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THIS MODERN WORLD

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Weak government = increased corruption.

What about more general equality in the trades, and careers like janitorial service, plumbers and concrete workers? Why just the boardroom?

I think my takeaway from the story is don’t talk to your neighbors. They will only catch you if someone has loose lips.

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If the wedding day is an indication of what the marriage is going to be like, then, my friend, you are doomed. I get that your fiancée wants everything to be perfect (which in my experience is a sure way for the day to devolve into chaos) but a big part of achieving wedding day nirvana is attitude.

So if you’re neurotic, rude, inconsiderate, and just overall bitchy it metastasizes to your wedding party, your wedding guests and even to the decorations. If you’re a grump on “the happiest day of your life” then even the floral centerpieces seem to wilt. Alas, that frown never turned upside down.

The ceremony started 45 minutes late because the sun wasn’t set perfectly behind the altar. Then, after you demand the guests talk amongst themselves in the 100 degree heat with no shade or refreshments, you extended the post-ceremony photoshoot. It get better!

You also surprised us with a TBD reception location, which turned out to be in Morgan Hill—almost an hour away from where the ceremony took place in Santa Cruz. Cherry on top? It was a dry wedding because—“ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!”—in an attempt to lose weight to fit into your dress, you’ve been sober the last 30 days and figured, “why not keep it going?!” No wonder you’re so uptight.

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Six weeks have passed since news broke about Santa Clara County DA JEFF ROSEN’S investigation of Sheriff LAURIE SMITH’s top brass and their process for issuing concealed weapons permits.

While information about the probe has been tough to come by, the SF Chronicle ran an article over the weekend that featured some previously unpublished information.

The Sept. 14 piece co-authored by Metro alumnus JOSH KOEHN noted that the DA actually served at least three warrants— two of which targeted a couple high-ranking sheriff officials and were apparently furnished prior to the Aug. 2 search at Smith’s HQ. Fly knows from previous reporting that one of those higher-ups was Capt. JAMES JENSEN. The article also They corroborated Did some of this news What? organization’s SEND TIPS TO previous reporting FLY@ on AS Solution, the METRONEWS. executive protection COM company that employs MARTIN NIELSEN, whose extraordinary $45,000 contribution to a pro-Smith PAC raised flags. The Chron got Google and Facebook to confirm that they work with the security firm, a tidbit Fly previously heard from within the ranks at AS Solution.

Finally, the Chron reported that concealed carry permits are required for some jobs at AS Solution. As we’ve noted before, that growing demand for armed executive protection in counties where concealed-gun permits are virtually impossible to get has created circumstances ripe for abuse.

Whether Smith or her allies slipped up by offering some kind of provable quid pro quo is an open question. It may be awhile before we find out what the DA’s managed to dig up through the secretive search and seizure of digital evidence and the files full of concealedgun permit applications. But there’s little doubt he’d target the county’s top cop unless he was onto something. If so, Fly expects to read all about it in a forthcoming criminal indictment.

CHA-CHING Piecemeal policies and fragmented oversight has led to concerning transactions by San Jose’s credit card-holding employees.

Credit Check Lax controls lead to questionable p-card spending by San Jose’s city staffers

BY GRACE HASE

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HE SHINY PIECE of plastic embossed with San Jose’s official seal gives city employees the power to spend taxpayer dollars in just one swipe.

At their best, city-issued credit cards grease the gears of local government by streamlining smalldollar buys such as travel expenses and office supplies. Absent enough oversight, however, they enable questionable purchases like, say, an Xbox gaming console, $500 speakers or a bunch of goodies from Ulta Beauty—all actual expenses charged to city credit in recent years.

For the most part, San Jose’s 992 cardholders played by the rules in racking up a collective $14 million though 50,000 transactions this past fiscal year. But lax oversight has allowed for some worrying lapses,

according to an internal review that looked at 4,000 of those charges.

In a recently issued report, City Auditor Joe Rois found that piecemeal policies and decentralized management have led to many missteps in the way employees handle their procurement cards, known as p-cards. The biggest offender? The sprawling Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Department, which racked up a quarter of the city’s p-card expenses in the 2018-19 fiscal year and more than 90 percent of late fees.

Granted, with more than 700 full-time employees, parks and rec is one of the city’s largest departments. But Rois says it may have doled out more p-cards than the guy in charge—namely Parks Director Jon Cicirelli—can reasonably manage.

House of Cards While Cicirelli’s department assigns

a p-card coordinator to review each of the 16,000 transactions logged this past fiscal year by 246 cardholders, he’s the one who gives them the final stamp of approval. The San Jose Police Department, by comparison, accounted for the second-highest number of p-card transactions with 6,500 distinct purchases but two people assigned to review them.

The sheer number of charges might explain how Cicirelli’s staff skirted policy by using p-cards to buy a $270 Xbox, $500 speaker set and $1,000 bicycle— and then losing track of all three.

In his defense, the reasons for buying the gaming system looked fine on paper.

Staff told him it was meant for 80 or so adults with mental illness and other developmental issues who attend an art and wellness program at the Northside Community Center. “The Xbox was purchased to foster physical activity among participants,” Cicirelli explains.

“Initially, staff was not sure how to secure the Xbox in a public space, and so it sat in storage.”

Since the audit, the entertainment console has been freed up to fulfill its intended purpose. But the way it was purchased underscores an ongoing need to rein in p-card spending in the department—and to get p-card payments under control.

From September last year through April 2019, parks and rec got slapped

Public Charge For weeks leading up to the release of the p-card audit, this news organization reviewed hundreds of p-card purchases made in the past year by City Council members and their staffers. All told, workday denizens of City Hall’s top floor charged 34 p-cards a combined $365,517 in the 2018 calendar year.

Vice Mayor Chappie Jones spent the least. The District 1 representative only swiped his card once, and that was back in September 2018 for a $300 ticket to attend the League of California Cities’ annual conference.

On the other end of the spectrum is someone who moved on from the city’s employ when her boss lost last year’s re-election to Councilwoman Maya Esparza.

Louansee Moua—the former chief of staff for Esparza’s District 7 predecessor, Councilman Tam Nguyen—finished out 2018 with a $52,745.38 p-card bill punctuated by a number of notable line items. A review of her receipts shows that Moua, who handled p-card purchasing for the entire D7 office, spent heavily on city-sponsored community events. She tells Metro that Nguyen would sometimes hold two to three

events a week as a way to reach out to a “very difficult district” that frequently grapples with homelessness, roadside dumping, illegally parked cars and RVs, crime and graffiti. “We were up to our eyeballs in events,” Moua says. “Council member Nguyen thought that was the best way to reach out to the community so that they had access to him and so that they have access to the resources.

That was what we were tasked to do.”

Some of the events, Moua explains, were convened to combat illegal dumping. “Dump Your Junk” weekends gave residents a chance to chuck mattresses, electronics and car tires into industrial-size steel containers instead of surreptitiously abandoning trash by the roadsides.

“This may sound like its not a big deal, but it was a pretty big deal to the people who lived in those areas to see their streets clean,” Moua says in her ex-boss’ defense.

But that doesn’t explain some of her biggest p-card bills, which came around the 2018 holiday season—after Nguyen lost re-election and as the D7 team coasted toward the end of its tenure at City Hall. In November last year, Moua spent $7,534.67 on her city p-card. She ran up another $14,692.97 the following month. Meanwhile, fliers for D7-hosted holiday events advertised free prizes, gift exchanges and raffles. Moua—on Nguyen’s behalf—spent nearly $3,000 worth of gift cards for those holiday raffles alone.

It was during that end-of-the-year, end-of-Nguyen’s-term charge-card spending spree that some of the most eyebrow-raising p-card buys cropped up. Namely, a $335.53 bill at Ulta Beauty for a Seven Trees holiday shindig and another held in honor of the late, great Iola Williams—San Jose’s first black councilwoman, who died about eight months prior at the age of 83.

The cosmetics store haul included a $14 Urban Decay Naked Petite Heat eyeshadow palette, a $29 Ulta Beauty Luscious Lips and Lashes Kit and a $38 IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream with SPF 50.

Moua defends the taxpayer-funded purchases as a means toward a civicminded end. She says the goal was to buy “not very expensive things,” and receipts from the Dollar Tree show that.

“We’re not spending a ton of money on one item,” she says. “We’re spending on little things and putting them together.”

But what of the not-quite-dollar-

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with $13,000 in late payment penalties.

Cicirelli attributed the hefty fees to a “staff transition” in late summer 2018.

After his team identified the issue, he says they “addressed it immediately” and paid it all down by May of this year.

The audit also dinged Cicirelli’s department for an inordinate tally of food- and drink-related p-card purchases.

Over the last four years, food and drink charges city-wide have spiked 34 percent, totalling $653,000 in the most recent fiscal year. Parks and rec has accounted for more than 90 percent of that growth. A few staffers in particular were chided for making routine bottledwater purchases for their own use—yet another violation of charge card policy.

Cicirelli says he’ll knuckle down on audit recommendations by revoking the number of cards in circulation and re-educating his subordinates about the rules of engagement for tapping the city’s line of credit.

While Rois focused his p-card review on the bureaucratic side of City Hall, Metro conducted an independent analysis that suggests the need for the socalled Capital of Silicon Valley to invest in more cutting-edge credit controls on the 18th floor as well.

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store-cheap makeup? Moua says she wanted to “make accommodations of giving away things” that “adults” would like. Whether she made similar “accommodations” for non-makeupwearing adults is unclear.

Coming in a not-so-distant second to Moua’s spending last year was District 6 Councilwoman Dev Davis’ Chief of Staff Mary Ann Groen, who charged $32,764.20 to her p-card in 2018. That’s quite a bit, considering how more than half of all 18th floor cardholders kept their individual bills for the whole year under $10,000.

Keeping Tabs

NO SHOW Despite being absent from the Silicon Valley Democratc Club’s candidate

forum Monday night, Otto Lee won the group’s official backing.

SV Dem Club Endorses Otto Lee for Supervisor

BY GRACE HASE With campaign season kicking into full gear, contenders for Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese’s seat explored some of the region’s most pressing issues at a Monday night candidates forum hosted by the Silicon Valley Democratic Club.

Of seven candidates in the running for the District 3 post, only four got an invite: San Jose Councilwoman Magdalena Carrasco, Assemblyman Kansen Chu, former Councilwoman Rose Herrera and former Sunnyvale Mayor Otto Lee. Of those four, just Carrasco and Chu showed up; Lee, who was out of town on a work trip, sent his campaign consultant Eric Stroker to speak on his behalf.

One candidate reportedly dropped out from not only the event but the race itself. Herrera’s no-show prompted chatter about her setting her sights on her old City Council seat in District 8,

where Sylvia Arenas is running for a second term. (Herrera’s campaign team did not immediately return San Jose Inside’s calls for comment).

The other contenders who missed the event were El Camino Healthcare District Director Peter Fung and recently resigned San Jose Planning Commissioner John Leyba. Anthony Phan pulled out of the race a while ago to pursue re-election to the Milpitas City Council.

Despite the small panel, the conversation moderated by Silicon Valley Organization Executive Vice President Madison Nguyen proved lively enough, with members pressing the candidates who did attend to talk about how they plan to address the housing crisis, homelessness, the region’s over-trafficked roads and how to leverage local government to combat climate change.

The club ended the evening by voting to officially back Lee’s candidacy, despite the candidate being unable to attend the event.

Unsurprisingly, that didn’t sit well with some of the other candidates.

In a phone call the following morning, Chu criticized the group’s endorsement process, saying the club allowed Lee to pack the room with new members who swayed the outcome. Normally, Chu said, a club would limit endorsement decisions to dues-paying members, or people with enough history to have earned that level of participation.

“I felt that the fairest way of voting is that you have to be a member and not to bring people in at the last minute, which makes it more of a popularity contest,” Chu said. “I could have brought people there, maybe 20 or 30 of them, but I didn’t do that.”

Nguyen and his cardholding proxy Moua have long since left City Hall (the former runs Assemblyman Kansen Chu’s campaign for Santa Clara County supervisor; the latter works for a public agency in the East Bay). But their dubious spending highlights a problem that persists to this day: a lack of real-time p-card accountability on the 18th floor.

City Clerk Toni Taber, who oversees the council’s p-cards, says that in December—Nguyen’s final month before leaving office––the D7 rep came uncomfortably close to going over budget. “The main issue was that [Moua] said she was going to spend less than she did,” Taber explains. “We had an issue trying to get some of the receipts. By the time we got the bill, she was already gone.”

While Moua’s purchases ultimately checked out, Beth Rotman—the director of money in politics at good-government non-profit Common Cause—called the spending “questionable,” to say the least. “What this makes me think of is campaign spending,” Rotman says. “On some level, everyone expects someone to buy pizza.

No one expects them to go out for steak dinners. This is a lot of money on wining and dining the district.”

And if Moua got a pass, that begs the question of whether San Jose’s p-card policy is too forgiving in the first place.

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COFFEE AND COWHIDE Just Leather has occupied the same spot on San Carlos Street for 52 years.

Condo-pocalypse Bracing for the inevitable upsurge of Googledriven development on San Carlos Street

BY GARY SINGH

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WELVE YEARS ago on this page, the anti-manabout-town wrote a travelogue about the stretch of Stevens Creek Boulevard and San Carlos Street—from Just Leather all the way eastward to Diamond Laundry & Cleaners—identifying components of what could be understood as the Melrose Avenue of San Jose’s underbelly.

Many of the places I mentioned do not exist anymore, and with

developers now dumbing down the street’s character with cookiecutter housing complexes, the time was right to revisit the grand promenade.

This stretch of road takes one to a different era. The streetscapes are leftover from decades ago, when San Jose wasn’t entirely filled in with suburbia and 280 didn’t exist yet, so miles of connector thoroughfares with single-story retail still made sense. Don’t fret, though.

Interesting stuff still remains, if you just ignore all the new housing.

The emotion started right away.

While riding the bus over to Just Leather, I overheard a former Del

Monte Cannery employee, now 74, on his way to the 99-cent store, waxing nostalgic about how cheap it was to live here decades ago. Never again, he said. It’s over.

Just Leather thankfully looked the same as when I first bought a jacket there in 1986. On the front window it still said, “Coffee is on,” like it did 33 years ago. The same little Honda motorcycle sat out front in the parking space like it did in the ’80s. If you don’t see that bike out front, it just means the place is closed. Inside, the coffee was on and I encountered what’s now the third generation running the joint. The original crew opened the store in 1967.

Across the street and just a year older than Just Leather, Falafel’s Drive-in was jammed at lunchtime on a Saturday. There was a Faction sticker on the front window, right underneath the Zagat designation—a yin-yang of punk and luxury. It doesn’t get any more San Jose than that.

From there, it was easy to get carried away. A slew of beautifully disfigured facades highlighted the

next mile, including San Jose’s celebrated row of antique shops. As always, each one featured its own janky panache and each one was doing business when I slithered in.

Believe me, the experience of hearing “Green, Green Grass of Home”

by Tom Jones while exploring the labyrinthine confines of a San Carlos Street antique shop is more necessary than anything WeWork will provide.

Neighborhood bars are important, too. If your hands are shaking prenoon, like mine used to be, Alex’s 49er Inn remains a highlight on this strip. Even though nearby icons like Time Deli, Thrift Village and Babyland are long gone, Alex’s lives in glorious infamy, as does Bears right down the street, formerly Bella’s Club. And no, I’m not forgetting the Red Stag. Even though the ancient stripmall in which it sits has been painted, fixed up and thus ruined, the Red Stag carries on. At these legendary watering holes, you will not find $17 artisan pickle sandwiches or craft brew hipsters bathing in beard oil. Instead, you’ll find heroic denizens of the gritty underbelly with stories to tell.

Not too far east, one finds residue from the city’s war on bowling alleys.

As recently as 50 years ago, Fiesta Lanes featured a drive-through restaurant and, in later decades, a pleasantly seedy lounge that forever stank of cigarettes. Alas, nothing remains but a dark beige housing complex and a driveway named after the bowling alley.

In, around and between all of this, you’ll find humble Ethiopian restaurants, tattoo shops, ginseng suppliers, vintage boutiques, a kickboxing gym and all sorts of wild places. Explore this part of town while you still can because the techie condo-pocalypse is coming. And it ain’t going to stop for no one, perhaps not even O.C. McDonald and Western Billiards, both of which feature the most rip-roaring old school signs still left on that street.

Someone better make sure those signs get preserved. Don’t trust the developers to care. They won’t.

Finally, I ended my journey at the legendary Diamond Laundry & Cleaners, right at the hideous 87 overpass. The crumbling wooden billboard is the oldest one in San Jose, and it shows. Somebody restore that masterpiece now!

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YOU DON'T KNOW ME In his new book, 'Talking to Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell argues that journalists—well, everybody, really—misunderstands their fellow man.

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UTHOR, PODCASTER and public speaker Malcolm Gladwell has carved a career out of turning conventional wisdom on its ear. In his 2013 book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, the longtime New Yorker staff writer proposed that he wasn’t surprised by the outcome of the fabled battle between the diminutive David and the hulking Goliath. After all, David had better technology, he says, as the sling was about as close as one could come to a pistol in the Old Testament days.

In and of itself, this argument might pass for boilerplate cocktail party contrarianism.

It is only after the writer and TED Talker doubles down that his case becomes quintessentially Gladwell-ian.

Examining all of the evidence before

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him—that is, the evidence taken from a millennia-old Biblical allegory—Gladwell comes to the sensible conclusion that Goliath suffered from a condition known to modern medicine as acromegaly.

“Acromegaly,” Gladwell explains in a TEDSalon talk from 2013, “is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland.”

Acromegaly is also known as gigantism. It is caused by an overproduction of human growth hormone and leads individuals to swell to abnormally large sizes. Professional wrestler and The Princess Bride star Andre the Giant had acromegaly. So, too, with the definitely real—and not fictional (or even composite)—Biblical character of Goliath.

Assertions such as these have consistently drawn backlash from Gladwell’s journalist peers, literary critics and dubious readers.

Reacting to his reinterpretation of the David and Goliath story, the Los Angeles Times posted ran an opinion piece titled “Slaying a Biblically Bad Idea.” HuffPo posted another rebuttal: “Why Malcolm Gladwell is Wrong About David and Goliath.”

And yet, it is precisely these kinds of assertions that explain Gladwell’s appeal.

Like all controversial pundits, from amateur social media pontificators all the way up to the President of the United States, there is clearly an audience for those who dispute expert analysis.

Besides, Gladwell isn’t seeking anyone’s approval anyhow.

CAMPUS CONUNDRUM In his latest book Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, Gladwell grabs hold of a number of political third rails in an effort to make his point. Gladwell argues we’re all downright terrible at reading people we don’t know—gleaning their true feelings, understanding their true motives and accurately interpreting their true intentions.

In a chapter called “Transparency Case Study: The Fraternity Party,” he uses the

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2015 case in which Stanford University student Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault to examine the problem of alcohol abuse on college campuses.

This would be a dicey proposition by any measure: Turner’s assault of Chanel Miller (who was known at the time as “Emily Doe”; she revealed her real name earlier this month) made national headlines when Santa Clara County judge Aaron Persky ignored prosecutors’ recommendation for a six-year sentence and gave Turner six months in county jail (he ended up serving three) plus three years’ probation. Perksy’s assertion that Turner’s lack of a criminal record and upstanding character warranted a reduced sentence led to the judged being recalled in 2018. The case led to changes in California state law about the definition of rape and the mandatory minimum sentencing for sexual assault of an unconscious or intoxicated person.

“The People vs. Brock Turner is a case about alcohol,” writes Gladwell.

He then proceeds to walk a very fine line in defining what his argument is about (a salient point about a lack of education for young people about the dangers of blackout drinking) and what it is not (a denial of the seriousness of Turner’s crime).

Gladwell knows that with both the Sandusky and Turner cases, he is venturing into territory that can be not only difficult to write, but also difficult to read.

“I have, after 30 years, an enormous amount of faith in my readers. I know who my readers are, and I know my readers read things carefully.

Those chapters both require careful reading,” he says. “I am not blaming the victim in the Brock Turner case.

I am making an argument about

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how we prevent these kinds of things in the future. That’s a subtle point, but I think people who listen to my podcast or read my books are totally fine with subtle points.”

Indeed, fans of Revisionist History will be familiar with other times Gladwell has taken on topics that other writers might consider taboo; for instance, the Brown v. Board of Education episode “Miss Buchanan’s Period Of Adjustment” (possibly the best episode he has produced), in which he attempted to lay out the problems black teachers faced in the wake of the landmark desegregation ruling without undermining the importance of the decision itself.

Gladwell says it’s not so much that he’s drawn to controversial topics as he feels like he should be taking them on at this point in his career.

“I would say that I feel I have an obligation to write about those kinds of things because I can. I’m now in a position—having been a journalist for a long time, and having established a reputation for myself and having a readership—to have the freedom to write about those things.

I can take the blow,” he says. “Sure, people will get upset, but it’s fine. I mean, I can handle that. A 25-yearold journalist starting out would be taking a real risk for their career if they were to approach some of these topics. I think when you’re an established journalist, you have an obligation to go where others can’t or don’t want to.”

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Malcolm Gladwell is a complete stranger to me. Sure, I’ve read a few of his past books—The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink, and his latest, Talking to Strangers—and listened to most of the four seasons of his podcast, Revisionist History. We talked over the phone, recently, and had a very enlightening conversation about his work. Most of the gatekeepers in the modern media world would now consider me eminently qualified to write a profile of Malcolm Gladwell.

Gladwell himself, however, would not. Because the truth is I don’t know him at all, really. I can tell you what point he argued in which episode of his podcast. I can definitely remember when I most emphatically agreed or disagreed with his conclusions. I can also do an impression of his voice that cracks up my co-workers.

That doesn’t really equip me to profile Gladwell as a person; all I’m really qualified to do is profile his ideas. Unfortunately, journalists often feel that’s not enough. They want to believe they understand something deeper about their subjects, which can lead them to overreach.

“I’ve always had a baseline skepticism about journalistic profiles,” Gladwell tells me. “I always feel they’re overly ambitious. The idea that you can sit down with a stranger and come to a reckoning of who they are, and what motivates them, in a short period of time is just nonsense. It’s just not true.”

Gladwell isn’t singling out journalists here. The conceptual through-line of his new Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don’t Know is that we’re all downright terrible at reading people we don’t know—gleaning their true feelings, motives or intentions.

“Journalists are not immune from the mistakes that all of us make, and maybe we ought to be a lot more cautious,” says Gladwell. “I think the best journalists do that. The best work, the most successful profiles are modest in their aspirations.

They aim to focus on a very specific part

of the person being profiled, as opposed to a global assessment.”

MISREADING & WRITING The Turner case is far from the only controversial topic Gladwell takes on in Talking to Strangers. Throughout his new book, Gladwell lays out example after example of times that the misreading of strangers has had historically catastrophic consequences, and in the chapter on Jerry Sandusky and the sex abuse scandal at Penn State, we see a couple of examples of profiles that the writers would probably like to take back, including one from the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays it on thick about a predisgraced Sandusky’s “ennobling” qualities. But even here, Gladwell’s point is not to shame the writers. On the contrary, the Sandusky section of the book attempts to build a complex case for why the people around Sandusky didn’t understand what was going on at the time. He argues that the fallout from the case led to a lot of misinformed scapegoating, including of Joe Paterno.

“I think Joe Paterno was treated abominably. It was completely wrong to blame him,” says Gladwell. “Having read hundreds of pages of the court transcripts, I don’t think a plausible case could be made that Joe Paterno had any inkling whatsoever of Jerry Sandusky’s activities. He did exactly what he was supposed to do: He notified his superiors immediately and turned the matter over to them.

That is what he was supposed to do.

I’m quite sympathetic to some of the Penn State people who feel that case was mishandled.”

The Sandusky part of the book is perhaps the toughest to analyze, and the easiest to criticize, partially because it’s a very limited discussion of a sprawling topic. Entire books could be written about who knew what, and when, in the Penn State story—and, of course, they have. The titles of these books alone make their vastly different conclusions apparent: Game Over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State and the Culture of Silence will never be

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MALCOLM GLADWELL confused for The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment. In the latter book, author Mark Pendergrast goes even further than Gladwell, arguing that Sandusky may very well be innocent, and that the same “repressed memory therapy” that spurred the fraudulent “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s played a huge role in the case—but he takes 400 pages to explore this argument, compared to Gladwell’s 35-page chapter.

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Through podcasting Gladwell says he has learned to tell stories in a whole new way.

THE REVISIONS The type of material Gladwell takes on in Talking to Strangers is not the only parallel with his podcast—in fact, the whole book is laid out like an episode of Revisionist History, or perhaps a whole season packed into one book.

It starts out with one character— Sandra Bland, an African-American woman from Chicago who was famously the victim of a bizarre and frankly terrifying traffic stop by a white cop in Houston, Texas in 2015.

Gladwell then weaves his way through many more headline-grabbing tales before returning to Bland’s story, and a fierce indictment of the policing system responsible for it, at the end.

This is a classic setup for a Revisionist History episode—the aforementioned Brown v. Board of Education episode, for instance, employed the same structure. And the way Talking to Strangers is so thoroughly characterdriven seems like a lesson Gladwell picked up from doing the podcast as well. Though Revisionist History is perhaps most famous for episodes like 2016’s “Blame Game,” which smashed popular misconceptions about the “unintended acceleration” recalls of Toyota vehicles in 2009, 2010 and 2011, I’ve always found the best episodes to be the ones solidly built

around characters first, and Gladwell’s trademark data analysis second.

Gladwell says it’s no accident that his latest book is so reminiscent of the podcast, and that Revisionist History has had a “profound impact” on the way he writes books.

“The podcast has been the dominant thing in my life now for four years, and it’s the thing I’m most excited about. It’s been a way to kind of—not reinvent, that’s too strong a word, but learn a whole new skill, and think about storytelling in a whole new way. It absolutely influenced Talking to Strangers,” he says.

The most definitive sign of that influence is the fact that instead of the traditional audiobook, in which he reads the text, he actually created— well, basically a podcast. It includes the audio from his interviews for the book, as well as archival tape that he discusses in the book, and music. And he’s more excited about it than the print version.

“It’s like a six-hour episode of Revisionist History,” he says. “This is an emotional book, and I feel like in some ways the audio book is better than the print book, because you get more. You hear Sandra Bland at the beginning talking about ‘my beautiful kings and queens,’ and she stays with you. And at the end, the whole thing, about the cop and the deposition, [State Trooper Brian] Encinia explaining himself, I have that tape. So you hear him, and it becomes really, really visceral and real.

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Gladwell cites a number of examples in his new book about how our own misplaced confidence in our ability to read other people has had disastrous consequences throughout history. He discusses Neville Chamberlain’s famous failure to judge Adolf Hitler’s intentions, leading him to foolishly return from Munich waving a piece of paper Hitler had signed, and promising “peace in our time.” He examines how the CIA went for years thinking they had faithful spies throughout Cuba, only to discover later that every single one of them was a double agent working for Castro.

He explains how truly astonishing the con job that Bernie Madoff pulled on his victims really was—all because he managed to create a false aura of sincerity and good intentions.

On the flip side, in one of the best chapters for explaining our inability to read the people around us, he deconstructs how Amanda Knox was convicted of murder not because she was guilty, but because she unintentionally acted guilty.

If all of this about perception and the length of time it takes to accurately parse information sounds a lot like Gladwell’s 2005 book Blink, that’s because it is. In fact, Talking to Strangers came out of Gladwell’s belief that his book about snap judgement had been widely misunderstood and misinterpreted in the media.

“Blink was a fascinating and frustrating experience for me,” he says, “because Blink was really a cautionary tale about our first impressions. It was a story that began with all the ways they work, and then the latter half of the book was about all the ways that we’re misled by our intuition. That didn’t quite come across. So this book first of all

zeros in on a particular kind of first impression, which is the relationship with a stranger. But I really wanted to squarely address what can go wrong, and the consequences of that. Just as David and Goliath grew out of Outliers, this book grows out of Blink. With a lot of my books, I write it once, then I sit with it, then I come back and tackle the issue again.”

Ultimately, Talking to Strangers looks at the problem of how we misunderstand strangers from both a macro and micro perspective. In the way it suggests the need for reform in our institutions—like policing, the justice system and militaryintelligence interrogation policies (the section on the biological reasons for the ineffectiveness of torture is a stunner)—it argues that action is needed to bring the systems of society in line with how our brains really work. But on another, individual level, it also suggests that the “default to truth” principle most of us use in everyday dealings with each other isn’t such a bad thing—even if it can be wrong. The alternative, he suggests, can be much worse.

“Let’s make sure that our institutions and practices conform to who we are,” says Gladwell. “But let’s accept ourselves for who we are, and stop pretending otherwise. We should stop beating ourselves up over our fundamental tendency to trust each other, and instead intelligently adapt to it.”

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NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS As previously reported, NICK’S NEXT DOOR founder and chef Nick Difu is growing his brand. LOS GATOS SODAWORKS is now open. Located… um… next door to Nick’s, the adult soda shop boasts an impressive menu of bar bites and top-shelf craft cocktails, all designed by celebrated mixologist Jason D. Seele. The food lineup ranges from simple snacks like citrusinfused olives to more sophisticated dishes like a Kobe beef carpaccio.

The cocktails are a mix of Seele’s creative interpretations of classics and his original creations, such as the Midnight Marauder, featuring a pandan-infused coconut cream and Havana Club rum.

POUTINE POWER The poutine at Funny Farm is some of the best in the South Bay.

Giggling Growth Funny Farm expands, SAJJ stretches out, Nick Difu moves next door to himself

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HEN I FIRST checked out Chef Ron Levi’s Funny Farm last May, I was impressed with his elevated bar bites and playful takes on classic comfort food. But I was more than a bit puzzled by the location—inside the Sideline Sports Bar off Santa Teresa Boulevard in South San Jose.

While the marriage of comfort food and alcohol is easy enough to get behind, dining in a dimly lit dive bar is not everyone’s scene. So those who enjoyed Funny Farm’s menu but shared my view on their original digs,

should rejoice in the opening of their second location—on Stevens Creek Boulevard, about a half-mile west of Valley Fair Mall.

Here customers can get that same “crazy good” food in a more genteel setting. The new Funny Farm features table service and an elevated aesthetic. Goodbye red plastic baskets; hello clean, white plates and thoughtful plating.

But don’t raise those pinky fingers just yet. Funny Farm isn’t posturing as haute cuisine. Just one look at the playful décor—designed by Chef Levi’s wife Monica—drives this point home. The interior features multi-colored, furry stripper poles, rubber chickens and a wall covered

in Batman-esque comic book onomatopoeic words, such as chomp, zonk and pow.

The new location is in its soft opening phase, as they are still working on their liquor license. Fans can expect an expanded menu to be unrolled in the weeks and months to come, but all the original favorites are still here. Their deep-fried, chimichanga-like Monte Cristo is a favorite, but I personally can’t get enough of their amazing poutine fries, which come with actual cheese curds. They even have poutine variations topped with buffalo chicken, short rib meat or a bacon cheeseburger crumble for those looking for a complete meal in a bowl.

FIRST 50 FREE Local chain SAJJ MEDITERRANEAN marks the opening of its 10th location later this month at San Jose’s MARKETPLACE CENTER on Coleman Avenue. This will be SAJJ’s fifth location in the South Bay and their second in San Jose. The rest are scattered up and down the Peninsula, San Francisco and in Southern California. SAJJ is known

HALAL HOMIES New certified halal Indian joint RUCHULU RESTAURANT just opened in downtown San Jose, on East Santa Clara Street between First and Second streets. Ruchulu serves-up all the ubiquitous Indian eats, such as curries, biryanis and wraps, and has almost as many vegetarian-friendly items as they do dishes for the carnivorously inclined. They also feature very walletfriendly lunch combos (MondayFriday, 11am-3pm, $8-$11). It’s also worth noting that they stay open until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.

ADIOS, CLAUDIA Sadly, right next door to the aforementioned Ruchulu, CLAUDIA’S PASTES has closed-up shop.

The purveyors of delicious and savory hand-held Cornish pasties (also known as empanadas) didn’t even make it to their one-year anniversary, as they just barely opened up shop last December. They are still currently maintaining a delivery site on GRUBHUB, with a message stating that they aren’t currently taking orders but “will be soon.” I’ll keep an eye on it and report back.

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Wed, 8pm, $29.50+ San Jose Civic

Thu, 8pm, $21+ City Lights Theater Company, San Jose

Comedian Tom Segura keeps audiences in stitches by drawing upon his own life experiences—as a father, a husband and a college kid on GHB. He’s easily one of the funniest people to ever come out of Cincinnati, which is also home Katt Williams… and William Howard Taft. Tom cohosts the “Your Mom’s House” podcast with his wife and fellow stand-up comic, Christina P. and is a frequent guest on a number of other shows. A natural humorist, his laidback style and in-themoment delivery blend well together with his prepared sets.

It’s sure to be a night of bellyaching mirth. (MMM)

An AstroTurf coming-ofage drama from the mind of Sarah DeLapp kicks off the company’s 2019-20 season.

This off-Broadway sensation nearly nabbed a Pulitzer in 2017.

Featuring an all-female cast, City Lights’ production of The Wolves is led by director Kimberly Mahone Hill—a dialect coach, associate professor at Santa Clara University, actress and an author of three books. The Wolves is the first of six women-penned plays in City Lights’ season, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The Wolves runs through Oct. 20. (CJ)

SINAVERSARY 3 Thu, 10pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose The Circus of Sin celebrates its third anniversary this Thursday at the Caravan Lounge. Featuring some of the South Bay’s wildest and most creative performers, this bawdy burlesque and variety show continues to draw a dedicated crowd. That’s thanks in no small part to the program’s debauched and demonic emcee, King Patrick—known for his wild costumes and unpredictable antics. The nudity, tall cans of PBR and general party atmosphere also bring people in the door. Be sure to carry paper money: The Caravan is cash only, and while the show is free, tipping is highly encouraged.

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All Aboard the Light Rail, the new EP from South Bay rockers 6 Speed Supernova, opens with an explosion. “Boom” channels the heavy pop sounds of bands like Heart and Dio—twisting chugging riffs and triumphant lead guitars around powerful female vocals. The message is clear: These guys came to the party to rock.

From there the EP winds through a variety of eclectic sounds, demonstrating the group’s funkier and mellower sides on songs like “Pinwheel,” “Something Out There,” “Groovy Stars” and “A.I.” This Friday, the band celebrates its recent release with a show at the Willow Den Public House. (MS)

The Center for Literary Arts at SJSU opens its 2019-20 season with Santa Cruz-based author and National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen. The event celebrates the launch of Reed Magazine: Issue 152, the university’s acclaimed literary journal, and will feature readings by several contributors before Franzen takes the stage. Franzen is the author of a number of novels, including The Corrections. He recently published an essay in The New Yorker arguing that climate change is inevitable and that we as a species must shift our focus from preventing it to grappling with its consequences. A $10 VIP reception follows the reading. (GS)

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METALACHI Sep 22 at The Ritz

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MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

SHANNON & THE CLAMS Oct 3 at The Ritz

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REDWOOD CITY SALSA FESTIVAL

Sat, 9am, $19.50+ St. James Park, San Jose

Sat, Noon, Free Courthouse Square, Redwood City

Nama-stay a while and unwind at San Jose’s annual Yoga, Culture and Compassion Festival. The day’s activities are aimed at helping people achieve physical wellness and peace of mind through a series of classes. Yoga may be in the name of the festival, but the selection of classes includes varying forms of movement— such as Capoeira and QiGong—as well as an assortment of sound healing workshops. Admission is free, and those who wish to participate will pay per class or purchase a $30 all-access-pass.

Proceeds and donations will go toward providing resources to the city’s homeless population. (KA)

Redwood City’s annual celebration of dance and picante sauce returns. Eleven blocks of downtown Redwood City transforms into a salsa-dancing playground on Saturday with three stages of live salsa, Latin jazz and reggae. And then of course there is the salsa. From mild to medium and hot to “what hath God wrought?!”—there’s a little something for everyone. Enjoy salsa tastings from top local chefs as they compete for bragging rights and the title of best salsa in the Bay Area. There’s also art projects, entertainment for kids and—praise be!—tequila tasting as well. (WB)

COMMUNITY DAY Sat, 11am, Free San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles Marimba, folklorico and a stitchyour-selfie community crafting session are all included in this free event, which revolves around the quilt museum’s current exhibit on Guatemalan textile art, Mayan Traje: A Tradition in Transition.

Members of The Fábrica, a Santa Cruz community textile workspace, will be on hand to show their craft and help participants hone theirs.

Catch live weaving demonstrations featuring the Mayan backstrap loom—the device traditionally used to create the Mayan traje (or blouse)—and participate in a sewing bee. While at the museum, check out the rest of the current exhibitions.(CJ)

POST STREET JUBILEE Sat, 6pm, Free Splash Bar, San Jose A joint effort between the Project MORE Foundation and the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, the Post Street Jubilee Wellness Festival aims to have fun while increasing the sexual health of the Bay Area’s LGBTQ community. In addition to DJs, dancers and drag queens, the festival will feature free and safe HIV and STD testing—available all night until 2am. Restaurants, bars and vendors will be serving food and drinks and selling merchandise during the festivities.

There will also be a light show, and glow sticks and free condoms galore. Join the conversation at #PartyOnPost. (CJ)

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MARK FARINA Oct 19 at The Ritz

REO SPEEDWAGON Oct 19 at San Jose Civic

DREAM THEATER Oct 30 at San Jose Civic

LUKE COMBS Nov 6 at SAP Center

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FABERGÉ FARCE The upper crust of Viennese society fumbles through first-world problems in ‘Die Fledermaus.’

Pomp-Posterous Opera SJ’s ‘Die Fledermaus’ is a bright and bubbly bourgeoisie farce

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PERA SAN JOSE’S newest production, Die Fledermaus, is a delightfully fun and breezy romp that exemplifies the company’s consistent standard of excellence.

The Strauss classic has its origins in a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix. French playwrights Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy

took notice and staged their own adaptation, Le Reveillon—French for “supper party.” Soon after, Le Reveillon was translated into German by Karl Haffner. The German version found its way to playwright Richard Genee and Strauss, who composed the libretto and score, respectively.

The opera premiered on April 5, 1874, at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.

Since then, it has not only been a staple of the theater’s repertoire but has grown in reputation, becoming

one of the most popular operas ever produced.

Opera San Jose’s adaptation opens on an upper-crust Austrian apartment, where consummate manabout-town von Eisenstein (Eugene Brancoveanu) has found himself in a bit of a pickle. Eisenstein was planning to attend Austrian Prince Orlofsky’s annual New Year’s Eve Party. However, a recent altercation that ended with Eisenstein punching a police officer in the face has thrown a wrench in the works.

A true reveler, Eisenstein decides to attend the fête, consequences be damned. Flouting the law and lying to his wife—so that he may attend the bash with his friend, Dr. Falke (Brian James Myer), instead of her— he heads to the party.

Eisenstein’s wife, Rosalinde (Maria Natale), is wise to her husband’s game, so she disguises herself as a

Hungarian countess and follows them to the ball. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, the couple’s maid, Adele (Elena Galvan), also lies to get out of work so that she may attend the party. She, in turn, disguises herself as a Russian actress named Olga.

A textbook farce follows. There are multiple instances of mistaken identity, and Eisenstein unwittingly attempts to seduce his own wife.

Yet somehow, after the party is over and the new year has been rung in, everyone walks away in a better, happier place.

Opera San Jose hits it out of the park, revelling in the hilarity and preposterous premise as the cast moves from one opulent, highceilinged room to another. As usual, the sets are both florid and spare, capturing both the opulence and vacuousness of the bourgeoisie. The same goes for the costume design.

While in a sense, it’s the standard late-Victorian haute couture, there is enough pomp and color to distinguish the world of Die Fledermaus as one of exclusivity and privilege.

The cast is lively and compelling, and makes the characters memorable. Brancoveanu’s Eisenstein is brash and witty, with a voice to match. Natale as Rosalinde is equally charming, but with an elusiveness that effectively captures her character’s particular situation.

As Dr. Falke, Mayer has the perfect supporting presence. The ensembles dance through the show with aplomb, exuding a festive energy.

Oddly, the least impressive aspect of Opera San Jose’s Die Fledermaus is the score. Though all the actors hit their notes without missing a mark, the music itself is rather ambiguous, flowing from one scale to another, leaving less of an impression than a bad aftertaste.

Ultimately, Opera San Jose’s Die Fledermaus hits all the right notes, expertly organizing chaos into excitement, ludicrousness into delightful absurdity.

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Haunted House

AS THE SUN sinks behind the Santa Cruz Mountains, a group of people mill about outside the Winchester Mystery House. A white-haired man at the gates urges them to go no further, for they will likely never return.

Based on the silver flask he’s white-knuckling, it’s safe to assume he’s seen some things he’d prefer to forget.

A historic San Jose estate with a legacy rooted in the supernatural, the Winchester Mystery House is a popular destination for those seeking close encounters with the astral plane. With the fall season upon us and October lurking right around the corner, the mansion has once again opened its doors to guests seeking an evening of paranormal activity.

In previous years, Winchester has offered spooky candlelit tours, replete with the same notable details regarding the house’s architecture and antiquity. This year, however, in an attempt to reimagine the way patrons experience the mansion, Unhinged dispels with history and spins a yarn separate from the mansion’s capricious Unhinged construction—taking the lore of the legendary estate and, much like Sarah did Thru Nov. 2, $44+ with her home, building upon it. The result Winchester Mystery House, San Jose is a menacing and purely fictional storyline. winchestermysteryhouse.com Small groups are led into the looming labyrinth. Traversing the puzzle of a house, guests enter rooms that have been closed to the public for close to a century. The authors of Unhinged play with this novelty, using it to ratchet up the tension, while performers act out sinister spectacles.

Guests will clamber up and down steep stairs like those on a submarine, happen across rooms with windows for walls and squeeze through strange passageways leading to different parts of the famed Mystery House, all while interacting with the fiendish spirits who have come to call Winchester their home.

Unhinged is a PG-13 event, so it’s best to leave the little ones at home.

In addition to the new narrative-driven adventure, visitors are invited to indulge in other activities on the grounds, such as ax-throwing, a scavenger hunt and Christine McConnell’s glorious gingerbread rendition of the Winchester House. A phenomenal light show is also projected onto manor itself. —Kael B. Austria

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NEON NOIR The vibrant colored lights of Los Angeles’ Koreatown form a prison in ‘Ms. Purple.’

Color Study ‘Ms. Purple’ showcases the power of pre-production, San Jose’s Tiffany Chu

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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URPLE IS THE color of mourning throughout much of the world.

Justin Chon’s acute Ms. Purple is a character study of Kasie (an affecting Tiffany Chu) an Angeleno who works as a doumi at the luridly neoned karaoke bars in Koreatown. “Doumi” translates as “helper.” What it means in practice is hustling soju, standing in a line-up with other hostesses and dealing with drunk, grabby businessmen.

Kasie makes money for the upkeep of her dying father ( James Kang), whose wife left long ago.

When her skidding brother Carey (Teddy Lee) turns up, there’s a tentative reconnection between the estranged siblings.

From New York by phone, the locally raised Chu defines her acting style simply: “I guess I just try to be as honest as I can.”

There were five weeks of rehearsal for her. The research involved a night at the kind of karaoke bar where Kasie works. ”Not comfortable, not pleasant,” Tiffany says tersely.

Born in Taiwan, Tiffany moved to San Jose when she was 8 months old.

She grew up near the intersection of Lundy Avenue and Hostetter Road, later attending Independence High.

During her sophomore year, Tiffany interned at CreaTV and made a film.

“My dad always took lots of pictures, so I learned darkroom photography.

One thing we always did was take advantage of the end-of-summer 1 cent sale at Office Depot. There’s a village in Taiwan, where they have to go down the mountain to get to school, so we donated all the stationary to them when we visited. I talked to the students and filmed them.”

At UC Irvine, where she studied at the Film and Media Studies Department, Tiffany took acting classes for her major, but she didn’t appear on stage. The acting was part of her plan to get deeper into film. “I always wanted to be in front of a camera, but I also wanted to learn everything about filmmaking,” she says.

Chu landed the role of Kasie after responding to a Facebook ad. “She had a natural melancholy quality,” Justin Chon recalls. The director asked Tiffany to watch Alicia Vikander in

her debut, Pure (2010) as an idea of what he had in mind for her role.

Chon based the dynamics between Kasie and Carey on his own family. “I have a younger sister,” he says, “and that’s what inspired me to tell this story. I’ve never had the misfortune of having to bury a parent.”

Chon started as an actor, playing Eric in the Twilight series. His directoral debut, Gook (2017), took the NEXT award at Sundance. It was an autobiographical black-andwhite drama about the Rodney King riots of 1992. Chon’s father was a shopkeeper in Paramount, a town on the other side of the 710 freeway from Compton. The store was emptied by rioters.

Ms. Purple, which played at this year’s Sundance, has a far richer visual texture than his debut. The color is intoxicating, with silhouettes of 80-foot Washingtonia robusta palms against the violet evenings, sentinels of the forlorn, old central L.A. Chon’s emphasis on subway stations and the romantic old interior of Union Station recalls film noir.

The colors of these nocturnes were all done in camera, not in post-production. “We created a lot before we shot. We planned a color pallette and shot at times of days that heightened the color.” He also slows the film occasionally, in instances that stutter frame by frame. “The director of photography Ante Cheng and I had talked about that for a while, I wasn’t quite sure how to do it. So we shot it both ways, figuring out to use these pauses in moments of great emotional duress.”

Distributed by the ever-eclectic Oscilloscope Films, Ms. Purple is the sort of small movie that usually turns up simultaneously in a theatrical release and on streaming.

The theatrical run for Ms. Purple is more than just a strategy to get the word out. Says Chon, ”I feel it’s kind of important to see in a theater. It has more power in a theater than in a laptop.”

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How Immigrants Made a Home in San José Thu, Sep 19, 6–8pm; galleries open 5–8pm In a time when social media, politics, and the pace of modern life are increasingly dividing us, finding connection through the unifying themes of struggle, triumph, and new beginnings is a way to help us all reconnect with our neighbors and ourselves.

Hear from four remarkable members of San José’s immigrant community who made their homes here. What unifies them today is that they, like us, have found a place to build a life in San José and enhance the multicultural and multicolored fabric of our city.

$5 after 5pm, free to SJMA members. Tickets at sjmusart.org/Journeys This program may include content not suitable for all audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

THE LONGEST RUNNING SOLO SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO THEATER HISTORY RETURNS TO SAN JOSE!

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NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN

GRATIS!

Join Award-winning actor, playwright, and talk show host Brian Copeland for an evening of laughter, tears and sociology as he explores how our surroundings make us who we are.

True stories and memories that are at turns funny, often mind-blowing, usually astounding— and always genuinely honest.

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

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DAD ASTRA Nerveless astronaut (Brad Pitt) confronts a distant father in ‘Ad Astra.’

Space Madness DIRECTOR JAMES GRAY tries his hand at the introspective Terence Malick style to crack the enigmatic calm of a Neil Armstrong type in Ad Astra. Brad Pitt, cool and handsome in a space suit, plays Maj. Roy McBryde—a famous man and a stranger to himself. In voiceover, Roy muses upon the lack of emotion that’s caused his wife (Liv Tyler) to leave him. He’s celebrated at Space Command for a resting pulse that never breaks 80. He is in control even while he plummeting from a stratospherepiercing antenna, nearly blacking out before his parachute opens…and then the chute is pierced by falling debris.

He has one nerve. The story twists it. Roy’s father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), was a renowned astronaut who abandoned his family for a oneway ticket into Neptune’s orbit. Now, inexplicable pulses from that sector of the solar system are zapping Earth, killing tens of thousands. Perhaps it’s from the anti-matter generator Clifford took with him. Has the old man succumbed to space madness? In one last gamble, the command sends Roy to Mars to broadcast a secret personal message to Clifford.

They’ve prewritten it for him.

Heart of Darkness parallels increase as Roy travels. Via endless first-person narration, we learn that the moon Ad Astra has been turned into a tourist destination, complete with an Applebee’s. Scolding stuff, compared to the fun PG-13, 123 Mins.

Paul Verhoeven in Total Recall. A lunar dune buggy chase Valleywide through the moon’s unpacified zones is a novelty, but

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The most exciting moments are the most traditional: Roy clinging to a rocket as the countdown has begun, or his scene of prowling a haunted space station.

Gray seeks the sweep and detail of TV’s The Expanse. But overexplaining dessicates Ad Astra, despite both its two billion mile scope and Hoyte van Hoytema’s glowing photography. The lost-father drama can be tedious, even in the deftest hands. Yet the celestial backdrop adds some allegorical freshness to the subject of fathers who are so remote that they might as well be in frigid orbit around one of the ice giants. Jones is terrific at demonstrating the inner deadness of a technical genius, as well as the flashes of the weakness and willfulness in a stubborn old man. In the end, just like High Life, all Ad Astra can do is helplessly endorse the beauty and preciousness of Earth. —Richard von Busack

BLUE MAN GROUP Death Cab for Cutie come to Mountain Winery behind ‘The Blue EP.’

Past & Present On ‘The Blue EP’ Death Cab for Cutie press forward by looking back

BY NICK VERONIN

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ENERATIONAL NOSTALGIA follows a reliable, cyclical pattern. What was once at the height of style will inevitably fall out of fashion, only to be reinterpreted and given a second life decades later. Lengthy lumberjack beards; the lean angle and long hood of the Dodge Charger; the practice of releasing singles and shorter, five-song “extended plays”—EPs—in between “full-length” albums.

“That’s been something we’ve done all along throughout our career,” says Nick Harmer, the founding bassist of

the veteran Washington indie band Death Cab for Cutie. “We always end up with extra tracks when we are recording. We like to make a proper home for these songs.”

It makes sense, especially considering how obsessed Death Cab has always been with fastidiously—if imperfectly—documenting the past. Over the band’s two-decade discography, front man and primary songwriter Benjamin Gibbard has honed the art of mis-remembering.

Funneling his lyrics through a lens that brings his subjects into crisp focus when viewed dead on, but quickly becomes fuzzy in its periphery.

He is the quintessential unreliable narrator. The approach works well for

Death Cab’s style of heart-on-sleeve storytelling. After all, it’s hard to be truly objective about the things and people that have hurt us the most.

Death Cab’s practice of holding onto leftover materials for later repackaging falls neatly in line with their ruminative, diaristic approach.

Examining their latest release—this month’s The Blue EP—from this vantage, the set scans like a carefully curated emotional scrapbook. This collection of musical clippings might have been interpreted differently when they were first recorded (mostly during the tracking of 2018’s Thank You For Today).

But that was then. Removed from those sessions, the songs comprising The Blue EP are free to take on new meaning—in the same way Gibbard recontextualizes the “souvenirs from better times” that he finds in the glove compartment on 2003’s mournful Transatlanticism single, “Title and Registration.”

For the most part, a feeling of loss pervades these compositions. Two of the tracks have the word “blue” in the title. But Harmer says there is more

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to it than that. “When we took a step back and looked at this collection, it felt blue,” the bassist says. “It named itself.”

EP-opener “To the Ground” imagines a car crash, which returns everything— the driver, motor and chassis—back to the earth from whence it came.

The second track, “Kids in ’99,” follows a similar storyline, as the Olympic Pipeline Explosion swallows up a group of children playing with firecrackers; the resulting blast shakes the foundation of the narrator’s home and reverberates back through the Death Cab for Cutie catalog, conjuring hazy memories of “explosions off in the distance” and “lighting firecrackers on the front lawn”—two lyrical snippets from another somber Transatlanticism single, “The New Year.”

The Blue EP’s closer, “Blue Bloods,” is both vague and specific enough to entertain multiple readings. However, looking north from San Francisco to Seattle—the hilly metropolitan home of Death Cab—it’s hard to interpret this tune as anything other than a scathing critique of the caustic influence big tech money has had on West Coast cities.

Here, our narrator watches as all the “East Coast blue bloods” argue over who loves his city the best. There he stands, “overdressed but woefully under-refined.”

One pictures Gibbard alone in a corner, the only one wearing a suit and tie at a gala populated by sales bros with Yale MBAs. “Blue Bloods” recalls a more recent entry into the Death Cab canon— “Gold Rush,” from Thank You For Today.

In it, Gibbard laments developers stripping his old neighborhood of its character, “digging it down and down / so that their cars can live underground.”

But then, perhaps I am allowing my own personal history and nostalgic biases color these songs. According to Harmon, “Blue Bloods” and “Gold Rush” aren’t so much about tech money as they are about loss.

“In these boom periods, people don’t stop to think about what makes the city and place that they’re at so special to begin with,” he says.

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1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Friday, September 20 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MUSTACHE HARBOR

Sunday, September 22 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MERSIV & MR. BILL

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Monday, September 23 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

DUB TRIO

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Tuesday, September 24 • Ages 16+

HOT CHIP

plus Holy Fuck Tuesday, September 24 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MYSTERY SKULLS

plus Phangs

Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 4 & 5 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) 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 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 29 & 30 Shoreline Mafia (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Sinead Harnett (Ages 16+) Nov 5 Earthgang/ Guapdad 4000 (Ages 16+) Nov 6 The Drums (Ages 16+) Nov 8 Sammy Johnson (Ages 16+) Nov 9 Ski Mask The Slump God (Ages 16+) Nov 10 Ekali (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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SEP 18–26 | “WE TOO BREAKFAST ON / SWEETNESSES.” An ode to my favorite fruit, from Gillian Clarke’s poem, “Plums.” They fade with summer and always, still, surprise me every spring. I look forward to next year’s harvest as I seek new sweetnesses.

Say “Farewell to Summer” this Friday with the final Jtown Art Walk along Jackson Street in San Jose. Peruse vendors, shops and performances throughout the neighborhood and let us bump fists if the we’re within bumping distance. On Saturday, the 2019 Coastal Cleanup Day focuses on beautifying Coyote Creek. Bring comfy shoes and know that you’re doing something great for the neighborhood and beyond.

Keep that greatness going by visiting Backesto Park for the 2019 Luna Park Chalk Art Festival, or go on Sunday as it aligns with Viva Calle SJ. Bring your bike, your feet, or hover on over if you’ve got the magic/force/tech. These events and more in my listings below.

Thanks for the tunes and the ear, Ric Ocasek! = MUST SEE

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WED 9/18 CHILDREN’S AUTHOR | MEET SHARON ROBINSON 3:30pm. Daughter of Jackie Robinson. Hicklebee's, 1378 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Royals West Coast Blues Jam. Fri, 6pm: On Tour: Lara Price Blues Revue. Sat, 6pm: Wee Willie Walker & Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: On Tour: Jenie Thai. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

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

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TALENT CONTEST | GO GO GONE SHOW 8pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

LAUGH-TIKI II: COMEDY NIGHT 8pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

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

THE RITZ

Wed, 7pm: Ex Hex, Seth Bogart, Taleen Kali. Thu, IMPROV COMEDY NIGHT: 8pm: Tooth & Nail Night NICK GUERRA w/ Dead River Rebels, 12 Times/Metro Ad, 5pm. Free with RSVP.Wed. 09/18 Gauge Promise, THE BIFFS, Backyard San Jose, 35 S 2nd Panhandlers Union, Chris St, San Jose Burkhardt. Sat, 8pm: Sheer Mag, Tweens, Marbled Eye. Sun, 7pm: Metalachi, Ethnocide, Satan's Blade. Tue, 9/24, 8pm: A//TAR, Outlier The Front Bar 400 S First St, SAM'S BBQ San Jose Wed, 6pm: Fred McCarty. Tue, 9/24, 6pm: Mighty Crows.

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM Wed, 9/25, 6pm: Jerry Logan 7pm. Doors 6:30pm. 21+ $7. & Loganville. 1110 S Bascom Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Ave, San Jose Redwood City

COUNTRY | MITCHELL TENPENNY & TENILLE TOWNES 9pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER 9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

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

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND 9:30pm. Rosie Mccann's, 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews

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

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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

BOSS FIGHT COMEDY SHOW

8pm. Game Shop Downstairs, 124 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: Live DJ/Band. Fri, 10pm: Live DJ/ Band. Sat, 10pm: Live DJ/ Band. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 9/19 THIRD THURSDAYS | JOURNEYS: HOW IMMIGRANTS MADE A HOME IN SAN JOSÉ

5:30pm. $5 after 5pm. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

CITYDANCE 2019 | BACHATA

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

ALL COMEDY SJSU PRESENTS SHENG WANG

7pm. $10. Free with SJSU ID. San José State University Student Union Theater.

POETRY | THIRD THURSDAY OPEN MIC FEATURING RUTH G. MOTA

7pm. Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

6pm. Japantown Art Walk.

229 Jackson St, San Jose

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Every night. Fri–Sat, 7pm.

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

AMERICANA | REKNROAD, THE SIBLINGS 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

BRAZILIAN MUSIC | BOSSA BLUE

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

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

BURLESQUE | CIRCUS OF SIN: SINAVERSARY 3

9pm doors. 10pm show.

Hosted by Some Guy with DJ Bit. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

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

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

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

FAREWELL TO SUMMER WITH JTOWN ART WALK

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: TGIFF: DJ Don Foley.

Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays: DJ David Q. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

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

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

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ 8pm. 3Below, 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

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

VOMIT BEAST, OCCLITH, THANGORODRIM, SLEGE

9pm. Donations accepted.

Playback Studios, 1813 S Tenth St, Unit A, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Grand Avenue Soul.

Sat, 9pm: Burnin' Vernon Davis & Bad Influence. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

FUNK/ROCK/R&B | SWEET HAYAH, THE NEW NOTHINGS

9pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

FRI 9/20 BRI CAUZ & JAKE RIVERS LIVE AT SANTANA ROW

5pm. Santana Row, 3088 Olsen Dr, San Jose

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Fri & Sat, 9pm–midnight: Live rock 'n roll & blues from.

Sun: Service Industry Night: 1/2 off drinks with industry card. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

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

SAT 9/21 KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

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.

CAUSE | 2019 COASTAL CLEANUP DAY: COYOTE CREEK

9am–noon. Meet up: Denny's, 1001 E Capitol, San Jose

2019 LUNA PARK CHALK ART FESTIVAL

10am. Backesto Park, 551 N Thirteenth St, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

JAZZ | JACKNIFE ENSEMBLE

8:30pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

ROCK | DRUIDS, KOOK, DRUNK MONK

9:30pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE & DANCING

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

STREET FESTIVAL | VIVA CALLE SJ

10am–3pm. Walk/bike route, 5k registration, and more at vivacallesj.org

CUMBIA/SALSA | LA MERA CANDELARIA PERFORMING LIVE

11am. Garden At The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, 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

KARAOKE | KATIE BLOOM’S

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am.

Campbell

MON 9/23 COMEDY | KEYES OPEN MIC

7pm. Hosted by Prisilla Torres.

S & H Keyes Club, 396 Keyes St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

7pm. San Pedro Market, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

TRIVIA @ UPROAR BREWING

7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

7:15pm. $20. Jose Andrade of Art Hub Academy. School of Visual Philosophy, 1065 The Alameda, San Jose

SAM MARSHALL KARAOKE 8pm. Pioneer Saloon, 2925 Woodside Rd, Woodside

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

8pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

TRIVIA @ 7 STARS

8pm. 7 Stars Bar & Grill,398 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

JAM | WEEKLY SESSIONS AT FIVE POINTS 8:30pm. Five Points, 169 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

9pm. St. Stephen's Green, 223 Castro St, Mountain View

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

9pm. Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd Santa Clara

MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE

10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

10pm. Lilly Mac's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

TUE 9/24 TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

Tue, 6pm. SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

6:30pm. O'Flaherty's, 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

7pm. 20twenty Cheese Bar, 1389 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St.

TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657802

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capricorn Hotel Group, 15640 Kavin Lane, Monte Sereno, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CA, 95030, Capricorn Global Investments, Inc. This NAME STATEMENT #634478 business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has yet begunperson(s) transacting business under the fictitious Thenotfollowing is (are) doing business business name or names listed herein. as: Simplyread Publishing, 371 ElanAbove Villageentity Lane,was formed in the state of California. /s/Kamal Patel, CEO. #122, San Jose, CA, 95134, Simplyread, LLC. This #3426323. statement was filed the County Clerk businessThis is being conducted by awith Limited Liability of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, Company.

Registrant began transacting business 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/03/2016. Above entity was formed in FICTITIOUS STATEMENT the state ofBUSINESS California. NAME /s/Debbie Whitmore.#657659 CEO. The following person(s) (are) doingwas business as: 1024 #2016223100461.

Thisisstatement filed with the Media, 174Clerk Goldenrain Dr.,Clara San Jose, CA, on 95111, Demone Lee County of Santa County 09/29/2017.

Carter. business is being conducted by an Individual. (pub This Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/01/2017) Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Demone Lee Carter.

This statement was filed with the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub NAME STATEMENT #634530 Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Rmj Building Maintenance, 1073 Chico#657944 Ct., FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Robert Anthony Maes, The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jr. ThisDesigns, business is Burrell being conducted Individual.

Moss 1514 Ct., San Jose,by CA,an95126, Elise Registrant has not yet begun transacting business Moss.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant transacting business the fictitious under thebegan fictitious business nameunder or names listed business or names listed Maes hereinJr. onThis 08/01/2015. /s/ herein.name /s/Robert Anthony statement Elise wasClerk filed with the County wasMoss. filed This withstatement the County of Santa Clara Clerk ofCounty Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019.

Metro 08/28, on 10/02/2017. (pub Metro(pub 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019) 11/01/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658075

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Waala Peeka, 285 STATEMENT Calypso Court, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Yogesh NAME #634586 Kondareddy. This business is being conducted by an The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Individual. Registrant began transacting business under Kataneh Services, #336, 5201 Terner the fictitiousConsulting business name or names listed herein on Way, San/s/Yogesh Jose, CA, Kondareddy.

95136, Kataneh 08/14/2019.

This Emami. statementThis was business isCounty being conducted byClara an Individual. filed with the Clerk of Santa County on Registrant(pub began transacting business under the 08/21/2019.

Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/03/2017.BUSINESS /s/KatanehNAME Emami.

This statement was FICTITIOUS STATEMENT #658084 filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mason 10/03/2017. (pubDe Metro 10/11,Dr., 10/18, 10/25,CA, 11/01/2017) And Market, 19444 Havilland Saratoga, 95070, Giftsuite LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

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260 E. Santa Clara St., San Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro Jose, 09/04, CA, 95113, Corporation. This business 08/28, 09/11,CBET 09/18/2019)

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The following is (are) business as: R Above entityperson(s) was formed indoing the state of California.

Janjua Transports, 1532 Moorpark Ave AptThis 3, San Jose, CA, /s/Thang Le. President. #C3973648. statement 95128. This business is being conducted by an Individual. was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under County on business 09/20/2017. (pub Metrolisted 10/11,herein.

10/18, /s/ 10/25, the fictitious name or names 11/01/2017) Amarjit Singh Janjua. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04,OF 09/11, 09/18/2019) STATEMENT ABANDONMENT OF USE

OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #634598 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658107 Thefollowing following person(s) / registrant(s) hasas:/ have The person(s) is (are) doing business Sunny abandoned the use ofSt.,the fictitious business Portraiture, 1679 S Main Milpitas, CA, 95035, Freelancer Inc, 173 W Hamilton Ave.,Not Campbell, 95008.

This name(s): Forget Me Spa, 43CA, S. Park Victoria business is Milpitas, being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant Unit 712, Ca, 95035, Charlie Hatfield, 2311 began transactingDr., business under fictitious business Meadowmont San Jose, CA,the95133.

Filed in Santa name names listed herein on 01/15/2019. entity ClaraorCounty on 03/02/2017 under file Above no. 627124. was formed in thewas stateconducted of California.

Manucha, This business by:/s/Sanjeev an Individual.

This President. #C3877260. This statement was filed with the statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub of Santa Clara County 10/03/2017. /s/Charlie Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, on 09/18/2019) Hatfield, Business Owner. (pub dates 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/01/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #634609

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658162 The following person(s) is (are) doing business The is (are) doing business as: San 1. as: following Icey Poki,person(s) 1085 E. Brokaw Road, Suite 30, Hero Builders, 2. Hero Builders Inc., 3. Hero Builders, Jose, CA, 95131, 3L Poki, Inc. This business is being Inc., 4. Hero Builders, A California Corporation, conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant 21670 Shillingsburg Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120,began Hestia transactingInc. business under isthe fictitious business Construction This business being conducted by a name or names listedhas herein 10/03/2017.

Above Corporation.

Registrant not yetonbegun transacting entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ business under the fictitious business name or names Jianzhao Li.Above President. listed herein. entity#4037265. was formedThis in thestatement state of California.

Griswold, Secretary. #C4284328. was filed/s/Melanie with the County Clerk of Santa Clara This statement was filed with County Clerk of Santa County on 10/03/2017. (pubthe Metro 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 11/01/2017) 09/11, 09/18/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW NAME CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS STATEMENT #657617

NAME, CASE NUMBER: 17CV316633 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alum Rock High BoosterPERSONS: Club, 1435 Koll Circle, Suite TO ALL INTERESTED Petitioner (name): 106, San Jose, CA, 95112, Randi Maureen Mcmasters, Sophia Noreen Hussain for a decree changing Fulgence Fulay, 1776 Educational Park Dr Building K, San names as follows: Presentisname: Sophia Noreen Jose, CA, 95133.

This business being conducted by an Hussain. Proposed name:Other Sophia Noreen Huxley.

Unincorporated Association Than A Partnership.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious this matter before court the hearing business nameappear or names listedthis herein onat 07/18/2019. indicated below toThis show cause, ifwas any, why thethe /s/Randi Mcmasters. statement filed with County Clerk Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub petition forofchange of name should not be granted.

Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18,to 09/25/2019) Any person objecting the name change described

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above must file a written objection that includes FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT #657807 the reasonsBUSINESS for the objection at least two court days before person(s) the matter is scheduled to be heard The following is (are) doing business as: and must appear 6203 at theSan hearing show why Taliangel Transport, IgnaciotoAve Suitecause 110, San the CA, petition not be granted.

If This no written Jose, 95119,should Jonathan Tautai Leaupepe. business isobjection being conducted by filed, an Individual.

Registrant began is timely the court may grant the transacting businessa under the NOTICE fictitious business name or petition without hearing.

OF HEARING: names listed herein 08/14/2019. /s/Jonathan Leaupepe.

January 9, 2018 aton 8:45 am, room 107 Probate filed This filed with the County Santa on: statement October 3,was 2017 (pub dates: 10/11, Clerk 10/18,of10/25, Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 11/01/2017) 09/25/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW NAME CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS STATEMENT #658139 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home NAME, CASE NUMBER: 17CV316632 In Harmony, 1848 Booksin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Dawn Abernathy. This business is being conducted by Aidan ZahidRegistrant Hussain for decree changing names an Individual. hasanot yet began transacting as follows: Present name: Aidan Zahid Hussain. business under the fictitious business name or names Proposed Aidan Zahid Huxley.

THE COURT listed herein.name: /s/Dawn Abernathy.

This statement was ORDERS that all persons this matter filed with the County Clerk of interested Santa Clarain County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/18, 09/25/2019) appear before this court at09/11, the hearing indicated

below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657117 objecting to person(s) the nameischange described The following (are) doing businessabove as: must file a written objection that includes reasons Cryosculpt Los Gatos, 336 Village Ln., Suitethe D, Los Gatos, for95032, the objection at least two CA, Theresa Ann Sweet, 410court Santadays Rosabefore Dr., Losthe matter scheduled to be heard andconducted must appear Gatos, CA,is95032.

This business is being by anat Individual.

Registrant business should under the hearing to showbegan causetransacting why the petition the fictitious business name or names listed herein on not be granted. If no written objection is timely 05/23/2019.

Refilemay in facts fromthe previous filing #655287 filed, the court grant petition without a /s/Theresa Ann Sweet. statement was filed with the hearing. NOTICE OFThis HEARING: January 9, 2018 at County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub 8:45 am, room 107 Probate filed on: October 3, 2017 Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019) (pub dates: 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/01/2017)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS OF (NAME): JOHN RAY BALL CASE NUMBER: NAME STATEMENT #634514 19PR186317 person(s) is (are)contingent doing business as: ToThe all following heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, creditors, and persons who may otherwise interested the Van’s Gift Shop & Pure Water,be2380 SenterinRoad, will estate, both, ofThanh (specify allThi namesby the SanorJose, CA,or95112, Van Pham,which Vu Anh decedent known): JOHN RAY Petition Nguyen,was 3078 Warrington Ave,,BALLA San Jose, CA,for 95127.

Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James This business is being conducted by a Married J.Couple.

Ramoni,Registrant Public Administrator of the County of Santa has not yet begun transacting Clara in the Superior Court of California,County of business under the fictitious business name or (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests names listed herein. /s/Vu Nguyen.

This statement that (name): Public Administrator of the County of was filed with the County Clerk ofrepresentative Santa Clara to Santa Clarabe appointed as personal County onthe 09/20/2017. (pub MetroThe 10/11, 10/18,requests 10/25, administer estate of the decedent. petition 11/01/2017) authority to administer the estate under the Independent

Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without FICTITIOUS BUSINESS obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, 634695 the personal representative NAME STATEMENT will required person(s) to give notice to interestedpersons Thebefollowing is (are) doing businessunless as: they have waived notice or consented to the proposed Yoga Inside Out, 1460 Kingfisher Way, Sunnyvale, CA, action.) The independent administration authority will be 94087, unless Nikki Wong.

This business is being conducted granted an interested person files anobjection to by petition an Individual.

Registrant began the and shows good cause whytransacting the court should business under the fictitious name will or names not grant the authority.A hearingbusiness on the petition be listed onas10/11/2012.

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This statement 9:01 a.m. Dept.: court: 191 N. First Street, San 95113 you object to the granting of the wasJose, filedCAwith theIfCounty Clerk of Santa Clara petition, should appear the hearing state your County you on 10/06/2017. (pubatMetro 10/11, and 10/18, 10/25, objections 11/01/2017)or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Yourappearance 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 courtwithin 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 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408758-4217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657929 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cosmic Energy Therapy Center, 10845 N. Wolfe Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Qi Wang, 2345 Sutter Ave Apt 4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. 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/Qi Wang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RHR Creations, 3309 Famille Ct., San Jose, CA, 95135, Ritu Boparae. 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/Ritu Boparae. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/15/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658091 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Summit Psychotherapy, 859 University Ave., #21, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Felicia Barr. 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/Felicia Barr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658264 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vineyard Blinds & Shades, 2685 Glen Ferguson Circle, San Jose, CaA, 95148, Steve Kim. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/28/2019. /s/Steve KIm. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/28/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658164 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wild Wonders, 1065 Greco Ave #203, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Santosh Sathyanarayana Honnavalli. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/22/2019. /s/Santosh Sathyanarayana. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MAY AL-DADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADA CASE NUMBER: 19PR186225

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): STEVAN PHELAN CASE NUMBER: 19PR186581

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MAY ALDADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADAA Petition for Probate has been filed by KHALED AL-DADA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa ClaraThe Petition for Probate requests that KHALED AL-DADA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to 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 they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 16, 2019 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 a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner: Tisa M. Pedersen – SBN 251466Thoits Law, APC400 Main Street, Suite 250Los Altos, CA 94022650-3274200(Pub Dates Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

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): STEVAN PHELANA 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 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal 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): 408758-4217(Pub Dates: 9/04, 9/11, 9/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658083

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658003

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gr8rails, 905 N. 4th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Gr8rails, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Manjit Singh Khalsa, Chief Of Operations. #201923210547. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657926 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Roberts Enterprises, 874 Rubis Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, James Lee Roberts, Eric Allan Roberts, 822 W Iowa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Tracy Ann Roberts, 1211 Ballena Blvd, Alameda, CA, 94501. 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 01/22/2009. /s/Eric Allan Roberts. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658306 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Karaoke, 1694 Tully Rd., #20, San Jose, CA, 95122, Quang Huy Dang, 5768 Chesbro Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Quang Huy Dang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/26/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Falcon Learning, 1128 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, SHC Global LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Anh Dau, President. #201918310282. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658419 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)

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, 2019 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 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 #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)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CASE NO. 19PR185912 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 1, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, as Special Administrator of the estate of JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property commonly known as 1775 S. King Road, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, more particularly described as:Lot 706, as shown on the Map entitled, “Tract No. 1790, Tropicana Village, Unit No. 2”, which Map was filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on September 18, 1958, in Book 97 of Maps, Pages 38, 39, and 40.Excepting Therefrom the Underground Water or Rights Thereto with no rights of surface entry, as granted to San Jose Water Works, A California Corporation, recorded in Book of Official Records Numbered 4194, at Page 273. 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, Publice Administrator of the County of Santa Clara as Special Administrator of the estate of JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO reserves the right to reject 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, Lynne Olenak, Sereno Group Real Estate, 12124 Saratoga-Sunnyvale, Saratoga, CA 95070; Telephone: (408) 656-0895. All written bids or offers must be in sealed envelope and will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on October 1, 2019 at the offices of the Public Administrator 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 Administrator County of Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Publication Dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2018)

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 #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

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 #657489 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Auric Glow, 5621 Cottle Rd., San Jose, CA, 95123, Daisy Castillo, 86 North 11th St., 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 08/05/2019. /s/Daisy Castillo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/05/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657952 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657947 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657986 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657975 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657977 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657985 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657978 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658006

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Garden State, 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658014 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 #658007 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 #657984 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 #657981 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 #657988 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 #657987 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)

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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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658015 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 #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)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO CASE NUMBER: 119PR185912

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYOaka JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, aka JOYCE CARAVAYOA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in 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 the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection 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: October 4, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Yourappearance 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 courtwithin 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 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408-7584217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): We're in the equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it's a favorable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes. Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night. And don't you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear." So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it's doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated? It's not possible. That's the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some things don't change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago.

Then there's Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about one US dollar per year, and that fee hasn't increased in almost 500 years. While I am in awe of these bastions of stability and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you'll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Granny Smith apples are

widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth. Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crab apples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple, and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future: a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way," writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece, and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase?

Identifying the help and support you'll need for the rest of the process.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1959, scandal erupted

among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter.

Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75 percent of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards. Finally there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called peanut butter unless it contained at least 90 percent peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign. It's time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say no to dilution and adulteration.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, the city of Cleveland, Ohio staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art galleries, gardens, and sideshows. One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton, 6,000-page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed down, the "biggest book in the world" went missing. If it still exists today, no one knows where it is. I'm going to speculate that there's a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have

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lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace. Here's the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you'll find it before the end of 2019.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1990, the New Zealand

government appointed educator, magician, and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics and cheering people up.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There's really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Do silly things,"

advised playwright Anton Chekhov. "Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life." I think that's a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is not one of those times for you, in my opinion.

Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before comedian

Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years, and received more than 3,000 of these gifts.

Even though you'll be around on this Earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply.

This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actress and author

Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. "God," she wrote, "make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear." As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the Civil Rights Movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now. You're in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Syndicated cartoon strip "Calvin and Hobbes" appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For example, in 1992, 6-year-old Calvin decided "The Big Bang" was a boring term for how the universe began, and instead proposed we call it the "Horrendous Space Kablooie." A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin's innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world.

It's Identify-Shifting Time.

Homework: Say these words in front of a mirror: "It's bad luck to be superstitious."

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My friend thinks I’d do better in dating if I went on those sites that match people according to “similarities.” Most of the couples I know aren’t that similar. Could those sites be wrong? How much does similarity matter for being a good match with somebody and the chances of a relationship working out long-term?—Single Woman There are points of difference that are simply a bridge too far—like if one partner enjoys shooting dinner with a crossbow and the other bursts into tears every time a short-order cook cracks an egg into a frying pan.

And there are three areas in which partner harmony seems essential to happy coupledom. If couples have clashing religious beliefs, political orientations or values, “it’s found to cause tremendous problems in a marriage,” explained psychologist David Buss. There are couples with differences in these areas who make a go of it, but in general, the committed Catholic and the aggressive atheist go together like peanut butter and a leaf blower.

Beyond the big three, the notion that you and your partner need to be all matchy-matchy to be happy together just isn’t supported by science. Admittedly, the notion that partners should match like a pair of nightstands has powerful intuitive appeal, hitting us in our craving for consistency and order. This, perhaps, leads many people—including many psychologists—to buy into the bliss-ofthe-clones myth, the notion that we’ll be happiest if we find somebody just like us.

Not surprisingly, dating sites take advantage of this widely believed myth, hawking features like the “billion points of similarity” compatibility test. Dating sites advertising themselves with a meaningless test reinforce the myth that partner similarity equals romantic happiness, and this belief has a real downside, according to research by psychologist Michael Norton.

Consider that when we first meet a person, we get excited about all of our apparent similarities. At this point, and in the early days of a relationship, we’re prone to identify similarities where none exist, spinning ambiguities into support for their being just like us. But Norton explains that as partners get to know each other, dissimilarities begin to surface. And this leads partners who were initially stoked about how alike they seemed to be to become less satisfied with each other and the relationship.

Interestingly, it seems that

dissimilarity between partners gets an undeserved bad rap. Discovering this took more sophisticated methodology than in previous research, in which scientists basically tallied up ways partners were alike and different and then looked at how satisfied they were with their relationship.

Psychologist Manon van Scheppingen instead explored interactions between romantic partners over an eight-year period. Their findings suggest that partners’ personality traits don’t have to match perfectly; in fact, sometimes, their having differences is ideal.

Take conscientiousness, a personality trait reflecting self-control and a sense of responsibility to others. According to her team’s research, if one partner was low in conscientiousness, their relationship worked better and they were happier when they were with somebody higher in conscientiousness.

The one distinct exception, where the researchers found similarity was consistently best, was for women only, regarding “agreeableness.” This personality trait plays out in kindness, cooperativeness, warmth and concern for others. When a woman’s partner had a similar level of agreeableness, it was associated with her finding her partner more supportive.

The upshot of this stew of findings is that happy coupledom seems to depend on an interplay of factors. This in turn suggests that what makes for happy relationships is largely “process”—how two people communicate, foster each other’s growth, solve problems and manage the intractable ones.

Beyond this and beyond the three vital areas where partners need to be in tune, what seems important is for partners to not be sharply different in ways that will make them unhappy together. To avoid that, you need to dig into yourself and figure out what your deal breakers are.

For example, if you’re an urban girl like me, no amount of love would change your belief that the only reason to spend a month in a cabin in the wilderness without indoor plumbing is that you’ve been kidnapped and are tied to a chair.

(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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After a ‘Good Morning America’ segment angered the international dance community by mocking England’s six-year-old Prince George for taking ballet, San Jose’s NEW BALLET SCHOOL invited local men to participate in a class aimed at destigmatizing male dancers.

RONNIE LOTT with wife KAREN at

Artist LEO VILLAREAL at the donor dinner and reception celebrating the opening of Stanford Health Care’s brand new hospital in Palo Alto.

WARREN G poses with STEVE KIRSNER at the SAP Center, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

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the Montalvo Food & Wine Classic fundraiser.

ICE CUBE was on hand to celebrate SAP Center’s 25th Anniversary.

Radio legend BOB KIEVE visited the ball he had signed by Babe Ruth and other baseball greats, now on display at Oracle Park.

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