada a entrar. Pero si esos lugares no estuvieran disponibles, la persona podría demandar a la ciudad.

“Contar personas es diferente de ayudar a las personas a salir de las calles”.

Sacramento firefighters respond to a fire at a homeless encampment under Highway 80 near 14th Street and X Street on Feb. 24, 2022. Photo Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / CalMatters

-SACRAMENTO ALCALDE DARRELL STEINBERG La propuesta, que encontró una feroz oposición por parte de algunos defensores de favorecer el refugio sobre la vivienda, ahora está someterse a una revisión legal. Se puede pedir a los votantes locales que consideren dos iniciativas electorales similares en noviembre. Su objetivo: despejar el creciente número de campamentos que surgen en toda la ciudad, que no solo molestan a los residentes y negocios, sino que también amenazan la seguridad de las personas que viven allí. La ciudad tendría que aumentar drásticamente las opciones para que las personas entren al interior, lo que hasta ahora no se ha hecho.

El portavoz de bomberos de Sacramento, Keith Wade, dijo a CalMatters que el departamento responde diariamente a incendios en campamentos para personas sin hogar. Los incendios con el potencial de dañar la infraestructura crítica, como el que se encuentra debajo de la rampa de acceso a la autopista 50, son más raros, dijo.

Caltrans tuvo que cerrar la rampa de acceso “por un tiempo” para asegurarse de que pudiera detener el tráfico que se aproximaba. El incendio sigue bajo investigación, pero Wade dijo que probablemente fue un incendio provocado.

“No es raro que una persona sin hogar que tiene un desacuerdo o algún tipo de problema con otra queme los artículos personales de esa persona porque es lo único que le queda en este mundo”, dijo.

Vásquez, quien fue desplazado del campamento, no sabe lo que sigue. Dijo que había estado viviendo en un departamento antes de quedarse sin hogar, pero que ya no podía pagar el alquiler después de que sus compañeros de cuarto se mudaron.

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s she headed to her car after two hours of counting and surveying Sacramento’s homeless population, the state’s top housing official acknowledged there is a long road ahead.

“We’re building the system, building the capacity, building the data, and communities are rising to the occasion. I know people are really frustrated because they feel like they don’t see that change,” said Lourdes Castro Ramírez, secretary of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. “But I don’t think you can see change that is going to be long-lasting overnight.”

As she spoke, just a few blocks away, a homeless encampment was going up in flames.

No one was injured, unlike a fire earlier the same day at a San Francisco encampment that killed a woman and that Gov. Gavin Newsom called “unconscionable.” But dozens of people — who had been camping beneath the on-ramp to Highway 50 on one of the coldest nights of the year — watched as firefighters sprayed hundreds of gallons of water at the inferno they had once called home.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said John Vasquez, who said he had been living there for nearly two years. “We don’t have anything. Everything got burned. Clothes, tents, IDs.”

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

The 911 call came from another volunteer for Sacramento’s point-in-time count, a Census-like tally of people experiencing homelessness that took place across California last week. As those numbers trickle in over the summer, experts believe the data will help illustrate the reality Californians can no longer ignore: Homelessness has reached a tipping point.

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California last tallied its homeless population in January 2020, and found at least 161,000

“¿Qué podemos hacer?” preguntó. “Comenzar todo de nuevo, sin nada. No teníamos nada, y empezamos con nada”.

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people without a roof over their heads on any given night, with the biggest concentration in Los Angeles. Most were single adults, about a third were chronically homeless and Black Californians were over-represented in the count nearly five-fold.

The world has changed a lot during the deadliest pandemic in a century.

The state poured billions of dollars into alleviating homelessness, creating thousands of new shelter beds and housing units. But the housing affordability crisis — to which most experts attribute homelessness — only worsened as millions lost their jobs and rents skyrocketed. Shelters also reduced bed capacity and federal officials urged local law enforcement not to disband camps like the one in Sacramento to guard against the coronavirus, making tent cities more visible than ever.

That’s why most researchers aren’t wondering whether the new homeless numbers will show an increase. The only question is, by how much.

The result of California’s tally is very likely to be an undercount, in part because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which orders the count, excludes people who are couch-surfing or staying in cheap motels in their definition of homelessness. Researchers say that means families with children who are teetering on the edge are most likely to be overlooked.

It also relies largely on volunteers to count what they think they see, and on local agencies to calculate the population of the areas they don’t cover, estimations later verified by HUD. “I’m counting one, two, three, four, five, six down there, seven, maybe eight tents on this side,” said Jason Pu, HUD’s regional administrator in charge of California, Arizona, Hawaii and Nevada, pointing across the dimly lit street at a string of tents and tarps beside Highway 50. “What do you think?”

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“Think of the headlines,” he said.

Is all the money making a difference?

For all its flaws, the count is still an invitation for policymakers to interact with the people affected by their decisions, Castro Ramírez said at a small kickoff event at CSU Sacramento.

“Very few people come over here and talk to us,” said Jessica Hud, who’s been homeless for five years, and had been staying in the encampment on X and 10th Street for about seven months.

But like their housed neighbors — who in recent polls have expressed despair over the government’s handling of homelessness — many also say the situation is at its worst.

“I’ve lived in Sacramento all my life and I’ve never seen it like this,” said Rocknie Simon, Hud’s partner, who has been homeless for about 10 years.

Why isn’t the state’s generous spending more visible on the state’s streets?

ness, the State Auditor found. A slew of laws passed last year are supposed to change that.

“We have appropriated billions and billions of dollars to this issue. And it’s not clear where we’ve made progress.”

This summer, using $5.6 million, the newly created Interagency Council on Homelessness is set to release a report detailing the outcomes of state spending between 2018 and 2021, to be followed by a final report in December. Newly appropriated dollars are tied to more stringent planning and reporting requirements: Cities and counties will set goals for the $2 billion they will receive over two years from the state to address homelessness, and about a fifth of that money will be set aside as bonus funds for those who meet their goals.

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Newly available metrics collected by local officials still reveal some information about how they are serving the homeless population. Over the course of 2020, for example, the state reported that local agencies served more than 246,000 people, and nearly 40% of them moved into some form of housing. (That number is higher than the one-night snapshot because someone may have been homeless at the start of the year, but housed by the end.) What the data doesn’t reveal is where people went, which types of programs worked better than others, or which service providers excelled and which ones fell behind.

“We’re in this state that’s driving the data revolution and it’s just not showing up in the homelessness field,” said Weare, from UC Berkeley.

Last summer, with a historic budget windfall, state lawmakers allocated $12 billion for homelessness, most of which hasn’t hit the streets. This year, they have an even bigger surplus, but the dearth of data is making it difficult to evaluate the additional spending Newsom proposed: $1.5 billion for temporary bridge housing and $500 million to deal with encampments, building on the $50 million in grants Newsom announced last week to shelter or rehouse 1,400 people now in camps.

“We’re stuck,” said Wendy Carrillo, a Democratic Assemblymember from Los Angeles who leads the state Assembly’s budget subcommittee that deals with homelessness. “We’re releasing this funding to be able to help address the issue, but in return, the data is not coming back fast enough for the Legislature to be able to make an informed decision as to, are we going to put more dollars into something, and does it work?”

Republican lawmakers have called for a special session to address homelessness parallel to the ongoing legislative session — an idea they say hasn’t gotten any traction in the supermajority Democratic legislature.

“When you have a special session, you can put your entire focus on that. So we’re hop-

Officials and advocates chalk it up to decades of disinvestment. In 2012, for example, the state began unwinding its redevelopment agencies, which were in charge of revitalizing “blighted” areas across the state.

With the end of redevelopment came the end of the single largest source of nonfederal money for affordable housing in the state, and California lawmakers didn’t begin to plug that hole until around 2019.

“We’re trying to correct decades of disinvestment, lack of prioritization, gentrification gone wild…. We don’t fix a problem that’s been brewing since Vietnam and exacerbated over the last two decades by tech and other things in five years,” said Jennifer Loving, chief executive officer of Destination: Home, a homelessness nonprofit in San Jose. For every two people who are housed in her community, another three become homeless.

But if tracking data on how many people are homeless is difficult, tracking the payoff from billions of dollars the state is now spending to help them is even more challenging.

On the ground in Sacramento “Counting people is different from helping people get off the streets,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said at the Feb. 23 kickoff event, before about 600 volunteers fanned out. The last point-in-time survey found at least 5,500 homeless people in the county in 2019, a number he expects will only increase this year.

“Here in the city and county of Sacramento, we are committed to making housing and shelter a human and a legal right, and mental health care and treatment as a human and legal right,” he continued. “That has to be our commitment coming out of this point-in-time count.”

Steinberg was referring to an ordinance he introduced last November that would require the city to create enough housing units or temporary shelter spaces for everyone who needs them by 2023. If a person living on the street turned down two available housing or shelter options, they would be compelled to come inside. But if those spots weren’t made available, the person could sue the city.

“Counting people is different from helping people get off the streets.”

-SACRAMENTO MAYOR DARRELL STEINBERG The proposal, which met fierce opposition from some advocates for favoring shelter over housing, is now undergoing a legal review. Local voters may be asked to consider two similar ballot initiatives in November. Their aim: to clear the growing number of encampments sprouting across the city, which are not only upsetting housed residents and businesses, but threatening the safety of the people living there. The city would have to dramatically increase options for people to go indoors, which it has thus far failed to do.

Sacramento fire spokesperson Keith Wade told CalMatters the department responds to fires in homeless encampments on a daily basis. Fires with the potential to damage critical infrastructure — like the one under the Highway 50 on-ramp — are more rare, he said. Caltrans had to shut down the onramp “for a while” to ensure it could hold up oncoming traffic. The fire remains under investigation, but Wade said it was likely arson.

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“I know (the governor) is frustrated, I know the Legislature is frustrated, the public is frustrated,” Assembly Budget Chairperson Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat, said during a recent hearing. “We have appropriated billions and billions of dollars to this issue. And it’s not clear where we’ve made progress.”

The reason for the limited available data is, in part, because local entities serving people on the ground hadn’t always been required to report outcomes to the state, and no state body provided effective oversight of the myriad agencies that address homeless-

ing that the governor will take up a special look at that perhaps that comes on the heels of the homeless count,” said state Sen. Patricia Bates, a Republican from Laguna Hills.

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“It’s not uncommon for one person experiencing homelessness who has a disagreement or some sort of issue with another to burn that person’s personal items because that’s the one thing that person has left in this world,” he said.

Vasquez, who was displaced from the camp, doesn’t know what comes next. He said he had been living in an apartment before becoming homeless, but could no longer afford rent after his roommates moved out.

“What can we do?” he asked. “Start all over again, with nothing. We had nothing, and we start with nothing.”

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WHAT WOULD MALIA COHEN DO AS CALIFORNIA CONTROLLER?

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are two parts to the controller’s job, Malia There Cohen says.

partes en el trabajo del controlador, dice HayMaliadosCohen.

There are the everyday functions — writing checks, conducting audits, making policy recommendations and serving on nearly 80 boards, including ones that oversee state employee retirement funds.

“I think that we do need to elect strong people with strong values that are not afraid to stand up and are not afraid to speak out,” the Democratic candidate told CalMatters reporters and editors.

“I think that we need to have more diversity, I think we need to have more conversations about equity, what that looks like in the distribution of tax dollars… .I don’t want to see strong programs, child care programs, educational programs after-school programs, food programs not get funded because they don’t have a lobbyist, they don’t have an advocate.”

Cohen says the state’s response to COVID revealed the dire, sometimes deadly, consequences of ignoring communities of color.

“I’m going to make sure that we learn from the mistakes from the pandemic,” she said. “Why did it happen? Because the constituency that I represented where I come from — people suffered, people died, people got sick, people lost their jobs. And I saw people coming to a side of the town that they would not normally come into just to get vaccination, cutting the line.”

If Cohen convinces enough voters that she’s the right candidate, she would be the second controller in a row to move up from the Board of Equalization, following Betty Yee, who has served two terms and is no longer eligible to run for re-election. But first, she has to finish among the top two vote-getters in a competitive June 7 primary just to make it to the November general election.

Here are three other key takeaways from her CalMatters interview: Cohen’s vision A controller’s role is to ensure the state is spending its money wisely, including cutting waste. But what does that mean to the average person?

“I explain it like, well, I make sure that big corporations like Amazon don’t snake through loopholes and that they’re paying their fair share when it comes to property taxes,” Cohen said. “I say making sure that corporations like PG&E…[are] paying their fair share in taxes. Small taxpayers, people who own their homes, they’re paying their taxes, and we want to be very fair and very consistent and also transparent.”

As chairperson of the Board of Equalization, Cohen has overseen the distribution of $80 billion in tax revenue to local governments and schools. She also cut spending on office space and launched an initiative in 2019 to modernize property tax collection.

She pledges to continue the watchdog role as controller, saying that she wants to scrutinize the Employment Development Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles, plus the state’s homelessness programs. Cohen also intends to audit companies receiving research and development tax credits to ensure the jobs promised are being created. She also wants to advance pay equity, beginning with a review of the controller’s office, according to her equity roadmap.

“I am running to say, ‘I’m here, I’m in this space, I’m at the table and I’m watching and I am going to keep people accountable,’” she said.

Cohen says she will also give the public critical

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But Cohen says the position is also a platform to make California more equitable and to promote more diverse leadership — goals that she is passionate, even emotional, about and a role that she says she is well prepared for from her time on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and state Board of Equalization.

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Malia Cohen, candidate for state controller, gives an interview at CalMatters in Sacramento on Apr. 5, 2022.

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analysis on issues such as abortion, housing and tax policy — and do more so taxpayers know where their money is going.

“I could be lazy, I could just sit back and do just the bare minimum of the requirements,” she said. “And quite honestly, as I’ve been talking about this race and my vision for the controller seat, a lot of people have not been receptive of a big picture of what a controller’s office could actually be, and I’ve been told that I’m running for the wrong position. And I vehemently disagree.”

Policy stances?

Despite seeing an expanded policy role for the controller, Cohen did not take a stand on some pressing issues now before the Legislature, such as another stimulus payment, or a pause on the gas tax.

Instead, she focused on the administrative functions, pledging to “get those checks to Californians as quickly and as efficiently as possible, ensuring that there isn’t any fraud, any loss or anyone receiving money when they don’t qualify.”

Cohen also didn’t take a stand on whether the state’s public pension funds ought to divest from Russian companies in response to the invasion of Ukraine. She said she needed more information first.

As for projections that the state won’t be able to pay all the pensions it has committed to public employees, Cohen acknowledges the competing interests that need to be weighed. “State employees that have worked really hard, teachers that have worked really hard, I do believe that they should be able to retire and to count on their retirement,” she said.

At the same time, Cohen notes, the state can’t continue to rely on always having a robust budget.

“I am concerned about the fiscal health for the state of California, just the economic direction that we’re going to be going in,” she said. “I don’t see it as a sustainable long-term strategy.”

Working with fellow Democrats Since 1975, voters have elected only Democrats to the office. Cohen has the official party endorsement. One of her primary challengers, Republican Lanhee Chen, is promising to be an independent watchdog on the Democratic Legislature and administration.

While Cohen said her party affiliation won’t hurt her effectiveness in the job, she plans a more collaborative approach.

“My style is not, ‘I got you, aha.’ I’m not trying to catch you in the hot seat,” she said. “I’m not trying to catch you in a lie or even embarrass you. That has never been my leadership style.”

“My style really is if I find an audit and I find something that is glaring or could potentially be embarrassing, talking to the person. Just having an honest conversation and saying, ‘This is what I found, what can we do about this?’”

If elected, Cohen would also become California’s first Black controller, but doesn’t see that affecting how she does the job, either. But she does urge voters to consider her background: “I think that being the sum total of a different set of life experiences does make me a unique candidate in this race.”

Pero Cohen dice que el puesto también es una plataforma para hacer que California sea más equitativa y promover un liderazgo más diverso: objetivos que le apasionan, incluso emocionales, y un papel para el que dice estar bien preparado desde su tiempo en la Junta de Supervisores y la Junta Estatal de Ecualización San Francisco.

“Creo que debemos elegir personas fuertes con valores sólidos que no tengan miedo pararse y que no tengan temor de hablar”, dijo la candidata demócrata a los periodistas y editores de CalMatters.

“Creo que necesitamos tener más diversidad, creo que necesitamos tener más conversaciones sobre equidad, cómo esto transluce en la distribución de dólares que vienen de impuestos… No quiero ver programas fuertes, programas de cuidado infantil, programas educativos los programas extracurriculares, los programas alimentarios no se financian porque no tienen un cabildero, no tienen un defensor”.

Cohen dice que la respuesta del estado a COVID reveló las consecuencias nefastas, a veces mortales de ignorar las comunidades de color .

“Me aseguraré de que aprendamos de los errores de la pandemia”, dijo. “¿Por qué sucedió? Porque el electorado que representé de dónde vengo: estuvo sufriendo, la gente murió, la gente se enfermó, la gente perdió su trabajo. Y vi gente que llegó a un lugar de la ciudad al que normalmente no entrarían solo para vacunarse, cortando la fila”.

Si Cohen convence a suficientes votantes de que ella es la candidata adecuada, sería la segunda controladora consecutiva en ascender desde la Junta de Igualación, siguiendo a Betty Yee, quien ha cumplido dos mandatos y ya no es elegible para postularse para la reelección. Pero primero, tiene que terminar entre los dos primeros en obtener votos en unas primarias competitivas el 7 de junio solo para llegar a las elecciones generales de noviembre.

avanzar en la equidad salarial, comenzando con una revisión de la oficina del contralor, de acuerdo con su plan de trabajo de equidad.

“Estoy postulándome para decir: ‘Estoy aquí, estoy en este espacio, estoy en la mesa y estoy observando y voy a hacer que la gente rinda cuentas’”, dijo.

Cohen dice que también le dará al público un análisis crítico sobre temas como el aborto, la vivienda y la política fiscal y hacer más para que los contribuyentes sepan a dónde va su dinero.

“Podría ser perezosa, simplemente podría sentarme y hacer solo el mínimo de los requisitos”, dijo.

“Y, sinceramente, como he estado hablando sobre esta postulación y mi visión para el asiento del controlador, muchas personas no han sido receptivas a una visión general de lo que podría ser realmente la oficina de un controlador, y me han dicho que Me postulo para el puesto equivocado. Y estoy vehementemente en desacuerdo”. ¿Posturas políticas?

A pesar de ver un papel político ampliado para el controlador, Cohen no se pronunció sobre algunos temas urgentes que ahora se encuentran ante la Legislatura, como otro pago de estimulo o una pausa en el impuesto a la gasolina.

En cambio, se centró en las funciones administrativas y se comprometió a “llevar esos cheques a los californianos de la manera más rápida y eficiente posible, asegurando que no haya fraude, pérdida o que alguien reciba dinero cuando no califique”.

Cohen tampoco se pronunció sobre si los fondos públicos de pensiones del estado podrían destruir las empresas rusas en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. Ella dijo que necesitaba más información primero.

En cuanto a las proyecciones de que el estado no podrá pagar todas, Cohen reconoce los intereses contrapuestos que deben sopesarse. “Los empleados estatales que han trabajado muy duro, los maestros que han trabajado muy duro, sí creo que no podría jubilarse y contar con su jubilación”, dijo.

Al mismo tiempo, señala Cohen, el estado no puede seguir confiando en tener siempre un presupuesto sólido.

Aquí hay otros tres puntos clave de su entrevista con CalMatters:

“Me preocupa la salud fiscal del estado de California, solo la dirección económica en la que vamos a estar”, dijo. “No lo veo como una estrategia sostenible a largo plazo”.

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El papel de un controlador es garantizar que el estado gaste su dinero de manera inteligente, lo que incluye reducir el desperdicio. Pero ¿qué significa eso para la persona promedio?

Desde 1975, los votantes han elegido solo demócratas para el cargo. Cohen tiene el respaldo oficial del partido. Uno de sus principales rivales, el republicano Lanhee Chen , promete ser un organismo de control independiente de la legislatura y la administración demócrata.

“Lo explico cómo, bueno, me aseguro de que las grandes corporaciones como Amazon no pasan por lagunas y que están pagando su parte justa en lo que respeta a los impuestos a la propiedad”, dijo Cohen. “Digo que se aseguren de que corporaciones como PG&E… [estén] pagando su parte justa en impuestos. Los pequeños contribuyentes, las personas que son propietarias de sus casas, están pagando sus impuestos, y queremos ser muy justos, muy consistentes y también transparentes”.

Si bien Cohen dijo que su afiliación a un partido no afectará su eficacia en el trabajo, planea un enfoque más colaborativo.

“Mi estilo no es, ‘Te tengo, ajá’. No estoy tratando de atraparte en el banquillo”, dijo. “No estoy tratando de atraparte en una mentira o incluso avergonzarte.

Ese nunca ha sido mi estilo de liderazgo”.

Como presidente de la Junta de Ecualización, Cohen supervisó la distribución de $80 mil millones en ingresos fiscales a los gobiernos locales y las escuelas. También recortó el gasto en espacio de oficinas y lanzó una iniciativa en 2019 para modernizar la recaudación de impuestos a la propiedad .

“Mi estilo realmente es si encuentro una auditoría y encuentro algo que es evidente o que podría ser potencialmente vergonzoso, hablo con la persona.

Simplemente tener una conversación honesta y decir: ‘Esto es lo que encontré, ¿qué podemos hacer al respecto?’”

Ella se compromete a continuar con el papel de vigilancia como controladora, y dice que quiere examinar el Departamento de Desarrollo del Empleo y el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados, además de los programas estatales para personas sin hogar . Cohen también tiene la intención de auditar a las empresas que reciben créditos fiscales de investigación y desarrollo para garantizar que se creen los puestos de trabajo prometidos. También quiere

Si es elegida, Cohen también se convertiría en el primer controlador de raza negra de California, pero tampoco ve que eso afecte la forma en que hará el trabajo. Pero sí insta a los votantes a considerar sus antecedentes: “Creo que ser la suma total de un conjunto diferente de experiencias de vida me convierte en una candidata única en esta contienda”.

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es (2015), which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on privacy grounds.

y now, nearly everyone in America has heard the news that someone privy to the inner workings of the United States Supreme Court leaked a 98page draft opinion by conservative Associate Justice Samuel Alito that spells almost certain doom for Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion in America. Nearly 50 years ago, the Court decided that the right to an abortion is a fundamental right protected by the right to privacy, as outlined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

As Politico reported, Alito’s mention of Plessy v. Ferguson, which continued racial segregation under the “separate but equal” clause, in a case to overturn abortion, highlights the assumption that Roe is flawed. Farrell said that this is like pointing to a social justice case to overturn a social justice reproductive right.

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Calling Roe “egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito’s opinion would end half a century of protections, allowing each state to decide the matter independently. The political and economic agency of women— particularly in low-income communities and communities of color—could be affected. But a reading of the full text reveals a hammer blow at the concept of privacy itself, something that has been at the heart of American jurisprudence for decades.

And while Alito writes in his opinion that the conclusions drawn in the text are only to be applied to the question of abortion, and that no inference can be drawn as to future rulings on other rights, many fear the conservative agenda has set its sights on far more than just abortion. LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights and even married couples’ ability to use contraception may now face a full-frontal assault.

“There are other fundamental constitutional rights, protected currently by the right of privacy, that are being tangled with by the language of this decision,” says Noreen Farrell, civil rights attorney and executive director of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco.

That’s because the right to privacy is not spelled out in the Constitution. Alito’s draft well understands this fragile state of affairs: He wrote that Roe was remarkably loose in its treatment of the constitutional text.

“It held that the abortion right, which is not mentioned in the Constitution, is part of a right to privacy, which is also not in the Constitution,” he wrote disparagingly of Roe. But this right to privacy is at the center of many other rights. The courts recognized this right to personal autonomy, “including parental control, child-rearing and reproductive autonomy with regard to the use of contraception,” Lisa Matsubara, vice president of policy and general counsel at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said at an Ethnic Media Services briefing.

Alito’s draft explicitly criticizes privacy right based cases in a way that is very concerning, said Farrell. She points to the fact that Alito referenced landmark cases like Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which prevented the criminal prosecution of gay sexual relationships, as well as Obergefell v. Hodg-

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Of course, in the short term, it is reproductive care that is in serious jeopardy—largely because of Alito’s reliance on misleading assertions. One of the most startling observations he made questions the motives of abortion rights supporters. Quoting arguments in amicus briefs, Justice Alito noted that “some such supporters have

been motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population. And it is beyond dispute that Roe has had that demographic effect. A highly disproportionate percentage of aborted fetuses are black.”

However, in a 2014 study, Guttmacher Institute found that Black patients only accounted for 28% of abortion patients, while there were 39% white patients, 25% Hispanic patients and 9% of other races and ethnicities. Lauren Cross and Elizabeth Nash from Guttmacher summarized these findings by suggesting that “the majority of people who have abortions are also facing structural racism that is exacerbated by every logistic hurdle.”

Speaking on Democracy Now, UC Irvine law professor Michelle B. Goodwin said that we have entered the era of the New Jane Crow.

“For Black women, they are 3.5 times more likely to die due to maternal mortality in the United States than their white counterparts,” she said, layering that statistic upon the data that a woman is 14 times more likely to die from carrying a pregnancy to term than by terminating it. “If we fail to include that in our conversation then we are missing what essentially is a death sentence for many women across the United States and girls,” she said.

Calling Alito’s observation “a dog whistle to the reactionary right,” Farrell said that it is deeply concerning that Black women’s access to abortion and reproductive health are going to be deeply affected by this decision. There’s no paid family or maternity leave for many in the community, there’s no universal and subsidized childcare, and frequently inaccessible mental health care, and this is the context of harm in which this final decision will be published, she remarked.

“Our decision returns the issue of abortion to those legislative bodies,” Alito wrote, referring to state legislatures, adding that women are not without electoral or political power. However, a quick examination of women in state legislatures reveals this dismal data: 2,267 women serve in state legislatures, constituting only one-third of the nationwide state legislative cohort.

Dozens of states are getting the green light from the Supreme Court to suppress votes through gerrymandering and other tactics. Justice Alito’s argument that this can be resolved by a democratic process in the country seems disingenuous and uncompromising. But again, Monday’s stunning revelation wasn’t a judgment; it was a leak. The Supreme Court is expected to make its final decision on the future of Roe v. Wade next month.

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del nivel del mar, pero la Costa del Golfo y Nueva York/Nueva Jersey - donde los sitios de desechos industriales de la costa podrían quedar sumergidos y exponer a millones de personas a décadas de contaminación acumulada - también enfrentan inundaciones potencialmente catastróficas. El sitio Superfund del Canal Gowanus en Brooklyn, Nueva York, ya ha soltado algunos de sus contenidos contaminados en la última serie de tormentas.

Hawái y territorios lejanos de EE. UU. como Puerto Rico y Guam también están en riesgo.

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s temperatures rise around the world, frozen glaciers and sea ice in the poles are melting at unprecedented rates, inundating the world’s oceans with more water. The result has been some sea level rise but watch out as more is still to come. In fact, the global mean sea level, defined as the average height of the entire ocean surface, has risen eight to nine inches since 1880. Most of that rise took place in the 150 years. At current rates of emissions, the global mean sea level could rise another 12 inches by 2050.

This amount of sea level rise could be catastrophic in low-lying coastal areas around the world. Bangladesh, and island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati are already facing the brunt of rising sea levels as flooding engulfs villages with little government funding to recover from repeated catastrophes.

Here in the U.S., Florida will likely be hardest hit by sea level rise, but the Gulf Coast and New York/New Jersey— where coastline industrial waste sites could be submerged and expose millions of people to decades worth of stored pollution— also face potentially catastrophic flooding. The Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York has already released some of its polluted contents in the latest series of storms. Hawaii and far-flung U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam are also at risk.

All U.S. coastal areas will undoubtedly experience some loss of coastal land. Just how much property loss takes place is partly a function of how well prepared any given region is for what’s inevitably coming.

World leaders have only recently resolved to face down sea level rise and climatechange-related threats through concerted action. In particular, the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, nixed by Donald Trump and then revived by Joe Biden, held international governments accountable to lower emissions, collectively limiting global warming processes to 1.5 Celsius. However, the “locked in” sea level rises, which will occur regardless of whether or not temperatures rise above 1.5 Celsius, are estimated to be a quarter to a half meter of sea level rise. Yet, action is still necessary to avoid greater sea level rise.

We can all do our part by cutting back on our own emissions, especially by flying and driving less. Indeed, our dependence on fossil fuels has gained new poignancy recently with defiant Russia using its clout to threaten the rest of Europe with cutting off gas pipelines. Another to help is to take an active role in countering mis-

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The Paris Agreement and its promises are more vital than ever. While individual citizen actions may appear small in the face of such insurmountable odds, don’t forget that it’s committed and engaged fighters against climate change who motivate world leaders to act in the first place.

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medida que aumentan las temperaturas en todo el mundo, los glaciares congelados y el hielo marino en los polos se están derritiendo a un ritmo sin precedentes, inundando los océanos del mundo con más agua. El resultado ha sido un aumento del nivel del mar, pero tenga cuidado porque todavía ha de venir más. De hecho, el nivel medio global del mar, definido como la altura promedio de toda la superficie del océano, ha aumentado entre ocho y nueve pulgadas desde 1880. La mayor parte de ese aumento tuvo lugar en los 150 años. Con las tasas actuales de emisiones, el nivel medio global del mar podría aumentar otras 12 pulgadas para 2050.

Esta cantidad de aumento del nivel del mar podría ser catastrófica en las zonas costeras bajas de todo el mundo. Bangladesh y naciones insulares como las Maldivas y Kiribati ya se enfrentan a la peor parte del aumento del nivel del mar a medida que las inundaciones envuelven a las aldeas con pocos fondos gubernamentales para recuperarse de las repetidas catástrofes.

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Los líderes mundiales han decidido recientemente hacer frente a las amenazas relacionadas con el aumento del nivel del mar y el cambio climático a través de una acción concertada. En particular, el Acuerdo Climático de París de 2016, rechazado por Donald Trump y luego revivido por Joe Biden, responsabilizó a los gobiernos internacionales de reducir las emisiones, limitando colectivamente los procesos de calentamiento global a 1,5 grados centígrados. Sin embargo, los aumentos del nivel del mar "bloqueados", que ocurrirán independientemente de si las temperaturas superan o no los 1,5 grados centígrados, se estiman en un cuarto a medio metro de aumento del nivel del mar. Sin embargo, aún es necesario actuar para evitar un mayor aumento del nivel del mar.

Todos podemos hacer nuestra parte reduciendo nuestras propias emisiones, especialmente volando y conduciendo menos. De hecho, nuestra dependencia de los combustibles fósiles ha cobrado nueva intensidad recientemente con la desafiante Rusia que utiliza su influencia para amenazar al resto de Europa con el corte de los gasoductos. Otra manera de ayudar es asumir un papel activo en la lucha contra la desinformación y en la promoción de soluciones científicas. Considere suscribirse a la banca de texto en Greenpeace o corra la voz distribuyendo el documental París a Pittsburgh, que destaca la importancia del acuerdo, para educar a sus amigos y vecinos.

El Acuerdo de París y sus promesas son más vitales que nunca. Si bien las acciones individuales de los ciudadanos pueden parecer pequeñas frente a dificultades tan insuperables, no olvide que son los luchadores dedicados y comprometidos contra el cambio climático los que motivan a los líderes mundiales a actuar en primer lugar.

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na de las medidas que los californianos probablemente votarán este otoño hace más que solo permitir las apuestas deportivas: a los críticos les preocupa que las nuevas y pequeñas empresas de apuestas no puedan operar en el estado por su capacidad económica limitada.

Esos son grandes problemas para una industria que podría recaudar más de $3.5 mil millones cada año de los apostadores de California, y para un estado que prefiere verse a sí mismo como la capital mundial de las empresas emergentes.

De las cuatro iniciativas de apuestas deportivas que compiten para llegar a la boleta electoral de noviembre, una, pagada por los gigantes de apuestas deportivas en línea FanDuel, DraftKings y BetMGM, permitiría a las compañías de juegos y tribus nativas americanas ofrecer apuestas deportivas en línea en todo el estado.

Pero integrados en la iniciativa, hay requisitos que serían muy difíciles y casi imposibles de cumplir para los competidores más pequeños, dicen los expertos.

Si se aprueba la iniciativa, las compañías de juegos tendrían que pagar una tarifa de licencia de $100 millones para hacer negocios en el estado, además de tener una licencia en 10 estados, u operar en cinco estados y administrar 12 casinos.

“Creo que es una absoluta tontería”, dijo John Holden, profesor de la Universidad Estatal de Oklahoma que estudia la política de apuestas deportivas. “Creo que lo que está sucediendo es que, básicamente, los 5 a 10 líderes en el mercado han decidido: ‘Muy bien, asegurémonos de que no haya nadie más que pueda competir con nosotros y hay que hacer que paguen estas tarifas exorbitantes para obtener licencias’”.

La tarifa de $100 millones, señaló Holden, prácticamente garantiza que ninguna nueva empresa pueda operar en California.

La tarifa es una forma en que la medida genera “ingresos significativos para financiar viviendas para personas sin hogar, tratamiento de salud mental y brindar apoyo financiero a las naciones tribales de California”, escribió en un comunicado Nathan Click, portavoz de la campaña.

“La mejor manera de servir a California es crear un mercado de apuestas deportivas seguro y estrictamente regulado, uno en el que los clientes puedan saber que están trabajando con plataformas experimentadas con un historial comprobado de operación segura y responsable en otros mercados”, agregó Click.

FanDuel y BetMGM no respondieron a la solicitud de CalMatters para hacer una entrevista.

Esto es lo que hace la iniciativa La iniciativa respaldada por compañías de apuestas deportivas: • Permite que los adultos mayores de 21 años apuesten en eventos deportivos en línea, así como en algunos eventos no deportivos, como entregas de premios y competencias de videojuegos, fuera de las tierras de los nativos americanos.

• Permite que las tribus ofrezcan apuestas deportivas en línea con el nombre y la marca de la tribu. Las tribus tendrían que pagar una tarifa única de $10 millones al estado para obtener la licencia y una tarifa de renovación de $1 millón cada cinco años.

• Permite que las compañías de juegos como Fanduel y DraftKings ofrezcan apuestas deportivas en línea si llegan a un acuerdo con una tribu para acceder al mercado de California, pagarán una tarifa única de $100 millones para obtener la licencia más una tarifa de renovación de $10 millones cada cinco años, y deberán tener una licencia para operar en 10 estados (o tener licencia para operar en cinco estados y operar 12 casinos) • Crear una nueva división dentro del Departamento de Justicia del estado para regular las apuestas deportivas en línea • Imponer un impuesto del 10% a todas las empresas o tribus que ofrezcan apuestas deportivas. Después de cubrir los costos regulatorios del estado, la mayor parte de los ingresos de los impuestos y las tarifas de licencia se utilizarían para abordar la falta de vivienda, crear viviendas provisionales y permanentes. De los fondos, el 15% iría a las tribus nativas americanas que no participan en las apuestas deportivas en línea.

La Oficina del Analista Legislativo del estado escribió en su evaluación de la medida que no está claro cuánto dinero generarían los nuevos impuestos y tarifas para el estado.

La medida aún no ha sido aprobada para la boleta electoral, todavía está reuniendo firmas. Pero Click, el portavoz de la campaña, dijo que es muy probable que la propuesta sea aprobada y esté en la boleta electoral.

Otras medidas que legalizan las apuestas deportivas podrían llegar a la boleta, o ya son elegibles. Una de ellas, respaldada por una coalición de tribus, permitiría apuestas deportivas en casinos tribales y cuatro hipódromos, mientras que otra, respaldada por una coalición separada de tribus, permitiría a las tribus ofrecer apuestas deportivas en línea y

en persona exclusivamente. Las tribus nativas americanas han tenido durante mucho tiempo el derecho exclusivo de ofrecer ciertas formas de juego en California. Muchas tribus están haciendo campaña contra la iniciativa de las empresas de juego argumentando, entre otras cosas, que amenazaría la soberanía y la autosuficiencia de las tribus.

Si una de las iniciativas pasa, California se convertiría en el primero de otros 30 estados que buscan legalizar las apuestas deportivas. La industria podría generar $3.57 mil millones por año en ingresos netos para las entidades que ofrecen apuestas deportivas a las personas en California si se legalizan las apuestas en línea y en persona y muchas empresas pueden operar, según proyecciones de Eilers & Krejcik Gaming LLC, una firma de investigación. Eso es más grande que las proyecciones para las empresas que buscan tener negocios de apuestas en Texas, Nueva York o Florida.

Problemas para legalizar las apuestas deportivas La tarifa de $100 millones para obtener la licencia es mucho más alta que en cualquier otro estado que busca hacer legal las apuestas deportivas, comentó Becca Giden, directora de políticas de Eilers & Krejcik. Ahora, la tarifa de $25 millones para adquirir la licencia en Nueva York es la más alta, explicó. La mayoría de los estados que han legalizado las apuestas deportivas tienen tarifas de licencia de millones o cientos de miles de un solo dígito, y ningún otro estado requiere que las empresas ya tengan una licencia en otros estados, según Giden.

El requisito de que una empresa ya tenga licencia en 10 estados eliminaría a las empresas más pequeñas y las nuevas empresas que solo tienen licencia en unos pocos estados, dijo Giden. Eso, combinado con la tarifa, “limitaría significativamente la capacidad de las pequeñas empresas y las nuevas empresas” para participar en el mercado, señaló.

Las nuevas empresas en etapa inicial que obtienen dinero de los capitalistas generalmente recaudan alrededor de $5 a $20 millones en su primera ronda, explicó Olav Soren-

son, sociólogo de Anderson School of Management de la UCLA quien estudia el mercado empresarial. Pero solo 1 de cada 100 nuevas empresas obtienen dinero de capitalistas, agregó Sorenson. Cuando incluye nuevas empresas que dependen de préstamos con tarjetas de crédito y otras fuentes de fondos, la cantidad de dinero que las nuevas empresas tienen a su disposición se reduce.

“Muy, muy pocas nuevas empresas podrían pagar ese tipo de tarifa”, comentó Sorenson. “Creo que va a limitar drásticamente la competencia”.

Algunas empresas ya dominan las apuestas deportivas en línea. FanDuel controla el 31% del mercado estadounidense, seguido de DraftKings con el 26%, BetMGM con el 16% y Caesars con el 12%, según una investigación de Eilers & Krejcik.

“Muy, muy pocas empresas emergentes podrían pagar ese tipo de tarifa. Creo que va a limitar drásticamente la competencia”.

-OLAV SORENSON, SOCIÓLOGO EN LA ESCUELA DE ADMINISTRACIÓN ANDERSON DE LA UCLA “El objetivo de esto es crear un mercado de oligopolio para las apuestas deportivas”, dijo Marc Edelman, profesor de derecho en Baruch College que se especializa en deportes, juegos y leyes antimonopolio. Dijo que beneficiaría a un número limitado de empresas “en detrimento de las empresas más pequeñas y los consumidores”.

MaximBet, una empresa de apuestas deportivas lanzada en 2021, hasta ahora tiene licencia en un estado: Colorado.

La compañía trata de diferenciarse ofreciendo a los apostantes experiencias en persona: deslumbrantes fiestas de disfraces, encuentros y saludos con jugadores profesionales o la oportunidad de conducir un Ferrari en una pista de carreras, explicó Doug Terfher, vicepresidente de marketing de la empresa.

Debido a que la compañía tiene licencia en un solo estado, aún no podría operar en California bajo la iniciativa respal-

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El borrador del Plan de Respuesta propone la instalación de una barrera impermeable para evitar la exposición a contaminantes en las aguas subterráneas y la excavación de 1,500 yardas cúbicas (92 camionadas) de suelos contaminados. Los siguientes contaminantes se encontraron en las aguas subterráneas: hidrocarburos totales de petróleo (TPH), tetracloroeteno (PCE), tricloroeteno (TCE), cis1,2-dicloroeteno y cloruro de vinilo. En los suelos se encontraron los siguientes contaminantes: metales (arsénico, cobalto, plomo), pesticidas (clordano y dieldrín), TPH como diésel y compuestos orgánicos semivolátiles.

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El DTSC elaboró una Declaración de Hallazgos que concluye que la revisión ambiental y las medidas de mitigación establecidas por Redwood City son suficientes para evitar o reducir los impactos del proyecto. El DTSC presentaría un Aviso de Determinación ante el Centro de Intercambio de información Estatal una vez que se apruebe el proyecto. ¿CÓMO PUEDO PARTICIPAR? Durante el período de comentarios públicos, desde el 6 de mayo de 2022 al 6 de junio de 2022, usted puede revisar el borrador del Plan de respuesta. Envíe sus comentarios hasta el 6 de junio de 2022 a: Jayantha Randeni, Project Manager, DTSC Berkeley Office, 700 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94710 o a Jayantha.Randeni@dtsc.ca.gov. ¿DÓNDE PUEDO OBTENER MÁS INFORMACIÓN? Para revisar el borrador del Plan de Respuesta y los documentos relacionados, visite: https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/ (código del Sitio 60003027) o visite la sucursal del centro de Redwood City Library en 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063 [llame al (650) 780-7018 para conocer los horarios]. También puede comunicarse con el personal del DTSC: Jayantha Randeni, Gerente del Proyecto, al (510) 540-3806 o Jayantha.Randeni@ dtsc.ca.gov; Asha Setty, Especialista en Participación Pública, al (510) 540-3910, número gratuito, al (866) 495-5651 o Asha.Setty@dtsc.ca.gov. Para consultas de los medios: Barbara Zumwalt, Oficial de Información Pública, (916) 445-2964, o Barbara.Zumwalt@dtsc.ca.gov.]

dada por las compañías de juegos, o las iniciativas respaldadas por las tribus. “Queremos que (California) sea lo más abierta y disponible para tantos operadores como sea posible en el punto en el que nos encontramos en nuestro viaje de crecimiento”, comentó Terfher.

MaximBet está trabajando para obtener una licencia en 10 estados y en Ontario, Canadá, pero el proceso es lento. Si la empresa puede obtener la licencia en cinco estados este año, “será un año increíble”, dijo Terfher.

La mayoría de los estados están restringiendo la cantidad de compañías que pueden ofrecer apuestas deportivas, señaló Daniel Wallach, un abogado con sede en Florida que ha testificado ante las legislaturas estatales y que está a favor de la legalización. Los estados también hacen esto con otras formas de juego. Tiene que haber algunos estándares básicos, dijo, que aseguren que la integridad, la experiencia y el historial de una empresa se examinen de cerca.

Históricamente, los grupos del crimen organizado han estado involucrados en la industria del juego, explicó Wallach, por lo que las legislaturas estatales y las agencias de juego “tienen mucho cuidado de limitar quién puede operar en esta industria fuertemente regulada”. ¿Cuáles son los efectos prácticos?

Si las empresas más pequeñas no pueden hacer negocios en California, eso significa menos opciones para los posibles apostantes y, potencialmente, menos innovación.

“Básicamente terminarías con muchas menos opciones”, dijo Holden.

Un producto prometedor que citó Holden son las apuestas basadas en el intercambio, donde los apostadores pueden intercambiar apuestas entre sí durante un juego, de manera similar a cómo los comerciantes diarios compran y venden acciones.

Sporttrade, una empresa nueva con sede en Filadelfia que ofrece apuestas deportivas similares a las del mercado de valores, está trabajando para obtener una licencia en Nueva Jersey, Colorado, Indiana y Luisiana. ¿Podría desembolsar $100 millones y obtener una licencia en 10 estados para venir a California?

“No hay posibilidad”, dijo Alex Kane, director general de la empresa. Kane señaló que está a favor de las regulaciones que protegen a los consumidores, pero cree que una tarifa de $100 millones para obtener una licencia es algo prácticamente imposible de pagar. En cambio, Kane dijo que cree que las empresas más grandes que escriben la iniciativa no quieren enfrentarse a la competencia. “Están considerando ‘¿Cuánto estaríamos dispuestos a pagar para deshacernos de la competencia por completo?’”, dijo Kane. “Puedes ver que vale mucho dinero para ellos”.

Y si es difícil para las nuevas empresas llegar a los clientes en California, eso podría terminar dando forma no solo a los servicios que se ofrecen, sino también a quién los ofrece.

“Una barrera financiera tan alta hace que sea casi imposible que las empresas pequeñas, o las nuevas empresas intenten competir”, explicó Edelman, profesor de derecho en Baruch College. Si no hay mucha competencia entre los proveedores de apuestas deportivas, eso también podría conducir a peores precios para los clientes, agregó.

“Presumir que una empresa que podría gastar mucho dinero es ética y una empresa que podría gastar una pequeña cantidad de dinero no es ética es una lógica muy dudosa”.

-MARC EDELMAN, PROFESOR DE DERECHO, BARUCH COLLEGE Si se aprueba la iniciativa respaldada por las compañías de juegos, California no sería el estado más restrictivo, ni siquiera cerca. Delaware ha limitado drásticamente las apuestas deportivas a tres casinos. Washington DC habilitó una aplicación, administrada por DC Lottery, para ofrecer apuestas deportivas en línea en toda la ciudad, mientras que otras compañías se limitan a las áreas geográficas que rodean los estadios deportivos con los que han cerrado acuerdos.

Algunos estados han establecido límites en la cantidad de licencias que ofrecen. El estado de Washington hizo de las apuestas deportivas el dominio exclusivo de las tribus nativas americanas y Maine parece que está a punto de tomar una decisión similar.

Los reguladores pueden establecer reglas que protejan a los consumidores y garanticen que las empresas de juegos actúen de manera responsable sin limitar la cantidad de empresas que pueden operar. El hecho de que muchos estados han limitado la cantidad de licencias que otorgarán no se debe necesariamente a que esa sea la configuración óptima para los consumidores. Es porque han sido presionados por casinos, hipódromos y otros grupos que ya tienen intereses en los juegos de azar, dijo Giden.

Si el objetivo es garantizar que las empresas operen de manera ética, entonces los reguladores deberían revisar las prácticas comerciales de las empresas anteriores en todas las líneas de negocios, comentó Edelman.

“Presumir que una empresa que podría gastar mucho dinero es ética y una empresa que podría gastar una pequeña cantidad de dinero no es ética es una lógica muy dudosa”, concluyó.

Este artículo fue publicado originalmente por CalMatters.

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CALIFORNIA SPORTS BETTING INITIATIVE BACKED BY FANDUEL, DRAFTKINGS WOULD BLOCK SMALL COMPETITORS Grace Gedye CalMatters

the low single-digit millions or hundreds of thousands — and no other state requires companies to already be licensed in other states, according to Giden.

greets with pro players, or the opportunity to drive a Ferrari around a race track, said Doug Terfher, vice president of marketing for the company.

ne of the measures Californians will likely get to vote on this fall does more than just allow betting on sports: Critics are concerned it will effectively block smaller gaming companies and startups from operating in the state.

The requirement that a company already be licensed in 10 states would cut off smaller companies and startups that are only licensed in a few states, Giden said. That, combined with the fee, would “meaningfully limit the ability of small companies and startups” to participate in the market, she said.

Because the company is licensed in just one state, it wouldn’t be able to operate in California yet under the initiative backed by the gaming companies — or the initiatives backed by the tribes. “We want (California) to be as open and available to as many operators as possible with where we are in our growth journey,” Terfher said.

Early-stage startups that get money from venture capitalists generally raise around $5 million to $20 million in their first round, said Olav Sorenson, a sociologist at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management who studies entrepreneurship. But only about 1 out of every 100 startups get any venture capital money, Sorenson said.

When you include startups that rely on credit card loans and other sources of funds, the amount of money new companies have at their disposal shrinks.

MaximBet is working on getting licensed in 10 states and in Ontario, Canada, but the process is slow. If the company is able to get licensed in five states this year, “it’ll be an amazing year,” said Terfher.

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Those are high stakes for an industry that could rake in over $3.5 billion each year from California bettors — and for a state that prefers to see itself as the startup capital of the world.

Of the four sports betting initiatives competing to make November’s ballot, one, paid for by online sports betting giants FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM, would allow gaming companies and Native American tribes to provide sports betting online across the state.

But embedded in the initiative are requirements that would be very difficult — if not impossible — for the companies’ smaller competitors to meet, experts say.

If the initiative passes, gaming companies would have to pay a $100 million licensing fee to do business in the state, as well as already be licensed in 10 states, or be operating in five states and running 12 casinos.

“I think it’s absolute nonsense,” said John Holden, a professor at Oklahoma State University who studies sports gambling policy. “I think what’s effectively happening is, basically, the 5 to 10 frontrunners in the market have decided ‘Alright, let’s ensure that there’s no one else who can compete by agreeing to pay these exorbitant license fees.’”

The $100 million fee, Holden said, essentially ensures no startups will be able to operate in California.

The fee is one way the measure generates “significant revenue to fund homelessness housing and mental health treatment and provide financial support for California Tribal nations,” Nathan Click, a spokesperson for the initiative’s campaign, wrote in a statement.

“California is best served by creating a safe and tightly regulated sports betting market, one where customers can know they are working with experienced platforms with a proven track record of safe and responsible operation in other markets,” Click wrote.

FanDuel and BetMGM did not respond to CalMatters’ request for an interview. DraftKings directed CalMatters’ interview request to Click, the campaign spokesperson.

Here’s what the initiative does The initiative backed by sports betting companies would: • Allow adults 21 or older to bet on sports events online, as well as on some non-athletic events like awards shows and video-game competitions, outside of Native American lands • Enable tribes to offer online sports betting under the tribe’s name and branding. Tribes would have to pay a one-time $10 million licensing fee to the state and $1 million renewal fee every five years • Allow gaming companies such as Fanduel and DraftKings to offer online sports betting if they strike a deal with a tribe to access the California market, pay a one-time licensing fee of $100 million plus a $10 million renewal fee every five years, and they are also licensed to operate in 10 states (or are licensed to operate in five states and operate 12 casinos) • Create a new division within the state’s Justice Department to regulate online sports wagering • Impose a 10% tax on all companies or tribes offering sports betting. After covering the state’s regulatory costs, most of the revenue from the tax and the licensing fees would be used to address homelessness and create interim and permanent housing. Of the funds, 15% would go to Native American tribes that aren’t involved in online sports betting.

The state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office wrote in its assessment of the measure that it’s uncertain how much money the new taxes and fees would generate for the state, but it could reach the mid-hundreds of millions per year.

The measure hasn’t qualified for the ballot yet — it’s still gathering signatures. But Click, the spokesperson for the campaign, said the measure is well ahead of where it needs to be to qualify.

Other measures that legalize sports betting could make the ballot — or are already eligible. One, backed by a coalition of tribes, would allow sports betting at tribal casinos and four horse race tracks only, while another, backed by a separate coalition of tribes, would allow tribes to offer online and in-person sports betting exclusively. Native American tribes have long had the exclusive right to offer certain forms of gambling in Cali-

Of the different efforts to legalize sports betting in California, one would require over $100 million in fees — a move experts say limits competition in what is forecasted to be a multi-billion dollar industry. Photo Credit: Baishampayan Ghose /flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) fornia. Many tribes are campaigning against the gaming companies’ initiative arguing, among other things, that it would threaten tribes’ sovereignty and self-reliance.

If one of the initiatives passes, California would become one of over 30 states to legalize betting on sports. The industry could generate $3.57 billion per year in net revenue for entities offering sports betting to people in California if online and in-person betting is legalized and many companies are able to operate, according to projections from Eilers & Krejcik Gaming LLC, a research firm. That’s larger than the firm’s projections for Texas, New York, or Florida.

So much for the sports betting startups The $100 million licensing fee is much higher than what any other state has on the books, said Becca Giden, director of policy for Eilers & Krejcik. Now, New York’s $25 million licensing fee is the highest, she said. Most states that have legalized sports betting have licensing fees in

“Very, very few startups would be able to afford that kind of fee,” Sorenson said. “I think it’s going to dramatically limit competition.”

A few companies already dominate online sports betting. FanDuel commands 31% of the U.S. market, followed by DraftKings with 26%, BetMGM with 16% and Caesars with 12%, according to research from Eilers & Krejcik.

“Very, very few startups would be able to afford that kind of fee. I think it’s going to dramatically limit competition.”

-OLAV SORENSON, SOCIOLOGIST, UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT “The goal of this seems to be to create an oligopoly market for sports betting,” said Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College who specializes in sports, gaming, and antitrust law. It would, he said, benefit a limited number of companies “to the detriment of smaller companies and consumers.”

MaximBet, a sports betting company launched in 2021, is so far licensed in one state: Colorado. The company tries to set itself apart by offering bettors in-person experiences — glitzy masquerade parties, meet-and-

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Most states are restricting the number of companies that can offer sports betting, said Daniel Wallach, a Florida-based gaming lawyer who has testified in front of state legislatures considering legalization. States do this with other forms of gambling too. It’s commonplace, he said, for gaming not to be a free for all, where any company can participate. There have to be some baseline standards, he said, that ensure that a company’s integrity, experience, and track record are closely scrutinized.

Historically, organized crime groups have been involved in the gambling industry, Wallach said, so state legislatures and gaming agencies “are very careful to limit who can operate in this heavily regulated industry.”

What are the practical effects?

If smaller companies can’t do business in California, that means fewer options for would-be bettors and potentially less innovation.

“You’d basically end up with a lot less choice,” said Holden.

One up-and-coming product Holden cited is exchangebased wagering, where bettors can trade wagers with each other throughout a game, similar to how day traders buy and sell stocks.

Sporttrade, a Philadelphia-based startup that offers stock-market-like sports betting, is working on getting licensed in New Jersey, Colorado, Indiana, and Louisiana. Could it cough up $100 million and get licensed in 10 states in order to come to California?

“No chance,” said Alex Kane, the company’s CEO. He’s all for regulations that protect consumers, he said, but thinks a $100 million licensing fee doesn’t have anything to do with that. Instead, Kane said he thinks the bigger companies writing the initiative don’t want to face competition. “They’re looking at ‘What would we be willing to pay to get rid of competition altogether?’” Kane said.

“You can see that it’s worth a lot of money to them.”

And if it’s difficult for new companies to reach customers in California, that could wind up shaping not just what services are offered, but who offers them. “Such a high financial barrier to entry makes it nearly impossible for minority-owned businesses — or new businesses or entrepreneurial ventures — to even attempt to compete,” said Edelman, the law professor at Baruch College. If there’s not a lot of competition between sports betting vendors, that might also lead to worse prices for customers, he said.

“To presume that a company that could spend a lot of money is ethical and a company that could spend a small amount of money is not ethical is very dubious logic.”

-MARC EDELMAN, LAW PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE If the initiative backed by the gaming companies passes, California wouldn’t be the most restrictive state — not even close. Delaware has essentially limited sports betting to three casinos. Washington D.C. enabled one app, run by the DC Lottery, to offer online sports betting city-wide, while other companies are limited to the geographic areas surrounding sports arenas they’ve cut deals with. Somes states have set limits on the number of licenses they’ll offer. Washington state made sports betting the exclusive domain of Native American tribes, and Maine seems poised to make a similar decision.

Regulators can make rules that protect consumers and ensure gaming companies act responsibly without limiting the number of companies that can operate. The fact that many states have limited the number of licenses they’ll give out isn’t necessarily because that’s the optimal set up for consumers. It’s because they’ve been lobbied by casinos, racetracks, and other groups that already have a stake in gambling, said Giden.

If the goal is to ensure that companies operate ethically, then regulators should be reviewing companies’ past business practices across all lines of business, said Edelman, the gaming and antitrust law professor.

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“To presume that a company that could spend a lot of money is ethical and a company that could spend a small amount of money is not ethical is very dubious logic,” he said.

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/09/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/02/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/09/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/09/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/26/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 26, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397346 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Nguyen

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com Thao My Do. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Nguyen Thao My Do has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Nguyen Thao My Do to Amy Nguyen Do 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/09/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 28, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397395 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: HUY QUOC NGUYEN. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) HUY QUOC NGUYEN has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing

to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/09/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 29, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397542 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: ENEYDI Y. RUIZ-LOPEZ. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) ENEYDI Y. RUIZ-LOPEZ has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. YARYTZI GOMEZ to YARYTZI GOMEZ-RUIZ. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/16/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 29, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2022

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Amy Chen Case No. 22PR191893 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Amy Chen. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Amy Chen in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Tsang-Chi Chen be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 23, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7.

If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file

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

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Paul E. Rogers 255 N. Market St. #125 San Jose, CA 95110 (408)641-8803 Rune Date: May 6, 13, 20, 2022 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of SAMBANDASWAMI KARUNANITHI (also known as Sam Karunanithi) Case No. 22PR192285 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of SAM BAN DASWAM I KARUNANITHI, SAM KARUNANITHI. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Vijayakumar Baskaran in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Vijayakumar Baskaran e appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 4. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 5.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 29, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept.

5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the

hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 Run Date: May 6, 13 and 20, 2022 Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of ERIC RABE Case No. 22PR192286 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ERIC RABE, ERIC MATTHEW RABE, ERIC M. RABE. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Nancy Iwasaka in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Nancy Iwasaka be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 4. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the

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personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 29, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7.

If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)866-8382 Run Date: May 6, 13 and 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684374 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ULTRAMEDICALS, 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd #100, Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and

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residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Sassan Behjat, 3293 Valley Square Lane, San Jose, CA 95014. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/01/2012. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file#: FBN627493. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Sassan Behjat This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684374

Maria Del Rosario Tellez, 149 Basch Avenue, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/01/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Maria Del Rosario Tellez This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/25/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684489

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684470 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ray’s Plumbing and Drain Cleaning, 562 Groth Place, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ray Joseph Gavin, 562 Groth Place #11, San Jose, CA 95111.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Ray Gavin, Manager This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/22/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684470

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684431 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BLUE EAGLE ELECTRIC, 5207 Terner Way Apt 304, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Maikel Hacopy Esmealian, 5207 Terner Way Apt 304, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/10/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Maikel Hacopy Esmealian This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/21/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684431 April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684489 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Notary Consolidated Services, 149 Basch Avenue, San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):

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April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397300 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Chung Chieh Chu and Lingyen Chen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Chung Chieh Chu and Lingyen Chen have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Wei-Yu Chu to

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com William Chu b. Chen-Yu Chu to Emily Chu 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/02/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 26, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397046 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Antonio Carriles-Merlo.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/26/2022 at

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

Apr 19, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 SECOND AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV393722 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hai-Dang Vu Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Hai-Dang Vu Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hai-Dang Vu Nguyen to Don Nguyen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/24/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 26, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397122 Superior Court of California, County of Santa

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/26/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 21, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 2nd AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV391469 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: MEBRATU MOLLA. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) MAHALET ASEFA has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons

for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/31/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 22, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397296 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thong Huu Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Thong Huu Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Thong Huu Nguyen to Thomas Huu Nguyen 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/02/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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MAY 06 - MAY 12, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397076 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Phuong Thao Hoang Nguyen.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 20, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397130 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Chiao Feng, Cheng. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Chiao Feng, Cheng has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

CHIAO FENG, CHENG to JOA, CHIAOFENG, CHENG 2. THE COURT

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/26/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 21, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395270 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jeromy Odell Lawson. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Jeromy Odell Lawson has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. JEROMY ODELL LAWSON to JEROMY ODELL. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/07/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First

MAY 06 - MAY 12, 2022 Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

March 21, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684233 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FDZ PROPERTIES, 21100 Uvas Road, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): FDZ PROPERTIES, 21100 Uvas Road, Morgan Hill, CA 95037.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/18/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Benjamin Fernandez FDZ PROPERTIES Vice President Article/Reg#: 4596366 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/18/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684233

correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ James R. Alves Seven Flags Inc. President Article/Reg#: A450576 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/18/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684236 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684389 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SMITH EBERT PROPERTIES, 115 E. SANTA CLARA ST., SAN JOSE, CA 95113, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Helen Ebert, 1651 Mulberry Lane, San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/31/1969. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Helen Ebert This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684389

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684236 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rose Garden Auto Care - Pitstop, 590 Coleman Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Seven Flags Inc., 590 Coleman Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110.

The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683906 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: QUICK GENERAL CLEAN UP & HAULING, 487 Laswell Ave, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Alejandro Tejada Escobar, 487 Laswell Ave, San Jose, CA 95128. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/01/2019.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Alejandro Tejada Escobar This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/07/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 683906 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684034 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: VERKIC CONSTRUCTION, 16619 Marchmont Dr, Los Gatos, CA 95032, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): ZDRAVKO VERKIC, 16619 Marchmont Dr, Los Gatos, CA 95032. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/31/2022.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ ZDRAVKO VERKIC This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/11/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684034 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684187 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Interchanges Martinez, 682 Overland Ct, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Christian Martinez, 682 Overland Ct, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/15/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Christian Martinez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/15/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684187 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684166 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FRONTLINE AUTO PERFORMANCE, 1680 Almaden Expressway, Unit B, San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): DEBBY C LO, 229 Berrendo Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/01/2011.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ DEBBY C LO This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/14/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684166 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684128 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AZTEC GRAPHIC DESIGNS, 571 Tully Rd, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Married Couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): VERONICA SANCHEZ, 2050 McKee Rd, Apt 103 Bldg 9B, San Jose, CA 95116. JAIME SANCHEZ, 2050 McKee Rd, Apt 103 Bldg 9B, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/11/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Veronica Sanchez This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk-

Recorder of Santa Clara County on 04/13/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 684128 April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): O&G Towing, 1734 Castlebrook Court, San Jose, CA 96133, filed in Santa Clara County on 04/19/22, under file no.

FBN629920. This business was conducted by: An individual.“I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Blas Ortega This statement was filed with the Co. Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on 4/19/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 684289 April 22, 29, May 6 and 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV397094 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: THU THAO HO and JOHNNY LE. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) THU THAO HO and JOHNNY LE has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/26/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept.,

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

Apr 20, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396320 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Sunghwi Cho. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Sunghwi Cho has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Sunghwi Cho to Kevin Sunghwi Cho. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/5/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

March 30, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV392902 Superior Court of California, County of Santa

CLASSIFIEDS / LEGALS Clara-In the matter of the application of: Emily Florence Moala. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Emily Florence Moala has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Emily Florence Moala to Emily Florence Aholelei 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/31/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 05, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396867 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Huichen Wang. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Huichen Wang has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Huichen Wang to Huichen Kao 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled

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to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 14, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395587 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: CHRISTOPHER PEREZ. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) CHRISTOPHER PEREZ has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 06/14/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396999 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Anandi Krishnan, Dhurjati Ravi. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Anandi Krishnan, Dhurjati Ravi has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 18, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396322 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ahmad Shaker Raufi. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ahmad Shaker Raufi has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Ahmad Shaker Raufi to Shahker Raufi 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Mar 30, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396579 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ngan ThiKim Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ngan ThiKim Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Jan 12, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396865 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Goretti Marie Mirelez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Goretti Marie Mirelez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Goretti Marie Mirelez to Goretti Marie Smiley 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 14, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV396810 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: THAO

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 13, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2022 AMENDED Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILLIAM DEARMAN Case No. 22PR191938 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILLIAM DEARMAN, CHRISTOPHER DEARMAN, CHRIS DEARMAN. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JAYNE ELIZABETH PHILLIPS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that JAYNE ELIZABETH PHILLIPS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

4. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the

court. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 23, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7.

If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Robert P. Bergman 3535 Ross Avenue, Suite 308 San Jose, CA 95124 (408)247-0444 Run Date: April 22, 29,

May 6, 2022 FIRST AMENDED Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Gloria Linda LeBleu Case No. 22PR192186 1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Gloria Linda LeBleu. 2.

A Petition for Probate has been filed by John D. Ponce in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

3.The Petition for Probate requests that John D. Ponce be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 26, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept.

5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You

MAY 06 - MAY 12, 2022 may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Huma J. Ellahie 2542 S. Bascom Ave., Ste 235 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)579-1282 Run Date: April 22, 29, May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683958 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jocelyn Event Coordinator, 395 S. Fourth Street, Apt 3, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Mia Jocelyn Cital, 1522 Regency Drive, Los Banos, CA 93635. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/08/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Mia Jocelyn Cital This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/08/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683958 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 684104 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LARIO’S TRUCKING, 24650 AMADOR ST APT 111, HAYWARD, CA 94544, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Maricela Para, 24650 Amador St. Apt. 111, Hayward, CA 94544. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/30/2022. This filing

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

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

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 683565 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683916 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BRIGHT SIDE IMPORTS, BRIGHT SIDE, 117 Bernal Road #70-189, San Jose, CA 95119, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): 41SIXTY, 117 Bernal Road #70-189, San Jose, CA 95119. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this

MAY 06 - MAY 12, 2022 statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Paulo Paredes CEO 41SIXTY INC Article/Reg#: C4091800 Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/07/2022.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 683916 April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 683897 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: eachCrowd.com, 2305 McLaughlin Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Cesar Plata, 2305 McLaughlin Avenue, San Jose, CA 95122. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/06/2022. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) /s/ Cesar Plata This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/06/2022.

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

GIANNA JONES to GIANNA ROSE CONTRERAS. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause,

if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/17/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/19/2022, at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for

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

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

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 11, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV395141 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kristina Davtyan.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kristina Davtyan has filed

a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Kristina Davtyan to Kristina Victoria Davikoff. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

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

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

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed,

the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/05/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 04, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396510 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: donghong zhang and yaoxin song. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) donghong zhang and yaoxin song has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Sophia Song to ZiQing Song. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/12/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

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

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

Mar 25. 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396363 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: ANGELINA EILIE ANDREI. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Angelina Eilie Andrei aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Angelina Eilie Andrei aka: Lina Eilia Serhan, aka: Lina Eilia to ALINA AUDREE LUCANTONI EILIA. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/31/2022 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause

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Apr 08, 2022 Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV396098 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: NGHIA HUU TRAN & HUYNH NHU PHAM. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) NGHIA HUU TRAN & HUYNH NHU PHAM has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. NGOC BAO TRAN to JENNY NGOC TRAN. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

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

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movie anywhere, really. But the amount of different problems that you're presented with in the film at any one time are pretty enormous.

ince its inception, the Emeryville based Pixar Animation Studios has pushed technical boundaries while always trying to keep the most important thing in focus, the story it’s trying to tell.

Looking at it by that lens, by far one of Pixar’s most important creations is a story about children’s playthings and their day to day lives.

Toy Story is a very foundational part of Pixar Studios because it encapsulates the best of the studio, and every new entry into its world, whether it be one of the movies or shorts, taps into what made that first movie a critical and audience favorite while branching out into new territory.

With their newest adventure, Pixar once again steps into the world of Toy Story, sort of. With Lightyear the creative team, led by director/ screenwriter Angus MacLane and producer Galyn Susman, sought to find inspiration from Toy Story and the heart and soul of that series to create a new story, one of the actual Space Ranger who inspired the eventual Buzz Lightyear action figure.

Lightyear is a Sci-fi action story which tells the story of Buzz (voiced by Chris Evans), an astronaut and test pilot who ventures into new dangerous worlds and uncharted time and space for the sake of humanity. When he is lost in time, separated from his friends and family, he must reassess what is important to him.

With the premiere of Lightyear rapidly approaching, we had a chance to speak with MacLane and Susman on how the film was made, what parts of the Buzz character and Toy Story came along for the ride, and what they hope is the take away for audiences.

Lightyear releases in theaters June 17, 2022.

To start off, I was wondering what the creative team’s consensus was on how to be respectful of the original films and character of Buzz while being able to branch out into this new story?

Galyn Susman I think it was less about being respectful to the films and more about being respectful to Buzz with the Buzz character. And we've been working with Buzz forever. I've been working on Toy Story related stuff since the first Toy Story so I feel like we really know this character and we don't want to do anything that's going to reflect badly on the character or the franchise in any way. Surely that creates some amount of limitations, right?

We needed to start out with Buzz being likable, even though this type of movie, they usually start out being not so likable. So there were those kinds of limitations, but other than that, we had pretty free rein to create a whole new universe and a whole new set of rules.

I was wondering what the experience was like for you, Angus, in terms of this being your first full length director role?

Angus MacLane Well, I think it was really helpful that I'd done some of the other films as a co-director and directed the shorts because it's really fairly challenging to make a movie here - to make a

But one nice thing about having done those of the movies is that this one, you can kind of know what to focus on, and then that allows you to get really high-quality level on screen because you're focused on the right things, and we had a great team that communicated really well with each other.

Director/screenwriter Angus MacLane. Photo Credit: Pixar Animation Studios / Walt Disney Pictures

Producer Galyn Susman. Photo Credit: Pixar Animation Studios / Walt Disney Pictures

AVISO DE RECIBO DE UNA SOLICITUD DE EXENCIÓN PARA UNA PEQUEÑA PLANTA ELÉCTRICA PARA EL PARQUE STACK DE LA ZONA COMERCIAL En una serie de presentaciones con fecha del 10 de diciembre de 2021, 8 de marzo de 2022, 30 de marzo de 2022, 4 de abril de 2022 y 11 de abril de 2022, STACK Infrastructure (STACK) presentó una solicitud a la Comisión de Energía de California (CEC) en la que solicitaba una exención de la jurisdicción de la CEC (Exención para una pequeña planta eléctrica, o SPPE) para el Parque tecnológico de Trade Zone Boulevard (Parque STACK de la zona comercial) (21-SPPE-02). El Parque STACK de la zona comercial se ubicaría en dos parcelas que abarcan aproximadamente 9.8 acres en la esquina de Trade Zone Boulevard y Ringwood Avenue (2400 Ringwood Avenue y 1849 Fortune Drive) en San Jose.

Descripción del proyecto El Parque STACK de la zona comercial incluiría un Edificio de Fabricación Avanzada (AMB), el Centro de Datos de SVY (SVYDC), la Instalación Generadora de Respaldo de SVY (SVYBGF), un garaje y la infraestructura de servicios relacionados, que en conjunto constituyen el “proyecto” según la Ley de Calidad Ambiental de California (CEQA).

El SVYBGF sería una instalación generadora de respaldo alimentada con diésel con una capacidad de generación de hasta 90 megavatios (MW) para respaldar la necesidad del SVYDC de suministrar energía ininterrumpida a los servidores de sus inquilinos. El SVYBGF consistiría en 36 generadores de emergencia de respaldo (grupos electrógenos) de 3 MW y dos de 1 MW alimentados con diésel, dispuestos en dos patios de generación, cada uno de ellos diseñado para dar alimentar a uno de los dos edificios del centro de datos (SVYDC 05 y SVYDC 06) que conforman el SVYDC. Todos los grupos electrógenos se dedicarían a suplir las necesidades de electricidad de los edificios del centro de datos en caso de pérdida de energía eléctrica de la compañía eléctrica (con redundancia).

Jurisdicción de la CEC y proceso de la SPPE La CEC tiene la autoridad exclusiva para certificar todas las plantas de energía térmica (de 50 MW y más) e instalaciones relacionadas propuestas para su construcción en California. El proceso de la SPPE permite a los solicitantes que proponen construir plantas de energía térmica de entre 50 y 100 MW obtener una exención por parte de la jurisdicción de la CEC y proceder con los permisos locales en lugar de requerir la certificación de la CEC. El CEC puede conceder una exención si considera que la instalación propuesta no creará un impacto adverso sustancial en el medio ambiente o los recursos energéticos. La sección 25519(c) del Código de Recursos Públicos designa al CEC como agencia principal, de conformidad con la CEQA, para todas las instalaciones que soliciten una SPPE. El Código de Recursos Públicos, sección 21080.3, y la Normativa de la CEQA, Código de Regulaciones de California, título 14, sección 15063(g), obligan a la CEC, como agencia principal, a consultar con agencias responsables y fiduciarias que determinen si se requiere una declaración negativa o un informe de impacto ambiental. El personal de la CEC ha comenzado su revisión de la aplicación. Durante los próximos meses, el personal evaluará el proyecto propuesto y preparará el documento del análisis ambiental correspondiente para su revisión pública.

A continuación, un comité formado por dos comisionados de Energía llevará a cabo una audiencia para determinar si se propone que toda la Comisión adopte (o certifique) el documento de la CEQA y determinar si se recomienda a toda la Comisión que el proyecto propuesto quede exento del proceso de certificación de centrales eléctricas de la CCA. Además de otras oportunidades para comentar sobre el proceso, como el periodo de comentarios públicos luego de la publicación del documento ambiental, esta audiencia dará al público, las agencias locales, estatales y federales y las tribus nativas americanas la oportunidad de brindar aportes sobre la solicitud de exención.

Los siguientes pasos serán la emisión de una decisión propuesta por el comité, y la posible adopción de esa decisión por parte de la CEC en una reunión de trabajo. Si se otorgara la exención, el solicitante igual necesitaría conseguir las habilitaciones correspondientes de las agencias locales, regionales, estatales y federales relevantes para construir y operar el proyecto propuesto. Las regulaciones de la CEC que describen el proceso de la SPPE están principalmente ubicadas en el Título 20 del Código de Regulaciones de California, secciones 1934-1947.

Participación del público La CEC permite la participación del público en el proceso de revisión de la SPPE. Se puede encontrar una copia de la solicitud de la SPPE y más información del proyecto, en el sitio web de la CEC https://www.energy.ca.gov/ powerplant/tradezonepark. Para mantenerse informado sobre este proyecto y recibir avisos de las próximas reuniones y talleres, lo invitamos a suscribirse al servicio de listas del proyecto, al que se puede acceder en el mismo sitio web del proyecto. La lista de correo envía notificaciones por correo electrónico cuando se publican documentos y avisos en la página web del proyecto.

Si tiene preguntas sobre el proyecto, póngase en contacto con Lisa Worrall, gerente del proyecto, al teléfono (916) 661-8367, o por correo electrónico a lisa.worrall@energy.ca.gov.

La Oficina de Asesoría al Público de la CEC está disponible para brindar información y asistencia con respecto a la participación del público en los procesos de la CEC. Puede ponerse en contacto con la Oficina de Asesoría al Público por teléfono al (916) 957-7910 y por correo electrónico a publicadvisor@energy.ca.gov.

Las preguntas sobre los medios deben ser dirigidas a la Oficina de Medios de la CEC por teléfono al (916) 6544989 o por correo electrónico a mediaoffice@energy.ca.gov.

And so it's mostly about who you're surrounding yourself with to allow yourself to be successful and being here that long enough, you kind of know what to look for, so that's an advantage of having been around. Thank you.

Now could you talk about what story you wanted to tell with Lightyear?

MacLane The story I wanted to tell was about a character who's obsessed with work so that he keeps going forward in the future and separating himself from his family and then doesn't realize until it's too late that he's separated from everybody, and then being given a second chance, what choices are you going to make.

So with a greater good sense of responsibility towards society, he ultimately makes a sacrifice for the personal, all under the idea of the 'noble pursuit'. So it's based around this idea that I observed about how as filmmakers, we make these movies and we end up kind of jumping through time, we finish a movie and it's taken so long that the outside world has changed a bit and so has done this part of that.

And I think that for me, there was a real thing I really related to, and I wondered what that might be like. Maybe I wondered it was not very universal. But then with all the lockdowns and covid, there was actually a very similar feeling to coming back out after the lockdowns had subsided.

So there's just this recognition of trying to be in the moment and experience the moment and wanting to connect people.

Thank you, guys. Finally, what do you both hope that the film accomplishes and what people take away from Lightyear?

MacLane The feeling I wanted the audience to have at the end of it is, "that was awesome." Literally, I just want people to have a good time because that's what movies gave me and inspired my creativity when I was a kid. And I hope that people see the movie and really have a good time.

It sounds kind of trite, but it's really always been the goal just because movies are intended to entertain and inspire and hopefully this movie does that for the moviegoing audience. I like it, I think it's hilarious.

Susman I agree. It's always been our intent to give the audience is something that they can really enjoy. And I think in terms of the theme of the film, I hope that when people finish and they have enjoyed it, they realize that they've enjoyed it because they've surrendered themselves to that moment, in that place, in that time, and that's really what it's all about. It's being present in the current moment.

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El director/guionista Angus MacLane y la productora Galyn Susman nos muestran cómo la nueva aventura de Pixar alcanzó las estrellas

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Entonces, con un mayor sentido de responsabilidad hacia la sociedad, finalmente hace un sacrificio en lo personal, todo bajo la idea de la 'noble búsqueda'.

Entonces, se basa en esta idea que observé sobre cómo, como cineastas, hacemos estas películas y terminamos saltando a través del tiempo, terminamos una película y lleva tanto tiempo que el mundo exterior ha cambiado un poco y también lo ha hecho esta partir de eso.

esde sus inicios, Pixar Animation Studios, con sede en Emeryville, ha traspasado los límites técnicos y siempre ha tratado de mantenerse enfocado en lo más importante: la historia que está tratando de contar.

Mirándolo con esa lente, una de las creaciones más importantes de Pixar es, sin dudas, una historia sobre los juguetes de los niños y su vida cotidiana. Toy Story es una parte muy fundamental de Pixar Studios porque resume lo mejor del estudio y cada nueva entrada en su mundo, ya sea una de las películas o un cortometraje, aprovecha lo que convirtió a esa primera película en una de las favoritas de la crítica y del público mientras se expande hacia un nuevo territorio.

Con su nueva aventura, Pixar vuelve a entrar en el mundo de Toy Story, de alguna manera. Con Lightyear, el equipo creativo, dirigido por el director/guionista Angus MacLane y la productora Galyn Susman, buscó inspiración en Toy Story además del corazón y el alma de esa serie para crear una nueva historia sobre el Space Ranger real que inspiró la eventual figura de acción de Buzz Lightyear.

Lightyear es una historia de acción y ciencia ficción que cuenta la historia de Buzz (con la voz de Chris Evans), un astronauta y piloto de pruebas que se aventura en nuevos y peligrosos mundos, en un tiempo y espacio desconocidos en busca del bien de la humanidad. Cuando se pierde en el tiempo, separado de sus amigos y familiares, debe reevaluar lo que es importante para él.

Con el estreno de Lightyear acercándose rápidamente, tuvimos la oportunidad de hablar con MacLane y Susman sobre cómo se hizo la película, qué partes del personaje de Buzz y Toy Story acompañaron el viaje, y qué esperan que el público se lleve.

Lightyear se estrena en los cines el 17 de junio de 2022.

Para empezar, me preguntaba ¿cuál era el consenso del equipo creativo sobre cómo ser respetuoso con las películas originales y el personaje de Buzz mientras se podía diversificar en esta nueva historia?

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Productora Galyn Susman (IZQ) y Director / guionista Angus MacLane (DER).

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Creo que se trataba menos de ser respetuosos con las películas y más de ser respetuosos con Buzz con el personaje de Buzz. Y hemos trabajado con Buzz toda la vida. He estado trabajando en cosas relacionadas con Toy Story desde la primera Toy Story, así que siento que realmente conocemos a este personaje y no queremos hacer nada que se refleje negativamente en el personaje o la franquicia de ninguna manera. Sin duda eso

la aquí, hacer una película en cualquier lugar, en realidad. Pero la cantidad de problemas diferentes que se te presentan en la película en un momento dado es bastante enorme.

Pero una cosa buena de haber hecho eso en las películas es que en ésta, puedes saber en qué concentrarte y eso te permite obtener un nivel de calidad realmente alto en la pantalla porque te en-

Necesitábamos comenzar con Buzz siendo simpático... Así que había ciertas limitaciones, pero aparte de eso, teníamos bastante libertad para crear un universo completamente nuevo y un conjunto de reglas completamente nuevo.

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crea una cierta cantidad de limitaciones, ¿Verdad?

Necesitábamos comenzar con Buzz siendo simpático, aunque este tipo de película, por lo general, al principio no son tan simpáticos. Así que había ese tipo de limitaciones, pero aparte de eso, teníamos bastante libertad para crear un universo completamente nuevo y un conjunto de reglas completamente nuevo.

Me preguntaba cómo fue la experiencia para ti, Angus, considerando que éste es tu primer papel como director de largometraje.

Angus MacLane Bueno, creo que fue muy útil haber hecho algunas de las otras películas como codirector y haber dirigido los cortos porque es bastante desafiante hacer una pelícu-

focas en las cosas correctas y teníamos un gran equipo que se comunicaba muy bien entre sí.

Entonces, se trata principalmente de con quién te rodeas para permitirte tener éxito y estar aquí el tiempo suficiente, sabes qué buscar, así que esa es una ventaja de haber estado presente. Gracias.

Ahora, ¿podrías hablar sobre qué historia querías contar con Lightyear?

MacLane La historia que quería contar era sobre un personaje que está obsesionado con el trabajo lo que lo lleva a seguir avanzando en el futuro, separándose de su familia, y no se da cuenta hasta que es demasiado tarde, que está alejado de todos, luego le es otorgada una segunda oportunidad,

Y creo que para mí, había algo real con lo que realmente me identificaba, y me preguntaba cómo sería eso. Tal vez, me preguntaba, no era muy universal. Pero luego, con todos los confinamientos y el Covid, en realidad hubo una sensación muy similar a la de volver a salir después de que los confinamientos habían terminado.

Entonces, solo existe este reconocimiento de tratar de estar en el momento, vivir el momento y querer conectar a las personas.

Gracias chicos. Finalmente, ¿Qué esperan ambos que logre la película y qué la gente se lleve de Lightyear?

MacLane El sentimiento que quería que la audiencia tuviera al final es, "eso fue increíble."

Literalmente, solo quiero que la gente se divierta porque eso es lo que me dieron las películas y lo que inspiró mi creatividad cuando era niño. Y espero que la gente vea la película y realmente se la pase bien.

Suena un poco trivial, pero en realidad siempre ha sido el objetivo solo porque las películas están destinadas a entretener e inspirar y, con suerte, esta película hace eso para la audiencia que va al cine.

Me gusta, creo que es gracioso.

Susman Estoy de acuerdo. Siempre ha sido nuestra intención darle a la audiencia algo que realmente puedan disfrutar. Y creo que en términos del tema de la película, espero que cuando la gente termine y lo hayan disfrutado, se den cuenta de que lo han disfrutado porque se han entregado a ese momento, en ese lugar, en ese tiempo, y de eso se trata realmente. Es estar presente en el momento actual.

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ORACIONES MILAGROSAS A LA MADRE DE DIOS Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador

en busca de tu noble protección.

Que tu intercesión, al igual que la fragancia dulce de las rosas, ascienda a tu divino hijo, nuestro Señor Jesucristo.

Que Él pueda oír nuestras oraciones, escuchar nuestras súplicas, secar nuestras lágrimas, y darnos sagrada ayuda y asistencia.

Amén.

Virgen de la Candelaria Acordaos Piadosísima Virgen de la Candelaria, que jamás se ha escuchado decir que alguno que a vos se acogiese, y pidiese socorro y protección, haya sido desamparado.

Animado con tal dulce confianza, acudo a vos Virgen milagrosa.

A vos vengo y me regocijo ante tu presencia, escucha mis súplicas y favorece mis peticiones. Sea tu santa luz mi camino y mi sendero al dulce trono de Cristo.

Amén.

Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre Virgen de los milagros, como te llamaban nuestros mayores. Cura a los enfermos, consuela a los afligidos, da ánimo a los desesperados, preserva en el bien a las familias, protege a la juventud y ampara a la niñez.

Nadie puede publicar enteramente, las maravillas que obras cada día en favor de las almas que te invocan.

Justificando así la confianza y el amor que te profesan todos tus hijos.

Desde tu santuario del Cobre, venerable Virgen de la Caridad, se siempre el manantial de todas las gracias.

Amén.

Virgen del Carmen Bendita Virgen del Monte Carmelo, madre del Mesías, reina del cielo y de la tierra, redentora de los hombres y protectora de los creyentes.

A ti venimos con humildad a darte las gracias por los milagros

Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción

Photo Credit: Gianna Bonello / Unsplash que has obrado en nuestras vidas y a rogarte por aquellas súplicas que precisan ser escuchadas.

Es tu santa imagen la luz de esperanza que ilumina el camino en la vida terrenal y tus ojos misericordiosos son el reflejo de la promesa hecha por nuestro Señor Jesucristo.

Amén Virgen de Fátima Santísima Madre de misericordia, Reina del cielo y Emperatriz del universo. Así como te dignaste a manifestar mensajes de paz y salvación para toda la humanidad, del mismo modo te pedimos, tu santa asistencia ante cualquier dificultad mayor que se presente.

Otórganos la gracia que te imploramos, para que podamos ser los fieles cumplidores de la voluntad divina que nos fue encomendada desde el cielo.

Amén.

Virgen de Guadalupe Piadosa Virgen María de Guadalupe, dales clemencia, amor y comprensión a todos los fieles que te veneran y vuelan

Ave María Purísima, madre de gracia, madre de benevolencia, vida, dulzura y esperanza nuestra.

Tú que eres espléndida y bondadosa, acude en nuestro auxilio y concédenos el favor y la misericordia que pedimos.

Escucha Madre Inmaculada el clamor de tus hijos, dirige nuestros pasos hacia el bien y líbranos de todos los males y tentaciones para que seamos fieles y dignos servidores de la voluntad del Altísimo.

Amén.

Virgen de Loreto Dios te bendiga, sagrada Virgen de Loreto.

Estrella de la mañana, fuente de vida y esperanza.

Atiende nuestros ruegos clemente Señora, y así como iluminas con tu santa luz a todos los que se amparan bajo tu protección, asimismo purifica nuestras almas, guárdanos de peligros y consagrando nuestro hogar en el nombre del cielo.

Todo esto te lo pedimos en el nombre del pastor de las almas, Cristo Redentor.

Amén.

Virgen de Lourdes

Majestuosa es tu presencia, Señora de Lourdes, Virgen milagrosa, que apareciste como destello de la mañana y te anunciaste en luz resplandeciente a la humilde niña, a quien le dijiste: “Yo soy la Inmaculada Concepción”.

Serás siempre bendita por los miles de milagros que has venido realizado y por la dicha que derramas fielmente sobre todos los creyentes.

Escucha las peticiones que te hago en esta devota oración y sigue alimentando la fe de tus hijos, hijos de la Inmaculada Concepción.

Amén.

Virgen de La Merced Dulcísima Virgen de la Merced, piadosa Madre de Dios.

Estrella resplandeciente del mar, luna hermosa sin los menguantes de la culpa, escogida como el sol. Oye Señora nuestros ruegos, así como atendiste desde los cielos, los lamentos de los oprimidos y con tu santa luz rompiste las cadenas de su dolor.

Asimismo rompe las cadenas de nuestras culpas, para que al ser libres de ellas, merezcamos alcanzar lo que te pedimos en esta oración.

Amén.

Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro Divina Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro, acoge a tus fieles y concédenos todos los favores y peticiones que te hacemos este día.

Alivia nuestras penas, dale calma a nuestro espíritu y libéranos prontamente de la angustia y el pesar.

Tú que eres Santa y piadosa, ruega por nosotros ante el trono de Dios y llévanos a su presencia arropados con el esplendor de tu divino manto.

Amén.