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Last week, Santa Clara County finally released a current list of people who received permits to pack concealed guns.

One of the names didn’t surprise us, considering DA JEFF ROSEN’s probe into whether anyone improperly paid their way to an approved permit.

MARTIN NIELSEN, an account manager at executive protection firm AS Solution assigned to its Facebook contract, won a scarce-to-come-by concealed-gun permit no more than six months after donating $45K to They an independent political Did action committee supporting Sheriff What?

LAURIE SMITH’s reSEND TIPS TO election. Also on the list: FLY@ his former colleague METRONEWS. RACHAEL PASKVAN, COM who jumped ship from AS Solution earlier this month for a better-paying executive security gig at Facebook.

But at least two other people who nabbed a permit in 2019 worked with Nielsen at AS Solution. On March 26, the same day Nielsen and Paskvan got the green light to secretly pack heat, AS Solution bodyguard JONATHAN TAUNTON did, too. A few months later, so did another Nielsen executive protector, LEONARD LAWRENCE. Nielsen’s the handler for AS Solution’s contract to guard SHERYL SANDBERG and MARK ZUCKERBERG, among others, and Taunton, Lawrence and Paskvan were part of a team he assembled.

But those same AS Solution sources say that, to their knowledge, there was no professional need for those gun permits.

Facebook has been a client for years, “so there couldn’t have been any pressure on that end, either,” a security veteran remarked in a recent phone chat.

Whatever the case, it’s unlikely Nielsen acted alone.

Someone else deposited $70,000 into his Citibank account shortly before he cut that $45,000 personal check to the pro-Smith Santa Clara County Public Safety Alliance committee—a sequence of events that appears to violate election laws against donation laundering.

CONNECTIVE ISSUE San Jose is set to roll out 5G technology for the masses, whether they want it or not.

G Whiz As San Jose rolls out 5G, cell phone tech is being called out for health scares

BY CHRIS ROONEY

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HE TIMING couldn’t be any better for 5G technology to appear on the scene. Not because the fifth generation (hence, 5G) of mobile networking will connect people with each other—and all of their gizmos and gadgets—faster and better than ever before.

It’s certainly cool, even for the multitude of us who will never understand how it all works, that San Jose struck an auspicious deal to enable what’s being called the nation’s largest deployment of the new technology. Telecom companies will pay the city $750 for each light pole they equip with 5G antennas; San Jose will put the $2.2 million a year in estimated proceeds into a “Digital

Inclusion Fund” to bring broadband to 95,000 local households that have gone without internet access in the purported Capital of Silicon Valley.

So yeah, there’s a lot to be excited about. We’re on the brink of blazingfast wireless broadband. But part of the beauty in 5G’s timing is that it’s also kinda scary. It’s a Shiny New Thing for our already frightening times.

Let me explain. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare educated a nation in paranoia.

Watergate taught Americans that even our highest-ranking leaders couldn’t be trusted. And now, we live in a golden age of not being able to trust anyone or anything. Electronic devices eagerly divulge our personal info to the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Russian hackers. In-home devices with sultry voices (Alexa and Siri) listen to our personal conversations

and pass the gory details along to who-knows-where.

Beyond data breaches and technospying, though, are growing fears that tech advances come with big health risks. In the era of “fake news”—borne of a Sharpie-clutching president who thrives on conspiracy theories—public trust in supposedly trustworthy sources is at an all-time low, and public paranoia on a range of hot-button issues (vaccinations, for example) is the order of the day.

Pythagoras and Aristotle must be spinning in their graves—or at least texting about reports of Russian hackers ginning up health risks of 5G to further divide Americans.

A quick spin through the history of 5G: It’s the fifth generation of mobile networks—1G gave you analog voice service via old-timey cell phones; 2G upped the ante to digital service, making it fancier and more reliable; 3G allowed for access to mobile data (streaming, email); while 4G provides for a portable internet to accompany cell service.

Provided it bypasses growing opposition to purported health risks, 5G will offer new levels of performance and efficiency to all mobile broadband services—and supposedly for cheaper rates.

York Times story from last year that’s cited by Wheeler in his Brookings blog, the Russians are now trying to confuse matters: “Now, the Russian disinformation campaign has embraced this as a means of further sowing dissent in our nation.”

Wheeler argues that “RT America— the Kremlin’s principal propaganda outlet in this country—has been describing 5G as a Dangerous Experiment on Humanity and warning of adverse health consequences. RT America has been alarming its viewers with warnings ‘it might kill you.’”

Wheeler was unavailable for further comment, says a Brookings spokesperson.

While the Russians reportedly spread fear, American scientists struggle to dispel falsehoods about 5G—or at least conduct research that puts health risk into context without being charged with being a shill for the Telecom industry.

Dr. Steven Novella is founder and executive director of the Science-Based Medicine blog. He’s an academic clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine, an author and host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast.

The professor recently offered an online explainer on 5G’s potential vs. its threats. He did not respond to requests for further comment.

“Imagine if a new technology was being proposed that would provide a substantial convenience, to the point that most people would use it in one form or another, and our economic infrastructure would be reshaped around this new technology. However, the technology involves some risk and scientists estimate that 50,000 people in the US would die each year as a consequence of its widespread use.

There is even risk to people who do not use the technology. With optimized safety measures and regulations, we could get this number down to 35,000 or so. Would the new technology be worth the risk?”

Novella wasn’t talking about 5G. He was talking about cars. “In 2017 in the US, 37,000 people were killed in automobile accidents. The point is that we accept some risk along with the convenience of some modern technologies. This context is important as we consider adopting new technologies. Nothing is without risk, and the best we can do is minimize

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Proponents and lobbyists compare the advent of 5G to innovations like the automobile and electricity. The same people also say once 5G is embraced globally (by 2035) it will potentially produce up to $12 trillion worth of goods and services and create some 20 million jobs. That’s the job of proponents and lobbyists—someone probably said similar things about eight-track players back in the day.

It doesn’t help that we live in strange times, or that President Donald Trump attempts to turn back every Obamacreated plan to protect Americans from dirty water and air. Trump lifts bans on menacing chemicals. He champions asbestos. He rejected climate change as a hoax, and coddled the coal industry.

The list is sort of endless, and 5G naysayers make at least one credible point: The government surely isn’t going to look out for their health and safety. Not this government, anyway.

Government brush-offs of health concerns are nothing new. PG&E’s SmartMeters were supposed to improve the utilities’ ability to collect data, but some Californians complained of headaches and other maladies when meters were installed. The California Public Utilities Commission, historically a rubber-stamp for PG&E interests, negated those complaints as delicately as a bulldozer. They dismissed the concerns and called it dumb science, which is another way of saying “fake news.”

With that in mind: Are there genuine health risks associated with 5G? The Russians want you to think so.

Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017, recently presented a paper on the topic. Wheeler’s with the Brookings Institute these days, and his paper lays down the history of litigation around claims of health risks that have been a part of the cell phone revolution since the outset.

Lawsuits alleging adverse health effects from mobile phone exposure have been rejected by the courts under the so-called “junk science” standard.

The Food and Drug Administration’s analysis of the debate echoes the conclusions reached by numerous courts that have adjudicated the matter: “The majority of studies published have failed to show an association between exposure to radiofrequency from a cell phone and health problems.”

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DANG IT A trio of downtown neighborhood associations have joined forces in a group called

DANG to amplify the voices of residents as Google prepares to transform San Jose.

Diridon Neighbors Form Coalition to Shape Google-Spurred Growth BY GRACE HASE As downtown San Jose starts to rapidly evolve with taller buildings, an expanded public transit system and Google’s mega-campus, a few neighborhood groups have joined forces to make sure residents stay engaged through the revisioning process.

The Diridon Area Neighborhood Group—that’s DANG, for short— launched Sept. 9 and is made up of the Shasta/Hanchett Park, Delmas Park and North Willow Glen neighborhood associations. The three areas converge right at the doorstep of Google’s prospective downtown campus.

But while the tech giant’s new offices have made headlines as the epicenter for downtown growth, DANG will widen its focus to more than just the home of future Googlers. BART, high-speed rail, VTA, building height limits and nonGoogle developments have all been tapped as priorities to keep an eye on,

according to Kathy Sutherland, one of the group’s founding members.

Sutherland sits on San Jose’s 38-member Station Area Advisory Group, which is already at work shaping a vision for Dirdon’s redevelopment, but she says voices of residents get drowned out by the chorus of industry professionals on the board. Much of its membership, she says—including transit and development experts from organizations such as VTA, SPUR and Silicon Valley at Home—are paid to be there.

“There’s so much going on that to think that any volunteer can take this on is a lot to ask, and it’s overwhelming,” Sutherland says.

“I couldn’t possibly attend all the meetings about this area because I work, as do most people.”

To guide the group of neighborhood leaders, DANG retained land use consultant Bob Staedler, principal of Silicon Valley Synergy, as an adviser.

“When Google started, it was going

to be 10 years out,” Staedler says. “All of a sudden, the framework comes out and they’re announcing they’re going to start construction in two years when they haven’t figured out how you’re going to get people in and out on a daily basis.”

Staedler says they’ll meet with Google, San Jose city officials, developers and the Station Area Advisory Group, among other key actors. Overall, he says, they want to work with the city to “do more outreach” and “be more active.”

“The framework has a lot of holes in it,” Staedler says. Forming the group, he adds, “creates a win-win situation here.”

While DANG is coming to the conversation to voice residents’ concerns, Sutherland says that doesn’t mean it’s anti-development—or anti-Google.

“We know where we live and we live there intentionally,” she says. “But as neighborhood leaders, we’re looking out for all of the people who live in the surrounding area.”

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risk, and consider the overall risk–to– benefit ratio of any new technology.

Demanding zero risk, however, is unrealistic and will likely cause more harm than it prevents,” he writes.

Novella highlights the promise of 5G—faster communication, decreased lagtimes—as he argues that the health-impact controversy over 5G’s risks are a question of context. “There is some controversy about the science itself,” he writes, “but mainly opinions vary in terms of how to interpret the implications of that risk.”

He calls for further research into the issue of EMF exposure, given that “the only proven biological effect of exposure to EMF, even at 5G frequencies, is slight tissue heating. There are many other effects hinted at in the research, but none have been reliably replicated and therefore are not established. Further, many of the biological effects are simply looking at changes in markers of biological activity.”

Novella’s point is that anti-5G research efforts to date “don’t show actual hazard, just the potential for hazard if we make a chain of assumptions about what the markers mean.” He’s calling for more research even as he drills down on the “speculative hazards” associated with the 5G rollout.

The majority of scientists, including organizations and regulatory bodies like the National Cancer Institute, the FDA and the EPA, look at this research and conclude that the hazard is minimal and the current safety limits are adequate. But some scientists have looked at this same data and come to a different conclusion, emphasizing extreme caution. “The bottom line is that the consensus is that there isn’t much potential hazard from 5G, but there is a lot of speculative hazard that is driving a lot of the media concern,” Novella says. “We do need to continue to do research, as 5G technology changes, so this will be an evolving area that does need monitoring.”

At present, however, Novella says there does not appear to be a reason to ban the technology.

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NOTEWORTHY EVENT Jonathon Franzen signs autographs for fans who showed up to see him launch the 152nd issue of Reed magazine.

Writing Life San Jose State University’s ‘Reed Magazine’ mirrors the school’s development

BY GARY SINGH

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UTHOR JONATHAN Franzen showed up in downtown San Jose last Friday, lending his celebrity to the launch of Reed issue number 152.

Edited and produced entirely

by SJSU English Department students, Reed is the oldest literary journal in California.

“The editors have good taste,” Franzen said, on stage at the Hammer Theatre.

For once, everyone agreed with him. But even before Franzen took

the stage for his headlining slot, Reed’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction editors all said a few words and introduced the winners of various 2019 competitions—the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry, the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction and the Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction. For each annual issue of Reed, student editors and their assistants plow through a slushpile of over 1,000 submissions for the magazine— entries from all over the globe.

Guest editors choose the winners of the competitions. Various sponsors donated the prize money, which

helps bring the winners in from out of town if they don’t live here. The full-color magazine looks just as professional as any big-name literary journal you see on the newsstand— that is, wherever newsstands still exist.

The deadline to submit for next year’s issue is Nov. 1.

The history of Reed is inseparable from the history of San Jose State.

The journal goes back almost all the way to the school’s very beginning, when in 1867, students of the California State Normal School began publishing in pamphlet form.

The school eventually changed its name to the State Teachers College, after which in 1935 it became San Jose State College. Then in 1972 the name became Cal State San Jose and finally, in 1974, San Jose State University. Likewise, the journal grew and grew, evolving into The Reed after WWII and then shortening itself to just Reed in 1948.

If you’re asking whether or not the name honors James Frazier Reed, the legendary Donner Party

survivor, the answer would be a resounding yes. Reed was an original pioneer settler of California and one of the titans of San Jose history. He donated some of the land on which SJSU and St. James Park now sit. He was also instrumental in San Jose briefly becoming California’s first capital after the state was admitted to the union. Reed Street in downtown San Jose is named after him. Many other streets in the same neighborhood—Margaret, Virginia, Martha, Patterson, Lewis and Keyes—are named after his family.

He’s buried in Oak Hill Cemetery if you want to visit his remains.

But I digress. With Reed, diversity is the spice of life. Just in the last several years, the journal has featured Pulitzer Prize winners and jailhouse scribes, seasoned old salts right alongside emerging teenagers. Writers from across the ocean—or in my case, across the street—have contributed.

The current issue explodes with full-color artwork and powerful pieces of poetry, prose and essay. The entire package rivals any rich private university’s lit journal, anywhere in the country. Reed is just as much a part of the Bay Area literary landscape as anything else.

I treat you with this info for a reason. I owe a lot to Reed because the journal was the first place I ever published a story. When I was finishing up grad school at SJSU, I held down a miserable student tech support job in the crumbling old Wahlquist building, mostly troubleshooting Windows 95 machines, printers, TCP/IP and office LAN issues on Compaq Presario desktop machines. The job was a drudgerous joke with long periods of soul-crushing boredom, so one morning, while completely hungover in my cubicle, on the clock, I began to write violent experimental fiction instead of doing my job. With no expectations to ever become a professional writer, I completed a short story in a few days and submitted it to Reed, which they accepted for the 1998 issue. That building is no longer there, of course, but the experience put me on a path from which I never left.

Which means no one should ever give up. If you have the ambition, submit to Reed by Nov. 1. If writing saved me, it can save you, too.

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HE COZY WORKSPACE overlooking the Guadalupe River Trail was designed for multitasking. Tonight, it’s a classroom. Desks are arranged in neat rows, facing the front of the room, where a clean whiteboard gleams— reflecting the golden hour light streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Tallying the number of people entering the room—located on the sixth floor of the Riverwalk Tower building on West San Carlos Street, part of a block of space leased by WeWork—I lose count at 40. By the

time the instructor begins leading the lesson, close to 60 have crowded in.

They’re all here for a free beginner’s course on “social intelligence.” Jaunty, the Bay Area startup running this workshop, claims that anyone—from the mildly awkward to the seriously introverted—can overcome their social jitters and achieve meaningful interpersonal interaction.

I’m curious on a personal level to see if Jaunty can help me overcome some of my own social anxiety. Could a class really help me feel more comfortable in my own skin?

In today’s workshop, we go through the insights and techniques that Jaunty holds up as the key

to unlocking more meaningful connections with others, whether they be platonic, romantic or professional.

The skills taught throughout the company’s paid six-week course are status, rapport, approach and conversational agility, humor and play, magnetism and charisma—and lastly, the shifting of one’s own mental framework.

Workshop instructor Melissa Goldberg, draws a pyramid explaining how attraction works according to the Jaunty model. We redefine confidence. We practice a technique that Goldberg calls “threading,” which, if successful, should banish awkward silence in one-on-one conversation.

She drives home Jaunty’s main pitch: anyone has the potential to become the social wizard. It just takes practice… and, of course, a little do re mi.

SOCIAL SURFER Jaunty was born out of two serious wipeouts. After taking a bad fall while surfing in San Diego, Jaunty founder Eric Waisman spent six months laid up with a slipped disc between his L4 and L5 lumbar vertebrae.

It was 2008, the Great Recession was taking shape and Waisman— recently laid off from his job as a wealth adviser and financial planner with Merrill Lynch—spent his convalescence reading books on brain

WAIS-GUY Eric Waisman,

is easy Silicon Valley ‘social intelligence’ experts Jaunty teach introverts to unlock the extrovert within

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science and human behavior while doing some serious soul searching.

“Every three days, I’d finish a book,” Waisman says, adding that he feels like he walked away from the experience with something like a “master’s degree” in behavioral science. “As I slowly healed, I just really learned about myself and said, ‘I need to get out of finance. I need to help people. I love people.’”

Waisman, 40, is a Bay Area native, born in San Francisco and raised in Larkspur. Before founding Jaunty in 2013, he’d spent his professional life helping others make financial decisions and plan for the future.

The job often required him to lean on a skill he’d first homed in on

while studying at the University of Northern Colorado. Back in those days, Waisman served as his fraternity’s relationship guru.

As he grew older, Waisman’s interest in the unwritten rules of human interaction grew. As a financial adviser, he was frequently called upon to walk couples through important budgeting practices and investment strategies. This sometimes required that he get to know his clients intimately. Furthermore, during his time at Merrill Lynch, Waisman would drum up new accounts by throwing on a suit and infiltrating upper-crust social events all over San Francisco. The goal was always the same: to meet wealthy

individuals and convince them to let him manage their portfolio.

Sneaking into the city’s socialite shindigs—sometimes through the kitchen—and “schmoozing with the elite of the Bay Area,” was its own kind of master class, Waisman says. Every night, he took mental note of how people carried themselves and related to others. He got to know his marks’ personal philosophies and zeroed in on their insecurities. He learned how to stoke their egos. He was studying.

It wasn’t all business. It was also fun.

Finessing a free drink from the bar, figuring out who was dating whom and who was really running the show —Waisman found it all fascinating, and more than a little thrilling.

He was learning the underlying code of successful social interaction— the ones and zeros of interpersonal communication. He was Neo, and he was beginning to see the Matrix.

The same year that Waisman tumbled from his surf board, Merrill Lynch also took a gnarly spill— plummeting from atop tidal wave of subprime mortgages. Fortunately for Waisman, he was ready to deploy the skills he had learned tinkering with social mechanics toward a more noble goal.

LIFE HACK After his back healed, Waisman

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founder of the ‘social intellegence’ company Jaunty, believes that everyone can learn to be more outgoing.

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walked away from Wall Street and its wolves. Merrill Lynch had darkened his view of finance. He was tired of the toxic work culture and upset that he had sold—unwittingly, he says—so many junk bonds in his time with the company.

Waisman started Jaunty with the goal of passing on the social dexterity he’d picked up over the course of his life and career. The free bimonthly group sessions are structured to teach the basics of social craft—and to convince attendees to shell out for the six-week comprehensive course. The fee each student pays is determined on a case-by-case basis.

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‘Everyone I see, I just wonder, what would it take to connect with them?’

Business has been good for Jaunty.

The company has led sessions with the biggest tech firms in the Valley— including Google, Yelp and WeWork.

Its second location launched in San Jose this past May, and they’re opening a third center of operations in Los Angeles. Waisman says that his services are in demand—especially in the Bay Area—because Silicon Valley’s social structure is broken.

He should know. Waisman was 20 when the first dot-com bubble burst.

He lived through the subsequent economic downturn and has since seen the rise of Web 2.0. Mobile devices and big tech money have transformed the globe, but they’ve had an incredibly profound impact in his own backyard.

“We’ve got blinders on. We’re so in a rush all the time, we forget about people,” he says. “We’re just so plugged-in… It’s hard to say ‘Hi’ in line at Starbucks today.” While it’s impossible to pin this social entropy

on tech alone, he believes Silicon Valley’s workaholic culture can go a long way toward explaining the phenomenon.

However, Waisman says, there is an antidote. Just as Google serves up answers to questions and Trello will schedule your life, Jaunty will help you hack your relationships. It is a quintessentially Silicon Valley solution to a Silicon Valley problem.

Like so many in this region, Waisman is obsessed with understanding how things work from the inside out. But instead of studying traffic patterns in order to design safer self-driving cars or deploying artificial intelligence to help people write punchier, grammatically sound emails, it’s people Waisman is interested in.

“My curiosity for people is just endless,” he says. “It’s a bottomless question. Everyone I see, I just wonder, what would it take to connect with them?”

Many people working in technology think about the world in a very methodical way, Waisman says. Too many self-help books and life coaches confuse students with incredibly broad mantras.

“Be confident. Find your true self and be that. It’s not very helpful,” he says.

Jaunty approaches the practice of social interaction the way an engineer might approach a new project—by highlighting a number of inputs that are likely to generate a desired result. This technique appeals to many Silicon Valley introverts on an analytical level.

Tech “people really love having systems,” he says. “And so having rules or having ‘A to B equals C’—our class was kind of built on that and creating structures and formulas that everyone can do. So, a lot of people who think in those terms really connect with it.”

Perhaps more importantly, however, the Jaunty system rejects the idea that some people simply can’t socialize well. “It undoes, ‘You’re born with it,’” he says.

Social skills can be learned, and individuals can improve upon their social skills without erasing their personalities in the process. The Jaunty team says it’s all about building upon what’s already there and finding ways

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DARK ARTS For those who recall the cynical and manipulative pickup artist movement of the early 2000s, Jaunty’s formulaic approach to meeting people may sound like a familiar swindle.

Listening to Waisman launch into a step-by-step breakdown of the mechanics of casual conversation, it’s not hard to imagine him donning a fuzzy Jamiroquai hat and negging women at a local ultra lounge.

It’s even more tempting to make the pickup artist connection while listening to Waisman talk shop with Manhattan dating coach Chris Luna. Through his blog, Craft of Charisma, Luna offers one-on-one relationship coaching, as well as tips on creating a knockout Tinder profile and learning “10 Simple Steps to Make Her Want You.” Waisman is the featured guest on a March 2017 episode of Luna’s Craft of Charisma podcast. During that episode, Waisman uses terms and turns of phrase that dovetail with the pickup artist vernacular: approach, “chatting up a group of women,” and teaching “nice guys to be great men.”

Waisman says he was never deeply involved in the pickup scene, though he concedes that he knew of it, and admits he read The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. Published in 2005, the book was one of the central texts of the PUA community. It’s author, Neil Strauss, now brands himself as a reformed pickup artist; his 2015 follow-up to The Game, is titled The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships.

“I did play around with that, but I think that stuff felt really manipulative,” says Waisman, stressing that Jaunty is all about intentionality. And while Waisman allows that some of the Jaunty curriculum may be connected to pickup artistry, he insists that he and Goldberg aren’t simply looking to help their students get laid.

To his credit, over the course of the 2017 podcast Waisman continues to

emphasize that he doesn’t want his clients to trick anyone into thinking anything about them—and perhaps most importantly, he says no one should try to trick themselves. “I think it’s important that you do that stuff for you first,” he says to Luna. noting that true confidence stems from being comfortable in one’s own skin.

“What do you really want? What’s important to you?” Waisman asks students. “At the end of the day, is it about you being supported and loved? At the end of the day, is it about you caring and being empathetic?”

Jaunty does, in fact, screen its clients prior to admission to make sure they’re a good fit—and Waisman has turned some away for ill intentions.

Some are just looking to carve a few more notches in their belts. Others might not benefit from the class if they’re unwilling to put in the work.

One Jaunty alum, Bhuwan Agarwal, was a willing student.

Agarwal attributes his new job at Amazon to the time he spent working with Waisman. Before Jaunty, he explains, his interactions were too direct. He was untactful and often rubbed people the wrong way.

“I think I was always genuine; it’s just that I wasn’t presenting it in a way that was acceptable,” Agarwal says. “This conversation that we’re having right now, I don’t think I would have been able to do this four years ago.”

Agarwal had to switch up his approach, but it wasn’t about manipulating people or being fake.

“And that’s the biggest thing—that I can be myself,” he says.

YES, COACH Originally from Rockwell, Maryland, Melissa Goldberg was named Jaunty’s lead San Jose in May. She comes from a background of non-profit work and coaching—a proponent of what she calls the “show up and speak” approach to life.

On top of her work with Jaunty, she continues to coach clients through her own company, Speech Capital.

Goldberg has taught an array of human connection and authentic relationship skills and has been a

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to smooth out kinks while spinning idiosyncrasies into points of strength.

“That’s something we push,” Waisman adds. “Finding our best rather than trying to be something else.”

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bold, outgoing person since she was young. She was approaching Senators and CEOs as a teenager, advocating for policy and the changes she wished to see in the world, such as antidiscriminatory legislation.

She’s seen how valuable and vital connection is for health and healing.

On a three-day project with the Cheyenne River Youth Project in South Dakota, Goldberg worked with the non-profit’s team so they could connect more meaningfully with the people they were serving. These skills aren’t a game—they affect the quality of life itself, and like everything, are the output of feedback loops and past experiences.

“For the Lakota people, they have so much trauma in their history that eye contact is challenging,” Goldberg says.

On a more widespread level, getting hurt through social interaction impacts many people and their social comfort. “A lot of individuals have all sorts of traumas that make eye contact harder—or other challenges in their lives, or ways that they’ve been rejected in the past that make them not want to look up and not want to connect with people for fear that they might be rejected again.”

She’s ardent about agency, adding that things like assertiveness matter— big time. “It applies both politically and from a business standpoint, but it

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FEAR FACTOR While many students move on from Jaunty with a positive experience—and Waisman and Goldberg naturally substantiate the organization’s merit—a local psychologist cautions that behavioral reconditioning is tricky business.

Psychologically speaking, negative emotions are culturally shaped, says Dr. Birgit Koopmann-Holm, assistant professor of psychology at Santa Clara University. “My past research suggests there are cultural differences in how we want to avoid feeling negativity,” KoopmannHolm says. “People in the Bay Area, they really tend to not want to feel negative emotions, including anxiety. And if your culture prescribes that you shouldn’t feel this, or any negative emotions, then that might even be worse for you with social anxiety than when it’s more accepted.”

According to Koopmann-Holm, one of Jaunty’s approaches—working with people to help them feel more comfortable when they are out of their normal comfort zone—makes sense. Increasing someone’s social anxiety by placing them in difficult social situations can help people overcome their anxieties.

However, she says, a good next step for Jaunty might involve getting a psychologist onboard. “The way we’re being trained critically and analytically might help them on the team,” she says. While Jaunty’s methodology mirrors clinical cognitive behavior therapy, neither Waisman nor anyone in his organization have a medical license—and there are some lines Waisman will not cross. During the

screening process, if someone exhibits signs of an extreme phobia, he will encourage them to get professional help elsewhere.

Although the classes are based on years of dedication to better understanding behavioral science and social culture, Koopman-Holm advises that there’s no way to know the curriculum itself is the reason for students’ improvement. It’s possible that talking to a caring person helps some people. Jaunty can’t claim their methods are proven in the clinical sense.

Koopman-Holm stresses that without clinical testing, no matter Jaunty’s success with students, there’s no way to verify that their model works better than behavioral therapy or other practices to alleviate true social anxiety. “Ideally, you’d have a control group,” she says. Waisman says he is willing to participate in some sort of study that would gather this sort of data.

MISSION POSSIBLE I spent a good amount of time pestering Waisman and Goldberg about the work they do. After participating in the free workshop and getting to know Jaunty—and the people behind it—it’s easy for me to see how this company’s process really does work.

One free workshop didn’t eliminate my own social anxiety, of course, but the basic premise of this “dojo for human relations” makes sense to me. We’re all awkward.

Sometimes we just don’t know what to say or do. Sometimes, we’re jerks.

Sometimes, we’re too nervous to be the person we want to be. But if there is any truth to the maxim “practice makes perfect”—and I believe there is—I don’t see why that wouldn’t apply to social interaction.

Of course, none of us will ever be perfect, and that’s okay. If Jaunty’s courses help local introverts feel any less confined by their social anxiety, I’m all for it. They may not be saving the world—as Silicon Valley firms claim they will—but at least Jaunty provides people an opportunity to work for the relationships they really want.

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also applies in people’s personal lives.”

With Jaunty, she’s continuing to teach people how to share opinions, disagree, make requests and, one of the most important skills of all—how to say “no.”

Goldberg believes in the step-bystep method. “When you break it down, it’s simple.” So students learn the breakdown—bit by bit—and then head out into their own communities and spaces to practice.

“Change isn’t magical, but it’s learnable,” she says.

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SOFIA FEDOTOVA NEVER imagined she’d own a California winery.

Growing up in the Ural region of Russia, she worked for a consulting firm specializing in seminars for CPAs. In a tale of internet matchmaking gone right, Sofia’s online profile caught the eye of one John Mauro, who promptly flew to Russia, proposed and whisked her off to a new life in California.

Sofia and John started a highly successful electronics business while at the same time raising four children. “We’re the typical American dream story,” Fedotova says. “We started our company in our garage and used our bedroom closets as storage.”

They subsequently acquired warehouse space; it is in one such space where they recently opened their new tasting room, Lightpost Winery. “We traveled around wine country, fell in love with delicious wines from California sunkissed grapes and decided to make something of our own,” Fedotova says.

It was the purchase of Big Oak Ranch in Morgan Hill that set them firmly on the path to becoming winemakers. The couple took classes in everything wine-related at UC Davis, then fortuitously met well-known French winemaker Christian Roguenant (Deutz, Laetitia, Niven), who came aboard to help them craft a diverse slate of wines. “I know what kind of wine Sofia and John like: big, rich and robust,” Roguenant says.

Lightpost’s current lineup includes a 2018 rosé of pinot noir (Spanish Springs), a 2018 albarino (Edna Valley), 2017 chardonnays (Santa Cruz Mountains and Edna Valley), 2017 pinot noir (Santa Cruz Mountains), a 2017 Rhone blend and cab from Paso and 2016 cabernets from the Santa Cruz Mountains—including a 2016 Fellom Ranch Cabernet from Monte Bello Road in Cupertino.

Roguenant is excited about all the 2018s and the upcoming 2019s. “I’m making the best wines I’ve ever made in the US,” he says.

The Mauro’s Big Oak estate vineyard was planted in July, so for now, they’ll continue to rely on select coastal fruit sources, through direct grower relationships and with the help of viticulturist Prudy Foxx.

Lightpost Winery visitors will find two labels on the tasting bar: one elegant and traditional, bearing the Lightpost logo, and the other, fun and fanciful, inspired by the sketches of Sofia’s mother.

The Lightpost tasting room is open Wednesday-Sunday, 11am to 7pm.

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LIGHTEN UP The heirloom tomato and watermelon salad at Alhambra Irish House is part of an elevated pub menu.

Fresh Fry Alhambra Irish House serves innovative, lighter takes on traditional pub fare

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HE ALHAMBRA IRISH House serves a portion of fish and chips ($22) large enough to elicit a “Yabba Dabba Doo!” from the brontosaurus burger-loving Fred Flintstone. My serving of the Icelandic haddock wasn’t that much smaller than a handheld Celtic harp.

The tender white flesh was battered and fried in a crispy, golden coat, flecked with bright green parsley. Even after slicing the fish in half to share with my friends at the table, I still had enough left over to take home for a midnight snack. A ramekin of tartar

sauce nestled itself among mounds of hand-cut fries, which never seemed to get any smaller even after eating a few handfuls.

Proprietor Erik Barry, who also owns St. Stephen's Green in Mountain View, should never have to contend with Yelp complaints of paltry serving sizes.

Where St. Stephen’s Green leads with its identity as a bustling sports bar, the Alhambra’s whale-blue and exposed brick walls encourage a more relaxed atmosphere for family gatherings and date nights. Two TV screens stare out from above the bar, but at dinnertime the screens were muted while easy listening pop songs

played in the background. There is a note on the menu about the “craic,” an Irish term for having a good time, but for now that seems to be limited to a Tuesday night of trivia and a selection of a dozen or more draft beers.

Martins West, which closed in June, used to occupy this space—a former saloon and theater dating back to 1896. With an heirloom tomato and watermelon salad ($10) as a starter, the newly formed Alhambra kitchen announced its intention to become a serious gastropub. This wasn’t a dish that needed to be drowned out by a pint of Guinness (20 oz. $9).

The salad was smartly composed with leafy stems of micro arugula and a higher ratio of tomatoes to watermelon. Radishes were diced as thin as matchsticks. But the surprise ingredients were the little green dollops of smashed peas. At first, we thought guacamole had been plated as a mistake. But when you dragged the arugula and a cubed piece of tomato through it, this lemony mash added an unexpected tang and vigor to a simple and straightforward salad.

Anticipating a heavy shepherd’s

pie ($18), we also tried a decidedly un-Irish dish of padrón peppers ($7).

Charred with sea salt and lemon zest, they tasted like a grownup’s version of candy. Vegetarians should be made aware: The menu isn’t that interested in wooing you. Even the specials menu—including a banger sandwich, barbecue ribs and a pork loin sandwich—is intended to charm the belly of a carnivore. The “Irish Favorites” section of the menu features a pub curry chicken, steak pie with Guinness gravy, sausage and colcannon (mashed potatoes mixed with greens) and the shepherd’s pie.

Beneath a canopy of browned mashed potatoes, the lamb and beef gravy was dark and rich. The pie comes with a thick slice of toasted Irish soda bread to use as a vehicle for dunking. If you’d like to try the soda bread in a different dish, it can be served as an appetizer with smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers.

In retrospect, my plate of fried food didn’t make for an ideal pairing with it. While the pie tasted fine, after a couple bites my mind wandered back to the beet salad I hadn’t ordered.

Normally I’d come to the conclusion that a meal like this had only weighed me down, with a tenfold increase in the density of my flesh. But I didn’t have the typical reaction that I’d eaten too much. It helped that the salad was summery and light, and that the cooking oil had evaporated from the fish before it was plated. With that caveat, the last thing we wanted were either of the two desserts on offer: a chocolate chip brioche bread pudding with vanilla ice cream ($9) or butterscotch pudding with whipped cream and salted caramel popcorn ($9). These might be variations on, or bona fide, Irish desserts. But the Alhambra Irish House succeeds in its mission to create some craic well before the arrival of one of those sweet puddings.

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A Star is Born has an unusual “meet cute” in it: Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) makes an unscheduled stop at a bar called the Bleu Bleu, where Lady Gaga’s Ally is pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. That is exactly the kind of gender-bending fun that has made Drag Queen Bingo such a success this past year. The Cedar Room marks the one-year anniversary of this weekly party on Wednesday. If you’ve yet to visit the revamped Pruneyard Cinemas and its excellent, adjacent craft cocktail lounge, it’s time to make the trip. (RvB)

It’s rumored that Redwood City earned its slogan, “Climate Best

by Government Test,” after a joint survey conducted by the US and German governments. Whatever the case, this mid-Peninsula city is sure to be an epicenter of great beer this weekend. The first day of fall has officially fallen (even if it still feels like mid-July), and Redwood City is marking the changing of the season with its own take on the traditional German celebration of schnitzel and suds: Oktoberfest. For five days—Wednesday through Sunday—Courthouse Square will be the place to gather for authentic German fare, music, cultural demonstrations and plenty of brew. (NV)

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If the recent influx of taprooms opening all over Silicon Valley proves anything, it’s that hackers love beer just as much as anyone, and that many of them have taken a scientific approach to their sudsing. Enter Geektoberfest, wherein The Tech Interactive aims to put beer under the microscope.

The event features tastings from a wide range of local and regional craft breweries. The twist is that your brew comes with demos and experiments on the biology of beer making. There’s also live music and even a little wine. Tickets are $25 for members. (WB)

The Mozart family was blessed with more than one musical prodigy. But Amadeus’ sister Nannerl, a.k.a. Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, got lost in the history books. Sylvia Milo, an actress and violinist, wrote and stars in this one-woman play that brings her back to life. Milo performs the play in and on an 18foot dress. The show runs Sep. 2627. Students and other members of the San Jose State University community get in for $19. Tickets for seniors are $22. (JE)

Forged in the fires of old Detroit, and tempered by relentlessly touring for most of the last 50 years, Bob Seger’s voice is an American treasure. Whether shouting or whispering, Seger’s authentic, road-tested rasp has the power to make listeners want things they never knew they needed—like a Chevrolet. “Like a Rock,” “Old Time Rock and Roll,” “Night Moves”... Seger has the song catalog fitting of a living legend. He has vowed that this Friday will be the final time he passes through Mountain View. At 74 he is tired of running “Against the Wind,” and he’s ready to “Turn the Page.” (CA)

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MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

SHANNON & THE CLAMS Oct 3 at The Ritz

GAME OF THRONES LIVE Oct 3 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT Oct 4 at The Mountain Winery

UB40 Oct 5 at The Mountain Winery

CALEXICO AND IRON & WINE Oct 6 at The Mountain Winery

BLACK LIPS Oct 10 at The Ritz

NGHTMRE AND SLANDER Oct 11 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Three themed “Scare Zones” extend the macabre surroundings further into the park. Live (or undead) entertainment includes acrobats, BMX bikers, fire dancers, drummers and a Dia de los Muertos celebration. Of course, the roller coasters are there for anyone who needs extra reasons to scream. Runs through Nov. 2. (JC)

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San Jose ska representatives Monkey have been entertaining rude folks of all genders for nearly 25 years with their dapper dress and upbeat horn lines, but they rarely do it for free, so take note: This Saturday, in celebration of bartender, booker and comedianextraordinaire Rachel Warner’s birthday, the local legends are joining forces with cover wizards So Uncivilized to bring jubilant tunes to The Caravan. And the cover charge? Zero dollars! Warner is a pillar of downtown culture, and The Caravan is objectively the best bar ever, so you can’t go wrong. Throw on your two-toneiest creepers and skank your sobriety away. (CA)

After discovering that he is eighth in line for a family fortune, Monty Navarro devises a bold coup.

He will murder his way up the aristocratic food chain and claim what is rightfully his: the title of Earl of Highhurst. This South Bay Musical Theatre production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder stars local favorite David Mister as Navarro, while Michael Hirsch plays the entire D’Ysquith Family—eight unique male and female characters in all. The show runs through Oct. 19. (MS)

This year’s fall installment of the SoFA Street Fair marks a number of milestones. It’s the 10th edition since the festival returned in 2014 after a 10-year hiatus.

Interestingly enough, the original SoFA Street Fair ran from 1994 to 2004. You can do the math there.

The free live music runs until 9pm.

With four outdoor stages and 11 indoor venues, there will be no shortage of great tunes to take in. Be sure to stop by the womenpowered XX Stage to see a number of great female-fronted San Jose acts, including Soccora, Sweet Hayah, Steely Nash and Chloey Zelma. (MS)h

Oct 11-12 at San Jose Civic

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

J BALVIN Oct 17 at SAP Center

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

SNAILS Nov 15 at San Jose Civic

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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LEMUR-OLOGIST A talking lemur that escaped from a mural is a central character in Anita Felicelli’s new novel, ‘Chimerica.’

Legal Magic Palo Alto author Anita Felicelli’s ‘Chimerica’ upends courtroom procedural

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HESE DAYS, NOT many authors are writing about case law in the mural art business and surreal talking lemurs while also elevating women of color all in the same story. Gunn High School graduate and Palo Alto attorney Anita Felicelli accomplishes all of the above in her new novel, Chimerica, a brilliant and subversive transnational ridicule of the American legal thriller genre.

Originally from Southern India,

Felicelli moved to the US. Growing up, she came under the influence of Greg Brown’s famous Pedestrian Series, a selection of surreal alien trompe l’oeil murals distributed around downtown Palo Alto.

“Those were the elements I found that made the area home,” she says.

“I think I would’ve felt completely alienated had there not been those kinds of images around—a suggestion of something beyond a Silicon Valley corporate vibe. That’s what I loved about my home. So I was intrigued to go further into that.”

Chimerica is the story of attorney Maya Ramesh, representing high-

profile muralist Brian Turner, who believes he is entitled to a multimilliondollar settlement for copyright infringement after building owners paint over one of the lemurs in his mural, a mythological “ethnic” artwork.

Soon enough, though, Maya’s marriage falls apart and her law firm fires her for not being “tough” enough.

When she comes home, she finds a talking lemur in her house, asking her for assistance in getting back to his ancestral land of Madagascar. Turns out the lemur is the painted-over one from Turner’s mural.Rather than take him to Madagascar, though, she sees him as an opportunity to get her job back and prove herself to her old boss, but only ends up implicating the lemur in further litigation. The building owners file a cross-complaint against the lemur, bringing up unanticipated legal issues.

Does his voluntary escape from the mural absolve the building owners for damaging it? Since the artist is the one that originally painted the lemur into the mural, does the artist still own the rights to the lemur as the animal now sits around in Maya’s house?

The story is based on real-life battles involving the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA) of 1990, in which artists can claim moral rights, integrity and thus damages if the mural is intentionally or negligently destroyed. According to VARA, the mural must be of significant value, and the artist’s work in general must be reputable and publicly recognized to a significant degree. The latter element is where the trouble comes in.

The subject matter in Chimerica reflects Felicelli’s own experience as a litigator, a career path she landed upon after growing up writing poetry and fiction but realizing the writer’s life would require a day job. One of her first jobs was in art law, but she was too close to the subject matter, too emotionally invested in the artists’ plight, to be as strategically effective in the courtroom as she needed to be.

In the process, she discovered that if a mural artist was a woman of color with next to no resources, painting a work based on indigenous traditions a thousand years old, her work often wasn’t deemed reputable or significant enough to warrant a court battle, but if the artist was a white dude appropriating the same mythology from the same traditions, he might win a settlement in the six figures. All the stuff Felicelli read in college about women’s studies and critical race theory spiraled right back into her legal career.

“It was that sort of injustice, or that sort of unpleasant realization about how the world works, that triggered me to write Chimerica,” she says.

Besides ancient Tamil myths and the lemur scene in Madagascar, the book covers women’s issues, violence, technology, surveillance, capitalist appropriation of the “third world,” plus some good old-fashioned relationship drama and the combative ways in which lawyers straddle various moral tightropes to influence people’s emotions—all of which subverts the more conventional vanilla legal thrillers we often see.

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OVER THE RAINBOW Renee Zellwegger plays Judy Garland in the new biopic, ‘Judy.’

Lonely at the Top

AS THE ACTOR and singer Judy Garland, Renee Zellwegger is held in tight closeup: a bundle of nerves dosing herself with pills, mouth crooked and trembling, wincing from cigarette smoke and bad memories. Half the time in Judy, she knocks you out, half the time you want to knock her out. Starved down to a shadow, Zellwegger’s bag-of-bones Judy is a wraith in her final year working.

It’s 1968 and the 47-year-old is a huge star in London. She is tortured by insomnia and her vast need for love. Her personal life is in smithereens; back in L.A., her ex-husband Sid Luft (perennial rotter Rufus Sewell) is trying to get custody of her two young children.

Meanwhile, she’s courted by Mickey, a persistent younger man (Finn Wittrock) of such untrustworthiness that his very presence should have set off every burglar alarm for blocks.

Zellwegger embodies—impersonates may be the correct term— Garland and her vast yearning for applause. But there isn’t the the amphetamine-fed megalomania you can hear in the tapes Garland made to soothe herself. There she sounds more like Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Unlike Judy Davis’ superior 2001 version of Garland, this victim is missing the Judy other half of what made the woman behind Dorothy Gale such a sacred monster, a chronic no-shower and PG-13, 118 Mins. a meltdowner.

Valleywide Director Rupert Goold (of the James Franco-starring True Story, which also went in for multitudes of closeups; this theatrical vet seems to compose for television) delves for backstory in tinted postcard images of MGM, where Garland underwent a species of child abuse—overwork and over-medication.

On stage, after the film’s slow build, the performance of “By Myself ” is just about perfect, well orchestrated and reflecting the dazzle Garland emitted. Also affecting is a very touching sequence about a late night with a pair of gay stage door johnnies (Andy Nyman and Daniel Cerquiera), who are flustered to find out their idol is just a lonely person who’d like to go get some dinner in a city that shuts down at 11pm.

(Judy’s production design makes a point: Swinging London took place in a drab decaying town that badly needed a coat of paint.)

The night closes with some 4am piano and a slow torchy version of “Get Happy.”

There’s a word for a lot of Judy, and that word is schmaltz; I preferred the previous arrangement where she’d sing “Over the Rainbow” and we’d cry, rather than the role reversal here. —Richard von Busack

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IN TUNE Peter Sarsgaard tweaks the sonic feng shui of Manhattan apartments in ‘The Sound of Silence.’

Grand Delusion In ‘The Sound of Silence,’ a loner savant takes his tuning forks to New York

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

A

N INSULAR AND sometimes attenuated tale of New York, Michael Tyburski’s The Sound of Silence begins with a piece of elderly newsreel.

We witness a first measuring of noise levels in Times Square with audio equipment sometime in the 1930s, conducted by a group of men in three-piece suits and hats.

Early on, they recognized a most invasive part of city living: the racket.

In our time, Peter Sarsgaard,

buttoned-down and with a beard to scratch, is Peter Lucian. He’s a hermetic figure who calls himself a “house tuner.” Lucian works on the sonic feng shui of Manhattan apartments. On the first case we see him crack, he ignores the pounding bass that leaks through a customer’s walls from a neighbor’s apartment.

Instead, Lucian focuses on the more subtle disruption; the dissonance between the hum of a refrigerator and the tonic of the very neighborhood.

By the time the movie ends, Lucian has claimed that Central Park is a G-major place, and that the financial district is tuned to what Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel said was the saddest of all

keys, D-minor. (Odd that the city is all majors and minors; there are no upand-coming hipster districts that are diminished sevenths or ninths.)

Lucian is the kind of odd character who would have been profiled by Joseph Mitchell or imagined by the cartoonist Ben Katchor; in fact the private man is suffering a little from fame, thanks to a “Talk of the Town” column in the New Yorker.

His newest client is Ellen Chasen (Rashida Jones), an Ohio transplant to NYC who’s just gone through a bad breakup. She’s tired all the time. If there’s a certain allure in manic-pixies, there’s also something attractive in sadness, of seeing the kind of person a viewer would daydream about try to comfort.

Checking Ellen’s apartment, Lucian has to lie on her bed. (“I typically save this part for last, because it’s the most personal.”) Ultimately he prescribes a toaster that hums in a different key.

Co-writer (with Tyburski) Ben Nabors’ script is well-made in the sense that there’s a lot of info packed in (and between) the lines. The mystery persists

over whether or not Peter is just one more New Age charlatan. We hear a phone call from a deeply satisfied customer, but that’s immaterial: New Age charlatans always have grateful clientele. We never see him collect money or consume anything more than a cup of tea, even when he goes to a party thrown by his mentor (the great Austin Pendleton).

If his ideas are all just a grand delusion, Lucian is portrayed as an artisan in his precision, and his fussiness. His bunker of an office is full of analog equipment and filing cabinets, and he composes notes on a typewriter. He still has a cassette-driven answering machine; it assures callers that they’ve got the right number but they called at the wrong time. (It’s like an incident in John Cage’s book Silences. Cage had a music teacher who wouldn’t let him into the studio if he arrived even a minute early: “How can you be a musician without a sense of time!” the professor thundered.)

The tight-nerved Lucian has anxiety about getting his theories published before his ideas are swiped by a company called Sensory Holdings.

They plan to do with an app what he usually does in person with his notebook, tape recorders and tuning forks. Lucian declines; the once harmonious New York soundscape affects him in the way the buzz and whine of electronics tortured Michael McKean’s Chuck in Better Call Saul.

The movie gets strained, coasting on its cityscapes and Clara Rockmore’s ethereal performance of Saint-Saens’ “The Swan” on theremin. And then it gets slightly maudlin during a downpour, as the interesting unobservability of a new phenomenon decays into a standard romantic ending. The Sound of Silence is a thoughtful film, though; Sarsgaard is convincingly enigmatic, and observe how good Jones (formerly of Parks and Rec) is in this mode, in which her mirth is restrained to a bare minimum.

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Scare Package Oingo Boingo Former Members reunite for a dead band party in Saratoga

BY STEVE PALOPOLI

M

Y PARENTS TOOK me to some concerts when I was a kid, but Oingo Boingo was the first concert I cared enough about to get to myself—which is saying something, since I wasn’t even old enough to drive back in 1988. But at least one of my high school friends was.

She drove us four hours to see Boingo at the Greek Theater in L.A. I knew every line to every song, and sang them all at the top of my lungs like the obnoxious teenager I was.

To everyone I ruined that show for, consider this a long overdue apology.

I was pretty sure my life was never going to get any better that night.

It did—I mean, I was still a virgin and I hadn’t even had a bagel when I first saw Danny Elfman and Co. But still, it was one of those “first concert” experiences you never forget.

The weird thing is that I—and my friends in Central California who liked Oingo Boingo—thought they were, like, you know, superstars.

Maybe not a household name, but c’mon, “Dead Man’s Party?” “Weird Science?” “Only a Lad?” Who didn’t know Oingo Boingo’s crazed, spooky, ska-influenced take on New Wave?

A lot of people, it turns out. In fact, Johnny “Vatos” Hernandez, who was

Oingo Boingo’s drummer—and has brought together some of his former bandmates to play the Boingo oeuvre as Oingo Boingo Former Members— says that outside of LA, where heavy play on pioneering alternative-rock station KROQ made them local stars, and pockets along the West Coast and in the Southwest, the band never really made much of a splash before they broke up in 1995.

“It was always kind of a cult band,” says Hernandez. “It never really got a chance. We had a reluctant rock star in the band, Danny Elfman. He only liked to tour for six weeks after an album, and that’s all we would do. So what would happen is people would want us to come back in three months, and we wouldn’t do it. They’d want us to come back in a year, and we’d say, ‘No, we won’t do it, because we’re doing another album.’”

Elfman is now, of course, better known for being possibly the world’s most in-demand film composer, his decades-long collaboration with Tim Burton, and being the singing voice of Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas. After sustaining hearing

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MYSTIC KNIGHT Drummer Johnny ‘Vatos’ Hernandez, at 4 o’clock, leads Oingo Boingo Former Members at the Mountain Winery.

damage from years of playing loud live shows, and deep into his composing work, he swore off ever returning to Oingo Boingo. And he wasn’t sure he wanted anyone else to, either.

“This is not something that Danny wanted to revisit. We didn’t start out on friendly terms when I said I wanted to start playing the band’s music again,” Hernandez admits.

“We had to fight with lawyers and all kinds of stuff to even say that we were Oingo Boingo. First we did the tribute to Halloween, and then I said, ‘Danny, let me just say Boingo Dance Party,’ and he goes ‘Uh, alright.’ And then it was, ‘Danny, let me just say Oingo Boingo Dance Party, how’s that?’ ‘OK.’ And then five minutes later, ‘Danny … ’ Finally, he goes ‘Why don’t you just call it Oingo Boingo Former Members? You’ll cut right to the chase.’ Two years later, I finally listened to him. So that’s our current name. Handpicked by him.”

The reconstituted group—now featuring Boingo superfan Brendan McCreary on vocals—plays songs from every era of the band. Besides the “hits,” they also play a lot of fanfavorite deep cuts. Hernandez has been surprised to see a new generation of fans in their 20s and 30s at the shows—who also know all the words.

“We played the Whiskey, and I was sitting there going ‘Who are these people?’” he says. “They were all singing along with ‘No Spill Blood,’ ‘Only a Lad,’ ‘We Close Our Eyes’— ‘Good For Your Soul,’ even.”

For better or worse, he says, the band’s off-kilter, apocalyptic-danceparty songs—especially social-protesttinged numbers like “Grey Matter,” “Nothing To Fear (But Fear Itself)” and “New Generation” are as timely as ever.

“It holds up,” he says of the band’s music. “It was written during the Reagan administration, and not much has changed. It’s the same crap that we’ve been going through all this time, so all those songs are pretty relevant today.”

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SEP 25–OCT 3 | “PERHAPS TOMORROW / I SHALL BURST THESE SHACKLES” From the poem “The Final Laugh” by Angela de Hoyos. It won awards in 1972 for resonating so thoroughly. It still does. I am always blown away by words that predate my existence, yet seem to come from my own dreams of tomorrow.

Happy autumn, folks! Wednesday evening the topics for Astronomy on Tap at Uproar will be Dinosaurs, How Stars Form and Exoplanets! Brought to you by experts on those things! Thursday, 3Below Theatres offers a free screening of the film The Kids We Lose.

Councilmember Raul Peralez and County Supervisor Cindy Chavez will be there, along with a panel of experts on learning and behavioral challenges.

The legendary Chris Landon plays Backyard San Jose on Friday. This Saturday, the Laugh Your Ales Off Comedy Showcase at Off The Rails Brewing Co. in Sunnyvale will feature a truly fantastic line-up of comics, hosted by Pete Muñoz. One of the best this year. After that, you should head over to the Caravan Lounge to celebrate the birth of Rachel Warner, along with bands Monkey, La Maldita Cruda and So Uncivilized. Happy birthday, Rachel!

On Sunday, I’ll be ON SoFA with Mr. Ato Walker from 3pm on. These and so many more events below and beyond. = MUST SEE

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WED 9/25 CEDAR ROOM Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm–5:30pm & 9pm–10pm.

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

Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville. Tue, 10/1, 6pm: Bean Creek. Wed, 10/2, 6pm: Blue Summit w/ AJ Lee. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

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NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

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

THE RITZ Wed, 7pm: Kendra Morris, Julia Haltigan. Thu, 9pm: Stiff Little Thursday. Fri, 8pm: Boris, Uniform. Sat, 8pm: Coldclaw, Abstracter, Deathgrave, Cult Graves, Slege. Sun, 2pm: UGWA: SoFA Street Fair. 400 S First St, San Jose

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

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

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE WITH JADE

WOMEN/LGBTQ COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

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

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND

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

Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

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

COMEDY | LOCALS ONLY: BACK OF THE BREWERY POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: North Coast Brewery w/ Sid Morris. Thu, 6pm: Chrome Deluxe. Fri, 6pm: John Blues Boyd Band.

Sat, 6pm: Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s. Sun, 11am: School of the Blues Student Jam. Sun, 3pm: The Old Ned, New Band.

Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue,

7:30pm. Headliner: Terry Dorsey. Host: Tyler Stannard.

Santa Clara Valley Brewing, 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose

ASTRONOMY ON TAP SOUTH BAY #12 7:30pm. Topics: Dinosaurs, How Stars Form and Exoplanets! Uproar Brewing Co, 439 S First St, San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Fri, 10pm: Live Band-Superbad. Sat, 10pm: DJ Jose Melendez. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game

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COMEDIAN | IVAN DECKER

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

THU 9/26 UNRULY OKTOBERFEST

5:30pm. $40. Oveja Negra at Hotel Valencia, Santana Row, 355 Santana Row, San Jose

8pm. Various times through Sun. With Red Scott, Ben DelCastillo. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

COMEDY | BEER GIGGLES: JOKES AND BEER

8pm. Camino Brewing, 718 S First St, San Jose

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

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

FILM | ‘THE KIDS WE LOSE’ COMMUNITY SCREENING

5:30pm. Presented by City Councilmember Raul Peralez and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez.

3Below Theatres, 288 S Second St, San Jose

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

ARTISTS TALK | PATTERNS OF DISINTEGRATION

METAL/PSYCHEDELIC | MUGSHOT, SCUMDOG, DOLORES

6pm. The exhibit explores decay as it intersects with natural and manufactured environments. WORKS/San José, 365 S Market St, San Jose

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, September 25 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE MAIN SQUEEZE

plus Bombargo

Thursday, September 26 • Ages 16+

LOUD LUXURY

Thursday, September 26 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

AMO AMO

plus Magic In The Other

Friday, September 27 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MARTYPARTY

plus Minx and Karma.Wav

Sunday, September 29 • Ages 16+

Duran d Jones & The Indications

Monday, September 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SOCCER MOMMY

plus Rosie Tucker

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 21 Granger Smith (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 24 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 16+) Oct 25 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden/ Brooke Candy (Ages 16+) Oct 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+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

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Wed Sept 25 Club Fox Blues Jam

R&B | AJ CLEMONS PERFORMS LIVE AT OZUMO 7pm. Santana Row, 3088 Olsen Dr, San Jose

LIVE | POD SAVE AMERICA

7pm. San Jose Civic, 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

MIC NIGHT

MIXED OPEN

Chris James & Patrick Rynn

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

Fri Sept 27

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

7pm • $7

Pop Rocks

9pm • $13 adv / $16 day of show Sat Sept 28

Foreverland

The Electrifying Tribute to the Music of Michael Jackson 9pm • $18 / $20 day of show Tues Oct 1

Joe Craven & The Sometimers

w/Fragile Thunder 8pm • $18 adv / $22 day of show

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

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

STAGE | THE OTHER MOZART

7:30pm. The true, untold story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus, a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim.

Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

STAGE | SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CROWN JEWEL 8pm. Various times through 10/6. Tabard Theatre Co, 29 N San Pedro St, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Otilia Donaire & The Back Alley Boys. Sat, 9pm: South County Blues Band.

3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

8:30pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

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

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

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

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

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

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

Fri, 10pm: Branham Fridays w/ DJ Jay Reese. Sat, 10pm: Reggae: Irie Nights. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

FRI 9/27

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am.

1711 W San Carlos St, San Jose

PUNK/DOOM | FROLIC, LUNACIES, SIN LUTO

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

SAT 9/28 2019 LATINO HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION W/ ASHA KALRA

11am. Third annual event.

Mezcal Restaurant, 25 W San Fernando St, San Jose

MOON FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS / LỄ HỖI TỄT TRUNG THU

LIVE MUSIC | CHRIS LANDON

2pm–8pm. Vietnamese American Cultural Center Trung Tâm Văn Hóa Viăt-Mă, 2072 Lucretia Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B | GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW, SALAMI ROSE JOE LOUIS, SAMARIA

6pm. Backyard SJ, 35 S Second St, San Jose

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

6pm. DJ Sets by Chase Brown,

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

LAUGH YOUR ALES OFF COMEDY SHOWCASE

7pm. 21+ $10. Comics: Griffen Daley, Johnny Pena, Pete Munoz (host), Jenn Gonzales, David Kelly, Chad Opitz. Off The Rails Brewing Co, 111 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

GALA 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTS 8pm. Los Lupeños' 50th Anniversary Season. School of Arts & Culture at MHP, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

RACHEL’S BIRTHDAY SHOW: MONKEY, LA MALDITA CRUDA, SO UNCIVILIZED

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

SUN 9/29 SOFA RECORD SWAP WITH STREETLIGHT 1pm–9pm. Forager, 420 S First St, San Jose

STOP CAGING CHILDREN RALLY AND FUNDRAISER

9am–7pm. For The Global Immersion Project, RAICES, and Change a Heart. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

ROCK EN ESPAÑOL | ATOMIC BROWN

11am. Berryessa Flea Market, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE

3pm. 21+ Small bites.

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

REGGAETON/CUMBIA | SUNDAY VIBRAS DAY PARTY HOSTED BY LOS RAKAS 3:30pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, 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

SUNDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT AT THE XBAR

7:30pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

KARAOKE | KATIE BLOOM’S

ENTHUSIASTS | MONTHLY VINYL MEET-UP

7pm. RSVP: paige@ streetlightrecords.com | Streetlight Records, 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am.

Campbell

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St.

MON 9/30

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

COMEDY | KEYES OPEN MIC

7pm. Hosted by Prisilla Torres.

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

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

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

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

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

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

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

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

PUNK | PUNK VINYL TUESDAYS WITH DJ TEST 10pm. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose

VARIETY TALK SHOW | THE MIGHTY LATE SHOW

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

JAM | WEEKLY SESSIONS AT FIVE POINTS

8:30pm. Five Points, 169 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

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 10/1 FAMILY | SANTA CLARA GAME NIGHT

6pm. Chromatic Coffee, 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

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

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

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

WED 10/2 LUNCHTIME LECTURE | ARTIST TALK WITH UUDAM TRAN NGUYEN

Noon. Free w/ SJMA membership. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

OPEN MIC WITH UKULELE JAMS

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

THU 10/3 COMEDIAN | TED ALEXANDRO 8pm. Various times through Sun. With Caitlyn Gill, Jeremy Talamantes.

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ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Mgr, IT (ITM03) Work as AEM Architect/Manager designing and implementing solution on nvidia.com. Position may require up to 5-10% of travel; Admin Unix Staff (AUS02) Define and implement storage systems and solution improvements using the UNIX, WINDOWS, and Cloud platforms for diverse infrastructure needs for NVIDIA’s business-critical applications like SAP, PDP, compute farm environments used for EDA and Deep Learning; Sys SW Engr (SSWE674) Work closely with hardware and software teams to design, develop, and validate functional aspects of video engines on next-generation Nvidia chipsets; Applied Research Scientist (ARS02) Develop new algorithms and prototyping them for deep learning training and inference; Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE677) Design, develop, and debug many functional aspects of multimedia accelerator and mobile system-on-chip (SOC) devices; Sr. SW QA Engr (SWQA10) Develop test plan and executing testing for Compute software releases on all compute platforms including Tesla GPUs, Nvidia turnkey systems, and OEM systems; Supply Chain Engr (SCENG01) Build forecasting models for freight cost, return logistics, and accrual figures for finance; Developr, IT Advisory (DEVAD02) Design, develop, implement, and support mission-critical enterprise Business Intelligence solutions; SW Engr (SWE709) Design and develop system software and diagnostic middleware for NVIDIA SOC and GPU hardware based automotive platforms, as well as for chip/board bring up, hardware qualification, production and in vehicle diagnostics and Sr. SW QA Engr (SWQA12) Engage in quality assurance engineering projects. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

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REAL ESTATE

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658139 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home In Harmony, 1848 Booksin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Dawn Abernathy. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dawn Abernathy. 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)

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

LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657617 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alum Rock High Booster Club, 1435 Koll Circle, Suite 106, San Jose, CA, 95112, Randi Maureen Mcmasters, Fulgence Fulay, 1776 Educational Park Dr Building K, San Jose, CA, 95133. 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 07/18/2019. /s/Randi Mcmasters. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657807 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taliangel Transport, 6203 San Ignacio Ave Suite 110, San Jose, CA, 95119, Jonathan Tautai Leaupepe. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2019. /s/Jonathan Leaupepe.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657117 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cryosculpt Los Gatos, 336 Village Ln., Suite D, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Theresa Ann Sweet, 410 Santa Rosa Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/23/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #655287 /s/Theresa Ann Sweet. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658083 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658003 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) 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658419

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)

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658411 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Remote Pilot Services, 4025 Laurelglen Ct., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tim Miller. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Tim Miller. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CASE NO. 1-15-PR-177610 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 8, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as Trustee of The Rhona Gilkey Revocable Living Trust dated October 21, 2015, intends to sell at private sale, subject to court confirmation, to the highest and best net bidder, all of the trust estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property commonly known as 1441 Fallen Leaf Lane, in the City of Los Altos, County of Santa Clara, more particularly described as:Lot 48, as delineated upon that certain Map entitled “Tract No.1152 BROOKHURST”, filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on May 4th, 1953 in Book 42 of Maps, at Page 34.The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights-ofway, 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 #657954

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)

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 #658005

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657947

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)

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 #657959

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657986

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)

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 #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)

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

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)

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #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 Gate, 10500 Ann Arbor Avenue, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655936

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)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

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

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #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 #658808 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MCR Development And Construction Group, 1537 Cross Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, Michael Steven Bernardo. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2010. /s/Michael Steven Bernardo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658535 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ben’s Barketplace, 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd., #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Prospeross. Inc., 20410 Summit Woods Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95033. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/06/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tram N. Ross, Secretary. #C4289933. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658864

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658937

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658935 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Castello Properties, 1790 Winchester Blvd., Suite #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Raymond V Castello, Eileen J Marino, 900 Danny Boy Court, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Linda A Orr, 6760 Greenhaven Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95831. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Raymond V. Castello. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

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

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658839

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658907

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659012

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kion Technologies, 481 Perry Ct., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Kion Tech Company. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Scott McKenzie, President. #C4311370. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arvizu’s Comics, 2125 Cunningham Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Carolyn Banh-Trinh Arvizu, Matthew Sutter Arvizu.

This business is being conducted by a Married Couple.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Carolyn Arvizu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658909

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659008

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

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

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

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: New Earth Dental Practice, 3535 Ross Ave., Suite 200, San Jose, CA, 95124, Mamak Saffarpour D.D.S. Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2002. Refile in facts from previous filing #598401. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mamak Saffarpour, President. #3750618. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Comedian John Cleese

speaks of two different modes toward which we humans gravitate. The closed style is tight, guarded, rigid, controlling, hierarchical and tunnel-visioned.

The open is more relaxed, receptive, exploratory, democratic, playful and humorous. I'm pleased to inform you that you're in a phase when spending luxurious amounts of time in the open mode would be dramatically healing to your mental health. Luckily, you're more predisposed than usual to operate in that mode. I encourage you to experiment with the possibilities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Upcoming adventures could test your poise and wit. They may activate your uncertainties and stir you to ask provocative questions. That's cause for celebration, in my opinion. I think you'll benefit from having your poise and wit tested. You'll generate good fortune for yourself by exploring your uncertainties and asking provocative questions. You may even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to kick your ass in just the right gentle way so you will become alert to possibilities you have ignored or been blind to.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Novelist John irving asked, "Who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination." That will be a helpful idea for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Why? Because you're more likely than usual to fall in love or imagine falling in love—or both.

And even if you don't literally develop a crush on an attractive person or deepen your intimacy with a person you already care for, I suspect you will be inflamed with an elevated lust for life that will enhance the attractiveness of everything and everyone you behold.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You know your body is

made of atoms, but you may not realize that every one of your atoms is mostly empty space. Each nucleus contains 99 percent of the atom's mass, but is as small in comparison to the rest of the atom as a pea is to a cathedral. The tiny electrons, which comprise the rest of the basic unit, fly around in a vast, deserted area. So we can rightfully conclude that you are mostly made of nothing. That's a good meditation right now. The coming weeks will be a fine time to enjoy the refreshing pleasures of emptiness.

The less frenzy you stir up, the healthier you'll be. The more spacious you allow your mind to be, the smarter you'll become. "Roomy" and "capacious" will be your words of power.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "We don't always have a

choice about how we get to know one another," wrote novelist John Irving. "Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly—as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth."

This principle could be in full play for you during the coming weeks. For best results, be alert for the arrival of new allies, future colleagues, unlikely matches, and surprise helpers.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In North America, people

call the phone number 911 to report an emergency.

In much of the EU, the equivalent is 112. As you might imagine, worry-warts sometimes use these numbers even though they're not experiencing a legitimate crisis. For example, a Florida woman sought urgent aid when her local McDonald's ran out of Chicken McNuggets. In another case, a man walking outdoors just after dawn spied a blaze of dry vegetation in the distance and notified authorities. But it turned out to be the rising sun.

I'm wondering if you and yours might be prone to false alarms like these in the coming days, Virgo.

Be aware of that possibility. You'll have substantial power if you marshal your energy for real dilemmas and worthy riddles, which will probably be subtle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "I just cut my bangs in a gas station bathroom," confesses a Libran blogger who calls herself MagicLipstick. "An hour ago I shocked myself by making an impulse buy of a perfect cashmere trench coat from a stranger loitering in a parking lot," testifies another Libran blogger who refers to himself as MaybeMaybeNot. "Today I had the sudden realization that I needed to become a watercolor painter, then signed up for

By ROB BREZSNY week of September 25

a watercolor class that starts tomorrow," writes a Libran blogger named UsuallyPrettyCareful. In normal times, I wouldn't recommend that you Libras engage in actions that are so heedlessly and delightfully spontaneous. But I do now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You could call the

assignment I have for you as "taking a moral inventory" or you could refer to it as "going to confession." I think of it as "flushing out your wornout problems so as to clear a space for better, bigger, more interesting problems." Ready? Take a pen and piece of paper or open a file on your computer and write about your raw remorse, festering secrets, unspeakable apologies, inconsolable guilt and desperate mortifications. Deliver the mess to me at Truthrooster@gmail.com. I'll print out your testimony and conduct a ritual of purgation. As I burn your confessions in my bonfire at the beach, I'll call on the Goddess to purify your heart and release you from your angst. (P.S. I'll keep everything confidential.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Two hundred years

ago, Sagittarian genius Ludwig van Beethoven created stirring music that's often played today. He's regarded as one of history's greatest classical composers.

And yet he couldn't multiply or divide numbers.

That inability made it hard for him to organize his finances. He once wrote about himself that he was "an incompetent business man who is bad at arithmetic." Personally, I'm willing to forgive those flaws and focus on praising him for his soul-inspiring music. I encourage you to practice a similar approach with yourself in the next two weeks. Be extra lenient and merciful and magnanimous as you evaluate the current state of your life. In this phase of your cycle, you need to concentrate on what works instead of on what doesn't work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "When you hit a

wall—of your own imagined limitations—just kick it in," wrote playwright Sam Shepard. That seems like a faulty metaphor to me. Have you ever tried to literally kick in a wall? I just tried it, and it didn't work. I put on a steel-toe work boot and launched it at a closet door in my basement, and it didn't make a dent. Plus now my foot hurts. So what might be a better symbol for breaking through your imagined limitations?

How about this: use a metaphorical sledgehammer or medieval battering ram or backhoe. (P.S. Now is a great time to attend to this matter.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1965, Chinese

archaeologists found an untarnished 2400-year-old royal bronze sword that was still sharp and shiny. It was intricately accessorized with turquoise and blue crystals, precision designs, and a silk-wrapped grip. I propose we make the Sword of Goujian one of your symbolic power objects for the coming months. May it inspire you to build your power and authority by calling on the spirits of your ancestors and your best memories. May it remind you that the past has gifts to offer your future. May it mobilize you to invoke beauty and grace as you fight for what's good and true and just.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret," wrote Piscean novelist Gabriel García Márquez. I will add that during different phases of our lives, one or the other of these three lives might take precedence; may need more care than usual. According to my analysis, your life in the coming weeks will offer an abundance of vitality and blessings in the third area: your secret life. For best results, give devoted attention to your hidden depths. Be a brave explorer of your mysterious riddles.

Homework: "It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious," said John Irving. How are you doing with that?

FreeWillAstrology.com Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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ANTONIO RICHMOND, left, and BECCA KILLAN at the San Jose Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary Gala.

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Greg Ramar

Campbell business owners KIMI DE LEONIBUS, left, and KATIE SCHAAF, attend a candelight vigil for fellow businesswoman, KELLY CROWLEY, who was killed suddenly and unexpectedly earlier his month.

NICOLE UHGER, left, and JESSIE BLAU of San Jose at

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the NorCal Ren Faire.

Artist HUNG LIU, left, and TOBY FERNALD at SJMA’s 50th Anniversary Gala.

San Jose Mayor SAM LICCARDO with former mayor SUSAN HAMMER at the San Jose Museum of Art’s 50th Anniversary Gala.

CAROL LE, left, and KEVIN TRAN of San Jose got creative at the Luna Park Chalk Art Festival at Backesto Park.

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