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Huff, Huff, Pass To the teenagers in the back row of the theater at a certain 20-screen movie establishment in Sunnyvale: We know what you were up to, and you’re lucky we didn’t get you kicked out of the ‘Venom’ showing. The clink of metal on the floor mystified my date and me at first until one of the objects you two were repeatedly dropping fell into our row.

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Campbell Union High School District trustee MATTHEW DEAN got called out earlier this year for his glib denial of systemic racism and suggestion that students who experience racial harassment need to toughen up and find the “diamond” in situations like being called the N-word. Though he ignored public pleas to resign, he at least agreed to not seek re-election this fall.

A broad coalition of folks applauded his decision, including teachers frustrated by Dean’s divisiveness, students insulted by his condescension and colleagues—CUHSD trustee and San Jose District 9 City Council candidate KALEN GALLAGHER among them—embarrassed by his verbal antics.

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A sample of tweets from his now-private Twitter account include one that promotes far-right conspiracy theories about BARACK OBAMA, another that compares government welfare recipients to wild animals and yet another that calls CNN less trusted than “breast milk from BRUCE JENNER” and “having a drink from BILL COSBY.” Varich has also shared content from The Religion of Peace, a website that features anti-Muslim propaganda and sources people such as neo-Nazi RICHARD SPENCER and other white nationalists listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s co-called hate list.

“It’s really disturbing,” says Saleh, a 22-yearold Egyptian-American and Branham High alum who’s running to bring diversity to the all-white school board. “These aren’t the kinds of ideas we want to hear from the people leading our district.”

PEACE OF MIND Antipsychotic drug injection clinics offer medication access for people with mental illness.

Sure Shot Injectable antipsychotics may save costs, stabilize mentally ill patients

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OR SOME PEOPLE, a pill is just a pill.

For Tyler, a 26-year-old South Bay resident, medication helps him maintain his livelihood. “I’m at a job where I do a lot of customer service,” he says, asking to withhold his last name to protect his privacy. “I need to be up and happy.”

Tyler was diagnosed three years ago with bipolar disorder, a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings marked by emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). To help manage his bipolar depression, he was prescribed a daily antipsychotic pill. But if he missed a pill, he sometimes experienced mood swings and fell behind at work.

His psychiatrist knew of an alternative, and suggested that Tyler

try taking the medication as an injection that could last for a month.

Some studies have shown that these injections, known as long-acting injectable antipsychotics, can improve medication adherence and reduce relapse and hospitalizations. He referred Tyler to San Jose’s Garcia Pharmacy, which runs a clinic where patients can receive injectable antipsychotics to treat conditions including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Depending on the drug, the injections can last from two weeks to three months.

Tyler is glad he made the switch.

“I feel more even-keeled and steady,” he says.

California is one of 39 states that allow pharmacists to provide injections beyond immunizations, according to

the National Community Pharmacists Association. A dearth of data makes it unclear how many community pharmacies throughout the state offer long-acting injectable antipsychotics. Yet Kelly Lee, a board-certified psychiatric pharmacist and associate dean of the UC San Diego’s pharmacy school, says that from what she’s seen, it’s uncommon for community pharmacists in California to provide such injections. One potential barrier, she believes, is that they may not feel comfortable treating patients with mental illness.

Santa Clara County offers longacting injectable antipsychotics at nine pharmacies and clinics. The county doesn’t charge co-pays for the injections, which it has offered since 2004. About 300 Medi-Cal patients currently receive the treatment, according to county spokeswoman Laurel Anderson.

Tropicana opened in 1970 as a retail pharmacy in San Jose. But during the ’80s and ’90s, large chain pharmacies cut the number of independent counterparts—often pharmacist-owned small businesses— in the U.S. by half. Tropicana survived by shifting from serving retail consumers exclusively to also serving long-term care centers, such as nursing homes and residential

and other caregivers to communicate with. Hien Hoang, a registered nurse at Tropicana, said the pharmacy takes measures to help coordinate care.

After each injection, Tropicana faxes the patient’s doctor to confirm the injection and includes any information the patient shares, such as side effects they’re experiencing, before storing this information in a database.

Several studies have estimated that about 10 percent of people with schizophrenia in the U.S. are prescribed long-acting injectable antipsychotics.

But the rate is up to three times higher in countries such as the U.K. Some researchers think physician practices account for the difference. U.S. psychiatrists tend to prescribe long-acting injections as a last resort for patients who’ve repeatedly relapsed because they didn’t take their oral meds. But in some European countries, doctors tend to prescribe shots as a first-line treatment.

Patient preferences also affect whether someone is prescribed this treatment, according to Dr. Victor Chen, a psychiatrist who started practicing at Valley Health Center in Gilroy in 2014 and left last month to pursue an out-ofstate opportunity. “My sense is that the majority of county doctors believe in the injectables, but a lot of us have trouble convincing patients,” he says, noting that he can only venture a guess.

Patients’ reasons for refusing injections, Chen says, range from the physical pain and stigma of injections to paranoia. He cautions that the injections aren’t appropriate for everyone.

Some patients need to take particular antipsychotics that don’t have injectable versions, and patients who have good results with oral antipsychotics often don’t need to switch to an injectable.

According to the county, most Medi-Cal patients on long-acting injections have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, tend to be between 35 and 45 years old and are three times more likely to be male than female.

Chen says the most vulnerable populations such as the homeless and formerly incarcerated are among the most likely to struggle with adherence and thus, in his view, could benefit from long-lasting injections the most. But in his experience, they’re often the least likely to try this treatment. He reports greater success getting patients with stronger support networks to try the injections. “If the patient is younger and living at home,” he says, “I can work with the parents to convince the patient.”

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facilities for people with severe mental illness.

Ten years ago, when long-acting injectable antipsychotics came on the market, a couple of local private psychiatrists wanted their patients to try it. To avoid the overhead costs of buying and administering the drugs themselves, they asked Tropicana to provide the injections instead, says James Wong, Tropicana’s owner.

Tropicana agreed, making it one of the first privately-held pharmacies in California to offer the treatment.

Seeing an opportunity to also add this as a service for its residential facility clients, the pharmacy turned part of its space into a long-acting injectable antipsychotic clinic. In 2016, when Tropicana’s retail pharmacy closed, Wong bought Garcia Pharmacy, shifted the clinic there, and then merged it with Tropicana’s long-term care unit into a single business entity.

The clinic, which operates at Garcia Pharmacy from 10am to 5pm every Wednesday, serves about 100 to 120 patients referred there by psychiatrists and residential facilities. Most of them are covered by Medi-Cal and aren’t charged co-pays. Others are covered by Cal MediConnect—California’s program for patients on both Medi-Cal and Medicare—or by private insurance.

Lapsing on antipsychotic meds isn’t just an individual health problem; it can also create considerable public expense. An estimated 40 percent to 90 percent of people with schizophrenia— one of Medi-Cal’s most expensive conditions to treat—don’t take their oral antipsychotic medications, an oversight that studies show can lead to relapse and hospitalization. Additionally, some research has shown that non-adherence to antipsychotic medications is linked with homelessness and unemployment.

Research suggests that enhancing access to long-acting injectable antipsychotics may ultimately benefit taxpayers and others who pay for health care of patients with mental illness. Anderson says that Medi-Cal patients on longacting injections have lower rates of emergency hospitalizations.

Injectable antipsychotics aren’t without controversy, however. Critics argue that they prevent patients from exercising their free will to reduce or stop their medication, especially when the injections are court-ordered.

Concerns also exist that establishing separate injection sites could fragment care by adding another party for doctors

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IN MEMORIAM Jewish SJSU students Ronnie Baruch and Spencer Brodie (from left) led one of two vigils

in San Jose this week to honor the 11 lives lost in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, massacre.

South Bay Vigils Mourn Tree of Life Victims

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Two days after a gunman who spewed anti-Semitic rhetoric allegedly murdered 11 congregants at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dozens of Jews and their allies met at San Jose State to mourn the dead, speak their names and condemn hate.

The crowd of mostly students and faculty on Monday night recited prayers and sang songs—including the Kaddish, the mourning prayer—by the Cesar Chavez arch in the middle of campus, where 24-year-old Spencer Brodie, a leader of the school’s Jewish Student Union, helped arrange white candles to resemble the Star of David.

“I’m heartbroken,” he told the gathering. “I feel like I need to have the magic words that will help our community mourn. But the more I think about it, the more I think that those words don’t exist. What I can say is that an attack on one Jewish community is an attack on all Jewish communities.”

The Oct. 27 massacre allegedly carried

out by 46-year-old Robert Bowers at the Squirrel Hill congregation, which the Anti-Defamation League calls the single deadliest attack on American Jews, capped a week of gun violence and pipe bombs. A few days earlier, 51-yearold Gregory Bush was charged with fatally shooting two black shoppers in a Kentucky grocery store after first trying to target an African American church.

And just two days after that, authorities arrested 56-year-old Florida transient Cesar Sayoc Jr. on suspicion of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen of President Trump’s political foes.

The carnage in Pittsburgh also comes amid a historic uptick in anti-Jewish violence. According to the same organization, the U.S. has seen a 60 percent rise in antiSemitic incidents from 2016 to last year—the most dramatic single-year increase since it began tracking such data four decades ago.

Ronnie Baruch, an 18-year-old

business major and president of the SJSU’s Jewish Student Union, said hearing the news on Saturday initially made her want to remove anything that identified her as Jewish. “I wanted to take off my necklace,” she said, clasping a Star of David pendant suspended from a silver chain around her neck. “I was terrified.”

In the span of a day, Baruch said, her fear turned to numbness and then resolve. She kept her necklace on.

“This is the time that we all need to be proudly Jewish and not be ashamed of the community that we all love,” Baruch said.

Rabbi Shaya Bernstein, of Chabad at San Jose State, said he, too, felt horrified and then numb in the aftermath of the shooting. But he’s urging people to respond to the tragedy constructively.

“We need more than thoughts and prayers,” he said. “This should be a call to action.”

Free Rides Offered on Election Day There are plenty of reasons why people don’t vote. Apathy, burnout and cumbersome registration have all been cited by researchers as common barriers to democratic participation.

But for nearly a third of young Americans, the reason was more logistical. More than 15 million eligible voters age 18 to 29 said they didn’t go to the polls because of transportation issues.

This year—in San Jose and a slew of other major cities, at least—those voters will have the option of a free ride, courtesy of Ford GoBike, Uber and Lyft.

Lyft led the charge by offering free rides to the polls for folks in underserved areas. Uber followed suit earlier this month, saying it would do its part by teaming up with nonprofits #VoteTogether and Democracy Works.

South Bay voters who live near one of the company’s 300-plus bike-sharing stations can unlock an access pass valid for 24 hours of unlimited 30-minute trips by using the code “BIKETOVOTE” in the Ford GoBike app.

“We’re excited to help the Bay Area pedal to the polls this Election Day,” Emily Stapleton, Ford GoBike general manager, said in an announcement about the getout-the-vote initiative.

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CLEANING UP Opus 12, one of five laureates in the Tech for Global Good competition, developed a way to channel carbon emissions into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels using only water and electricity as inputs.

Empathetic Tech Museum’s ‘Tech for Global Good’ program fosters humane innovation

BY GARY SINGH

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HESE DAYS, the giant mango building of downtown San Jose might as well rename itself The Tech Museum of Inspiration, because a collection of hopeful events are about to unfold, inspiring anyone that needs a more positive antidote to the violent times in which we live.

Beginning last year, the museum retooled its signature event, The Tech Awards, into a new concept, Tech For Global Good. The next celebration takes place this Saturday. A related

gathering, the Youth Climate Action Summit, organized for students, by students, debuts on the following Saturday, Nov. 10. Inseparable from both events will be the reopening of the museum’s IMAX Dome Theater— now the only digital IMAX dome in the world. Tim Ritchie, president and CEO of The Tech, claims that these endeavors are part of the museum’s understanding itself with greater clarity, indicating how the museum will continue to forge ahead and inspire the next generation, not just pander to grown-ups.

“The Tech Awards were very adult orientated, adult focused, and it was

really a big gala and fundraiser, and we realized that’s fine, but our focus should be on kids and how do we do something that’s Tech-Awards-like but that relates to kids,” Ritchie says. “That got us to the Tech for Global Good, and then that got us to this youth summit.”

While similar to the Tech Awards, Tech for Global Good supports, inspires and specifically targets the next upand-coming generation of inventors, engineers, physicians and scientists to implement technology in useful, humane ways. Each year, The Tech selects five “Tech Laureates,” whose projects already show great promise in addressing a predetermined theme.

Last year the theme was Technology and Health. This year it’s Technology and the Environment. This year’s winning projects include Freight Farms, whose goal is to grow food anywhere by transforming recycled shipping containers into vertical, hydroponic farming systems that can grow two to four tons of produce a year for less than five gallons of water a day. Another winning laureate, Opus 12, developed a technology for recycling CO2 into

cost-competitive chemicals and fuels using only water and electricity as inputs, thereby reducing carbon emissions by heavy-emitting companies while creating a new revenue stream in the process.

Each of the five laureates’ projects are then presented in the museum via interactive exhibits that remain until next year. Visitors empathize with the problems at hand and then walk away inspired by the young laureates and their attempts to make the world a better place.

The Tech for Global Good main event Saturday also includes the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award. This year’s recipient is the legendary entrepreneur, environmentalist, author and ecological activist Paul Hawken, whose resume goes all the way back to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s efforts in the ’60s. Currently Hawken is the leader of Project Drawdown, an elaborate and rational roadmap toward reversing global warming.

As if that weren’t enough, Tech for Global Good also includes a youth advisory board, formed in 2017, consisting of 12 high schoolers dedicated to inspiring other high schoolers to expand their understanding of global issues, in this case, the drastic effects of climate change. The debut Youth Climate Action Summit on the 10th will function as a launching pad for kids to learn about the science and impact of climate change. Between breakout sessions and activities, National Geographic Explorers will give talks and share approaches to tackling the issues. A few of them might even connect remotely via the new version of the IMAX Dome, now fully converted from film to digital.

Which brings us to the final celebration. Anything one can do on any digital device can now, in theory, be implemented in the digital IMAX Dome. In the future, the facility might be used for immersive presentations, conferences, interactive digital concerts and much more. Ritchie says the new dome will play into The Tech’s two primary powers: convening people and inspiring people—not just for adults, but for future generations.

“I want kids to see this as their resource to use, to take on big problems and communicate with other kids around the world,” Ritchie says. “And not just with kids, but with policy people and anybody else.”

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ANYBODY OUT THERE? Radio telescopes, like those used in the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, are used to search the skies for extraterrestrial signals.

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N THE END, beyond the trivialities of everyday life and beneath the freak show of contemporary culture, there are only three questions worth pondering: Is there life after death? What is the fate of humanity? Are we alone in the universe?

Frank Drake may have opinions on the first two—who doesn’t? On the third, though, he might be as close to an empirical answer as any person, living or dead, has ever been.

In the broad field of study known

as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Drake is the essential figure.

In fact, he’s SETI’s George Washington.

Almost 60 years ago, as a young

Harvard-educated physicist, he conducted SETI’s first serious experiment, convened its first all-star scientific conference and later drew up the equation that bears his name and still forms the fundamental framework from which to figure out whether there is life elsewhere in the universe.

Now, at 88, from his home in Santa Cruz County, Drake can contemplate an unlikely turn of events only slightly less miraculous than contact with an alien species: a second life for SETI.

In 1993, Congress zeroed out government funding for the SETI program administered by NASA (The program was lampooned by the senator who introduced the amendment to kill it as “The Great Martian Chase”). From that point forward, SETI was pushed to science’s back burner, muddling along on inconsistent private donations and struggling to maintain research momentum.

Today things are dramatically

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Listening to the Cosmos The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has rediscovered its swagger after decades of muddling along in survival mode

BY WALLACE BAINE

different for SETI, largely thanks to Russian-born Silicon Valley venture capitalist Yuri Milner, who was born the same year as the Drake Equation and was named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. In 2015, Milner announced the establishment of Breakthrough Listen, an enormous moonshot SETI project to which he has pledged $100 million.

“It’s changed everything,” says Drake. “We’re not scrounging around trying to raise money anymore. He’s

guaranteed $10 million a year for 10 years. One of the problems we’ve had is that we could never plan for the future. We couldn’t create a program beyond a year because we never had the funding. Now we do.”

Breakthrough Listen is part of a series of SETI-based initiatives that also includes Breakthrough Starshot, another $100 million effort to create a design concept for swarms of tiny spacecraft to travel to the neighboring star system Alpha

Centauri. The initiatives are related to the Breakthrough Prize, a Silicon Valley-based effort to award scientific advancement. (Milner’s partners in the Breakthrough initiatives include the late Stephen Hawking, Google’s Sergey Brin, Chinese philanthropist Jack Ma and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, among others.)

In a 2015 interview on Charlie Rose, Milner, who began his career as physicist in the former Soviet Union, said he was fascinated with the big

questions of extraterrestrial life but he “was not smart enough” to figure them out.

“At heart, he’s a nerd,” says Drake of Milner—who lives in a $100 million estate in Los Altos Hills. (Milner’s rise in Silicon Valley is not without controversy: In 2017, the New York Times reported that much of Milner’s investments that made him a billionaire originated from banks controlled by the Kremlin.)

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SCIENTIFIC SEEKER Astrophysicist Frank Drake, author of the Drake Equation, put a scientific framework around what had previously been mostly a subject for cheap, drive-in sci-fi.

Does this mean that Close Encounters is now close? Probably not, say some who are involved in SETI. But the Breakthrough Listen funding, along with access to new and powerful telescopes, represents an expanding of vision. Where once we were looking through a narrow window in a small room, now we can step outside to see a bigger piece of sky.

Beautiful Equation Before 1960, American pop culture was awash in aliens, especially at the drive-in theater—It Came From Outer Space, The Thing From Another World, Invasion of the Saucer Men, among many others all exploited a template established by the H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds.

At the time, the idea of life elsewhere in the universe was firmly in the realm of cheesy sci-fi paranoia, but that was merely a sign of the times.

Contemplating other worlds has been a human preoccupation for eons. As far back as 300 BC, the Greek philosopher Epicurus was pushing the idea that there must be other worlds like our own.

But before the Drake Equation, no

one had applied the rigor of science to the question.

“Frank turned it into a science,” says astrophysicist Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. “He took something that was at the time philosophically important—almost a religious question—and brought it into the realm of modern scientific inquiry.”

Siemion occupies the Bernard M. Oliver Chair of SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and is a lead researcher at Breakthrough Listen. “It’s impossible to overstate Frank’s importance to the field on so many levels,” he said. “He was the general in the battle to create the field, and he was the statesman that allowed it to flourish.”

In 1960 at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, Drake aimed a radio telescope at two nearby stars to see if he might be able to detect radio waves coming from other civilizations. He called the experiment Project Ozma, borrowed from L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. The idea was simple: Radio signals on certain frequencies can leave a planet’s atmosphere and, theoretically, travel to distant points

in the galaxy, thus providing proof of a technological civilization (Some of our civilization’s earliest, and thus farther out in space, signals are broadcasts of Nazi propaganda including Hitler speeches, providing a potentially awkward moment if they ever reach otherworldly ears).

In ’61, Drake presided over a secret meeting at Green Bank featuring some of the marquee names in the field, including a young Carl Sagan, in a meeting that SETI people like to call “The Order of the Dolphin,” because the work of one of the attendees was an attempt to decode dolphin language.

From that meeting came the Drake Equation, which even today is to SETI scientists what “Stairway to Heaven” is to fans of dad rock: That One Thing Everybody Knows.

The Drake Equation is less an equation to be solved and more of a way to think about the probabilities of communicating with an alien culture. It is essentially a string of variables, each one narrowing the probabilities that any given earthling scientist on any given day might encounter a radio signal from another world. The variables include the number of stars like the sun;

the number of those stars with a planetary system; number of planets in those systems in a habitable zone for life; the number of those planets where life is likely to have emerged in some way; the number of those life-friendly planets in which “intelligent” life might have evolved; the number of the intelligent-life planets that might have developed technology that could be transmitted and detected; and the length of time civilizations are likely to last.

The equation “is not really about a number,” explains astrophysicist Griffin Foster, another Breakthrough Listen researcher. “It’s more about a philosophy.” Foster says the beauty of the equation is how it invites in engaged minds from other sciences and even the humanities. Some of the variables are less about physics than about biology and chemistry.

What constitutes “intelligent” life or a “technological” society is something that social scientists can chew on.

And the length of time that a civilization typically lasts is a question for the historian.

“It’s not for any single individual to solve,” says Foster. “It’s a societal question. The scope of the problem is so big that it’s not about trying to find some basic law of physics, but really about how we fit in the universe.”

The Drake Equation is durable even in other fields, such as exoplanet research or astrobiology, the field that explores planets in the “Goldilocks zone” for signs of water or other indicators of primitive life. MIT’s Sara Seager is one of the most prominent exoplanet researchers in the field. She’s come up with a riff on Drake’s equation (yep, it’s the Seager Equation) that is more adaptable to her interests.

“I asked him about it,” she says by phone from her office at MIT. “I just wanted to make sure it was all OK with him. No one wants to have someone take their work and mangle it. What I’ve done is more of a tribute (to the Drake Equation) than anything else. He was actually very nice about it.”

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Telescope, at the site where SETI was born with Project Ozma, are the three major points where Breakthrough Listen has raised the stakes of listening in on the universe’s radio waves.

Griffin Foster is a researcher at Oxford University who is also a visiting scholar at the Berkeley SETI Research Center and has worked for Breakthrough Listen at MeerKAT in South Africa. Foster said the approach of Breakthrough Listen has been primarily to spend its time and money on the big telescopes.

“There was a lot of talk about how was the best way to scale this up,” he says. “The idea was, ‘Let’s not just fund some research project. Let’s buy telescope time. Let’s do thousands of hours of observing. And instead of looking at just a few stars, let’s look at thousands.’ And now with MeerKAT, we can look at millions of stars.”

In less than 60 years, SETI has gone from analyzing one radio channel to using spectrum analyzers that can handle 10 billion channels at one time. And yet the work is still the same: to look for electromagnetic signals that are different from those natural objects produce.

“The only thing that’s different about (Breakthrough) Listen from what Frank did,” says Andrew Siemion, “is simply scale and intensity. We’re doing more and more observing, with better instruments and faster computers. But we’re still using the Drake Equation.

We can plot Frank’s experiments on a graph with the experiments we do today and we can make comparisons between them because his experiments are as fundamentally and scientifically credible today as they were back in 1960 when he was doing them.”

The telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere are especially valuable because from a SETI point of view, that’s the most compelling angle at which to view the Milky Way. “What’s interesting about the Southern Hemisphere,” says Foster, “is that’s where you can see the galactic center the best. If there’s an extraterrestrial technology out there, they might put beacons near the galactic center. So, that’s a very exciting region to look at.”

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the elite private homes of the Bay Area. But it’s hard to conceive of anything more badass than what Frank Drake has in the house near Aptos that he shares with his wife Amahl. It is a stained-glass window version of “The Arecibo Message,” a pictorial illustration transmitted into space in 1974 from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

The message, designed by Drake, transmits basic information about atoms, DNA, and the basics of the solar system.

It looks like the crudest prototype of a videogame, and Drake himself says, “In my judgment, it’s pretty bad.”

But it’s been hurtling out into space at the speed of light for 44 years. No one else can make such a claim for their interior decor.

A few years after creating the Arecibo Message, Drake was also involved in the creation of “The Golden Record,” a double-disc copperplate phonograph recording featuring a number of sounds and music to represent Earth, from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode. The recording was packed onboard the Voyager space probe, which today is the most distant human-made object from Earth.

“There’s long sections of sounds from Earth: chainsaws, airplanes, babies crying,” Drake says, hovering over a replica of the Golden Record, speculating on some potential curious alien intercepting the Voyager. “Once they figure out how to use the stylus, we tell them how fast to spin the record.”

Even before Breakthrough Listen, Drake was not prone to sit around wallowing in nostalgia. His CV is peppered with honors and prestigious positions in the sciences. The former dean of Natural Sciences at UC Santa Cruz has also sat for years on the board of the SETI Institute.

But Breakthrough Listen has given an adrenaline boost to Drake’s lifelong quest to find evidence of other civilizations. Not only has Milner’s millions brought new muscle to SETI, but the new, bleeding-edge MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, which launched just three months ago, promises to open up vast new possibilities for the project.

The MeerKAT, the Parkes Telescope in Australia and the Green Bank

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Since his days as a young astronomer at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, Frank Drake has been scanning the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

“SETI is much better and in a more stable state than it has ever been,” says Drake. “The rate we’re observing now, we’re doing as much searching in a couple of days as we did with all the previous searching put together.”

Waiting for the signal Drake is a scientist, which means he doesn’t have much use for fantasy.

In the Hollywood narrative, when the friendly advanced civilization finally answers our call, Frank would be the respected elder flown in by helicopter by the president for the honor of representing the Earth.

“The idea that you’re going to communicate, that you’re going to ask questions and get answers, that’s absurd,” he says. “That’s not going to happen. The nearest technological civilization is probably a thousand

light-years away. That means any signal you get is already going to be a thousand years old. The hope is that you can detect a signal through the noise, watch their television, so that you can learn a lot about them without asking them anything.”

Drake says he’s optimistic that in 10 to 20 years, given the vast space the new instruments will be covering, we may have some evidence of another technological civilization, even if it’s a long-extinct one.

“Mathematically, there has to be,” he says. “To say the universe is an empty void is not only presumptuous but stupid. I think there may be an earlier discovery, that we’ll find (primitive) life elsewhere in the solar system. That will make concrete that the origins of life are common.”

As for SETI, Drake says: “It’s a lottery. The chance of winning is still very remote. But we’re buying a whole lot of tickets.”

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in New South Wales, Australia, is used by the Yuri Milner-funded Breakthrough Listen project.

A SETI primer

BY WALLACE BAINE

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S WITH MANY things otherworldly and far-out, the Bay Area is one of the world’s epicenters for SETI research.

The acronym SETI is a widely used term for the field of study that includes searching the galaxy for radio waves that might have emanated from a technologically advanced culture on another planet.

The SETI Institute in Mountain View, founded in 1984, has long been associated with the field to the degree that it’s almost become synonymous with the larger mission—the institute’s URL is seti.org.

Ironically, says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Institute, of the roughly 80 scientists at the SETI Institute, “95 percent of them are doing something other than SETI.” That would be what’s called astro-biology, which is the search for signs of organic or microbial life—water, atmospheric oxygen, other elements—in the planets and moons of the solar system and beyond.

It’s important work, but it’s not SETI. Meanwhile, at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley SETI Research Center is both a collaborator and rival to the SETI Institute in the field. When he established the Breakthrough Listen initiative with $100 million over 10 years, Silicon Valley investor Yuri Milner chose the Berkeley scientists over the SETI Institute.

Meanwhile, the federal government has been out of the SETI business for 25 years. Though that might change. In September, NASA announced that it was “taking the first steps” toward establishing SETI research. And, in Congress, Texas Republican Lamar Smith has created a bill to set aside $10 million a year to research SETI.

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BUGGY BUDDIES Storming the Normandy House is a great way to pass the time after punching the clock.

Horsin’ Around The Barfly Boys hitch up and head out to Normandy House Lounge

BY TOMEK MACKOWIAK

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HOICES. OPTIONS. Decisions. It’s a tightrope any way you look at it. Make one mistake and you spiral into a unforgiving Sarlacc pit.

That’s modern life, or at least that’s what we are told.

I pondered this while I scanned the offerings in Mr. Harada’s 50-CD rotisserie machine. One bad move, and the night would be over. The autumn weather crept through the robust stone chimney that services all three stories of Mr. Harada’s Spanish-revival hacienda. Its tender yet chill-tipped fingers tickled the delicately hirsute

regions of my man-bod as I bent over scanning the compact discs.

I chose the Forever Your Girl album by Paula Abdul. I read through the track list, selected “Straight Up,” and pressed play. Mr. Harada was not on board.

He calmly pushed stop, lifted the unit, ripped it free from the wall, walked over to the balcony, and dropped it on top of my new Onewheel electric doohickey.

I was concerned. Had I made a bad choice? Was my decision wrong?

Were there other options to explore?

Mr. Harada replied with silence, as is his nature, and waved me over to follow him downstairs.

We walked into the driveway of Mr. Harada’s estate, he kicked the machine

he had tossed from the balcony and bent over to retrieve a single compact disc. He carried it to his garage, opened up the double doors to reveal his stagecoach, climbed in, produced a Discman, put his headphones on and gave me a stare that meant I was to get the horses.

We dove under the I-880 overpass on Bascom. I didn’t know what our final destination would be until Mr. Harada engaged the stagecoach emergency brake around Newhall. The horses broke free of their reins as I struggled to stay in my driver’s seat. By the time I composed myself, I saw Mr. Harada enter the Normandy House Lounge.

The Normandy House Lounge stands in a small strip mall on the much contested border between San Jose and Santa Clara. It’s crowned with a faux second story that is somehow charming. I assume it was built by the same developer who erected Normandy Park across the street. I can only imagine the part of France that borrows its name form the development looks identical.

I spotted Mr. Harada toward the back of the surprisingly spacious Normandy Lounge. His Discman was open in the

palm of his hand, and it seemed like he somehow installed his compact disc into the jukebox. I’m not sure how, but he is quite the magical character.

Pearl Jam’s “Black” from the album 10 blared through the speakers as I sat down at the bar. Mr. Harada joined me.

We each ordered a pint of Sculpin and surveyed the scene. It was early in the week, but a sizeable crowd hinted at the popularity of the venue. A number of couples at the bar seemed a bit out of place. They looked like professionals that were enjoying drinks after work. This was something that I hadn’t experienced in a neighborhood bar recently. These folks looked like managers, directors or even maybe entrepreneurs.

The bar is a masterpiece of 1970s Art Nouveau. Its gently swooping accents are only slightly choked by the supple gaudiness that straddles tasteful reproduction and the influence of the bulbus proportions of a nude velvet painting. It’s beautiful, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Mr. Harada and I scanned the literature on the wall for a deal that could extend our BAC (bad-ass coolness). The only hopeful message read: “Garage Sale Liquor—$5 a shot”.

I can’t recall how many gorgeous moments I’ve had drinking decadesold liquors purchased at estate sales or scavenged from forgotten cabinets.

I can’t, mostly because the alchemical changes that take hold of questionable brands of alcohol when they are allowed to sit for untold years. I’ve seen Soviet vodkas disfigure their bottles, and mid-century whiskeys turn to camp fuel. Each has their own unique effect on the palate.

Mr. Harada and I surveyed the “Garage Sale” offerings. They were new, and not of a vintage “providence.”

There was: Dickle whiskey, Stillhouse bourbon, Pinnacle habanero vodka and Don Q passion fruit rum. I pondered the bottles for a minute.

Choices. Options. Decisions.

We did the responsible thing, ordered some reliable Lagunitas IPAs, and enjoyed a hearty conversation with Kyle the bartender.

You may wonder what happened to the horses that broke free. Well, as they tend to do, they made their way back to the bar, and we were able to convince them to tie up to the stagecoach and take us home. Mr. Harada and I made it back just in time to tuck in and enter slumber before the sun took full purchase of the landscape.

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MAC SABBATH

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High-concept cover bands succeed when they breathe new life into something old and familiar. Dread Zeppelin started doing it in the 1990s, with its Elvis impersonator meets reggae band take on Led Zeppelin's catalog.

Today Mac Sabbath takes the form to its most bizarre extreme: exploring the proto-doom and heavy metal of Black Sabbath while dressed as mutant (and unauthorized) characters from the marketing world of McDonald’s.

The result is, in a word, sacrilegious. It’s also hysterically funny. But what’s most important is that it works. The band’s fast food-themed parody lyrics somehow fit well onto the classic sludge of Ozzy and his pals. (BK)

Comedy writer and standup comic Gareth Reynolds is best known for his podcast with fellow comedian Dave Anthony, The Dollop—a hilarious walk through the more absurd aspects of American History. The Milwaukee-bred Reynolds most recently wrote for the Netflix resurrection of Arrested Development, and has had a hand in a many of other TV shows, including an appearance on IFC’s Maron, Comedy Central’s Idiotsitter, as well writing for the Netflix Original FLAKED. Armed with witty quips, a welldeveloped impersonation toolbox, and a cynical but boundless enthusiasm, Reynolds shines everywhere he is featured. He performs through Nov. 4. (TM)

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Fri, 8pm, $5+ Lohman Theatre, Foothill College

Fri, 7pm, Free SoFA District, San Jose

This week’s Thursday Night Football is a Bay Area battle royale, as the Raiders go headto-head with the Niners at Levi’s Stadium. It hasn’t been a great year for either organization.

Both teams have only one win each and are coming off yet another loss. Still, the 49er Faithful and the Raider Nation can take solace in knowing that their respective clubs have little to lose and plenty of bragging rights to gain. When it comes to water cooler banter, few things more precious than a win over one’s regional rivals. (TM)

Foothill College Theatre Art’s latest production is a journey through the relationship between siblings and their obsessions. Penned by awardwinning playwright Qui Nguyen (best known for her work Vietgone), She Kills Monsters is a hilarious romp across a fantastical world— filled with fairies, elves, ogres and… evil cheerleaders. The play follows Agnes as she works to process the death of her sister Tilly with a little help from Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook. Lauded by critics as “breathtaking, hilarious, [and] heart-wrenching,” She Kills Monsters is a bittersweet tale of love, loss and teenage alienation.

Runs through Nov. 18. (TM)

It is time once again for the monthly South First Friday Art Walk in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District. This month features a reception by artist Mike Egan at Anno Domini; Egan’s third solo show, “Where Death Goes to Die,” is opening there. Also featured this time around at MACLA, an open mic youth showcase for aspiring rappers, spoken word artists, photographers, singers and other creatives. As usual Phantom Galleries will take over Pho 69—with “Out of the Darkness”

by Whisper, while artist Monica Valdez will host a reception at The Pierce Apartments to showcase her new work, “Symbiosis.” (NV)

MAC SABBATH

* concerts Nov 8 at City National Civic

A-TRAK

Nov. 9 at Pure Nightclub

SHE KILLS MONSTERS

SLANDER

Nov 10 at City National Civic

GHOST

Nov 15 at City National Civic

98º

Nov 20 at City National Civic

FLEETWOOD MAC

Nov 21 at SAP Center

GIVE THANKS FEST

Nov 23-24 at City National Civic

THE FACTION

Nov 30 at The Ritz

POPTOPIA

Dec 1 at SAP Center

OZUNA

Dec 2 at SAP Center

SUUNS

Dec 7 at The Ritz

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Dec 8 at SAP Center

PINBACK

Dec 8 at The Ritz

*sat *sun *tue *wed DIVIDED BY SEVEN JORDI SAVALL Sat, 7:30pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose

Sun, 4pm, $32+ Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Local prog rock trio Divided by Seven celebrate the release of their new album, The Only Constant, at the Art Boutiki in San Jose. Mixing elements of alternative metal with tricky rhythms and melodic leads, the group recalls the work of late-’90s and turn-of-the-millennium hard rock acts, like Finger Eleven, Alice in Chains and Coheed and Cambira.

To mark the album release, Divided

by Seven will be performing along with guests Dokoe, and noise pop outfit Chilindrina. Doors open at 7:30pm. The show is all ages, but beer and wine will still be available. (TM)

Stanford Live’s newest show is a spellbinding blend of music, history and humanity, all manifested through Jordi Savall’s engrossing tones. The celebrated Catalan composer and historian brings together a litany of dancers, musicians and singers for his program, The Routes of Slavery. Sponsored by UNESCO, the production pays homage to musical traditions from all over the world and serves as a musical discussion of humanity’s spirit and resistance to the evil traditions of slavery. The performance will feature a pre-show talk by associate professor of classics, Grant Park, as well as professor of history James Campbell. (TM)

RALPH STEADMAN MARGARET Tue, 6:30pm O’MARA Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco

It’s hard enough to make it up to the city on a weeknight, let alone on a day where you also need to cast your ballots.

But, if you have time, do both.

Featuring 108 original works by the iconic Ralph Steadman— perhaps best known for illustrating a number of Hunter S. Thompson’s pieces, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—this show will cover six decades of the artists’ creations.

Plus, on Nov. 6, Steadman will be there in person. Those who show up with an “I Voted” sticker will get a special “Americans for Ralph Steadman” button. (NV)

Wed, Nov 7, 7pm, Free Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose Next week at the Hammer4 Theatre, University of Washington history professor and author Margaret O’Mara will be giving a free talk on the quiet synchronicity between privacy, tech disruption, and America’s political history. The discussion will be drawn from her forthcoming book, and measure the relationships Silicon Valley, Sacramento and Washington D.C. She has the cred to back it up too; O’Mara is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians, a past fellow for numerous organizations and think tanks including the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, as well as a former employee of the Clinton White House. (TM)

CHILDISH GAMBINO

Dec 12 at SAP Center

ZZ TOP

Dec 13 at City National Civic

MICHELLE OBAMA

Dec 14 at SAP Center

SAN HOLO

Dec 15 at City National Civic

THE LIMOUSINES’ CHRISTMAS

Dec 22 at The Ritz

ELTON JOHN

Jan 19 at SAP Center

NHL ALL STAR WEEKEND

Jan 25-26 at SAP Center

MARC ANTHONY

Feb 8 at SAP Center

SJZ WINTER FEST

Feb 13-24 in Downtown San Jose

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TWINKLE TWINKLE For his installation ‘Silver Sea,’ Bruce Montalvo covered the lawn stretching out in front of Villa Montalvo with thousands of lights.

Light ’Em Up Installation collection, ‘Stories in Light,’ illuminates the Montalvo Arts Center

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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IGHT BEFORE SUNDOWN, Bruce Munro addressed a small crowd assembled to see “Stories in Light,” his installation collection at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga.

To exhibit a mix of newly commissioned and older work, Munro used the Montalvo grounds the way other artists populate a canvas with color. As he talked about the inspiration behind many of the light sculptures, the Great Lawn behind him slowly lit up.

His Silver Sea consists of white spheres on poles, “lilies” that undulate with white waves of light that turn blue and then back to white. Munro had

previously stayed at Montalvo in 2016 to discuss the idea of an installation. One night he crossed the grounds stumbling toward his destination in the dark.

Silver Sea is an antidote to that ordinary darkness, a wayfinder for anyone struggling to stay on the right path.

In his introduction, Munro referenced Sky Above Clouds, a series of paintings

by Georgia O’Keeffe, and C.S. Lewis’ famed series of books, The Chronicles of Narnia, as Silver Sea influences. O’Keeffe arranged oblong, wobbling clouds in a pattern above a blue sky. Munro also arranges the lilies in cloud-like formations that cover most of the lawn.

But the title refers to a sea the characters journey toward in Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The author describes it

as a “whiteness, shot with faintest colour of gold, spread round them on every side…” Munro interpreted Lewis' Silver Sea as an allegory about accepting death with equanimity rather than resisting it. A wave emanates from the sea that carries one character from Narnia to Aslan’s realm, i.e. the afterlife.

Reepicheep the feisty mouse who makes the ultimate departure. And on the Garden Theatre stage behind the Villa, Munro has installed Reepicheep’s Wave, his version of the wave that takes the mouse, and everyone else in their turn, to the other side.

“The coracle went more and more quickly, and beautifully it rushed up the wave’s side,” Lewis writes. “For one split second they saw its shape and Reepicheep’s on the very top. Then it vanished, and since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen Reepicheep the Mouse.”

To make the wave, Munro and his crew suspended 18,000 mussel shells on 1,296 fiber optic lines. The lines are strung up parallel to each other and vertically from the ceiling to the stage floor. The lights change colors and appear to move through the lines in a wave-like motion as they blink

on and off. But Reepicheep’s Wave is a sonic as well as a visual experience.

The music is wordless, abstract and ominous, an undersea symphony that takes place after a storm.

Down in the Italianate Garden, below the Great Lawn and the Silver Sea, Munro installed Gathering of the Clans, a sculpture that emits light and a collection of cacophonous sounds.

He’s clipped hundreds of fluorescent clothespins on eight “Hills Hoists,” or two-tiered Australian clotheslines (the family in the 1994 movie Muriel’s Wedding uses them). Munro and his wife have traveled extensively across the entire Australian continent. The green, yellow and blue clothespins represent the color of the cockatoos that would wake them up there every morning. The speakers flood the garden with the cries of wild animals.

You can still hear monkeys screeching in the background when you reach Bacchus’ Spring in the Love Temple at the far end of the garden.

Four gargoyle torsos are affixed to the side of a marble fountain. They leer down preparing for or anticipating some mischief. Munro created an installation to illuminate the shadows around them. It’s like a miniature star glowing with curving lines of racing white light—like Fourth of July sparklers that never die out.

He’s fitted fiber optic cables inside an elegant arrangement of 90 recycled plastic bottles, a chandelier fit for whatever unholy ideas gargoyles come up with after midnight.

Outside, along the Villa’s second story, a digitally animated “stained glass window,” The Dawn Treader, is easy to miss if you’re distracted by the nearby field of 1,000 white flamingos. It was modeled after Villa Montalvo’s own stained glass window depicting Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo’s galleon the San Salvador. As for the flamingos, Munro calls that installation Ramandu’s Table, inspired by this passage from Lewis’ book: “They were birds, large and white, and they came by hundreds and thousands and alighted on everything... till it looked as if heavy snow had fallen.”

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CRIME & PUNISHMENT Only a few episodes in, it’s not entirely clear what ‘The Romanoffs’ is about—but power, privilege and jealousy are definitely themes.

Bloody Royals New Amazon series, ‘The Romanoffs,’ boasts some serious tsar power

BY RICHARD VON BUUSACK

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HE LEGEND OF the Russian royal family, and the descendents who might have escaped the Bolshevik’s bullets, has been a fountain of mawkishness for the last 100 years. It’s smarter to feel sorry for the czar’s victims. But Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, did something with his new anthology, The Romanoffs, that came as a surprise.

Olivia, an actress playing Empress Alexandra in a bad miniseries, comments about the royal family’s assassination: “That’s all anybody knows about them.” Yet, when we see a staging of the royal corpses—

dumped nude into a pit in the forest to be burnt by the revolutionaries— one felt, for the first time, a strange twinge of horror.

The series’ debut episode, “The Violet Hour,” features a remarkably hellacious old lapdog-fondling Parisienne, Anushka (Marthe Keller). She’s a Romanoff, a Russian exile who’d been living in her flat since ever since there were rapacious Nazis commanding it during the Occupation. Anushka dangles her very nice piece of Right Bank real estate over her heir—her American nephew Greg (Aaron Eckhart, at his most lynx-eyed). She has him on speed dial every time she feels faint. As as a buffer, Greg hires Hajar (Ines Malab), a hijab-wearing French citizen, to nurse the old dragon. This

gives Anushka a chance to spill out a torrent of venom about the Muslims.

And yet, to teach Greg a lesson on the importance of returning phone calls, Anushka plans to change her will and leave the flat to Hajar.

The film noirish second installment, “The Royal We,” is set in dismal Ohio. Mike Romanoff (Corey Stoll, displaying the sinister bald virility that’s helped him in villain parts) and his sweet spouse, Shelly (Kelly Bishe), are in couples counseling.

Mike’s job sucks; he counsels the kind of privileged punks who dream of Harvard when they’d actually be better off at Lagertown State College.

At jury duty, Mike spies Michelle (Janet Montgomery), a real tantalizer.

To get more time with her, Mike decides to stage a version of Twelve Angry Men starring himself as the holdout on an open and shut case.

Shelley goes alone on what was supposed to be a couple’s trip; a Romanoff-themed cruise where the kitsch is thick as borscht; from a display Faberge egg the size of a Smart Car to a guy in a cossack suit sabraging a bottle of champagne, and a little-person dumbshow, complete with a tiny Rasputin.

Weiner is particularly evocative here, digging into the grossness of the fantasies of blue blooded power.

There were backward viewers who watched Mad Men and misread the show as a tribute to the world of alpha males putting women in their place.

They failed to understand Mad Men’s point, that the single most important difference between now and 50 years ago is the way women are treated.

Thus the third episode, “The House of Special Purpose,” brings back the embodiment of macha force in Mad Men, Christina Hendricks. This supernatural tale matches Hendricks’ Olivia with a different kind of redheaded force: the splendid Isabelle Huppert as Jacqueline, a tyrannical director. As in Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, reality and fiction mix; Olivia’s hotel room starts to glow radium green from the light outside, and a little Anastasia ghost visits her in the night. And we have the question of who is actually breaking down: the cracked Jacqueline or the increasingly frightened (and credibly pissed off) Olivia.

It’s been done before. But in this kind of story it’s always most fun when you star someone who looks like they’ve got their head screwed on right. Certainly, that’s Hendricks, in this welcome return, fielding everything from ambiguous compliments to mortal threats with remarkable grace and wit.

Writing about The Romanoffs after three episodes is like writing about a symphony in the middle of listening to it. The theme’s not clear yet, beyond the opposing of an innocent woman and a conniving woman in every episode.

(Note that the wife and mistress in episode two share a name, Shelley and Michelle.) There are interior rhymes, as when the matter of Anushka’s Parisian flat is is mirrored in Mike’s court case, a Raskolnikov-style landlady murder in the Midwest.) But in its study of imperial arrogance, perhaps The Romanoffs offers a mirror of fantasies of property and power with our current American political delusions of persecution and disinheiritment.

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SWAG Lana Turner stars opposite Gene Kelly in ‘The Three Musketeers,’ which plays as part of Stanford Theatre’s tribute to Kelly.

Macho Man BEFORE THE SECOND World War, Fred Astaire represented the ideal of class: solitary, wistful, tuxedoed and tailed. After WWII made everything tougher and more cynical, the Pittsburgh-born Gene Kelly countered what Astaire stood for. Kelly became to dance what Brando was to acting, bringing vigor, slyness and alley-cat virility to his art. He often played what they used to call a “heel”—out for himself and ready to drop a woman hard.

More than a dozen Kelly musicals, screening through mid-November at the Stanford Theatre, show this brash figure playing a spectrum of guys on the make—from sailor on leave to D’Artagnan riding into Paris bareback on a charger. His 1948 Three Musketeers (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) is an endearing Technicolor take on the Dumas tale, with Kelly showing a physicality unmatched by anyone but the man he was clearly emulating, silent star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (The co-bill, 1948’s The Pirate, has even more Fairbanksisms.) The cast includes Frank “the Wizard of Oz” Morgan as the foolish King of France, Angela Lansbury as his succulent, faithless queen, and the ever Halloween-ready Vincent Price as “Prime Minister” (not Cardinal) Richelieu, looming marvelously over the camera.

Gene Kelly Festival Nov. 9-11 has Kelly in the rarely revived Les Girls (1957): Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall are showgirls Thru Nov 18 libeled by the memoir of a third member of their Stanford Theatre, gang (Taina Elg); the only problem is that the gang Palo Alto can’t synch up their memories, Rashomon-wise. stanfordtheatre.org Nov. 14-15, catch 1955’s It’s Always Fair Weather, which has been called bitter. Tangy, rather, and funny as vintage Mad magazine. It’s a revisit of Kelly’s On the Town (Nov. 2-4) with three buddies meeting 10 years after the war and finding out that they don’t have a damn thing to talk about. It contains maybe the single most hilarious moment in the history of the American musical—Dolores Gray’s showstopper “Thanks A Lot, But No Thanks,” in which she fends off a troop of gift-bearing chorus boys by increasingly violent means.

It all ends Nov. 18 with Jacques Demy’s Young Girls of Rochefort, a French new wave reflection of 1950s MGM musical years, co-starring the sisters Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac. It’s been revived frequently lately, probably because La La Land sourced it so hard. Also on the bill is the movie that inspired this French tribute, An American in Paris, with Kelly wrapping himself up in the panoply of post-impressionist painting and a handsome Gershwin score. Like the nation he represented, this performer smoothed off rough edges with a touch of ballet and imported swank. —Richard von Busack

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IN HARMONY An early education in music theory and trombone still inform Leo Kottke’s 12-string playing.

Ditty Dozen Leo Kottke’s lifelong love-hate relationship with the 12-string guitar

BY BILL KOPP

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NE OF THE most celebrated and admired acoustic guitarists working in a fingerpicking style, Leo Kottke is an acknowledged master of the sx- and 12-string. With more than two dozen albums to his name (plus a pair of collaborative albums with Phish bassist Mike Gordon), Kottke continues to explore the potential of his chosen instruments in a relaxed and unassuming manner.

Interested in music from an early age, Kottke’s first instrument was

trombone; he took lessons for a few years, but eventually applied himself to guitar instead. Yet, in some important ways, his trombone training influenced his approach to the stringed instrument.

“The trombone paid off because I knew how to build a chord,” Kottke says.

“So I built the simplest, most ergonomic thing you could get out of a guitar: an E chord. And it took me over.”

Kottke’s study of trombone also immersed him in music theory. “It gave me a powerful sense of structure, and the way that given sections relate to one another,” he says. “I got to hear sonata forms, concerto forms and— especially—band music.”

Perhaps surprisingly for an

artist whose repertoire is generally classified as folk or Americana, Kottke counts the work of John Philip Sousa as a key early influence.

“When Sousa wrote a good march, those were really great fun to play,” he says with a warm chuckle. Playing those compositions “not only allowed you to hear how something like that works, but they involved your entire body—dressed in a goofy suit with a ridiculous hat, stomping through the grass.”

But folk influences would loom large for Kottke once he focused on the guitar. He was only 17 when he discovered The Bitter and the Sweet, a live album by folk hero Pete Seeger. On parts of that record, Seeger played the rich and complexsounding 12-string guitar.

“And I found another recording of his, ‘Bells of Rhymney,’” Kottke says.

“The downward progression that he does, that got to me, too.” He decided he would get a 12-string for himself, “to see what I could do with it.”

One of the things Kottke did with it was to record his 1969 debut, 6- and 12-string Guitar. That classic release showcased his dizzyingly

precise yet accessible guitar style.

Today he says that his lifelong association with the 12-string is a love-hate relationship.

“Mostly hate,” he says, half-jokingly, adding that sitting at home in his living room playing a 12-string is quite enjoyable. “But trying to amplify one of those things is very, very tricky. You get tired of trying to solve that riddle.”

In technical terms, Kottke explains that the challenge of amplifying an instrument with so many metal strings creates magnetic issues—“balance problems, ‘wolf tones’”—that make playing a 12-string difficult in a concert setting.

He mentions another celebrated instrumentalist, one who has worked with Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Curtis Mayfield, Dolly Parton and a host of others.

“David Lindley knows all about this stuff,” Kottke says, “although he doesn’t play a 12-string; he’s a little smarter than I am.”

Still, for all his good-natured protestations, Kottke still displays his mastery of the 12-string in concerts. Though he hasn’t released an album in more than a decade, the guitarist maintains a busy touring schedule. His easy-going manner and instrumental prowess carry him through these shows. Kottke learned lessons about how to win over an audience very early in his career, when he hitchhiked across the US, busking for a living.

Kottke says that his busking years taught him that he “could get away with anything and be a ham.

Nobody cares, and you do make a couple of bucks.” As he approaches his half-century mark as a recording artist, Kottke admits that he never envisioned making music a career.

“I never thought it would be a job, and I never actually pursued it as a job,” he says. His original plan was to be an English teacher. “I figured it would be great to make a record every now and then, too… and it all just kind of happened. It’s been a big surprise how it worked out.”

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PHANTOM SPACE Kennedy Ashlyn and SRSQ address the Ghost Ship tragedy on their debut album.

Into the Unreal JUST A FEW years ago, Kennedy Ashlyn was one half of the up-and-coming goth pop act Them Are Us Too, a group formed when both members were students at UCSC. The duo began touring on summer vacations, and before long had signed with influential goth and experimental label Dais Records. For such a young band, they were poised for success.

And then, tragedy.

On Dec. 2, 2016, the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland took 36 young lives, nearly all of whom were local artists, musicians, organizers and activists. Among them was Them Are Us Too guitarist Cash Askew. The loss is difficult to convey in words. Unreality, the debut album by SRSQ (pronounced ‘Seer Skew’) is Ashlyn’s attempt convey this loss through music.

“Feel the rush of rupture/Feeling closer, closer,” Ashlyn sings on album highlight “Cherish,” a darkly luminous gem that evokes the golden age of British label 4AD’s gothier output (Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance). “Prelude,” Unreality’s opening track, consists of little more than Ashlyn’s voice and an ominous procession of bells, conveying the tone of the album to come: mournful, searching and shrouded in mist.

“It’s a really eerie and dark song,” Ashlyn says, adding that it was one she had written some years back and

held onto. “The first verse is kind of like setting the scene, but I didn’t know where to go next. And then after Ghost Ship, it was just like...”

She makes a “plunk” sound, like a rock dropping into a lake.

Unreality is an album haunted by loss, prefigured by tragedy. But in the exploration of her own internality, Ashlyn brings the listener to some beautiful places, as on the SRSQ aforementioned “Cherish,” and lead single “The Martyr.” This, Nov 3, 8pm, $10 she attributes to music’s ability to The Ritz, San Jose evoke specific types of brooding, theritzsanjose.com which, like a friend, can then match the listener’s internal state.

“I create spaces for feelings to exist,” Ashlyn says. “Music for me, and the music I make, makes this place that exists and doesn’t exist at the same time, where things that don’t make sense can exist in a more comfortable way.”

It is here, in this phantom space that the listener finds the heart of SRSQ’s sound: an alternate place conjured up from the depths of memory and longing for those who need it, its ethereal columns built on a bedrock of fog, looking out on the bank of unknown shores. —Mike Huguenor

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THU NOV 1 • NANOWRIMO: NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH @ EARTH Every year, writers and wannabes around the world set out to write their country’s great novel.

Got words? Feeling writey? There are all sorts of resources online and in your community. Hit up a literary open mic. Meet other writers. I believe in you.

NOV 1-18 • THE MUSIC MAN @ PRESENTATION AND LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLS Okay, so two San Jose high schools are both presenting “The Music Man” at the same time.

Lincoln High School’s begins this Thursday and Presentation High School’s begins this Saturday.

When I did high school theatre here in San Jose, the rivalries were always... dramatic. These two schools could hardly be more different, hence, I see simultaneous productions of the same show as evidence that San Jose is finally big enough to entertain multitudes of artistic interpretation.

But will we be able to keep up with the demand for “The Music Man!?” Dear, sweet me, I hold hope for us all. See listings below for locations and dates.

SAT NOV 3 • HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAN JOSÉ @ PERALTA ADOBE I love San Jose. That is no secret. Lived in it and around it my whole life (minus that time I was a touring poet.) I’d swear it doesn’t look a decade over 200. However, the founding of El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe was 241 years ago. We don’t always get everything right, but ending up where we are was a damn good start. Let’s celebrate at the oldest building in the city. 11am. Luis Maria Peralta Adobe, 180 W St. John St, San Jose

WED NOV 7 • MIGHTY MIKE MCGEE & TSHAKA CAMPBELL @ STRITCH When this paper’s managing editor recommends you should “must see” your own show, you bow your head and you do as he says. I am honored to be a part of the Center for Literary Art’s event next week. Moreso, I am doubly honored to share the stage with my dear friend and fellow performance poet, Tshaka Campbell. We are planning an evening to remember in a space I simply adore. 7pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WED 10/31 FAMILY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 6pm. Online tickets.

Children's Discovery Museum, 180 Woz Way, San Jose

Album Release Party. Sat, 6pm: Eamonn Flynn Band. Sat, 10pm: Sharks After Party with James Michael Day. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 4pm: Lil Pea & The Third Degree. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

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THU 11/01 ART BATTLE: DRAW YOUR WEAPONS

7pm. Artists Abel "Driftin" Gonzalez vs. Patron. Five Points, 169 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

UNIVERSITY DANCE THEATRE: EMERGING

7pm and var. times through Sat. SJSU School of Music & Dance, 1 Washington Square

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Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

ATOMIC STRANGER, EXPLODING LIKE SPIDERS, STARTING FROM ZERO, DEAD RIVER REBELS

9pm. Farewell, Lora! Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

7:30pm. Treatbot, San Pedro Square, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

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7:30pm and var. times through 11/10. Lincoln Performing Arts. Lincoln Black Box, 555 Dana Avenue, San Jose

5:30pm. 8:15pm: Banda Sin Nombre. MACLA, 510 S First St, San Jose

ACTOR: MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT “DIARIES 2018”

6pm. WORKS/San José, 365 S Market St, San Jose

COUNTRY: COLE SWINDELL & DUSTIN LYNCH

6pm. Fountain Alley, 27 - 29 Fountain Alley, San Jose

7:30pm. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

7:30pm. Event Center at SJSU, 290 S Seventh St, San Jose

COMEDIAN: GARETH REYNOLDS

8pm. Var. times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

OYASUMI HOLOGRAM WORLD 27 TOUR W/ TORIENA

8pm. Also Fri. Back Bar SoFA, 418 S Market St, San Jose

BENEFIT AUCTION EXHIBIT OPENING NIGHT THE OCEAN IS CALLING • A FREE PUBLIC ART ACTIVATION PROJECT MEW-SIC NIGHT • CLASSICAL SITAR AND TABLA

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Thu, 8pm: Mac Sabbath, Franks & Deans, KooK, Ethnocide. Fri, 8pm: Tooth & Nail Night w/ Them Creatures, The Has Beens, Static Age, Biffs. Sat, 8pm: SRSQ, Houses of Heaven.

Wed, 11/7, 7pm: Demon In Me, Youth Fountain, Goldview, Drawing Heaven. 400 S First St, San Jose

7:30pm, plus 11/3, 2pm. A literary romp about a support group for fictional characters rejected by their author.

Avenidas, 4000 Middlefield Road, Suite #I-2, Palo Alto

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8pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

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Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS ART WALK 7pm: Start at Anno Domini, 366 S First St, San Jose

INDIE POP: ANJA KOTAR

7pm. Valley Christian Schools, 100 Skyway Dr, San Jose

SOUTH BAY PHILHARMONIC: FALL CONCERT 7pm. Feat. Juliet Hamak.

Foothill Presbyterian Church, 5301 McKee Rd, San Jose

KARAOKE: THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Fri & Sat, 9:30pm. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

HARDTRAP DJ: SAYMYNAME 10pm. Pure Nightclub, 146 South Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale

METAL: BT SAINTS, THE GHOST NEXT DOOR, HARDFAIL 10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

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GRAPHIC NOVEL: SVETLANA CHMAKOVA SIGNING “CRUSH”

CONCERT: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX 2:30pm, 7:30pm and Sun, 7:30pm. SJ Center for Performing Arts, 255 S Almaden Blvd

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Evergreen Valley High School PTSA, 3300 Quimby Road, San Jose

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2pm. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St

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5pm. Pipes & Glory concert series. Trinity Cathedral, 81 N Second St, San Jose

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7:30pm. With Mission Chamber Orchestra. Trianon Theatre, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose

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8pm. Var. times through 11/18. Sunnyvale

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7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

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6pm. Bibo’s NY Pizza, 1431 Bird Ave, San Jose

WED 11/07 DEEP HUMANITIES: SILICON POLITICS WITH PROFESSOR MARGARET O’MARA 7pm. From University of Washington. Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. Sun, 10am: Brunch.

3pm: Reggae Sundays.

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8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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1pm. Creator of "Awkward" and "Brave." Illusive Comics & Games, 1270 Franklin Mall, Santa Clara

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A man asked me for my number at an event, saying he wanted to take me to dinner.

I told him I’d just ended a relationship and wasn’t ready to date. Of course, he then said it’d be a business dinner, and I consented and wrote my number down.

I feel that I had bad boundaries and wish a) he hadn’t been so forward and b) I hadn’t given my number. How could I handle this better in the future? I’m a pretty assertive woman, so my collapsing under pressure was disturbing.—Jell-O This is like your telling somebody who wants you to dog-sit, “Sorry, I’m allergic to dogs” and having them come back with, “Actually, he identifies as a parrot.”

To understand why you basically defaulted to smileyface emoji mode when the poo emoji better fit the bill, it helps to know a few things about the psychology of personality. There are five major domains of personality that drive how a person acts, and they tend to be fairly stable across time and situations. These include conscientiousness, which reflects a person’s level of self-control and sense of responsibility to others. Another is extroversion, reflecting where a person falls on a spectrum from outgoingness to seeing social events as a form of torture that should have been banned by the Geneva Conventions.

Researchers find that women across cultures consistently come out higher than men in one of these personality domains: agreeableness. This is a “nice girl/nice guy” personality trait that plays out in kindness, generosity,

warmth and a strong motivation to have positive interactions with others.

It makes sense that women—on average, smaller and weaker than men—would be higher in agreeableness.

Psychologist Joyce Benenson, who researches sex differences from infancy on, believes that women’s tendency to default to polite acquiescence in the face of conflict is an evolved tactic to reduce their chances of being physically harmed.

As a woman, it’s likely you’re a high scorer in the agreeableness department.

However, as anthropologist Jerome Barkow points out, “biology is destiny only if we ignore it.” Recognizing your propensity to be “nice” allows you to preplan to act in your best interest—have prepared answers for creative pursuers like this guy. For example: 1. You’re not ready to date. 2. You’re happy to take a phone call to see whether there might be a business opportunity. This should help you separate potentially lucrative business propositions from tarted-up versions of, “There’s a very important meeting you simply must attend … in my pants.”

I lost a bunch of weight after a horrible breakup. I’m eating healthful food now—yay. But I’m very aware that I’m one of those flabby skinny people. I used to go to the gym regularly, but I stopped, and now it’s been two years.

How can I motivate myself?—Stick Figure There is an unorthodox but excuse-proof way to get yourself back to the gym: Hire a psychopath to chase you there with an ax.

If, however, the psychopaths in your area are busy servicing their regular clients, you might try rethinking the power you give your feelings over your behavior. The fact that you have a feeling—“I don’t wanna go to the gym”— is not reason to listen to it and obey it.

Consider that unless there’s a national disaster or a wizard turns you into a decorative porch owl, you are physically capable of getting to the gym. Make a pledge to yourself that no matter how unmotivated you are to go there, you will just go. This “just do it” method, giving yourself no choice in the matter, is important, because according

to studies by psychologist Phillippa Lally and others, repetition leads to habit acquisition.Behaviors you repeat become automatic—meaning you eventually just do them mindlessly.

To kick off the campaign, do this robogymgoing thing every day for two weeks, and then you can pull back to whatever your normal gym schedule would be.

Give yourself a sense of accomplishment by monitoring your behavior. Check off days you go work out on a goal attainment app, or just color them in on a calendar. Giving yourself visual evidence of your progress should help you stay motivated until the physical results start to show, proving to others that you’ve not only been going to the gym but getting out of the car when you get there.

(c)2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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Req. MS in Operations FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Research, Industrial Engg, Supply NAME #622360 ChainSTATEMENT Mngmnt, or rel. + 60 mos exp in The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, Materials Project Mngmnt or rel650 occ.

1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, Island Place, Redwood City, CA, to 94065.

This business is conducted by Inc. an Mail resume Applied Materials, individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under M/S 1211, 3225 Oakmead Village Dr., the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dai Nguyen Santa Clara, 95054.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental Laboratory, 1333 Piedmont Rd., Ste #202, San Jose, CA, 95132,

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ENGINEERING NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER AKT America, has an opening ESTATE OF MARKInc. PASCOE KELLY. CASEin Santa Clara, CA: Manager Software NO. 16PR178443

Engineer (Req# S984).ESTATE Gather reqs NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASEsystms NO. 16PR178443To heirs beneficiaries for sftwre fromallintrnl/extrnl creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise &will lead sftwre be custmrs interested in the or estate, or bothdvlopmnt of: MARK PASCOEeffort KELLY. to implmnt reqs A Petition for Probate has been incl filed by:task James plan, J. Ramoni,code Public Administrator County of Santa Clara in team. the SuperiorReq. Court ofMS reviw &of the mntring of tech California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests EE,J. Ramoni, CS orPublic rltd + 5 yrs ofexp in job off or thatin James Administrator the County of Santa Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer rltd occ. Mail resume to AKT America, the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to Inc. M/S 1211, 3225 Oakmead Village administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Dr., Santa Clara, CA Mustrepresentative include Estates Act. (This authority will95054. allow the personal to take many actions obtaining court approval. Before REQ# to bewithout considered. taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant sought by on Exatron, Inc., San Jose, authority.

A hearing the petition will be held in this courtCA as to analyze, explore determine market follows: November 28, 2016, at& 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IFcan YOU OBJECT segments where Exatron dvlp to& the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing in order to bring Exatron into anddiversify state your objections or file written objections with the court before hearing. Your appearance be in personSubmit or by your thetheglobal Secure IoTmaymarket. attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the resume to: Exatron, Inc. 2842 Aiello decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy Dr., Sanrepresentative Jose, CAappointed 95111. by For jobwithin details, to the personal the court the later of either & (1) four months fromrefer the dateto: of first issuance of rqmts appl info letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section http://jobpost.works/8582-fm 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.

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and/or int.BUSINESS travel. Technical Product FICTITIOUS Supp Engr (Req# R985): Rspnsble for NAME STATEMENT #622566 tech supp rltd aspects for AMATs AERA The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, Tool Prduct Supprt Client: escalations, 979 Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc prfrmnce, Anhfleet Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr.,systm San Jose,installations, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yetReq. begun imprvmnt prgrms & upgrades. transacting business under the fictitious business name or names BS in Mech Eng, Elec Eng, Aerospace listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Thuan Lam+This statement withoff the County Clerkocc. of Santa Eng 5 yrs expwas infiled job or rltd Clara Countyreq on 10/18/2016. (pub& Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) May domstic intl travel 20%

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS VC996): Dvlp new thin film products for semiconductor chip manufactures to NAME STATEMENT #622752 issuesisassoc. w/business newas:generation Theaddress following person(s) (are) doing Free Spirit, 380 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael Hill, 8093 E. Zayante device fabrication.

Req.R.MS in Chem, Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

Materials Sci, Chem Eng, Phys, Electrical Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name+or36 names listedexp herein.

R. Eng Engg, or rel. mos in/s/Michael Process Hill This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Sr. or rel occ. To apply, send resume with County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016) REQ# to: Applied Materials, Inc. M/S 1211, 3225 Oakmead Village Drive, Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clara, CA 95054

NAME STATEMENT #621712

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

Sr. Automation Engineer

Software Engineer sought by Barefoot Networks, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA. Dvlp fnctnl, dsgn & test spcifctns for sftwre modules that implmnt SDK API to manage ASIC packt fwding & get it rvwd w/ the cross-functnl teams. Aply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com #14448.

BUSINESS Adobe, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose, CA: Analyst, Business Analytics (Ref #SJBA100): Perform specialty analytical duties as Analyst, Business Analyst working independently to complete specific assignments in support of the Data Analytics Manager, Director of Customer Analytics & Strategy, as well as stakeholders in product business units and marketing. Financial Analyst (Ref #SJFA101): Preparation of quarterly financial Board of Directors package for executive management. Mail resume to Adobe, Inc., Mailstop H14-209, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110. Must include Ref. code. No phone calls please.

EOE. www.adobe.com/

Leader of Sensor System on Chip in San Jose, CA is in need of IC Valid. Engr.–Staff (job#NS1019) – Def., create, & dvlp. validation envmnts. & test suites.

Refer to job#. Apply at [ mailto:jobs@ invensense.com ]jobs@invensense.com.

ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY Agilent Technologies has openings in Santa Clara, CA for a Senior Lead Software Architect (SLSA1) Lead the Agilent’s Software & Informatics Division Technical Architecture team. Position may require travel up to 10%; Research Scientist (RS01) Responsible for data analysis and algorithm development for various Agilent Labs molecular biology projects, including Agilent’s Advanced DNA synthesis project and Genome Editing project. Mail resume & reference job code to: Agilent Technologies c/o Cielo, 200 South Executive Drive, Suite 400, Brookfield, WI 53005.

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Engineer: Application Engineer in Santa Clara, CA, resp for mechanical components dev. including designing & validating new testing fixture &vibration testing equipment. Mail resume: Crystal Instruments Corp., 2370 Owen St., Santa Clara, CA 95054.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647053 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ozone Cryotherapy, 182 s. Murphy Ave., Sunnyale, CA, 94086, Ozone Cryotherapy LLC, 1533 Orillia Ct., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2016. /s/Chona Poe. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2018. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #646397 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 2908 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Alum Rock Pizza Corporation, 3406 Ashbourne Circle, San Ramon, CA, 94583. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile of previous facts from previous filing #646348. /s/Harwinder Singh. President. #4106993.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/13/2018. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647063 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Evergreen Supply, 2984 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, CA, 95111, Evergreen Materials. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/17/2008. Refile of previous facts from previous filing #581082. /s/Sven Schipper.

President. #C0805227. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2018. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647055 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alpha Consult, 385 River Oaks Parkway, Apt, 4044, San Jose, CA, 95134, Axel Tillmann. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/15/2018. /s/Axel Tillmann. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2018. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647062 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Feel The Rain, 12481 Brookglen Dr., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Jennifer Sahara. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jennifer Sahara. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2018. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

1. Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the Cupertino Union School District (“District”) will be accepting bids for the following project: CUSD- 2019 MODERNIZATION PROJECTS 2. The Project consists of: Modernizations at five elementary school campuses in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Cupertino. Scope includes paint, casework, flooring replacement (including resinous), replacing wall finishes, tile work at restroom walls, new fire alarm system, new teaching walls/casework, some HVAC equipment replacement, as well as ADA upgrades to path of travel, entries to classrooms, accessible parking, restrooms, drinking fountains, and signage. 3. The District is prequalifying bidders pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 20111.6. Only prequalified bidders will be eligible to submit a bid for this Project. Any bid submitted by a bidder who is not prequalified shall be deemed nonresponsive and will not be considered. Moreover, any bid that does not list prequalified electrical, mechanical or plumbing subcontractors, where the Project includes electrical, mechanical or plumbing components, shall be deemed nonresponsive and will not be considered.Cupertino Union School District has contracted with Colbi Technologies to provide a web-based process for prequalification called Quality Bidders. To get started, please visit www. qualitybidders.com, and follow the Contractor Instructions for creating an account.All prequalification applications must be submitted to the district via the Quality Bidders website by November 1, 2018. 4. Contract Documents, including plans and specifications, will be available on October 11th, 2018. Subcontractors wishing to bid the project must contact erika.frederick@blach.com by November 1, 2018 to get access to the BuildingConnected Website. 5. All bids will be due by November 15th, 2018 via the BuildingConnected website or via e-mail to erika. frederick@blach.com. 6. No mandatory prebid conference will be held however site walks are highly encouraged.

Contact Erika Frederick at erika.frederick@blach.com if you would like to schedule a site visit. 7. The successful bidder will be required to either meet the DVBE goal of three percent (3%) participation or demonstrate its good faith effort to solicit DVBE participation in this Contract if it is awarded the contract for the Work. 8. The successful bidder will be required to have the appropriate State of

California Contractor’s License to perform the work, current at the time of submission to bid. 9. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall pay all workers on all work performed pursuant to this Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to sections 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are also available from the District or on the Internet at: <http://www.dir.ca.gov>. 10. Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed on, be listed in a proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations.

No bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a Contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project.This Project is subject to labor compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Compliance Monitoring Unit (“CMU”) of the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.3 and subject to the requirements of section 16450 et seq. of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Commissioner weekly and within ten (10) days of any request by the District or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. The successful Bidder shall comply with all requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, of the Labor Code.In bidding this project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all Labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in this bid.11.

The District’s Board has found and determined that the following item(s) shall be used on this Project based on the purpose(s) indicated. (Public Contract Code section 3400[c]): A particular material, product, thing, or service is designated by specific brand or trade name for the following purpose(s): See bid documents for specified material.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER: 18CV335604

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Amitabh Saikia and Renu Bhattar for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Arya Saikia. Proposed name: Arya Bhattar Saikia. 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 change described above must file a 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: January 1, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate filed on: October 2, 2018 (pub dates: 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #646614

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Santa Clara Senior Medical Group, 3561 Homestead Road, #640, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Seoul Medical Group Inc., 520 S. virgil Ave., STE 507, Los Angeles, CA, 90020. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/05/2018. /s/Min Young Cha. President. #1727993. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2018. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647527 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Papco, 1895 S. 10th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Pacific-Ocean Auto Parts Company. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/1997. Refile in facts from previous filing #333150. /s/Peter Frank. CEO. #C1998486. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2018. (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, 11/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647769 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tri-Life, 1009 East Capitol Expressway, #507, San Jose, CA, 95121, People And The Plant. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Edward Esters. CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/23/2018. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647768 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Upper Cali Marketing Agency, 1009 East Capitol Expressway, #507, San Jose, CA, 95121, People And The Plant. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Edward Esters. CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/23/2018. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647536 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: D & E RV Mobile Service, 263 Vista Roma Way, San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/14/2018. /s/Diego Armando AquinoMendoza. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2018. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647801

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Simply Radiant Living, 409 Spencer Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Mo-Han Fong. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mo-Han Fong. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/23/2018. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2018)

ADVERTISEMENT FOR PREQUALIFICATION OF BIDDERS & ADVERTISEMENT TO BID California State University, San JoseSan Jose State University Associated Students House Relocation ProjectDocuments Posted for Bidders: November 14th, 2018Pre-Bid Questions Due By: November 21st, 2018Prequalification Deadline: November 28th, 2018Bid Due Date and Time: November 28th, 2018 @ 2PM Estimated Project Cost: $3,000,000Anticipated Construction Start: December 2018 Anticipated Construction Duration: April 2019Blach Construction has been hired by San Jose State University (SJSU) as the CM at Risk Contractor to manage the SJSU Associated Students House Relocation project located at 1 Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192. Blach Construction will prequalify subcontractors and manage the bid process on behalf of SJSU. Prequalified subcontractors will submit bids directly to Blach Construction via the Building Connected website. Blach Construction is signatory to the Northern California Carpenters and Laborers Unions, subcontractors bidding scopes of work that utilize either carpenters and/or laborers must be signatory to each respective union or sign one-time agreements. The project’s scope of work includes but is not limited to: Framing and Rough Carpentry (C-5), Concrete (C-8), Drywall/Metal Stud/ Insulation (C-9), Electrical (C-10), Earthwork & Paving (C-12), Flooring and Floor Covering (C-15), Fire Protection (C-16), Warm-Air Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (C-20), Demolition (C-21), Ornamental Metal Contractor (C-23), Landscaping (C-27), Lock and Security Equipment / Doors (C-28), Construction Zone Traffic Control (C-31), Parking and Highway Improvements / Striping (C-32), Painting and Decorating (C-33), Pipeline (C-34), Lathing and Plastering (C-35), Plumbing (C-36), Signage (C-45), Reinforcing Steel (C-50), Structural Steel (C-51), Demolition, Fluid Applied Waterproofing, Doors/Frames/Hardware, and Excavation/ Grading, PrequalificationSubcontractors must be prequalified to submit a bid. Prequalification paperwork is provided within the posted bid documents on the Building Connected website for contractor use. BiddingThere will be a mandatory site walk held on Monday, November 19th, 2018 @ 10am. If you have any questions about this site walk you can contact Justin Despotakis with Blach Construction justin.despotakis@blach.com.Contract Documents, including plans and specifications, will be available on Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 by end of day. Subcontractors wishing to bid the project must contact laura.burkhardt@blach.com to get access to the Blach Construction Building Connected Website. Bid Questions & Clarifications should be directed to Justin Despotakis via email: justin.despotakis@blach. com.The successful bidder will be required to have the appropriate State of California Contractor’s License to perform the work, current at the time of submission to bid, except in the case of a Joint Venture Bidder that shall be licensed at the time of notice of selection as the apparent responsible bidder. This is a prevailing wage project. The CSU Trustees require three (3) percent Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise participation by all bidders.This project is subject to prevailing wage rate laws. All contractors and all tiers of subcontractors bidding on this project shall register to bid public works projects with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), and maintain current this registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5. Please go to http://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html for more information and to register

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647921 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: New Canaan Landscaping, 1400 Coleman Ave., Suite H14, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Jon Anderson. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jon Anderson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2018. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2018)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have officially arrived

at the heart of the most therapeutic phase of your cycle. Congratulations! It's an excellent time to fix what's wrong, hurt or distorted. You will attract more help than you can imagine if you summon an aggressive approach toward finding antidotes and cures. A good way to set the tone for your aggressive determination to feel better is to heed this advice from poet Maya Angelou: "Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): U2's singer Bono, born under the sign of Taurus, says that all of us suffer from the sense that something's missing from our lives. We imagine that we lack an essential quality or experience, and its absence makes us feel sad and insufficient. French philosopher Blaise Pascal referred to this emptiness as "a God-shaped hole."

Bono adds that "you can never completely fill that hole," but you may find partial fixes through love and sex, creative expression, family, meaningful work, parenting, activism and spiritual devotion. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I have a strong suspicion that in the coming weeks you will have more power to fill your God-shaped hole than you've had in a long time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore." So says a character in Gemini author Tobias Wolff's short story "Sanity." Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to refute and rebel against this notion. The cosmic rhythms will work in your favor to the degree that you cultivate innovative yearnings and unique urges. I hope you'll make it your goal to have the experiences necessary to stir up an outbreak of original desires.

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that enabled you to go in quest of spiritual fun and educational adventures. On the other hand, I wouldn't be thrilled about you spending extra cash on trivial desires or fancy junk you don't really need.

Here's why I feel this way: to the extent that you seek more money to pursue your most righteous cravings, you're likely to get more money.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Penetralia" is a word

that means the innermost or most private parts, the most secret and mysterious places. It's derived from the same Latin term that evolved into the word "penetrate." You Scorpios are, of course, the zodiac's masters of penetralia. More than any other sign, you're likely to know where the penetralia are, as well as how to get to them and what to do when you get to them. I suspect that this tricky skill will come in extra handy during the coming weeks. I bet your intimate adeptness with penetralia will bring you power, fun and knowledge.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet

Rainer Maria Rilke suggested that we cultivate an alertness for the ever-present possibility of germination and gestation. On a regular basis, he advised, we should send probes down into the darkness, into our unconscious minds, to explore for early signs of awakening. And when we discover the forces of renewal stirring there in the depths, we should be humble and reverent toward them, understanding that they are as yet beyond the reach of our ability to understand. We shouldn't seek to explain and define them at first, but simply devote ourselves to nurturing them. Everything I just said is your top assignment in the coming weeks.

Astro

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you're a typical member

of the Cancerian tribe, you're skilled at responding constructively when things go wrong. Your intelligence rises up hot and strong when you get sick or rejected or burned. But if you're a classic Crab, you have less savvy in dealing with triumphs. You may sputter when faced with splashy joy, smart praise or lucky breaks.

But everything I just said is meant to be a challenge, not a curse. One of the best reasons to study astrology is to be aware of the potential shortcomings of your sign so you can outwit and overcome them.

That's why I think that eventually you'll evolve to the point where you won't be a bit flustered when blessings arrive. And the immediate future will bring you excellent opportunities to upgrade your response to good fortune.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Each of us needs something of an island in her life," said poet John Keats. "If not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be herself, free to cultivate her differences from others." According to my reading of the astrological omens, Leo, you'll be wise to spend extra time on your own island in the next two weeks. Solitude is unlikely to breed unpleasant loneliness, but will instead inspire creative power and evoke inner strength. If you don't have an island yet, go in search! (P.S. I translated Keats' pronouns into the feminine gender.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I'm rooting for you to

engage in experimental intimacy, Virgo. I hope you'll have an affinity for sweet blends and incandescent mixtures and arousing juxtapositions. To get in the right mood for this playful work, you could read love poetry and listen to uplifting songs that potentize your urge to merge. Here are a few lyrical passages to get you warmed up. 1. "Your flesh quivers against mine like moonlight on the sea." —Julio Cortázar 2.

"When she smiles like that she is as beautiful as all my secrets. —Anne Carson 3. "My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars. ... The flowers of your garden blossom in my body." —Rabindranath Tagore 4. "I can only find you by looking deeper, that's how love leads us into the world." —Anne Michaels

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Of course I want you to have more money. I'd love for you to buy experiences that expand your mind, deepen your emotional intelligence and foster your ability to create inspiring forms of togetherness. My soul would celebrate if you got access to new wealth

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You're in a phase of

your cycle when your influence is at a peak. People are more receptive than usual to your ideas and more likely to want the same things you do. Given these conditions, I think the best information I can offer you is the following meditation by Capricorn activist Martin Luther King Jr. "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian

environmentalist Edward Abbey spent much of his life rambling around in the great outdoors.

He was an emancipated spirit who regarded the natural world as the only church he needed. In an eruption of ecstatic appreciation, he once testified that "Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what?

I forget what happens next." And yet the truth is, Abbey was more than a wild-hearted Dionysian explorer in the wilderness. He found the discipline and diligence to write 23 books! I mention this, Aquarius, because now is a perfect time for you to be like the disciplined and diligent and productive version of Abbey.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For renowned Piscean visual artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004), creating her work was high adventure. She testified that artists like her had "to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain."

Whether or not you're an artist, Pisces, I suspect your life in the coming weeks may feel like the process she described. And that's a good thing! A fun thing! Enjoy your ride.

Homework: What gifts and blessings do you want? Express your outrageous demands and humble requests. Freewillastrology.com.

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