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CCamp amp EEvent vent Fly will miss XAVIER XA AV VIER CCAMPOS AMPOS and all the joy he br brought oughtt to our little Fly heart. In just ffour our years as an elected official, the impish and fine finely ely lacquer lacquered ed San Jose hass had a knack ffor councilman ha or avoiding criminal char charges gees despite a penchant ffor or being in thee wr wrong ong place at the wr ong time wi th the wr ong people. B ut wrong with wrong But appar ently Fly isn’t isn’t the only one who apparently will miss B aby X. In a stunning gestur e, Baby gesture, CCounty ounty Super visor CCINDY INDY CCHAVEZ HA AV VEZ this Supervisor week rrecommended ecommeended EEast ast Side Side’s ’s ffavorite avorite punch p line They ffor or a commendation commendation ffor or Did time ser ved on the San served What?

That Jose council. Th hat may sound a bit odd odd, d,, but it it’s ’s SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O th perf the perfect fectt bur bureaucratic b eaucr e atic ti FLY@ FL Y@ cake icing on the cak ke ffor or a METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. car eer sustaine career sustainedd by the COM CO M sheer will of oth hers— others— one elected offi ficial wasting official staff time and taxpayer t money to honor another electedd official who couldn ’t ride couldn’t 12 years of ffamily amily incumbency to mor moree than 2,7 7444 vote e-election bid.

2,744 votess in a rre-election While the item was noted on the B oard of Board Super visors age enda it mysteriously went enda, Supervisors agenda, without comment commeent at Tuesday’s Tuesday’s meeting, as super visors M IKE W ASSERMAN and supervisors MIKE WASSERMAN K EN Y EAGER of ffered their own kudos KEN YEAGER offered to actual coun ty employees. It ’s unclear county It’s if the commen dation was scr apped commendation scrapped because CCampos ampos had a final council meeting to att end, or because he still attend, could be calledd by county pr osecutors to prosecutors testify in the ppolitical olitical mail fr aud scandal fraud pperpetr p ated byy GGEORGE EORGE SSHIRAKAWA HIRAKA AWA JR. perpetrated (allegedly) thatt helped get CCampos ampos into office. Fly place ed a call to CChavez’s havez’s com placed com-munications di irector, JOD YM EACHAM, director, JODY MEACHAM, rrecently ecently acquir red after the two worked acquired together at lab bor “think tank” W orking labor Working P artnerships US U A, but a rreceptionist eceptionist said Partnerships USA, M eacham’s tim me at the county is alr eady Meacham’s time already done. His quickk exit ffollows ollows the depar depar-tur edeceessor K ERRY H ILLIS, who turee of pr predecessor KERRY HILLIS, has been M IA ever e since M MIA Metro etro exposed his connection to an anonymous link linkss But wait! There’s There’s still hope ffor or Lil’ blog. But Word is he’s he’s rrelieved elieved to have a br eak X. Word break from the spotli ight but might consider from spotlight for the state sttate Assembly Assembly in 2016, a run for allowing him too once again mimic the footsteps footsteps of bi bigg sis N NORA ORA CCAMPOS. AMPOS.

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Living Legacies TR TRANSPORTERS RANSPORTERS Artist Y Yori ori o Seeg Seeger’s ger’s statue hails local transpo transportation ortation pioneers pioneers, s, including R Rod o Diridon Sr od Sr. r. The Quest Valley V a alley T Trust rrust wants to install the e piece at San Jose's Diridon St Station. tation.

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CURIOUS CURI OUS cultur cultural al taboo tab boo has been openly flouted flou uted over the last two decades in San Jose, Jose, and a l l institution i tit tion institutio itt seems one local could co ould soon double down. eturn V Valley aalley rresidents esidents who rreturn ho ome b n home byy plane land at Minet Minetaa San JJosé o International Airp osé Airport, ort, named d in n honor of the fformer ormer ma o ayor, mayor, ccongressman o essman and U ongr .S. secr etary of U.S. secretary tr ransportation, Norm Norm Minet a. Just Justt transportation, Mineta. ttwo w miles southeast of the run wo ways y, runways, M McEner on nvention C enter hostss McEneryy C Convention Center te ech, h hemp h and d furr ffurryy cconventions onventions i tech, un nder the fingerprinted aawnings wnings w o of under an nother fformer o ormer ma ayor o ,T om o McEn nery. another mayor, Tom McEnery.

H p His political olitical allies on the ccouncil ouncil b e estowed the distinction just thr bestowed three eee m months after he left offic e. office. ose R eepertory Theatr e’s And San JJose Repertory Theatre’s 16 6 yeear 6ea home o e, until u t it w aas sshut utttter te ed in 16-year home, was shuttered

June, is emblazoned wit June, with th the names of Susan and Phil Hamme Hammer, err, the fformer ormer o ap politically oliticcaally activ active ve eex-mayor x-maayo or who w was aas named to alc alcalde-elect alde-elect Sam S Lic Liccardo’s cardo’s transition team last wee week. ek. The auditorium w was aas built du during uring Hammer’ Hammer’ss incumbency incumb ency with $28.55 million in Redevelopment R eedevelopment e A Agency gencyy funds and $3.2 million in private funds funds, s, raised with Hammer’ss help fr from Phil Hammer’ o donors such om family, announced ed as the Sobrato family y, which w announc a $50 $500,000 0,000 gift ar around ound d the time the city cit ty aawarded waarded a $12.2 mil million llion subsidy to the de developer’s veeloper’s V Villa iilla T Torino o orrino housing project. pr oject. Knight Knight-Ridder t--Ridder also a ccontributed ontributed funds,, and the agency su subsequently funds ubsequently rre-wrote e-wrote the cit city’s ty’ y s sign or o ordinance dinance when the publishing ccompany moved ompan ny mo oved e its headquarters headquar ters downtow downtown. wn. In 20 2007, 077, Redevelopment the $60,000 R eedevelopment e paid th he $6 0,000 to affix the Hammers’ nam names mes to the blue metal met al structur structure. e.

Sinc Sincee 19 1994, 94, the cit city ty has shown an unusual vigor ffor or gracing o graciing some of its monikers major buildings with the t monik ers of still-living fformer o ormer elect electeds. teds. It b began egan with p perhaps e aps the erhaps t e most ostt fr frequented eque ted equented

Station, pitstop in San S JJose, ose, Diridon St ation, serves which ser ves as a rregional egional hub ffor or o Caltrain heartt of downtown.

C altrain in n the hear after Named aft fter fformer ormer o ccounty ountty supervisor Rod Sr., sup ervisorr R od Diridon Sr ., the gesturee w was before gestur aas made a yyear ear b effor o e he left office. appears second offic e. And d it app ears a sec ond tribute is now on the t horizon.

Members Valley Memb errs of the Quest V aalley Trust have been waiting ha ave b een w aaiting 20 yyears eears to ttake ake the wraps off o a plan to honor the transportation statue transp ortation at eexpert xxpert with a st atue at station. appointed the st ation n Diridon, n.

Diridon app ointed to the Speed Authority byy fformer High Sp eed d Rail A uthority b ormer o Gov. Schwarzenegger Go ov. Sch hwarzenegger a and now semiafter director rretired etired afte er 19 yyears eears as dir ector of the Minetaa Tra Transportation Minet ansportation Institute at San State University, apparently JJose ose St ate U nivversit e ty, appar ently put kibosh project, too the kib osh on the pr oject, ccalling alling it to o grandiose. “self grand diose.”

Valley, locally But Quest aalley, a lo cally based, Queest V held organization privately he eld or ganization that is dedicated preserving historyy dedic cated a to t pr eserving the histor Santaa Cl Clara County, sincee of Sant lara C ountty, has sinc statue, authorized d another st atue, this one local rrepresenting epresentin ng the ccontributions ontributions of lo cal transportation.

Dr.. C Colleen pioneers in n transp ortation. Dr olleen Wilcox, member Valley, says W iilcox, a memb m er of Quest V aalleey, sa ayys life-size, three-person statue that the lif fe-size, thr ee-person st atue State will ffeature eeature Diridon, fformer o ormer St ate Sen.

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oad old-ttime railr Beck Becky ky Mor Morgan gan and old-time railroad ones. engineer Billy JJones.

Still in its pr ototype fform, o orm, the prototype st atue is curr ently des igned in cla ay. statue currently designed clay.

The thr ee figur es ar d in three figures aree depicted various st ages of moti on as the stages motion theyy ride a C altrain. When ccomplete, omplete, Caltrain. the sculptur b onzed sculpturee will b bee br bronzed cated either in the t fr ont and lo located front rroundabout oundabout or the gra ass mall ar ea grass area of Diridon St ation, sa ays y W iilcox. An Station, says Wilcox. inst allation date has not n b een set, as installation been Quest V aalley is still fun ndraising to Valley fundraising pa ay ffor o or the ccost. ost. pay “I ccan’t an’t imagine the ccost ost of the sculptur 0,000,” sculpturee will b bee under $10 $100,000, W iilcox sa ayys.

Wilcox says.

Bef fo ore the pr oject ccan an n advanc e, Before project advance, memb ers of the P eninsu ula C orridor members Peninsula Corridor JJoint oint P owers Boar d of C altrain must Powers Board Caltrain appr ove the sculptur e. approve sculpture.

“This st atue will b ting a statue bee set setting pr ecedent,” sa ayys C altraiin sp okesperson precedent, says Caltrain spokesperson Mark Simon. ““At At this moment m C altrain do esn’t ha ave a p olicy Caltrain doesn’t have policy rregarding egarding public ar t.” art. oking at Simon and his st aff ar aaree lo staff looking nd he ’s unsur other public agencies agencies,, an and he’s unsuree how long it will ttake ak ke to hammer out wp olicyy. that a ne new policy.

A ccording to April Halb H erstadt, a According Halberstadt, memb ber off the th Sant S ta Clara Cl C C ountty member Santa County Historic al Herit age C om mmission, the Historical Heritage Commission, JJoint oint P owers Boar d is op pen to the Powers Board open st atue despite lit tttle suc cess in get tting t the statue little success getting pr oject on the b oard ag genda. project board agenda.

“Ther uideline ab out “Theree is sor sortt of a gu guideline about (not) naming landmark ks after the landmarks living ’vve manag ged to br eak it,” living,, but we we’ve managed break sa ayys Halb erstadt, notingg the buildings says Halberstadt, a. named after McEner a Minet McEneryy and Mineta.

Ultimately y, the San n JJose ose Cit Ultimately, Cityy C ouncil il has h final fi l approval apprrovall on Council naming public buildin ngs and buildings landmarks oT o es, the ne orr wly landmarks.. Ramir Ramiro Torres, newly app ointed chairman of o San JJose’s ose’s appointed Historic al L andmark C ommission, Historical Landmark Commission, sa ayys naming cit marks after the says cityy landm landmarks living is a mat ter of op pinion. matter opinion.

“N orman Minet aas Secr etary of “Norman Minetaa w was Secretary Transp ortation, it mak e sense to name es Transportation, makes the airp ort after him,” T o orres sa ayys. “T To om airport Torres says.

“Tom McEner on nveention ccenter, enter, so McEneryy built the cconvention I don d n’t ’ see an nyything hi wr o with ong i h giving don’t anything wrong it his name name..”

F ormer chair of the ccommission ommission Former Ste eve C ohen off ffeers a def feense of naming Steve Cohen offers defense lo cal landmarks after the th he living: “Ma ayb y e local “Maybe the rreason eason the thr ee big ggest pr operties three biggest properties in San JJose ose ar a p eople who aree named after people ar ve is b ecause nob n ody dead aree still aliv alive because nobody

had an any ny rreal eaal signific significance ance in San JJose’s ose’s histor y,” he quips history, quips..

While th he original plan ccalled alled a ffor or o the a “figurativ ve rrepresentation epresentation of Mr “figurative Mr..

Diridon,” Halb H erstadt sa ays y , the goals Halberstadt says, ffor or o sculptorr Y ori Seeger o aas Yori Seeger,, who w was ccommissioned ommission ned b alle a ey, ha ave byy Quest V Valley, have sinc een heightened to a tribute to sincee b been lo cal ffounders ound o ders of rail transp ortation. local transportation.

“Public Public ar artt and fine ar artt had a div orce,” Se eeger sa ayys. “This pr oject brings divorce, Seeger says. project the ttwo wo w bac ck to gether.” back together.

Mor gan n, depicted in a ttake-charge ak ke-charrgge Morgan, st ance, is cr edited ffor or securing the o stance, credited pur chase off the rail line that eextends xxtends purchase fr om San JJose o to San Francisc ose o. In from Francisco.

80s, the st ate senator the mid 19 1980s, state rrepresenting epresentin ng nor thern Sant northern Santaa Clara ounties and southe ern San Mateo ccounties southern aggr essivvely e y pushed thr ough legislation aggressively through to buy the line l fr om Southern P acific from Pacific ffor or o $218 mi illion. JJones ones rrepresents epresents the million. historic al si ide of the railr oad, ha avving historical side railroad, having work ed as an a engineer during the steam worked ns, as well as st arting his own era of train trains, starting “W Wildc i at Railr R oad” on a ranch in L os “Wildcat Railroad” Los Gatos onees died in 19 68. Diridon ’s Gatos.. JJones 1968.

Diridon’s figur ortra t ays y him riding the back of a figuree p portrays eninsula. train gazingg wist tffully up the p wistfully peninsula. trib bute ccomes omes after a The tribute tumultuou us ffew ew yyears ears e ffor or o Diridon. tumultuous Whil still While till working w ki part-time part--time ti as emeritus eexecutive xxecutivve dir ector of the director transp ortattion institute wo transportation institute,, he has had ttwo sur geries on n his lungs to rremove emo ove tumors surgeries and under g gone chemotherap py. But ffor o or undergone chemotherapy. a guy who is i all ab out wheels ’s har d about wheels,, it it’s hard to slow dow wn. down. eady “I’m returning retturning to fform orm o and rready ffor or o anotherr hundred hundred thousand miles miles,,” Diridon jok kees. His legacy y, he hop es, jokes. legacy, hopes, is to ha ave made m a dent in the bat tttle have battle against i climate clim limate change. change h . In I a rrecent ecent trip i to Houston n, Diridon w aas inducted into Houston, was fo or the American American the Hall off Fame for Public Tran nsportation A ssociation.

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“I’m har dlyy an ar xxpert, but b oth hardly artt eexpert, both R od and Be eck ky had a lar ger than lif fe Rod Becky larger life rrole ole in local local a transp ortation,” sa ays y Ste ve transportation, says Steve Heminger xecutive dir ector of the Heminger,, eexecutive director San Francisco Francisco Ba ay Ar ea Metr opolitan Bay Area Metropolitan Transp ortation a Commission. “Rod “R Rod is Transportation Commission. lik locom motive when he ’s ffocused ocused on likee a locomotive he’s an objective. objectiv bj ive. It ’s b est to b oard It’s best bee on b board rather than n in his w ay,” way, n sa ays y he ’s grateful to see some Diridon says he’s of his projects projeects ccome ome to fruition during his lif fetime e e, as well as the up coming lifetime, upcoming electrific atiion of the p eninsula rail line electrification peninsula in 2019. Once On nce that happens, happens, highspeed high-speed ehind. will not b bee far b behind.

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AXE MAN San n Jose C City ty Manager anage Ed Shikad Shikada da su surprised p sed many by fi firing ng lea lead ad

labor negoti negotiator ator Alex Gurza. Could Shikada a be next to go?

TTop oop CCity ity Hall EExec xec ‘Sh ‘Shocked’ hocked’ by FFiring iring Shor Shortly tly afte after er rreturning eturning fr from om a holiday party Thursday Capers holida ay lunch par ty Thursda ay at C apers Loft, L oft, wher wheree ap approximately pproximately 6 60 0 cit city ty employees shared emplo oyeees sha ared ffood ood and divvied up gifts thr through raffle,, Ale Alex ex Gurza ouggh a raffle floor office City went into the 17th flo or offic ce of Cit ty M Manager Ed Sh Shikada hik kaada d and d got ccanned. anned. a d Theree woul would bee no negotiating or Ther ld b rreason eason giv given veen ffor o or the firing firing,, ac according cording deputy to Gurza, who o doubled as a deput ty cit cityy manager and dir director ector of the Office Employee Relations.

O ffice of Emp plo oyee R eelations. After leaving lea avving Shik Shikada’s ad daa’s offic office, e, he w was aas gr greeted eeted byy unif uniformed securityy guar guards b formed o d securit ds and escorted esc orted out of o the building building.. It w was as an unceremonious employee unc eremoniou us eexit xit ffor or an emplo o oyeee months who ttwo wo mon nths earlier ccelebrated elebrated his 20th anniversary city h anniv erssary working ki ffor or the o h cit ty of San JJose. ose.

Monday, But on Mon ndaay, Gurza rreturned eturned work—at to work k—at — a far lower rung on the pole. totem p ole.

Rather than n ttake ak ke his usual seat at bargaining across from the bar rggainingg ttable able acr oss fr rom o San employee unions,, Gurza, JJose’s ose’s public em mplo oyeee unions who earned mor moree than $222,0 $222,000 m 00 in total tot al ccompensation ompensation last yyear, eearr, rretained etained city through a cit ty job thr ro ou ugh a quirk in the civil service been ser vicce ssystem. yystem.. He has b een rreassigned eassigned to a low-le low-level position Parks eveel st sstaff aff p osition in the P arks Rec department. and R eec depar rtment. The job will earn $62,982.40 annually, about Gurza $62,9 82 2.40 annually y, or ab out 72 percent than was making. p erceent less th han what he w aas making g.

Why Shikada necessary Wh hy would d Shik kada a ffeel eeel it nec essary firee Gurza in manner?? to fir n such a public manner aree ques questions many City These ar stions man ny at Cit ty Hall

ha have ave b been een asking asking,, made mor moree difficu difficult ult answer because city have to o ans swer w b eccaause cit ty officials ha ave de deemed eemed the situation a “p “personnel ersonnel matter, thereby information. m mat ttterr,” ther eb by shielding inf fo ormatio on.

But in a phone ccall aall Monda Monday ay eevening, veni e ing, told San JJose was G Gurza ose Inside he w aas ““shocked” “s sho h ck keed” d” when h Shik Shikada kaada d rrelieved elie lieveed d him him duties.. He added that no rreason off his duties easo on w was aas giv given. veen. saw hallway saw “When I sa aw the hallw way and I sa aw th the he securit security ty offic officers, ers, I w was aas eeven veen mor moree shocked, sh hock keed,” Gurza said.

“I don don’t n’’t rreally eally know what led to th this. his. don’t know.

I just j don n’t ’ know w.”

A According ccording to sour sources ces e at Cit City ty Hall, Gurza’s partt of se several odd G Gurza a’s rremoval emo oval v is par veeral o dd occurrences.

Tuesday, Shikada, the o ccurrences. On T uesdaay, Shik kaada, th he top appointed city to op app ointed i d cit ty official, ffi i l rreceived eecceeivveed d his second performance hi is sec ond p erfo ormance eevaluation vvaluation in i many ass man ny weeks at the ccouncil’s ouncil’s closed d session meeting.. A sec second se ession meeting co ond rreview evview is nearly unheard of,f, a sour source ne early unhear d of ce told San JJose ose Inside, Tuesday’s took In nside, and T uesdaayy’s meeting to u ok so s long was lo ong it w aas fforced orced to ccontinue o ontinue later in o i the afternoon SJI’ss print deadlin deadline. th he afterno on past SJI’ ne.

Following victoryy of F ollowing the rrecent ecent victor Mayor-elect Liccardo, theree M Ma ayorr-elect Sam Lic cardo, ther purge is some sense that a pur ge of the previous administration’s city pr revious administration ’s top cit ty staff place.

Doingg m manager st aff is ttaking aking plac e. Doin bee seen as a w way create so o ccould ould b ay to cr eate a new dialogue employee ne ew dialo gue with public emplo oyee e unions, many have been un nions, man ny of which ha ave b een critical cr ritical of Gurza. But questions abound Shikada next ab bound if Shik ada fits into the ne ext x mayor’s plans.. — —Josh Koehn m ma ayo or’s plans Joosh K oehn

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Six years ago,, communit community ty or organizer ganizer R Raj aj Jayadev fformed ormed the Albe ert Cobar rubias Albert Cobarrubias Justice Pr Project oject (A (ACJP) CJP) to o help ffamilies amilies caught up in the crimina criminal al justice system.. A Ass he began tak taking king on mor moree cases,, he gr grew ew frustr frustrated atted when,, despite all the services ser vices he connected th them hem to,, they rrelinquished elinquished so much contr ccontrol ol once the case went to the courtr courtroom. oom. T To o aff affect e rreal ect eal change,, Jayadev thought,, hee would have to bridge the divide between the lega legall establishment and the community community. y. T That hat rrealization ealization gr grew ew into a methodology called ““participatory parrticipatory def defense.” ense.” T The he idea is to work w with public def defenders enders and connect them with a clie client’s ent’s ffamily amily and community community, y, so they can mor moree eff effectively fectively tell their full story in court.. Aboutt 80 per percent cent of the 2.5 million Ameri Americans icans behind bars have rrelied elied defenders influence Byy on public def enders to rrepresent e esent them in court and influenc epr ce the outcome of a case. B ffacilitating acilitating participatory def defense ense in mor moree than 400 cases,, th the he A ACJP CJP has won acquittals, had char ges dismissed or o rreduced, educed,, changed prison terms to rrehabilitation ehabilitation sentences and charges even knocked lif nces off the table. When accounting ffor or the original maximum lifee senten sentences actin sentences and subtr ng g what the def endant actuallyy rreceived eceeived after communityy subtracting defendant inter vention,, the justice pr oject has saved people a combine ed 1,862 years of incar ceration. intervention, project combined incarceration.

Last week,, a gr oup of fformer ormer inmates,, their ffamilies amilies and frie ends,, A CJP volunteers and group friends, ACJP public def enders all met at Zer o One Gar age in downtown San S Jose to celebr ate the time defenders Zero Garage celebrate saved.. Jayadev says the plan is to hold a celebr ation every 11,000 ,000 years saved fr om now on celebration from as the pr ogram expandss into communities ar ound the natio on. program around nation.

San Jose CCop op Suspende Suspended ed ffor or TThreatening hreatening TTweets weets w A San JJose ose ccop op learne learned ed the har hard dw way ay that fr free ee sp speech eech do doesn’t esn n’t ’ mean sp speech eech is free fr ee fr from om cconsequences. onsequences. O Officer fficer Phillip White,, a 20-year White 20--yeear vveteran eeteran n of the San JJose ose P Police olice Depar Department, tmentt, w was aas susp suspended ended after p posting osting thr threatening eatenin ng ccomments omments on Twitter T witttter against p w people eople pr p protesting otesting p police olice brutality. brut taalitty.

“Thr “Threaten eaten me or m myy family and I will use m d giv veen and la llaw aw app ointed myy Go God given appointed dut ty to kill yyou. ou. #C o opsL LivveesMatttterr,” duty #CopsLivesMatter, White ttweeted w weeted o ver e thee week keend, over weekend, mo cking p eople using the t ttagline aagline mocking people #BlackLiv vesMat e ttter in th he w aak ke of the #BlackLivesMatter the wake non-indictments in the Eric Garner and Michael Br own ccases. ases a .

Brown That ttweet w weet ccame ame justt after another ttaunting aunting pr otesters usin ng Garner’ protesters using Garner’ss last wor rd ds, “I ccan’t an n’’t br reeathe,” as a rallying cr y. words, breathe, cry.

“By the w ay if an nyo on ne ffeels eeels the ey ccan’t an n’’t way anyone they br eathe or their liv vees ma attter t I’ll b breathe lives matter bee at the mo ovvies tonight, off dut d ty, ccarrying arr a ying movies duty, m ote. myy gun,” White wr wrote.

Public rreaction eaction w aas sh harp and sswift. wift. w was sharp Buz zFeed p osted scr een nshots of ttweets, weets w , BuzzFeed posted screenshots which spun off a flurr flurryy of national media ccoverage. oveerage. White deactivated his T witttter pr w ro ofile, but the scr sscreen een shots Twitter profile, went viral.

Phillip White Within W iithin a da day, ay, a ccommunity ommunit o ty gr group oup had st started taarted dap petition etition demanding the SJPD fir firee White W White.. (By T Tuesday uesdaay night, that p petition etitio on chalk chalked keed up mor moree than 13,200 13,20 0 supporters.) supp porters.) The agency put him on adm administrative ministrativve lea leave ave while it cconducts onducts an n in investigation nveestigation into appar apparent reent violations of o the dut duty ty manual and ffor or o cconduct onduct un unbecoming nbecco oming of an offic officer. err.

White w was aas fir fired reed fr from om a side job as assistant assist taant ba basketball ask keetball ccoach oach at Menlo College C ollege in A Atherton. ttherton.

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STREET S TR EET VIEW V IEW The latest ‘‘Move Move Photogra Photography’ aphy’ show at Seeing Things in includes ncludes photos and collages by yT Tim im i K Kerr. errr.

Skaterrss, rockers and photography Skaters, geek geeks ks join forces fo for or post-punk Seeing See eing Things Ga Gallery allery BY B Y GAR GARY Y SIN SINGH GH

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FTE FTER ER slithering into Seeing See eing Things Gallery on a Friday afternoon, I am m surrounded by aging punk punk musicians, musicians, photogr photographers aphers and skaters. skaters.

In most cases, ca ases, each person here is all three.

Owner JJai ai Tanju Taanju is banging nails into the w wall, all, a , prepping prepp ping ffor o or his latest eexhibit: xhibit: one of Rich JJacobs’ a obs’’ Move ac Mo ove Photography Photograph hy shows.. Some of shows o the work is up up,, while moree of it sits on ttables hang.. mor ables rready eady to hang

In n man many ny ccases, ases a , the ar artists tists ar aree half halffacademic ac cademic and half half-punk, f-punk, , meaning, meaning, I im mmediately ffeel eeel a sense of b elongin ng. immediately belonging.

W iith that,, the artists artists b egin to show sho ow With begin u up fo of the Drunk Injuns lumbers lumb bers up.. Mof Mofo in n with his ic onic Thrasherr shot of th he iconic the dude d drinking a b beer eer while skating sk kaating n empty emptty p ool. Curator Rich JJacobs acobss an pool. ourt overseeing oveerseeing the install. install. a iss holding ccourt Ray Ste Ra veens, of 8,0 00 San JJose ose band ds Ray Stevens, 8,000 bands over e the th last l t 34 yyears, ears, is i yakking kki wit itth over with Tim K eerr ab out some esoteric factio on of Tim Kerr about faction so ome sk kaate sc ene in some cit ty decades decad des some skate scene city aggo, that is in-bettw ween band stories, storiess, ago, is,, in-between tour to our stories stories,, skate-ramp sk kaate-ramp tales tales and alll so orts of rad vverbiage. erbiage. sorts Speaking Speaking of K Kerr, eerr, I’m standing standing n xt to him,, and,, yes, ne yes e , it’s it’s the same next

T Tim im K Kerr eerr of the Big Bo Boys oys y and also of Monk Monkeywrench, keywrench,, also th the he same dude in the T Texas exxas Music Halll of Fame Fame,, and yyet eet that same dude who o studied with photographer Garryy W Winogrand.

It’s photo grapher Garr iinogrand. It ’s a lot mor taining than t the hipsters moree enter entertaining nearby Starbucks. in the nearb

by St arbuckss.

K err, who eexhibits xhibits paintings p and Kerr, photo graph hy nationwide, nationwide w , tells me photography bee difficul difficult travel that he ccan an b lt to tra avel with in ccars ars b ecause he h alw ayys because always interrupts the other p erson in the person ccar. ar. He ’s pr one to distr raction, alw ayys He’s prone distraction, always p ointing out stuff on the rroad oad that pointing phottograph. T he would lik likee to photograph.

Tanju, anju, a also a photo grapher, o verhears us photographer, overhears and claims he ’s the sam me w ay. “It ’s he’s same way.

“It’s lik eing i a sk kater,” th h yb he oth h agr ee. likee b being skater,” they both agree.

“Ev erything yyou ou lo ok k at on the “Everything look str eet, it ’s lik e, ‘Oh, tha at’d b ool street, it’s like, that’d bee a ccool skate.’” thing to sk ate.’”

K eerr’s ccontribution ontribution to the show Kerr’s ccombines otograph hy and ombines his own pho photography painting into p ostt-pun - nk ccollages, ollages, as post-punk if Ra aymond y P ettibon got g hammer ed Raymond Pettibon hammered

on acid-lac ced K ool-Aid and flipp ed acid-laced Kool-Aid flipped thr ough ol ld Lif fe magazines through old Life magazines.. The whole jaz zy shebang lo oks lik ound o jazzy looks likee ffound material, as a if K err e pilf feered photos of Kerr pilfered p eople st an nding ar ound at a str eet people standing around street parade d then glued them onto a parade,, an and painting.. But aree painting B instead, the shots ar from indeed ttaken ak ken fr om his own work.

“People aree alw always wheree “P eople ar ways y asking me wher I got the ph hotos fr om,” he sa ayys. “But photos from, says. have then I ha ave to tell them, ‘No, ‘No, those are are myy own sh shots. m hots.’”

Much off the show fuses skateboarding life decay sk ateboarding d liffe with urban dec ay street culturee with a gloriously and str eet cultur lowbrow post-punk ethos.. JJust lowbr ow p ost-punk ethos ust when way too I thought I’ II’d d finally seen w ay to o this over heree it much of th his o ver the yyears, ears, her ccomes omes agai again in and surprises me me.. Ev Even en the non-skate-culture non-sk kate-culture stuff seems to eautiful sense eexude xude a str strange range yyet et b beautiful of outsider outsiderness. rness. Andr Andrew ew P Paynter, aynter y , ffor or eexample, o xamplle, pr provided ovided nine lo lo-fi -fi Polaroid P olaroid sh shots hots of stuff stuffed ffeed animals from fr om a nat natural tural histor historyy museum,, all of them creepy crreepy and yellowish. yellowish. Then he framed them into one b beveledeveledmat pr presentation. esen ntation. A Ass a rresult, esult, it ffeels eeels likee a p lik portal ortal a into a nightmarish land of gazelles and zebras zebras,, a curious juxtaposition juxt apositiion of lowbr lowbrow ow and highbrow, highbr ow w, sor sortt of a cr cross oss b between ettw ween a child’ss see child’ see-through - ough telesc -thr telescope ope game and The Ci Circus ircus of Dr Dr. r. LLao. ao.

JJust ust inch inches hes aaway, way, I see a Brian Maryansky Mar yansk ky photo photo.. Like Lik ke Kerr, Keerrr, he he’s ’s another fformer o orrmer indie musician with a photo photography grap ph hy degr degree. ee. Mar Maryansky’s yansk kyy’s ccontribution ontributio on to this par particular ticular show, show w, however, howe eveerr, ffeatures eeatures a b beautifully eautifully ruined Rye, R ye, New New Hampshir Hampshire, H e, tugboat, tugboat,, propped prro opped up on jacks jackstands, stands, one that simply says saayys “Slayer” “Sla ayeer”” on n the back. In the back background, kgground, what’s what ’s left of o rrecent ecent snow lies sc scattered caattttered about ab out the winter w landsc landscape. cap a e. In still other ccases, ases, more more legends fr from om indie and punk scenes sc enes dec decades cades a past app appear ear in the show show, w, like lik ke Murra Murray ay Bowles Bowles,, whose 19 1980s-era 80s-era punk gig ph hotos fill an entir table in photos entiree table the ccorner. ornerr.

In shor t,, the show is a gor geous tiny tin ny short, gorgeous microcosm micr ocosm m of the half half-punk, f-punk, , halfhalffac ademic univ u erse, with T exas, N ew academic universe, Texas, New York Y ork o and C California aliffo ornia all ccontributing ontributing in galactic pr oportions. A proportions.

Ass I show up ffor o or the op opening ening rreception, eception,, on the ffollowing ollowing o night, n , the joint is packed. pack ked. e Kerr K err is auto autographing ographing stuff left and right. I also o see someone someone’s ’s mid-80smid-80sera Sonic Y Youth o outh shot I missed the night before. beffo orre. As As a rresult, esult,, I begin begin to harmonizee m myy ac academic ademic and punk halves halv ves e without with hout eeven ven trying. trying. And that is what ar artt is about. about.

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Brian Hartsell immersed himself in analog recordings in the epicenter of the digital revolution.

He now thinks the cloud can save the vinyl experience.

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BY NICK VERONIN

ANALOG AN A LOG UPLOAD UPLOA D In addition to selling re records, ecordss, turntables and other to top-end op-end stereo equipment, Bria Brian nH Hartsell, artsell, owner of The Analo Analog og R Room oom in San Jose, is working to ri rip ip portions of his collection to the cloud as large, ultra-high-fi ultra-high-fidelity -fidelity digital files files, s, which he says will sound almost as good good as vinyl.

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RIAN H RIAN HARTSELL ARTSELL stares into off in nto the distance, focusing focu using on nothing in pa particular, articularr, allowing himself to get g lost in the music.

“Monk’s “M onk’s M Mood,” o ood,” the first tr track ack off Theloniu Thelonius us Monk Monk Quartet with John Coltrane C at Carnegie Hall, H alll, is still spinning a s when he comes to. to. T The h w he waves aves of sound way weave theirr w ay through and around the particles of dust, which hang in the air air, r, illuminated by the shafts of daylight lingering da aylight sliding blinds.. through the e venetian blinds

“Listen to the brush str strokes, okes,” Hartsell ccommands, Hartsell H ommands, dra drawing awing w at attention tttenttion to o the sswishing wishing of the steel-wir steel-wires es o over ver the th he ttaut aut head of the snar snaree drum. The Th he sound so ound is bright,, air airyy and crisp crisp—just —jjusst like lik ke the o occasional ccasional p pops ops that springg from fr om the sur surface face of the vin vinyl nyyl rrecord ecord like lik ke a crackling winter hear hearth. th. “Y “You Yo ou u don’t do on’t get that with digit digital. al.”

If an nyone underst ands the anyone understands di iff ffeerence b ettween w digit al and ana alog difference between digital analog so ound ssystems, ystems, it’s it’s Hartsell—owner Hartsell—owneer sound off The Analo Analogg Room, Room,, a high-fideli high-fidelity, itty, analog-only an nalog-only audio and rrecord ecord shop p on the th he ccorner orner of Fruitdale and Merid Meridian ian aavenues venues in San JJose. ose. For For just over over 20 0 yyears, ears, Har Hartsell tsell has b bought ought and sold so old vin vinyl nyyl records, records, along with rrecord ecord

plaayers, amplifiers players, amplifiers,, speakers speak e ers and other stereo ster eo ccomponents omponents at his quirk quirky ky San JJose ose store. store.

The Analog Analog R Room oom is i the culmination of Har Hartsell’s tseell’s lif life-long fe-long love-affair lo ve-affair with musicc and hi-fi, which b began egan when hee w was as just a child, listening to a tin tiny ny transistor radio in his family’ family’ss V Virginia iirginia home home..

Before Bef fo ore op opening ening the sto store ore in the early ‘90s, ‘9 90s, Har Hartsell tsell had alr already e eady amassed a gar gargantuan gantuan rrecord ecord ccollection ollection and given giv en up on his first ccareer a eer as an ar ar chitect to write mus sic and audio architect music equipment rreviews. eviews.

Sinc ening the stor sstore, e, Har tsell Sincee op opening Hartsell has only b ecome mor enched become moree entr entrenched in the analo w He ’s analogg audio world.

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amassed a ccollection ollection of mor moree than 50,000 50,0 00 LP LPs; Ps; st started arted a tub tubee amplifier ccompany, ompany, W Wavestream Waavestream Kinetics Kinetics,, with his friend Sc Scott ott Frankland; and he rrecently ecently b began e egan what might b bee his most ambi ambitious itious pr project oject to date date— — cr creating eating a vin vinyl-to-digital yl-to - digital highfidelityy aud fidelit audio dio ar archive chive of thousands of rrecordings ecordin ngs whose original master ttapes apes have haave either b been een destr destroyed oyed or degraded as well as ccompiling degraded, ompiling an accompanying ac compan nying y high-r high-resolution esolution digit digital al libraryy of album librar a ar artwork. twork.

Blessed with w ap erpetually curious perpetually mind,, Hartsell Harrtsell striv es to underst and strives understand subjects th hat inter est him at an that interest atomic le vel. When it ccomes omes to rar level. raree

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The son of an aer aeronautical onau utical engineer engineer,, Hartsell Har tsell gr grew ew up tink tinkering e ering with anything mechanical electrical al an ything mechanic al or electric that he ccould ould get his hands h on, and he loved loved it. was world, says â&#x20AC;&#x153;It w aas a simpler p wo orld,,â&#x20AC;? he sa ayys of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;W â&#x20AC;&#x153;With little the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;6 0s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s Wiitth a lit tttle bit of any skill yyou ou ccould ould work on n an ny ccar ar and running. learned get it running g.â&#x20AC;? He lear rned this ďŹ rst projects hand,, helping his dad with w pr ojects around ar ound the house and with the projects devised himselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the pr ojects he de vised ffor o or himself fâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ďŹ rst of which ccame ame in the t fform o orm of a bike. mini bik e.

Hartsell was pre-teen When Har tsell w aas in n his pr e-teen yyears, eears, he and his father struck a deal. If kept moped. he k eept his grades up, up, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d h â&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get a mop he ed ed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So,, I got straight straight-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no â&#x20AC;&#x153;So -Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no big dealâ&#x20AC;? he says saayys with an air of nonchalant cconďŹ dence, onďŹ dence, as if it wer re a fforegone or o egone were cconclusion onclusion that he wo ould ob viously would obviously get those straight -Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, sinc straight-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, sincee he had set his mind to get tingg them. T aalking getting Talking with Har tsell, yyou ou gett the sense that Hartsell, he is quite cconvinced onvinced of his abilit abilityy to ďŹ gur w others ďŹ guree things out, whether b elieve he is ccapable apable or o not. believe When the rreport eport ccard a d ccame ar ame in, in his father held up his end d of the bar gain, bargain, buying the yyoung oung Har rtsell a pint Hartsell pint-sized motorbike, motorbike, and the t 10-year10-yearold pr omptly lost all inter iinterest est in his promptly studies ent thatt spring tearing studies.. He sp spent ar ound his neighborhood neighborh hood and around ďŹ ddling with his ne w to y. When his new toy. grades ccame ame in again, his father had one lo ok at his son â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s p oor marks and look sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor to ok the sc ooter aaway, way, telling him he took scooter wouldn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it back until u he righted wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his academic academic ship ship..

Howe ver, in the spa an of time However, span b etween his p oor rreport epor o t ccard ard and between poor the ne xt, impr oved on ne, Har tsell next, improved one, Hartsell had ffound o ound a ne w pass ion: music new passion: and audio equipment t. While he equipment. w as without his minib bike, Har tsell was minibike, Hartsell

stayed bus sy, listening to his little littttle stayed busy, zing with the AM radio and fut futzing NuT To one intercom in ntercom ssystem ystem inst alled NuTone installed familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s V iirginia home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; once in his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Virginia homeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;once swapping out the sp eaker in his swapping speaker sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rroom oom o with the blown one in sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voiid get ting in tr ouble. his to aavoid getting trouble. g ho oked,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? he sa ayys â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just got hooked,â&#x20AC;? says recalling th he b eginning of his lif feelong recalling the beginning lifelong love affair with music and hi-ďŹ love equipmen i nt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When â&#x20AC;&#x153; h m d ďŹ ďŹ nally ll equipment. myy grades came back k,, m ed me if I had came back, myy dad ask asked nything, and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Y Yeah. e I learned an anything, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah. want a stereo.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? steereo.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? want

Passioon T Passion Too Profession P rofession In the yyears ears and dec decades ades that ffollowed, ollowed, Har o H tsell immersed himself Hartsell music.

Looking says i music in i .L ooking ki back, b k he h sa ayys he h ccouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have have pick ha picked ed a b better etter time to bee a musicc fan. b He didn nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ha ave video games or the didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Internet to o distract him,, the mo movies vies werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what theyy ar aree to today, wer enâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wh hat the daay, plus theyy ccost money, was the ost mone m y, but the radio w as free. used bee yyou ould hear fr ee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It us sed to b ou ccould eeverything verythingg on the radio radio,â&#x20AC;? ,â&#x20AC;? Har Hartsell tsell says. sa ayys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;W We had h p people eople pla playing ayying whatever theyy w wanted.

You whate ver the t hell the anted. Y ou o next ccould ould ld hear h r Thelonious Th l i Monk k ne xt Mottt th the Hoople.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to Mot he Ho ople. Y ou o don â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ha ave anymore.â&#x20AC;? that an ym more.â&#x20AC;? little moneyy he had as a kid, The lit tttlle mone spent he often sp pent on rrecords, ecords, which friends.. He he would sswap wap with his friends began b egan to de d develop velop a ttaste aste ffor or o b both oth rrock ock & rroll olll and jaz jazz. z.

After hi igh scho ol,, Har tsell went high school, Hartsell off to ccollege, olleege, eeventually ventually earning a degr ee in ar aarchitecture. chitecture. All the while degree his lo ve off music rremained emained and his love rrecord ecord ccollection olllection ccontinued ontinued to gr ow. grow.

U pon gr raduating in 19 80, Upon graduating 1980, Hartsell Har tsell work w worked ed as an architect architect ffor or a num o number mb er of ďŹ rmsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;building both b oth ccommercial omm mercial and rresidential esidential properties. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s pr opertiess. By the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;8 0s he had struck outt on his own, working as an architectural architeectural cconsultant onsultant and ccontractor, ontractorr, and writing ffor o or music and audio o equipment magazines on freelance basis.. a fr eelance basis For about ďŹ vee yyears F or ab out ffour o our or ďŹ v ears in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s wrote Tracking the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;9 90s he wr ote ffor o or T rracking Angle, Angle e, The List Listener, tener e r, The Absolut Absolute te Sound, Audio Adventure, served A udio A dventur e e, and ser ved as music Positive Feedback. editor ffor or P o oositive F eedb e ack. The music writing writting began began as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;hobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to â&#x20AC;&#x153;hobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to free says. byy 19 1991, get fr ee rrecords,â&#x20AC;? ecords,â&#x20AC;? he sa ayys. But b 91,

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V IN Y L THUMB VINYL T H UM B H Hartsell artsell ďŹ&#x201A;ips through a stack of re records ecords at The Analog Room.

EPs R oom. He He says there are around 20,000 LPs LPs and EP Ps at his store and even more at his home. home

he had quit working ass an ar architect chitect ccompletely. ompletelyy.

He and his wif wife, fe, Katherine, Kattherine, had ttwo wo yyoung oung childr childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a enâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aa son and a daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and daughter â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and mo moved ved d to San JJose ose from fr om Southern C California aliffor ornia in 19 1991 91 when Katherine signed d on at Sun Microsystems.

Micr osystems. Har Hartsell tselll sa says ays y that the theyy d id d h decided he ccould ould ld ccontinue onti tiinue i tto write it his rrecord ecord and equipm equipment ment rreviews eviews at home while k keeping eeping an n eeye ye on the yyoungsters. oungsters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theree w â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ther wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t asnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t time ffor or us to ha o have ave ttwo wo kids and work ttwo wo o full-time jobs,â&#x20AC;? jobs ,â&#x20AC;? he eexplains. xplains.

However, Howe ver, it w wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t asnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lo long ong after the

couple couple had d decided Har Hartsell tsell should stay stay at home hom me that a ne new w plan w was as hatched.

By â&#x20AC;&#x2122;91, the th he rrecord ecord ccollection ollection Hartsell Hartsell had haad b begun egun in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s had ballooned baallooned into the tens of thousands. thousands. It was was only gr growing owing faster now that he w was as writing music i rreviews, evie iews, nott to t mention ti that th t when he st started tarted writing rreviews eviews ffor o or hi-ďŹ equipm equipment, ment, the Har Hartsell tsell house became became a harb h harbor or ffor o or eexpensive xpensive speakers, speakers, am ampliďŹ ers mpliďŹ ers and turnt turntables, ables, which the audio a ccompanies ompanies would send him and a then neglect to pick

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For or an audiophilee lik likee Har Hartsell tsell it have been dream scenario, should ha ave b een a dr ream sc enario, but he sa says ayys it w was as mor more re of a hassle hassle,, as his wif fe chastised him h ffor or o first wife filling up their home with thousands up on thousands of rrecords ecords and then upon hoar ding equipment that t he w asn’t hoarding wasn’t eeven ven using using..

It w as around around this time time that Har tsell was Hartsell went to a “record “record show”—a show w”—a swap swap meet ffor o or rrecord ecord ccollectors—with ll t with ith a friend. fi d ollectors—w He to ok out se veral hu undred rrecords ecords took several hundred with the intent of mak king some making mone fe happ py. moneyy and making hiss wif wife happy.

And he did mak ke mon ney. But… make money.

“I b ought a lot mor re shit than bought more I sold and I still left with w a pr ofit,”” profit,” Har tsell says. saayys. ““And And it b A ecame rreally eally Hartsell became appar ent to me that yyou ou ccould ould mak apparent makee a living fr om ccollecting ollectin ng rrecords.” ecords.” from When he rreturned eturned fr om the from rrecord ecord show h with i h mor re rrecords ecords d than h more he had left with and a w ad of ccash ash in wad his hand, his wif fe mad de a suggestion: wife made ““‘Why ‘Why don ’t yyou ou just op en a stor don’t open storee and get this crap out of o m myy house?’ house?’””

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It to took ok a ffew ew yyears ears ffor orr Har o Hartsell tsell to find the spac spacee that would wo ould b become ecome The Analo Analogg R Room—an oom—aan old house that had pr previously eviously b been e the een headquarters headquar ters of the L Legal egal Aid Society So ciety of Sant Santaa Claraa C County. ounty.

In the ttwo wo dec decades ades he he’s ’s sp spent ent there, ther e, Har Hartsell tsell has fille filled ed the building’ss man building’ manyy rrooms oom ms with cceilingeilingshelves, and high rrecord ecord shelv es, an nd set up a number listening stations— numb er of hi-fi listeni ing st ations— most of them arranged arrangeed in a manner “Blown-away Man”” of that rrecalls ecalls the “Blow n-aaway Man the old Hit Hitachi achi Maxel Maxell ll ad ccampaign, ampaign, with a pair of chairs fa facing acing a pair of speakers, sp eakers, an amplifier amplifier, r, a turnt turntable, able, and nothing else else..

Entering one of thee stor store’s e’s back rrooms, ooms, Har Hartsell tsell gestur gestures res at a pair of sp speakers eakers that st stand and d ab about out 4 ffeet eeet ttall. all. In b between etween them them, m,, an amplifier rrests ests on the flo floor, or, tub tubes es jut jutting ting out angles,, ccalling at diagonal angles allling to mind a block, top V6 engine blo ck, its to op rremoved emoved to within. eexpose xpose the pistons wit thin.

Off O ff to the side, side, a stand stand a supports supports Rega a minimalist R eega turntable. turn ntable. A ccarpenters arpenters level level sits on n the edge of the stand, st and,, its bubble at rrest esst between between the lines.. Next turntable ttwo wo lines Next to the turnt able is a large scanner, Hartsell lar ge image sc anner, which w Har tsell byy ccourier earlier.. rreceived eceived b ourier a week w earlier

This is pr precision p ecision equipment ffor o or a precision Hartsell says, precision ttask, ask, Har tsell sa ayys, launching into an eexplanation xp planation of how he will be transform be using this th his rroom oom to transf fo orm the recordings pressed vinyl LPss recordingss pr essed into the vin nyyl LP leaned up against the w wall all into highfidelity digital files,, and how he will fidelity dig gital files scan artwork scan and digitize d the ccover over ar twork of the first-edition first- ed dition rrecords. ecords.

He set his project h mind on the pr oject in early aughts.

Hartsell says i the th earl l aughts ly ht . Har H t ll sa tsell ayys he h performed vinyl-to-digital performed o d his first vin yl-to - digital transfer 2001, transffeer back baack in 20 01,, but notes that back then the technolo technology was clunky gy w as clunk ky and ineffic inefficient, cient,, and the size of the files were unwieldy. were un u wieldyy. “Fast fforward o orward a

‘I bo bought ought g a lot more morre than h I sol sold, ld, and I sti ill left f still with i h a profit. p It b became be ecame apparent app pp p parent you y could ld make mak k a living ke li i colle collecting llecting i records.’ reco ords d .’’ decade, an nd the softw are had got ten decade, and software gotten etteer,” he sa ays y .N ot to mention a lot b better,” says.

Not that at thee turn of the millennium, a ytte thumb driv ost nearly 516 kilob kilobyte drivee ccost as much a terab yte eexternal xternal har d terabyte hard driv ess to daay. drivee do does today.

He’s alr e eady ttaken aken on one highHe’s already profile vinyl-to-digital vin nyyl-to - digital transf feer. He profile transfer. gital ccopy opy of the first vin nyyl made a dig digital vinyl pressing off Beck’ pressing Beck’ss debut album, ld, first issued b Mellow Go Gold, byy Bong Load R ec e or o ds.

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Hartselll sa ayys he w as appr oached Hartsell says was approached by a rrepresentative epressentative fr om U niversal by from Universal Reecords, who w ask ed him to mak Records, asked makee the transffeer because bec e ause Bong L oad’s original transfer Load’s ap pe had gone up in smok e. master ttape smoke.

Accordin ng to Har tsell this is not an According Hartsell uncommo on o ccurrence— especially uncommon occurrence—especially for o blues and a jaz tists who wer for jazzz ar artists weree know wn in their time lesser known time,, but who

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“It’s poorly we’ve “It ’s amazing how p oorly we ’ve ttaken aken ccare are of our ar art,” t,”” Har Hartsell tsell sa says, ayys, eexplaining xplaining that rrecord ecord lab els ha ave labels have b een known to ttape ape o ver other been over der to sa master ttapes apes in or ave mone y. order save money.

Sometimes the w areh houses wher warehouses wheree ept bur the ttapes apes ar rn down or aree k kept burn flo od. And man eaat rrecordings ecordings flood. manyy gr great made in the ’70s wer weree laid down on a then-ne then new kind off ttape, ape, which then-new rrecording ecording engineers pr resumed to b presumed bee sup erior at the time nffo ortunatelyy, superior time.. U Unfortunately, it w as not, degrading o ver time to was over the p oint at which som me ttapes apes fr om point some from that era ar ayyab ble” to daay. aree “unpla “unplayable” today.

“U ntil rrecently,” ecentlyy,” Ha artsell adds the “Until Hartsell adds,, ““the

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major lab els ha ave not ttaken aken ccare are of labels have their ttapes apes vvery ery well. well.””

This is wher tsell and his wheree Har Hartsell eexpertise xpertise in vin nyl-to y - digit d al transf feer vinyl-to-digital transfer ccome ome in. When the master m ttape ape ffor or o a giv en album is no lo onger aavailable, vvailable, given longer the highest qualit eccording still qualityy rrecording in eexistence xistence almost alw wayys ccomes omes in always the fform o orm of a pristine nyyl pristine,, original vin vinyl pr essing. pressing. ““And And so A aying y a mint m ccondition ondition so,, pla playing vin yl rrecord ecord on a st atee- off-the - -art vinyl state-of-the-art ssystem ystem is pr obably thee b est yyou ou ccan an probably best do ,” Har tsell sa ayys. do,” Hartsell says.

F or Har tsell,, it ’s nott enough For Hartsell, it’s that the music is pr eseerved in the preserved b est qualit ossible. He H is also best qualityy p possible. cconcerned oncerned with authe entic album authentic ar twork. All to o often n,, digit al music artwork. too often, digital downloads ccome ome with h the inc orrect incorrect ccorresponding orresponding ar tworrk, he sa ays y. artwork, says.

This is especially especially true with classic al classical music and jaz ms, which often jazzz album albums, go thr ough man eisssues—getting through manyy rreissues—getting a ne w, or slightly alter red ccover over with new, altered each iteration.

He p oints to a rrecord ecorrd leaning up points

against thee w wall: all: Mating C Call all b byy T Tadd aadd Dameron Coltrane.

It’s Damer on & JJohn ohn C oltrane. It ’s the original 19 1955 955 rrecord, ecord, he sa says, ayys, noting that later pr p essings of the album pressings eexcised xcised T aad dd Damer on’s name fr om Tadd Dameron’s from the ccover. over. “L ater on, that b ecame a “Later became JJohn ohn C oltrrane rrecord.” ecord.”

Coltrane Much lik ke the original master like ttapes, apes, the original o ar twork has not artwork survived th he yyears. ears. Bef for o e ccomputeromputersurvived the Before based grap phic design pr ograms, graphic programs, album ccovers overs wer oduced b weree pr produced byy hand. Grap phic ar tists work ed on a Graphic artists worked able arranging the let ttering t light ttable lettering es. The final pr oduct w as and image images. product was photo grap phed fr om ab ove and photographed from above printed on n the rrecord ecord slee ves. The sleeves. original ar ave b een sa aved ffor o or artt might ha have been saved a time aas time,, butt the vast majorit majorityy of it w was tossed,, lostt or destr oyed,, Har tsell sa ayys. destroyed, Hartsell says.

That me eans that the highest means rresolution esolution l ti n ccopy opy off an album lb ’s album’s original ar rtwork, in man ases, is on artwork, manyy ccases, the ccover over of o the most pristine LP of that rrecord ecord aavailable. vailable v .

“W We’re going g thr ough and “We’re through sc anning all a the rrecord ecord ccovers,” overs,” scanning Har tsell sa ayys.

Hartsell says.

It ma ay se eem lik ke a trifling mat ttter in may seem like matter the age of the t iP od. These days daayys plenty plentty iPod. of p eople buy b music people music,, one song at a time o veer Amazon A or iT unes. Or they they over iTunes. str eam thei h ir i music i o ver YouTube YouT o Tub be or stream their over Sp otiffy. Bu ut ffor o or Har tsell an album ’s Spotify.

But Hartsell album’s original ar tw work is almost as imp ortant artwork important as the musi ic. He views views records records and their music. ccovers oveers as a ccohesive ohesivve whole, whole, and at the moment he h isn n’’t even eveen worried about about isn’t monetizingg the pr ocess. process.

“Right now n w, I’m doing this just now, ffor or m o yselff,” Har tsell sa ayys, adding myself,” Hartsell says, that at som me p oint it would b some point bee nic ofit fr om the nicee to b bee able to pr profit from work he iss doing ’t doing,, but that isn isn’t his main motivation. m “I w ant the want stuff do cum mented. I mean, we ’re all documented. we’re going to d ie at some p oint in time die point time..

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EFORE those guilt-driven New Year’s resolutions pull you back in line, take advantage of these upcoming events to fatten up a bit and ride high on holiday cheer.

XMAS IN THE PARK Christmas in the Park brings a carnival and forest of decorated trees to Cesar Chavez Park. It also brings an array of fair food, including Olimpos churros with Mexican hot chocolate, tamales, dessert crepes, kettle corn, hot dogs and “hurricane potato swirls.”

Christmas in the Park, 9am-midnight every day through Jan. 1. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, S. Market Street, downtown San Jose. christmasinthepark.com.

LB STEAK For Christmas Eve, LB Steak (pictured right) will offer a four-course prix-fixe menu at both its Menlo Park and Santana Row locations. The holiday menu ($68.50 a person) includes, among other entrees, smoked sturgeon and caviar, grilled quail, lobster-truffle ravioli and ends with your choice of cookies and cocoa, cranberry-ricotta cheesecake or figgy pudding.

For Menlo Park location: 4-9pm Dec. 24, 898 Santa Cruz Ave. In San Jose: 11:30am-9pm Dec. 24, 334 Santana Row. lbsteak.com.

LEFT BANK BRASSERIE The French restaurant is hosting a Joyeux Noël fourcourse prix-fixe meal the day before Christmas at all of its locations. The holiday dinner ($52.75 per person, excluding tax and gratuity) varies by location, but comes with lobster cream puff pastry, curried pumpkin soup and roasted pheasant breast at the Santana Row location. Menlo Park’s menu features leek soup, pork and duck confit and lamb chops. And, of course, both finish the feast with a bûche de noël.

For Menlo Park, call 650.473.6543. For Santana Row, call 408.984.3500C HANUKAH LIGHTS Jewish rock musician Rick Recht will perform at the annual lighting of the menorah at Santana Row. The event, hosted by the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, includes a sing-along with Recht, dreidel decorating, story time and refreshments. Santana Row restaurants offer outdoor dining to watch the celebration.

Menorah lighting, 4-6pm Wednesday, Park Valencia at Santana Row, 3055 Olin Ave. For information: santanarow.com. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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GLAD TO BEER HERE Guy Cameron, brewmaster for the new Whole Foods Market on The Alameda, has chased hops his whole career.

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ABIES have become men in between the time the Whole Foods Market along The Alameda in downtown San Jose was first proposed and finally built. It appears the wait was worth it. The new market features the company’s first on-site microbrewery and taproom in California. Guy Cameron, formerly of Russian River Brewing Company, holds the title of brewmaster for the new Mission Creek Brewing Company. He took a short break from filling kegs to talk brews with Metro.

CAN YOU RECALL THE FIRST BEER YOU MADE AND WHERE DID IT GO FROM THERE? I think I started off with a sort of hoppy amber ale. I started out like a lot of other brewers, home-brewing for many years and joined a homebrew club, The Silicon Valley Sudzers, which I’m still a part of. From there I decided I wanted to try commercial brewing so I went to Rock Bottom Brewing in Campbell and I was the assistant brewer there for about a year. I decided I wanted to go do some hoppier stuff and and I wanted to see “how it was done,” so I went to Russian River for six years. And now I’m coming here and I'm really excited to be doing my own thing.

WOULD YOU SAY YOUR STYLE OF BREWING IS HOP-HEAVY VARIETIES, LIKE WHAT YOU DID WITH RUSSIAN RIVER? Yeah, American pale ales, IPAs. While I was at Russian River we did a lot of sour styles there. Here we are not quite set up for that, but maybe we could do some sort of collaboration at some point and have them produce it off-site.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO FIND ON TAP FROM MISSION CREEK? Right now it’s American pale ale and an IPA coming up after that. I’ll be re-brewing the pale ale just to make some tweaks and then go from there. I’ll probably end up doing some Belgian saison down the road. It’s really up to me, just kind of pick something and go with it.

AT RUSSIAN RIVER BREWING, YOU HAD A HAND IN THEIR IPA, PLINY THE ELDER, WHICH HAS A CULT-LIKE FOLLOWING. ANY GUESS AS TO WHAT MADE PEOPLE LINE UP AROUND THE BLOCK FOR IT? People just seem to really like that particular hop flavor and aroma. It’s very distinctive and people are really drawn to that.

AS SOMEONE WITH SOUTH BAY ROOTS, CAN YOU APPRECIATE HOW COOL THIS CONCEPT IS FOR THE AREA? A lot of people I know have been waiting for this place to open for quite a while and the fact that there is a brewery in it, it’s even more cool.—Jeff Cianci MISSION CREEK BREWING COMPANY inside Whole Foods, 777 The Alameda, San Jose. missioncreekbrewingco.com.

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SSTYX TYX Jan 28 2 at City National Civic

MONKEY MONKE Y Jan Ja an 30 at The Blank Club

CHERRY CHERR RY POPPIN’ D DADDIES ADDIES Jan 31 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

EXCISION, EX XCISION, MINNE MINNESOTA SOTA AND PR PROTOHYPE OTOHYPE Feb 6 at City National Civic

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COMEDYSPORTZ COMEDYSPORTZ T IMPROV IMPR OV COMEDY COMEDY An impr improvised ovised bbattle attle of wits, audience-sourced all audience-sou urced and suitable ffor or the entir eentiree ffamily. amily. $12-$15.

Ongoing. $12 -$15. CCamera amera 4, San Jose.

SUPER VILLAIN VILLAIN! N! Written and dir Written directed ected by the Pear's James P ear's own Jame es KKopp, opp, irreverent spin this ir reverent sp pin on the superheroo saga ffollows superher ollows a supervillain super villain whoo becomes dispatching lonely after disp atching his Pear noble nemesis. The T P ear Avenue Theatre.

A venue Theatr e. Dec 5 thru 21.

View. $15. Mountain V iew.

7TH ANNU ANNUAL AL SOUTH S B BAY AY HOLIDAY GOSPEL HOLID DAY CCONCERT ONCERT Director TTerrance Director eerrancee KKelly elly dir directs ects interfaith, multi-racial, this interf aith, mul m ti-racial, multicultural mul ticultural choir chooir that is love united by their lo ove of the exuberance Black exuber ance of B lack Gospel 7:30pm.

Music. Dec 19, 7: 30pm. $28Interfaith $36. Oakland Int terfaith Gospel Mountain Choir Inc. Mount tain View Performing Center ffor or P erforrming Arts.

THE SNO SNOW W QUE QUEEN EEN A whimsical adv adventure enture story ffollowing ollowing a boy on o a quest to save his friend who w has been Snow cursed by the Sn now Queen. various Dec 21, 22. variou us showings. $30-$40. $30 $40. Bayer Ballet Academy.

Mountain A cademy. Mount tain View Performing Center ffor or the P e orming Arts. erf

*concerts *c oncerts e MUSIC A AT T THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized or ganized by Sann Jose Jazz.

A weekly showcase of o Bay Area’s Ar ea’s budding musicc scene across acr oss all genres. genres. Most Most TTuesdays, uuesdays, 7pm. Thru Dec. D Theatre Theatre on San Pedro Pedro Square, Square, San Jose.

*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “The Manresa Manresa Seasons: Season ns: Exhibition of Santa Cruz Cruz Kimball Sculptor David Kimba all exhibition Anderson.”” An exhibi tion workss insp inspired displaying work pired

by Zen philosophies and a natural natur al phenomenon that provide provoke pr ovide peace and pr ovoke contemplation. Nov 66 Jan 31.

LLos os Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR ARTS ARTS CEN CENTER TER “Robert Frank Frank in America.”

Ameerica.” This photographs collection of 130 pho tographs Frank’s examines Robert Fr annk’s work from fr om the 1950s. Thru Jan 5.

“Pop “P op Art from from the SFMOMA SFM MOMA Anderson Collection” Collection” ffeaturing eaturing workss by W Warhol, Johns, work arhol, Joh ns, others.

Lichtenstein, and oth hers.

SStanford. tanford.

CHILDREN’S DISC DISCOVERY OVERY MUSEUM “Broken? Fix It.” From “Broken?

From m the wheel to the laptop, this t exhibit shows how too fix it.

San Jose.

DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEU MUSEUM UM “Creative in Common” “Creative Common” artists ffeatures eatures work by artis sts like Fletcher Sam Francis Francis and Flet cher B t andd th Benton the workk off th their i artistic relatives. relatives. “Keep “Keeep Calm Calm and Collect On” On” ffeatures eatures the museum’s acquisitions museum ’s rrecent ecent acq quisitions Andy including prints by An ndy Warhol Wayne Thiebaud.

W arhol and W ayne Th hiebaud.

Mar.. Santa Clar Clara.

Thru Mar a a.

EUPHRAT EUPHRA AT MUSEUM M Various art and photo Various photography ography created cr eated by students at a De Anza College. CCupertino. upertiino.

LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPANY “Zulugr “Zulugrass ass Jewelry G Gallery”, allery”,, ffeaturing eaturing the colorful colorful clothing adorned and ornaments adorn ned by the Great Maasai tribe of the G reat Rift Valley V alley of Kenya Kenya and Tanzania.

Taanzania.

“Woodcarvings “W oodcarvings of Val Vall Gardena, Gardena, Italy,” Italy y,,”” featuring featuring handcrafted handcrafted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.

Moree lis Mor listings: tings:

METROACTIVE.COM METR OACTIVE..COM SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF AR ART T “Momentum,” Thru Feb 22 22.

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“Post Portrait” “P ost P ortrait” Thru Jan 16.

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“Robert Henri’s CCalifornia alifornia Portraits: and P ortraits: Realism, Race an nd 1914-25.”

Jan. Region, 1914 -25.” Thru Jan n. closed TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am-5pm, close ed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE “Antique Ohio Amish Quil “Antique Quilts t ts from Darwin Bearleyy fr om the Dar win D. Bearle Collection”” show the br breadth Collection eaddth creativity quiltof cr eativity in the quil ttradition 1880making tr adition from from 188 801940. Bearley popularized the quilts quil ts when he took them out soldd of the community and sol broader American them to the br oader Amer rican Mar.. 1. public. Thru Mar “Two Wonders” “T Tw wo Color W onders” demonstrate demonstr ate how limitingg a color pallette to only twoo create colors can cr eate stark contrasts complimentary contr asts and compliment tary dynamics. San Jose.

TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART RT “Holly V Van aan Hart:: P Possibilities ossibilities Large Abound”” Lar ge paintings exploring the concept of Clara. potential. Thru Feb 14.. Santa Clar a.

THROWAWAY THRO WAWAY CULTURE CUL LTU TURE An X-ray of a T Teppaz eppaz e portable e record player is one of the images found in ‘R ‘Relics,’ Institute elicss,,’ an exhibit at the San Jose Insti itute of Contemporary art, once-state-of-the-art now relics. which hi h explores l once-s tate-of-the-art f h objects bj that h are no ow relics li .

“Hark” work by over 60 artis artists. sts.

Thru Jan 16. San Jose.

MACLA MA CLA

Adams, Christine Benjamin, Foley, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Valery V alery Milovic, CCarlos arlos Villez, Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Eric Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman and McColley.. San Jose.

Robert McColley

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“5th Chicano/a Biennial” rreflects eflects on the critical edgee interventions and aesthetic inter ventionss contemporary Chicano within contempor ary Chican no art. Dec 5-Mar 14. San Jose..

ANNO DOMINI

MAIN GALLER GALLERY Y

“In the Cave Cave We We Dance” Dance” solo exhibition by Joseph LLoughborough. oughborough. Thru Nov 15.

1 San Jose.

“Merry “Mer Merry Art Art”” local artists display their work in this Jan seasonal showcase. Thru Ja an 4.

City..

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N/A San Jose.

Art by J. J. Danniel. Mezcal Restaurant, Restaur ant, San Jose.

“Move” Photogr “Move” Photography aphy show ffeaturing eaturing over 30 artists curated cur ated by Rich Jacobs.

San Jose

MONTALVO MONT ALVO ARTS ARTS CENTER CENTEER

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS

“Perceptual” LLucas “Perceptual” ucas Artist Fraser Fellows Chris Fr aser and Justin LLowman owman explore explore the rrelationship elationship between perception, per ception, light, space, andd Saratoga. place. Thru Feb 1. Sar atoga.

"Art Lif "Art Lifer" er" by Alfr Alfredo edo Reyes and Debbie Doherty with from music fr om DJ Mystik Mike. ““Assemble!”

Assemble!” a MESHcollective show.. Works show Works by various artists.

San Jose.

“Broad Spectrum” “Broad Spectrum” Ladies Group Show.. Thru Dec 30.

Gr oup Show San Jose.

PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEAGUE LEAGUE

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GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE

PALO P ALO AL ALTO TO AR ART T CENTER

BRUNI BR UNI GALLER GALLERY Y Jazz paintings by Bruni Sa Sablan. ablan.

Jose.

Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose e.

DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Y YOGA OGA SHA SHALA ALA “San Shui,” paintings by Altice Russell Al tice Case.

Case. ase San Jose.

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EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN SSTUDIOS TUDIO OS

Holiday Show Show.. Nov 18-Decc 224.

4.

Palo Alto.

P alo Al to.

GALLERY GALLER Y SSARATOGA ARA ATOGA ““Jewelry” Jewelry” J P Pat at Evans.

Photographs Pat Denis.

Photogr g aphs p byy P at Denis s.

Thru Jan 1. Big Basin Way, Wayy, Saratoga.

Sar atoga.

HIGHER FIRE CLA CLAYSPACE AYSPACE C First Fridays ffeature eature new artw artwork, work, demonstrations, conversations demonstr ations,, and conversa ations with artists.. San Jose.

KALEID GALLER GALLERY Y

“Winter W Wonder” onder ” Thru Dec 30.

3 Palo Alto.

P alo Al to.

“Repurposed Black--Endless.”

Velazquez Christian V eelazquez uses VHS create tapes to cr eate dense woven sculptures.

Palo Alto. sculptur es.Thru Dec 23.. P alo A lto.

PHANTOM PHANT OM AR ART T GALLERI GALLERIES ES

SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY AR T “Relics” explor “Relics” explores es what technology embraces embraces and makes obsolete. obsolete Thru Jan 24.

24.

4 San Jose.

SEEING THING THINGSS GALLER GALLERY Y

“Petrified,” work “Petrified,” workss by Andy Wallace.

W allace. San Jose.

TECHSHOP TE CHSHOP SSAN AN JOSE Daily Classes off offered ered on Art and TTechnology. eechnology. San Jose.

WORKS W ORKS SSAN AN JOSE

95 South Market. San Jose.

Pieces fr Pi ffrom om Benefit B fit A Artt Auction. San Jose.

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Watercolors by Made’ Watercolors Made’ Suke Sukerti rti Berg.

Ber g. San Jose.

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS Works by John Renzel, Lace Works Lacey ey Murphy Bryant, Nicolas Caesar, Caesar, Mur phy

"The Cloud Collection" by KKarolina arolina Sobecka investigates exploree the intersection clouds to explor between art and geoengineering.

Thru Dec 19.. San Jose.

*events *e vents MOSCOW B MOSCOW BALLET’S ALLET’S GREA GREAT AT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER R USSIAN NUT CRACKER The awar award-winning d-winning tr troupe oupe brings TTchaikovsky’s cchaikovsky’s masterfully scored, scor ed, authentically Russian lifee complete Christmas tale to lif with intricately detailed costumes, glimmering SSwarovski warovski crystals,, and grand grand displays. 8pm. Dec 19. $35-$100.

Center.. Cupertino.

Flint Center Cupertino.

MYTHBUSTERS BEHIND MYTHBUSTERS TOUR THE MYTHS T OUR The odd-couple hosts of MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage host a night of on-stage experiments, audience participation, and behind-the-scenes storytelling.

8pm.. Dec 18. $55-$65. City N ti l Ci National Civic. i San S Jose.

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DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN ICE Skate ar around ound an one-of-a-kind around Circle Palms rink ar ound the Cir cle of P alms in Downtown San Jose.. $13-$17. $13-$177.

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY ARTWALK AR TWALK A self-guided evening tour through thr ough galleries,, museums, and independent businesses ffeaturing eaturing exhibitions and special performances, perf ormances, including SStreet ormances, treet Parque Eats & Live Beats at P arque De Pobladores.

LLos os P obladores.. First Friday of Venues the Month. V eenues along S.. First street throughout str eet and thr oughout downtown San Jose.

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R&B Christmas with

GETTING HIGH Robert Rauschenberg created a ‘hallucinatory’

Joanne LeBlanc & the Fugitive Blues Band

homage to the Apollo 11 mission with his ‘Stoned Moon’ prints.

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THE ELEGANT curvature of a great egret, juxtaposed with the rigid and towering white Saturn V rocket. Both share at least one similarity beyond their chalky pallor—the ability to spring from muggy terra firma of Florida's Atlantic coast and soar heavenward. This shared capability is just one way of interpreting the images shown in "Sky Garden," one of the many prints in Robert Rauschenberg's Stoned Moon series, which chronicled the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

with

Steve Nakano Trio featuring Moy Eng

Many of these lithographic prints will be on display at Stanford University starting this weekend, when “Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Stoned Moon’ Projects, 1969–70” kicks off at the Cantor Arts Center. The exhibit will also feature rarely seen works STONED MOON to further contextualize the prints, including collages Rauschenberg created for a never-published Stoned Moon Dec 20-Mar 16, Various Times, Free book, as well as pictures of him working on the prints.

Cantor Arts Center, NASA invited Rauschenberg to observe and create Stanford artwork based on his experiences watching the launch. museum.stanford.edu Norman Rockwell and other artists had been invited to do the same. The idea, according to the exhibit's curator, James Merle Thomas, was to represent aspects of NASA's activities that straightforward documentary—such as photography and film—wouldn't capture. But with Rauschenberg, NASA was to take a major departure from all prior officially sanctioned artistic endeavors.

"It was sort of a surprise that he would be invited to do a project for a government agency like this," Thomas, an art historian and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, says.

The avant garde artist lived up to his reputation. In sharp contrast to what most Americans pictured when thinking of NASA—patriots in crisp space suits boarding sterile, black and white rockets—Rauschenberg found a new way to contextualize the country's charge into the void.

The artist combines official NASA images—schematic drawings of rockets, landing modules, and other highly technical equipment—with the things he saw in the natural world surrounding Cape Canaveral (then Cape Kennedy). The drawings were splashed with vivid, tropical colors and the asymmetrical forms of palm trees, birds and marshlands that surrounded the launch pad.

Seeing the work, it is clear that the experience was quite impactful on Rauschenberg, who recalled “The incredibly bright lights, the moon coming up, seeing the rocket turn into pure ice, its stripes and USA markings disappearing— and all you could hear were frogs and alligators."—Nick Veronin

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(R; 115 min.) Based (R; Based on the Opr Oprahahhonored hon nored book that so many serious backpackers bac ckpackers hurled against the wall, Wild Wil ldd may also rraise aise hackles outside community, thee hiking community y, in spite of it’s thee ffact act that it ’s Dallas B Buyers uyers CClub lub l director Jean-Marc director e Jean-Marc Vallée’s Vallée’s best movie movie to date. Wildd’’s author, author, Cheryl Cheryl Strayed, told all about her extr extraStrayed, a amarital marital affairs affairs and dabbling with heroin. herroin. Wildd integr integrates ates Strayed's Strayed's troubled trouubled past with her lonely journey Pacific journey up the P acific CCrest rest TTrail, rail, thanks thaanks to lapidary editing and the aid of Nick Hornby’s fine script. The trek trekk along the spine of CCalifornia alifornia andd CCascadia ascadia di commences with ith a ggross grabber—Cheryl ross gr abber—Cheryl ((Reese Reese Witherspoon) Wittherspoon) peeling off a bloody toenail toeenail caused by ill-fitting boots.

She’s Shee’s a noob hiker who never gave enough enoough thought to the equipment andd discipline she would need ffor or thee journey journey.. She adapts, learning from from m helpful walkers, and a little product placement courtesy of product o REI. REI. B But ut as she gets better as a hiker, she’s hiker, she ’s still an outsider: sussed outt as a harlot by a motel owner tl persuaded d d to t leave l andd gently boutique when she’s she’s too rrank ank a boutique from m the trail. trail. The vistas ar there, from aree there, butt so are are thr threatening eatening yokels and unhhelpful fforest orest rrangers angers (pissy unhelpful martinets, horndogs, or both). We We martinets, gett all of the beauty and none of isn’t a movie thee blisters, but this isn’t about walkss and walk walkss aboout a girl who walk s. YYou oou may have winced at andd walk walks. thee line in the coming attr attractions— actions— “My mother was the love of my “My life”—but Vallée life”—but V allée illuminates this movie movie i with ith a shining hi i ghost. h t Laura L a Laur Dern’s performance Derrn’s perf ormance as the mother shows sho ows this great great actr actress’s ess ’s grace, grace, sturdiness sturdiness and tenderness. Wild requires reqquires comparison to TTracks racks, a film film rreleased eleased earlier this year about aboout a difficul difficultt woman’s woman’s journey on ffoot through Australia. oot thr ough Austr alia. TTracks racks iiss still still maybe my ffavorite—it’s avorite—it’s the difference diffference between a serious movie star star like Witherspoon holding your attention atteention when she’s she’s just studying thee horizon, and the deeper down extremes extremes Mia Mia Wasikowska Wasikowska plumbed.

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HORRIBLE HORR RIBLE BOS BOSSES SES 2 (R; 108 (R; 8 min.) Dale, KKurt urt and Nick ar aree again gain after plans ffor at it ag or starting their oown wn business go awry and they turn too a har harebrained ebrained kidnapping schemee to get things back on tr schem track. ack.

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LET MY PEOPLE GO! Christian Bale plays Moses, leading the Jews out of Egypt in ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings.’

An ‘Exodus’ for Agnostics IT’S A BIBLICAL epic done the George Bernard Shaw way—throw the agnostics a bone, and suggest that religious zealots are a threat to an orderly functioning society. Exodus: Gods and Kings is rich, gilded, crisply digitalized pagan spectacle in sharp 3D. Haters are blind to the humor, which was far thinner in Cecil B. De Mille’s Egypt. Here: a sculptor fretting at the model for Ramses’s proposed statue (“It is…tall..”). Note the sportscasterly way the old Pharaoh (John Turturro!) asks Christian Bale’s Moses for a description of a battle that didn’t go as planned: “What happened out there?” A soothsayer (Ewen Bremner) has a plausible explanation of the plagues, in a scene deliberately built to make us recall the witch-expert in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Someone should have asked: “Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?”

No bulrushes—“it’s not even that good a story,” Moses says, when he learns it.

Director Ridley Scott commences in midwartime planning against the Hittites, showing us the complex fraternal relation between Moses and his heir-apparent foster brother Ramses. Their argument lasts through exile and guerrilla warfare, up until the great waves at the Red Sea.

Joel Edgerton’s Ramses comes out as a ruler in full, a victim of both history and an unthinkable and frightening entity.

“I Am” as he calls himself, is portrayed as a cross little boy called Malak—perhaps a swipe from the “Balok” episode of Star Trek? Tough for evangelicals, the Exodus: Gods suggestion that this and Kings Jehovah emerges as a vision that comes from 150 Min. PG-13 Moses’ having been Plays Valleywide knocked on the head.

Bale handles the role of Moses with satisfying, commanding style.

Edgerton is an Australian actor who has already been in a lot of films, a minority of which were good. That’s the only reason the actor recalls Richard Burton; the resemblance increases after Pharaoh gets scars from Jehovah’s boil attack. His resolve seems brave in the face of the horror-plagues, up to the last and most vicious one. You’d think the girl-children got killed instead; this is one of the most female-free movies of a year that gave actresses so very little. It’s often not a sane movie, but the wit and opinion in it make something like Noah look as precooked as Veggie Tales. —Richard Von Busack

(PG-133; 169 min.) Matthew (PG-13; Matthew McConaughey M cConnaughey is CCooper, ooper, an exastronaut astr onaut and a dirt ffarmer armer of nott too distant futur future. the no e. Under circumstances cir cum mstances that would be even moree embar mor eembarrassing rassing to describe than weree to watch, CCooper they wer w ooper and cherished erished daughter ((Mackenzie Mackenzie his che stumble secret NASA Foy) st tumble into a secr et NA SA What's NASA lab. Wh hat's left of NA SA is trying to through ark thee dying human rrace ace thr ough convenient a conv venient wormhole parked near SSaturn. aturn. Interstellarr surprises you with with a high rratio atio of scenes of peoplee sitting ar around ound tables to moments danger.. The moments of flight or danger innovations, innovaations, such as scenes caught by an IMAX IMAX camera camera mounted in the nose of o a Learjet, portion out thin slices of o excitement. Don’t Don’t expect romance romance with Anne Hathaway; she’s austeree HitlerHitler-Youth she’s got g an auster Youth haircut haircut to show she’s she’s all about business. busineess. There There are are moments. Good robots, robots, naturally. naturally. A planet covered covered with a layer of water as shallow as a kid’s kid’s wading pool turns out to have ul uultra tra Maverick Maverick wave-breaks; wave-breaks; thanks thanks to a nearby black hole, the clock runs r at hyperspeed—one hour there thhere equals seven EEartharthyears. The T back and forth forth between deep space s and dusty cornfields workedd in R Ray ay Bradbury’s Bradbury’s stories.

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THE T HE P PE PENGUINS NGUINS OF MAD MADAGASCAR AGASCAR (PG; 922 min.) The titular penguins from fr om M Madagascar adagascar—Skipper —Skipper,, Kowalsski, Rico Rico and Private— Kowalski, forces with an under cover join forces undercover organization known as “The North organization Wind” to stop the evil Dr Dr.. Octavius Brine fr f om destr oying the world as Brine from destroying knoow it. we know

(PG (PG-13; G-13; 123 min.) Science and love converge con nverge in this biopic, which explores exp plores the rrelationship elationship between a young yooung Stephen Stephen Hawking and his futu ure wife, wife, Jane Wilde—who met future him m before before his diagnosis with motor neu uron disease. neuron

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ESPITE SOME SOME M dazzling math math rock chops,, and a growing chops fanbase, local loccal singer, singerr, songwriter and guitarist gu uitarist Yvette Young still Y vette Y oung is sti ill green when it comes to playing in a band. Her Her new math-prog m group,, Covet, rock k group C t makes k their South Bay debut de ebut this Homestead Saturday at H omestead Lanes,, playing the their Lanes eir second ever.. show ever This do doesn’t esn’t mean Y Young o oung is ne new w to music music.. She’s She’s simply b been een going it

alone ffor o or the th he majorit majorityy of the past fiv fivee posting yyears. ears. She st sstarted arted p osting videos of playing YouTube herself pla aying y music to Y o ouTube in 2009, moved 20 09, when n she first mo ved to L.A. Young quickly Y oung quic o ckly ffound o ound an audience, audience, only occasionally played but still onl ly o ccasionally pla ayed shows,, and ne never L.A.—only only in shows ver in L.A.— when was San JJose ose wh hen she w aas visiting home vacation. on vac ation n. lot moree fans thr through “I got a lo ot mor ough Facebook YouTube shows,,” Fac ebook and a Y o ouTube than shows Young says.

Y oung sa o ayys. “It just ccomes omes with the territory territor i y off the h Internet I generation, i wheree eeverything’s online.. It It’s funny wher verything’ y s online ’s funn ny because don’t have local fans.. b ecause I d on’t ha ave a lot of lo cal fans have I ha ave fans across across the sea,, in other ccountries—that’s ountries— —that’s just how I got most of m myy fans. fans.”

Her solo material is a natural fit YouTube.

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edged, driving pr prog-rock og-rock elemen elements, nts, Y oung’ o s solo material is intimatee Young’s ac oustic music —a unique blend d of acoustic music—a gor geous singer -songwriter folk fo olk tunes gorgeous singer-songwriter and technic al math rrock ock licks he technical licks.. Th The songs ar atch hy and emotional,, but aree ccatchy par eal lies in w atchin ng partt of the app appeal watching her fingers work their magic magic,, as the theyy fly b etween the bridge of the gu uitar between guitar and d its it fr ffretboard, etb tboard, d, picking i ki and d ttapping a i apping what sounds lik arr likee multiple guit guitar par ts at onc e. parts once.

Earlier this yyear ear Y o oung rreleased eleaseed Young her solo A coustics EP oveet is i Acoustics EP,, but C Covet wher ’s placing her ffocus ocus the ese wheree she she’s these da ayys. U pon mo ving back to San JJose, ose, days.

Upon moving the song writer immediately set to t songwriter assembling her band. It to ok a while w took while,, but she ffound o ound Ben Wallac w th wor Wallacee Ails Ailsworth (drums) and Da avid v A damiak (ba ass) David Adamiak (bass) to pla ay with,, and to gether the play together theyy st arted fleshing out se veral song gs she started several songs had writ ttten on her electric guit a ar written guitar sp ecifically ffor o or an ensemble specifically ensemble.. A Ass a trio trio,, the es with w theyy ar aree able to wow audienc audiences their ccombined ombined technic al pr owess, but technical prowess, showing off isn ’t what Y o oung is going isn’t Young ffor. or o .W iith C ovet,, as with her solo o With Covet,

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material,, her goal iss simple: to mak makee music that sounds ggo od. good.

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Ther Theree ar aree momentss of planned dissonanc e, but it ’s to t cr eate tension dissonance, it’s create to rresolve esolve it again with w something b eautiful.” beautiful.”

Y oung has de o velo oped a unique Young developed finger -tapping techn nique, which finger-tapping technique, she at tributes to ha avving learned to attributes having pla ay piano b effo ore eever ver picking up play before the guit ar. “I st arted d piano when guitar. started Iw as ffour,” o our,” she sa ayys. “It helps with was says. separating yyour our righ ht and left hand, right so you you can can do diff ffeerrent things different things.. A Ass a soloist,, I’v fi w ayys to pla ay I’vee had to find ways play so that when people peoplee close their eeyes, yes, the ng rreally eally full. theyy hear somethin something full.””

Her suc cess on Y o ouTube led to a success YouTube solo tour in JJapan apan earlier e this yyear, ear, wher ayed in n fr ont of as man wheree she pla played front manyy as 10 0p eople at onee show w. Bef for oe 100 people show.

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“I w as super super surprised surp prised I eeven ven was had fans ther e. It ’s sso o craz y,” Y o oung there.

It’s crazy,” Young sa ays y . “A “A ton of people people ccame ame up says. to me after the show w ffor o or pictur es pictures and auto graphs. II’v ve ne ver signed autographs.

I’ve never auto graphs b effo ore, so s it w as vvery ery autographs before, was aawkward, w wk kward,, but also flat fl tering. It ffelt eelt flattering. lik eam.” likee a dr dream.”

She hasn ’t made man m hasn’t manyy solo videos ffor o or Y ouT o ube lately y. When she YouTube lately. uploads something it ’s generally to it’s show off new new gear or o giv eople a givee p people sneak peek peek of somet thing C ovet is something Covet working on.

“The band is m p myy priorit priorityy right now b ecause II’v ve b e sit een ting on because I’ve been sitting these songs ffor o or so lo ong and I w ant to long want get them fleshed ou ut and rrecorded,” ecorded,”” out she sa ayys. “I love love pla aying y as a band says. playing w ay mor ob ecause the way moree than solo because at tttention is disp erseed and not only attention dispersed on me h cr owds. I me.. I’m bad with crowds. definitely still valuee m myy solo work. I am working on a ffew ew mor oustic moree ac acoustic songs alwayys ffeel eel e lik llikee ther songs.. I always theree is so much to do ny ideas do,, so man many ideas,, but so lit tle time .” little time.”

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THE ROCK STAR WITHIN Steve Hays, a.k.a. DJ Purple, puts on a different kind of karaoke show.

Dance Dance Karaoke FOR MORE THAN a decade, Steve Hays has been spinning records at bars and clubs from the peninsula up to San Francisco. The Redwood City man now hosts regular nights at The Patio in Palo Alto and Slate in San Francisco, and says his gigs are only getting better. Hays recalls one particularly good night when his show drew 700 peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many of whom came speciďŹ cally for himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the Z Space gallery in San Francisco.

That would be a good show for any up-and-coming local EDM producer. But for a karaoke DJ? Well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something else altogether.

Hays, who goes by DJ Purple and calls himself a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dance karaokeâ&#x20AC;? DJ, credits his popularity with his carefully curated playlist and his philosophy that people who come to his show should feel like they are a rock star for the night.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to show people around the world whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible with karaoke,â&#x20AC;? Hays says.

And so far, he has been successful. He says that people come to his shows from all over the Bay Area and tell him: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything like this where we come from.â&#x20AC;?

A DJ Purple dance karaoke set aspires to be a high-energy rock show where anyone can be a star, at least for a song. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who are already good karaoke singers come and the music and the lights and the show is up to their level of talent,â&#x20AC;? he tells me.

And the audience isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just standing around looking at their phones, waiting for their turn to sing. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the â&#x20AC;&#x153;danceâ&#x20AC;? part comes in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No slow songsâ&#x20AC;? is the DJ Purple motto. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s combed through his songbook, cutting out those songs that might be popular, but are sure to bleed a crowded dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor.

Someone might want to sing some Buffalo SpringďŹ eld, but right after â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Low?â&#x20AC;?

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DJ Purple, who has been booking shows in San Jose recently, will be appearing at JJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blues this Saturday.

Hays has bigger ambitions than just conquering San Jose, however. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to somehow see this become more of a phenomenon in society,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see the kind of experience Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m creating becoming accessible to people everywhere. They could go down to their local bar and have this awesome musical experience.â&#x20AC;?

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How can I get the guy I’m dating to shave his neck beard? He shaves his face but not this thick scrubby hair he has all down and around his neck.

Mercifully, the hair is relatively short; it isn’t Amish-length or otherwise truly beardy. But it really is not attractive. —Not Liking The View Word has it that the Brazilian wax is out; pubic hair is back. This may be so— but not under your boyfriend’s chin.

There are practical reasons for a neck beard. For example, if a guy’s car were to go off a mountain road, he might survive a few extra days on trapped Cheetos dust.

Assuming this sort of situation is unlikely, you can put in a request for neck beard removal. Because criticism tends to make people feel hurt and defensive, it’s most successful when reformatted as flattery.

In other words, tell him how hot he is,

but tell him you think he’d look even hotter with a cleanshaven neck, and ask him to try that for you for the next time you see him. Be ready to counter possible objections, like that he gets razor bumps.

Magic Razorless Cream Shave, a drugstore product designed for black men, can help him prevent them while also removing the Brillo pad making love to his neck.

This area can be a powerful erogenous zone—just not when it’s hard to figure out whether it’s saying “Kiss me!” or “Use me to clean your oven!”

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(Dunno about yours, but mine would not be lingering in the broccoli section.) Before you get involved with a man, you need to check to see that he’s available, and immediately disqualify any man who isn’t single or emotionally ready for a relationship.

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Men, in turn, coevolved to expect this choosiness from women. And though we’re living in modern times, we’ve got some pretty antique psychology still driving us, so when a man today encounters a woman who seems easy to have, he tends to get the message that she isn’t worth having. This may seem awful and unfair, but it’s just how things are. So lamenting the need for “game

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Position to various unanticipate ed lo cations. unanticipated locations.

Pr ocess Engineer (S VKT TLProcess (SVKTLSCJIZH): Develop Develop new new or mo dified modified pr ocess fformulations, ormulations o , define d pr ocess process process equirements or handling equipmentt rrequirements and sp ecifications, and rreview eview pr ocess specifications, process techniques and metho d applied in method the fabric ation of integ grated cir cuits. fabrication integrated circuits.

P osition ma ay require require tr raavel to various Position may travel unanticipated lo cationss. locations.

T eechnical Pr oduct Supp port ((TPS) TPS) Technical Product Support Engineer (S VAV VI): Provides Provides v ssystem ystem (SVAVI): supp ort for fo or Metal Metal and Chemic C al support Chemical V aapor Deposition Deposition engin neering Vapor engineering ssystems. ystems. Position Position may maay rrequire equire tra avel travel to various unanticipate ed lo cations. unanticipated locations.

Please mail rresumes esumes with wiith rreference effeerence numb er to Applied Ma aterials, Inc., Inc., number Materials, 322 iillage Drive, Driv D e, M/S 32255 Oakmead V Village 1217 7, Santa Santa Clara, CA CA 95054.

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BUSINESS BUSINES SS Cisc Cisco o Systems, Systems, Inc. Inc. is accepting accepting rresumes esumes ffor or or the following fo ollowing positions positions in San Jose/Milpitas/Santa Jose//Milpitas/Santa Clara, CA: CA: Supply Chain Chaain Op eration Manager Operation (R Reef#: SJ20 0 0): R esp e onsible ffor o or (Ref#: SJ200): Responsible translatingg business strategies and erational objectiv es. needs into op operational objectives. esumes with rreference effer e ence Please maill rresumes numb er to Cisco Cisco Systems, Systems, Inc., Inc., number A ttn: t M51H H, 170 W Taasman Driv e, Attn: M51H, W.. Tasman Drive, Mail Stop: SJC 5/1/4, San Jose, Jose, CA CA 95134. N alls please o phone ccalls No please.. Must b elegally au uthorized to work in the belegally authorized U .S. without withou ut sp onsorship. EOE. U.S. sponsorship. www .cisc i o.com www.cisco.com

Computer Compute er ChargePoin ChargePoint, nt, Inc. Inc. has op opening ening ffor or o Interaction Designer in C ampbell, Campbell, C A. Duties incl/not ltd to: Define CA. user eexperience xperieence dir ection ffor or o mobile direction apps een user inter faces ffor or o apps,, small scr screen interfaces char ging st a ations , etc kgr g ound charging stations, etc.. Back Background Checks & R eeffer e ence Checks rreq’d. eq’d.

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ENGINEER EN GINEE ER Applied Ma Materials, aterials, Inc. Inc. is accepting accepting rresumes esumes ffor o orr the ffollowing o ollowing positions positions in Sant araa /Sunn / nyyvale, C A: Santaa Cl Clara/Sunnyvale, CA: Softw are En ngineer (SCPS S): De velops Software Engineer (SCPSS): Develops rrequirements equiremen nts and design, ccompletes ompletes pr ogrammiing and p erforms o testing programming performs and debugg ging of applic ations. debugging applications.

Softw are En ngineer (SCSGVB): Software Engineer (SCSG-VB): De velops rrequirements e equir ements and design, Develops ccompletes ompletes l t pr p ogramming i and d programming p erfo orms te esting and debugging of performs testing applic ation ns. Position Position may maay require require applications. tra avel to va arious unanticipated travel various lo cations. Please P mail rresumes esumes locations. with rreference effeeren nce numb er to Applied number Materials nc., 322 iillage Materials,, IInc., 32255 Oakmead V Village Driv e, M/S 1217 7, Santa Santa Clara, C A Drive, 1217, CA 95054. N o phone calls calls please. please. Must No b a to work in the bee legally authorized U .S. without withou ut sp onsorship. EOE. www U.S. sponsorship. www.. appliedmat terials.com appliedmaterials.com

Drishticon Drishtico on Inc is hiring Soft Software ftw war a e Engineers-Design Engineers-Design// de evelop soft ftware applic ations. Send develop software applications. rresumes esumes to 39 339658 658 Mission Blv d Blvd Fr emont C A 94539. May Maay work Fremont CA at various unanticipated u lo cations locations thr oughoutt the US rrelocation elocation a ma ay be be throughout may rrequired. equired.

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CECIL@METR CECIL METRONEWS.COM ONEWS.COM Would differently had Wo ould life have evolved differ rently on earth if we'd never ha ad a moon?

Would resulted pwned Wo ould dark nights have result ted in our ancestors getting pw wned in their caves, have vision?—Naman cavess, or would they hav ve evolved X-ray vision?—N Nama a an Dixit First First of all, get your your superpowers superpowerss straight: while X-ray X-raay vision is undoubtedly undou ubtedly a useful feature, featur e e, it wouldn’t wouldn n’t ’ do much mu uch to prevent prevent midnight toe-stubbings toe-stubbings amongst am mongst the Cro-Magnons.

Crro-Magnons. Infrared Infrared vision, sure— s e— sur but if you’re yo ou’re hung up on how we could could have haave evolved evolved into some cooler, coolerr, laser-eyed laseerr-eyeed superspecies superspecies without that crappy crappy moon m on mo holding us back, you’re yo ou’re not counting countin ng your yo our evolutionary evolutionar o y blessings. blessings. By most mo ost accounts acco ounts we wouldn’t wouldn n’t ’ even even e have haave developed deevelop e ed vertebrae veertebrae without the moon, moon, let alone allone eyeballs. eyeeballs.

Cosmologically Cosmologiccally a speaking, speakingg, earth earth has h been been extremely energy extr x reemely lucky. luck ky. Our sun’s sun n’s ener rgy output o has remained relatively remained e relativ e veely stable stable throughout throu ughout much of the evolution of life. evolution o liffe. Our orbit o is safely saffeely l in i what’s what h ’s called called ll d the h habitable h bitaable habit ble zone, zone, where support where a planet’s planett’s surface surrfface can can a supp orrt liquid water. being water a r. We’ve We’ve avoided avoided o being smashed smasheed to smithereens smithereens by by comets, co omets, sucked suck keed into o black holes, holes, or irradiated by by supernovae. supernovae. It's fairly well established established that the life-sustaining liffe-susttaain ning conditions on earth co onditions found found o earrtth have haave been been e enhanced enhancceed to some degree degrree e by by its lunar lun nar companion; co ompanion; the only debate is about about o how much. Some of the more more commonly com mmonly proposed proposed benefits benefits of moon-having: moon-haavvingg: It got rid off primordial pprimorrdial d pollution. pollution. The Th he moon moon most likely sm lik keely formed fo ormed when some smaller maller planet struck earth earth about about 4.5 billion billio on years yeears ago, ago, ejecting chunks of debriss that eventually eveentually coalesced co oalesced in orbit. Crucially, Cruciiallyy, this collision co ollision may maay also have haave stripped stripped away away a thick proto-atmosphere prroto o -atmospherre that was waas trapping trrapping the heat of earth’s earth h’s molten surface. surfacce. Without Wiithout this rather violent development deeveelopment wee might have haave ended up like lik ke Venus, Veenus, where where life liffe is only imaginable by Ray Bradbury.

by Ra ay Bradbur y.

It keeps keeeps us ttoasty. oastty. This impact also o contributed co ontributed to the heating of the eearth’s arth’s iron provides irron o core, corre, which pr rovvides us with our o relatively relativ e veely strong strong magnetic field. This his in Th turn protects protects us from from radiation (at least somewhat— on someewhat w t— see last week’s week’ e ’s column column o o skin cancer) pull cancceerr) and solar winds. winds. And the pu ull of the moon’s molecule moon n’s gravity graavvitty acts on every ever e y molec cule on earth, below) earrtth, powering powering the tides (see b elow w) and creating helps keep creating additional heat, which hel lps k eep e the core too quickly. corre from frro om ccooling ooling to o quickly y.

It’s getting It’s insurance insurancce against g ggettting t g chucked chuckked e into intto interstellar intter ersstteellar space. spacce. In the yyoung o oung and a restless early years restless e yeears of a solar ssystem, yystem m, the gravitational larger planets graavvitational force for orce of the lar rgger plan nets (read: may interfere (read: Jupiter Jupiter and Saturn) ma ay inte erfeere with the orbits of the smaller ones ones,, sometimes flinging them out of th the he ssystem yystem altogether. altogether. Computer Computer simulations suggest that even happened even if this had happ ened to eearth, arrtth,

the warming properties moon's warming a prrop o errttiies of the mo on's gravitation described graavvittation a described above a ove might well ab have kept water haave k ept e temps high enough ffor or o w ater a to remain life anyway remain e liquid and ffor or o lif fe to eevolve vo olvve an nyw yway (Incidentally, (Incident taallyy, other simulations ha have ave presence demonstrated that thee pr resenc e ce of the ear rth-mo t on team is th he only thing k eeping e earth-moon the keeping Mercury Mer cury wher where re it b belongs: ongs: without us us,, elo gravitational interaction its gra avvittaational intera action with JJupiter u upiter high-stakes would drag it into a hi igh-sttak akes e run-in Venus, would likely with V eenus, which wo ould lik keely rresult esult e in Mercury’s getting ejected from Mer cury’s get tting t ejec cted fr om orbit and bonking knows b onking into who kno ows what along the way. too save w ay. It's to o bad we ccouldn't o ouldn't sa ave Pluto too, was politics.) to o, but of ccourse ourse thatt w aas just p olitics.)

It cr creates tides. moon's reeattees tides s. The mo m on's orbit used to be earth, be a lot closer to the ea arrth, t thus generating much h str stronger, ro ongerr, higher hi h r tides tides. id . These Th w waves aves pools, where ocean’s left eextensive xxtensivve tidal p ools o , wher re the o ceean n’s primordial primor rdial d soup of am amino mino acids and other organic bee cconcentrated or ganic ccompounds o ompounds ccould o b ould o oncentrated via rrepeated epeated eevaporation. vvaporatiion. Synchr Synchronization ro onization between b ettween w tidal flow an and nd eexposure xxposure to solar U V radiation ma ay ha ave rresulted esulted e in the UV may have petri necessary life p etri dish nec ceessary ffor o lif or fe to eevolve. vo olvve.

Evidencee ffor Evidenc or all this is ffound o ound o in 3.5 billionstromatolites—stratified yyear-old eearr-old str omatolitess— —sstratified rock rock byy ancient bac bacterial fformed ormed b o cterial action—whos layers moon’s influencee on the la ayeers show the mo on n’s influenc earth’s tides throughout ear rth th’s spin rate and ti ides thr roughout o the development life. early de evelopment of lif fe.

It’s steadying influence. order life It’s a st teeadying influe encce. In or rd der ffor or lif o fe develop earth, stable to de eveelop on ear th, we w needed st table a temperatures climate.. temp eratures and a rregular e egular climate Variations degree earth’s V aariations of eeven ven onee degr ee in ear th’s orbit may have axial tilt rrelative elativve to orb bit ma ay ha ave led ice moon, to ic ce ages in the past. The mo on, with large mass,, acts as a major st stabilizing its lar rgge mass tabilizing a keep fforce orce on our axis (as well o w as helping k eep e habitable Without us within the habit taablle zone). zone) W iithout it, it have like Mars,, whose we ccould o ould ha ave ended up u lik ke Mars moons aree much sma smaller mo ons ar aller and whose tilt may vary over 60 degrees. ma ay var ry o veer a span of o 6 0 degr rees e . In search life the sear ch ffor o or eextraterrestrial xxtraterrrestrial lif fe scientists planets similarrregularly egularly e prioritize pla anets with similar rmoons attached. sized mo ons at ttached. a .

With moon, Wiith no mo on, of ccourse, o ourse, our fates bee drastic drastically different because would b caally diff d ffeerrent e b eccause a of the misalignment of our astrological signs,, o astr ologiccal a signs but on the plus side we w wouldn wouldn’t n’t ’ hear an any ny more about lunar-cycle/menstruation mor ore aab out that ou a luna u aarr-cyccle/menstruation e/ e ua o myth. m yth. y W Would ould mo o mooning onin ng still b bee p popular? opularr?

W ould o Pink Flo oyd stil ll eexist? xxistt? These ar re Would Floyd still are questions that ha ave no ot b een subjected to have not been the har d discipline of the t scienc cees, lea avving hard sciences, leaving potential horrors us to only imagine thee p otential horr rors o in store. stor re. Missed opp opportunities orrttu unities ffor o or night vision notwithstanding, not tw withsttanding a g, let let’s ’s b bee grateful ffor or o what have. we ha ave.

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This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant bega begann transacting tr ansacting business business under the fictitious fictitioous business name oor names listed herein herein on 11/2 11/23/2013.

3/2013.

R efile of previous previouus Refile file #585395 #585395 du ue due to publication bli i rrequirement equirement nott met of previous previous filing. filingg. /s/James Chandd This statement w was filed with the County Coounty Clerk of Santa Clara Clara 12/15/1 5 4.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAM NAME ME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #598413 #5984 413 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) e doing business as: a Stella S tella McCartney, McCartneyy, 660 S Stanford tanford Ct Ctrr Ste S te 153, 153, PPalo alo Alt Alto, to, Stella S tella McCartney McCartneyy America Inc., Attn Atttn : TTax aax Dept 50 Hartz Hartz Way, W ayy, Secaucus, S NJ, NJ,J 07094.

07 094.

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Above Abo ve entity was was formed in the state staate of Delawar Delawaree Registrant R egistrant began began transacting tr ansacting business business under the fictitious fictitioous business name oor names listed he herein rein on 11/17/2014.

11/17/2014. /s/Patrick DeVimes /s/P atrick DeV im mes Vice V ice President President #2492146 #2 492146 This statement was w filed with the County Coounty Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 11/17/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #599098

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESSNAME USI NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #599283 #5 599283

The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Knife & Spork Public Public Relations.

R elations. 290 2903 3 Mitton Driv Drive, e, San Jose CA, Jose, CA, A 95148, 95148, 48 Niyaz Nasir Pirani, Pirani, 20702 207 02 El TToro or o oR Road, oad, #291, Lake Forest, Forest, CCA, A, 92630.

92630.

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Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed li t d her herein. h ein. i /s/Niyaz N. Pirani Pirani This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 112/09/2014.

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Thhe following The following person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: Envirocrete, En nvirocrete, 111 Hillsdale Hi illsdale Ave., Ave., San Jose, Jo se, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Concrete Ready Co oncrete R eady Mix Inc., In c., 33 33 Hillsdale Ave, A ve, San Jose, CA, CA, 95136.

9 5136.

36 This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a corporation. co orporation.

Above Ab bove entity was formed fo ormed in the state off California Registrant R e ant has egistr not no ot yet yet begun transacting business tr a ansacting under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names herein. na ames listed her ein. /s/Ronald /s s/Ronald W. W. Minnis PPresident resident This Th his statement was filed fil led with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl lara County on 112/12/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESSNAME NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #599309

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS NAME USI SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #598837 #5 598837

The following following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: 11844CalNote.

844CalNote. com, 1999 1999 S. Bascom Ave., Ave., Ste Ste 7700, 00, Campbell, CA, CA, 95008, 9 5008, Benjamin Sley, Harry Beryll Sley y, 11590 590 Fremont Fremont S St,, t,, Clara, Santa Clar a CCA, a, A A, 95050.

9 5050.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or herein. names listed her ein. /s/Benjamin Harry Beryll Sley Thi statement This tt t was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 112/15/2014.

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Thhe following The following person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: 420 4 2 Smoke Shop, 20 Shop, 428 4 28 E. Santa Clar Claraa St., S t San Jose, CA, t., CA, 95113, 9 5113, , Manuel A. Cardona, Ca ardona, 11060 060 S. 3rd St., 3r rd S t., San Jose, CCA, A 95112, A, 95112, Oneida E. Cardona, Ca ardona, dona 4 455 Hobson St., S t San Jose, CA, t., CA, 95110.

9 5110.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a general ge eneral partnership. partnership.

Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting business tr a ansacting under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names herein na ames listed her ein onn 2/25/2009.

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Refile R e of previous efile previous file fil le #586127 #586127 with changes. ch hanges. /s/Oneida /s s/Oneida E Cardona Ca ardona This Th his statement was filed fil led with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl lara County on 112/01/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAM NAME ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #599111 #599 9111 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) e doing business as: a Myy Car Autosport, M Autospoort, 11011 011 Knox Knox Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95122, 95122,, Joe Ma, 1855 1855 Andrews Andr d ew ws Ave., A ve., San Jose, CCA, A, 95124, 95124, Quocc Anh Nguyen, Nguyen, 11908 908 Senter Rd., #251, #251, 1 San Jose, CA, CA, 95112.

95112.

This business is conducted by by a general gener al par partnership. tnersship.

Registrant R egistrant bega begann transacting tr ansacting business busiiness under the fictitious fictitioous business name or names listed herein herein on 112/09/14.

2/09/14. /s/Joe Ma This statement was w filed with the County Coounty Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 112/09/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAM NAME ME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #598961 #59896 61 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) e doing business as: a Hari Mini Mar Mart,t, 6 621 21 E. Capitol Expy., Expyy.., #1 #10, 0, San Jose, CA, CA, 95111, 95111, Roman R oman Mehya, 963 963 Branham Br anham Ln., Sa San an Jose, CA, CA, 95136, 95136,, Indiraa Devi.

Indir This business is conducted by by a married couple.

Registrant R egistrant bega begann transacting tr ansacting busi business iness under the fictitio fictitious ous business name or names listed herein herein on No Novv 200 2003.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESSNAME NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #598176 #598 81776 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: The Dr Drapery apery Lady Lady, y, 925 9 25 Delbert Delbert W Way, ayy, San Jose, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, Christine St. St. Clair Clair.r.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein herein on 6/9/09 6/9/09..

Refile R efile of previous previous file #5 #525147 25147 after 40 days of expiration expir ation date. /s/Christine St. St. Clair This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 11/06/2014.

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The follo following wing person(s) ( ) is i (are) ((are)) doing business as: Silicon Nails Salon, 445 4 45 Blossom Hill Road, R oad, Suite J, San Jose, CA, CA, 95123, 95123, S & K Nails Salon Inc. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation.

Abbove entity was Above formed fo ormed in the state off California Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed herein herein onn 112/3/14.

2/3/14. /s/Kieu /s s/Kieu Nguyen Nguyen CEO CE EO 3728131 37 728131 This Th his statement was filed fil led with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl lara County on 112/03/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T # #598278

Thhe follo The following wing person(s) pe erson(s) is (are) (are) ddoing do oing i business b i as: South So outh San Jose Smog Sm mog Check, 5270 5270 Monterey M Monter ey Road, Road, San Sa an Jose, CA, CA, 95111, 95111, M Mindy LLy, y, 11215 215 O Old ld M Manor Pl., San Jose, CCA, A 95132.

A, 95132.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. in dividual.

Registrant R e ant has egistr not no ot yet yet begun ttransacting tr a ansacting ti bbusiness i under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed herein. herein. /s/Mindy /s s/Mindy LLyy This Th his statement was filed fil led with the County Clerk Cl lerk of Santa Clara Cl lara County on 11/24/2014.

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SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT OF ABANDONMENT A BANDONM MENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME N #598727 The following followingg person(s) / entity e (ies) has / have haave abandoned tthe use of the fic fictitious ctitious business name(s): nam me(s): South San Jose Joose TTest eest Only, Only y, 55270 270 Monter M Monterey ey Road, R oad, San Jose, Joose, CA, CA, 95111, 9 5111, Mindyy Ly, Ly, 11215 215 Old Old Manor Maanor Pl., San Jose, CA, CA, A 95132.

95132.

Filed in Santaa Claraa Countyy on Clar 112/13/2013 2/13/2013 under file #58 5969 #585969 This busines ss was business conducted by by an gener al par tnnership general partnership /s/Mindy LLyy This stateme ent was statement filed with thee County Clerk of Santa Santta Clar Claraa Countyy on 11/24/2014..

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FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESSN NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENTT #598619 #5986 619 The follo following wingg person(s) is (are) (are) doing business busineess as: Vida V ida Flow Flow YYoga ooga & Wellness, W ellness, 52.

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9 5129.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yet yet begun transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein. /s/Taraneh /s/T Tar a aneh Sarrafzadeh Sarr afzadeh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Claraa County on Clar 11/19/2014.

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #598077 #59807 77 The following following person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Maple LLeaf eaf Spa, 11708 708 Willow Willow S St., t., San Jose, CA, CA, 95125, 95125, YYao aao YYao, ao, a 407 40789 89 FFremont remont Blv Blvd, d, #329, #3 29, FFremont, remont, CCA, A, 94538.

9 4538.

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Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 11/04/2014.

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SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT OF ABANDONMENT A BANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME #597991 #59799 91 The follo following wing person(s) / entity (ies) has / have have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Kieu Nu, 3005 Silver Silv er Creek Creek Rd., Suite 1108, 08, San Jose, CCA, A, 95121, 95121, Hai Duy TTran, ran, 297 297 Rayos Rayos Del Sol Dr Jose, Dr.,., San Jose CCA, A, 95121, 95121, Ngoc LLoan oan LLee TTran. ran.

Filed in Santa Clar Claraa County on 11/30/201 2 under 11/30/2012 file #572224 #572224 This business was conducted by by an gener al par tnership general partnership /s/Hai Duy TTran, ran, Ngoc LLoan oan LLee TTran ran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 110/31/2014.

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SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT OF A BANDONMENT ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FI CTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAME BUSINESS #597990 The follo following wing person(s) / entity (ies) has / have have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Kieu Nu Ther Therapy apy Office, 3005 Silver Silver Creek Creek Rd., Unit 108, 108, San Jose, CA, CA, 95121, 95121, Ngoc g LLoan oan LLee TTran, ran, 2977 R 29 Rayios ayios Del Sol, San Jose, CA, CA, 95116.

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/s//Ngoc LLoan /s/Ngoc oan LLee Tran Tr an This Th is statement was wa as filed with the County Co ounty Clerk of Santa Sa nta Clara Clara County on 110/31/2014.

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FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #597612 #5 55976612 597 The follo The following wing person(s) pe rson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: Strongman S trrongman Hauling, 55255 255 Cherry G Gate ate Ln.,., San Jose, CCA, Ln. A, 95136, 9 5136, Zachary A. Kuster.

K usterr.

This Th is business is conducted con nducted by by a ind dividual. individual.

R e ant has egistr Registrant no yet begun nott yet tr a ansacting transacting bu siness under the business fict titious business fictitious na me or names name list ted her ein. listed herein. /s/ /Zachary Kuster Kuster /s/Zachary Th is statement This wa as filed with the was Co ounty Clerk of County Sa nta Clara Clara County Santa on 110/21/2014.

0/21/2014. (pu ub Metr 2/19, (pub Metroo 112/19, 11 /26 112/03, /26, 2/03, 11/26, 11210/2014) 210/2014)

FICT FICTITIOUS C ITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS NAME USI SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT TA #597744 #5 5977744 4 The follo The following wing person(s) pe rson(s) is (are) (are) doing do oing business as: Beauty Be eauty Innovations, Innovations, 11200 20 00 R anchero Ranchero Way., W ay.., San Jose ay Jose, CCA, A9 A, 5117, Mar tha 95117, Martha Me endoza.

Mendoza.

This Th is business is con nducted by by a conducted ind dividual. individual.

Registrant R e ant began egistr tr a ansacting transacting bu siness under the business fictitious fict titious business na me or names name list ted her ein on listed herein 110/23/2014.

0/23/2014. /s/ /Martha Mendoza /s/Martha Th is statement This was wa as filed with the Co ounty Clerk of County Sa nta Clara Clara County Santa on 110/23/2014.

0/23/2014. ub Metr 9, (pub Metroo 11/1 11/19, (pu 11 /26, 112/03, 2/03, 11/26, 2/10/2014) 112/10/2014)

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FREE W WILL ILLL A ASTROLOGY STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): “T “Too Tooo much happiness can make you unhappy unhappy,” y,,” rreported eporteed journalist Marta Washington aashington P Post ostt. Citing rresearch esearch by Zaraska Zar aska in the W psychologists, she concluded th that super-extraa at being super-extr g and mor one cheerful can make you selfish, gullible, moree pr prone stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, to stereotyped merely moderate moderate levels leevels of happiness is maintaining merely pretty damn good for for your mental menttal and physical health. health. pretty here's the takeaway, takeaway, Aries: The Thhe astrological astrological omens So here's you're due for for a surge surge of o joy and pleasure. pleasure. suggest you're careful it doesn't spill over ovver into rash, rash, delirious Just be careful Here's your watchword: watchword: well-grounded well-grounded delight. excess. Here's TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): In In the 19th century, centuryy,

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ascertain the half-truth, the wh ole half-truth, and whole nothing but the whole half-truth h. Only then will you be half-truth. able to find the other half of thee truth. I rrealize ealize it may be frustr ating to use this appr oaach. YYou'd oou'd pr obably frustrating approach. probably prefer pr efer to avoid wr wrangling angling with th the he deceptions and misdir ections. But I think it's thee only way to jostle misdirections. loose the hidden or missing inf information. o ormation.

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CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): On One ne of the ingr ingredients edients that makes yoga mats so soft an and nd springy is the chemical azodicarbonamide. Thee same stuff is added to the soles of shoes. shoes Ther There's ee'ss a thir third rd place wher wheree it it'ss used, used burger Burger too: in the bur ger buns sold by McDonald's, M Bur ger King, W endy's, and other ffast ast ffood ood joi nts. I'm not suggesting Wendy's, joints. that you or order der a big supply of az azodicarbonamide zodicarbonamide and ingest it. But I do hope you will consider the metaphorical equivalent: doing whatever's w necessary to make yourself bouncy and fluffyy and pliable and supple and rresilient. esilient.

LLEO EO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): “Ther “Theree ar aaree two kinds of light,” Thurber,r, “thee glow that illuminates, said author James Thurber and the glare glare that obscures.” obscures.” Lately Lately you have been an abundant source source of that firstt kind of light, Leo. The firee in your heart and the gleam in your eyes have not fir only brightened the mood wherever wherever you've gone. They have also clarified confusing situations, situations, warmed chilly attitudes and healed dispirited allies. attitudes, allies Thank you! In the coming weeks, weeks, I'd love to see you yoou continue on your hot streak. str eak. To To help ensure ensure that you do, d keep your ego under control. contr ol. Don't let it pr pretend etend thatt it owns the light you'r you'ree emitting. With a little intr introspection, ospecttion, you will continue to generate gener ate illumination, not glare. glare..

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23 23-Sept.

-Sept. 22): SStudies tuudies suggest that 57

per cent of all people with access access to the Internet have percent engaged in the practice practice known as a ego-surfing. This modern art fform orm consists of sea arching Google ffor or searching mentions of one's own name. Th his is a suspiciously This low figur actor in th he data uncover ed by figuree unless we ffactor the uncovered my own rresearch—which esearch—which is tha at a dispr oportionately that disproportionately small amount of Virgos Virgos go ego-surfing: ego-surfing: only 21 percent. percent.

If you ar percent of your tribe who does aree one of the 79 percent not indulge, g , I invite yyou to rremedy emedyy the situation. It's an excellent time to risk exploring the t potential benefits of incr eased self-inter est and self-regard. increased self-interest self-regard.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): Whe When en I started writing

horoscopes hor oscopes many years ago, I was was a good astrologer astrologer but an unexceptional writer entuallyy, the practice practice writer.. Eve Eventually, of composing 12 packets of pithy pithy prose prose every week allowed me to impr improve ove my auth authorial orial skills. The stuff I wasn't composed in the early years wa sn't bad, but I wouldn't want to pr present esent it as my work aany ny mor more. e. So should I ffeel eel guil guilty ty that I got paid and appreciated apppreciated ffor or those old

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efforts though perfect? eff orts even tho ugh I was less than perf ect? Did I get something away with some ething I shouldn't have gotten away think with? I don't thi nk so. I was doing the best I could astrological at the time. And even my unpolished astr ological weree helpful Now,, Libr Libra, musings wer heelpful to many people. Now a, I invite you to apply appply these meditations to you own unfolding destiny. unf olding destin ny.

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): YYou oou may alr already eady know

what I'm about to t tell you. It's a core core principle at the rroot oot of your Scorpio Scorrpio heritage. But I want to focus focus your attention on it. IInn the coming months, you'll be wise to keep it at the fforefront orrefront of your conscious awareness. awareness.

Her Heree it is, is courte courtesy esy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche: “You “Y Yoou have it in yyour our power to invest everything you have lived through—your through—your experiments, false false starts, errors, delusionss, passions, your love and your hope— er rors, delusions, into your goal, with w nothing left over.” over.”

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TA ARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): ““A A savage desir desiree strong emotions ffor or str ong emoti ons and sensations burns inside me: a rrage age against thiss soft-tinted, shallow shallow,, standar standardized dized and life.”

Harry Haller,, the pr protagonist sterilized lif e.” Soo says Har ry Haller otagonist of Herman Hesse'ss novel SSteppenwolf teppenwolff. His declar declaration ation serve interesting could ser ve as aan n inter esting point of rreference eference ffor or you in the coming months, m Sagittarius—not as a mood use, inspiration ffor or everyday use e, but as a poetic inspir ation that you invigorate life. periodically call on to invigor ate your lust ffor or lif e. My however.. I advise you nott to invitation has a caveat, however to p the rrest est ooff Har ryy Haller's rrant, ant,, in which he says y adopt Harry that he also has ““aa mad cr aving to smash something craving department store, cathedral, myself.” up, a departmen nt stor e, or a cathedr al, or myself .”

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): I have lived near

an open space pr ppreserve eserve ffor or five years. Up until the last two months s, it has been a peaceful, quiet place. months, But then the coy yotes moved in. Just after dusk every coyotes evening, a pack of o them start yipping and yowling in the distance. A found the racket racket to be eerie and Att first I found unsettling. It act activated tivated some primal unease in me. And yet the coyotes have never actually been a problem. problem.

They don't rroam oam m into my neighborhood and try to bite people or prey prey on on pets. So now I've come to relish relish the situation: The wi ild things ar wild aree close and exciting, but not danger dangerous. ous. I'm I'm guessing this has a metaphorical rresemblance esemblance to what your life life will be like in the next six i months, th CCapricorn. aprricorn. i

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): SStanstead, tanstead, Quebec ermont ar eally a single town and Derby Line, V Vermont aree rreally that str addles th he bor der between the U.S. and straddles the border CCanada. anada. Many off the people who live ther theree have dual citizenship,, but they'r ry they'ree still supposed to car carry their passports with w them at all times. I suspect you may experie experience ence a metaphorical version of this split in the comi ng months, Aquarius. YYou oou will be coming in a situation tha at has a split down the middle or a that seemingly unna tural division. Whether it turns out to unnatural be a pr problem oblem or an opportunity will depend on your adaptability andd flexibility flexibility..

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): When a dead tr tree ee topples over in the t woods, woods its wither withered ed br branches anches may get entangled with w the br branches anches of a living tr tree ee that's nearby.

Ass years go by by,, the living tr tree standing nearby y. A ee must grow trapped gr ow the best it can with the decaying wood tr apped in its midst. Has something like that ever happened to you? Ar Aree you still car carrying rying the rrot ot that other people burdened have bur dened you y with? If so, the coming months will be an excellent time t to get disentangled. A tr tree ee isn't capable of fr freeing eeinng itself fr from om the dead weight of the past, but you ar are—especially e e—especially in the first half of 2015.

Homework: What's W the one feeling feeling you want to feel feel more more than t any other in 2015? Tell Teell all: Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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