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Haití ha sido históricamente uno de los países más pobres e inseguros de las Américas, una circunstancia que se ha profundizado a raíz de la pandemia del COVID-19. En este momento, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) consideran a Haití como un país de alto riesgo para la transmisión de COVID, la segunda categoría más alta.

Es por ello doblemente oportuno y meritorio el hecho de que la administración Biden haya decidido extender la designación para nuestros hermanos haitianos bajo el Estatus de Protección Temporal, conocido popularmente como de TPS, por 18 meses adicionales si cumplen los requisitos legales

“Haití está experimentando en este momento serias dificultades de seguridad, inquietud social, un incremento de los abusos de derechos humanos, pobreza paralizante ante y la falta de cursos básicos, que se han exacerbado por la pandemia del COVID-19”, justificó el secretario de seguridad interna (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas. “Después de consideración seria, determinamos que debemos hacer lo que podemos para apoyar a los ciudadanos haitianos en los Estados Unidos hasta que mejoren las condiciones en Haití y puedan regresar con seguridad a su casa

Haití fue originalmente designado bajo las protecciones del TPS en julio 22 de 2010 a raíz de las condiciones extraordinarias en ese país, específicamente las secuelas de un terremoto de 7 grados en la escala de Richter que dejó más de 250,000 muertos y más de 300,000 heridos. Su designación fue extendida en 2013 y 2015, y por 6 meses en 2017. Aunque el entonces presidente Donald Trump anunció su decisión de terminar con el programa en 2018, para tomar efecto en 2019, su orden fue desafiada en cuatro demandas legales separadas y se mantiene en suspenso. A los inmigrantes haitianos que se mantenían arropados para una orden judicial temporal se les permitirá solicitar ser incluidos en la extensión de la administración Biden.

Es importante reconocer la diferencia de enfoque que está aplicando la administración Biden en materia migratoria, pero en el caso de los haitianos, al igual que con otros beneficiarios del TPS, tanto en Centroamérica como en África, sigue siendo urgente la necesidad de que se les ofrezca una solución permanente que les abra una ruta su actual limbo migratorio.

La Cámara de Representantes ya aprobó una iniciativa de ley que permitiría a los beneficiarios de TPS, así como a los cientos de miles de beneficiarios de DACA, ingresar a un camino legal para eventualmente obtener una Green Card e incluso la ciudadanía estadounidense después de tres años. Sin embargo la iniciativa sigue estancada en el Senado.

Aunque se presentan como el partido

de los “valores familiares”, los republicanos no han dado señales de ofrecer a ningún grupo de inmigrantes, a pesar de que una amplia proporción de éstos son los mismos trabajadores esenciales que arriesgan su vida para mantener a ese país en pie.

De mantenerse esa resistencia, la Casa Blanca y los demócratas deben usar los medios a su alcance, incluido el proceso de reconciliación que obvia la necesidad de apoyo republicano, para aprobar una reforma migratoria justa, digna y generosa.

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López Zamorano La Red Hispana

Haiti has historically been one of the poorest and most insecure countries in the Americas, a circumstance that has deepened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers Haiti a high-risk country for COVID transmission, the second highest category.

It is therefore doubly timely and meritorious that the Biden administration has decided to extend the designation for

our Haitian brothers under the Temporary Protected Status, popularly known as TPS, for an additional 18 months if they meet the legal requirements.

"Haiti is currently experiencing serious security difficulties, social unrest, an increase in human rights abuses, paralyzing poverty and the lack of basic courses, which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic," justified the secretary of internal security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas. “After serious consideration, we determine that we must do what we can to support Haitian citizens in the United States until conditions improve in Haiti and they can safely return home.”

Haiti was originally designated under TPS protections on July 22, 2010 in the wake of extraordinary conditions in that country, specifically the aftermath of an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale that left more than 250,000 dead and more than 300,000 injured. His designation was extended in 2013 and 2015, and for 6 months in 2017.

Although then-President Donald Trump announced his decision to terminate the program in 2018, to take effect in 2019, his order was challenged in four separate lawsuits and remains on hold. Haitian immigrants who were kept bundled up for a temporary injunction will be allowed to apply to be included in the extension of the Biden administration.

It is important to recognize the difference in approach that the Biden administration is applying to immigration matters, but in the case of Haitians, as with other TPS beneficiaries, both in Central America and in Africa, there is need for them to be offered a permanent solution that opens a route to their current migratory limbo.

The House of Representatives has already passed a measure that would allow TPS recipients, as well as the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients, to enter a legal path to eventually obtain a Green Card and even U.S. citizenship after three years. However, the initiative remains stagnant in the Senate.

Although they present themselves as the party of “family values”, the Republicans have shown no signs of offering that extended helping hand to any group of immigrants, despite the fact that a large proportion of these are the same essential workers who risk their lives to support that country standing.

If that resistance continues, the White House and the Democrats must use the means at their disposal, including the reconciliation process that obviates the need for Republican support, to pass a just, dignified, and generous immigration reform.

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CÓMO CALIFORNIA SE PUSO DURA CON LAS ARMAS

Ben Christopher CalMatters

Elmoderno debate sobre las armas estadounidenses comenzó el 2 de mayo de 1967, cuando 30 miembros del Partido Pantera Negra que protestaban marcharon hacia el Capitolio de California con pistolas, escopetas y rifles cargados.

Cuando las fotos de radicales armados de Oakland aparecieron en las portadas de todo el país, muchos estadounidenses se sorprendieron al ver quién estaba adoptando la Segunda Enmienda. En California, como en la mayoría de los estados en ese momento, había pocas restricciones para llevar armas cargadas en público.

Eso cambió pronto. Los esfuerzos de los Panthers por "vigilar a la policía" ya habían llevado al asambleísta republicano Don

Mulford a proponer una legislación para prohibir el "porte abierto" de armas de fuego cargadas dentro de las ciudades y pueblos de California. Después de que los Panthers aparecieron en el Capitolio, su proyecto de ley se aprobó y fue firmado por el entonces gobernador. Ronald Reagan. (Sí, ese Reagan). Es difícil decir lo que ahora parece

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más improbable: que dos docenas de revolucionarios podrían entrar legalmente en la cámara de la Asamblea estatal con rifles semiautomáticos, o que un gobernador republicano abogaría por un control de armas más estricto.

En los años transcurridos desde entonces, los políticos progresistas de California se han ido aplicando a las restricciones, mientras que los propietarios y fabricantes de armas continúan tratando de salir de ellas.

La batalla continúa. El gobernador Gavin Newsom denunció "un lobby de armas dispuesto a sacrificar las vidas de nuestros niños para llenar sus bolsillos". Un portavoz de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle predice que la Corte Suprema modificada por Trump significa que "es muy posible que se acerque el invierno para las leyes de armas en California".

Y después de una larga pausa durante la pandemia, tiroteos masivos consecutivos en Georgia y Colorado ofrecieron un claro recordatorio de lo que es “normal” y reavivaron una nueva ronda de un debate nacional muy antiguo.

El 26 de mayo de 2021, el debate regresó a California cuando ocho

personas fueron asesinadas a tiros en un depósito ferroviario de San José. “¿Qué diablos está pasando en los Estados Unidos de América? ¿Qué diablos nos pasa? Newsom dijo en una conferencia de prensa esa tarde.

“Es hora de dejar atrás la vieja retórica de pensamientos y oraciones y aprobar leyes de sentido común sobre armas a nivel nacional”, tuiteó el gobernador.

En California, la lucha política se desarrolla a través del sistema legal. Una medida de votación de 2016 defendida por Newsom requería verificaciones de antecedentes para comprar municiones.

Esa y otra disposición de la medida, la prohibición de las revistas de alta capacidad, se han estancado después de que un juez de un tribunal de distrito federal las declarara inconstitucionales. Ambas sentencias están siendo apeladas.

Entonces, mientras el gobernador y la Legislatura Demócrata intentan agregar nuevas restricciones, los defensores de las armas van a los tribunales para revocar las existentes.

El tiempo dirá qué cambios se producirán en un futuro cercano para la legislación sobre armas.

Ben Christopher CalMatters

The modern American gun debate began on May 2, 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles.

As photos of gun-toting radicals from Oakland hit front pages across the country, many Americans were shocked to see who was embracing the Second Amendment. In California, as in most states at the time, there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public.

That soon changed. The Panthers’ efforts to “police the police” already had led Republican As-

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semblyman Don Mulford to propose legislation to ban the “open carry” of loaded firearms within California cities and towns. After the Panthers showed up in the Capitol, his bill sailed through and was signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan. (Yes, that Reagan). It’s hard to say which now seems more unlikely: that two dozen revolutionaries could legally stroll into the state Assembly chamber with semi-automatic rifles, or that a Republican governor would champion stricter gun control. In the years since, California’s progressive politicians have layered on restrictions while gun owners and manufacturers continue to try to find their way out of them.

The battle continues. Gov. Gavin Newsom denounced “a gun lobby willing to sacrifice the lives of our children to line their pockets.” A National Rifle Association spokesman predicts the Trumpaltered Supreme Court means “winter may very well be coming for gun laws in California.”

And after a long hiatus during the pandemic, back-to-back mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado offered a stark reminder of what “normal” looks like and reignited a new round of a very old

national debate.

On May 26, 2021, the debate returned to California when eight people were shot dead at a San José rail yard. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us?” Newsom said at a press conference that afternoon.

“Time to move past the stale rhetoric of thoughts & prayers & pass commonsense gun laws

NATIONWIDE,” the governor tweeted.

In California, the political fight is playing out through the legal system. A 2016 ballot measure championed by Newsom required background checks to purchase ammunition.

That and another provision of the measure, banning high-capacity magazines have both stalled after a federal district court judge declared them unconstitutional. Both rulings are being appealed. So while the governor and the Democratic Legislature try to add new restrictions, gun advocates are going to court to overturn existing ones.

Time will tell what changes come in the near future for gun legislation.

El debate de leyes de armas regresó a California cuando ocho personas fueron asesinadas a tiros en un depósito ferroviario de San José esta semana

The gun law debate returned to California when eight people were shot and killed in a San José railroad depot this week

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VACUNAS COVID NO SERÁN REQUERIDAS PARA ASISTIR A ESCUELAS PÚBLICAS K-12 EN CALIFORNIA

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está realizando pruebas de su vacuna en bebés y niños debajo de 12 años.

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teens ages 12-15 have been able to get vaccinated for Covid as of May 13, but getting the shot will not be required for attending K-12 public schools in the state, said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly at a press briefing.

The announcement allows more than two million young people to get vaccinated. Families can start making appointments for their teens online at myturn.ca.gov. Pharmacies are also reconfiguring their websites to accept appointments for young people. Vaccines will also become available at pediatricians’ offices, Federally Qualified Heath Centers, and primary care facilities.

Earlier this month, the state opened up vaccination for anyone aged 16 or older: more than 30 percent of that population has already received at least one dose, according to the California Department of Public Health.

California public schools require numerous vaccinations and boosters for kids attending their campuses. But Ghaly explained that the Pfizer Covid vaccine, which was approved May 10 to be administered to 12–15-year-olds, is still under emergency use authorization only, and does not have full Food and Drug Administration approval.

Currently, Pfizer is the only vaccine available to youth ages 12 to 15. Moderna and Johnson and Johnson have not yet submitted their data for approval by the FDA. Moderna announced March 16 that it is testing its vaccine on babies and children under 12.

The UC system and the CSU system announced April 22 they are mandating students and faculty to be fully vaccinated against Covid before attending classes on campus.

Ghaly noted that young people who have been vaccinated may experience some side effects like fatigue, fever, headache, much like what some adults experience. More significant side effects, such as severe disease or death, are extremely rare, he said.

“Young people have shouldered a significant burden throughout Covid. They have been denied certain activities, certain milestones, certain important events,” said Ghaly.

“They have shouldered additional degrees of anxiety and depression and other mental health, and behavioral Health impacts.”

“We can now provide, with a certain degree of confidence, protection to those young people to start

to resume activities, visit more with friends visit with families and friends. It’s a tremendous opportunity for that group to sort of experience that sense of normalcy that they have been missing,” said Ghaly.

Dr. Erica Pan, state epidemiologist at the CDPH, noted that California has reached almost 62 percent herd immunity, and the addition of teens will go far in reaching the goal of 75 to 80 percent herd immunity.

“We want to continue to improve. If we look around the world, we can see that we are still very vulnerable,” she said, referring to mutant variants — more lethal than the original virus and possibly immune to current vaccines — spreading across the globe.

“Every shot matters,” she said, noting that Covid is increasingly showing up in younger people who have been hospitalized and died from the infection.

The state is partnering with social media influencers, pediatricians, schools, teachers, churches, and other trusted messengers to get information out to younger people about the benefits of being vaccinated. Peer to peer engagement is important, said Pan, noting that promotoras and other community health workers will be engaged in getting the message about vaccines out to children and their parents.

Children between the ages of 12 and 15 will need parental consent to obtain the Covid vaccine, said Ghaly, noting that exceptions will be made for emancipated youth. Myturn.ca.gov will have a mechanism allowing parents to provide written consent online so that they don’t have to accompany their children for vaccine shots.

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El sistema UC y el CSU anunciaron el 22 de Abril que exigirán a los estudiantes y facultad estar 100% vacunados contra el COVID antes de asistir a sus clases en el campus.

Ghaly resaltó que la gente joven que ha sido vacunada puede experimentar algunos efectos secundarios como fatiga, fiebre, dolores de cabeza, muy similar a lo que algunos adultos experimentan. Efectos más significativos como enfermedad severa o la muerte, son extremadamente raros, dijo.

“La gente joven ha soportado una carga significativa durante el COVID. Les han sido negadas ciertas actividades, metas, y eventos importantes” dijo Ghaly.

“Han cargado grados adicionales de ansiedad, depresión y otros impactos en comportamiento y salud mental”.

Adolescentes

de Calfornia entre 12-15 años han podido vacunarse contra el COVID desde el 13 de Mayo, pero el estar vacunado no será requerido para asistir a escuelas públicas K-12 del estado, dijo el Secretario del California Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly en rueda de prensa.

El anuncio permitirá vacunar a más de 2 millones de personas jóvenes. Las familias pueden comenzar a realizar citas para sus adolescentes en myturn. ca.gov. Las farmacias también están reconfigurando sus sitios web para aceptar citas de personas jóvenes. Las vacunas también estarán disponibles en las oficinas de pediatras, centros de salud federales calificados e instalaciones de atención primaria.

A inicios de mes, el estado abrió la vacunación a mayores de 16; más del 30% de ese extracto social ya ha recibido por lo menos una dosis, de acuerdo al California Department of Public Health.

Escuelas públicas de California requieren muchas vacunas y refuerzos para los niños que asisten al campus. Pero Ghaly explicó que la vacuna Pfizer, que fue aprobada el pasado 10 de Mayo para ser administrada a personas de entre 12-15 años, aún está como autorización para uso de emergencia, y no cuenta con la aprobación total de la FDA.

Actualmente, Pfizer es la única vacuna disponible para jóvenes de entre 12 y 15. Moderna y Johnson & Johnson no han solicitado aún su aprobación por la FDA. Moderna anunció el pasado 16 de Marzo que

“Ahora podemos proveer, con un cierto grado de confianza, la protección a estos jóvenes para que puedan retomar sus actividades, reunirse con sus amigos y familiares. Es una oportunidad tremenda para que ese grupo experimente esa sensación de normalidad que les ha faltado” dijo Ghaly.

Dr. Erica Pan, epidemióloga del estado en el CDPH, destacó que California ha alcanzado cerca del 62% de inmunidad de rebaño, y que la adición de adolescentes impulsará el número al 75 u 80 por ciento de inmunidad de rebaño.

“Queremos seguir mejorando. Si echamos un vistazo a nivel global, podemos ver que aún somos muy vulnerables”, dijo ella, refiriéndose a las mutaciones – más letales que el virus original y posiblemente inmunes a las vacunas actuales – extendiéndose en todo el mundo.

“Cada vacuna importa” dijo ella, destacando que el COVID está infectando, hospitalizando y matando a jóvenes de manera creciente.

El estado está asociándose con influencers de las redes sociales, pediatras, escuelas, maestros, iglesias y otros mensajeros de confianza para hacer llegar la información a los jóvenes sobre los beneficios de vacunarse. La participación entre iguales es importante, dijo Pan, destacando que Promotoras y otros trabajadores de salud de la comunidad, deben participar en difundir el mensaje sobre las vacunas a los niños y sus padres.

Niños de entre 12 y 15 años necesitarán del consentimiento de sus padres para obtener la vacuna COVID, dijo Ghaly, exceptuando a los jóvenes emancipados. Myturn.ca.gov tendrá un mecanismo que permitirá a los padres enviar el consentimiento en línea para que no tengan qué acompañar a sus hijos al centro de vacunación.

COVID VACCINATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO ATTEND K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA

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Barbara Feder Ostrov Cal Matters

Losfuncionarios estatales permitirán a los pediatras pasar por alto su engorroso sistema de administración de vacunas en una medida destinada a acelerar las vacunas contra el COVID-19 para los niños, según ha aprendido CalMatters.

La decisión se produce cuando la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos de EE. UU. Autorizó vacunas para niños de 12 a 15 años el 10 de mayo, lo que agregaría 2.1 millones de niños a la cantidad de californianos elegibles.

La medida es un reconocimiento tácito de los problemas que plantea el enorme sistema MyTurn de $50 millones para los médicos y grupos médicos más pequeños que desean inmunizar a sus pacientes.

Sami Gallegos, secretaria de prensa del Grupo de Trabajo de Vacunas COVID-19 de California, dijo a CalMatters que los pediatras y otros médicos que tratan a niños no se verán obligados a usar MyTurn para obtener las vacunas de sus pacientes. Pero agregó que el departamento de salud estatal aún no ha determinado cómo los médicos recibirán las dosis.

Hasta ahora, Blue Shield, que supervisa la distribución de vacunas para California, ha requerido que la mayoría de los proveedores de salud se inscriban, se capaciten y soliciten dosis a través de MyTurn, que se facturaba como una ventanilla única para los californianos que buscaban citas de vacunación.

Desarrollado a una velocidad inusual para un sitio web del gobierno, MyTurn se ha visto obstaculizado por fallas y un diseño que frustraba a los californianos. Las citas reservadas en el sitio – un promedio de alrededor de 100,000 por día – recientemente representaron solo alrededor de 27% de las vacunas administradas todos los días en todo el estado, según datos del Departamento de Salud Pública de California.

Blue Shield ha priorizado los sitios de vacunación masiva y los grandes proveedores de salud como Kaiser Permanente antes de permitir que las clínicas más pequeñas reciban dosis, al menos cuando las dosis de vacunas escaseaban. Eso es porque Blue Shield debe alcanzar ambiciosos objetivos de vacunación en su contrato con el estado.

Como resultado, algunos médicos se han enfrentado a retrasos cuando intentan inscribirse en MyTurn para recibir dosis para sus pacientes.

“Ha sido frustrante por decir lo menos”, dijo Steve Escamilla, director ejecutivo de Tamalpais Pediatrics, que atiende a unos 8,600 niños en el condado de Marin. “Esto ha sido incluso más difícil que solicitar un préstamo PPP”.

Escamilla le dijo a CalMatters que cuando trató de inscribir a la clínica en MyTurn, Blue Shield respondió que su solicitud podría demorar varias semanas en ser procesada.

Cuando le dijeron que a los pediatras pronto se les permitiría omitir MyTurn por completo, se sorprendió gratamente.

“Ser capaz de eludir la burocracia sería una ben dición”. Dijo Escamilla. “Eso definitivamente cambia las reglas del juego para nuestra capacidad de ad ministrar la vacuna”.

California tiene casi 3,500 pediatras, más que cual quier otro estado.

Las familias que deseen vacunar a sus hijos de 12 a 15 años una vez que sean elegibles pueden consul tar con su pediatra o médico de familia. También pu eden inscribirse para citas en el sitio web COVID de su condado o en el sitio MyTurn, http://myturn.ca.gov/ o llamar a la línea directa de COVID del estado al 833422-4255.

Hacer que las dosis de la vacuna contra el COVID-19 lleguen a manos de pediatras y otros médicos de atención primaria es particularmente importante ahora que los niños de 12 a 15 años se unirán a los millones de californianos elegibles para vacunarse, dijo Anthony York, portavoz de la Asociación Médica de California.

Aproximadamente un tercio de los médicos de California que administran vacunas infantiles están inscritos en un sistema en línea separado que los registra para obtener vacunas que no son contra el COVID, dijo Gallegos. Pero muchos médicos no están inscritos en ese sistema, lo que genera un retraso burocrático para ellos porque tendrían que unirse antes de poder obtener las vacunas contra el COVID. Esa es una razón por la que el estado está permitiendo que los médicos omitan MyTurn si ya han enviado datos al Registro de Inmunizaciones de California y planean vacunar solo a niños de 12 a 17, dijo Gallegos. Añadió que es posible que los pediatras trabajen para los principales sistemas de salud, como Kaiser Permanente y Sutter Health, que ya están registrados en MyTurn, por lo que los niños tendrán acceso a las vacunas a través de ellos.

Barbara Feder Ostrov CalMatters

State officials will allow pediatricians to bypass their cumbersome vaccine management system in a move intended to speed COVID-19 vaccinations for children, CalMatters has learned.

The decision comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized vaccines for children ages 12 to 15 on May 10th, which would add 2.1 million kids to the number of Californians eligible.

The move is a tacit recognition of the problems that the massive, $50 million MyTurn system poses for doctors and smaller medical groups wanting to

immunize their patients.

Sami Gallegos, press secretary for California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, told CalMatters that pediatricians and other doctors who treat children will not be forced to use MyTurn to obtain their patients’ vaccines. But she added that the state health department has not yet determined how the doctors will receive the doses.

Until now, Blue Shield, which oversees vaccine distribution for California, has required most health providers to sign up, undergo training and request doses through MyTurn, which was billed a onestop shop for Californians seeking vaccination appointments.

Developed at an unusual speed for a government website, MyTurn has been hampered by glitches and a design that frustrated Californians. Appointments booked on the site — an average of about 100,000 each day — recently accounted for only about 27% of the vaccinations given each day across the state, according to data from the California Department of Public Health.

Blue Shield has prioritized mass-vaccination sites and large health providers like Kaiser Permanente before allowing smaller clinics to receive doses — at least when vaccine doses were in short supply. That’s because Blue Shield must hit ambitious vaccination targets in its contract with the state.

As a result, some physicians have faced delays when they try to sign up with MyTurn to receive doses for their patients.

“It’s been frustrating to say the least,” said Steve Escamilla, executive director of Tamalpais Pediatrics, which serves about 8,600 children in Marin County. “This has been even more difficult than applying for a PPP loan.”

Escamilla told CalMatters that when he tried to enroll the clinic in MyTurn, Blue Shield responded it could take several weeks for his application to be processed.

When told that pediatricians would soon be allowed to skip MyTurn altogether, he was pleasantly surprised.

“To be able to bypass the bureaucracy would be a godsend.” Escamilla said. “That’s definitely a game changer for our ability to give the vaccine.”

California has nearly 3,500 pediatricians, more than any other state.

Families who want to immunize their children ages 12 to 15 once they become eligible can check with their pediatrician or family doctor. They also can sign up for appointments on their county’s COVID website or the MyTurn site, http://myturn.ca.gov/ or call the state’s COVID hotline at 833-422-4255. Getting COVID-19 vaccine doses into the hands of pediatricians and other primary care doctors is particularly important now that kids ages 12 to 15 will join the millions of Californians eligible to be immunized, said Anthony York, spokesman for the California Medical Association.

About one-third of California doctors who administer childhood vaccines are enrolled in a separate online system that registers them to obtain nonCOVID vaccines, Gallegos said. But many doctors are not enrolled in that system, which creates a bureaucratic delay for them because they would have to join it before they could obtain COVID vac-

That is a reason that the state is allowing physicians to bypass MyTurn if they already have submitted data to the California Immunization Registry and plan to only vaccinate children 12 to 17, Gallegos

She added that many pediatricians work for major health systems, such as Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health, that already are signed up on MyTurn, so children will have access to vaccines through them.

Los médicos de California que tratan a niños no tendrán que usar el engorroso sistema MyTurn para recibir dosis de la vacuna COVID-19 para sus pacientes. Photo Credit: RF studio / Pexels

NUEVO INFORME: LA SEQUÍA AFECTARÁ CON MÁS FUERZA A LAS COMUNIDADES RURALES LATINAS

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Las comunidades latinas rurales de bajos ingresos en todo California fueron las más afectadas por la última sequía y podrían ver nuevamente la escasez de agua potable este año a medida que la sequía extrema se propague por todo el estado, según un informe publicado hoy por asesores no partidistas de los legisladores de California.

El informe de la Oficina del Analista Legislativo advierte a los funcionarios estatales que se preparen aumentando el monitoreo de los pozos en las comunidades vulnerables y alineando los suministros de agua potable de emergencia para enviar allí.

“Las comunidades más afectadas por los desafíos del agua potable durante la última sequía fueron pequeñas y rurales; muchas eran comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas ubicadas en el Valle Central de California. Además, muchas de las comunidades que perdieron – o siguen siendo vulnerables a perder – el acceso al agua potable contienen altas proporciones de residentes latinos y de bajos ingresos ”, dice el informe.

La última sequía, un evento récord de 2012-2016, se extendió por los cuatro años consecutivos más secos desde que comenzó el mantenimiento de registros en California. El clima seco chocó con las altas temperaturas para succionar el agua de los suelos, secar las plantas y crear ríos cálidos y poco profundos donde 95% del joven salmón Chinook criado en invierno murieron en 2014 y 2015.

Ahora la mayor parte del estado está experimentando nuevamente condiciones de sequía extrema o peor. A principios de esta semana, el gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom declaró una emergencia por sequía en 39 condados, incluida la mayor parte del área reseca del Valle Central y del río Klamath, lo que eleva el total de condados bajo emergencias por sequía a 41. Ya se anunciaron declaraciones el mes pasado para los condados de Mendocino y Sonoma debido a las severas condiciones en la cuenca del río Russian.

La sequía más reciente no afectó a los californianos de manera uniforme, según el informe. Los agricultores y ganaderos dejaron en barbecho algunas tierras y bombearon agua subterránea para compensar la disminución de las

entregas de agua de los acueductos estatales y federales. Pero las comunidades residenciales eran una historia diferente.

“Algunas comunidades residenciales rurales, principalmente en el Valle Central, lucharon por identificar fuentes de agua alternativas a las que recurrir cuando sus pozos domésticos se secaron”, dice el informe.

Muchas de estas ciudades eran comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, hogar de residentes latinos y de bajos ingresos, que también sufrieron económicamente los efectos de la sequía en la agricultura. Ahora, en medio de otra sequía, la pandemia de COVID-19 también se ha acumulado sobre ellos.

El analista legislativo aconsejó a los legisladores que consideren concentrar el gasto y la asistencia en estas comunidades vulnerables.

“El informe de LAO (Oficina del Analista Legislativo) identifica claramente los desafíos que enfrentan las comunidades rurales vulnerables, en su mayoría personas de color, ubicadas en el Valle Central. Estas comunidades todavía se están recuperando de la última sequía y el coronavirus”, dijo la senadora estatal Anna Caballero, una demócrata de Salinas. “La LAO tiene toda la razón al decir que las comunidades rurales siguen siendo las más afectadas, y debemos centrar el gasto y la asistencia en mitigar los impactos de la sequía”.

Los funcionarios estatales deben colocar agua embotellada y tanques de emergencia en estas comunidades, y también crear un protocolo claro para

que las personas sepan a quién llamar cuando sus pozos se sequen, dijo a los legisladores de California Susana De Anda, directora ejecutiva del Centro Comunitario de Agua. la semana pasada.

“No estábamos preparados para la última sequía. Como resultado, nos revolvimos. La respuesta local y estatal no estuvo coordinada. Las familias no sabían a quién llamar. Y muchos se quedaron sin agua durante demasiado tiempo”, dijo De Anda en un comunicado.

El estado no está seguro de cuántos pozos se secaron durante la última sequía: un informe de la Agencia de Recursos Naturales de California registró 2.600 informes de pozos secos recibidos hasta enero de 2019, principalmente en 2014 y 2015. Sin duda, este es un recuento insuficiente, según el informe.

“Los residentes rara vez informan a los condados sobre problemas de pozos privados secos”, dijo el informe de Recursos Naturales. “Aunque se estableció con éxito un mecanismo de seguimiento, su utilización limitada demuestra las dificultades para obtener datos de escasez de agua en los hogares”.

De Anda también pidió alinear fondos para suministros de agua de emergencia ahora.

La última vez, California gastó $3.3 mil millones para responder a la sequía, incluidos $734 millones en respuesta a emergencias. La mayor parte de los fondos para la respuesta de emergencia, alrededor de $384 millones, se destinó a la protección contra incen-

dios.

La segunda porción más grande, $115 millones, abordó emergencias de agua potable en comunidades desfavorecidas, principalmente en el sur del Valle de San Joaquín. El dinero se destinó a la perforación de pozos más profundos y a conectar a las comunidades con otros sistemas de agua.

Aproximadamente medio millón de dólares al mes se destinaron a compras de agua a granel y embotellada durante el pico de la última sequía, según un informe de marzo de la Agencia de Recursos Naturales de California.

No todos los fondos para las comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas estaban “bien focalizados”, dijo la Oficina del Analista Legislativo. Algunos, por ejemplo, optaron por un programa que ofrecía reubicación temporal debido a la pérdida de puestos de trabajo a causa de la sequía. Pero la gente no estaba interesada en el programa, prefiriendo quedarse o encontrar un lugar más permanente para establecerse.

La sequía agrava los desafíos existentes que un millón de californianos ya enfrentan para encontrar agua potable segura y asequible, según el informe del analista legislativo. “Estas condiciones empeoraron durante la última sequía, cuando miles de pozos que daban servicio a viviendas residenciales se secaron o se vieron afectados por contaminantes que emergieron en los acuíferos subyacentes”.

El informe llega inmediatamente después de otra evaluación estatal que informó que 343 sistemas de agua ya no brindan agua potable segura y asequible a los californianos, y otros 617 sistemas públicos de agua están en riesgo. Abordar la contaminación y la escasez podría tomar $10,250 millones durante los próximos cinco años.

Esta semana, Newsom propuso $5.1 mil millones para responder a la sequía y reforzar la resiliencia del agua durante los próximos cuatro años, incluidos $27 millones para emergencias de agua potable durante la sequía.

“Afortunadamente, el Senado y ahora la Administración han presentado importantes planes para realizar inversiones para reparar y modernizar nuestros sistemas de agua”, dijo Caballero, quien pidió más innovación en el monitoreo y manejo de las proyecciones de suministro de agua frente al cambio climático.

La Oficina del Analista Legislativo advierte a los legisladores de California que se preparen para enviar agua potable de emergencia a las comunidades vulnerables, particularmente en el Valle Central.

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NEW REPORT: DROUGHT TO HIT RURAL LATINO COMMUNITIES HARDEST

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Rural, low-income Latino communities across California were hardest hit by the last drought and could see drinking water shortages again this year as extreme drought spreads across the state, according to a report released today by non-partisan advisors to California’s lawmakers.

The report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office warns state officials to prepare by ramping up monitoring of wells in vulnerable communities and lining up emergency drinking water supplies to send there.

“The communities most impacted by drinking water challenges during the last drought were small and rural; many were farmworker communities located in California’s Central Valley. Moreover, many of the communities that lost — or remain vulnerable to losing — access to safe drinking water contain high proportions of both lower income and Latino residents,” the report says.

The last drought — a record-breaking 2012-2016 event — spanned the driest four consecutive years since record-keeping began in California. The dry weather collided with hot temperatures to suck water from soils, parch plants and create warm, shallow rivers where 95% of the young winter-run Chinook salmon were killed in 2014 and 2015.

Now most of the state is again experiencing extreme drought conditions or worse. Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency in 39 counties, including most of the parched Central Valley and Klamath River area, bringing the total counties under drought emergencies to 41. Declarations already were announced last month for Mendocino and Sonoma counties due to severe conditions in the Russian River watershed.

The most recent drought didn’t hit Californians evenly, according to the report. Farmers and ranchers fallowed some land and pumped groundwater to make up for dwindling water deliveries from state and federal aqueducts. But residential communities were a different story.

“Some rural residential communities — mainly in the Central Valley — struggled to identify alternative water sources upon which to draw when their domestic wells went dry,” the report said. Many of these towns were farmworker communities, home to lower-income and Latino residents, who also suffered financially from the drought’s effects on agriculture. Now, in the midst of another drought, the COVID-19 pandemic has piled on them as well.

The legislative analyst advised lawmakers to consider focusing spending and assistance on these vulnerable communities.

“The LAO’s report clearly identifies the challenges faced by rural, vulnerable communities — mostly people of color, located in the Central Valley. These communities are still reeling from the last drought and the Coronavirus,” said State Sen. Anna Caballero, a Democrat from Salinas. “The LAO is absolutely correct in saying that rural communities continue to be hit the hardest, and we need to focus spending and assistance on mitigating the impacts of the drought.”

State officials should pre-position emergency bottled water and tanks in these communities, and also create a clear protocol for people so

they know whom to call when their wells go dry, Susana De Anda, executive director of the Community Water Center, told California lawmakers last week.

“We were not ready for the last drought. As a result, we scrambled. The local and state response was uncoordinated. Families didn’t know who to call. And too many went without water for too long,” De Anda said in a statement.

The state isn’t certain how many wells went dry during the last drought: A report from the California Natural Resources Agency tallied 2,600 reports of dry wells received through January 2019, mostly in 2014 and 2015. This is certainly an undercount, however, the report said.

“Residents seldom report dry private well issues to counties,” the Natural Resources report said. “Although a tracking mechanism was successfully established, its limited utilization demonstrates the difficulties of obtaining household water shortage data.”

De Anda also called for lining up funding for emergency water supplies now.

Last time, California spent $3.3 billion to respond to the drought, including $734 million in emergency response. The biggest chunk of the emergency response funding, about $384 million, went towards fire protection.

The second biggest chunk, $115 million, tackled drinking water emergencies in disadvantaged communities, primarily in the south San Joaquin Valley. The money went towards drilling deeper wells and connecting communities to other water systems.

About half a million dollars a month went towards bulk and bottled water purchases during the peak of the last drought, according to a March report from the California Natural Resources Agency.

Not all of the funding for farmworker communities was “well-targeted,” the Legislative Analyst’s Office said. Some, for instance, went towards a program that offered temporary relocation because of job losses from the drought. But people were uninterested in the program, preferring to stay put or find a more permanent place to settle.

The drought compounds the existing challenges that one million Californians already face finding safe and affordable drinking water, the legislative analyst’s report said. “These conditions worsened during the last drought, when thousands of wells serving residential homes dried up or became affected by contaminants that emerged in the underlying aquifers.”

The report comes on the heels of another state assessment that reported 343 water systems already fail to provide safe and affordable drinking water to Caifornians, and another 617 public water systems are at risk. Addressing the contamination and shortages could take $10.25 billion over the next five years.

This week, Newsom proposed $5.1 billion to respond to the drought and bolster water resilience over the next four years, including $27 million for drinking water emergencies during drought.

“Fortunately, the Senate and now the Administration have put forth significant plans to make investments to repair and modernize our water systems,” said Caballero, who called for more innovation in monitoring and managing water supply projections in the face of climate change.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office warns California lawmakers to prepare to dispatch emergency drinking water to vulnerable communities, particularly in the Central Valley. Photo Credit: Francesco Ungaro / Pexels

DÍA DE ARCHIVO DE SUSPENSO: ¿QUÉ PROYECTOS DE LEY CONTROVERTIDOS NO APROBARON LOS LEGISLADORES DE CALIFORNIA?

Laurel Rosenhall CalMatters

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de las nuevas protecciones para los niños de California que navegan por Internet. No habrá nuevos requisitos para que los laboratorios de criminalística procesen viejos kits de violación. Y algunos hogares atrasados en sus facturas de agua no tendrán más tiempo para reembolsarlos antes de que se cierren las tuberías.

Esos fueron algunos de los más de 200 proyectos de ley que los legisladores de California no aprobaron el 20 de mayo en el procedimiento rápido y, a menudo, misterioso conocido como el archivo de suspenso. Oficialmente, el procedimiento promueve la responsabilidad fiscal, lo que permite a los legisladores considerar juntos proyectos de ley costosos y sopesar sus prioridades. Pero es bien sabido en el Capitolio estatal que el archivo de suspenso también es una herramienta política que permite a los legisladores más poderosos evitar que los proyectos de ley controvertidos lleguen a la Asamblea o al Senado, generalmente sin explicación y, a veces, sin un voto público.

“Está impulsado por cientos de factores diferentes, algunos de los cuales nunca podemos explicar y tal vez la transparencia sea débil”, dijo la asambleísta Lorena González, la demócrata de San Diego que preside el comité de asignaciones.

“Pero nunca el Portavoz se me acercó y me dijo: ‘Esto no es políticamente factible'”.

Con más de 350 proyectos de ley en el archivo de suspenso del Senado y más de 500 en el de la Asamblea, el cabildeo previo a hoy es intenso: “Todos menos Dios mismo me han contactado para un proyecto de ley”, dijo González.

Aunque restó importancia al papel de la política, uno de sus predecesores dijo que el trabajo es como ser el “secuaz del orador”. Pueden usar el archivo de suspenso para evitar que una idea que no les guste se convierta en ley, vengarse de un colega legislador o proteger a sus colegas de tener que tomar una posición sobre una propuesta controvertida.

“Tienes que estar preparado para tomar decisiones realmente difíciles para el caucus”, dijo el ex asambleísta Mike Gatto en un podcast reciente.

Los gobernadores también intentan reprimir algunas cosas en el archivo de suspenso, dijo Gatto, y agregó que cuando dejó el cargo en 2016, el entonces gobernador Jerry Brown le agradeció por evitar que la legislación llegara a su escritorio.

El archivo de suspenso, por supuesto, no es la única herramienta para acabar con los proyectos de ley. Los legisladores también pueden matarlos simplemente sin hacer nada. Durante los últimos dos años, la Asamblea ha permitido que los presidentes de los comités de políticas decidan si dar una audiencia a los proyectos de ley. Eso significa que pueden apagarlos silenciosamente simplemente no llevándolos a votación .

Así es como los demócratas, que controlan la Legislatura, han eliminado algunos de los proyectos de ley más progresistas presentados este año , incluidas las propuestas para desarrollar un sistema de atención médica de pagador único, prohibir el fracking y aplicar un impuesto sobre la riqueza. También es lo que condenó el intento de derogar la prohibición de los impuestos locales a los refrescos .

El gobernador Gavin Newsom ha dicho que no firmará aumentos de impuestos este año, con el estado inundado de dinero de ayuda COVID-19 del gobierno federal y los impuestos pagados por los residentes más ricos que se benefician de un mercado de valores en auge.

“Cuando disfruta de un superávit operativo de más de $76 mil millones y sigue creciendo, no creo que sea el momento de hacer aumentos de impuestos”, dijo Newsom la semana pasada al presentar su presupuesto actualizado

Aún así, un importante aumento de impuestos sobrevivió hoy al archivo de suspenso: una propuesta para aumentar los impuestos a las corporaciones internacionales para financiar los servicios para personas sin hogar .

Aquí hay un vistazo a algunas propuestas clave que se estancaron en el sacrificio masivo de hoy:

Justicia penal

Un año después de las protestas en todo el país por la rendición de cuentas de la policía y el racismo, el cabildeo de los grupos encargados de hacer cumplir la ley diluyó o detuvo un puñado de proyectos de ley destinados a vigilar a la policía:

• Un requisito propuesto de que las verificaciones de antecedentes exploren si los agentes de la ley se han afiliado a grupos de odio en el pasado se estancó en medio de la oposición de la Asociación de Oficiales de Paz Correccional de California.

• Un proyecto de ley que requiere que los departamentos de policía incorporen diferentes agencias para investigar tiroteos policiales contra personas armadas está en espera hasta el próximo año.

• El proyecto de ley de reforma policial más grande del año, que permitiría al estado expulsar a los policías malos de la profesión por ciertos tipos de mala conducta y facilitaría que las personas demanden a los oficiales y departamentos por violaciones de los derechos civiles, sobrevivió el archivo de suspenso, pero solo después de que se diluyó. La versión que está avanzando es más limitada en cuanto a cuándo una persona puede demandar a la policía, un cambio que el autor del proyecto de ley, el senador estatal Steve Bradford, dijo que era “difícil de aceptar”. Pero, el demócrata de Gardena dijo en un comunicado: “El compromiso requiere que trabajemos juntos para encontrar un terreno común”.

Por segundo año consecutivo, el comité de asignaciones eliminó un proyecto de ley que requería que las agencias de aplicación de la ley procesaran sus kits de violación acumulados. La Asociación de Defensores Públicos de California argumentó que el proyecto de ley quitaría recursos para probar otros tipos de evidencia.

—Byrhonda Lyons y Robert Lewis

Alojamiento

Un esfuerzo para optimizar la financiación de viviendas asequibles mediante la creación de un lugar para que los desarrolladores soliciten créditos fiscales, bonos y subsidios está suspendido hasta el próximo año. El Terner Center de UC Berkeley y el auditor estatal argumentaron que este enfoque reduciría el costo y el tiempo que lleva construir viviendas asequibles, pero la tesorera estatal Fiona Ma, cuya oficina habría cedido algo de poder, calificó la revisión como “arriesgada”.

El tercer intento de la asambleísta Buffy Wicks de crear un registro que facilitara la determinación de quién es el propietario de una vivienda de alquiler no se aprobó en medio de la oposición de la Asociación de Agentes Inmobiliarios de California, que argumentó que el registro sería una carga para los propietarios. Los agentes inmobiliarios, una potencia política en Sacramento, gastó casi $ 350,000 en ca-

bildeo entre enero y marzo y también se opusieron a una medida para frenar los desalojos y otra para ayudar a los compradores de vivienda por primera vez al poner fin a una deducción de intereses hipotecarios sobre segundas residencias, que no fueron aprobados antes antes de que llegaran al comité de asignaciones de la Asamblea.

—Manuela Tobias Pobreza y desigualdad

Una propuesta para proteger a más californianos que se retrasan en las facturas del agua de que se les corte el agua se estancó ante la oposición de las agencias municipales de agua. Pero la esperanza no está perdida para aquellos que se retrasan en las facturas del agua. Newsom quiere gastar mil millones de dólares para rescatar a consumidores y proveedores abrumados por la deuda del agua. Y otro proyecto de ley para crear un programa de asistencia de agua sobrevivió al baño de sangre de hoy.

Varias propuestas destinadas a utilizar el sistema fiscal para ayudar a los consumidores de bajos ingresos también murieron, incluido un proyecto de ley para que los padres sin ingresos sean elegibles para el crédito fiscal de California para niños pequeños de hasta $1,000, una propuesta para ayudar a los trabajadores de bajos ingresos a maximizar su reembolso de impuestos eligiendo entre los ingresos de los últimos tres años y un plan para crear un crédito fiscal estatal para los empleadores que contratan a personas que son veteranos discapacitados, que reciben asistencia pública o que han estado encarcelados anteriormente. Para cada uno, los analistas legislativos cuestionaron si los beneficios superan el costo para el estado.

—Jackie Botts Cuidado de la salud

Las compañías de seguros prevalecieron al anular un proyecto de ley que habría permitido al estado exigir a los planes de salud que emitieran “pagos de emergencia” a los proveedores de servicios de salud con dificultades en las crisis de salud pública. La legislación fue respaldada por médicos y dentistas que dijeron que la pandemia dejó a muchos consultorios médicos y dentales sin dinero debido a la menor cantidad de visitas de pacientes.

Un proyecto de ley para contratar a una enfermera escolar en jefe a nivel estatal también fracasó, a pesar de que, como informó CalMatters el año pasado, California es uno de los 10 estados sin alguien en esa posición.

—Ana B. Ibarra y Barbara Feder Ostrov Ambiente

Un intento de racionalizar los permisos para sistemas solares residenciales no fue aprobado en medio de la oposición de los sindicatos que representan a los trabajadores eléctricos. Los grupos ambientalistas apoyaron el proyecto de ley que habría requerido

que las ciudades y los condados establecieran permisos en línea y aprobaciones automatizadas para sistemas solares residenciales, una respuesta al proceso de permisos a menudo lento y los costos asociados que han hecho que los consumidores se desaceleren hacia la adopción de sistemas solares. Los ambientalistas también salieron perdiendo con el estancamiento de un proyecto de ley que requiere que las empresas que hacen negocios en California con más de $1 mil millones en ingresos anuales informen públicamente sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero tanto de fuentes directas, como la fabricación, como indirectas, como las de su cadena de suministro. La demora del proyecto de ley hasta el próximo año “muestra cuánto control todavía tienen los contaminadores corporativos en California”, dijo en un comunicado el director de la Liga de Electores de Conservación de California.

—Julie Cart

Educación más alta

La legislación destinada a evitar que las universidades reduzcan la ayuda financiera de los estudiantes cuando reciben becas privadas está en suspenso hasta al menos el próximo año. Un proyecto de ley que habría dedicado $20 millones para expandir los servicios de salud mental a los estudiantes que asisten a los colegios y universidades públicas del estado también se estancó, pero el asambleísta Kevin McCarty dijo que intentará financiarlo a través del presupuesto estatal. La legislación para garantizar que el personal de apoyo en los campus de la Universidad Estatal de California obtenga aumentos por mérito del 5% fracasó en medio de la oposición de los líderes universitarios.

Otra medida que se estancó habría impedido a la Universidad de California celebrar contratos con proveedores de salud que prohíben al personal médico de la UC brindar atención médica reproductiva y atención de afirmación de género para pacientes transgénero. Se retiró para darle a la UC hasta el próximo año para establecer sus propias políticas, dijo un portavoz del autor del proyecto de ley, el senador Scott Wiener de San Francisco. La propuesta también fue rechazada por los hospitales católicos, que tienen asociaciones con los hospitales de la UC. Dejar para vivir otro día es posiblemente el proyecto de ley de educación superior más importante: una expansión masiva de la ayuda financiera estatal.

—Felicia Mello y Mikhail Zinshteyn Acceso de banda ancha y seguridad en Internet El cambio inducido por la pandemia hacia el trabajo remoto y la educación a distancia dio lugar a una serie de propuestas destinadas a cerrar la brecha digital. Dos de ellos se estancaron hoy:

• Uno propuso un subsidio de banda ancha en todo el estado para personas de bajos ingresos. Si bien su objetivo era mejorar la asequibilidad de la banda ancha, una barrera de acceso que ha quedado al descubierto por la pandemia los grupos contra la pobreza y los defensores de impuestos más bajos para las empresas se opusieron a su plan de cobrar a las empresas de telecomunicaciones 23 centavos por mes por usuario. Además, el gobierno federal acaba de crear su propio beneficio de banda ancha pandémica de $50 por mes para consumidores de bajos ingresos, aunque es temporal.

• Un proyecto de ley para poner un bono de $10 mil millones en la boleta electoral de 2022 para financiar una red de banda ancha administrada por el sector público fue descartado después de que el gobernador destinó $ 7 mil millones para la implementación de Internet en su propuesta de presupuesto.

La preocupación de que los niños puedan derivar fácilmente en contenido violento o inapropiado en línea generó un proyecto de ley que habría prohibido funciones como los videos de reproducción automática y las compras en la aplicación, a menos que los padres opten por sus hijos. Pero se estanco por segundo año consecutivo, incluso después de reducirse para abordar la oposición de la industria tecnológica a una versión anterior.

—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher y Zayna Syed Los reporteros de CalMatters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara y Jocelyn Wiener contribuyeron a esta historia.

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SUSPENSE FILE DAY: WHICH CONTROVERSIAL BILLS DID CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS KILL?

Laurel Rosenhall CalMatters

Forgetabout new protections for California kids cruising the internet. There will be no new requirements for crime labs to process old rape kits. And some households behind on their water bills won’t get more time to pay them back before their pipes get shut off.

Those were some of the more than 200 bills California lawmakers killed on May 20th in the rapidfire and often mysterious procedure known as the suspense file.

Officially, the procedure promotes fiscal responsibility, allowing lawmakers to consider costly bills together and weigh their priorities. But it’s well known at the state Capitol that the suspense file is also a political tool that allows the most powerful legislators to keep controversial bills from reaching the Assembly or Senate floor — typically with no explanation, and sometimes without a public vote.

“It’s driven by a hundred different factors, some of which we can never explain and maybe the transparency is weak on,” said Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the appropriations committee.

“But I’ve never once had the Speaker come to me and say, ‘This isn’t politically feasible.’”

With more than 350 bills on the Senate’s suspense file and more than 500 on the Assembly’s, the lobbying leading up to today is intense: “Everybody but God himself has contacted me on a bill,” Gonzalez said.

Though she downplayed the role of politics, one of her predecessors said the job is like being the “Speaker’s henchman.” They can use the suspense file to prevent an idea they don’t like from becoming law, exact revenge on a fellow lawmaker or shield their colleagues from having to take a position on a controversial proposal.

“You’ve got to be prepared to take really tough decisions for the caucus,” former Assemblymember Mike Gatto said on a recent podcast.

Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.

The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote.

This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the most progressive bills introduced this year, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to repeal a ban on local soda taxes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.

“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he presented his updated budget.

Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file today — a proposal to increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless

services.

Here’s a look at some key proposals that stalled in today’s massive culling:

Criminal justice

A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:

• A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with hate groups in the past stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.

• A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to investigate police shootings of armed people is on hold until next year.

• The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But, the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”

For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.

—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis

Housing

An effort to streamline affordable housing funding by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. UC Berkeley’s Terner Center and the state auditor argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ third attempt to create a registry making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which

argued the registry would burden property owners. The Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent nearly $350,000 on lobbying between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee.

—Manuela Tobias

Poverty and inequality

A proposal to shield more Californians who are late on water bills from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And another bill to create a water assistance program survived today’s bloodbath.

A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a bill to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a proposal to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a plan to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.

—Jackie Botts

Health care

Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. The legislation was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices cash-strapped because of fewer patient visits.

A bill to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as CalMatters reported last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.

—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov Environment

An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the bill that would have

required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.

Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.

—Julie Cart

Higher education

Legislation aimed at preventing universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that would have dedicated $20 million to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. Legislation to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.

Another measure that stalled would have barred the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive healthcare and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also opposed by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.

Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — a massive expansion of state financial aid.

—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn Broadband

access and internet safety

The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide. Two of them died today:

• One proposed a statewide broadband subsidy for low-income people. While it aimed to improve broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic — antipoverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own $50 per month pandemic broadband benefit for lowincome consumers, though it’s temporary.

• A bill to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector run broadband network was scrapped after the governor earmarked $7 billion for internet deployment in his budget proposal.

Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted a bill that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.

—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.

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GASTARÁN LAS ESCUELAS DE CALIFORNIA LA ABUNDANCIA DE DINERO?

Dan Walters CalMatters

Duranteel monólogo de 90 minutos del gobernador Gavin Newsom que estuvo saturado de superlativos sobre las virtudes de su presupuesto revisado para 2021-22 este mes, se jactó de un récord histórico en el gasto en escuelas públicas.

La ayuda estatal y los impuestos locales a la propiedad elevarían el gasto por alumno a $14,000, dijo, y con fondos federales, superaría los $20,000 por primera vez. Además, el presupuesto de Newsom avanzaría en su ansiado objetivo de ofrecer programas universales de prejardín de infantes y una nueva noción de convertir las escuelas en centros de servicios comunitarios.

La inyección masiva de dinero en las escuelas plantea una pregunta punzante: ¿cómo lo gastarán?

Es una nueva versión de un tema de larga data, centrado en lo que los educadores llaman la “brecha de rendimiento” — una gran disparidad en el aprendizaje entre estudiantes pobres y estudiantes de inglés y sus compañeros de clase más privilegiados que casi con certeza ha empeorado durante el cierre de las aulas.

Hace casi una década, el ex gobernador Jerry Brown y la Legislatura dieron a las escuelas con un gran número de estudiantes de bajo rendimiento dinero extra para cerrar la brecha. Sin embargo, se negó específicamente a que el estado monitoreara si era efectivo.

Desde entonces, ha habido una batalla constante en las arenas políticas y legales, enfrentando a una “coalición de equidad” de grupos de reforma educativa y de derechos civiles contra el sistema educativo sobre cómo está funcionando la Fórmula de Financiamiento de Control Local de Brown (LCFF por sus siglas en inglés).

Un punto de conflicto han sido los “Planes de responsabilidad y control local” (LCAP por sus siglas en inglés) que supuestamente guían cómo se gastan los fondos LCFF, y los críticos dicen que a menudo son vagos y están llenos de una densa jerga educativa que los hace inútiles.

Después de que las escuelas cerraron el año pasado debido a la pandemia, se suspendió el mandato legal de redactar LCAP y, en su lugar, las escuelas locales debían adoptar “Planes de Continuidad del Aprendizaje” (LCP por sus siglas en inglés), ya que cambiaron temporalmente a la instrucción en el hogar.

La semana pasada, miembros de la coalición de equidad emitió un informe crítico sobre la falta de claridad de los LCP sobre “cómo estaban invirtiendo dinero y recursos para apoyar a los estudiantes más desatendidos de California, lo que nos lleva a preguntarnos si realmente estaban invirtiendo en estos apoyos”.

La crítica reflejó los enfrentamientos anteriores sobre los LCAP y prepara el escenario para un conflicto adicional sobre cómo las escuelas gastarán la fuente de nuevo financiamiento que Newsom está promocionando.

A la coalición de equidad le gusta lo que dice Newsom sobre el uso de los nuevos ingresos para un gran impulso para reducir o cerrar la brecha de logros.

“Esta es una oportunidad única en una generación para reinventar nuestras escuelas con inversiones transformadoras que pueden garantizar que todos los estudiantes prosperen”, dijo Erin Apte, asesora legislativa de Public Advocates, una de las autoras del nuevo informe, en un comunicado.

El informe de Public Advocates y grupos de ideas afines ofrece recomendaciones para ayudar a las escuelas locales a “cumplir con sus obligaciones de equidad con los estudiantes y las familias, fortalecer su participación de las partes interesadas clave, reforzar los servicios y apoyos que brindan a los estudiantes con necesidades únicas y mejorar la transparencia en torno a financiación de la educación pública durante y después de esta crisis de salud pública”.

Sin embargo, como hemos visto con la LCFF y lo que sucedió, o no sucedió, durante los cierres de aulas inducidos por la pandemia, los funcionarios escolares locales estarán bajo una tremenda presión para gastar el dinero extra para apuntalar el status quo, como aumentos salariales, en lugar de concentrarse en la brecha de rendimiento.

La pregunta persistente es si mientras se jacta de dar a las escuelas miles de millones de dólares adicionales, Newsom también está dispuesto, a diferencia de Brown, a responsabilizarlos por gastar el dinero de manera efectiva.

Hay motivos para dudar de que lo hará, dados sus estrechos vínculos con el establecimiento educativo, en particular la Asociación de Maestros de California, y su inclinación parecida a la de Brown por trasladar las decisiones difíciles a los funcionarios locales, a menudo cantando “lo local es determinante” en temas peligrosos.

HOW WILL CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS SPEND GUSHER OF MONEY?

Dan Walters CalMatters

During Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 90-minute, superlative-saturated monologue on the virtues of his revised 2021-22 budget this month, he boasted of an historic high in public school spending.

State aid and local property taxes would push per-pupil spending to $14,000, he said, and with federal funds, it would top $20,000 for the first time. Moreover, Newsom’s budget would advance his long-sought goal of offering universal pre-kindergarten programs, and a new notion of making schools centers for community services.

The massive injection of money into schools raises a pungent question: How will they spend it?

It’s a new version of a long-burning issue, centered on what educators call the “achievement gap” — a wide disparity in learning between poor and English-learner students and their more privileged classmates that has almost certainly worsened during classroom closures.

Nearly a decade ago, former Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature gave schools with large numbers of under-performing students extra money to close the gap. However, he specifically refused to have the state monitor whether it was effective.

Ever since, there’s been a running battle in political and legal arenas, pitting an “equity coalition” of civil rights and education reform groups against the education establishment over how Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is working.

One point of conflict has been the “Local Control and Accountability Plans” (LCAPs) that are supposed to guide how LCFF funds are spent, with critics saying they are often vague and filled with dense educational jargon that makes them useless.

After schools were closed last year due to the pandemic, the legal mandate to write LCAPs was suspended and instead, local schools were to adopt “Learning Continuity Plans” (LCPs) as they temporarily shifted to at-home instruction.

Last week, members of the equity coalition issued a critical report on LCPs’ lack of clarity about “how they were investing money and resources to support California’s most underserved students — leading us to wonder whether they were investing in these supports at all.”

The criticism mirrored the previous clashes over the LCAPs and sets the stage for additional conflict over how schools will spend the gusher of new financing that Newsom is touting.

The equity coalition likes what Newsom says about using the new revenues for a big push to narrow or close the achievement gap.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine our schools with transformative investments that can ensure all students will thrive,” Erin Apte, legislative counsel for Public Advocates, one of the authors of the new report, said in a statement.

The report from Public Advocates and like-minded groups offers recommendations to help local schools “meet their equity obligations to students and families, strengthen their engagement of key stakeholders, bolster the services and supports they provide to students with unique needs, and improve transparency around public education funding during and in the aftermath of this public health crisis.”

However, as we have seen with the LCFF and what has happened — or not happened — during the pandemic-induced classroom closures, local school officials will be under tremendous pressure to spend the extra money to shore up the status quo, such as salary increases, rather than concentrating on the achievement gap. The lingering question is whether while crowing about giving schools billions of extra dollars, Newsom is also willing — unlike Brown — to hold them accountable for spending the money effectively.

There is reason to doubt that he will, given his close ties to the education establishment, particularly the California Teachers Association, and his Brown-like penchant for shifting tough decisions to local officials, often chanting “local is determinative” on dicey issues

Capitolio de California. Photo Credit: Wernikoff / CalMatters

HOUSING FIRST MOVEMENT EXPANDS IN IOWA

EL MOVIMIENTO HOUSING FIRST SE EXPANDE EN IOWA

Mike Moen Public News Service

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- One of Iowa's largest cities will soon see another project that centers around the "housing first" philosophy in addressing chronic homelessness.

Next month, Shelter House in Iowa City will break ground on a 36-unit structure to provide long-term housing for those who have frequently moved in and out of shelters while dealing with mental health, behavioral or drug-dependency issues. The organization opened a 24-unit facility in 2019 called Cross Park Place.

Christine Ralston, director of development for Shelter House, said with the exception of one person being asked to leave, most other tenants are still there. They're trying to improve their lives, while not having to worry about their living arrangements.

"It's not transitional, Ralston explained. "It's not meant to say, 'You can stay here for a while and get out.' It is a, 'This is a place for you,' because there aren't a lot of really great options for people who experience chronic homelessness and have multiple, co-occurring behavioral or mental-health disorders."

Ralston noted in one of their case studies, one tenant had health-care costs billed through the University of Iowa care system at more than $211,000 prior to moving in. It was reduced to just under $1,000 a year later.

Skeptics, such as conservative think tanks, contended the approach boosts individuals but not broader homelessness issues around the country.

But Ralston argued their facilities are planned with round-the-clock trained staff who can deal with tenants in a crisis situation. She added immediate care in the person's permanent home is much better than forcing them into various shelters or other facilities if they're on the street.

"Being forced really often makes it a much harder thing to stick with," Ralston pointed out.

She emphasized people approved for these units get care, along with the stable housing, in a consent-style fashion. Supporters of the approach believe it makes them less prone to encounters with authorities, reducing demand on that front.

In Iowa City, tenants are only asked to pay 30% of their monthly income for their rent. A recent report from the Urban Institute said the broader effort has sharply reduced homelessness among military veterans.

Mike Moen Public News Service IOWA

CITY, Iowa – Una de las ciudades más grandes de Iowa pronto verá otro proyecto que se centra en la filosofía de “la vivienda primero” y aborda el problema de falta de vivienda crónica.

El siguiente mes, Shelter House en la Ciudad de Iowa pondrá la primera piedra en una estructura de 36 unidades para ofrecer viviendas permanentes para aquellos que se hayan

mudado con frecuencia de uno a otro albergue mientras que enfrentaban problemas de salud mental, de comportamiento o de dependencia de drogas. La organización inauguró una instalación de 24 unidades en el 2019 que se llama Cross Park Place.

Christine Ralston, la directora de desarrollo para Shelter House, dijo que con la excepción de una persona que se le pidió que se fuera, la mayoría de los demás inquilinos siguen ahí. Están intentando mejorar sus vidas, mientras que no se tienen que preocupar por sus situaciones de vivienda.

“No es provisional”, explicó Ralston. “No quiere decir, te puedes quedar un rato y luego te tienes que salir”. Es un “Este lugar es para ti” porque no hay muchas opciones buenas para la gente afectada por la falta de vivienda crónica y que tiene múltiples trastornos coexistentes de comportamiento o de salud mental.

Ralston mencionó que en uno de sus estudios de caso, uno de los inquilinos tuvo una deuda en gastos de atención médica del sistema de atención de la Universidad de Iowa de más de $211.000 antes de su mudanza. Ésta se redujo a un poco menos de $1.000 un año después. Los escépticos, como los grupos de expertos conservadores, afirmaron que este método levanta a los individuales pero no aborda el tema del desamparo en todo el país en general.

Pero Ralston argumentó que sus instalaciones están planeadas con personal entrenado de 24 horas que es capaz de encargarse de los inquilinos en una situación de crisis. Agregó que la atención inmediata en la vivienda permanente de una persona es mucho mejor que llevarlos a la fuerza a diferentes albergues o instalaciones cuando viven en la calle.

“Sentir una obligación muchas veces hace mucho más difícil seguir adelante,” destacó Ralston.

Resaltó que la gente aprobada para estas unidades recibe atención, junto con la vivienda estable, de manera consciente. Los defensores del método creen que los hace menos propensos a los encuentros con las autoridades, lo que reduce la demanda en ese aspecto.

En la Ciudad de Iowa, a los inquilinos se les cobra solo el 30% de sus ingresos mensuales de renta. Según un reporte reciente del Instituto Urbano, el esfuerzo más amplio ha reducido considerablemente el número de personas sin hogar entre los veteranos militares.

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Various studies have shown that between 75% and 90% of people remain housed a year after going through a "housing first" program. Photo Credit: Adobe Stock

Varios estudios demuestran que entre el 75% y el 90% de la gente mantiene su vivienda durante un año después de pasar por un programa de “vivienda primero”. Photo Credit: Til Daling / Unsplash

MEET THE TIKTOK ANGEL OF STREET VENDORS

Jacqueline Garcia CalMatters

WhenTikTok started gaining popularity, Jesus Morales, like many other young people, decided to create original content to post on the social media platform.

What he did not expect is that in a very short time he would become an influencer and a guardian angel for many street vendors in California.

The 24-year-old said that after being fired from his job at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, he decided to use his free time to create funny videos. His followers increased, but the results didn’t really make him happy.

He felt something was missing.

Then he started watching other TikTok videos with a purpose: people leaving large amounts of tips in restaurants and another showing a young woman giving money to street vendors. The influencers indicated that the money was mainly from donations from their followers.

“I made a video asking for donations to help the homeless,” said Morales, whose name on social media is @Juixxe, a play on his nickname Juice.

And it worked. He received some donations, which he used to buy food and water for people experiencing homelessness.

His target, however, was the Latino immigrant community.

Morales, who is the son of Mexican immigrants, was born and raised in Illinois and moved to San Diego a few years ago. He lived in Los Angeles for a year and noticed a high number of street vendors.

Most of them are older and undocumented, he recalled. This really hit close to home as he remembered the daily struggles of his parents.

“My dad worked multiple jobs and my mom was a server and she would tell me that sometimes people would tip her pennies,” Morales said.

To honor the hard work of immigrants he began working on videos with a purpose: the money raised from his followers would be used to search for random street vendors to give it to them.

Blessings from strangers

Morales has distributed more than $90,000 in donations to street vendors throughout California but primarily in Los Angeles. He said his followers have donated anywhere from a few dollars to $1,000 in a single transaction.

Juixxe distributes the money once or twice a week, depending on the amount it collects.

He has a peculiar way of delivering the money. He asks to buy all their merchandise and when the sellers accept, Morales offers them money. He usually hands them $1,000 in an envelope and tells them to keep the merchandise.

It is very common to see on the videos street vendors shocked with the news, eventually thanking him for the gesture and sending blessings to his followers. Some even kneel in amazement.

Morales said that these types of videos have filled him with inexplicable joy.

“I do not know (the sellers) nor do I know what they are going through,” Morales said, “I would not say that I come at a perfect time, but it is a visit with a purpose.”

A full-time job

A few months into the TikTok video creating, Juixxe made it his full-time job. Now he has more than a million followers and his videos have thousands of views. It is from these views that he receives his salary as well as from sponsors.

“Never in my life would I have imagined that I would be doing TikTok for living,” Morales said. “The interaction with the sellers takes a little time and I can do the editing of the video in about 20 or 30 minutes.”

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Sintió que faltaba algo.

Luego comenzó a ver otros videos de TikTok con un propósito: personas que dejaban grandes cantidades de propinas en restaurantes y otro que mostraba a una joven dando dinero a los vendedores ambulantes. Los influencers indicaron que el dinero provenía principalmente de donaciones de sus seguidores.

“Hice un video pidiendo donaciones para ayudar a las personas sin hogar”, dijo Morales, cuyo nombre en las redes sociales es @Juixxe, un juego de palabras de su apodo Juice.

Y funcionó. Recibió algunas donaciones, que utilizó para comprar comida y agua para las personas sin hogar.

Su objetivo, sin embargo, era la comunidad de inmigrantes latinos.

Morales, hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, nació y se crió en Illinois y se mudó a San Diego hace unos años.

Vivió en Los Ángeles durante un año y notó una gran cantidad de vendedores ambulantes.

Morales said after handing over the donation to the sellers, he waits a few days or weeks to post the video on social media. He also makes sure to cover the faces of the street vendors who appear in the videos. All of this is done for their safety.

“I would hate any street vendor to be targeted and be robbed,” said Juixxe, who travels once or twice a week from San Diego to Los Angeles to deliver to those most in need.

Morales has always wanted to make these kinds of videos but had to overcome his fear of failure.

“You know you have to fail to be successful,” he said, “and have failed many times in my life. This is the only thing I can say that I have not failed.”

Jacqueline Garcia CalMatters

Cuando TikTok comenzó a ganar popularidad, Jesús Morales, como muchos otros jóvenes, decidió crear contenido original para publicar en la plataforma de redes sociales.

Lo que no esperaba es que en muy poco tiempo se convertiría en influencer y ángel de la guarda para muchos vendedores ambulantes en California.

El joven de 24 años dijo que después de ser despedido de su trabajo al comienzo de la pandemia en 2020, decidió usar su tiempo libre para crear videos divertidos. Sus seguidores aumentaron, pero los resultados realmente no lo hicieron feliz.

La mayoría de ellos son mayores e indocumentados, recordó. Esto realmente le pegó cerca de casa al recordar las luchas diarias de sus padres.

“Mi papá tenía varios trabajos y mi mamá era mesera y me decía que a veces la gente le daba una propina de centavos”, dijo Morales.

Para honrar el arduo trabajo de los inmigrantes, comenzó a trabajar en videos con un propósito: el dinero recaudado de sus seguidores se usaría para buscar vendedores ambulantes al azar para dárselo.

Bendiciones de extraños

Morales ha distribuido más de $90,000 en donaciones a vendedores ambulantes en todo California, pero principalmente en Los Ángeles. Dijo que sus seguidores han donado desde unos pocos dólares hasta $1,000 en una sola transacción.

Juixxe distribuye el dinero una o dos veces por semana, dependiendo de la cantidad que recaude.

Tiene una forma peculiar de entregar el dinero. Pide comprar toda su mercadería y cuando los vendedores aceptan, Morales les ofrece dinero. Por lo general, les entrega $1,000 en un sobre y les dice que se queden con la mercadería.

Es muy común ver en los videos a vendedores ambulantes impactados con la noticia, eventualmente agradeciéndole el gesto y enviando bendiciones a sus seguidores.

Algunos incluso se arrodillan asombrados. Morales dijo que este tipo de videos lo han llenado de una alegría inexplicable.

“No conozco (a los vendedores) ni sé por lo que están pasando”, dijo Morales, “no diría que vengo en un momento perfecto, pero es una visita con un propósito”.

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Unos meses después de la creación del video de TikTok, Juixxe lo convirtió en su trabajo de tiempo completo. Ahora tiene más de un millón de seguidores y sus videos tienen miles de visitas. Es por estos puntos de vista que recibe su salario, así como de patrocinadores.

“Nunca en mi vida me hubiera imaginado que estaría haciendo TikTok para vivir”, dijo Morales. “La interacción con los vendedores lleva un poco de tiempo y puedo editar el video en unos 20 o 30 minutos”.

Morales dijo que después de entregar la donación a los vendedores, espera unos días o semanas para publicar el video en las redes sociales. También se asegura de tapar los rostros de los vendedores ambulantes que aparecen en los videos. Todo esto se hace por su seguridad.

“Odiaría que cualquier vendedor ambulante fuera atacado y robado”, dijo Juixxe, quien viaja una o dos veces por semana desde San Diego a Los Ángeles para entregar a los más necesitados.

Morales siempre ha querido hacer este tipo de videos pero tuvo que superar su miedo al fracaso.

“Sabes que tienes que fracasar para tener éxito”, dijo, “y he fracasado muchas veces en mi vida. Esto es lo único que puedo decir que no he fallado “.

Jesus Morales, who goes by Juixxe on TikTok, raises donations from followers that he shares with street vendors in Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Jesus Morales

MIENTRAS LAS RESTRICCIONES DE COVID SE ALIGERAN, URGE SEGURIDAD EN TRANSPORTE PÚBLICO

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La CDC continúa recomendando que las máscaras, si son usadas adecuadamente, son una manera efectiva de prevenir la transmisión del virus, y que todo aquel mayor de 2 años, debería usarlas en espacios públicos.

En acuerdo con la extensión del requerimiento TSA sobre el uso de cubrebocas en Septiembre pasado, todos los viajeros –incluso aquellos 100% vacunados- deberán portar su cubrebocas y las medidas anti COVID en todos los aeropuertos de E.E.U.U. y a bordo de aviones comerciales.

Michayla Savitt Public News Service

Los niños menores de 12 años aún no han sido aprobados para recibir la vacuna. El Dr. Amit Arwindekar, director médico del United Healthcare Global, dijo que ese grupo de edad normalmente no se enfrenta a síntomas serios de COVID, pero que aún pueden contagiar el virus.

“Así que, si vas a viajar con niños menores de 12, realmente te recomendamos retrasar tu viaje, si puedes” dijo él. “Si no, asegúrate de que usen su cubrebocas, de que se laven las manos, y hagan todo lo posible para evitar que se enfermen, y que contagien a las demás personas”.

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TAMPA,

Fla. - El Center for Disease Control and Prevention ha determinado que las personas que estén a dos semanas de recibir su última dosis de la vacuna de COVID-19, pueden interactuar con los demás sin utilizar máscara y sin distanciamiento social. Sin embargo, el comportamiento preventivo de COVID deberá continuar en el transporte público, incluso en estados como Florida, donde el uso de cubrebocas ya no es obligatorio.

El Gobernador Ron Desantis levantó el uso mandatorio de cubrebocas el 3 de Mayo, pero la Transportation Security Administration aún demanda su uso en aeropuertos y aviones.

El Director de Comunicaciones del aeropuerto internacional de Tampa, Danny Valentine, dijo que el aeropuerto tiene trabajadores para reforzar la medida.

“Si ven a alguien sin máscara o usándola inadecuadamente” dijo, “Pueden solicitarles que la coloquen correctamente sobre su nariz u ofrecerles una, en caso de no tenerla”.

Según los últimos datos de la CDC, cerca del 37% de la población de Florida está completamente vacunada, y el 5.3% de pruebas COVID resultaron positivas, un decremento en relación a los meses anteriores.

Mientras que las reglas de COVID se relajan para ciertas actividades, Arwindekar asegura que no hemos vuelto a la normalidad.

“Si estás tomando el transporte público, si estás recibiendo atención médica, si te encuentras en un espacio reducido con otras personas –como en un avión, en un autobús, en un auto con personas ajenas a tu hogar” dijo él, “Entonces es importante mantener éstas medidas de seguridad pública: usa tu cubrebocas, lava tus manos, distánciate cuando sea posible”.

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AS COVID RESTRICTIONS LOOSEN, SAFETY URGED ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

In accordance with a TSA face-mask requirement extension through mid-September, all travelers - even those who are fully vaccinated - must wear masks and practice COVID-safe behavior at all U.S. airports, and aboard commercial aircraft.

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También sugirió una planeación cuidadosa para viajes internacionales, siendo que el U.S. State Department ha emitido recomendaciones de “No Viajar” a 80% de los países. ENGLISH

to give them a mask if they don't have one."

The CDC continues to advise that masks, when worn properly, are an effective way to prevent transmission of the virus, and that anyone older than 2 years of age should wear them in public settings.

Kids younger than 12 aren't yet approved to get the vaccine. Dr. Amit Arwindekar, North American medical director for United Healthcare Global, said that age group doesn't usually see serious COVID symptoms, but still can spread the virus to others.

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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

TAMPA,

Fla. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that people two weeks out from receiving their last dose of the COVID-19 vaccine can interact with others without a mask on, and without social distancing. However, COVID-safe behavior will have to continue on public transit, even in states such as Florida that have ended mask mandates.

Gov. Ron Desantis lifted the statewide mask mandate on May 3, but the Transportation Security Administration still requires masks at airports and onboard airplanes.

Tampa International Airport communications manager Danny Valentine said the airport has workers who enforce the measure.

"If they see someone without a mask on or wearing it improperly," he said, "they can either ask them to pull up their mask over their nose, or they can offer

"So, if you're going to travel with children under the age of 12, we really encourage you to delay if you can," he said. "If not, make sure they wear their mask, make sure that they're washing their hands, and doing everything you can to keep them from getting sick, so that they don't spread it to other people."

According to the latest CDC data, nearly 37% of Florida's population is fully vaccinated, and 5.3% of COVID tests were positive, a downward trend from the last few months.

While COVID rules have relaxed for some activities, Arwindekar said things haven't returned to normal.

"If you're taking public transit, if you're getting health care, or if you're in a tight space with other peoplelike sitting in an airplane, in a bus, in a car with people you don't live with," he said, "then it's important to still maintain those public-safety measures: wearing your mask, washing your hands, distancing wherever possible."

He also urged careful planning for international trips, since the U.S. State Department has placed "Do Not Travel" notices on 80% of countries.

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EARTHTALK Q&A: CICADA BLOOMS & GLOBAL WARMING

EARTHTALK Q&A: LAS CIGARRAS Y EL CALENTAMIENTO GLOBAL

Querido EarthTalk: ¿La aparición de las cigarras en el este de EE.UU está fuera de control por el cambio climático y/u otros problemas medioambientales causados por el hombre? -- Joe R., Moorestown, NJ

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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk

Theshort answer is...probably. If you live in the eastern or midwestern U.S., you’ve likely seen so-called periodic cicadas. These inch-long, gray- and orange-winged insects with bulging red eyes feed on the underground xylem tissue of tree roots for years before emerging in millions-strong-per-acre swarms to mate and then die. Of the 3,000 different cicada species around the world, only seven—all in North America—are periodical. The first historical reports of periodical cicadas came from the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock and were shocked to see such a wondrous biological phenomenon unfold before their eyes during the summer of 1634. Cut to the present, summer 2021 promises to be a doozy as cicada “blooms” go. From Georgia and Tennessee north to Michigan and New York, we can expect to see a big showing as the largest generational brood, Brood X, emerges from the ground en masse as spring warms to summer.

But even though this spectacle typically starts in May, this year millions of cicadas came out as early as March. Researchers believe they were erroneously triggered by a warming-induced “false spring” when the weather warmed up enough for trees to start leafing out early, even though at least one more freeze was still on the way. Even stranger still, a smaller segment of Brood X actually emerged four years early in and around Washington, D.C. in the late spring of 2017.

“[For] these accelerations that we’re seeing constantly for all these different broods over much of the eastern half of the U.S., the only common phenomenon that can account for it is climate,” biologist Gene Kritsky of Ohio’s Mount St. Joseph University, who has been studying and mapping periodical cicadas for decades, tells Scientific American.

Time will tell if this warming-induced aberration in the cicada’s lifecycle will have deleterious effects on the environment. The Pilgrims may have mistakenly thought they were being swarmed by a plague of locusts of biblical

proportions that would eat up all their crops, but cicadas are actually beneficial to the environment, providing valuable ecosystem services to the communities of plants and wildlife in their native territories. Once the cicadas do emerge, they aerate soils, serve as a food source for predators, and relieve predatory pressure on other insects, serving as a biological kickstart to local ecosystems.

Scientists studying the ecological role of cicadas worry that altering the timing of their emergence could potentially have negative effects on the bug’s populations moving forward, not to mention other environmental ripple effects. In the meantime, consider yourself lucky if you do get to see the cicadas—indeed one of the great phenomena of nature of the eastern U.S.—during this summer of Brood X.

CONTACTS: A Population Census of Seventeen‐Year Periodical Cicadas, esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/10.2307/1933372; Brood X cicadas map: Where you will find them in 2021, cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/05/06/ brood-x-cicadas-map-what-states/4946803001/; Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier, scientificamerican.com/ article/noisy-cicadas-are-emerging-earlier/.

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Larespuesta corta es…probablemente. Si vives en el este o medio oeste de EE.UU., probablemente hayas visto a las llamadas cigarras periódicas. Estos insectos de una pulgada de largo y de alas de color gris y naranja con ojos saltones rojos se alimentan del tejido xilema subterráneo de las raíces de los arboles durante unos años antes de emerger en enjambres de miles de millones para reproducirse y luego morir. De las 3.000 diferentes especies que existen en el mundo, solo siete –todas en Norte América – son periódicas. Los primeros relatos históricos de las cigarras periódicas vinieron de los peregrinos que llegaron a Plymouth Rock y les impresionó ver tal fenómeno biológico maravilloso desarrollándose frente a sus ojos durante el verano de 1634.

Volviendo a la actualidad, el verano del 2021 promete ser extraordinario conforme las cigarras emergen. Desde Georgia y el norte de Tennessee hasta Michigan y Nueva York podemos esperar ver representaciones grandes, como el enjambre más grande de la generación, el enjambre X, que emerge del subsuelo a medida que las temperaturas suben y la primavera se convierte en verano.

Aunque este espectáculo normalmente empieza en mayo, este año millones de cigarras han emergido desde marzo. Los investigadores piensan que fueron motivadas erróneamente por una “falsa primavera” debido a que el clima se calentó lo suficiente para que los árboles empezaran a abrir sus hojas anticipadamente, aún cuando se esperaba la llegada de por lo menos una helada más. Más raro todavía, un segmento más pequeño del enjambre X emergió cuatro años antes de lo previsto en los alrededores de Washington, D.C. a finales de la primavera del 2017.

“Estas aceleraciones que estamos viendo constantemente con todos los enjambres diferentes en la mayor parte del este de EE.UU., el único fenómeno que lo pu-

ede explicar es el clima”, dijo la bióloga Gene Kritsky de la Mount St. Joseph University de Ohio, que ha estudiado y esquematizado las cigarras periódicas durante décadas y que comunica a Scientific American.

El tiempo dirá si la anomalía en el ciclo vital de la cigarra inducida por el calentamiento tiene efectos perjudiciales en el medio ambiente. Los peregrinos podrían haber pensado erróneamente que estaban siendo invadidos por una plaga de langostas de porciones bíblicas que se iban a comer todos sus cultivos, pero en verdad las cigarras son beneficiosas para el medio ambiente, prestando servicios ambientales valiosos para las comunidades de plantas y vida silvestre en sus territorios nativos. En cuanto emerjan las cigarras, airean las tierras, sirven como una fuente de comida para depredadores, y reducen la presión predatoria de otros insectos, que sirven como arranque biológico para ecosistemas locales.

Los científicos que estudian el papel ecológico de las cigarras temen que la alteración del momento de su aparición pueda tener efectos negativos en las poblaciones del insecto en un futuro, sin mencionar los efectos dominó medioambientales. Mientras tanto, considérate suertudo si llegas a ver a las cigarras –efectivamente uno de los mejores fenómenos de la naturaleza en el este de EE.UU. – durante este verano de enjambre X.

CONTACTOS: A Population Census of Seventeen‐Year Periodical Cicadas, esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/1933372; Brood X cicadas map: Where you will find them in 2021, cincinnati.com/ story/news/2021/05/06/brood-x-cicadas-map-whatstates/4946803001/; Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier, scientificamerican.com/article/noisy-cicadasare-emerging-earlier/.

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Some cicadas have been "blooming" early and researchers think global warming is to blame. Photo Credit: Michael Kropiewnicki / Pexels

Dear EarthTalk: Are the cicada blooms of the eastern U.S. out of whack due to global warming and/or other man-made environmental problems? -- Joe R., Moorestown, NJ

Mario Jiménez Castillo

El Observador

Aries

Tu planeta regente es Marte, astro que te brinda mucha fuerza, energía, carisma, sensualidad, atractivo y mucho valor, tus recursos físicos suelen ser ilimitados y tiendes a ser una persona bondadosa y transparente a quien le es muy difícil callar lo que siente; se recomienda que aprendas a controlar tus arrebatos emocionales y arranques de ira que ocasionalmente te suelen provocar dificultades y malos entendidos.

Tauro

Venus te rige de principio a fin, tiendes a tener un gusto muy refinado, tienes muy buen ojo a la hora de examinar a las personas, tus corazonadas nunca fallan. Lo económico y las relaciones íntimas son tus temas favoritos. Trabajas como nadie y tiendes a alcanzar una buena posición económica. En ocasiones te vuelves terco y muy obstinado, también debes aprender a distinguir entre el diamante y el cristal, especialmente en el amor.

Géminis

Mercurio el amo de las comuni-

MISTERIOS DEL PLANETA REGENTE

caciones es tu planeta regente, por lo tanto tienes la facultad de llevarte bien con todo el mundo y tu misión en la vida es comunicar y transmitir información valiosa y oportuna para otras personas. Debes controlar tu carácter pues en ocasiones te enciendes por cosas insignificantes. El amor te dará muchas alegrías y muchas lecciones a lo largo de tu vida.

Cáncer

Luna, ese astro maravilloso es tu planeta regente, su influencia te hace ser una persona equilibrada, justa, benefactora de tu familia y sumamente detallista. Sabes administrar el dinero y siempre alcanzas una posición elevada en el trabajo o profesión que desempeñas. Necesitas aprender a decir “no” porque tienden a sacar provecho de tu generosidad. Debes vigilar tus emociones porque puedes tornarte rencoroso y poco tolerante.

Leo

El Sol ilumina tu camino en tu andar por el mundo, tienes la facultad enorme de ser el benefactor de otras personas, de tu comunidad y medio ambiente. Tienes un corazón que vale oro y eres quizá el más generoso de los seres humanos. Tienes dones artísticos y

mucha habilidad para los negocios. Lo único es que debes controlar tus corajes y mal humor repentino, y aprender que no siempre tienes la razón.

Virgo

Mercurio es tu regente, esta influencia provoca que seas un ser ordenado, pulcro, sincero, metódico, sociable, amante de las tradiciones y la vida familiar. Toda idea y proyecto que tengas siempre tiene un final feliz pues actúas siempre pensando en hacer el bien a los demás. Naciste con una inteligencia superior. Debes tratar de ser menos crítico incluso contigo mismo y darte cuenta que muchas veces las apariencias engañan.

Libra

Venus el planeta del amor y el romance rige las riendas de tu vida, eres un ser de buena apariencia, buenos modales y muy trabajador. En tu camino siempre surgirán oportunidades para que alcances todas tus metas y sueños. En el amor debes ser cuidadoso pues en ocasiones puedes enamorarte de la persona menos indicada o de alguien que a la larga no será compatible contigo. A veces puedes tornarte indeciso.

Escorpión

Eres el único signo que es regido por dos planetas, Plutón y Marte. El planeta Plutón te da ese toque profundo y espiritual que te distingue de todo el

mundo y Marte te aporta la energía, el poder de recuperación inmediata y un gran atractivo sexual. Tu talón de Aquiles puede ser tu carácter a veces explosivo, lo bueno es que siempre recapacitas cuando sabes que has fallado. Se pronostica más de un matrimonio en tu camino. Contigo es todo o nada.

Sagitario

Júpiter es tu planeta regente, tu vida suele ser un cúmulo de gratas experiencias, y aunque atravieses por malas rachas, eso no importa porque siempre eres bendecido y las oportunidades para sobresalir llegan a ti por sí mismas, tienes todo para triunfar; pero tienes que suavizar un poco tus opiniones y críticas pues tu extremada franqueza no siempre será bien recibida y puede crearte enemistades sin que te des cuenta.

Capricornio

Saturno es el planeta que rige tu destino, su influencia es muy positiva en tu vida, sin importar la edad que tengas eres una persona muy sabia y sabes tomar las decisiones más acertadas. Tu sueles provocar cambios benéficos a tu alrededor, pero debes tener cuidado con el “ego”, pues en ocasiones

eres poco receptivo y crees que siempre tienes la razón. Es necesario que aprendas a escuchar consejos y sugerencias.

Acuario

Urano el planeta de la transformación te rige en esta encarnación, te distingues por ser amable, fino, correcto, puntual y muy dedicado en todo lo que haces. Tienes el don de la organización. Tu atractivo físico te hace sobresalir y eres buen amante. Con lo que debes tener cuidado es con las obsesiones románticas y especialmente, debes aceptar a las personas tal cual son pues no todos tienen la dicha de tener la inteligencia que tú posees.

Piscis

Tu regente es Neptuno, el amo de las profundidades y misterios. Tiendes a ser sociable, profesional, atractivo, carismático y seguro de ti mismo. Siempre en busca de la verdad y de la información correcta, te disgustan las cosas a medias. La religión suele ser importante en tu destino y puedes ser atraído por temas espirituales. Debido a tu sensibilidad puedes padecer de depresión y altibajos emocionales provocados mayormente por el amor.

programa está disponible en condados selectos de California, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, Nueva York, Texas y Washington.

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Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board AVISO DE AUDIENCIA Y REUNIONES PÚBLICAS

Cambios propuestos en las tarifas de Caltrain

La Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (JPB) realizará un audiencia pública para recibir comentarios por parte del público sobre una extensión propuesta al descuento del 20% en la tarifa del Pase Mensual hasta el 30 de junio de 2023.

Aunque sin formar parte de la audiencia pública, el público también tendrá la oportunidad de proporcionar sus comentarios acerca de posponer los cambios siguientes en las tarifas, los cuales fueron aprobados anteriormente por la Junta

Directiva en 2019:

• Reducir el descuento en la tarjeta Adult One-way Clipper® de 55 centavos a 25 centavos, con cambios correspondientes en todas las tarjetas

Clipper

• Tres aumentos progresivos en las tarifas que se aplican cada dos años alternando entre un aumento de 50 centavos en la Tarifa Básica un año y uno de 25 centavos en la Tarifa de Zona el otro año

• Dos aumentos progresivos del 5% en las tarifas en el Go Pass cada dos años.

La audiencia pública se llevará a cabo durante la reunión del Comité Financiero de la Junta Directiva de la JPB: Lunes, 24 de mayo de 2021 a la 2:30 p.m.

Acceso por Internet: join.zoom.us O por vía telefónica: 1.669.900.6833

Ingrese la ID del webinario: 933 8892 7360 y la contraseña: 790810

La JPB también realizará una reunión pública para presentar la propuesta y recibir comentarios por parte del público.

Jueves, 20 de mayo de 2021 a las 5:30 p.m.

Acceso por Internet: join.zoom.us O por vía telefónica: 1.669.900.6833

Ingrese la ID del webinario: 971 6867 0624 y la contraseña: 240979

Antes de la audiencia, los comentarios pueden enviarse llenando el formulario de comentarios por Internet en www.caltrain.com/changes, por correo, e-mail o teléfono:

Board Secretary Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board P.O. Box 3006, San Carlos, CA 94070-1306

Changes@caltrain.com 1.800.660.4287 (TTY 650.508.6448)

Para solicitar servicio de traducción o interpretación, llame a Caltrain al 1.800.660.4287 al menos tres días antes de la reunión. 如果需要翻译或口译协助，请在听证会开始之前至少提前3天拨打 1.800.660.4287 联系 Caltrain。

Assistant Engineer needed to assist in the preparation of design, specification and details for structural engineering construction projects. Assist with layouts of structural drawings, and specifications. Assist in the preparation of specifications detailing calculations, design, and analysis. Assist in preparation of production contract documents and quality take-off and cost estimates. Draft all documents in compliance with local, regional, and state building codes using SAP2000/ETABS, Enercalc, RAM Concept, & RAM Structural Systems. Work location is San Jose, CA. Send resumes to Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc. Attn: HR, 865 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126. Resume must specifically identify all education & experience relevant to job offered.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT NO. 674760

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maria Laguna Cleaning Service, 1300 E San Antonio St Sp 27, 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): Maria del Carmen Laguna Garcia, 1300 E San Antonio St 27, San Jose, CA 95116. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/21/2021. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Maria Laguna

Se buscan

Trabajo Lunes a Viernes . Licencia de chofer es importante pero no estás descalificado. Compañía grande con mucho trabajo. Llamen a Salvador 925-3152089. Yo les doy una entrevista y entonces seguimos o no. Experencia tiene bono.

EMPLOYMENT AD GAMEPLAY ENGINEER

Gameplay Engineer: M.S. in Computing or Gameplay Engineering plus 2yrs wk exp req’d. Send resumes to: Striking Distance Studios, Inc., 6111 Bollinger Canyon Rd., Ste. 150, San Ramon, CA 94583 , Attn: J. Shin.

ROOM ATTENDANT-$19+ BENEFITS

Sonesta ES Suites Sunnyvale E-Verify Company

APPLY HERE: http://bit.ly/SonestaRoomAtty

Job Description Summary The Room Attendant (RA) works with the Housekeeping Management Team to clean guest rooms and public space areas, and/ or work in the commercial laundry facility, in accordance with brand time, product and placement standards to ensure total guest satisfaction.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Some previous housekeeping experience preferred.

• Previous background from the extended stay industry preferred.

• Frequently standing up, bending, climbing, kneeling, and moving about the facility.

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/28/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 674760

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 675470

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: URC Capital II, 18330 Laurel Drive, Monte Sereno, CA 95030, Santa Clara County This business is owned by a: General Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Randeep Singh Rekhi, 18330 Laurel Drive, Monte Sereno, CA 95030. Arpit Uppal, 21023 Christensen Drive, Cupertino, CA

95014. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 5/10/2021.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Randeep Singh

Rekhi

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/20/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 675470

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

• Carrying, lifting or pulling items weighing up to 75 pounds.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

• Health Savings Account with Company Match

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match

• Paid Vacation and Sick Days

NO. 21CV379308

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ruth Chilengi Crippen. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ruth Chilengi Crippen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ruth Chilengi Crippen to Racheal Crippen 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.

Apartamentos para personas mayores de edad y bajos ingresos. Las listas de espera de estudio y de 1 habitación para Casa de Redwood se abrirán el 1 de junio de 2021. Casa de Redwood aceptará solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años de edad o más, que cumplan con los requisitos de admisión. Para solicitar un paquete de aplicación puede llamar a la oficina, el número de teléfono es: (650) 369-4819, o puede ir a la oficina de Casa de Redwood. La dirección es: 1280 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063 de lunes a Viernes de 9:00 am a 12:00pm y de 2:00 pm a 4:00pm con la excepción de días festivos. Casa de Redwood ofrece oportunidad de igualdad de vivienda.

Apartamentos para personas mayores de bajos ingresos.

Crane Place Apartments es una comunidad de vivienda para personas mayores subsidiada por el gobierno federal en Menlo Park, California.

La lista de espera para un Studio en Crane Place Apartments se abrirá el 1 de junio de 2021.

Crane Place Apartments estará aceptando solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años o mayores, que cumplan con las directrices de admisión, así como de solicitantes con deficiencia de movilidad de 18 años o mayores, que requieren las características de diseño de los apartamentos accesibles.

Para solicitar un paquete de aplicacion, llame al 650-325-2442, o vaya en persona a la oficina de Crane Place Apartments en 1331 Crane Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025 de 9:00 AM a 12:00 del mediodía y de 2:00 PM a 4:00PM, de lunes a viernes, excepto en días festivos.

Crane Place ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda.

Apartamentos para personas mayores de bajos ingresos. La lista de espera de 1 habitación para Lakemount Apartments se abrirá el martes 1 de junio y durará 5 semanas y media hasta el viernes 9 de julio de 2021. Durante ese tiempo, Lakemount aceptará solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años o más que cumplan con los requisitos de admisión. Para solicitar un paquete de aplicacion, llame al 510-8322018, o vaya en persona a la oficina de Lakemount Apartments, de 9:00 AM. A 12:00 del mediodía y de 2:00 PM. a 4:00 PM. de lunes a viernes, en 136 E. 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94606. Se llevará a cabo un sorteo para la colocación en lista de espera a las 10:00 am el lunes 19 de julio de 2021, en el Salón Comunitario de Lakemount. Puede asistir al sorteo, pero no es necesario estar presente.

Lakemount Apartments ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda.

KITCHEN HELP

Name of Business: Seoul Hotdog

Location: 2505 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709 (Next to UC Berkeley)

Position: Kitchen Help Pay: $16.07 per hour

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: 8/03/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for

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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.

May 25, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV382357

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the

application of: Abdullah Ramein, FNU Rita, Fnu Khadija, FNU HIBA TO ALL INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Abdullah Ramein & FNU Rita have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Abdullah

Ramein to Abdullah

AZIM b. FNU Rita to Rita

FAYEZ c. FNU KHADIJA to KHADIJA AZIM d. FNU HIBA to HIBA AZIM

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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 8/03/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the

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county of Santa Clara.

May 24, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV381778

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cynthia Gomez & Anthony Ngo. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Cynthia Gomez & Anthony Ngo have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Zayden Emiliano Ngo Gomez to Zayden Emiliano Ngo 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.

Sabanovich to Michael Asato Sabanovich 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: 8/03/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 25, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV382419

ing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 8/03/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 25, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV382037

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Carlson Tristan Santiago Cabatotan. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV372977

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Seyed Amin Allah Hosseini. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 12, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV382397

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Daniel Sabanovich. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Daniel Sabanovich has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Rachel Alisa

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

Petitioner(s) Bauyrzhan

Krykpayev has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Bauyrzhan Krykpayev to Baur Krykpayev 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 hear-

Carlson Tristan Santiago Cabatotan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Carlson Tristan Santiago Cabatotan to Carlson Tristan Santiago 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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 7/27/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 18, 2021

Julie A. Emede

Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

1. Petitioner(s) Seyed Amin Allah Hosseini has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Seyedarvin Hosseini to Arvin Hosseini b. Seyed Amin Allah Hosseini to Nami Hosseini 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: 7/20/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 18, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV382013

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Silvia Ramirez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Silvia Ramirez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Silvia Ramirez AKA Silvia Ramirez Montes to Dora Maria Ramirez Montes 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: 7/20/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 17, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 2021

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of John Villarreal No.21PR190146

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Terry Noel St. John, Terry St. John. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Marisela Campos in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3. The Petition for Probate requests that Marisela Campos 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: July 26, 2021, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 408-866-8382

May 28, June 4, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674741

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Estrada Builder, 293 Sunnyslope Avenue, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Adolfo Estrada, 293 Sunnyslope Avenue, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 9/30/2018. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all informa-

tion 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/ Adolfo Estrada

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/28/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 674741

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 675227

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Morgan Hill Preschool Academy, 17780 Monterey Rd, 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): Roger and Carla Ames Inc, 16715 Wild Oak Way, Morgan Hill, CA 95037. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 6/29/1998. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file#: FBN617574. “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/ Carla Ames

Roger and Carla Ames Inc

Vice President Article/Reg#: 2213235

Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/12/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 675227

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 675152

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: High Mobility Foundation, 12734 Miller Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): High Mobility Foundation, 12734 Miller Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious

business name(s) listed above on: 3/27/2020. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ David Shen

High Mobility Foundation

CFO

Article/Reg#: 4575635

Above entity was formed in the state of CA

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/10/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 675152

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

Statement of Abandonment of Use of Fictitious Business Name NO.675054

The following person/ entity has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name Sadistik, Virtuabot, 871 Park Dr. Unit A, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. Jaime Alejandro Serna, 838 Cedar St. Apt. D, Alameda, CA 94501. This business was conducted by an individual and was filed in Santa Clara County on 03/15/2016 under file no. FBN615133

/s/ Jaime Alejandro Serna

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 05/06/2021 File No. FBN 675054

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381305

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Basilia Perez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Basilia Perez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Basilia Perez to Basil Perez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for

the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 04, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380390

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Araceli Ramos. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Araceli Ramos has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Juancarlos Rafael Urrabazo to Rafael Urrabazo 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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 6/22/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Apr 21, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV382127

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hannah Quach. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Hannah Quach has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hannah Quach to Hannah Dang 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: 7/27/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 19, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381833

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Matthew Michael Willis. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Matthew Michael Willis has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Matthew Michael Willis to Matthew Michael David 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: 7/20/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

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

May 13, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Terry Noel St. John No.21PR190085

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Terry Noel St. John, Terry St. John. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Noel St. John in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3. The Petition for Probate requests that Noel St. John 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: July 28, 2021, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7 If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 408-866-8382

May 21, 28, June 4, 2021

NOTICE OF DEATH OF STANLEY BILLITZER-JENKINS

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of STANLEY BILLITZERJENKINS, who was a resident of Santa Clara County, State of California, and died on February 12, 2021, in the City and County of Santa Clara, State of California.

your claim within four months from the date of first publication with the DERMER LAW FIRM, 15720 Winchester Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Gatos, California 95030 (408) 395-5111.

Joseph D. Dermer, Esq. DERMER LAW FIRM

15720 Winchester Blvd., Ste 200 Los Gatos, CA 95030 Tel (408) 395-5111 Fax (408) 354-2797

May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT NO. 674647

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A and J MotorWorks, 765 Chestnut St Unit C, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jesus Valenzuela, 835 Morse Ave Apt C25, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 2/10/2021. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Jesus Valenzuela

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/26/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

If no written objection is timely filed, the court will grant the petition without a hearing. 3. A hearing date may be set only if an objection is timely filed and shows good cause for opposing the name change. Objections based solely on concerns that the proposed change is not the person’s actual gender identity or gender assigned at birth shall not constitute good cause. (See Code Civ. Proc. Section 1277.5(c)) 6/30/2011, 8:45am @ PROBATE. NOTE: When a petition has been filed to change the name of a minor to conform to gender identity and the petition does not include the signatures of both living parents, the petition and this order to show cause shall be served on the parent who did not sign the petition, under section 413.10, 414.10,or 415.40, within 30 days from the date on which the order is made by the court.

May 3, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28 and

June 4, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674311

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/19/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 674311

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674269

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: All Go Plumbing & Rooter, 1935 Supreme Dr, San Jose, CA 95148, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Em H. Le, 1935 Supreme Dr, San Jose, CA 95148. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 3/30/2021. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Em H. Le

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/15/2021.

Deputy File No. FBN 674976

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

Statement of Abandonment of Use of Fictitious Business Name NO.674873

The following person/ entity has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name KINGS CLEANING, 5436 Cribari Green, San Jose, CA 95135, Santa Clara County. James A. Martinez, 5436 Cribari Green, San Jose, CA 95135. Miriam J. Martinez, 5436 Cribari Green, San Jose, CA 95135. This business was conducted by an individual and was filed in Santa Clara County on 08/01/2007 under file no. FBN497646 /s/ James A. Martinez

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2020

This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 04/30/2021

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

Statement of Abandonment of Use of Fictitious Business Name NO.674786

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file

By:

/s/

Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 674647

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO CONFORM TO GENDER IDENTITY NO. 21CV381185

TO ALL INTERESTED

PERSONS: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cassandra Michelle Fortin 1. Petitioner(s) Cassandra Michelle Fortin filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: a. Cassandra Michelle Fortin to Julian Cal Fortin. 2. THE COURT ORDERS that any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection within six weeks of the date this order is issued.

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Chiropractic Center, Silicon Valley Chiropractic, Silicon Valley Integrative and Chiropractic, Silicon Valley Integrative and Chiropractic Center, Silicon Valley Integrative Musculoskeletal, 820 E El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Silicon Valley Integrative Musculoskeletal Parvini Chiropractic Inc, 209 Mountain View Ave, Los Altos, CA 94024. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/11/2006. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: 556077. “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/ Shervin Parvini

Silicon Valley Integrative Musculoskeletal Parvini Chiropractic Inc

Owner

Article/Reg#: 3393402

Above entity was formed in the state of CA

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 674269

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674976

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Iron House Rabbit, 329 Ellmar Oaks Loop, 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): Siomara Verenicie Chavez, 329 Ellmar Oaks Loop, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Siomara Verenicie Chavez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 5/04/2021.

Regina Alcomendras,

County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez,

The following person/ entity has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name P & T Automotive Repair 1002 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County. Phil Da Lam, 2299 Bikini Ave, San Jose, CA 95122. This business was conducted by an individual and was filed in Santa Clara County on 06/13/2016 under file no. FBN618342 /s/ Phil Da Lam

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2020

This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 04/28/2021

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380748 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: ANDRE HUY PHAN. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) ANDRE HUY PHAN has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. ANDRE HUY PHAN to ANDRE HUY 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 pe-

tition 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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. April 07, 2021

Julie A. Emede

Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381427

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Erika Alvarez Marron TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Erika Alvarez Marron has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Erika Alvarez Marron to Xareni Nakawé Aquetzali 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: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for

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

May 05, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381426

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

Petitioner(s) Erika Perez has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Erika Perez to Xareni Nakawé Aquetzali-Perez 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 05, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381687

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Andres Villalvazo. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Andres Villalvazo has filed a petition for

Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Andres Villalvazo to Andres Villalvazo Lazaro 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 HEAR-

granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 03, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of DIANA H. HOUSE No.21PR189823

ING:

Date: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 10, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381192

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Abdulla Evan Aslan. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Abdulla Evan Aslan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Abdulla Evan Aslan to

Yanni Evan Aslan 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

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Diana H. House. 2 A Petition for Probate has been filed by Kathleen Maida in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3. The Petition for Probate requests that Kathleen Maida 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: June 17, 2021, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or

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

10. Attorney for Petitioner:

Jennifer E. Ramirez

2021 The Alameda, Suite 225 San Jose, CA 95126 408-713-5444

May 14, 21, 28, 2021

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of RUDOLPH RUIZ IZQUIERDO No.21PR190033

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Rudolph Ruiz Izquierdo.

2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Jeffrey Izquierdo in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3. The Petition for Probate requests that Jeffrey Izquierdo 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: July 15, 2021, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Jennifer E. Ramirez 2021 The Alameda, Suite 225 San Jose, CA 95126 408-713-5444

May 14, 21, 28, 2021

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Mary Frances Black

No.21PR190058

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Mary Frances Black, Mary F. Black, Mary Black. 2.A Petition for Probate

has been filed by Joseph Black in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3. The Petition for Probate requests that Joseph Black 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: July 12, 2021, at 9:01am, Dept. 5, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7. If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Shahram Miri 80 Gilman Ave Suite 27 Campbell, CA 95008 408-866-8382

May 14, 21, 28, 2021

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número de caso): 20CV363740 SUM-100

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JAIME MENDOZA AND DOES 1 THROUGH 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MARIA LOUISA CRUZ (FORMERLY MARIA LOUISA MENDOZA)

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante.

Una carta o llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes California (www.sucorteca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.

sucorteca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NUMBER (Número de caso): 20CV363740

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es):

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA CIVIL DIVISION 191 NORTH FIRST STREET SAN JOSE, CA 95113

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

Richard A. Kutche, Attorney at Law 1500 E. Hamilton Avenue, Suite 118 Campbell, CA 95008 (408)628-0400

Date (Fecha): 2/28/2020

Clerk, by (Secretario) A. Rodriguez Deputy (Adjunto)

For Proof of Service of this summons, use Proof of Service of Summons form POS010. Para prueba de entrega de esta citation use el formulario Proof of Service of Summons, POS-101.

Run Dates: April 23, 30, May 7 and 14, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674022

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ulta Beauty 200 W. McKinley, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc., 1000 Remington Blvd., Suite

120, Bolingbrook IL 60440. 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/ Scott M. Settersten Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.

CFO

Article/Reg#:

C2337302

Above entity was formed in the state of CA

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/08/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 674022

April 16, 23, 30 May 7, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 674206

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jazzy Snackz, 111 Lewis Street, #131, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Lourdes Jazmine Valle, 111 Lewis Street, #131, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/15/2020. 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/ Lourdes Jazmin Valle

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/15/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 674206

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.

674768

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: El Copal Bar & Grill, 1433 Branham Ln, San Jose, CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Trustegic Enterprises,

2695 Moorpark Ave, San Jose, CA 95128. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/22/2021. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Nalleli Somoza Trustegic Enterprises President

Article/Reg#:

C4690472

Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/28/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 674768

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674767

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Patio Del Copal 1433 Branham Ln, San Jose, CA 95118, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Trustegic Enterprises, 2695 Moorpark Ave, San Jose, CA 95128. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/22/2021. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Nalleli Somoza Trustegic Enterprises President Article/Reg#:

C4690472

Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/28/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Sandy Chanthasy, Deputy File No. FBN 674767

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674675

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: LAC QUANG TAX SERVICES, 2970 Little

Wood Ln, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an: Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Hang Thi Le Pham, 2970 Little Wood Ln, San Jose, CA 95127. 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/ Hang Pham This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/27/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 674675

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674855

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Celestial Trading Company, Celestial Trading, 65 Fifth St, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): 41Sixty Inc, 7500 Monterey St, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: N/A. This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Paulo Paredes 41Sixty Inc CEO 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 4/30/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 674855

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674663

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Brading Associates, 3620 Charter Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95136, Santa Clara County. This business

is owned by a: Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Brading Associates, LLC, 3620 Charter Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 4/15/2021.

This filing is a first filing. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

/s/ Mark Brading Brading Associates, LLC

Principal Article/Reg#: 201628410127

Above entity was formed in the state of CA

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/27/2021.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 674663

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 674628

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Evergreen Cleaners, 3281 S. White Rd., San Jose, CA 95148, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Chong Woo Kim, 2538 Yerba Hills Ct., San Jose, CA 95121. Ok Han Kim, 2538 Yerba Hills Ct., San Jose, CA 95121. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on: 7/02/2001. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: 616887. “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/ Chong Woo Kim

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 4/26/2021. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Nina Khamphilath, Deputy File No. FBN 674628

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV380899

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the

application of: Sachiien Deshmukkh & Chandni Deshmukkh TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Sachiien Deshmukkh & Chandni Deshmukkh have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Sachiien Deshmukkh to Sachiien Gund b. Chandni Deshmukkh to Chandni Gund c. Urja S Deshmukkh to Urjah Gund 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: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 29, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV377601

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: ANNA DRAGANOVA, MAJID SULJIC. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) ANNA DRAGANOVA, MAJID SULJIC have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Abigail Yulia Suljic to Abigail Yulia Sulych b. Milena Dana Suljic to Milena Dana Sulych

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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 04, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381307

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: ANPOWICAHPIWI ANGELINA MARTINEZ. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) ANPOWICAHPIWI

ANGELINA MARTINEZ has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. ANPOWICAHPIWI

ANGELINA MARTINEZ to SERENITY ANGELINA MARTINEZ 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: 7/13/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the

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

May 04, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV380670

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Emiliano Rodriguez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) German

Emiliano Rodriguez Olmedo has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. German Emiliano Rodriguez Olmedo to Emiliano Rodriguez

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 HEAR-

ING: Date: 6/29/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 27, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380541

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Aaron Lee Lam. TO

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Aaron Lee Lam has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Aaron Lee Lam to Kalen Lee 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: 6/22/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 23, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV381184

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Anh Mai Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Anh Mai Nguyen has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Anh Mai Nguyen to Andee Nguyen b.

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: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 03, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380802

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: KAREN JAEKYONG HA-PARK. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) KAREN JAEKYONG HA-PARK has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Timothy Taebin Yo to Timothy Taebin Ha

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: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 28, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV380979

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Manuela Salgado. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Manuela Salgado has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Manuela Salgado to Nelly Salgado 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: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 30, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV380368 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cleveland Allen Brown. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.

Petitioner(s) Cleveland Allen Brown has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Cleveland Allen Brown to Klee Allen Reid

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: 6/22/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 21, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380806

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Rachel Ellen Homan. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Rachel Ellen Homan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Rachel Ellen Homan to Rachel Ellen Nolan-Homan b. Rachel Homan to Rachel NolanHoman 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: 6/29/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for

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

April 28, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW

CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 21CV380897

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: BIN LIANG / JING CHEN. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) BIN LING / JING CHEN has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. YUXIN LIANG to HELENA YUXIN LIANG

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: 7/06/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 29, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV380665

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Albert Aslanjenizeh. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Albert Aslanjenizeh has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing

names as follows: a. Albert Aslan-Jenizeh to Albert Asian 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: 6/29/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

April 27, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 21CV378905

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Maritza Guizar and Edward Rivas. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Maritza Guizar and Edward Rivas has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Edward Rey Rivas to Edwardrey Rivas. 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 hear-

ing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 6/1/2021 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. March 30, 2021

Julie A. Emede Judge of the Superior Court

May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021

COLLEGE CREDIT FOR PLAYING VIDEO GAMES ? AT SOME CALIFORNIA CAMPUSES, IT’S HAPPENING

Marisa Martinez CalMatters

Growing up as the youngest child of four, Fernando Gomez would often pass the time by watching his two older brothers play the video games Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy while sitting cross-legged on his brother’s bed.

Gaming “kind of brought us together,” Gomez said. It also inspired him to create San Francisco State University’s first student-run esports program as an undergrad — experience he parlayed into a post-grad job as the digital content coordinator for the Portland Trailblazers. “That experience is 100% why I’m here today, doing what I do now,” Gomez said.

Professors and students are citing success stories like Gomez’s as they launch programs in esports — a form of competitive gaming — at colleges around the state. At least six Cal State campuses and nearly all of the University of California campuses have created esports programs since 2015, in which students host and compete in live tournaments, sometimes funded by corporate sponsors. Both Cal State Dominguez Hills and UC Irvine offer certificates in esports, which means students can earn credit for, yes, playing video games.

Educators who support the trend point to the jobs available in gaming and other forms of digital media, while students say esports clubs and classes have given them another way to connect virtually during the pandemic.

“Higher ed needs to evolve or die,” said Dina Ibrahim, the academic advisor of the SF State esports athletic club and a professor of broadcast journalism. “We need to be teaching students relevant skills, that’s going to get them jobs in a rapidly changing landscape.”

Ibrahim and other librarians, professors, and administrators from across California State University logged on to Zoom in late March for the university’s first ever Esports Unconference, and it wasn’t a typical virtual meeting. Attendees flooded the familiar Zoom grid with photos of their favorite video games, while a medley of video game theme songs played in the background.

Rhomeozon Blankas, a student who helped start the esports program in 2018, said he saw a rise in interest during the pandemic, as students turned to Discord for connectivity.

“Over the summer of COVID, like a lot of people started trying to get more involved on campus, even though they weren’t on campus,” Blankas said. “So that was basically opening the doors into competitive esports for a lot of students.”

Like other collegiate esports programs, the one at Dominguez Hills started as an informal student club and is now a thriving organization that has obtained sponsorships with companies such as Microsoft

and Level Up Esports Apparel.

The university is building a new $750,000 esports lab in the campus library, according to the student-run newspaper, The Bulletin. It will be divided into three sections: a classroom, an incubator and a competition area with rows of PCs.

Tournaments and scrimmages hosted by Dominguez Hills will be broadcast on the team’s official Twitch account as well as to a live audience there at the lab. Each student member plays a unique role in marketing the events, operating the software to live stream and playing in the matches.

Campus president Thomas Parham says the idea is to “meet students where they are.”

“I firmly believe that esports can be one of those activities that educates students on the aspects of gaming culture that will successfully translate into skills and knowledge that better prepare graduates for the workforce,” Parham said.

Kieran Eng, a recent San Francisco State University graduate who ran the university’s esports club, the Gaming Gators, said the pandemic has lent legitimacy to the kind of online social events that gamers have been organizing for years.

“Nothing much has changed for us gamers,” Eng said. “But I think that a lot of people kind of now understand that it’s not just like wasting time. It’s choosing to spend your time, investing in the people around you and creating a virtual community that is just as interconnected as other physical communities.”

The number of jobs in esports nationwide more than doubled from 2018 to 2019, topping 6,000, according to Hitmarker, an online job board for the industry. The overwhelming majority were in California.

But Gomez, the SF State graduate who landed a job with the Portland Trailblazers, said that most people in academia don’t understand how the esports job market works.

For one, he said, entry-level workers often end up wearing many hats in order to stand out and progress in their careers.

“The funny thing in esports is, whatever your job title is, add five more things to it,” he said.

In order to mirror their students’ ability to connect online, organizers set up a Discord account – a community-based chat app – to communicate during the event. The goal: to network, share knowledge and ultimately expand esports and gaming to all of the university’s 23 campuses.

Ibrahim shared the syllabus for her live stream broadcasting class, which she created after she noticed the effects esports and gaming were having on the field of digital media. In the course, students learn how to market a brand, monetize it, and develop live streamed events using Twitch – an entertainment site mainly aimed at gamers – and other platforms. For their final project, they help organize and market a live-streamed tournament featuring games like Overwatch, Valorant and League of Legends.

“What I wanted to do was just provide a venue for students who are doing it anyway, to get credit,” said Ibrahim. “And also not just focusing on the gaming community; it’s really gaming, plus content creation.”

Those skills could help students land their first media jobs, said Mark “Garvey” Candella, director of student and education programs for Twitch, a $15 billion company that draws 30 million, mostly younger, visitors to its website daily. Amazon Inc. bought Twitch in 2014 for $970 million. The company makes money by showing ads to viewers, selling subscriptions, and taking a cut of any money viewers donate to streamers.

“All the skills that you’re learning and using while you participate in gaming and esports are highly transferable and valuable skills in emerging new and digital media,” said Candella, who has helped universities establish esports curriculum that uses gaming as a vehicle to teach branding, management and hardware and software knowledge.

At Cal State Dominguez Hills, esports academic advisor Ruben Caputo says he’s seen 37 students obtain internships based on their work in the program this past year alone.

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“Nothing much has changed for us gamers. But I think that a lot of people kind of now understand that it’s not just like wasting time.”

-KIERAN ENG, RECENT SFSU GRADUATE

As colleges invest in esports, Gomez said, students will be better prepared for the multiple skill sets that the industry requires. More than 170 schools across the country have varsity esports teams, according to the National Association of Collegiate Esports, but the number with academic programs is much smaller — and students and professors involved in them say they still encounter skepticism from colleagues who see gaming as just a mind-numbing hobby. At UC Irvine, the first California college to pioneer an esports program, students can earn a continuing education certificate but there are no plans to develop a major in the field, said assistant director Kathy Chiang.

“We don’t think that there’s enough content for that,” she said. Finding the real estate for an on-campus esports arena can be challenging, and the digital divide that has emerged during the pandemic affects gaming, too, said Ibrahim, the San Francisco State professor. Some students lack strong enough internet at home to host live streams, and their computers are not advanced enough to house competitive games.

Still, Ibrahim says gaming in academia is here to stay.

“I think people mostly recognize that it is a huge, profit-churning component of the entertainment industry that can no longer be ignored,” she said. “You’re getting skills that are going to prime you to work in a very significant industry that’s only growing post pandemic.”

Martinez is a fellow with the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.

“Higher ed needs to evolve or die.”

-DINA IBRAHIM, ACADEMIC ADVISOR OF THE SFSU ESPORTS ATHLETIC CLUB

Students play the video game League of Legends during an esports bootcamp hosted by Cal State Dominguez Hills on February 29, 2020. Photo Credit: Ruben Caputo

¿ CRÉDITO UNIVERSITARIO POR JUGAR VIDEOJUEGOS ? EN ALGUNOS CAMPUS DE CALIFORNIA, ESTÁ SUCEDIENDO

Marisa Martinez CalMatters

Al crecer como el hijo menor de cuatro, Fernando Gómez a menudo pasaba el tiempo viendo a sus dos hermanos mayores jugar los videojuegos Metal Gear Solid y Final Fantasy mientras estaba sentado con las piernas cruzadas en la cama de su hermano.

Los juegos “nos unieron un poco”, dijo Gómez. También lo inspiró a crear el primer programa de esports dirigido por estudiantes de la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco como estudiante universitario, experiencia que aprovechó en un trabajo de posgrado como coordinador de contenido digital para los Portland Trailblazers. “Esa experiencia es el 100% de la razón por la que estoy aquí hoy, haciendo lo que hago ahora”, dijo Gómez.

Los profesores y estudiantes están citando historias de éxito como la de Gómez al lanzar programas en esports, una forma de juego competitivo, en universidades de todo el estado. Al menos seis campus de Cal State y casi todos los campus de la Universidad de California han creado programas de esports desde 2015, en los que los estudiantes organizan y compiten en torneos en vivo, a veces financiados por patrocinadores corporativos. Tanto Cal State Dominguez Hills como UC Irvine ofrecen certificados en esports, lo que significa que los estudiantes pueden obtener crédito por jugar videojuegos.

Los educadores que apoyan la tendencia señalan los trabajos disponibles en los videojuegos y otras formas de medios digitales, mientras que los estudiantes dicen que los clubes y clases de esports les han brindado otra forma de conectarse virtualmente durante la pandemia.

“La educación superior necesita evolucionar o morir”, dijo Dina Ibrahim, asesora académica del club atlético de esports de SF State y profesora de periodismo televisivo. “Necesitamos enseñar a los estudiantes habilidades relevantes, eso les dará trabajo en un panorama que cambia rápidamente”.

Ibrahim y otros bibliotecarios, profesores y administradores de toda la Universidad Estatal de California se conectaron a Zoom a fines de marzo para la primera Esports Unconference de la universidad, y no fue una reunión virtual típica. Los asistentes inundaron la familiar cuadrícula de Zoom con fotos de sus videojuegos favoritos, mientras se reproducía una mezcla de temas musicales de videojuegos de fondo.

“La educación superior necesita evolucionar o morir”.

-DINA IBRAHIM, ASESORA ACADÉMICA DEL CLUB ATLÉTICO SFSU ESPORTS

Para reflejar la capacidad de sus estudiantes para conectarse en línea, los organizadores configuraron una cuenta de Discord, una aplicación de chat basada en la comunidad, para comunicarse durante el evento. El objetivo: establecer contactos, compartir conocimientos y, en última instancia, expandir los esports y los juegos a los 23 campus de la universidad.

Ibrahim compartió el plan de estudios de su clase de transmisión en vivo, que creó después de notar los efectos que los esports y los videojuegos estaban teniendo en el campo de los medios digitales. En el curso, los estudiantes aprenden cómo comercializar una marca, monetizarla y desarrollar eventos transmitidos en vivo utilizando Twitch, un sitio de entretenimiento

dirigido principalmente a jugadores, y otras plataformas. Para su proyecto final, ayudan a organizar y comercializar un torneo transmitido en vivo con juegos como Overwatch, Valorant y League of Legends.

“Lo que quería hacer era proporcionar un lugar para que los estudiantes que lo están haciendo de todos modos obtengan crédito”, dijo Ibrahim.

“Y no solo centrarse en la comunidad de jugadores; es realmente un juego, además de la creación de contenido “.

Esas habilidades podrían ayudar a los estudiantes a conseguir sus primeros trabajos en los medios, dijo Mark “Garvey” Candella, director de programas educativos y para estudiantes de Twitch, una compañía de $15 mil millones que atrae diariamente a 30 millones de visitantes, en su mayoría más jóvenes, a su sitio web. Amazon Inc. compró Twitch en 2014 por $970 millones. La compañía gana dinero mostrando anuncios a los espectadores, vendiendo suscripciones y tomando una parte del dinero que los espectadores donan a los streamers.

“Todas las habilidades que estás aprendiendo y usando mientras participas en juegos y esports son habilidades altamente transferibles y valiosas en los medios digitales nuevos y emergentes”, dijo Candella, quien ha ayudado a las universidades a establecer un plan de estudios de esports que utiliza los juegos como un vehículo para enseñar conocimiento de marca, gestión y hardware y software.

En Cal State Dominguez Hills, el asesor académico de esports Ruben Caputo dice que ha visto a 37 estudiantes obtener pasantías basadas en su trabajo en el programa solo el año pasado.

Rhomeozon Blankas, un estudiante que ayudó a iniciar el programa de esports en 2018, dijo que vio un aumento en el interés durante la pandemia, ya que los estudiantes recurrieron a Discord en busca de conectividad.

“Durante el verano de COVID, mucha gente comenzó a tratar de involucrarse más en el campus, aunque no estaban en el campus”, dijo Blankas. “Eso fue básicamente abrir las puertas a los esports competitivos para muchos estudiantes. “

Al igual que otros programas universitarios de esports, el de Domínguez Hills comenzó como un club de estudiantes informal y ahora es una organización próspera que ha obtenido patro-

cinios con empresas como Microsoft y Level Up Esports Apparel.

La universidad está construyendo un nuevo laboratorio de esports de $750,000 en la biblioteca del campus, según el periódico dirigido por estudiantes, The Bulletin. Estará dividido en tres secciones: un aula, una incubadora y un área de competencia con filas de computadoras.

Los torneos y juegos organizados por Dominguez Hills se transmitirán en la cuenta oficial de Twitch del equipo, así como a una audiencia en vivo allí en el laboratorio. Cada miembro estudiante juega un papel único en la comercialización de los eventos, operando el software para transmitir en vivo y jugando en los partidos.

El presidente del campus, Thomas Parham, dice que la idea es “conocer a los estudiantes donde están”.

“Creo firmemente que los esports pueden ser una de esas actividades que educan a los estudiantes sobre los aspectos de la cultura del juego que se traducirán con éxito en habilidades y conocimientos que preparen mejor a los graduados para la fuerza laboral”, dijo Parham.

Kieran Eng, un recién graduado de la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco que dirigía el club de esports de la universidad, los Gaming Gators, dijo que la pandemia ha dado legitimidad al tipo de eventos sociales en línea que los jugadores han estado organizando durante años.

“Nada ha cambiado mucho para nosotros, los jugadores”, dijo Eng. “Pero creo que mucha gente ahora entiende que no es solo como perder el tiempo. Es elegir dedicar su tiempo, invertir en las personas que lo rodean y crear una comunidad virtual que está tan interconectada como otras comunidades físicas”.

La cantidad de trabajos en esports en todo el país se duplicó con creces de 2018 a 2019, superando los 6,000, según Hitmarker, una bolsa de trabajo en línea para la industria. La inmensa mayoría estaba en California.

Pero Gomez, el graduado de SF State que consiguió un trabajo con los Portland Trailblazers, dijo que la mayoría de las personas en el mundo académico no comprenden cómo funciona el mercado laboral de los esports.

Por un lado, dijo, los trabajadores de nivel de entrada a menudo terminan usando muchos sombreros para sobresalir y progresar en sus

carreras.

“Lo curioso de los esports es que, sea cual sea el título de su trabajo, agregue cinco cosas más”, dijo.

“Nada ha cambiado mucho para nosotros, los jugadores. Pero creo que mucha gente ahora entiende que no es solo como perder el tiempo”.

-KIERAN ENG, UN RECIÉN GRADUADO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD ESTATAL DE SAN FRANCISCO

A medida que las universidades inviertan en esports, dijo Gómez, los estudiantes estarán mejor preparados para los múltiples conjuntos de habilidades que requiere la industria. Más de 170 escuelas en todo el país tienen equipos universitarios de esports, según la National Association of Collegiate Esports, pero el número con programas académicos es mucho menos, y los estudiantes y profesores involucrados en ellos dicen que todavía encuentran escepticismo de colegas que ven los juegos como un pasatiempo que adormece la mente.

En UC Irvine, la primera universidad de California en ser pionera en un programa de esports, los estudiantes pueden obtener un certificado de educación continua, pero no hay planes para desarrollar una especialización en el campo, dijo la directora asistente Kathy Chiang.

“No creemos que haya suficiente contenido para eso”, dijo.

Encontrar el espacio para un campo de esports en el campus puede ser un desafío, y la brecha digital que ha surgido durante la pandemia también afecta a los juegos, dijo Ibrahim, la profesora de la Universidad Estatal de San Francisco. Algunos estudiantes carecen de Internet lo suficientemente fuerte en casa para albergar transmisiones en vivo, y sus computadoras no son lo suficientemente avanzadas para albergar juegos competitivos.

Aún así, Ibrahim dice que los juegos en el mundo académico llegaron para quedarse.

“Creo que la gente reconoce en su mayoría que es un componente enorme de la industria del entretenimiento que genera ganancias y que ya no puede ser ignorado”, dijo. “Estás adquiriendo habilidades que te prepararán para trabajar en una industria muy importante que solo va a crecer más después de la pandemia”.

Martínez es parte de CalMatters College Journalism Network, una colaboración entre CalMatters y estudiantes periodistas de todo California. Esta historia y otra cobertura de educación superior son apoyadas por College Futures Foundation.

En un campamento de entrenamiento de esports organizado por CSU Dominguez Hills en febrero de 2020, los estudiantes pudieron preguntar a los desarrolladores de juegos cómo diseñaron el juego y cómo crear estrategias para su juego en función de las respuestas de los desarrolladores. Photo Credit: Ruben Caputo