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TRUMP VS. DESANTIS: A TOURNAMENT OF RADICALS

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Conla entrada del gobernador de Florida Ron DeSantis a la disputa por la nominación republicana contra Donald Trump, la carrera de los conservadores se convertirá en un torneo de aspirantes antinmigrantes y xenófobos.

El 10 de mayo, Día de las Madres para los mexicanos, salvadoreños, guatemaltecos y hondureños, DeSantis promulgó una de las legislaciones más draconianas contra los migrantes, el proyecto de Ley de Senado de Florida 1718, que entra en vigor el primero de julio.

En palabras de Ron DeSantis, la iniciativa busca “combatir los efectos peligrosos de la inmigración ilegal causada por las políticas fronterizas imprudentes del gobierno federal”:

• La legislación hace que el uso de EVerify sea obligatorio para cualquier empleador con 25 o más empleados

• Impone sanciones exigibles para aquellos que emplean a extranjeros ilegales y mejora las sanciones por contrabando de personas.

• Prohíbe que los gobiernos locales emitan tarjetas de identificación (ID) a extranjeros indocumentados

• Invalida las tarjetas de identificación emitidas a extranjeros ilegales en otros estados y

• Exige que los hospitales recopilen y presenten datos sobre los costos de brindar atención médica a extranjeros ilegales.

La Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos (LULAC), La organización de derechos civiles latinos más antigua y más grande del país analiza demanda federal contra Ron DeSantis y advierte a los latinos que viajan en Florida con familiares que tengan cuidado si se encuentran con la policía.

“No dudamos que si la Abuelita o la Tía están con nosotros y estamos perfilados, las regulaciones de aplicación de DeSantis nos tratarán como criminales, transportando a una ‘persona peligrosa’ que solo quería visitar a la familia o disfrutar de Disneyworld”, alerta el presidente de LULAC, Domingo García.

Pero eso no es todo. DeSantis ha destinado una guerra cultural donde no caben ni las minorías ni nadie que no comulgue con su ideología conservadora.

Ron DeSantis promulgó ya una iniciativa de ley que prohíbe el aborto después de la sexta semana de embarazo; criminalizó el cuidado médico a menores transgénero; estableció la ley “Don’t Say Gay” en las escuelas; facilitó la ejecución de condenados a muerte, autorizó portar armas encubiertas en público sin necesidad de licencia y, como sabemos, desencadenó una guerra contra la empresa Disney con consecuencias adversas para la creación de empleos en la industria del entretenimiento.

Con esa agenda política, Ron DeSantis quiere ser presidente de todos los estadounidenses.

Pero no todo son malas noticias. Como publica Henry J. Gómez en un interesante reportaje para NBC News: No todos los estados del país quieren ser como Florida. Varios gobernadores republicanos le han dejado en claro que Ron DeSantis que no comulgan con sus ideas y que Florida no es su modelo de país. Y eso, en este ambiente tóxico, es un rayo de esperanza.

En última instancia serán los militantes republicanos los que decidan quién los representará en las elecciones presidenciales del 2024. Y tocará a los votantes latinos decidir cuál de los dos partidos representa mejor sus principios y aspiraciones. La respuesta es obvia.

José López Zamorano La Red Hispana

Withthe entry of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis into the fight for the Republican nomination against Donald Trump, the conservative race will become a tournament of anti-immigrant and xenophobic candidates.

On May 10, Mother's Day for Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans, DeSantis signed into law one of the most draconian anti-immigrant legislation, Florida Senate Bill 1718, which goes into effect on July 1.

In the words of Ron DeSantis, the initiative seeks to "combat the dangerous effects of illegal immigration caused by the reckless border policies of the federal government," by applying the following measures:

• Legislation makes the use of E-Verify mandatory for any employer with 25 or more employees

• Imposes enforceable penalties for those who employ illegal aliens and raises penalties for people smuggling

• Prohibits local governments from issuing identification cards to undocumented aliens

• Voids identification cards issued to illegal aliens in other states and;

• Requires hospitals to collect and report data on the costs of providing medical care to illegal aliens.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the country, is considering a federal lawsuit against Ron DeSantis and is warning Latinos traveling in Florida with family members to be careful if they encounter the police.

"We do not doubt that if Abuelita or Tía are with us and we are profiled, DeSantis' application regulations will treat us as criminals, transporting a ‘dangerous person’ who only wanted to visit family or enjoy Disneyworld," warns the president of LULAC, Domingo Garcia.

But that is not all. DeSantis has destined a culture war where there is no room for minorities or anyone who does not agree with his conservative ideology.

Ron DeSantis has already signed a bill banning abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy; criminalized medical care for transgender minors; established the “Don’t Say Gay” law in schools; it facilitated the execution of those sentenced to death, authorized the concealed carrying of weapons in public without the need for a license and, as we know, unleashed a war against the Disney company with adverse consequences for job creation in the entertainment industry.

With that political agenda, Ron DeSantis wants to be president of all Americans.

But it's not all bad news. As Henry J. Gómez publishes in an interesting report for NBC News: Not all states in the country want to be like Florida. Several Republican governors have made it clear to Ron DeSantis that they do not agree with his ideas and that Florida is not his model country. And that, in this toxic environment, is a ray of hope.

Ultimately, it will be the Republican militants who decide who will represent them in the 2024 presidential elections. And it will be up to Latino voters to decide which of the two parties best represents their principles and aspirations. The answer is obvious.

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Más de 23,000 personas en California se encuentran a la espera de un trasplante de órgano.1

Usted puede marcar la diferencia.

¿Sabia usted que es muy probable que los donantes vivos, incluso aquellos que donan un riñón o una parte del hígado, sigan gozando de una vida vibrante y plena sin que esto afecte su salud en general? O que, ¿solo en California, el 65 % de los que esperan un trasplante son personas de color?2 Stanford Health Care contribuye a educar al público sobre la donación de órganos en vida, ya que salvar vidas comienza por entender lo que está en juego.

Para obtener más información sobre la donación de órganos en vida, consulte: stanfordhealthcare.org/livingdonor

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1. "The Organ Transplant Waiting List," Donate Life California, accessed April 3, 2023, https://donatelifecalifornia.org/education/how-donation-works/the-organ-transplant-waiting-list/
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2. "Facts About Organ and Tissue Donation in California," OneLegacy, accessed March 22, 2022, https://www.onelegacy.org/docs/DLC607_FactsAboutDonation_071009.pdf

CALIFORNIA HA TRATADO DE REDUCIR EL COSTO DE LA INSULINA DURANTE AÑOS. ¿POR QUÉ ESTA VEZ PODRÍA TENER ÉXITO?

Para luchar contra el costo vertiginoso de la insulina, California está utilizando múltiples tácticas, incluida la fabricación de sus propias versiones genéricas.

Elalto costo de la insulina ha sido una espina molesta para los reguladores y los pacientes durante décadas: los precios del medicamento de 100 años han aumentado más del 600% en los últimos 20 años, y abundan las historias de pacientes que racionan las dosis. Incluso los economistas más conservadores lo señalan como un ejemplo de un mercado que salió mal.

A pesar de los repetidos esfuerzos a nivel federal y estatal para controlar el costo de los productos farmacéuticos, los precios suben cada año, creciendo más rápido que cualquier otro servicio de atención médica y habitualmente superando la tasa de inflación.

Este año, California está lista para hacer algo diferente para reducir el costo de la insulina, atacando el problema en tres frentes. Y si funciona para los precios de la insulina, podría funcionar para otros medicamentos:

• Los legisladores han presentado una serie de proyectos de ley que apuntan a los costos de bolsillo de la insulina. También han avanzado en la legislación que garantiza que los ahorros de costos para todos los medicamentos se transmitan a los pacientes;

• El Procurador General Rob Bonta está demandando a los mayores fabricantes de insulina y administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos del país por aumentar el costo del medicamento que salva vidas, alegando prácticas comerciales desleales;

• Y el gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció recientemente un contrato estatal de $50 millones con la compañía de medicamentos genéricos Civica Rx para fabricar tres tipos de insulina biosimilar, o genérica, económica para los californianos diabéticos.

Este enfoque triple no es perfecto —medidas como las sugeridas por los legisladores este año han fallado varias veces— pero los legisladores tienen la esperanza de que los recursos de los opositores habituales se dividirán entre los otros esfuerzos del estado. Los economistas de la salud y los defensores de los pacientes creen que la demanda del estado levantará el velo sobre las tácticas de precios opacos por primera vez en todo el país, lo que podría cambiar el comportamiento de los actores de la industria.

“Es bueno que el estado de California esté usando su poder como comprador, regulador (y) litigante para tratar de abordar este problema”, dijo Anthony Wright, director ejecutivo de Health Access California, un grupo de defensa del consumidor que patrocina rutinariamente la atención médica. medidas de asequibilidad. “Este es un problema tan multifacético que requiere muchas soluciones diferentes”.

Insulina: el ejemplo de un mercado roto Entonces, ¿quién tiene la culpa del costo vertiginoso de los medicamentos farmacéuticos? Pregúntele a cualquier número de actores de la industria y se quedará atrapado en un sin fin de señalamientos con el dedo. Los fabricantes culpan a las aseguradoras e intermediarios conocidos como administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos por explotar los modelos de ganancias. Esos grupos, a su vez, culpan a los fabricantes por establecer precios altos para empezar. Al final, el paciente paga.

“No hay héroes en el cuidado de la salud”, dijo Kevin Schulman, profesor de medicina y operaciones, información y tecnología en la Universidad de Stanford. Schulman forma parte del consejo asesor científico de Civica Rx.

En California, entre 2017 y 2021, los planes de salud regulados por el estado aumentaron el gasto en medicamentos recetados en más del 22%, o $2,100 millones, según un informe reciente de transparencia de precios. En comparación, los gastos médicos aumentaron un 18,4% durante el mismo período. Antes de la pandemia de COVID-19, los gastos médicos habían aumentado solo un 8,2 %, mientras que el gasto en medicamentos aumentó un 14,4 %.

Para muchas personas con seguro de salud, el aumento de los precios de los productos farmacéuticos se oscurece porque el seguro cubre la mayor parte de la cuenta. Sin embargo, las personas que no tienen seguro o que no han alcanzado su deducible anual pagan el precio total del medicamento de su bolsillo. El costo de la insulina se ha convertido en el eje constante de estas discusiones sobre el precio de los medicamentos. Algunas personas con diabetes, aproximadamente 37 millones en los Estados Unidos y alrededor de 3 millones en California, necesitan insulina para regular el nivel de azúcar en la sangre. Sin ella morirán.

“No hay héroes en el cuidado de la

-KEVIN SCHULMAN, PROFESOR DE MEDICINA Y OPERACIONES, INFORMACIÓN Y TECNOLOGÍA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE STANFORD

Hasta hace muy poco, el precio de lista promedio de la insulina aumentaba alrededor de un 11% anual, y algunas marcas comunes excedían los $400 por vial. Las acciones del gobierno federal para imponer topes de precios de bolsillo y penalizar a los fabricantes que aumentan los precios más rápido que la tasa de inflación impulsaron a los tres mayores fabricantes de insulina a bajar los precios a $35 a principios de este año. Sin embargo, durante una audiencia del comité del Senado de EE. UU. la semana pasada, los ejecutivos de Novo Nordisk y Sanofi no se comprometieron a mantener los precios tan bajos.

“Hemos visto un pequeño colapso en las últimas semanas… esto proporcionará cierto alivio, pero al final del día lo que no sabemos es cómo van a responder (los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos) a estos recortes.”, dijo Schulman, quien investiga el mercado farmacéutico. “En teoría, no tienen interés en respaldar estos productos de bajo costo”.

¿Por qué estos intermediarios no apoyarían medicamentos de bajo costo? La respuesta se encuentra en un sistema complejo y enrevesado de reembolsos que las compañías farmacéuticas pagan a los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos. Los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos controlan la lista de medicamentos que cubren los planes de seguro médico, también conocida como formulario. La consolidación ha resultado en tres empresas, CVS Caremark, Express Scripts y OptumRx, que representan más del 80 % del mercado. Para incentivar a los administradores de beneficios y las aseguradoras a cubrir sus productos, los fabricantes les ofrecen una reducción del precio de venta o un reembolso.

El grupo comercial que representa a los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos afirma que más del 90% de estos reembolsos, también conocidos como descuentos, se transfieren a las aseguradoras para ayudar a reducir el costo de las primas del seguro médico. Pero los investigadores dicen que sin una regulación que exija la transparencia, es imposible saber exactamente quién se queda con los reembolsos y cómo se utilizan.

Para incentivar a los administradores de beneficios y las aseguradoras a cubrir sus productos, los fabricantes les ofrecen una reducción del precio de venta o un reembolso.

Erin Trish, profesora asociada de economía farmacéutica y de la salud en la Universidad del Sur de California, dijo que el resultado es un mercado competitivo en el que los precios de muchos medicamentos suben en lugar de bajar.

“Crea un incentivo para estos (administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos), que ganan dinero como parte del precio de lista del medicamento, para negociar medicamentos que tienen precios de lista más altos con mayores descuentos en lugar de precios más bajos”, dijo Trish.

También da como resultado un sistema en el que los pacientes más enfermos, los que usan la mayoría de los medicamentos recetados, subsidian el costo del seguro para todos los demás, que es lo opuesto a cómo funciona normalmente el seguro.

En un estudio que analizó los informes financieros de 13 de los mayores fabricantes de medicamentos, Schulman descubrió que de 2011 a 2019, los fabricantes pasaron de compartir casi el 30 % de sus ingresos anuales con los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos a más del 67 % en forma de reembolsos y otros descuentos. De hecho, con la insulina, a medida que subieron los precios, las ganancias de los fabricantes disminuyeron.

Los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos no están de acuerdo en que ellos sean los malos actores en esta ecuación. En una declaración en reacción al acuerdo de fabricación de insulina de California, la Asociación de Administración de Atención Farmacéutica dijo que las afirmaciones de que los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos son responsables del aumento de los precios “simplemente no son ciertas”.

“Aplaudimos cualquier movimiento para reducir los altos precios de los medicamentos, reconociendo que estos son la causa principal de las brechas en la asequibilidad de los medicamentos recetados, incluso para las insulinas”, dijo el comunicado. “Los ahorros que las compañías de beneficios de farmacia negocian con las compañías farmacéuticas se utilizan para reducir las primas de seguro médico o los precios en el mostrador de la farmacia, generalmente una combinación de ambos”.

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Bill Head, vicepresidente asistente de asuntos estatales de la Asociación de Administración de Atención Farmacéutica, dijo que el trabajo de sus miembros es reducir los costos para las aseguradoras de salud. Los fabricantes, no los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos controlan los precios, dijo.

“Siempre optaremos por el costo neto más bajo para el pagador, por lo que si (los fabricantes) quieren simplemente reducir el costo y hacerlo más atractivo, genial”, dijo Head. “Si eso es lo que va a ahorrarle dinero al pagador, al plan de salud… o al empleador… ahí es donde iremos”.

¿California puede eludir a los intermediarios?

Abordar las distorsiones del mercado requerirá medidas a nivel federal, pero en muchos sentidos el nuevo acuerdo de California para fabricar su propia insulina y otros medicamentos genéricos evita el problema y puede influir en el comportamiento de los actores de la industria.

“Ya hemos hecho algo para alterar el mercado”, dijo a CalMatters el Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretario de salud y servicios humanos del estado. “Lo que estamos haciendo es comenzar a eliminar algunos de los juegos de precios que se juegan tradicionalmente”.

Civica Rx producirá para el estado tres de las insulinas más utilizadas, intercambiables con los medicamentos de marca Lantus, Humalog y Novolog. Los pacientes podrán comprarlos de su bolsillo por $30 por vial, mucho menos que los equivalentes de marca, en farmacias de todo el estado, según el Departamento de Acceso e Información de Atención Médica, el organismo regulador que supervisa la iniciativa. El estado ha establecido un objetivo agresivo de hacer que los primeros viales estén disponibles para 2024, aunque Allan Coukell, vicepresidente sénior de políticas públicas de Civica, le dijo a CalMatters que no puede controlar la rapidez con la que la FDA aprobará el medicamento.

Wright, de Health Access California, dijo que esta estrategia aplica una presión inusual al mercado farmacéutico. Como comprador que representa a casi 3,2 millones de adultos diabéticos y como fabricante, el estado tiene motivaciones diferentes a las de los accionistas.

“Un inversionista típico no va a poner el dinero para desarrollar un nuevo genérico por temor a ser menospreciado”, dijo Wright. “El estado de California tiene un incentivo diferente. Si no vendemos un vial obtenemos los ahorros como comprador. También tenemos el objetivo de política pública de tratar de reducir los costos para todos”.

Pero no amortigua por completo la influencia de los intermediarios en la cadena de suministro de distribución. Los mismos fabricantes que fabrican insulina de marca también han vendido insulinas genéricas de menor precio durante años, pero en general los pacientes no se han cambiado a ellas.

“Lo que estamos haciendo es comenzar a eliminar algunos de los juegos de precios que se juegan tradicionalmente”.

-DR. MARK GHALY, SECRETARIO DE ESTADO DE SALUD Y SERVICIOS HUMANOS

En 2021, el informe de transparencia de costos de medicamentos recetados del estado mostró que las insulinas genéricas no se encontraban entre los 25 medicamentos genéricos más comúnmente recetados. Por el contrario, excluyendo las vacunas COVID-19, Humulin, una insulina de acción rápida, fue el medicamento de marca recetado con más frecuencia ese año. Otras insulinas de marca ocuparon el cuarto, quinto y decimoctavo lugar en la lista de los 25 medicamentos de marca más comúnmente recetados.

Los medicamentos de marca representaron solo el 10,2% de todas las recetas ese año, pero constituyeron el 20,8% del gasto, según el informe. Los planes de salud gastaron la segunda mayor cantidad de dinero en Humalog, otra insulina de acción rápida, entre los 25 medicamentos de marca más costosos en 2021. Otras insulinas de marca ocuparon el cuarto, séptimo y decimonoveno lugar.

La razón por la cual las insulinas genéricas de bajo costo no se recetan más comúnmente: los fabricantes no ofrecen reembolsos por ellas, lo que significa que los intermediarios y los planes de salud no pueden obtener ganancias, dijo Neeraj Sood, economista de salud y profesor de la Escuela de Educación Pública de USC Price. Política.

El estado tendrá que encontrar una manera de atraer a los intermediarios y los planes de salud para que cubran su insulina más barata o, de lo contrario, los pacientes con seguro no necesariamente se beneficiarán, dijo Sood. De los más de 3 millones de diabéticos adultos en California, solo alrededor de 95,500 no tienen seguro y usan insulina, según el Departamento de Acceso e Información de Atención Médica del estado.

El departamento se negó a que alguien estuviera disponible para una entrevista y solicitó preguntas por correo electrónico.

Según una declaración no atribuida del departamento, Civica será responsable de distribuir la insulina del estado y “se relacionará con los principales mayoristas, farmacias minoristas y planes de salud”.

La razón por la que las insulinas genéricas de bajo costo no se recetan más comúnmente: los fabricantes no ofrecen reembolsos por ellas, lo que significa que los intermediarios y los planes de salud no pueden obtener ganancias.

Medi-Cal, el programa de seguro estatal para californianos de bajos ingresos, realizará un “análisis fiscal” para determinar si el medicamento estará cubierto para los afiliados, dijo Anthony Cava, vocero del Departamento de Servicios de Atención Médica.

No está claro si California puede exigir que las aseguradoras privadas cubran las insulinas producidas por el estado, pero el vicepresidente de Civica, Coukell, dijo que la compañía confía en que la mayoría de los planes de salud cubrirán su insulina.

“El seguro de salud no es monolítico”, dijo Coukell. “Puede haber algunos que continúen buscando reembolsos, pero hay otros planes que buscarán el costo neto más bajo, y nuestra estrategia es una estrategia de costo neto más bajo”.

Según Head, de la Asociación de Administración de Atención Farmacéutica, esa estrategia se alinea con los objetivos de su industria.

“Cada vez que hay más competencia, cada vez que hay alguien que reduce el costo de las marcas, desde el punto de vista de nuestros miembros, eso siempre es algo bueno”, dijo Head.

Mary Ellen Grant, portavoz de la Asociación de Planes de Salud de California, dijo que los planes “respaldan firmemente” el uso de alternativas de menor costo y “esperan la oportunidad de brindar una versión de menor costo a sus miembros cuando esté disponible”.

Otras estrategias estatales

Mientras tanto, otros líderes estatales están tratando de reducir los costos mediante litigios y regulación directa.

La demanda presentada por el procurador general Bonta alega que los tres mayores fabricantes de insulina y administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos del país se han involucrado en prácticas comerciales injustas e ilegales para aumentar los precios de manera artificial. Otros cinco estados han presentado demandas similares. Los investigadores y los formuladores de políticas esperan que las acciones legales arrojen luz sobre cómo se hacen los acuerdos de precios entre bastidores y ayuden a reducir los costos para el consumidor.

Y un proyecto de ley presentado por el senador Steven Bradford, un demócrata de Gardena, propone exigir que los planes de salud usen al menos el 90% de los reembolsos transmitidos por los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos para reducir lo que los consumidores pagan en la farmacia.

El proyecto de ley, que está patrocinado por una coalición de grupos de defensa de los pacientes y fabricantes de medicamentos, ha sido eliminado silenciosamente en el comité tres veces en los últimos tres años, con la oposición de las aseguradoras de salud y los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos. La controversia surge del potencial de la propuesta para aumentar las primas de seguro para todos los afiliados en $200 millones anuales, según un análisis fiscal del Programa de Revisión de Beneficios de Salud de California, que no es partidista. Los intentos de hacer lo mismo a nivel federal también han fracasado por temor a aumentar los costos de los seguros, aunque varios estados han implementado mandatos similares.

Le Ondra Clark Harvey, directora ejecutiva de California Access Coalition, que patrocina el proyecto de ley, dijo que las afirmaciones de aumentos en los costos de atención médica son engañosas. Los $200 millones representan solo un aumento de la prima del 0,3 %, dijo Clark Harvey, y el mismo informe estima que los pacientes con recetas de marca ahorrarían más de $70 millones en conjunto.

“Habrá un aumento, pero no significativo”, dijo Clark Harvey. “No estamos tratando de golpear a las aseguradoras de salud y los administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos, creemos que todos tienen un papel. Pero en este escenario en particular, ha habido lo que puede describirse como una escapatoria o un colchón para que ellos cobren este dinero extra después de haber negociado”.

En oposición, los planes de salud y sus intermediarios argumentan que el “colchón” es exactamente lo que les ayuda a mantener bajas las primas.

“Los reembolsos (en los puntos de venta) no ayudarán a la mayoría de los pacientes que usan genéricos o marcas de menor costo y, en cambio, conducirán a un aumento en las primas de todos”, dijo Head durante una audiencia reciente del comité de salud del Senado.

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CALIFORNIA HAS TRIED TO CUT THE COST OF INSULIN FOR YEARS. WHY IT MIGHT FINALLY SUCCEED

To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

Thehigh cost of insulin has been a niggling thorn in the side of regulators and patients for decades: Prices for the 100-year-old drug have increased more than 600% in the past 20 years, and stories of patients rationing doses abound. Even the most conservative economists point to it as an example of a market gone sour.

Despite repeated efforts at the federal and state level to rein in the cost of pharmaceuticals, prices go up each year, growing quicker than any other health care service and routinely outpacing the rate of inflation.

This year, California is poised to do something different to cut the cost of insulin, attacking the problem on three fronts. And if it works for insulin prices, it could work for other drugs:

• Lawmakers have introduced a bevy of bills targeting out-of-pocket insulin costs. They have also advanced legislation ensuring cost savings for all drugs get passed down to patients;

• Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the nation’s largest insulin manufacturers and pharmaceutical benefit managers for driving up the cost of the life-saving drug, alleging unfair business practices;

• And Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced a $50 million state contract with generic drug company Civica Rx to manufacture three types of cheap biosimilar — or generic — insulin for diabetic Californians.

This three-pronged approach isn’t perfect — measures like the ones suggested by lawmakers this year have failed several times — but legislators are hopeful the resources of usual opponents will be divided among the state’s other efforts. Health economists and patient advocates believe the state’s lawsuit will lift the veil on opaque pricing tactics for the first time nationwide, potentially shifting how industry players behave.

“It’s good the state of California is using its power as a purchaser, a regulator (and) a litigator to try to address this issue,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group that routinely sponsors health care affordability measures. “This is such a multi-faceted problem that it requires a lot of different solutions.”

Insulin: The poster child for a broken market

So who’s to blame for the skyrocketing cost of pharmaceutical drugs? Ask any number of industry players and you’ll get stuck in an endless loop of finger point-

ing. Manufacturers blame insurers and intermediaries known as pharmaceutical benefit managers for exploiting profit models. Those groups in turn blame manufacturers for setting high prices to begin with. In the end, the patient pays.

“There are no heroes in health care,” said Kevin Schulman, a professor of medicine and operations, information and technology at Stanford University. Schulman sits on the scientific advisory board for Civica Rx.

In California, between 2017 and 2021, state-regulated health plans increased spending on prescription drugs by more than 22%, or $2.1 billion, according to a recent price transparency report. By comparison, medical expenses increased 18.4% during the same time period. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical expenses had increased just 8.2% while drug spending increased 14.4%.

For many people with health insurance, increasing pharmaceutical prices are obscured because insurance picks up a majority of the tab. However, people who are uninsured or who have not hit their annual deductible pay the full drug price out-of-pocket.

The cost of insulin has become the consistent linchpin of these drug price discussions. Some people with diabetes — approximately 37 million in the United States and about 3 million in California — need insulin to regulate their blood sugar. Without it they will die.

“There are no heroes in health care.”

Until very recently, the average list price

of insulin increased about 11% annually, with some common brands exceeding $400 per vial. Actions by the federal government to impose out-of-pocket price caps and penalize manufacturers that raise prices faster than the rate of inflation spurred the three largest insulin manufacturers to drop prices to $35 earlier this year. However, during a U.S. Senate committee hearing last week, executives from Novo Nordisk and Sanofi would not commit to keeping prices that low.

“We’ve seen a little bit of a collapse these last few weeks…this will provide some relief, but at the end of the day the thing we don’t know is how (pharmaceutical benefit managers) are going to respond to these cuts,” Schulman, who researches the pharmaceutical market, said. “In theory, they have no interest in supporting these low-cost products.”

Why wouldn’t these intermediaries support low-cost drugs? The answer lies in a complex and convoluted system of rebates that drug companies pay pharmaceutical benefit managers. Pharmaceutical benefit managers control the list of drugs that health insurance plans cover, also known as a formulary. Consolidation has resulted in three companies — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — representing more than 80% of the market. To incentivize benefit managers and insurers to cover their products, manufacturers offer them a cut of the sale price, or a rebate.

The trade group representing pharmaceutical benefit managers claims more than 90% of these rebates, also known as discounts, are passed on to insurers to help lower the cost of health insurance premiums. But researchers say without regulation mandating transparency, it’s impossible to know who exactly keeps the rebates and how they’re used.

To incentivize benefit managers and insurers to cover their products, manufacturers offer them a cut of the sale price, or a rebate.

Erin Trish, an associate professor of pharmaceutical and health economics at the University of Southern California, said what results is a competitive market where prices for many drugs are driven higher rather than lower.

“It creates incentive for these (pharmaceutical benefit managers), who are making money as a share of the list price of the drug, to negotiate for drugs that have higher list prices with bigger discounts rather than lower prices,” Trish said.

It also results in a system where the sickest patients — those who use the most prescription drugs — subsidize the cost of insurance for everyone else, which is the opposite of how insurance typically works.

In a study analyzing financial reports from 13 of the largest drug manufacturers, Schulman found that from 2011 to 2019, manufacturers went from sharing nearly 30% of their annual revenue with pharmaceutical benefit managers to more than 67% in the form of rebates and other discounts. In fact, with insulin, as prices have gone up, manufacturers’ profits have decreased.

Pharmaceutical benefit managers disagree that they are the bad actors in this equation. In a statement reacting to California’s insulin manufacturing deal, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association said assertions that pharmaceutical benefit managers are responsible for increased prices are “just not true.”

“We applaud any move to lower high drug prices, recognizing that these are the root cause of gaps in prescription drug affordability, including for insulins,” the statement said. “The savings pharmacy benefit companies negotiate with drug companies are used to either lower health insurance premiums or prices at the pharmacy counter, usually a combination of both.”

Bill Head, assistant vice president of state affairs for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, said his members’ job is to lower costs for health insurers. Manufacturers, not pharmaceutical benefit managers, control the prices, he said.

“We will always go with whatever the lowest net cost to the payor is, so if (manufacturers) want to just lower the cost and make it more attractive, great,” Head said.

“If that’s what’s going to save the payor, the health plan…or the employer money… that’s where we’ll go.”

Can California get around the middlemen?

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Several efforts are underway to cut insulin costs in California. Photo Credit: Public Domain

Tackling the market distortions will take action at the federal level, but in many ways California’s new deal to manufacture its own insulin and other generic drugs circumvents the problem and may influence how industry players behave.

“We have already done something to disrupt the market,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, state secretary of health and human services, told CalMatters. “What we’re doing is starting to take some of the price games away that are traditionally played.”

Civica Rx will produce for the state three of the most commonly used insulins, interchangeable with the brand name drugs Lantus, Humalog and Novolog. Patients will be able to purchase them outof-pocket for $30 per vial, far less than brand name equivalents, at pharmacies throughout the state, according to the Department of Health Care Access and Information, the regulatory body overseeing the initiative. The state has set an aggressive target of making the first vials available by 2024, although Allan Coukell, Civica senior vice president of public policy, told CalMatters it can’t control how quickly the FDA will approve the drug.

Wright, with Health Access California, said this strategy applies unusual pressure to the pharmaceutical market. As both a purchaser representing nearly 3.2 million diabetic adults and a manufacturer, the state has different motivations than shareholders do.

“A typical investor is not going to put up the money to develop a new generic for fear of being undercut,” Wright said. “The state of California has a different incentive. If we don’t sell a vial we get the savings as a purchaser. We also have the public policy goal to try and bring down the costs for everybody.”

But it doesn’t entirely dampen the influence of middlemen in the distribution supply chain. The same manufacturers that make brand name insulin have also sold lower-priced generic insulins for years, but by and large patients have not switched to them.

ond-most amount of money on Humalog, another fast-acting insulin, among the top 25 most costly brand name drugs in 2021. Other brand name insulins ranked fourth, seventh and nineteenth.

The reason lower-cost generic insulins aren’t more commonly prescribed: Manufacturers don’t offer rebates for them, which means intermediaries and health plans can’t profit, said Neeraj Sood, a health economist and professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy.

The state will have to find a way to entice middlemen and health plans to cover its cheaper insulin or else patients with insurance won’t necessarily benefit, Sood said. Of the more than 3 million adult diabetics in California, only about 95,500 are uninsured and use insulin, according to the state Department of Health Care Access and Information.

The department refused to make anyone available for an interview and asked for emailed questions. According to an unattributed statement from the department, Civica will be responsible for distributing the state’s insulin and will “engage with major wholesalers, retail pharmacies and health plans.”

The reason lower-cost generic insulins aren’t more commonly prescribed: Manufacturers don’t offer rebates for them, which means intermediaries and health

plans can’t profit.

Medi-Cal, the state insurance program for low-income Californians, will conduct a “fiscal analysis” to determine whether the drug will be covered for enrollees, said Anthony Cava, spokesperson for the Department of Health Care Services.

It’s unclear whether California can mandate that private insurers cover state-produced insulins, but Civica Vice President Coukell said the company is confident most health plans will cover its insulin.

“Health insurance is not monolithic,” Coukell said. “There may be some that continue to pursue rebates, but there are other plans that are going to go for the lowest net cost, and our strategy is a lowest net cost strategy.”

According to Head, with the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, that strategy aligns with his industry’s goals.

“Any time there’s more competition, any time there’s somebody who’s driving down the cost in the brands, from our members’ standpoint, that’s always a good thing,” Head said.

Mary Ellen Grant, a spokesperson for the California Association of Health Plans, said the plans “strongly support” the use of lower-cost alternatives and “look forward to the opportunity to provide a low-

er cost version to their members when it becomes available.”

Other state strategies

In the meantime, other state leaders are trying to lower costs through litigation and direct regulation.

The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Bonta alleges the nation’s three largest insulin manufacturers and pharmaceutical benefits managers have engaged in unfair and illegal business practices to artificially increase prices. Five other states have filed similar lawsuits. Researchers and policymakers hope that legal action will shed light on how backroom price deals are made and help drive down consumer costs.

And a bill brought forward by Sen. Steven Bradford, a Democrat from Gardena, proposes requiring health plans to use at least 90% of rebates passed down from pharmaceutical benefit managers to cut what consumers pay at the pharmacy.

The bill, which is sponsored by a coalition of patient advocacy groups and drug manufacturers, has been quietly killed in committee three times in the past three years, with health insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers opposed. The controversy stems from the proposal’s potential to increase insurance premiums for all enrollees by $200 million annually, according to a fiscal analysis from the non-partisan California Health Benefits Review Program. Attempts to do the same thing at the federal level have also failed out of fear of increasing insurance costs, although several states have implemented similar mandates.

Le Ondra Clark Harvey, executive director of the California Access Coalition, which is sponsoring the bill, said claims of increased health care costs are misleading. The $200 million represents just a 0.3% premium increase, Clark Harvey said, and the same report estimates patients with brand name prescriptions would save upwards of $70 million collectively.

MARK GHALY, STATE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

In 2021, the state’s prescription drug cost transparency report showed generic insulins were not among the top 25 most commonly prescribed generic drugs. In contrast, excluding COVID-19 vaccines, Humulin, a fast-acting insulin, was the most commonly prescribed brand name drug that year. Other brand name insulins ranked fourth, fifth and eighteenth on the list of top 25 most commonly prescribed brand name drugs.

Brand name drugs accounted for only 10.2% of all prescriptions that year but made up 20.8% of spending, according to the report. Health plans spent the sec-

“There will be an increase but not a significant one,” Clark Harvey said. “We’re not trying to beat up on health insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers — we think that everyone has a role. But in this particular scenario, there has been what can be described as a loophole or cushion for them to collect this extra money after they’ve negotiated.”

In opposition, health plans and their intermediaries argue that “cushion” is exactly what helps them keep premiums down.

“(Point-of-sale) rebates won’t help the majority of patients who use generics or lower-cost brands and instead will lead to an increase in everyone’s premiums,” Head said during a recent Senate health committee hearing.

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FRESH SUMMER FLAVORS FIT FOR THE PATIO

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in the summer sun are all about easy, convenient recipes combined with the joy warm weather brings. Spend those special occasions with those you love most and make this summer one to remember with flatbreads, sliders and sweet treats for all to share.

Gatherings

Keeping cooking simple means more time on the patio or in the backyard engaging with guests, and these Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads, Chicken Shawarma Sliders and Lemon Cheesecake with Fruit let home chefs skip complicated kitchen duties without skimping on flavor.

Visit Culinary.net to find more simple summer recipes to share with loved ones.

Summery Flatbreads for Family and Friends

When dining outdoors with family, friends and neighbors, there are few things better than a tasty dish the whole family can enjoy like these Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads.

Perfect for al fresco entertaining when served alongside a fresh salad, they’re simple to make and allow guests to personalize with preferred toppings before popping in the oven. As a colorful and fresh dish, it’s an ideal meal for gettogethers on the patio.

Fresh, mouthwatering foods hot off the grill are a sure sign of summer fun. Hosting sunny get-togethers this year can be made easy when you show off your grilling skills with a simple, nutritious and flavorful recipe.

These Chicken Shawarma Sliders are a delicious example of how to grill healthy summer meals without forgoing favorite flavors. They’re part of a curated 12-recipe collection of healthy, balanced dishes from the snacking experts at family-owned Fresh Cravings, known for its chilled salsas, hummus and other dips, which teamed up with eMeals, America’s leading provider of meal plans.

“These sliders are a fantastic – and healthy – option for your next gathering,” said eMeals Senior Nutrition Writer and Editor Rachel West, RD. “The marinade uses a mix of pantry-friendly dried herbs and fresh garlic to give the lean grilled chicken breast some oomph. The lettuce and red onion add cool crispness and crunch to the sandwiches while Fresh Cravings’ creamy, flavor-packed hummus gets some nutritional bonus points by providing a dose of protein and fiber.”

Unforgettable Fruity Flavor

Summertime often brings cravings for fresh fruits that add a hint of sweetness to warm-weather gatherings. Serving up a delicious dessert for family and guests starts with favorite produce in this Lemon Cheesecake with Fruit.

The touch of tangy tartness is enough to bring loved ones to the dessert table even after a filling meal as fresh lemon juice in the cheesecake base is complemented perfectly when topped with orange slices and raspberries. Garnished with mint leaves, this brightly colored treat is even sweeter when shared with loved ones.

Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads

Recipe adapted from butteryourbiscuit.com

2 flatbreads

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1 clove garlic, diced

4 chicken tenders, cooked and cubed

1 pint cherry tomatoes, quartered

N/A salt, to taste

N/A pepper, to taste

1/2 cup ranch dressing

1 1/2 teaspoons chipotle seasoning

2 tablespoons cilantro leaves, chopped

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Place parchment paper on baking sheet and add flatbreads. Sprinkle cheese on flatbreads. Top with garlic, chicken and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Bake 16 minutes until cheese is melted.

In a small bowl, mix ranch and chipotle seasoning.

Drizzle ranch dressing on flatbreads and sprinkle with cilantro leaves.

Shareable Sliders for a Nutritious Summer Meal

Chicken Shawarma Sliders

Recipe courtesy of eMeals Registered Dietitian Rachel West

Prep time: 25 minutes

Cook time: 10 minutes

2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts

3 tablespoons olive oil

4 cloves garlic, minced

1/2 tablespoon smoked paprika

1/2 tablespoon ground cumin

1/2 tablespoon ground coriander

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 package (12) slider buns

1 container (17 ounces) Fresh Cravings Honey Jalapeno Hummus

1 package (8 ounces) shredded lettuce

1/2 small red onion, sliced

In a zip-top plastic bag, use meat mallet or heel of hand to pound chicken to even thickness. Cut into 2-inch pieces and place in large bowl. Add oil, garlic, paprika, cumin, coriander, salt and cayenne; toss.

Cover chicken and chill for 8 hours, or up to 2 days.

Preheat grill or grill pan to medium-high heat. Grill chicken 4-5 minutes per side, or until done.

Serve chicken on buns with hummus, lettuce and onion.

Lemon Cheesecake with Fruit

Servings: 6-8

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter, melted

2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened

1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk

3 eggs

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 orange, peeled and separated

8 raspberries

3 mint leaves, for garnish

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In a medium bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Press firmly into a 9-inch springform pan.

In large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add eggs, fresh lemon juice and vanilla extract; mix until combined.

Pour into pan. Bake 50-55 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly pressed.

Chill in refrigerator until completely cooled. Arrange orange slices around the border of cake and place raspberries in middle. Top with mint leaves.

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STUDY FINDS RACIAL, GENDER GAPS IN STUDENTS' PLANS FOR COLLEGE

Anewsurvey of 25,000 high school seniors finds 74% say they want to go to college - but only 66% expect to enroll. The nonprofit YouthTruth found the 8% percent gap widens to 14% for Native American students, 10% for Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders, 9% Hispanics, and 8% for African American students.

Que Dang, executive director of student equity and success at Pasadena City College, says COVID and the resulting job losses disproportionately hurt families of color - causing college dreams to suffer.

"A lot of it has to do with folks really struggling with different stresses that are happening throughout their lives. So, it's not just around education, but it's around mental health, getting jobs; it's also around trying to provide for their families," Dang said.

To make it easier for students to afford to attend, all community colleges in California now have a Basic Needs Center that can help with rent, food and mental-health supports. There is also a statewide network of mentors, including some that specifically work with African American male students.

The survey also finds 83% of female high school seniors aspire to go to college, and 77% believe they can actually go - while only

68% of their male counterparts want to go to college, and just 57% believe it is a real option. Part of the difference can be blamed on societal norms that discourage men from seeking help, according to Dang.

"A lot of them don't want to ask for help," Dang explained. "And so they don't seek out services in the same way as women. And there are so many support systems to help them get through college, but they have societal pressures, like men wanting to 'do it themselves.'"

The report also finds the percentage of seniors expecting to attend a four-year college has held steady at 46% over the last three years, and that Black students are increasingly under-represented on community college campuses.

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Unanueva encuesta de 25,000 estudiantes de último año de secundaria encontró que el 74% quiere ir a la universidad, pero solo el 66% espera inscribirse. La organización sin fines de lucro YouthTruth descubrió que la brecha del 8 % se amplía al 14 % para los estudiantes nativos americanos, al 10 % para los nativos de Hawái o de las islas del Pacífico, al 9 % para los hispanos y al 8 % para los estudiantes afroamericanos.

Que Dang, director ejecutivo de equidad y éxito estudiantil en Pasadena City College, dice que COVID y las pérdidas de empleo resultantes perjudican desproporcionadamente a las familias de color, lo que hace que los sueños universitarios se resientan.

"Mucho de esto tiene que ver con personas que realmente luchan con diferentes tensiones que están sucediendo a lo largo de sus vidas. Entonces, no se trata solo de educación, sino de salud mental, conseguir trabajo; también se trata de tratar de mantener a sus familias", dijo Dang.

Para que sea más fácil que los estudiantes asistan, todos los colegios comunitarios de California ahora tienen un Centro de Necesidades Básicas que puede ayudar con el alquiler, la comida y los apoyos de salud mental. También hay una red estatal de mentores, incluidos algunos que trabajan específicamente con estudiantes varones afroamericanos.

La encuesta también encontró que el 83 % de las mujeres del último año de secundaria aspiran

a ir a la universidad y el 77 % cree que realmente puede ir, mientras que solo el 68 % de sus homólogos masculinos quiere ir a la universidad y solo el 57 % cree que es una opción real. Parte de la diferencia puede atribuirse a las normas sociales que desalientan a los hombres a buscar ayuda, según Dang.

"Muchos de ellos no quieren pedir ayuda", explicó Dang. "Y entonces no buscan servicios de la misma manera que las mujeres. Y hay tantos sistemas de apoyo para ayudarlos a terminar la universidad, pero tienen presiones sociales, como hombres que quieren 'hacerlo ellos mismos'".

El informe también encuentra que el porcentaje de personas mayores que esperan asistir a una universidad de cuatro años se ha mantenido estable en un 46 % durante los últimos

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LOS JARDINES HAN EVOLUCIONADO

Despídase de los jardines sedientos y dele la bienvenida a un bello jardín de bajo uso de agua.

jardín de alto consumo de agua en uno de bajo consumo y hacer que su equipo de irrigación sea más eficiente.

¿Sabía que al menos la mitad del agua que se consume en un hogar típico del condado de Santa Clara se usa en el exterior? Podría ahorrar dinero en su factura de agua si transforma su jardín con la ayuda del Programa de Reembolso para jardines de Valley Water (Distrito del Agua del Valle de Santa Clara).

Al caminar por su barrio tal vez haya notado que cada vez hay más casas en el condado de Santa Clara que ya han cambiado sus jardines frontales por hermosos jardines de bajo consumo de agua. Los residentes del condado de Santa Clara están descubriendo los numerosos beneficios de reemplazar jardines con el Programa de Reembolso para jardines del Distrito del Agua del Valle de Santa Clara. ¡De hecho, casi 13,500 residentes y comerciantes ya han participado en el programa!

• Obtenga $200 por cada 100 pies cuadrados de jardín que convierta hasta un máximo de $3,000 para propiedades residenciales y $100,000 para comercios e instituciones. ¡Algunas áreas que comparten costos podrían recibir incluso más!

• Comience el proceso de solicitud en watersavings.org para pedir una preinspección o llámenos al (408) 6302554 para obtener más información.

• Tenga en cuenta que es necesario obtener la aprobación de su solicitud antes de comenzar un proyecto.

Con el verano cada vez más cerca, permítanos ayudarlo a reemplazar su jardín con alto consumo de agua por uno “evolucionado” mediante el uso de plantas nativas de California que toleran las sequías y necesitan menos agua.

¡Un “jardín evolucionado” es funcional, atractivo y fácil de mantener, lo cual no solo lo ayudará a ahorrar dinero, sino que también logrará hacer de la conservación un estilo de vida!

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HOW CALIFORNIA PUBLIC TRANSIT IS PLEADING FOR STATE AID

California’s public transit agencies are seeking $5 billion over five years to keep buses and trains running, but time is running out in the budget process at the state Capitol. To address criticism, they submitted a new accountability plan.

Californiais grappling with a $31.5 billion budget deficit. Gov. Gavin Newsom denied public transit agencies a lifeline in his latest spending plan, and time is running out.

But transit officials and their supporters in the Legislature aren’t giving up hope yet that the state will offer at least some aid. And Friday, the California Transit Association delivered a plan for how individual agencies should ask for money — and how they would be held accountable for how they spend it.

Transit agencies are seeking $5.15 billion in operating funds over the next five years — warning that without substantial cash, they’ll fall deep into a financial pit caused by a continued decline in ridership since the pandemic and the drying up of federal funds.

Without some kind of financial infusion, Muni — San Francisco’s bus system — may have to start cutting bus lines this summer. Other transit systems are issuing similar dire forecasts.

If services are cut, commuters will be impacted, as will working people who can’t afford their own cars — and certainly not electric vehicles. Increased use of public transit is key to reducing carbon emissions and reaching the state’s climate goals championed by Newsom and Democratic leaders.

But in his updated budget plan unveiled this month, the governor committed only to working with the Legislature to find a solution.

“You can’t do everything,” he said at his May 12 budget briefing. “It’s about balancing other priorities.”

The state Senate wants to make public transit a priority. In its spending proposal, it included the $5.15 billion as “bridge funding.” Supporters say the money can come from a mix of sources that already support transit and would reduce general fund revenue by only $213 million.

TransForm, an advocacy group focused on transit and housing inequities, said it was disappointed in Newsom’s decision.

“The $2.5 billion needed to save Bay Area transit is less costly, in terms of dollars, people, and the planet than the $5 billion in additional transportation costs that will be paid by the people who can least afford it,” said Zack Deutsch-Gross, TransForm policy director.

The budget negotiations are well underway, with a June 15 deadline for the Legislature to pass a budget to keep collecting pay.

Call for help too late?

At a town hall on May 12, Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco and chairperson of the Assembly budget committee, said transit agencies should have been better prepared, and should have “sounded the alarm earlier.”

“Having said that, we are where we are. We can’t change the past,” Ting said.

He said that legislators in the Bay Area Caucus that he leads are focused on the issue and are committed to making sure

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BORRADOR - Plan de Rescate Estadounidense del Programa Federal HOME (HOME Investment Partnerships - American Rescue Plan Allocation Plan)

El 11 de marzo de 2021, el Presidente Biden aprobó el Plan de Rescate Estadounidense (American Rescue Plan), el cual proporciona más de $1.9 billones en ayuda para abordar el impacto de la pandemia COVID-19 en la economía, la salud pública, los gobiernos estatales y locales, individuales y negocios.

Al Departamento de Viviendas (OSH), del Condado de Santa Clara se le asignaron $3,599,966 de los fondos de HOME-ARP. El condado ahora ha preparado un borrador del Plan HOME-ARP, que describe cómo utilizará estos recursos a traves del condado de Santa Clara.

Este aviso informa al público que pueden brindar sus comentarios con respeto al Borrador de HOME-ARP. El proposito del Borrador es programar $3,599,966 en fondos recibidos a traves del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense (HOME – American Rescue Plan). Este documento se puede revisar a partir del 30 de mayo, 2023, y concluirá el 14 de junio, 2023.

Un copia del Borrador de HOME ARP estará disponible para revisión a través de los siguientes métodos: 1) El sitio de Internet: https://osh.sccgov.org/housing-community-development/urban-county-program; 2) En la oficina de OSH: 130 W. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134. Para miembros de la comunidad que requieren adaptaciones y/o traducciones, favor de ponerse en contacto con el Departamento de Viviendas (408)278-6400 o por correo electrónico a: alejandra.herrera@hhs.sccgov.org. Se requiere un aviso de tres días laborales para adaptaciones o traducciones. Comentarios se pueden enviar durante los 15 dias de revision a la atención de Erum Maqbool: Office of Supportive Housing, 130 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134 o por correo electrónico a: alejandra.herrera@hhs.sccgov.org .

De conformidad con las Leyes de Derechos de Discapacitados (American with Disabilities Act), el Condado de Santa Clara generalmente, si se solicitan, puede proporcionar adaptaciones razonables para personas discapacidades para que puedan participar con igualdad el los programas, servicios, y actividades del Condado. El Condado de Santa Clara hará todas las modificaciones razonables a las polízas y programas para garantizar que las personas con discapacidades o con dominio limitado del idioma inglés, tengan la misma oportunidad de disfrutar de todos los programas, servicios y actividades del Condado. Cualquier persona que requiera una ayuda o servicio auxiliar para una comunicación efectiva, o una modificación de polízas o procedimientos para participar en un programa, servicio o actividad del Condado, debe comunicarse con el Coordinador de Programas para Discapacitados, Departamento de Igualdad de Oportunidades, 2310 N. First Street, Ste. 101, San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 993-4840, lo mas pronto possible, pero a más tardar 48 horas antes del evento programado.

Las Leyes de Derechos de Discapacitados (American with Disabilities Act) no requiere que el Condado de Santa Clara tome ninguna medida que altere fundamentalmente sus programas o servicios o imponga una carga financiera o administrativa indebida.

Las quejas de que un programa, servicio o actividad del Condado de Santa Clara que no es accesible para personas con discapacidades deben dirigirse al Coordinador de Programas para Discapacitados, Departamento de Igualdad de Oportunidades, 2310 N. First Street, Ste. 101, San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 993-4840. El Condado de Santa Clara no impondrá una carga a una persona en particular con una discapacidad ni a ningún grupo de personas con discapacidades para cubrir el costo de proporcionar ayudas/servicios auxiliares o modificaciones razonables de las polizas, como la recuperación de artículos de lugares que estan abiertos para el público, pero no son accesibles para personas en silla de ruedas.

agencies don’t go over the “fiscal cliff.”

“We know that once these agencies have to stop service, it’s very difficult to turn it back on,” he said.

Ting said that given the budget shortfall, the goal is to help get agencies to solid enough ground to pursue a local ballot measure for long-term financial sustainability.

But he also said that for the state to help, transit representatives needed to present a spending plan and demonstrate accountability.

On Friday, the California Transit Association, which represents agencies throughout the state, responded with its proposal, which includes an 18-month deadline to report how funds are spent. Sent to Newsom and legislative leaders, the blueprint is based on recovery plans previously created by the Bay Area’s regional transportation commission and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as well as a bill this session from Burbank-area Democratic Assemblymember Laura Friedman on transit oversight.

The association also noted that its proposal won’t solve all of the underlying issues.

“As we advance this accountability and reform framework, we continue to elevate that significant external challenges will continue to impact agencies’ budgets, operating environments, and ridership levels, including, the hollowing out of downtown cores, the housing crisis, and rise in violent crime,” it said in a statement.

The proposal, however, doesn’t satisfy concerns from some lawmakers, including state Sen. Steve Glazer, who has been vocal in his criticism of BART oversight. BART officials previously responded to some of those concerns, saying the “fiscal cliff” has more to do with the agency’s financial model rather than specific expenses and missteps.

“I thought it was an April Fool’s joke delivered in May,” Glazer told CalMatters of the association’s proposal. “Self-policing is not accountability.”

Meanwhile, agencies have already begun to make some changes to boost ridership, including BART ramping up service on its most popular line between Antioch and San Francisco, and L.A. Metro ramping up both homelessness services and microtransit.

But those changes aren’t cheap.

Bevan Dufty, a member of the BART board of directors, said in April: “We really can’t cut our way out of this.”

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CÓMO EL TRANSPORTE PÚBLICO DE CALIFORNIA ESTÁ PIDIENDO AYUDA ESTATAL

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Californiaestá lidiando con un déficit presupuestario de $31.5 mil millones. El gobernador Gavin Newsom negó a las agencias de transporte público una línea de ayuda en su último plan de gastos, y el tiempo se acaba.

Pero los funcionarios de tránsito y sus partidarios en la Legislatura aún no pierden la esperanza de que el estado ofrezca al menos algo de ayuda. Y el viernes, la California Transit Association entregó un plan sobre cómo las agencias individuales deberían pedir dinero y cómo serían responsables de cómo lo gastan.

Las agencias de transporte público están buscando $5.15 mil millones en fondos operativos durante los próximos cinco años, advirtiendo que sin una cantidad sustancial de efectivo, caerán profundamente en un pozo financiero causado por una disminución continua en el número de pasajeros desde la pandemia y el agotamiento de los fondos federales.

Sin algún tipo de infusión financiera, Muni, el sistema de autobuses de San Francisco, podría tener que comenzar a reducir las líneas de autobuses este verano. Otros sistemas de transporte están emitiendo pronósticos nefastos simi-

lares.

Si se cortan los servicios, los viajeros se verán afectados, al igual que los trabajadores que no pueden pagar sus propios automóviles, y ciertamente no los vehículos eléctricos. Un mayor uso del transporte público es clave para reducir las emisiones de carbono y alcanzar los objetivos climáticos del estado defendidos por Newsom y los líderes demócratas.

Pero en su plan de presupuesto actualizado presentado este mes, el gobernador se comprometió únicamente a trabajar con la Legislatura para encontrar una solución.

“No se puede hacer todo”, dijo en su informe presupuestario del 12 de mayo.

“Se trata de equilibrar otras prioridades”.

El Senado estatal quiere que el transporte público sea una prioridad. En su propuesta de gasto, incluyó los $5,150 millones como “financiamiento puente”. Los partidarios dicen que el dinero puede provenir de una combinación de fuentes que ya respaldan el tránsito y reduciría los ingresos del fondo general en solo $213 millones.

TransForm, un grupo de defensa centrado en las desigualdades de tránsito y vivienda, dijo que estaba decepcionado con la decisión de Newsom.

“Los $2,500 millones necesarios para salvar el tránsito del Área de la Bahía son menos costosos, en términos de dólares, personas y el planeta, que los $5,000 millones en costos adicionales de transporte que pagarán las personas que menos pueden permitírselo”, dijo Zack DeutschGross, director de políticas de TransForm.

Las negociaciones del presupuesto están muy avanzadas, con una fecha límite del 15 de junio para que la Legislatura apruebe un presupuesto para seguir recaudando salarios.

¿Pedir ayuda demasiado tarde?

En una reunión en el ayuntamiento el 12 de mayo, el asambleísta Phil Ting, demócrata de San Francisco y presidente del comité de presupuesto de la Asamblea, dijo que las

agencias de transporte público deberían haber estado mejor preparadas y deberían haber “dado la alarma antes”.

“Habiendo dicho eso, estamos donde estamos. No podemos cambiar el pasado”, dijo Ting.

Dijo que los legisladores en el Caucus del Área de la Bahía que él dirige están enfocados en el tema y están comprometidos a asegurarse de que las agencias no caigan en el “precipicio fiscal”.

“Sabemos que una vez que estas agencias tienen que detener el servicio, es muy difícil volver a activarlo”, dijo.

Ting dijo que dado el déficit presupuestario, el objetivo es ayudar a que las agencias tengan un terreno lo suficientemente sólido para buscar una medida

de votación local para la sostenibilidad financiera a largo plazo.

Pero también dijo que para que el estado ayude, los representantes de transporte público deben presentar un plan de gastos y demostrar responsabilidad.

El viernes, la California Transit Association, que representa a las agencias de todo el estado, respondió con su propuesta, que incluye un plazo de 18 meses para informar cómo se gastan los fondos. Enviado a Newsom y a los líderes legislativos, el plan se basa en los planes de recuperación creados previamente por la comisión de transporte regional del Área de la Bahía y la Autoridad de Transporte Metropolitano de Los Ángeles, así como en un proyecto de ley de esta sesión de la asambleísta demócrata del área de Burbank, Laura Friedman, sobre la supervisión del transporte público.

La asociación también señaló que su propuesta no resolverá todos los problemas subyacentes.

“A medida que avanzamos en este marco de rendición de cuentas y reforma, continuamos destacando que los desafíos externos significativos continuarán afectando los presupuestos de las agencias, los entornos operativos y los niveles de pasajeros, incluido el

vaciado de los núcleos del centro, la crisis de la vivienda y el aumento de violencia. delito”, dijo en un comunicado.

La propuesta, sin embargo, no satisface las preocupaciones de algunos legisladores, incluido el senador estatal Steve Glazer, quien ha expresado sus críticas a la supervisión de BART. Los funcionarios de BART respondieron previamente a algunas de esas preocupaciones, diciendo que el “precipicio fiscal” tiene más que ver con el modelo financiero de la agencia que con gastos específicos y errores.

“Pensé que era una broma del ‘April Fool’ pero hecha en mayo”, dijo Glazer a CalMatters sobre la propuesta de la asociación. “La autovigilancia no es responsabilidad”.

Mientras tanto, las agencias ya han comenzado a realizar algunos cambios para aumentar el número de pasajeros, incluido el aumento del servicio de BART en su línea más popular entre Antioch y San Francisco, y el aumento gradual de los servicios para personas sin hogar y microtránsito de LA Metro.

Pero esos cambios no son baratos. Bevan Dufty, miembro de la junta directiva de BART, dijo en abril: “Realmente no podemos salir de esto”.

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EARTHTALK Q&A: GAS-EV CONVERSIONS

Dear EarthTalk: Is it possible to retrofit an old car with an Electric Vehicle drivetrain?

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Itis definitely possible to retrofit an old internal combustion engine car with an electric vehicle (EV) drivetrain, but the process can be complicated and expensive. In fact, it may be cheaper when all is said and done—not to mention easier and quicker—to just buy an EV.

If you’re undeterred and want to proceed with a conversion anyway, keep in mind that certain types of cars lend themselves to the process better than others. For starters, older cars that rely on mechanics more than computers are often easier to convert. Another consideration to keep in mind is that it’s easier to convert a car with a manual transmission since they use less power and are a lot less complicated than automatic cars. Likewise, lighter vehicles make better candidates for conversions given that less weight translates into greater range.

The first step in retrofitting an old car with an EV drivetrain is to remove the existing engine and transmission. This requires specialized knowledge and tools, so it’s important to find a reputable mechanic or EV retrofitting company to do the job. Once the old engine and transmission are removed, the new EV drivetrain can be installed. This typically includes an electric motor, battery pack, charger, and other components needed to make the car run on electricity. The placement of these components will vary depending on the make and model of the car, and the specific EV drivetrain being used.

One of the biggest challenges in retrofitting an old car with an EV drivetrain is finding the right balance between performance and range. The battery pack needs to be large enough to provide adequate range, but it also needs to be small enough to fit in the car without compromising performance or handling. This can be a delicate balance, and it often requires custom fabrication and design work.

Another challenge is integrating the new EV drive train with the car’s existing systems. This includes things like the brakes, steering and suspension, as well as the dashboard and other controls. In some cases, it may be necessary to replace or modify these systems to ensure they work properly with the new EV drivetrain.

Despite the hassle and expense, converting an internal combustion engine car over to electric is a great way to breathe new life into your old ride and reduce its environmental impact. In addition to being more efficient and producing fewer emissions than gasoline-powered cars, EVs also require less maintenance and can save drivers money on fuel costs over the long term. It’s also a lot less wasteful to electrify an old clunker and give it years and years of additional use than buying a brand-new EV, which requires the extraction and use of precious resources and lots of new carbon emissions to build and ship out.

Several companies, including Electric GT, Legacy EV and EV West, now manufacture conversion kits. Even GM and Ford are getting in on the act with the recent release of

EARTHTALK Q&A: CONVERTIR UN COCHE DE GASOLINA EN UN VE

Estimado EarthTalk: ¿Es posible reequipar un coche viejo con un sistema de propulsión de vehículo eléctrico? - Jerry M., por correo electrónico ESPAÑOL

que otros. Para empezar, los coches más antiguos, que dependen más de la mecánica que de los ordenadores, suelen ser más fáciles de convertir. Otra consideración a tener en cuenta es que es más fácil convertir un coche con transmisión manual, ya que utilizan menos potencia y son mucho menos complicados que los coches automáticos. Asimismo, los vehículos más ligeros son los mejores candidatos para las conversiones, ya que un menor peso se traduce en una mayor autonomía.

so-called crate engines that car owners (or their mechanics) can easily swap into the engine bays of corresponding models.

CONTACTS: Electric GT, electricgt.com; EV West, evwest.com. Legacy EV, legacyev.com.

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Sinduda es posible adaptar un coche antiguo con motor de combustión interna a un vehículo eléctrico, pero el proceso puede ser complicado y caro. De hecho, puede resultar más barato -por no decir más fácil y rápido- comprar un VE.

Si no te desanimas y quieres seguir adelante con la conversión, ten en cuenta que algunos tipos de coches se prestan mejor al proceso

El primer paso para transformar un coche antiguo en un vehículo eléctrico es desmontar el motor y la transmisión. Esto requiere conocimientos y herramientas especializados, por lo que es importante encontrar un mecánico de confianza o una empresa de adaptación de vehículos eléctricos que se encargue del trabajo. Una vez retirados el motor y la transmisión, se puede instalar la nueva transmisión del vehículo eléctrico. Normalmente incluye un motor eléctrico, una batería, un cargador y otros componentes necesarios para que el coche funcione con electricidad. La ubicación de estos componentes varía en función de la marca y el modelo del coche, así como del sistema de propulsión específico que se utilice.

Uno de los mayores retos a la hora de reequipar un coche antiguo con una transmisión eléctrica es encontrar el equilibrio adecuado entre prestaciones y autonomía. El paquete de baterías debe ser lo suficientemente grande como para proporcionar una autonomía adecuada, pero también lo suficientemente pequeño como para caber en el coche sin comprometer el rendimiento o la maniobrabilidad. Se trata de un equilibrio delicado que a menudo requiere fabricación y diseño a medida.

Otro reto es integrar el nuevo sistema de propulsión EV en los sistemas existentes del coche. Esto incluye elementos como los frenos, la dirección y la suspensión, así como el salpicadero y otros controles. En algunos casos, puede ser necesario sustituir o modificar estos sistemas para garantizar que funcionen correctamente con la nueva transmisión eléctrica.

A pesar de las molestias y los gastos, la conversión de un coche con motor de combustión interna a uno eléctrico es una buena manera de dar nueva vida a su viejo vehículo y reducir su impacto medioambiental. Además de ser más eficientes y producir menos emisiones que los coches de gasolina, los vehículos eléctricos requieren menos mantenimiento y pueden ahorrar dinero en combustible a largo plazo. También es mucho menos derrochador electrificar un viejo cacharro y darle años y años de uso adicional que comprar un VE nuevo, cuya construcción y envío requiere la extracción y el uso de recursos preciosos y muchas nuevas emisiones de carbono.

Varias empresas, como Electric GT, Legacy EV y EV West, fabrican kits de conversión. Incluso GM y Ford se han sumado a la iniciativa con el reciente lanzamiento de los llamados motores "crate", que los propietarios de vehículos (o sus mecánicos) pueden instalar fácilmente en los vanos motores de sus modelos correspondientes.

CONTACTOS: Electric GT, electricgt.com; EV West, evwest.com. Legacy EV, legacyev.com.

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CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES BRING GROUPS TOGETHER TO FIGHT HATE

DEFENSORES DE LOS DERECHOS CIVILES REÚNEN A GRUPOS PARA LUCHAR CONTRA EL ODIO

Civil rights groups are forging connections to fight the rising tide of hate crimes.

In a briefing from the Act Against Hate Alliance Wednesday May 24, civil rights leaders explained efforts to enlist regular people, advocacy groups, governments and corporations in the fight against hate.

Laura E. Ellsworth, a partner at the Jones Day law firm, organizes the annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh, the site of the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

"Whether it be against LGBT people or immigrants in El Paso or Jews again in Poway or Sikhs in Oak Creek or Asians throughout California, again and again and again we see this identity-based violence," Ellsworth observed.

Five months ago, California was scarred by a mass shooting that killed 11 Asian-Americans during the Lunar New Year celebration at two dance halls in Monterey Park. A year ago, a white supremacist gunman targeted Black shoppers, killing 10 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Recently Gov. Gavin Newsom announced two new ways to report hate speech and hate crimes, by logging on to the website CAvsHate.org or calling 833-8-NO-HATE.

Tamas Berecz, general manager of the International Network Against Cyber Hate in the Netherlands, said his organization responds to complaints of online hate speech and manages a database to monitor trends in cyber hate.

"Hate speech is not always followed by hate crimes, but hate crimes are very, very often or almost always preceded by hate speech," Berecz explained.

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.

Dennis Santiago, chief operating officer of the National Diversity Coalition based in Los Angeles, said his organization tries to fight the myth of the Pacific Rim cultures as a monolith.

"Each one of them has beachhead cultures

in the United States," Santiago noted. "And every single one of them has different characteristics in terms of their economic integration, their cultural isolation, even from each other."

The 2021 California Hate Crime Report found hate crimes increased more than 32% in the Golden State between 2020 and 2021. AntiAsian hate crime events increased dramatically, rising 177.5% during the same time period.

Losgrupos de derechos civiles están forjando conexiones para luchar contra la creciente ola de crímenes de odio.

En una sesión informativa de Act Against Hate Alliance el miércoles 24 de mayo, los líderes de derechos civiles explicaron los esfuerzos para involucrar a personas comunes, grupos de defensa, gobiernos y corporaciones en la lucha

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contra el odio.

Laura E. Ellsworth, socia del bufete de abogados Jones Day, organiza la cumbre mundial anual Erradicate Hate en Pittsburgh, el sitio de la masacre de 2018 en la Sinagoga del Árbol de la Vida.

“Ya sea contra personas LGBT o inmigrantes en El Paso o judíos nuevamente en Poway o sijs en Oak Creek o asiáticos en todo California, una y otra vez vemos esta violencia basada en la identidad”, observó Ellsworth.

Hace cinco meses, California quedó marcada por un tiroteo masivo que mató a 11 asiáticoestadounidenses durante la celebración del Año Nuevo Lunar en dos salones de baile en Monterey Park. Hace un año, un supremacista blanco armado apuntó a compradores negros y mató a 10 en un supermercado en Buffalo, Nueva York. Recientemente, el gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció dos nuevas formas de denunciar el discurso de odio y los delitos de odio, iniciando sesión en el sitio web CAvsHate.org o llamando al 833-8-NO-HATE.

Tamas Berecz, gerente general de la Red Internacional contra el Odio Cibernético en los Países Bajos, dijo que su organización responde a las denuncias de incitación al odio en línea y administra una base de datos para monitorear las tendencias del odio cibernético.

"El discurso de odio no siempre va seguido de delitos de odio, pero los delitos de odio son muy, muy a menudo o casi siempre precedidos por un discurso de odio", explicó Berecz.

Mayo es el Mes de la Herencia Estadounidense de Asia/Pacífico.

Dennis Santiago, director de operaciones de National Diversity Coalition con sede en Los Ángeles, dijo que su organización trata de combatir el mito de las culturas de la Cuenca del Pacífico como un monolito.

“Cada uno de ellos tiene culturas cabeza de playa en Estados Unidos”, señaló Santiago. "Y cada uno de ellos tiene características diferentes en términos de su integración económica, su aislamiento cultural, incluso entre sí".

El Informe de delitos de odio de California de 2021 encontró que los delitos de odio aumentaron más del 32% en el Estado Dorado entre 2020 y 2021. Los eventos de delitos de odio contra asiáticos aumentaron drásticamente, aumentando un 177,5 % durante el mismo período.

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La Junta de tránsito busca un miembro La Junta Directiva del Distrito de Tránsito del Condado de San Mateo (San Mateo County Transit District) busca candidatos para ocupar un puesto de miembro público. El candidato exitoso será uno de nueve directores responsables de establecer la política del Distrito de Tránsito que opera el servicio de autobuses de SamTrans. Los candidatos deben ser residentes del Condado de San Mateo fuera de la región costera del condado y no deben haber ocupado un cargo electivo dentro del último año. Las solicitudes se encuentran disponibles en línea en: https://www.samtrans.com/aboutsamtrans/board-directors o llamando al 650-508-6242. La fecha límite para recibir solicitudes es: Lunes 5 de junio de 2023, 5:00 p.m.

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La oficina está ubicada en 2775 S. Delaware St. en San Mateo, CA. El horario de atención es de lunes a viernes de 9 a. m. a 5 p. m. Para obtener más información, llame al 650-3152495. Se aplican restricciones de ingresos y otras. Sección 8 bienvenida. EHO.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV410631

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: AVELINA

MENDEZ-MEDINA INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

AVELINA MENDEZMEDINA has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. ZURY ISAIAH ENRIQUEZ-MENDEZ to ZURY ISAIAH MENDEZ.

2. 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.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Feb 1, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 695536

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Scorpion Shoes 1196 S 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This

business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Jaqueline Gonzalez, 1640 Serville Dr, Morgan Hill, CA 95037. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/03/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Jaqueline Gonzalez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/03/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 695336

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695759

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BARBY CLEANING SERVICE, 5642 Creekview Meadow Ln, San Jose, CA 95135, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Barbara Hernandez, 5642 Creekview Meadow Ln, San

Jose, CA 95135. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/31/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Barbara Hernandez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/17/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 695759

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695730

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ricos Tacos Ponce 1098 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Alfonso Ponce, 960 Villa Ave, San Jose, CA 95126. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/16/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Alfonso Ponce Torres

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/16/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 695730

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV414543

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Gwenaver Lalas Datuin INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Gewnaver Lalas Datuin has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Gwenaver Lalas Datuin to Gwenavere Lalas Datuin 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/22/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 21, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415727

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Thanh Nghiep Ngo INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Thanh Nghiep Ngo has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hoang Mai Phuong Vo to Makayla D Ngo b. Vu Hoang Khanh Dinh to Kathy V Dinh c. Thanh Nghiep Ngo to Anthony Ngo 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/12/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 11, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415881

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Steven William Pankey INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Steven William Pankey has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Steven William Pankey to Steven William Oliphant 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least

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two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/12/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 16, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 26, June 02, 09, 16, 2023

Notice of Petition to Administer Estate of Margarita Cervantes

Case No. 21PR194747

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Margarita Cervantes. 2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Francisca Alvarez in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Francisca Alvarez be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 5. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administer of Estate Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take any actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested per-

sons unless they have waived notice or consent to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person Files and objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 30, 2023, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7 If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: 1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

10. Attorney for Peti-

tioner:

2021 The Alameda, Suite 225

San Jose, CA 95126 (408)713-5444

May 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.

695503

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Upcycled and FUNKtional Designs by J&L, 1824 Dry Creek Road, San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): J&L Creative Solutions LLC, 1824 Dry Creek Road, San Jose, CA 95124. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Laurie M DeGange

J&L Creative Solutions, LLC

Member Article/Reg#: 201533210016

Above entity was formed in the state of CA

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/08/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 695503

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695781

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SHADDAI GUATEMALAN CUISINE,

164 Azucar Ave, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Betxaida Alejandra Lopez, 164 Azucar Ave, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Betxaida Alejandra Lopez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/17/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 695781

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695681

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BE THE CHANGE COLLECTIVE, 5139 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Kathleen Aguirre Da Silva, 5139 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/12/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Kathleen Da Silva

Owner

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/12/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/

Deputy File No. FBN 695681

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 694885

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Santi’s Catering, 2670 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Filiberto Zaragoza, 235 Fairchild Dr. Apt 8, Mountain View, CA 94043. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/20/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Filiberto Zaragoza

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 694885

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695731

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lesly House Cleaning, 3726 Poiciana, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name

Apartamentos para personas mayores de bajos ingresos. La lista de espera para Wittenberg Manor II se abrirá el Lunes 6/3/2023 y durará 5 semanas hasta el Viernes 7/4/23.

Durante ese tiempo, Wittenberg Manor II aceptará solicitudes de personas mayores de 62 años que cumplan con las pautas de admisión, así como de adultos con problemas de movilidad, mayores de 18 años, que requieran las características de diseño de los apartamentos accesibles.

Para solicitar un paquete de solicitud, llame al 510-785-7201 o acérquese a la oficina de Wittenberg Manor II, de 9:00 a. m. a 12:00 p. m. y de 2:00 p. m. a 4:00 p. m., de Lunes a Viernes, en 713 Bartlett Avenida, Hayward, CA 94541. El Miércoles 19 de Abril de 2023, a las 10:00 a. m., en el comedor de Wittenberg Manor II, se llevará a cabo una lotería para la colocación en la lista de espera. Le invitamos a asistir a la lotería, pero no está obligado a asistir. Wittenberg Manor II ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de vivienda.

Electrical Test Engineer

Duties: Create detailed, comprehensive, well-structured test plans & test cases, & process flow diagrams. Review system requirements, track quality assurance metrics. Detailed knowledge of Electrical Circuits Debugging. Develop electrical product design solutions. Develop documentation related with electrical project as well as engineering activities. Inspect instruments & software associated for proper electronic functioning.

Calibrate electrical equipment, create reports.

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Contact: Labo America, 920 Auburn Ct, Fremont, CA 94538

and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Petronila Excanil Chitic, 3726 Poiciana, Santa Clara, CA 95051. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/16/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Petronila Excanil Chitic

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/16/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 695731

May 19, 26, June 02,

09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695622

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ANTOJITOS

IRAHETA, 960 S First St, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Delmy Arely Iraheta Claros, 3637 Snell Ave #158, San Jose, CA 95136. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/01/2021.

This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Delmy Arely Iraheta Claros

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/11/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 695622

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695486

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pro Diamond Shine, 2997 Ocala Ave, San Jose, CA 95148, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is

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(are): Miguel Junior Garcia Sanchez, 2997 Ocala Ave, San Jose, CA 95148. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Miguel Junior Garcia Sanchez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/08/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 695486

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO.

695466

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pancho Auto Repair, 8911 Murray Ave Ste E, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Francisco Gonzalez, 5826 Pamona Rd, Firebaugh, CA 93622. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/20/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Francisco Gonzalez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/08/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

Administer Estate of RICHARD EDWARD SMITH

Case No.

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 695466

ORDER

TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV413569

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Alicia Zacarias INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Alicia Zacarias has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Katherine Gutierrez Zacarias to Katherine Zacarias

2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/08/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 05, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

NO. 23CV415794

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Michael A. Tecleab & Mihret G. Weldeslassie have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Simon Michael Tecleab to Simon A. Michael b. Soliana Michael Tecleab to Soliana A Michael c. Sabrina Michael Tecleab to Sabrina A. Tecleab Michael d. Sidona Michael Tecleab to Sidona A. Michael

2. 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.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV414854

23PR194687

1.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RICHARD EDWARD

in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

NO. 695570

ING:

Date: 09/12/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 12, 2023

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ming Hua Lan INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Ming Hua Lan has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ming Hua Lan to Mandy MingHua Lan 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/29/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 26, 2023

May 19, 26, June 02, 09, 2023

Notice of Petition to

SMITH.

2. A Petition for Probate has been filed by Clifford Smith in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. 3.The Petition for Probate requests that Clifford Smith be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 6. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 21, 2022, at 9:01am, Dept. 13, located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 7 If you object to the granting of this petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. 8. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either:

1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or 2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. 9. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested

10. Attorney for Petitioner: Ryan Steburg Steburg Law Firm P.C., 2001 Gateway Place, Suite 100W, San Jose, CA 95110 (408)573-1122

Rune Date: May 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695574

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: HUMMINGBIRD CAFE, 1732 Hallmark Ln, San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): DORON GALPAZ, 732 Hallmark Ln, San Jose, CA 95124. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/15/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Doron Galpaz

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/10/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: S.B.I. CONSTRUCTION GENERAL CONTRACTOR, 1423 Lochner Dr, San Jose, CA 95127, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Inosencio Sanchez, 1423 Lochner, San Jose, CA 95127. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6/10/2016. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: FBN615846. “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.)

/s/ Inosencio Sanchez

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 05/10/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 695570

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 694648

filing] of previous file #: FBN693674. “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.)

/s/ James Espinoza

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/12/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 694648

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 695012

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: COCHINILLOS PORK & WINGS STUFFED, 2497 Anna Drive Apt 7, Santa Clara, CA 95050, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): CHESTER DANI AROSA HERNANDEZ, 2497 Anna Drive Apt 7, Santa Clara, CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/25/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Chester Arosa

By:

File No. FBN 695574

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: TREADSTONE PROTECTIVE GROUP , 99 Glen Eyrie Ave #6, San Jose, CA 95125, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): James Espinoza, 99 Glen Eyrie Ave #6, San Jose, CA 95125. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/01/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/25/2023. Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 695012

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS

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BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 694790

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GOLDEN BAY FACILITY SERVICES, 411 Lewis Rd SPM209, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):

Francisca Huizar Garcia, 411 Lewis Rd SPM209, San Jose, CA 95111. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Francisca Huizar

Garcia

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/18/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 694790

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV414906

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Yi Deng and Jiaxu Zuo INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Yi Deng and Jiaxu Zuo have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Mengxi Deng to Sophie Deng 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/29/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 27, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415273

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Huyen T Le INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Huyen T Le have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Huyen T Le to Maggie Huyen Taylor

2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that

includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/05/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 03, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV414361

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Armeis Mason INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Armeis Mason have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Armeis Sharae Mason to Armeis Sharae Sanders 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before

the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/15/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 18, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV415536

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Satnam Kaur INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Satnam Kaur have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Satnam Kaur to Satnam Kaur Saggi 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the

petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/05/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 08, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415534

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Maureen Hazel Roxas Tanael INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Maureen Hazel Roxas Tanael have filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Maureen Hazel Roxas Tanael to Maureen Hazel Roxas Smith 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written

objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/05/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 08, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415528

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Kun Zhang INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s) Kun Zhang has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Yuehan Liu to John Yuehan Liu 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 09/05/2023

at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 08, 2023

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

AMENDED

ORDER TO SHOW

CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV404969

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Lisa Joy Schlembach INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Lisa Joy Schlembach has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Lisa Joy Schlembach to Lisa Joy Darling 2. 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.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 06/13/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First

Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. May 05, 2023

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR

CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV415273 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: THI BICH TRAM DO INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) THI BICH TRAM DO has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. THI BICH TRAM DO to TRACY TRAM DO 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 09/05/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. A copy of the Order to Show cause shall be published

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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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 03, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 12, 19, 26, June 02, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 693656

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Somcare Service LLC, 333 West San Carlos St 4th Floor Room 134, San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County This business is owned by a limited liability company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Somcare Service LLC, 1060 Ranchero Way Apt 6, San Jose, CA 95117. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/12/2022. This filing is a refile [Change(s) in facts from previous filing] of previous file #: 693297. “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.)

/s/ Haid Ibrahim Somcare Service LLC

Owner Article/Reg#: 202250416121

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/15/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 693656

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS

BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT NO. 693943

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

AZUCENA BLOOMS

7670 Church St Apt B, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):

Azucena Yuliana Diaz Becerril, 7670 Church St Apt B, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Azucena Diaz Becerril

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 03/23/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Patty Camarena, Deputy File No. FBN 693943

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 694702

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gudelias Cleaning Services, 7160 Rosanna Street, Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):

Gudelia Garcia Tacuba, 7160 Rosanna Street, Gilroy, CA 95020. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2020. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Gudelia Garcia Tacuba

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/13/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Ronald Nguyen, Deputy File No. FBN 694702

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 694867

The following person(s) is (are) doing business

as: D&E LANDSCAPING AND CONCRETE, 902 Second St Unit #A, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045, San Benito County. This business is owned by a married couple. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are):

Doris Liliana Hernandez Tomas, 902 Second St Unit #A, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045.

Emilio Lopez Zarate, 902 Second St Unit #A, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/20/2023.

This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Doris Liliana Hernandez Tomas

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/20/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Corinne Vasquez, Deputy File No. FBN 694867

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 694436

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DIART AT HOME, 641 Iris Ave Apt 4, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by an individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Diana Urquijo, 641 Iris Ave Apt 4, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Diana Urquijo

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/06/2023.

By: /s/ Elaine

Deputy File No. FBN 694436

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

NO. 694427

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NATURE’S GREEN CLEANERS, 1281 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): OUTLANDER INC, 1520 Southwest Expwy Apt 195, San Jose, CA 95120. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/01/2023. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

President

INC

Article/Reg#: C4766041

Above entity was formed in the state of CA This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/06/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

By: /s/ Elaine Fader, Deputy File No. FBN 694427

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NO. 695061

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CALDO PARADO Y ALGO MAS, 3535 Pitcair Way, San Jose, CA 95111, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by a general partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is (are): Yunis Sthevens Falla Moreno, 3535 Pitcair Way, San Jose, CA 95111. Israel Giovani Mora Ocampo, 1771 Warburton Ave Apt 1, Santa Clara, CA 95050. The registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This filing is a first filing. “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.)

/s/ Yunis Sthevens Falla Moreno

This statement was filed with the Co. ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on 04/26/2023.

Regina Alcomendras, County Clerk Recorder

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV413258

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Charlize Deshain INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Charlize Deshain has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Charlize Deshain to Soheila Babakhani

2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/01/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Mar 29, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV413386

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Wanying Su, Weiqiang Li IN-

TERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Wanying

Su, Weiqiang Li has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Hilbert Haoyang

Li to Gilbert Haoyang

Li 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 08/01/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Apr 03, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV410335

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Ethan Gabriel Carrasco

INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Ethan Gabriel Carrasco has filed a petition for Change of Name with

the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Ethan Gabriel Carrasco to Ethan Gabriel Dworak 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 05/30/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara. Jan 26, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410717

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Abhishek Gattani INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Abhishek Gattani has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Abhishek Gattani to Robit Kumar

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2. 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.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Feb 03, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NO. 23CV414295

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Oscar Armando Pena INTERESTED PERSONS:

1. Petitioner(s) Oscar Armando Pena has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Oscar Armando

Pena to Oscar Armando

Pena Kawas b. Denia Maribel Valladares de Pena to Maribel Denia Pena 2. THE COURT

ORDERS that all per-

sons 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. Any person objectin`g to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 08/15/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

Apr 17, 2023

Arroyo

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

2nd Amended ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 22CV406068

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara-In the matter of the application of: Danibal

Kasbari Reihanabad

INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Danibal Kasbari

Reihanabad has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. Danibal Kasbari

Reihanabad to Danibel

Kasbari 2. 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.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEAR-

ING: Date: 06/06/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 01, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

2nd Amended ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME NO. 23CV410929

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

Aradhna Rajendran

INTERESTED PER-

SONS: 1. Petitioner(s)

Aradhna Rajendran has filed a petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.

Aradhna Rajendran

AKA Aradhna Pallares

AKA Ana Rajendran

AKA Ana Pallares to Ana

Baldwin 2. 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 07/18/2023 at 8:45 am, Probate Dept., located at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. 3. 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 circulation, printed in the county of Santa Clara.

May 03, 2023

Jacqueline M. Arroyo Judge of the Superior Court

May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023

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LaVirgen María es uno de los personajes sagrados de la Biblia, es mencionada en las Santas Escrituras, y en otros libros sagrados como el Corán. Todo el mes de mayo es dedicado en su honor, y dentro del cual se celebran solemnes festividades, entre las que destacan: El 13 de mayo día de la Virgen de Fátima. 24 de mayo de María Auxiliadora. Y el 31 de mayo día de celebración de la Bienaventurada Virgen María.

Salve mayo florido, salve mes sin igual.

Para honrar escogido a la Virgen celestial. Es la Virgen tan Santa que sin par la hizo Dios, no hay criatura como ella, ella es más pura que el sol.

Durante centurias, y principalmente en los últimos cien años, la Virgen María ha aparecido ante fieles creyentes, y ha dictado mensajes que deben ser escuchados y atendidos por la humanidad. Lastimosamente, esos mensajes han sido ocultos y reprimidos. Sin embargo, algunos de esos mensajes han sido divulgados por los estudiosos del tema; y principalmente, por los privilegiados que le han visto y escuchado. Los mensajes marianos crean conmoción, pues ella

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habla de grandes cambios que ocurrirán en el planeta y en toda la humanidad. Ella hace mención de una evolución de nuestra raza. Situación que ha ocurrido antes, en milenios pasados.

El mapa del mundo tendrá modificaciones. Enormes islas que se encuentran en el fondo del mar, saldrán a la superficie, y algunos territorios que conocemos, se hundirán. En sus mensajes nos previene de grandes sucesos, el derretimiento de los polos y su desplazamiento a nuevos territorios. Lemuria, Atlántida y Zelandia, surgirán desde el fondo del mar. Un suceso alarmante, es la aparición de dos asteroides de gran tamaño, los cuales harían colisión con la Tierra. También habla de tres días de oscuridad, esto ocurriría por la explosión de un mega volcán, cuyo humo y ceniza, cubriría gran parte de la atmósfera terrestre, la luz solar no se vería durante al menos 72 horas. Terremotos, tremendos huracanes y tempestades, están por ocurrir en todos los continentes. Habla de un cambio significativo en el mapa de Europa, América Central y el Sur de Asia.

El inicio de una guerra mundial podría suceder, en medio de todos estos acontecimientos, ocurrirán sequías en diversas naciones, el agua será insuficiente, e incluso, existen naciones que tendrían que importar agua del exterior. El planeta entero atravesará por un cambio ex-

forjando puentes.

Abrimos nuestras puertas en 1973 con un simple objetivo–ofrecer un camino hacia adelante para las esperanzas y los sueños de inmigrantes. Creíamos que podíamos ayudar a nuestros clientes y comunidades a conectarse con nuevas oportunidades y prosperar, y lo hicimos. 50 años después, ese espíritu es más fuerte que nunca. Seguimos forjando puentes nuevos que le den la confianza de alcanzar más lejos.

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y energía, tanto a los seres humanos y animales, como a todo ser viviente. No habrá tanta necesidad de ingerir carne, otros tipos de alimentos serán utilizados, la población mundial disminuirá en gran cuantía. El gobernador mundial de ese milenio fantástico será Jesucristo.

tremo, después que todo estos hechos ocurran, vendrá un nuevo milenio en el que la gente vivirá en paz. Los recuerdos e historias de estas épocas, se contarán como leyendas. El hombre evolucionado, tendrá una mayor conciencia del planeta; la deforestación y la implacable contaminación ambiental, no tendrán cabida en la nueva realidad del futuro. Un nuevo sol aparecerá en el horizonte, astro que en gran medida alimentará con su luz

Definitivamente vivimos tiempos de cambio, tiempos de tribulación, los cuales fueron profetizados en los evangelios del Nuevo Testamento. Todo cambia nada permanece igual para siempre. Los procesos biológicos existen también en el Universo. Muy pronto se presentarán pruebas de la existencia de seres de otros planetas y galaxias, muchos de ellos se encuentran en la Antártida. Tanto el polo norte como el polo sur y la isla Groenlandia, cuando el hielo se derrita, descubrirán maravillas que han quedado plasmadas de muchos milenios atrás. Debemos estar conscientes que somos parte de un todo universal. La evolución del universo se hará presente, cambiando nuestras vidas para siempre. La Virgen María, les pide a los creyentes una sola cosa: ''No le hagan mal a ningún ser humano, a ningún animal, ni a ningún ser viviente. Con ello estarán en paz con Dios, y sus leyes universales" Bendita sea la Virgen María, auxilio de los cristianos. Amén.

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NOWHERE TO TURN – FEW LEGAL PATHS FOR MIGRANTS FLEEING WAR, HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Even as climate change fuels a surge in global migration those seeking refuge have few legal options as governments worldwide move to tighten their borders.

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A pesar de que el cambio climático alimenta un aumento de la migración global, aquellos que buscan refugio tienen pocas opciones legales a medida que los gobiernos de todo el mundo se mueven para reforzar sus fronteras. ESPAÑOL ENGLISH

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Fromthe shores of Greece to the US southern border, across Turkey, North Africa and along the length of the America’s, the flow of humanity fleeing war, violence, poverty, and hunger is rising year-by-year.

And, experts say, government policies are exacerbating this growing humanitarian catastrophe even as climate change threatens to swell migrant numbers to new heights.

“People are seeking refuge,” says Susan Fratzke, Senior Policy Analyst with the Migration Policy Institute’s International Program, who notes migrant flows over the last decade have not only grown but have become more global in scale.

“People are not just moving to a country right across the border… or even one or two countries further on,” she explains. “People are seeking refuge, really, across the world.”

Last year alone, Europe took in nearly 1 million applications for asylum – from countries as removed as Syria and Afghanistan to Colombia and Venezuela – on top of the 4 million Ukrainians who have resettled within the bloc since Russia’s invasion one year ago.

Turkey is home to between 4 and 6 million migrants and refugees, in addition to being a major transit corridor for those seeking passage to Europe, while across Latin America some 7 million Venezuelans have spread across the continent, many of them settling in Colombia and Peru.

Due to prohibitive and outdated immigration and asylum policies, millions of people are forced to travel via dangerous routes and through countries illegally as they seek a better life, says Susan Fratzke, Senior Policy Analyst with Migration Policy Institute’s International Program.

Fratzke, who spoke during a panel discussion last week on the nexus of climate change and global migration flows, says the growing numbers belie the reality that for many seeking to flee conditions at home, the options to do so legally are few and far between.

“There is a lack of legal pathways for people to move globally,” she noted, explaining that most developed countries impose work and family restrictions on would-be migrants that favor skilled laborers and nuclear families, leaving those most vulnerable to the whims of smugglers and organized crime.

And that policy framework, she notes, is contributing to the scenes of chaos witnessed, for example, along the US southern border or in Greece, where authorities were found last week to be abandoning migrants at sea, in violation of international human rights law.

Climate change fueling migrant crisis

All of this comes as the World Meteorological Organization says that the next five years are likely to be the hottest on record as an El Niño pattern sets in, threatening more torrential downpours, prolonged and deadlier heat waves and more intense periods of drought and wildfires.

“This will have far-reaching repercussions for health, food security, water management and the environment,” warned Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the meteorological organization. “We need to be prepared.”

Amali Tower is the founder and executive director of the non-profit Climate Refugees. “There is absolutely no doubt that climate change is driving global displacement,” she said, noting that every year some 23 million people are displaced by climate and weatherrelated events. And while many of these people remain internally displaced within their home countries, anywhere from 80%-90% of cross-border refugees worldwide come from countries deemed most vulnerable to climate change.

Despite that fact, climate refugee is still not a recognized legal category under international law. According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, individuals can seek asylum only based on persecution because of race, religion, membership in a particular group (eg sexual orientation), or political opinion.

Tower notes many cross-border asylum seekers are therefore often reluctant to cite climate as a driving reason for their claims, a reality she says led her

to start her organization. “It was refugees themselves who were disclosing to me how much climate change and environmental degradation were a factor,” she said.

Amali Tower, Founder & Executive Director, Climate Refugees, says currently those fleeing climate crises cannot claim asylum in the United States. She details proposed U.S. legislation and U.N. policy changes that may expand asylum rules to include climate refugees.

Building a ‘climate fortress’

Andrew Rosenberg, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and author of “Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration,” says the response in the West to date has been to create what he termed a “climate fortress.”

Citing historical racism and a legacy of colonialism, Rosenberg says rising anti-migrant antipathy across much of the West is likely to grow as the number of migrants increase, providing fodder to “enterprising politicians” eager to ride a wave of populist resentment into power by promising to further tighten borders.

“Given the conditions of prejudice, inequality, and resentment in the Global North,” he speculated, “I think it’s unlikely that the West will have the political will to help.”

Instead, says Tower, many are investing in tightening their borders, spending as much as two-to-one on border enhancements over and above investments in climate finance that could otherwise help developing nations more effectively weather the damage wrought by climate change.

“You could say that border security is their climate policy,” she said.

That leaves much of the burden on the shoulders of poorer countries, which today host approximately 80% of the more than 100 million displaced peoples worldwide even as they contend with the growing impacts of climate change, which some have estimated to have cost upwards of $6 trillion to the global economy. Most of this, again, has fallen on low-income countries that have contributed the least to global warming.

Investing in resilience

Hossein Ayazi, Policy Analyst with the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, shares responses to a survey on how climate and community resilience can be created in Africa and other formerly colonized nations.

For Hossein Ayazi, policy analyst with the Global Justice program at the University of California, Berkeley, this confluence of intertwined forces – what many have taken to calling the “polycrisis” – leads to several important questions, chief among them: how are Global South countries building resilience to the climate crisis?

Earlier this year, Ayazi and his colleagues published the results of a survey looking at how environmental and agricultural organizations across Africa are tackling this question. Many pointed to the emergence of localized economies built around sustainable food systems and a shift away from reliance on resource extraction – including fossil fuels – which has typically enriched wealthier countries at the cost of local ecosystems and the global climate.

“This means actually transforming the very conditions that force displacement itself,” said Ayazi, noting that support for such efforts by wealthier countries is “key to addressing both the climate crisis and to mitigating climate-induced migration.”

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Desde las costas de Grecia hasta la frontera sur de EE. UU., pasando por Turquía, el norte de África y a lo largo de América, el flujo de la humanidad que huye de la guerra, la violencia, pobreza y hambre aumenta año tras año.

Y, dicen los expertos, las políticas gubernamentales están exacerbando esta creciente catástrofe humanitaria incluso cuando el cambio climático amenaza con aumentar el número de migrantes a nuevas alturas.

“La gente está buscando refugio”, dice Susan Fratzke, analista sénior de políticas del Programa Internacional del Instituto de Políticas Migratorias, quien señala que los flujos migratorios en la última década no solo han crecido sino que se han vuelto más globales en escala.

“La gente no se está mudando simplemente a un país al otro lado de la frontera… o incluso a uno o dos países más allá”, explica. “La gente está buscando refugio, realmente, en todo el mundo”.

Solo el año pasado, Europa recibió casi 1 millón de solicitudes de asilo, de países tan alejados como Siria y Afganistán hasta Colombia y Venezuela, además de los 4 millones de ucranianos que se han reasentado dentro del bloque desde la invasión de Rusia hace un año.

Turquía es el hogar de entre 4 y 6 millones de migrantes y refugiados, además de ser un importante corredor de tránsito para quienes buscan el paso a Europa, mientras que en América Latina unos 7 millones de venezolanos se han dispersado por el continente, muchos de ellos instalándose en Colombia y Perú.

Debido a las políticas de inmigración y asilo prohibitivas y obsoletas, millones de personas se ven obligadas a viajar a través de rutas peligrosas y a través de países ilegales en busca de una vida mejor, dice Susan Fratzke, analista principal de políticas del Programa Internacional del Instituto de Políticas Migratorias.

Fratzke, quien habló durante un panel de discusión la semana pasada sobre el nexo entre el cambio climático y los flujos migratorios globales, dice que los números crecientes desmienten la realidad de que para muchos que buscan huir de las condiciones en el hogar, las opciones para hacerlo legalmente son pocas y distantes entre sí.

“Hay una falta de vías legales para que las personas se muevan a nivel mundial”, señaló, y explicó que la mayoría de los países desarrollados imponen restricciones laborales y familiares a los posibles migrantes que favorecen a los trabajadores calificados y las familias nucleares, dejando a los más vulnerables a los caprichos de los contrabandistas y el crimen organizado. Y ese marco de políticas, señala, está contribuyendo a las escenas de caos presenciadas, por ejemplo, a lo largo de la frontera sur de EE. UU. o en Grecia, donde la semana pasada se descubrió que las autoridades estaban abandonando a los migrantes en el mar, en violación de las leyes internacionales de derechos humanos.

El cambio climático alimenta la crisis migratoria Todo esto ocurre cuando la Organización Meteorológica Mundial dice que es probable que los próximos cinco años sean los más calurosos registrados a medida que se establece un patrón de El Niño, que amenaza con más lluvias torrenciales, olas de calor prolongadas y más mortales y períodos más intensos de sequía e incendios forestales.

“Esto tendrá repercusiones de gran alcance para la salud, la seguridad alimentaria, la gestión del agua y el medio ambiente”, advirtió Petteri Taalas, secretario general de la organización meteorológica. “Necesitamos estar preparados”.

Amali Tower es la fundadora y directora ejecutiva de Climate Refugees, una organización sin fines de lucro. “No hay absolutamente ninguna duda de que el cambio climático está impulsando el desplazamiento global”, dijo, y señaló que cada año unos 23 millones de personas son desplazadas por eventos climáticos y relacionados con el clima. Y aunque muchas de estas personas siguen desplazadas internamente dentro de sus países de origen, entre el 80% y el 90% de los refugiados transfronterizos en todo el mundo provienen de países considerados más vulnerables al cambio climático.

A pesar de ese hecho, el refugiado climático todavía no es una categoría legal reconocida bajo el derecho

internacional. De acuerdo con la Convención de Refugiados de 1951, las personas pueden solicitar asilo solo en base a la persecución por motivos de raza, religión, pertenencia a un grupo en particular (por ejemplo, orientación sexual) u opinión política.

Tower señala que, por lo tanto, muchos solicitantes de asilo transfronterizos a menudo son reacios a citar el clima como una de las razones principales de sus solicitudes, una realidad que, según ella, la llevó a iniciar su organización. “Fueron los propios refugiados quienes me revelaron hasta qué punto el cambio climático y la degradación ambiental eran un factor”, dijo.

Amali Tower, fundadora y directora ejecutiva de Climate Refugees, dice que actualmente aquellos que huyen de las crisis climáticas no pueden solicitar asilo en los Estados Unidos. Ella detalla la legislación estadounidense propuesta y los cambios en las políticas de la ONU que pueden ampliar las reglas de asilo para incluir a los refugiados climáticos.

Construyendo una 'fortaleza climática'

Andrew Rosenberg, profesor asistente de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Florida y autor de "Inmigrantes indeseables: por qué el racismo persiste en la migración internacional", dice que la respuesta en el Occidente hasta la fecha ha sido crear lo que él denominó una "fortaleza climática".

Citando el racismo histórico y un legado de colonialismo, Rosenberg dice que es probable que aumente la creciente antipatía antiinmigrante en gran parte del Occidente a medida que aumenta el número de inmigrantes, proporcionando forraje a los "políticos emprendedores" ansiosos por montar una ola de resentimiento populista en el poder prometiendo endurecer aún más las fronteras.

“Dadas las condiciones de prejuicio, desigualdad y resentimiento en el Norte Global”, especuló, “creo que es poco probable que el Occidente tenga la voluntad política para ayudar”.

En cambio, dice Tower, muchos están invirtiendo en reforzar sus fronteras, gastando hasta dos a uno en mejoras fronterizas por encima de las inversiones en financiamiento climático que de otro modo podrían ayudar a las naciones en desarrollo a capear el daño causado por el cambio climático.

“Se podría decir que la seguridad fronteriza es su política climática”, dijo.

Eso deja gran parte de la carga sobre los hombros de los países más pobres, que hoy en día albergan aproximadamente el 80 % de los más de 100 millones de personas desplazadas en todo el mundo, incluso cuando se enfrentan a los crecientes impactos del cambio climático, que algunos han estimado que ha costado más de $ 6 billones a la economía mundial. La mayor parte de esto, nuevamente, ha recaído en los países de bajos ingresos que menos han contribuido al calentamiento global.

Invertir en resiliencia

Hossein Ayazi, analista de políticas del Programa de Justicia Global en el Othering & Belonging Institute de la Universidad de California, Berkeley, comparte las respuestas a una encuesta sobre cómo se puede crear resiliencia climática y comunitaria en África y otras naciones anteriormente colonizadas.

Para Hossein Ayazi, analista de políticas del programa de Justicia Global de la Universidad de California, Berkeley, esta confluencia de fuerzas entrelazadas, lo que muchos han dado en llamar la "policrisis", lleva a varias preguntas importantes, la principal de ellas: ¿Cómo están construyendo los países del Sur Global resiliencia ante la crisis climática?

A principios de este año, Ayazi y sus colegas publicaron los resultados de una encuesta que analiza cómo las organizaciones ambientales y agrícolas de África están abordando este problema. Muchos señalaron el surgimiento de economías localizadas construidas alrededor de sistemas alimentarios sostenibles y un alejamiento de la dependencia de la extracción de recursos, incluidos los combustibles fósiles, que generalmente ha enriquecido a los países más ricos a costa de los ecosistemas locales y el clima global.

“Esto significa transformar realmente las mismas condiciones que fuerzan el desplazamiento en sí”, dijo Ayazi, y señaló que el apoyo a tales esfuerzos por parte de los países más ricos es “clave para abordar tanto la crisis climática como para mitigar la migración inducida por el clima”.

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Las vacunas son parte del desarrollo saludable

Al igual que las primeras palabras, las vacunas son una parte importante del desarrollo infantil. Son seguras y protegen a los niños para que crezcan sanos, felices y fuertes.

Hable con el doctor de su hijo sobre las vacunas necesarias este año.

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