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Still, instead of feeling safe, she’s faced sexual ha rassment from one of the program’s drivers on four occasions (three this year). Nothing’s been done on the part of the Met ropolitan Bus Authority (AMA by its Spanish acro nym) to put a definitive end to the situation.
Visibly upset and crying, Toro Rivera said at a Monday press conference that she is fearful and traumatized every time she has to call for service. Even though the agency said the driver wouldn’t be assigned to her again, and she filed a complaint against the man, he has been able to reach her four more times. And every time, the only way she knows it’s him is when she’s on board the vehicle and recognizes his voice.
“I must tell you that between the most recent incidents, the severity of the harassment became more severe,” Toro Rivera said. “People told me that I had to file a complaint as if that were a con dition to protect me.”
Blind user of public transit system denounces sexual harassment
spent three years living a Thenightmare.socialworker, who is blind from birth, depends on the “Call and Ride” program (“Llame y Viaje” in Spanish) to get to her daily activities.
Toro Rivera elevated her complaint to AMA’s higher management, the Office of the Women’s Ad vocate and other agencies, but has been met with indifference, she said.
A coalition has united to protect Toro Rivera and other riders like her who depend on a service that’s supposed to keep them safe. The movement “Somos Los Ojos de Alba” (We are Alba’s Eyes), so people who see or hear acts of violence, discrimi nation or harassment against vulnerable popula tions raise their voice and report the situation.
To be part of We Are Alba’s Eyes, call 787274-1032; 787-763-2473 (TTY for the deaf) or send an e-mail to somoslosojosdealba@gmail.com.
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“I filed the complaint this year, and the pro gram determined that my allegations of sexual ha rassment could not be corroborated,” she added, visibly“Theyfrustrated.[Call and Ride] said that, nevertheless, they warned the driver to in the future exercise ‘prudence, and courteous and respectful treat ment,’ terms that do not come close and do not describe what I alleged,” she said, baffled that the driver continues to work in the program even after she filed her complaint.
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“The most alarming part of this situation has been the indifference and its effect: the impunity with which the harassers go unpunished when a complaint is filed with the government of Puerto Rico,” she said.
“Call and Ride” is a program for disabled us ers like Toro Rivera. She fears her harasser could be accosting other passengers, and she still doesn’t feel safe.“This means that this person who harassed me has had four opportunities to have contact with me even though I notified the Call and Ride program and even though there was an internal guideline; that guideline was violated on four occasions,” the social worker said.
“We demand that every driver be recurrently trained on the public policy against sexual harass ment, especially if they are drivers [against whom there has been a complaint],” said Ángel Quiles of the Socialist Workers’ Movement, through a press release. “We demand that those who run the Call and Ride program take all necessary actions to send an unequivocal message that the agency repudiates any practice that constitutes sexual harassment and to ensure a safe space for people with disabilities, senior citizens and all those who use the service.”
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Emanuelli Hernández emphasized that the designation arises from the commitment to implement approaches and strategies to combat drug trafficking and drug addiction by seeking real change.
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“In particular, most drug court graduates remain non-recid ivist for at least two years after leaving the program,” he said.
By THE STAR STAFF Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Justice Secretary Domin go Emanuelli Hernández on Monday announced the recruitment of new special prosecutors to strengthen the Specialized Courtrooms for Controlled Substance Cases, known as drug courts.
“In contrast, of those who are prosecuted in the traditional system and enter the probation program, nearly half reoffend,” the governor added. “And of those who are sentenced to prison, most are rearrested after leaving prison. These statistics are staggering.”
Despite the findings, DIPAC concluded that it is not possible to establish the element of specific intent.
“The results of these courtrooms are clear,” the governor said.
“A large majority of the participants are successfully complying with the conditions imposed by the court and are taking advan tage of the services and programs to which they are referred.”
By THE STAR STAFF Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández asked the Office of the Spe cial Independent Prosecutor (OPFEI by its Spanish initials) on Monday to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Arecibo Mayor Carlos Ramírez Irizarry for alleged embez zlement of public funds and breach of duty. After an investigation by the agency’s Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller Affairs Office (DIPAC) along with the Special Investigations Bureau (NIE), Emmanuelli Hernández concluded that there is sufficient cause to believe that the mayor may have committed the crimes of embezzlement of public funds and breach of duty, as well as violations to Article 4.2(b) of Law No. 1-2012, known as the Charter Law of the Office of Government Ethics, for awarding contracts and giving jobs to people who have been convicted of crimes, including former Sen. Maritere González López and Dr. Edgar CancelDIPAC’sZapata.preliminary investigation re vealed that Cancel Zapata, at the time of being appointed to the irregular position of doctor for the (COVID-19) Case Investigation and Contact Tracing System, was convicted of fraud in violation of Title 18 U.S.C.A. sec. 1028 (1) (2) and this clearly emerges from a resolution issued by the Licensing and Medical Discipline Board, which has worked with documents related to his recruitment in the municipality.Furthermore, DIPAC indicated that the preliminary investigation revealed that Cancel Zapata was permanently disqualified from being employed in the municipality of Arecibo due to his criminal conviction in federal court. Therefore, the Justice chief said, Cancel Zapata should never have been recruited or appointed by Ramírez Irizarry to the position he held and for which he received public funds as payment. Regarding the appointment of González López to the position of special assistant to the mayor and for which she earns a salary paid with public funds, the DIPAC investigation revealed that, once she was convicted of the crime of negligence in complying with her duty and sentenced under the suspended sentence system, the mayor had the duty to initiate an authorization process in the island Department of Labor and Human Resources, as provided in the Municipal Code, in the Authorization Regulation for the Public Service and in the regulations of the municipality of Arecibo.
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The 13 new prosecutors appointed to handle drug court cases throughout the island’s judicial districts were sworn in Monday thanks to an allocation of $2.4 million for the project, among other Justice Department initiatives.
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The new prosecutors will receive training for three weeks focused on considering the law and judicial processes as a so cial force capable of producing therapeutic consequences that promote individuals’ physical and emotional well being, with out subordinating other values of the justice system, Emanuelli Hernández noted.
The program was developed by the judicial branch and comprises various law enforcement agencies. The main purpose is to offer a “diversion” to the defendant to a program in which they are provided with the treatment and specialized help nec essary to overcome their addiction to controlled substances. The defendant with an addictive condition thereby avoids being part of the prison Defendantspopulation.mustmeet several criteria to participate in the Drug Court Program. The crime for which they are being pros ecuted must be causally related to their addictive condition, they cannot have a case involving the distribution of controlled substances, they cannot have convictions for violent crimes, and they must demonstrate interest in and commitment to par ticipating in the treatment plan recommended by the Addiction and Mental Health Services Administration.
Because the investigation now continues at the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI), the secretary and other Justice Department officials will not comment further on the case.
“On this occasion, although we agree with the findings of the investigation, we differ regarding the interpretation of the law made by DIPAC,” the Justice secretary said in a written statement. “Under the protection of my powers as secretary, I recommended the designation of an SIP in accordance with the findings of the investigation, the current legal standard and the amount of proof required at this stage of the proceedings regarding whether there is sufficient cause to believe that a serious crime was committed.”
He said the drug courts program provides a health-oriented approach to those accused of committing non-violent crimes, specifically those motivated by drug and alcohol consumption disorders. It is based on the therapeutic justice system, which seeks true rehabilitation through effective tools and treatments that allow the person to reintegrate into society.
Since last year, the Justice Department’s DIPAC has completed 38 investigations that have been referred to the OPFEI related to wrongdoing by mayors, legislators and other officials. DIPAC is currently working on 22 additional investigations.
More than 65 percent of participants have positive outcomes compared to those processed in the traditional system, Pierluisi said at a press conference.
“Humanizing the law and judicial processes, addressing the emotional and psychological aspect, provides us with more favorable results because not only the person is rehabilitated, but also his or her family environment, while reducing the in cidence of crime and renewing society, as cycles of violence, abandonment and crime are stopped,” the Justice chief said. “In addition, it represents a savings to the Treasury and alleviates the justice system’s workload.”
All who participate in the Summit will be awarded a certificate of contact hours upon completing six hours of participation in the event’s conference program. Those interested in registering and partici pating in the free educational summit can access the link www.ecoexploratorio.org/biosciences.
Asked about the supplemental agree ment, Pierluisi said that once PREPA reaches an agreement with its creditors, the terms of the formal agreement will then be enforced in all of its aspects.
The governor said he dropped his sup port for LUMA Energy when he heard the managers acknowledge that recent power interruptions that left thousands without service were the result of a lack of vegetation trimming.Since the summer of 2021, LUMA Energy has been in control of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system following a one-year transition period. Last week and into the weekend there were protests demanding the contract’s cancellation amid anger over the firm’s inability to reduce power outages.
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By THE STAR STAFF Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that LUMA Energy is on probation, but noted that the sup plementary contract with the private oper ator slated to expire Nov. 30 is tied to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) reaching a debt deal with its creditors and resolving its bankruptcy.
For the second consecutive year, thousands of students, teachers and educators from public and private schools across the island will have the opportunity to participate in the virtual “Bioscience STEM Summit” as part of an alliance between the EcoExploratorio: Museo de Ciencias de Puerto Rico and the Amgen Foundation.Theevent will be held on Friday, Sept. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for elementary, middle and high school students, teachers and educa tors from around Puerto Rico. The Summit will have a broad agenda of lectures led by scientists and experts in bioscience and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines.“Weare proud to celebrate for the second consecutive year the Bioscience STEM Summit in its virtual modality through our digital platform Virtual Science in alliance with the Amgen Foun dation for the benefit of thousands of children, young students, teachers, and educators from public and private schools around the island,” said Jenny M. Guevara, executive director of EcoExploratorio Inc.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said he dropped his support for LUMA Energy when he heard managers acknowledge that recent power interruptions that left thousands without service were the result of a lack of vegetation trimming.
Governor: LUMA on probation ‘until I see improvements’
Students & teachers to participate in bioscience educational summit
The governor said he has no specific date for deciding when LUMA is no longer on probation.“Iputthem on probation because I am not satisfied with their performance,” Pierluisi said. “Too little time has passed since those last interruptions occurred for me to say that I am satisfied.”
“In addition, we provide teachers and ed ucators with the tools necessary for students to achieve their full potential,” she said. “In this way, we prepare students so that they can practice in the future as professionals in these disciplines from Puerto Rico to the world.”
PREPA, which has been in bankruptcy since 2017, is currently in mediation to work on a new debt adjustment plan to restructure some $9 billion in debt. Because PREPA remains in bankruptcy, LUMA Energy and PREPA are working under the terms of a supplemental agreement that is slated to expire Nov. 30.
“LUMA, from my point of view, is on probation,” the governor told reporters. “I am keeping an eye on the changes that were announced the other day and looking out for information from LUMA’s management. They are on probation until I see improvements in their performance, that we don’t have as many power outages and if there are any, that they be dealt with more quickly.”
The conference agenda is designed in two sessions: one for students and one for teachers and educators. Students will be able to enjoy topics such as Genetic Modification in Animal to Human Organ Transplants; Molecular Biology: DNA, RNA, and Proteins in Cellular Processes; and Cell Biology and the Immune System, among other topics. Teachers and educators will be able to educate themselves on Bioengineering and Human Cell Culture Models, Neurobiology and the Neuroscience School Laboratory, and Atmospheric Microbiology-Microorganisms, among others. High-profile Puerto Rican scientists work ing in different fields of science, university professors, and educators specializing in STEM disciplines in Puerto Rico will participate in the summit. In addition, Dr. Ada Monzón, founder of EcoExploratorio Inc., and biomanufacturing company Amgen-Puerto Rico executives will participate.AixaCaballer, Amgen Foundation leader and Amgen’s corporate affairs leader in Puerto Rico, said, “the Amgen Foundation is committed to the education of students, teachers and edu cators in the STEM and bioscience disciplines, and we believe that it is imperative to promote the development of research and critical think ing skills among our students through science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”
The agenda of the free conference is designed in two sessions: one for students and one for teachers and other educators.
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“Right now, there is a mediation with the main directors of PREPA and it remains to be seen where that mediation ends,” the governor said. “And when that happens, there is no need to have a supplemental agreement. … We have to see what happens with the Earliermediation.”thisweek, lawyer John Mudd said in his blog Muddlaw that the current Sept. 9 deadline for PREPA to finish mediation with creditors and inform the Title III bankruptcy court whether there is a debt adjustment plan will determine the fate of the LUMA EnergyAccordingcontract.to the contract, certain con ditions must be met for the cancellation to move forward. First, the Puerto Rico Public Private Partnership Authority must have no tified LUMA Energy about violations to the contract and given the private operator at least 60 days to make changes. Second, LUMA must have continuous violations over a three-year period, requiring the government to wait at least three years. Further, LUMA must fail at least three metrics to have the contract canceled. LUMA has been a private operator for 18 months.
“For a long time, the need to evaluate the structure of the government of Puerto Rico, both at the central and regional levels, has been discussed due to the fiscal and gover nance problems that we experience,” said CPA Oscar E. Cullen Ramos, president of the CCPA. “Currently, the sustainability of some municipalities is a priority issue.”
The Ethical Movement Foundation aims to recreate and disseminate a coexistence platform that fosters cultural, intellectual, emotional and spiritual development, through dialogue in the development of processes aligned with ethical criteria. The entity pursues the transformation of the human being from his or her current reality for the maximum use of his or her potential. The Movement fosters purposeful goals and change management practices for personal, family, community, and workplace excellence.
Miguel Arrieta Morales, who is the author of the First Master’s Program in Business Administration (MBA) Specialization in Ethical Leadership and Management licensed by the Puerto Rico Council of Education. His experience and contributions over 37-plus years have been recognized in and outside of Puerto Rico, and he has worked as a consultant for over 20 years.
“All this also determines our work and is accompanied by our ethics and morals, which affect productivity,” she said. Nazario Fuentes pointed out that directing or working in a business, institutional or political position consists of doing things properly, which means ethically correct.
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At this event, CPA Anoop Mehta, pres ident of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, will offer in person a mes sage about developments in the profession.
At this week’s Fourth International Meeting on Applied Ethics, held at Jaime Benítez Amphitheater on the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes gave a presentation called “Ethics Applied to a Productive Life” to a group of academics and specialists.
At the municipal level, the educator also pointed out that professional ethics is contained in the codes that regu late professional activity, such as those found in the Ethics Office, the Comptroller’s Office, the Department of Justice and the Municipal Code.
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Municipal structure to be evaluated at CPA Convention
The summit event will be the “Forum: The Future of Municipalities: Fiscal Challenges and Their Effect on Constituents,” which will take place on Friday at the Wyndham Grand Río Mar hotel in Río Grande.
The face-to-face events include the Dis tinguished Colleagues Luncheon, where the work of CPA Orlando Vázquez will be recog nized for Distinguished Services to the Com munity; CPA Kermit Lucena for Distinguished Services to the Profession; CPA Luis Ramírez for Distinguished Services to Colleagues; CPA Cecilia Colón for Distinguished Services to the CCPA; CPA Miguel Santini for Distinguished Services in Education; CPA Roberto Martínez for Distinguished Services in Industry and Commerce in the Insurance Sector; and CPA Carlos Vivaldi for Distinguished Services in Industry and Commerce in the Health Sector. The President’s Special Award will also be given to CPA Luis A. Feliciano, who turns 100 in December and still practices public accounting in Ponce.
Loíza mayor stresses education in talk on ethics in a productive life
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From today through next Monday, Sept. 5, the Certified Public Accountants Association of Puerto Rico (CCPA by its Spanish initials), will be holding its 2022 Convention, “Creating Change and Strength ening Tomorrow,” in a hybrid format.
The presentation began with a quote from psychologist and educator William James, as follows: “The great discov ery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” Nazario Fuentes pointed out that “every day we make decisions, from the clothes we choose, the time we leave the house and, in general, the agenda.”
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Also presented at the meeting were the topics “Process for the Development of a Culture of Service Excellence: Re ports and Benefits, Applied Environmental Ethics,” and the “Internet: An Effective Tool for Making Robust Decisions.”
“All these entities point the way so that municipal work is done in the most productive way possible,” Nazario Fuentes said. “As long as we do the most productive jobs, we set an example for others.”
“These are the principles and values that must [guide] all our decisions and of the execution of those decisions,” she said. “Let us remember that we can never value privileges over our principles, nor benefits over the gift of serving.”
Among the group of exhibitors will be Omar Marrero Díaz, secretary of the state and executive director of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF), who will be discussing the financing of mu nicipal services and the balance between central and municipal services. In addition, Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes and San Sebastián Mayor Javier Jiménez Pérez will discuss the current fiscal situation of the is land’s municipalities. Also, CPA and lawyer Germán Ojeda, director of municipal affairs for the Financial Oversight and Management Board, will detail the provisions of the federal entity related to the fiscal situation of the municipalities.Attheconclusion of the dialogue, there will be a reactor panel composed of Joaquín Villamil, CEO & chairman of the board of directors at Estudios Técnicos Inc., and El Nuevo Día journalist Joanisabel González, who will share comments from the economic and fiscal perspective. The moderator will be the CPA Rolando López, president of the Committee on Public Policy and former president of the CCPA. “This is the pinnacle educational event of our Convention; however, our educational webinar program begins on Tuesday [today], August 30, and will run through noon on Thursday, September 1,” the CCPA president said. “Just like last year, CPAs will be able to complete up to 18 credit hours of continuing education in accounting and auditing, ethics, contributions, and general.”
“The Annual Assembly will be on Sep tember 3 and it will announce the elected 2022-2023 Governing Board,” Cullen Ramos said. “In the evening, the Gala for 100 Years of the Profession in Puerto Rico will be held, where CPA Aixa González will be sworn in as the new president.” For additional details on the convention, access the website www.colegiocpa.com or call 787-622-0900.
Oscar E. Cullen Ramos, president of the Certified Public Accountants Association
For all his efforts to distance the department from poli tics, Garland cannot escape the political repercussions of his decisions. How he handles Trump will surely define his tenure.
By the government’s account, that gamble paid off, with FBI agents carting off boxloads of sensitive material during the search three weeks ago, including some documents with top secret markings.
By KATIE BENNER As Justice Department officials haggled for months this year with former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and aides over the return of government documents at his Florida home, federal prosecutors became convinced that they were not being told the whole truth.
Remarkably, he may have to make this choice twice, depending on what evidence his investigators find in their separate, broad inquiry into Trump’s efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election and his involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
This summer, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington began to ask witnesses directly about any involvement Trump and members of his inner circle, inclu ding former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, had in efforts to reverse his election loss.
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But the matter hardly ended there: What had started as an effort to retrieve national security documents has now been transformed into one of the most challenging, compli cated and potentially explosive criminal investigations in recent memory, with tremendous implications for the Justice Department, Trump and public faith in government.
Attorney General Merrick Garland now faces the prospect of having to decide whether to file criminal char ges against a former president and likely 2024 Republican candidate, a step without any historical parallel.
It is still unclear how either case will play out. Prose cutors working on the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified information are nowhere near making a recom mendation to Garland, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry. Court filings describe the work as continuing, with the possibility of more witness interviews and other investigative steps to come.
By summertime, the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified information had started to yield compelling indications of possible intent to thwart the law, according to two people familiar with the work. Although there was not necessarily ironclad evidence, witness interviews and other materials began to point to the possibility of deliberate attempts to mislead investigators. In addition to witness interviews, the Justice Department obtained security-camera footage of various parts of Mar-a-Lago from the Trump Organization.
The heavily redacted affidavit explaining the government’s desire for a search warrant said that the Justice Department had “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at” Mar-a-Lago and that “the government has well-founded concerns that steps may be taken to frustrate or otherwise interfere with this investigation if facts in the affidavit were prematurely disclosed.”
At the heart of the case would be evidence uncovered by the FBI, which is still trying to understand how and why government records made their way to Mar-a-Lago and why some remained there despite repeated requests for their return by the National Archives and a later subpoena from the Justice Department.
So far, Garland has signaled that he is comfortable with owning all of the decisions related to Trump. He has resisted calls to appoint a special counsel to deal with in vestigations into the former president. In his first speech to the department’s 115,000 employees last year, he expressed faith that together they could handle any case. “All of us are united by our commitment to the rule of law and to seeking equal justice under law,” he said.
Over the course of this year, as prosecutors sought to understand how sensitive government documents ended up at Trump’s Florida resort, they began to examine whether three laws had been broken: the Espionage Act, which out laws the unauthorized retention or disclosure of national security information; a law prohibiting the mishandling of sensitive government records; and a law against obstructing a federal investigation.
If Garland chooses to move forward with charges, it will be a historic moment for the presidency, a former lea der of the United States accused of committing a crime and possibly forced to defend himself before a jury of his fellow citizens. It is a process that could potentially unfold even as he runs again for the White House against an incumbent whose administration is prosecuting him.
Garland and his investigators are fully aware of the implications of their decisions, according to people familiar with their work. The knowledge that they will be scrutinized for impropriety and overreach, they say, has underscored the need to hew to the facts.
The department’s Jan. 6 investigation began as a search for the rioters who attacked the Capitol. But last fall, it ex panded to include actions that occurred before the assault, such as the plan to submit slates of electors to Congress that falsely stated Trump had won in several key swing states.
But a decision about whether to charge Trump over attempts to obstruct the investigation, or his handling of sensitive national security information, would involve a variety of considerations.
But a decision to prosecute — or to decline to prosecu te — has political implications that Garland cannot escape. And no matter of judiciousness can change the fact that he is operating within an America as politically divided as it has been in Trump’sdecades.supporters have viewed any investigative steps around him as illegitimate attacks by a partisan Justice De partment that is out to get him. And his detractors believe that any decision not to prosecute, no matter the evidence, would show that Trump is indeed above the law.
Document inquiry poses unparalleled test for Justice Dept.
When the F.B.I. searched Mar-a-Lago this month, federal agents recovered 11 sets of classified material.
That conclusion helped set in motion a decision that would amount to an unparalleled test of the Justice Department’s credibility in a deeply polarized political environment: to seek a search warrant to enter Mar-a-Lago and retrieve what prosecutors suspected would be highly classified materials, beyond the hundreds of pages that Trump had already returned.
That, too, runs huge risks for the department’s credibi lity, particularly if the national security threat presented by Trump’s possession of the documents, inevitably disclosed at least in part during the course of any trial, do not seem substantial enough to warrant such a grave move.
In fact, many schools in Prince William County saw just the opposite. For the current school year, which began Aug. 22, the district created hundreds of new positions for teachers and teaching assistants compared with last year.
How bad is the teacher shortage? Depends where you live.
But in places with chronically low pay, the pandemic has only worsened teachers’ feelings of being undervalued, said Brent Maddin, who leads the Next Education Workforce initiative for teachers at Arizona State University. “If we’re serious about recruiting people into the profession, and retaining people in the profession, in addition to things like compensation we need to be focused on the working conditions,” he said.
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The new fall semester has just begun in Mesa, Arizona, and Westwood High School is short on math teachers. A public school that serves more than 3,000 students in the populous desert city east of Phoenix, Westwood still has three unfilled positions in that subject. The principal, Christopher Gilmore, has never started the year there with so many math positions
According to Wing’s data from the last school year, nearly four-fifths of teaching positions (measured in terms of full-time equivalencies) in Arizona schools had to be covered in less-thanideal ways — by support staff, for example, or teachers in training.
Over the past two years, several states including New Mexico, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi have tried to address or preempt shortages by raising teacher salaries.
Others have loosened certification requirements. In Arizona, a new law makes it easier for aspiring teachers without bachelor’s degrees to gain work experience in the classroom. In Florida, where state officials last year reported more than 4,000 teacher vacancies, some military veterans can be granted temporary teaching certificates.
“This is a joke among those of us that work in HR,” said Michelle Colbert, who works in human resources at the district. “When you go to a college fair, and you see one math candidate, then it’s like every person in the room is making their way to that candidate.”Infact, in some districts, teacher vacancies can be attributed not only to turnover but also to the creation of new positions, said Richard Ingersoll, an expert on education staffing with the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I feel like it’s been that way for probably at least 10 years,” said Wing, who is also an analyst for the Arizona School Person nel Administrators Association. But this year, he added, seems even the problem in part to low pay, and he has watched districts in neighboring states, like Texas and Nevada, rub salt in the wound by advertising their teaching salaries on social media and on billboards along Arizona highways.
“It’sopen.alittle bit unnerving,” he said, “going into a school year knowing that we don’t have a full staff.”
All year round, administrators keep an eye out for potential applicants — especially those with certifications in math, science, special education and multilingual education.
Hallsville Intermediate School in Hallsville, Mo. The superintendent of the school district there said the pool of qualified teaching applicants has all but dried up in recent years.
In Arizona, where starting salaries for teachers are lower than the national average, the shortages are “severe” across the board, said Justin Wing, an assistant superintendent of human resources for Mesa Public Schools, the district where Gilmore works.
That can skew perceptions of shortages, especially in the context of long-term trends. The total number of people working in public education has mostly grown for about a decade, federal data show, partly in recovery from widespread losses after the 2008 recession. And the number of teachers has grown faster than the number of students, Ingersoll’s research has found. (That may continue. Student enrollment slumped during the pandemic, and it may continue to shrink in coming years because of de mographic changes.)
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Shauna Woods, a third-grade teacher in Hallsville, said educators were looking forward to Mondays off — especially on the heels of two challenging years helping students navigate the pandemic. In anticipation of the change, she said, “the one thing that teachers kept talking about in my district was, ‘It won’t be like this next year. It will be better next year.’”
For many years, it has also been particularly hard to find teachers for subjects like math and special education, or to fill spots at rural schools. And there has always been a dire need for more teachers of color in the United States. According to federal data collected during the school year ending in 2018, nearly 80% of public schoolteachers were white. Most of their students were not.
And in some rural districts, where raises may be out of reach, school officials are putting entire school days on the chopping block.
It remains unclear how the four-day model — which has longer school days but shorter weeks — affects learning. While children and families may benefit from the flexibility of a three-day weekend, some research suggests that student achievement can suffer if the total number of instructional hours significantly drops.
While the shortages in many districts are alarming, said Kim A. Anderson, the executive director of the National Education Association, the news has not been all bad.
In Virginia, where starting salaries for teachers tend to be higher than the national average, Prince William County Pub lic Schools, one of the state’s largest districts, offers more than $53,000 to new teachers with bachelor’s degrees. Teachers with experience or graduate degrees can make tens of thousands more.
Westwood, where most students qualify for free or reducedprice lunch, is one of many public schools across the United States that are opening their doors with fewer teachers than they had hoped for. According to one national survey by Education Week, nearly three-fourths of principals and district officials said this summer that the number of teaching applicants was not enough to fill their open positions. Other surveys released this year have suggested that parents are deeply concerned about staffing and that many more teachers are eyeing the exits. But while the pandemic has created an urgent search for teachers in some areas, not every district is suffering from short ages. The need for teachers is driven by a complicated interplay of demand and supply in a tight job market. Salary matters, and so does location: Well-paying suburban schools can usually at tract more candidates. If anything, experts say, the recent pandemic turmoil can be expected to worsen old inequities.
This year, Hallsville schools are trying to entice educa tors with a four-day workweek. “We’re competing against more affluent districts who can offer more lucrative salary benefit packages,” Downs said. “So we decided we needed to think outside of the Hallsvillebox.”isnot alone. In Missouri, 25% of all districts will be on a four-day schedule this fall. The condensed week is common in New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho and South Dakota, and is beginning to emerge in other states like Texas.
Lisa Harris, an algebra teacher in the district’s Patriot High School in Nokesville, said she has taught for 22 years and has never wanted to leave the profession. “As far as teacher short ages, of course I see the news,” she said. “You hear it nationally. I know of it. But honestly, at Prince William County Schools, I don’t see a lot of that.”
“We are, in fact, making progress with respect to the edu cator shortage,” she said, adding that increased funding from districts, as well as the American Rescue Plan, passed by Congress in March 2021, were helping to turn the tide.
And nearly one-third of positions remained vacant alto gether, which often meant that existing teachers had to take on more classes.Thechallenge for struggling districts is to cover positions in a way that not only fills seats but also serves students, said Tequilla Brownie, the CEO of TNTP, a nonprofit that provides consulting services for districts on staffing and student achievement.
“It’s complex, and it does go back before the pandemic,” said Desiree Carver-Thomas, an analyst with the Learning Policy Institute. “Schools serving more students of color and students from low-income families bear the brunt of teacher shortages, oftentimes.”
“Everybody right now is just talking about, frankly, warm bodies,” she said. “The quality of teachers still matters. You never will get to quality if you don’t get to quantity first.”
In Missouri, where teachers receive among the lowest sala ries on average in the country, John Downs, the superintendent of the rural Hallsville School District, said that the pool of quali fied applicants has all but dried up in recent years. A few days before the start of the school year, positions in speech language pathology and math were still unfilled.
Charlie Boggs, 11, was “hoping it’d be like a movie” when he began fifth grade at Martha Jane Potter Elementary School on the outskirts of Whitesburg, Kentucky. He imagined the taste of fame that would come with playing on the football team, the Pirates, and wearing its signature gold helmet. But the school was among those flooded, and it remained unclear when classes would start up again.
‘We’ll teach out of anywhere’: In flooded Kentucky, schools race to rebuild
This school year was supposed to mark the return of long-awaited normal, after two years in which the coronavirus pandemic cut classes short and, for a time, forced students and teachers online. But just as custodians finished polishing the tile floors and teachers began laying out the new supplies, floodwaters surged through eastern Kentucky, sweeping away the Chromebooks and covering decades of class pictures in mud and mildew. At least 39 people died in the floods, including a few children and a beloved school custodian.
“We can make do with this but not in the long term,” said Jamie Fugate, principal at Robinson Elementary, standing in the empty room that is set to be his office in the refurbished school. Classes are set to begin there Sept. 6, after Labor Day. Even as many teachers have suffered flood damage to their own homes, some have staged outdoor gatherings to boost morale and catch a glimpse of their students. At one elementary school, they held a drive-thru event, where teachers passed out bags with toothbrushes, toothpaste, chips and toys. The students are eager to return.
Some of the affected districts are floa ting plans to start classes before the end of September or later into the fall. In the mean time, improvisation is everywhere. Chasity Short, a third grade teacher in Perry County, will work out of a refurbished girls’ locker room this year.
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“I don’t know if it could have been better scripted,” Matthews said.
Now, like dozens of her colleagues, Combs finds herself starting over. On a recent Friday, she was among a handful of teachers cobbling together donated supplies and cleaning out a former elementary school that will now serve teachers and students from two schools wrecked by the floods. Though her own family had running water for just one day in just over three weeks, she was focused on ensuring that her school would reopen by early September.
By EMILY COCHRANE Robin Combs has been teaching math for more than three decades, muscle memory guiding her as she reaches for the right lesson plans, confident in what works and how best to reach her middle school stu dents. But when floodwaters surged through Robinson Elementary School last month, the roof collapsed on her classroom, and three decades’ worth of curriculum materials were destroyed.
That includes $40 million specifically for repairing academic buildings, transporting displaced students and supporting their families.
“As long as all of our people are kept together, we don’t care,” Short said, rolling white paint over a bookshelf she had saved from a dumpster. She added, “We’ll teach out ofTeachersanywhere.”and others at the school also acknowledged looming worries about their ability to meet the exacerbated needs and emotional trauma of students whose homes were destroyed. They are concerned about already small schools losing more students and teachers — and uncertain what happens if outside help dries up.
Recovery has been particularly crucial for schools in the region, which have an chored these mountain communities as the decline of the coal industry has hamstrung economic growth. School districts are among the largest employers in the region, even as student population has dropped in recent years. In Perry County, 83% of the roughly 4,000 students qualify for free or reducedprice lunch, and more than 470 students are considered homeless, with school staff members often providing food, dental and medical checkups and clothing on top of daily classes. As a result, communities have rallied around the schools: Teachers have fielded calls and offers to help from former students and their children. Current students have de livered food and helped muck out mud and damaged furniture. Officials from western Kentucky, which suffered tornado damage in the winter, and flood survivors from nearby Tennessee and across the country have called to offer aid and Twenty-fiveadvice.school districts were affec ted by the floods, with more than a dozen buildings severely damaged and unfit to hold classes this year. Simply replacing Robinson Elementary, the school where Combs teaches, could cost close to $25 million.
Perry County, where Combs works, was among the hardest-hit communities. Nearly a month later, the roadsides across eastern Kentucky are piled high with ruined possessions, tree limbs and the siding from damaged houses. Residents are tearing down destroyed buildings, carting away debris and scrubbing the musty stench of the flood from their homes. Some parts of the region must still boil water or are without stable electricity and internet. Officials and volunteers are still struggling to reach some missing residents in the narrow mountain valleys where the lone road that served as a point of entry has been blocked or washed away by the nearby creek.
At nearby Letcher County Central High School, school officials debated whether to play the first scheduled Friday night home football game of the season Aug. 19. The school, while largely spared any damage, had become a distribution center for do nations. Football camp had been canceled, leaving little time to practice in pads, and the cheerleading uniforms had been destroyed in storage. But after consulting with the players, officials agreed to move forward, hoping to give the community a diversion.
“I just hate it — I hate that some of these kids will never, ever be the same again,” Boggs said. But, she added, “the roots run much deeper than the floodwaters can wash away.”
“It’s special in a bad way,” he said, no ting that the floods came after hard years of pandemic learning. He paused, then added, “At the very least, you’ll have good stories.”
Charlie’s mother, Tara Boggs, is the sixth grade language arts teacher at Fleming Neon Middle School in Neon, Kentucky. With the school’s basement flooded, the power has been off in the rest of the school, leaving Boggs and other volunteers to sort supplies for delivery in near darkness for weeks.
“I just want our kids back together and for eight hours a day, be normal — just normal,” Combs said. “They’re cool; they’ve got a seat; they’ve got food. I don’t have to worry for eight hours a day.”
“It’s silly, but a football Friday night, that’s something I thought we needed,” said Junior Matthews, the team’s coach. When lightning and some rain forced a delay, people in the stands grew visibly anxious and fidgeted in their seats. The band directors hustled their students inside. But once the weather cleared and the game resumed, the Letcher County Central Cougars began to score. They overcame a double-digit deficit against the Shelby Valley Wildcats. By the end, they had sealed a 5248 win after returning an interception for a touchdown, and the crowd roared.
At the state Capitol in Frankfort last week, Gov. Andy Beshear and state law makers announced plans to direct $212.7 million to the region over the next six months.
Football players warm up at Letcher County Central High School, before their first game of the season in Whitesburg, Ky., on Aug. 19, 2022. Letcher County Central High School officials agreed to play the first scheduled Friday night home football game to give the community a sense of routine life again.
The amount of student debt held in America is roughly equal to the size of the economy of Brazil or Australia. More than 45 million people collectively owe $1.6 trillion, according to U.S. government data. That figure has skyrocketed over the last half-century as the cost of higher education has continued to rise. The growth in cost has substantially been more than the increase in most other household expenses.
On both sides of the political aisle, analysts and of ficials have worried about the plan’s effects on inflation, in part because wiping away debt could inject money into the economy. (White House economic advisers made the case that by resuming loan payments and including income caps, the plan would have a negligible effect on rising consumerOthersprices.)have argued that while the relief could help many people, it does not address the underlying problems of how expensive college has become. Some economists have even warned the move could encourage colleges and universities to raise prices with the federal government footing the bill.
Student debt, however, has a widely disparate impact on different populations. As student debt has grown in recent years, people’s ability to repay it has declined. When the pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill in 2020, President Donald Trump issued a moratorium aon student debt payments and forced interest rates down to zero. Biden adopted similar policies. The moves helped millions of people lower their loan balances and prevented borrowers unable to pay their loans from defaulting on Nonetheless,them.there has been a sharp increase in the number of people whose loan balances have stayed the same or have grown since the start of the pandemic.
The amount of student debt held in America is roughly equal to the size of the economy of Brazil or Australia.
One provision of the program involves an income cap: Debt relief may apply only to individuals or families who earn below a certain amount. The point of that provision, according to the White House, is to make sure no one who earns a high income will benefit from the relief.
“I understand that not everything I’m announcing today is going to make everybody happy,” Biden said on Wednesday. “But I believe my plan is responsible and fair.”
An independent analysis from the Wharton School of Business showed that households earning between $51,000 and $82,000 a year would see the most relief — regardless of whether an income cap were applied. This is in part because more people at middle-income levels hold student Millionsloans.ofpeople stand to benefit from the relief, but Biden’s announcement kicked off a heated debate about its merits.
The toll of US student debt
The rising cost of college has come at a time when students receive less government support, placing a greater burden on students and families to take out loans in order to fund their education.
According to the plan, borrowers will be eligible for $10,000 in debt relief as long as they earn less than $125,000 a year or are in households earning less than $250,000. (Income will be assessed based on what borrowers reported in 2021 or 2020.)
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Funding from states in particular has steadily declined, accounting for roughly 60% of spending on higher education just before the pandemic, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute, down from around 70% in the 1970s.
By ELLA KOEZE and KARL RUSSELL
To address the growing crisis, President Joe Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to wipe out significant amounts of student debt for millions of people. It was a step toward making good on a campaign promise to alleviate, as Biden has said, an unsustainable problem that has saddled generations of “TheAmericans.burdenis so heavy that even if you graduate,” he said, “you may not have access to the middle-class life that the college degree once Theprovided.”typical undergraduate student with loans now finishes school with nearly $25,000 in debt, an Education Department analysis shows.
On Wednesday, Biden announced that the pandemic-era pause on payments would expire at the end of the year. He also reiterated his commitment to providing relief, in particular to lower- and middle-income households. How exactly to do that has been a topic of debate inside the White House and out.
Beginning with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit early this month, a succession of American delegations have kis sed the ring of top Taiwan chip executives. There’s much to gain. In recent years, Taiwan’s biggest chipmaker, Taiwan Semicon ductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, has pledged to open new factories in the United States and Japan. The Taiwan chip design firm MediaTek recently partnered with Purdue University to open a chip design center.
Dieter Ernst, a senior fellow at the Center for International Go vernance Innovation who studies the semiconductor indus try, said of Taiwan’s leaders. “But from the perspective of the Taiwanese economy and most Taiwanese companies, they need to retain a link — and hopefully as close as possible a link — with AnalystsChina.”debate how much protection China’s reliance on Taiwan gives it. Some argue that calculations over supply chains are insignificant in a decision over war, which could bring un told devastation and reshape geopolitics.
trading partners — which include Chi na, the United States, Europe and Japan — have different ideas about the self-ruled island’s political future, yet all share com mon ground in one desire: to expand their piece of its cuttingedge semiconductor industry.
Although many in the semiconductor industry would look to the United States for support in the event of a conflict with China, they balk at the impracticality of building new factories in the United States, which is costlier and lacks supporting indus tries. Chang has repeatedly and publicly made the point.
Tech companies on both sides of the Pacific now rely he avily on TSMC to craft the high-performance chips that render graphics in video games and give smartphones their smarts, but that also guide missiles and analyze oceans of military data. That has turned TSMC, whose name is obscure to most consumers, into a vital strategic asset for both Washington and Beijing. During the geopolitical drama of the past month, the power of TSMC and the rest of the island’s chip supply chain has been clear. On Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, she met with TSMC CEO Mark Liu and its storied founder, 91-year-old Morris Chang. A separate delegation led by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., met with the company to discuss investments and improving se miconductor supply chains.
TSMC has maneuvered in the narrow space between Ame rican and Chinese interests. It is building new production facili ties in Japan and in Arizona, even as it expanded the capacity of its factory in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. But, critically, the vast majority of its most advanced production happens in Taiwan, where TSMC continues to build its leading-edge pro duction facilities, called fabs. Seen one way, this web of dependencies helps keep the peace. China’s reliance on TSMC and other Taiwanese chip companies deters the Communist Party from invading the island. The United States’ dependence on the same know-how gives its military support for Taiwan additional credibility.
“Right now, they’re moving very much toward the U.S.,”
“TSMC is in the eye of the storm,” he said. “Sometimes what seems to be the most dangerous place can be the safest.”
China’s new bellicosity, which crescendoed this month with a week of missile tests and fighter incursions, has steadily pushed the island’s sympathies away from China.
For all of her feting of American delegations, Tsai and the semiconductor industry she seeks to protect face a precarious balancing act. Many Taiwanese businesses — TSMC included — rely on China for their livelihoods, even if they support Tsai in standing up to Beijing’s pugilistic behavior.
Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, told one group that she saw the island’s tech prowess as a means of shoring up support for its democracy. Calling economic security a “pillar” of natio nal security, she said Taiwan was willing to work with partners to build sustainable supply chains for what she called “demo cracy chips.”Chinese state media sniped at the efforts, calling Pelosi’s meeting a “photo op.” Still, in an indicator of how important Taiwan’s chips are, it did little to hit back at the company.
‘The eye of the storm’: Taiwan is caught in a great game over microchips
The calculation begins from a basic, and unsettling, reality of the global economy. Taiwan is the biggest producer of the world’s most advanced chips. It is also rapidly becoming one of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints. The fear is that in the event of a conflict, firms won’t get the microchips they need to make phones and drones, set up supercomputers and cellular networks, and even build new weapons.
Taiwanese navy ships in Keelung, Taiwan, Aug. 5, 2022. Worried about the Chinese threat to Taiwan, the U.S. and others have tried to expand their piece of the island’s semiconductor production.
Nonetheless, few deny that Taiwan’s centrality in the supply chain makes such considerations a factor, a concept ge nerally referred to as the “silicon shield.” An invasion of Taiwan would mean a form of mutually assured destruction, not neces sarily of the world, but for the many modern gadgets we use every day.That does confer a dose of security, said Jason Hsu, a for mer Taiwan legislator and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School focused on technology.
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By PAUL MOZUR, JOHN LIU and RAYMOND ZHONG As Chinese warships rehearsed a blockade of Taiwan this month, they simulated a scenario that global leaders and policymakers have been busy worrying about: not war, but a grinding halt to the electronic supply chains that make the modern world Taiwan’srun.biggest
In the event of a military conflagration, Taiwan’s impor tance to global chip supplies also means the damage to all sides — and to the wider world’s digital infrastructure — is hugely amplified. Not for nothing do people in Taiwan call TSMC their “sacred mountain, protector of the nation.”
“You have to worry that those interdependencies look very significant, in peacetime, to the people who are embedded in those relationships,” said Richard Danzig, who served as Navy secretary under President Bill Clinton. “But when the momen tum for war begins to develop, it tends to swamp those things.”
A remote stretch in the Inneruulalik area of Greenland, Aug. 22, 2021. Neo Performance Materials of Canada announced a deal to begin mining in Greenland for rare earth metals, which are a key component for electric cars.
By KEITH BRADSHER
Dozens of mostly small companies mine rare earth ore around the world and do some initial processing to remove dirt. But only two commercial-scale factories outside China perform the difficult task of chemically separating semi-processed ore into usable material for magnets in electric car motors and other applications.
Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO of Neo, said his company planned to start mining and processing ore in Greenland in two to three years, with full production in about five years. The semi-processed ore will be shipped to Neo’s chemical separation factory in Estonia, a former Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea in Eastern Europe.
Rare earth metals are essential for the manufacture of a broad range of modern products, including electric car motors, offshore wind turbines and smart bombs. Demand has soared as automakers switch more of their production to electric vehicles.
“I want the flexibility to feed 100% of my own production, or 50% my own and buying in the market,” Karayannopoulos said. Having a reliable, in-house source of raw material will make it possible to sell rare earths at fixed prices on long-term contracts with automakers, making the deployment of electric cars easier and more financially predictable, he added. Neo is also preparing to start building this winter a factory in Estonia that will turn processed rare earths into magnets for electric car motors. With European automakers shifting production quickly toward electric cars, the European Union is offering financial assistance for the creation of a minesto-magnets supply chain within Europe for rare earths.Although Greenland is geographically part of North America, it is an autonomous district of Denmark, a member of the EU.
Rare earth metals have been a highly visible industry ever since China halted exports to Japan for two months in late 2010 during a territorial dispute.
Neo is not the first company to try to mine rare earths in Greenland. A consortium including a Chinese state-owned enterprise tried to open a mine at the southern tip of Greenland several years ago, at a rare earths deposit that also holds considerable uranium. That project was blocked by local opponents and regulators worried about the risk of radioactive contamination of the environment.DonHains, a Canadian geologist who has advised Hudson Resources in Greenland and will now become a consultant to Neo, said the deposit in Sarfartoq being acquired by Neo had 97% less radioactive material per ton than the deposit at the southern tip of Greenland.
The United States and Australia are roughly tied for a distant second in mining. Almost all of the U.S. ore is mined in California and goes to China for processing, although a little is produced in Florida and processed in Utah. President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced plans in February to subsidize the restarting of chemical separation in California.
Rare earths are essential but mostly used in trace amounts, so the actual value of the industry is small. Industry analysts put the worldwide value of rare earth ore sales at about $2 billion, and the value of completely processed magnetic powders and other rare earth materials at nearly $8 billion.Neo said it would make an initial payment of just $250,000 to Hudson for the mining rights, followed by $3.25 million once the Greenland government approved the transaction. Karayannopoulos said he had discussed the plan with officials in Greenland before making the deal, and was optimistic that it would not be blocked like the separate, Chinese-backed project.
Neo’s goal is to free itself of the need to buy ore at world prices. These prices fluctuate more widely than most commodities, surging up to 10-fold during periods of geopolitical tensions before crashing once tensions ease.
Neo is setting up a new subsidiary to make the purchase, and agreed that Hudson would have the right to 5% of the proceeds from a sale or initial public offering of the subsidiary within five years.
That has left China as the world’s main miner and separator of rare earths. Russia is the fourth-largest miner of rare earth metals.
One of the world’s last processors of rare earth metals outside China is buying mining rights in Greenland to reduce dependence on Russian ore and stabilize prices, in the latest move by Western companies to diversify supply chains after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Sarfartoq deposit, on Greenland’s western coast, is also considerably smaller than the one at the southern tip of Greenland. But Karayannopoulos said the Sarfartoq deposit still had enough rare earths to meet Neo’s entire worldwide processing needs for at least 30 years, and possibly for a century if further drilling at the edge of the deposit confirms further rare earth ore. Ocean currents along the west coast of Greenland keep it free of ice through the winter, making it easier to ship semi-processed ore to Estonia, Hains said.
A supplier of rare earth metals turns to Greenland in a bid to cut reliance on Russia
GM saw little potential then in electric cars and disposed of the operation in 1996.
The factory in Estonia currently buys three-fifths of its rare earth ore from Russia and the rest from Utah. The West has imposed many sanctions and other restrictions on companies and exports from Russia, but not yet on rare earth metals.
Neo said recently that it was acquiring rare earth mining rights in Greenland from Hudson Resources, a tiny mining company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The acquisition is the first move into rare earth mining by Neo, whose Magnequench division is the corporate descendant of a former General Motors subsidiary that pioneered many modern magnetic applications of rare earth metals in the 1980s.
Carmakers in the United States are only starting to make the same demands as European carmakers for a mines-to-magnets supply of rare earths near their assembly plants. GM announced plans in December to buy magnets for electric motors from a factory to be built in Texas that would use rare earths from KarayannopoulosCalifornia.predicted that the U.S. auto market would evolve in the same direction as
Toronto-based Neo Performance Materials buys semi-processed ore from Russia, the United States and Australia and does the chemical processes at factories in Estonia and China. Another company, Lynas, mines rare earth metals ore in Australia and does the chemical processes in Malaysia.
Radiation levels at Sarfartoq are “less than what you would find sitting on granite boulders beside the ocean in Maine,” he said.
Rare earths, a group of 17 elements near the bottom of the periodic table, are not radioactive, but radioactive contaminants like uranium and thorium occur naturally in rare earth deposits. Controversies over how to dispose of those contaminants have led to the shuttering of rare earth separation factories over the past 40 years in Japan, Australia, France and the United States.
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“OnceEurope’s.weprove this out in Europe, I want to do the same thing in North America,” he said.
The CBOE Volatility index, widely dubbed Wall Street’s fear index, rose to its highest since mid-July. The euro STOXX volatil ity index, the European equivalent, jumped to its highest level in six“Chairweeks.Powell and the Fed make it crystal clear that their job fighting inflation remains unfinished,” researchers at Mor gan Stanley said in a note to clients. “The path for stocks from here will be determined by earnings, where we still see material downside.”
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The S&P 500 index fell 0.66% to its lowest in a month after a day of choppy trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1%.
Much might depend on what U.S. August payrolls figures show this Friday. Analysts are looking for a moderate rise of 285,000 following July’s blockbuster 528,000 gain.
Rate fever
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said at the Jackson Hole symposium on Friday the Fed would raise rates as high as needed to restrict growth, and keep them there “for some time” to bring down inflation running well above its 2% target.
As investors hunkered down for front-loaded rate hikes, key gauges of equity market volatility shot up.
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“The message from Jackson Hole was loud and clear and not what markets were expecting,” said Nordea chief analyst Jan von Gerich. “Central banks need convincing evidence that inflation is coming down. That is bad news for the economy and risk ap petite and raises the risk of a deeper recession if we get more rapid rate hikes.”
European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel added to market unease. She warned on Saturday that central banks risk losing public trust and must act forcefully to curb inflation, even if that drags their economies into a recession.
World stocks slumped on Monday as the growing risk of more aggressive U.S. and European interest rate hikes inflicted more pain on bond markets and pushed the dollar to new 20-year highs, as recession fears mount.
Two-year U.S. yields surged to a high of around 3.49%, the highest since late 2007 and far above the 10-year at 3.11%. Yields also jumped across Europe.
European stocks fell 0.8% to their lowest in over five weeks, and Japan’s blue-chip Nikkei slid 2.7%. London markets were closed for a holiday, while MSCI’s world equity index fell 1% to a one-month low.
Investors ramped up U.S. and euro zone rate hike bets, with markets pricing in a greater chance of 75 basis point hikes from the Fed and ECB in September. Fed funds futures priced in as high as a 73% chance the Fed will hike by 75 basis points, and rates peaking at 3.75% to 4.0%.“Markets are focusing on discussing the message of ‘coor dinated tightening’ from Jackson Hole as ECB and Fed appear to have re-committed to creating price stability: yields are shooting higher and risk assets are quite a bit lower since last week,” said Lars Sparreso Lykke Merklin, senior analyst at Danske Bank.
Investors waking up to the reality that rates would remain high even as recession risk grows sold off risky assets.
But negotiations to allow access for a team of scientists went on for weeks, with Russia reportedly insisting that inspectors travel through Russian territory to access the plant. Ukraine objected to that because it would have underscored Russian control over the facility, which provides 20% of Ukraine’sDuringelectricity.anemergency U.N. Security Council meeting last week, Ukraine, the United States and their allies accused Rus sia of peddling lies about who is responsi ble for the danger at Zaporizhzhia. Russia levied similar charges at them. All sides agreed that experts from the IAEA should visit the plant, a sprawl of cooling towers, nuclear reactors, machine rooms and ra dioactive waste storage sites. The plant has come under sporadic shelling since early August, although the extent of the damage remains unclear. It was temporarily disconnected from the nation’s power grid last week for the first time, Ukrainian officials said, after fighting severed one high-tension electrical line. Operators implemented emergency procedures to cool the reactor cores with pumps powered by diesel generators, but nearly all the Russia-occupied cities of southern Ukraine saw large-scale power outages before the electrical line was re paired.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens kyy said last week that the episode had brought Ukraine perilously close to disas ter, making the need for a visit by interna tional inspectors all the more pressing.
Ukrainian service members riding back from a position near the Kherson front line this month.
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and THOMAS
Zelenskyy’s government has been un der pressure to begin a counteroffensive in tended to push Russian troops from Kherson and the western bank of the Dnieper River before the rainy season leaves fields muddy and impassable or European support wavers amid rising energy prices. Ukraine has sig naled the start of offensive operations multi ple times since May, though with little land changingZelenskyyhands.vowed Monday evening that Russian soldiers would be pushed back to the country’s borders, reclaiming separatist territory and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014. Invading forces should flee, or surrender, he said.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen next and how, but so far all goes according to the plan,” he said in a text message.
ropean Union and the United Nations have called for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the six light-water reactors. Ukraine and Russia have each accused the other of attacking the plant, which is Europe’s largest.
Officials from the United States, the Eu
The IAEA had pressed for weeks for a visit to the Zaporizhzhia plant, where she lling has damaged parts of the facility and raised fears of a nuclear meltdown. The plant is controlled by Russian forces but operated by Ukrainian engineers.
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The reports of intensifying fighting came as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that a team of nuclear experts would visit the Za porizhzhia nuclear power plant, which lies north of Kherson. An official familiar with the agency’s plans who spoke on the condi tion of anonymity said the IAEA team would arrive there Wednesday at the earliest.
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It remained unclear if this was the start of the southern counteroffensive that Ukrai ne has telegraphed for months, or a conti nuation of strikes in the south that Ukraine has been carrying out for the past several weeks.
A U.S. defense official lent support to the idea that Ukraine was escalating its offensive in the south, saying: “The annou nced offensive shows the Ukrainians’ ap petite for progress on the battlefield.” The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, added that the Pentagon remained cautious about whether Ukraine’s current military capabili ties were sufficient to make significant gains.
A Russia-installed official in Kherson initially denied an offensive was even ta king place, but Russia’s Ministry of Defense later acknowledged that Ukrainian troops had launched attacks in three directions — although it said those efforts had “failed mi serably.” The ministry said Ukrainian forces had suffered “heavy losses” in the attempt, but it provided no evidence to support those claims.Junior Sgt. Dmytro Pysanka, a Ukrai nian soldier stationed on the Kherson front, said “our offensive is ongoing.”
“If they do not listen to me, they will deal with our defenders, who will not stop until they liberate everything that belongs to Ukraine,” he said.
UN experts head to Zaporizhzhia facility after weeks of talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address. “You won’t hear spe cifics from any truly responsible person. Be cause this is war. And this is what it is during the war.”Thespokesperson for the southern mi litary command, Nataliya Gumenyuk, said Ukraine had begun “offensive actions on many directions” in the south. She later issued a statement saying: “Every military operation requires silence,” and “everyone needs to be patient.”
“I want to emphasize that the situation remains very risky and dangerous,” Zelens kyy said. “That is why it is so important that the IAEA mission arrives at the plant as soon as Fearspossible.”ofapossible radiation leak if the plant is further damaged have prompted Ukrainian officials to start distributing po tassium iodide, a drug that can protect aga inst some radiation poisoning, to people living within 35 miles of the plant.
Experts with the United Nations’ nu clear watchdog conduct regular monitoring of nuclear sites around the world. And the IAEA has said that at Zaporizhzhia, its team would perform urgent safeguards, assess physical damage to the plant, determine whether the main and backup safety and security systems were functional and eva luate the staff’s working conditions.
military announced Monday that it had launched offensive operations in multiple areas along the front line in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, perhaps signaling the start of a broad and long anticipated counteroffensive aimed at retaking territory seized by Russia. Fighting along a swath of the front line escalated sharply Monday, according to Ukrainian military and civilian officials, and the Ukrainian government said that its mili tary had “breached the occupiers’ first line of defense near Kherson.”
Ukraine announces offensive operations across the south
Ukrainian officials were circumspect in their statements Monday. “Anyone want to know what our plans are?”
The Ukrainian military also claimed Monday to have struck a large Russian mili tary base behind Russian lines in the Kher son region, destroying it. It was not imme diately possible to verify the claims.
T he director general of the Interna tional Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that a support and assistance mission was now on its way and expected to be at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine later this week.
Last week, the IAEA’s director general, Rafael M. Grossi, had emphasized that “we can’t afford to lose any more time” before a visit.
“Nowhereoperation.inthehistory of this world has a nuclear power plant become a part of a combat zone, so this really has to stop immediately,” Bonnie Denise Jenkins, the State Department’s undersecretary for arms control and international security, told reporters in Brussels last week.
With new shelling in and around the plant on a near-daily basis and an exhaus ted and stressed team of Ukrainian engi neers tasked with keeping it running, the arrival of international inspectors was wi dely seen as an urgent step to verify the facility’s safe
Across the Kherson region — whose ca pital was the first major city to fall to Russian forces after President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February — electrical networks blinked out amid the fighting Monday, and Russian media reported evacuations from towns in the area.
More than 33 million people have been affected by record rainfall this summer, according to Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority.
Kremlin-appointed local officials in occupied territories are also preparing to hold tightly controlled referendums in which the outcome of the vote is preordained to justify an nexing those regions as part of the Russian Federation.
By JAMES C. McKINLEY JR.
There is no precise estimate of the total number of Ukrainians currently living in Russia and in the 20% of Ukraine’s territory that Russia is now estimated to control. Before Russia’s invasion, millions lived in the parts of eas tern and southern Ukraine now occupied by Moscow’s for ces, although many have since fled.
Record flooding has inundated spots all along the Indus River, which runs the length of the country, including at the Tarbela Dam in the north of the country and Kotri, a river side city more than 600 miles to the south. The Kabul and Swat rivers in northern Pa kistan have also seen extremely high water levels.Rainfall has been nearly three times the 30-year nationwide average, the disaster agency said Saturday. In Sindh province, which borders the Arabian Sea to the south, rainfall is nearly five times the average.
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dren, taking them from their homes into Russian territory. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has described the deportations as “one of Russia’s most heinous war cri mes.”
Pakistan hit by deadly floods of ‘epic proportions’
The decrees are the latest in a series of moves by the Kremlin that seem intended to knit the Russia-occupied te rritories in Ukraine’s east and south closer to Russia. Mos cow has been offering Russian passports to Ukrainians in those regions, asking people to use the ruble as currency and rerouting the internet through Russian servers.
Refugees from the separatist-held territories of eastern Ukraine seen at a temporary refugee shelter in Taganrog, Russia, Feb. 20, 2022.
P resident Vladimir Putin of Russia signed a pair of de crees over the weekend providing Ukrainians with fi nancial benefits and the right to work, widening the Kremlin’s efforts to integrate those now living in Russia and the territory it occupies.
By AUSTIN RAMZY D evastating floods have surged across Pakistan, overflowing riverbanks and bridges, inundating houses and fields and killing more than 100 people over the weekend, officials said late Saturday. The floods, which have been driven by unusually heavy monsoon rains, have killed more than 1,000 people since mid-June, the country’s National Disaster Management AuthoritySherrysaid.Rehman, Pakistan’s climate chan ge minister, called the flooding a “climateinduced humanitarian disaster” of “epic pro portions.”“Itis beyond the capacity of any one administration or government to rehabilitate and even manage the rescue and relief,” she said, calling for greater international assis tance. “We need all the help we can get.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said: “The magnitude of the calamity is bigger than estimated.” He wrote on Twitter that while a full picture of the destruction was still being compiled, the continuing rain had “caused devastation across the coun try” with loses comparable to catastrophic flooding in 2010. That disaster affected 18 million people and killed 1,985.
Russia has acknowledged that 1.5 million Ukrainians are now in Russia and has asserted that they were evacuated for their own Ukrainiansafety.andAmerican officials, however, have accu sed Russia of forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of people, including children. In July, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken estimated Russian authorities had “interro gated, detained and forcibly deported” between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 chil
Putin offers incentives to Ukrainians to come to Russia and stay
Syed Murad Ali Shah, chief minister of Sindh, said vast areas had been affected by flooding. “It seems like the entire Indus Ri ver has overflowed across Sindh,” he told Geo News, a television news broadcaster in Pakistan.Nearly 1 million homes have been da maged since mid-June, including more than 260,000 in the past day, the disaster mana gement agency said late Saturday.
From the start of the war, people from Russia-held te rritories in Ukraine have been moving in large numbers into Russia. Some evacuated willingly, fleeing the chaos and danger of the invasion, but others were deported or compe lled to move, Ukrainian officials have said.
In one decree, the president gave Ukrainian citizens the right to stay and work in Russia without a time limit or spe cial work permit, provided they meet certain requirements, including passing a drug test, state media in Moscow re ported.The other measure establishes a monthly pension of about $170 for people who have been forced to leave Ukrai ne since Feb. 18, a week before Russia launched its invasion and plunged the region into war. It also provides monthly pensions for disabled people and a one-time payment to pregnant women.
Rehman posted a video on Twitter from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in the northwest, that showed roaring floodwaters nearing the top of a bridge. The bridge had been rebuilt 5 meters higher — about 16 feet — after it was destroyed during record flooding in 2010, she said. “Now the water is inundating the brid ge,” she wrote. “They thought they were building back better by raising it much hig her.”
More than 33 million people have been affected by flooding this summer, the agen cy said, with more than 50,000 rescued and close to 500,000 now living in relief camps.
The most contentious segment of the train — Section 5 — will link the famous white sand beaches stretching from Cancún to Tulum in the Yucatán Peninsula. To minimize defo restation, construction was initially planned along a highway. But now it will snake through the second-largest jungle in the Americas, inhabited by endangered jaguars. The tracks will run above the world’s longest underground river and over hun dreds of unexplored caves that have been found to contain an cient ruins from the Maya civilization, the project’s namesake.
It is the largest of some $45 billion worth of major infras tructure projects that the Mexican leader has vowed to deliver, but that have yet to produce the economic or political benefits he promised.Thepresident
“He is abusing the national security decree to push through this project that has been murky from the beginning,”
The government also fired the civilian contractors who were building Section 5 and put the military in charge, further blocking it from public oversight. The Mexican military is not required to publicly release information on any project it un dertakes, unlike contractors.
Urbina and others involved in the injunction say they ini tially supported the Maya Train, hoping it would help revitalize southern Mexico’s hobbling economy. They say they only op posed the project when, in February, the government moved Section 5 to the jungle without doing legally required environ mental studies. That’s when they filed a lawsuit, prompting the injunction to stop construction.
The new route stretches across the soft limestone of the Maya Forest where the natural beauty of the area could pro ve dangerous, geologists warn. Thousands of caves riddle the naturally eroding limestone terrain like Swiss cheese, yet trains weighing up to 217 tons could cross directly over this unstable ground.Anearby highway, built on similar land, collapsed from the weight of cars and construction in at least two sections in recent
Explorers who found some of the oldest human remains on the continent in an underwater cave near Tulum said it took them months of dangerous diving to discover them. They wo rry about what could be destroyed as the government rushes to fill the caves with cement or pylons to build. The ancient Maya saw caves as openings to the underworld and often left artifacts in them.
“is not someone who listens,” said Gemma Santana Medina, a consultant on the project who resigned last year after criticizing the planning. She is one of several current and former officials who said the president has not heeded their“Hisexpertise.istruly a dictatorial vision,” she said.
Pitched as a means to reinvigorate the country’s poorest region and one of its least connected, the Maya Train is one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s crown jewels — a project on which he has staked his legacy.
Also at risk are undiscovered archaeological relics.
Guillermo D’Christy walks over the proposed course for Section 5 of the Maya Train line in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on May 26, 2022.
Government officials and engineers working on the plan said it needed up to 15 years to plan and execute, in line with railways of a similar size built elsewhere in the world. Instead, López Obrador gave the project four years. When he unveiled the plan in 2018, he said it was more than just a railway. The train would link southern Mexico’s main cities, each station creating a new urban center with sprawling commercial spaces that would be rented out to fund the project and boost the economy.
Initially the railway was supposed to be about 90% pri vately financed, attracting commitments from major Wall Street banks including BlackRock and Bank of America. Now, Mexico’s central government will foot most of the bill after the president decided that the interest rates investors were offering were too Now,high.there are major safety concerns hanging over Sec tion 5. After hoteliers complained about the traffic the construc tion was causing along the highway, López Obrador agreed to move the route to cut through about 70 miles of the Maya Forest, according to the Fonatur spokesperson.
Twisted tree trunks were plowed into high piles along a slash of freshly cut jungle, like thousands of discarded matchsticks as far as the eye could see. This path of defo restation in southern Mexico was recently cleared to make way for an ambitious government project: the Maya Train railway.
Over caves and over budget, Mexico’s train project barrels toward disaster
The government has already surpassed its budget without completing any of the planned seven tracks. The train could cost up to $20 billion, the president recently announced, nearly three times more than the initial estimate.
“Not a single tree” would be cut for the project, López Obrador had insisted.
But two years in, few of those pledges have held.
A “great detonator” for the south’s economy, a govern ment spokesperson for the lead agency called it. But the cargo and passenger train line, expected to be nearly 1,000-miles long, is shaping up to be the president’s most contentious undertaking yet. At the very least, it is wildly over budget, may not bolster the economy like it was promi sed to, and will be subsidized by taxpayers for years to come, analysts and project officials say. At worst, it could collapse into the ground because of rushed construction, government officials and project contractors warn. Despite many concerns raised by officials, advisers, scien tists and even the rail’s supporters, López Obrador has refused to slow the project down, hellbent on inaugurating it before his term ends in 2024.
“Our job is to work with difficult ground and find ways to build on it,” he said, adding that the airport terrain studies took up to six months. In contrast, the government started razing several miles of the jungle before doing any studies.
José Urbina Bravo, a biologist, said of the president.
More so, the project’s development ambitions have been scaled back in order to finish before the president leaves offi ce, according to a senior government official close to López Obrador who asked for anonymity to discuss the plans freely. The railway will no longer run through Mérida, the region’s largest metropolis and economic hub, or Campeche, another major urban center, a setback for the government’s promise to connect the region. Many of the commercial spaces that were designed to complement stations and help fund the Tren Maya’s future operations have also been quietly cut, according to the senior official. Without them, the train will likely be saddled with debt for years to come, the official and a contractor on the project warned.Aspokesperson for Fonatur, the government agency over seeing the Maya Train, challenged these assertions and insisted the train would spur growth in the peninsula and turn a profit.
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While the government did commission economic and en vironmental studies, the project has changed so many times that those findings are no longer relevant, according to officials working on the project. Such modifications, like changing the route seven times, were undertaken to speed up construction to meet the 2024 completion deadline, officials explained.
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The president promised the railway would be constructed in a cost-effective manner to save taxpayers a hefty bill, and would be built on existing rail track or road to preserve the Maya Forest’s fragile ecosystem.
The president said the decree would “provide continuity to a very important public work” that had been halted by “the pseudo-environmentalists financed by the United States gover nment.”The delays had cost the government time and money, López Obrador said, and would no longer be tolerated. Sec tion 5 did not plow through the jungle, he added, dismissing it as nothing more than shrub — contrary to ecologists’ as sessments, including one who advised the project.
Amid mounting domestic pressure, López Obrador in voked a national security decree in July to restart work on the Maya Train and shield it from scrutiny, after a court injunction halted construction over environmental concerns. A district court judge also ruled in the government’s favor this month to continue the work.
“Timeyears.and studies must be done well in advance,” said Zenón Medina-Domínguez, the former head of the College of Civil Engineers of Yucatán, who studied the ground before the construction of Cancún airport decades ago on similar terrain.
From the beginning, the Maya Train has been complicated by a president obsessed with delivering numerous large-scale legacy projects during his six-year term.
Locals outside the only supermarket in Wadeye, a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia, on Oct. 13, 2020.
“We are seeking a momentous change, but it is also a very simple one,” Albanese said in announcing the draft ballot question. “Enshrining a voice in the constitution gives the principles of respect and consultation strength and status.”Inthe month since, the prime minis ter has worked to build support for the referendum, consulting with Aboriginal leaders and even holding an unusual news conference Saturday in Sydney with Shaquille O’Neal. But the effort faces many challen ges. After decades of stalled discussions about Indigenous recognition, the pre vious two conservative prime ministers opposed a referendum, and the current conservative political opposition has not yet said whether it will support the proposal. A referendum has never suc ceeded in Australia without bipartisan backing.Critics have seized on the fact that Albanese has not yet fully explained what the Aboriginal voice would entail. He sought to answer the criticism Satur day, saying that while it would ensure that Indigenous people were consulted on issues that affect them, it would not “usurp”
The proposal is the result of a con sultation process undertaken in 2017 by Indigenous leaders with Aboriginal communities around Australia. They sought to find a solution for the power lessness, stemming from the history of colonization, that had entrenched di sadvantage in their communities.
AdvocatesParliament.saythe proposal would be both a symbolic and structural chan ge in a country that still struggles to acknowledge the bloodiest parts of its colonial history and the legacy of that past. What is the Voice?
Eddie Synot, a law lecturer at Griffith University who was involved in the proposal for the Voice to Parlia ment, said, “In Australia, there’s very much been an emphasis throughout our history on just assimilating into the rest of Australian society and forgetting the past.” The opposition Constitutional change is difficult in Australia. It can be done only through a referendum, one that requires a “double majority” — a majority of voters nation wide, as well as majority support in a majority of states. When Malcolm Turnbull, the pri me minister from 2015 to 2018, was in power, he said that there was not enough support among Australians to amend the constitution on this issue, as critics voiced fears that a Voice to Par liament would act as a “third chamber of Parliament.” His successor, Scott Mo rrison, made a similar argument.
Some Indigenous people say that no matter the details, a Voice to Parlia ment would not be enough.
Indigenous people’s lives remain drastically worse than those of other Australians and are even deteriorating in some areas. Indigenous people have shorter life spans and poorer health. The gap between Indigenous and nonIndigenous people is “actually widening in relation to incarceration, child remo val and suicide rates,” McGlade said. While symbolic gestures ack nowledging Aboriginal peoples are common in Australia, much of the po pulation is reluctant to do more. Last year, a proposal to include more Indi genous history in school curricula was slammed by the education minister at the time as promoting an “overly nega tive view” of Australia.
The Voice to Parliament, its suppor ters say, is a simple proposal.
By YAN WZHUANGhenCapt.
“What it’s saying is: You need to better include Aboriginal and Torres Strait people in political and legal de cision-making in their own affairs,” said Dani Larkin, the deputy director of the Indigenous Law Center at the University of New South Wales.
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Now, a newly elected Labor go vernment has started the process of re pairing the open wound at the heart of the nation. Last month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese kick-started the pro cess of holding a referendum to enshri ne in the constitution a body to advise the government on Indigenous issues, to be known as the Aboriginal and To rres Strait Islander Voice.
Given the absence of a treaty with Aboriginal peoples, “it was particularly cruel and unjust the way the disposses sion happened here, and the lack of re dress to this date has been appalling,” said Hannah McGlade, an associate professor of law at Curtin University and a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Referendum seeks to mend the open wound at Australia’s heart
That could be achieved, he said, by adding just three sentences to the constitution, creating a Voice to Par liament whose composition, functions and powers would be decided by Par liament.The simplicity of the proposal see ks to avoid the failings of Australia’s last referendum, in 1999, when a majority of the public supported the idea of ma king the country a republic but rejected the ballot question because of disagre ements about the new model of gover nance.But the lack of detail with the new referendum — whose date has not yet been set — has given critics an ope ning. A former conservative prime mi nister, Tony Abbott, said it meant that “a particular group will have an unspe cified say over unspecified topics with unspecified ramifications.”
Albanese, who became prime mi nister in May, took a different view. Be fore the election, he promised that his Labor Party would put the Voice to a referendum.Theissue was about “common courtesy,” he said, which dictates that “where you are implementing a poli cy that affects a group — in this case the oldest continuous civilization on the planet, something we should be proud about — you should consult, you should involve them.”
The brutal colonization that fo llowed has set the tone for how Abori ginal people have been treated throug hout the nation’s history. To this day, a treaty has never been signed with Abo riginal people, and they are not recog nized in the Australian Constitution.
“I really don’t see how this is going to bring justice to our people by pro viding advice,” said Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous senator. “We’ve had many, many advisory bodies.”
Still, she said, if the referendum fails, “it will set Australia back as a na tion, and it will have an impact on the health and well-being of First Nations people.”
James Cook sailed to Australia in 1768, he did so with instructions that he should “show every kind of civility and regard” to the land’s Indigenous people and get their consent before possessing their land. He did neither.
Let me dig more into the research led by Zia Wadud, an associate professor at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds in England. He and a colleague, Jeevan Namala, examined vehicle purchase information from 18 large cities in India, including Mumbai and Bangalore, in the years after on-demand ride services started in the country.
The research found that vehicle ownership in those cities is still increasing in the aggregate, but it is lower than it would have been if app-based ride services had never existed.
For many people, it can be very useful to summon a ride from an app. One question is whether ride services such as Uber and Lyft make us all better or worse off.
Transportation technology that works for everyone doesn’t happen on its own.
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In the U.S., the research on how the introduction of Uber and Lyft has affected car ownership is mixed. Most Americans already own cars, of course.
Today I want to tell you about new research in India that suggests that rides by app may contribute to the collective well-being there.
taking rides and everyone else, too.
The study controlled for effects like the cost of fuel and buying a vehicle. Wadud didn’t have an ironclad explanation for why this happened. Indians are already far less likely to have a car than people in the United States or China. And the major ride apps in India — Uber and Ola, an Indian company — often serve more like dispatch services for taxis than a way to connect individual car owners with people who want rides. So Uber and Ola may have increased the number of taxi-like rides that Indians take, but it didn’t produce the effect that researchers have found in China and Bangladesh.InChina, other studies have found that the introduction of on-demand ride services persuaded more people to buy cars — and in Bangladesh’s capital, more people bought motorcycles. One explanation from researchers is that those car and motorcycle owners wanted to earn money from offering rides. That is great for many passengers and vehicle owners, but it may have undermined other public goals such as encouraging less driving and more use of public transportation.
Can Uber be useful and do us good?
I asked Wadud what the public and elected officials in India and elsewhere should take away from his research. His bottom line was that the effects of transportation technology in our lives are not necessarily the same everywhere, and whether they do more good than harm is not predetermined. It is up to the public and policymakers to maximize the individual and collective good and minimize the harm.“The free market doesn’t address pollution; it doesn’t address congestion. The free market isn’t the solution to everything,” Wadud said. “We don’t want to cut people’s options, but we need to tell people that actions have consequences for someone else.”
It’s just one study, and it has limitations, but it found that in 18 large Indian cities, the introduction of on-demand ride services has reduced the number of people who own cars. That could, in theory, help India achieve public goals such as cutting deadly air pollution in big cities. The finding from India is a big deal, because we haven’t seen the same in the U.S. Despite hopes that Uber and Lyft could help reduce vehicle traffic, pollution and the number of miles driven in the U.S., research is showing that the opposite has happened, as I’ve written previously.
New research suggests that ride services in India might cut pollution.
A growing body of research is showing that the real-world effects of Uber and its peers are not uniform. In some cities or countries, rides by app might be part of the solution to slowing climate change, cutting traffic and encouraging more use of public transportation. But it might not get that way without elected officials and the public steering those technology services to serve the public interest.
There’s a flaw with measuring the effect of ride apps on car ownership, because it doesn’t necessarily say much about potential harm. Fewer cars owned might still result in more driving, pollution and traffic. In the U.S., Uber and Lyft have contributed to more traffic in many cities partly because ride service drivers rack up a lot of miles without passengers. Wadud told me that the data from India wasn’t good enough to study those other effects of ride services. Wadud also said that it could help India’s future if people find ride apps to be a good alternative to owning their own car or driving more. As countries grow richer, the pattern has been that more people buy cars and drive more. That can be great for individuals, but it may also produce more traffic and pollution and contribute more to climate change.
On Tech has written before about policies in New York to nudge how Uber and Lyft operate in ways that have increased driver pay and discouraged roaming around in traffic-clogged business districts. Other cities have regulated the safety of electric scooters to make sure they are good for people
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Por su parte, la senadora independentista, María de Lourdes Santiago, se mostró a favor de las medi das aunque dijo que las mismas no son suficientes. “Es amplísimo que el concepto de privatización con LUMA es un proyecto fracasado. Creo que se nece sita de la Asamblea Legislativa mucho más del gesto que presentan estas medidas legislativas. Me parece inconcebible que no tengan un plan trazado. Sin las medidas cuantificables de cuánto le ha costado al país los apagones de LUMA, entiéndase negocios y el propio gobierno con el apagón de Centro Médi co…Le voy a votar a favor de ambas medidas”.
S AN JUAN – EL CAPITOLIO (CyberNews) – El presi dente de la Cámara de Representantes, Rafael “Tati to” Hernández Montañez, y el superintendente del Ca pitolio, César Hernández Alfonzo, repudiaron el lunes los actos de vandalismo reportados en el Monumento al Policía Caído, ubicado en el lado sur de la Casa de las Leyes.“Sonlos mismos de siempre. Los que hablan de uni dad por un lado, pero por otro lado se ponen una cami sa negra y la rechazan. Los que hablan de respeto y no respetan. Los que hablan de cuidar nuestro patrimonio, y por otro lado lo dañan y lo vandalizan.”, sentenció Hernández Montañez en declaraciones escritas.
Entretanto, el senador independiente José Vargas Vidot resaltó que “todo el mundo está quejándose no hoy, hace mucho tiempo… [Por ello] es importante votar a favor, porque, al fin y al cabo, [es] un princi pio [para atender la situación de la energía eléctrica del PorPaís]”.su parte, el senador popular, Ramon Ruíz Nieves, cuestionó “¿Detrás de qué está LUMA, de lograr que cambiemos a un sistema eficiente o detrás del capital? Ambas resoluciones recogen lo que se ha hablado en las vistas públicas y recoge el sentir del pueblo … así que para muestra con un botón basta”.
Presidente de la Cámara y superintendente del Capitolio repudian actos de vandalismo contra monumento a
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“Estos actos representan un agravio a las familias de los policías que perdieron sus vidas en el cumplimiento de su deber. En estos momentos estamos realizando una investigación, de manera que podamos dar con los res ponsables de esta afrenta”, subrayó el presidente came ral, al tiempo que explicó que los vándalos utilizaron pintura roja. Por su parte, el superintendente del Capitolio, César Hernández Alfonzo, catalogó los actos como una falta de respeto a los familiares de los policías caídos. “La Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado provee espacios y libertades para ejercer el derecho a la libertad de ex presión. Todos tienen derecho a protestar y expresarse. Sin embargo, no hace ningún sentido dañar estructuras que son parte de nuestra ciudad. Mi exhortación a lo vándalos es a respetar los espacios históricos y simbóli cos. Ni los policías caídos ni sus familias merecen esta falta de respeto”, sentenció el superintendente. Hernández Alfonzo añadió que, de identificarse los responsables de estos daños deliberados, serán proce sados según establece la ley. Policías COVID-19
Por su parte, el senador del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, Rafael Bernabe, dijo que “vamos a votar a favor de las medidas y espero que se conviertan en antesala de la cancelación del contrato [de LUMA]… No queremos regresar al pasado, [pero] tenemos que transformar la manera en que está la AEE… La alter nativa debe ser la democratización de las agencias con participación de los trabajadores y trabajadores, porque son los que conocen las agencias”.
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S AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departa mento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 442 ca sos positivos confirmados, 1,411 casos probables y tres fallecidas fueron una mujer de 84 años de la región de Arecibo, con vacunas al día; una mujer de 86 años de la región de Mayagüez, sin vacunas al día; y un hombre de 60 años de la región de Ponce, con vacunas al día. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 13 de agosto de 2022 al 27 de agosto de 2022. La tasa de positividad está en 25.23 por ciento. Hay 286 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 46 están en intensivo. Mientras, 39 menores están hospitalizados y ningún menor están en intensivo. 22 adultos están en ventilador y ningún menor. Las personas con vacunas al día son 1,031,630 per sonas.Eltotal de muertes atribuidas es de 4,955.
Dalmau destacó que “cuando se firmó el contrato de LUMA Energy con la Oficina de Alianzas Público Priva das, que es la que contrata, dice la minuta que la discu sión para firmar ese contrato duró 25 minutos, así que puedo asumir que no se lo leyeron…si fueron tan rápido en firmar un contrato de 330 páginas para obligar a que una corporación privada se hiciera cargo de la transmi sión y distribución de la energía en Puerto Rico y que el documento de transición en los anejos del contrato tiene cuatro páginas…así de rápida fue la transición con cuatro páginas…así que yo pensaría, que en caso de una emergencia o cancelación la APP utilice como borrador estas cuatro páginas y algo más, y tenga un plan listo de transición. Así que por eso pongo 20 días”. Sobre la RCS327, el líder senatorial expresó que “después de una semana donde se han hecho vistas públicas en el Senado, en la Cámara, se han hecho denuncias, se han hecho manifestaciones, cuál fue el saldo. Descubrir que hay tres agencias que tienen responsabilidad sobre el contrato de LUMA. La Ofi cina de la APP, el Negociado de Energía y la Ofici na de Política Energética Estatal creada en el 2014 adscrita a la Oficina de Desarrollo Económico y que al día de hoy ninguna de las tres pueda certificar ofi cialmente si hay cumplimiento o incumplimiento del contrato”.
POR CYBERNEWS E L CAPITOLIO — Como parte de los trabajos de la Cuarta Sesión Ordinaria, fueron aprobadas las Reso luciones Conjuntas del Senado 326 y 327 de la autoría del presidente del Senado, José Luis Dalmau Santia go, para que en un término de 20 días la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) y la Autoridad para las Alianzas Público-Privadas (AAPP) presenten un plan de transición ante la posible cancelación del contrato a LUMA Energy.
Senado da paso a medida para establecer plan de trabajo ante posible cancelación de LUMA Energy
Misadventures with dimwitted or comically ra pacious aliens are secondary to careerism, resen tments and elaborate practical jokes among the crew.
By MIKE “SHALEtarTrek” got a head start in the televi sion-universe game. Four series, begin ning with “Star Trek: The Next Gene ration,” came out in succession and ran almost continuously from 1988 to 2005, well before the current iterations of the Marvel and “Star Wars” TV empires were in place. And then — nothing. A 12-year hiatus, du ring which Marvel got into TV with “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and Lucasfilm established its mo dern TV beachhead with the animated “Clone Wars” “Starstories.Trek” series began to reappear with “Discovery” in 2017, and there are now five con tinuing shows, the most the franchise has had at one time and — depending on what you count as a series, and how you define continuing — probably more than either of its main competi tors. But it still feels as if “Star Trek” were trying to catch up. Outside its loyal fan base, its shows don’t draw a lot of attention. Did you know that a new season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” premie red on Thursday? Didn’t think so. And that’s too bad, because the post“Discovery” shows, all streaming on Paramount+, embody some of the charms that have always made “Star Trek” a happy sci-fi indulgence. The live-action series — “Star Trek: Picard” and the newest, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” — pro mulgate the cosmic benevolence and earnest philosophizing that characterize the “Star Trek” universe without taking themselves too seriously or getting too tiresome (although “Picard,” in its recent second season, skirted the line). The ani mated series — “Lower Decks” and “Star Trek: Prodigy” — take franchise conventions and move them, affectionately and cleverly, outside the starship command structure where they usually reside.And under the stewardship of the producer Alex Kurtzman, the “Trek” lineup feels less engi neered, less fine tuned, than those of the com petition. There’s a calculation to the Marvel and “Star Wars” portfolios — an effort to appear edgy while alienating as few fans as possible — that can make watching the latest series seem like a mandatory school assignment. The throw-it-atthe-wall diversity of the “Trek” shows (which, of course, may be just as carefully calculated) makes each series feel more approachable, if less of a designated “must “Discovery,”see.”whose story has time-tra veled 900 years past the events of the original “Star Trek” series, is the veteran of the group at four seasons and counting. But “Strange New
In both cases, they’re female off-leads or coleads: in “Prodigy,” Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui), a massive being made of brick who is revealed to be a shy young girl, and Gwyn (Ella Purnell), the daughter of the story’s primary villain; in “Lower Decks,” Mariner (Tawny Newsome), a blindingly competitive ensign with mommy issues who is a sly analogue to hypermasculine protagonists like Kirk. When these characters confront their de mons, the comic machinations of “Lower Decks” and the child’s adventure of “Prodigy” may boldly go straight to your heart.
It’s not surprising that “Prodigy” and “Lower Decks” offer fresh takes on the “Trek” formulas; what’s less expected is that they are, at times, more moving and emotionally complex than the live-action shows. This might have to do with their provenance in talented creators outside the “Trek” sphere. But it also feels as if the me dium of animation, and the peripheral genres of kids show and comedy, provide a freedom that the makers of the live shows may not have.
embody the foundational “Star Trek” idea that you can save the universe by sitting at a desk and typing. (Sadly, Pike’s engage-the-warp-drive cat chphrase, “Hit it,” is the franchise’s lamest.)
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Worlds,” whose first season ended in July and was tremendously popular with the faithful, is the real standard-bearer. It’s the apotheosis of the packaged-nostalgia business these franchises re present: bringing back a character who had beco me a TV footnote, “Worlds” essentially recycles the original show’s formula, shame-free.
As you would expect, “Worlds” mirrors the original show’s weaknesses and strengths. The utopian ideas don’t run deep, and the dialogue expounding on them can be stiff at best, turgid at worst. The performances are serviceable, re flecting the one-dimensionality of the characters. But the space adventure is solid, and there’s a goofball audacity that is familiar and appealing. The aliens and brigands still look like summerstock extras, and the cannon fodder among the junior officers can still be discerned a mile off. A high point of the season was an episode in which the crew thought they were characters in a children’s fantasy book, and the cast got to ham it up even more than usual. The battle scenes still
“Picard,” which fetishizes Patrick Stewart’s performance as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in “The Next Generation” to the same degree that “Worlds” emulates the original series, started off with a noirish style and texture that set it apart. But its second season, predicated on the irritatin gly omnipotent “Next Generation” antagonist Q, was a Whichregression.leads to a proposition that may not sit well with old-school ‘Trek” fans but is bor ne out by the evidence: The most adventurous and engaging work currently being done in the franchise is in the two half-hour animated se ries, the heart-on-its-sleeve children’s adventure “Prodigy” and the raunchy adult sitcom “Lower Decks.”
“Prodigy,” whose first season ran this past winter, is rendered in dark, tactile, fast-moving 3D animation that feels far outside the “Trek” ca non. (The show was created by Dan and Kevin Hageman, known for the Lego series “Ninjago” and their work on the DreamWorks series “Tro llhunters.”) It adopts a definitively outsider point of view: A derelict starship is commandeered by a group of nonhuman escapees from a prison co lony, who are taught to pilot the ship and instilled with Starfleet values by a holographic drill ser geant in the form of Captain Janeway from “Star Trek: Voyager” (voiced by the original performer, Kate Mulgrew). Hologram Janeway’s lectures are smart franchise management, constituting a crash cour se in “Star Trek” basics for young viewers. Older fans can enjoy them, too, and will get even more enjoyment out of episodes like the inevitable Ko bayashi Maru training-exercise homage, which includes the recorded voices of the original-series cast members James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and Leonard“LowerNimoy.Decks,” whose third season will continue to arrive through October — all the “Trek” shows post episodes weekly — was crea ted by Mike McMahan, who was a writer and producer on “Rick and Morty.” It is the least “Star Trek”-like but perhaps the most “Star Trek”-besot ted show of the bunch.
And at nearly every moment, reference is made to the larger “Trek” universe in the amu singly earnest manner of toons who know they’ll never get to make a crossover episode with the live-action shows. Season 3 begins with a reveal that Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) is, like Cap tain Picard, a vineyard owner back on Earth. Cha racters from across the “Trek” universe drop by, providing voice work for the original actors, like J.G. Hertzler as the Klingon warrior Martok, now emceeing a fantasy role-playing game.
Anson Mount plays Christopher Pike, who was captain of the Starship Enterprise in the unai red original pilot of the first “Star Trek” series and is brought back as the captain in “Worlds,” set a decade before. (Mount also played Pike as cap tain of the USS Discovery in Season 2 of “Dis covery.”) Younger versions of iconic characters like Spock (Ethan Peck) and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) are on board; James T. Kirk (Paul Wes ley), Pike’s eventual replacement, makes a guest appearance in a time-travel story line. There is a broad arc involving Pike’s knowledge (gleaned in a Klingon temple during an earlier season of “Discovery”) of how he may die, but “Worlds,” like the original, is strongly episodic, with the En terprise finding trouble weekly at different planets or space stations or nebulae.
Both of the animated shows have central characters who are as interesting and sharply de fined as any in “Discovery,” “Picard” or “Worlds.”
Focused on a friend group of low-ranking crew members assigned to an obscure support vessel, “Lower Decks” practices a lighter version of the transgressive, cynical humor in “Rick and Morty.” (Or conversely, a more frenetic and su ggestive version of the humor in “Futurama.”)
Catching up with ‘Star Trek,’ the quiet franchise
The most adventurous and engaging work currently being done in the “Star Trek” franchise, our critic writes, is in its two animated series, including the raunchy “Lower Decks.”
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After Nichols appeared on the original “Star Trek” series, which aired from 1966-69, she began a decades long association with NASA. Starting in 1977, she helped promote the space agency and helped its efforts to recruit people from un derrepresented backgrounds. NASA has credited her with inspiring thousands of women and people from minority groups to apply to the agency, including the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and Charles Bolden, the NASA administrator from 200917. Mae Jemison, who became the first woman of color to go to space in 1992, often said Nich ols’ performance on “Star Trek” inspired her interest in the cosmos. After Nichols’ death, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that her “advocacy tran scended television and transformed“Nichelle’sNASA.”mission is NASA’s mission,” he said. “Today, as we work to send the first woman and first person of color to the moon under Artemis, NASA is guided by the legacy of Nichelle Nichols.”
Nichols, one of the first Black women to have a leading role on a network television series, died at age 89 from heart failure.
Celestis, a private spaceflight company that works with NASA, will carry her ashes on a rocket set to travel 150 million to 300 million kilometers (about 93,000 million miles to 186 million miles) into space beyond the Earth-moon system and the James Webb telescope.
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket will carry a portion of Ms. Nichols’s ashes, as well as cremated remains, DNA samples and messages of greetings.
Nichols’ son, Kyle Johnson, is providing a DNA sample to join his mother on the space journey. “My only regret is that I cannot share this eternal tribute standing beside my mother at the launch,” Johnson said in a statement.
As Uhura, the communications officer on the star ship USS Enterprise, Nichols was not only a pioneering actor, but she was also credited with inspiring women and people of color to join NASA.
T he ashes of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura in the original “Star Trek” television series and died in July, will be launched into space later this year.
Celestis said the rocket would launch into space and send a lunar lander toward the moon. It would then enter a stable orbit around the sun with the Ce lestis Memorial Spaceflight payload. At the end of the rocket’s powered burn and coast phase, the flight will become the Enterprise Station, which was named in tribute to “Star Trek.”
Some of the ashes of other “Star Trek” figures, and fans, will also be onboard the spaceflight.
For the Celestis spaceflight this year, the company is collecting tributes to Nichols from the public to be digitized and included in the flight.
Ashes of Nichelle Nichols are set for journey to deep space
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is set to carry more than 200 capsules containing ashes, messag es of greetings and DNA samples when it launches later this year from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into deep space.
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They include Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played Nurse Chapel in the original series; James Doohan, who played Montgomery Scott, the chief en gineer of the USS Enterprise; and Douglas Trumbull, who created visual effects for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” as well as “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “BladeGeneRunner.”Roddenberry’s ashes have been sent to space several times before, including in 1997 on the first Celestis spaceflight to carry ashes. The cremated remains of Timothy Leary, an LSD advocate, were also onboard that journey.
FitzGerald said that while vet erinarians were still not sure what the cause of the illness is, “the best guess” is that it is a new strain of parvovirus, a disease that particularly affects pup pies and causes bouts of bloody diar rhea and vomiting. The state has found some evi dence of parvovirus — which spreads from dog to dog, strikes in their gastro intestinal tracts and can be lethal. But when the dogs have been tested for that virus at the clinic, the tests have come back negative, FitzGerald said. “We have not spoken to this un til now because we really don’t know anything,” she said. “The only thing is to make sure your pets are vaccinated and, at the first sign of illness, get to the veterinarian.”Therehavebeen reports of infec tions in northern and central Michi gan, according to the Otsego County Animal Shelter. Rudi Hicks, the animal control director in Clare County, Mich igan, told the Clare County Cleaver last week that there was no treatment for the dogs’ ailments yet. She advised residents in the area: “Keep your dogs home. Don’t take them to dog parks. Don’t walk them.”
n unidentified illness has been sickening and killing dozens of dogs in Michigan in recent weeks, puzzling veterinarians who are racing to determine whether it’s conta gious and if there are treatments, local officialsMostsaid.of the affected dogs have been younger than 2. The Otsego County Animal Shelter in Gaylord, Michigan, reported that the illness had killed more than 20 dogs in the coun ty, some within a few days of showing symptoms. Those symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea and bloody stools, according to a statement from Melissa FitzGerald, the director of the shelter.
Dr. Nora Wineland, Michigan’s state veterinarian, said officials were at the beginning stages of investigating the “parvo-like” illness but the state’s laboratory only had four specimens to analyze, some of which did test posi tive for the “We’reparvovirus.reallyinthe early states of trying to understand what is going on,” Wineland said. “It could be that the test was unable to detect the parvovi rus, or it was too early in the infection perhaps, or it could be it’s a different strain. These are some of the things we’re thinking about.” Pet owners and clinicians are not required to report parvovirus to the state, and much of the reporting so far has been anecdotal, Wineland said. She said it was “definitely not time to panic” but for pet owners to make sure their dogs are up-to-date on their schedule of shots.
“It’s very weird. We don’t know what it is but it’s got people on edge,” he added.Eagle urged pet owners to “get help immediately” if they are worried about their dog. “The faster you take care of it, the better off you are,” he said.
An unidentified illness is killing dogs in Michigan, officials say
In an undated image provided by Dave Eagle, Smokey, a 10-month-old silver Labrador retriever who experienced symptoms that left him lethargic. An unidentified illness has been sickening and killing dozens of dogs in Michigan in recent weeks, puzzling veterinarians who are racing to determine whether it’s contagious and if there are treatments, local officials said.
Dave Eagle, a Gaylord resident, said his 10-month-old silver Labrador retriever named Smokey, who is fully vaccinated, began showing symp toms about three weeks ago. Instead of Smokey being his usual “ball of en ergy” self, he was lethargic and vomit ing. “One day we woke up and he did not want to do a whole lot,” Eagle said. “Being a 10-month old Lab and being very energetic, he was not with it.”
“Cleaning up after your pet pro tects the next pet,” she said. “Dogs love to sniff that.”
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“If a dog is vaccinated, they will be in a much better place and less like ly to get severe disease and need sup portive treatment to keep them alive,” she said.Parvovirus is “very hardy” and “highly transmissible,” Wineland said, especially if dogs have a questionable vaccination history or are too young to be vaccinated. Parvovirus is a fecaloral illness and spreads through dogs’ waste so it is especially important for them to be fully vaccinated, she said.
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What followed were multiple visits to Smokey’s veterinarian and the veteri nary hospital at Michigan State Univer sity, where he spent the day receiving “just about every test known to man,” including an ultrasound, and nothing came up. Doctors put him on a special diet of chicken and rice, and Smokey is now bouncing back, Eagle said.
“It’s been over $2,500 in vet bills, plus time away from work to travel to vets,” he said. “Not to mention the stress and lack of sleep dealing with it all. It’s been stressful, especially for my kids. He’s their best bud.”
Monkeypox got its name in 1958, after researchers first identified it in a colony of laboratory monkeys in Denmark.
Why experts want to rename monkeypox
Thewrote.WHO has acknowledged the problem. In June, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organi zation would work with experts to find a new name, and last week, it issued a pub lic call for suggestions. But many experts have grown impatient, saying the process has been too plodding given the disease’s rapid advance, which has now reached 92 countries, according to the WHO.
Many scientists have taken matters into their own hands and have begun us ing abbreviations such as “hMPXV” and “MPV” when writing or talking about the disease. There has been some progress in one aspect of the monkeypox nomencla ture: A group of experts convened by the WHO agreed to rename two monkey pox virus variants, or clades, replacing geographical references — Congo Basin clade and West African clade with Ro man numerals (Clade I and Clade II).
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By ANDREW JACOBS Are monkeys spreading monkeypox to humans?Researchers say the answer is no. But recently in Brazil, the unfounded fear that monkeys transmit the virus to people has spurred an outbreak of vio lence against marmosets and capuchin monkeys, leading to the death of at least seven animals, according to Brazilian of ficials. The stoning and poisoning of wild primates in Brazil is an especially lurid example of how an inaptly named dis ease can have real-world implications. Just as the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 was not born on the Iberian Penin sula, the spread of monkeypox has little to do with monkeys. In fact, scientists say that rodents are the most likely animal reservoir for the virus, which is a cousin of smallpox that made its first recorded leap to humans decades ago in Congo. But in 1958, when Danish scientists first identi fied the virus in a colony of lab monkeys, they decided to bestow the naming honor on their captive primates. In the three months since the first cases of monkeypox were reported in Europe and the United States, pub lic health experts have been urging the World Health Organization to come up with new nomenclature that might help to clear up any confusion and reduce the shame and stigmatization associated with a disease that has been spreading largely among men who have sex with men.
“Names matter, and so does scientif ic accuracy, especially for pathogens and epidemics that we are trying to control,” said Tulio de Oliveira, a bioinformatician at Stellenbosch University in South Africa who has been among those pushing the WHO.In June, de Oliveira and more than two dozen other scientists from across the African continent published an open letter urging the organization to move quickly. Failure to do so, they warned, risked hamstringing efforts to contain the disease.The letter also condemned media coverage of the outbreak, noting that some Western outlets had been using photos of lesion-pocked Africans to illus trate an outbreak that was almost entirely affecting white men. Many articles have also been wrongly describing the virus as “endemic” to Africa, they wrote. In fact, before the current global outbreak, human-to-human transmission in Africa was relatively uncommon, with most in fections occurring in rural areas among people who had direct contact with wild animals. “In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing,” the au thors
Monkeypox is more than just a mis nomer. Many experts say the word evokes racist stereotypes, reinforces offensive tropes about Africa as a perilous, pesti lence-filled continent and abets the kind of stigmatization that can prevent people from seeking medical care. Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, a public health expert in Nigeria, said the dynamic with monkeypox was reminiscent of the early days of the AIDS crisis, when Africa was unfairly implicated in the global spread of the disease and many people hid their ill ness and did not seek medical help. “I still remember all the people dying unneces sarily,” said Nsofor, who is senior vice president for Africa at the Human Health Education and Research Foundation. The fact that most of those recently infected with monkeypox are men who have sex with men only reinforces the fear and shame, especially in countries where homosexuality remains taboo and, in some cases, Stigmatizationillegal.surrounding a dis ease, he added, can have other insidious repercussions: National governments, worried about the impacts on tourism or foreign investment, can conceal out breaks within their borders. African ex change students living abroad can be shunned or ridiculed. The virus naming process, estab lished in 2015, seeks to “minimize un necessary negative impact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, profes sional or ethnic groups,” the WHO wrote at theButtime.these so-called best practices for naming new infectious diseases do not af fect existing names that critics say have negative associations with actual places and people, like Rift Valley Fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome and Ebola, the hemorrhagic fever named for a river in Africa.Changing existing virus names is another matter. The International Com mittee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which has a painstaking process for categoriz ing the multitude of known viruses, is re sponsible for assigning formal, scientific names. These are distinct from the com mon names of viruses.
Elliot J. Lefkowitz, a professor of microbiology and genetic bioinformat ics at the University of Alabama at Bir mingham and the organization’s data secretary, said it could likely take a year before the group’s members considered possible new names for the species into which monkeypox virus would be clas sified. Any new species name, he said, was likely to incorporate elements of the existing name to maintain a link with the past, a process separate from suggesting a new common name for the virus. “I don’t know of any virus name that’s actu ally been changed after it’s been used for years,” he said.
In a news conference last week, of ficials reported a 20% jump in cases over the previous week, with 35,000 cases, with the vast majority of infections con centrated in the Americas.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1 del bloque GG de la Urbaniza ción Los Colobos Park, ubicado en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área super ficial de 389.53 metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, con futuro desarrollo, en dis tancia de 13.569 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 102, en una distancia de 11.254 metros y un arco de 2.90 me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 2 del bloque GG, en una distancia de 28.00 metros y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número 101, en una distancia de 16.073 metros y 8.168 me tros y un arco de 2.90 metros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para vivienda. TRACTO: Se segre ga de la finca número 48901, inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 1441 de Carolina. The proper ty is identified with the number 59892 and is recorded at page number 94 of volume number 1469 of Carolina, in the Regis try of Property of Carolina, Se cond Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recor ded at page number 94 of vo lume number 1469 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, Second Section, third inscription. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFO RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on OCTOBER 7, 2022 at 9:40 AM and the mi nimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $247,750.49. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on OCTOBER 14, 2022 at 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $165,166.99. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on OCTOBER 21, 2022 at 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $123,875.25. Upon confirmation of the sale, an or der shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particu lars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 9 day of Au gust 2022. JOEL RONDA-FE LICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUA DILLA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICAACQUISITIONSECURITIESSTRUCTUREDTRUST2018-HB1
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Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2021CV01281. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA DEMANDADA,PARTEAL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL GENERAL:PÚBLICO Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Aguadilla, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en públi ca subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en la Oficina de Al guaciles ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, el 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Marbella sita en el Barrio Borinquén del tér mino municipal de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, marcado con el cuarenta y tres (43) en el pla no de dicha Urbanización y con un área de trescientos ochenta y cinco punto sesenta y cinco (385.65 m.c.) metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco punto sesenta y uno (25.61 m.) metros con el solar cuarenta y dos (42); por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco pun to ochenta y ocho (25.88 m.) metros con el solar cuarenta y cuatro (44); por el ESTE, en una distancia de quince punto cero cero (15.00 m.) metros con la Carretera Borinquén; y por el OESTE, en una distan cia de quince punto cero cero (15.00 m.) metros con el solar cuarenta y uno (41). Enclava una casa destinada a vivienda. Finca número 8,636, inscrita al folio 28 del tomo 210 de Agua dilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La Hipoteca Re vertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 8,636 de Agua dilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, inscripción 11ª. Propiedad localizada en: A-43 URB. MARBELLA, AGUADI LLA PUERTO RICO 00603. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterio res o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $262,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de marzo de 2092. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes.
El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de 262,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, el 20 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se esta blece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $175,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $131,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, el 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑA NA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $121,612.74 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $71,539.17 en inte reses acumulados al 28 de enero de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $21,172.71 en seguro hipotecario; $1,128.90 en contribuciones; $704.20 en seguro; $425.00 de tasacio nes; $320.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en honorarios de abo gados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $26,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de aboga do, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles mandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad pertene ciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continua ción: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización La Estancia, situado en el Barrio Collores del término municipal de Las Pie dras, Puerto Rico, con el núme ro, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: So lar número veintiuno (21) de la Urbanización La Estancia de Las Piedras, con una cabida superficial de mil cinco punto cuarenta y siete (1,005.47) me tros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número veinte (20) de esta Urbaniza ción, en una longitud de treinta (30.00) metros; por el SUR, en el número veintidós (22) de esta Urbanización, en una lon gitud de cuarenta y cinco pun tos ochenta y tres (45.83) me tros y cinco punto cincuenta y dos (5.52) metros de otro en curva; por el ESTE, con la Calle número dos (2) de esta Urbani zación, en una longitud de treinta y uno punto ochenta (310.80) metros; y por el OES TE, con el solar número veinti trés (23) de esta Urbanización, en una longitud de veintiuno (21.00) metros. Inscrita al 172 del tomo 85 de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Huma cao, finca número 4,307. La finca 4,307 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecu ción se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma prin cipal de $253,000.00, con inte reses al 7% anual, vencedero el día 13 de enero de 2085, cons tituida mediante la escritura nú mero 210, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de mayo de 2009, ante la notario Ana V. Piñero Parés, e inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 298 de Las Piedras, finca número 4,307, inscripción 10ma. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gra vámenes: A. Hipoteca en ga rantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y De sarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $379,500.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el día 13 de enero de 2085, constituida mediante la escritura número 11, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de mayo de 2009, ante la notario Ana V. Piñero Parés, e inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 298 de Las Pie dras, finca número 4,307, ins cripción 11va. B. Aviso de De manda con fecha 14 de noviembre de 2018, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de Huma en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de agosto de 2022. GERAR DO MÉNDEZ VILLANUEVA, ALGUACIL PLACA #034. 01328 LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO SANTIAGO VIUDAPORSÁNCHEZSUCOMPUESTAGENAROPORVIUDACARMENCAPELES,SÍYENLACUOTAUSUFRUCTUARIA;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSOPERSONASCONINTERÉSENDICHASUCESIÓN;CENTRODERECAUDACIÓNDEINGRESOSMUNICIPALES;SECRETARIODELAVIVIENDAYDESARROLLOURBANO;ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2018CV01328. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil del Tri bunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Humacao, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumpli miento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 3 de junio de 2022 por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epí grafe, venderé en pública su basta y al mejor postor con di nero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con si milar garantía, todo título, dere cho o interés de la parte de
Defendants Civil No.: 3:16-cv-03149. PAD. Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLOCOLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY. WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $243,878.40 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since February 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to in surance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($24,775.04) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation.
cao, en el Caso Civil número HU20185-CV01328, sobre co bro de dinero y ejecución de hi poteca, seguido por Banco Po pular de Puerto Rico, contra Domingo Santiago Genaro; Carmen Sánchez Capeles y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Ga nanciales, compuesto por am bos, Seretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano; Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $307, 410.29, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 26 de junio de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, finca nú mero 4,307, Anotación A. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la hipoteca de $253,000.00, total o parcialmente. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 9 de abril de 2021. El importe de la Sen tencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe asciende a las siguien tes cantidades: $375,339.59 al 31 de diciembre de 2020. Dicha cantidad continuará acumulán dose a razón del 7% hasta el completo pago de la deuda. La demandada adeuda, además, una cantidad equivalente a $25,300.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, $25,300.00 para cu brir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y $25,300.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 12 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo mínimo: $253,000.00, suma pactada entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará la SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mí nimo: $168,666.67 dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Tipo Mínimo: $126,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local
LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD Plaintiff V. THE ESTATE OF A.C.C.MCABELLO-COLONRAFAELCONSTITUTEDBYANDRUBIMARIECABELLO-COLONASKNOWNHEIRSOFTHEESTATE
MALDONADOELBAMALDONADOVELAZQUEZT/C/CA.VELAZQUEZMALDONADOT/C/CELBAVELAZQUEZT/C/CELBAABADVELAZQUEZT/C/CELBAA.VELAZQUEZT/C/CELBAVELAZQUEZ;ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICA
Demandante Vs. ABAD
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00712. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN A: ALEX APONTEESPOSAALMEYDAGONZALEZYSUCAROLYNSALGADOYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALES de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada 5 de febrero de 2020 y notificada en este caso el 24 de febrero de 2020, y publicada en un periódico de circulación general de Puerto Rico (“The San Juan Daily Star”) el 28 de febrero de 2020, en el presen te caso civil, a saber la suma de $141,561.77 por concepto de principal; $825.91 por con cepto de intereses acumula dos, $110.16 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda recla mada en este pleito; y la suma $16,300.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Guay nabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $163,003.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $108,668.67, equiva lentes a dos terceras (2/3) par tes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $81,501.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho
Defendants Civil No.: 15-2723. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE. To: AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ, AND THE TWO,COMPOSEDPARTNERSHIPCONJUGALBYTHEANDALLPARTIESTHATMAYHAVEANINTERESTINTHEPROPERTY.
WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $663,971.78 of principal balance, plus in terest at a rate of 6.25% per annum since December 1st, 2008. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or ins tallments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortga ge deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($68,900.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attor ney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested par ties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementio ned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or cer tified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Car los Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar Marcado con el número cuarenta y cuatro (44) de la Urbanización Campos de Mon tehiedra, localizada en el Barrio Caimito de Rio Piedras, termino municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superfi cial de setecientos veintisiete puntos nueve mil quinientos cuarenta y cuatro (727.9544) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle Jun cal, en una distancia de vein titrés punto doscientos treinta y nueve (23.239) metros; por el Sur, con terreno de Acisclo González, en una distancia de veintitrés punto novecientos dos (23.902) metros; por Este, con el lote número cuarenta y tres (43), en una distancia de treinta y uno punto cero trein ticuatro (31.034) metros; por el Oeste, con los lotes cuarenta y cinco (45) y cuarenta y seis (46) en una distancia de trein ta y uno punto ochocientos veintinueve (31.829) metros. Enclava en este solar una es tructura de concreto reforzado y bloques de hormigón, para fines residenciales. number 21335, recorded at page 53 of volume 756 of Rio Piedra Sur, Registry of the Property of San Juan, Section IV. Phy sical Address: 744 Juncal St. Los Campos I, De Montehie dra, Barrio Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is un derstood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is un derstood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (ex press, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibi lity for the same and the bid pri ce shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on OCTOBER 12TH, 2022, AT 3:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $689,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the pro perty is not adjudicated, a SE COND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 19TH, 2022 AT 3:15 PM and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $459,333.33. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the OCTOBER 26TH 2022 AT 3:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $344,500.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United Sta tes District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 6th of July of 2022. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SO LÍS, SPECIAL MASTER. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAY NABO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESION DE ANA LUISA DIXON ITHIER NATAL T/C/C ANA DIXON ITHIER COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO INGRESOSHACIENDADEPARTAMENTOSECRETARIODESCONOCIDOS;HEREDEROSELHONORABLEDELDEDELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICOYELCENTRODERECAUDACIONESDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM)
The San Juan Daily Star 25Tuesday, August 30, 2022 COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RO DRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil de este Tribu nal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SA BER: Que el día 22 DE SEP TIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ca rolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi ofi cina sita en el lugar antes indi cado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar con el número Treinta (30) de la Manzana número Ciento No venta y Uno (191) de la URBA NIZACIÓN VILLA CAROLINA, Quinta Sección, radicado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, de TRESCIENTOS VEIN TICUATRO PUNTO CERO CERO (324.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar núme ro Veintinueve (29), distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número Treinta y Uno (31), distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número Ocho (8), distancia de trece punto quinientos (13.500) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Quinientos Vein tidós (522), distancia de trece punto quinientos (13.500) me tros. Contiene una casa de con creto para una familia. La escri tura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 1379 de Carolina, Sección Se gunda, finca número 33,864, inscripción novena. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 9na., se amplía en la suma de $7,689.14 para un nuevo principal de $139,266.14, con intereses al 4 ½% anual, ven cedero el día 1ro. de febrero de 2044, con un último pago de que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, advirtiéndose que el que obtu viere la buena pro de dicha pro piedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá re querir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del pro ducto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses de vengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sen tencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada con forme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pa garse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser deposita do en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entende rá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del in mueble y las cargas o graváme nes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsis tiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquie ra derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán compare cer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancela ción de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeu dada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abo nará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre taría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Humacao durante horas labora bles. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés ins crito con posterioridad a la ins cripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fija rá además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspa so al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanza miento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin ne cesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. El Registrador de la Pro piedad cancelará, libre de dere chos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y proce derá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en su basta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta ac ción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 3 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HER NÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVE RA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR #249. LEGAL NOT ICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V. AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ AND THE COMPOSEDPARTNERSHIPCONYUGALBYAMERICO MARTINEZ AND MARIA INESJIMENEZRODRIGUEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: D2CD2016-0384. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Guayanbo, Guayna bo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 22 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número setenta y seis, en el Bloque M dos, en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbaniza ción Luis Muñoz Rivera, radica do en el Barrio Los Frailes del término municipal de Guayna bo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos veinti cinco metros cuadrados y colin da por el NORTE, en veinticin co metros con el solar número setenta y siete del mencionado plano; por el SUR, en veinticin co metros, con el solar número setenta y cinco del mencionado plano; por el ESTE, en trece metro con la Calle denominada “Street number 3” del mencio nado plano; y por el OESTE, en trece metros, con el solar número cincuenta y siete del mencionado plano. Inscrito al folio 111 del tomo 103 de Guay nabo, finca número #9,254 Re gistro de la Propiedad de Puer to Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La propiedad ubica según pa garé en: 30 (76) Alborada St. Luis Muñoz Rivera Dev. Guay nabo, PR 00969. El producto norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de agosto de 2022. YAMIXA RAMOS CEBALLOS, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC Demandante Vs. ALEX ALMEYDAGONZALEZYSUESPOSACAROLYNAPONTESALGADOYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
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“F’; al Sur, en 31.50 metros, con el solar 8 del bloque “F’; al Este, en 13.00 metros, con la calle #2 de la misma urbanización y al Oeste, en 13.00 metros, con Quebrada Pesada. Enclava una casa construida de concre to armado y bloques para fines residenciales. Finca 13153, inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 247de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El abogado de la parte deman dante es: Lcda. Mariceli Perez Gonzalez, GARCIA CHAMO RRO LAW GROUP PSC, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tri bunal, hoy 23 de junio de 2022. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MI CHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION Demandante Vs. JUAN
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POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndo se el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese térmi no de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señala do, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha heren cia conforme dispone el Artícu lo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Repre senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ JORGE BIENESGONZALEZJORGEROMAN,ANGELAENIDVALENCIAROMANYLASOCIEDADDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS;YALEXISACOSTALUGO,KASSANDRARODRIGUEZCRUZYLASOCIEDADDEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
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Demandada Civil Núm.: LP2022CV00067. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S.S. A: VICTOR LUIS MERCED RODRIGUEZ, POR SÍ; CARMEN DELIA VEGA OQUENDO, POR SI Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsi va a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día del dili genciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representa ción legal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva
rantía, todo título, derecho o in terés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente pro piedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Nú mero de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIEN DA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-203 SEMANA 36. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Lo cated in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special pro perty right to the above men tioned Unit A-203 and includes the right to use such unit during the 36 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 36 Saturday of each calendar year and en ding at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, cou pled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a suc cessor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a spe cific week in Unit A-203 the use of the said unit during the des cribed time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exerci se, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right perta ins during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Ha cienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facili ties and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12,773, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 44 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociaton el importe de la Sen tencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las si guientes cantidades: $3,910.94 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de los elemen tos comunes correspondientes a la unidad A-203, semana 36. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2041, constituida mediante la escritura número 225-B, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2011, ante la notario Elyvet te Fuentes Bonilla, e inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1527 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 17,784, inscripción 12ma. Se le notifica a los acreedores poste riores anteriormente identifica dos para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se es tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $172,861.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #225-A, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2011, ante la notario Evlyvette Fuentes Bonilla, inscrita al folio 32 del tomo 1527 de Río Piedras Nor te, finca # 17,784, inscripción 11ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, el tipo míni mo para la primera subasta es la suma de $172,861.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni ad judicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $115,240.66. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la terce ra subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $86,430.50. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $149,809.99, con intereses al 4.50% anual desde el día 1 octubre de 2018; cargos por demora mensuales; las debidas cantidades de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipo teca hasta su completo pago; $17,286.10 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclama ción judicial; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en vir tud de la escritura de hipoteca, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipoteca rio. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les no tifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, esta rán de manifiesto en la Secre taría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la corres pondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las dispo siciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o to lerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 15 de agosto de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.
*** LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. JOSE RAFAEL VINALS PACHECO VIOLETA BASSAT PARES T/C/C VIOLETA BASAD PARES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandado(a) Civil: HO2021CV00097. (207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOSE RAFAEL VINALS PACHECO VIOLETA BASSAT PARES T/C/C VIOLETA BASAD PARES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de agosto de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MA GALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs, SUCESIÓN DE EDUARDO JOSÉ MEDINA, DE LA BAUME Y SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA
MEDINA
SILVIA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV00628. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EDUARDO JOSÉ DE Y SUCESIÓN DE MANSIONESMONTESERÍNMORALESMONTESERÍNT/C/CSYLVIAMORALESAMBASCOMPUESTASPORSUHEREDERACONOCIDAMARIADELOURDESMEDINAMONTESERÍN;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OPARTESCONINTERÉSENDICHASSUCESIONES.COND.DEGARDENHILLS,APT.J-1,GUAYNABO,PR00966.DIRECCIÓNPOSTAL:POBOX19238,SANJUANPR00910-1238.MARIADELOURDESMEDINAMONTESERÍN:3160KILLINGTONLNCINCINNATI,OH45244.
Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2022CV00712. (206). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: DORAL MASCORPORATIONFINANCIALH/N/CHFMORTGAGEBANKERS;FULANODETAL&MENGANOCUAL,MASTODOPOSIBLETENEDORDESCONOCIDO.
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Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE
MASCORPORATIONFINANCIALH/N/CHFMORTGAGEBANKERS;FULANODETAL&MENGANOCUAL,MASTODOPOSIBLETENEDORDESCONOCIDO
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual a través de! Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente dirección
PORBIENESSOCIEDADCASTAING,TORRESGLORIAMARREROYLALEGALDEGANANCIALES,ELLOSCOMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: TA2018CV01148. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que se me libró con fecha de 30 de marzo de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar ga puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de agosto de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 17 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SAN TANA IRIZARRY, SECRETA RIA. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS NOTES,CSMCTRUSTEE,INDENTUREFORTHE2015-PR1TRUST,MORTGAGE-BACKEDSERIES2015-PR1 Demandante V. VICTOR LUIS CARMENRODRIGUEZ,MERCEDPORSÍ;DELIAVEGAOQUENDO,PORSIYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
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Demandados Civil Núm.: DCM2015-1506. (500). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (REGLA 60). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR PLACA #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de abril de 2022, por la Secre taría del Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra ban caria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN HACIENDA DEL MAR efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estima re conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe es tán disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables y mediante acceso al sistema electrónico de los tribunales SUMAC. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito vi siblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Munici pio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la co mandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte deman dada copia del edicto de subas ta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION
Demandada Civil Núm.: CD15-0678. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR PLACA #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que se me libró con fecha de 23 de marzo de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar ga rantía, todo título, derecho o in terés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente pro piedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Nú mero de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIEN DA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: APARTAMENTO A-402 SEMANA 15. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. lo cated in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above men tioned Unit A-402 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 15th Sa turday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-402, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right perta ins during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Va cation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,202 inscri ta al folio 156 del tomo 241 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección tercera. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto sa tisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las si guientes cantidades: $7,430.16 por concepto de cuotas venci das y no pagadas, más inte reses al 4.25%, más $743.01 por concepto de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad in mueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se descri be a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivaca cional: CONDOMONIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamen to Multivacacional: UNIDAD B 208-SEMANA 39. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Lo cated in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special pro perty right to the above mentio ned Unit B 208 and includes the right to use such unit during 39 week of each year until Decem ber 31 of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 39 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a Suc cessor Club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B208 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Va cation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described in terval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affi liated resorts, as more fully des cribed in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common ex penses of vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vaca cional Hacienda del Mar, finca 14138 al folio 41 del tomo 257 de Vega Alta.” Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,649 inscrita por asiento abreviado al folio 3623 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección tercera, según inscripción 5ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen dente a las siguientes cantida des: $10,024.67, más intereses al tipo legal de 4.25%, $55.00 de costas del pleito y $1,000 por concepto de honorarios de abogado. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día totalidad de la cantidad adeu dada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribu nal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #888, ALGUACIL SU PERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION Demandante Vs. EVARISTO BIENESSOCIEDADLÓPEZSÁNCHEZ,CINTRÓNDALILAREYESYLALEGALDEGANANCIALES,COMPUESTAPORAMBOS
18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Ju dicial de Vega Baja, advirtién dose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del re mate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del in mueble y las cargas y graváme nes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsis tiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estima re conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre taría del Tribunal de Bayamón, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte de mandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribu nal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presen te edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #888, ALGUACIL SU PERIOR.
Demandante Vs. RAMON JOSE CISTERNAS CAMPOS, OLGA RIVERA CRUZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALES,PORAMBOS Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2018CV04921. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA # 888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 29 de marzo de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón, en el caso de epígra fe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar ga rantía, todo título, derecho o in terés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente pro piedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propie dad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIEN DA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-501 SEMANA 40. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Lo cated in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special pro perty right to the above men tioned Unit A-501 and includes the right to use such unit during the 40 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 40 Saturday of each calendar year and en ding at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, cou pled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-501 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vaca tion club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first come, first serve re servation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affi liated resorts, as more fully des cribed in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,313, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 52 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen dente a las siguientes cantida des: $9,083.65 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 501, semana 40. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:10 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tri bunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastan te el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el pro cedimiento, pudiendo adjudi carse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los au tos y todos los documentos co rrespondientes al procedimien to del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón, durante horas laborables y mediante acceso al sistema electróni co de los tribunales, SUMAC. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribu nal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA # 888, ALGUACIL SU PERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION Demandante Vs. JORGE DESOCIEDADMAYNAU,CODINACHMARIAROSARIOJARAMACARROYLALEGALGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmue ble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se descri be a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivaca cional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamen to: A-502 SEMANA 24. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados loca ted in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-502 and includes the right to use such unit during the 24 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 24 Saturday of each calendar year and en ding at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, cou pled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-502 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vaca tion club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first come, first serve re servation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affi liated resorts, as more fully des cribed in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,329 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 52 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen dente a las siguientes cantida des: $8,434.04 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeu dada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, durante horas laborables y mediante acceso al sistema electrónico de los tribunales, SUMAC. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito vi siblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Munici pio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la co mandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte deman dada copia del edicto de subas ta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR PLACA #888, ALGUA CIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION Demandante Vs. CRAIG JAMES HEINTZ, DAVID GIAMELLARO Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2018CV00747. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, de recho o interés de la parte de mandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte deman dada, la cual se describe a con tinuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACA CIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-703 SEMA NA 43. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sa bana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific va cation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-703 and includes the right to use such unit during the 13 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Not withstanding this specific vaca tion club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-703 the use of the said unit during the described time in terval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of ti meshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains du ring the above described inter val on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta des cripción de la propiedad corres ponde a la finca número 17,811 inscrita por asiento abreviado al folio 4724 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, inscripción 5ta. del Registro de la Propiedad Ba yamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen dente a las siguientes cantida des: $21,948.52 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:50 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estima re conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Se cretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables y mediante acceso al sistema electrónico de los tribunales, SUMAC. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito vi siblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Munici pio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la co mandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte deman dada copia del edicto de subas ta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AU XILIAR PLACA #888, ALGUA CIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,INC. Demandante Vs. LUIS RUBEN BIENESBENNETTCRESPO,MERCADERISABELFELICIANO,TAMBIÉNCONOCIDACOMOISABELMERCADER,YLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALES,COMPUESTAPORAMBOS
Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACA CIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: UNIDAD B-208 SEMANA 20. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadra dos located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special pro perty right to the above men tioned Unit B-208 and includes the right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and en ding at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, cou pled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-208 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vaca tion club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first come, first serve re servation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affi liated resorts, as more fully des cribed in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,642 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 70 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen dente a las siguientes cantida des: $21,131.62 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de di cha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adi ción a los gastos de la subasta,
Demandado Civil Núm.: JD2022CV00220. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. A: LUIS R. HERNÁNDEZ VERA, FUALAN DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS. POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la pre sente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publi cación por Edicto de este Em plazamiento presente su con testación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Juana Díaz, P.O. Box 1419, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico 00795 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Ama dor Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Telé fonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, con cediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citar le ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 17 de agosto de 2022. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secre taria. Doris A. Rodríguez Colón, Sub-Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE YABUCOA PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante Vs. FEDERAL CORPORATION;DORALENCOMOCORPORATIONINSURANCEDEPOSITSUCESORDERECHOSDEMORTGAGEJOHNDOEYRICHARDROECOMOPOSIBLESTENEDORESCONINTERÉS Demandados OWNERS ASSOCIATION Demandante Vs. CARLOS JOSÉ MERGAL CARDONA, MAYDA IGRI ROSADO ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALES,PORAMBOS
Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, AGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA #888, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 3 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, de recho o interés de la parte de mandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte deman dada, la cual se describe a con tinuación: Número de Catastro: siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por termina do el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estima re conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe es tán disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina, duran te horas laborables y mediante acceso al sistema electrónico de los tribunales, SUMAC. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribu nal de Vega Baja y, además, en la colecturía del Municipio de Manatí, por no haber colecturía en Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de agosto de 2022. Luis F. Ortiz Rosa, Aguacil Auxiliar Placa #888, Alguacil Superior. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE JUANA DÍAZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. LUIS R. HERNÁNDEZ VERA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS
Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV11584.
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TRIBUNALLLE,ENIDCRETARIARODRÍGUEZJuan,deyoírle.diocontra,ycación,excluyéndoselatérminoalonso@gmail.com,oficinabelmadentrodeldetreinta(30)díasdepublicacióndeesteedicto,eldíadelapubliseleanotarálarebeldíaseledictaráSentenciaensuconcediendoelremesolicitadosinmáscitarleniEXPEDIDObajomifirmaelsellodelTribunal,hoy,18agostode2022,enSanPuertoRico.GRISELDACOLLADO,SEREGIONAL.LUZFERNÁNDEZDELVASECRETARIAAUXILIARI. Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03898. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ROHENARODRÍGUEZEDGARDOVARGAS,MARITZAVARGASYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESPORESTOSCOMPUESTA. LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación ge neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publica ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES SUN WEST COMPANY,MORTGAGEINC.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: MILENA CRUZ, COMO HEREDERA DE RUBÉN CRUZ MORALES, RENÉ
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LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK Parte Demandante Vs. EDGARDO PORBIENESVARGASVARGAS,RODRÍGUEZMARITZAROHENAYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESESTOSCOMPUESTA
PEDRORENÉDESCONOCIDO,POSIBLEMENGANOCOMPUESTAMORALESPORMILENACRUZYDETAL,HEREDEROSARASOTOCRUZPORSÍYLACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA;COBIÁNFERRERT/C/CRENÉCOBIÁN,COBIÁNFERRERT/C/CPEDROCOBIÁNYEDWINCOBIÁNFERRERT/C/CEDWINCOBIÁN(TITULARESREGISTRALES)
RICO, S.S. A: ANDRES ALEXIS SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C ANDRES A. SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C MERARISSANTIAGOANDRESCORTES;PEREZLOPEZT/C/CMERARISPEREZYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS.401BENHILDADR.,SENECA,SC29678. Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epí grafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fer nando Gierbolini; MONSERRA TE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publi cación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación respon siva en la Secretaría del Tribu nal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte deman dante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. GLO RIA Y. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN GERMÁN PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ANTONIO CRUZ DE LEÓN T/C/C ANTONIO ANIBAL CRUZ DE LEÓN, ET AL. Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2022CV00347. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA Y COBRO DE DINE RO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI Civil Núm.: YB2022CV00172. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE DESCONOCIDAS(PERSONASCONPOSIBLEINTERÉS).
Demandante V. ANDRES
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN CRUZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: LR2022CV00140. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ANDRES ALEXIS SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C ANDRES A. SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C MERARISSANTIAGOANDRESCORTES;PEREZLOPEZT/C/CMERARISPEREZYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS.401BENHILDADR.,SENECA,SC29678.
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Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este T/C/C MERARIS PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE DR.,AMBOS.COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPOR401BENHILDASENECA,SC29678.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epí grafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fer nando Gierbolini; MONSERRA TE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publi cación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación respon siva en la Secretaría del Tribu nal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte deman dante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. GLO RIA Y. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES SUN WEST COMPANY,MORTGAGEINC. Demandante V. ANDRES MERARISSANTIAGOSANTIAGOSANTIAGOALEXISCORTEST/C/CANDRESA.CORTEST/C/CANDRESCORTES;PEREZLOPEZT/C/CMERARISPEREZYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: LR2022CV00140. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Tribunal la Demanda de epí grafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fer nando Gierbolini; MONSERRA TE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publi cación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radi cando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación respon siva en la Secretaría del Tribu nal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte deman dante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. GLO RIA Y. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES SUN WEST COMPANY,MORTGAGEINC.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02750. COBIÁN FERRER T/C/C RENÉ COBIÁN, PEDRO COBIÁN FERRER T/C/C PEDRO COBIÁN Y EDWIN COBIÁN FERRER T/C/C EDWIN COBIÁN; A SUS ÚLTIMAS PRSANCONOCIDAS:DIRECCIONESEMBALSEJOSÉ,AF-10CALLEBORGOÑA,SANJUAN,00923,URB.REPARTOSANJOSÉ,368CALLEBORGOÑA,SANJUAN,PR00923-1335YURB.EMBALSESANJOSÉ,437CALLEFINISTEROL,SANJUAN,PR00923-1742.MENGANODETAL,POSIBLEHEREDERODESCONOCIDODERUBÉNCRUZMORALES,CONIDENTIDADYDIRECCIÓNDESCONOCIDA.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeu da las siguientes cantidades: $36,330.27 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 8% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $468.60 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,950.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta mo. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #10 de la man zana AF del plano preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico hoy Corpora ción de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico para su proyecto de solares deno minado San José Development PRHA-15, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Llana del término mu nicipal de Rio Piedras, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 251.51 m.c. En lindes por el NORTE, con el so lar #AF-9 de la mencionada ur banización, distancia de 22.92 metros; por el SUR, con acera de travesía de dicho proyecto, distancia de 22.92 metros; por el ESTE, con servidumbre de paso de la calle #35 de la su sodicha urbanización, distan cia de 10.97 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #AF-30 del mencionado proyecto San Jose Development PRHA-15, distancia de 10.97 metros. Edificación: Enclava una casa de concreto armado con techo del mismo material que mide 30 pies de frente con un fondo de 40 pies. En la medida de frente se incluye una marquesina que mide 10 pies de frente por 28 pies de fondo. Tiene instalación sanitaria de agua y luz y consta de 4 cuartos de habitaciones dormitorios, sala, cocina, 2 baños, un laundry room y un balcón que mide 10 pies de frente y 24 pies de fondo. Cons truida esta casa de una planta para una familia, con un valor de $12,000.00, según consta de la escritura #11, otorgada en San Juan, el 8 de junio de 1969, ante el notario José Ra fael Cobián, inscrita al folio 83 del tomo 232 de Sabana Llana, Finca 10351, inscripción 2da. Inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 232 de Sabana Llana, Finca 10351. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La hipo teca fue presentada al asiento 2021-140672-SJ05 de Sabana Llana, Finca 10351. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Pendiente de ins cripción. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la heren cia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fe cha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de di cho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escri to judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radi cando el original de la contesta ción en este Tribunal y envian do copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandan te, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, a: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, co rreo electrónico:
Demandante V. ANDRES MERARISSANTIAGOSANTIAGOSANTIAGOALEXISCORTEST/C/CANDRESA.CORTEST/C/CANDRESCORTES;PEREZLOPEZT/C/CMERARISPEREZYLASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORAMBOS
En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo de un pagare a favor Doral Mortgage Corpora tion o a su orden por la suma de $25,000.00 intereses al 9 1/2% anual y fecha de ven cimiento al 1 de febrero del 2013, constituido mediante la escritura 105 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de enero de 1998 ante el Notario Público lvonne Vergne López inscrita al folio 10 vuelto del tomo 232 de Ya bucoa finca 14,545 inscripción 2nda., Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Humacao y está ga rantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en 148 A CALLE 2 COMUNIDAD MARTORELL YABUCOA PR 00767 que se describe como sigue: RÚSTI CA; Predio de terreno con un área superficial de 576.376 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 148-B a segregarse en 25.20 metros: por el SUR, con la parcela número 148-D a segregarse en 27.42 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle núme ro 2 en 23.11 metros: y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 148-C a segregarse en 21.41 metros. Inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 232 de Yabucoa, finca número 14,545, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extravia do, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radica da que puede examinarse en la Secretaria de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Ma nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho pro pio, en cuyo caso deberán pre sentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 0267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra conce diendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edic to por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mí firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao , Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de agosto de 2022. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETA RIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
Demandados Civil Núm.: LR2022CV00140. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: ANDRES ALEXIS SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C ANDRES A. SANTIAGO CORTES T/C/C MERARISSANTIAGOANDRESCORTES;PEREZLOPEZ
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EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de agosto de 2022. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 24 de agosto de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse Gonzá lez, Secretaria. Saray Salgado, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ISLAND SERVICES,PORTFOLIOLLC,COMOAGENTEDEFAIRWAYACQUISITIONSFUND,LLC
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POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca:
Civil: BY2022CV01069. 401. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA, COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: ELLIOT MIEMBROSHERNÁNDEZMANGUAL,HERNÁNDEZILLIANENIDACEVEDO,OMARHERNÁNDEZLASANTAYJOSEPHHERNÁNDEZDELGADOCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEJOSÉANTONIOHERNÁNDEZSILVAJOHNDOEYRICHARDROECOMOMIEMBROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEJOSÉANTONIOHERNÁNDEZSILVA.
A: ADA IVELISSE MARRERO RODRIGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de agosto de 2022. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 24 de agosto de 2022. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MA RITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número noventa y nueve (99) según Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de solares denomi nado San Isidro, radicado en el Barrio Rincón del término municipal de Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área de trescientos dieci nueve metros cuadrados con noventa y ocho centésimas de metro cuadrados (319.98) y co linda por el NORTE, con la calle número cinco (5), distancia de doce metros con setenta centí metros (12.70); por el SUR, con el solar número ochenta y seis (86), distancia de doce metros con noventa y dos centímetros (12.92); por el ESTE, con el solar número noventa y ocho (98), distancia de veinticinco metros con cuatro centímetros (25.04); por el OESTE, con el solar número cien (100), distan cia de veinticuatro metros con noventa y cuatro centímetros (24.94). Contiene una casa de concreto y bloques techada de zinc, que mide 21 pies de frente por 34 pies de fondo y consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, servicio sa nitario, balcón y marquesina, con un valor de $8,000.00, mediante escritura número 20, otorgada en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de marzo de 1982, ante el notario José Antonio Morales, inscrito al folio 171 del tomo 151 de Sabana Grande, inscripción 2da. Cons ta inscrita al folio 171 del tomo 151 de Sabana Grande, finca número #8,195. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sec ción de San Germán. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que den tro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANÍ BAL CRUZ DE LEÓN, T/C/C ANTONIO ANÍBAL CRUZ DE LEÓN Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUELINA RIVERA CANCEL T/C/C MARÍA RIVERA CAN CEL. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la he rencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu nal en San Germán, Puerto Rico. A 24 de agosto de 2022. Lic. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional Ii. Magaly Bonilla Morales, Secretaria Au xiliar Del Tribunal I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC. Demandante V. MICHELLE FALCON CUBANO H/N/C THE NET PLACE CAFÉ; FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandado(a) Civil: MT2021CV00764. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, INCUM PLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO ENMEN DADA. ENMENDADA A LOS FINES DE NOTIFICAR NUE VAMENTE LA SENTENCIA A SOLICITUD DE LA PARTE DE MANDANTE. A: MICHELLE FALCON CUBANO H/N/C THE NET PLACE CAFÉ, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES - URB. SAN SALVADOR A-9 CALLE VENDING MANATI PR 00674 / PO BOX 1184 MANATI PR 00674. FULANA DE TAL, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES - URB. SAN SALVADOR A-9 CALLE VENDING MANATI PR 00674 / PO BOX 1184 MANATI PR 00674. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
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Demandado Caso Núm.: GR2021CV00356. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: ADORNOCHRISTIANGÓMEZ.
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al Demandante total o parcial mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $4,297.08 por con cepto de principal, más intere ses al tipo pactado de 6.250% anual desde el día 1 de enero de 2017. Dichos intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $4,700.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $4,700.00 para cu brir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $4,700.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estu dio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta me diante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan ins critos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con poste rioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedan do subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: HI POTECA: Constituida por Luis Felipe Torres Rodríguez (solte ro), en garantía de un pagaré BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES
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Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS FELIPE TORRES
(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. JESSENIA PEDRA ZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. ELLIOT MIEMBROSHERNÁNDEZMANGUAL,HERNÁNDEZILLIANENIDACEVEDO,OMARHERNÁNDEZLASANTAYJOSEPHHERNÁNDEZDELGADOCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEJOSÉANTONIOHERNÁNDEZSILVAJOHNDOEYRICHARDROECOMOMIEMBROSDESCONOCIDOSDELASUCESIÓNDEJOSÉANTONIOHERNÁNDEZSILVA
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de agosto de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 24 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA RESIDENTIALLUNA III, LLC Demandante V. ADA IVELISSE FINANCIAMIENTOAUTORIDADRODRIGUEZ;MARREROLAPARAELDELAVIVIENDADEPUERTORICO Demandado(a) Civil: VB2022CV00278. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA OR DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ, en el caso de epí grafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de ge rente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demanda da de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Calle Bucaré Núm. 84, Manatí, PR 00674 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Par cela marcada con el número 415 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Coto Norte del Barrio Coto Norte del término municipal de Manatí, con una cabida superficial de 712.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con par cela número 416 de la comu nidad; por el SUR, con parcela número 414 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con calle de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con Sucesión Balbino Sierra. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 20 del Tomo 394 de Manatí, finca número 14334, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $47,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adju dicación en la primera subas ta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la se gunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $31,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $23,500.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 367, otor gada el día 6 de noviembre de 2002, ante el Notario Raúl J. Berio Alvarez y consta inscrita en el Folio 23 del Tomo 394 de Manatí, finca número 14334, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, inscripción 5.1. Di cha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer
Demandante Vs. ADORNOCHRISTIANGÓMEZ
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Wimbledon and the U.S. Championships, now the U.S. Open, have had cachet nearly from the start, but the prestige of the other two Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open and the French Open, has fluctu ated greatly. International stars regularly skipped them until the 1990s, dissuaded by distance and Christmasseason dates that came with the Australian Open and by more lucrative and sometimes binding commitments.
Is Serena Williams the GOAT? Yes. No. Probably. Maybe.
There is also a big disparity in tour singles titles. Williams’ total of 73 puts her fifth on the Open-era career list, far behind Navratilova, who won 167 singles titles and 177 doubles titles in a period when doubles had more cachet. Navratilova also had a long period of dominance, losing just 14 singles matches in five years from 1984 to 1988. Evert won 157 singles titles; Graf won 107 even though she retired at age 30.
GOAT arguments are passionate and often un resolvable no matter what the sport. In the case of Williams, larger than life herself, it deserves to be a debate, not a processional. Although they are likely to be inconclusive, there are legitimate reasons to lean toward one of Wil liams’ predecessors, in particular Martina Navratilova or Steffi Graf, if you don’t want to travel through the mists of time to Margaret Court, who achieved the Grand Slam in 1970 and was the best player of her era.
Proclaiming the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion the greatest women’s tennis player of all time is a wor thwhile debate, but not a straightforward one. First, define greatness.
Achieving a Grand Slam, by winning all four ma jors in the same calendar year, was a clear goal after Don Budge became the first to do it in 1938, but a player’s total number of Grand Slam singles titles was not always a major talking point.
Court, an imposing net rusher from Australia who dominated her rivalry with King, finished with 24 Grand Slam singles titles and 64 Grand Slam titles overall. Both are records. And although 11 of Court’s major singles titles came in Australia when it had smaller draws and often weaker fields than other majors, 24 is still the number that Williams has been chasing openly and unsuccessfully since taking her own maternity leave in 2017.Graf, the only player to have won all four majors at least four times, finished with 22 Grand Slam singles titles despite playing about a decade less than Wil liams. Evert and Navratilova finished with 18 apiece and would surely have won more if they had commit ted to all the majors like Williams and other contempo rary stars. Evert and Navratilova also had a still-fledgling tour to carry, which meant a busier schedule than today’s biggest stars.
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY In the stands this month at the Western & Southern Open in Ohio, there seemed to be no debate. There were shouts of “GOAT!” in Serena Williams’ direction and banners that read “GOAT” in her honor.
In February, Williams appeared to be in a similarly conclusive frame of mind during Milan Fashion Week when she wore a black sweatshirt with “GOAT” in large white letters: a product of her own fashion line. With her retirement now imminent, it is certainly time to celebrate her long and phenomenal career, one of the most extraordinary from start to near-finish of any athlete. A successful Black woman in a predominantly white sport, she has beaten the odds, and talented opponents from multiple generations, across four decades. She has swatted aces and baseline win ners, hustled for drop shots, lunged for returns and scrapped back from adversity on and off the court with the sort of sustained tenacity and triumph that only transcendent champions can muster. As she bids farewell, emotions are rightly run ning high, yet to unreservedly proclaim her the GOAT (greatest of all time) in women’s tennis is not as straightforward as a short overhead into an open court.Great will mean different things to different peo ple. Performance is part of it but surely not all of it, and it seems fitting that the first athlete to embrace the GOAT acronym was Muhammad Ali, who billed himself understandably as “the Greatest” and man aged some of his business interests through a compa ny named G.O.A.T. Inc. Ali was no doubt a fabulous boxer but also a deeply symbolic figure.
“Nowadays, the Grand Slams are much more re vered than they were in my time,” Navratilova said.
“We really weren’t concerned with the number,” Rod Laver, the red-haired Australian who completed Grand Slams twice in singles, in 1962 and 1969, once told me. “I’m not sure I even knew exactly how many I had.” (He had 11 Grand Slam singles titles.)
Players have always had to miss majors because of injury, but champions like Billie Jean King, Navratilova and Evert missed quite a few by choice. So did Court, who retired early, only to reconsider, and later had two pregnancies that interrupted her career.
Tennis history is long for a modern sport: Wim bledon dates to 1877 and the U.S. Championships to 1881. The game and equipment have improved dras tically (Navratilova and her friendly rival Chris Evert once played with wooden rackets), and the measures of success have shifted, too.
While there are still formidable obstacles to fair comparisons, and although Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles, an Open-era record and her signature achievement, loom like Mount Rushmore, the title count was not the coin of the realm in earlier eras.
Thatchampionships.lighterschedule probably extended her career but also helps explain why Williams ranks third in total weeks at No. 1 with 319. Graf leads with 377; Navra tilova is next with 332. Although Williams finished as year-end No. 1 on five occasions — another significant measure of success — Navratilova did it seven times and Graf a record eight times.
“It’s really difficult to compare one generation to another,” Williams once said. “Things change — power, technique, technology.”
“There was definitely more of a commitment from the WTA standpoint because it was early on and we really had to prove ourselves,” Evert said.
Williams has blown hot and cold on the tour, some times skipping its bigger events, including the year-end tour
Those include the murder of her half sister Yetunde Price; the separation and divorce of her parents; a blood clot in her lung in 2011 that she said had her on her “deathbed”; and another dangerous blood clotting issue during the birth of her daughter, Olympia, in 2017.
Martina Navratilova
Two other points in Graf’s favor: She had a career-winning percentage in singles of 89%, the best of the modern GOAT contenders (Williams’ is at 85%). Graf is also the only player, male or fe male, to complete the so-called Golden Slam, winning all four majors and the Olympic singles title in 1988. Navratilova and Williams both had great runs in majors: Navratilova won six straight in 1983 and 1984; Williams twice won four in a row, the so-called Serena Slams, from 2002 to 2003 and from 2014 to 2015. But neither Navratilova nor Wil liams could cope with the heavy pressure that came with finishing off the true Grand Slam, falling two matches short.
Resilience is a mark of greatness, too, and although she may or may not be the greatest in a very strong field, it is one more reason to appreciate her as she walks into the din Monday night — less than a month from her 41st birthday — to play in one last U.S. Open.
“During Serena’s great years in her 30s, she had no formidable rival to test her to the hilt; that is not her fault but a factor,” Flink added, of the GOAT debate. But Williams, despite her dips, did rule over the best talent available, compiling a 176-72 record against players who have been ranked No. 1. She went 20-2 against her tennis muse Maria Sharapova, a blond Russian who out-earned her in sponsor ships for years, which Williams under standably viewed as an injustice in light of her superior Williamsresume.would agree that she knew how to channel a grudge. In her essay in Vogue this month an nouncing her imminent retirement, she wrote: “There were so many matches I won because something made me angry or someone counted me out. That drove me.”Williams endured and excelled, reaching four Grand Slam singles finals af ter returning from pregnancy in 2018 de spite some in her close circle counseling against a comeback at age 36. Matching or breaking Court’s record, however flawed, at that late stage might have truly ended the GOAT debate. But Williams has still moved many as a work ing mother and as a superstar willing to put herself back on the line past her prime.
“Martina had Chrissie; Steffi had Mar tina and Monica Seles; Court had Billie Jean and Maria Bueno,” said Steve Flink, a U.S. tennis historian and author.
Steffi Graf
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Williams was stunned in the semifinals of the 2015 U.S. Open by Roberta Vinci, an unseeded Italian whose sliced back hand caused Williams big trouble, but not as much trouble as Williams’ nerves. “She lost to the Grand Slam more than anything else,” Navratilova said that night, speaking from experience. What bears remembering is that Wil liams was 33, yet she was seemingly still peaking: a tribute to her talent, competi tive drive and work with Patrick Moura toglou, an ambitious Frenchman who be came her first formal coach on tour other than her parents, Richard and Oracene. With Mouratoglou, she won 10 more Grand Slam singles titles, all in her 30s. That had no precedent in women’s tennis, and it is one of the strongest arguments for bestowing GOAT status on Williams. She and her older sister Venus changed the game and raised the bar for the op position, many of whom could not keep up, fading or retiring while the sisters con tinued.Serena Williams was not consistently dominant: She had more dips in form and barren patches than Navratilova, Graf and Evert, and even dropped out of the top 100 in 2006. Arguably, she also lacked a transcendent rivalry, dominating Venus, 7-2, in major finals and playing her in only one final at any level after 2009.
Williams, unlike Navratilova, one of the first openly gay superstar athletes, has not been a political crusader. She has de clined, most recently, to comment on Roe v. Wade being overturned. Her approach has been shaped perhaps by her faith (she is a Jehovah’s Witness) and perhaps be cause of the risk that earlier athletes ran with sponsors for straying outside the lines.
But Williams’ 14-year boycott of the tournament at Indian Wells, where she and her family were booed and, accord ing to her father, Richard, subjected to rac ist taunts, spoke louder than words. She has had major outbursts that have cost her some fans. But she has been consistent ly inspiring, as a champion and a Black woman who roared back after major set backs in her professional and personal life.
“He started with a quad and ended up going on to win the golf tourna ment,” McIlroy, who had opened his Tour Championship with a triple-bogey and a bogey, said then. “It is possible.”
Scheffler finished in a tie for sec ond with Sungjae Im. Xander Schauffele was two strokes behind them, and Max Homa and Justin Thomas finished tied for fifth, trailing McIlroy by four strokes.
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So McIlroy proved it himself. Three days after he produced an instant de bacle at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta and six weeks after he faltered at the British Open, McIlroy orchestrated the largest final-round comeback in the history of the Tour Championship and defeated Scottie Scheffler by a stroke Sunday. Although McIlroy’s win did not end his eight-year drought in ma jor tournaments, he earned $18 million, claimed his third FedEx Cup, a record, and allowed the PGA Tour to close a turbulent season by crowning a be loved stalwart as its champion. “I just felt so close all year,” McIl roy said after his victory here, where Scheffler started with the tournament lead Thursday and held it until Sunday evening. “I had a couple wins, but I was just waiting for something. Maybe this was it. I got a little lucky with Scot tie not playing his best golf today, and I took advantage of that with my good play.”But, McIlroy added, “I went up against the best player in the world to day and I took him down, and that’s got to mean something.”
Scheffler made a bogey on the next hole and, at last, surrendered the solo lead.“I really fought hard today; Rory just played a really good round of golf,” Scheffler said. “He made some key putts there at the end, and he definitely deserved to win.”
A triple-bogey start vanquished, Rory McIlroy captures the FedEx Cup
By ALAN BLINDER O n Thursday, his scorecard a shambles after only two holes at the Tour Championship, Rory McIlroy did not find himself think ing about golf’s comeback magicians or his fellow major champions. Instead, he considered the example of a 20-year-old player, Joohyung Kim, also known as Tom Kim, who won the Wyndham Championship in Greens boro, North Carolina, this month.
Even though McIlroy trailed Schef fler by six strokes at the beginning of the fourth round, the final two holes of his third round — played Sunday morn ing because of Saturday’s weather in Atlanta — suggested he was in fighting form: He birdied both. McIlroy started the final round with a bogey, but he made birdie on No. 3 to bring his score even. Starting with the fifth hole, he stitched together three consecutive birdies that would under gird a 32 on the front nine. Scheffler, McIlroy’s partner in the final pairing, had three bogeys in the first half of the fourth round, which he finished with a 3-over 73. For as sure-footed as McIlroy so of ten seemed Sunday and for as wobbly as Scheffler sometimes was, McIlroy did not assume sole command of the leaderboard until the final putts at No. 16. He might as well have on No. 15, though.Thirty-one feet from the pin, McIl roy tapped the ball and then stood like a statue, his putter barely aloft as the ball broke to the left. Then it swung to ward the hole, McIlroy stepping back — and willing, praying, something — a few steps before it rolled into the cup. McIlroy raised his right fist in jubilation as the crowd thundered its approval.
“Everyone on tour has had to deal with a lot; even the guys that have went to LIV have had to deal with a lot,” McIlroy said before adding, a few moments later, “This is the best place in the world to play golf. It’s the most competitive. It’s got the best players. It’s got the deepest fields. I don’t know why you’d want to play anywhere else.”
In McIlroy, 33, the PGA Tour got a FedEx Cup winner who has been one of its fiercest loyalists during the year’s upheaval over LIV Golf, the new series that has lured top players with hundreds of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
By a lone stroke, it was enough.
The dramatics over LIV were hard ly absent from Atlanta — McIlroy was paired Thursday and Friday with Camer on Smith, the British Open winner who has not publicly denied a British news media report that he intends to defect as soon as this week. But McIlroy’s win was a boon for an entrenched order that has lately been besieged.
He could have been forgiven, of course, for thinking otherwise Thursday in the rain in Atlanta. But Sunday, he said his mind had “automatically” wan dered to Kim’s resurrection in Greens boro.“I could have easily thought the oth er way and thought: ‘I’ve got no chance now. What am I doing here?’” McIlroy said Sunday, when he shot a 66. “But I just sort of, I guess, proved that I was in a really good mindset for the week, and I didn’t let it get to me too much and just stuck my head down and got to work.”
Rory McIlroy lifted the FedEx Cup trophy after winning in the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday.
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) You may have a personal issue with someone in authority, but today you’ll begin to see the value in letting any differences go, and instead making a sterling effort to get on with this person. You’ll be better off with them on your side than being in constant conflict. The reason for this might become clear over coming days, when you could need their help in securing an opportunity.
If you’ve been overthinking a certain issue, you could feel anxious at your lack of progress. You might be so eager to do the right thing, that you end up doing nothing. But a lively link involving expansive Jupiter, can change this by boosting your confidence and inspiring you to go for it. If you can’t move beyond your doubt and fears, you’ll never get anywhere, Capricorn.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
If you’re still feeling your way into a situation that you’ve never encountered before, you might be nervous of what to expect. The coming days can find you becoming more confident, and willing to make mistakes as you gain experience. Don’t be too proud to ask for help, Leo. Mercury in Libra, encourages you to connect with others who have been there and succeeded.
Co-operation is key! You may see how you and others could benefit from embarking on a plan or project as a team, rather than going at it separately. When you pull together, you’ll travel further in a shorter time. With a focus on the sign of Libra, you’ll find it easier to liaise, negotiate and collaborate. This congenial influence also enhances a romantic date or social event, Aries.
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Jupiter retro in a high-flying zone, is encouraging you to dig deep into your reserves of power and strength, as this may be the only way you can succeed at something you’ve set your heart on. If you thought it was going to be easy, this sassy planet is telling you that it will be, if you’re prepared to change. You might be way out of your comfort zone, but you’ll soon get used to this.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Ready to reorganise your daily routine? If you can see the benefits it would bring, including more free time, then think about it. There may be other things on the horizon that are of interest to you, and juggling your commitments might be necessary to allow you to participate. But don’t begrudge yourself opportunities for relaxation and self-care, Scorpio. Make these non-negotiable.
If you give way to fear, you might miss out on an opportunity to further your plans or career path. It really comes down to changing your mindset from one that can be pessimistic, to one that reflects your buoyancy and optimism.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
You may be going through the motions regarding an activity. If you are, ask yourself if it’s necessary? It could be habit that makes you do it. A little conscious reflection might bring the realization that there are other options. And life is too short to be involved with anything that you don’t really want to do. How would your ideal day be? Think about that, and go from there.
Giving your home or living area a crucial makeover? This is the perfect time, if you’re keen to make space for new projects. If you enjoy crafts or have been thinking about setting up a small business or exercise area, the current alignment can bring ideas bubbling to the surface. Considering some major changes? It’s wise to ask other family members for their opinion.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
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Taurus (April 21-May 21) You might need to make allowances for others who don’t see things the way you do, and who could be a tad difficult at times. The Moon/Mercury tie in Libra, may assist you with being tactful, leaving others feeling good, even if your values are at odds. Plus, a lunar link with Mars, can coincide with an opportunity to enhance cash flow. Decluttering? An item may be valuable.
The Moon and Mercury in your sign, boosts your ability to play the diplomat and be tactful when necessary. Have you held back from saying things that need to be said? This can change, with a desire to be more open and share your feelings. The Sun continues to make a lingering angle to Mars, so if you’re fed up with a situation, you may say something. And not a moment too soon!
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
This is not the time to doubt yourself, as key influences suggest you could do well. Yet you may swing between a “can-do” and “can’t-do” approach.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
With Mercury continuing in Libra, a lively encounter could lead to interesting developments. The seed of a new friendship may be planted, and with constant care, can turn into a supportive association that opens your mind to new ideas and opportunities. If you share similar interests, then time might see you forging a stronger bond that becomes an inspiration to you both.
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