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THIS MODERN WORLD

By TOM TOMORROW

I SAW YOU

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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

Trash Talk You were trotting on the Los Gatos Creek trail near Blackford School at Leigh Avenue on a Sunday morning not too long ago.

I was the lady who was near the creek carrying the large black trash bag when I heard you yell (in a nasty, aggressive tone), “Pick it up!”

Had you taken a moment to see what I was doing, it would have been obvious that I was “picking it up.”

This was how I had spent three to four hours on my day off that morning: picking up trash along the creek edge as well as out of the creek itself. I just wanted to say, the next time you’re trotting down a trail maybe you should bring a few large bags and “pick it up,” too.

comments@metronews.com RE: AS SAN JOSE EXPANDS 5G, CELL PHONE TECH IS CALLED OUT FOR HEALTH SCARES, NEWS, SEPT. 25

An experiment is being rolled out on us without our consent. This is horrible.

I’m excited to finally see the connection of the Los Gatos Creek Trail from Willow Glen to Diridon!

SETH REILLY VIA FACEBOOK RE: AS SAN JOSE EXPANDS 5G, CELL PHONE TECH IS CALLED OUT FOR HEALTH SCARES, NEWS, SEPT. 25

CONCERNED CITIZEN VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE RE: DIRIDON NEIGHBORS FORM COALITION TO SHAPE GOOGLE-SPURRED GROWTH, SAN JOSE INSIDE, SEPT. 25

RE: LOCAL STARTUP WANTS TO UNLOCK A MORE OUTGOING, PERSONABLE YOU, COVER, SEPT. 25

Kathy Sutherland, if you started this, in curious why you didn’t include Gardner? Gardner Neighborhood is literally a quarter-mile from where Google will be. 100 percent of the houses in Gardner are closer to Google than any in North Willow Glen. You have to go through Gardner to get to North Willow Glen. (In other words, you leap-frogged an entire neighborhood.) If you want your coalition to be taken seriously, I suggest you rethink including Gardner, the people who are actually most affected.

I suppose Jaunty's mission is a worthwhile one. But before your article came out, someone from Jaunty joined my Meetup group, but only to hawk their workshops, and that seemed sort of slimy to me and my co-organizer.

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NOELLE GILLIES VIA EMAIL

Nicely written article, though it diverged from reporting about the installation of 5G antennae in San Jose (and the city’s expected revenue from that) and into the fear, uncertainty and doubt that’s injected into the US consciousness by Prez Chump’s overlords in western Asia.

That could have been a different post.

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THE FLY

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A trainee of San Jose City Clerk TONI TABER went on a bit of a redaction spree last week as the understaffed office prepped for the upcoming City Council session.

Hours before the Tuesday afternoon meeting, Fly noticed that portions of the letters from the public were inexplicably censored—including city email addresses, names of businesses and organizations and logos. Yes, even logos.

On letters addressed to the council, the brand insignia of SV@Home, San Jose Downtown Association and Silicon Valley Organization, to name some, were entirely obscured by thick black marks. One of the more outlandish redactions came on a letter from StarCity, the San Franciscobased “dorms for adults” builder, which expressed its support for a tax break that would They make it easier to get Did shovels in the ground for What? an upcoming project.

The unnamed city clerk SEND TIPS TO FLY@ apprentice haphazardly METRONEWS. blacked out what COM appeared to be both the name and address of the project. Ironically, both were listed for all eyes to see in a memo from Economic Development Director KIM WALESH and Housing Director JACKY MORALES-FERRAND. Fly knew enough to decipher most of the obscured details, but reached out to Taber to find out why anyone felt the need to keep such obviously innocuous and obviously public information a secret. “I have a new person,” Taber replied in an email, “and she redacted a little more than we usually do. I’ve talked with her about it.”

DAVID SNYDER, the executive director for free speech non-profit First Amendment Coalition, was unimpressed. “I don’t know of any basis for withholding the name of an organization that has submitted a letter to a public entity,” he remarked when asked about the odd redactions.

“That’s important for the public to understand where objections are coming from or where support was coming from.”

Since Fly flagged the issue, it looks like the clerk’s office has relaxed their grip their digital Sharpie.

SAN JOSE MADE E-commerce giant eBay leveraged its longstanding relationship with San Jose to cut a huge tax break that’s drawn praise from local leaders and criticism from everyone else.

Dealer’s Choice San Jose takes flak from state leaders over tax-sharing pact with eBay

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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HE PAST FEW years in San Jose have been marked by political posturing between business and labor factions over where the line falls between economic development and corporate handout.

When Google announced its interest in redeveloping the western swath of downtown, labor leaders waged an aggressive campaign for community benefits. Mayor Sam Liccardo and his business-aligned colleagues, meanwhile, boasted about how the search-andadvertising giant paid a fair-market price for city land and gleaned nothing in the way of subsidies.

The mayor trumpeted a similar

message in national media when Amazon triggered a $5 billion bidding war among US cities over where to build its planned HQ2.

A tax-and-fee break for downtown high-rise developers came up for a few-year extension earlier this month, igniting a race between labor and business and making the historically bipartisan policy a wedge issue. Ahead of a split vote to extend the tax-andaffordable-housing-fee discount, labor decried it as a giveaway to wealthy builders while business interests defended it as a make-or-break incentive for future growth.

When it came time to sign off on a sales tax-sharing deal with eBay, however, San Jose’s de facto political parties put aside their divisive rhetoric.

In a unanimous vote Sept. 24, the 11-member council gave City Manager Dave Sykes the green light to negotiate a 15-year contract with the online marketplace. Typically, when local governments in the US offer their share of what collectively amounts to $80 billion a year in tax breaks and other incentives, it’s to attract new companies or to convince them to stay. San Jose’s accord with eBay did none of those things.

While the arrangement could rake in $440 million in new taxes for San Jose, it lets eBay off the hook for as much as $150 million with no expectation of new jobs or construction in return.

State Sen. Steven Glazer, who’s been trying to outlaw such covenants, minced no words when asked about the bargain.

“This deal represents the worst kind of corporate welfare,” he told Metro.

Corporate welfare, however, is in the eye of the beholder.

San Jose Economic Development Director Kim Walesh called the city’s eBay pledge “very different in intent and result from” tax-sharing setups in other cities, giving San Jose “an opportunity for the city to receive” previously unanticipated tax revenue. “This situation arose because of a change in

tax law,” she said, “and we believe what we’re doing is appropriate and wise and that we have the authority to do this.”

Pierre Omidyar launched his online trading company out of his San Jose living room in 1995. Originally, eBay served as a platform for auctioning collectibles. Once the company brought Meg Whitman on board, she rebranded the site as a platform for a wide range of markets, forming partnerships with name brands such as GM, Disney and Sun. Getting blockbuster brands to sell on the platform bumped up average sale prices, generating higher transaction fees, which for eBay translated into booming profits.

Omidyar’s brainchild lives in the same general vicinity where it all started. Except now, eBay is one of San Jose’s biggest companies, with a 24-acre campus off of Hamilton Avenue where it employs more than 3,500 people. That’s nearly a third of its global workforce. However, as a so-called “marketplace facilitator” under state law, eBay never had to collect or remit sales and use tax—until this week.

The change stems from a new law, AB 147, penned after the US Supreme Court ruled that states can require businesses of a certain size without a physical presence in its borders to pay and remit sales taxes. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill this past April, just in time for San Jose to revise its 2019-20 fiscal year budget to account for an additional $5 million in tax revenue from e-commerce sales.

That AB 147 would apply to eBay came as a complete surprise, Walesh said. Online retailers began collecting and remitting sales taxes in the spring when the law was passed. “Marketplace facilitators” like eBay, on the other hand—basically platforms where users buy and sell instead of ordering from the platform’s distribution warehouses— had until this month to comply with the new rule. “When they reached out to us, we were curious and very interested to learn from them the significance of this new marketplace facilitator law,” Walesh said, “and all the investments and changes that they needed to make.”

Armed with enormous leverage, eBay struck up negotiations.

Deal or No Deal?

An estimated 10 percent of California

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Home Base

cities have forged the kind of taxbreak compacts that placed San Jose at centerstage this week in a statewide conversation about corporate subsidies. But Cupertino pioneered these kinds of pacts in 1997 to keep Apple in Silicon Valley by giving the multinational company a 75 percent rebate on sales and use taxes.

The company’s share dropped to 35 percent in 2013. Still, in the 22 years since shaking hands on the stipulation, the city has returned $70 million to Apple—a tally that Cupertino kept under wraps until Bloomberg Tax forced it into the open through the California Public Records Act. Revenue-sharing settlements take advantage of a 1950s state law that divvies up local governments’ share of sales tax revenue based on where a transaction took place. California’s Constitution, meanwhile, enables municipalities to offer tax breaks to companies in exchange for relocating to a certain jurisdiction, creating new jobs and building new development.

That midcentury tax code—pretty straightforward at the time it was authored—became a bargaining chip for big retailers in the digital age.

As part of a statewide investigation into revenue-sharing pacts, Bloomberg Tax unearthed tax rebate programs similar to Apple’s in primarily economically depressed jurisdictions throughout the Inland Empire and agricultural heartland. Dinuba, an impoverished Central Valley town, refunded $9.5 million to Best Buy from 2016 to 2018 in exchange for keeping its distribution center local.

The Southern California town of Corona reportedly paid multi-levelmarketing leggings company LuLaRoe $1 million in sales tax refunds from July 2017 to December 2018.

QVC shopped around city to city before cutting a lucrative deal with the city of Ontario, a San Bernardino County suburb that agreed to pay the e-commerce giant 55 percent of its local share of sales tax revenue every year for the next four decades. To uphold its end of the bargain, QVC made Ontario the site of its West Coast distribution center.

San Jose’s eBay compromise is structured the same way—just for different reasons.

“We’ve never done tax-sharing agreements to encourage a company to come here or expand,” Walesh explained. “We don’t do those kinds of

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An inside look at San Jose politics

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incentives.” Rather, she said, San Jose’s concordat was about “aligning and supporting eBay as it makes significant investment and change.”

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FALSE ADVERTISING San Jose council candidate Helen Wang caused a bit of

confusion by touting endorsements she didn’t actually have.

SJ Candidate Misleads on Endorsements BY GRACE HASE An accidental switcheroo of Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s candidate questionnaire led some politicos to believe that Helen Wang—one of a few contenders in San Jose’s District 10 City Council race—lied about several endorsements.

Turns out, the mistake was on the Leadership Group’s part.

The business lobbying association revealed that it had inadvertently swapped Wang’s questionnaire with that of District 2 council candidate— and fellow Republican—Jonathan Fleming. SVLG corrected the mix-up on Tuesday by uploading the right form under the right name on its candidate Q&A landing page.

So that got cleared up. But Wang still apparently misled voters about some of her biggest backers, namely Milpitas Unified School District Trustee Michael Tsai and soon-to-termout D10 Councilman Johnny Khamis.

Up until Monday evening when Wang quietly removed his name, Tsai was listed under the endorsements tab on her campaign website. The

trustee’s name popped up once again in connection with the D10 hopeful, a local businesswoman, when the Leadership Group fixed the questionnaire forms Tuesday morning.

Tsai, a freshman school board member, was listed as one of Wang’s top 10 endorsements online.

But Tsai told this news organization that he hasn’t formally backed anyone in the D10 race, which pits Wang against ex-Brigade CEO Matt Mahan and former Bay Area Women’s March President Jenny Higgins Bradanini.

The flub, Tsai added, is probably just an oversight on Wang’s part. “I think any endorsement discussion should happen before anyone’s name gets put up there,” he said. “I think a lot of times there is confusion going around with campaigns, and rumors start spreading.”

But Wang said she did have that conversation with Tsai. “I put him down, but now he tells me he can’t remember (the endorsement conversation),” she said. “So I’m happy to remove (his) name.”

Wang also used Khamis’ name as a “key endorsement” in an Aug. 1 press release that announced her candidacy.

The Almaden Valley councilman, who has his eyes set on state Sen. Jim Beall’s seat, said that Wang is a longtime friend of his but that he won’t be endorsing anyone vying to succeed him—at least, not in the primary.

Khamis said he believes Wang’s falsely advertised endorsement was a “novice” gaffe that could have stemmed from him accepting an invitation to speak at her campaign kickoff. Khamis also made the rounds at Mahan’s campaign commencement in midSeptember. “I’m sure it’s an innocent mistake,” Khamis said in his friend’s defense. “She’s not a malicious person.”

Wang said that, to her understanding, Khamis originally planned to endorse her, but because she filed her paperwork so late in the game he ultimately decided not to officially back anyone in the race. This is her first run for office, she said, so the whole experience has been more than a little daunting. “I’m not really a politician,” she said.

Though unified on the issue here at home, San Jose leaders put themselves at odds with almost the rest of the state— including the League of California Cities, which represents more than 400 other municipalities and supports Glazer’s SB 531 to ban these revenue sharing agreements going forward.

In a Sept. 12 letter urging Newsom to sign the bill, the league’s Deputy Executive Director Daniel Carrigg said tax-rebate pacts promote “a race to the bottom that ends up harming all cities.”

Glazer echoed Carrigg’s concerns, saying that what’s a win for San Jose is a huge hit to communities that get nothing out of the deal. addedGlazer’s SB 531 awaits Newsom’s blessing to render it law in 2020, as does AB 485, which would allow tax-sharing incentives between cities and companies as long as they’re transparent to the public. The governor has until Oct. 13 to sign off on the bills.

Back in San Jose, by contrast, the local powers that be framed the eBay news as a win-win—with nothing to lose. San Jose, which has long reaped a much lower sales tax per capita than its more affluent neighbors in Palo Alto and Santa Clara and long held the distinction of being one of the most thinly staffed major cities in the US, rejoiced at the chance to generate more revenue for critical public services like police, fire and pothole repairs.

Ashley Settle, a spokeswoman for eBay, lauded the deal as a way to deepen the company’s ties with the city it’s always called home. “This opportunity continues to evolve our relationship, enabling eBay and San Jose to continue supporting one another for the benefit of San Jose’s economy and residents,” she wrote in an email to Metro. “Thousands of eBay employees who work at one of our two San Jose campuses call San Jose their home, and we are deeply invested in our community.”

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BAILEME Los Lupeños de San Jose last month celebrated 50 years of keeping Folkorico dancing alive in the South Bay.

SOUND DECISION Columnist recalls fateful musical gig that led to career change

BY GARY SINGH

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WENTY YEARS AGO, without even realizing it, I sacrificed my live sound career on Ohlone tribal lands, just as the Mexican Heritage Plaza opened to huge fanfare.

In 1999, the gorgeous plaza opened at the corner of Alum Rock and King after years of excruciating meetings, negotiations, arguments, politics and fundraising. Located on indigenous lands going back thousands of years,

the plaza was also on the former site of the historic Safeway where Cesar Chavez organized one of his first labor strikes.

The glorious new plaza included, among other things, a state-ofthe-art theater. The city unloaded mucho dinero to equip the theater with advanced stage rigging and a super-high-tech sound system, but without giving any thought to who would staff the theater aside from the manager, or who would pay to maintain the place, or how any

semblance of events would possibly fill out a calendar of any sort. But that was then. Today the venue remains the best-equipped theater, tech-wise, anywhere in the South Bay. And after some serious challenges over the years, the plaza is now more activated and alive than ever.

Luckily, I was in the right place at the right time to become the first person to fumble through the sound system for the theater’s first major event, when Los Lupeños de San Jose, our amazing Mexican Folklorico company, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1999. At the time, my decade at SJSU was circling the drain and caving to the pressures of emotional maturity, yet I had enough basement-level live sound experience to land the gig. However, with a brandnew 40-channel analog Crest board, multiple speaker configurations, racks of offboard gear, monitor mixes, routings and group assigns to potentially juggle, I was in way over my head with the whole place. I had

absolutely no idea what I was doing.

In fact, I had to call in a friend, a nowworld-famous sound engineer, to help me figure out the system while Los Lupeños loaded in that week. During the gigs, even though we weren’t even using half the board, I still missed a few important cues, but I got about 80 percent of it right.

After a few more events and some necessary self-reflection, I decided I simply wasn’t cut out for this kind of work anymore. I didn’t have the attention span and my ear skills were terrible. I could barely tell 400 Hertz from 700 Hertz (it all just hurts, as they say in the biz), and I wasn’t exactly living in the most healthy manner anyway. As a result, the debut of a fantastic new theater was also the end of my sound career.

This was a good thing, though. One ending denotes another beginning.

I became a writer instead. From the darkest mud blooms the brightest lotus, as Buddhist monks will say.

In that mud is precisely where our own true nature thrives. Twenty years later, I can now write a column telling you about all of this.

What’s more, just last weekend, Los Lupeños celebrated its 50th anniversary in conjunction with the Mexican Heritage Plaza’s 20th anniversary, so it was time for some ritualistic mystical contemplation.

Nowadays the theater is updated with a brand-new digital system, including a more compact Allen & Heath board, plus a glorious D&B Audiotechnik PA system including Ti10L line array mains, 8S and 5S fills, 18S subs and 30D amps, while the old unwieldy Crest board still sits in storage. So before Los Lupeños loaded in for their landmark golden anniversary performances, I showed up and convinced current house soundman Rob Riddle to lug the old Crest board out onto the empty stage, just so I could see it one last time and reconnect with the analog gods of my past. Right there, in the empty theater, with the spirits of Ohlone tribes and Cesar Chavez at my side, I paid silent tribute to the pro audio sacrifices I made 20 years ago. I became flooded with gratitude for the memories.

Speaking of which, everyone should applaud Los Lupeños for five decades of survival in this town. Not many arts nonprofits can make it that long around here. Here’s to another 50 years!

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RIS NEWBY THOUGHT she was done with Lyme disease. The Palo Alto resident had spent years battling the infection and its complications, all while dealing with condescending medical professionals. Some told her she was imagining her symptoms; others recommended she see a shrink.

Ultimately, Newby—who traces her case back to a 2002 tick bite near Martha’s Vineyard—was diagnosed with Lyme. She then devoted more than three years to co-producing a well-received 2014 documentary, Under Our Skin, which shed light on the United States’ largely hidden

Lyme epidemic, the plight of Lyme patients and the intense medicopolitical controversies surrounding nearly every aspect of the disease.

An engineer by trade, Newby was ready to move on. She had accepted a job as a science writer for the Stanford School of Medicine. But then came the fateful video—sent to her home by a filmmaker she knew. It was then that she learned about Willy Burgdorfer, the famed medical entomologist credited with uncovering the cause of Lyme.

Here he was, on camera, insisting that the epidemic was likely directly linked to a secret offensive biological weapons program—a program which he worked on for the US government during the Cold War. Newby tried to peddle the story

to some well-known journalists, but they declined to pursue it for a number of reasons. Newby says she was told it would be too difficult and time-consuming to report, and that might not even pan out. And so, with extreme reluctance, Newby says she decided to pursue the story on her own.

“If somebody didn’t look into this,” she writes in her new book, “the secret would die with Willy. The better angel in me wouldn’t let that happen.”

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons was published in May. While plenty in the medical community have dismissed its claims, Newby’s work has caught the attention of at least one lawmaker, and she hopes the book will lead to

a greater understanding of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including anaplasmosis/ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis (including Rocky Mountain spotted fever), babesiosis and tularemia. Any insights that come from her reporting could result in better diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Lyme and other tick-associated infections currently on the rise in California—a region not commonly associated with such diseases.

SPIRAL OUT Californians account for only a minute slice of the roughly 1,000 Americans estimated to contract Lyme on average every day (300,000 to 400,000 will get the disease this year).

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FALLOUT Weaponized ticks, media silence and the lyme

BY CHUCK CARROLL

Official disease surveillance statistics—confirmed and probable cases reported to the CDC—tell us that in a typical year, about 110 Californians contract Lyme. But experts on all sides agree that Lyme is, like most infectious diseases, vastly underreported, perhaps by a factor of 10 or more.

Lyme symptoms sometimes don’t show up for months after an initial exposure. When they do, the cause is commonly not recognized by local doctors—both because the disease remains relatively rare in this region and because it can be notoriously difficult to diagnose, even for experts.

Meanwhile, infected individuals face debilitating physical and emotional pain. Once the disease is accurately

diagnosed, it still often takes years to effectively treat.

Although prominent medical academics have dismissed Newby’s assertion that ticks were deliberately weaponized and wound up getting into the wild as patently absurd, her book set off alarm bells on Capitol Hill. Congress is considering ordering the Pentagon to conduct an investigation into what Newby calls “an American Chernobyl.”

While to some it sounds like a plotline from The X-Files, Newby trusts her primary source, Burgdorfer. One of the world’s most prominent experts on Lyme until his death in 2014, Burgdorfer claimed he was part of a secret program that sought to turn ticks

into bioweapons. He detailed his involvement in the program to Newby only months before he died.

In 1982, Burgdorfer was credited with identifying the bacterial cause of Lyme disease, about six years after the malady burst into public consciousness. In 1976, The New York Times ran a front page report on a mysterious outbreak of unusual arthritic conditions among children and a few adults in and around Lyme, Connecticut. Health officials eventually confirmed their own suspicions that the condition was infectious and spread by deer ticks.

The town of Lyme sits 20 miles north of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center of New York—home to the secretive Lab 257, where the

US Army Chemical Corps conducted biological weapons research in the early 1950s.

Bitten asserts that the United States military deliberately engineered ticks to carry debilitating but non-lethal diseases. Newby’s book—along with other published works on the subject— led one US congressman, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, to take legislative action. Over the summer, Smith called upon the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into any government efforts to weaponize ticks between 1950 and 1975.

Over the course of four interviews with Burgdorfer, Newby says he confessed to her (and separately, to independent filmmaker Tim Grey) that he spent two decades working

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GUMSHOE Stanford science writer and former Lyme sufferer Kris Newby says there is much to be uncovered about the origins and treatment of the disease. for the US government to weaponize ticks and other insects in an apparent attempt to keep America on a level playing field with the Soviets in the arena of biological warfare.

Despite his revelations to Newby and Grey, who tipped her off to his interview, Newby says she never felt the scientist was completely forthcoming. And her reporting bore that out when a second tipster gave her access to a collection of Bergdorfer’s lab notes on early Lyme patients’ blood tests. These notes contain findings that he never included in official reports to the US government or in the scientific literature he published—namely that the blood samples from the

earliest Lyme cases contained other dangerous pathogens. In addition to the Lyme spirochete (a spiralshaped bacterium responsible for the disease), Bergdorfer’s records include references to researchers feeding ticks agents designed “for spreading antipersonnel bioweapons.”

In his final discussion with Newby in early 2013, Burgdorfer, then 88, was in the latter stages of Parkinson’s disease and was suffering from diabetes. She concedes that Burgdorfer’s speech wasn’t very clear at that point. But she believes he confirmed what he had told Grey on film: The spread of Lyme disease resulted from the release of biologically enhanced ticks developed during the Cold War.

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NATURAL HISTORY South Bay denizens are no strangers to ticks. But most locals know the parasitic arachnids more for their creepy habit of growing fat off the blood of their hosts than as carriers of Borrelia burgdorferi—the spirochete that causes Lyme.

California’s first reported case of Lyme came out of Sonoma County in 1978, just a few years after the nation’s first known case sprang up in New England.

It would be like Buzz Aldrin saying, “I faked the moon landing.”

That’s how outrageous it is in the biology world.’

—KRIS NEWBY

Annual maps prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show new Lyme cases spreading steadily across the Northeast and the Upper Midwest.

This is due in part to climate change and human encroachment on tick habitat—but the California Department of Public Health says the incidence of infection has remained fairly constant in California for the past 10 years. The same is true in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz County is a bit of a “sweet spot” for the spread of Lyme disease, says Amanda Poulsen, a vector-control specialist who regards Lyme as the greatest vector-borne disease threat in the county. That’s due in part to the region’s habitat—which is quite hospitable to the western

blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus). The abundance of outdoors-loving humans is also a factor.

In Santa Cruz County, the incidence of reported Lyme cases is 10 times higher than in the state as a whole—2.1 cases per 100,000 residents per year versus 0.2. (Compare this with a rate of more than 100 per 100,000 people in Northern New England.)

First, the cool coastal fog keeps the forest floor moist so the ticks don’t dry out. And the abundance of day hikers, backpackers, mountain bikers, campers and gardeners creates a veritable smorgasbord for the diminutive eight-legged parasites.

The western blacklegged tick—a close relative of the species that spreads Lyme in the East—thrives best in regions with relatively warm, wet winters along California’s northern coast. That’s why parts of Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties have the highest incidence of reported Lyme cases in the state.

Although Santa Cruz has an elevated risk of Lyme on a per capita basis, in terms of sheer numbers, Santa Clara County counts more confirmed Lyme cases than any other in the state. That’s on account of its large population of nearly 2 million people and, one might suspect, residents’ tendency to recreate in nearby Santa Cruz.

CHRONIC PROBLEM Unlike in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, where Lyme disease has been on the mind of every community physician for decades, its relatively low incidence on the West Coast means most local doctors have little experience with it.

This a problem, as Lyme disease is a complex affliction that can take months or years to properly identify.

If not caught early, it can leave the hardest hit suffering from a litany of debilitating symptoms, including extreme fatigue, severely arthritic joints, a frightening “brain fog” and speech problems.

There are two warring factions within the medical community as it relates to Lyme. One side sees the other as seeking to overdiagnose and

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overtreat Lyme, while the other sees their rivals as underdiagnosing and undertreating it.

This plays out in a fiery dispute over what Lyme advocates and allied so-called “Lyme-literate” doctors call “chronic Lyme disease” and medical academics call “post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.”

It’s more than an argument over semantics; it is an attempt to accurately characterize the cause of symptoms that return or persist even after patients have been treated with a standard two- to fourweek course of antibiotics. These symptoms include fatigue, low fever and hot flashes, night sweats, sore throat, swollen glands, sore throat, joint stiffness and pain, depression, headaches, dizziness, chest pain, sleep disturbances and more.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America, which wrote and approved the federally accepted Lyme diagnosis and treatment guidelines, insists “chronic” Lyme is a misnomer. IDSA and its followers prefer the “posttreatment Lyme disease syndrome” terminology and advocate for limited use of antibiotics when treating Lyme.

On the other side, where Newby’s sympathies clearly lie, is the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. ILADS, composed of a community of doctors and

backed by Lyme patient advocates, contends the criteria for confirming Lyme are much too rigid and that the medically accepted blood test is wildly inaccurate.

ILADS, which has a set of Lyme treatment guidelines divergent from the IDSA, argues that given the lack of reliable diagnostic tools and the clinical complexity of Lyme, doctors need more leeway. Physicians, they say, should use their own judgment and experience as they consider the totality of patients’ circumstances and treatment desires.

They point out that the Lyme spirochete has a range of properties that make it devilishly difficult to detect in the blood after it has been in the body for some time.

According to ILADS, the spirochete dons a disguise so that the antibodies sent out by the immune system to destroy it do not recognize it. It can drill into various tissues as well, and hide out in the heart (Lyme carditis), the joints (Lyme arthritis) and even the brain, causing serious neurocognitive problems.

Just because the standard blood-based tests do not detect the germ, they say, doesn’t mean it’s not there, embedded out of sight. Those who take this viewargue that the risk of long-term antibiotic use under the guidance of a competent doctor, is outweighed by the improvement in patients’ quality of life.

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Some studies have shown that chronic Lyme sufferers are at heightened risk of depression, suicide and job loss than the population as a whole.

NOT BITING Newby’s assertion that the government weaponized ticks has been met with deep skepticism and borderline derision. The accusation has been dismissed as a kooky, scientifically ungrounded theory pushed by people who simply won’t listen to facts.

Many doctors in academic medicine reject the notion that Burgdorfer would have helped create offensive biological weapons. After all, he spent his entire career working for the US Public Health Service, which is now known as National Institutes of Health; that agency’s stated mission is to “enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability.”

“There’s just no credible evidence” to support the assertion or that the prominent scientist at the heart of the book was involved in any weapons research, Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center

for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the Washington Post.

“This is again another one of those unfortunate situations where Confirmed and probable Lyme disease cases includ the science fiction of these issues” obscures the truth, Osterholm says.

Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Biosecurity, strongly backs the IDSA’s conservative guidance on the use of antibiotics—and rejects Newby’s claim that the scourge of Lyme disease is the result of a bioweapons program.

“I don’t believe any Pentagon investigation is warranted or would change the facts surrounding the epidemiology of Lyme disease in the US,” Adalja says. “It is well established that the Lyme bacterium’s proliferation in ticks and reservoir species predates any alleged military experiments by considerable time.

“When you look at patients with chronic Lyme disease, many of them…have no evidence of inflammation, meaning their body doesn’t show any kind of reaction when subjected to objective, evidencebased tests. The tests don’t show any evidence of infection.”

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TRUE BELIEVER Forensic studies show that Lyme disease existed long before Newby says the US began experimenting with weaponizing ticks; this fact is often put forward by skeptics who doubt Newby’s claims.

Newby, however, has no doubt.

In fact, she says, Burgdorfer’s involvement with weaponizing ticks is just the tip of the iceberg.

“It’s a complicated story,” she says. “It not just that the Lyme spirochete was weaponized. It was this other stuff (other, undisclosed potential Lyme agents) that was covered up. … As a journalist, you get a whistleblower and you have to say, ‘Why is he telling me this?’

This would destroy his career. It would be like Buzz Aldrin saying, ‘I faked the moon landing.’ That’s how outrageous it is in the biology world.”

The answer to the question—why now?—she surmises: Burgdorfer felt guilty.

Newby acknowledges that there’s room for interpretation in some of her conclusions about Burgdorfer and his motivations. For example, in an interview with her, Bergdorfer made cryptic references to “the Russians” getting their hands on a dangerous pathogen he had worked on. Was he vulnerable, she asks, to the influence of foreign agents seeking information about US bio-weapons research?

She suggests it’s possible that the financially struggling Burgdorfer may have been tempted into taking a payoff from nefarious actors.

Despite her insinuations and conclusions, Newby’s book appears to be the work of a careful researcher.

She is frank about what she knows or intuits based on the breadth of her reporting, what she can’t confirm, and other ways her evidence might be reasonably interpreted.

For instance, she didn’t take Burgdorfer’s claims of governmentcreated weaponized ticks on faith.

She sought corroboration, digging through 33 boxes of freshly processed material Burgdorfer donated to the National Archives. She examined reams of documents—including letters, drafts of his published articles and supporting lab notes that Burgdorfer collected over many years.

Newby says it is suspicious that the boxes contained none of Burgdorfer’s lab notes on his greatest achievement: the discovery of the spirochete bacterium that causes Lyme. He and co-authors published his discovery in Science in 1982, and the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, was later named for him.

After he died, an acquaintance of Bergdorfer’s asked Newby if she was interested in reviewing documents Bergdorfer had kept in his garage and later turned over to the acquaintance.

In those documents, Newby found her “smoking gun”—the blood test lab notes Berdorfer had kept secret for decades, along with information about a previously secret Swiss bank account.

Using the federal Freedom of Information Act, Newby also discovered conflicts of interest among academic researchers and federal health officials. In addition, she unearthed military documents that she contends prove the CIA released ticks in Cuba and even tracked down an agent who confirmed in a hairraising account that he was involved.

SEARCH FOR ANSWERS Knowing that investigators are subject to confirmation bias, Newby vetted her findings by tapping people with deep knowledge of biochemical and germ warfare. None of them waved her off the story or found her interpretations of the new evidence ridiculous. More than one advised her to watch her back if she published.

On a long table in her sunlit Palo Alto home office sit neat, tidy piles of labeled files and other artifacts from her research. Asked for a certain photo, Newby digs it out of a filing cabinet in seconds.

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In addition, Adalja says, “Multiple large clinical trials have shown that prolonged antibiotic therapy just isn’t effective.” That includes the largest such trial ever, the results of which were published in the journal Neurology earlier this year.

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She seems surprised when one of an interviewer’s first questions is what kind of post-publication blowback she’s received, given the sensitive subject of Bitten and the dire warnings she received while researching it.

Her answer: Nothing has had made her feel unsafe or threatened. This was about six weeks after publication.

But things began heating up days later, after Congressman Smith read the book.

Alarmed, the longtime-co-chair of the congressional Lyme caucus wrote an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Bill calling on the Pentagon’s independent investigative arm, the inspector general, to look into the allegations made in the book.

“Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons includes interviews with Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, the researcher who is credited with discovering Lyme disease,” Smith said during floor debate. “The book reveals that Dr. Burgdorfer was a bioweapons specialist. Those interviews combined with access to Dr. Burgdorfer’s lab files suggest that he and other bioweapons specialists stuffed ticks with pathogens to cause severe disability, disease—even death—to potential enemies.

“With Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases exploding in the United States—with an estimated 300,000 to 437,000 new cases diagnosed each year and 10-20 percent of all patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease—Americans have a right to know whether any of this is true. And have these experiments caused Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease to mutate and to spread?” Smith asked.

For the average person who has had a brush with Lyme disease, it matters little whether the pathogen as we know it was loosed upon us by a government bioweapons. Lyme patients are far more concerned with simply getting their lives back.

For those struggling to attain an accurate diagnosis of Lyme—and for those suffering with persistent symptoms long after they have been

treated for the disease—discovering the origin story of this disease might provide some comfort. However, for those afflicted with Lyme, the primary objective moving forward has to be a better understanding of this condition.

HIV/AIDS and Lyme emerged at roughly the same time. Yet over the years, there have been 11,000 clinical trials involving HIV/AIDS, compared with just 60 for Lyme, according to investigative journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer. Research into Lyme disease is woefully inadequate.

HIV, of course, is fatal if left untreated, so some disparity is warranted. But last year, newly reported cases of Lyme easily surpassed the number of new HIV infections, according to the CDC. Newby hopes Bitten can help raise the profile and lead to more funding for research into tick-borne diseases.

“My hope is that this book will widen the lens on our view of this problem and inspire people to more aggressively pursue solutions,” she writes. Among other research needs, she says, “We need epidemiologists to analyze the ongoing spread of these diseases, incorporating the possibility that they were spread in an unnatural way.”

If the Senate goes along with the House’s call for an investigation into the allegations in Bitten, perhaps those suffering from Lyme and its fallout will get the answers they so desperately seek.

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Ludwig’s German Table Saturdays in October 261 N 2nd St, San Jose ludwigssj.com Every Saturday this month, Ludwig’s German Table will be serving their popular Schweinshaxen, or roasted ham hock. Be sure to pair this German delicacy with the restaurants very own Oktoberfest Marzen, which they are producing in partnership with the Palo Alto Brewing Company.

Mountain View Oktoberfest Oct 5-6, 11am Bryant and Dana streets, Mountain View mvoktoberfest.com

HOPS & HOSEN Everything is more fun in lederhosen.

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ERMANY’S OFFICIAL Oktoberfest draws nearly 8 million visitors every year. Together these revelers consume a half-million chickens, a quarter-million pairs of sausages—and a whopping 1,822,787 gallons of beer.

While the 16-day festival was traditionally held exclusively in the month of October, it was moved up to the end of September to take advantage of fairer weather and officially concludes on the first Sunday of October.

We in the Bay Area needn’t worry about this “bad weather” phenomenon, so we aim for a more traditional approach—holding

our Oktoberfestivities from late September until the end of October because, well, beer. Duh… Here is a short list of local celebrations where one may enjoy sausage, schnitzel and have one helles of a good time.

Campbell Oktoberfest Oct 19-20, 10am Downtown Campbell campbelloktoberfest.com This long-running annual festival is regularly voted one of the top holiday festivals in the South Bay

by Metro readers, and it’s easy to see why. Dozens of food booths delivering authentic German eats; over a hundred arts and crafts vendors; German music; authentic

German beers; and, of course, the stein-holding contest. Admission is free, and kids are welcome to this family-friendly event.

The Cider Junction Oct 5, noon 820 Willow St #100, San Jose theciderjunction.com The Cider Junction celebrates Oktoberfest and two years in business. Traditional German food such as brats, pretzels and strudel will be served to go along with German style ciders and beer.

Clandestine Brewing Oct 4-6 980 S 1st St Ste B, San Jose clandestinebrewing.com Clandestine Brewing’s Oktoberfest will feature a variety of Germanstyle beers on tap plus eats from Wren Foods on Friday and Saturday.

Beers include the Hacktoberfest, Elsie’s Marzen, Bocklash, Pils Off !, V (a traditional German bock) and Undercover (a raspberry-infused Berliner-Weisse style kettle sour ale). Get tickets early to secure a commemorative stein.

The Mountain View Oktoberfest marks its seventh year with authentic German music, food and beer. The festival’s 7,000-square-foot tent will host local breweries; musical acts, including the Alpiners USA, SF German Band and Big Lou’s Accordion Princess; community tables and a VIP section. Admission is free, beer tickets are $10 each or four for $38, and there is an additional one-time stein purchase ($12-$25).

The family-friendly event features a free kid’s area that includes jump houses, games and more.

Peninsula Oktoberfest Oct 12, 6pm 501 Skyway Rd, San Carlos hiller.org This indoor event takes place inside the historic Hiller Aviation Museum and combines food, music, beer and a plethora of fantastic flying machines.

With $5 beer pours, this is one of the more reasonably priced events around.

Teske’s Germania Various Dates 255 N 1st St, San Jose teskes-germania.com It’s pretty much always Oktoberfest at Teske’s. But when fall rolls around, they definitely turn it up a notch.

The Internationals provide live music Fridays and Saturdays all throughout the month of October. Order a schnitzel, enjoy imported German beers that are hard to find anywhere else and take in the good times.

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Form a portmanteau out of the words “punk” and “oldies”—as Shannon Shaw of Shannon & The Clams once did whilst describing her band—and the resulting voiced velar stop ends up sounding more like a hard G than a K. Depending on how it hits the ear, one might hear “oldies,” or “goldies.” With their shimmering church organs, reverberant surf-guitar leads and yawping garage-rock harmonies, this Oakland-based quartet certainly have the “punk” and “oldies” vibes covered (much like the Black Lips and the Growlers do). But there is also something quite sparkly about the group. That’s where the “gold” comes in. (MS)

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Sat, 1pm, $7+ Mexican Heritage Plaza, San José

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Three decades after his death, Stanford Live brings Robert Mapplethorpe’s legendary photographs back to life. Created by composer (and guitarist for The National) Bryce Dessner, librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle and director Kaneza Schaal, Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) “explores the origins and impact of Mapplethorpe's controversial photography.” A multimedia event, the evening features the vocal group Roomful of Teeth and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as the poetry of Patti Smith and Essex Hemphill. Smith’s book about her relationship with Mapplethorpe, Just Kids, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2010.

Admission is $10 for students. (CJ)

The Northside Theatre Company and director Meredith King celebrate the local company's 41st season, kicking off their 2019-20 season with Doubt, A Parable.

Set in a Catholic school in 1964, John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play centers around suspicion, morality, entrenched power structures and the sinister, abusive actors that those systems protect. The play was also adapted into a critically acclaimed movie (also written and directed by Shanley), starring Meryl Streep opposite the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

The production runs ThursdaysSundays through October 27. (CJ)

Art, music, food and more are guaranteed at the celebration of the iconic Frida Kahlo.

Attendees are encouraged to wear flowers in their hair and enjoy churros and paletas with the family, or sip on tequila and mezcal in the 21+ VIP section.

There will be food vendors, a photo booth and mariachi all day as Arte Azul showcases the work of local Chicanx and Mexican artists. There will also be arts and crafts and face painting for the kids as well as a Frida-inspired fashion show put on by Paulina Clothing. Tickets are only available online and will not be sold at the door. (CJ)

The San Jose Stage Company kicks off its 37th season by doing the Time Warp again—live! Most local Rocky Horror productions involve a screening of the 1975 cult hit starring Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, accompanied by live actors and calls for audience participation.

But this production is a live, on-stage presentation of the original West End musical, which went on to find success on Broadway and on the big screen.

Audience participation is still highly encouraged. The show runs through Nov. 3. (SS)

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UB40 Oct 5 at The Mountain Winery

CALEXICO AND IRON & WINE Oct 6 at The Mountain Winery

BLACK LIPS Oct 10 at The Ritz

NGHTMRE AND SLANDER Oct 11 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DEADMAU5 Oct 11-12 at San Jose Civic

FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS Oct 13 at San Jose Civic

A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN Oct 16 at SJ Center for the Performing Arts

J BALVIN Oct 17 at SAP Center

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Sun, 11am, Free Little Italy District, San Jose

Wed, 8pm, $30+ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Fri-Sun, Free Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

For the fourth straight year, downtown San Jose whips out its red, white and green to celebrate all things Italian.

Restaurants and businesses from San Jose’s Little Italy district will be providing their best cuisine and wine. Live entertainment comes to you via Pasquale Esposito, the Anthony Nino Lane Band, Johnny Neri Band and many more. Plus, activities for kids and Italian arts and crafts. Organizers say that the festival last year attracted nearly 25,000 souls, so they must be doing something right. (WB)

If you missed veteran actor Dan Hiatt singing in ACT’s recent production of Vanity Fair, he leads the cast of Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman’s River of Song.

Join Mark Twain and friends on this TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production as they travel down the Mississippi River singing traditional songs, including “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” and “Deep River Blues.” This rollicking adventure features guitars, banjos and harmonicas—and, of course, some of Twain’s most iconic characters. River of Song runs Tuesday through Sunday until Oct. 27. (MS)

Conceived as a gift to the city of San Francisco by late music fan and billionaire financier Warren Hellman, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has been bringing toptier musical acts to Golden Gate Park every October since 2001.

The admission-free festival draws nearly a million people to the city over its three-day run, and with a lineup this impressive, it’s no wonder. Scheduled performers include Tanya Tucker, Fantastic Negrito, Steve Earle, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Margo Price, Hot Tuna, Emmylou Harris and the golden god himself, Robert Plant. (CA)

*sun POTTY MOUTH Sun, 7pm, $18+ The Ritz, San Jose If you have an unquenchable thirst for ’90s alternative, The Ritz has got you covered this Sunday.

Massachusetts rockers Potty Mouth are bringing their Liz Phair-inspired sounds to town in support of their latest album SNAFU. They’ll be joined by San Diegans The Bombpops, who sound like Dance Hall Crashers covering Pennywise, and Masked Avenger, a group of ski mask-clad Midwesterners who play pop-punk with a level of confidence that only anonymity could inspire.

Potty Mouth played Lollapalooza a view years ago, and Bombpops and Masked Avenger are both Fat Wreck Chords alumni, so expect A-level between-song-banter along with quality pop songcraft. (CA)

MARK FARINA Oct 19 at The Ritz

REO SPEEDWAGON Oct 19 at San Jose Civic

DREAM THEATER Oct 30 at San Jose Civic

BLUE MAN GROUP Nov 1-3 at SJ Center for the Performing Arts

LUKE COMBS Nov 6 at SAP Center

SNAILS Nov 15 at San Jose Civic

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center

POPTOPIA Dec 5 at SAP Center

DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS Dec 23 at San Jose Civic

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JUST A DREAM Patti Smith enlists the Dream Inn, or ‘the Dream Motel’ as a central metaphor in her memoir, ‘Year of the Monkey.’

WAKING LIFE Patti Smith’s new memoir builds upon a mystical connection to Santa Cruz

BY WALLACE BAINE

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Y FAMILY AND I have a New Year’s tradition, born of my daughter’s experience living in Korea. We bypass staying up past midnight—a custom too freighted with booze and melancholia anyway. Instead, we rise before dawn and greet the sunrise on the beach, as the Koreans do. In our case, we largely have Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz to ourselves. Then, it’s off to the best breakfast we’ll have all year, at the Crow’s Nest.

If Patti Smith’s new memoir, Year of the Monkey is to be believed, a few years ago, while we were lingering over our crab omelettes and brioche,

Smith herself was about a mile up the coast, stumbling around an unfamiliar waterfront looking for breakfast and, more urgently, coffee. She found the Ideal Bar & Grill which was, alas, closed, then plopped herself down at a bench to brood.

Gifted with hindsight or clairvoyance, would I have abandoned my family to rescue Patti Smith from her coffee-less misery? Almost certainly. But The Year of the Monkey may have turned into a much different book.

Dreamy, lyrical, even hallucinatory, Monkey is a wistful chronicle of Smith’s life in 2016, and the latest in a series of enormously successful memoirs, preceded by the National Book Awardwinning phenomenon Just Kids (2010) and its followup M Train (2015).

The new book hinges on two significant losses in Smith’s life, the

deaths of her close friend and music producer Sandy Pearlman, and even her closer friend and former lover, playwright Sam Shepard. But it begins in Santa Cruz, on New Year’s Day, with Smith waking up at the iconic Dream Inn, which throughout the book she calls “the Dream Motel” as a way to take ownership of it and enlist it as the book’s central metaphor.

That New Year’s Day opening— Smith lost and alone in a part of Santa Cruz which is usually clogged with tourists, scrounging for a cup of Nescafe, and dialoging with the Dream Inn sign—is key in setting a tone. That midwinter ghost-town vibe pervades this whole book even as it follows Smith to San Diego, Venice Beach, Arizona, Kentucky, Seattle and New York.

Before she was a publishing-industry powerhouse, before she was a punk rock icon, Patti Smith was a street poet. Considering that the world has consistently given her nothing but fame and applause for following her muse wherever it may take her, it’s no shock that her latest book defies all familiar categories, playfully exploring the seam between reality and fantasy.

It’s full of half-buried dream imagery and mysterious characters who emerge from somewhere out of the American landscape. Smith calls this weird state of

consciousness “skating along the fringe of dream,” and “more of a visitation, a prescience of things to come, like a tremendous swarm of gnats, black clouds obscuring the paths of children reeling on bicycles.”

Literal-minded readers looking for a documentary tone or for rock-star gossip are likely to come away perplexed, even mystified by this swirl of images, themes, and references—Australia’s mystical Ayers Rock, Chilean novelist Robert Bolaño, ’80s pop singer Belinda Carlisle, etc. But fans of Smith’s previous memoirs should know the score by now. Smith’s poetic sensibility is driving the bus, and anyone who takes Monkey on its own terms, as a 170-page prose poem, will be rewarded with a rich, kaleidoscopic narrative of surprises and insights.

Death and loss haunt nearly every sentence of this book—again, no shock to anyone who has experienced Patti Smith’s work. The political horror that accompanies any memory of the 2016 election is referenced only obliquely, as “an avalanche of toxicity infiltrating every outpost.” Instead, the beating heart of the book comes with Smith’s visits to Shepard at his Kentucky horse ranch.

Shepard, nearly as admired in his artistic realm as Smith in hers, was afflicted with ALS in his final years. And Smith’s account of the once virile playwright, no longer in control of his body, darkly commenting “We’ve become a Becket play” is heartbreaking.

Smith, 72, has been as intimate with grief as any living artist, having survived the death of her first love and muse Robert Mapplethorpe and her husband guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, along with countless others close to her. Her previous books (and her particularly strong late 1990s string of albums) have been fearless meditations on not just coping with loss but learning to incorporate the memories and spirits of those she’s lost in her own dream of life.

She chronicles her string of losses in Monkey and adds, “Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow.”

That’s not denial. That’s defiance.

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HELLO, CRUEL WORLD Frankentein’s monster gets wise to the darkness in the world in ‘Bride of Frankenstein.’

Old Flat Top Stanford Theatre screens ‘Frankenstein’ and other Universal horror classics

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

U

NIVERSAL’S MONSTER movies may be slow and theatrical. But just as today’s White Claw guzzler is tomorrow’s finicky martini sipper, the darkness and stillness of these films will one day lure new fans away from gory pop-ups.

On the screen of the nearly century-old Stanford Theater, they still have the power of nightmares.

William Henry Pratt was a kindly British gent. The mists of German

Expressionism, chased away by the Nazis, coalesced in Hollywood and shrouded Pratt. He took on the stage name Boris Karloff and created some of cinema’s most uncanny, undead characters. Mummy (1932), and the Lurch-like butler in 1932’s The Old Dark House (the model for the Addams Family) were famous roles. But Karloff ’s signature piece was Frankenstein (1931). In closeup, Frankenstein’s monster is still startling; one thrills at the emptiness of this creature’s gaze, this snarling, unpredictable animal.

In the dark-humored sequel, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Frank had

even come around a little, having learned about himself and this cruel world. Bride is a thoroughly modern film—as in the ultimate unveiling of the bride (Elsa Lanchaster) with her lightning-styled perm. The shot might as well be David Cronenberg: the way she twitches, birdlike, before a camera that studies her scars as pitilessly as an insurance investigator recording injuries for a claim.

Dracula (1931) is stilted, and Tod Browning’s camera is nailed to the stage. But of course the Count (Bela Lugosi) is slow—he’s planning to be around for eternity. Lugosi throbs with the power of the role that stayed with him until the bitter end. Once you play Drac, you never come back. Also startling: the grim chess game between Karloff and Lugosi in Edgar Ulmer’s amazing The Black Cat (1934), the most German Expressionist of all of Universal’s horrors, suggesting the 1914-18 war as the ultimate evil, a source of diabolical energy waiting to be channeled by ruthless intelligences.

Counterpointing domestic terror with the Transylvanian variety are a series of 1931-35 melos from Universal, at that time the darkest studio in Hollywood. The word “melodrama” used to mean drama with songs, but it soon meant cheap fictions: the theater of unearned emotions, as they say. The plots of sudden ruin and misfortune may seem unreasonable, but ask a poor person what they think of the stories’ believability.

The pre-code Waterloo Bridge (1931) was remade with MGM gloss later, starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. Far from sobbing drama, the dialogue here is so fast it’s like a hardboiled detective mystery. Mae Clarke is Myra, an American dancer stuck in London for the duration of WWI. After she’s crossed the wobbly line between chorus girl and harlot, she encounters Roy (Douglass Montgomery), a 19-year-old soldier on the whore-stroll of Waterloo Bridge. The boy is so sheltered he

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doesn’t realize her line of work.

It’s remarkable how little weeping pathos comes from the revelation. As happens during wartime, the soap is rationed. Director Frank Whale is sophisticated but never leering about the girls who go to their assignations via doors leading to the rooftop, as if they were cats. He even finds amusing piquancy in Roy’s family, English country manor types, one of whom is a shrewd little sister played

by Bette Davis. Whale harmonizes the tragic lives of working girls and soldiers. The equation works because of his backdrops of a world out of balance, of searchlights and bombers and barrage balloons. The horrors of the young 20th century rewrite all the social rules.

Political unrest is the subtext of Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934), an affecting tale of a struggling married couple in Weimar, Germany, caught between the Communists

and the Nazis. A clerk (Montgomery again) is tormented at his job by his forkbearded, shaven-headed Prussian boss, who is pressuring him to marry his dull daughter; the picked-on clerk must conceal his marriage to his pregnant “Lammchen” (Margaret Sullavan). The throaty voiced, delicate Sullavan also turns up in the Preston Sturges-scripted The Good Fairy (1935) about an idealistic theater usherette who accepts a fateful gift of a “genuine foxine” fur stole. It’s the lone comedy in a well-picked array of rarely revived movies about divorce, prostitution,racism and graveyard robbery. Scary topics, all.

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TEAM PLAYERS The chemistry is palpable between Sam Beam of Iron & Wine and Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico.

Come Together Calexico, Iron & Wine re-create the magic of collaboration at the Mountain Winery

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SUALLY A MUSICAL collaboration is one of two things: a defining partnership on which careers are built, or a onetime experimental fling between two or more parties looking for a spark.

The latest collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine is a third thing altogether: a momentary experiment that slowly built into something more lasting.

Calexico is the long-standing Arizona-based duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino, known for their often dusty, cinematic

musical textures. Iron & Wine is the performance moniker of singersongwriter Sam Beam, whose signature style features lyrical, sometimes ethereal neo-folk melodies and ghostly harmonies.

Burns, Convertino and Beam are joining forces on an ambitious international tour that brings them to the South Bay this Sunday. The tour comes on the heels of the release of Years to Burn, the trio’s new collaborative album, recorded in Nashville with many of the members of their respective touring bands.

Years is a sprightly, lilting countryrock record that Gram Parsons might have loved. But it’s not the

first recording the trio has done together. That one dates back to 2005, an EP called In the Reins.

Singer and guitarist Burns says that the differences between Reins and the new album are stark. “Back in 2004, we essentially met in the studio as strangers. We really didn’t know each other that well. We had met once before. So, it was really like an experiment, and it wound up going really well.”

However, Beam—who had, at the time, just released his most acclaimed album Our Endless Numbered Days— was driving the bus creatively. He ended up writing all of the EP’s seven songs, and critics often look at In the Reins as an Iron & Wine album with Calexico providing some new spices.

Years to Burn is more egalitarian, with Burns contributing a few songs as songwriter. Most emblematic of the melding of the two bands comes by way of The Bitter Suite, a eightminute-plus medley that opens with moody Spanish-language narration by longtime Calexico trumpet player Jacob Valenzuela before moving into a nicely atmospheric guitar interlude

and finally to a haunting Beam melody that would feel right at home on an Iron & Wine album.

In the long gap between the two collaborative albums, Beam and Calexico have worked together occasionally. Calexico has consistently sought out collaborations, from the expected to the out-of-left-field (Nancy Sinatra, anyone?). Burns says that he and Convertino are always looking for willing partners to explore new vistas.

“We’re pretty open-minded,” he says. “I like collaborating with people who have an unusual sense of character, a unique voice, a unique slant on their craft and their music.

I like to challenge ourselves as well.

Certain collaborations over the years, well, I wasn’t sure it would work out.

But I’m always up for the adventure.

We’ll try anything.”

That sense of free-wheeling audacity has led them to take on such wildly diverse talents as folk singersongwriter Amos Lee, electronic dance act Goldfrapp, and UK electronica duo Two Lone Swordsmen.

Not all collaborations are successful.

Burns remembered inviting an older folk musician to visit Tucson in hopes of finding a bit of collaborative magic.

“Well,” he says, “it was that time of year, summer, in Tucson. And we were in a venue or studio that had no airconditioning. We’re accustomed to it, but poor guy, the weather was just not agreeing with him.”

There were no such issues on the Years to Burn sessions, which were held in Nashville. “It was a dream,” says Burns. The new record also reminded the musicians of Calexico just how good Sam Beam is.

“Everyone knows him as this amazing singer-songwriter, and he is that,” says Burns. “But he’s a whole lot more. He complements us because he encourages us to try new things with rhythm, composition and structure.

He’s got a great sense of space and ambience. And those harmonies, he comes up with these harmonies that are just incredible.”

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The Volker Strifler Band 7pm • $7

Fri Oct 4 SALSA SPOT

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OCT 2–10 | “THE WORLD BEGINS AT A KITCHEN TABLE.”

Vinyl Experience

w/DJs Guaguanco, Magico, Mundo & Willie • Doors 8pm, Salsa lesson at 8:30pm • $10 cover Sat Oct 5 Dr. Rock and LRI Present

“No matter what, we must eat to live.” Joy Harjo is our new US Poet Laureate, and her poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” has been one of my favorites since I tacked it to the wall of my bathroom so I could read it every day. There is something so vital about kitchens; I’ve been taken care of in so many of them. I am looking forward to staying warm this fall by cooking, listening and talking for an immeasurable amount of kitchen time with countless friends and family.

Ray Carrion & Thee Latin Allstars

This Thursday, Ted Alexandro, Caitlin Gill and Jeremy Talamantes will surely get you laughing through the weekend. If they don’t, I’ll write them a stern letter. Friday brings us the 10th annual Silicon Valley African Film Festival, with screenings through the weekend, beginning with a press conference at San Jose City Hall.

Sun Oct 6

Saturday and Sunday are full of fall festivals, Oktoberfests, a toy show and more Caitlin Gill—but apparently the South Bay weather didn’t get the memo that autumn’s here and it’s time to chill out. Hopefully, the weather will suck soon! These events and more in my list below and beyond.

w/Heavy Weather - Santana Tribute 8pm • $20 adv / $25 day of show

The Nancy Gilliland Trio

Celebrates the Centenary of Nat King Cole • 7pm • $25 adv $35 day of show

Book Your Next Event with us 2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

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Wednesday, October 2 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MAHALIA

plus Sebastian Mikael

Thursday, October 3 • Ages 16+

PNB ROCK

Thursday, October 3 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

GRIEVES

plus Mouse Powell

Friday & Saturday, October 4 & 5 • Ages 16+

STEEL PULSE Friday, October 4 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

GOOD RIDDANCE

plus 88 Fingers Louie

Saturday, October 5 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

TOO MANY ZOOZ

plus Thumpasaurus

CEDAR ROOM Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm–5:30pm & 9pm– 10pm. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

Sunday, October 6 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

OPEN MIC WITH UKULELE JAMS

Tuesday, October 8 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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

FUTURISTIC

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Oct 10 Collie Buddz/ Keznamdi (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa/ Myrne (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 21 Granger Smith (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 24 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 16+) Oct 25 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden/ Brooke Candy (Ages 16+) Oct 28 Blueface/ Coyotes (Ages 16+) Oct 29 & 30 Shoreline Mafia (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars/ Yoshi Flower (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Sinead Harnett (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE WITH JADE

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Pro Jam Theme: Rolling Stones. Fri, 6pm: Ron E Beck Soul Revue.

Sat, 5pm: In Studio – School of Blues Student Concert. Sat, 6pm: JC Smith. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Kaye Bohler Band. Sun, 4pm: In Studio – Cathy Lemons. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM 7pm. Doors 6:30pm. 21+ $7.

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

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

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: AJ Lee and Blue Summit. Tue, 10/8, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Wed, 10/8, 6pm: Blue House. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

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CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

LUNCHTIME LECTURE | ARTIST TALK WITH UUDAM TRAN NGUYEN Noon. Free w/ SJMA membership. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St, San Jose

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NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE 8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE 8:30pm. Quarter Note Bar & Grill, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Fri, 10pm: The Cheeseballs. Sat, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night.

Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness.

5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 10/3 CITYDANCE 2019 | MERENGUE & CUMBIA

6pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

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

THE RITZ

Thu, 8pm: Shannon & The Clams, Dinners, Swells & The Lünatics.

Fri, 8pm: The Goddamn Gallows, Scott H. Biram. Sat, 9pm: Dead Man's Party: Oingo Boingo/ Danny Elfman Tribute. Sun, 7pm: Masked Intruder, The Bombpops, Potty Mouth. Wed, 10/9, 7pm: mc chris, Schaffer the Darklord, LEX the Lexicon Artist. 400 S First St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | TED ALEXANDRO 8pm. Various times through Sun. With Caitlin Gill, Jeremy Talamantes.

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

STAGE | DOUBT

8pm. Various times through 10/27.

John Patrick Shanley's provocative play. Northside Theatre Company, Olinder Theatre, 848 E William St, San Jose

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

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

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

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

FRI 10/4 10TH ANNUAL SILICON VALLEY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL (UNTIL 10/6)

11:30am. World Press Conference: San José City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St. Also Sat, Sun: Historic Hoover Theatre, 1635 Park Ave, San Jose

SHERWOOD INN

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

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

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

PUNK | THE WOMB SERVICE TOUR

9pm. Titty Baby, Latter Day Skanks, Domino & The Derelicts. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: CISUM R&B Sensations. Sat, 9pm: The Funky Godfather. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

9:30pm. Britannia Arms Downtown, 173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am.

Red Stag Lounge, 1711 W San Carlos St, San Jose

ART WALK & OPERA NIGHT

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

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Every night. Fri–Sat, 7pm.

Sun–Thu, 9pm. 7 Bamboo, 162 Jackson St, San Jose

ALBUM RELEASE | SOUTH BAY DUB ALLSTARS

8pm. Tiki Pete's, 23 N Market St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

Fri & Sat, 8pm–Close. 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: Branham Fridays w/ DJ David Q & Soulmat3s.

Sat, 10pm: Branham Saturdays w/ DJ Cutso of The Bangers. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

5178 Moorpark Ave, Ste 60, San Jose

DEATH/THRASH | SHORT FUSE, MEATSLAB, SOURCE, REFRACT, PJ TALESFORE JR. 8pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

DANCE/KARAOKE | FRIDAY NIGHT CHA CHA AT THE STARLITE 8pm: Ballroom dance lesson.

9pm: Dance party. 11:30pm: Karaoke. Starlite Ballroom,

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

SAT 10/5 SAN JOSE TOY & COMIC SHOW (ALSO SUN)

9am–3:30pm. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Rd, San Jose

POETRY WORKSHOP: REFINING YOUR VISION AND YOUR VOICE 10am. Markham House at History Park, 1650 Senter Rd, San Jose | Register: bit. ly/2okwDy5

FALL FESTIVAL | ARTS, CRAFTS, FOOD, FARM & GARDEN

10am. $6 parking. Martial Cottle Park, 5283 Snell Ave, San Jose

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

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HOMECOMING One of the Bay Area’s favorite comedians returns for a week of shows. Catch Caitlin Gill’s hilariousness at Rooster T. Feathers throughout the week with Ted Alexandro, with a headlining spot on Sunday night. She’ll also perform a set at Backyard SJ on Wed, 10/9. More info in the listings

35 CRAFT FAIR | MAKERS MARKET IN THE PARK

11am. First Sat. monthly.

Santana Row, 377 Santana Row, San Jose

7TH ANNUAL MOUNTAIN VIEW OKTOBERFEST

DJ DON “THE COWBOY”

9pm. $10 cover. Blue Note Lounge, 765 E Capitol Ave, Milpitas

KARAOKE & DANCING

9:30pm. Bogart's Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

11am–7pm. Also Sun. Parking lot at Bryant & Dana streets, Mountain View

SUN 10/6

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

4TH ANNUAL LITTLE ITALY SAN JOSE STREET FESTIVAL

7pm & 9:15pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

11am. Little Italy, 323 W St John St, San Jose

LIVE MUSIC | KAVANAUGH BROTHERS CELTIC EXPERIENCE

CARS | 7TH ANNUAL SHUKAI SHOW | JAPANTOWN

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

1pm. Sponsored by Hukilau.

Near 197 Jackson St, San Jose

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE

3pm. 21+ Small bites.

Fashionable Attire. SP2 Communal Bar, 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

4pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

6pm. The Cats, 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

COMEDIAN | CAITLIN GILL

8pm. With Phil Griffiths, Jeremy Talamantes. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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When everything seems uncertain, it’s easy to go really dark: “Please forward my mail to the refrigerator box in the underpass where I’ll soon be living with my fiance, the cat.”

Decision researchers have consistently found that we humans have a strong “ambiguity aversion” or “uncertainty aversion.” We get seriously unsettled by the big foggy monster of the unknown: not knowing what’s going to happen or not having enough information or expertise to reasonably predict it.

As for what’s going on under the hood, brain imaging research by neuroeconomist Ming Hsu found that the amygdala—an area of the brain tasked with spotting threats and mobilizing our response to them— was more activated in response to “ambiguity” (that is, when research participants asked to make decisions had information withheld from them).

This freakout by our brain’s Department of Homeland Security would have been a good fit in the ancestral times in which it evolved. Back then, an uncertain world was an especially life-threatening world, because there were no antibiotics, fire

departments, or rubber-soled shoes. These days, however, we’re living in a world vastly safer than the one our psychology is adapted for.

To tamp down the queasiness of uncertainty, verbalize your fears.

Research by neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman suggests this depowers the amygdala by putting the prefrontal cortex—the brain’s reasoning center—to work. Tell the story of your worst fear in each of your uncertain situations: Your boss not only fires you but chases you out of the building with a broom. Then, carrying a box of your stuff, you come home to your roommate in bed with your boyfriend. Then you go out for a beer, only to return to a smoking pile of ash where your apartment used to be.

Obviously, you’d prefer that none of this happen. However, you aren’t unemployable or unloveable, and you have friends with couches, and there’s Airbnb. (Worst-case scenario—and of course, I’m not actually advising this— you go to the hospital and tell them George Washington is talking to you through your eyeglasses and get three hots and a cot for 72 hours.)

I’m in my late 40s. I’ve noticed many of my friends reconnecting with and marrying people they knew years ago—sometimes friends, sometimes exes. Is everybody just desperate, or is dating all about timing?—Wondering In your early 20s, you know what’s vitally important in a partner: that he doesn’t have “weird nostrils” or wear a belt buckle with his own name on it. Then you do some living and maybe get shredded by a relationship or two, and your preferences change. In short, context matters. Context is simply your personal circumstances, and it includes factors like your own mate value, the man-woman ratio where you are (or the availability of same-sex partners if you’re gay), and whether you’re in a hurry to have a baby before your ovaries retire to a cabin.

It turns out that when looking for partners, we have a budget. It works like it does at the supermarket. You can buy the finest steak and lobster and then starve for the rest of the month, or you can shop more in the Top Ramen and lunchmeat arena and keep yourself consistently fed.

Evolutionary psychologist Norman

Li applied this budgetary approach in researching partner preferences. Prior research had poor methodology, simply asking, “Hey, what do you want in a partner?” But when you’re constrained, you have to make tradeoffs. When research participants were most constrained, intelligence and kindness were major priorities for both sexes. When budgets expanded, there was more “spending” in other areas, like creativity.

This might explain why people in their 40s suddenly see something in people they tossed aside years ago or maybe just never thought of as partner material. Basically, at a certain point, many people give up on finding the exact right person and look for a right enough person. For some former sticklers, there comes a point when they’re all, “I’m game!” if a guy’s address isn’t his car’s license plate and he doesn’t have multiple wives.

(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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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658418 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Graceful Bites, 1225 Vienna Dr., Space 299, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Grace Ann Mendoza. 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/Grace Ann Mendoza. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV354070 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Vicky Jeannette Merlino for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Vicky Jeannette Merlino.

Proposed name: Jeannette Merlino. 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 14, 2020 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: September 4, 2019 (pub dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658231

HEALTH & BEAUTY Christa - Licensed Hairstylist Blond specialist and Barber is now located in salons throughout the greater Campbell/San Jose area for your convenience. Great results, quality products. See pics @ hair_by.Christaeiguren OR www.

HairByChrista.com For appointments / questions call 408-509-5788.

LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658226 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Innovative Cost Management Services, Inc., 2. innovative Cost Management Insurance Services, Inc., 3. ICMS, 95 So. Market St., #600, San Jose, CA, 95113. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/1986. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael P. Finnerty, President/CEO. #1535634. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/27/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658362 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Camino Law Group, 181 Devine St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Nathan Aaron Poulos, 2062 Harmil Way, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/30/2019. /s/ Nathan Aaron Poulos. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hanna’s Lashes, 5239 Roeder Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Ha T Le, 570 Keyes St #330, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/27/2019. /s/Ha T Le. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/27/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658458 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JC Enterprises, 890 E Evelyn Ave., Sunnyvale, Ca, 84086, Jeffrey Thomas Brown. 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/Jeffrey Thomas Brown. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/05/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658361 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Travels With Flea, LLC, 2528 Nube Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/27/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Felecia Cassandra Leak, President. #201921410120. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658427 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

SCCIPA, 2. Santa Clara County IPA, 1051 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Suite 750, Foster City, CA, 94404, Individual Pracitce Association Medical Group Of Santa Clara County Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/02/1986. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/John K Kraft, MD. President. #C1530026. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/04/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658515 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sweet Hayah, 1134 Willow St. #11, San Jose, CA, 95125, Nehal Abuelata. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/11/2019. /s/Nehal Abuelata. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658424 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nori Nori Story, 3190 Machado Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Xiao Ying Lin. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/16/2019. /s/Xiao Ying Lin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/04/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658579 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Brows Galleria, 2688 Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Nasim Moradi, 500 Race St. Apt 5204, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/10/2019. /s/Nasim Moradi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/09/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658411 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Remote Pilot Services, 4025 Laurelglen Ct., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tim Miller. 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/ Tim Miller. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CASE NO. 1-15-PR-177610 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 8, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as Trustee of The Rhona Gilkey Revocable Living Trust dated October 21, 2015, intends to sell at private sale, subject to court confirmation, to the highest and best net bidder, all of the trust estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property commonly known as 1441 Fallen Leaf Lane, in the City of Los Altos, County of Santa Clara, more particularly described as:Lot 48, as delineated upon that certain Map entitled “Tract No.1152 BROOKHURST”, filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on May 4th, 1953 in Book 42 of Maps, at Page 34.The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights-of-way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. The real property is to be sold on an “as is” basis except for title. All bids or offers must be in writing and accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer tax and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as Trustee of The Rhona Gilkey Revocable Living Trust dated October 21, 2015 to reject any and all bids or offers. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited. For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the listing agent, Shirley Bailey, Compass, 167 So. San Antonio Road, Ste 1, Los Altos; CA (650) 209-1580. All written bids or offers must be presented in a sealed envelope to be opened at 2:00 p.m. on October 8, 2019 at the offices of the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 or thereafter, as allowed by law. James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian County of Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Publication Dates: 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658383

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ally Mobility, 1400 Coleman Ave., Suite G25, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Almario Espiritu. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. 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/Thaddeus Espiritu, CEO/Pres. #C3553118. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #658004 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Falcon Learning, 1128 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, 2nd Eye LLC. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 09/14/2018. under file No. 646428. This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company: Filed on 08/20/2019. /s/Rajesh Cheethirala, Owner. (pub dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658005 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Vargas, 1054 Carson Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657959 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Eaton, 20220 Suisun Drive, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657949 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Collins, 10300 N. Blaney Avenue, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657958 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Murdock Portal, 1188 Wunderlich Drive, San Jose, CA, 95129, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657955 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Stocklmeir, 592 Dunholme Way, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657954 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Regnart, 1180 Yorkshire Drive, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Murphy Mutual Water Company, 10230 Whiskey Hill Lane, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Barbara J Hauer, Amado Gutierrez, Joseph Jr Biafore, Pamela J Cornaggia, Linda Paolo Meiss, James G Frost, Jack Marshall Meiss. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than a Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2019. /s/Amado Gutierrez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657952

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658006

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658015

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Montclaire, 1160 S. Joseph Avenue, Los Altos, CA, 94024 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Garden Gate, 10500 Ann Arbor Avenue, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019.

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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Great Clips, 20686 Homestead Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Grace GCCA 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 09/09/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mark E Grace, Managing Member. #200925410138. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657947

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658014

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Choices For Children - 350 Woodview Ave., Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, 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 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Cumberland, 824 Cumberland Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, 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 7/1/2019.

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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657986

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658007

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Bishop, 440 N. Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, 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 6/9/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Cherry Chase, 1138 Heatherstone, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657975

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657984

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - El Toro, 455 E. Main Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Santa Teresa, 6200 Encinal Drive, San Jose, CA, 95119, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657977

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657981

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Nordstrom, 1425 East Dunne, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Nimitz, 545 Cheyenne Druve, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657985

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657988

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Trace, 651 Dana Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, 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 9/1/2005. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Sedgwick, 19200 Phil Lane, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657978

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657987

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - PA Walsh, 353 West Main Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Bachrodt, 102 Sonora Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110, 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 10/15/2003. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657971 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Del Roble, 5345 Avenida Almendros, San Jose, CA, 95123, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657989 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Graystone, 6982 Shearwater 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 9/8/2009. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657974 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Hayes, 5035 Poston Drive, San Jose, CA, 95135, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657982 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Parkview, 330 Bluefield Drive, San Jose, CA, 95136, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657983 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Faria, 10155 Barbara Lane, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 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 7/1/2019. 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 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Rise Academy Inc., 2. Rise PTO, 3. Rise High School, 4415 Fortran Ct., San Jose, CA, 95134, Rise Education System Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/29/2018.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Mehran Moalem, CFO. #4135880. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658808 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MCR

Development And Construction Group, 1537 Cross Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, Michael Steven Bernardo. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2010. /s/Michael Steven Bernardo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658535 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ben’s Barketplace, 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd., #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Prospeross. Inc., 20410 Summit Woods Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95033. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/06/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tram N. Ross, Secretary. #C4289933. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658842 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Saint Michael Residential Home, 86 Cashew Blossom Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123, Debbie Aguilar. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/17/2019. Refile in facts form previous filing #569829. /s/Debbie Auguilar. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658864 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wash And Dry, 1062 Story Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Project Freedom LLC, 593 Kings Cross Way, San Jose, CA, 95136.

This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Nam Nguyen, Owner. #201914110414. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658907 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1705 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658909 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1711 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658908 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1725 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658937 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Modesto Plaza, 1790 Winchester Blvd., Suite #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Raymond V Castello, Eileen J Marino, 900 Danny Boy Court, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Linda A Orr, 6760 Greenhaven Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95831. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Raymond V. Castello. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658935

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Castello, Castello & Teresi, 1790 Winchester Blvd., Suite #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Raymond V Castello, Eileen J Marino, 900 Danny Boy Court, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Linda A Orr, 6760 Greenhaven Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95831. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Raymond V. Castello. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NANE STATEMENT #658714 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: BGB Apparel, 3021 Huff Avenue, #209, San Jose, CA, 95128, Aryan Izadi. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/12/2019. /s/Aryan Izadi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/12/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658839 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kion Technologies, 481 Perry Ct., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Kion Tech Company. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. 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/Scott McKenzie, President. #C4311370.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659012 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arvizu’s Comics, 2125 Cunningham Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Carolyn Banh-Trinh Arvizu, Matthew Sutter Arvizu. 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/Carolyn Arvizu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659008 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: New Earth Dental Practice, 3535 Ross Ave., Suite 200, San Jose, CA, 95124, Mamak Saffarpour D.D.S. Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2002. Refile in facts from previous filing #598401.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mamak Saffarpour, President. #3750618. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658512 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Body Therapy by Lois, 685 Bolivar Drive, San Jose, CA, 95123, Lois Vega. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/06/2019. /s/Lois Vega. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658968

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fish Is Wild Fish Grill & More, 4180 N First., Suite #30, San Jose, CA, 94314, R&T Uniwealth Inc., 12918 Arabella Pl., Cerritos, CA, 90703. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/10/2010. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Randy Cheng, Secretary. #C3323898. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): MARGARET M. MADDEN, AKA PEGGY MADDEN CASE NUMBER: 19PR186579 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): MARGARET M. MADDEN, aka PEGGY MADDENA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave 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 as follows:Date: 10/30/19 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If 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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest 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 (name): Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408-758-4217 (Pub Dates: 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658822 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: South Bay Window Filming, 511 Atlanta Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Tyler William Swasey, 784 S. 5th St., San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #574930 /s/Tyler William Swasey. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659133 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gilland Electronics, 15145 La Alameda, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, John Stover. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/05/1990. Refile in facts from previous

filing #583296 /s/John Stover. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/24/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659011 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Immerse Skincare, 1700 Newbury Park Dr., STE 30, Area 105, San Jose, CA, 95133, Mina Son Kim, 1 Vista Montana #.4405, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/20/2019. /s/Mina S. Kim This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659168 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elizabeth Kobata Arts, 1135 Pome Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. 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/Elizabeth Kobata. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/25/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658855 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Traveling Therapists, 6184 Springer Way, San Jose, CA, 95123, Lindsay Guichard. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/01/2019. /s/Lindsay Guichard. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659151

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658836

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SimonMed Imaging, 105 South Dr., Suite 110, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Health Diagnostics of California, a Professional Corporation, 6900 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 700, Scottsdale, AZ, 85251. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Howard John Simon, MD, CEO/Owner/President. #200715610078.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: I’m Going 2 College!, 7062 Webb Canyon Drive, San Jose, CA, 95120, Annette Mackaness. 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/Annette Mackaness. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/26/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659238 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wynn Star Production And Talent Agency, 828 Lakehaven Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Mary Joy Guzman. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/04/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #590686. /s/Mary Joy Guzman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/27/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Human Centered Leadership, 2. Human Centered Leaders, 3277 S. White Road, #21717, San Jose, CA, 95148, Rapid Reasoning, 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. Refile in facts from previous filing #639979. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mark M. Whelan, Managing Member. #201623710310. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/25/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659207

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659047

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Garden Spa, 5406 Thornwood Drive, Suite 130, San Jose, CA, 95123, The Garden Spa, PO Box 22271, San Jose, CA, 95151. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. 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/Bon Nguyen, CEO. #C4308069. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A+ Commercial Services, Inc., 2526 Qume Drive, San Jose, CA, 95131, Yayakk, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/27/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Julie Demello, President. #C4309595. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659079 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kristal Gardens, 1285 Hoffman Ln., Campbell, CA, 95008, Kristal Lynn Beck. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #595996. /s/Kristal Lynn Beck.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658892 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Contenders Gym LLC, 410 Martin Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/18/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Thomas J. Espinosa, CEO. #200427910017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Norcal Hang Gliding, 1366 Teakwood Drive, San Jose, CA, 95128, Michael Anthony Briganti. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/26/2019. /s/Michael Anthony Briganti. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/26/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659053

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658835 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Broken Glass Creations, 1340 Miette Way, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Suzanne Young. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/16/2019. /s/Suzanne Young. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659034 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

June&Teenth, 2. Juneandteenth, 3. Cherriedotco, 530 Showers Dr STE 7, #169, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Cherrie Randle. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/19/2019. /s/Cherrie Randle. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Castello Properties, 1790 Winchester Blvd., Suite #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Raymond V Castello, Eileen J Marino, 900 Danny Boy Court, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Linda A Orr, 6760 Greenhaven Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95831. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Raymond V. Castello. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1956, the US

government launched a program to build 40,000 miles of high-speed roads to connect all major American cities. It was completed 36 years later at a cost of $521 billion. In the coming months, I'd love to see you draw inspiration from that visionary scheme.

According to my analysis, you will generate good fortune for yourself as you initiate a long-term plan to expand your world, create a more robust network, and enhance your ability to fulfill your life's big goals.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born Youtube blogger Hey Fran Hey has some good advice for her fellow Bulls, and I think it'll be especially fresh and potent in the coming weeks. She says, "Replacing 'Why is this happening to me?' with 'What is this trying to tell me?' has been a game changer for me.

The former creates a hamster wheel, where you'll replay the story over and over again. Victimized. Stuck.

The latter holds space for a resolution to appear."

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "The soul has illusions

as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

So declared French author Victor Hugo. I don't share his view. In fact, I regard it as an insulting misapprehension. The truth is that the soul achieves flight through vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and nonrational hypotheses and wild hopes—and maybe also by a few illusions. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to nurture your soul with vivid fantasies and effervescent intuitions and uninhibited longings and non-rational hypotheses and wild hopes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I know people of all

genders who periodically unleash macho brags about how little sleep they need. If you're normally like that, I urge you to rebel. The dilemmas and riddles you face right now are very solvable if and only if you get sufficient amounts of sleep and dreams. Do you need some nudges to do right by yourself? Neuroscientist Matthew Walker says that some of the greatest athletes understand that "sleep is the greatest legal enhancing performance drug." Top tennis player Roger Federer sleeps 12 hours a day. During his heyday, world-class sprinter Usain Bolt slept 10 hours a night and napped during the day. Champion basketball player LeBron James devotes 12 hours a day to the rejuvenating sanctuary of sleep.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Actor and dancer Fred

Astaire was a pioneer in bringing dance into films as a serious art form. He made 31 musical films during the 76 years he worked, and was celebrated for his charisma, impeccable technique and innovative moves. At the height of his career, from 1933 to 1949, he teamed up with dancer Ginger Rogers in the creation of 10 popular movies. In those old-fashioned days, virtually all partner dancing featured a male doing the lead part as the female followed. One witty critic noted that although Astaire was a bigger star than Rogers, she "did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and while wearing high heels."

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you may soon be called on to carry out tasks that are metaphorically comparable to those performed

by Rogers.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your No. 1 therapy in the

coming weeks? Watching animals. It would be the healthiest thing you could undertake: relax into a generously receptive mode as you simply observe creatures doing what they do. The best option would be to surrender to the pleasures of communing with both domesticated and wild critters. If you need a logical reason to engage in this curative and rejuvenating activity, I'll give you one: It will soothe and strengthen your own animal intelligence, which would be a tonic gift for you to give yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every time my birthday season comes around, I set aside an entire day to engage in a life review. It lasts for many hours. I begin by visualizing the recent events I've experienced, then luxuriously scroll in reverse through my entire past, as if watching a movie starring me. It's not possible to remember every single scene and feeling, of course, so I allow my deep self to highlight the moments it regards as significant. Here's another fun aspect of this ritual: I bestow a blessing on every memory that

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comes up, honoring it for what it taught me and how it helped me to become the person I am today. Dear Libra, now is an excellent time for you to experiment with a similar celebration.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Depression is when

you think there's nothing to be done," writes author Siri Hustvedt. "Fortunately, I always think there's something to be done." I offer this hopeful attitude to you, Scorpio, trusting that it will cheer you up. I suspect that the riddles and mysteries you're embedded in right now are so puzzling and complicated that you're tempted to think that there's nothing you can do to solve them or escape them. But I'm here to inform you that if that's how you feel, it's only temporary. Even more importantly, I'm here to inform you that there is indeed something you can do, and you are going to find out what that is sooner rather than later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "How inconvenient to be made of desire," writes Sagittarian author Larissa Pham. "Even now, want rises up in me like a hot oil. I want so much that it scares me." I understand what she means, and I'm sure you do, too. There are indeed times when the inner fire that fuels you feels excessive and unwieldy and inopportune. But I'm happy to report that your mood in the coming weeks is unlikely to fit that description. I'm guessing that the radiant pulse of your yearning will excite you and empower you. It'll be brilliant and warm, not seething and distracting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I envision the

next 12 months as a time when you could initiate fundamental improvements in the way you live. Your daily rhythm 12 months from now could be as much as 20 percent more gratifying and meaningful.

It's conceivable you will discover or generate innovations that permanently raise your long-term goals to a higher octave. At the risk of sounding grandiose, I predict you'll welcome a certain novelty that resembles the invention of the wheel or the compass or the calendar.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Modern literary critic

William Boyd declared that Aquarian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was "the best short-story writer ever," and "the first truly modern writer of fiction: secular, refusing to pass judgment, cognizant of the absurdities of our muddled, bizarre lives and the complex tragi-comedy that is the human condition." Another contemporary critic, Harold Bloom, praised Chekhov's plays, saying that he was "one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater." We might imagine, then, that in the course of his career, Chekhov was showered with accolades. We'd be wrong about that, though. "If I had listened to the critics," he testified, "I'd have died drunk in the gutter." I hope that what I just said will serve as a pep talk for you as you explore and develop your own original notions in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pisces-born Dorothy

Steel didn't begin her career as a film actress until she was 91 years old. She had appeared in a couple of TV shows when she was 89, then got a small role in an obscure movie. At age 92, she became a celebrity when she played the role of a tribal elder in Black Panther, one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

I propose that we make her one of your inspirational role models for both the coming weeks and the next 12 months. Why? Because I suspect you will be ripening fully into a role and a mission you were born to embody and express.

Homework: "Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it's not a problem for you." Comment.

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