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EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com2 JANUARY 08-14 2016OPINION

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

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This past Sunday, January 3, 2016, the New York Times published in its Sunday Re-view Section, page SR-1, “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LATINO POWER?”, This article was authored by Ro-berto Suro, Professor, Public Policy and Journalism, USC. I recommend reading this article presenting the per-spective of historical Latino demographic growth. Latinos have no public policy impact simply because that demo-graphic grouping is an artifact. We may all speak some form of Spanish language; but our cultures, values, economic and social status all differ in signifi-cant ways.

The ‘Hispanic’ demographic grouping places all different Latino communities into one cohort bag whose contents are uniformly homogeneous. Nothing could be further from the reality which I have experi-enced. It was the U.S. Census

officials which came up with “Hispanic” as a grouping; and “Latinos” is the subset group-ing. Latinos are individuals whose heritage can be traced back to geographic areas of North, Central and South America which were ‘occu-pied’ by Spanish conquista-dors after Columbus landed in the Caribbean. Since then Europeans have migrated into this ‘American’ hemisphere.

The Latino community is very diverse. Today, its major cohorts are: 1) Puerto Ricans; 2) Cuban and 3) Mexican. There is also another way to define its makeup: A) Latinos who are fully acculturated and integrated as Americans; 2) Those who ‘wannabe’; and 3) recent migrants from Mexico, Central and South America.

In America’s domestic scene, today there are several Latino organizations which deal with some portion of the social, eco-nomic and public policy con-cerns. However, these organi-zations have not selected nor promoted a national Latino leader who could be present at those conference tables where public policy is formulated and implemented. National Latino organizations exist. However, they do not effec-tively assert themselves at the

national level. More impor-tantly, these national Latino organizations do not commu-nicate with their Latino con-stituents. Most receive signifi-cant funding from America’s corporations, especially the National Latino Scholarship Foundation.

Do you know about the fol-lowing national Latino orga-nizations? NCLR (National Concilio de La Raza)? LU-LAC (League of United Latin American Citizens)? MAL-DEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund)? AGIF (American GI Forum)?, USHCC (United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce)? MAPA (Mexi-can American Political Asso-ciation)? These organizations are evidence of Latino diver-sity. The reality is that Latino community’s diversity results in having no single centralized leadership whose purpose is to envision our future, establish priorities, collect and use re-sources effectively, etc. These organizations have not been able to select and support a na-tional leader. The unfortunate outcome of all this is that the Latino community has had no impact upon public policy. Other interests have imposed their priorities and purposes upon Latinos.

And, Latinos must begin to consider the reality that Lati-nos are ‘second class citizens’ because we are thought of and treated as being immigrants when in fact the majority of us are Americans by birthright. We are Americans who have a primordial heritage which does not extend beyond exist-ing American continents. La-tinos are tired of being treated as if they are illegal undocu-mented migrants.

What are the real Latino community concerns? Their concerns are local. They want to live in safe and secure com-munities. They want jobs that pay a living wage; affordable housing; access to medical care; education and training. We want to receive the respect and acceptance we merit. La-tino concerns are the same as those of others. Latinos want to be part of a social fabric wherein law enforcement-judicial system treats them equitably. Presently, their low income communities needs more resources to provide a hand up rather than a hand out. Simply stated, Latinos want the same access to op-portunity as anyone else. We want to be full partners in this society, its economy and its governance.

Latinos need to develop and use truthful and factual networks which reach their many factions so that an in-formed self-empowerment results. If Latinos are to be-come full citizens, then they must do it for themselves. First at local jurisdictions. Others will not allow them at negotiation tables until they organize and create the effective influence necessary to take a full seat, with voice and vote needed to impact the public policies needed to do the greatest good for all Americans.

During this 2016 election year, Latinos, though di-verse, will have the oppor-tunity to have great impact. Their swing votes will select the next U.S. Congress and President. Latinos will define with their personal values and ideals the 'soul' of the next administration. Latino voters will influence the Pri-mary Election (June 2016) and the Presidential election (November 2016)...espe-cially when greater numbers vote. Then Latinos will have demonstrated their public policy impact. Their growth, influence and power will be established and validated.

Luisa Fernanda MonteroLA RED HISPANA

Nadie quiere que ocurra pero es una posibilidad. Las redadas son, para muchos una amenaza. Por eso lo fun-damental es estar informado. Conocer sus derechos puede hacer la diferencia.

Si usted o alguien que con-oce puede ser objeto de una redada es importante que tenga en cuenta algunas re-

comendaciones que pueden ser fundamentales. Conocer sus derechos es un comienzo inteligente. Manténgase en contacto con un abogado o con un consejero calificado y no olvide que todas las per-sonas, más allá de su estatus migratorio, tienen derechos.

Para empezar, no olvide que de ser detenidos, tenemos derecho a permanecer en si-lencio, a hacer una llamada, a contar con la asesoría de un abogado y a presentarnos fr-ente a un juez.

Así las cosas, en caso tal, es aconsejable portar su docu-mento de identidad estatal o licencia de conducción. De acuerdo con los expertos, estos documentos ofrecen

información sobre la per-sona, pero no sobre su situ-ación migratoria o su país de origen. Muy importante: no llevar nunca documentos falsos.

Recuerde tener siempre a la mano la información –nom-bre, teléfono- de su conse-jero en asuntos migratorios, abogado o representante de agencia o centro comuni-tario que pueda aconsejarlo o brindarle apoyo de ser nece-sario, en caso de ser detenido por un agente migratorio.

No olvide que nadie –ni si-quiera un oficial de policía- puede ingresar a su casa sin una orden judicial, o sin su autorización. Si los oficiales llegan a su casa pídales que

deslicen la orden bajo la puerta. Una orden judicial debe tener los nombres de las personas que se están bus-cando y debe estar firmada por un juez.

En cualquier caso, siempre es recomendable mantener la calma. Si trata de huir, los ofi-ciales pueden usar ese hecho en su contra. No responda preguntas sobre su estatus o su lugar de nacimiento hasta que su abogado se lo indique. Si miente sobre su nombre sus familiares tendrán difi-cultades para encontrarlo.

No firme nada, ningún doc-umento, sin la autorización de su abogado. El documen-to puede ser una autorización para deportarlo sin asesoría

legal. Recuerde: usted tiene derecho a asesoría legal.

Si usted, su familia o al-guien cercano, está en riesgo de caer en una redada, es importante tener un plan. Tenga un plan sobre lo que deben hacer sus hijos o su pareja en caso de que usted no vuelva a casa. Incluya en el plan a las personas de confianza que podrán socor-rerlos en caso de necesidad y de nuevo manténgase infor-mado, asesórese y conozca las leyes de su estado, con-dado o ciudad. Conocer sus derechos puede hacer la dife-rencia.

Para más detalles y recursos en el tema, visite LaRedHis-

pana.org

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 3JANUARY 08-14 2016 CALENDAR

DOWNTOWN ICENov 12 – Feb 7, 2016Plaza de Cesar Chavez

Market Street, San Jose, CA

12pm – 12am$13 - $15

PIPPINJan 5 – 10, 2016

Center for the Performing Arts 255 Almaden Blvd,

San Jose, CAVarious Times

$30 - $110(Ticketmaster)

SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL

AUTO SHOWJan 7 – 10, 2016

San Jose Convention Center, 150 W. San Carlos

St,San Jose, CA

Various Times$8- $11

(svautoshow.com)

SAN JOSE SHARKSJan 9, 2016

Sap Center, 525 W Santa Clara St,

San Jose, CA 4pm

$45- $240

12TH ANNUAL LEGO HOLIDAY SHOW

Dec 11 – Jan 10 (Fridays, Saturday, Sundays ONLY)The Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave,

Palo Alto, CA11am – 4pm$3 (cash only)

TALKING ART PANEL DISCUSSION:

PERCEPTION VS. REALITY

Jan 10, 2016San Jose Stage Company,

490 S. 1st St,San Jose, Ca

2pm$5 - $15(sjica.org)

PIANIST SANDRA WRIGHT SHEN

Jan 10, 2016Tranon Theatre, 72 N. Fifth

St,San Jose, CA

2pm$35- $60

(steinwaysociety.com)

SHAKESBEERIENCE: A WINTER’S TALE

Jan 11, 2016Café Stritch, 374 S. First St,

San Jose, CA

6:30pmFree

2ND MONDAYS @ CREATV

Jan 11, 2016255 W. Julian St., Suite 100

San Jose, CA6:30 – 7:30pm

Free

HARK! 14TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW

AND SALEDaily through Jan 16KALEID Gallery, 88 S.

Fourth St,San Jose, CA12pm – 7pm

Free

KIDS CLUB WITH MARIELA

Jan 10, 2016La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shatuck Avenue,

Berkeley, CA10amFree

JACK HANNA’S INTO THE WORLD LIVE

Jan 10, 2016City National Civic, 135 San

Carlos St,San Jose, CA

3pm$25 - $75

RICK GIDICE: THE NASA PAINTINGS

Jan 15, 2016NUMU, New Museum Los

Gatos, 106 E Main st,Los Gatos, CA

11am$5

DEVOTCHKAJan 15, 2016

Rio Theatre, 1205 Soqel Ave,Santa Cruz, CA

8pm$22

Olive TO LAUGHJan 16, 2016

Krug Event Center, 550 2nd St W

Sonoma, CA8pm$25

The Santa Cruz

CHOCOLATE FESTIVALJan 17, 2016

Boarwalk’s Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St,

Santa Cruz, CA4pm

QUINCEAÑERA EXPO SAN JOSE 2016

Jan 17, 2016Santa Clara County

Fairgronds, 344 Tully RdSan Jose, CA

5pm $10

El Día de los Tres Reyes Magos

Jan 9 – 10, 2016Children’s Discovery Museum

180 Woz WaySan Jose, CA12pm – 4pm

$13 Children and Adults, 12$ Seniors (60+), Infants and

Members Free

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com4 EDUCATION JANUARY 08-14 2016

Matt Stewart

COLLEGE WORKS

Best Career Advice For Stu-dents: Ambitious College Students Have the Advan-tage

Although young job seekers with only a high school de-gree are in even worse shape, recent college graduates have entered a grim job market.

The economy is still recover-ing, entry-level wages have plummeted and recent col-lege grads are competing for jobs with more than 2 mil-lion of their educated and jobless peers.

The millennial generation makes up about 40 percent of the unemployment rate in the U.S. Something’s gotta give.

“The most impressive job candidates to employers are those who are both ambi-tious and have a proven track record through hands-on leadership experiences,” says Matt Stewart, entrepre-neur and co-CEO of College Works Painting, a college internship program which, according to internal sur-veys shows that 90 percent of their alumni find college-grad-level jobs within three months of obtaining their degree.

The key is to find an intern-ship that will help you build tangible, real-world skills. Employers want to know that you’re capable of being in charge of something. To get hired for the job that you actually want, you need an internship in which you’re given actual responsibilities and in which you gain lead-ership experience.

You won’t gain these nec-essary skills from an easy internship. These days, the company name on your resume holds little to no weight. It’s not who you in-terned for. Instead, it’s what you did during your intern-ship that matters.

The challenge is distinguish-ing an internship that may have flashy bells and whistles but no real job responsibili-

ties, from the rewarding in-ternship that will give you the skills needed to adequately compete in the job market.

Internships are those extra-credit points that ambitious college students can leverage for getting ahead as an at-tractive job candidate. Stew-art asks students the follow-ing:

• Will the internship provide you with leadership skills?

Internships provide stu-dents with all kinds of expo-sure to business. But just any experience won’t be good for you. Your time is valuable. The purpose of internships is to gain adequate experience. So don’t waste your time on an unworthy internship. When applying for intern-ships, review the job descrip-tion. Look for job responsi-bilities that require leader-ship skills.

“What we try to do is give students a truly entrepre-neurial experience,” says Stewart, whose internship program provides practi-cal and life-changing busi-ness experience for college students who have shown potential for success. Interns operate their own house-painting business with hands-on guidance from mentors. “Also, and though we don’t require any previous experience – with guidance and mentorship – our in-terns have mid-level respon-sibilities,” Stewart says. “Our students manage all hiring,

firing, sales, marketing and customer relations. This enables our alumni to land grad-level positions upon graduation instead of com-peting for entry-level jobs that may not even require a degree.”

• If anyone can get the in-ternship, is it worth your

time?

While an internship can be considered “free education,” corporations know they have nothing to lose when they see talented young minds will-ing to work for free. If an in-ternship is easy to attain and isn’t willing to pay you for the work you do, it may be gar-bage work.

More than 50,000 stu-dents apply to intern at Col-lege Works Painting annu-ally, yet only 2000 interns are hired. And about half of those hired interns make it to the summer, when the in-ternship resembles more of a full time job.

“It’s an incredibly difficult challenge, running your own business – and that’s what our interns are doing,” Stew-art says. “Some of our hires don’t make it through spring training; the program is just too much for them. Yet, you don’t want to be that stereo-typical intern who becomes an expert on how the CEO likes her coffee. College sum-mers are designed for hard work, that’s how you’ll get ahead in your career.”

San Jose CALIFORNIA

On Thursday December 17, Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School supporters gathered to commemorate the building of our newest school building, The Steve Finn Center for Collaboration and Individualized Learning. Board Co-Chair John Sobrato recognized Steve Finn for his generous contributions to the new building. Attendees were then lifted up to the structure to sign the last beam. We were so grateful to share in such a momentous moment with some of our most valued supporters.

STATEPOINT

Sólo la mitad de las peque-ñas empresas de los EE.UU. sobrevive más de cinco años, según la Administración de Pequeñas Empresas de los EE.UU. Estos datos subray-an que ser propietario de un negocio pequeño no es nada fácil.

Más allá del clásico desafío empresarial que implica con-seguir y mantener utilidades, los propietarios las pequeñas empresas luchan para conse-guir el tiempo y los recursos necesarios a fin de adaptarse a las nuevas tecnologías, se-ñalan los expertos.

“El ritmo de desarrollo tec-nológico es tan abrumador como las formas siempre cambiantes en que los con-sumidores interactúan con ella y la utilizan. Para man-tenerse competitivas entre los consumidores y los em-pleados, las pequeñas em-presas tienen que adoptar e incorporar tecnología en línea en sus operaciones co-tidianas de negocios”, dice Seong Ohm, vicepresidente senior de servicios de nego-cios de mercancía de Sam’s Club.

Para ayudar a los empresa-rios a navegar por la nueva

tecnología y abarcar el pan-orama cambiante de las op-eraciones de negocios, Ohm ofrece seis sugerencias para el éxito en las pequeñas empre-sas:

• Acelere la nómina: Las nuevas apps para celulares y tabletas facilitan las tareas tediosas y las hace más efici-entes. Por ejemplo, las apps de nómina en línea permiten a los empleadores hacer la nómina en menos de un minuto, pagar a los traba-jadores mediante depósito directo y presentar la declara-ción de impuestos electróni-camente.

• Proteja sus ventas: La más reciente tecnología de pro-cesamiento de pagos puede proteger mejor su negocio en el punto de venta. Para evitar cargar con la responsabilidad de cargos de créditos fraudu-lentos, las empresas deben ac-tualizar sus terminales a fin de que acepten tarjetas de crédi-to habilitadas con chips EMV, que protegen a los consumi-dores de manera más segura. Los propietarios de pequeñas empresas pueden contar con expertos de servicios para co-merciantes al fin de cumplir los requisitos de las tarjetas con chip EMV de modo ase-quible y sin incomodidades.

• Sea visible: Incluso si su negocio es fundamental-mente una operación física, no es posible exagerar la im-portancia de tener presencia en línea.

No basta simplemente ten-er un sitio web, es necesario que lo descubran. Google cambia con frecuencia la forma en que determina las clasificaciones de los resul-tados de búsqueda. Invierta en la optimización para bus-cadores (SEO) no una vez, sino de modo periódico para ajustarse a las fórmulas de Google que pueden significar el éxito o el fracaso.

Una estrategia sólida en redes sociales y capacidad móvil para su sitio son aspec-tos que también afectarán de modo positivo su clasifi-cación en las búsquedas. Haga a un lado los libros de mercadotecnia y apóyese en expertos en mercadotecnia digital para que auditen su presencia en línea actual y desarrollen una estrategia que funcione para su presu-puesto y haga crecer su base de clientes.

• Permanezca conectado: Usted posiblemente es quien dice la última palabra a la hora de tomar las grandes decisiones, pero eso no sig-nifica que se espera que lo

sepa todo. Busque consejo de colegas de confianza de su in-dustria o un mentor local de SCORE por medio de Linke-dIn y las redes sociales. Apar-te tiempo para seminarios web y actividades de interac-ción. Y, lo más importante, manténgase conectado con sus amigos y familia durante los momentos de estrés.

• Sea inteligente en lo fiscal: Establezca una entidad legal para su negocio en línea. Esto le permitirá conservar una parte mayor de sus ingresos y aumentar sus protecciones de activos y de responsabili-dad legal.

Los impuestos a las empre-sas pueden ser más costosos y complicados que la present-ación de declaraciones perso-nales, así que debe encontrar a un contador que entienda su negocio. Puede benefi-ciarse mucho y la asistencia de expertos de contabilidad en línea. Ellos le ayudarán a aprovechar las deducciones y créditos fiscales, y a presen-tar sus declaraciones en los plazos frecuentes y variados correctos para evitar sancio-nes.

• Salvaguardar sus datos: Las pequeñas empresas son, con frecuencia, blancos para el robo de identidades. Cree contraseñas complejas para

proteger la información deli-cada. Plantéese invertir en un servicio de protección con monitoreo de amenazas las 24 horas y apoyo para la re-cuperación en caso de activi-dad fraudulenta.

No deje que le abrume la adopción de nuevas tec-nologías. Muchos de estos

servicios son más asequibles de lo que usted piensa, Son fáciles de actualizar y of-recen acceso a expertos en cualquier momento y lugar. Estas herramientas técnicas pueden impulsar fácilmente sus operaciones de negocios, agilizar procesos y ahorrarle tiempo y dinero.

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EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com6 HEALTH JANUARY 08-14 2016

STATEPOINT

Millions of Americans will make the resolution this New Year to lose weight. But goal setting is the easy part. Staying on the weight loss track and maintaining that weight loss is where the challenges begin.

Here are 10 tips to help you stick with your weight loss resolution this New Year and beyond.

• Drink up: Hunger and thirst can often be confused, so stay hydrated. But remember, beverages are not a place to splurge on a ton of calories. Drink water. For a flavor boost, add fresh fruit slices or mint leaves.

• Snack mindfully: It is all too easy to derail an otherwise flawless diet by binging at snack time. Be mindful of your snacks, and make sure they offer nutritional value and are designed to keep you satisfied until your next meal.

• Sleep: Studies show a link between sleep deprivation and excess pounds. While there are many theories as to why this is, at the very least, getting enough sleep will promote clear-headed, healthful choices throughout the day.

• Eat small: Research suggests that eating smaller, balanced meals throughout the day promotes greater weight loss and maintenance. Schedule meals every two to three hours, six times a day.

• Get moving: Exercise doesn’t have to be daunting! Get started with 10-minute sessions, three times a day. Movement sets your metabolism in motion so make sure it’s a consistent part of your weight loss efforts.

• Eat out, right: Restaurant portions can be monstrous. Set aside half the meal and save it for later. Avoid key menu terms like “breaded,” “fried,” “crispy,” and “smothered.” At buffets, fill your first plate up entirely with greens before moving on to other options.

• Embrace setbacks: Sometimes diets get temporarily thrown off course by a missed workout or a second slice of birthday cake. Rather than throwing in the towel entirely, view the setback for what it really is, a temporary hiccup.

• Be accountable: Keep a food and exercise diary to reinforce good habits. Log food, drinks, activity, weight and more to stay accountable.

• Seek support: Weight loss and maintenance is no cakewalk. Turn to weight loss counselors, dietitians and online communities for support with your weight loss journey.

With the right attitude and the right tools, you can make 2016 the year you finally lose the weight for good.

10 Tips to Stick with Your New Year’s Weight Loss Resolutions

FDA

Los aparatos de bronceado artificial pre-sentan muchos riesgos: Los productos que utilizan lámparas de luz ultravioleta, como las camas o las cabinas de bronceado, lo exponen a la radiación ultravioleta (UV) y aumentan su riesgo de sufrir lesiones oculares, daños cutáneos y cáncer de piel, incluyendo el mela-noma, el tipo de cáncer de piel más mortal.

Debido a estos riesgos, la FDA ya exige que los aparatos de bronceado artificial cuenten con un recuadro negro de advertencia indi-cando que no deben ser usados por personas menores de 18 años de edad. Sabemos que los efectos de la exposición a la radiación ul-travioleta se acumulan a lo largo de la vida de las personas. Por este motivo, la exposición a la radiación ultravioleta en las personas jóvenes y los adolescentes aumenta el riesgo de que sufran lesiones cutáneas y oculares en el futuro. Es por ello que la FDA ahora pro-pone una regulación para restringir su uso a los adultos de 18 años de edad o mayores, únicamente, a fin de proteger a los jóvenes de los riesgos de estos dispositivos. Esta norma propuesta también exigiría que los centros de bronceado artificial informen a los usuarios adultos sobre los riesgos que conlleva el bron-ceado artificial para la salud y que obtengan un documento de notificación de estos riesgos firmado por ellos.

La agencia también propone una segunda regulación que obligaría a los fabricantes y a los centros de bronceado artificial a tomar más medidas para ayudar a mejorar la seguri-dad general de los dispositivos de bronceado artificial con el fin de proteger a los usuarios adultos.

“Cada vez hay más pruebas de que el bron-ceado artificial durante la infancia y los primeros años de la vida adulta aumenta el riesgo de padecer cáncer de piel, incluido melanoma”, señala el Dr. Markham C. Luke, Ph.D., dermatólogo y subdirector de la Cen-tro de Evaluación de Dispositivos y Salud Ra-diológica de la FDA. “Cientos de jóvenes tam-bién sufren lesiones todos los años en todo el país a consecuencia del uso de lámparas de bronceado”.

De hecho, quienes han estado expuestos a la radiación del bronceado artificial tienen un riesgo 59 por ciento mayor de contraer mela-noma que quienes nunca lo han estado, según la Academia Americana de Dermatología.

En promedio, cada año se producen más de 3,000 visitas a las salas de emergencias en los Estados Unidos como consecuencia de lesio-nes relacionadas con el bronceado artificial (según datos de 2003 a 2012), según informa los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en in-glés). Más de 400 de estos pacientes cada año tenían menos de 18 años de edad.

“La FDA está especialmente preocupada por la exposición de los niños y los adolescen-tes a la radiación ultravioleta de los aparatos de bronceado artificial porque sus efectos se acumulan a lo largo de la vida”, explica el Dr. Luke. “La exposición a la radiación ultravio-leta de los aparatos de bronceado artificial es una causa evitable del cáncer de piel. La FDA está comprometida con la protección de la salud pública y desea informar a los usuarios de los riesgos de los aparatos de bronceado artificial”.

Exercise doesn’t have to be daunting! Get started with 10-minute sessions, three times a day.

STATEPOINT

When temperatures drop, getting into the party spirit can be, well, dispiriting. Here are some helpful tips for navigating the cool weather social scene in style.

Bring the Holiday Spirit(s)If you’re hosting this winter,

you’re probably busy taking care of all the little details. Finding the time to make custom cocktails for each guest can be time intensive. Try a delicious option that can be made days in advance, so your party prep goes smoothly. It’s mulling time!

“Making mulled cider or mulled wine is a great way to liven up a holiday party that isn’t time-intensive,” says Tom Macy, Bartender and Co-Owner of The Clo-ver Club in Brooklyn, NY. “Nothing sets a festive mood like ladling out warm mugs of cheer from a simmering pot on the stove, as it fills the room with a great smell.”

Try out Tom’s recipe for Mulled Cider. Combine one gallon apple cider, 15 to 20 cinnamon sticks, 1/4 cup cardamom pods, 1 1/2 table-spoon whole allspice, 1 1/2 tablespoon whole cloves, four whole nutmeg, zest of two oranges and 1/2 cup dark brown sugar. Bring to a boil, take to a simmer and let it sit for 30 to 45 minutes. Remove from the heat and strain the spices. Serve im-mediately or chill for later use.

For spirits, Tom recom-mends anything brown --

bourbon, cognac or apple brandy. For more of Tom’s favorite holiday cocktails and a mulled wine recipe, check out TomMacy.com.

Looking Fly When It’s ChillyWith mistletoe abound

and potential New Year’s smooches at every turn, it’s important to look and act your best. Even in chilly weather, there are still ways to look fashionable.

“Make the most out of the

smaller details and acces-sories, and make them your own,” says says Christopher Hunt, Editor at-Large for AskMen. “You can do more than throw on a bubble jack-et. Try a coat with a warm shearling hood. Comple-ment your outfit with your scarf. Ditch your knit gloves for leather driving gloves or cashmere. Add a little flavor to your knit cap. Whatever you do, put your personality in it.”

Winter is also a time for men to grow out their facial hair, which Hunt sees as an-other great opportunity for customization.

“Facial hair is truly a gift,” said Hunt. “The cold weather is your best chance to experi-ment with a beard or a goa-tee or even take a crack at a ‘stache. Try something new. Maybe you’ll find your next smooth year-round look.” This winter, look good, feel good and party in style.

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California’s medical mari-juana industry is growing up fast, so to speak, because a new law professionalizing

the growth, sale and taxation of the plant went into effect on Friday January 1st, 2016.

The California Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act establishes a new state agency, the Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regula-

tion, that will gear up and start issuing permits.

Dale Gieringer, director of the California division of the National Organization for the Reform of Mari-juana Laws (NORML), says patients eventually will see more dispensaries set up shop.

“I think it’s going to result in more access, partly be-cause it does allow for-profit operation,” says Gieringer, “and local governments are going to feel more comfort-able with allowing state-regulated facilities than with unregulated facilities.”

Dozens of local munici-palities are now moving to either allow or forbid medical marijuana sales within their borders. By some estimates, the state and cities stand to make $1 billion a year in tax-es once the industry builds out.

Gieringer says the indus-try has evolved enormously, just in the past few years.

“The industry itself has taken a lot of steps to in-crease testing of products, maintain certain standards with regards to pesticides,” he says. “But a lot more has to be done, and it’s going to be done with state guidance.”

Next November, voters will weigh in on a ballot mea-sure to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

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Tens of thousands of minimum-wage workers in California will be making an extra dollar an hour. The Golden State’s minimum-wage increased from $9 to $10 an hour on Jan. 1, But labor advocates plan to continue their push for $15 an hour.

Sean Wherley, senior communications specialist for the Service Employees International Union’s United Healthcare Workers West, said $10 just doesn’t cut it.

“At $10 an hour, that’s less than $21,000 a year for a full-time worker,” he said. “That’s barely enough to cover for yourself, much less if you have children. Particularly in coastal areas, but even throughout rural areas, that’s not enough to get by.”

Two different branches of SEIU are promoting separate ballot measures next November. One would raise the hourly wage to $15 by 2020 and mandate six paid days off for illness. The other would raise the wage by the same amount by 2021.

Critics of these measures have said they’d raise costs for small businesses and lead them to cut hours or jobs. Wherley countered that workers will have more money to spend, which benefits the economy overall. He said a statewide measure would level the playing field between cities.

“This is going to be uniformly applied, so no city can claim that one has an advantage over the other,” he said. “This is what is going to lift people into a better existence, one where they can provide for themselves and their families.”

San Francisco and Los Angeles already have passed $15 minimum hourly wages that go into effect in 2018 and 2020, respectively. The national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.

More information on existing minimum-wage laws is online at dir.ca.gov.

California’s new law regulating medical mari-juana takes effect Friday, professionalizing the industry in the state.(growweedeasy/morguefile)

California’s hourly minimum wage in-creases to $10 this Friday, Jan. 1. (Co-hdra/morguefile)

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LOS ANGELES – Volun-teers, part of a group called “My Tiny House Project LA” a movement to build-ing stop-gap shelters that is now active in San Diego and Oakland. The structures are just big enough to lie down inside.

They’re on wheels so they’re off the ground, and they feature a small window and a door that locks. Founder Elvis Summers places them wherever he can around town making a difference, one down-and-out person at a time.

“There’s human beings out there in the cold that need help. It’s the right thing to do,” says Summers. “And it’s Christmas. The best Christ-mas present would be for someone to step forward with land so we could build a small community, get the people warm and safe and off the street.”

Summers built the first house for a homeless neigh-bor in April. His photos on Facebook went viral and it

soon became his life’s work. So far, he’s raised $110,000 and is building them full time along with a team of volunteers.

California has 116,000 people living on the streets and only enough shelter beds to accommodate a third of them.

Homeless advocate Lisa Kogan just started a similar

project in San Diego, but the first house was impounded by police last week and its new owner, a homeless man named “Red,” was arrested for lodging without consent and encroaching on public property.

Kogan says she bailed Red out, they’re getting the house back, and she hopes some-one will donate land to put it on.

“This house wasn’t just pro-viding shelter, it provided hope for one person,” says Kogan. “He loved it so much. He said that it was the first time he’s had four walls and a roof over his head in a very long time.”

If you’d like to help, both Summers and Kogan have pages on Facebook and the website Go Fund Me.

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Interchange Named for Joe Colla, Champion of Its Completion, Colla’s

Historic Photo Stunt Helped to Restore Project’s Funding

San JoseCALFIORNIA

The Interchange connecting Highway 101 and I-280-680 was named the Joe Colla Interchange at a brief ceremony and sign unveiling. In 1976, then San Jose City Councilman Colla was so frustrated with the stalled completion of the Interchange that he convinced a crane operator to lift a car and place it at the end of a 200-foot ramp that was suspended in the air.

Later, a helicopter dropped him off next to the car to create the famous photo of Colla with his arms outstretched with a caption, “Where Do We Go from Here?” Colla also organized a caravan of hundreds of cars to drive to Sacramento to suc-cessfully lobby for the Interchange completion. Colla died in 1995. (See attached photo taken by Ray Spallone.)

Closing the Achievement Gap

for K-12

Sacramento CALIFORNIA

In an effort to close the achievement gap and give all kids access to a quality education, Senator Carol Liu, Chair of the Senate Educa-tion Committee and Senate President pro Tempore Kev-in de León are introducing legislation to provide addi-tional funding to train school district staff on how to use the evaluation rubrics. This plan will ensure California schools have access to critical training to implement the ac-countability measures of the K-12 Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

Senator Carol Liu (D- La Cañada/Flintridge) said, “Some school districts and county offices of education faced challenges in the devel-opment of local control and accountability plans. The evaluation rubrics now being developed should be used to drive updates to plans and as a basis for establishing sys-tems of continuous improve-ment. We need to provide opportunities for schools to capitalize on lessons learned and share best practices to accelerate learning.”

As part of LCFF, school districts, charter schools and county offices of education must complete a Local Con-trol and Accountability Plan (LCAP), which explains how they will increase student achievement for all students. Likewise, the State Board of Education is required to de-velop and adopt evaluation

rubrics that districts, charter schools, and COEs use to as-sess their progress toward their goals identified in their LCAP.

“In 2013, California changed the way it funded schools by targeting more resources to our most disad-vantaged students,” said De León (D-Los Angeles). “In order to ensure resources are being used to improve stu-dent achievement, California must establish an infrastruc-ture that is focused on ac-countability.”

The State Board of Educa-tion is expected to adopt the evaluation rubrics in spring 2016. These rubrics are criti-cal to evaluating how local school districts are serving students and whether they are meeting standards of achievement.

Senate Legislative Proposal:

·Establishes a professional development training pro-gram, administered by the California Collaborative for Education Excellence (CCEE), to provide training to school districts on how to use the evaluation rubrics to increase student achieve-ment.

·The training will focus on how the evaluation rubrics help school districts develop their Local Control and Ac-countability Plans.

·Establishes a pilot program to provide technical assis-tance to local school districts to help them improve in-structional practice that will lead to better outcomes for students.

Volunteers are building tiny houses as temporary shelters for the home-less. (Elvis Summers)

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San JoseCALIFORNIA

A new VTA service, FLEX, will debut in a pilot program on January 11, 2016 in a select area of Santa Clara County, specifically Northern San Jose. FLEX is an “On-Demand” connection service between regular transit stops and high-density employment centers and/or retail centers that according to VTA “prioritizes your valuable time by minimizing wait times.”

According to their press information, FLEX “provides better access to transit by shortening or eliminating the distance that you have to walk to a bus or light rail stop.”

In essence it takes some tech features of ride popular sharing services Uber and Lyft but is very different in its execution of the service.

The technology behind the FLEX system automatically routes vehicles to pick up nearby customers along a similar travel route without impacting travel times.

Uber and Lyft have a “carpool” feature which allows two or more customers to travel within the same vehicle if their destination is in the same area.

By using its own app VTA’s FLEX will allow users to request a pick up at certain transit stops, unlike Uber and Lyft which has the ability to be picked up virtually anywhere there is a driver nearby.

FLEX’s service area is approximately 3.25 square miles in North San Jose, which surrounds VTA’s Tasman Light Rail Station.

The boundaries are:

North – Route 237South – Montague

ExpresswayEast – Coyote Creek

West – Guadalupe River

FLEX will, for the moment, test out the flat fees of single rides for $2 and $3 for peak hours. The times of service, unlike the 24/7 of the other ride share apps, is Monday – Friday; 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Peak Hours 5:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.; 3:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. The last Flex ride MUST be completed by 8:30 p.m.

The service goes live this upcoming January 11th, but is as of writing available to download Friday January 8th through the VTA website, VTA.org.

It is unknown yet whether payments must be made through the app only, but is noted that “other riders that have similar travel destinations may be picked up and dropped off during the course of your ride.”

Santa Clara County first California county to pass

ordinance raising tobacco purchase age

from 18 to 21

Santa Clara County CALIFORNIA

Starting Jan. 1, 2016, the age to purchase tobacco and elec-tronic smoking products in unincorporated Santa Clara County increased from 18 to 21. The ordinance affects 17 retailers located in unincor-porated county areas.

“Our county continues to be a national leader in protecting the health of our residents, particularly our children and youth, from the harms of to-bacco,” said Supervisor Ken Yeager, who initiated the County’s smoking, tobacco and e-cigarette product or-dinances. “The new tobacco purchase age of 21 clearly puts the health of our youth before any special interests.”

In June, the County of Santa Clara became the first Cali-fornia county to pass an or-dinance raising the purchase age for tobacco and electronic smoking products. In July, the Santa Clara County Pub-lic Health Department be-gan notifying tobacco retail-ers of the new requirements that prohibits the selling and distributing of tobacco and electronic smoking products to anyone under age 21, and more recently through in-store education with store owners and/or employees in partnership with the De-partment of Environmental Health.

Ordinance requirements beginning Jan. 1:

Retailers are required to post a notice of minimum age for purchase of tobacco prod-ucts and electronic smoking devices at each point of pur-chase. The notice will state

that selling tobacco products and electronic smoking de-vices to anyone under 21 years of age is illegal and subject to penalties.

Positive identification will

be required for purchases. No retailer shall sell or transfer a tobacco product or electronic smoking device to another person who appears to be un-der 30 years of age without first examining the custom-er’s identification to confirm that the customer is at least the minimum age required to purchase and possess the tobacco product.

“Tobacco use is still the num-ber one cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 480,000 people and costing about $170 billion in health care expenses each year,” said Sara Cody, M.D., County Health Officer and Director of the

Santa Clara County Public Health Department. “Tobac-co and e-cigarette use among teens and young adults re-mains a critical public health concern.”

It is estimated that 90 per-cent of tobacco users start before the age of 21; roughly 80 percent first try tobacco before age 18, and 75 percent of teen smokers continue into their adult years. A recent re-port by the Institute of Medi-cine predicts that raising the minimum age for the sale of tobacco products to 21 may, over time, reduce the smok-ing rate by about 12 percent and smoking-related deaths by 10 percent.

Enforcement of New Age Restriction

If a store violates the ordi-nance and sells tobacco or electronic smoking products

to anyone under the age of 21, they could be subject to fines and penalties established when the County’s Tobacco Retail Permit ordinance went into effect in 2011.

•Amount of fine - Each such violation shall be subject to an administrative fine as follows:

•A fine not to exceed $100.00 for a first violation within one year;

•A fine not to exceed $200.00 for a second viola-

tion within one year; and

•A fine not to exceed $500.00 for each additional violation within one year.

•Time period for permit sus-pension

•For a first violation within any 24-month period, the retailer permit shall be sus-pended for up to 30 calendar days.

•For a second violation with-in any 24-month period, the

retailer permit shall be sus-pended for up to 90 calendar days.

•For each additional viola-tion within any 24-month period, the retailer permit shall be suspended for up to one year.

For more information, visit: www.sccphd.org/tobac-

co. The public may call the County Tobacco Violations

Reporting Line 408-885-4466

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Dear EarthTalk: How are borderlands causing widespread environmental damage while splintering families and communities

across the U.S. Southwest? -- Peter Jackson, Baltimore, MD

Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer EARTHTALK

Today, over 650 miles of border walls and barriers have been constructed in all four southern Border States: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The Sierra Club Borderlands campaign has spoken up against the substantial border wall construction, arguing that it has had dire consequences for vast expanses of pristine wild lands, including wildlife refuges, wilderness areas and national forest lands, among other areas. Additionally, several species of wildlife have been observed and photographed stranded by the border wall, the group states, suggesting that many threatened and endangered species are suffering from border wall development as well.

In their short films, Wild Versus Wall and Too Many Tracks, the Sierra Club describes how the significance of the borderlands—a vast and ecologically distinct region with a multitude of mountain ranges, two of North America’s four deserts and major river ecosystems—has been ignored by current U.S. border policy. The borderlands provide important habitat for rare and threatened wildlife species, including many federally-listed threatened and endangered species. But in 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act, which included a provision that allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive all local, state and federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, deemed an impediment to building walls and roads along U.S. borders. Border patrol has now built stadium-like lights, roads and towers in

sensitive, remote areas, the Sierra Club says, and the roads fragment and destroy habitat while high voltage lighting affects nocturnal animals’ ability to feed and migrate.

“Border Patrol’s off-road driving, tire dragging and ATV use in designated roadless wilderness has left an immense scar on the landscape,” said Dan Millis, borderlands program coordinator for the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club.

The Sierra Club continues to raise awareness on borderland habitat degradation with the hope that they can combat further border wall development that may pose harm to the environment and wildlife. In a November 2015 trip to a U.S-Mexico border wall in Bisbee, Arizona, Millis told Borderlands campaigners how the jaguar is an “emblematic species for why this wall is problematic…It’s important for wildlife, like the jaguar, to be able to have access to a range. The jaguar used to live in the United States, all the way up to the Grand Canyon… the jaguar’s critical habitat has been established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and it includes areas that are bisected by these walls. And that’s really problematic if we want to see a very majestic species like the jaguar…we’re going to have to these problems like this border wall seriously.”

Millis also informed the campaigners of several other ecological issues associated with border development, including increased erosion, flooding and soil degradation. “We’re encouraging Border Patrol and Homeland Security to keep this stuff in mind as they move forward on projects,” Millis said. “They need to do things in a way that is more sustainable.”

CONTACT: Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign, www.sierraclub.org/borderlands.

Javier Sierra

Pienso y pienso qué otro logro de la hu-manidad se puede comparar con el Acuerdo Climático de París. Y sigo sin encontrar algo que se le parezca, al menos en la historia reci-ente. Para la generación de mi hija, este bien podría ser el alfa-omega de su vida, el final de una amenaza terrible y el principio de una es-peranza fundada.

París ha renovado su título de la Ciudad de la Luz, y ahora la Torre Eiffel alumbra como un faro un optimista porvenir, pese a los enormes retos que todavía confrontamos.

Echemos las campanas al vuelo, pero tam-bién centrémonos en un aspecto de la crisis climática del que hemos oído poco en estos días históricos: los devastadores efectos de la contaminación de los combustibles fósiles en la humanidad. Este es un veneno que socava la salud de cientos de millones de personas en todo el mundo.

Según un estudio de la Organización Mun-dial de la Salud, cada año unas 3.3 millones de personas mueren globalmente debido a la contaminación del aire, “más que el VIH, la malaria y la gripe juntos”. El estudio, sin em-bargo, no incluye enormes regiones del plane-ta, dejando un aterrador interrogante sobre si esa cifra debería ser mucho mayor.

En el norte de China, donde se concentra su industria pesada, la contaminación del aire, abrumadoramente procedente del carbón, re-duce la expectativa de vida de sus 500 millones de habitantes en 5.5 años, un total de 2,500 millones de años perdidos.

Por supuesto, la situación en Estados Unidos, gracias a las salvaguardas medioambientales, es mucho menos dramática. Sin embargo, un reciente estudio revela que para un específico grupo de hispanos la contaminación del aire es particularmente grave.

Los barrios de inmigrantes hispanos en desventaja económica y que no hablan inglés tienen más probabilidades de estar expuestos a tóxicos cancerígenos aéreos que cualquier otra comunidad de Estados Unidos, dice el reporte de la Universidad Estatal de Washington.

“Los peligrosos contaminantes del aire pu-eden causar cáncer y otros defectos congéni-tos graves”, agrega. “La mayoría procede de automóviles y fuentes industriales como fac-torías, refinerías y plantas de combustión de carbón”.

El Dr. Raoul Liévanos, autor del reporte, confeccionó un mapa de Estados Unidos que revela los puntos más contaminados del país —la gran mayoría en el Noreste y California— los cuales coincidieron con frecuencia con la localización de estos barrios hispanos.

El estudio subraya de nuevo las consecuen-cias del desarrollo a mediados del siglo 20 de viviendas segregadas en Estados Unidos. Por aquel entonces, las industrias y otros focos contaminantes se construyeron cerca de bar-rios de inmigrantes no blancos de bajos in-gresos.

Hoy día esto se conoce como injusticias medioambientales, y nosotros los hispanos, inmigrantes y no inmigrantes, las sufrimos desproporcionadamente. Según una encuesta del Sierra Club, el 43% de nosotros vivimos, trabajamos o estudiamos peligrosamente cer-ca de un lugar tóxico —una planta carbonera, una refinería, una autopista.

El Dr. Liévanos espera que su estudio ayude a los urbanistas a planear mucho mejor el emplazamiento de focos industriales lejos de poblaciones vulnerables. Además recomienda que como medida preventiva urgente se es-tablezcan sistemas de alerta de contaminación para informar a la población no solo en inglés sino también es español.

La medida más efectiva para acabar con esta lacra social, no obstante, es la que nos reco-miendan los científicos del mundo: dejar en el subsuelo al menos 2/3 partes de las reservas de combustibles fósiles.

Esto nos permitiría evitar las peores conse-cuencias de la crisis climática en el futuro y sal-var millones de vidas hoy mismo.

Javier Sierra es un columnista del Sierra Club. Sígalo en Twitter @javier_SC

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SHARKS CAPTAIN JOE PAVELSKI AND

DEFENSEMAN BRENT BURNS NAMED TO 2016 HONDA NHL ALL-STAR

GAME

San Jose CALIFRONIA

The National Hockey League (@NHL) announced Wednesday that San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) forward Joe Pavelski and defenseman Brent Burns (@Burnzie88) have been named All-Stars for the 2016 Honda NHL All-Star Game, which will be held in Nashville, TN, on Jan. 31. The game will take place at 2 pm. PST and be broadcast in the United States on NBC Sports Network (@NBCSN).

Burns has recorded 382

points (130 goals, 252 assists) and 504 penalty minutes in 752 career NHL games with

Minnesota and San Jose. This is his third career All-Star Game appearance (2011 & 2014), and his second as a member of the Sharks.

The 6-foot-5, 230-pound

native of Barrie, Ontario, was originally drafted by Minnesota in the first round (20th overall) of the 2003 NHL Draft.

The 31-year-old Pavelski

ranks sixth in the league in goals (20), is tied for ninth in points (38) and is tied for fourth in power-play points (16). Moreover, he ranks first in game-winning goals with seven on the season. Pavelski

leads all Sharks players in goals, points and power-play goals.

Pavelski has scored 248

goals and 275 assists in 680 games, all for San Jose. “Pavs” ranks second in goals, third in assists and third in points (523) in Sharks franchise history. This is his first career All-Star Game appearance.

Pavelski was named team

captain for the 2015-16 season after winning both the “Sharks Player of the Year Award” and “Sharks Foundation Fan Favorite Award” the two seasons prior.

Los Angeles CALIFORNIA

The Warriors won their sec-ond game in as many nights, earning a 109-88 road vic-tory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. Klay Thompson scored a game-high 36 points. Stephen Cur-ry added 17 points and six as-sists, while Draymond Green filled the stat sheet with nine points, 12 rebounds and five assists. With the win, Golden State improves to 33-2, the best start through 35 games in NBA history.

GSW GAME LEADERS

PointsThompson - 36

Curry - 17Speights - 12

ReboundsGreen - 12

Speights - 10Rush - 9

AssistsCurry - 6Clark - 6

Draymond - 5

If the Warriors were fa-tigued playing on the second night of a back-to-back, you couldn’t tell by the way Klay Thompson and Brandon Rush started the game. Each player sank a three-pointer on the Dubs’ first two pos-sessions of the game, and that proved to be a sign of

things to come. Thompson and Rush would combine to score all of the Warriors’ first 25 points of the game, pacing Golden State to a 25-18 lead with 4:57 remaining in the first quarter. Thompson, who had accounted for 17 of those points, would add five more in the first frame for a total of 22 points in the quarter, leading the way for the Dubs as Golden State held a 37-25 lead at the end of one.

Thompson would get a rest to start the second quarter, but the rest of the Warriors picked up the slack in his ab-sence. After Marreese Spei-ghts and Harrison Barnes took turns scoring the first two Golden State baskets of the frame, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green combined to score or assist on all but one of the Warriors’ remaining baskets of the quarter. Curry sank his second three-pointer of the quarter and third of the game with 9.3 seconds left in the half, but Jordan Clarkson would sink a three-pointer of his own with 1.5 seconds re-maining on the clock to send the game into halftime with the Warriors holding a 62-47 advantage. Despite trailing by 15 points, things could have been a lot worse for the Lak-ers. Golden State held Los Angeles to 14-of-42 (.333) shooting in the first half, but the Lakers managed to keep themselves in the game by outscoring the Warriors 16-0 from the free throw line.

The Lakers would cut the deficit to 66-55 with 8:04 remaining in the third quarter, but that was as close as they’d get for the rest of the game. Curry’s fin-ger roll on the ensuing pos-session would kick-start a 22-0 Golden State run over the next five minutes, put-ting the game out of reach for good. Two Klay Thomp-son free throws would give him 36 points in the contest and close out the scoring in the frame, sending the game into the fourth and final quarter with the War-riors leading 92-60.

With the victory well in hand, Luke Walton benched the starters and al-lowed his reserves to finish the game. Little by little, the Lakers would nibble away at the huge deficit, but their efforts were futile. Harrison Barnes scored eight points in the fourth quarter while Marreese Speights chipped in another four, providing more than enough fire-power to seal the win. Los Angeles would outscore Golden State 28-17 in the fi-nal frame and close out the game on a 9-2 run, but they had dug themselves far too deep a hole to climb all the way out of, as the Warriors coasted to a 109-88 victory. With the win, the Warriors advance to 33-2 on the sea-son. They’ll now play the Portland Trail Blazers in their next game on Friday night.

Klay Thompson had a game high 36 points. Credit: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESSNAME STATEMENT

NO. 612027The following person(s) is (are) doing business Chavez Trans-port 3169 Knights Bridge Rd San Jose, CA 95132, Santa Clara Co. Carlos Chavez 3169 Knights Bridge Rd San Jose, CA 95132. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 12/13/2015 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Carlos ChavezJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/15/2015


NO. 612441The following person(s) is (are) doing business Haro’s Janito-rial Service 9359 Monterey Rd. #110 Gilroy CA 95020, Santa Clara Co. Veronica Haro 9359 Monterey Rd. #110 Gil-roy CA 95020. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 12/29/2015 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Veronica HaroJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/29/2015


NO. 612639The following person(s) is (are) doing business Compac Cou-rier Service LLC 5505 Lean Ave San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara Co. Courier Services LLC 5505 Lean Ave San Jose, CA 95123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 11/02/2015 “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.)Jose A. ArujoManagerJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/29/2015


NO. 612361The following person(s) is (are) doing business Very Berry Acai 1935 Poco Way #4 San Jose, CA 95116, Santa Clara Co.

Karen Ortiz 1935 Poco Way #4 San Jose, CA 95116. This business is conducted by an idividual; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 12/01/2015 “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.)Karen OrtizJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/23/2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSEFOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 115cv289694Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Bich Thi Ngoc Nguyen. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Bich Thi Ngoc Nguyen, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as fol-lows: a Bich Thi Ngoc Nguyen to Loan Ngoc Nguyen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this mat-ter 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 02/23/2016 at 8:45 am, 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. January 4, 2016Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 115cv289584Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Marissa Tayag. TO ALL INTER-ESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Marissa Tayag, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree chang-ing names as follows: a. Aubrey Jae Medenilla to Aubrey Jae Tayag. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted on 02/16/2016 at 8:45 am, lo-cated at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in El Observador, a newspaper of general circu-lation, printed in the county of

Santa Clara. December 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 115cv288877Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Gregory Trae Banks Flores III. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS: The court finds that petitioner, Gregory Trae Banks Flores III, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Gregory Trae Banks Flores III to Gregory Allen Corbo. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this mat-ter 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 02/9/2016 at 8:45 am, 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. December 10, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 115cv289601Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Yen-Van Thi Le and Liem Quoc Nguyen. TO ALL INTEREST-ED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioners, Yen-Van Thi Le and Liem Quoc Nguyen, have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Parker James Nguyen to Parker Le Nguyen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this mat-ter 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 02/16/2016 at 8:45 am, 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. December 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 115cv289682Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Jen-ny Lee Weatherred-Magpantay. TO ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS: The court finds that pe-titioner, Jenny Lee Weatherred-Magpantay, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree

changing names as follows: a. Jenny Lee Weatherred-Mag-pantay aka Jenny Lee Weath-erred to Jenny Lee Magpantay. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this mat-ter 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 02/23/2016 at 8:45 am, 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. December 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 115cv287352Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Rosa Baltazar TO ALL IN-TERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Rosa Baltazar, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a Anthony Javier Aguirre to Anthony Javier Herrera. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this mat-ter 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 02/16/2016 at 8:45 am, 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. December 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtJanuary 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016


NO. 611983The following person(s) is (are) doing business1. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Surgery, 2. Center for Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, 3. Center Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 4. Center for Oral Facial Surgery, 5. Center for Oral Surgery, 6. Los Gatos Center for Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, 7. Los Gatos Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 8. Los Gatos Center for Oral and Facial Surgery, 9. Los Gatos Center for Oral Surgery, 10. Los Gatos Maxillo-Facial Surgeons, 11. Los Gatos Maxillo-Facial Surgery, 12. Los Gatos Maxillo-facial Surgeons, 13. Los Gatos Maxillofacial Surgery 14. Los Gatos OMFS Center 15. Los Gatos OMS Center 16. Los Gatos Oral & Facial Surgery, 17. Los Gatos Oral & Maxillofa-cial Surgery 18. Los Gatos Oral and Aesthetics Surgery Center 19. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Center 20. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Specialist 21. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Surgeons 22. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Surgery Associates, 23. Los Gatos Oral and Facial Surgery Center 24. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillo-Facial Specialist 25. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons 26. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, 27. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Associates 28. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Center 29. . Los Gatos Oral and Maxillofacial Specialists, 30. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 31. Los Gatos Oral and Maxil-lofacial Surgery, 32. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates 33. Los Gatos Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cen-ter 34.Los Gatos Oral Surgeons

35. Los Gatos Oral Surgery 36. Los Gatos Oral Surgery As-sociates 37. . Los Gatos Oral Surgery Center 38. . Los Gatos Oral Surgery Specialist 39. Oral and Facial Surgeons of Los Ga-tos 40. Oral and Facial Surgery 41. Oral and Facial Surgery As-sociates of Los Gatos 42. Oral and Facial Surgery Center of Los Gatos 43. Oral and Facial Surgery of Los Gatos 44. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons of Los Gatos 45. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Associates of Los Gatos 46. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Center 47. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Center of Los Gatos 48. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery of Los Gatos 49. Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Specialist of Los Gatos 50. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of Los Gatos 51. . Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Los Gatos 52. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Center 53. . Oral and Maxil-lofacial Surgery Center of Los Gatos 54. Oral and Maxillofa-cial Surgery of Los Gatos 55. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Specialist of Los Gatos 56. Oral Facial Surgery Center of Los Gatos 57. Oral Surgeons of Los Gatos 58. Oral Surgery Associ-ates of Los Gatos 59. Oral Sur-gery Center 60. Oral Surgery Specialists of Los Gatos 61 Los Gatos Oral Facial Surgery , 14830 Los Gatos Blvd. #200 Los Gatos Ca 95032 , Santa Clara Co. Lee Walker 15965 Grandview Ave Monte Sereno, CA 95030. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 12/23/2010. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Lee WalkerDecember 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/11/2015


NO. 611667The following person(s) is (are) doing business All Bright Main-tenance 979 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara Co. All Bright Mainte-nance INC. 979 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95126. This business is conducted by a corporation; registrant has begun business under the ficti-tious business name or names listed hereon, 10/13/2011 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and cor-rect.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Ernie AndradePresidentDecember 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/03/2015

NAME STATEMENTNO. 612249

The following person(s) is (are) doing business Fat Glass Gallery 3283 De Le Cruz Blvd Santa Clara, CA 95045, Santa Clara Co. Jeffery D Mitchell 313 Klamath Rd Milpitas, CA 95035. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has not begun business under the ficti-tious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Jeffery D. Mitchell December 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/18/2015


The following person(s) is (are) doing business Beno G 2000 Evans Ln #2 San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara Co. Benil Bablo2000 Evans Ln #2 San Jose, CA 95125. This business is conducted by an individual; registrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 12/17/2015 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Beneil BabloDecember 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/17/2015


The following person(s) is (are) doing business Cloud Bistro 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Moun-tain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara Co. Catered Too Inc. 325 Demeter St East Palo Alto Ca 94303. This business is con-ducted by a corporation; regis-trant has not begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and cor-rect.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Greg CasellaCEODecember 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/10/2015

Statement of Abandonmentof Use of Fictitious Business

NameNO. 612083

The following person/entity has abandoned the use of the ficti-tious business nameOh My Su-shi 2595 California St Ste C&D Mountain View, CA 94040, San-ta Clara Co. HKOCEAN LLC 371 Fair Oaks Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and was filed in Santa Clara County on 06/24/2015 under file no. 606380Jae Ho HwangManagerDecember 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/15/2015

SUMMONS ON FIRST AMENDED COM-PLAINT IN INTERPLEADER(CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: SYED MUDASSIR SHAH, an individual; GINA VASQUEZ, an individual; CITY OF SAN JOSEA POLITICAL SUBDI-VISION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, a political sub-division; COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, A POLITICAL SUBDI-VISION - OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, a political subdi-vision; GCFS, INC., a California corporation; B.V.S., INC. dba Calhomes, a California corpo-ration; PROFESSIONAL COL-LECTION CONSULTANTS, a California corporation, and DOES 1-20, inclusive,YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): CHICAGO TITLE COMPANY., a California corporation

NOTICEl You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard

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EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 15LEGAL CLASSIFIEDSJANUARY 08-14 2016unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the Cali-fornia Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/Selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse near-est you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal require-ments. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a non-profit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Le-gal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the Cali-fornia Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar asso-ciation. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVI-so Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALEN-DARIO después de que le en-treguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito fiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.su-corte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formu-lario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su re-spuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más adver-tencia.Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gra-tuitos de un programa de ser-vicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVSO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de

arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el grava-men de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

Case Number: (Numero de Caso)114CV273228The name and address of the court is: El nombre y dirección de la corte es:

Superior Court of County of Santa Clara Downtown Superior Court191 North Street San Jose, CA 95113The name, address, and tele-phone number of plaintiffs attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la di-rección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):Lori C. Hershorin (SBN 155977) (3053-262) (949) 859-5600 (949) 859-5680 Jason R. Burris (SBN 268790) HERSHORIN & HENRY LLP 27422 Portola Parkway, Suite 360, Foothill Ranch, CA 92610Date: December 30, 2014 Clerk, by S.Smith . Deputy(Fecha) (Sec-retario) (adjunto)

December 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016

Order for Publication or Posting of Summons

Ana Maria Ayala719 Franklin CtSan Jose, CA 95127

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF Santa Clara MAILING ADDRESS: 191 North First St. CITY AND ZIP CODE: San Jose, CA 95113

Petitioner: Ana Maria AyalaRespondent: Leslie James Schopeck ORDER FOR PUBLICATION

OR POSTING Case No. 115FL172686

Publication Granted: The Court finds that the Respondent cannot be served in any other manner specified in the Cali-fornia Code of Civil Procedure. The Court orders that the Sum-mons is served by publication in the newspaper listed below. Publication must occur at least once a week for four successive weeks. EL OBSERVADOR

If during the time of Publication or Posting you locate the Re-spondent’s address you must have someone 18 years or older mail the Summons, Peti-tion and Order for Publication to the Respondent. The server must complete and file with the Court a Proof of Service or Mail, FL-335.

Date:Dec 07, 2015 Published: December 25, 2015 January 1, 8, 15, 2016

SUMMONSOn 1st Amended Petition(Family Law)

NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): Leslie James Scho-peckAVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): You have been sued. Lo han demandado.

Petitioner’s name is: Ana Maria AyalaNombre del demandante:

Case Number (Número de caso):115FL172686

You have 30 CALENDER

DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A let-ter, phone call, or court appear-ance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web Site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS CORRIDOS después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o lla-mada telefónica o una audien-cia de la corte NO basta para protegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matri-monio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hi-jos. La corte también puede or-denar que pague manutención y honorarios y costos legales.

Si desea obtener asesoramien-to legal, pónganse en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.su-corte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de Cali-fornia (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

NOTICE; The restraining or-ders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforce-ment officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

AVISO; Las órdenes de restric-ción están en vigencia en cu-anto a ambos conyuges miem-bros de la pareja de hecho has-ta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas or-denes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

NOTICE: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may or-der you to pay back all or part of the fees and cost that the court waived for you and the other party.

Exencion De Cuotas: Ai no puede pagar la cuota de pre-sentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de exencion de cuo-tas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuatas y cos-tos de la corte previamente ex-entos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.

1. The name and address of the court is (el nombre y direc-ción de la corte son): Surerior Court of California, county of Santa Clara170 Park Ave San Jose, CA 95113

2. The name, address, and telephone number of petition-er’s attorney, or the petitioner

without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección, y número de teléfono del abo-gado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abo-gado, son):

Ana Maria Ayala719 Franklin CtSan Jose, CA 95127

Date (Fecha): November 30, 2015 Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Eliza-beth Duran Deputy (Asistente) WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION

WARNING: California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon disso-lution of a marriage or domes-tic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be com-munity property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community prop-erty is divide, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or commu-nity property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should con-sult your attorney if you want the community property pre-sumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS

Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic part-ner are restrained from

1.Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other par-ty or an order of the court.

2.Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, dispos-ing of, or changing the benefi-ciaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children:

3.Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any prop-erty, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and

4.Creating a nonprobate trans-fer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that af-fects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonpro-bate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to prop-erty can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary ex-penditures at least five business days prior to incurring these ex-traordinary expenditures and account to the court for all ex-traordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However you may use community property, quasi-community property, or you own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

ADVERTENCIA – INFORMA-CION IMPORTANTE

ADVERTENCIA: De acu-erdo a la ley de California, las propieades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma con-junta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para los fines de la división de bienes que ocurre

cuando se produce una disolu-ción o separación legal del ma-trimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso llega a fallecer antes de que se divida la propiedad co-munitaria de tenencia conjunta, el destino de la misma quedará determinado por las cláusulas de la escritura correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por ej. tenencia conjunta, tenencia en común o propiedad comu-nitaria) y no por la presunción de propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que la presunción comu-nitaria que registrada en la es-critura de la propiedad, debería consultar con un abogado.

ORDENES DE RESTRICCION NORMALES DE DERECHO FAMILIAR

En forma inmediata, usted y su conyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido:

1.Llevarse de estado de Califor-nia a los hijos menores de las partes, si los hubiera, sin el con-sentimiento previo por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte.

2.Cobrar, pedir prestado, can-celar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier se-guro u otro tipo de cobertura, tal como de vida, salud, vehículo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a las partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es);

3.Transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cu-alquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o per-sonal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separada, sin el consentimiento escrito de la otra parte o una oarden de la corte, con excepción las operaciones realizadas en el curso normal de actividades o para satisfacer las necesidades de la vida; y

4.Crear o modificar una trans-ferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte el destino de una propiedad sujeta a transfer-encia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de la otra parte o una or-den de la corte. Antes de que se pueda eliminar la revocación de una transferencia no testamen-taria, se debe presentar ante la corte un aviso del cambio y hacer una entrega legal de di-cho aviso a la otra parte.

Cada parte tiene que notificar a la otra sobre cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto, por lo menos cinco días laborales an-tes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a la corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados después de que estas órdenes de restricción hayan entrado en vigencia. No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya sepa-rada para pagar a un abogado o para ayudarle a pagar los costos de la corte.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: Es-meralda De La Cruz, Lidia Gar-cia, and DOES 1-10 Inclusive(AVISO AL DEMANDADO)

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: Yujeong Ko(LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): NOTICEl You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the

court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the Cali-fornia Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/Selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse near-est you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal require-ments. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a non-profit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Le-gal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the Cali-fornia Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar asso-ciation. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVI-so Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALEN-DARIO después de que le en-treguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito fiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.su-corte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formu-lario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su re-spuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más adver-tencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gra-tuitos de un programa de ser-vicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVSO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el grava-men de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

Case Number: (Numero de Caso)115CV276881The name and address of the

court is: El nombre y dirección de la corte es:

Santa Clara Superior Court191 North Street San Jose, CA 95113The name, address, and tele-phone number of plaintiffs attor-ney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del deman-dante que no tiene abogado, es):James C. Hann 215778 408-755-9793 408-702-2434 Hann Law Firm 560 S. Winchester Blvd. Ste 500 San Jose, CA 95128Date: February 18, 2015 Clerk, by C. Pace . Deputy(Fecha) (Secretario) (adjunto)December 25 2015; January 1, 8, 15 2016


NO. 612061The following person(s) is (are) doing business El Rincon Taque-ria 1460 Old Oakland Road San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara Co. Cesar Alejandro Jimenez Lozano 1699 Orlando Dr San Jose, CA 95122. This business is con-ducted by an individual; registrant has not begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Cesar Alejandro Jimenez Lozano December 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/15/2015


NO. 612082The following person(s) is (are) doing business Midtown Motors, Inc 1333 W. San Carlos St San Jose CA 95126, Santa Clara Co. Midtown Motors, Inc 1333 W. San Carlos St San Jose CA 95126. This business is conducted by a corporation; registrant has not begun business under the ficti-tious business name or names listed hereon. “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)Majid EtemadiSecretary December 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/15/2015


NO. 612011The following person(s) is (are) doing business Romero Bob Cat Service 9610 Monterey Rd. Morgan Hill CA 95037, Santa Clara Co. Alfredo Romero 9610 Monterey Rd Morgan Hill CA 95037, CA 95122. This business is conducted by an individual; reg-istrant has begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed hereon, 5/30/2008. “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.)Alfredo RomeroDecember 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/14/2015

Statement of Abandonmentof Use of Fictitious Business

NameNO. 612060

The following person/entity has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: El Rincon Ta-queria 460 Old Oakland Rd San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara Co. Juan M Munoz 1460 Old Oakland Rd. San Jose, CA 95112. This

business was conducted by an individual and was filed in Santa Clara County on 03/17/2011 un-der file no. 549310Juan M Munoz December 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara on 12/15/2015

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF

SUMMONSOn First Amended Petition

No. 1-12FL163401Petitioner: Gilbert B. Dalit, 2395 Ridgeglen Way, San Jose, CA 95133. Respondent: Xenia E. Belmonte-Dalit. Petitioner was granted permission to serve by publication as the Respondent, Xenia E. Belmonte-Dalit, failed to appear at the Status Conference on 3/13/14 with the Honorable Philip H. Pennypacker. The next Court date for the Status Confer-ence in regards to Dissolution of Marriage is: 9/4/14 at 1:31pm, Dept.76 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. Street address: 170 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95113. Mailing address:191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. Both Petitioner and Respondent or their attorneys must attend this Status Conference. This Orders After Status Confer-ence was endorsed on March 13, 2014December 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016


NO. 115cv289076Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Pla-men Dobrev Cartwright. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Plamen Dobrev Cartwright, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Plamen Dobrev Cartwright to Plamen Dobrev Dobrev. 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 peti-tion for change of name should not be granted on 02/09/2015 at 8:45 am, 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 newspaper of general circu-lation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. December 16, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtDecember 18, 25 2015; January 1, 8, 2016


NO. 115cv288543Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Song Chol Yi. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The court finds that petitioner, Song Chol Yi, has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as fol-lows: a Song Chol Yi nto Daniel Lee. 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 peti-tion for change of name should not be granted on 1/26/2016 at 8:45 am, 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 newspaper of general circu-lation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. November 30, 2015Thomas E. KuhnleJudge of the Superior CourtDecember 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015

The Force Awakens Becomes Highest Grossing Domestic Film of All-Time

This afternoon, with early box office results in, Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the highest grossing film of all time in the domes-tic market, surpassing the $760.5M lifetime gross of

Avatar in a record-shattering 20 days of release. In ad-dition, the film crossed the $800M mark at the interna-tional box office today.

Through Jan. 5, the film had grossed $758.2M do-mestically and $799.1M for a global total of $1,557.3M since its Dec. 16 global debut.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted in the US and Canada on Dec. 18, its first two weeks pushing the domestic annual industry box office to an all-time high of $11B. It has set numerous individual records including:

· Fastest film to reach $100M (21 hours), $200M

(3 days), $300M (5 days), $400M (8 days), $500M (10 days), $600M (12 days), and $700M (16 days)

·Biggest all-time debut and biggest December debut ($247.966M), propelling the industry to the biggest overall moviegoing weekend of all time ($313.3M for all films, Dec. 18-20)

· Biggest second weekend of all time ($149.2M), propel-ling the industry to the big-gest overall Christmas week-end of all time ($296.4M for all films, Dec. 25-27)

· Biggest third weekend of all time ($90.2M)

· Biggest Thursday preview gross ($57M)

· Biggest Friday, opening, and single day ($119.1M)

· Biggest Sunday ($60.55M), Monday

($40.1M), and Tuesday ($37.3M)

· Biggest Christmas Day ($49.3M) and New Year’s

Day ($34.39M)

· Highest per-theater average for a wide debut

($59,982)

· Biggest opening week ($390.85M)

· Biggest IMAX debut ($30.1M)

Globally, the film posted the highest global opening week-end of all time ($528.967M) and surpassed $1B in a re-cord 12 days. It also had the biggest global IMAX de-but ($48M) and surpassed $152M in IMAX in a record 19 days. It was the highest international debut in De-cember history with $281M, and it remains #1 in many territories after posting the biggest opening weekend in at least 18 major markets.

Named one of AFI’s top 10 films of 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens now heads into its fourth weekend of global release ahead of a de-but in its final international market, China, on Jan. 9.

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com16 MOVIES JANUARY 08-14 2016

Inspired by true events,

THE REVENANT is an epic story of survival and transformation on the American frontier. While on an expedition into the uncharted wilderness, leg-endary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is bru-tally mauled by a bear, then abandoned by members of his own hunting team. Alone and near death, Glass re-fuses to succumb. Driven by sheer will and his love for his Native American wife and son, he undertakes a 200-mile odyssey through the vast and untamed West on the trail of the man who be-trayed him: John Fitzger-ald (Tom Hardy). What begins as a relentless quest for revenge becomes a he-roic saga against all odds to-wards home and redemp-tion. THE REVENANT is directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Glass’s mythology began in 1823, when he was among thousands joining the fur trade, a driving new force in the US economy. It was a time when many saw the wild as a spiritual void that demanded to be tamed and conquered by the steeliest of men. And so they poured into the unknown, plying unmapped rivers, disap-pearing into impossibly lush forests, seeking not only ex-citement and adventure but also profits -- often in fierce competition with the Native tribes for whom these lands had long been home.

Many such men died anon-ymously, but Glass entered

the annals of American folklore by flat-out refusing to die. His legend sparked after he faced one of the West’s most feared dangers: a startled grizzly bear. For even the most tested fron-tiersmen that should have been the end. But not for Glass. In Iñárritu’s telling of the tale, a mauled Glass clings to life – then suffers a human betrayal that fuels him to continue at any cost. In spite of tremendous loss, Glass pulls himself from an early grave – clawing his way through a gauntlet of unknown perils and unfa-miliar cultures on a jour-ney that becomes not just a search for reckoning but for redemption. As Glass moves through the frontier in turmoil, he comes to re-ject the urge for destruction that once drove him. He has become a “revenant” -- one returned from the dead.

Says Iñárritu: “Glass’s story asks the questions: Who are we when we are completely stripped of ev-erything? What are we made of and what are we capable of?” Adds Leon-ardo DiCaprio: “The Rev-enant is an incredible jour-ney through the harshest elements of an uncharted America. It’s about the power of a man’s spirit. Hugh Glass’s story is the stuff of campfire legends, but Alejandro uses that folklore to explore what it really means to have all the chips stacked against you, what the human spirit can endure and what happens to you when you do endure.”

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com 17ENTERTAINMENT JANUARY 08-14 2016

Game of Thrones star reveals what

is was like working on the smart,

supernatural thriller “The Forest”

Arturo HilarioEL OBSERVADOR

During pre-production of the new horror film “The For-est”, English actress Natalie Dormer stood serene in front of the Aokigahara Forest in Japan, (located at the base of Mount Fuji) and looked into the dense, deep abyss. Known as the “suicide forest” and the “sea of trees”, Aokigahara is, in a grim statistic, one of the most popular suicide spots in the world.

Dormer says, “my Japanese driver refused to step out the path, not even five meters to take a photograph with me, which I thought was very tell-ing.”

This Japanese forest plays a major role in the film, as main protagonist Sara (Dormer) must leave all she is familiar with to travel across the world and try to find her twin sister Jess, who has mysteriously disappeared into Aokigahara. The film version of the forest mirrors people’s fears and se-crets, in horrific fashion.

“I found the concept of the script really fascinating. I love this idea that someone would walk into a forest and all their baggage, all their demons, all their unfinished business would then be able to physical-ly manifest itself and force you to confront it. I thought that was very clever because we all have history and baggage that we haven’t come to terms with, that’s what it means to be hu-man,” says Dormer.

Another aspect that Dormer felt strongly about was the connection between the two

sisters in the film. “The central relationship, being this beau-tiful sister relationship, that’s something you don’t see all that often.”

The dynamic between the two sisters is a central plot point, even if they are not together on screen a lot. “She (Sara) is like the perfect all-American wife. She lives in a lovely house with a nice kitchen, with a great car, a great husband, great job, so you see this woman who seems to have everything, and what you come to realize is that she is this overachiever due to a suppression of past events, a history. That control freakery is kind of brought on by a fear of facing her past.”

This mystery surrounding the sisters past events, and main reason why Sara is very controlling of her own life, has a lot to do with her sister Jess’ status in the film. “Her sister, who she loves more than any-thing in the world, has gone the other way, they share the same history but (Jess) has be-come the wild child, looked at the darkness in life, and the ir-responsible one. So it’s kind of interesting trying to work out ostensibly which sister looks like she’s stronger and then maybe that actually contra-dicts itself.”

When creating this environ-ment of “The Forest”, Dormer says that she and the filmmak-ers though of it as one’s own adaptations of their fears, as opposed to the forest just being an evil force. “It would be accu-rate to call the forest a charac-ter, but whether its a malevo-lent character I don’t know. I don’t see the forest necessarily as an evil thing, I just see the forest as having a power to re-flect your own inner demons back at you. So therefore every person that walks into it has to face their own demons, which is kind of a nod to the truth of the real Aokigahara forest. When people go into that for-est to contemplate their mor-tality, they are in a sense facing their demons. So I think it’s a

very poignant charm in that regard. I think that’s why it has more of a thinking person’s el-ement than being just a really good ride.”

When crafting the charac-ter of Sarah, Dormer explains what she did, or didn’t do to prepare for the role. “Well its actually funny because its probably the first role I’ve ever taken where I didn’t do much research because the whole premise is that Sara doesn’t know anything about Japa-nese culture. She’s completely alienated and isolated, feel-ing vulnerable, because of the culture shock, because of her ignorance.” Principle photog-raphy began its first week in Japan, thus Dormer had the rare opportunity to be thrown into this world much like Sara. “I got to Japan and was bombarded by the sensory ex-perience of how different the culture is, I tried to hold onto that sensation and tried to use it on set.”

While there was footage shot in Japan, principle photogra-phy was shot in the Serbian wilderness (filming is not al-lowed at Aokigahara forest). So when the cast did go explore the real Aokigahara, Dormer says, “I went up with my Japa-nese driver and you know it’s a beautiful place, you can see why it’s spiritually important to the Japanese, there’s an aw-ful lot of heritage, respect and tradition surrounding it.”

Her experience is both telling of some aspects of the film’s human element and a testa-ment to the power of the mind and nature. “The day I went the birds were singing, it was a beautiful blue sky day and there were families hiking on the path. You’re aware of this other element because there are signs every now and then saying to people in a multitude of languages, ‘please, don’t hurt yourself, think about your families. If that’s why you have come here, here is a help line’. And you see a bit of rope tied

every now and then so I felt a bit of sad more than anything, there was no real spookiness or eeriness or darkness to it. I think all of those things are what we as humans project onto a place.”

Dormer adds that this film is a perfect candidate to watch this upcoming weekend and beyond. “It’s a perfect antidote to the January blues that we all feel when Christmas is over, and the fondest new year cel-ebration is over, and everyone

feels a bit depressed (she is joking at this point). Go to the theater and jump start with a good scare, which also has a re-ally beautiful human element to it as well, and kick off the new year with a bang.

Finally, Dormer leaves us with an idea of what to expect when the screen goes dark and we are welcomed into their representation of the “sea of trees”. “It’s a psycholog-ical horror, it has strong sus-pense thriller elements to it. It

has the fright, and the scares, it gives you the thrill ride as you would want and expect on an entertainment level from a horror movie but it has, if you so choose, some thoughtful themes about personal re-lationships, about guilt and love and family relationships, about your relationship with yourself and facing pain that maybe we all hold.”

“The Forest” roams into the-aters January 8th, 2016.

EL OBSERVADOR | www.el-observador.com18 VIBRAS JANUARY 08-14 2016

AriesInicias el año 2016 con nuevas ilusiones y proyectos, ármate de pacien-

cia porque Mercurio estará retrógrado hasta el día 25, sé tolerante y no prestes atención a personas conflictivas. Proyectos laborales marcharán por muy buen camino. Continúa ejercitándote. Números de la suerte: 18-28-29-31-32-54

TauroDurante este mes tu mundo emocional y romántico tendrá mucha ac-

tividad, el viento soplará a tu favor en todo lo referente a trabajo, labores o nuevas ocupaciones. Es probable que tengas que hacer algunos gastos que no tenías previstos. Ten precaución al conducir. Números de la suer-te: 6-11-24-32-38-40

GéminisTu regente, Mercurio, estará retrógrado hasta el día 25, los sectores que

observarán anomalías serán los negocios, las comunicaciones y el trans-porte. Ten cuidado con extraviar artículos de valor o documentos. Nece-sitarás una dosis extra de paciencia al tratar a los demás. Números de la suerte: 20-22-34-45-55-66

CáncerLa influencia del planeta Urano en tu décima casa astrológica te será de

mucho beneficio a la hora de realizar acuerdos laborales, recibir aumen-tos y mejorar tu economía en general. Tu prioridad será el mantenimien-to de un buen estado de salud. Un padecimiento de salud será sanado totalmente. Números de la suerte: 13-17-21-33-43-46

LeoDa inicio un periodo muy productivo en tu vida, negocios, trabajo y ac-

tividades artísticas, serán facetas que contarán con muy buena estrella. El único inconveniente será la retrogradación de Venus hasta el día 25, este aspecto planetario puede causarte contratiempos y contrariedades. Números de la suerte: 15-19-26-32-51-60

VirgoTu planeta regente estará retrógrado hasta el día 25, esto no significa

mala suerte, pero es un aviso para que conduzcas con mucho cuidado y pongas más atención en tus desplazamientos. No te involucres en pro-blemas ajenos. Habrá sorpresas agradables a fin de mes. Números de la suerte: 4-12-34-36-45-54

LibraLa posición de los astros anuncia un incremento en tu energía y muy

buena suerte con las finanzas. Haz logrado organizarte y sabes como sa-carle provecho a cada situación. El mejor regalo que recibirás del univer-so en este periodo será la felicidad en el amor, pero de ti depende que sea duradera. Números de la suerte: 9-10-14-25-32-34

EscorpiónMarte, el planeta de la pasión y la energía se encuentra navegando en

tu signo, sentirás una dosis extra de vitalidad, tus planes a corto plazo se realizarán de forma espontánea y la vida te sonreirá. Decidirás cuidar más tu cuerpo, tu salud en general y tu alimentación. Números de la suerte: 30-31-39-42-43-56

SagitarioLa retrogradación de tu planeta regente unida a la posición de Saturno

y el tránsito de Venus en tu signo, traerá a tu vida muchas situaciones in-sospechadas, tu carácter y buen juicio serán puestos a prueba. Decidirás cuidar más tu salud, manteniendo un peso adecuado y procurando ser más feliz. Números de la suerte: 16-19-28-29-52-63

CapricornioCambios repentinos, mudanzas y situaciones totalmente inesperadas,

vivirás durante este mes. Muy pronto Venus visitará tu signo haciendo que tu vida se llene de motivaciones y momentos alegres. Éste será un mes decisivo en tu vida romántica. ¡Feliz cumpleaños! Números de la suerte: 3-15-21-29-34-59

AcuarioMuy pronto dará inicio tu nuevo ciclo solar, es aconsejable que todo tipo

de transacciones, viajes y proyectos laborales los realices a partir del día 26 en adelante. Antes de esa fecha mantente a la expectativa y no incu-rras en gastos innecesarios.Números de la suerte: 2-7-25-34-45-69

PiscisChirón, un potente asteroide, se encuentra navegando tu signo. Su in-

fluencia es muy positiva, especialmente trae alivio a problemas de salud, padecimientos emocionales y penas causadas por seres queridos. Es pre-sagio que este mes llegará a su epílogo una situación que te causaba pe-sar. Números de la suerte: 6-15-24-38-45-54

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Mario Jiménez CastilloEL OBSERVADOR

Shelly Palmer

The newly named CTA™ (Consumer Technology As-sociation, formerly the Con-sumer Electronics Associa-tion or CEA) has been hold-ing the newly named CES® 2016 show (Consumer Elec-tronics Show, formerly In-ternational CES) this week. Here’s what to expect in the roundup of all the new tech.

Things You Can Talk ToIf you’re not a lover of the

QWERTY keyboard (de-signed in 1868 by Christo-pher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, with the spe-cific intention of slowing you down so that the letter strik-ers were less likely to jam), rejoice! It may be nearing the end of days. “Hey Siri,” “OK Google,” “Alexa,” “Cor-tana” — we are getting close to a time where voice recog-nition will be really useful. Expect to see enhanced and extended voice command ca-pabilities in practically every device that might need them. We’ll be talking to a lot of in-animate objects this year. It should be fun.

Man/Machine Partnerships

From wooden spears to stone axes, our partnerships with tools predate history. At CES 2016 we’re going to see man/machine partnerships taken to a new level. We’re al-ready partnered with services like Google search, IMDB and Wolfram Alpha to out-source our memory. We’re partnered with services like Google Maps and WAZE to outsource our way-finding. Now we’re going to partner with our cars to outsource part of our driving. Semi-autonomous tools such as lane assist, self-parking and adaptive cruise control are just the beginning. By 2020 the big car makers will have

fully autonomous vehicles ready to go.

Data, Data and More DataBy 2019 analysts predict

that only 49 percent of data in the cloud will be from PCs, and the biggest drivers of the shift will be smartphones and IoT.

Analysts expect the In-dustrial Internet (another name for IoT, the Internet of Things) to generate over 500 zettabytes in 2019 — 49 times current cloud traffic. Of course, consumer cloud usage will grow as well.

You’re wondering what a zettabyte is. OK, let’s do it. One bit or binary digital is the smallest (and largest) unit of computer data. Bits are generally arranged and stored in eight-bit multiples called bytes. One thousand bytes equals a kilobyte or KB. One million bytes equals a megabyte or MB. One billion bytes equals a gigabyte or GB. One trillion bytes equals a terabyte or TB.

We all know about how much we can store on a one-terabyte drive, so let’s do the rest of the ordinals related to the number of terabytes — it will be easier to deal with.

A petabyte or one PB is equal to 1,000 terabytes. An exabyte or EB is equal to a million terabytes and a zettabyte or ZB, the size of the number we are trying to understand, is equal to one billion terabytes. If that’s how much data we’ll store in the cloud by 2019, you might as well know that 500 zettabytes is equal to half a yottabyte, and a yottabyte or YB is equal to one trillion terabytes. Now, that’s a yotta data — sorry, I couldn’t resist.

TVs Will Be Better and Cheaper

Get ready for super-thin, super-cheap, super-awesome 4K TVs. If you’re buying a TV today, you don’t really need a 4K set, but if you’re going to buy a set when these new models become available (in about a year or two), you will enjoy amazing color space, incredible dynamic range (whiter whites and blacker blacks), astounding resolu-tion and unnoticeable refresh rates. We’re even going to see flexible screens on display which, when productized, will usher in a true paradigm shift.

VR and AR

VR (virtual reality) is all anyone is going to talk about at CES this year. Someday, it will find its place. It’s the 3D TV of CES 2016 (Please don’t send me hate mail — I know VR is going to be big and awe-some someday. The day is not today, the year is not this year. Over time, VR will evolve into what it’s going to be. Today, it represents a parlor trick, not a paradigm shift.) The hype machine is working overtime. In practice, it is very, very, very early days.

It is also early days for AR (augmented reality), but you can expect this technology to find fast adoption in both industrial and consumer uses. Its capabilities are tied to cloud computing power and network capabilities, which can both be calculated on well-understood industry power curves.

Drones for EveryoneDelivery drones, camera

drones, tiny drones, spy drones, follow-me drones, smart drones — there’s a drone for everyone. If you are considering any type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), you’ll find some ver-sion of it at CES. I’m a partic-ular fan of camera drones that follow the action and have ob-stacle avoidance built in. I’m

also a fan of super-tiny indoor drones — they’re just fun!

It’s Important to Be Important

One undeclared, but in-your-face, battle at CES will be for the right to be the cen-ter of your personal commu-

nications universe. Today, and for the foreseeable future, this honor is bestowed on your smartphone. But what single app will win the day? Sam-sung wants to “own” you. So does Apple. In fact, almost anyone with a hope of win-ning this battle is doing ev-erything it can to get a prime

spot on the lower right-hand side of your smartphone screen — just under your right thumb (left for lefties). What technology at CES will be important enough for you to give it your thumb? CES will sure try to make that answer a difficult one.

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La principal red de televisión por Internet

en el mundo ya está disponible en más de

190 países

Las Vegas NEVADA

Netflix lanzó el servicio a nivel global, al llevar simul-táneamente la red de TV por Internet a más de 130 nuevos países. El anuncio se hizo, al mismo tiempo que el servicio

se hizo disponible, durante el discurso de su cofundador y CEO Reed Hastings en la Feria de Electrónica de Con-sumo CES 2016.

“Hoy, son testigos del nacimiento de una nueva red global de televisión por

Internet”, afirmó Hastings. “Con este lanzamiento, con-sumidores de todo el mundo, desde Singapur a San Peters-burgo, de San Francisco a São Paulo, podrán ver las mismas películas y programas de televisión al mismo tiempo y sin esperas. Con la ayuda de Internet, estamos brindando el poder a los consumidores para que puedan ver conteni-dos cuando y donde quieran, en el dispositivo que elijan”.

Por una tarifa mensual, los miembros de todo el mundo podrán disfrutar de series originales de Netflix, tales como Marvel - Daredevil y Marvel - Jessica Jones, Narcos, Sense 8, Grace and Frankie y Marco Polo así como un catálogo de pro-gramas de TV y películas li-cenciadas. Durante el 2016, la empresa tiene previsto lanzar 31 series originales

nuevas y otras temporadas de las existentes, más de 20 largometrajes y documen-tales, una gran variedad de especiales de “stand up” y 30 series originales infantiles, disponibles al mismo tiempo para los miembros de todos los territorios donde Netflix está disponible.

Aunque el inglés es el idioma predominante en la mayoría de los países recién agregados al servicio, Netflix incorporó el árabe, el coreano, y el chino simplificado y tradicional a los 17 idiomas con los que ya contaba.

“Desde hoy, escucharemos opiniones, aprenderemos y gradualmente iremos añadi-endo más idiomas, más con-tenido y otras maneras para que la gente disfrute de Net-flix”, explicó Hastings. “Esta-mos muy entusiasmados de

llevar las mejores historias de todo el mundo al público global”.

Netflix todavía no estará disponible en China, aunque se siguen buscando opcio-nes para brindar el servicio. Tampoco estará disponible en Crimea, Corea del Norte ni Siria, debido a restricciones impuestas por el Gobierno de Estados Unidos a las empre-sas norteamericanas.

Netflix está disponible en casi cualquier dispositivo con conexión a Internet in-cluyendo computadoras personales, tabletas, Smart-phones, Smart TV y conso-las de videojuegos. Debido a la tecnología avanzada de recomendaciones de Netflix miembros pueden descubrir otros contenidos especifico a sus gustos. Mas información en www.netflix.com.

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