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The Silicon Valley YWCA returned a $4,500 donation from attorney JAMES MCMANIS over comments he made that downplayed BROCK TURNER’s sexual assault of CHANEL MILLER after a campus party at Stanford They in 2016.

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McManis offered the cash gift to support SEND TIPS TO the nonprofit’s annual FLY@ “Inspire Luncheon,” which METRONEWS. COM took place on Oct. 30 and featured DOLORES HUERTA and CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD, who made a rare public appearance to accept the YWCA’s Empowerment Award.

An email sent out before the event featured a long list of sponsors that included the McManis Faulkner law firm.

That didn’t sit well with some of the attendees—Stanford law professor MICHELE DAUBER among them—who balked at the optics of a victim-blaming attorney getting credit for chipping in for an event honoring women and survivors.

McManis was one of the most vocal defenders of AARON PERSKY, the judge recalled from the bench in 2018 because of the brief sentence he gave Turner two years earlier.

Dauber, who led the campaign to oust the jurist, has been an outspoken critic of McManis ever since he made comments that disputed settled facts of the case against Turner and cast doubt on Miller’s claim of victimhood.

Among other offensive remarks during the campaign, McManis told a Vogue correspondent that Miller “was not attacked” and “had been drinking before she arrived at the fraternity party.” He also claimed that the impact statement she read in court was penned by someone else, though he acknowledged that he hadn’t “independently verified” the allegation.

YWCA Silicon Valley Executive Director TANIS CROSBY said the decision to return McManis several-thousand-dollar donation to last week’s events owed to statements like those. “We appreciate all that the firm has done for us in the past,”she told Fly. “Unfortunately, they’ve taken some positions that are deeply at odds with the values of the YWCA.They’ve cast aspersions about a client of the YWCA and, to be clear, we believe and support survivors. Full stop.”

AD BUSTER San Jose Councilman Lan Diep was the subject of a political attack ad bankrolled by labor unions.

Massive Attack Hit piece accuses councilman of rewarding ‘slavery towers’ developers BY GRACE HASE

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HE AD OPENS with images of twin highrises before the words “Slavery Towers” flash on the screen in bold white font. In a dramatic baritone, a narrator recounts the harrowing discovery that the project’s subcontractor harbored undocumented workers and forced them to labor for free.

The YouTube video proceeds to blame San Jose Councilman Lan Diep for giving developer KT Urban “a $22 million taxpayer-funded subsidy” despite its involvement with the Silvery Towers project at 188 W. St. James St., where a subcontractor made national headlines for using slave labor. It then cuts to Diep popping a bottle of

champagne as the voiceover blasts him for voting on an incentive described as a “$67 million developer giveaway,” some of which went to KT Urban.

“No affordable housing requirements, no workforce protections,” the narrator says.

“Slavery rewarded.” The video ends by urging viewers to call the District 4 representative to tell him “he’s deeply wrong.” A disclaimer notes that the piece was paid for by a group called “Santa Clara County Residents for Responsible Development.”

It’s a slick ad apparently produced to undermine Diep’s bid for re-election in 2020. According to Diep, developers and a local business advocacy group, however, it’s brimming with falsehoods.

Diep cast just one of six votes to extend the incentive cited in the ad.

And while KT Urban was involved in the Silvery Towers project, it

transferred the land to another developer before the slave-driving contractor came on board and had nothing to do with the dubious hire. The popping-bottles shot is also recontextualized into something sinister. And though there’s some truth to the numbers, they’re wrapped up in a misleading package.

The figures cited in the piece come from a Sept. 11 memo authored by San Jose Housing Director Jacky MoralesFerrand and Economic Development Director Kim Walesh on a downtown highrise fee exemption offered by the city. Originally enacted in 2014, the program gives developers a 50 percent break on construction taxes and absolves them from paying a $18.26-per-square-foot affordable housing fee if they meet certain criteria.

At the Sept. 24 meeting, the city council narrowly approved an extension to the program, much to the ire of labor advocates who slammed the business-friendly voting bloc for cutting tens of millions of dollars in revenue for below-marketrate housing. And while projects that benefit from the city’s tax-andfee breaks typically have to abide by certain workforce protections,

Valley Organization, says the ad was a “political game that the trade unions are working on.”

Saggau bats away the criticism, saying the ad was paid for by an issues group, not a candidate-controlled committee. “Educating residents about Republican Lan Diep’s trickle-down affordable housing scheme and asking residents to call his office is intended to influence him to find a moral compass,” he asserts.

But San Jose State University political science professor Garrick Percival says that while this is an issues-based ad, it’s “designed to frame the issues that voters should be thinking about when they’re thinking about the election. … These ads aren’t run in a vacuum,” he argues.

Five seats on the San Jose City Council come up for election next year, including Diep’s North Side seat, which he won by a slim margin in 2016. In 2020, he faces employment rights attorney Huy Tran and Berryessa Union School District Trustee David Cohen—both of whom are backed by labor. Of the four seats where an incumbent is running, Percival says he sees Diep as the most vulnerable. If incumbents win their seats in districts 2 and 6, Percival says, “what happens in district[s] 4 and 10 has the potential to reshape the council in terms of the backing of labor groups.”

That Diep won by such a narrow margin in 2016 makes him “the lowest-hanging fruit,” Percival adds.

Diep, who refrained from publicly commenting on the ad until speaking with Metro, says he stands by his vote for the highrise incentive. “The cost of building in San Jose is too high,” he says. “So the council lowered fees to make projects feasible. We didn’t ‘give away’ taxpayer dollars. We did not subsidize any development. We just made the risk easier to bear.”

He also lambastes the ad for trying to link him to a human trafficking case—especially considering all the work he put in earlier in his career as a public interest attorney. “Earlier this year I provided the deciding vote to make combatting wage theft a citywide priority,” Diep says.

“For organized labor to paint me as supporting slave labor is appalling.

It’s further evidence that organized labor in San Jose doesn’t tolerate independent thinkers; you’re an enemy if you’re not with them 100 percent of the time.”

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San Jose officials ruled out those standards for nine downtown highrises in the pipeline.

Among a slew of projects granted the fee cut were the Aviato—a Basset Avenue co-living project by KT Urban and StarCity—and Z&L Properties’ 708-unit Greyhound on South Almaden Avenue. Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the political action group that funded the YouTube ad, says KT Urban qualified for a $22 million discount on those future projects while getting a pass on labor standards. “The city council majority is poised, yet again, to give away more taxpayer dollars to wealthy developers to incentivize them not to build affordable housing,” he says.

But the figures emblazoned in the ad don’t tell the whole story.

According to property records, a subsidiary of KT Urban sold the land for the Greyhound project for $39 million to an affiliate of Z&L Properties in April 2016. When the project came before the council in May 2017, forms listed Full Standard Properties LLC—the Z&L affiliate— as the owner and developer of the South Almaden Avenue site.

KT Urban Principal Mark Tersini, however, was listed as the project applicant. “KT Urban’s role was to secure the entitlements for the project,” Tersini tells Metro.

As far as KT Urban’s involvement in the Silvery Towers, county records show that an affiliate of the Cupertino-based developer transferred the land to Full Power Properties LLC in August 2014.

Tersini says that—as with the Greyhound development—KT Urban’s job was to secure the entitlements. They continued to be involved with the project, however, through a construction management contract that ended in the fall of 2016.

As construction managers, KT Urban officials say they had nothing to do with hiring Job Torres Hernandez, the human-trafficking subcontractor responsible for earning the project its “Slavery Towers” moniker.

Presented with Tersini’s denials, however, Saggau still insists on KT Urban’s involvement. He also bucks any accusation from Diep’s allies that the ad aims to sway votes away from the councilman as he jockeys for a second term. Eddie Truong, director of government and community relations for the pro-business Silicon

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SHELTER SKELTER Formerly homeless college student Elijah Deliz urged local leaders to help the growing population of young adults pursuing their degrees with no place to live.

County Vows to House 100 Youth in 100 Days

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH For Elijah Deliz, the hardest part about enrolling in college was figuring out what address to list on the forms. “If homelessness 101 were a college course,” he quipped, “I would have already passed it.”

The 22-year-old Mission College scholar shared his story earlier this week to call attention to a new Santa Clara County-wide initiative to house 100 homeless college students in as many days. West Valley-Mission Community College Chancellor Brad Davis, county Supervisor Susan Ellenberg and the Bill Wilson Center CEO Sparky Harlan joined Deliz at a press conference Monday to announce the campaign.

“The idea was to have something tangible and measurable to accomplish in 100 days,” said Ellenberg, who committed to renting out a spare room in her own home as part of the effort.

The 100-student, 100-day pledge coincides with the publication of a biennial survey by the Bill Wilson

Center, a non-profit service provider for at-risk youth, which found that 22 percent of the region’s homeless teen and young adult population attend college. That’s up from 18 percent two years prior.

“We think education is the way out of homelessness and poverty in our county,” Harlan said. “But these students have nowhere to live.”

While local colleges may track those statistics on their own, there’s no centralized system for keeping tabs on how many of the 10,000 or so county residents without housing on a given night are also pursuing a higher education, Harlan explained.

Davis said at least 1,000 students in his district are homeless and another 2,000 are on the brink of it. And about 13 percent of San Jose State students report being homeless. But the regional database that tracks everyone who requests social services for homelessness doesn’t ask respondents whether they’re

in college. The county plans to update its information management system to collect that going forward.

“Homelessness is a regional challenge shared by the entire Bay Area,” SJSU President Mary Papazian said, “one that cries out for meaningful solutions.”

For the sake of the 100-day initiative, that means putting a roof over the heads of students living outside or in their cars. But an extension of that effort should be to prevent students who already have a home from losing it, Deliz emphasized.

Though he now lives in a onebedroom apartment in Santa Clara, Deliz said he juggles two restaurant jobs to keep up with the $2,200-a-month rent he got stuck with when his flat-mates moved out.

That’s on top of a full-time class load.

If local leaders don’t find a solution soon, he said he fears more and more students will give up on their college dreams.

Teacher on Leave for Wearing Blackface Milpitas High put one of its high school teachers, David Carter, on administrative leave after a video on Twitter showed him donning blackface in class. Carter, who is white, was allegedly imitating African-American rapper Common, a spokesman for Microsoft in a national ad campaign.

“If anything, people were laughing before they got outraged because they were like: ‘That’s a terrible [imitation],” Milpitas High junior Karrington Kenney said.

According to Kenney, the economics teacher went through the first two periods of class without any incident on Halloween. During break however, Kenney said administrators told him to “clean it off.” “He should not have been able to get in the classroom at the beginning of school,” he said.

The video of Carter’s rap then circulated among administrators and students. Appalled by Carter’s actions, Kenney tweeted the video on Friday after receiving it from a classmate, stirring up a social media firestorm.

“You wouldn’t expect something like this,” Kenney said, “especially from a teacher. Why would anyone do that?”

Milpitas Union School District officials condemned the teacher’s actions. “The actions were inappropriate, unprofessional and insensitive,” MUSD board president Chris Norwood, who is African American, wrote in a statement.

“Unfortunately, blackface still permeates global society today through social media, comedy and fashion.”

MUSD Superintendent Cheryl Jordan and Milpitas High principal Francis Rojas issued a similarly damning joint statement. “In a school community where we welcome learners and families from over 50 languages who represent cultures and religions throughout the world ... it hurts to know that this type of cultural insensitivity and lack of cultural awareness still hovers in the background.”—Nicholas Chan

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GREATER GOOD The Tech Interactive’s annual awards show innovators whose projects advance humanitarian aims.

Noble Laureates Global Good awards honor innovators who empower women through technology

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VEN THOUGH the Tech Museum of Innovation recently rebranded as The Tech Interactive, what hasn’t changed is the old-fashioned Silicon Valley optimism exemplified by the institution’s primary annual event: Tech for Global Good.

Many moons ago, in what now seems like the vanishing Wild West, Silicon Valley produced technologists, entrepreneurs and humanitarian thinkers who really wanted to improve the world. Last Saturday, Tech for Global

Good brought us back to those days. As always, the most inspiring and optimistic vibes one could ever want just seemed to flow from every direction.

Tech for Global Good is the current incarnation of The Tech Awards—the museum’s signature annual event, a pure-positive endeavor selecting a handful of “tech laureates” whose projects show great promise in addressing a predetermined humanitarian theme. Last year, for example, the theme was Technology and the Environment. This year it was Technology Empowering Women.

“In the past we’ve phrased the theme in terms of a problem statement,” said

the Tech’s CEO Tim Ritchie, as we spoke at the reception. “Now we’re framing it in terms of a human empowerment statement. How can we give women tools to succeed in the world? And it turns out that when you empower women, you improve everything.”

The goal each year is to support and inspire the next up-and-coming generation of inventors, engineers, physicians and scientists to implement technology in useful, humane ways.

But rather than spend a zillion dollars on a lavish high-end banquet ceremony blowout with massive audio/video accompaniment and the whole nine yards, Tech For Global Good strips down the celebratory excess and instead presents a more intimate evening in the Montgomery Theater, after which everyone then migrates to the Tech, where the winning laureates answer informal questions and attendees nosh at food stations. Interactive videos of the laureates’ projects are then installed inside circular booths that remain in the museum until next year, where any visitor can sit down to learn about

the problems addressed, plus the solutions, the impacts and whatever else can be done to help. All in all, it’s a great way to highlight the laureates and their stories.

This year, as always, the winning laureates inspired tidal waves of optimism. From Sweden, the company Solvatten built portable devices that use solar energy to purify water in developing countries where millions of women and underserved communities don’t regularly have access to safe drinking systems. Zipline International built drones to fly blood samples and other supplies to women during childbirth in Rwanda and Ghana. On the artificial intelligence front, AI4ALL aims to remove the implicit biases in AI by including more children and women of color in the research, development and policy stages. In South Africa, where many marginalized populations don’t have web-based internet access, Amandla.

Mobi built a text messaging platform that transforms a cell phone into a civic engagement tool, empowering locals to become politically active.

In addition to the laureates, Tech for Global Good also includes the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award. This year, legendary ocean conservationist Julie Packard, who founded and still runs the Monterey Bay Aquarium, took home the award.

“Julie Packard has always been one of my personal heroes and a mentor,” Ritchie told me. “And she’s so intensely local. And global. And I can’t think of a better person, so I’m thrilled.”

Even though Tech for Global Good has only a few years under its belt, one can already see how each annual event inspires the next one. Last year’s Global Humanitarian Award went to the ecological activist Paul Hawken, whose effort, Project Drawdown, is an elaborate and rational roadmap toward reversing global warming. At the 2018 event Hawken illuminated how the empowerment of millions of marginalized girls around the world in terms of educational attainment, gender equality and reproductive health will help contribute to the reduction of global warming. That discussion directly led to this year’s theme, Technology Empowering Women.

In a time when so much of the world has been plunged into darkness and despair, the laureates continue to ring the bells that still can ring, providing just the kind of hope we all need right now.

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With ‘The Irishman,’ Netflix makes its biggest power play to date— but will it be enough to keep the streaming pioneer on top?

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RRIVING AT THE Roosevelt on Thursday afternoon, the reception clerk apologized for the inconvenience. Hollywood Boulevard was shut down in front of the Chinese Theater with steel traffic fences, drapes, tents and carpeting; the hotel’s iconic David Hockney pool was closed for a private party; and Hoffa for President banners hung in the lobby. Referencing my Italian last name, he cryptically mentioned that all the big names would be there, but couldn’t tell me more.

Slipping into the heavily-secured pool deck via service entrance later that night,

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HEN NETFLIX announced its 2011 pivot from DVD-bymail distribution to web-based streaming, skepticism and a muchstoried corporate stumble cost the company half of its marketplace value. YouTube was still quite young and relatively few consumers had the hardware to play internet movies directly on their television sets.

Plans to split the service into two discrete entities—the DVD-only

I was impressed by the free-flowing Chivas Regal and champagne, ice cream sundae bar, the hot dog stand’s vegan options, the cigar rolling station, swimsuit models inside floating water balls and selfies with Joe Pesci for anyone who could charm the Newark, NJ-born former barber’s handlers.

That Silicon Valley wrote the checks for this Hollywood extravaganza is yet another twist in a long unfolding story. The red carpets aren’t moving to Los Gatos or Cupertino, but some key decisions about how the world consumes mass market entertainment will be made behind the glass windows along Winchester Boulevard and at Apple Park.

Given the public’s insatiable affection for 20th Century mob murderers, the latest epic from that genre seems to have created either a calculated or accidentally fortuitous eruption of unsatisfied consumer demand. No doubt

“Qwikster” and the streaming-only Netflix—were bungled so badly that CEO Reed Hastings offered a public mea culpa, saying in a blog post that he had “messed up.”

Netflix did ultimately bifurcate its service, though without the Qwikster moniker. Their by-mail movie service is now known as DVD. com. Video game consoles, Blu-ray players and cheap smart TVs adopted the platform. Later, ubiquitious high speed access vindicated the gamble.

Tech journalists and a public saturated with instantly accessible content have more recently wondered how Netflix will survive as older media firms catch up with

Netflix hopes its investment will produce another tranche of streaming subscriptions.

The hype machine, launch parties and marquee names clearly still work their marketing magic, but this time there will be an inadequate number of sold-out theaters to deliver public screenings. The shared laughs and gasps and post-viewing conversations will ensue in the bedrooms and living rooms of our fragmented digital age box abodes, while the communal experience will be reserved for Hollywood’s influencers and the lucky attendees at the smattering of venues booked to meet the minimum test for Oscar nominations.

The Irishman’s release may one day be notable as a watershed moment in a historic transition, the biggest release to ever clog an internet pipe.

—Dan Pulcrano

the Los Gatos company, introducing streaming services of their own.

Initially, the answer seemed to be original content. Back in February of 2013 Netflix launched its first production—a remake of the British series House of Cards, which opened with Kevin Spacey addressing the camera, boasting of his weaslery like Laurence Olivier’s Richard III. Spacey became not just Netflix’s first star, but also its first persona non grata in the wake of the actor’s sexual assault scandal.

Other tech companies were quick to jump in. Amazon and Hulu now host a number of critically acclaimed shows, which compete

with Netflix’s top-tier titles. Just this month, the Cupertino-based Apple launched its own service, TV+, rolling out a collection of direct-toconsumer, commercial-free original programming starring A-list talent such as Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carrel and Jason Momoa.

Fortunately for Netflix, it would seem the streaming trailblazer is still at least one step ahead of the competition. With a roster of 300 original series, movies, Portuguese programming, kid shows and much more, Netflix offers customers such a riot of possibilities that their name has become a verb—like “text” or “Uber.” They’ve even been

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TALKIN’ TO ME? Robert DeNiro stars in the Netflix-produced Martin Scorsese film, ‘The Irishman.

lampooned by The Simpsons: “Netflix: Overindulging writer’s passions.” As if that were a bad thing!

(Despite this slap, Ted Sarandos, the head of programming at Netflix, guests on an episode in which Homer becomes addicted to streaming.)

With Oscar season in full swing, Netflix now operates like a major Hollywood studio. The company’s latest original production is so huge, many in the industry are talking about it as if it were folly.

Netflix picked up Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman after Paramount dropped it in favor of a tax loss— “turnaround’ as it’s called, a fate that befell everything from Boondock

Saints to Forrest Gump. Reliable Forbes number-cruncher Scott Mendelson notes that given The Irishman’s $140 million budget, it’ll have to earn $400 million to be credited as a success, with a good deal of that money coming from overseas. It’s hard to say whether it will be big in China. But what The Irishman has to say regarding corruption infiltrating a workers’ movement wouldn’t be completely irrelevant there.

Netflix’s strategy of limited release for The Irishman has come under complaint by John Fithian, the president of the National Organization of Theater Owners.

Fithian told the New York Times that it was “a disgrace” for Netflix to choose a too-small theatrical release of The Irishman, with only 250 screens nationwide.

Bay Area film lovers complained last year about having to drive 50 miles to see the Netflix release Roma on the silver screen.

It would be better to have a first encounter with The Irishman alone in the dark. There are details, shadings, insinuations, glances between men, items you wouldn’t want to miss when the cat jumps in your lap or Doordash rings the bell.

If the theatrical release does qualify it for an Oscar or two—it certainly

deserves it—it might increase the draw. Netflix could use the prestige as well as the publicity; it has its own rocky times ahead as we all approach the summit of peak television.

In addition to Apple’s new original content, the end of 2019 also brings us news of Disney+ and HBO Max. Content licensing is expensive, and the old reliables are going to go up in price. There’s a certain sort of streaming viewer who’d be satisfied if all he ever got was unlimited access to Seinfeld and Friends.

—Richard von Busack & Nick Veronin

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GOODFELLAS From left, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Martin Scorsese on the set of ‘The Irishman.’

Mob Mentality ‘The Irishman’ recounts half a century of organized crime BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ESPITE ITS BUDGET, The Irishman is not a spectacle—although, from the art direction to terrific soundtrack, it’s almost as an evocative summing up of mid-century America as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Much of the budget went to the technical component of making Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino into synthespians of themselves.

This digital scrubbing hasn’t been done much in a drama, as opposed to superhero films where Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel Jackson got the benefit of pixel-sandblasting. Of course, one could grumble that Francis Coppola doubled old and young actors without benefit of CGI in Godfather II, using old-media methods like sharp casting, juxtaposition and Nino Rota music strong enough to link present and past.

But the effect works in The Irishman, as the actors get to be the people they

used to be. Scorsese makes us see their youth through their elderly faces. It has its limits, particularly in strong daylight; the color sometimes seems a little off—it’s the old problem of how computer-generated graphics don’t reflect light but instead glow from the inside. Point is, I’ve seen many actors with facelifts that were far more constricting and distracting than what we see here. And the gambit links the various eras of these characters together, during a gripping and far-seeing personal history of how high-level crime rotted our Republic.

As for facial mobility, DeNiro doesn’t go in for it much here. His Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran is someone who’d been pretty much dead inside ever since his service in WWII. He’s a checked-out, tight-lipped character who doesn’t expect much and doesn’t pull many faces. He has pretty much the same look when he’s scooping into a bowl of cold cereal or giving some target two in the hat.

Given what a rock fan Scorsese is, it’s appropriate to quote the lyrics

of Pink Floyd’s “Free Four”: “The memory of a man in his old age/is the deeds of a young man in his prime/he shuffles ’round the gloom of his sick room/and talks to himself as he dies…”

In Goodfellas, Scorsese’s camera glided around the backrooms of the Copacabana to capture the glitz on stage. Now it courses through the halls of an old folks’ home to zero in on a denizen. His interior monologue changes to an exterior one in the course of a sentence; Frank is one more old gray man in a wheelchair trying to tell some unseen listener the story of a wedding he once attended in Detroit.

The anecdote expands into a threesided tale of the old days, when Frank was a soldier, and then a hapless Philly truck driver who moved sideways into delivering pilfered beef carcasses to a mob restaurant.

There he became first the employee and then the crony of a made man, Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci); he got work as a button man who could

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never be an insider with the Sicilian gents because of his Irish blood. He’s a contractor. “I hear you paint houses,” is the greeting he gets—the sick joke is explained with a gunshot and a splash of blood. But now, all that’s left from his time as a killer, a Judas goat, and a convict is just a gaudy gold ring the size of a poker chip.

Frank is a Forest Gumpino, a witness to Secret History, a sturdy if wooden trellis that a half-century’s worth of florid high-level crime trails around. The Irishman is the story of how the country was warped through the destruction of the most powerful labor leader in American history, Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). It tells of the assassination of JFK, and how a familiar face or two from all this Mafia-CIA conniving came back for the Watergate burglary.

I’m agnostic about the story of the Mafia’s part in the JFK killing, but Steve Zaillian’s first-rate script gives one food for fantasy. It reminds us that the JFK regime left proud, powerful men badly burned.

The funniest thing in the movie is the aged Frank trying to fathom attorney general Robert Kennedy’s motive for going after organized crime. Why didn’t he sensibly quid pro quo the Chicago mob that helped his brother John win a squeaker election in 1960: “What’s that about?

Am I missing something here?”

The Irishman’s understory is about the irony of slow decay. A man who had put so many bullets into so many heads still has the problem of any geezer: He falls and he can’t get up, and his daughter (Anna Paquin, great in a part that’s a series of angry glances) won’t call him. Curious that a film with this much bitterness in it should be so savory, proof as it is of Willie Sutton’s Law: “Crime pays but it don’t pay much.”

There’s a number of reasons The Irishman doesn’t resemble much of Scorsese, beyond the obvious lack of food porn. Everything is so much smaller than life.

The violence is sudden, and it’s over the minute you see it. It’s not valorized or amped up; it’s not made juicy or alluring. The tone is close to the hushed, procedural way crime functions in Francesco Rosi and J.P. Melville.

It’s about pre-Reagan America,

before the rich got super rich and luxury got Trumpian; a well-off crook like Bufalino may be collecting wads of cash all over the Midwest during the trip to Detroit, but all that money just buys a stay at a Howard Johnson’s or a trip to the bowling alley, the cold comforts of an ice cream sundae or a bowl of cereal.

The rewards always look second rate: too small hotels, with rooms that have to be shared (Frank always gets the trundle bed). The biggest event is staged like a plumber’s convention: a 1970s testimonial banquet where figures at the top of the Teamster world meet with the criminals who are spending its money. This particular evening, the differences become irreconcilable; the verbal pussyfooting and the careful, loaded words don’t do the job anymore.

Factually, the The Irishman is wobbly—fascinating and atmospheric as it is. Could one man have whacked Crazy Joe Gallo—a true act of public sanitation, that—and also have been there holding a gun, participating in of the great mysteries of the last century? But I saw The Irishman at the Mill Valley Film Festival, and hardly noticed the 3½ hours passing.

If anything, it could have used a little more length to explain the ins and outs of Jimmy Hoffa’s Nashville trial; Pacino, given a wig to make him look squareheaded like the man himself, becomes a driven, multi-faceted figure. He’s a warm man—doomed by his own integrity, and like so many old men, he drives over the cliff because of his pride. Hoffa’s namecalling Trumpian style (calling RFK “Booby Kennedy” from the podium) gives us a mirror of our own age. No matter how it’s denied by partisans, the Trump family are at least friends of “Friends of Ours.”

How much allure The Irishman will have for a younger audience is a puzzle. But this movie about the ashes of crime is Scorsese at his sharpest and most feeling. Whatever it cost, and whatever the future holds for Netflix,

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How the USPS, and plenty of luck, birthed Netflix

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MAN PULLS into a parking lot in Scotts Valley, north of Santa Cruz, to pick up another man for the carpool commute over Highway 17 to their tech jobs in Silicon Valley. The driver hands the passenger a square envelope, inside of which is a CD of Patsy Cline’s greatest hits.

“It came,” says the first guy. “Thank God,” mutters the second.

From that otherwise banal moment on an otherwise ordinary day in 1997 came a revolution that has turned the movie and television industries upside down.

That was the day Netflix became possible.

The first man was Reed Hastings and the second was Marc Randolph, who together created the company that has not only changed how millions around the world watch movies and TV, but also is today challenging the hegemony of Hollywood in how entertainment is produced.

But back then, they were just a couple of schemers, trying to figure out a way to take advantage of this new tool called the internet. Their story is told in Randolph’s new book That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea (Little, Brown).

The two men had already been kicking around the idea of an online video rental business. But the format of the times, the VHS tape, was too big and too heavy to be cost-effective for mail order. They had, in fact, already scrapped the idea before catching wind of a buzzy new format: the digital versatile disc.

They didn’t have a DVD—nobody outside of Japan did at that point.

But they knew it would be identical to a compact disc. So they bought a copy of Patsy Cline, sealed it in a

greeting card envelope and mailed it to Hastings’ house to see how the US Postal Service would treat it.

By that time, Randolph already had 20 years’ worth of direct marketing experience. In his time, he’d sent out millions of pieces of mail.

“I had been to the San Jose central post office,” he says in an interview in Scotts Valley, right across the street from the site of Netflix’s first office.

“I’d seen those machines shoot those letters through at 16 gazillion miles an hour and bend them around corners, and all that.”

He was certain that Patsy Cline— whose biggest hit was “I Fall to Pieces”—would arrive in pieces.

Instead, it made it through intact— for 32 cents, the price of a stamp.

It was not the classic a-ha moment.

It wasn’t like BoJack Horseman appeared to them on Highway 17 and laid out the whole glorious future ahead of them, said Randolph. “It was more akin to finding the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle under the couch.

We had this puzzle that we couldn’t complete, so we walked away from it.

Then we found the piece that finished it. If the book is about anything, it’s not an epiphany story, nor is it some brilliant visionary CEO story either. It was just luck. Lots of luck.”

Randolph, 61, was the original CEO of Netflix, but he left the company in 2002, and his new book is an often funny, sometimes harrowing romp through those early years of getting established in Scotts Valley. If the idea to send DVDs through the mail were the company’s only innovation, it probably would have quickly sank in the swamp of internet get-rich schemes, particularly given the absolute dominance of Blockbuster and its competitors in establishing consumer home viewing habits.

The innovations had to keep coming, and Randolph and Hastings

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were up to the job. In the early days, when the DVD began to eclipse VHS, Randolph recalls standing in the middle of the company’s San Jose warehouse, looking at more than 100,000 DVDs. “‘Why are we storing these here?’” he remembers thinking. “I wonder if there’s a way to store them at customer’s houses instead. Then Reed said, ‘Let’s let them keep the DVDs as long as they want. When they’re done with one, we’ll send them another one.’”

That was quickly followed by two other innovations, which, when taken together, spelled doom for the Blockbuster era: charging customers a flat monthly subscription fee rather than making them pay for each movie, and creating the famous Netflix queue in which customers could create a priority list of what they wanted to see and have it automatically delivered.

Netflix’s shipping practices were a big part of its hegemony in the market. The company calculated that strategically placing about 60 mailing hubs around the country could ensure next-day delivery for 95 percent of the US mainland (and the message sent out to customers that their next choice was on its way prefigured the dopamine hits that later became a central part of the social media revolution).

Early on, before Patsy Cline, Randolph and Hastings had developed a ritual. As the two took turns driving over 17, Randolph would pitch Hastings an idea. And Hastings would, more often than not, deliver the verdict from which Randolph got his book title: That’ll never work.

Randolph’s pre-Netflix ideas were, in hindsight, not exactly brilliant: homedelivery shampoo, personalized dog food, custom-built baseball bats and surfboards. The Netflix idea developed in stages, after hours of research and discussion, and through a series of timely actions and lucky breaks. The Patsy Cline moment was a turning point, but, said Randolph, there was no light bulb, no apple falling on Newton’s head, no epiphany.

“Distrust epiphanies,” he writes in That Will Never Work. “Epiphanies are rare. When they appear in origin stories, they’re often oversimplified or just plain false.”

Before he met Reed Hastings, Randolph was a marketing veteran.

He was a co-founder of MacUser magazine and started two of the first mail-order catalogues for computer products in the pre-internet days.

He worked for years at Borland International, based in Scotts Valley. Eventually, he helped found a start-up that was bought by a software development company run

by Hastings, who decided to keep Randolph on after the merger.

Randolph’s tale takes on many of the roller coaster elements of startup culture, from finding funding to recruiting talent to building an inventory to deciding on a name.

Among the names that lost out to Netflix: CinemaCenter, Videopix, SceneOne, E-Flix and NowShowing.

Of the final choice, now a familiar touchstone around the world, Randolph writes, “It wasn’t perfect. It sounded a little porn-y. But it was the best we could do.”

The site launched in April 1998, and the book provides a tick-tock account of the company’s first days and weeks.

Predictably, the server crashed the day of the launch. In the days before the company’s trademark red envelopes clogged mailboxes coast to coast, Netflix needed a marketing break. That came from an unlikely source: President Bill Clinton, who was at the time consumed in scandal.

Randolph decided to offer Clinton’s full grand jury testimony on the Lewinsky scandal on DVD to all customers for 2 cents. That stunt got the media’s attention, and suddenly Netflix was news.

By the next year, Hastings replaced Randolph in the CEO’s chair, Randolph took on the role of company president and Netflix moved north up Highway 17— relocating from Scotts Valley to Los Gatos, largely, Randolph says, to attract top talent.

—Wallace Baine

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FAMILY AFFAIR Members of the Lohr clan, who together run the San Jose-based J. Lohr Vineyards & Winery.

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IT WASN’T SO long ago that the closest one could hope to find a quality local wine was north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Over the course of a generation, that has changed. The Santa Clara Valley, once home to just a handful of jug wine makers, has come into its own as a reliable producer of top shelf varietals. Jerry Lohr and his family may deserve some credit for the region’s transformation.

Lohr—who recently celebrated 45 years as the head of his familyowned J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines—was one of the first modern vintners to explore the possibilities of California’s Central Coast. He planted his first 280 acres in 1972 and 1973 in Monterey County, and opened his San Jose winery in 1974 on Lenzen Avenue, just off The Alameda.

Through his dedicated study of terroir, Lohr helped prove the viability of the Arroyo Seco appellation and likely helped inspire boutique winemakers in southern Santa Clara County.

Lohr’s son, Steve, the CEO and co-owner of J. Lohr, is reluctant to take too much credit, however. ““I think we played a part,” he says, but is quick to point to the work of the Wente family in the Livermore Valley and the Gugliemos in Morgan Hill, noting that each played a very significant role in developing winegrowing regions south of Napa.

Of late, the winery’s whites have shown particular promise, improving with each vintage. The 2018 Riverstone Arroyo Seco chardonnay ($14), sings of its chilly provenance with sage, honey and coriander.

Two wines from the F&G Vineyard in Arroyo Seco, a cool and windy site known for its cobblestones, really spotlight Lohr’s white wine prowess. The 2018 sauvignon blanc ($25) is the perfect marriage of passionfruit, grapefruit, Meyer lemon and kiwi, with a subtle touch of fennel from acacia barrels, a key ingredient in their sauvignon blancs.

The 2018 F&G pinot blanc ($35) is just lovely, carrying ripe apple, pear and melon on a dreamy creamy palate.

Fans of megabig cabernet sauvignon will gravitate to the new “Pure Paso” blend ($27). Made by head red winemaker Brenden Wood, it’s endowed with blackfruited ripeness from Paso cabernet, then supersized by the addition of petite sirah—the velvet underground that gives so many blends plushness, depth and a finish of chocolate fudge. —Laura Ness & Nick Veronin

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PILLOW POW The kung-pao chicken bao bun at Bao Chinese Eats in Willow Glen.

Bao Down Willow Glen eatery aims to take a rising Chinese street food mainstream

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HE CHINESE WORD “bao” is actually an abbreviation of “baozi”—which, when translated to English, means “gift” or “treasure.” It’s an apt moniker. The white bready exterior of these portable, steamed parcels betrays little of their insides, which may host any number of savory treasures, from pork, ground chicken and hard-boiled eggs to sweeter fillings, such as chocolate with hazelnuts.

Adventurous diners will be familiar

with the many forms baos have taken throughout Asian cuisine, as this Chinese dish has inspired the Vietnamese bánh bao; the Filipino siopao; and the Japanese nikuman. The most popular iteration of bao is likely the Chinese soup dumpling, xiaolongbao.

But XLBs have a new competitor: bao buns. This Chinese favorite has been gaining traction in the US recently.

In Taiwan, the self-contained and compact bao buns are a popular street food. Here in America, they are typically served as appetizers and, for the most part, are filled with some kind of glazed pork belly.

Of late, a number of local food

trucks have helped introduce bao buns to South Bay eaters. But one restaurant, Bao Chinese Eats (BCE), is looking to take the trend fully mainstream with a storefront at the old Garden Theater in downtown Willow Glen.

BCE’s menu is one of the most modest I’ve seen in some time.

The restaurant offers four different bao selections and another three Chinese fusion items. There are a few vegan- and vegetarian-friendly items, but on the day I visited they were out of those.

Customers may purchase individual baos ($6 each) or a combo box ($13), which includes two baos of one’s choosing, shrimp dumplings and a slaw. We wanted to try it all, so we got the bao box with a tiger’s belly (pork belly), beef bao and an additional kung-pao chicken bao. On the fusion side of the menu, we opted for the Chinese pork burger ($7) and the pizza-like fresh bird ($8.50).

First up, the fusion items. We were especially excited for the pork burger, which featured a crispy housemade bao bun, stuffed to

the gills with chopped pork belly, cilantro and not much else. The flavor was unfortunately quite bland. The meat was not adequately sauced and the bun itself made the entire dish dry and boring.

Next was the fresh bird, which really should be called the “odd bird.” Combining deli turkey, sweet mustard, arugula and mozzarella on top of a Chinese green onion pancake, it doesn’t sound like it should work on paper. However, it was fantastic. The green onion pancake was crispy, not too oily and made for a sturdy base; the wellbalanced combo of salty turkey, sweet mustard and peppery arugula made my taste buds dance.

Then came the three baos. The tiger’s belly caught my eye immediately, as the giant slab of pork belly stuck out a good half-inch over both edges of the bao. The tender glazed meat melted in my mouth. Combined with the pillowsoft bao bun and house honey kimchi, it made for one of the more interesting bites I’d taken in a long time. The richness of the pork belly began to overwhelm me about halfway through, though. Be warned.

From the pork, I moved to the kung-pao chicken, which was almost neon red in appearance. Topped with house-pickled onions and peanuts, this bao made for one of the tastier items we sampled. The sweet and sour tang of the sauce was delicious, but the bao could’ve used something fresh to break-up all the strong onion, vinegar and sweet flavors bouncing around my mouth.

I tried the beef bao last. Though it was the least impressive-looking of the bunch, it turned out to have the biggest flavor of the three.

Prepared in a Korean bulgogistyle with sweet soy sauce, the beef was almost as tender as the aforementioned pork belly. It was also topped with the house honey kimchi and fresh cucumbers, which provided the freshness I was looking for in the chicken bao. It was the tastiest bite of the afternoon, but could’ve used a little heat.

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Producer and record label auteur Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, is returning to San Jose for his second homecoming appearance this year. The founder of the taste-making Stones Throw Records, an LA-based indie label that was once home to alternative hip-hop OGs like MF Doom, J Dilla and Madlib, headlined the Jazz Beyond stage at the 2019 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. As Peanut Butter Wolf has grown his label, his curatorial tastes have only broadened. He’ll be discussing his musical journey during this free talk celebrating hip-hop history month. (MP)

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The Dutch house music duo of Willem van Hanegem and Ward van der Harst, blend uplifting and melodic elements of trance music with the raw intensity of electro and progressive house.

Their genre-blurring sound has carried them to the top of the international house music scene.

From early hits such as the synth-driven “Moscow” to newer bangers, like “God Is A Girl” and “Rave Culture,” their work has been praised and promoted by the likes of Hardwell, Armin Van Buuren, Tiësto and David Guetta.

In 2017, the duo returned to their original trance style under their new project, NWYR. This year, W&W took the No. 18 spot on DJ Mag’s “Top 100 DJs” list. (KN)

For a group as ostensibly anarchic as Brockhampton sometimes seems, this LA-based “boy band” has demonstrated some serious discipline. Much like Odd Future did in the early 2010s, this sprawling collective of rappers, singers, producers, video editors and marketing strategists created, grew and spread their brand by leveraging the power of social media and releasing music at a breakneck pace. It all paid off—Brockhampton inked a $15 million deal with RCA in March 2018. Released this summer, their second major label outing Ginger is the group’s fifth album in four years. (MS)

Hip-hop producers Ali Shaheed Muhammed (of A Tribe Called Quest) and Adrian Younge are the dynamic duo behind The Midnight Hour, a retro-futuristic project fusing black music across genres and contexts. Drawing upon jazz, rap, funk and R&B, Muhammed and Younge use a live rhythm section and orchestra to create music that serves as a conduit linking the continuum of African American creative expression into a singular artistic vision. The Midnight Hour evokes an artistic sensibility not too different from the Harlem Renaissance-inspired soundtrack to the Marvel TV series Luke Cage, which they wrote, produced and masterminded. (MP)

Since its inception in the 1970s, NJPW has dominated the professional wrestling scene in Japan, achieving a level of popularity comparable to America’s favorite Spandex-andglitter slugfest, the WWE. NJWP’s accompanying trading card game, Kings of Pro Wrestling, has helped transport the franchise to international audiences. New Japan makes its debut in the South Bay this Saturday with Showdown, the first of a twonight West Coast wrestling event featuring martial art sensations like Kota Ibushi, Jay White and Tetsuo Naito. (MP)

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MISS SAIGON

HELMET Nov 13 at The Catalyst

SNAILS Nov 15 at San Jose Civic

DAMN THE TORPEDOES Nov 21 at Montalvo Carriage House

AGENT ORANGE Nov 22 at The Ritz

KEVIN GATES Nov 24 at The Catalyst

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center

EARTHLESS Dec 3 at The Ritz

POPTOPIA Dec 5 at SAP Center

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT Dec 7 at SAP Center

*sun BILL EVANS TRIBUTE

Sun, 2pm, Free CSMA, Mountain View Born and raised in San Jose, jazz pianist Dahveed Behroozi channels an expressive sense of mystery through his performance.

With a driving rhythmic edge and a provocative use of compelling harmonic colors, Behroozi is one of the most creative voices in the Bay Area jazz community.

Alongside other acclaimed pianists like Brad Mehldau and Sullivan Fortner, he was mentored by jazz piano wizard Fred Hersch during his college days in New York City.

Behroozi leads his trio in a tribute concert to the great Bill Evans, one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz piano. (MP)

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE

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Sun, 8pm, $70+ San Jose Civic

Sunday San Jose Public Library

North of the Rio Grande, even after three decades together, Caifanes is still only well known to a cult-like rock-en-Español audience. But in their native Mexico, the band ranks among alt-rock’s greatest acts, combining ambitious themes of progressive rock and grand U2-style melodies with Latin rhythms and Spanish lyrics. Formed in Mexico City in 1987, the band reached its height back in the early ’90s. But the boys of Caifanes play on. Still fronted by the charismatic vocalist Saul Hernandez, they are back with Heridos, their first new recording in 25 years. (WB)

For the past month, two floors of the MLK library have been home to overflowing ofrendas complete with candles, sugar skulls and marigold pedal pathways, all assembled as part of the library’s “Art of Remembrance” Dia de Muertos exhibit. The altars might come down this weekend, but the experience will live on in a surprising new space: virtual reality. Embracing the changing role of libraries in the 21st century, the SJPL will release an interactive virtual tour of the exhibit this weekend, a first for the library system and a striking example of Dia de Muertos’ position at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. Visit library.sjsu.edu/ exhibits for info. (MH)

Tue-Sun, $38+ Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil—the duo behind Les Misérables—take on Puccini with their musical theater adaptation of Madama Butterfly. Set to the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Miss Saigon unfolds to the staccato sound of helicopters and the brutalities of armed conflict. Will the American soldier do right by the woman he meets or will their wartime love affair end in tragedy?

Odds are the whole thing will end in tears. This Broadway San Jose production, featuring well-known numbers like, “The Heat is On in Saigon” and “The Movie in My Mind,” runs through Nov. 17. (JE)

Dec 11-12 at San Jose Civic

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 21 at The Ritz

WINDHAM HILL’S WINTER SOLSTICE Dec 21 at Montalvo Carriage House

DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS Dec 23 at San Jose Civic

KRONOS QUARTET Jan 15 at Bing Concert Hall

THE PIANO GUYS Jan 24 at San Jose Civic

STRATA Jan 25 at The Ritz

RHIANNON GIDDENS Feb 7 at Bing Concert Hall

FLOR DE TOLOACHE Mar 1 at The Ritz For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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NINER NOTES Jerry Rice loved researching the evolution of football’s passing game for his second book on NFL history.

Well Received Legendary 49er Jerry Rice co-authors book on 100 years of NFL history

BY JACOB PIERCE

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S A HALL of Fame inductee, three-time Super Bowl-winner and a regular on GOAT short lists, its safe to say Jerry Rice has a different perspective on the game of football than the average sportswriter.

In 2015, Rice released his first historical book, co-written with author Randy O. Williams, a Fremont native. That New York Times bestseller, titled 50 Years, 50 Moments, laid out a chronology of the Super Bowl, which was celebrating its 50th birthday.

Out of those many championship

matches, Rice played in four of them, with his San Francisco 49rs winning three. Rice even took home the big game’s MVP in 1989. So he knows something about the Super Bowl.

Williams and Rice’s new book, America's Game: The NFL at 100, covers a century’s worth of history of the league, and Rice played one fifth of those years. But Williams never thought of the book in quite that way, nor did Rice himself.

“I approached it as a fan of the game,” Rice tells me, via email, looking back on the project.

Rice, who collaborated with Williams, going over all their material

over the phone, loved diving into the research. The legendary wide receiver read up on the evolution of the passing offense, as well as the careers of game-changing greats like Don Hutson, a Green Bay Packers split apparently end known as the “Alabama Antelope.” The process additionally served to strengthen Rice’s passion for NFL rivalries.

Of his 20 seasons, Rice spent 19 of them playing in the Bay Area, most prominently with the Niners, and later in Oakland, where he spent more than three years as a Raider. In his prime during the 1980s and ’90s, the Niners’ dynasty repeatedly clashed with that of the Dallas Cowboys, creating a rivalry for the ages, with on-field battles that Rice relished. He says his team played some of their best games against the Cowboys. “I loved the challenge,” he says.

Williams says Rice’s viewpoint was invaluable to the books, as both include some first-person narratives woven in.

“But even more so, it’s knowing what the players went through,

because he lived it. That’s the greatest thing that Jerry brought to the project was knowing what to ask and what insights to look for,” says Williams, a Fremont native, who grew up as a Chargers fan, “right under the nose of the Raiders,” as he puts it. (Williams mentions, by the way, that he forgives his coauthor for beating up on his beloved Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX, wherein 49ers quarterback Steve Young threw six touchdown passes, three of them to Rice.)

For the new book, Williams dug into the backstory of unforgettable moments and big games, like the Ice Bowl game and also David Tyree’s late-game “helmet catch” from quarterback Eli Manning in the New York Giants’ historic Super Bowl XLII against the New England Patriots.

Another one of Williams’ favorites was the 1968 “Heidi Game” between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, a riveting, high-scoring game that got cut off as the network switched to the television movie Heidi, about a girl living in the Swiss Alps. The abrupt change infuriated New York audiences, Williams says, forever changing how games are broadcast. It also almost led some NBC executives losing their jobs.

The sport of football is in a different place than 16 years ago, when Rice retired. And with the NFL looking back on 100 years of history, Williams isn’t worried about the future of a league that’s facing increased scrutiny for its injury risk, as well as for the long-term dangers posed by repeated head trauma.

“The NFL’s taken the lead on all concussions,” Williams says. “I’m confident the public’s gonna decide.

Just look at the TV ratings and the billions that are still demanded for the rights to it. It’s still a huge part of our pop culture. And I’m sure the NFL will figure it out.”

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at the Colligan theater | 1010 river street, santa Cruz WEDS. THURS. FRI. SAT. SUN. Set in the late 1930s, this classic Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15 Nov 16 Nov 17 musical comedy tells the story of 7:30pm 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Preview) (Preview) (Opening) an unapologetically unrefined Nov 21 Nov 23 Nov 22 Nov 24 cockney named Bill Snibson, who 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) learns he is the 14th heir to the Earl of Dec 1 Thanksgiving Hareford when he is summoned to the Nov 30 Nov 29 2pm No Performance 7:00pm 8pm 8pm Show on 12/1 late earl’s estate to assume his destiny as (Talk-Back) a nobleman. But Bill will have none of Dec 7 Dec 5 Dec 8 Dec 6 2pm 7:30pm it, especially since it involves ditching the 2pm 8pm (Talk-Back) (Talk-Back) 8pm equally unrefined love of his life, Sally.

Filled with memorable tunes like “The Lambeth Walk” and “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”, this energetic Tony Award winning musical ran for 3 years on Broadway and 8 years in the West End.

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Book and lyrics by l. arthur rose and Douglas Furber Book revised by Stephen Fry, with contributions by Mike ockrent Music by noel gay

“A delight from start to finish…Ridiculously tuneful” – The Hollywood Reporter

This production is funded, in part, by grants from the following organizations:

JTC voted best theatre company in Santa Cruz!

Me and My Girl is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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SJMA is pleased to offer FREE individual admission for youth, college students, and teachers with valid ID. Images: Glenn Kaino, Bridge, 2014. Installation view of With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2018. Photo by Mike Jensen. Woody De Othello, Defeated, depleted, 2018. Ceramic, underglaze, and glaze; 38 × 22 × 19 inches; San José Museum of Art. Gift of Tad Freese and the Lipman Family Foundation; 2018.13.

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DANNY MAN After drying out, Ewan McGregor’s Danny confronts his violent past in ‘Doctor Sleep.’

Inner Demons ‘Doctor Sleep,’ sequel to ‘The Shining,’ proves the past is hard to escape

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE BEST PARTS of Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining (1980), do without Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King’s senses of gigantism. It’s not a haunted house movie trying to end all haunted house movies, even as it reprises shots: toy-sized cars on a snowy lonely road, or Danny, pedaling his Big Wheel down endless hallways covered over a strobing carpet pattern that sets your teeth on edge.

Director Mike Flanagan (of the terrific bad-mirror movie Oculus) sources David Lynch, who scares me

far more than Kubrick ever did. Still, he mixes Lynch’s ominous banality with accidental banality—there are small town scenes filmed in a way that look like Flanagan didn’t have any opinion of a small town. The music is also familiar, even beyond the snippets of Wendy Carlos’ moody Moog of Doom from The Shining, there’s that echoing violin screech they’ve been using since Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The Lynch-ian elements include a haunted hallway in a suburban home, the light so uncertain that you can’t tell what time of day it is from looking out of the window. As in Lost Highway, the hall has man-sized shadows that could swallow a human whole.

We commence with a pack of nonhumans, nigh-immortals. Like the other-world denizens in Twin Peaks, they seem to live on what Lynch calls garmonbozia: the distilled essence of pain and suffering. The killers range in age from elderly (Carel Struycken, the hollow-eyed Giant from Twin Peaks, who looks like an evil Abe Lincoln) to a stabby blonde Lolita called Snakebite Andi (Emily Alyn Lind). They vape up their meals from Thermoses.

“Steam” is what they call it. The best quality is hard to come by, complains Rose the Hat, the queen bee of this traveling coven. Something’s polluting the essences these days—“too much Netflix?” she wonders.

The lovely and malign Rose (Rebecca Ferguson) is kind of a witch, kind of a vampire. Though her age and exact backstory are vague, she might have become whatever she is now about the time Guns and Roses’ Appetite for Destruction came out. The undead are always a little unfashionable in their dress.

King’s gift is rooting horror in everyday evil: the friendly stranger who beguiles a child and vanishes

them forever, the temptation to destruction being as simple as that glass of whiskey you must not drink.

The boy casualty of the Overlook Hotel, Danny (Ewan McGregor, at his best) grew up to be a mean alcoholic, just like his late dad, Jack. Danny floats into a small town in New Hampshire and is bailed out by a good-guy municipal worker (Cliff Curtis) who gets Danny to go to meetings.

Cut to eight years later; the chip is in Danny’s hand, not on his shoulder.

He’s landed a job as an orderly at a hospice, where his empathy is put to good use. (These scenes about happy death are a bit flabby: the optimism is dismaying, starch King puts in as filler.)

Meanwhile, there’s Abra (Kyleigh Curran), who has The Shining in abundance, a beacon bright enough to summon Rose’s family of fiends from all the way across the country. In a state of terror, Abra telepathically witnesses them harvesting a little boy in Iowa—a scene of genuine horror kept in the faces of victim and victimizers, and not in the entrails. Abra has been in communication with Danny for years as a psychic friend. He warns against challenging Rose and her gang.

But being the headstrong, affluent, Harvard-bound girl that she is…

Don’t get me wrong. If today’s kids aren’t smarter than their forebears, we’re all cooked, but in outline, Abra is the paragon child who seems to feature in everything Young Adultish and beyond. The point is that Curran does a great deal with the part. By the end, she’s a heroic teenage sorceress such as hasn’t been seen since the aforementioned Buffy.

What the monsters fear is something called “cycling,” essentially dying a thousand deaths at once. As it ends, this movie starts to cycle, too—it’s a reunion of the old beasts from the Overlook. The girl twins (hi, Diane Arbus!), the blood floodgate (Rose sees this and makes a face that says, “Oh, how quaint.”)...

Flanagan hardly needed to revisit this familiar house of horrors when the story he’s telling was already a highly satisfactory horror movie: a bonbon for those of us who haunt theaters and suck up other people’s suffering.

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He Fought The Law

IN JANUARY 2018, the New York Times reported that the president, seeking an Attorney General who’d protect him, shouted “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Trump meant the venomous, unprincipled and ultimately disbarred lawyer Cohn, his mentor in so many things.

Where’s My Roy Cohn? examines Cohn’s duplicitous life in interviews with surviving cousins, legal partners, a former lover, the one and only (thank God) Roger Stone, and gossip columnist Liz Smith. Hold your nose! Those who prefer their villains disfigured will note that Cohn’s own schnoz was marred by botched plastic surgery, making him look like some minor Star Trek: TNG alien.

He was well born, the son of a judge, a nephew of the head of the Lionel toy train fortune. Trains must have been in his blood: As a 20-ish lawyer, Cohn helped railroad Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to the electric chair, for a treason case that deserved an appeal. He parlayed this judicial double-murder into a job investigating Commies with the equally unscrupulous Sen. Joe McCarthy.

Cohn’s passionate friendship with fellow investigator G. David Schine didn’t keep him Where’s My Roy Cohn? from ruining the careers of homosexuals in the government during the so-called “lavender panic” of PG-13; 97 Mins. the early 1950s. When Cohn tried to pull strings to get 3Below Theaters & Schine out of the Army, it became clear that Cohn had Lounge, San Jose something to hide. Years later, we see Cohn and Gore 3belowtheaters.com Vidal on a chat show; Vidal really knew how to spook Cohn by rattling the knob of his closet door, which Cohn kept nailed shut all the way to his death from AIDS. Working with an infamously corrupt senator didn’t end Cohn’s career.

Within 20 years he’d established himself as the unofficial consigliori of the Gambinos and other Mob figures. His motto was, “Don’t settle, don’t apologize, attack.” His client, the young Trump, watched and learned.

Cohn gamed elections: For services rendered, Ronald Reagan got Cohn access to experimental AIDS drugs at NIH, even at a time when Reagan couldn’t bring himself to mention the disease in public.

Prosecutorial as it is, Matt Tyrnauer shows us the weirdly whimsical side of the man: the bedroom Cohn filled up with toy frogs, and footage of Cohn waterskiing on the polluted Hudson in the days when no one sane would go near the water—I guess even river scum must have professional courtesy. There’s not a lot of good to be said about Cohn, except that he’s still dead. Sadly, the American maladies Cohn helped spread still rage unchecked.—Richard von Busack

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BROTHERLY LOVE Radkey performs at the The Ritz’ Front Bar on Tuesday.

Rad Rock Missouri trio Radkey follow up their surprise hit, ‘Delicious Rock Noise’

BY AARON CARNES

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ARLIER THIS YEAR, Missouri rock trio Radkey released the No Strange Cats EP. It’s the group’s most diverse record, with each song sounding like it belongs on its own album—there’s hardcore (“Spiders”), classic rock (“Junes”) and emo-pop (“St. Elwood”).

“Every song is its own big thing, with a lot of sections,” says bassist Isaiah J. Radke III. “That was something new we hadn’t done before. We ended up hitting the studio so we could keep on the road.”

The group has focused on touring the past few years after aggressively pushing their second album, 2016’s Delicious Rock Noise, which was a reissue of their 2015 debut, Dark Black Makeup. The release of Dark

Black Makeup was supposed to follow up two successful EPs and help them jump to the next level, but their label didn’t do much for them.

“They didn’t care,” Radke says.

“We had to spend a good amount of time on the re-release just so it wasn’t wasted. It cost a lot to make.

We can’t just put it out and not have it do anything.”

Their new label, Another Century Records, did care, and helped the group push it hard. They got songs on the radio, and the album charted on Billboard rock charts for 20 weeks, peaking at No. 23.

You can understand why they wanted to make sure it had a chance to find an audience. They went into the release of their first LP already a buzz band. The group of brothers, who grew up listening to their dad’s vast rock album collection—he now manages them—were inspired

by the film School Of Rock. It took a while, but eventually that seed manifested into the rock trio they are now. At their first show in 2011, they opened for Fishbone. Shortly after, their explosive set at SXSW piqued record label interest, but they ended up self-releasing their first two EPs on their own Little Man Records.

It was a filmed studio performance of mid-tempo acid rock song “Cat and Mouse” that caught the attention of a larger audience online.

“That really helped us get far, because people could get a visual and a sound and not be confused about what was going on,” Radke says.

The group often gets mistaken for a punk band, and it does have some of those elements. But they are very clear that they are a rock band. They want to avoid being pigeonholed, and to maintain the freedom to go in as many directions as possible.

“We don’t want to just be one thing. We want to appeal to a lot of different kinds of people,” Radke says. “We just say that we’re a rock band that does pretty much whatever we want. All it really has to do is rock. It could be anything as long as it’s got that element.”

The group is getting ready to release their long-awaited fulllength follow-up to Delicious Rock Noise. Everything is recorded; they’re just shopping around for a label. This won’t be the hodgepodge collection of songs found on No Strange Cats. The vision is to create a very cohesive rock album that has a clear flow and makes you want to listen to it front to back.

“We were going for one of those old, really long rock records. We were going for something crazy cohesive,” Radke says. “We wanted to give people the feeling that once you put this record on, you go on this ride. It’s designed for that kind of experience.”

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NOV 6–14 | “THERE ARE STRANGE THINGS DONE IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN” There is something so evocative about an opening line that immediately lures you in.

Robert Service’s poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” does exactly that. I was initially drawn to the poem early on because of the surname in the title, but it has stuck with me as a solid narrative poem. What line do you use to draw people in?

Lean into the weekend just right with a poetry reading by Tyehimba Jess and Harmony Holiday. These two vibrant and highly lauded writers of hard truth and deliberate honesty will read from their new collections. Hosted by Tshaka Campbell at Forager this Thursday at 7pm.

On Saturday, be sure to go out, buy a small cake or pie then sing happy birthday to the city of San Jose. Then get off the bus and do it again. All day, South Bae! These events and more below and beyond. —MMM = MUST SEE

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WED 11/6 EXHIBIT | TEXTILE SHOW 11am. SJ Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 S First St, San Jose

CEDAR ROOM

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: AJ Lee & Blue Summit. Tue, 11/12, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Wed, 11/13, 6pm: Blue House. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm–5:30pm & 9pm–10pm.

Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands.

Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

FILM SCREENING | THE POLLINATORS

OPEN MIC WITH UKULELE JAMS

7pm. Doors 6:30pm. 21+ $7.

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

5pm. Jtown Pizza Co. 625 N Sixth St, San Jose

6pm. With The Honeybee Conservancy. 700 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES) 7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ | ANTON SCHWARTZ SEXTET POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Theme Jam Night. Fri, 6pm: John Clifton Blues Band. Sat, 1pm: Band Showcase Live ft.

Das Rock. Sat, 6pm: AC Myles.

Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous.

Sun, 3pm: Bob Welsh & The BFDs (Big Fun Dudes). Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

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Redshift, KOOK - The Front Bar. Thu, 9pm: Club Gen X-’80s - New Wave, Post Punk, Darkwave. Fri, 9pm: Bondage Ball San Jose. Sat, 9pm: ’90s Nite. 400 S First St, San Jose

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

8:30pm. Quarter Note Bar & Grill, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

OPEN MIC COMEDY SHOW

9pm. Hosted by Pete Munoz.

Rocco's Blue Max, 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

KARAOKE WITH JADE

9:30pm. Dive Bar, 78 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND

9:30pm. Rosie McCann's, 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose

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

THE RITZ Wed, 8:30pm: Salem's Bend,

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ

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8pm. Various times through Sat. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

8pm. Sports Page B&G, 1431 Plymouth St, Mountain View

THU 11/7 SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

STAGE | TRESPASS THEATRE: CHINGONA MADRE Y PADRE TAN PADRE

7pm. Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, 938 The Alameda, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

DJ | ROEVICIOUS X JACKSON WAITES / FIRST EAR AT THE CHANGING SAME

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

9pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

9pm. Cardiff Lounge, 260 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

MUSIC OPEN MIC

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

7:30pm. Hosted by Nick Peters. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St, Redwood City

JAZZ | ART LANDE AND OREGONIA W/ SPECIAL GUEST PAUL MCANDLESS 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

7:30pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

8pm: Ballroom dance lesson.

9pm: Dance party. 11:30pm: Karaoke. Starlite Ballroom, 5178 Moorpark Ave. Ste 60, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

7:30pm. Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company, 101 W Main St

DANCE/KARAOKE | FRIDAY NIGHT CHA CHA AT THE STARLITE

Fri, 9pm: The Great Alvon Johnson. Sat, 9pm: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

EASTRIDGE OPEN MIC

8pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

6pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

7pm. Hosted by Tshaka Campbell. Forager, 420 S First St, San Jose

4pm. Through 11/16. Leland High School, 6677 Camden Ave, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

OPEN MIC AT ART BOUTIKI

POETRY | TYEHIMBA JESS & HARMONY HOLIDAY POETRY READING

STAGE | STEEL MAGNOLIAS

7pm. Eastridge Center, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

SJ LIBRARY PRESENTS DJ PEANUT BUTTER WOLF

6pm. Moderated by local music journalist David Ma and activist Demone Carter.

King Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

FRI 11/8

Mon, Thu, Sat, 9:30pm. 2425 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

9:30pm. Old school jams, soul, reggaeton, ’70s, ’80s and pop hits. Bogart's Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: DJ Worldwise & Saurus. Sat, 10pm: DJ Brotha Reese. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

Fri & Sat, 8pm–Close. 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale 9:30pm. Britannia Arms Downtown, 173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

SAT 11/9 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAN JOSÉ!

11am. Peralta Adobe, 175 W St John St, San Jose

OPEN MIC | POETRY LOUNGE

1pm. With featured headliner.

Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

IN CONCERT: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE™

2:30. Also two shows Sun. SJ Center for Performing Arts, 255 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose

POETRY MEETUP WITH THE GARLICKY POETS

3:30pm. Gilroy Library, 350 W Sixth St, Gilroy

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE

5pm. Crema Coffee #3, 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

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InThe re thefollowing Matter of the CAPELLA FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING as: person(s) is (are) doing business TRUST DATEDWeightlifting, JULY 30, 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice Dynamis 1460 Tully Road Suite 609, is hereby given to the95122, creditorsDonny and contingent creditors of DecedentLLC. San Jose, CA, Shankle Weightlifting Manuel J. Capella that persons having claims the Liability This business is all being conducted by against a Limited Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court of the Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting State of California, County of Santa Clara, at 191 N. First Street, business under the fictitious business name orSan Jose, CA 95112, andherein. mail or deliver a copy to David successor names listed Above entity wasCapella, formed in trustee of the Capella Family Revocable Living Trust dated July 30, the state of California. /s/Donald Shankle, Manager.

1997, of which the Decedent was the settlor, at the Sowards Law Firm, #201608910430. was the 2542 S. Bascom Avenue,This Suitestatement 200, Campbell, CAfiled 95008,with within the County of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2019. later of fourClerk (4) months after November 2, 2016 (the date of the first (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019) publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed orFICTITIOUS personally delivered to you.LATE CLAIMS: If you do not #659305 file your BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT claim within the time required by law, you must petition to file a The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: late claim as provided in California Probate Code §19103.FAILURE Largo Concrete, Inc., 2741 Walnut Avenue, First Floor, TO FILE A CLAIM: Failure to file a claim with the court and to serve CA, 92780. business is instances being conducted a Tustin, copy of the claim on theThis trustee will in most invalidate by a Corporation.

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statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clara County on 09/10/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019) NAME STATEMENT #622430 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Union FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT #659331 Avenue Liquors, BUSINESS 3649 Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao The following person(s) business Corporation, 36 Leominster Ct., is San(are) Jose, doing CA, 95139.

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Above entityRegistrant was formed in the state of a Corporation. began California. /s/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This transacting business under the fictitious business statement filed with theherein County Clerk of Santa ClaraRefile Countyin name orwas names listed on 03/31/1994. onfacts 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) from previous filing #596537. Above entity was

formed in the state of California. /s/Ken Long, CEO.

#C1833311. ThisBUSINESS statement was filed with the County FICTITIOUS Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2019. (pub Metro NAME STATEMENT #622360 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, 1692 Tully Road, Suite San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai STATEMENT OF12, ABANDONMENT OFNguyen, USE OF650 Island Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065. This business is conducted by an FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #659570business under individual.

Registrant has not yetNAME begun transacting the fictitious business name or names listed herein.has /s/Dai Nguyen The following person(s) / registrant(s) / have This statement was Clerk of Santa Clara County abandoned thefiled usewith of the theCounty fictitious business name(s): onISDI 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 101 11/09,West 11/16, 11/23/2016) Digital University, Santa Clara Street,

San Jose, CA, 95113, ISDI Talent Incorporated, 130

Wooded View Drive, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. Filed 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,

in the Santa Clara county on 08/17/2017. under file No. 633059. This business was conducted by: A Corporation: Filed on 10/08/2019. /s/Amir Mashkoori, CEO. (pub dates: 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659518 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Los Alamitos, 6130 Silberman Drive, San Jose, CA, 95120, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/15/1995. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on on10/07/2019.

01/28/2014 under number10/16, 587505.

This business was (pubfileMetro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019) conducted by: An individual /s/Minh T. Hoang Date filed with the clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659519

The following person(s) isTO (are) doing business as: NOTICE OF PETITION ADMINISTER Child Development Centers - Williams, 1150 Rajkovich ESTATE MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE Way, SanOF Jose, CA, 95120, Continuing Development Inc.,16PR178443 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, NO. CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK Corporation.

Registrant began all transacting business PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To heirs beneficiaries undercontingent the fictitious business name ormay names listed creditors, creditors, and persons who otherwise onin7/1/2019. formed the beherein interested the will or Above estate, orentity both of:was MARK PASCOEinKELLY. state offorCalifornia. /s/Susan President.

A Petition Probate has been filed by:Dumars, James J. Ramoni, Public #C0731266.

This statement was filed with the County Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of Clerk ofCounty Santa ClaraClara.

County on 10/07/2019.

Metro California, of Santa The Petition for Probate(pub requests 10/30, 11/06/2019) that10/16, James10/23, J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer theFICTITIOUS estate of the decedent.

The petition authority#659114 to BUSINESS NAMErequests STATEMENT administer the estate under the Independent Administration of The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative SMHmany Learning, 155 E. obtaining Campbellcourt Ave., #212, Before Campbell, to take actions without approval.

CA, certain 95008, Stephanie Hanses, 1865 Johnathan taking very important actions, however, the personal Ave., San Jose, CA, Thisto business isinterested being conducted representative will 95125. be required give notice to by anunless Individual. began transacting persons they haveRegistrant waived notice or consented to the business under the fictitious business name orwill names proposed action.)

The independent administration authority oninterested 07/25/2019. facts from belisted grantedherein unless an personRefile files aninobjection to the petition and shows cause why the court should not grant previous filinggood #657071. /s/Stephanie Macey Hanses. authority.

A hearing onwas the petition will be in this Clerk court asof This statement filed with theheld County follows: 28, 2016,onat09/24/2019.

9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 19110/16, SantaNovember Clara County (pub Metro NORTH STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to 10/23,FIRST 10/30, 11/06/2019) the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR OForNAME. before the hearing.

Your appearance mayCHANGE be in person by your CASEIFNO. attorney.

YOU19CV356368 ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, must file your claim with thePetition court and of: mailVicky a copy TO ALLyou INTERESTED PERSONS: to the personal representative appointed by thenames court within the Jann Besson for a decree changing as follows: later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of Present name: Janet Myra Besson. Proposed name: letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section Jann Besson. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date interested in thisdelivery matterto appear before thissection court at of mailing or personal you of a notice under theofhearing indicated to show cause, if any, 9052 the California Probatebelow Code. Other California statutes petition change of name should andwhy legalthe authority mayfor affect your rights as a creditor.

Younot maybe granted.

Any person objecting to the name change want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. described above must file a written objection that YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person includes theestate, reasons for file thewith objection least two interested in the you may the courtat a Request before the matter is scheduled to beand heard forcourt Specialdays Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and must appear hearing why appraisal of estate assetsatorthe of any petitionto or show accountcause as provided the petition should notA be granted.

If noNotice written in Probate Code section 1250.

Request for Special form objection isthe timely the court may grantMARK the is available from court filed, clerk. Attorney for petitioner: A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julianam, Street, SuiteProbate.

300, San Jose, December 17, 2019 at 8:45 room: filedCA, on:Telephone: October 9,408-758-4200 2019 (pub (Pub dates: 10/23, 10/30, 95110, CC, 10/16, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659718 The following person(s)#622566 is (are) doing business as: 1.

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2. Talk as: About It!,Lam, 3. Talk ThePrivate followingPractice person(s)Launchpad, is (are) doing business Van Hoa It!#7087, Games, Fill Now, Being 979About Story Rd., San4.

Jose, Ca,Your 95122,Practice Nuh Thuan Lam, 5.

Quoc Your Best608 Self, 2450Dr.,Samaritan San Jose, CA, Anh Nguyen, Giraudo San Jose, CA,Drive, 95111. This business 95124, I by AmanLVC, Inc.couple.Registrant This businesshasisnot being conducted is conducted married yet begun by a Corporation.

Registrant transacting business under the fictitiousbegan businesstransacting name or names business under the fictitious business name/s/Nhu or listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. names hereinwas onfiled 01/172019.

RefileClerk in facts from Thuan Lam listed This statement with the County of Santa previous filing #648218.

Above entity was formed Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)in the state of California. /s/Lindsay Smith, President. #C3983172. This statement was filed with the County FICTITIOUS Clerk of SantaBUSINESS Clara County on 10/15/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

NAME STATEMENT #622752

TheFICTITIOUS following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659663 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

Leonor’s S. transacting 8th Street,business San Jose, CA, Registrant hasTours, not yet1175 begun under the95112, Leonor Montano. business is being conducted fictitious business nameThis or names listed herein. /s/Michael R. anstatement Individual.

HillbyThis was Registrant filed with thebegan County transacting Clerk of Santa Clara business under the business name or names County on 10/24/2016. (pubfictitious Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

listed herein on 10/11/2019. /s/Leonor Montano. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 10/30, 11/06/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658874

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. BSI APPSEC Inc., 2. BSI CSIR U.S Inc., 3. BSI Cybersecurity & Information Resilience U.S Inc., 4. APPSEC Consulting Inc.- A BSI Professional Service Company. 6110 Hellyer Ave., San Jose, CA, 95138, APPSEC Consulting, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Brain Bertacini, President. #C2702897. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/30/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MJPA Consulting, 1666 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Mayra Pelagio. 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/Mayra Pelagio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV356472 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Cecille Paran for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Cecille Paran. Proposed name: Cecille Paran Abiog. 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: March 3, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 11, 2019 (pub dates: 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659476

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Burnt Toast Food Blog, 10631 Tuggle Place, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Lee Ann Kolker. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/27/2019. /s/Lee Ann Kolker. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658965 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Live In The Theme, 1705 Renaissance Ct., San Martin, CA, 95046, GNA Lynn Jarka. 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/Gina Lynn Jarka. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659674 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Make Room To Breathe, 2264 Bohannon Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Janine Marlise Boucher Bui. 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/Janine Marlise Boucher Bui. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659532 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gentle Wave Bodywork, 1848 Saratoga Avenue Bldg 5A, Saratoga, CA, 95070, Sonja U Morgner, 523 Frederick St Unit B, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/24/2019. /s/Sonja U Morgner. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/07/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659467 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Confident Bookkeeper, 422 Hershner Drive, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Mimi South. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2019. /s/Mimi South.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV354300 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Sifa Tuiaki Auka for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Sifa Tuiaki Auka. Proposed name: Sifa Auka Latu. 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 21, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 19, 2019 (pub dates: 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659417 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Q Photography, 2205 Beech Cir., San Jose, CA, 95131, Kyu Kim. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019. /s/Kyu Kim. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #659570 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Shalom Christian Academy, 383 Spar Ave., San Jose, CA, 95117, Dong Chin, 1852 Cavalier Ct., San Jose, CA, 95124. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 06/01/2018. under file No. 643006. This business was conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 10/15/2019. /s/Dong Chin. (pub dates: 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659740 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Invisiblex LLC, 1853 Bird Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, .

This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/01/2009. Refile in facts from previous file #594423 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Brain Asselin, CEO. #201620010327. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/16/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659667 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bossy Broads Bits & Bobs, 2151 Oakland Rd., SPC 524, San Jose, CA, 95131, Jennifer Pabst. 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 Pabst. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659808 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Babas Wraps, 15559 Union Ave Suite 102, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Saeed Etemadi, Fariba Kamali, 14530 Homerirte Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is being conducted by a Joint Venture. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/17/2019. /s/Saed Etemadi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF GEORGE ABERTH CASE NO. 19PR186261 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: George Aberth.A Petition for Probate has been filed by Susan Aberth and Diane Hazelwood in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests that Susan Aberth and Diane Hazelwood be appointed as personal representatives to co-administer the estate of the decedent pursuant to California Probate Code 8461.The Petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The Petition requests authority to co-administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (The authority will allow the personal representatives to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representatives 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 the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on December 20, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. 13 located at 191 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113.If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representatives appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representatives, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for Petitioner: Dean Lloyd 425 Sherman Avenue Suite 330, Palo Alto Ca 94306 Phone: 650-328-1664(Pub Dates: 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659812 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DJS Painting, 1472 Revere Ave., San Jose, CA, 95118, Donald Stove Inc. 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 in facts from previous filing #443794. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Donald Stover, President. #C2573519. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659683 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Try Bay Area, 2. Most Powerful Self, 3. One Curious Kat, LLC, 1002 Marcelli Circle, Los Altos, CA, 94022.

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. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Katherine Kuan, Member. #201727010058. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659832

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Makai Sailing, 1514 Clay Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94024, Kai Christian Petzelt, Isabell Petzelt. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Kai Petzelt.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/23, 10/30, 11/06, 11/13/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gems of Clarity, 1407 Lewiston Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Magne Stangenes, 124 Jardin Drive, Los Altos, CA, 94022. 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/Magne Stangenes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659850 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Spirit Painting, 1265 E. San Martin Av, San Martin, CA, 95046, Darrel Ray Spjut. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Refile in facts of previous filing #410551. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/18/2019. /s/Darrel Ray Spjut. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659690 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Modern Fine Catering LLC, 121 Melrose Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116. 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. Refile in facts from previous filing 625525 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Eloisa Angeles, Manager. #201927310496.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658863 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Gemini Group Of Palo Alto, LLC, 267 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Unlimited Mojo, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Russell Kahn, President #201804410174.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659981 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lucky Rooter & Plumbing, 3616 Story Rd., San Jose, CA, 95127, . This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/16/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Loi Kim Thai, President. #C4311161.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV356368 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Melak Abay Bekele for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Melak Abay Bekele. Proposed name: Eldana Hannah Bekele. 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: March 17, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: October 25, 2019 (pub dates: 10/30, 11/06, 11/23, 11/30/2019)

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SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DONG IL MOON, AN INDIVIDUAL; RAISER, LLC, A BUSINESS ENTITY; UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., A BUSINESS ENTITY; CARMEN JOSE GARCIA, AN INDIVIDUAL; AND DOES 1 TO 20 INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED

BY PLAINTIFF: MARIA SONIA TOLENTINO (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DAMANDANTE): AN INDIVIDUAL CASE NUMBER: 19CV350520 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the informationbelow.You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and fegat papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copyserved on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear yourcase. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California CourtsOnline Self-He!p Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, askthe court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and propertymay be taken without further warning from the court.There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorneyreferral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locatethese nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees andcosts on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.jAV/501 Lo han demandado. Sf no responde dentro de 30 dlas, Ia corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versi6n.

Lea Ia informaci6n acantinuaci6n.Tiene 30 DiAS DE CALENDAR/0 despues de que le entreguen esta citaci6n y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta par escrito en estacorte y hacer que se entregue una capia a! demandante. Una carta a una 1/amada telef6nica nolo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estaren farmato legal correcto sf desea que procesen su caso en Ia corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.Puede encontrar estos formularios de Ia corte y mas informaci6n en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.govJ, en Iabiblioteca de !eyes de su condado a en Ia corte que le quede mas cerca. Sf no puede pagar Ia cuota de presentaci6n, pida af secretario de Ia corteque le de un formulario de exenci6n de pago de cuotas.

Sino presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y Ia corte lepodra quitar su suefdo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que flame a un abogado inmediatamente. Sino conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un seNicio deremisi6n a abogados. Sf no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener se!Vicios legales gratuitos de unprograma de seNicios legales sin fines de Iuera. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de Iuera en el sitio web de California Legal SeNices,(www.lawhelpcalifornia.orgJ, en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, {wNw. sucorte.ca.govJ o poniendose en contacto con Ia corte o elcolegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, Ia corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costas exentos por imponer un gravamen sabrecualquier recuperacf6n de $10,000 6 mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesi6n de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene quepagar el gravamen de Ia corte antes de que Ia corte pueda desechar el caso.The name and address of the court is: (EI nombre y direcci6n de Ia corte es): Downtown Superior Court191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiffs attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is:(EI nombre, Ia direcci6n y el numero de teletono del abogado del demandante. o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):Harris Personal Injury Lawyers; 55 S. Market Street, Suite 1010, San Jose, CA 95113(408) 5123600DATE: 6/27/2019 1:19 PMS. Alvarez(Pub Dates 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659420 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Masalsa Foods, 2928 Patt Ave., San Jose, CA, 95133, Adam Padilla. 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/Adam Padilla. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #659647 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Amore Home Health, 960 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Amore Health Systems, Inc. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 07/29/2019. under file No. 657188. This business was conducted by: A Corporation: Filed on 10/11/2019. /s/Hana Cuartelon, Owner. (pub dates: 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659650 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Amore Home Health, 960 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Next Level Home Health LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/10/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ryan Fernandez, Managing Member. #201918610180. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/11/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660129 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Swarm, 1579 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Jennifer L Jennings. 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 L Jennings.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/28/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659791 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mers Fund I, 4970 El Camino Real STE 230, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Milestone Financial LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/19/2007. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William R. Stuart, Managing Member. #201713510539. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659792 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mers Fund 4, 4970 El Camino Real STE 230, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Milestone Financial LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/22/2007. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/William R. Stuart, Managing Member. #201713510539. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659 884 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gochi Japanese Fusion Tapas, 19980 Homestead Rd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Gochi Inc. 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 in facts from previous filing #698473 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Masahiko Takei, President. #C3340888. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/21/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #660217 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Marwood Company, 2. Marwood, 333 W. Santa Clara Street, Suite 805, San Jose, CA, 95113, Marwood Assets Management, LLC. 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. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Wei Hu (aka Vincent Woo), Manager. #201332410157. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/31/2019. (pub Metro 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27/2019)

ADVICE GODDESS

By AMY ALKON

AdviceAmy@AOL.com

I haven’t had sex since my last breakup, and I’m all lusty. I really like this guy, but he seems to have some intimacy issues. We went on a coffee date, and the chemistry made things go further than I would have wanted or expected (making out like crazy in the car). My friends keep reminding me to build trust and friendship before sex. But can you really go backward? Like, is it possible to just hang out and chat once things have gotten hot and heavy?—Lustbucket A nice thick pane of bulletproof glass between two people is an underappreciated chastity helper, which is to say, in a perfect world, you’d plan your dates around one of you getting a job in a check-cashing place.

There’s a tendency when you’ve initially gone a little too heavy into the heavy petting to be all, “Oh, well...cat’s out of the bag. Let’s just go straight to the sex dungeon.” However, for women especially, having sex right away can lead to a sort of psychological blinding to their sex partner’s shortcomings.

Women seem more prone to getting attached when they have sex. This is thought to result from surging oxytocin, a hormone associated with emotional bonding between mothers and children, as well as lovers. Oxytocin is released in both men and women through cuddling, kissing and especially through orgasm. However, in men, having sex also sets off a big blast of testosterone.

Testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer on oxytocin, blocking it from getting to its receptor. So just as a woman’s going all melt-o about a guy, if the guy has no pre-sex emotional attachment to her, his neurochemistry is prodding him to say something sweet and romantic like, “Thanks for the ride! Have a great life!”

In other words, the bulletproof glass suggestion isn’t all that outrageous. It’s a form of “precommitment,” a strategy by economist Thomas Schelling that involves preparing in advance to make it difficult for you to break a promise or duck a goal.

Incorporating precommitment could mean only scheduling lunch dates in restaurants and only on days when you have a work meeting right afterward.

Another idea is getting to know each other over the phone more than in person—with the caveat that you only do it in relatively public places where turning FaceTime into PenisTime is likely to lead to, um, jail time.

Astro

I’m a very obsessive person. I went on one date with this guy, and it was immediately apparent that he’s emotionally unavailable and broken. I deleted his number but soon dug it back up. I texted, but he never responded. I know he’s bad news, but I still think about him constantly. It’s especially bad when I’m trying to go to sleep. How do I stop these intrusive thoughts?—Besieged It’s like that spinning teacup ride, with Satan as the carny: “Wanna get off ?

Too bad!”

You’re doing your best to avoid thinking about the guy. Unfortunately, there’s a problem with that. Research by psychologist Daniel Wegner on “the paradoxical effects of thought suppression” suggests our minds have something in common with a defiant 2-year-old, meaning that telling yourself not to think about something gets your mind doing exactly the opposite.

This is just how the mind works. When you tell yourself not to think about something, it’s an immediate fail. The mind sweeps around to monitor how well you’re doing at not thinking about it, which of course involves thinking about whatever you’re not supposed be thinking about.

Helpfully, Wegner and his colleagues found a possible way to stem the flood of intrusive thoughts: distraction.

This requires thinking of something positive and unrelated to the thoughts you’re trying to suppress. Even a red Volkswagen—the example they used in their experiment—could do the job.

What’s more, psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can keep your mind from constantly bouncing back to a thought if you admit that not thinking about it is hard. As I explain in Unf*ckology, “Removing the need to patrol your thoughts ... removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland with a flashlight to see how well you’re doing at it.”

Finally, because the mind cannot think two thoughts at once, it might be helpful at bedtime to tire yourself out reading aloud or following a guided meditation on your phone so you have something to turn your mind toward after you inevitably picture yourself holding the guy down and drowning him in the ocean.

(c)2019, 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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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist James

Hillman said we keep "our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love." They're also quite flammable, he added. They are always on the verge of catching fire, metaphorically speaking.

That's why many people wrap their love-filled images and fantasies in metaphorical asbestos: to prevent them from igniting a blaze in their psyches. In my astrological opinion, you Aries folks always have a mandate to use less asbestos than all the other signs—even none at all. That's even truer than usual right now. Keep your images and fantasies extra close and raw and wild.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet James Merrill was ecstatic when he learned the Greek language.

According to his biographer, he felt he could articulate his needs "with more force and clarity, with greater simplicity and less self-consciousness than he ever could in his own language." He concluded, "Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself." Personally, I think that's an exaggeration. I believe the freedom to be yourself is very, very important. But for you in the coming weeks, Taurus, the freedom to not be yourself could indeed be quite liberating. What might you do to stretch your capacities beyond what you've assumed is true about you? Are you willing to rebel against and transcend your previous self-conceptions?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Musician Brian Eno made a deck of oracular cards called Oblique Strategies.

Each card has a suggestion designed to trigger creative thinking about a project or process you're working on. You Geminis might find it useful to call on Oblique Strategies right now, since you're navigating your way through a phase of adjustment and rearrangement. The card I drew for you is, "Honor thy error as hidden intention." Here's how I interpret it: An apparent lapse or misstep will actually be the result of your deeper mind guiding you to take a fruitful detour.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We devote a lot of

energy to wishing and hoping about the meaningful joys we'd love to bring into our lives. And yet few of us have been trained in the best strategies for manifesting our wishes and hopes. That's the bad news. The good news is that now is a favorable time for you to upgrade your skills at getting what you want. With that in mind, I present you with the simple but potent wisdom of author Maya Angelou: "Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it." To flesh that out, I'll add: Formulate a precise statement describing your heart's yearning, and then work hard to make yourself ready for its fulfillment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the key parts of your

life—the sources and influences that enable you to be your most soulful self? I urge you to nourish them intensely during the next three weeks. Next question: What are the marginally important parts of your life— the activities and proclivities that aren't essential for your long-term success and happiness? I urge you to corral all the energy you give to those marginally important things, and instead pour it into what's most important. Now is a crucial time in the evolution of your relationship with your primal fuels, your indispensable resources, your sustaining foundations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "When she spoke of

beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis," wrote short story author Robert Musil. He was describing a conversation between a man and woman who were on different wavelengths. "When she mentioned love," Musil continued, "he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the rise and fall in the annual birth rate." Many of you Virgos have the flexibility to express yourself well on both of those wavelengths. But in the coming months, I hope you'll emphasize the beauty and love wavelength rather than the fatty tissue and statistical curve wavelength. It'll be an excellent strategy for getting the healing you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger AnaSofia Cardelle was asked, "What is your signature perfume?" She said she hadn't found one. But then she described how she would like to smell: "somewhere between fresh and earthy: cinnamon and honey, a rose garden, saltwater baked in the

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sun." The coming days will be an excellent time to indulge in your own fantasies about the special fragrance you'd like to emanate. Moreover, I bet you'll be energized by pinpointing a host of qualities you would like to serve as cornerstones of your identity, traits that embody and express your uniqueness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies suggest that on

average each of us has a social network of about 250 people, of whom 120 we regard as a closer group of friendly acquaintances. But most of us have no more than 20 folks we trust, and only two or three whom we regard as confidants. I suspect that these numbers will be in flux for you during the next 12 months, Scorpio. I bet you'll make more new friends than usual, and will also expand your inner circle. On the other hand, I expect that some people who are now in your sphere will depart. Net result: stronger alliances and more collaboration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I blame and thank

the Sagittarian part of me when I get brave and brazen enough to follow my strongest emotions where they want to lead me. I also blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I strip off my defense mechanisms and invite the world to regard my vulnerabilities as interesting and beautiful. I furthermore blame and thank the Sagittarian side of me on those occasions when I run three miles down the beach at dawn, hoping to thereby jolt loose the secrets I've been concealing from myself. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to blame and thank the Sagittarian part of you for similar experiences.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Persian polymath

Avicenna (980–1037) wrote 450 books on many topics, including medicine, philosophy, astronomy, geography, mathematics, theology and poetry.

While young, he tried to study the Metaphysics of Aristotle, but had difficulty grasping it. Forty times he read the text, even committing it to memory. But he made little progress toward fathoming it. Years later, he was browsing at an outdoor market and found a brief, cheap book about Metaphysics by an author named al-Farabi. He read it quickly, and for the first time understood Aristotle's great work. He was so delighted he went out to the streets and gave away gifts to poor people. I foresee a comparable milestone for you, Capricorn: Something that has eluded your comprehension will become clear, at least in part due to a lucky accident.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to being a

key figure in Renaissance art, 15th-century Italian painter Filippo Lippi had a colorful life. According to legend, he was once held prisoner by Barbary pirates, but gained his freedom by drawing a riveting portrait of their leader. Inspired by the astrological factors affecting you right now, I'm fantasizing about the possibility of a liberating event arriving in your life.

Maybe you'll call on one of your skills in a dramatic way, thereby enhancing your leeway or generating a breakthrough or unleashing an opportunity. (Please also reread your horoscope from last week.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "Stand high long enough and your lightning will come," writes Piscean novelist William Gibson. He isn't suggesting that we literally stand on top of a treeless hill in a thunderstorm and invite the lightning to shoot down through us.

More realistically, I think he means that we should devotedly cultivate and discipline our highest forms of expression so that when inspiration finds us, we'll be primed to receive and use its full power. That's an excellent oracle for you.

Homework. You don’t have to believe in ideas that make you sad or tormented. Drop them. FreeWillAstrology.com

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