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El Observador was founded in 1980 to serve the informational needs of the Hispanic community in the San Francisco Bay Area with special focus on San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted or reproduced by any form or by any means, this includes photo copying, recording or by any informational storage and retrevial sys-tems, electronic or mechanical without express written consent of the publishers. Opinions expressed in El Observador by persons submitting articles are not necessarily the opinions of the publishers.

SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 1, 2015

Flu Shots Provided by SC County Public Health Dept.Thursday October 15th, 20158:30 am – 11:00 am (first come first served)Mayfair Community Center Dance Room2039 Kammerer Ave.San Jose, CA408-794-1060

Smuin BalletSaturday September 26th2:00 pm & 8:00 pmMountain View Center for the Performing Arts500 Castro St,Mountain View, CA The Lion King Broadway MusicalSunday September 27thVarious TimesSan Jose Center for the

Performing Arts255 Almaden Blvd.,San Jose, CA California’s Great America Halloween HauntFriday September 25th7:00 pm – 12:00 amCalifornia’s Great America2401 Agnew Rd,Santa Clara, CA 35th Annual Art Exhibition and Auction|Saturday September 26thTues - Fri, 10am - 5pm, Sat & Sun 12pm-5pmSan Jose Institute of Contemporary Art560 South First Street,San Jose, CA Mexicans In San Jose: Author Visit with Nannette Regua and Arturo Villarreal

Saturday September 26th1:30 pmEast Carnegie City of San Jose1102 E Santa Clara St,San Jose, CA Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeSaturday September 27th8:00 pmCity Lights Theater Company529 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA Barco Escape Three-Screen Movie Watching ExperienceTuesday September 29th All DayCamera 12201 S 2nd St,San Jose, CA Found in TranslationSeptember 2 - November 15, M.A.C.L.A. (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana)

510 South 1st Street,San José, CA Sweet CharitySunday September 26th8:00 pmSunnyvale Community Theatre550 E Remington Dr,Sunnyvale, CA Santa Clara DanceSaturday October 3rd7:30 - 10:30pmSanta Clara senior center1303 Fremont Street,Santa Clara, CA Wax WednesdayWednesday September 30th9:00 pmCafe Stritch374 S 1st St,San Jose, CA

East San José Newsletter September 2015

Hispanic Heritage Month is an important time in the United States, when people recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the U.S and celebrate the group’s heritage and culture. Sep-tember 15th was chosen as the starting point for the celebration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries (More online)

3 Reasons to Stretch into Shape this National Yoga Month

Roll out your mat and tug on your sweatband--it’s National Yoga Month. Yoga, an activity that has existed for 5,000 years, has long been praised for its many health benefits. Here are some reasons why you should make like a tree and pose. (Read more on our site)

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The ‘Prison Law Office” has cited serious “constitutional violations” in Santa Clara County jail(s). “After receiv-ing a number of complaints from inmates, attorneys, and families, the Prison Law Of-fice initiated communications with the Santa Clara County Sheriff ’s Office around con-cerns of jail conditions. This was well before the death of Michael Tyree. (In) one of their follow up letters...they state there are serious viola-tions of inmates’ Constitu-tional state and federal rights.” (source:DeBug: <http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/arti-cles/2015/09/08/prison-law-office-cited-serious-constitu-tional-violations-santa-clara-county-jail>).

Author Ta-Hehisi Coates, “Between the World and Me”, presents concepts of why America adopted the malevo-lent public policy of incarcera-tion of people of color. After the Civil War’s Emancipation Proclamation, police would ask Black men on the streets ‘if they had a job”. Those with no job were deemed ‘vagrants’ and jailed. This practice was facilitated by ‘Jim Crow’ or-dinances as well as the beliefs that people of color were ‘less than’ the ‘Whites’. Also, they were judged to be ‘sub-hu-man’ and potential criminals. Remnants of these racist ide-ologies still exist and are the basis for the racist attitudes many still have concerning people of color. This racist ide-ology unconsciously and per-vasively taints all public policy at local, state, and national levels. Each ethnic group, African-Americans, Asian-Americans; Mexican-Ameri-cans’ and Native-Americans...all have many incidences which document the unequal treatment under the law which has happened histori-cally and is still being prac-ticed. “White supremacists” must begin to face the real-ity that through this nation’s ideals and its constitution, all

ethnic individuals have the right to aspire to be ‘Presi-dent’. And, in fact, this nation has its first African American President: Barack Obama. Recall that on the very same day President Obama was installed, that very afternoon, a group of White political leaders met privately to plan to limit the Obama Admin-istration to one term. They failed when President Obama was elected to a second term. In both elections of 2008 and 2012, the ethnic vote began to exceed traditional “White” voters. Today, ethnic peoples have the power to elect any-one as President of USA. This is why in our participatory democracy, it is very impor-tant that all ethnic voters get to vote; especially the Latino voter must rise to these voting opportunities. It is when ‘We, The People’ vote in substantial numbers that the current ‘law enforcement-judicial system’ will be required to meet the ideals of our American Con-stitution: Equal protection under the law of the land. The three very important public policy issues to be compre-hensively modified are: 1) Income tax reform; 2) Law-enforcement-Judicial reform; and 3) Immigration Reform. Let’s make all candidates speak to these public policy issues.

The first ‘seated President’ to visit a federal prison was President Obama, who spoke directly to inmates. His visit highlighted the social impact of that punitive 1995 Crime Law signed by former Presi-dent William J. Clinton. It is that law which provided law enforcement with the legal basis to overcrowd pris-ons with convicted inmates whose crimes were not based upon acts of violence, sex, or drug trafficking. Too many transitional age youth make judgement errors (“bullshit crimes”), between ages 12 to 24, and end up overcrowd-ing prisons. A similar process happened in California where Gov. Brown. under Federal Court order duress, came

up with the ‘realignment plan’ designed to relieve state prison overcrowding by send-ing inmates back to county jails. Sheriff Laurie Smith has begun development of ad-ditional jail facilities here in Santa Clara County. That new jail should not be built with-out full input from the com-munity, especially the local Latino community which is the source of 50% of current county jail inmates. African-Americans account for 14% (total persons of color: 64% costing $45,000 per inmate per year while in custody; for 5,000 inmates that amounts to $225,000,000 per year).

The above does not pres-ent the full socio-economic price tag. One loss is a mem-ber of the local labor force. Another is the impact on family relationships; the basic building block of any community. When a fam-ily member (usually the male head of household) is impris-oned, it is the woman (wife) who is burdened with mak-ing ends meet. She is usu-ally not eligible for any kind of public assistance: hous-ing/rent; food stamps; kid’s education, health care; child care, etc. Many such ‘single moms with kids’ end up ‘hav-ing mental health challenges from anxiety, stress, lack of sleep, etc. The kids suffer too. The Atlantic Journal, October 2015 edition has an article au-thored by Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” which is recommended reading by all who want to understand why the current “Law-En-forcement-Judicial System” needs a complete revision. The present system is very pu-nitive and simply not objec-tive nor impartial. Ending the age of mass incarceration is a political process....so all ethnic folks need to plan to vote in all elections. Let’s begin by holding the local Sheriff ac-countable and responsible. Ethnic voters, especially Lati-no voter, must plan to vote for essential changes ‘in their own community’s interests’.

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La crisis de refugiados en Siria detonó en días pasa-dos una natural solidaridad internacional. Las imá-genes del deceso de Aylan, el pequeño sirio de 3 años cuya embarcación sucumbió en las costas de Turquía, fue un llamado de alerta a la conciencia internacional so-bre la responsabilidad de los gobiernos para asistir a los más vulnerables de nuestra sociedad.

Alemania anunció su dis-posición a aceptar hasta 500,000 refugiados al año. Estados Unidos, que el año fiscal pasado sólo aceptó a 1,500 sirios por razones de seguridad nacional, aceptó sextuplicar esa cantidad a 10,000 para 2016. Varios países latinoamericanos como Venezuela, México y Chile hicieron ofrecimientos para acoger refugiados.

El mismo día que el secre-tario de Estado John Kerry visitó el Congreso para dis-cutir el nuevo techo de re-fugiados internacionales

para el año 2016, tentativa-mente de 75,000, un grupo de misioneros y activistas centroamericanos llegó al mismo Capitolio para pedir a los legisladores estadoun-idenses una atención similar a los hermanos de Hondu-ras.

Más de medio millón de hondureños viven en Esta-dos Unidos y más de la mi-tad de ellos son inmigran-tes indocumentados. El año pasado fueron deportados más de 40,000 que inten-taron ingresar de manera ilegal a este país, muchos de ellos menores de edad.

Los sacerdotes y activ-istas desean que el gobi-erno del presidente Barack Obama conceda a los des-plazados de Honduras el mismo beneficio que otorga alguien que huye de la vio-lencia en países como Siria: la oportunidad de probar si tienen un reclamo legí-timo de asilo político, antes que repatriarlos de manera sumaría a sus países a en-frentar la violencia de las pandillas y del crimen orga-nizado.

Jim McGovern, el congre-sista demócrata de Massa-chusetts que fue anfitrión del foro, reconoció que Estados Unidos tiene que hacer un mejor trabajo para atender las necesidades de los mi-

grantes de Centroamérica, especialmente de Honduras, Guatemala y El Salvador.

“Encuentro particularmente irónico en este momento, cu-ando muchos de mis colegas están hablando de la nece-sidad de que Europa asuma una mayor responsabilidad de los refugiados que salen de Siria… cuando se trata de un grupo mucho más pequeño de migrantes de América Central, especialmente niños, esos mismos miembros del Congreso dicen que no pu-eden hacer nada”, lamentó.

El legislador McGovern tiene razón. Se trata de un doble estándar que debería ser corregido. Los activistas sólo piden un trato digno y humanitario para los mi-grantes de América Central. Nada más y nada menos. En su opinión, la oportunidad del Congreso para enmendar el problema se encuentra en una política migratoria más sensible y en la aprobación de los 1,000 millones de dólares solicitados por la Casa Blanca para lidiar con las causas de la violencia.

Y los latinos residentes de Estados Unidos tienen la oportunidad de solidari-zarse con sus hermanos cen-troamericanos haciéndoles saber a sus congresistas que la solidaridad empieza por la casa del vecino.

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Federal Agencies Answer Call to Action

US DEPT. OF ED.

This Hispanic Heritage Month, during the week of September 21-25, in keeping with the theme, “Obama Ad-

ministration and Hispanic Education,” the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics has

released a report “Federal Agencies Investing in His-panic Education,” a set of “Federal Agency Data Plans” that highlight contributions supporting education, and “Federal Agency Commit-ments to Action” in response to the Initiative’s 25th an-niversary and call to action, in an effort to strengthen the link between the Federal government and the nation’s Hispanic communities.

These three products are the result of efforts by the Federal Interagency Work-ing Group on Educational Excellence for Hispanics , which is comprised of se-nior officials from 29 federal agencies and White House offices. The Working Group’s overarching goals are to help ensure federal investments, programs, and opportunities are effectively shared with the Hispanic community, assess and suggest improvements

to federal policies, regula-tions and programs that ap-ply to Hispanic students and communities, and ensure efforts and funding reflect the diversity of the nation’s population and the growing number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

The Federal Agency Invest-ing in Hispanic Education report features a sampling of programs, grants and/or initiatives that support and invest in the educational at-tainment and improved life outcomes of all students, including Hispanics, as re-ported by 23 of the 29 mem-ber agencies of the Working Group. Information reflects data and funding from fiscal year 2013.

The Federal Agency Data Plans outline the funding provided and efforts led by federal agencies that made information and resources

available and accessible, supported activities, and/or made investments that have benefitted all students, in-cluding Hispanics, in key pri-ority educational areas: early learning, family engagement, college access, STEM educa-tion, Latino teacher recruit-ment and postsecondary ed-ucation. Information reflects data and funding from fiscal year 2013.

The Federal Agency Com-mitments to Action are con-crete investments made by ten federal agencies that will invest in increasing educa-tional outcomes and op-portunities for the Hispanic community.

To learn more about the Federal agency report, data plans, and the Federal Com-mitments to Action, visit:

www.ed.gov/HispanicInitiative

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The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (Initiative)

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The mission of the Initiative is restoring the country to its role as a global leader in education, strengthening the Nation by expanding educational opportunities and improving educational outcomes for Hispanics of all ages, and helping ensure that all Hispanics receive an education that properly prepares them for college, productive careers, and satisfying lives.

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President George H.W. Bush signed Executive Order 12729, establishing the Initiative and President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (Commission).

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President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13230 re-establishing the Initiative and Commission.

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President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13555 re-establishing both the Commission and Initiative.

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37.5% of 18 to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled

in college Hispanics officially become the nation’s largest “minority” group after new Census figures show the U.S. Hispanic population reaching 37.1M.

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STATEPOINT

Nearly half of Americans describe themselves as “good savers,” according to the TD Bank Saving and Spending Survey, and Millennials are leading the charge. Fifty-six percent of Millennials report they are good savers, com-pared with 43 percent of Gen Xers and 48 percent of Baby Boomers.

Although encouraging, there is always room for im-provement. Ryan Bailey, Head of Deposit Products, Payments and Non-Real Estate Lending at TD Bank, recommends the following smart saving tips for Millen-nials:

• Nearly seven in 10 Millen-nials admit to indulging on impulse purchases. Create a budget to help curtail im-pulse spending to ensure you have money for your rainy day fund.

• Use banking and finan-cial apps to track and control spending, as well as to man-age savings at home or on-the-go.

• Take advantage of compa-ny retirement savings plans, contributing up to your company’s matching policy.

Remember, even small con-tributions could make a big difference down the line.

• View salary increases as an opportunity to boost sav-ings. Allocate a portion of raises to savings, setting up a direct deposit into savings accounts.

Saving for the future may seem like a distant issue for young professionals already saddled with high costs of living and student loans. But by establishing good saving habits today, Millennials can ensure a lifetime of financial health.

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Reuniones Públicas de la Junta Directiva de VTA en 2015

La Junta de Directiva de la Santa Clara Valley Trans- portation Authority (VTA) lo invita a que asista a las

siguientes reuniones públicas de la Junta Directiva de VTA.

Board of Supervisors’ Chambers, County Government Center (Centro Gubernamental del

Condado), 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose

A este lugar se puede llegar utilizando el tranvía y las Líneas de Autobuses 61, 62, 66 y 181 de VTA.

Por favor sírvase llamar a las O�cinas del Secretario de la Junta al (408) 321-5680 o envíe un email a [email protected] a �n de con�rmar la fecha yla ubicación del evento.

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NEWSUSA

So much for thinking we know everything that mat-ters about our spouse or significant other -- at least, it seems, when it comes to money.

According to Fidelity In-vestments’ new “2015 Cou-ples Retirement Study,” while the overwhelming majority of couples sur-veyed said they communi-cate “exceptionally well” or “very well” about financial matters, a whopping 43 percent couldn’t correctly identify how much their partner earned -- up 16 percent from the last time the question was asked two years ago. And 10 percent of those in the dark were off by $25,000 when they appar-ently tried guessing.

“We know couples don’t always agree when it comes to money, but we were sur-prised how many missed the mark on the question of their partner’s salary,” says John Sweeney, Fidel-ity’s executive vice president of retirement and invest-ing strategies. “If gaps exist

around basic questions like that, couples might have other opportunities for im-provement on the financial front, including how and where to retire and later-in-life issues like eldercare and estate planning.”

Feeling a bit smug because you know how much your other half makes right down to the last decimal point? Then go ahead if you dare -- and try asking him or her these questions to see how you stack up:

* How much do we need to save to maintain our current lifestyle in retirement? (The survey results: 48 percent had “no idea,” and another 47 percent -- particularly, alas, Baby Boomers closest to retirement -- disagreed on a figure.)

* How much can we expect in Social Security benefits to help complement what we’ve saved independently? (The survey results: 60 per-cent of all couples and 49 percent of Boomers drew a complete blank, even though the government regularly mails the info out.)

* If you add up all our in-vestible assets -- i.e., bank accounts, mutual funds, retirement accounts, and stocks and bonds -- what’s the grand total? (Survey re-sults: 36 percent of couples couldn’t agree.)

* Traveling the world or staying put? (Survey re-sults: One in three gave conflicting visions of their expected post-retirement lifestyle.)

There are additional inter-active “Couples Quiz” ques-tions on Fidelity’s website (fidelity.com/couplesquiz) that you might want to try, including a fun one about what you’d do if your favor-ite store was having a blow-out sale.

Answering them produces your “Financial Personal-ity,” and you’re encouraged to share the results with your partner and learn how to navigate the retirement process together.

A word of advice: While it pays to be honest, think long and hard about how badly you want to hit that sale.

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Ohsheglows(Vegan, gluten-free, oil-free)

Soft and muffin-like in texture, these oil-free pumpkin oatmeal bars are light enough for breakfast and all your snacking needs.

Yield9-12 squares

Prep Time20 MinutesCook time20 Minutes

Ingredients:

1 flax egg: (1 tablespoon ground flax mixed with 3 tablespoons water)

1/2 cup unsweetened canned pumpkin purée 3/4 cup coconut sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt or pink Himalayan sea salt

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3/4 cup gluten-free rolled oats, ground into a flour (Or

use 3/4 cup + 1 tablespoon oat flour) 3/4 cup gluten-free rolled oats

3/4 cup almond flour (not almond meal) 1 tablespoon arrowroot powder (for enhanced bind-

ing) 1/2 cup pecan halves, chopped

2 tablespoons mini non-dairy chocolate chips, for garnish

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350F and line an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper.

Mix flax egg in a small bowl or mug and set aside to thicken for about 5 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the pumpkin and sugar with electric beaters until combined.

Pour in the flax egg and vanilla extract and beat until combined.

Add the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nut-meg and beat again.

Finally add in the oat flour, rolled oats, almond flour, ar-rowroot flour, and pecans. Beat until combined.

Spoon dough into prepared pan and spread out until smooth and even. The dough will be very sticky, but this is normal. I like to cover the dough with a piece of parch-ment paper and roll it with a pastry roller. Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top and press down.

Bake for 15-19 minutes (I baked for 18 minutes), until lightly golden and firm to the touch. Be sure not to over-bake.

Place pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Then, lift out and place square directly on cooling rack for another 10-20 minutes, until cool. Slice and enjoy! The bars will crumble slightly if sliced warm, but they firm up nicely when cooled.

Tips: 1) Instead of coconut sugar, you can try using Su-canat or natural cane sugar. Also, if you’d like a less sweet square you can try reducing the sugar a bit. 2) To make the freshly ground oat flour, add 3/4 cup rolled oats into a high speed blender. Blend on high until a fine flour forms. You can also simply use store-bought oat flour (3/4 cup + 1 tablespoon should do it).

NAPS

Each year, approximately 7 million pets enter U.S. shelters. Unfortunately, 3 million of them are euthanized—but you can help change that. Save a life by choosing to adopt your next dog and consider these tips.

Step 1: Test the waters Before committing to adopting your own dog, volunteer to pet sit for a friend or foster from a shelter. You can care for a dog while it grows or recovers from illness or surgery. Plus, you can help save lives by freeing up space in a shelter.

Step 2: Do your researchFind vet offices close to home and your job, as well as low-cost spay/neuter clinics in case your dog isn’t already fixed. Check out breed restrictions where you live to ensure that when you bring your new dog home, there are no barriers to unconditional love.

Step 3: Make a plan Plan a budget to make sure your new dog gets what he or she needs. These costs can range from pet sitters to training classes, and from food and bowls to collars and a leash. It’s also important to think about potential vaccinations and microchips to keep your new dog happy and healthy. While loving an adopted dog comes with a cost, the lifetime of love in return is invaluable.

Step 4: Choose your companionWhile it’s impossible to predict which dog will steal your heart, it can be helpful to research breeds ahead of time that fit your lifestyle. Consider things like energy levels, grooming maintenance required and the ideal age of your companion before going to the shelter. For example, a corgi’s high energy is a great complement to an outdoorsy lifestyle. However, an older dog may be a better fit for a low-key environment. If your heart is set on a purebred, you’ll be glad to know that about 25 percent of dogs in shelters are purebred.

Welcoming an adoptable dog into your home is much more than just daydreaming about petting your neighbor’s pup. When you adopt, you not only save a life, you also enrich your own. By bringing home a new best friend, you can be a part of PetSmart Charities’ mission to end pet homelessness in a generation. And don’t forget about feline friends. If a dog isn’t the right fit for you and your family, there are plenty of loving cats and kittens ready to call your house home.

For more information, go to www.petsmartcharities.org.

Find your ‘furever’ friend at a local rescue shelter.

Ya sea que ponga alimentos en el refrigerador, el congelador o el aparador, cuenta con muchas oportunidades para evitar las enfermedades trasmitidas por los alimentos. La meta es evitar que usted y otras personas se enfermen por microorganis-mos como Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7 y C. botulinum, éste último provoca botulismo.

Mantener los alimentos con-gelados a temperaturas adec-uadas es una de las mejores formas de evitar o desacelerar la proliferación de estas bacte-rias. Estos consejos de almace-namiento de alimentos pueden ayudarle a evitar las enferme-dades transmitidas por los ali-mentos.

Prácticas básicas de almace-namiento

Refrigere o congele inme-diatamente los alimentos

perecibles.

Se deben colocar los alimentos que requieren refrigeración en el refrigerador tan pronto como llegue a casa. Siga la “regla de las dos horas” para dejar fuera los alimentos que necesiten re-frigeración a temperatura ambi-ente. Nunca permita que carne, ave, mariscos, huevos, produc-tos u otros alimentos que requi-eran refrigeración permanezcan a temperatura ambiente por más de dos horas (una hora si la temperatura ambiente es sobre 90° F). Esto también se aplica a alimentos como sobras, cajitas para las sobras y alimentos para llevar. Además, al almacenar ali-mentos, no llene el refrigerador o congelador tan apretado que no pueda circular aire.

Mantenga sus aparatos a las temperaturas adecuadas.

Mantenga la temperatura de su refrigerador a 40°F (4° C) o menos. La temperatura del con-gelador debe ser 0° F (-18° C). Verifique periódicamente las temperaturas. Los termómetros de los artefactos son la mejor forma de conocer estas tem-peraturas y generalmente son económicos.

Verifique las instrucciones

de almacenamiento en las etiquetas.

Muchos otros alimentos aparte de las carnes, vegetales y productos lácteos deben man-tenerse fríos. Si no refrigeró adecuadamente algún alimen-to, normalmente lo mejor es desecharlos.

Consuma los alimentos listos para comer tan pronto

como sea posible.

Se deben consumir alimentos listos para comer refrigerados tan pronto como sea posible. Mientras más prolongado sea el almacenamiento en el refrigera-dor, habrá más posibilidad de que la Listeria, una bacteria que provoca enfermedades transmi-tidas por los alimentos, pueda desarrollarse, especialmente si la temperatura del refrigerador es superior a 40° F (4° C).

Se debe desechar cualquier alimento que se vea o huela so-spechoso. El moho es una señal de descomposición. Éste puede desarrollarse incuso en condi-ciones de refrigeración.

El moho no es una amenaza principal para la salud, pero puede hacer que los alimentos sean poco apetecibles. La prác-tica más segura es desechar los alimentos que tengan moho.

Consejos de refrigeración

Marine alimentos dentro del refrigerador.

Las bacterias se pueden multi-plicar rápidamente en alimentos que se dejan marinando a tem-peratura ambiente. Además, nunca vuelva a usar líquido de marinado como salsas, a me-nos que lo hierva rápidamente primero.

Limpie el refrigerador en forma regular y limpie in-

mediatamente los derrames.

Esto ayuda a reducir la prolif-eración de la bacteria Listeria y evita que los goteos de la carne que se descongela permitan que las bacterias de un alimento se propaguen a otro. Limpie fre-cuentemente el refrigerador.

Mantenga cubiertos los alimentos.

Almacene los alimentos re-frigerados en recipientes cu-biertos o bolsas de almace-namiento selladas y verifique diariamente que las sobras no estén descompuestas. Alma-cene huevos en su caja dentro del refrigerador, en lugar de la puerta, donde la temperatura es mayor.

Verifique las fechas de vencimiento.

Si ha pasado la fecha de ven-cimiento de un alimento, de-séchelo. Si no está seguro o si el alimento parece cuestionable, deséchelo.

Información sobre el congelador

Los alimentos que se congelan y cuecen en forma adecuada son seguros.

Los alimentos que se manipu-lan y almacenan adecuadamente en el congelador a 0° F (-18° C) permanecerán seguros. Aunque el congelamiento no elimina la mayoría de las bacterias, detiene su desarrollo.

Aunque los alimentos serán seguros indefinidamente a 0° F, su calidad disminuirá mientras más permanezcan en el conge-lador.

Su blandura, sabor, aroma, jugosidad y color pueden verse afectados. Se debe almacenar las sobras en recipientes herméti-cos. Con alimentos congelados comercialmente, es importante seguir las instrucciones de coc-ción del paquete para garantizar su seguridad.

El congelamiento no reduce los nutrientes.

Hay pocos cambios en el valor proteico de los alimentos du-rante el congelamiento.

La quemadura por congela-miento no significa que los ali-mentos no sean seguros.

La quemadura por congela-miento es un asunto de la cali-dad de los alimentos, no de su

seguridad. Se presenta en la forma de manchas parecidas al cuero de color gris o café en los alimentos congelados. Se puede producir cuando no se envuelven completamente los alimentos en paquetes herméti-cos, provocando manchas secas en los alimentos.

Se debe supervisar los termómetros para refrigera-

dor/congelador.

Se puede comprar termómetros para refrigerador/conge-lador en la sección de artículos para el hogar en tiendas por departamen-tos, de apara-tos, culinaria y supermerca-dos. Coloque uno en su refrigerador y uno en su congelador, en la parte delantera y una ubicación que sea fácil de leer.

Verifique regularmente la tem-peratura (al menos una vez a la semana).

En caso de que se corte la electricidad

En caso de que se corte la electricidad, mantenga cerradas las puertas del refrigerador y del congelador tanto como sea

posible. El refrigerador man-tendrá fríos los alimentos du-rante aproximadamente cuatro horas si se mantiene cerrado. Un congelador lleno manten-drá una temperatura adecuada por aproximadamente 48 horas si permanece cerrada la puerta. Consejos para alimentos no

refrigerados

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Encuentre más información en pge.com/southcountypc o llame al 1-888-743-0145.

"PG&E" refers to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. ©2015 Pacific Gas and Electric Company. All rights reserved.

Tres oportunidades para asistir:

22 de septiembre de 2015 4–6 p.m.

Casa Club del Museo Wings of History/Wings of History Museum Clubhouse 12777 Murphy Ave. San Martin, CA 95046

24 de septiembre de 2015 5–7:30 p.m.

Edificio Recreativo del Parque de Veteranos Las Ánimas/Las Animas Veterans Park Recreation Building 400 Mantelli Dr. Gilroy, CA 95020

Centro Comunitario y Cultural Morgan Hill, Salón El Toro/Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, El Toro Room 17000 Monterey Rd. Morgan Hill, CA 95037

28 de septiembre de 2015 4–6:30 p.m.

Conozca más sobre el proyecto y exprese su opinión. La Compañía Pacific Gas and Electric ha organizado tres reuniones públicas acerca de South County Power Connect, un proyecto propuesto que incluye la construcción de una nueva subestación y dos nuevas líneas de transmisión en el sur del Condado de Santa Clara. El proyecto propuesto ayudará a garantizar la confiabilidad eléctrica en Morgan Hill, Gilroy y el sur del condado de Santa Clara.

Miembros del equipo de South County Power Connect estarán en su comunidad para discutir los detalles del proyecto, responder preguntas y conocer su opinión.

Acompáñenos en una reunión pública comunitaria South County Power Connect


Santa Clara County CALIFORNIA

Experienced outdoor leaders from Santa Clara County Parks and Latino Outdoors will lead a two-mile family friendly nature hike along the Sanborn Park Nature Trail on Sunday, Septem-ber 27.

The free outing will be led by a bilingual park ranger and is designed to encour-age Latino families to explore nature. Along with their families, students from Crittendon Middle School and Sacred Heart Nativity School, will learn about park ecology, wildlife, park stewardship and careers in the outdoors.

Latino Outdoors aims to bring Latino families together for hikes, campouts and other outdoor activities. The joint effort is part of a larger national move-ment to connect Latinos with nature.

“We are excited to be teaming up with Santa Clara Parks for the first time,” said Jose Gonzalez, Founder of Latino Outdoors. “For a number of reasons, many Latinos do not get to experience our country’s local, state and national parks. We are working to break down language, cultural, socio- economic and transportation barriers and help open

up a whole new world for our commu-nity.”

For the organized hike, participants are advised to dress in layers for a cool morning, warm midday and wear com-fortable clothes and shoes. They should also bring plenty of water and a lunch. Although the outing is free, please con-firm attendance with a community group contact.

The Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department has provided recreational opportunities, beautiful parks and precious natural resources for Santa Clara County residents for more

than 50-years. This golden legacy has resulted in one of the largest regional park system in the State of California.

With roots in the past, a presence in the present and vision for the future, Latino Outdoors is a network of lead-ers committed to engaging Latinos/as in the outdoors, connecting familias and youth with nature, and empowering our community of storytellers to explore and share their personal experiences. Our growing online platform allows partici-pants to creatively document their cul-tural connections to conservation, the environment, and the Great American Outdoors with the world.

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This Week Marks National Voter Registration Day

Los Apartamentos Camphora son una nueva propiedad con 44 apartamentos para familias de bajos recursos ofreciendo unidades de 2 y 3 recámaras para trabajadores del campo. Está localizada en 32101 McCoy Road, Soledad, CA. El sitio está cerca de transporte público.

La construcción está programada a completarse entre el 15 de diciembre del 2015 y el 15 de febrero del 2016. Comen-zaremos a aceptar aplicaciones para la lotería el lunes, 28 de septiembre del 2015, hasta las 5pm del viernes, 16 de octubre del 2015.

Para más información por favor visite www.edenhousing.org el 28 de septiembre, 2015 y abra el enlace “Now Leasing”. También puede contactar a Amanda Vazquez, Agente de Ger-encia, al (831)384-1039 o TDD/TTY 1-800-735-2929

Anuncio de Contratos Apartamentos Camphora

Camphora Apartments

Se aplican Límite de Ingresos, Preferencias, Normas de Arrendamiento.

Camphora Apartments is a new property of 44 affordable family apartments offering 2 & 3 bedrooms for farm workers. It is located at 32101 McCoy Road, Soledad, CA. Site near public transportation.

Construction is scheduled to be completed between Decem-ber 15, 2015 and February 15, 2016. We will begin accept-ing applications for the lottery Monday, September 28, 2015 until 5pm, Friday, October 16, 2015.

For more information please go to www.edenhousing.org on September 28, 2015 and click on “Now Leasing”. You may also contact Amanda Vazquez, Management Agent at (831)384-1039 or TDD/TTY 1-800-735-2929.

Lease-Up Announcement

Camphora Apartments

Income Limits, Preferences, Occupancy Standards Apply.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This Tuesday marked Na-tional Voter Registration Day, and a major change to the way California registers its voters sits on the gover-nor’s desk awaiting his sig-nature.

Assembly Bill 1461 would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to automati-cally register residents to vote when they apply for, or re-new, their California driver’s license or state I.D. card - un-less that person specifically opts out.

Trudy Schafer, senior direc-tor for programs with the League of Women Voters of California, says the system would include new keypads that enable license applicants to fill out one form for both the license and voter registra-tion.

“It asks you your party pref-erence, and asks if you want to be a permanent vote-by-mail voter,” she says. “It lets

you do all of the work that would give you the kind of information we think every-body needs with every elec-tion.”

An estimated 7 million Cali-fornians are eligible to vote but are not registered.

Schafer says the bill specifies that non-citizens applying for driver licenses are excluded from the voter registration. She would like the governor to direct the DMV to get the changes in place right away.

“We would like him to make it very clear that the DMV should start implementing the streamlined voter reg-istration early in 2016,” she says. “It should happen be-fore the June primary.”

Governor Brown has un-til Oct. 11 to sign some 600 bills, veto them, or let them become law without a signa-ture.

Additional voter informa-tion is available at the Cali-fornia Secretary of State web-site at registertovote.ca.gov.

Photo Caption: On National Voter Registration Day, Californians await the fate of a bill that would allow them to register to vote when they apply for or renew a driver’s license. Credit: Alex Roibu/iStockphoto.

Honda Continues Legacy of Championing Full Funding

for BART

Silicon ValleyCALIFORNIA

Today, Congressman Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley) announced that the Depart-ment of Transportation has awarded $150 million to the Santa Clara Valley Trans-portation Authority (VTA) to fully fund the next year of construction of the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa Ex-tension. Honda used his seat on the powerful House Ap-propriations Committee to ensure that the funding was included in the Transporta-tion, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill for FY 2016. On Friday the 18th, that funding was de-livered through the Depart-ment of Transportation’s Fed-

eral Transit Administration. “Since coming to Congress, I have worked with my col-leagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure that the BART Silicon Valley Extension re-ceives federal funding. In Silicon Valley, the capital of innovation and manufactur-ing, we lead in many indus-tries, including progressive transportation projects that will reduce traffic on our roadways and protect our environment,” said Honda. Honda previously worked with VTA and the Secretary of Transportation to secure the $900 million federal Full Funding Grant Agreement needed for the BART Sili-con Valley Project. Working through the Appropriations Committee, Honda has now brought the first $700 million back home to build the Ber-ryessa Extension, which cre-

ates 2,500 jobs annually dur-ing construction, and 7,400 permanent jobs per year. “Congressman Honda de-serves much credit for his excellent work on the House Appropriations Commit-tee to bring this critical in-frastructure investment to the Valley. His advocacy will pay dividends for our community with improved public transportation and economic benefits for many years to come,” said Con-gresswoman Zoe Lofgren.

“VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension Project is past the halfway point on construction. We are ahead of schedule, and poised to deliver the largest transporta-tion infrastructure improve-ment project in Santa Clara County’s history in late 2017,” said VTA Board Chair Perry Woodward. “This accom-plishment could not have been possible without the federal government’s support and the transportation advo-cate we have in Congressman Honda.”

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San Jose CALIFORNIA

The City of San José and the San José Fire Depart-ment has been awarded a $3,328,458 Staffing for Ad-equate Fire and Emergency Response Federal Grant (SAFER) from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This fed-eral grant will provide fund-ing for 14 firefighters and improve staffing levels and minimize brownouts of fire stations.

In alignment with the May-or’s June Budget Message, approval of the SAFER grant will allow the City to hire and recruit more firefight-ers. SAFER funded person-nel could be assigned to relief positions to minimize brown

outs or utilized to place an engine back in service for more water availability. Both these deployment strategies would restore services to Jan-uary 2011 levels, consistent with the City Council goals.

“I’m grateful to the City

administration and Fire De-partment for their dedication in pursing this critical fund-ing. Council’s acceptance of the grant today, is another step towards returning to a safer San José,” said Mayor Liccardo.

This is the third SAFER

grant the City of San José has received from FEMA, for a combined total of $26.8 mil-lion that will allow for the restoration of a total of 90 sworn Fire positions.

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Six years after ending a health care pro-gram for its undocumented residents, on September 22 the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to restore it as a one-year pilot program

Contra Costa Cares is not a full-scope health care program, but it will provide 3,000 undocumented county residents preventive health care and limited primary care so visits to the emergency rooms will be reduced. An estimated 15,000 to 19,000 undocumented people currently live in Contra Costa County.

The county has set aside $500,000 from its general fund to launch the program in November, and is expecting a matching sum from local hospitals.

“There’s a lot of potential to get other revenue streams once the project ends,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, who was among the advocates who urged the Board of Supervisors to pass the pro-posal.

Supervisor Candace Andersen, the only board member who voted against the pro-gram, said that even though her colleagues maintained that Contra Costa Cares would save the county money by reducing emer-gency room visits, they did not provide any statistics on how many of the county’s undocumented residents are currently us-ing the emergency rooms. Nor could they tell her whether the program could be sus-

tained with other funding sources when the pilot ends.

“Of course, the county has a responsibility to care for its indigent,” she acknowledged. “But the state and federal governments should be able to address this problem.”

Contra Costa was one of three counties – Yolo and Sacramento being the other two -- that eliminated health care for its un-documented residents in 2009 because of the recession. Earlier this year, Sacramento County restored some health care pro-grams to its undocumented populations.

Last week, Monterey County agreed to provide specialty health care to the coun-ty’s undocumented residents through a $500,000 one-year pilot project.

“Contra Costa Cares demonstrates that each county can take meaningful steps to build a health care system that is respon-sive to the needs of all members of the community--and can build bridges to a statewide solution,” Wright said.

The statewide Health for All campaign was successful in getting Governor Brown allocate $400,000 to provide Medi-Cal (California’s name for the Medicaid pro-gram that provides health care for low-income people) for its undocumented children two months ago. The Health for All bill sponsored by Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, will help to streamline tran-sitioning those children, who are currently enrolled in Emergency Medi-Cal, into full-scope Medi-Cal.

The bill is currently on the Governor’s desk.

Contra Costa County Shows It Cares

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 11COMMUNITYSEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 1, 2015

San Jose CALIFORNIA

In response to the on-going

need for quality classified employees to staff school sites and district offices, the Santa Clara County Office of Education is launching its first annual Santa Clara County School Job Fair. Inspired by the success-ful Teacher Recruitment Fair that takes place at the SCCOE each spring, the School Job Fair will connect employers from 20 school districts and a community college with applicants from throughout the region on Saturday, October 24.

While almost everyone un-derstands the importance of staffing all classrooms with excellent teachers, each year schools face a similar chal-lenge when it comes to re-cruiting highly skilled bus drivers, clerical staff, custo-

dians, cooks, classroom as-sistants and other “behind the scenes” employees who keep students safe and en-sure schools run smoothly.

“Knowing how valuable our Teacher Recruitment Fair is for county schools in seeking well-qualified certif-icated staff, we saw this as a great opportunity to expand the reach of our services to our district partners,” said Superintendent of Schools Jon Gundry. “This event is a win/win for both districts in need of excellent non-teaching staff members and candidates looking for re-warding careers serving our communities.”

Applicants who regis-ter in advance will be pre-

screened, tested for the positions in which they’re interested, and allowed in early at 9 a.m. on the day of the fair. This will give them the first opportunity to meet with hiring managers and discuss their career goals. Walk-ins will be welcome on the day of event until the venue reaches capacity, but will have to be screened manually, which could take several hours.

For more information about the Job Fair, includ-ing tips on making the most of the day, visit the official event website at:

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since Delano walkouts as farm workers live their lega-cy today by organizing and negotiating with UFW ,U.S.

civil rights milestone cel-ebrated at Delano’s historic

‘Forty Acres’

DelanoCALIFORNIA

—Celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Delano Grape Strike will commemorate the present as well as the past on Sat-urday, Sept. 26 just outside Delano at the farm workers’ “Forty Acres” complex, now a National Historic Land-mark. Grape strike veterans who walked out of wine and table grape vineyards in Sep-tember 1965 will gather to observe a milestones of the American civil rights move-ment begun by Filipino and Latino farm workers in a dusty Kern County farm

town that spread across North America and western Europe as millions boycotted grapes and other products.

The 1960s strikers and boycotters will be joined by representatives of farm workers who are living out the legacy today, including those from companies under United Farm Workers’ con-tracts, workers fighting for union contract protections and some who have recently walked out on strike. They represent thousands of work-ers in wine and table grapes, tomatoes and vegetables, and strawberries and mush-rooms.

Highlights of the day will be ceremonies and programs, entertainment—includ-ing singing of old Huelgista songs by the famed El Teatro Campesino and Danny Val-dez—historical exhibits of

period photographs from the 1960s and tours of historic sites preserved at the Forty Acres where many landmark events took place. <ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=8988&page=1&field=&key=&n=31>

For more on the Sept. 26 UFW event: http://de-lanograpestrike.org (click on “News” and “Come be a part of history…”)

The Delano strike followed by six months another civil rights breakthrough, “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 Selma vot-ing rights march. The Delano strike is a pivotal event of the Latino civil rights move-ment, inspiring a revolution in Latino empowerment plus political and social activism by millions of Americans from all walks of life.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 115CV285810

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cody William Harper. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Cody William Harper, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Cody William Harper to William Hunter. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 12/08/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 18, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 25; October 2, 9, 16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 609198The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Shop N Save Mart 2463 Bran-nan PL Santa Clara. CA 95050, Santa Clara County. Eportal LLC 2463 Brannan PL Santa Clara. CA 95050 This business is conducted by a corporation; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 09/01/2009 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Sudeihna BiswasManagerSeptember 25; Oc-tober 2, 9, 16, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/15/2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

FOR CHANGE OF NAMENO. 115CV285527

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Nghia Huu Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Nghia Huu Nguyen, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Nghia Huu Nguy-en to Kenji Neil Isoyama. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-

cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 12/1/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 11, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Harmony Ya-Shing Chi. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Harmony Ya-Shing Chi, has filed a peti-tion for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Harmony Ya-Shing Chi to Harmony Ya-Shing Shyr. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 12/1/2015 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 11, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Khuong Huu Thuc Nguy-en. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Khuong Huu Thuc Nguyen, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Khuong Huu Thuc Nguyen to Kara Thuc-Khuong Nguyen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 12/08/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 14, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Valarie Solis. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS: The court finds that petitioner, Valarie Solis, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jedid-ian Ian Solis to Jedidian Ian Ramirez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 12/08/15 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 14, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Beatrice Magdaleno and Oscar Ramirez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petition-ers, Beatrice Magdaleno and Oscar Ramirez, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Oscar Julian Ramirez to Julian Ramirez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/17/15 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 21, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

NO. 609095The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Royal Prestige Of The Bay Area Inc. 1615 Alum Rock Ave San Jose, CA, 95116, Santa Clara County. Royal Prestige Of The Bay Area Inc. 1615 Alum Rock Ave San Jose CA, 95116. This business is conducted by a corporation; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 06/24/2015 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who

declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Jaime RodriguezCEOSeptember 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/11/2015


NO. 608909The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Ex-press Copy & More 2261 The Alameda Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. Jandark F. Sharfi 2261 The Alameda Santa Clara CA, 95050. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed here-on, 08/1/2015 “I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Jandark F. Sharfi September 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/04/2015


NO. 609027The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Adc Painting and Janitorial Ser-vice 3035 Pearl Ave Apt 4 San Jose CA, 95136, Santa Clara County. Carmen Zaragoza 3035 Pearl Ave Apt 4 San Jose, CA 95136. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, “I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Carmen Zaragoza September 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/09/2015


NO. 608904The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Fronteras Service 1118 E. William St San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara County. Leticia Corro 870 Saratoga Ave F 210 San Jose, CA 95129. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun trans-acting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 09/04/15 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A reg-istrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Leticia Corro September 18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/04/2015


NO. 609057The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Ja-viers Jumpers 661 Eden Ave San Jose CA 95117, Santa Clara County. Fran-

cisco Javier Estrada Lara 661 Eden Ave San Jose CA 95117. This business is conducted by an individual; registrants have not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Francisco Javier Estrada Lara September18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/10/15


NO. 609116The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Taqueria Parrilladas 2980 Aborn Square Rd San Jose CA, 95121 Santa Clara County. Luciana Baez 274 Parmer Ave #A San Jose CA 95116. This business is conducted by an individual; registrants have not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Luciana Baez September18, 25; October 2, 9, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/11/15


NO.607776The following person(s) is (are) doing business Southside Financial 3136 Story Rd. Suite#2 San Jose, CA 95127, CA 95148 , Santa Clara Co. Socorro Monatano-Soto and Andres B Soto 2910 Archwood Dr. San Jose, Ca 95148. This business is conducted by a married couple; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Socorro Montano-SotoAugust 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 08/04/2015

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Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Clifford Jackson Spradlin and Hyunju Cho. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petition-ers, Clifford Jackson Spra-dlin and Hyunju Cho, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a. Milo Caleb Spardlin to Milo Ian Spradlin. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/24/15 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose,

CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 2, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 11, 18, 25; Oc-tober 2, 2015

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Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bianca Bravo. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petition-er, Bianca Bravo, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Bianca Bravo to Bianca Bravo Quinarez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/10/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 12, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 11, 18, 25; Oc-tober 2, 2015


NO. 608553The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Tel-las Fashion Boutique 1645 Bermuda Way San Jose CA 95122, Santa Clara County. Eleuteria Valencia 1645 Bermuda Way San Jose, CA 95122. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun trans-acting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 08/28/2015 “I declare that all information in this state-ment is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Eleuteria Valencia September 11, 18,25; October 2, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 08/28/2015


NO. 608971The following person(s) is (are) doing business, The Style Station 3136 Williams Rd San Jose CA, 95117 Santa Clara County. Amalia Gonzalez 2320 Park Grove Way Modesto CA, 95358. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 9/8/2015 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be

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NO. 607995The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Monterey Sheetmetal 180 Fox Hollow Circle Morgan Hill CA, 95037 Santa Clara County. Gabriel Martinez 180 Fox Hollow Circle Mor-gan Hill CA, 95037. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 11/06/2013 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Gabriel MartinezSeptember 11, 18, 25; October 2, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 8/12/2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jesucita Ortiz Rodriguez. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Jesucita Ortiz Rodriguez, has filed a peti-tion for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Elicel Rofes Ortiz to Elicel Robies Ortiz. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/24/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 27, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Jianmei Su. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS: The court finds that petitioner, Jianmei Su, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Jian-mei Su to Rachel Su Wind-sor. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/24/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show

cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. August 27, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ashly Jesus Delgado. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Ashley Jesus Delgado, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ashley Jesus Delgado to Ashly Velasquez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 10/13/15 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. July 14, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

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Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Efren Delgado. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that peti-tioner, Efren Delgado, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a. Efren Delgado to Efren Velasquez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter ap-pear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 10/13/15 at 8:45 am, Pro-bate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a news-paper of general circula-tion, printed in the county of Santa Clara. July 14, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Tenaya Catherine Mc-

graw. TO ALL INTEREST-ED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Tenaya Catherine Mcgraw, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a. Tenaya Catherine McGraw to Tenaya Catherine Hill. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 10/27/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. July 24, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Michael Lin Yang. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Michael Lin Yang, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Michael Lin Yang to Michael Andres Lin. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 11/24/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. September 1, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtSeptember 4,11,18, 25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE


Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the applica-tion of: Omardoe YaredAli Sellassie. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Omardoe YaredAli Sel-lassie, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Omardoe YaredAli Sellassie to Doe ZereOnoja Xitazje Selassie b. Omar Ali Parker to Doe ZereOnoja Xitazje Selassie THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indi-cated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 10/27/15 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., lo-

cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observa-dor, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. July 27, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior Court


NO. 607748The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Lupe’s Carousel Child Care 533 University Ave San Jose CA, 95110 Santa Clara County. Guadalupe Mendoza 533 University Ave San Jose CA, 95110. This business is conducted by an individual; registrants has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 04/19/2001. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.)Guadalupe MendozaSeptember 4,11,14, 25, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 08/05/2015


NO. 608578The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Rico Pan Bakery Inc 231 Willow St San Jose CA, 95110 Santa Clara County. Rico Pan Bakery Inc 231 Willow St San Jose CA, 95110. This business is conducted by an corporation; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 02/09/2010. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.)Jesus Ortiz SecretarySeptember 4,11,14, 25, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 08/28/2015


NO. 608680The following person(s) is (are) doing business, ALM Custom Paintings 1577 Mt Pleasant Dr San Jose CA, 95127, Santa Clara County. Armando Mendoza Mt Pleasant Dr San Jose CA, 95127. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun trans-acting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 2010. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime.)Armando MendozaSeptember 4,11,14, 25, 2015 This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 09/01/2015


Santa Clara County CALIFORNIA

The County of Santa Clara Board of Supervi-sors took a monumental step in support of the public’s health and wellbeing with the adop-tion of a new Health Element as a part of the Santa Clara County General Plan. The Health Element not only serves as a high-level policy guide for County decision-making, budget-ing, and program initiatives, but also as a platform for future collaborative efforts with community health partners.

“The County of Santa Clara is among the first in the nation to adopt a Health Element in its General Plan,” said Supervisor Ken Yea-ger, Chair of the Board’s Health and Hospital Committee, who championed its inclusion in the General Plan. “This Health Element will ensure that when planning and zoning deci-sions are made, they take into account the im-pact on the public’s health.”

The new Health Element was developed through a multi-year planning and commu-nity outreach process. The Health Element will promote public health through greater recognition of the importance of the envi-ronment, how communities are planned, the social determinants of health, and other fac-tors. The Health Element contains informa-tion and policies under the following areas: Health Conditions, Equity and Access; Social and Emotional Health; Land Use and Ur-ban Design; Active and Sustainable Trans-portation; Recreation and Physical Activity; Healthy Eating, Food Access, and Sustain-able Food Systems; Air Quality and Climate Change; Healthy Housing; and Violence Pre-vention and Safety.

“Health conditions are influenced by policies and environmental conditions which either sustain healthy behaviors or fail to support them,” said Board President Dave Cortese. “The County’s Health in All Policies (HiAP)

strategy presents opportunities to address underlying root causes of poor health through policy and systems change.”

Of all the health trends in the U.S., the in-

creasing rate of those who are overweight and obese is the most alarming. In Santa Clara County, 55 percent of adults and 25 percent of middle and high school students are over-weight or obese.

“Despite our ranking as the third healthiest

county in CA, many health disparities persist and not everyone enjoys optimal health,” said Dr. Sara Cody, Health Officer for Santa Clara County. “By formally adopting a health in all policies approach, the Board of Supervisors is taking a bold step toward ensuring that all people in our county have the same opportu-nity to be healthy.”

The Health Element is also intended to serve

as a model for other jurisdictions and agencies in Santa Clara County and the region. The 15 cities of Santa Clara County, private health-care providers and networks, and many other entities will be as important as any other im-plementers and advocates for the goals, strat-egies, and policies in the Health Element.

The Santa Clara County Planning Office

and the Public Health Department will un-dertake the Health Element dissemination and implementation plan. The first step will involve its dissemination to local, regional, state and national policymakers, cities and other agencies. This will include County de-partments, cities within Santa Clara County, regional partners, the State Department of Public Health, and other national partners. Additional promotional activities and coor-dination with integrally linked programs will be pursued during the next phase of outreach.

The Health Element can be found at: http://

ow.ly/SAeRy.

Santa Clara County Makes Health a Priority in General Plan

Innovative Health Element

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EARTHTALK

Solar desalination is a tech-nique used to remove salt from water via a specially designed still that uses solar energy to boil seawater and capture the resulting steam, which is in turn cooled and condensed into pristine freshwater. Salt and other impurities are left behind in the still.

Less than one percent of the world’s desalination is pow-ered by renewable energy sources today, but that could all change soon if companies like California-based Wa-terFX have anything to say about it. Its Aqua4 “concen-trated solar still” (CSS) uses a concentrated solar thermal collector to compress heat, create steam and distill wa-ter at 30 times the efficiency of natural evaporation. It can produce 65,000 gallons of freshwater per day—and it can desalinate a wide range of water sources, not just sea-water.

To wit, the company will start employing solar de-salination to treat some 1.6

billion gallons of salt-laden irrigation drainage from California’s drought-strick-en, agriculturally-rich Cen-tral Valley next year. Crops extract nearly pure water from soil, leaving behind salt and other potentially toxic minerals like selenium that naturally occur in the water. These excess minerals must be drained from the soil, or crop productivity plunges. By treating this drainage, WaterFX can prevent about 15 percent of farmland in California from being retired every year to make room for storage for untreated drain-age water. It will also prevent the drainage from contami-nating fresh waterways and endangering wildlife. Ac-cording to California’s State Water Resources Control Board, approximately 9,493 miles of rivers and streams and some 513,130 acres of lakes and reservoirs are listed as being impaired by irrigat-ed agricultural water.

“If we don’t start removing the salts now, at least 10 per-cent of all current farmland in production in California will have to be retired, and in many scenarios this num-

ber could be up to 30 to 40 percent, especially on the west side of the Valley where the salinity is very high,” says WaterFX’s Matthew Stuber. “Water in the drainage areas will contaminate ground-water and natural surface waterways at an accelerated pace, eventually polluting sources of drinking water and the natural environ-ment. Once that is released into the environment, you severely damage the natural habitat and wildlife.”

Another large-scale solar desalination project is cur-rently under construction in Saudi Arabia and scheduled for completion in early 2017. The plant is slated to produce 60,000 cubic meters of wa-ter per day for Al Khafji City in North Eastern Saudi Ara-bia, ensuring a constant wa-ter supply to the arid region throughout the year. Accord-ing to Abengoa, the Spanish renewable energy company building the pioneering facil-ity, the incorporation of solar would significantly reduce operating costs, as Saudi Arabia currently burns 1.5 million barrels of oil per day at its desalination plants,

which provide 50-70 percent of its drinking water. Total desalination demand in Sau-di Arabia and neighboring countries is expected to reach 110 million cubic meters a day by 2030.

With freshwater supplies at a premium already in many parts of the world as a result of climate change, there has never been a better time for solar desalination to come of age. Whether or not this emerging technology can go mainstream sooner than lat-er may mean the difference between a peaceful future and one wracked by conflict over access to ever-dwindling supplies of freshwater.

CONTACTS: WaterFX, www.waterfx.co ;

California’s State Water Re-sources Control Board, www.

swrcb.ca.gov; Aben-goa, www.abengoa.com.

EarthTalk® is produced by Doug Moss & Roddy

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SACRAMENTO - The vast “sagebrush sea” that stretch-es for millions of acres from eastern California all the way to Montana got updated management plans Tuesday. That’s because the Bureau of Land Management issued 98 separate final land-use plans designed to balance conservation, recreation and development on sagebrush landscapes.

Ken Rait, public lands di-rector for the The Pew Chari-table Trusts, said this is the largest land-conservation initiative the BLM has ever undertaken - one that pro-tects the animals while al-lowing for ranching, devel-

opment, hunting and other recreation.

“The Records of Decision that the Bureau of Land Management has come out with are a significant step in bringing a responsible bal-ance to development across the West and conservation of the sage-grouse,” he said.

The plans were finalized at the same time the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service an-nounced that it will not list the greater sage-grouse un-der the Endangered Species Act.

Matt Holloran, chief sci-entist for Wildlife Manage-ment Research Support, said the collaboration among disparate interests, including environmentalists, ranchers,

government agencies and oil and gas companies has been extraordinary - but it will take commitment from all parties to make this work.

“For this effort to succeed as it’s been planned, I mean, all we have now are plans,” he said, “and for the success to happen, the plans need to be implemented.”

Sagebrush habitat is home to hundreds of spe-cies, including mule deer, elk, pronghorn and golden eagles.

Plan details are online at blm.gov.

Support for this reporting was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The federal government has announced new man-agement strategies for sagebrush country from California to Montana. Credit: bigwest1/iStock

Solar desalination plant on the island of Funafuti in the Tuvalu islands. Credit: Nick Hobgood, FlickrCC

Christine Grabowski, Ph.D. INDIAN COUNTRY MEDIA NETWORK

There is a scurrilous fabri-

cation being disseminated by the Catholic Church regard-ing Junípero Serra, the mis-sionary whom Pope Francis canonized on September 23, 2015. Monsignor Fran-cis J. Weber—whose article appears on several Catholic websites—calls Serra a “de-fender of the Indians’ hu-man rights in 1773 when he journeyed from California to Mexico City to personally present to the viceroy a Rep-resentación …which is some-times termed a ‘Bill of Rights’ for Indians.”

Note that the phrase—“sometimes termed”—im-plies that Serra did indeed create a “Bill of Rights” for Indians. By using the passive voice, Weber deftly avoids the issue of the claim’s accuracy. He implies what unnamed others have implied, a curi-ous position for an archivist emeritus and author of sev-eral publications about the California missions.

Archbishop José H. Gomez makes a more audacious claim: The “Representación” “is probably the first ‘bill of rights’ published in North America,” he wrote in Ange-lus: The Tidings Online last January. The lower-case “bill of rights” does not indicate that there is a document la-

beled that way but similarly implies that there is one that can be described in those terms.

The National Catholic Re-view went further when it reported on May 2 that Archbishop Gomez “offered strong evidence that Serra had in fact been ‘a protector and defender of the Indi-ans,’ and had gained a ‘Bill of Rights’ for them [from the Spanish Viceroy in Mexico City] in 1773.” The words “in fact” now assert that the Viceroy issued a document that was identified as a “Bill of Rights.”

American Catholic.org makes an even wilder claim when it states that the “out-come” of Serra’s trip to Mex-ico City in 1773 was “the fa-mous ‘Regulation’ protecting the Indians and the missions. It was the basis for the first significant legislation in Cali-fornia, a “Bill of Rights” for Native Americans.”

These specious claims are not supported by the histori-cal record. Let’s look at what the documents state regard-ing why Serra went to see the Viceroy in 1773 and what the missionary actually submit-ted.

Serra’s last letter before leaving San Diego was writ-ten on October 13, 1772. It was addressed to the com-manding officer of the pre-

sidio at Monterey, Pedro Fages. Serra had had a dif-ficult relationship with the officer ever since Fages had been appointed to his post two years earlier. The back-story of that letter is critical to understanding what Serra wrote and why.

In 1770, Fages replaced Gaspar de Portolá, the mili-tary commander whom Ser-ra had accompanied in 1769 on the expedition to Alta California. In 1768, Jesuit missionaries were expelled from Baja California for having enriched themselves at the expense of the Span-ish Crown. As a result, the Dominican and Franciscan replacements were accorded limited religious authority so that they could not do the same. Serra began his tenure as Padre Presidente with cir-cumscribed powers and none over military commanders. This quickly proved a source of friction between Fages and Serra, both of whom estab-lished their headquarters in Monterey, the officer at the Presidio and Serra at Mis-sion San Carlos Boromeo de Carmelo.

The two men had divergent views regarding establish-ing new missions versus civil pueblos, how the soldiers should be deployed, and what the soldiers did when off duty. Despite these differ-ences, the two leaders estab-lished three additional mis-

sions from 1771–72. Fages refused to provide supplies and soldiers for a fourth in 1772 that had been approved at San Buenaventura. Unbe-knownst to Serra, Fages had an ace in the hole.

Almost a year earlier, in November 1771, the newly

appointed Viceroy, Antonio Maria de Bucareli y Ursúa, had written a letter to Fages, instructing him to direct Serra and his missionaries to “obey and comply” with Fag-es’s orders. Bucareli wrote the letter in response to Fages’s accounts of an earlier incident that involved the desertion

of soldiers and a mule driver from the San Diego mission. Fages did not mention the helpful role that Serra and Father Paterna (from San Di-ego) had played in bringing about the return of the desert-ers. Fages only apprised Serra of Bucareli’s instructions in a letter dated October 11, 1772.

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Dirigida por Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”), basada en los relatos atemporales de Rud-yard Kipling e inspirada en la clásica película animada de Disney, “The Jungle Book” es una nueva aventura épica con actores reales que trata sobre Mowgli (el debutante Neel Sethi), un cachorro hu-mano que fue criado por una familia de lobos.

Pero Mowgli descubre que ya no es bienvenido en la selva cuando el temible tigre Shere Khan (con la voz de Idris Elba), que carga con las cicatrices causadas por el Hombre, promete eliminar a todo lo que considere una amenaza.

Obligado a abandonar el único hogar que ha cono-cido, Mowgli emprende un

cautivante viaje de auto-descubrimiento, guiado por Bagheera, una pantera con-vertida en estricto mentor (con la voz de Ben Kings-ley), y el oso de espíritu li-bre Baloo (con la voz de Bill Murray).

En el camino, Mowgli se encuentra con criaturas de la selva que no velan ex-actamente por los intereses

del niño. Entre ellas está Kaa (con la voz de Scarlett Johansson), una serpiente pitón cuya voz y mirada se-ductoras hipnotizan al jo-vencito, y el embaucador King Louie (con la voz de Christopher Walken), que intenta forzar a Mowgli a que le revele el secreto de la escurridiza y mortal flor roja: el fuego.

El reparto estelar también incluye a Lupita Nyong’o como la voz de la protec-tora madre loba, Raksha, y a Giancarlo Esposito como la voz del líder de la manada de lobos, Akela. “The Jungle Book” une a la perfección acción real con animales y entornos fotorrealistas gen-erados por computadora, usando la última tecnología y técnicas de narración para sumergir al público en un mundo encantador y exube-rante.

La aventura salvaje llega a los cines en 3D el 15 de abril de 2016.

En la primera película, los legendarios ladrones Alejan-dro Toledo (Fernando Colun-ga) y Emilio Sánchez (Miguel Varoni) abatieron a un gurú de los infocomerciales que se apr-ovechaba de los inmigrantes latinos. Después de ese robo exitoso, los Robin Hoods contemporáneos dejaron sus vidas como delincuentes para adoptar una más común.

Varoni se unió al FBI y Col-unga es un empresario. En LADRONES, Colunga re-gresa a sus orígenes de ladrón con buenas intenciones, y aunque Varoni no puede comprometerse a ayudarlo, le presenta a Colunga a San-tiago Guzmán (Eduardo Yáñez), un ladrón con un talento para morirse de risa y que lo ayudará a llevar a cabo la misión más importante de su vida.

¿Su objetivo? Ambos deberán trabajar para recu-perar terrenos que fueron robados a una comunidad tra-bajadora por una despiadada familia de bandidos liderada por una diva hermosa pero mortal. La acción y la comedia se desatan cuando Colunga y Yáñez reclutan a su nuevo equipo de “Robin Hoods”

En cines Octubre 9, 2015

SHELLY PALMER

A homemade digital clock and a homemade bomb might share several com-ponent parts. Both devices might include a timing cir-cuit, a display, a power supply, some switches, a radio (WiFi, Bluetooth or RF), a bunch of wires and some kind of hous-ing or case. There are, how-ever, some nontrivial differ-ences. As a rule, homemade digital clocks do not contain detonators or explosives. That said, a time bomb needs a timer, and a homemade digi-tal clock would do that job nicely. So could you tell the difference between the two devices? Could you tell a clock from a bomb?

The Maker Movement

I don’t know if Ahmed Mohammed, the 14-year-old arrested for bringing a homemade digital alarm clock to school in Texas, is a “Maker” (the maker culture is a technology-based exten-sion of DIY culture) or just a geeky kid who likes to solder. It doesn’t matter. Is it possible that he’s the only kid in Ir-ving, Texas, who knows how to build an electronic device? And, more importantly, when Ahmed said it was a clock, how is it possible that no teacher, law enforcement of-ficer or just plain adult knew what they were looking at?

If you attend a maker faire or a science fair or just hang out with a few geeky kids, you are going to find all kinds of homebrew and hacked elec-tronics. Don’t they have sci-ence fairs in Texas?

Context

In practice, most of the people I work with could easily tell a homebrew digi-tal clock from an improvised explosive device (IED). With the smallest amount of train-ing (or common sense), you could tell the difference, too. Certainly any science, math or engineering teacher should be able to tell the difference

at a glance. And if the Eng-lish teacher who freaked out on the kid really didn’t know what she was looking at, surely the law enforcement officers should have instantly known the device did not con-tain explosives.

A Hoax Bomb

They arrested Ahmed for having a “hoax bomb.” But where was the fake explosive? Where was the fake detona-

tor? Did he threaten anyone? Did he say, “Hey… look at the bomb I made”? He said it was a clock and they took him out in handcuffs.

Was This Ahmed’s First Day At This

School?

Is this the first time Ahmed Mohamed ever met his teach-ers? If he’s a geek/tinkerer/hacker-type (and he sure

looks like one), the kind of kid who builds stuff and likes science class, wouldn’t you ex-pect the teachers to know he wasn’t a threat? Clearly some-thing else is afoot.

STEM Is Super Important!

STEM (science, technology,

engineering and math) skills are critical to our future. We need to teach our children to dream about what is possible and strive to answer questions that may seem impossible. In-quisitive, aspirational young minds are a national trea-sure, and while I do not know Ahmed Mohammed, he’s the kind of 14-year-old kid I’d love to meet.

The hash tag #IStandWith-Ahmed was trending on Twit-ter the other day. Everyone took sides. If people need this to be a racial or a political issue, so be it. To me it is neither; it is a referendum on the quality of our teachers, the quality of the curriculum and our serious lack of vision for the future.

Make a Clock!

Ahmed, I know everyone in the tech world (and the presi-dent) has invited you to meet with them. I’d love to meet you too, but what I’d really like to do is honor your aspirations by asking everyone to orga-nize some after-school groups or clubs that promote STEM education. Make a clock. Roll up your sleeves, get a soldering iron, get some components and make one. Here’s a how-to ar-ticle from Popular Science and here are 12 clock kits you can buy from Maker Shed. Then bring it to work or school and show everyone what you’ve learned. Then send it to the board of education in Irving, Texas. Someone needs to take them to school!

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El 29 de septiembre se celebra el día de los tres Arcángeles que son mencionados en las santas escrituras. Existen grupos de creyentes angélicos que celebran toda la semana la conmemoración a los Santos Gabriel, Miguel y Rafael. Se les considera como intercesores entre los humanos y el Altísimo. Cada uno de ellos representa potestades y virtudes por las cuales son invocados en el mundo entero. No solamente en el catolicismo se les rinde culto, también en otras religiones como el Islam por ejemplo. El culto a los Arcángeles y Ángeles ha tenido un gran auge en las últimas décadas, miles de personas han dado fe y testimonio de lo que la presencia angelical ha sido en sus vidas. Los Ángeles son portadores de bendiciones para la humanidad.

San Gabriel

San Gabriel es uno de los siete Arcángeles, es el ángel mensajero de Dios, su nombre significa”Poder de Dios”. De él existen varios relatos de sus apariciones en la Biblia.

Se le apareció en forma de hombre al profeta Daniel (Daniel 8:16; 9:21), se pareció a San Zacarías para anunciar que su esposa Santa Isabel daría a luz a San Juan Bautista (Lucas 1:11,19), y también se le apareció a la Santísima Virgen María para anunciarle que sería la madre de El Salvador del Mundo(Lucas 1:26)

Peticiones: San Gabriel es uno de los grandes intermediarios entre el mundo y el cielo. Pídale cuando esté a la espera de grandes noticias, cuando se ha de resolver algún litigio y cundo necesite la protección divina.

San Miguel Arcángel

San Miguel, junto con los Santos Gabriel y Rafael, es uno de los tres arcángeles mencionados en las santas escrituras. Él es el de más alto rango de los siete arcángeles y tiene cuatro obligaciones principales: pelear por siempre contra el poder maligno de Satanás, rescatar almas de las garras de la oscuridad, defender a todas las personas que creen en el poder de Dios, y llamar a todos los que parten de la tierra para llevar a esas almas ante el juicio del Creador. Es considerado como el Capitán de las legiones celestiales. San miguel Arcángel ha sido coronado como el eterno vencedor en contra de todas las fuerzas del mal.

Peticiones: Se le pide para alejar energías y fuerzas negativas, para deshacer hechizos, embrujos y ensalmos. Para protección contra enemigos y peligros.

San Rafael

San Rafael es uno de los siete ángeles que están apostados constantemente ante el trono del Altísimo (Tobías 12:15) Bajo la apariencia humana, siguió al joven Tobías hacia Rages, para así cobrar un préstamo hecho por el viejo Tobías a Gabelo. Durante el camino se detuvo para arrojar a un demonio fuera de Sara, hija de Ragüel, a la que obtuvo en matrimonio para Tobías. Luego fue a Recibir el dinero de Gabelo y recondujo al joven Tobías sano y salvo devuelta a su casa. Inmediatamente entró a la morada, curó de la ceguera al viejo Tobías (Tobías 5:11) y llenó aquella casa de grandes bendiciones enviadas por Dios. Su nombre significa “Dios Sana”.

Peticiones: San Rafael es uno de los médicos celestiales, pídale para cualquier caso de enfermedad. Además se le reza para contar con la bendición de Dios en el seno familiar.

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Raiders: It was a scorching hot day at the O.co Coliseum. It was so hot that at one point in the Raiders game against the Ravens, start-ing quarterback Derek Carr had to remove his undershirt from his pads in order to cool down. Oh boy was the Raiders offense and young quarterback hot on this day. Derek Carr had 351 passing yards on 30/46 attempts to go along with three touchdowns. The offense was in rhythm all game with rookie sensation Amari Cooper catching his first touchdown on a 68 yard reception on the first drive of the game. This set the tone for the Raiders and their offensive attack. In what would turn out to be a shootout, the Raiders earned their first victory over the Ravens with a game winning touchdown drive by Derek Carr.

After an untimely interception off an under throw which allowed the Ravens to take a three point lead late in the game, Derek Carr earned his first signature win of his young ca-reer by marching down the field with poise and confidence on the final drive of the game capped off by a clutch throw to Seth Roberts for the game winner. Former 49er Michael Crabtree came out strong in this game with multiple tough catches. Both he and Amari Cooper went over 100 receiving yards on the day with a touchdown. Overall the Raiders looked great on offense with the passing at-tack flourishing and Latavius Murray and the rushing game keeping the Ravens defense off

balanced. The Defense once again showed weakness and gave up 33 points for the sec-ond week in a row. If the Raiders want to win on a consistent defense, the defense must improve and get better pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

49ers: Speaking of weak defenses, the 49ers defense looked like a completely dif-ferent squad than the one that showed up in week 1. After only giving up 3 points to an up and coming Vikings team in their season opener and showing the NFL that life after Harbaugh might be more optimistic than ex-pected, the team laid an egg in week 2. The defense was torched by Ben Roethlisberger and company en route to giving up a whop-ping 43 points. While the offense as a whole didn’t look too bad, with Colin Kaepernick putting up some pretty good stats, the story of the game was the 49ers inability to stop the Pittsburgh Steelers offense. Steelers Antonio Brown had 195 yards receiving and a touch-down in the game. There was no pressure on Big Ben and he made the 49ers pay with big play after big play.

To make matters worse, running back Carlos Hyde who had his breakout performance in week 1 was taken out in the ball game from a hit to the head. While he checked out okay, he would not return to the game. As the team looks forward, the fans are left wondering which defense will come out next week and what the team’s true identity is. The season has just begun, and it has been a roller coaster start for the Bay Area football teams.

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San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Anibal Godoy has been named to Panama’s roster for friendlies against Trinidad and Tobago in Panama City on Oct. 8 and at Mexico on Oct. 13.

Godoy, 25, has earned 56 total caps for Panama since making his international debut in 2010, scoring one goal. He most recently represented his country in friendlies against Uruguay on Sept. 4 and Venezuela on Sept. 8.

Godoy has made seven starts for the Earthquakes since signing with the club on Aug. 6, tallying one goal and leading San Jose to a 4-1-2 record in those matches.

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The San Jose Sports Hall of Fame will mark its 21st year of honoring South Bay sports legends when it inducts its four newest members on Monday, Nov. 9, at SAP Center at San Jose. The four inductees hail from the upper echelon of collegiate, professional, and/or Olympic competition. Al-though they played different sports in different eras, they share the common bond of having made a lasting impact both on and off the field of play.

The San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2015 Inductees

are:•John Carlos: Olympic Med-

alist / NCAA Champion / Civil Rights Icon

•Chris Carver: Legendary Synchronized Swimming Coach / U.S. National Team Coach

•Jeff Garcia: NFL Pro-Bowl Quarterback / SJSU Record Holder

•Manuel “Mani” Hernan-dez: Olympian/ MLS Trail-blazer/ Acclaimed Youth Coach

Each inductee will be rec-ognized with a bronze plaque permanently installed on the concourse at SAP Center at San Jose. With the induction of the Class of 2015, there will be 97 South Bay sports icons enshrined in the Hall of Fame. The annual induction is an event of the San Jose Sports Authority, San Jose Arena Authority, SAP Center Man-agement/San Jose Sharks, and the City of San José. The event benefits Special Olympics Northern California and high school sports programs.

About the San Jose Sports Authority

The San Jose Sports Author-ity is a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the City of San Jose’s economic development, visibility, and

civic pride through sports. Serving as the City’s sports commission since its inception in 1991, the Sports Authority has provided leadership and support to attract and host hundreds of sporting events in San Jose and the South Bay. The Sports Authority also sup-ports and operates commu-nity, youth and amateur sports programs, including the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame and the REACH Youth Scholar-ship Program. To learn more, visit www.sjsa.org.

About Manuel “Mani” Hernandez

Mani Hernandez was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. After the deaths of his parents, Hernandez and his sister left their home coun-try to live with their great-uncle in Hayward, CA. He was enrolled as a junior at James Logan High School, where he joined the soc-cer team. During his senior year, he caught the eye of San Jose State University soccer coach Jules Menendez, who not only recruited the young star to become a Spartan, but also mentored him as a father figure. In 1968, Hernandez’s senior season, the Spartans reached the 1968 NCAA semifinals before falling to the eventual co-champion, Maryland. That same year, Hernandez was selected as a first team All-American and received the 1968 Hermann Trophy as the top collegiate player in the country.

From 1970 to 1974, Hernan-dez helped advance his sport as a member of the US National

Team. In 1970, his two goals against Bermuda propelled the U.S. to the second round of the Pan Am Games – a first for the American squad. In 1972, he scored one of the team’s two goals in a critical match over Jamaica; with the win, the U.S. advanced to the Olympic Games tournament for the first time since 1960. In ad-dition to his history-making success on the international stage, Hernandez made his mark from 1974-76 as a mem-ber of the newly-founded San Jose Earthquakes in the North American Soccer League. He scored the first two goals in the franchise history – against the Dallas Tornado and Van-couver Whitecaps. He retired from professional play after stretches with the Detroit Lightning and San Francisco Fog in the Major Indoor Soc-cer League.

After hanging up his cleats, Hernandez enjoyed tre-mendous success as a youth coach. In 1976, he led Leland High School’s boys’ team to a Central Coast Section title. In 1981, he led Gunderson High School’s boys’ team to its first CCS playoff berth. In 1982, he began what would be a storied, 31-year career at Presentation High School, where his girls’ teams won 17 league cham-pionships and eight Central Coast Section titles. A dozen of his players went on to play collegiate soccer, including U.S. women’s national team members Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner, and Denmark national team member Mikka Hansen.

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