Tuesday Jul 30, 2024

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Jenniffer Gonzalez announces public hearings on NPP platform

By The STAR STAFF

The president of the New Progressive Party (NPP), Jenniffer González Colón, announced Sunday the start of the public hearings of the NPP Platform Committee that aim to collect the proposals and citizens’ opinions for the #AcciónPR government program.

Public hearings are organized by the Luis A. Ferré Institute of Public Policy, directed by Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo.

“I have been emphatic that our campaign and that of the NPP will be one of the people, focused on the needs of the people. I have given the task to Ms. Ferraiuoli to listen to what the people have to contribute in order to offer specific actions that will help them. solve their problems. We have received presentations from recognized associations and even from individuals from all towns; we continue to invite all citizens to share their proposals and actively participate in the 14 pu-

President of the New Progressive Party (NPP), Jenniffer González Colón.

blic hearings that will be held around Puerto Rico during the months of July and August. This is a unique opportunity for the voices of all Puerto Ricans to be heard and considered in the creation of our government platform,” said González Colón.

For her part, Ms. Ferraiuoli pointed out that “there is a lot of motivation and confidence in the management of the current resident commissioner, especially for her participatory approach and her fight against government bureaucracy. Her oversight in the energy transformation, the guarantee of providing tools to the public servants, and the need to strengthen the public administration, are essential to the development of the energy sector.” public funds for an effective government, the redefinition and reform of government structures, the optimal use of federal funds for the reconstruction of Puerto Rico, as well as improvements in security and health are highlighted aspects.”

Police officers graduate from Homeland Security Investigations School

By The STAR STAFF

San Juan Municipal Police officers graduated from the Criminal Investigation School of the Homeland Security Investigations Office (HSI), where they received training aimed at strengthening their investigative knowledge and skills at the federal and state levels.

Municipal Police Commissioner Juan Jackson Rodriguez said that as part of the training, three law enforcement officers traveled to the Guardian Center in the city of Perry, Georgia. There, Lieutenant Edwin Vazquez Malave, along with police officers Juan Clemente Hernandez and Andres Rodriguez Cortes, received the training that lasts 21 days. Once the course, which is offered by HSI personnel, was completed, the officers received a certification.

During his speech at the graduation ceremony held in the state of Georgia, Municipal Police Commissioner Jackson Rodríguez recognized the importance of this training for the capital city, in conjunction with the technological advances that have been implemented in the law enforcement body since the arrival of the administration of Mayor Miguel A. Romero Lugo. Likewise, the Municipal Police Commissioner thanked the director of HSI in Puerto Rico, Rebecca González Ramos, for integrating municipal agents into this course.

“This training and certification is another important step in the public safety efforts we are implementing in San Juan,

together with artificial intelligence elements that we have also added. An example of this is the signing of a collaboration agreement between the Department of Public Safety and the Municipality of San Juan, which allows the exchange of images from both bodies. Thanks to this agreement, the municipality of San Juan currently has access to license plate readers, and the Municipal Police patrolmen immediately know when they have a stolen vehicle in transit on some of the roads of the municipality of San Juan. Providing security to the agents at the time of the intervention,” added Jackson Rodríguez. Agents from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, the Special Investigations Bureau, Internal Revenue agents, and municipal police officers from the towns of Guaynabo and Barceloneta also participated in the course. The Secretary of the Department of Public Safety, Alexis Torres Ríos, also attended the graduation ceremony, who reiterated the importance of unifying law enforcement agencies to achieve their purpose, along with the Commissioner of the Special Investigations Bureau, Attorney General Rafael Freites, among other officials.

NPP representatives vow to defend Act 10 from repeal

By The STAR STAFF

Several New Progressive Party representatives said Monday they will go to court to defend the U.S. commonwealth’s net metering program.

NPP representatives Víctor Parés and José ‘Cheito’ Hernández advanced, in a press conference, the possibility of going to federal court to defend the net metering program, which is the driving force behind the change to renewable energy sources in Puerto Rico.

The representatives announced they are compiling data they intend to present to federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who oversees the government and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s bankruptcy processes. The Financial Oversight and Management Board sued last week to stop the government from executing Act 10 of 2024, a law that would stop the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) from making any changes to the current net metering and energy distribution policy until at least 2031.

Along with the legislators were the Puerto Rico Solar Energy and Energy Storage Association directors, better known as SESA, including its public policy director, Javier Rúa.

“Net metering is the heart of the energy transformation in Puerto Rico. With this program, photovoltaic system customers receive lower LUMA Energy bills because they generate part of their electricity. With this, we see a marked shift to green energy, and we do not plan to stop. Net metering was implemented in the United States in 2005 and has been successful. In Puerto Rico, it was done years later, and the results are even more impressive. Currently, around 3,350 solar systems are installed in residences every month, which would stop if the Financial Supervision and Administration

Board (Board) eliminates Law 10-2024, which renders void any increase in the electric energy bill, guaranteeing net metering – until 2030,” commented Parés.

The Oversight Board alleges that Act 10-2024 is contrary to the Debt Adjustment Plan (PAD) of the Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and hinders the powers of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.

“We are talking about how eliminating net metering impacts those most in need. Studies indicate that some 144,000 families with limited economic resources, many with older adults, can no longer install their solar systems.

The representatives announced they are compiling data they intend to present to federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who oversees the government and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s bankruptcy processes.

To this we add the certain loss of over 7,000 direct jobs due to the collapse of the solar panel industry. Without saying anything about losing up to 1,137 megawatts of distributed renewable energy. That is unacceptable. “We have been in conversations with the President of the House of Representatives to evaluate going to the federal court to defend net metering,” added the legislator.

“Law 10-2024 changed the deadline for the Energy Bureau to complete the net metering study. Under the new provisions of Article 4 of Law 114-2007, the Bureau must begin the study no earlier than January 2030. With the request of the Board, the net metering program will be eliminated for all purposes. We reject the Board’s request, and we are going to seriously discuss going to Court to prevent the Board from implementing a new charge for people who have solar panel systems on the Island,” said Hernández.

Rúa Jovet expressed that “the claim is clear. Law 10 and net metering are essential for people to access resilience via solar energy with batteries. Without Law 10 and without net metering, this will not be possible.”

Rúa Jovet added that “at this time it is crucial that the Governor opposes the Board’s demand. It is time for all of us, the Governor, the Legislature and the People of PR, to fight with all our might to defeat this unjust and illegitimate action by the Board against the people’s right to protect their lives via clean energy.”

The net metering program was created in 2007 to encourage residential and commercial customers to install photovoltaic energy systems. Through this program, the client would receive compensation for the excess electricity generated by their equipment, and through a credit, they would only pay for the net electricity supplied by PREPA.

Casa Paoli may close due to financial crisis

By The STAR STAFF

The Paoli House of the Puerto Rico Folklore Research Center, Inc., is facing a financial crisis because the Joint Commission on Legislative Donations for Community Impact gave the organization very little funding.

The institution, which will commemorate its 50th anniversary next year, received only $4,400 of the $20 million allocated in the 2024-2025 fiscal budget.

“The majority of legislators, both in the House and the Senate, agreed to overrule and to table the permanent closure of Casa Paoli. It would be very convenient for our country to open its eyes and ask why they want to destroy our cultural institutions that promote Puerto Rican identity,” said the founder and director of Casa Paoli, Professor Néstor Murray-Irizarry.

“Only representatives of Ponce, Domingo J. Torres García and Ángel A. (Tito) Fourquet Cordero, allocated special funds for the restoration of Casa Paoli,” he added.

The Paoli House is where the tenor Antonio Paoli y Marcano (1871-1946) was born and lived. He is considered the most important tenor born on American soil. Paoli was the first tenor in the world to record a complete opera, “The Clowns” by Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo. His career included presentations on the most prestigious stages internationally.

Over the past 50 years, Casa Paoli’s mission has encompassed a variety of cultural activities, including the publication of more than 50 titles, educational talks, Afro-Puerto Rican studies seminars, workshops on instrument making, and the permanent exhibition of traditional musical instruments from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. He has also collaborated with the Puerto Rican diaspora and supported Casa Negra in the San Antón neighborhood of Ponce.

The Board of Directors of Casa Paoli has called on the interim mayor of Ponce, Marlese Sifre, to demonstrate her commitment to culture and support the 50th anniversary of this vital institution for Ponceños and Puerto Ricans in general.

The institution, which will commemorate its 50th anniversary next year, received only $4,400 of the $20 million allocated in the 2024-2025 fiscal budget.

Drones appearing outside apartments

By The STAR STAFF

In light of recent reports from condominium residents who have seen unmanned aerial systems, better known as “drones,” appearing to be photographing and/or taking videos of apartments without authorization, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, José Aponte, urged citizens to file complaints with the Police Bureau, in accordance with the parameters of Law 68-2021, which classifies such privacy violations as a crime.

“This is an issue that we have been working on continuously since 2015. Section 8 of Article II of the Constitution of Puerto Rico protects the privacy of citizens. Drones have the ability to use cameras, and therefore, they make it easier for unscrupulous people to violate that privacy. Law 68-2021, which comes from House Bill 402 of our authorship, offers law enforcement agencies a legal mechanism against these violations of privacy,” he said.

“In recent months we have received information about drone sightings near apartments in condominiums in municipalities such as San Juan and Guaynabo. In some cases, these drones have entered the balcony area. This is precisely what we are trying to prevent with this law, so we urge anyone who faces this type

of situation to contact the police directly,” said Aponte.

Article 5 of the aforementioned Law establishes that “any person or entity that uses an unmanned aerial system to carry out surveillance of, collect evidence or information about, or photograph or electronically record, specific persons or private property, without their consent, will incur a less serious crime.”

Meanwhile, Article 6 holds that the injured party may have a civil cause of action against the person who engaged in such prohibited conduct. In addition, he or she has the right to recover from such person compensation for the damages he or she has suffered, plus attorney’s fees and additional costs incurred during such civil action.

Aerial drones began life as military-only drones, but quickly evolved into commercial and even personal use. With the prices of unmanned aerial systems dropping dramatically each year, drones are becoming more commonplace.

“Taking unauthorized photographs and/or videos using unmanned aerial systems poses the risk that such material may be published or sold without the consent of the property owners or the people depicted in them. This is neither correct nor legal, which is why the Law seeks to prevent this practice,” concluded Aponte.

National Guard pilots conduct joint exercises

By The STAR STAFF

Pilots from the Puerto Rico, South Carolina and Tennessee Air National Guards collaborated July 23 on Exercise Caribbean Fox, conducting Agile Combat Movements (ACE), air ramp operations and refueling in a simulated combat environment from Muñiz Air Base in Carolina.

“Caribbean Fox underscores our commitment to readiness and operational excellence in the Caribbean. This exercise not only enhances our joint capabilities, but also strengthens our partnerships with other Air National Guards, ensuring we are ready for any challenge that may arise in the region,” said Puerto Rico Adjutant General, Major General Miguel Méndez in written remarks.

The exercise, hosted by the South Carolina National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, was designed to train participating units in dynamic scenarios over two weeks, providing training in key elements of the ACE Movement.

“Collaborating with the South Carolina and Tennessee Air National Guards during this exercise strengthens our joint interoperability of the ACE

concept for the Puerto Rico Air National Guard within the Caribbean region,” said Assistant Adjutant General for Air, Brigadier General Humberto Pabón Jr.

“Caribbean Fox offers the U.S. Air National Guard

the opportunity to train within the territorial framework of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, preparing our units to achieve success in great power competition,” added Pabón Jr.

During the exercise, the 156th Wing was selected as a contingency location, where two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft and one KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft executed critical mission requirements,

During the exercise, the 156th Wing was selected as a contingency location, where two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft and one KC135 Stratotanker aircraft executed critical mission requirements and rapidly deployed under threat from simulated opposing forces.

“Supporting exercises like Caribbean Fox enhances the multi-layered readiness of our Airmen by employing direct inter-operational support from the strategic location of our installation,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Evaristo Orengo, Commander of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard’s 156th Wing.

The strategic capabilities of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard in the Caribbean region allow for the execution of Agile Combat Movement exercises similar to those carried out in the Pacific, including ramp space, runways, a tactical geographic space with low terrain, various transportation routes over water, and the support of specialized aviators in response to contingencies and combat communications.

Aerial drones began life as military-only drones, but quickly evolved into commercial and even personal use.

Harris Looks to maintain momentum as ‘honeymoon phase’ winds down

By KELLEN BROWING AND MAGGIE ASTOR

When President Joe Biden said he would drop out of the presidential race just over a week ago, throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, a jolt of energy instantly excited a beleaguered Democratic base.

The party rallied around Harris, as upbeat memes and positive statistics for Democrats over the past week abounded: $200 million in contributions, a litany of tantalizing vice-presidential options and a rash of improved polling.

Harris now faces harder tasks in the coming weeks: maintaining that enthusiasm as the initial excitement fades, as former President Donald Trump and his campaign sharpen their attacks against her.

This week alone has important mile markers. Democratic delegates could begin voting to virtually nominate Harris as early as Thursday, the date the Democratic National Committee said they were expected to do so if only one candidate emerged.

And the running mate speculation will be rampant this week, as Harris narrows her choice, with Aug. 7 as a deadline she has set. She has empowered Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, and his law firm, Covington & Burling, to vet the prospective candidates.

“I would call it a honeymoon phase,” said Steve Sisolak, the former Democratic governor of Nevada, a key swing state. “We’ve got to keep the energy going. You got it started — now you’ve got to keep it going. It’s going to be a challenge for everybody.”

Harris and her high-profile surrogates are expected to keep up their brisk pace early in the week, with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — the latter viewed as a serious vice-presidential contender — campaigning for Harris on Monday in Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday, Harris will make her first appearance as a presidential candidate this cycle in Georgia, campaigning in Atlanta as she works to keep the state in play for November. Biden turned Georgia blue in 2020, but the president’s lagging poll numbers had prompted many Democrats to all but write it off this year. Harris, as she works to regain the support of key blocs

of the Democratic coalition — including Black people, women, younger voters and college-educated suburban residents — could make a renewed push there.

Trump and his allies will be active, too. The former president is rallying in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., on Wednesday, and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, will appear at a series of events in the western battleground states of Nevada and Arizona. In two states with large Latino populations, Vance is likely to continue to hammer Harris on immigration and call her the “border czar,” an attack Republicans see as effective after Biden appointed her to address the “root causes” of migration from Central American countries.

Vance faces his own controversies. He has been pummeled over his past comments that have resurfaced over the past week and a half, including his mockery of “childless cat ladies,” his assertion that childless Americans should pay higher taxes and his correspondence with a former law school classmate, in which he expressed political views that differ sharply from his positions today and said, “I hate the police.” Both Vance’s allies and opponents will be watching his appearances this week closely to see how well he recovers.

Republicans are also beginning to attack Harris for her old policy positions

and statements, resurfacing clips from her time running for president as they make the argument that she is a far-left radical from California, too progressive for the rest of the country.

“They’re going to come at her, sure. Of course they’ll come at her,” said Claire McCaskill, the former Democratic senator from Missouri. “But so far the only thing they’ve really tried is that she’s somehow not supportive of law enforcement, and that rings kind of hollow from a vice-presidential candidate that we now know said

in writing, ‘I hate the police.’ ” Harris has acknowledged the long road ahead. At a fundraiser over the weekend, she sought to temper expectations and guard against complacency.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race, OK?” Harris said.

The next morning, an array of Democratic surrogates fanned out across the Sunday news shows to defend her against Republican attacks.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who ran to Harris’ left in the 2020 Democratic primaries, went on CNN to promote her moderate bona fides. She praised Harris for supporting bipartisan legislation this year that would have enacted stringent border policies more commonly backed by Republicans. It was, Warren noted, Trump who torpedoed that deal.

Another set of surrogates were auditioning to be Harris’ running mate while engaging in the time-honored political tradition of insisting they weren’t thinking about it. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave a forceful defense when asked on CNN whether some of his policies — such as free meals for schoolchildren and tuition-free college for low-income residents — might be considered too liberal for a general election audience.

“What a monster. Kids are eating and having full bellies so they can go learn and women are making their own health care decisions, and we’re a top-five business state and we also rank in the top three of happiness,” Walz said with a laugh.

Vice President Kamala Harris, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks during her campaign rally in Milwaukee, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Democratic delegates could begin voting to virtually nominate Harris as early as August 1. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Gunman at Trump rally was often a step ahead of the Secret Service

By HALEY WILLIS, ARIC TOLER, DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD AND ADAM GOLDMAN

Nearly 100 minutes before former President Donald Trump took the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, a local countersniper who was part of the broader security detail let his colleagues know his shift was ending.

“Guys I am out. Be safe,” he texted to a group of colleagues at 4:19 p.m. on July 13. He exited the second floor of a warehouse that overlooked the campaign rally site, leaving two other countersnipers behind.

Outside, the officer noticed a young man with long stringy hair sitting on a picnic table near the warehouse. So, at 4:26 p.m., he texted his colleagues about the man, who was outside the fenced area of the Butler Fair Show grounds where Trump was to appear. He said that the person would have seen him come out with his rifle and “knows you guys are up there.”

The countersniper who sent the texts confirmed to The New York Times that the individual he saw was later identified as the gunman.

By 5:10 p.m., the young man was no longer on the picnic table. He was right below the countersnipers, who were upstairs in a warehouse owned by AGR International. One of the countersnipers took pictures of him, according to a law enforcement after-action report, which along with the texts from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit was provided to the Times by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley, RIowa. The text messages were independently verified by the Times.

At 5:38 p.m., the photos were shared in

a group chat, and another text went out among the officers, saying they should inform the Secret Service. “Kid learning around building we are in. AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.”

By 6:11 p.m., the “kid” would be dead on the roof of a warehouse connected to the one the countersnipers were stationed in, after having been shot by the Secret Service for trying to kill a former president.

Taken together, the text messages provide the most detailed picture yet of the hours before the assassination attempt. They reveal that the gunman, later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, aroused police suspicion more than 90 minutes before the shooting, rather than about 60 minutes, as has been previously discussed in congressional hearings.

The messages also add to the evidence that the would-be assassin was often one step ahead of security forces, and in particular the Secret Service.

Crooks scoped out the rally site a day before the Secret Service did. He used a drone to survey the site while the Secret Service did not seek permission to use one for the rally. He researched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from John F. Kennedy when he fatally shot the president in 1963 — the answer is about 265 feet — and managed to climb onto a roof that was about 400 feet from Trump at its closest point. The Secret Service left that roof unmanned.

And while countersnipers were assigned to surveil the rally, Crooks was also in a position to watch them.

Even after the episode ended, police seemed confused about what Crooks had done and how.

“So, on TV, they’re saying Trump was shot at, and he got hit, but I don’t believe that,” one local police officer said to another 17 minutes after the shooting, in a conversation captured on a body-worn camera.

As the officers in the video walk toward the warehouse on which Crooks’ lifeless body lay, one can be heard saying, “I’m trying to figure out how this guy got here.”

Investigators are still trying to determine Crooks’ motivations and his actions in the days before the rally, in part from what they have found on his personal devices. But the texts and footage, combined with interviews by the Times and public testimony by investigators, have filled in some of the answers.

Crooks already had the AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle he brought to the rally. He purchased it in October from his father, who had acquired it legally in 2013.

He began to receive packages at his house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, including fertilizer pellets and radio devices. He would later use some of this material to build rudimentary bombs, two of which were found in his vehicle after the shooting and another in his home.

Crooks had started searching online for information on famous people, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden and Trump. He also looked up “major depressive disorder.”

On July 3, Trump’s campaign announced the rally in Butler for 10 days later, and Crooks narrowed his focus to the former president — and to past assassinations.

On July 6, Crooks typed in an ominous phrase.

“He did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?,’” Wray told a congressional committee last week.

The next day, Crooks drove to the farm show grounds, about an hour from his home. He spent 20 minutes there, investigators said. He also registered to attend the rally.

Secret Service agents would not hold their first walk-through until the next day, July 8, joined by law enforcement officials from

several local and state agencies.

It was then that the Secret Service decided to exclude the entire warehouse complex owned by AGR — including Building No. 6, which Crooks would later use — from its inner security perimeter. This meant that on the day of the rally, Crooks was able to approach the building without passing through security screening.

There is still confusion about which agency was supposed to oversee the roof. Kimberly A. Cheatle, then the director of the Secret Service, told a House committee on Monday that she did not know whose job that was. She resigned the next day.

In the end, Trump was spared not by the vast law-enforcement contingent protecting him, but by chance. He turned his head, and Crooks’ first bullet whizzed by close enough to graze his right ear.

Trump dived to the ground, and Crooks sent off another round. The second Secret Service sniper team fired back and killed Crooks.

The body-camera footage shows officers climbing a ladder to find Crooks lying dead on the roof: a slight man, wearing black sneakers, a T-shirt and cargo shorts. His backpack and rifle lay nearby. A long trail of blood ran from his body down to the roof’s gutter.

“Looks like, what, at least eight,” one of them says, counting shell casings around him. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

(Kristian Thacker/The New

An aerial view on Monday, July 15, 2024, of the Butler Farm Show grounds in Butler, Pa., where a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally on Saturday. Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.

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A digital coin based on baby Trump? Yup.

BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY

Josh Bailey, a 26-year-old day trader in Austin, Texas, was scrolling through a cryptocurrency group chat last month when he encountered an investment opportunity: a digital currency created in honor of a dog named Billy.

The dog was cute, he thought, but more important, its name evoked something every crypto trader covets — billionaire status. “I started hearing people say ‘Billy’ to a billy,” Bailey said. “Kind of has that ring to it.”

Bailey bought about $900 of $BILLY on Pump.fun, a leading vendor for memecoins, volatile cryptocurrencies based on the fluctuating popularity of internet memes. When he sold his $BILLY holdings a few days later, he made a profit of more than $100,000.

The recent revival of the crypto market has fueled a surge in memecoins, one of the industry’s frothiest, most scam-ridden segments. In the first six months of the year, nearly 1.7 million new coins entered circulation, compared with 264,000 over the same period in 2023, according to Dune Analytics, a crypto data tracker. Many of the tokens have names such as Bread (yes, the meme is a loaf of bread) or Baby Trump (the former president in a diaper). One of the most popular memecoins is based on Pepe the Frog, an altright mascot that is sometimes used as a hate symbol.

Much of the activity has been driven by Pump.fun, a website that started in January and offers a quick and easy method for spinning up new memecoins. The site generated about $60 million in transaction fees over the first half of the year, according to an estimate by Subin An, an analyst at crypto venture firm Hashed. But little is known about its operations or its founders, who conduct business under pseudonyms.

The frenzy reveals a side of the crypto world that industry executives rarely mention these days. Seeking to put a series of damaging financial scandals behind it, the crypto industry now markets itself as a newly mature institution, with a growing foothold in the traditional financial sector and a campaign war chest to influence elections. Crypto lobbyists hobnob with politicians in Washington and have petitioned for looser regulations.

But the crypto world hasn’t outgrown some of the risky practices that flourished when digital currencies boomed in 2020 and 2021, before a market crash sent major companies into bankruptcy and drained the savings of millions of investors.

“It’s play at your own risk,” said Eric Spivak, a crypto entrepreneur and consultant. “A 24-hour casino at your doorstep, in your home.”

Many cryptocurrencies have at least a theoretical function. Bitcoin, the largest digital currency, was envisioned as a long-term store of value, a kind of digital gold. Other digital currencies were designed to facilitate borrowing and lending.

But memecoins are simply online jokes converted into digital money, worth only what people are willing to pay for them. The most famous memecoin is dogecoin, a cryptocurrency linked to a meme of a talking Shiba Inu puppy. In 2021, it became one of the most popular digital currencies, minting

One of the wildest, most scam-ridden corners of the cryptocurrency industry — memecoins, which are rooted in internet memes — has roared back. (Nick Little/The New York Times)

dogecoin millionaires — until the hype died and the price plummeted. (Dogecoin is now worth about 13 cents a coin, down from a record of 73 cents.)

Trading memecoins can yield fast profits but carries risks. An anonymous entrepreneur might invent a fun-sounding coin, market it to the public and then suddenly disappear with the profits. It’s such a common phenomenon in the crypto world that there’s a name for it: a “rug pull.”

Enthusiasm for memecoins waned in 2022 when the broader crypto market imploded. Then the industry underwent a resurgence. In January, U.S. regulators approved a new investment product tied to bitcoin, propelling the cryptocurrency to its highest price.

Around that time, Pump.fun went live. The website resembles an old-fashioned arcade game, with flashing lights and a brightly colored leaderboard. Anyone can log on and quickly create a memecoin for about $2, uploading a cartoon to accompany the new price ticker.

“This just basically fast-tracked that whole process,” said Spivak. “It’s almost a zero-knowledge-type situation.”

On a recent afternoon, one investment option featured on Pump.fun’s homepage was a digital currency called Ponzi Dog. Another was named Tom and Jelly, a play on cartoon characters Tom and Jerry. Rapper Iggy Azalea recently created her own Pump.fun memecoin, $MOTHER.

Pump.fun’s leaders have not publicly revealed their identities. Social platform X accounts under the names Alon and Sapijiju operate as social media representatives for the site, sharing advice and memes.

In May, Pump.fun was forced to pause trading

after someone siphoned $2 million in crypto from the company in an online attack. The site’s official X account blamed a former employee and said some of “the most esteemed security folks in the space” were working to ensure that the service was safe. The employee, Jarett Dunn, later said he had been arrested in connection with the theft.

In an interview, Dunn said his case was pending in a British court. Pump.fun is based in London, he said, and is led by three entrepreneurs in their early 20s: Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen and Dylan Kerler.

A copy of Dunn’s employment contract identified Tweedale as CEO of Baton Corp., a corporate entity registered in England, and listed an email address for him at a Pump.fun domain. Public filings by Baton Corp. named Tweedale, Kerler and Cohen as the company’s directors.

While he worked at Pump.fun as a developer, Dunn said, the company had only a handful of employees and was raising money from investors. The young executives “were all very cordial and friendly and stuff,” said Dunn, who is working on his own cryptocurrency. “They probably have their own trepidation with having their face everywhere.”

In a message on Telegram, Tweedale confirmed that he runs Pump.fun with Cohen and Kerler. He said they had met in Oxford, England, and had years of experience trading memecoins such as dogecoin.

“Many times, these memecoins would be negatively affected by malicious actors in the space,” Tweedale said. “We wanted to create a place where people can buy memecoins safely.”

The shortage of information about Pump.fun doesn’t appear to have deterred crypto traders. Anyone investing in digital currencies should understand the risks, said Bailey. “I’m not ever risking more than I’m willing to lose,” he said.

Bailey was still riding high from his $BILLY windfall, which he had converted into Solana, a less-volatile cryptocurrency.

“When you see the right people talking about a specific asset, then that’s when you kind of have to buy,” he said. “Follow the smart money.”

Every day brings fresh opportunities for profit. After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump this month, Bailey watched as another memecoin shot up in value.

It was called $EAR.

Stocks

S&P 500 barely rises as investors await key results, jobs data, Fed meeting

The S&P 500 closed barely higher after Monday’s choppy trading session as investors held their breath ahead of a raft of big technology company earnings, a Federal Reserve policy decision on interestrate cuts and key US labor data, all due this week.

Quarterly reports from market heavyweights such as Microsoft and Apple, Meta and Amazon.com this week will offer clues on whether technology stocks are vulnerable or can extend their recent rallies.

Investors are hoping that the Fed will end its meeting on Wednesday with a signal that it is preparing for a September rate cut in its policy verdict.

On Friday investors will closely monitor the July nonfarm payrolls report for signs of possible weakening in the labor market.

“Understandably we’re wavering,” said Mona Mahajan, principal and senior investment strategist at Edward Jones, pointing to the upcoming catalysts and Wall Street’s Friday advance.

“Markets are largely in wait-and-see mode. We have big economic news this week, both the Fed meeting Wednesday and the jobs report on Friday. We also have huge earnings reports coming out of mega cap technology,” she said.

Technology megacaps have dominated Wall Street’s record-breaking run, prompting investors to recently turn their attention to laggards such as mid- and small caps, which are expected to benefit from a low-interest-rate environment.

“A lot of investors are keen to see whether the recent rotation we’ve been seeing in the markets has legs, or does mega cap technology really kind of shine through in its earnings reports,” Mahajan added.

However, the small-cap Russell 2000 lost 1% after three straight weeks of gains.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 49.41 points, or 0.12% at 40,539.93 while the S&P 500 rose 4.44 points, or 0.08%, to 5,463.54. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 12.32 points, or 0.07%, to 17,370.20.

Among the S&P 500’s 11 major industry sector indexes, consumer discretionary was the benchmark’s biggest boost with the sector’s biggest contribution from Tesla as the electric vehicle maker’s stock rallied after Morgan Stanley added it to its “top pick” U.S. autos’ list.

The biggest percentage decliner among the major sectors was energy, which lost 0.9% as oil prices fell.

McDonald’s shares closed up 3.7% after it said its $5meal deal, launched late in June, was popular among customers shying away from higher-price items. As a result the fast food giant reported a surprise drop in sales, its first in 13 quarters.

Abbott Laboratories shares pared earlier losses to close down 0.4% after a jury ordered the healthcare company to pay $495 million in damages following a trial that found its formula for premature infants had caused a dangerous illness.

Crypto stock trading was also choppy with Coinbase

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Global closing down more than 3% while Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital finished down more than 5% after jump early in the day when bitcoin prices hit sevenweek highs.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.24to-1 ratio on the NYSE where there were 268 new highs and 47 new lows.

On the Nasdaq, 1,485 stocks rose and 2,731 fell as declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.84-to-1 ratio. The S&P 500 posted 35 new 52-week highs and two new lows. The Nasdaq Composite recorded 120 new highs and 80 new lows.

On U.S. exchanges 9.96 billion shares changed hands compared with the 11.16 billion moving average for the last 20 sessions.

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Alun John, EMEA breaking news correspondent, finance and markets

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Things are feeling calmer on Monday morning, though we will see how long that lasts as it’s going to be an action-packed week.

Shares in Europe and Asia are trading higher and Nasdaq futures were up 0.3% at the time of writing (0900 GMT, 0500 ET)- a change of tone after a stumble by megacap tech stocks saw the tech-heavy benchmark shed 5.6% in the past two weeks.

This week will go a long way towards deciding whether that’s it for the sell-off, and the rotation into small cap stocks, or whether it is the start of something big.

Geopolitics aren’t having much of an effect on markets, at least so far, and concerns that Israel and the Iranbacked Lebanese group Hezbollah could be sucked into a full-scale war have done little to move oil prices, let alone broader markets.

Monday’s main potentially market-moving event is the U.S. Treasury’s quarterly refunding announcement.

Israel’s security cabinet approves military response to attack from Lebanon

By ISABEL KERSHNER AND EUAN WARD

Tensions were running high on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border Monday in anticipation of an escalation in hostilities, after Israel’s security Cabinet authorized its leaders to decide on the nature and timing of a military response to a deadly rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, received the authorization from the Cabinet members in a meeting Sunday night, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office.

Israeli politicians have been vocal about the need for a significant military blow in retaliation for the rocket strike, which killed 12 children and teenagers Saturday in the Druse Arab village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The Iran-backed militia group Hezbollah, which has been sending rockets into Israel for months, denied responsibility for the attack, but Israel and the United States have blamed the group.

Visiting the scene of the strike Monday, Netanyahu said of the victims, “These children are our children, the children of all of us. Israel will not and cannot let this pass and carry on as usual. Our response is coming, and it will be severe.”

Israeli analysts said Hezbollah was most likely aiming at a nearby army base on Mount Hermon and did not intentionally target the village. But the group’s use of inaccurate rockets in an area dotted with civilian communities led to the kind of unintended consequence that risks sparking an all-out war, they said.

In striking back, Netanyahu must now make his own calculations so that any Israeli retaliation does not expand the conflict more broadly than planned.

Ehud Yaari, an Israel-based fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israel needed to respond to meet the expectations of the minority Druse community and Israeli public opinion in general, and so as not to show weakness to the enemy. (Local residents heckled Netanyahu in Majdal Shams, telling him they had no security and chanting “Murderer! Murderer!” at him, videos posted on social media showed.)

Jwan Willy, 14, left, with Amira Abu Saleh, the manager of the local council’s youth department, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, northern Israel on Sunday, July 28, 2024. A stunned hush of collective mourning fell over Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, after the attack from Lebanon. (Avishag ShaarYashuv/The New York Times)

But both sides appeared to be signaling that they did not want a full-blown conflagration, Yaari said, with each watching the other’s movements across the border.

The response will likely be carefully focused in the hope of preventing a prolonged escalation, he said, adding, “There are a lot of ways that Israel could act. There are plenty of targets in the bank.”

Since the strike on Majdal Shams on Saturday, there have been continued exchanges across the border, but they have seemed to fall within the bounds of the routine tit-for-tat of the past few months. The Israeli military said overnight that its aerial defense systems successfully intercepted an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Lebanon into northwestern Israel.

On Monday morning, a drone strike in southern Lebanon killed two people and injured three others, including a child, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency. The strike targeted a vehicle on the road between two border villages, according to Lebanese media reports.

At least two towns were also hit overnight by Israeli airstrikes, the agency reported. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on those attacks.

Hezbollah began firing across Israel’s northern border nearly 10 months ago in solidarity with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, though the strikes and Israel’s responses have been mostly small scale. In the wake of the attack Saturday, Western diplomats have been scrambling to try to prevent any major Israeli retaliation and Hezbollah counter-response from spiraling into an all-out war, even as the fighting between Israel and Hamas continues in the south.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a call from Tokyo on Monday with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, “reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iranian-backed terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah.” But he also emphasized “the importance of preventing escalation of the conflict and discussed efforts to reach a diplomatic solution” to the hostilities, according to Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson.

Hezbollah has denied responsibil-

ity for the rocket attack Saturday that struck a soccer field in Majdal Shams. But the Israeli military said the type of rocket used in the attack is Iranian-made and carries more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives. Hezbollah is the only group in Lebanon that possesses such rockets, the military said.

And on Sunday, Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council, said in a statement that Hezbollah had organized the attack. “It was their rocket, and launched from an area they control,” the statement said.

Gallant described Hezbollah’s denials as “ridiculous” after a visit to the Israeli military’s northern command headquarters Sunday. He warned that Hezbollah would pay “a heavy price” for the strike.

After a restless night, many in Lebanon were relieved Monday to find there had been no major Israeli retaliation overnight. Children made their way to school. Bakeries fired up their ovens and the roads were clogged with traffic as people went about their daily commute.

“It was cool to wake up and find that I was alive,” said Mohamed Awada, 52, a taxi driver and father of two who lives in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

But fears continued to linger in Lebanon as the country awaited the expected Israeli response amid a highly unpredictable time for the Middle East. Embassies in Lebanon reissued warnings against travel to the country, and urged foreign citizens to leave while flights are still available.

Rena Bitter, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, described a “complex and quickly changing situation” in a video released by the U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Monday.

Bitter said that U.S. citizens in Lebanon “should be prepared to shelter in place for long periods of time” if commercial flights were halted. “We recommend that U.S. citizens develop a crisis plan of action and leave before a crisis begins,” Bitter said.

Some airlines, including the Lufthansa Group, have suspended or adjusted their flight schedules in Lebanon amid the heightened tensions. Middle East Airlines, Lebanon’s national carrier, cited “insurance risks” as a reason for rescheduling overnight flights arriving in Beirut, according to a statement.

Here’s what to know about Venezuela’s flawed election

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV

President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner in a presidential vote Sunday that was marred by irregularities. Officials at some polling places refused to release paper tallies of the electronic vote count, and there were widespread reports of fraud and voter intimidation. Here are initial takeaways from Venezuela’s election.

Many fear a return to instability.

The government’s announcement that Maduro had beaten his opponent, Edmundo González, by 7 percentage points instantly created a grim scenario for a country that only recently has started emerging from one of the largest economic collapses in modern history.

The results announced by the government-controlled electoral council varied

wildly — by up to 30 percentage points — from most public polls and from the opposition’s sample of results obtained directly from voting centers. And there were many reports of major irregularities and problems at those voting centers.

The opposition leader María Corina Machado, who spearheaded González’s campaign, on Monday morning called the results “impossible.”

Some opposition supporters could take to the streets to protest the result. That could plunge Venezuela into a new period of political unrest, like those in 2014, 2017 and 2019, when security forces aligned with Maduro used deadly force to crush demonstrations.

Officials from several countries in the Americas, including the United States, expressed doubts about the announced results, raising the likelihood that a new

term for Maduro would not be widely recognized abroad, either.

The opposition’s monitoring effort was blocked.

After a campaign marked by intensifying efforts by Maduro’s allies to rein in the opposition — including arrests of opposition campaign workers, intimidation and vote suppression — the opposition bet heavily on an effort to have supporters on hand to get a physical printout of the voting tally from every voting machine after the polls closed.

That access is allowed by Venezuelan election law. But by early Monday morning, González’s campaign said it had obtained only 40% of the tallies. In some places, monitors were barred from entering polling places or they never appeared in the first place. Often, election officials simply refused to hand over the tallies.

That will complicate efforts by the opposition to prove undeniably that the vote had been tampered with.

The results could be disastrous for Venezuela’s economy.

After years of fighting Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan businesspeople and foreign investors had largely made peace with his government in recent years. Sanctions imposed by the United States had forced Maduro to ditch some extreme policies like price and currency controls. The private sector was given an increasingly prominent role, public attacks against business owners had stopped and hyperinflation and rampant crime subsided somewhat.

The increased support from the private sector led to hopes that a credible result would keep the improvements coming and lead to some sort of political settlement. That appears unlikely now, and the dubious election results could test

the thaw between Maduro and business leaders, and could possibly trigger a new wave of international sanctions.

Most critically, the result is unlikely to allow the Biden administration to unwind its sweeping economic sanctions against Venezuela. That would stunt the economic recovery, and is likely to lead to another wave of migration from a nation that has seen the exodus of 1 in 5 citizens in the past decade.

A smooth Venezuelan election that would have led to greater economic opening also suited the country’s Latin American neighbors, including Maduro’s old allies, the leftist governments of Brazil and Colombia.

The region has received the bulk of Venezuelan migration, leading to an anti-immigration political backlash in some places.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil took a surprisingly strong stand against Maduro last week. “When you lose, you leave,” he told reporters. He sent his top foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, to Caracas for the election, and Amorim’s position on the vote could become a bellwether for the region.

Waving at left atop the truck is popular former lawmaker Maria Corina Machado, and next to her is presidential candidate Edmundo González as they lead a campaign rally ahead of Sunday’s election in Caracas, Venezuela, July 25, 2024.

Voters check the list of electors at a poll station in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, July 28, 2024. (Marian Carrasquero/The New York Times)

JD Vance and the tech-trad alliance

By ROSS DOUTHAT

Just over seven months ago, the talented pseudonymous writer Trace Woodgrains wrote an essay announcing the Republican Party’s doom — not the doom of electoral irrelevance, since the GOP clearly isn’t going anywhere, but the doom of being unable to find enough talented people to actually carry out its agenda, shape the culture, or really govern the United States.

Citing data on highly educated America’s leftward swing and his own experience as a “a gay, centrist Biden voter” who feels like one of the most right-leaning students at his law school, Woodgrains argued that Trump-era conservatism suffers from a fatal human capital problem, an inability to generate elite support on any meaningful scale. Conservative populism, he suggested, is a potent mass movement with an enduring vacuum at the top.

This week, with the nomination of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate and the recent surge of support for Trump’s campaign from Silicon Valley, Woodgrains reconsidered the durability of his diagnosis. The Vance pick, he wrote, suggests that “the GOP is looking to make an appeal to anti-woke Silicon Valley or finance types to fill the void left by the Republican Party’s competency crisis,” with Vance himself as an exemplar of what a right-leaning counter-elite might look like. And the response from tech money, especially, suggests that it might be working, since it’s not just Peter Thiel backing Trump this time around; it’s Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen and many more. And why? Because nature abhors a vacuum.

“Republicans offer a sort of Faustian bargain to ambitious anti-woke secular sorts: make your peace with the evangelicals, pander to social conservatism, and gain sway in a coalition crying out for policy competence,” Woodgrains wrote in an essay on his website. “More than a few will take that bargain. People are drawn to power voids.”

I like this argument because it supplies a structural context to a sudden shift that a lot of observers are scrambling to explain: See, among others, Reed Albergotti and Noah Smith running through a list of policy issues, cultural changes and, yes, vibe shifts that help explain why the Trumpian GOP suddenly has more support in Silicon Valley than in 2020 or 2016.

All these indicators are helpful to understanding the emergent “tech right.” But if you look at the shift through the lens suggested by Woodgrains’s analysis, what you see is a somewhat predictable rebalancing, a system trying to move closer to an equilibrium. A situation where one electoral coalition has plenty of political influence but remarkably limited elite representation might just be inherently unstable: If a coalition can win elections and hold power, even if it seems culturally disreputable, eventually some group of elites will find reasons to support it (and try to turn its power to their ends). And both liberals who hoped for the permanent marginalization of Trumpism and right-wingers who feared the permanent dominance of a culturally liberal “Cathedral” possibly overestimated how long the American elite could remain unified without some modest crackup, some

realignment within the ruling class.

But I would add two important qualifiers to Woodgrains’ description of an emergent tech right that decides it needs to hold its nose and “pander to social conservatism” to share power in the GOP.

The first is that to some degree Trump himself smoothed the rightward path for the tech barons, by remaking the Republican Party along somewhat more post-Christian, pagan-lite, “Barstool-conservative” lines. Here some of the distinctive features of this week’s Republican convention, from the sidelining of anti-abortion activists in the platform-writing process to the speech by a former stripper and OnlyFans performer, are themselves helpful in explaining why it feels culturally easier for tech money to support the Republican Party. It’s still a socially conservative party — if Musk moves two of his companies’ headquarters to Texas, he’ll be moving them to a state that heavily restricts abortion — but it’s not the party of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, or for that matter of George W. Bush.

But then second, there is also some actual congruence between the tech right and what I’ve called the “neotraditionalist” version of religious conservatism. For some (not all) tech people and some (not all) religious conservatives, a political alliance isn’t just a matter of hold-your-nose convenience: There’s also a philosophical convergence, a set of premises held in common about the nature of the universe and the condition of America today.

One is a shared faith in cosmic order, a belief that the world is still a puzzle waiting for solutions, not just a random jumble or a permanent mystery — that there is underlying order everywhere, and great secrets hidden from us that might yet be unlocked or revealed. (Here it’s telling that the Silicon Valley types pulled rightward seem to be mostly venture capital types or enthusiasts for “edge” products like crypto and AI — the would-be secret finders, the mystics of capitalism.)

Another is that human beings have some important cosmic destiny, that we aren’t just doomed to blink out in some entirely meaningless apocalypse, that our image-of-God side is essential to the story of the world.

Another is that Western civilization has fallen into a slough of despond and that to escape, we need to reject woke progressivism, which is setting itself up as a post-Christian church of late-modern despair.

And yet another is that there is some link between cultural and intellectual fertility and literal fertility, between dynamism and traditionalism, and that reversing the collapse of birthrates is one of the great tasks of the 21st century.

A convergence between religious impulses and technological ambitions (or between trad bros and tech bros, if you prefer) is not a novel thing in American history; just ask the great 19th-century Protestant industrialists. Nor is it unknown in the history of modern conservatism: The Reaganism of the 1970s and ’80s was, in its own way, an alliance of Californian dynamists and evangelical Christians.

Such an alliance might seem more unnatural now than it was back then. Silicon Valley is more fundamentally post-

“Just over seven months ago, the talented pseudonymous writer Trace Woodgrains wrote an essay announcing the Republican Party’s doom — not the doom of electoral irrelevance, since the G.O.P. clearly isn’t going anywhere, but the doom of being unable to find enough talented people to actually carry out its agenda, shape the culture, or really govern the United States,” writes The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Calum Heath/The New York Times)

Christian than was, say, the culture of the Cold War-era aerospace industry, and some of the projects a tech right would likely embrace (radical genetic engineering, the quest for the AI god) create more fundamental conflict with traditional religious belief, sharpening the tension between America’s Christian and Faustian impulses. Under such conditions, the modest spiritual stirrings in Silicon Valley could flower into a fully pagan or transhumanist religious culture, and the tech-trad congruence could dissolve.

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Develan obra en honor a Pedro Albizu Campos y Elizam Escobar en Ponce

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El muralista Rafael “Rafique” Vega develó el sábado en Ponce una pintura de grandes dimensiones en honor al líder nacionalista Pedro Albizu Campos, al artista Elizam Escobar y a los cadetes de la República.

El arte fue idea de Luis Sanabria y patrocinada por las organizaciones Salón Boricua e Isla Caribe.

“Siento un gran orgullo por participar en esta gesta y haber realizado el primer tributo que se le hace a Pedro Albizu en el casco urbano de Ponce”, dijo el artista en declaraciones escritas.

Melina Aguilar, fundadora de Isla Caribe, hizo un llamado a “comprometerse más con nuestro país, a amarlo más”. “Cuando me dicen que el turismo no es contar nuestra historia verdadera, que hablar, por ejemplo, de la invasión estadounidense, es asustar al turista, yo siempre digo que no, al contrario, es contar lo que pasó de verdad y animar a la gente a comprometerse con Puerto Rico”, añadió.

Por su parte, el gestor Luis Sanabria destacó la participación de gente joven en el proyecto, sin los cuales “esto no habría sido posible”. “Esto no es sólo un mural, esto es un acto patriótico y revolucionario”, enfatizó.

La obra, que mide 8 por 24 pies, está ubicada en la calle Aurora, entre las calles Mayor y Marina, a solo pasos del Museo de la Masacre en Ponce.

La obra, que mide 8 por 24 pies, está ubicada en la calle Aurora, entre las calles Mayor y Marina, a solo pasos del Museo de la Masacre, con el objetivo de denunciar el abandono en el que está dicho edificio, que permanece cerrado tras sufrir daños graves consecuencia de los terremotos de 2020.

En el evento, participaron los grupos Los Violines, Mapeyé, el poeta Ché Melendes y Roy Brown y su conjunto. Estuvieron presentes dos nietos de Albizu Campos, Rosa Meneses Albizu y Pedro Albizu, quienes manifestaron su orgullo y satisfacción por este importante reconocimiento a su abuelo en su ciudad natal.

Regresa la 5ta edición del National Dog Day

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en el lema “no al maltrato, no al abandono” se llevará a cabo la 5ta edición del National Dog Day, el domingo, 18 de agosto, un día para compartir en familia y celebrar la lealtad y el amor incondicional hacia nuestros compañeros perrunos.

Este día especial será en los exteriores del Departamento de Recreación y Deportes, Santurce de 10:00 de la mañana a 6:00 de la tarde.

Para conmemorar el National Dog Day se han programado diversas actividades como vacunación, charlas educativas de diversos temas, juegos, entrenamiento, participación de veterinarios y mucha diversión. Solo se

pagará un boleto por persona y los perritos entran gratis, importante que se lleve agua para mantenerlos hidratados y poner bálsamo en las patitas para evitar quemaduras.

“En esta quinta edición de nuestro National Dog Day quisimos crear conciencia sobre “no al maltrato, no al abandono” que es un problema grave que afecta a miles de animales en Puerto Rico. Queremos aprovechar esta ocasión para enfatizar la necesidad de proteger y garantizar su bienestar además de compartir un día en familia dedicado a esos amigos incondicionales que son nuestros perros”, expresó Chanty Vargas productora del National Dog Day.

La 5ta edición del National Dog Day será el domingo, 18 de agosto exteriores del Departamento de Recreación y Deportes, Santurce de 10:00 am a 6:00 pm.

‘Time bandits’ review: A flatter adventure

siasm for historical discovery, not to mention his basic decency — is the same as the movie’s, and Kal-El Tuck gives an engaging performance as the exhaustingly nerdy Kevin. And as with the Monty Python-style original, the continual time-and-place jumps lead to an episodic, sketch-like format in which the originality of the set pieces varies but some inevitably pop.

Mark Gatiss is lethally supercilious as the Earl of Sandwich, insisting on his status as the inventor of meat between slices of bread; Con O’Neil of “Our Flag Means Death” shows off his mastery of comic bluster as the sheriff of Nottingham. Clement is a worthy successor to David Warner as Pure Evil, gagging elaborately each time he tries to say “Supreme Being”; in an expanded role as said being, though, Waititi accomplishes less than Ralph Richardson did in a few minutes in the film.

The 10 episodes are filled out with new subplots. One, involving Kevin’s sister, Saffron (Kiera Thompson), the meanest and most dismissive but also the spunkiest of siblings, is the best thing about the show; another, involving his and Saffron’s parents, demonstrates that cleverness does not close the door on crowd-pleasing sentimentality.

By MIKE HALE

When the bandits of the title burst into the bedroom of Kevin, an 11-year-old history buff, in the new Apple TV+ series “Time Bandits,” among the first things you are likely to notice is: no dwarfs.

The show’s source, Terry Gilliam’s 1981 movie of the same title, was all about the dwarfs. There were six of them, who pilfered a map that identifies time portals and used it to try to steal whatever historical loot they could get their hands on. Along the way, they picked up Kevin, who came to serve as both the brains and the conscience of the operation.

The bandits in Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititi’s “Time Bandits,” which premieres Wednesday with two of its 10 episodes, are a fully heighted bunch; their more-or-less leader, Penelope, is played by Lisa Kudrow, who towered over her female co-stars on “Friends.”

Changing things up after 43 years is unremarkable, and perhaps the film’s less than nuanced presentation of the dwarf characters as a rollicking, bickering, slapstick bunch marked by physical abandon and short tempers gave the TV show’s creators pause. (On the other hand, the change in those central roles has been criticized as anti-inclusive by advocates for little people, including descendants of the actors who played the original bandits.)

Among the next things you notice about this new “Time Bandits,” though, is that nothing has replaced the energy that Jack Purvis, Kenny Baker and the other actors

with dwarfism brought to the film. And while Clement, Morris and Waititi share some of the anarchic sensibility of Gilliam and his co-writer, Michael Palin, they present it here in a domesticated, flattened-out form.

As it follows the peripatetic adventures of the bandits — from visits to the Maya empire and plague-ravaged medieval Europe to battles with dinosaurs and demons to confrontations with Pure Evil and the Supreme Being, the Mutt-and-Jeff deities of the “Time Bandits” universe — the show is unfailingly clever, visually interesting and at least mildly amusing. It is wan, though, compared to other series that Clement, Morris and Waititi have collaborated on, like “Flight of the Conchords” and the riotous “What We Do in the Shadows.”

The bandits, in addition to being taller, are now a more timorous, less successful bunch, with individual sets of neuroses that constitute their characters. Penelope’s insecurity about her leadership qualities turns her into an order-barking harpy — it’s a dull role, and Kudrow doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen her do before. Alto (Tadhg Murphy) is a frustrated actor; Bittelig (Rune Temte) is an overly gentle giant; Widgit (Roger Jean Nsengiyumva), the keeper of the map, can’t figure out how to use it. (The band becomes particularly male-heavy in the second half of the season, when Charlyne Yi, who plays the empath Judy, drops out of the action; Yi, who uses they-them pronouns, left the production after making public statements that they were abused on the set.)

The initial dynamic driving the story — the bandit crew’s desire for loot running counter to Kevin’s enthu-

Seen from 2024, one of the most distinctive things about Gilliam’s film is its dystopian flavor, and the casual brutality of its humor and of its attitude toward its characters, particularly Kevin’s parents. The series is softer, a quality that emerges fully in its treatment of the bond that grows between Kevin and Penelope. It could use a little more cruelty, and some of the boisterousness that the dwarfs brought to the film. Speaking of which, keep your eyes open: You never know who might pop up.

The new comedic adventure series Time Bandits, based on the beloved classic movie, premiered globally on July 24, 2024, on Apple TV+.

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Defeated by artificial intelligence, a legend in the board game Go warns: Get ready for what’s next

By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and JIN YU YOUNG

Lee Saedol was the finest Go player of his generation when he suffered a decisive loss, defeated not by a human opponent but by artificial intelligence.

Lee was beaten by AlphaGo, an AI computer program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit. The stunning upset, in 2016, made headlines around the world and looked like a clear sign that artificial intelligence was entering a new, profoundly unsettling era.

By besting Lee, an 18-time world champion revered for his intuitive and creative style of play, AlphaGo had solved one of computer science’s greatest challenges: teaching itself the abstract strategy needed to win at Go, widely considered the world’s most complex board game.

“I am very surprised because I have never thought I would lose,” Lee said at the time in a post-match news conference. “I didn’t know that AlphaGo would play such a perfect Go.”

But the implications of his loss went far beyond the game itself, in which two players compete for territory by placing black and white stones on a gridded board made up of 19 lines by 19 lines. AlphaGo’s victory demonstrated the unbridled potential of AI to achieve superhuman mastery of skills once considered too complicated for machines.

Lee, now 41, retired three years later, convinced that humans could no longer compete with computers at Go. Artificial intelligence, he said, had changed the very nature of a game that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago.

“Losing to AI, in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing,” he said in a recent interview with The New York Times.

As society wrestles with what AI holds for humanity’s future, Lee is now urging others to avoid being caught unprepared, as he was, and to become familiar with the technology now. He delivers lectures about AI, trying to give others the advance notice he wishes he had received before his match.

“I faced the issues of AI early, but it will happen for others,” Lee said recently at a community education fair in Seoul to a crowd of students and parents. “It may not be a happy ending.”

Since his loss, Lee has become an AI obsessive of sorts, following with rapt if uneasy attention as artificial intelligence deli-

secutive times in a closed-door match.

Then, Lee was approached by Lee Hajin, who was working at the International Go Federation, with a proposal for a public match, with a $1 million prize for beating AlphaGo.

Lee Saedol said he accepted the offer without much thought, figuring it would be “fun.”

“But fun with the presumption that I was going to win,” he said. “The possibility of losing didn’t occur to me.”

The best-of-five match, played in Seoul, was a spectacle. In South Korea, where millions of people play Go and Lee is a celebrity, the showdown led nightly television broadcasts. More than 200 million people watched, with huge audiences in China and Japan.

vers one breakthrough after another.

AI has helped chatbots carry on conversations almost indistinguishable from human interaction. It has solved problems that have confounded scientists for decades like predicting protein shapes. And it has blurred the lines of creativity: writing music, producing art and generating videos.

Lee is not a doomsayer. In his view, AI may replace some jobs, but it may create some, too. When considering AI’s grasp of Go, he said it was important to remember that humans both created the game and designed the AIsystem that mastered it.

What he worries about is that AI may change what humans value.

“People used to be in awe of creativity, originality and innovation,” he said. “But since AI came, a lot of that has disappeared.”

Lee started playing Go at the age of 5 under the guidance of his father, a schoolteacher and enthusiast of the game. His family lived on Bigeumdo, an island off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula inhabited by around 3,600 people.

His immense talent was apparent from the start. He quickly became the best player of his age not only locally but across all of South Korea, Japan and China. He turned pro at 12.

By the time he was 20, Lee had reached 9-dan, the highest level of mastery in Go. Soon, he was among the best players in the world, described by some as the Roger Federer of the game.

“He was an idol, he was a star,” said Lee Hajin, a former professional Go player. “Everyone looked up to him.”

As Lee Saedol’s standing was growing, Go started garnering interest from a new audience: computer scientists.

Go posed a tantalizing challenge for AI researchers. The game is exponentially more complicated than chess, with it often being said that there are more possible positions on a Go board (10 with more than 100 zeros after it, by many mathematical estimates) than there are atoms in the universe.

The breakthrough came from DeepMind, which built AlphaGo using so-called neural networks: mathematical systems that can learn skills by analyzing enormous amounts of data. It started by feeding the network 30 million moves from high-level players. Then the program played game after game against itself until it learned which moves were successful and developed new strategies.

By late 2015, AlphaGo had defeated a three-time European Go champion five con-

During the matches, a DeepMind engineer sat across from Lee and placed the stones as relayed to him by AlphaGo. Lee said not having a true human opponent was disconcerting. AlphaGo played a style he had never seen, and it felt odd to not try to decipher what his opponent was thinking and feeling. The world watched in awe as AlphaGo pushed Lee into corners and made moves unthinkable to a human player.

“I couldn’t get used to it,” he said. “I thought that AI would beat humans someday. I just didn’t think it was here yet.”

AlphaGo won 4 of 5 matches. Lee Sang Hoon, his older brother and a professional Go player, remembered thinking: “This can’t be.”

“It was shocking,” said his brother, who continues to play as a professional. Like other pros, he now trains with AI systems that continue to learn and improve.

“Pro players are studying how these algorithms work and are trying to close the gap,” his brother said. “But we are a long way away.”

AlphaGo’s victory “was a watershed moment in the history of AI,” said Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s CEO, in a written statement. It showed what computers that learn on their own from data “were really capable of,” he said.

Lee had a hard time accepting the defeat. What he regarded as an art form, an extension of a player’s own personality and style, was now cast aside for an algorithm’s ruthless efficiency.

“I could no longer enjoy the game,” he said. “So I retired.”

Lee Saedol, a former professional Go player, inside one of his Go academies in Hanam, South Korea, on May 27, 2024. When an AI opponent defeated Lee Saedol, one of the world’s top Go players, it was seen as a harbinger of a new era for human-machine interactions. (Jean Chung/The New York Times)

How to quit vaping

By DANI BLUM

By his junior year of college, Zach Arledge had already tried to quit vaping about half a dozen times. But with each attempt, he found himself reflexively reaching for his Juul within a day.

So when he decided to try again, Arledge wanted to be prepared. He waited until winter break, when he’d have more free time, and took a week off work. He bought sugary cereals to help kick his cravings and melatonin in case he had trouble sleeping.

He drew 72 squares onto paper, each one representing an hour of his first three days without nicotine. He marked them off as the hours ticked by, checking off a chunk when he woke up. Those first days, Arledge felt detached from his body, unable to focus on anything. He chewed on chopsticks and stayed in front of the TV, trying to distract himself.

The nicotine in vapes can be highly addictive, and can raise blood sugar, heart rate and blood pressure, among other health risks. And while some people turn to vaping to stop smoking cigarettes,

knew, for a while, that it was time to quit. But every time he tried, he just couldn’t push through the withdrawal symptoms.

Doctors said that there are strategies to help people address those symptoms and give up vaping for good.

How to stop vaping

— Make a plan.

Part of planning to quit involves figuring out your triggers: what motivates you to vape, and what people or settings you need to avoid as you wean yourself off the nicotine.

“The more you understand yourself, the more you can prepare,” said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Some people choose to quit cold turkey, but experts say others might have more success if they gradually reduce how much they vape over several weeks. It can help to set a quit date or a deadline to fully give up vaping.

— Brace for withdrawal symptoms.

Those who are dependent on nicotine may experience withdrawal when they quit. They can feel anxious, nauseated and shaky, Krishnan-Sarin said. “It’s almost like the system is rebalancing itself,” she said.

— Get help.

While there are no medications specifically approved to help people stop vaping, some people may benefit from treatments for quitting smoking, Galiatsatos said. There are anti-smoking drugs without nicotine authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for adults, including bupropion, which blunts cravings, and varenicline, which makes people enjoy nicotine less.

Nicotine replacement therapies like patches, gum and lozenges may also help people give up vaping.

The national quitting help line can provide tips and encouragement, as can texting services like the National Texting Portal, This is Quitting, My Life My Quit and SmokefreeTXT. Quit the Hit, a fiveweek program that uses group direct messages on Instagram, can also help support people quitting vaping.

Arledge’s last attempt to quit was successful. It took three days for the worst of his cravings to fade away. Now, he often reminds himself of how hard it was to quit vaping when he’s pushing himself to do something difficult, like enrolling in a challenging master’s program or to keep going when he’s lifting weights.

e-cigarettes can contain substances that also pose health risks.

Despite the popularity of vapes — more than 8 million Americans were current e-cigarette users in 2018, according to federal health data — there is little established guidance to help people like Arledge quit. Many of the recommendations that do exist come from tobacco cessation efforts, not research into vaping specifically.

“The health care system hasn’t caught up completely,” said Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, a psychiatry professor at the Yale University School of Medicine who studies adolescent tobacco use.

Often, doctors said, patients do not realize they are growing dependent on their vapes and are deeply addicted by the time they even consider quitting.

“You can very easily escalate the amount of nicotine you’re using, almost without thinking about it,” said Dr. Pamela Ling, director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

A single Juul pod can contain about as much nicotine as about a pack of cigarettes. Within a year of taking up vaping, Arledge was going through one a day. He

These symptoms are typically most intense in the first three days and then usually fade over time. People struggling with withdrawal symptoms can manage them in the moment. Keeping water, gum and snacks on hand can help ease the oral fixation people experience when they feel the need to vape.

It usually takes several tries for someone to permanently give up e-cigarettes, said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a Stanford professor and developmental psychologist who studies teen behavior around tobacco products. It’s important to remember that attempts are part of the process and that if the first try doesn’t stick, she said, “you’re not a failure.”

A person vaping in New York, July 7, 2024. Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes — there’s little research into how to help them stop. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01372.

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

A: LA PARTE

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Sabana Hoyos, del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, marcada con el número Uno (1),

con una cabida superficial de 1076.3666 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Carretera Municipal y con Gregoria Iglesias; por el SUR, con David mercado y solar segregado; por el ESTE, con David Mercado Montalvo; y por el OESTE, con Gregorio Iglesias. Contiene una estructura de hormigón tipo comercial de una sola planta, pero preparada para una segunda planta, midiendo 57 pies con 5 pulgadas de largo por 23 pies 6 pulgadas de ancho o frente, con un área contigua para marquesina de 21 pies de fondo por 14 pies 6 pulgadas de frente. Tiene divisiones en concreto. Al frente preparada para oficina y la parte posterior del edificio para servicio sanitario. Tiene área para dedicarse a industria o comercio con columnas y vigas de concreto armado. Además, al frente tiene área para recibidor, el piso de terrazo y el baño con azulejos. Tiene alrededor una verja de alambre forrado conocido como cyclone fence”. Finca número 27731, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 617 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 984 de Arecibo, finca número 27731, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 1 PR 639 KM 0.9, SECTOR CANDELARIA, ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO 00612. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $234,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 19 de mayo de 2091. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $234,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera,

la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $156,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $117,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $111,934.08 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $39,889.01 en intereses acumulados al 24 de enero de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.492% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,859.67 en seguro hipotecario; $5,985.00 en tarifas de servicio; $1,011.78 de seguro; $650.00 de tasaciones; $510.00 de inspecciones; $5,068.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $23,400.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su pu-

blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de junio de 2024. W. OLMO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. EFRAÍN CARDONA VEGA, ALGUACIL PLACA #050.

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Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE EMERITA CLAUDIO LEON COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00878. (701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en URB. VILLA GUADALUPE KK-16 (KK 6) CALLE 12 CAGUAS, PR 00725 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar #16 del bloque “KK” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanizacion Residencial Villa De La Guadalupe, radica-

da en el barrio Tomás de Castro del municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 201.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes al NORTE, en 10.67 metros, con el solar #10; al SUR, en 10.67 metros, con la calle #12 de dicha urbanización; al ESTE, en 18.85 metros, con el solar #15 y al OESTE, en 18.85 metros, con el solar #17. Enclava casa de concreto la cual tiene una pared medianera con la casa que enclava en el solar #15 de la misma manzana “KK” de la Urbanización y cuya pared medianera es la edificada en la colindancia Este del solar antes descrito. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 144 del Tomo 1098 de Caguas, finca número 37,320, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $40,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda 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 $26,666.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 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 $20,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 115 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de febrero de 2003, ante el Notario Público Luis O. Dávila Alemán, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo 1631 de hoja móvil de Caguas, finca número 37,320, inscripción cuarta (4ta) en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el 26 de febrero de 2024 ascendente a la suma de $23,517.01 de principal, 6.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $325.63 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Por

razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor 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 quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico,

hoy día 11 de julio de 2024. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESION DE CRISTOBAL PABON ECHEVARRÍA COMPUESTA POR CÁNDIDA RIVERA TORRES POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, REYES PABON, LISIE PABON, MAGDALENA PABON, ANDRA PABON Y FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANAN DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00247. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 25 de junio de 2024 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $49,714.34 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el 21 de marzo de 2024, notificada ese mismo día y publicada el 28 de marzo de 2024 y notificada el 3 de abril de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América mediante

efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal, todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: D19 F St, Jardines de Vega Baja, PR 00693. “URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero diecinueve (19) del bloque “D” de la Urbanización Jardines de Vega Baja en el barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con área de 299.00 metros cuadrados y en colindancias al Noroeste, en 13.00 metros, con el solar D-39; al Sureste, en 13.00 metros, con la calle “F”; al Noreste, en 23.00 metros, con Batey; al Suroeste, en 23.00 metros, con el solar D-18. Sobre el descrito solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. Finca #4202, inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 92 de Vega Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Que con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja cuyas cantidades ascienden a: $49,714.34, de principal, intereses a razón de 6 1/41% los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos de $2,306.58 por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $63,000.00, para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo será dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio mínimo antes mencionado, $42,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado, $31,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA-

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la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 16 de JULIO de 2024. ROSAMARIE MELENDEZ PEÑA, ALGUACIL *** LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL; Y SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERON

MONSERRATE COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL

Demandados CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA

Parte con interés Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03792. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANTONIO ACOSTA BURGOS compuesta por FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL; y SUCESIÓN DE ANA ELBA CALDERÓN

MONSERRATE compuesta por FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 18 de junio de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender

y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: EC-16 Calle Roble Urb. Los Almendros Bayamón, PR 00961 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #16 del bloque EC del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Los Almendros (Estancias de Rio Hondo IV), radicada en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 264.680 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #15, distancia de 20.36 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #17, en distancia de 20.36 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle #4, distancia de 13.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #9, distancia de 13.00 metros. Enclava una casa. Finca 7057 (antes 54,337), inscrita al Folio 46 del tomo 152 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré, aff #12677, a favor de RG Premier Bank of PR, o a su orden, por $133,600.00 al 5 5/8%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre del 2039, según Esc. #175 en Arecibo a 17 de octubre de 2009 ante Digna E. Landrove de la O., inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur, Finca #54337 inscripción 8va. Comparece Ana R. Calderón Monserrate casada con Miguel Antonio Acosta Burgos. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 29 de abril de 2024, mediante la cual se determinó que la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $100,574.60 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por demora, más penalidades e intereses, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $133,600.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 27 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera

subasta, o sea, $89,066.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $66,800.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del

ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS

SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #198, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE VIEQUES

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR: EVELYN DELERME

CAMACHO, FULANO DE TAL FULANA DE TAL

Demandados Civil Núm.: VQ2024CV00014. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: EVELYN DELERME

CAMACHO, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ARMANDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA; FULANA DE TAL POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ARMANDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index/ php/tribunal-electronico/,salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá

presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Parcela 30 La Prra, Carr. 933 Km 1.0, Vieques, PR 00765; PO BOX 1116, Vieques, PR 00765-1116. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Vieques, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de junio de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. OLGA N. MORALES TORRES, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

LUIS ANGEL ORTIZ ALVARADO Y SONIA ESTHER RIVERA PEREZ

Demandante Vs. FIRSTBANK OF PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO, SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE SANA MORTGAGE CORP.; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil No.: CG2024CV02355. Sobre: cancelación de pagaré extraviado. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.

Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Sana Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $166,000.00, al 6.875% con vencimiento el 01 de junio de 2036, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 122 otorgada en San Juan, el 29 de abril de 2006, ante el Notario Público Antonio José

Aponte Sanchez. Modificada dicha hipoteca según escritura #725 del 09 de diciembre de 2014 ante el Notario Edeli Marie Placeres Miranda en cuanto al porciento de interes, 3% y vencimiento 01 de abril 2039. Inscrita al folio 107 vto del tomo 1682 de Caguas, inscripciones 3ra y 4ta respectivamente, finca 56558 Caguas I. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019

Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar

Guaynabo, PR 00969 Tel.: (787) 646-9168

Lcdaenelperez@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. 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 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, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.

Dado en Caguas, a 10 de julio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. ALBERT RAYMOND DEERING, MAIRA BRENDA FLORES

T/C/C/ MAIRA BRENDA DEERING Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00471. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALBERT RAYMOND DEERING, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES;

MAIRA BRENDA FLORES T/C/C/ MAIRA BRENDA DEERING, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 10 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JUAN ALBERTO CRUZ MORALES, IRIS NEREIDA TORRES SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, ANTES DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE

Demandadas

RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: JUAN ALBERTO CRUZ MORALES, IRIS NEREIDA TORRES SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y JOHN DOE a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $111,700.00, con intereses al 7 1/2% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2025, constituida mediante la escritura número 371, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de junio de 1995, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, e inscrita al folio 101 vuelto del tomo 163 de Bayamón Norte, finca número 7,645, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Tercera Sección de Bayamón, inscripción 3ra, la cual se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 900.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, 24.85 con calle municipal; por el SUR, en 29.433, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, en 32.245 metros, con terrenos del señor Antonio Santiago; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que suman 32.27, con parcela número 46 Río Plantation y parte de una calle asfaltada. Número 7,645, inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 163 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Ill de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393

Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02957. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ-

ma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 11 de julio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION, SUCESOR DE MORTGAGE STORE OF PUERTO RICO, INC.; ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO; LA SUCESIÓN DE RIGOBERTO STEVENSON RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; KETTY ROBLEDO ASENCIO POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE RIGOBERTO STEVENSON RIVERA; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00503. (303). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RIGOBERTO STEVENSON RIVERA, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado por la vía judicial. El 10 de enero de 1995, Rigoberto Stevenson Rivera y su esposa Ketty Robledo Asencio constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 10 autorizada por el notario Hector L. Torres Vilá en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio

número 19,172 por la suma de $40,000.00, a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico o a su orden, devengando intereses al 9% anual y vencedero el 1ro de febrero de 2010 sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Fajardo Gardens, (Extensión Baralt), situada en el Barrio Quebrada de Fajardo, con el número 15 de la Manzana “M”, con cabida de 301.30 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar 14, distancia de 23.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 16, distancia de 23.00 metros; por el ESTE, con canal. distancia de 13.10 metros y por el OESTE, con la calle 10 distancia de 13.10 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado. Inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 161 de Fajardo, Finca 5455. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 3 de Fajardo, Finca 5455. Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción quinta. 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 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. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de julio de 2024, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

LONGBRIDGE

FINANCIAL, LLC.

Demandante Vs. SUCESION HECTOR MANUEL FERNANDEZ

SOTO T/C/C HECTOR M. FERNANDEZ SOTO T/C/C

HECTOR M. FERNANDEZ COMPUESTA POR PATRICIA FERNANDEZ

T/C/C PATRICIA ENGEL; ANA PAULA FERNANDEZ BORGES; PRISCILLA

FERNANDEZ BORGES, STHEFANIE FERNANDEZ BORGES; JOHN RE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION NEIDA

PRISCILLA BORGES

RIVERA T/C/C NEIDA P. BORGES RIVERA

T/C/C NEIDA P. BORGES

T/C/C PRISCILA

BORGES T/C/C NEYDA

PRISCILLA BORGES

COMPUESTA POR ANA

PAULA FERNANDEZ BORGES, PRISCILLA FERNANDEZ BORGES, STHEFANIE FERNANDEZ BORGES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2020CV00634. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ-

RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco (5) en el Bloque Q del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Reparto Villa Blanca, radicada en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de seiscientos ochenta y cinco metros con veintiún centímetros cuadrados (685.21). Colinda por el NORTE, en cuarenta

y dos metros veinticuatro centímetros (42.24) con el solar número seis (6) del bloque Q del mencionado plano; por el OESTE, en trece metros cincuenta centímetros (13.50) con la calle cinco (5) del mencionado plano; por el SUROESTE, en treinta y cinco metros cincuenta y un centímetros (35.51) con el solar número cuatro (4) del bloque Q del mencionado plano y por el SURESTE, en veintitrés metros veintiún centímetros (23.21) con Antonio Longo, hijo. Enclava una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 347 de Caguas, finca 9,398, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 118 vuelto del tomo 1768 de Caguas, finca 9,398, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 10ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLA BLANCA, #28 CALLE ONICE, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $270,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 25 de marzo de 2089. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $270,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $180,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $135,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024,

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $130,074.18 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $81,135.30 en intereses acumulados al 25 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $23,643.40 en seguro hipotecario; $14,537.44 de seguro; $600.00 de tasaciones; $1,035.00 de inspecciones; $2,463.00 de mantenimiento; $5,028.90 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $27,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de julio de 2024. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

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Demandante V. ROSEMARY GONZALEZ CHAPARRO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2024CV00160. (Salón: 404 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: ROSEMARY

GONZALEZ CHAPARRO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia 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 general 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, 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 edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación 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 de 22 de julio de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. WILFREDO VAZQUEZ MARTINEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10659. (Salón: 1003 EXPROPIACIONES). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: WILFREDO VAZQUEZ MARTINEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de julio de 2024, este Tri-

bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia 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 general 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, 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 edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación 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 de 22 de julio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. VANESSA NIEVES MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Caso Núm.: RG2023CV00508. (Salón: 206). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. RAÚL JAVIER PÉREZ MARTÍNEZRAUL.PEREZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: DAVID RIVERA BULTRON - VILLA REALIDAD 231 CALLE PITIRRE RIO GRANDE, PR 00745; 358 W 46TH ST HIALEAH, FL 33012. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia 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 general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. 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 60 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 publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de julio de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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YASSIN CRUZ RODRIGUEZ Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00435. (Salón: 202). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SONIA E. FRANCESCHI PORTALATINSONIAFRANCESCHI@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia 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 general 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, 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 edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación 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 22 de julio de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Diamar González Barreto, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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TROOM OF MAYAGÜEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ

GENE MARTELL

Plaintiff / Demandante Vs KELLY DEANN NORTON Defendant / Demandada Case Number / Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV01117. About / Sobre: LIQUIDATION OF COMMUNITY PROPERTY - LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. SUMMONS BY EDICT. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

To / A: KELLY DEANN NORTON - 601 NORTH HAYDEN ROAD #206, SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85257. THAT IS, THE DEFENDANT PARTY MENTIONED ABOVE (O SEA LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA).

HEREBY, You are notified, Ms. Kelly Dean Norton, that the plaintiff named above has filed with this Court Secretariat a Petition for Liquidation of Community Property mentioned herein. HEREBY, You are summoned and required to respond to the Petition for Liquidation of Community Property within thirty (30) days following the publication of this edict. You must present your responsive allegation through the Unified Case Management and Administration System (SUMAC), which you can access using the following email address: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, unless you are representing yourself in your own right, in which case you must present your responsive allegation at the Court. If you fail to present your responsive allegation within the aforesaid term, the court may issue a default judgment against you and grant the remedy requested in the Petition, or any other remedy, if the court, in the exercise of its discretion, deems it appropriate. (POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica a usted, Sra. Kelly Dean Norton, que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Demanda de Liquidación de Comunidad de Bienes que aquí se menciona. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizado la siguiente dirección electrónica:

https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitando en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.)

Name of Attorney (Nombre del Abogado): LOURDES M. ORTÍZ PAGÁN RUA: 9103 Address (Dirección): Po Box 593, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623 Tel: (787) 831-1984 / Fax (787) 833-5118

Email: lourdesm_ortizpagan@hotmail.com ISSUED by Court Order, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, this 19 day of July, 2024. (EXPEDIDO POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy 19 de julio de 2024.). LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARY / SECRETARIA.

ARACELIS W. CAMACHO ACEVEDO, SUB-SECRETARY / SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. IVONNE FRATICHELLI CARRIÓN, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01063. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: IVONNE FRATICHELLI CARRIÓN POR SÍ Y EN REP. DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL - 1250 NE, 125 ST., NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA 33161.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz-Gonzalez

Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980

Tel. (787) 900-1245

Fax: (787) 653-1792

E-Mail: raediaz@himapr.com

Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 2 DE JULIO DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. IVONNE FRATICHELLI CARRIÓN, SU ESPOSO

FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01063. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: LA SLG COMPUESTA POR IVONNE FRATICHELLI CARRIÓN Y SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL - 1250 NE, 125 ST., NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA 33161.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz-Gonzalez

Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980

Tel. (787) 900-1245

Fax: (787) 653-1792

E-Mail: raediaz@himapr.com

Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 2 DE JULIO DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. IVONNE FRATICHELLI CARRIÓN, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01063. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: KATIRIA SANTIAGO

ROSARIO, por sí y en representación de la SLG compuesta con Fulano de Tal; 1612 Swan Lake, Ct. Dunnde, Florida, Estados Unidos de América, 33838.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz-Gonzalez Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980 Tel. (787) 900-1245

Fax: (787) 653-1792

E-Mail: raediaz@himapr.com

Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 2 DE JULIO DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIMAR

RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR SHADAYRA MABEL RODRÍGUEZ, KENUEL JOSUÉ RODRÍGUEZ Y JOSÉ MADIEL RODRÍGUEZ, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ

MELÉNDEZ T/C/C

JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; LOURDES VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA DE JOSÉ BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ

MELÉNDEZ T/C/C JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ, LOURDES MARÍA

RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ

T/C/C LOURDES MARIE

RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ, POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE JOSÉ

BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ

MELÉNDEZ T/C/C JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02136. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SHADAYRA MABEL

RODRÍGUEZ, KENUEL JOSUÉ RODRÍGUEZ Y JOSÉ MADIEL

RODRÍGUEZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ

VÁZQUEZ; HERIBERTO RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ

MELÉNDEZ T/C/C JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ; LOURDES VÁZQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ

POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA

VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE JOSÉ BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ

MELÉNDEZ T/C/C

JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ

A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: COND. VALENCIA PLAZA, 307 CALLE ALMERIA APT 207, SAN JUAN, PR 00923-1535, PO BOX 193932, SAN JUAN, PR 00919-3932, HC 1 BOX 9514, TOA BAJA, PR 00949-9773; SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JOSÉ BAUTISTA RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ T/C/C JOSÉ B. RODRÍGUEZ. 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 adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $78,220.90 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $1,135.20 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,820.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBAN: Residential apartment number 27, is irregular in shape and located in Condominio Valencia Plaza (CRUV) VBC-88, which is located at Barbosa Avenue and Almería Street, in Hato Rey, Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total superficial area for private use of 932.35 square foot (gross), measuring forty-one (41) lineal feet with 11” in length with a width of 26’ lineal feets with 3”. Bounded: on the NORTH, by apartment number 26 and the corridor; on the SOUTH, with the Southern exterior wall of the building; on the EAST, with apartment number 28 and a corridor; and on the WEST, with the western exterior wall of the building. The principal entrance faces the corridor. This unit consists of a living-dining room, three (3) bedrooms with a closet each, one (1) bathroom with a linen closet a hallway with a storage closet. The bathroom includes shower stall, wash basin, a toilet and medicine cabinet, a kitchen, a stove with oven, a sink, space of refrigerator, a wall cabinet and a water heater. Elementos comunes generales en un porcentaje de 1.43%. Inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 990 de Río

Piedras Norte, Finca 28669. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 1472 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca 28669. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Inscripción sexta. La modificación consta inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 1608 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca 28669. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. inscripción novena. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los herederos que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de los causantes dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico del 1930 y Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan la herencia de los causantes; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito 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 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, a: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 3 de julio de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA FORTALEZA EQUITY PARTINERS I, LLC Demandante V. VICTOR MANUEL ORTIZ VILLODAS, SU ESPOSA IRIS YOLANDA GONZALEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00388. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

A: VICTOR MANUEL ORTIZ VILLODAS, SU ESPOSA IRIS YOLANDA GONZALEZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciando este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcdo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués, a su dirección PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, E-mail: ffc@ffclaw.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de su publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se podrá dictar sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de julio de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Lillian Mercado Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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Your guide to Olympic gymnastics: Uneven bars

By MAGGIE ASTOR

For two weeks every four years, women’s gymnastics is one of the biggest sports in the world. The rest of the time, those of us watching are kind of a niche group.

That can make it hard to fully appreciate what you’re seeing when the athletes take the Olympic stage. If you want to know what’s required on each apparatus or how to distinguish good routines from great ones, we’re here to help.

Here, we’ll look at the uneven bars, starting with a broad overview and then moving into technical details.

The Basics

The apparatus consists of two bars, one about 5 1/2 feet high and one about 8 feet high. Gymnasts swing in circles around the bars, fly between them, do pirouettes on their hands and perform release moves in which they let go of the bar and re-catch it. The best routines flow from one skill to the next.

Routines must include at least one transition from the high bar to the low bar; one move releasing and catching the same bar; one 360-degree turn, or pirouette on the hands; and at least two different grips, or hand positions.

Gymnasts receive one score for difficulty and one for execution, and the two are combined. The judges deduct for leg separation, flexed feet and other form issues; breaks in momentum; “empty swings,” in which the gymnast loses her balance or rhythm and has to swing back and forth to regain momentum before the next skill; and, of course, falls. It’s also a deduction if she isn’t fully vertical when moving into a handstand or finishing a turn.

The reigning Olympic champion is

half twist and lands in a handstand on the low bar. Also called an overshoot.

— Ezhova (D): The gymnast swings in the opposite direction from a bailand does a half twist.

— Pak (D): This starts like a bail, but the gymnast doesn’t twist; she swings from the high bar, flips and grabs the low bar. Also called a Pak salto.

— Bhardwaj (E): A Pak with a full twist.

Releases

In a release, the gymnast lets go of the high bar, does a flip or other movement and then catches again. The most common ones fall into three categories:

— Tkatchevs involve swinging backward, releasing the bar near the apex of the swing, flying backward over the bar and rotating the upper body forward to catch it again.

— Giengers consist of a swinging with the body straight into a back flip with a half twist.

Nina Derwael of Belgium, and the reigning world champion is Qiu Qiyuan of China.

What the Gymnasts Do

Each skill has an assigned difficulty value, starting with A (the least difficult) and, currently, going through G (the most difficult) — though American gymnast Suni Lee has been practicing a new skill that could be rated H.

Routines normally begin with the gymnast swinging, bringing her legs to the bar, pulling it to her hips — a movement that coaches compare to pulling up your pants — and then kicking up into a handstand. This move is called a kip.

Circles and Turns

A circle is a 360-degree swing, start-

ing and ending in a handstand. There are five types, differentiated by body position.

Any circle can be done backward (in regular grip) or forward (in reverse or eagle grip). Counterintuitively, “backward” refers to a standard circle.

Gymnasts can do turns out of any circle, with the difficulty value depending on entry and degrees of rotation.

Transitions (Low to High)

One way to transition to the high bar from the low bar is a shoot: The gymnast does a circle on the low bar, releases it, flings her body forward and then catches the high bar.

These days, though, most transitions are in the Shaposh family — short for Shaposhnikova, as in Soviet Olympian Natalia Shaposhnikova.

The gymnast starts facing away from the high bar, does a circle and flies backward.

Transitions (High to Low)

You’re likely to see only four of these:

— Bail (D): The gymnast starts facing the low bar, swings with a straight body, does a

— Jaegers consist of a front giant into a front flip. Suni Lee has been training a full-twisting version, which could receive an H rating if she competes with it.

Dismounts

The most common dismounts are the full-twisting double back and the double layout, both rated D. Behind those is the double front, also D.

How They’re Scored

Gymnasts’ final marks are the sum of a “D score” (difficulty) and an “E score” (execution). A medal-winning routine in the bars final is likely to be in the low 15s or high 14s, but many gymnasts will be happy with low- to mid-14s.

Difficulty

The D score has three components:

— Composition: The four requirements — a transition, a same-bar release, a 360-degree turn and multiple grips — are worth 0.5 apiece.

— Skills: A-rated skills are worth 0.1, B-rated skills 0.2 and so on. Gymnasts get credit for their eight hardest skills.

— Connections: Connecting one skill directly into another can yield extra points.

Execution

The E score starts at 10, and judges take deductions ranging from 0.1 for slight leg separation to 1.0 for a fall. Small deductions add up, so even a good routine can have an E score in the eights.

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American gymnast Sunisa Lee won bronze in the uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

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