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VOLUME 36 ISSUE 48 | WWW.EL-OBSERVADOR.COM | NOVEMBER 20-26, 2015
This year let’s go beyond giv-ing GOD thanks for all that we have in our family, friends, this community, nation, the world and its universe. We must realize that ‘Divine Providence’ has favored USA with abundant resources. We must conserve and use/reuse them all, when possible, like we now recycle potable water to extend its use so this com-munity has ample supplies of this essential life-supporting liquid.
And if our elected officials enact policies which devote available resources, it is pos-sible to evaluate desaliniza-tion technology to convert sea water obtainable at the Alviso Slough; use solar and wind generated electricity to power the reverse osmosis process which would result in an addi-tional source of potable water. This drinking water source would be independent of the weather being experienced today. Let’s be thankful that this additional source of po-table water is available to our
community....we just have to prepare the facilities, person-nel, and install the technol-ogy to begin to benefit from our knowledge, which is al-ready available. Why do this? Well, California’s population continues to grow. When 50 million residents live in Cali-fornia during 2050 current naturally supplied water will not be sufficient.
What do we not need to be thankful for? One project which Governor Brown keeps supporting, is the construc-tion of two concrete conduits under the San Joaquin/Sac-ramento River Delta to be used to divert Sacramento River water to the Los Ange-les basin. The Delta already provides water which is con-veyed southward. Use those delta project’ funds to support the construction of desalina-tion facilities along the Pacific Ocean coast. Those facilities will provide California with additional potable water needed now and in the future. Understand that desaliniza-
tion production adds potable water in large volumes need-ed using existing sustainable ‘green technology’.
Americans are also not thankful for the misuse of large amounts of money, aided by that U.S. Supreme Court ‘Citizens United’ deci-sion which permits the ultra-wealthy and corporations to thwart the established demo-cratic decision making pro-cesses which try to do what is right for the greatest number of our nation’s residents. The ‘dark money’ is being used to paralyze the U.S. Congress with the result that too many essential government sup-ported and maintained activi-ties are inadequate. Compre-hensive reforms are needed in the areas of our infrastruc-ture; education and job train-ing access; immigration, and income taxes. The current status of taxes favors those who are already very wealthy.
We cannot be thankful for those who have ownership of American resources. They must remember that they had nothing to do with the natural processes which created crude oil, coal, iron ores, limestone, and excellent farmlands. All these resources must be uti-lized to provide our nation’s residents with the basic es-sentials of life: shelter, food, potable water, clothing, and safety. The challenge of fair distribution of essential goods
and services has not been ad-equately resolved because so many are impoverished by the present ‘for-profit’ capital-istic decision making system. Ownership of resources must be couples with stewardship. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “This world we all reside in has all that all people need, except for the greedy.”
Many Americans are not thankful for the ideologies which proclaim that ‘big gov-ernment’ is the problem. The reality is that corporations and the very wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes which permit government to provide for those who are handicapped, impoverished, and unable to earn a living.
Those who invest in auto-mation, robotics, and systems which eliminate jobs must begin to give some thought to development of a new para-digm which redistributes re-sources needed by residents. All those low paying jobs cre-ated since 1975 have created a very large number of resi-dents who live from paycheck to paycheck, despite educa-tion and training levels. Today there are only two ways for the very wealthy to redistrib-ute resources: a) government taxes and b) charitable altru-ism. Local non-profit organi-zations, such as Sacred Heart Community Center and “Loaves & Fishes” do their best to service the homeless
and needy. Supportive local organizations such as ‘Second Harvest Food Bank” will need to receive more contributions to meet the needs of the im-poverished.
All of us cannot be thank-ful for the impact of those who have extreme ideolo-gies. The Capitalists want no government despite the need for monitoring to prevent abusive excesses. Extreme conservationists need to re-veal their plans. Saying ‘NO’ to all negotiable proposals is what has gridlocked the democratic decision-making process. Extreme ideologies, especially the extremely radi-cal Muslim Jihadists, who are wiling to kill anyone who disagrees with them, does nothing more than begin to destroy our civilization, its societies, its commerce, and its peaceful governance insti-tutions.
Let’s begin to stop being passive and stoic because when enough of those who have no power today, begin to revolt by speaking up; by insisting that others do what is right and respectful, then we will have much more to be thankful for. Divine Provi-dence supports those who make the effort to do what is right. Let’s be thankful that we live in a nation where the weak can speak up and be-come the force that changes things for the better.
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7:00pm $43 - $198
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Plaza de Cesar Chavez Market Street
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Empire Seven Studios 525 N 7th Street
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Santana Row 333 Santana Row
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Dept. of Education
White House and Depart-ment of Labor Launch $100 Million TechHire Grant Competition Including $50 Million for Young Americans
Last week the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, Cabinet Secretary and Chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Broder-ick Johnson, and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, will travel to Baltimore, Mary-land, to announce new steps to advance the President’s TechHire initiative and ex-pand opportunities for young Americans to get trained and placed into well-paying tech jobs. Baltimore is launching
its TechHire initiative to ex-pand pathways into tech jobs to those who have historically been left out of Baltimore’s economy and those who are underrepresented in tech fields.
America has about 5.5 mil-lion open jobs today. Over half a million job openings are in information technology fields such as software devel-opment, network adminis-tration, and cybersecurity—rapidly growing sectors with many more jobs than just a decade ago. Whether in man-ufacturing, advertising, retail or banking, the average salary in a job that requires informa-tion technology (IT) skills is 50 percent higher than the
average private-sector Ameri-can job. Businesses have added 13.5 million jobs over 68 straight months of private-sector job growth, extending the lon-gest streak on record. While this progress is significant, employers are in critical need of tech talent and too many Americans lack the skills and experience to access these well-paying jobs. Over six million young Americans be-tween the ages of 16 and 24 are out of school and work, which represents a significant untapped resource of produc-tivity and talent for the coun-try.
That is why in March 2015, President Obama launched
TechHire, a bold multi-sector effort and call to action to empower Americans with the skills they need, through universities and community colleges, but also nontradi-tional approaches like “coding bootcamps” and high-quality online courses that can rap-idly train workers for a well-paying job, often in just a few months.
Since then, 35 cities, states, and rural areas with more than 500 employer partners in need of this workforce have begun working together to find new ways to recruit and place applicants based on their actual skills and to create more fast-track tech training opportunities. The President has set a goal of reaching more than 40 communities by the end of 2015.
The Administration an-nounced new steps to ensure that Americans, including youth and young adults ages 17-29, individuals with dis-abilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, and individuals with criminal records, get access including:
$100 Million TechHire Grant Competition. Earlier this year, the President announced that as a part of the TechHire ini-tiative, the Administration would commit $100 million to expanding accelerated tech training. Today, the De-partment of Labor (DOL) is releasing the application for those grants. They will award $100 million or more in H-1B
funds, including at least $50 million specifically dedicated to supporting young Ameri-cans, ages 17-29, with barri-ers to training and employ-ment, to partnerships that can rapidly train and connect workers to well-paying, high-growth jobs across industries such as information technolo-gy, health care, and advanced manufacturing. Interested applicants may apply to this opportunity here.
$20 Million Training to Work Grant Competition. Building off the President’s announce-ment from earlier this month of new actions to promote rehabilitation and reintegra-tion for the formerly incarcer-ated, today the Administra-tion is also announcing the launch of the fourth round of DOL’s Training to Work grant competition that will award approximately 14 grants to expand access to tech jobs and other high growth oc-cupations for adults ages 18 and older returning from cor-rectional facilities. Interested applicants may apply to this opportunity here.
14 Cities and States Have Made New Commitments to Expand Access to Tech Training and Jobs Since the Launch. Since the launch of TechHire earlier this year, the President has announced that 14 new communities includ-ing Baltimore have responded to the TechHire initiative with commitments to work with employer partners on new ways to recruit and place ap-
plicants based on their skills, create more accelerated tech training opportunities, and invest in innovative place-ment programs to connect trained workers with entre-preneurial opportunities and well-paying jobs. Today, the City of Baltimore is launching its TechHire initiative with an emphasis on including those who have historically been left out of Baltimore’s economy and those who are underrep-resented in tech fields.
New cities and states that have joined
since March
Akron, OHBaltimore, MD
Birmingham, ALCincinnati, OHLynchburg, VAState of Maine
New Haven, CTNewark, NJ
New Orleans, LAOakland, CAPittsburgh, PARhode IslandSan Jose, CA
Washington, DC
The President’s Agenda to Create Pathways to the Middle-Class through High-Quality, Job-Driven Training. TechHire is part of the Presi-dent’s broader agenda to in-vest in job-driven training for young Americans and others to get into better, well-paying jobs.
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Nathaniel Sillin PRACTICAL MONEY
MATTERS
Stress can come from every-where – career, school, family, relationships, health – and es-pecially money.
The American Psychologi-cal Association (APA) recently reported that money remains the number one stressor for 72 percent of Americans. In fact, money has led the APA’s annu-al stress survey since its debut in 2007, the year before the fi-nancial crash that took the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Great Depression.
Are you financially stressed? Here are 10 major signs of fi-nancial stress and ways to take action.
You wonder if your job is se-cure. Even though the econ-omy has improved in recent years, employers still cut and reassign workers and make occasional adjustments in pay and benefits. If you’ve spotted changes in other departments or news accounts suggest a shift in your industry, start thinking ahead. Action Plan: Build up your emergency fund to cover six months or more of basic living expenses, update your resume and get organized for a potential job search.
There’s no money to save or invest. If meeting basic ex-penses is a struggle and you have no savings or investments at all, it’s time for a serious re-view of where your money is going. Action plan: Making a basic budget is the first step to tracking every penny spent. Figure out extras you can cut and set more aside for savings and debt payoff.
You have disagreements with a spouse or partner about money. A 2013 University of Kansas study noted that ar-guments about money are the top predictor of divorce. Ac-tion plan: Share information about all debt and legal issues and exchange respective credit reports and credit score data
as you plan to solve all money problems together.
You are paying bills late. Late payments can hurt your credit score (http://www.myfico.com). Action plan: Set up a physical or digital calendar to keep track of payment dates and budget in order to put more money toward debt and eventually savings.
You imagine a windfall. Wait-ing for a bonus, an inheritance or even a winning lotto ticket to ease your financial stress indicates you have a tendency toward financial denial. Action plan: If your current efforts at budgeting, saving money or paying off debt aren’t working, consider a reality check with a qualified financial advisor.
You use your home equity like a cash register. Home eq-uity loans or lines of credit can provide an interest-deductible solution for a variety of impor-tant needs, but a down hous-ing market can wipe out your equity. Action plan: Either refinance if you qualify or stop using the line entirely until you can pay down the balance.
You’re considering draw-ing from retirement funds to solve money problems. Think twice before taking out loans against these funds. Interrupt-ing your retirement planning, particularly over the age of 50, can have significant financial consequences. Action plan: Re-budget your finances and seek qualified advice to help you find another solution.
Late and overdraft fees are piling up. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, the average bank overdraft fee is $35; credit card late fees are similar. Action plan: Sched-ule bill payments and opt for online billing when possible to save time on mailing. If you have to pay additional late fees, ask your bank or credit card company if it might forgive the fee; many will remove one fee a year.
You’re late on student loan payments. It is difficult to have student loans (https://studen-taid.ed.gov/sa/) forgiven, can-celled or discharged (eliminat-ed) in bankruptcy if you can’t pay. Paying late can also hurt
your credit score. Action Plan: Seek qualified financial advice that specifically addresses the type of student debt you have and resolve to pay bills on time.
Your accounts are disorga-nized. It’s difficult to reach im-portant financial goals when you really can’t track your finances. Action plan: Get some advice from a trusted friend or a qualified financial professional about how to best organize your accounts and whether online account man-agement may be right for you.
Bottom line: Reducing your financial stress is a healthy decision. Review your money habits and get qualified help if necessary to lessen this burden.
EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 5BUSINESSNOV 27- DEC 03, 2015
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Meryland CuevasLA RED HISPANA
Algunas personas me han preguntado consejos y suger-encias para prepararse mejor al momento de una entrev-ista de trabajo. Les compar-to algunos que conozco por experiencia propia y me han venido muy bien, espero les ayude.
•La primera tarea antes de ir a la entrevista de trabajo es buscar más detalles sobre la empresa a la que has solicita-do empleo, como su función principal, cuánto tiempo ll-evan en el mercado, logros y objetivos etc. Esto es impor-tante porque te ayuda a tener una idea de lo que te pueden preguntar.
•Lleva copias adicionales de tu currículo, siempre lleva un par de copias adicionales en caso de que las necesites.
•Si tienes tarjeta de presen-tación, lleva unas cuantas para que se la dejes a la per-sona. También puedes hacer-las en tu impresora personal.
•Practica las respuestas a las preguntas básicas que podrían hacerse durante una entrevista. Es cierto que po-drían estar algunas a las cu-ales no te sientas preparado, la realidad es que ya existe un proceso diseñado especial-mente para las entrevistas con un cuestionario básico de acuerdo a la empresa.
•En cuanto a la vestimenta y apariencia, es importante to-
mar en consideración el tipo de lugar y trabajo.
•No hable de más, espere a que le pregunten y conteste lo necesario. Tampoco inter-rumpa a su entrevistador.
•Una vez terminada la en-trevista, aclare sus dudas y haga preguntas, es bueno preguntar cuando piensan tomar una decisión sobre la misma y si cómo le avisarían de ser seleccionado o no.
•Siempre despídase cor-dialmente, dele la mano firmemente a la persona y sonría. Diga gracias por el tiempo prestado y déjele sa-ber una vez más que estará esperando una notificación favorable sobre su entrevista.
•Este último dato me ha funcionado de maravilla: Pida una tarjeta de presen-tación a su entrevistador, si no tiene, entonces anote su email y su número de telé-fono. Al día siguiente envié una carta de agradecimiento por la entrevista.
Espero que estos consejos le sean prácticos y le ayuden a maximizar sus oportuni-dades de conseguir una bue-na entrevista. Recuerde que la primera impresión cuenta mucho, así que llegue con seguridad y demuéstrelo du-rante todo el proceso, confíe en usted.
Para más consejos de Mery-land Cuevas, visite <mery-landcuevas.com> y <LaRed-Hispana>.
EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com6 HEALTH NOV 27- DEC 03, 2015
Qué Quién Adónde Cuándo
Audiencia y aprobación de la Enmienda Substancial al AF 2015-2016 del HCDC
Comisión del Desarrollo de Viviendas y Comunidad
Alcaldía de San José 200 E. Santa Clara St. Room W – 118, 119 (Wing)
Noviembre 12, 2015 5:45 p.m. (Completo)
Audiencia y aprobación de la Enmienda Substancial al AF 2015-2016 del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad
Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de San José
Alcaldía de San José 200 E. Santa Clara Street Cámara del Ayuntamiento
Diciembre 15, 2015 1:30 p.m. (originalmente para diciembre 1, 2015)
ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN PROVEE UN HORARIO REVISADO DE AUDIENCIAS Y OPORTUNIDADES PARA COMENTARIOS PÚBLICOS SOBRE LA ENMIENDA SUBSTANCIAL AL PLAN DE ACCIÓN ANUAL
PARA EL AÑO FISCAL 2015-2016 DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE VIVIENDAS DE LA CIUDAD DE SAN JOSÉ.
La Ciudad previamente publicó una notificación de audiencias para la Enmienda Substancial el 31 de octubre, 2015. La notificación anunció la audiencia del Ayun-tamiento de la Ciudad que se llevará a cabo el 1 de diciembre, 2015. La fecha de la audiencia en el Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad ha sido pospuesta del 1 de diciembre, 2015 al 15 de diciembre, 2015.. Todas las demás fechas e información publicadas se mantendrán vigentes.
El Plan de Acción Anual (AAP) delinea las necesidades de viviendas y desarrollo de la comunidad de la Ciudad, y provee un plan de acción de un año para cómo la Ciudad intenta usar sus fondos federales para cubrir esas necesidades. La En-mienda Substancial propuesta haría los siguientes cambios al Plan de Acción An-ual del AF 2015-16: (1) Agregar fondos del Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) a las siguientes actividades para asegurar la finalización del proyecto: Instalación de la Estructura Educare Play, Rehabilitación del Edificio Head Start del que fue el Vecindario Santee, Rehabilitación del Recovery Café; (2) Asignar fondos para Soluciones de Emergencia (ESG) Fondos que no se usaron en años fiscales anteriores para apoyar servicios para familias e individuos indigentes; (3) Hacer un ajuste administrativo para financiar las actividades del San Jose Streets Team parcialmente del proyecto de Services para la Población sin Viviendas. Si a usted le gustaría hacer comentarios, la Ciudad lo invita a atender la reunión del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad el 15 de diciembre, 2015. Adicionalmente, los comentarios se pueden hacer por teléfono, correo regular, o correo electrónico vía la información de contacto listada al final de esta notificación para ambos, quienes hablan inglés y aquellos con limitaciones en el idioma inglés.
Horario de Audiencias para Comentarios Públicos sobre la Enmienda Substancial al Plan de Acción Anual del AF 2015-16
INFORMACIÓN DE CONTACTO: Para preguntas sobre la Enmienda Sub-stancial del AAP, por favor contáctese con James Stagi al 408-535-8238 o [email protected]. Los comentarios públicos se pueden someter en forma de declaraciones hechas en las audiencias listadas arriba, en escrito dirigidas al De-partamento de Viviendas de la Ciudad de San José, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, 12th Floor, San José, California 95113, o enviados vía correo electrónico a la dirección de email listada arriba. Para solicitar accommodations para cualquiera de las au-diencias o un formato alternativo para cualquiera de los materiales impresos por favor llame al (408) 294-9337 (TTY) lo más pronto posible, pero por lo menos tres días hábiles antes de la audiencia. Todas las audiencias públicas son accesibles para las personas con impedimentos de movilidad.
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ACCIÓN ANUAL PARA EL AÑO FISCAL 2015-2016
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If you experience joint discomfort, you’re not alone. No matter how active you are, joint prob-lems are one of the most common reasons for doctor’s visits and will affect most of us as we age. Registered Dietitian & Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Marie Spano says there is a lot you can do to help yourself, begin-ning with a healthy diet.
“What you eat can have a big impact on joint inflammation, cartilage breakdown and bone formation,” says Spano. “There are many foods that not only help, but are also delicious and easy to find.”
At the top of Spano’s joint-friendly grocery list are fatty fish, including salmon, herring and an-chovies. They contain the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which have anti-inflammatory effects.
Another way to feed your joints is to take a high-quality glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate supplement. Together, these have been shown to limit the activity of enzymes which can break down healthy cartilage. “To help support
your joint health, I recommend CosaminDS, which is the most researched glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate supplement on the market. It contains high-quality ingredients and a spe-cific formulation shown in peer-reviewed stud-ies to be effective for joint health management.” Spano cautions that not all supplements are cre-ated equally. “Be an informed consumer. Look for supplements like Cosamin that are backed by clinical research and certified by an independent third-party organization.”
A balanced exercise routine also helps by main-taining joint mobility and assisting with weight control. Obesity can lead to a greater risk of joint issues. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two in three people who are obese may develop symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Even a loss of one or two pounds may feel more like 10 pounds to your joints.
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INGREDIENTES
1 asado de cerdo con hueso (espaldilla/hombro), 4 ½ libras ¼ taza salsa asiática de chile rojo picante, como Sriracha, y adicional
para servir ½ taza salsa vietnamita o tailandesa de chile dulce con ajo*, y adicional
para servir 16-20 hojas de lechuga (estilo Bibb o Butter)
½ taza zanahorias estilo matchstick
INFORMACIÓN NUTRICIONAL
Calorías: 430 Proteína: 38 gramos
Grasa: 25 gramos Sodio: 300 miligramos
Colesterol: 125 miligramos Grasa Saturada: 8 gramos Carbohidratos: 9 gramos
Fibra: 1 gramo
Utilizando un cuchillo delgado y afilado, haz cortes superficiales trans-versales o cruzados de aproximadamente ½ pulgada de profundidad, con una separación de 1 pulgada, en la superficie de toda la pieza del cerdo. Coloca el cerdo sobre la parrilla de un molde para asar (si estás usando aluminio, usa dos moldes, uno encima de otro). Rocía la salsa picante sobre el todo cerdo, volteando con pinzas para evitar tocar la salsa. Agrega ½ taza de agua al molde o bandeja de asar.
Prepara el asador a un fuego medio indirecto (cerca de 350 grados F).
Coloca el molde con el cerdo sobre el asador a fuego indirecto. Tapa el asador y cocina, volteando el cerdo después de 45 minutos, asando hasta que el cerdo empiece a dorarse, 1 ½ horas.
Cubre el molde o bandeja y el cerdo con papel aluminio. Sigue coci-nando, con el asador tapado, manteniendo la misma temperatura durante 2 horas. Retira y desecha el papel aluminio. Sigue cocinando con el asador tapado, voltea el cerdo después de 30 minutos, hasta que el cerdo quede tierno y dorado por fuera, cerca de 1 hora. Retira el molde con el cerdo del asador. Cúbrelo de nuevo con aluminio y déjalo reposar durante 30 minutos.
Transfiere el cerdo a una tabla para cortar. Vierte los jugos del molde en un recipiente y remueve la grasa. Utiliza dos tenedores para deshebrar la carne en bocaditos. Transfiérelos al recipiente y mójalos con ¼ a ½ taza de los jugos del molde para asar. Para cada taquito, agrega cerdo a una hoja de lechuga y cúbrelo con un poco de zanahorias y salsa vietnamita. Sírvelo con salsa picante adicional. SUGERENCIAS PARA SERVIR
Sirve los taquitos con arroz cocido caliente y vegetales asiáticos a la plan-cha, como espárragos con jengibre fresco. *Como substituto a la salsa, combina ½ taza de conservas de melocotones, ¼ de cucharadita de ho-juelas de pimienta roja y un diente de ajo picadito en un bol pequeño.
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Don’t give your morning routine short shrift; it may be more impor-
tant than you think.
If your routine seems well...routine, it may be time to put some zest in the everyday steps you take to look and feel your best. Here, four lifestyle bloggers offer tips for doing just that.
Get FreshDiscover what it is that you need to walk out your door alert and with confidence. For some, it’s a jolt of caffeine, for others it’s smelling great after a morning shower.
“What do I love more than knowing I smell good? Being told I smell good,” says Jenny Ingram, the family and lifestyle blogger behind Jenny on the Spot. “Starting out the day clean is like starting out with a fresh canvas.”
She recommends layering scents for your own signature fragrance, start-ing with your body wash.
Change It UpYour routine should work for you, but that doesn’t mean it can’t change from day to day, based on your mood or the aspect of your person-ality that feels most empowered that day.
“A women’s beauty routine is as unique as she is,” says Angela Peters of the blog Hairspray and High-
heels, who was recently challenged by Herbal Essences to try out each of the scents in their body wash col-lection as part of their #ScentGoals campaign.
Give Yourself TimeCan’t resist the snooze button? You may be doing yourself a disservice. Feeling rushed in the morning can set the vibe for the entire day and lower your overall productivity.
“I like to wake up early and take things slow so I can focus on every-thing I need to get done that day,” says Oliva Rink of the Lovely Little Style blog. “I turn on my go-to Spo-tify playlist, light my favorite candle and take time putting on my make-up, doing my hair and going through emails.”
Stay EnergizedFragrance can be powerful and the right scent can recharge and refresh your mood.
“Keeping cool cleansers on rotation in my shower will get me through the dead of winter and keep me ener-gized and smelling sensational,” says lifestyle and fitness blogger Christine Bibbo Herr of NYC Pretty.
If you are “not a morning person,” it may be time to give your routine a makeover. Take time to uncover the personal habits that make you look good, feel great and smell phenom-enal.
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How a transitional school for deaf
or hard of hearing children
is changing what we think
about cognitive development
Arturo HilarioEL OBSERVADOR
Nestled in Redwood City is the sound of hope.
For 48 years, The Wein-garten Children’s Center (WCC) has provided servic-es to deaf or hard of hearing children in an effort to help them achieve whatever their goals in this world may be.
From infancy to kinder-garten, the WCC diagno-ses, educates and offers the best support services for children with cognitive de-
velopment issues. The cen-ter has its own audiology center, where they manage all of their equipment. It in-cludes a soundproof booth, and calibrated equipment to check all the hearing aids and cochlear implants. A new state of the art multi-sensory environment room, affectionately titled the “bubble room” by the chil-dren, boasts auditory, tac-tile, vestibular, and move-ment stimulation tools.
The cochlear implants that many of the children at WCC have are small round-ed devices that are implant-ed in the children’s head, close to the ear. Within the implant are two nodes that transmit data into the brain as electrical impulses. “They’re wearing a small computer,” says the center’s
Executive Director Kath-leen Sussman. “The exter-nal hardware is something that they upgrade all the time. (It) fits into a com-puter and audiologists can read all the different maps of each of these.”
Each implant is custom set for each child and a safety mechanism prevents loud sounds from hurting. The data collected from these devices allows speech thera-pists to work with the audi-ologists, who keeps track of all of the children’s respons-es to sounds.
The importance of reach-ing deaf or hard of hear-ing children at this age is stressed by Jessica Chang Greenman, an Alumni Par-ent and current Develop-ment Coordinator at WCC.
“It’s (Deafness) not some-thing that can be reversed, they can’t be taught to speak later in the same effi-cacy. We need to capture the years in its infancy, when it has its most impact. That’s what we try to do here. It’s a very intense program that we have here, but there’s a reason we do it. Our chil-dren are graduating earlier and earlier.”
The parents, many who are not being charged for the services at WCC, come from as far as Vallejo and Gilroy. A mix of grants and fundraising allows parents to afford these services. Amazingly, not a single family has ever been turned away for lack of funds. “We have subsidized, we have raised funds for the fami-lies. That’s why a lot of the
families are willing to chip in any way they can. We have probably have some of the best teachers that specialize in deaf or hard of hearing children and speech therapists that work with implanted children,” says Greenman.
BabyTalk
Patricia Gómez, the sole bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist with the Ba-byTalk program at WCC, strives to connect with her families and ultimately have these families help their own child’s develop-ment. Gómez was the first therapist with the BabyTalk program, and now 4 years later more than 30 babies participate.
Gómez’s own nephew went through the services at WCC and ultimately in-fluenced her decision to change her major as an un-dergrad. “I think I was des-tined to do this but that’s how I came and I fell in love with what they were doing at the center.”
BabyTalk’s iPad-streamed therapy sessions with par-ents and children allow for mobility, and the connec-tion to Pathologists like Gómez, at an instants no-tice. The 45-minute to an hour session a week enables flexibility for these families. Additionally, the iPad and prepaid internet connec-tion also come at no cost to families.
Through her teletherapy
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sessions she has become a lifeline to the families with deaf or hard of hearing ba-bies. “I build such a rap-port with them that they don’t hesitate to call me for anything. There’s limited resources out there some-times for this population and I feel like I have to be there for them.”
Using an example of a previously recorded par-ent, using her iPads’ Face Time program to conduct a speech therapy session with Gómez, it’s easy to see how this system benefits the schedule of the parents.
“We had just had been talking for weeks on how to use your daily routines to make sure we have lan-guage input.” The parent, Floriana, is an immigrant from Oaxaca, her first lan-guage is Triqui, a language native to Oaxaca. The vid-eos provide valuable insight and information on tele-therapy sessions, and are used to gauge participants needs and progress.
These interactions are organic as can be through technology. The feedback and multiple support chan-nels that WCC and the its BabyTalk program prove that teletherapy is an inge-nious tool to help children learn to communicate and speak.
“That’s really the beauty of this program. We have a team to get them the help they need,” says Gómez, re-ferring to the ability to con-
nect parents to social work-ers, doctors and surgeons that are affiliated with the center.
With some parents who are migrant farm work-ers, the therapy times can be challenging although the center provides letters to the employers to allow even one day of parent/child therapy sessions. “It’s a huge financial burden for these families but they know how important it is to do this at this age.”
In terms of the BabyTalk efficacy, Gómez definitely champions it, as long as the parents are willing to put in the effort with their child. “To see the results that I’m getting, I really see the par-ent as the client. We’re do-ing this for the child but its a lot of transitions and a lot of themselves, their own journey and really under-standing that they have a lot of power and they have so much to give.”
Growing Up, Listening More
Once the children are old enough they can transi-tion to the Preschool and Kindergarten classrooms at WCC, which focus on ex-panding how children com-municate and interact with the world. Greenman says that much like glasses, “we educate our children here to just realize that (an implant and hearing aid) is just sim-ply another piece of tech-nology that allows you to hear, access another sense.”
Greenman notices that in such a short time, from when her own daugh-ter went and graduated through the WCC, tech-nology has gotten closer to equalizing the oppor-tunities that deaf or hard of hearing children have. “It’s becoming more com-monplace because of the success rate we’ve had but in some ways its almost ironic that because of the success we’ve had most of society doesn’t realize they exist because they’re speak-ing beautifully, integrating into society, (becoming) productive members of society and so forth. It’s a very interesting phenom-enon that’s going on right now. So we are very proud of that. It’s this little place right here.”
Sophia
Luis Vargas, a resident of South San Jose, was dev-astated to hear that his daughter Sophia was born deaf in both ears almost 5 years ago. “It’s hard to de-scribe the feeling, it just felt like the worst news you can receive. It was our first daughter, and for nine whole months you had ba-sically planned this life of hope for her and goals for her and the fact that they said that, it just erased ev-erything and put us on a whole different path.”
After the shock had set-tled, he and his wife Yese-nia sought all the resources they could to help their daughter. “The hospital
started providing informa-tion, programs that could help, and that opened up the door to where to start off.”
“(Yesenia) had already had appointments, already spoke to districts, that was her main focus, our daugh-ter. She basically put her whole life on hold.” She and Luis eventually found out about the Weingarten Chil-dren’s Center through this researching of options.
“This school focused on that, on having the kids learn to speak and com-municate. We decided right there and then that that’s what we wanted,” says Vargas. “We felt that speech was very important, it’s the way we communi-cate, it;s the foundation
for anything, the reason we make buildings, the reason we build roads. Because we talk to each other. If we didn’t give that to our daughter what life would she have?”
So from that point on, for 4 years (Sophia will turn 5 in March) Yesenia took So-phia to WCC while Vargas, the sole provider, worked 60+ hours a week with one day dedicated to going up to Redwood City from San Jose to help out at the cen-ter, and watch his daughter blossom with communica-tion skills.
“She did have a chance at getting implanted and someday be able to look at us and say ‘I love you mom’ or ‘I love you dad’, and that’s the only thing
we wanted to hear. And now, she says it all the time. There’s no price on that.”
Looking back and think-ing about how the Wein-garten Children’s Center has affected his family’s lives, Vargas thinks back to the moment at the hospital when he found out about Sophia’s condition; the plans and goals he and his wife had for their daughter. “We’re back on track. We have a whole set of goals, she can do anything now. She’s just a girl with an im-plant, just like any kid with glasses.”
More info about the We-ingarten Children’s Center, its BabyTalk program, as well as other resources can be found at www.listen-speaklearn.org.
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Fantasy of Lights Ticketing Goes Online!
New this year...long car lines may magically disappear for one of Santa Clara County’s pre-mier holiday events, Fantasy of Lights! Santa Clara County Parks is introducing for the first time a pre-paid ticketing and reservation sys-tem with the convenience of buying tickets online. The event now in its’ 17th year, will allow visitors to pre-select the exact day and time they choose to see the wondrous event from the comfort of their own car. Visitors can also choose to buy their tickets in person at Parks Administration Office during regular business hours but tickets must be purchased in advance in order to enter the park.
The 17th annual Fantasy of Lights Drive-thru, a spectacular 1.5-mile drive-thru holi-day light show at Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos will open nightly, December 6 – December 31, 2015 from 6 pm to 10 pm. From the warmth of your vehicle, your senses will be dazzled by thousands of twinkling lights in large animated displays while listen-ing to your favorite holiday music. The sights and sounds of an erupting volcano in the dangerously fun dinosaur den, Santa shoot-ing hoops, a pen of playful penguins, blazing
cannons, a tunnel of moving lights, and a 90-foot twinkling tree will have you “oohing and aahing” throughout your ride. Visitors will see all this and so much more! Enjoy a free pair of 3D glasses with the event program, while supplies last! Vehicle pricing is $20 up to 12 people.
The 3rd annual Fantasy of Lights Walk-thru Night kicks off the show on Saturday, De-cember 5, ONE NIGHT ONLY from 4pm – 9pm. This is your chance to walk the event, visit with Santa, enjoy international food & beverages by Moveable Feast, meet 94.5 KBAY’s Jona Denz-Hamilton and enjoy the Holiday Fun Photo Booth! Free parking and a FREE shuttle from Netflix at 121 Albright Way is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Sorry there is no parking at Vasona. Tickets are $6 per person, ages 4 and up. Again, PRE-PAID TICKETS are highly recommended and may be purchased online or in person at Parks Ad-ministration Office.
Vasona Lake County Park is located at 333 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95037. For directions, ticketing and more information visit www.parkhere.org or call (408) 355-2201.
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Participe con nosotros en un Foro informativo de MedicareEs posible que Medicare no sea muy claro, así que aquí estamos nosotros para simplificar las cosas. Lo invitamos a que obtenga información sobre cuáles son sus opciones de Medicare.
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*Esta presentación se realizará en solamente en español. Un representante de ventas estará a su disposición para proporcionar información y solicitudes de inscripción. Las personas con necesidades especiales que deseen asistir a las reuniones de ventas deben llamar al 1-877-211-6614 (los usuarios de TTY/TDD deben llamar al 711), de 8:00 a. m. a 8:00 p. m., los 7 días de la semana.
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Modificaciones al Programa de tarifas de VTA válidas a partir de enero de 2016
¿Cuándo cambiarán los pases de un día Day Pass?A partir del 1 de enero de 2016, los pases de un día Day Pass estarán general y únicamente disponibles a los pasajeros que usen Clipper®; los pasajeros ya no podrán comprar el pase de un día Day Pass en la caja de cobro del autobús o en las máquinas expendedoras de boletos del tranvía.
Los pases de un día Day Pass de papel continuarán siendo expedidos sólamente a aquellos pasajeros que usen fichas para el pase de un día Day Pass distribuidas a través de agencias públicas y de servicios sociales.
¿Qué es Clipper®?Clipper es la tarjeta que se utiliza para todos los servicios de transporte público en el Área de la Bahía. Además de VTA, las agencias de transporte público que aceptan la tarjeta Clipper incluyen a BART, CalTrain, AC Transit, Muni y otras. Para una lista completa, diríjase a www.ClipperCard.com
¿Dónde puedo obtener una tarjeta Clipper Card?Durante un periodo de tiempo limitado y mientras que dure el inventario, un número limitado de tarjetas Clipper será distribuido sin cargo alguno durante las Actividades de extensión a la comunidad Community Outreach de VTA en varias ciudades y en el Centro de Servicio de VTA en el centro de San José (VTA Downtown Customer Service Center) y en el lobby de la oficina administrativa de River Oaks.
Asimismo, los pasajeros pueden comprar una tarjeta Clipper en:• El lobby de la oficina administrativa de VTA en River Oaks 3331 N. First St., San José 95134• El Centro de Servicio de VTA en el centro (VTA Downtown Customer Service Center) 55 W. Santa Clara St., San José 95113• La mayoría de las tiendas Walgreens – llame a su tienda local de Walgreens en el Área de la Bahía para confirmar• Otras tiendas – visite www.ClipperCard.com para obtener una lista completa
¿Cómo trabaja la función acumuladora (Accumulator) de la tarjeta Clipper?Las tarifas de un usuario de Clipper se acumularán durante ese día hasta llegar a la cantidad correspondiente a la del pase de un día Day Pass; una vez que alcance esa cantidad, el usuario de Clipper puede continuar haciendo recorridos sin cargos adicionales de tarifa por el resto del día.Cuando se tiene el límite diario de tarifas, se elimina la necesidad de llegar a una máquina expendedora de boletos o de poner dinero en la caja de cobro en el autobús. Sólo toque su tarjeta Clipper en el lector cada vez que haga un recorrido.
¿Dónde puedo obtener información adicional?Visite www.VTA.org/Clipper.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cali-fornians planning for retire-ment and wondering what the best age may be to start receiving Social Security may want to wait a few additional years, according to experts, who say waiting can pay off in a big way.
Americans are able to begin receiving Social Security ben-efits at 62, but those benefits will be permanently reduced for each year they are taken before age 66.
Kristen Arnold, income secu-rity policy analyst at the Na-tional Academy for Social In-surance, says a majority of se-
niors in the Golden State are shortchanging themselves.
“More than 66 percent of beneficiaries in California have their monthly benefits reduced due to taking Social Security early,” she says. “Peo-ple are leaving money on the table.”
Of course, many simply can’t afford to wait because of poor health, a job loss or lack of adequate savings, in which case Arnold says they should start claiming benefits. But those who can wait until age 66 receive their full benefits, indefinitely - and those who can afford to hold off until age 70 will see a substantial jump in benefits.
Arnold says the monthly check can be worth up to 76
percent more than it would have been had they taken the money at age 62.
“If you’re working, you don’t have to take Social Security,” she says. “You can wait and, for each year you wait, your monthly benefits will increase by eight percent. And that monthly increase in benefits lasts for as long as you live.”
Arnold adds that Californians shouldn’t take benefits early out of fear that Social Security might run out of money. It is fully funded for the next 20 years, and 75 percent funded after that.
The National Academy for Social Insurance offers an online toolkit to help older Americans make the Social Security decision.
Superior Court and Coun-ty of Santa Clara Raise
Awareness about the Need for Adoptive Parents
SANTA CLARA COUNTY,
CALIF.-- This past Friday the Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara and the Santa Clara County Social Services Agency joined together in celebration of Na-tional Adoption Day, by help-ing to place 19 children into 16 permanent homes. The goal of the event is to increase public awareness of the need for adoptive parents, to edu-cate would-be parents about the adoptive process, and to celebrate the local families who have opened their lives to children in need of perma-nent homes.
“The finalizing of a child’s
adoption is a profound mo-ment that forever changes the lives of a family and the com-munity,” said Presiding Judge, Hon. Risë Jones Pichon. “As we begin this holiday season, sixteen newly formed families will have something to be im-measurably thankful for this
year. All of us at the Court are pleased and privileged to be a part of this joyful experience.”
A total of eight Santa Clara county Superior Court judg-es, with help from Superior Court and Santa Clara Coun-ty Department of Family and Children’s Services staff, will expedite the processing and finalizing of 19 local adop-tions when they turn the Downtown Courthouse into “Adoption Central.”
“Adoptions can make fami-lies stronger and happier,” said President Dave Cortese, County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors. “They offer an opportunity for a child and a parent to make each other’s
lives more meaningful and fulfilling.”
According to the U.S. De-partment of Health and Human Services, there are approximately 402,378 chil-dren in the foster care system with more than 100,000 of them awaiting forever homes. These children enter foster care as a result of abuse, ne-glect and/or abandonment. The average child has to wait nearly four years for an adop-tive family. Nearly 13 percent (13,217 children) spend 5 years or more waiting for a family. The average age of children waiting for an adop-tive family is 8 years old. In the past 53 years, Santa Clara County has processed more
than 8,000 adoptions. Last year, the County’s Depart-ment of Family and Children’s Services finalized 145 adop-tions.
“This event inspires all of us to promote and support adoption by celebrating the creation of these new fami-lies,” said Santa Clara County Social Services Agency Direc-tor Robert Menicocci. “As noted in this year’s national campaign, ‘We Never Out-grow the Need for Fam-ily.’ The adoptions that we are honoring today provide these children the safe, loving, nur-turing, accepting and consis-tent families that all children deserve.”
It pays to wait to take Social Security, but many older Americans don’t realize just how much it pays to wait. Credit: Kameleon/iS-tockphoto.com.
Hilbert MoralesEL OBSERVADOR
SJPD Chief Larry Esquivel was introduced by SJPD Depu-ty Chief Eddie Garcia as the ‘guest speaker’ for the La Raza Roundtable monthly meeting of November 20, 2015 held at ConXion to Community (formerly CTC), 749 Story Road, San Jose, CA 95122.
Deputy Chief Eddie Garcia summarized years of personal friendship and professional association with Chief Esquivel, whose family resides in East San Jose. The Chief is a local resident who will leave the SJPD after 30 years of service, to become Police Chief of Tracy, California, a nearby San Joaquin Valley community only one hour away. Garcia told the audi-ence, estimated at 50 community members, that as a teenager, Larry Esquivel’s passion was ‘to be a cop who got the bad guys’. He thanked Chief Esquivel for being an excellent mentor, for providing a comprehensive ‘play book’ which made his job as Deputy Police Chief much easier, and for being a very good friend and role model who has prepared him for the opportu-nity of being ‘interim SJPD Chief ’.
Chief Larry Esquivel related in summary from several beliefs which he had developed as a youth from the ‘East Side Hood’. He had parents who, by their life-styles conveyed a commit-ment to working hard while providing the essential support. Larry was able to be a volunteer, to take advantage of ‘rides with police’ which familiarized him with their public safety vocation. He is committed to doing what is possible to pro-vide mentors, role models, and opportunities to San Jose’s
youth, especially those from the East Side San Jose Commu-nity where he grew up and his family still resides. He became a teenage parent who attended night schools to acquire his college education after graduation from high school and does have a Master’s Degree. He climbed the police career ladder once he was hired and successfully completed the required Po-lice Academy training. His approach was “I want to be the best police Officer I can be so I can have opportunities to make de-sired changes.” Earlier today the Police Academy had a gradu-ation of a new group of police rookies who will continue to undergo ‘on the job’ training.
As a progressive, Esquivel guided the development of poli-cies and procedures for the body-worn cameras (BWC) which the SJPD will soon deploy. His attitude was “This is a coming technology which we will need, so let’s not resist it; rather, let’s be in on its acceptance so that we, the police, may influence how this video technology will be used. As a member of the San Jose Independent Police Auditor’s Community Advisory Committee over the past six years, I can testify to the on-going deliberations which happened between the SJ-IPA and Chief Esquivel, an excellent negotiator who gave as much as he got.
Chief Esquivel presided over a police force which numbered about 760 sworn officers during a time when the normal complement of 1,500 had been depleted by contract and re-tirement funding issuesl used by many to resign and go else-where. Creative retention efforts and redeployment of remain-ing police force were instrumental in maintaining community safety and security.
LRRT Chair Victor Garza thanked Chief Esquivel for chang-ing the policies used at vehicle check points. Undocumented (unlicensed) individual’s vehicles were no longer impounded. A time period was allowed which enabled a licensed driver to recover the vehicle. Hilbert Morales thanked Chief Esquivel for extending an interview by EO’s journalism intern (Cin-thia Rodriquez, Fresno). Mariachi Mundial de Juan Reyes performed during the celebration that followed. Food and re-freshments were provided by Jose Melendez’s Liquid Refresh-ments & Lounge.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV288317Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ngoc Ly. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Ngoc Ly, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Ngoc Ly to Fiona Ly. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated be-low to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 01/26/15 at 8:45 am, Probate 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. November 20, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior Court November 27; December 4, 11, 18, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV288365Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bita Gorji-Ara and Mohammad Hos-sein Reshadi. TO ALL IN-TERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that peti-tioners, Bita Gorji-Ara and Mohammad Hossein Re-shadi, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Bita Gorji-Ara to Bita Gorjiara b. Moham-mad Hossein Reshadi to Mehrdad Reshadi . THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/26/15 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.
November 23, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior Court November 27; December 4, 11, 18, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV286607Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Cristina Mauricio Silva. TO ALL IN-TERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that peti-tioner, Cristina Mauricio Silva, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Cristina Mau-ricio Silva to Cristina Silva Mauricio. THE COURT ORDERS that all per-sons interested in this matter a appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 12/29/15 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. October 07, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior Court November 27; December 4, 11, 18, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 611417The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Roy-al Shaving Parlor 227 N. Santa Cruz Ave Los Ga-tos, CA 95030 Santa Clara County, Dino Masouris 227 N. Santa Cruz Ave Los Gatos, CA 95030. This business is conducted by an individual; registrants have not begun transact-ing 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 in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Dino MasourisNovember 27; December 4, 11, 18, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/23/15
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287757Superior Court of Cali-
fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Mayu Ishii. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner Mayu Ishii has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a de-cree changing names as follows: a Kaito Luke Hara-ta to Luke Kaito Ishii. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 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. November 5, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 20, 27; De-cember 4, 11, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287891Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Zhiwen Zhao. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner Zhiwen Zhao has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a Zhiwen Zhao to Gabriel Zhiwen Zhao Chiu. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 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. November 10, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 20, 27; De-cember 4, 11, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV288146
Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Lam Anh T Huynh and An Anh Huynh. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioners Lam Anh T Huynh and An Anh Huynh have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a Lam Anh T Huynh to Ann Lam b. An Anh Huynh to Andre Huynh . THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 12/29/15 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. November 16, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 20, 27; De-cember 4, 11, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV288192Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ngoc Hanh T Vu A.k.a Ngoc Hanh Thi Vu . TO ALL INTEREST-ED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner Ngoc Hanh T Vu A.k.a Ngoc Hanh Thi Vu has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a Ngoc Hanh T Vu A.k.a Ngoc Hanh Thi Vu to Hanh ngoc-Vu Nguyen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/19/15 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. November 17, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 20, 27; De-
cember 4, 11, 2015ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF
NAMENO. 115CV286689
Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Susan Thoum and Nyan Nelson . TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioners Su-san Thoum and Nyan Nelson have filed a peti-tion for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Nyan Isaac Nelson-Thoum Jr to Nyan Methuselah Nelson Jr. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear be-fore this court at the hear-ing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be grant-ed on 12/29/15 at 8:45 am, Probate 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 suc-cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. October 9, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 20, 27; De-cember 4, 11, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 610420The following person(s) is (are) doing business, MY CHE 5663 Snell Ave San Jose, CA 95123 Santa Clara County. Bich Thuy Tran Dinh 510 Saddle Brook Dr Spc 22 San Jose, CA 95136 This business is conducted by an individual; registrants has not begun transact-ing 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 in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Bich Thuy Tran Dinh November 20, 27; De-cember 4, 11, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/23/15FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENTNO. 611016
The following person(s) is (are) doing business, La Mejor Taqueria 2003 Story Rd # 975 San Jose, CA 95122 Santa Clara Coun-ty. Juvenal Lombera Pu-lido 2255 Euclid ave East Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by
an individual; registrants have begun transact-ing business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 10/10/15 “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.)Juvenal Lombera Pulido November 20, 27; Decem-ber 4, 11, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/12/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 611118The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Sepanta 5544 Muir Dr. San Jose, CA 95124 Santa Clara County. Seyedbenhnam Koohzod 5544 Muir Dr. San Jose, CA 95124 This business is conducted by an indi-vidual; registrants have begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 11/13/15 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Seyedbenhnam Koohzod November 20, 27; Decem-ber 4, 11, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/13/1
Statement of Abandon-ment
of Use of Fictitious Busi-ness NameNO. 610809
The following person/entity has abandoned the use of the fictitious business names: Ayni Law Group 28 N. First St., Suite 301 San Jose, CA 95113, Santa Clara Co. Mei F. Chen 669 N. Capitol Ave San Jose, CA 95133. This business was conducted by an individual and was filed in Santa Clara County on 07/08/2014 under file no. 594007Juan EncarnacionNovember 20, 27; Decem-ber 4, 11, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/05/2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287795Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Marcelion Perez Rojo and Claudia Hernandez. TO ALL IN-TERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that peti-tioners Marcelion Perez Rojo and Claudia Her-nandez have filed a peti-
tion for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Miria Hernandez Perez to Miria Perez Hernandez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/19/15 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. November 6, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 13, 20, 27; December 4, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287861Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kuan Wei Chen and Yan Lin. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS: The court finds that petitioners Kuan Wei Chen and Yan Lin, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as fol-lows: a Erwin Lin Chen to Erwin Chen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/19/15 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. November 6, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 13, 20, 27; December 4, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 610889The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Mex-tamale Foods 2003 Story Rd # 100 San Jose, CA 95122 Santa Clara Coun-ty. Alejandro Arreola 637 N. 2nd St San Jose, CA
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EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 15LEGAL CLASSIFIEDS95112 and Celia Madriz 2312 Mt. Pleasant Rd San Jose, CA 95148. This business is conducted by general partnership; reg-istrants have begun trans-acting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 11/09/12 “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.)Celia MadrizGeneral Partner November 13, 20, 27; De-cember 4, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/09/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 610820The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Taco El Molcajete 374 Jerome St San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. Jesus Jacuinde 374 Jerome St. San Jose, CA 95125. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun transacting business under the ficti-tious business name or names listed hereon, 08/15/2015 “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.)Jesus JacuindeNovember 13, 20, 27; De-cember 4, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/05/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 610912The following person(s) is (are) doing business, The Fernandez Group 5655 Silver Creek Val-ley Rd #800 San Jose, CA 95138, Santa Clara County. Perry Fernandez 2863 Buena Crest Ct. San Jose, CA 95121. This busi-ness is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 10/26/2005 “I declare that all informa-tion in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Perry Fernandez November 13, 20, 27; De-cember 4, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/09/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 610980The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Fit 36 Silicon Valley 1019
Pennington Ln. Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. Lynergy Company 1019 Pennington Ln Cu-pertino, CA 95014. This business is conducted by a corporation; registrant has not begun transact-ing 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 in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Perry Fernandez November 13, 20, 27; De-cember 4, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 11/10/15
Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Robert J. Zipse, JR. No. 115PR177491
A Petition for Probate has been filed by Robert Cas-taneda in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. The peti-tion requests that Robert Castaneda be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent, Robert J. Zipse, JR. The petition re-quests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be ad-mitted to probate. The will and any codicils are avail-able for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests author-ity to administer the estate under the Independent Ad-ministration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representa-tive to take any actions without obtaining court ap-proval. Before taking cer-tain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be re-quired to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hear-ing on the petition will be held in this court as fol-lows: 12/21/2015/2015 at 9:30am, Dept. 10, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your at-torney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representa-tive appointed by the court
within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general per-sonal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowl-edgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person inter-ested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Spe-cial Notice form is avail-able from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner: Jennifer E. Ramirez1299 Del Mar AvenueSan Jose, CA 95128
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287523Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Seungryul Choi and Jiyoun Chun. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioners, Seungryul Choi and Jiyoun Chun, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as fol-lows: a Andrew Choi to Andrew Jaehyung Choi b. Claire Choi to Claire Jaehee Choi. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 at 8:45 am, Probate 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. October 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287702Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Be Thi Nguyen. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Be Thi Nguyen, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a Be Thi Nguyen to Bekki Br Nguyen b. Alan Soundara to Alan Nguyen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 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. November 04, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV285213Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Abraham Eli Gonzales. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Elydia Sanchez, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a. Abraham Eli Gonzales to Eli Sanchez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 12/01/15 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 3, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV286629Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Faiza Omar. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Faiza Omar, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Faiza Omar to Faiza Farooq Omar. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear be-fore this court at the hear-ing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be grant-ed on 12/29/15 at 8:45 am, Probate 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 suc-cessive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. October 07, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287456Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Hassan Rasti and Nasrin Jaffari . TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioners, Has-san Rasti and Nasrin Jaf-fari, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a de-cree changing names as follows: a Hassan Rasti to David Rasti b. Nasrin Jaf-fari to Nancy Rasti. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 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. October 29, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
NO. 115CV287669Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Alfonso Ochoa. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Alfonso Ochoa, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a Diego Smith to Diego Alfonso Ochoa. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the pe-tition for change of name should not be granted on 01/12/15 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. November 3, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtNovember 6, 13, 20,27, 2015
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609861The following person(s) is (are) doing business, IL Palazzo Gardens 250 Curtner Ave Palo Alto, CA 94305 Santa Clara Coun-ty. Greker, LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014. This business is con-ducted by a limited liability company; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon.08/01/11 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Diane FeirmanManaging MemberNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/06/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609857The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Blue Hills Studio Apartments 7213 Rainbow Drive San Jose, CA 95129 Santa Clara County. Blue Hills Studio Apartments II, LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA
95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company; regis-trant has begun transact-ing business under the fictitious business name or names listed here-on.06/09/10 “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.)Jim Barrow JrManagerNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/06/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609855The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Lakeview Garden Apart-ments 816 N. Humboldt Street San Mateo, CA San Mateo County. Lakeview Investments, LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014. This business is con-ducted by a limited liability company; registrant has begun transacting busi-ness under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon.06/24/10 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true in-formation which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Don Dougherty ManagerNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/06/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609803The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Sycamore Park Apart-ments 398 Boynton Av-enue Dan Jose, CA 95117 Santa Clara County. Sycamore Park-Boynton, LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014. This business is conducted by a limited liability company; regis-trant has begun transact-ing business under the fictitious business name or names listed here-on.07/23/10 “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.)Joyne Shapiro ManagerNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/05/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609798The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Lake Vasona Manor 909 Uni-versity Avenue Los Gatos, CA 95032 Santa Clara County. Stephen Chen and Hsin-Hsin Chen 25901 Springhill Rd Los Altos, CA 94022. This business is conducted by a married couple; registrants have begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed here-on.07/23/10 “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.)Hsin-Hsin ChenNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/05/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609797The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Warm Springs Self Stor-age 45585 Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539 Alameda County. Warm Springs Self Storage , LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014. This business is conducted by a limited li-ability company; registrant has begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon.01/14/1988 “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.)Jim Barrow JRManagerNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/05/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT
NO. 609854The following person(s) is (are) doing business, Rosa Crest Studio Apartments 394 Boynton Avenue San Jose, CA 95117 Santa Clara County. Rosa Crest Studio Apartments, LLC. 20410 Town Center Lane Suite 200 Cupertino, CA 95014. This business is conducted by a limited li-ability company; registrant has begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon.06/09/2010 “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.)Jim Barrow JRManagerNovember 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 10/06/15
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What’s the latest in cutting-edge, hyper-efficient solar cells?
Are we really moving beyond huge photovoltaic panels anytime soon?-- Michael
Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer EARTHTALK
Many people still consider environmentalists’
favorite black panels as the cutting edge of re-newable energy. However, the burgeoning solar industry has spent the last four decades refining these original photovoltaic panels, giving way to an entirely new generation of solar technology.
Most of us could hardly recognize some of the new solar collectors. Researchers at Michigan State University specifically responded to the aesthetic critics of solar panels by creating trans-parent solar cells. Well, not totally transparent--they actually have thin strips of traditional solar panels to convert the infrared light being reflected by the entire panel. This technology could effectively turn any sheet of glass into a so-lar energy producer, from the windows of your office building to the screen of your cell phone.
This could spell the end for space-intensive solar plants. Currently the cells cannot convert light into electricity at efficient enough levels to be productive, but researchers hope to achieve efficiency closer to that of existing photovoltaic panels in coming years. Though less effective than older technology, the sheer scale of utility of the new model makes it a much more substan-tial potential energy source.
Beyond the collection of solar energy, storage continues to be a problem. Modern batteries are typically inefficient and expensive, making solar energy only useful during daylight hours. Researchers at Ohio State University are work-ing to solve this problem and recently debuted a photovoltaic panel with a built-in battery. If the new design is successful, fusing the battery and panel into one could be a game-changer. The design has already shown to make batter-ies 20 percent more efficient and 25 percent less expensive.
Another area of solar innovation has been in-genuity of application. Thinking outside the box has helped establish potential ways to indus-trialize the production of solar energy without consuming an excessive amount of acreage in the process. The Dutch have already pioneered solar roadways, in which highways are lined with solar panels. This saves clearing more land and makes use of land that is otherwise entirely unproductive. Another effort to limit land use involves constructing solar plants in the 70 per-cent of the planet that is covered by water. Ex-periments have already begun in France, Eng-land, India and California.
And while seemingly far-fetched, generating solar power from space is another area being examined. Satellites could capture significantly more sunlight than earthbound panels, as they could be positioned to collect solar radiation all the time. The first proposal and tests of this idea began over 40 years ago. The challenge is to create satellites that can capture sunlight, con-vert it to microwave energy, and beam it back to Earth. The exciting potential of this idea has led to large-scale investment by India, China and Japan.
No doubt we are only at the beginning of the age of alternative renewable energy, and the next few years and decades will be an exciting time to follow the growth of solar power from a fringe sector to a dominant player in the global energy mix.
CONTACTS: “The World’s First Solar Road is Producing More Energy Than Expected,” <http://thinkprogress.org/
climate/2015/05/11/3657220/solaroad-producing-energy/>; “New design brings world’s first solar battery to performance
milestone,” <https://news.osu.edu/news/2015/08/03/%E2%80%8Bnew-
design-brings-world%E2%80%99s-first-solar-battery-to-performance-milestone/>.
EarthTalk® is produced by Doug Moss & Rod-dy Scheer and is a registered trademark of Earth Action Network Inc. View past columns at: <www.earthtalk.org>. Or e-mail us your ques-tion: [email protected].
Researchers Richard Lunt and Yimu Zhao test cutting edge transparent solar cells at their Michigan State University lab. Credit: G.L. Kohuth, The State News.
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Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs with THE GOOD DINOSAUR, where an Apatosaurus named Arlo (voice of Raymond Ochoa) makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of and in the middle of the chaos, Arlo finds his way home.
Below please find a list of Diney’s best family films that talked about finding your way home.
Pixar Animation’s THE GOOD DINOSAUR now in theaters!THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)Apatosaurus ‘Arlo’ befriends a cave boy names Spot in the second Pixar movie released this year.
FINDING NEMO (2003)After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
THE LION KING (1994)Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble.
HERCULES (1997)The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (1993)Three pets escape from a California ranch to find their owners in San Francisco.
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AriesContarás con mucha energía
durante todo el mes, energía que debe ser canalizada y dirigida a tus proyectos personales y laborales. Serás testigo de injusticias y en más de una ocasión tendrás que poner el orden. Es probable que recibas noticias poco gratas de fa-miliares pero se tratará de situacio-nes pasajeras que tienen solución. Tu salud se mantendrá en óptimas condiciones. Números de la suer-te: 6-11-23-45-56-57
TauroEl año finalizará de manera apa-
cible para los nativos de tu signo. Es presagio que puede ocurrir un cambio de trabajo o posición laboral. Encontrarás el remedio adecuado para la dolencia o pade-cimiento que has tenido durante los últimos meses. El sector sen-timental puede presentar turbu-lencias, tienes que decidir si deseas o no seguir con tu relación actual.
Números de la suerte: 12-14-25-28-40-43
GéminisEn el trabajo observarás peque-
ños problemas y quizá algún roce con gente poco evolucionada. No lo tomes a personal. Momento para echar a andar tus proyectos y obtener lo que tanto anhelas. Ami-gos del ayer se hacen presentes y recibirás ayuda de donde menos lo imaginas. La época navideña te hará vivir momentos felices junto a la persona que amas. Números de la suerte: 21-33-34-44-52-53
CáncerDiciembre es el mes para demos-
trar tu generosidad, tu bondad y el deseo que siempre tienes de hacer el bien a los demás. Un problema que te preocupa se resolverá en los próximos días. Un amigo atravesa-rá por una situación complicada, ayúdale. El fervor de la Navidad trae consigo mucha felicidad para ti y tus seres queridos. Habrá sor-presas que te harán feliz.Números de la suerte: 4-8-19-20-42-49
Leo El tránsito de Júpiter en tu sec-
tor financiero creará cambios benéficos en todo lo referente a trabajo, negocios y proyectos. Es probable que tu buena estrella te cree competidores y opositores de donde menos lo esperes. Ten paciencia y sigue adelante porque tienes el triunfo asegurado. Medita con calma esa decisión que quieres tomar, no te precipites. Números de la suerte: 9-14-17-31-39-55
VirgoJúpiter te seguirá acompañando
hasta mediados del año entrante, es presagio que tu vida cambiará para bien, tendrás buenas oportu-nidades para sobresalir y especial-mente para mejorar tus finanzas. Debes ponerle punto final a un mal recuerdo de una relación an-terior. Permite que lo novedoso y la buena estrella sean tus fieles compañeros de aquí en adelante. Números de la suerte: 7-29-37-43-54-67
LibraHas aprendido mucho en los úl-
timos meses, sabes que el cuidado de tu salud y la buena alimentación son la clave para sentirte feliz y se-guro de ti mismo. Debes poner en marcha tus planes lo antes posible. Lucirás mejor que antes y gozarás de buena autoestima. Disfruta de la Navidad y trata de hacer el bien lo más que puedas. Una bendición se hará presente en tu vida. Núme-ros de la suerte: 1-20-30-36-47-50
EscorpiónDespedirás el año con nuevas
ilusiones y deseos de progreso. Este 2015 te ha dejado enseñan-zas en todos los sentidos. Un nue-vo amor se cruzará en tu camino y la buena suerte se hará presente en tu destino. El incremento de la espiritualidad te ha convertido en un ser especial dotado de muchos talentos y virtudes. Te sentirás re-juvenecido. Números de la suerte: 13-19-22-39-43-52
SagitarioLos cambios que han ocurrido
últimamente en tu vida han sido de mucha utilidad, le has dicho adiós a todo lo que ya no era para tu conveniencia. Es posible que tengas que realizar trámites con documentos, podría presentarse un retraso pero al final el resulta-do te será completamente favo-rable. Que el cuidado de tu físico siga siendo una prioridad para ti. Números de la suerte: 8-11-24-32-51-60
CapricornioEs necesario que te tomes una
corta vacación, has trabajado mu-cho durante todo el año y es su-mamente necesario que te tomes un tiempo para relajarte y para poner en orden tus ideas y proyec-tos para el año entrante. Hay un par de situaciones que aún no se resuelven pero no desesperes pues antes que termine el año las aguas volverán a su cauce. Te sentirás renovado. Números de la suerte: 21-22-31-34-54-67
AcuarioLos augurios son muy buenos
para el trabajo y tu realización per-sonal, verás muchos de tus planes convertidos en realidad. Diciem-bre es la antesala de un 2016 que será para ti el año de la felicidad. Se vislumbran viajes y la llegada de gente interesante a tu vida. En esta época festiva llena de magia y fervor religioso, se te concederá un deseo de amor. Números de la suerte: 5-7-10-23-43-56
PiscisLos astros anuncian la llegada y
comienzo de un nuevo periodo en el que te sentirás más feliz con tu misión en esta encarnación. Una muy buena oportunidad laboral se presentará ante ti y amigos dis-tantes se harán presente en el mo-mento más oportuno. Las cam-panas navideñas te anuncian que serás el receptor de una gran ben-dición de Dios. FelicidadesNúme-ros de la suerte: 17-21-29-32-45-64
MIAMI
La Confederación de Norte, Centroamérica y el Caribe de Fútbol Asociación (CON-CACAF), la Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) y el Comité Organizador Local de la Copa América Centenario (LOC) anunciaron el pasado jueves las diez áreas metro-politanas de Estados Unidos que han sido seleccionadas para albergar los partidos de la histórica Copa América Centenario, que se jugará en Estados Unidos del 3 al 26 de junio de 2016.
Las áreas metropolitanas y sus respectivos estadios incluyen: Boston (Gillette Stadium), Chicago (Soldier Field), Houston (NRG Sta-dium), Los Ángeles (Rose Bowl Stadium), Nueva York (MetLife Stadium), Orlando (Orlando Citrus Bowl Sta-dium), Filadelfia (Lincoln Fi-nancial Field), Phoenix (Uni-versity of Phoenix Stadium), San Francisco (Levi’s Sta-dium) y Seattle (CenturyLink Field). De manera similar al formato de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA, se jugarán par-tidos en varios días en cada sede. Se jugarán por lo menos tres partidos en la mayoría de las sedes.
Los aficionados que quieran estar entre los primeros en recibir acceso a boletos para este espectáculo único, pu-eden visitar www.CA2016.
com. Debido a la alta deman-da para este torneo de fútbol, se les solicita a los aficionados registrarse con anticipación para tener acceso garan-tizado a la información a me-dida que esté disponible. Se anunciará más información al respecto en las próximas semanas.
• Inscríbase para recibir in-formación de boletería para Copa América Centenario Elegidos entre 24 candidatos que presentaron propuestas a principios de este año, los estadios pasaron rigurosos estándares - incluyendo una capacidad mínima para 60 mil personas y otras nece-sidades de infraestructura de clase mundial - para par-ticipar en este torneo de alto perfil, el cual seguramente atraerá a multitudes de aficio-nados a los estadios alrededor del país.
La Copa América Centena-rio 2016 es la edición histo-ria de la Copa América – el campeonato sudamericano – y será llevada a cabo fuera de Sudamérica por primera vez. El torneo contará con la participación de seis equipos de CONCACAF y de los 10 equipos de CONMEBOL. “Las 10 ciudades anfitrionas de la Copa América Cen-tenario 2016 serán el esce-nario perfecto para unir al continente americano en una celebración única de la historia y el talento del fútbol en las regiones de CONCA-
CAF y CONMEBOL”, dijo el Presidente en Funciones de CONCACAF, Alfredo Hawit. “Estamos seguros de que el país anfitrión y la Federación de Fútbol de Estados Unidos (U.S. Soccer) no sólo dem-ostrarán la creciente pasión por este deporte, sino que contribuirán a expandir el legado y la magnitud de este torneo al brindar una experi-encia memorable para toda la comunidad futbolística”.
“El fútbol es el deporte más maravilloso del mundo. Para nosotros es un verdadero orgullo poder llevar a los Estados Unidos este evento inigualable, la Copa América Centenario, el torneo de se-lecciones más antiguo del mundo. Este sueño larga-mente acariciado no hubiera sido posible sin el esfuerzo fantástico de la U.S. Soccer Federation, CONCACAF y la CONMEBOL”, manifestó el Presidente de CONMEBOL, Juan Ángel Napout. “Es la primera vez desde 1916 que la mítica Copa América se dis-putará fuera de Sudamérica, con 16 seleccionados de todas las Américas y del Caribe.
Sin dudas este evento será una cita de lujo con el talento de las estrellas que deslum-bran con su buen fútbol en las ligas más competitivas del mundo. La fiesta en Esta-dos Unidos está asegurada”. “Estas 10 ciudades y sedes proporcionarán un ambi-ente fantástico para que
aficionados del mundo en-tero puedan asistir a la Copa América Centenario y ver la pasión impresionante por el fútbol que existe en Estados Unidos,” dijo el Presidente de U.S. Soccer Sunil Gulati. “Los equipos participantes y aficionados podrán disfrutar de un evento de primera cat-egoría en cada ciudad y esta-dio, agregando eso al talento de nivel mundial que estará compitiendo en la cancha.
Esperamos trabajar de cerca con todas las ciudades y las sedes para organizar éste prestigioso evento y crear una experiencia ex-traordinaria para aficiona-dos.” De CONCACAF, el anfitrión Estados Unidos y México están automática-mente clasificados, mientras que Costa Rica (ganador de la Copa Centroamericana 2014) y Jamaica (ganador de la Copa del Caribe CFU 2014) clasificaron al ganar los campeonatos regionales del año pasado. Los dos últi-mos equipos de CONCACAF se determinarán en un juego de repechaje de doble jornada que se disputará el 8 de enero de 2016, en la Ciudad de Pan-amá.
Trinidad y Tobago se en-frentará a Haití y Panamá se definirá contra Cuba; el ga-nador de cada partido clasifi-cará a la Copa América Cen-tenario. El campo de América del Sur para el torneo cuenta con Argentina, Bolivia, Bra-
sil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela. Uruguay ha sido coronado campeón de la Copa América en un récord de 15 veces, mientras que Chile ganó su primer título en la edición de este año, de la cual fue anfitrión. CON-CACAF y CONMEBOL se han asociado en el histórico torneo de la Copa América 2016, estableciendo un nuevo estándar para la cooperación inter-Confederación en las Américas y en todo el mundo. El Comité Organizador de la Copa América Centena-rio, formado por el anfitrión del torneo - la Asociación de Fútbol de los Estados Uni-
dos- es una entidad independ iente responsable de ciertos detalles logísticos y de orga-nización de la competición.
Elementos de apoyo visual para los medios
CONCACAF, CONMEBOL y el COL, con la ayuda de las ciudades sedes y los estadios, han preparado elementos de apoyo visual para asistir a la prensa con la cobertura de este anuncio. Para tener ac-ceso a fotografías de los es-tadios, por favor INGRESE AQUÍ. Las fotos son cortesía de ISIphotos.com y deben ser reconocidas como tal.
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