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RE: VACCINATION RATES FALL, EXEMPTIONS RISE, NEWS, JUNE 12 I think the bigger issue is that white and wealthy families can live by a different set of rules than the rest of the country. We see it in white wealthy parents bribing their spawn into elite colleges. We see it in white governance that sends the most novice and inexperienced teachers to schools with children of color reserving their most qualified teachers for the hite schools. And of course we see it in how the white and wealthy circumvent vaccination rules. They are entitled, selfish and greedy! That is the root cause issue and the world that we are living in and have lived in for a long time.

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From my front door, I noticed a big group of people gathered around the pool deck. Some were fairly dressed up, wearing what I later realized was their Sunday best. These were church folks, and they were here to baptize a gaggle of children. Listen, I’m not religious, but I would think there’s a better place to baptize new believers than in an apartment hot tub. This is the same hot tub where tenants have witnessed many a couple hooking up and getting hot ’n heavy in the bubbly brew.

This is the same hot tub where people straight up do the dirty when they think nobody’s looking. But hey, I hope the chlorine cleanses their germs as effectively as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost cleanses your souls.

RE: PLANNING COMMISSION APPOINTMENT WILL TEST SJ’S COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, THE FLY, JUNE 12 San Jose has one of the largest Asian populations in the country, and the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. They make up nearly 11 percent of San Jose’s population (100,000-plus), yet last time I checked, there are no Vietnamese on the planning commission—or Asians, for that matter.

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Yet another Milpitan jumped into the 25th Assembly District race to succeed Assemblyman KANSEN CHU .

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On Monday, 23-year-old ALEX LEE announced his candidacy, which pits him against Milpitas Mayor RICH TRAN and the potentially, probably, almost positively soon-to-declare first-term Councilwoman KARINA DOMINGUEZ. (We hear she’s waiting to surpass the six-figure fundraising mark before announcing).

MICHAEL TSAI is another Milpitas name being bandied about, but the newly elected Milpitas Unified school board trustee has made no public indication that he’d interrupt his first-term to try for higher office. Definitely in the running, though, are Santa Clara County Board of Ed trustee ANNA SONG and Santa Clara Unified trustee JIM CANOVA—the first to join the fray after Chu’s surprise announcement that he won’t seek another term.

To date, though, we haven’t heard of any East Bay contenders in the district, which extends from Fremont and Newark down through Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara and the rural swath of south Santa Clara Valley.

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Lee’s the youngest in the field—by far—and touts his experience as student body president FLY@ at his alma mater, UC METRONEWS. Davis and intern for COM former Congressman MIKE HONDA. According to his campaign bio, Lee spent the summer after graduating college volunteering for the Sacramento food bank before getting hired by state Sen. HENRY STERN and, subsequently, as a policy adviser and field rep for Assemblyman EVAN LOW .

In 2016, Lee managed THOMAS DUONG ’s campaign for San Jose’s District 7 City Council.

Like the other candidates, Lee’s a Democrat who says he’s running to tackle Silicon Valley’s traffic congestion, homelessness and the worsening impacts of climate change.

And, of course, the affordability crisis: “I grew up in the South Bay, but if things don’t change now, I—like countless others—can’t afford a future here.”

DON’T BE EVIL The Mountain View-based search giant is under pressure from shareholders to hold its executives accountable.

Shareholders Push for Google’s Breakup

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Shareholders of Alphabet—Google’s holding company—plan to vote Wednesday on a resolution calling for the advertising company to study a breakup.

Citing concerns about human rights abuses, anticompetitive practices, privacy breaches, data leaks and illegal location tracking, the proposed resolution urges Alphabet to study ways to make executives more accountable to shareholders.

Activists plan to amplify the message by demonstrating outside at least 15 Google offices around the globe, including, of course, its headquarters in Mountain View.

The declaration describes a company that has become too vast and too complex to rein in as it incurs allegations of human rights violations and other risks that threaten to undermine shareholder value. It cites sexual harassment scandals and the development of “Project Dragonfly,”

a censored search engine for China, as proof of a corporate culture out of alignment with shareholder values.

The upcoming vote follows months of opposition to Google from within its own ranks.

In November, an open letter from Google employees implored executives to drop Project Dragonfly on ethical grounds. That same month, about 20,000 staffers and contractors— about a fifth of the company’s workforce—staged a walkout after Google offered multimillion-dollar payouts to three male executives accused of sexual misconduct.

Last summer, employees launched a petition citing ethical concerns over Project Maven, a controversial contract to build artificially intelligent spycraft for the Pentagon.

U.K. investment group Hermes and shareholder advisory service I.S.S. are reportedly both backing the resolution pushing for board-level

accountability by creating a “societal risk oversight committee.”

Christine Chow, who helms Hermes’ shareholder service EOS, promised to speak in favor of the resolution at Alphabet’s annual general meeting this week. “The establishment of this committee will ensure that the company’s technology and its impact on society is considered and focused on at the very top of the organization,” she said in a news release.

Alphabet filed a statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking stockholders to vote against the resolution. It argued that the company already devotes “significant resources” to address its impact on society.

Among those resources are a billion bucks the company just announced it would invest in housing here in the Bay Area, where 45,000 of its employees live.

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downtown will drive up rents and displace residents.

“For several months, we have encouraged Google to make a bold commitment to address our region’s affordable housing challenge,” he said. “We look forward to working with Google to ensure today’s announcement manifests into housing that will benefit thousands of San Jose residents struggling under the burden of high rents.”

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Santa Clara’s St. Anton Set to Break Ground in 2020

BY LLOYD ALABAN To afford living in Silicon Valley, you either need to make enough money to cover sky-high rents or make little enough to qualify for below-market-rate housing. In Santa Clara, plans to build a 196-unit complex for the latter group reportedly make it one of the largest affordable housing projects in the state.

Last month, the Santa Clara City Council approved the Irvine Company proposal dubbed St. Anton.

The development is slated for a oneacre pocket of a 45-acre swath of land in the Calle del Mundo neighborhood and will partly make up for the dearth of affordable housing at a separate Irvine Company mixed-use project called Santa Clara Square.

As proposed, every single unit will be reserved for households making $55,200 or less a year, with income limits adjusted for family size. That figure represents an “extremely low income” household for a family of four, according

to state numbers. “This is a 100 percent affordable housing project,” Mayor Lisa Gillmor said, “and it shows how requiring affordable housing obligations for new developments, like Santa Clara Square, can benefit all people who want to live in our community.”

The project’s low-income status doesn’t mean it will preclude luxuries reserved for its marketrate counterparts, including a gym, pool and game room, according to blueprints developers submitted to the city. “Everything is brand-new in there,” Irvine Company spokesman Justin Veach said. “The quality is high and it’s in a good location, close to transit.”

Logistics for allocating the units are still being worked out, but the city and Irvine are considering a lottery for qualifying households. The project will replace an existing 16,760-square-foot warehouse that sits on a 1.2-acre parcel. Construction is set to begin in early 2020.

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to rezone $750 million worth of property to make way for housing.

Nonprofits that help the homeless will get $50 million, and another $250 million will go toward an investment fund to incentivize developers to build below-marketrate housing.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo applauded the news, which comes amid fears that the search company’s planned move to

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FLAT NOTE Grace Kelly lives in Auckland, New Zealand, but—as the story goes—has a soft spot for San Jose.

San Jose Unveils City’s New Song

BY NICK VERONIN AND DAN PULCRANO Frank Sinatra’s ode to The Big Apple is just one of many great songs about New York. Los Angeles has “L.A. Woman” and its very own Randy Newman sendup, “I Love L.A.” And San Francisco has two flavors of whimsy—Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” and Scott McKenzie’s starry-eyed flower-power anthem, “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).”

San Jose has its own pop-paean, too. The Burt Bacharach- and Hal David-penned Dionne Warwick hit “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” charted all over the world when it was released in 1968. Sure, it was corny; Burt Bacharach songs usually are. But it had, and continues to exude, a certain genuine charm.

Last week, the city’s travel promotion and performing arts venue management organization, Team San Jose, unveiled the newest contribution to municipal branding jingles at its annual meeting.

Following videos featuring costumed San Jose City Council members— most of them, along with Mayor Sam Liccardo, in attendance—TSJ CEO Karolyn Kirchgesler detailed efforts to promote the city’s tourism profile to domestic and international markets, particularly China.

With San Jose’s newfound cachet as a preferred venue for major conferences produced by Apple, Facebook and Google, Kirchgesler is riding high in growing and managing the convention franchise. Bar charts and hockey stick graphs attest to Team’s accomplishments on the financial end.

When it comes to being cultural influencers, well, that’s an entirely different business. Kirchgesler introduced a “very special song” recorded in, well, Nashville, an effort spearheaded by TSJ’s creative marketing priestess, Laura Chmielewski, to provide a musical backdrop to San Jose’s promotional efforts.

Described by Chmielewski as a “love letter to San Jose,” the song “San Jose” is a pop-country tune, replete with twangy fiddle and fond memories of the singer’s first guitar.

The song was penned by a teen-age girl from Down Under—who, the story goes, happens to have a soft spot for the Capital of Silicon Valley.

“Meet Grace Kelly,” the press release chirps, “a 16-year-old singersongwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. She’s been singing since she was little and in the last 5 years, she found her love for songwriting. She first came to San Jose when she was 8 years old, and it quickly became her home away from home. ‘I fell in love with San Jose and all of the memories that were attached to it.

My dad even bought my first electric guitar right here in San Jose.’ Since then, her dad has moved back to New Zealand two years ago, but she still holds her memories of San Jose near and dear to her heart.”

Kelly strums to TSJ’s promotional video, unveiled as a centerpiece at the annual meeting, showing young people traversing downtown streets in city logo T-shirts on Lime scooters, Kelly singing to a sunsetbathed Mount Hamilton valley view backdrop, viewing instruments in Japantown’s ukelele shop, then a cut to aqua fresca vendors ladling colored beverages at the flea market.

Team’s promotion hits some legitimate touch-points of the city’s culture in a quest for highlighting what former board chair Michael Mulcahy in his remarks referred to as “authentic experiences.”

Another promo video showed millennials tipping tasting glasses at Camino brewery and sawing into farm-to-table steaks at the Grandview restaurant.

Is the teenage Kiwi—who hasn’t even spent a decade in San Jose—the right musical icon to capture the city in a remotely authentic way? And will this municipal branding exercise gain traction in shaping the city’s culture? We’ve been trying to escape that Dionne Warwick song for half a friggin’ century.

And what about the South Bay’s own musical heritage? The Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers, Smash Mouth and Peanut Butter Wolf ? These are just a few of the more recognizable artists that have emerged from our region, and there are plenty more to throw in the heap. Quirky psychobilly singers, like The Legendary Stardust Cowboy; psychedelic pioneers, such as The Chocolate Watchband; and more skate punks than you can shake a deck at, including The Faction.

Each of these artists have far more invested in San Jose than Kelly. They are truly and authentically South Bay bands with South Bay stories.

Though some might decline the offer to soundtrack a promotional video produced by the tourism board, they should at least be offered the opportunity.

In the meantime, city boosters will be watching the streaming counters on video services and Pandora, where the tune will be served up.

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MUSICAL WELLSPRING Charlie Musselwhite, who performed at the very first Fountain Blues Fest, is back to headline the annual event. (Inset, a flyer for the free U2 show at the SJSU Student Union.)

Sing the Blues The annual Fountain Blues Fest has deep roots at San Jose State University

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HIS SATURDAY, the 38th Annual San Jose Fountain Blues & Brews Festival unfolds in Plaza de Cesar Chavez, once again cementing the festival’s position as the longest running affair of its kind in the Bay Area.

The history is worth repeating. The birth of the festival takes us back to a version of San Jose that now seems like the vanishing Wild West, when

the SJSU Associated Students Program Board oversaw a serious budget to book concerts on campus all year long.

It also harkens back to a time when notorious rock promoter Bill Graham was still trying to prevent anything in San Jose from succeeding.

When a young Rick Bates first emigrated from Iowa to the Associated Students at SJSU, he hit up Ted Gehrke for a job. Gehrke assigned Bates to put up concert posters around town, but Gates eventually wound up with the title of contemporary

arts chair, meaning he worked with Gehrke to book concerts.

In the spring of 1981, the prog rock band Ambrosia had just fired its manager and agent, so the group needed a gig. Working for the Associated Students, Bates booked them in the San Jose Civic Auditorium. The show sold out, giving the program board a pile of dough with which they organized the first Fountain Blues Festival, over the first weekend in May of that year.

These days, when students don’t get to experience a live music infrastructure of any sort, let alone getting on the phone with national booking agencies, it seems hard to fathom a San Jose in which such activity unfolded on a regular basis.

In the late ’70s, for example, Bates helped book a Peter Gabriel show in the old SJSU men’s gym, located in what’s now Uchida Hall. Bill Graham called up Bates and tried to stop the show because Graham wanted exclusivity in San Francisco.

“At that time I was 20 years old, and he starts screaming at me,” Bates recalled. “I’m a snotty little kid, and I’m going, ‘Hey this is pretty cool. I must be doing something right. Bill Graham’s calling me up and yelling at me.’ I thought it was really pretty funny. We did another show with U2, and he did the same thing.”

The U2 show, with Romeo Void opening up, is now one of the most legendary stories in San Jose rock history. On the Irish band’s first US tour in 1981, Bates and Gehrke initially booked them to play a free show in the outdoor concrete amphitheater next to the Student Union. Bill Graham tried to stop the show because he wanted U2’s first Bay Area gig to be at the Old Waldorf, scheduled for the next night in San Francisco. Despite Graham’s threats, the free U2 show in San Jose went on. However, once it was booked and word began to explode, it was relocated upstairs into the old Student Union Ballroom, which is now a suite of antiseptic meeting facilities. Since the Brutalist-style Student Union structure was built on earthquake rollers, the over-capacity crowds pogo-dancing began to shake the building. Staff stood on both sides of the stage with ropes to prevent the speaker columns from falling over.

At one point, Romeo Void’s tour manager got stuck in the elevator.

People were scared.

According to those who attended, even with the stage verging on collapse, the young Bono was already on a path to rock stardom. He knew how to command an audience and work a room. The show was a smashing success.

Bates went on to manage several well-known blues and roots acts, including Los Lobos, who ended up opening for U2 on the Joshua Tree tour, putting Bates back in touch with Bono. At the time, Bono still remembered the harrowing SJSU gig.

When it comes to the Fountain Blues Festival, Bates speaks fondly of the original days. At the time, it just felt like a cool project for some students to work on.

“I always feel like sometimes things are just at the right place at the right time,” Bates said. “Everybody wanted to do it, and it was really successful.

I never thought that it would last as long as it has.”

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MONEY TALKS There’s a growing push for cities to make their own banks instead of paying billions of dollars to the financial industry.

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ILICON VALLEY BANK opened in 1982 to serve startups shunned by big lenders, which saw the fledgling tech sector as inherently risky.

But Roger Smith and Bill Biggerstaff, the Wells Fargo defectors who founded the small bank with Stanford University professor Robert Medearis, had deep roots in the culture that would transform Santa Clara Valley into the world’s innovation capital.

Now with more than $60 billion in assets, Silicon Valley Bank long ago outgrew its provincial status.

Still, those early days wove it into a rich tradition of community lenders that make decisions based on deep knowledge of specialized markets and close relationships with borrowers.

Small banks have since become an endangered breed.

Once awash in neighborhood lenders and credit unions, the South Bay has lost the vast majority to mergers and acquisitions. Beloved local brands such as Saratoga National Bank, Peninsula Bank, San Jose National Bank, Bank of Santa Clara and Cupertino National Bank were rolled up into Greater Bay Bancorp in the 1990s. In 2007,

the 41 branches were slurped up

by Wells Fargo. Borel Private Bank & Trust was sold to Boston Private Bank. CEFCU of Peoria, Illinois acquired Valley Credit Union. And the list goes on.

The disappearance of Silicon Valley’s small banks reflects a broader trend driven partly by economies of scale and also by growing compliance costs. From 1985 to 2010, the number of banks in the US with assets under $100 million fell from 13,000 to just 2,625. The pace quadrupled between 2010 and 2014.

At his confirmation hearing 2½ years ago, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin attributed the ebb to laws enacted after the 2008 global financial crash. “Regulation is killing

community banks,” he told Congress.

“We’re losing the ability for small and medium-size banks to make good loans to small- and medium-size businesses in the community, where they understand those credit risks better than anybody else.”

Some experts blame the regulatory burden of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which bolstered oversight of the financial industry. Others cite the anti-terrorism money laundering controls of the 2001 Patriot Act. Multimillion-dollar fines for violating suspicious-activity and cash-transaction laws force smaller operations to shut down or acquiesce to big banks with well-staffed compliance teams. All the while, stricter supervision for new banks has

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AMITY Regulations forced community lenders and credit unions to sell or go under.

Can publicly-owned banks restore local control? BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

decimated the number that dare to break into the industry.

The banks that financed entrepreneurial ventures and helped its founders buy homes and equipment are no longer here. No wonder Silicon Valley is losing its luster.

Local lawmakers, however, are looking to an unlikely source for answers: North Dakota. That’s because the rural midwestern state boasts six times the number of locally-owned financial institutions than the rest of the country. Its secret? A public entity that supports small private lenders by helping with capitalization and liquidity—and allows them to take on larger loans that would otherwise go to big outof-state banks.

It may sound far-fetched, but proposals paving the way for the public banking option have made headway in several states, including California. AB 857—a bill introduced

by Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco) and co-sponsored by Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose)—would authorize counties and cities to charter banks mandated to serve the public interest.

Jake Tonkel, a 28-year-old biomedical engineer campaigning for a public bank of Silicon Valley, envisions one that would slash debt costs, fund infrastructure and spur entrepreneurship.

“If San Jose had control of its own finances, we could use it to reach the goals that the city is trying to

achieve,” he says. “We can fund climate mitigation and put solar on more roofs.

We can invest in affordable housing and small businesses and shape the city into what we want it to look like.”

What’s Old is New Public banks enjoy a long but obscure history in the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s creation of a land bank in Pennsylvania allowed farmers to secure cheap loans. Even today, public entities such as the Small Business Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration are important parts of the banking system.

But the Bank of North Dakota is

the mainland’s only state bank, and it’s held up as an archetype by advocates of alternative financial systems.

Founded 100 years ago to extend credit to broke farmers and ranchers, the Bank of North Dakota has evolved into a reliably profitable financial powerhouse. According to its 2016 annual report, the state bank logged its 13th straight year of record profits, garnering more than $136 million in income while expanding its loan portfolio by $449 million.

Proponents of the North Dakota model credit the publicly-owned bank for helping the state learn from the booms and weather the busts inherent in today’s economy.

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Since 2011, a national nonprofit called the Public Banking Institute has recruited organizers to try to adapt the template to other states and cities.

The past year has seen the movement gain considerable traction. New Jersey’s Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, campaigned on the promise of a public bank. Leaders in Oregon, Vermont and Washington D.C. have held public meetings to talk about the practical benefits of the public system.

‘If San Jose had control of its own finances, we could use it to reach the goals that the city is trying to achieve.’

—JAKE TONKEL Several major cities that joined the California Public Banking Alliance, an advocacy organization that supports AB 857, have completed feasibility studies, including Oakland and San Francisco. A ballot measure that would have allowed Los Angeles to create its own city bank failed to garner enough votes last fall.

But the city—where $170 million a year in taxpayer money goes to private banking fees and which pays $1.1 billion in annual interest to bondholders—is officially backing the statewide effort to authorize a local charter.

Each jurisdiction faces a unique set of challenges, from steep startup costs to legal barriers and tepid political will. But advocates hope the idea of public banking will catch on, in part, because of its potential appeal to both sides of the aisle. Conservatives might appreciate the potential cost-saving and local control offered by public banks, while progressives might buy in as a way to combat climate change and other societal ills.

When the subject came up at a

public hearing a few months ago in San Jose, Councilman Lan Diep, a Republican, applauded a plan to study the concept. “On the idea of public banking,” he said, “I’m actually quite intrigued.”

Seeing Green While the Wall Street bailout fueled interest in public banks more than a decade ago, a new generation found its way to the movement through fears about climate change— fears that intensified with the oil industry’s victory at Standing Rock.

Despite nearly a year of protest that resulted in 500 arrests and 300 police-inflicted injuries, the Dakota Access pipeline fulfilled its manifest destiny. In June 2017, the conduit began slurping up fracked oil from the Bakken formation to spew out at a tank farm 1,200 miles southeast in Pakota, Illinois.

By the time authorities disbanded the camp, the resistance had metamorphosed from physical standoff to burgeoning movement.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign came to be known as Mazaska Talks—”mazaska” means “money” in Lakota—and prompted people, companies and public agencies to withdraw $5 billion from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other banks funding new oil pipelines.

Tonkel, a Peace Corps alumnus who joined the opposition at Standing Rock for a brief time in 2016, returned home to San Jose determined to keep up the fight.

He started small, closing his Bank of America accounts and, through fossilfreefunds.org, sifting through 215 mutual fund options to align his 401k to the cause.

For Tonkel, that wasn’t enough. He wanted the banks banned from doing business with all local governments in Santa Clara County.

So he began hosting panels and talking to community groups about moving public money away from financial institutions profiting off of fossil fuels, private prisons, payday lending, weapons manufacturing and latter-day redlining. As divestment campaigns caught on elsewhere, it became clear that even cities

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Two Wrongs Councilman Sergio Jimenez learned about public banking in much the same way Tonkel did: by mulling divestment from frackedoil pipelines. In 2017, the newly elected councilor and his staff began researching the city’s investment standards because of the growing outcry over the North Dakota pipeline and found that San Jose had diverted its deposits on moral grounds before.

On the heels of the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis, the city broke up with Bank of America for failing to prevent foreclosures, which—like the rest of its too-big-to-fail cohorts—it promised to do when it accepted the federal bailout. Wells Fargo filled the void. But it, too, strayed from the city’s professed values.

In 2015, the banking behemoth Citigroup, along with JPMorgan Chase and Barclays, among others, pleaded guilty to felony charges for conspiring to illegally inflate interest rates as part of a global financial racket known as the Libor scandal. A year later, regulators brought Wells Fargo’s fake-accounts scheme to widespread attention.

The pipeline became another black mark, compounded by revelations that the bank also invested in private prisons conscripted into the Trump administration’s deportation infrastructure.

Frustrated by the city’s ties to the banking giant, Jimenez urged colleagues to update the “social responsibility” clause of the investment policy for the first time since the Great Recession. In a March 2017 memo, he proposed revising it to “prioritize city values and address public concern,” and to expand the policy to reflect the city’s commitment to “fair practices and engagement with socially responsible businesses.”

“We wound up modifying the

investment policy by adding a line about social impact,” Jimenez says.

“Some time after that, these public bank advocates began reaching out to me.”

Shortly after his epiphany about the link between divestment and public banks, Tonkel teamed up with a handful of activists from the South Progressive Alliance to convince residents and elected leaders to seriously consider the prospect.

Jimenez was one of the first local electeds that the group approached.

Tonkel, retired techie Judy Young and Brian Haberly—an environmentalist who led a campaign to keep oil trains out of San Jose—were among the first advocates to tell him about their vision for another kind of fiscal enterprise.

“They talked about not just the environmental aspect, but all these other potential benefits,” Jimenez says from his 18th floor office at City Hall.

“That’s when I started digging into what it would take, understanding the complexities and realizing that it would be a pretty big lift to change banking services the city uses.”

From a black cabinet by his desk, he pulls out a yellow folder.

“I started a public banking file,” Jimenez says, brandishing a dossier filled with handouts from advocates of the movement. “It’s not a massive file, but it got me thinking about what I could do to advance the conversation and what to do about this policy-wise.”

When San Jose’s contract for banking services recently went out to bid, it exposed yet another ethical conflict and gave Jimenez an opening. None of the banks big enough to handle San Jose’s $4.3 billion budget complied with its policy against hiring companies with multiple wage theft judgments in the past five years.

Chase, the best-scoring candidate for the city’s financial services contract, showed more than 20 wage and hour violations that incurred $160 million in fines. Wells Fargo outdid itself—lying by omission about 10 judgments in California alone ranging from $840 to $116,536.

Jimenez convinced council members Raul Peralez and

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sympathetic to the idea—Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco—could only do so much. Virtually every bank big enough to take major-city deposits had an ethically dubious and sometimes criminal record.

“I knew we’d have to think bigger,” Tonkel says.

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CHANGE MAKER Jake Tonkel co-founded a public banking work group through the South Bay Progressive Alliance to educate lawmakers and residents about the potential benefits of a city-run depository.

Magdalena Carrasco to co-sign a memo that would direct the city to explore creating a public bank. In March, the proposal won unanimous approval from the 11-member council, which also agreed to extend the agreement with Wells Fargo for another year.

But the next step depends on the outcome of AB 857.

“Learning that we have such a huge dependency on these big banks—that really struck me right there,” Peralez says.

The city stood up to PG&E by creating San Jose Clean Energy to induce demand for a cleaner power supply. Peralez says that makes him believe it can just as well wield its power as a depositor of billions of dollars in tax revenue and an investor of billions of dollars in pensions against a banking industry rife with misconduct and beholden to far-away shareholders.

But at what cost?

Risky Rewards Citing his two decades in the private banking industry, Councilman Johnny Khamis urged his fellow electeds to consider the liability.

“As soon as you open a banking institution, you’re going to have to get into the loan business and you’re going to have to invest in something, or you’re not going to get any money back,” he said from the dais when the bank deal came up for discussion on March 21. He went on to say, “Bad times can come, and our investments can go the other way. My biggest fear is having our taxpayers on the hook.”

San Jose Finance Director Julia Cooper—who spent the better part of 20 years shepherding the city’s finances, including the last economic downturn—expresses similar reservations. In an interview from a 13th floor conference room at City Hall, she winces at the mention of the Bank of North Dakota.

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‘Learning that we have such a huge dependency on these big banks—that really struck me right there.

—RAUL PERALEZ million to $170 million. That’s in addition to any losses that may arise if the city’s social aims undermine the bank’s ability to stay in the black.

According to the January 2019 study by the SF Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, it could take decades for a city bank to break even.

“On the other hand, there could be a cost to inaction, as maintaining the status quo and continuing our banking relationships both have explicit and implicit costs,” the report states. “The private banking industry has been responsible for multiple financial crises that have impacted the city, its finances and its residents and their financial health. Aside from the ideological benefits of divestment, there are potential longterm financial gains. A municipal bank is not a quick win but could pay dividends long into the future.”

Despite her skepticism, Cooper encouraged San Jose’s elected leaders to authorize a feasibility study, which

she expects to get going sometime next year.

As cities broach the idea of running their own banks, Ellen Brown— an attorney who co-founded the Public Banking Institute in 2011 and authored the book Banking for the People—wants California to build on the one it already has.

The 25-year-old California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, also known as I-Bank, loans money to local governments, nonprofits and businesses to build hospitals, parks, roads, bridges and other public works projects. It also issues its own bonds and for the past four years has funded renewable energy developments to lessen the state’s carbon footprint.

Expanding the I-Bank’s impact requires lawmakers to turn it into a depository, which would let it leverage capital into more loans.

Turning the $400 million I-Bank already has on hand into capital would allow it to lend $4 billion backed by demand deposits from its local government clients. Imagine the lending power if the state moved some of the $700 billion it parks in private financial institutions to its own depository.

Or—to bring the focus back home—what if San Jose leveraged some of its $5.8 billion in retirement funds to capitalize a city bank?

As it stands, the funds either sit in banks or get invested with asset managers and private equity funds that rack up more than $73 million a year in administrative fees. Audits show that management fees skyrocketed in the decade from 2005 by more than 150 percent because of the city’s affinity for risky alternative investments. Maybe it’s too soon to broach the subject in San Jose, which is still reeling from a drawn-out battle with unions over slashing benefits at the ballot box.

But in her pitch for public banks to the statewide powers that be, Brown has already made it part of the conversation.

For now, Tonkel wants to focus on the fundamentals. A Public Bank of Silicon Valley could take many forms, as long as it serves the people who fund it.

“That,” he says, “could cause the ripple economic effect on our communities that we really need.”

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“It was founded for a specific purpose, at another time,” she says.

“There have been others like it in the past 100 years, but that’s the only one still in existence.”

While the North Dakota bank has evolved with the industry, Cooper says she doubts it would survive past its startup phase had it launched today. “It would have been a much heavier lift,” she says.

Cooper points to a preliminary study issued by the city of San Francisco, which put the upfront capital costs of forming its own bank somewhere in the range of $75

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NET POSITIVE While the grilled shrimp failed to impress, Vina Enoteca’s service, atmosphere and other fine dishes delighted.

Viva Italia Palo Alto’s Vina Enoteca serves ambiance and excellent Italian fare

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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INING OUT IS an illusion that the fantasists behind Vina Enoteca in Palo Alto have mastered. Once you’re settled at one of the al fresco tables, you’d never guess that the Stanford Shopping Center is just one busy, buzzing block away. A plot of flowering lavender shrubs sways in the breeze directly across the courtyard square.

Built in the late 1800s, the Stanford Barn lounges lazily at the edge of the property. During the day, it houses a more informal panini palace called Tootsie’s. The setting is like

an uncomplicated foreign film that transports you to a desirable place where love and connection sit side by side. It’s an upscale Italian bistro where the word “indulgence” punctuates every item on the menu.

The 29 pages of wine and spirits to choose from suits the name (an enoteca is a wine library) and the already intoxicating atmosphere. Of course, the Italian wines, both red and white, come first on the roll call. They arrive in California, well-traveled, from Umbria, Friuli, Toscana and even Sicilia. While the whites or bianchi range from $45 to $105, you can spend twice as much on the more extensive list of reds. On the first truly hot summer afternoon this year in the South Bay, we tried a

chilly glass of J. Lassalle Cachet d’Or champagne ($20). But it wasn’t just the sun’s energy that called for those refreshing bubbles. Super-powered by calabrian chili, the peppered broth ladled over the cozze ($13)—Prince Edward Island mussels—was just as fiery (and delicious). We mopped it all up with a basket of bread.

At lunch, you can order six kinds of pizza that are sized to share for two.

From the classic Margherita ($14) to the Puttanesca ($18) to the Impossible ($18). In addition to the Impossible Burger, Vina Enoteca serves a pizza topped with sun-dried tomatoes, fennel, braised greens and plant-based “meat” created by the Redwood Citybased Impossible Foods. Here it is spiced like an Italian sausage.

As for vegetables appearing in their natural state, try the splendid roasted beet salad (barbabietola mista arrostita, $13). The kitchen dresses two varieties of beet in a lemony vinaigrette, tops them with watercress and then finishes the dish with a generous scoop of fresh ricotta. One particular forkful of beet with that creamy white cheese was the best bite of the entire meal.

We ordered two pasta dishes for our entrées—spaghetti cacio e pepe ($15) and orzo e gamberetti ($20). This version of spaghetti with cheese and pepper landed on the cacio side of the recipe—macaroni and cheese without the macaroni. This isn’t a complaint. Of all the items we ordered, the spaghetti disappeared faster than anything else.

The circumference of the frico, or cheese crisp, that crowned the pasta is comparable to that of a small frisbee, but likely saltier on the tongue.

Before you place an order of orzo with grilled shrimp ($20), be sure to ask if they’re out of orzo. In my case, they were and substituted it with a grain that looked and tasted like a chewy oatmeal. When I asked the waiter about it, he went back to the kitchen and later confirmed that it wasn’t orzo and kindly struck it from our tab. Even with the correct pasta, though, the shrimp was overcooked (dry) and under-spiced (bland). I made the age-old mistake of longing for the campanelle beet pasta with a carrot puree ($15) and then deferred to the waiter’s suggestion.

Next time, that carrot top pesto with walnuts will be mine.

I disregarded my instinct a second time when I ignored the flavors of house-made sorbetto or gelato ($9) in favor of the more adventurous-sounding tiramisu sundae ($11). A tiny scoop of coffee mascarpone gelato showed up in little metal bowl. The ladyfingers are more accurately described as a ruffian’s knuckles. There was one round, hardened cookie broken in two. The dessert didn’t evoke a tiramisu in any sense of that luxurious word.

Did gamberetti burned to black or an underwhelming sundae dusted with too much cocoa powder ruin the mood? No way, Giuseppe. If I could sit on that patio every afternoon toward dusk and stare at the burgeoning stars, I would. The wait staff, like the scent of lavender in full bloom, is there to display their charms. At the end of the meal, you stand up and reluctantly walk away thinking, “Viva Italia! Viva Vina Enoteca!”

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CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

THE SLACKERS

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RYAN HURD

ALANIS MORISSETTE CHRISTIAN MARTIN MAKE MUSIC DAY

Wed, 7pm, $15+ Club Rodeo Rio, San Jose This Kalamazoo-bred country singer started his career writing songs for artists such as Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw and Blake Shelton.

Then Hurd struck out on his own, releasing his self-titled EP in 2017. A romantic, he dropped “Diamonds or Twine” as an acoustic wedding gift to his wife—powerhouse country singer-songwriter Maren Morris—the day before they tied the knot. Hurd represents a new strain of country that is eager to put its days of sonic and cultural homogeneity in the past. His Valentine’s Day “To A T” music video honors love in its forms, including queer and multiracial. (ER)

THE DELFONICS

Thu, 7:30pm, $126+ Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Thu, 10pm, $10+ LVL 44, San Jose

Fri, All Day, Free San Jose

Fri, 5:30pm, $15+ Plaza de César Chávez, San Jose

We’re a ways down the road from 1995, the year Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill went supernova on the charts. The record ultimately went platinum 16 times over. Now, on the eve of her 45th birthday, the Canadian-born singer and songwriter will perform an acoustic show while—in true woman warrior style—expecting the birth of her third child.

She’s also enjoying another exciting stage of contemporary superstardom: Jagged Little Pill: the Musical, set to open on Broadway later in 2019. This year may also witness a brand-new record from Morissette, who late last year hinted at an imminent release on Twitter. (WB)

One of the first artists to join Claude Von-Stroke’s iconic San Francisco electronic music label Dirtybird Records, Christian Martin is known for his danceable yet off-kilter take on house music. The co-founder of the Dirtybird BBQ now has a label of his own, Trippy Ass Technologies. In addition to funneling a variety of genres into his globetrotting mixes, Martin produces his own music. His latest EP features two tracks.

“The Clapper” is a funky, bubbling laid-back groove, while “Athena’s Lullaby” is spacier affair, dedicated to his daughter, Athena, whose second birthday on June 26 also marks the EP’s release. (NV)

International Make Music Day is a massive, free, grassroots event celebrated simultaneously in more than 750 cities worldwide.

The goal is for people to open their ears to the musical stylings of their neighbors or share their own tunes, fostering a stronger sense of community and a greater appreciation for musicianship. San Jose has been an official participant since 2017. This year, in addition to innumerable performances at shops, community centers and libraries, the city will be hosting events at Discovery Meadow, City Hall and the exotic Airport Terminal B. See makemusicday. org/sanjose for a full list of performers and venues. (CA)

In 1965, William “Poogie” Hart, singer and songwriter for Philadelphia R&B and soul group The Delfonics, turned a barbershop connection into a record deal. Hart, along with his brother Wilbert and Randy Cain, would go on to score hits like “La-La (Means I Love You)”— which was inspired by Poogie’s baby boy, who would warble the nonsense words “la-la”—as well as the Grammy-winning “Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)” and “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love),” which took on a new life when the Fugees repurposed the hook for their infectious 1996 hit, “Ready or Not.” The Delfonics kick off Music in the Park this Friday. (ER)

* concerts CHRISTIAN MARTIN

PITBULL Jun 28 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

TREVOR NOAH Jul 1 at Mountain Winery

PAUL MCCARTNEY Jul 10 at SAP Center

SEAL Jul 13 at Mountain Winery

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jul 14 at SAP Center

BECK & CAGE THE ELEPHANT Jul 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

ODESZA Jul 17 at Frost Amphitheatre

COMMON Jul 18 at Mountain Winery

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Jul 21 at Mountain Winery

BACKSTREET BOYS Aug 4 at SAP Center

SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST Aug 9-11 in San Jose

JACKSON BROWNE

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Aug 13 at Mountain Winery

FEIST Aug 15 at Mountain Winery

TAJ MAHAL QUARTET Aug 20 at Mountain Winery

WU-TANG CLAN

FOUNTAIN BLUES

GAME SWAP

THE SLACKERS

Sat, 7pm, $35+ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

Sat, noon, $20+ Plaza De Caesar Chavez, San Jose

Sun, 11am, Free LVL Up, Campbell

Sun, 7pm, $15+ The Ritz, San Jose

Conceived at San Jose State in 1981 and still going strong, the Fountain Blues and Brews Festival aims to preserve and proliferate the gospel of America’s original artform, all while throwing a kickass party downtown. From its humble beginnings on campus to its present residence at Plaza de Cesar Chavez, the festival has hosted such legends of the genre as John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Bo Diddley and Buddy Guy. This year’s edition is headlined by harmonica god Charlie Musselwhite, and with plenty of local beer on tap, it’s sure to distract you from whatever’s giving you the blues this week. (CA)

From Dungeon Masters to button mashers, gamers of all stripes are invited to come to this swap meet. Hosted by AFKgg—who will soon move in upstairs from the LVL Up video game bar— this event will feature a variety of vendors, buying, selling and trading video games, tabletop games and game-adjacent paraphernalia. Snack on food and sip on drinks from the LVL Up menu while perusing the various dealer tables for the one gem you need to complete your collection. Titles, controllers, gaming systems and more will be on sale. Consoles will also be available to test products before buying them. (NV)

Set aside what you think you know about ska music and put on “How it Feels” by The Slackers. The first track on 2010’s The Great Rocksteady Single, “How it Feels” showcases what the band had been doing so well for 19 years at that point and continues to do today: write great songs. Six stellar musicians crafting earnest paeans to the sounds of reggae’s early roots, The Slackers know how to hit all the right notes while still keeping things a little loose. Call it a throwback, or call it a classic.

Either way, it rocks steady. (MH)

Like a killer bee mid-swarm, time flies. As of this year it’s been a quarter-century since the release of Enter the 36 Chambers, Wu Tang’s mesmerizing first missive from Shaolin. To celebrate 25 years of Wu, the Staten Island crew have put together the appropriately titled “Gods of Rap” tour, an event so packed with hip-hop heavyweights, it’s difficult to fit them all in one blurb. On top of a nearly full Wu line-up (no Method Man), the night includes legends including Erik B & Rakim, De La Soul and Pharcyde. (MH)

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Aug 23 at Mountain Winery

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Aug 30 at Mountain Winery

THE NATIONAL Sep 1 at Frost Amphitheatre

KORN & ALICE IN CHAINS Sep 4 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DURAN DURAN Sep 10-11 at Mountain Winery

MALUMA Sep 15 at SAP Center

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Sep 20 at Mountain Winery

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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ‘Take me, take me, take me … to the Palace of Love’ is a beautiful subversion of Western cultural norms.

Her Worldview Rina Banerjee’s mid-career retrospective integrates everything from everywhere

BY GARY SINGH

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F YOU DON’T have a use for that fabricated alligator head sitting out in the garage, give it to Rina Banerjee. She might situate the head atop welded steel, cowrie shells, dried mushrooms, floral sticks, beads and linen.

Banerjee hunts and gathers material from all over the world to create such assemblages. Within a single sculpture, one might find a daunting variety of components: fake rhino horns, toy soldiers, distorted South Asian religious iconography, cowboy antiques, piles of light bulbs, mosquito nets, pitchforks,

reptile skulls, pomegranates, fans, bent hat racks or beds of rocks. All woven together with surgical precision.

“Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World” is her first mid-career retrospective, currently running at the San Jose Museum of Art through Oct. 6. Co-organized with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the show presents almost 20 years of Banerjee’s large-scale installations, sculptures and paintings, including works commissioned for many of the world’s largest biennials.

In each case, the assemblages convey a collision, a blur, or a fusion of opposing forces: whimsical and sinister; native and exotic; antique and modern; East

and West; local and global; natural and manmade; nomadic and sedentary; or luxury and decrepitude. In each piece, the boundary between fine art and craft gradually dissolves when the viewer realizes that Banerjee personally handsculpted every single element all the way down to each little cowrie shell.

And unlike any other artist, the title of a Banerjee work conveys a similar type of multiplicity. Often longer than 50 or 100 words, the titles are more like mashups experimenting with language, spelling, grammar and the global effects of English domination. In dream with grin she kissed and licked his alligator wings, peeled his toes of all its nails and waled at the site of killing is one of the shorter titles. Some of them carry on for the entire text panel, blurring the difference between description, program notes and free verse poetry. It makes for a wonderful alternative to the artspeak of curatorial statements.

The entire exhibit can be understood as an assemblage in itself, especially because a few pieces take advantage of the museum’s indoor architecture, playing games with the entryway and other spaces, but a few noteworthy

concoctions do indeed anchor the show.

Take me, take me, take me ... to the Palace of Love, for instance, is an 18-foot model of the Taj Mahal wrapped in bright pink cellophane, hanging suspended from the ceiling. Anyone can walk into the sculpture and mill about the interior.

Normally, the Taj Mahal is understood as a monument to romantic love, but in this case, the pink color was used to ridicule the commodification of marriage and the white-only bridal attire used in the West.

If one feels overwhelmed by these pieces or becomes confused about the meaning of contemporary art, “Make Me a Summary of the World” will shatter any such feelings. Perhaps more so than any other recent show at the SJMA, Banerjee’s work really does prove that meaning and poetry can emerge from the myriad interpretations of the work after it is created. Kids will especially thrive on devising their own descriptions of what the pieces look like. For example, to one person, A World Lost, might address the apocalyptic nature of the migration crisis and its inseparability from the effects of climate change. To another, it might resemble an oversized gothic chandelier lifted from an episode of The Munsters after Tim Burton raided a light bulb factory and then transported the whole mess to the set of Alien so that a reincarnation of H.P. Lovecraft could spew an offspring that liquified all over the floor in a slimy puddle of cups, rocks, coins, yarn and toy soldiers, with some quantum-level hair-splitting of shiva and shakti entangled in for good measure.

What seems to overlap in all the pieces, however, is the fragmentation of materials and the global dispersal of cultures in the modern era. As Banerjee herself has migrated from place to place, from East to West and back again, she has gathered materials, stories and networks of heritage and history from every place she has visited—and continues to visit. The results are always negotiable, verging between the ridiculous and the sublime, between the whimsical and the grotesque, often in the same sculpture.

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THIRD THURSDAY WIGG-ING OUT Local LGBTQ advocate Wiggsy Sivertsen looks back on her long career at Cafe Stritch.

The Good Fight

WIGGSY SIVERTSEN HAS always been quick as a whip, figuratively speaking. But the lesbian activist—known for championing LGBTQ causes in Silicon Valley—spent at least a couple years moving quite fast, literally.

In her early 30s, before she found her calling in social justice, Sivertsen spent much of her free time behind the wheel of a race car.

Though she no longer spends her days whipping around the track, Sivertsen still relies on her high-octane wit to put bigots in the rear-view mirror. For more than 50 years, Sivertsen has confronted discrimination head-on, deploying a mix of humor and unshakeable resolve to dismantle anti-gay policies and push back against bias.

In 1978, for example, she and others like Harvey Milk worked to oppose the Briggs Initiative, which would’ve banned gay and lesbian employees from California public schools. Sivertsen debated John Briggs on TV and radio—and told him his mother didn’t teach him good manners, because he couldn’t stop interrupting.

“One of the things about people’s prejudices,” Sivertsen says, “I think they take their brain and lock it in a vault, because they can no longer think intellectually. And so, they come out with the damndest things.”

This Monday, the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee’s Community Foundation will host “An Evening with Wiggsy and Pals” at Cafe Stritch. There, Sivertsen and those who have fought alongside her will share personal stories from the front lines of the ongoing battle for equal rights. She’ll be joined by her longtime friend Ken An Evening with Yeager, the first openly gay elected official in Santa Wiggsy and Pals Clara County. Yeager started BAYMEC with Wiggsy in 1984 to advocate for gay rights and to educate Jun 24, 5:30, $100 politicians and the public. He says this event is about Cafe Stritch, San Jose publicly recognizing all the work Sivertsen has done, baymecfoundation.org and raising money for BAYMEC. “A lot of younger people just don’t know who Wiggsy is,” Yeager says. “She is such an icon in the gay community, and for a whole new generation not to know who she is, I think, is a real loss for them. We need to do better to record LGBTQ history, particularly the leaders who were doing the fight before it was even popular.”

Now, in 2019, the battle continues. Just this month, the LGBTQ Youth Space in downtown San Jose was vandalized. In response to the abuse queer people continually endure, Sivertsen says she is still speeding toward the finish line. “We’ve just got to keep working.” —Erika Rasmussen

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COLD BLOODED Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny and Adam Driver are unable to coax any life out of ‘The Dead Don’t Die.’

Deadpan Jim Jaramusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ is D.O.A., despite an impressive cast

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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IKE THE ZOMBIES here, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die is dead on its feet and ambling toward no clear destination. The existential nonchalance of his many films (Down By Law, Only Lovers Left Alive, Patterson) harmonize nicely with love stories of bemused, alienated characters. It doesn’t quite work with horror-show material.

Horror doesn’t seem to interest him that much, except in a phantom limb sort of way, as in the tingle of remembering the thrill of late night movies decades ago. Thus the references here to Creepy magazine and Cleveland

TV horror show host Ghoulardi, honored in both image and taglines (“Stay sick!” “Turn blue!”). Jarmusch is shooting in the Hudson Valley of New York. The terrain looks reasonably like the rural, hilly and Rust Belt-tinged Pittsburgh-land locations that George Romero used more than 50 years ago for Night of the Living Dead.

Centerville, population 738: “A real nice place,” says the welcome sign; fans of Zappa’s 200 Motels, this one’s for you. Police Chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray) and officer Ronnie (Adam Driver) investigate a chicken theft; the mild-mannered pair are easily run off by the accused thief Hermit Bob (Tom Waits) who is living in the bushes.

(Anyway, the chicken belonged to a racist farmer who no one likes.)

As they head back to the cop shop, the policemen are worried over the unnatural amount of daylight and televised reports that polar fracking may knock the globe off its magnetic axis. “This isn’t going to end well,” says Ronnie, early on.

Other signs and wonders—crazy ant colonies and phosphorescent mushrooms—mirror troubling eccentricities in the small town. One is the arrival a new Scottish mortician (Tilda Swinton) who seems to fancy herself a samurai. By stumbling into a hole in the cemetery, Chief Robertson discovers that the dead are gophering their way out of their graves.

The zombie attacks make the cops more laconic than they are already; the other member of the three-cop force, officer Mindy (Chloe Sevigny) is the one who actually expresses emotions and faces the hordes of walking dead with some understandable hysteria. In the meantime, the film is packed with dialogue reminiscent of notebook jottings. A person describes the plot of The Great Gatsby through vague memories. Wu-Tang Clanner RZA, as a delivery man, asks for a confirmation signature (from the squandered Caleb

Landry Jones, gas station attendant and horror fan-boy): “I just need your Herbie Hancock right here.” The odd droll joke freshens this movie’s anti-humor: zombs milling around a pharmacy, moaning for “Oxy...oxy…” or clutching their smartphones (“Wiiifiiii…) Officer Mindy is dispatched to do crowd control outside of a crime scene, when the crowd consists of three worried people.

By the time the frame is broken—a tacit admission that the film isn’t working—The Dead Don’t Die has gone from puzzling to dull. Gnaw away as he does, Jarmusch can’t find new flavor in the long-standing idea that zombies represent the ultimate stage of capitalism. Zombies have served as parodies of hypnotized consumers for 40 years now, ever since the first Dawn of the Dead. Recall Anna Kendrick’s retort in Twilight: New Moon: “And, like, is it supposed to be a metaphor for consumerism? Because don’t be so pleased with your own, like, selfreferential cleverness, you know? Like, some girls like to shop.”

While there’s some passing blows against Trumpism, The Dead Don’t Die walks away from one potential avenue of metaphor, about how zombie films can parody good old American xenophobia. (Thus, a strange, outof-nowhere passage where Ronnie mentions how much he likes Mexico and the Mexcians.)

The tone is like a New Yorker cartoon mocking a particularly bloody Goya painting; it’s too cozy to be grisly.

Jarmusch tries his usual method of directing warm, humane actors as they negotiate a zone of vagueness and disconnectedness. It doesn’t work here, even with celebrity zombs including Selina Gomez, Carol Kane and Iggy Pop. From foreshadowing to end-game turkey shoot, it’s an exhausted movie.

Nostalgia is obviously not what it used to be. Recall the wonderful advertising tag line for Wes Craven’s 1972 The Last House on the Left: “To avoid fainting, keep telling yourself, ‘It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie…’” The effect is different when a director is the one who keeps telling you it’s only a movie.

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Go West, Old Man THE SOLITARY FIGURE of the cowboy—hard bitten, with a lonely job to do. Whether he’s embodied by the flawed westerners Jimmy Stewart played or a talking cartoon doll named Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks, today’s answer to Stewart), the attractiveness of this stalwart character never fails.

The Man from Laramie (1955) and The Naked Spur (1953), two of the best westerns Stewart made, are screening at the Stanford Theatre. In the former, he’s a hired hand on a mysterious trail of vengeance; in the second, he’s a manhunter, whose latest prisoner (a diabolical Robert Ryan) may be his last. As visually rich as they’re morally complicated, these are two examples of the war-seasoned star on his way to the lethal honeytrap Hitchcock had waiting for him in Vertigo.

Toy Story 4 has the wings and claws of a great melodrama. Nobody today can drill into childhood trauma like Pixar. In this conclusion, Woody is a man out of time, obsolete and relegated to the dusty closet. He salves his dignity by protecting a The Naked Spur tenderfoot toy his kindergarten-age keeper Bonnie The Man From Laramie made out of a plastic spork, with pipe cleaner arms Jun 21-23 and googly eyes. Forky (Tony Hale), who longs to Stanford Theatre, return to the garbage from which he came, is a flight Palo Alto risk. During a family RV vacation, he gets loose.

Woody tracks Forky to a tourist town antique store, Toy Story 4 a fortress run by a damaged 1950s baby doll called G; 100 Mins.

Gabby Gabby (a remarkable performance of neurosis Valleywide and loneliness by Christina Hendricks). This queen bee is protected by a mute goon squad of ventriloquist dummies. Coming to Woody’s aid is a guerilla band of freed toys living in the wilderness of a city park, led by an old friend—once just a cute porcelain adornment for a little girl’s table, now a wild woman with the skills of a general.

Usually, today’s movies aren’t built nearly this well, with Hans Christian Anderson scariness and brash humor, as in the Looney Tunesworthy sequence of a pair of fluffy yet shady carnival animals plotting to mug a little old lady by giving her “the plush rush.” The movie always acknowledges the uncanniness of talking toys. The engineering of fright, laughter, chases and sweet relief is fantastic. Yet this film’s roots are solidly in cowboy dramas, in the conflict of freedom vs. solitude, of civilization vs. a wild frontier. —Richard von Busack

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WILD COUNTRY Both Woody and the cowboy characters of Jimmy Stewart must wrangle personal demons in their respective roles.

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LIGHTS ALIVE Jeff Lynne’s ELO is still a livin’ thing.

All Lit Up Jeff Lynne’s ELO reminds fans young and old of his band’s pop-prog legacy

BY BILL KOPP

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ERVING UP A hefty helping of nostalgia, Jeff Lynne's ELO is currently on a major American tour. An international phenomenon of the 1970s, Electric Light Orchestra landed 15 of its singles on Billboard’s Top 40 in the United States.

The group began as a spinoff project of The Move, a band with a cult following in the UK. Originally co-led by Jeff Lynne and guitarist Roy Wood, ELO sought to pick up where The Beatles left off with albums like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. John,

Paul, George and Ringo had stopped touring by the time of Pepper, and the live sound technology of that era wasn't sophisticated enough to translate the kind of sonic subtleties that could be conjured up in a stateof-the-art studio.

Nonetheless, Lynne and Wood put together a group that featured cellos, violins and advanced synthesizers.

While on the band's debut, 1971's No Answer, the string parts were played by Wood and painstakingly recorded note by note, by the time of 1973’s Electric Light Orchestra II, the band’s membership expanded to include cellists and a violinist. (Wood departed to form the even more eclectic and ambitious Wizzard.)

But ELO’s lofty tech goals were joined by an equally strong focus on writing catchy, hit-bound songs.

While an inspired and incendiary reading of Chuck Berry's “Roll Over Beethoven” was a centerpiece of the second LP, by the time of On the Third Day (also 1973), the group was scoring Top 40 hit singles with “Showdown” and “Ma-ma-ma Belle.” 1974’s Eldorado was a bigger hit in the UK than in America, but its follow-up, Face the Music, featured two more hits (“Evil Woman” and “Strange Magic”).

Meanwhile, ELO’s live performances combined the energy of rock & roll with the intricacy of prog and the spectacle of a Broadway show. It would be the landmark 1977 album, A New World Record, that sent the band to the highest reaches of rock stardom. That album featured three Top 10 hits: “Livin' Thing,” “Rockaria!” and “Telephone Line.”

A deep album cut, the hard-rocking “Do Ya” was a re-recording of an old Move tune; ELO's version became a staple of FM radio.

A sprawling double LP, 1977's Out of the Blue built on the band's success.

The record went Platinum in three

countries, and spawned four singles— “Turn to Stone,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” Wild West Hero” and “Sweet Talkin' Woman”—that made it to the Top 20. The tour in support of the album featured a massive stage built to look like a spaceship; it opened to reveal the band inside (some concertgoers thought the stage looked more like a hamburger bun.)

Surprisingly, by the time of the band’s next release (1979’s Discovery), Lynne had dismissed the classical musicians, paring ELO down to a more ordinary quartet. Discovery deemphasized the orchestral trappings in favor of something less inspired but more radio-ready. Though some longtime fans dismissed the LP (dubbing it Disco Very), it was ELO’s best-seller yet, spawning no less than five hit singles.

All along, ELO continued as if punk and new wave had never happened. The band began to run out of critical and commercial steam; the hits kept coming (“Hold on Tight” was a late-period smash), but each successive album yielded diminishing returns. After 1986’s Balance of Power, Lynne pulled the plug and the lights went out. He went into production work, lending his impressive skills to Tom Petty and George Harrison. Lynne joined both in the Traveling Wilburys, and he produced sessions in which the surviving Beatles finished demo tracks (“Free as a Bird,” “Real Love”) left behind by the late John Lennon.

Lynne's attempt to relaunch ELO in 2001—with only Tandy from the classic lineup—came to little, but in 2015 Lynne revived the brand (now called Jeff Lynne’s ELO), releasing the well-received Alone in the Universe.

Though that record is essentially a Lynne solo release, Lynne’s touring crew has classical players back in tow, and ELO now does some concerts joined by a full orchestra. Nearly 50 years after its start, the spirit of Electric Light Orchestra’s heyday comes through in these lively, hitpacked concerts.

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FRI JUN 21 | MAKE MUSIC DAY SAN JOSE @ VARIOUS LOCATIONS If you’ve ever wondered what the state of music is locally, I believe Make Music Day is one of the best ways to get folks updated, involved and fulfilled—together on summer solstice.

I like to think of this day each year as a city-widespread orchestra of talent, skill and love of musical expression. San Jose’s chapter of this international celebration will encompass events all day long and throughout every neighborhood. There will be something incredibly musical happening near you, unless you live in a different county… There is so much going on, you really ought to check out the super-efficient website. It has an interactive map for locating events and opportunities for participation. Check it out here, and hopefully I’ll see you at city hall in the morning. Visit makemusicday.org/sanjose.

EVERY MON | MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE @ CARAVAN LOUNGE Still need more music? One recent Monday night, I had been wandering throughout downtown San Jose, surely my favorite grounds in which to stomp around. When suddenly, the sweet sounds of the 1980s came meandering out onto the street of Saint Fernando. Then the sounds became The Misfits, then Johnny Cash, then Bell Biv Devoe. I was rendered curiouser and curiouser by the moment. Inside at the helm of these noises was a Mondo and his Monday Karaoke. A papa bear in a den of wily cubs. They swayed and sang to tunes from every possible genre, in different keys and tongues. Some sang well and some sang from a place not typically meant to be sung from.

The merriment flowed as freely as the libations. In the end, I happily joined this soiree and I will certainly be pleased to join it again. 10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WED 6/19 CEDAR ROOM Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm– 5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo.

Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays— exotic cocktails and island vibes. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous.

Sun, 3pm: . Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Fred McCarty. Tue, 6/25, 6pm: The Mighty Crows.

Wed, 6/26, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

JAZZ JAM AT ART BOUTIKI POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Friends feat. Three Weavers. Thu, 11am: Po'boys for Planned Parenthood. Thu, 6pm: Thursday Night Blues Jam with The Royals. Fri, 6pm: The Legendary Bobby Radcliff Band (on tour). Sat, 6pm: Ben Rice Band (on tour).

Sat, 9:30pm: Fountain Blues Festival After Party w/ Mighty Mike Schermer Band & Special Guests @ The Studio. Sun,

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

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

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Thu, 10pm: Live Band – Austin Freeman & Angelique Lucero. Fri, 10pm: Live Band – Superbad Band. Sat, 10pm: DJ Jose Melendez (Wild 94.9). Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

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

THU 6/20 KIDS’ STORY HOUR 11am. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St, Mountain View

SOLO | NOAH OF NOAH AND THE ARKITEKS 5:30pm. Naglee Park Garage, 505 E San Carlos St, San Jose

POETRY | THIRD THURSDAY OPEN MIC 7pm. With special guest.

Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC 7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank Karaoke.

POETRY | THIRD THURSDAY OPEN MIC 7pm. With special guest.

Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

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8pm. 3Below, 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

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

RED ROCK BOARD GAME NIGHT

7pm. Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St, Mountain View

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

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Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

BURLESQUE | CIRCUS OF SIN: SUN’S OUT, BUNS OUT

9pm doors. Hosted by Some Guy. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

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

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

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

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

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

THE RITZ

Thu, 8pm: Supernaut, The Yahoo Kids, The Space Monkees, Know Morals. Fri, 8pm: Blind Illusion, Satan's Blade, Aseptic, Hemorage, Them Creatures. Sat, 8pm: The Emo Night Tour. Sun, 7pm: The Slackers, Matamoska, Sweet HayaH - The Ritz. 400 S First St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | HAMPTON YOUNT

8pm. Various times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

BOSS FIGHT COMEDY SHOW

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

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

JAZZ | PATRICK WOLFF QUARTET

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

POST ROCK/METAL | A FALSE AWAKENING, HERETIC A.D., LEGIONS, HATE, TEGMENTUM

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JAZZ | BEN MISTERKA & COLLECTIVITY

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

METAL | ZOMBIE RITUAL, VINCULA, DOLORES 9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays.

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

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SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Marina Crouse feat.

Garth Webber. Sat, 9pm: Paula Harris & The Beasts of Blues. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Every day. Fri–Sat, 7pm.

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

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You can kinda see the merits of dating your doppelganger: “I’m looking for myself, but as someone else so I don’t always have to empty the dishwasher and scream out my own name in bed.”

There is this notion that opposites attract.

Actually, the opposite often seems to be the case. According to research on “assortative mating,” people tend to pair up with partners who are physically similar to them more often than would be expected through random chance.

To explore how much matchiness is appealing to us, social-personality psychologists R. Chris Fraley and Michael J. Marks used a computer to blend each research participant’s face into the face of a stranger of the opposite sex. They did this to increasing degrees, morphing from zero up to 45 percent of the research participants’ features. Their research participants rated the strangers’ faces most sexually appealing with just 22 percent of the participants’ own features mixed in.

In another morphing study, neuropsychologist Bruno Laeng and his colleagues mixed each participant’s face with that of their romantic partner—with 11, 22 and 33 percent blending. And again, 22 percent was picked consistently—suggesting that people find their romantic partners

more attractive when they look just a bit like them.

Granted, it could be a coincidence that the exact same percentage popped up in both studies. However, what’s noteworthy is that more resemblance didn’t lead to more attraction. This jibes with how some degree of similarity is genetically beneficial, increasing the likelihood of desirable traits showing up in partners’ children.

However, evolution seems to have installed a psychological mechanism to keep us from lusting after extremely similar partners, such as siblings and first cousins.

Such close relatives are more likely to have the same rare recessive genes for a disease. A recessive gene when paired with a dominant gene doesn’t express—that is, the person doesn’t develop the disease. But when two recessive genes get together … PARTAAAY! As for you, though you say you haven’t resembled your partners, it’s possible that you actually have in subtle ways you didn’t notice. Back in 1903, researchers Karl Pearson and Alice Lee looked at 1,000 couples and found correlation in height, arm span and left forearm length between husband and wife. This isn’t to say everyone’s going to resemble their romantic partner, but we seem subconsciously drawn to people who share our features to some extent.

I’ve been with my wife for 23 years. I know sex is important, but sometimes we’re tired or not in the mood. I want to keep our intimacy alive. What are some things we can do to stay connected physically?—Embarrassed Having To Ask Many couples do eventually need help from a professional to connect physically—whether it’s an advice columnist, a sex therapist or a bank robber who leaves them duct-taped together in the vault. It turns out the answer isn’t all that complicated: you just need to bring in some of the G-rated part of foreplay and afterplay, without the sex in between. Psychologist Debby Herbenick says researchers have found three things—kissing, cuddling and massage—to be “important aspects of sexual intimacy ... associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction.”

Helpfully, Herbenick chiseled apart what she calls the “KCM composite”—the way kissing, cuddling and massage get mushed together in studies. They felt that

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Though you’re seeking a solution for when you’re too zonked for sex, it’s important to make sure that cuddling is often an end in itself. This, paradoxically, should help keep your sex life alive: Your wife will see your cuddles as an expression of your love rather than a sign that you just want something out of the sexual vending machine. Ultimately, cuddling for cuddling’s sake is probably the best way to keep from getting to the point where “taking care of her in bed” involves holding a mirror under her nose to see if she’s still breathing.

(c)2019, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in Sunnyvale, CA. Develop & debug storage controller#622524 device drivers for NAME STATEMENT

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Mailas:resume The followingMS+2 person(s) isor (are) doing business Advanced to Industrial Delivery LLC, 247 N. Capitol Ave.,Attn: Unit 104, Silicon San Jose, Microchip Technology, CA, 95127. This business is being conducted by a limited liability Valley HR, 2180 Fortune Dr., San Jose, company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under fictitious business or names Above CAthe95131.

Mustname refer job listed titleherein. & code. entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Gilbert Juan Garcia Managing Member#201627010166This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing businessSenior as: Union guidelines.Call Sourcewise Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao Employment Services with a Corporation, 36 Leominster Ct., San Jose,to CA,speak 95139. This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not Senior Employment Specialist atyet(408) begun transacting business under the fictitious business name 350-3200, Option 5 or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

HEALTH & BEAUTY

FICTITIOUS ChristaBUSINESS - Licensed Hairstylist BlondSTATEMENT specialist and Barber is now NAME #622360

located in theisnewest full service luxury The following person(s) (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa, 1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose,@ CA,Ivo 95122,Salon.

Dai Nguyen,1725 650 Island salon in Campbell S. Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065. This business is conducted by an Bascom nearhasHamilton.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental

LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV347624

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Rainbow Paras for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Nathaniel Christian S. Paras. Proposed name: Nathaniel Christian Sumang Paras. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection timely filed, theThis court may grant on 01/28/2014 under fileisnumber 587505. business was the petitionby:without a hearing.

NOTICE OF Date HEARING: September conducted An individual /s/Minh T. Hoang filed with the 10, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: May 16, 2019 (pub clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016 dates: 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE NAME STATEMENT #654981 NO. 16PR178443 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Comforcare

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK Home Care- San Jose & Southwest, 125 E Sunnyoaks Ave, STE 213, PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries Campbell, CA, 95008, Silicon Valley Homecare, 4475 Strawberry creditors, contingent creditors, and This persons who may otherwise Park Drive, San Jose, CA, 95129. business is being conducted be interested in the will or estate,has or both of:begun MARKtransacting PASCOE KELLY. by a Corporation.

Registrant not yet A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public business under the fictitious business name or names listed Administrator of the County Santa in Clara theof Superior Court of herein. Above entity wasofformed thein state California. /s/Ling California, County of Santa Clara.This The statement Petition forwas Probate Wang. President. #4272035. filedrequests with the thatCounty James J.Clerk Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County(pub of Santa of Santa Clara County on 05/20/2019.

Metro Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019) the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before NAME STATEMENT #655041 taking certain very important actions, however, the personal The following is (are) doing business as: Birdsong representative willperson(s) be required to give notice to interested Outdoor School, W.waived Maudenotice Ave., Sunnyvale, CA,to94085, persons unless they172 have or consented the Elizabeth Binkley. businessadministration is being conducted by anwill proposed action.)

The This independent authority Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting be granted unless an interested person files an objectionbusiness to the underand theshows fictitious business name names listednot herein. petition good cause why theorcourt should grant /s/ Elizabeth Binkley.onThis was thecourt County authority.

A hearing thestatement petition will befiled heldwith in this as Clerk of Santa Clara County on at 05/21/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, follows: November 28, 2016, 9 a.m. in Dept.

10 located at 191 06/12, 06/19/2019) NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing andFICTITIOUS state your objections or file written objections with the court BUSINESS before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the NAME STATEMENT #654092 decedent, you must file yourisclaim thebusiness court and a copy The following person(s) (are)with doing as:mail 1. Beary’s to the personal representative appointed by theAve., courtSan within Creations, 2. Bearyscreations, 809 Auzerais Jose,the CA, later95126, of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance Jessica Coburn. This business is being conducted of by an letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the 58(b) of the California Probate (2) 60herein days from the date /s/ fictitious business name orCode, namesorlisted on 01/01/2019. of mailing or personal to you a notice section Jessica Coburn.

Thisdelivery statement wasoffiled withunder the County Clerk of 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes Santa Clara County on 04/23/2019. (pub Metro 05/22, 05/29, 06/05, and06/12/2019) legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person FICTITIOUS interested in the estate,BUSINESS you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and NAME STATEMENT #654091 appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided The following person(s) doingfor business Turbosadtv, in Probate Code section 1250.is A(are) Request Specialas: Notice form 809 Auzerais Ave.,court Sanclerk.

Jose, CA, 95126,for Robert JamesMARK Coburn. This is available from the Attorney petitioner: business is being conducted by a Married Couple.

Registrant A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE began transacting business underJulian the fictitious business name or names COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, listed herein on408-758-4200 01/21/2013. /s/Robert This11/16/2016) statement was 95110, Telephone: (Pub CC,Coburn.

11/02, 11/09, filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/23/2019. (pub Metro 05/22, 05/29, 06/05, 06/12/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622566 STATEMENT TheNAME following person(s) is (are) doing#654915 business as: Van Hoa Lam,

979The Storyfollowing Rd., #7087, San Jose,isCa, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc of person(s) (are) doing business as: Servpro AnhPalo Nguyen, Giraudo Dr.,Drive, San Jose, CA, 95111. business Alto, 608 422 S. Hillview Milpitas, CA, This 95035, Complete is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun Restoration Inc., 3180 Vista Diego Rd., Jamul, CA, 91935. This transacting the fictitious business name or names businessbusiness is beingunder conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began listed herein. Refile of previous changes. /s/Nhu transacting business underfile the#620681 fictitiouswith business name or names Thuan Lam This statement was filed with Clerk of Santa listed herein on 08/01/2014.

Refile in the factsCounty from previous filing Clara CountyAbove on 10/18/2016. (pubformed Metro 10/26, 11/16/2016) #592741. entity was in the11/02, state11/09, of California. /s/ Marianna Ablahad. President. #C367319. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/16/2019. (pub FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

NAME STATEMENT #622752 TheFICTITIOUS following person(s)BUSINESS is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante NAME STATEMENT #654973 Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

The following person(s) is (are) doing business Registrant has not yet begun transacting business underas: the1. DSA Consulting, 2. name D.S.A.C., 3. David S Alessio fictitious business or names listed herein. Consulting, /s/Michael R.10281 Ave., Unitwas 815,filed Cupertino, 95014, Scott HillTorre This statement with the CA, County ClerkDavod of Santa Clara Alessio. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

County on 10/24/2016.

Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, Registrant began(pub transacting business under11/23/2016) the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2017. /s/David S. Alessio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Santa Clara County on 05/17/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019) NAME STATEMENT #621712

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655201

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 654531 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SDIT AI, 228 Hamiltpn Avenue, 3rd Floor, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, SDITAI, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kalaikovan Anthony. CEO. #C4256799. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/07/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654234 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Flowers Of Comfort, 3297 Pinkerton Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148, Victoria Amgam Rasmussen, Carrie Washburn, 1233 Magnolia Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/03/2018. /s/Victoria Rasmussen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/26/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655187 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Clean Shop Cleaners, 6057 Snell Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95123, Sun & Moon Cleaners Network Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/28/2001.

Refile in facts from previous filing #401843. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sun Meong Lee. CEO. #C2400888. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/24/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655084 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Almaden Garden Apartment Partners, LLC- A California Limited Liability Company, 255 W. Julian Street, Suite 301, San Jose, CA, 95110, Almaden Garden Apartment Partners, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/14/2012. Refile in facts from previous filing #383986. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Charles W. Davidson. Manager. #201233210076. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV348031 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Xuefeng Zeng for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Jasper Y. Zeng. Proposed name: Jasper X Zhang. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: September 24, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: May 28, 2019 (pub dates: 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654972

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Amberwood Partners, A California Limited Partnership, 255 W. Julian Street, Suite 301, San Jose, CA, 95110, Charles W. Davidson. This business is being conducted by a Limited Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/11/1985. Refile in facts from previous filing #463996. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Charles W. Davidson. Manager. #198501100017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/17/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mon Dona Design, 7205 St. George Ln., San Jose, CA, 95120, Mandana Arian.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2019. /s/Mandana Arian. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/16/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654467 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jennifer M. Labit, 121 E. Tasman Dr., Apt 258, San Jose, CA, 95134, Jennifer Martinez Labit. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/10/2019. /s/Jennifer M. Labit. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/06/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655089 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Meridian Apartments, 950 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95128, Meridain, LLC, 485 Alberto Way Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/1997. Refile in facts from previous filing #593278. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kirk Kozlowski. Manager. #199709310012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655087 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Palm Court Apartments, 4960 National Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Palm Court National, LLC, 485 Alberto Way Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA, 95032.

This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/25/1980. Refile in facts from previous filing #593279. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kirk Kozlowski. Manager. #201323910174. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655086 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: P Prop III, LLC, 485 Alberto Way Suite 20, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, P Prop III, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/24/1974. Refile in facts from previous filing #592401. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kirk Kozlowski. Managing Member. #201128010074. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655435 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dr. Dave’s Doggy Daycare, Boarding & Grooming, 12840 Saratoga Sunnyvale Road Suite 500, Saratoga, CA, 95070, Reed Animal Hospital Saratoga, Inc., 20120 Mendelsohn Lane, Saratoga, CA, 95070. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/22/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/John David Reed.

CFO. #3821535. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/03/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

AMENDED PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE, CASE NUMBER 18CV339924

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): BEN H SHELEF for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Ben H Shelef, aka Ben Herts Shelef,aka Ben Hertz Shelef.

Proposed name: Benjamin Lyle Hackett. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: July 2, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: May 30, 2019 (pub dates: 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654383

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hong Kong Bakery, 210 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Eunha Young, 177 Piedra Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/31/1994. /s/Eunha Young. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/02/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655368 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jones Enterprises, 1005 Whiteoak Dr., San Jose, CA, 95129, Charles E JR Jones, Kelli B Jones. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/30/2009. /s/Kelli Jones. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/30/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655317 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Law Offices Of Liaoteng Wang, 1082 Cardinal Way, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, East IP P.C.. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Liaoteng Wang. CEO. #C4103060. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/29/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655336 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: K-Beauty Hair Salon, 3470 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Repit, Inc., 18886 Devon Ave., Saratoga, CA, 95070. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Su Jin Han. CEO. #4272556. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/30/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655204

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Peter Morey Foundation, 2640 Swanson Way, Mountain Vew, CA, 94040, Healthy Young Attitude, 22950 Summit Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95033.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/10/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #596286. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kenneth Ostrow. CEO. #1828286. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/24/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655412

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655088 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lafayette Apartments, 461 Lafayette Way, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Lafayette LLC, 485 Alberto Way Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/24/1995. Refile in facts from previous filing #562773. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kirk Kozlowski. Manager. #199529710014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654661 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Mi Esteelo, 2. Mas Dulce, 3 Esteelo, 4. Mas Dulce Productions, 5. Mas Dulce Digital, 6. Sweet Soul, 351 Willow St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Dulce Fernandez. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/10/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #654244. /s/Dulce Fernandez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/10/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655522 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Proxima Mgmt, 2665 Marine Way Suite 1110, Mountain View, CA, 94043, AIRVNV, Inc., 500 E Calaveras Blvd 321, Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Vic Yang. CEO. #C3687204. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/05/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655574 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zedoria Design, 2288 Cascade St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Jeff Hsu, Min Kim. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Jeff Hsu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/06/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655496 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tran Auto Glass, 1520 E. Capitol Expwy SPC 119, San Jose, CA, 95121, Chau M Tran.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/04/2019. /s/Chau M Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/04/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655627

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sizzling Lunch, 1085 E. Brokaw Road STE 30, San Jose, CA, 95131, 3L Poki, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Yuxiang Duan. President. #C4037265. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/31/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Moreno Family Law Firm, 1150 s. Bascom Avenue, Suite #29, San Jose, CA, 95128, Marilyn Moreno. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/14/1998. /s/ Marilyn Moreno. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/07/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654873

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655350

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Selftable, Inc., 2528 Flory Drive, San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Lam Loi. President. #C4260760. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/15/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655456 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Calderon Tire Service, Inc., 3045 Monterey Hwy, San Jose, cA, 95111. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/10/2007. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Josefina C. Delgado. CFO. #2949732. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/03/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Thinkingalaud, 2431 Jubilee Lane, San Jose, CA, 95131, Andrew Lau. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2019. /s/Andrew Lau. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/30/2019. (pub Metro 06/05, 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655537 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Viam Commercial, 2189 Monterey Road Suite 260, San Jose, CA, 95125, Viam Estate Services. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Phoung Hoang. President. #C4180714. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/05/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Diamond, 12015 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd., Saratoga, CA, 95090, Diamond Gas And Mart #4, 824 East Yosemite Ave., Manteca,, CA, 95336.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mushtaq Omar. President. #C4271514. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/24/2019. (pub Metro 05/29, 06/05, 06/12, 06/19/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655590

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Data Girl, 73 Avenida Espana, San Jose, CA, 95139, Lauren Intagliata. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/06/2019. /s/Lauren Intagliata. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/06/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655648

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quickstart Repair, 2880 Zanker Rd STE 203, San Jose, CA, 95134, Jason Z Yin. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/06/2019. Refile in facts of previous filing #636533. /s/Jason Z Yin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/07/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655278 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Happy And Intent, 2123 Hicks Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95125, Leanne Eleanor Lindelof. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/06/2018. /s/Leanne Lindelof. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/29/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653339 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Applied Computer Online Services, 2. Applied Computer, 3. Sam International Information Technology, Inc 2901 Moorpark Ave., Suite 100, San Jose, CA, 95128, Sam International Information Technology. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/03/1992. Refile in facts from previous filing #653172. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Fan S Chan. President. #C2160416. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/04/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655669 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Z Best Pest Control, 1271 Alma Court, San Jose, CA, 95112, Matthew Richmond, 449 Alberto Way C140, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 006/10/2019. /s/Matthew Richmond. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/10/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #654451 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bridgeloan99. com, 105 Serra Way STE 448, Abundance Realty, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Elsie Wu. President. #3189476. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/03/2019. (pub Metro 05/08, 05/15, 05/22, 05/29/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655704 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Smart Direct Courier Services By Robert, 444 Saratoga Av Apt 3J, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Robert M Ernsberger. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/2019. /s/ Robert M Ernsberger. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/11/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655705 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Intelian Enterprise, 579 Gridley St., San Jose, CA, 95127, Jane Chik. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/10/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #340716. /s/Jane Chik. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/11/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655295 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: C & J’s Sports Bar, 1550 Lafayette St., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Antonio Volkswagen, Inc, 562 University Ave., San Jose, Ca, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/29/2010. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Stan Antonio. President. #C1080431. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/29/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CASE NO. 1-93-PR-130724

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haul Away Today, 4232 Ross Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Denis Alexander Weir.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/07/2019. /s/Denis Alexander Weir. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/07/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 16, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara, as Conservator of the Person and Estate of HADDAS FEOLA, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located at 2201 Monroe Street, #1006, in the City of Santa Clara, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-referenced court. The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights-of-way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited.

For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the listing agent, Lynne Olenak, Sereno Group Real Estate, 12124 Saratoga-Sunnyvale, Saratoga, CA 95070; Telephone: (408) 656-0895. All bids must be accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer tax and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers.

The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as Conservator of the Person and Estate of Haddas Feola, reserves the right to reject and all bids or offers. All bids or offers will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on July 16, 2019 at the offices of the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 or thereafter, as allowed by law. James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian County Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County CounselEXIBIT “A”Legal DescriptionFor APN/Parcel ID(s): 224-52-093 THE LAND REFERREDTO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA CL.ARA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:PARCEL NO. ONE:UNIT NO. 70, AS SHOWN AND DESCRIBED ON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “TRACT NO. 4801, COURTYARD-SANTA CLARA CONDOMINIUM SUBDIVISION AND PL.AN”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CL.ARA, STATE OR CALIFORNIA, ON JANUARY 25, 1978 IN BOOK 411 OF MAPS, AT PAGES 45 THRU 48, INCLUSIVE, AS AMENDED

BY CERTIFICATES OF CORR CTION RECORDED OCTOBER 12, 1978 IN BOOK E021 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGES 734, 735 AND 736.TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING APPURTENANT EASEMENTS:1.

THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE BALCONY SHOWN ON SAID CONDOMINIUM MAP AS B NO. 70 ADJACENT TO THE AFOREMENTIONED UNIT.2. THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE FOR ORDINARY STORAGE PURPOSE THE STORAGE SPACE SHOWN ON SAID CONDOMINIUM MAP AS STORAGE SPACE NO. S-70.3.

THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OT USE FOR VEHICLE PARKING PURPOSE THE CARPORT SPACE SHOWN ON SAID CONDOMINIUM MAP AS CARPORT SPACE NO. C-70.PARCEL NO. TWO:AN UNDIVIDED 0.82722 PERCENT INTEREST IN AND TO THE COMMON AREA OF SAID CONDOMINIUM PROJECT, AS SAID AREA IS SHOWN UPON SAID MAP OF TRACT 4801, AND AS SAID AREA AND THE RESPECTIVE INTERESTS APPLICABLE THERETO, ARE DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS (THE COURTYARD-SANTA CL.ARA) RECORDED AUGUST 29, 1978 IN BOOK 0917 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, PAGE 414, AND MODIFICATIONS THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 20, 1978 IN BOOK E099 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, PAGE 103, BEING ALL OF THE PROPERTY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID TRACT NO. 4801, EXCEPT FOR THE UNITS. PARCEL NO. THREE:AN EMERGENCY ACCESS EASEMENT APPURTENANT TO PARCEL TWO ABOVE DESCRIBED, FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS, OVER A LINE DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:BEGINNING AT A POINT IN A NORTHERLY LINE OF THAT CERTAIN 2.526 ACRE PARCEL SHOWN ON RECORD OF SURVEY MAP ENTITLED, “PTN. LANDS OF P.J. PASETTA, ET UX” FILED FEBRUARY 28, 1965 IN BOOK 191 OF MAPS, AT PAGE 21, SANTA CLARA COUNTY RECORDS, DISTANT THEREON S. 73° 22’ 25” W. 13.00 FEET FROM THE NORTHEASTERLY CORNER OF SAID 2.526 ACRE PARCEL; THENCE CONTINUING S. 73° 22’ 25” W. ALONG SAID NORTHERLY LINE A DISTANCE OF 16.00 FEET. (Publication Dates: 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2018)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655842

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655724 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Local Color, 30 S. 1st St (Basement), San Jose, CA, 95113, Exhibition District, 141 Delmas Avenue, #3. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/23/2015.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Erin Salazar.

Executive Director. #3778787. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/11/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655395 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Holder’s Country Inn, 998 South De Anza Boulevard, San Jose, CA, 95129, De Anza Country LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/06/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Miguel Rivas.

Managing Member. #201912910600. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/31/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655696 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AK Ophthalmic Staff Solutions, 465 Chiquita Ave., #3, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Alanna Jane Kelly. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Alanna Jane Kelly. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/10/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655754 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Coaching By Amber, 465 Willow Glen Way #326, Diane Arp. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/12/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #587104. /s/Diane Arp. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/12/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #655652 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Haul Away Today, 215 Stonewod Dr., Los Banos, CA, 93635, Richard W Jones. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 09/03/2015. under file No. 608823. This business was conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 06/07/2019. /s/Richard W. Jones, Owner. (pub dates: 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655652

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pow Wow San Jose, 555 S. 2nd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Juan Carlos Araujo, 526 N. 7th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/06/2019.

Refile in facts from previous filing #655583. /s/Juan Carlos Araujo.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/14/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Just Health Group, 1656 Prime Place, Unit 1, San Jose, CA, 95124, Johanna S Liu. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Johanna S Liu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/14/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655740 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Saratoga Vision Center, 18816 Cox Ave., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Jeffrey M. Fanelli, 1412 Arryo Seco Dr., Campbell, CA, 95008, Larry R. Fabian, 18660 Vista de Almaden, San Jose, CA, 95120. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/1987. /s/Jeffrey M. Fanelli. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/12/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655845 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Airthreads, 766 Christine Drive, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, Ecodesigns LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/15/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Anurag Jain. Managing Member. #201912310006. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/14/2019. (pub Metro 06/19, 06/26, 07/03, 07/10/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY OF CAROLYN SUE HOBBS, AKA CAROLYN S. HOBBS, AKA CAROLYN HOBBS, SANTA CLARA SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO. 18PR184090

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 9, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, as Administrator of the Estate of Carolyn Sue Hobbs, aka Carolyn S. Hobbs, aka Carolyn Hobbs, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located at 4641 Clarendon Drive, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, which property is more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-referenced court. The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited. For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the Listing Agent, Mike Segal, Mike Segal Properties, 3833 Abbey Ct., Campbell, CA 95008; Telephone: (408) 379-9039. All bids or offers must be in accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance.

Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara as Administrator of the Estate of Carolyn Sue Hobbs, aka Carolyn S. Hobbs, aka Carolyn Hobbs, reserves the right to reject any and all bids or offers. All bids or offers will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on July 9, 2019 at the offices of the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110, or thereafter, as allowed by law. James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County CounselEXHIBIT “A”Legal DescriptionFor APN/Parcel ID(s): 381-28-024THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SAN JOSE, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:ALL OF LOT 41, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “TRACT NO. 1885 CLARENDON PARK UNIT NO. 1”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON APRIL 30, 1957, IN BOOK 81 OF MAPS, AT PAGE 20.EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE UNDERGROUND WATER WITH NO RIGHT OF SURFACE ENTRY AS CONVEYED

BY DAVID E. BURKE ET AL., TO SAN JOSE WATER WORKS, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, BY DEED DATED MAY 6, 1957, RECORDED MAY 6, 1957, IN BOOK 3791 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, PAGE 607.(Pub Dates: 06/12, 06/19, 06/26/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655463 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Century Residential, 33 South Third, San Jose, CA, 95113, Century Residential, LLC, 485 Alberto Way Suite 200, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/29/1998. Refile in facts from previous filing #594012.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kirk Kozlowski. Manager. #199803010012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/03/2019. (pub Metro 06/12, 06/19, 06/26, 07/03/2019)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that during the next four weeks, you will make plans to expedite and deepen your education. You'll be able to make dramatic progress in figuring out what will be most important for you to learn in the next three years.

We all have pockets of ignorance about how we understand reality, and now is an excellent time for you to identify what your pockets are and to begin illuminating them. Every one of us lacks some key training or knowledge that could help us fulfill our noblest dreams, and now is a favorable time for you to address that issue.

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astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens.

They theorize that when the moon perfectly covers the sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don't agree with that gloomy assessment. I consider a solar eclipse to be a harbinger of grace and slack and freedom. In my view, the time before and after this cosmic event might resemble what the workplace is like when the boss is out of town. Or it may be a sign that your inner critic is going to shut up and leave you alone for a while. Or you could suddenly find that you can access the willpower and ingenuity you need so as to change something about your life that you've been wanting to change. So I advise you to start planning now to take advantage of the upcoming blessings of the eclipse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are you doing with

the fertility and creativity that have been sweeping through your life during the first six months of 2019? Are you witheringly idealistic, caught up in perfectionistic detail as you cautiously follow outmoded rules about how to make best use of that fertility and creativity? Or are you being expansively pragmatic, wielding your lively imagination to harness that fertility and creativity to generate transformations that will improve your life forever?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythologist Joseph

Campbell said that heroes are those who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. That's never an easy assignment for anyone, but right now it's less difficult for you than ever before. As you prepare for the joyous ordeal, I urge you to shed the expectation that it will require you to make a burdensome sacrifice. Instead, picture the process as involving the loss of a small pleasure that paves the way for a greater pleasure. Imagine you will finally be able to give a giant gift you've been bursting to express.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1903, the Wright Brothers put wings on a heavy machine and got the contraption to fly up off the ground for 59 seconds. No one had ever done such a thing. Sixtysix years later, American astronauts succeeded at an equally momentous feat. They piloted a craft that departed from the Earth and landed on the surface of the moon. The first motorcycle was another quantum leap in humans' ability to travel.

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Two German inventors created the first one in 1885. But it took 120 years before any person did a back-flip while riding a motorcycle. If I had to compare your next potential breakthrough to one or the other marvelous invention, I'd say it'll be more metaphorically similar to a motorcycle flip than the moon landing. It may not be crucial to the evolution of the human race, but it'll be impressive—and a testament to your hard work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the year 37 AD, Saul

of Tarsus was traveling by foot from Jerusalem to Damascus, Syria. He was on a mission to find and arrest devotees of Jesus, then bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. Saul's plans got waylaid, however—or so the story goes. A "light from heaven" knocked him down, turned him blind, and spoke to him in the voice of Jesus. Three days later, Saul's blindness was healed and he pledged himself to forevermore be one of those devotees of Jesus he had previously persecuted. I don't expect a transformation quite so spectacular for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will change your mind about an important issue, and consider making a fundamental edit of your belief system.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You could be a

disorienting or even disruptive influence to some people. You may also have healing and inspirational effects. And yes, both of those statements are true. You should probably warn your allies that you might be almost unbearably interesting. Let them know you could change their minds and disprove their theories. But also tell them that if they remain open to your rowdy grace and boisterous poise, you might provide them with curative stimulation they didn't even know they needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some children are

repelled by the taste of broccoli. Food researchers at the McDonald's restaurant chain decided to address the problem. In an effort to render this ultra-healthy vegetable more palatable, they concocted a version that tasted like bubble gum. Kids didn't like it, though.

It confused them. But you have to give credit to the food researchers for thinking inventively. I encourage you to get equally creative, even a bit wacky or odd, in your efforts to solve a knotty dilemma. Allow your brainstorms to be playful and experimental.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Spank yourself for me,

please. Ten sound swats ought to do it. According to my astrological assessments, that will be sufficient to rein yourself in from the possibility of committing excesses and extravagance. By enacting this humorous yet serious ritual, you will set in motion corrective forces that tweak your unconscious mind in just the right way so as to prevent you from getting too much of a good thing; you will avoid asking for too much or venturing too far. Instead, you will be content with and grateful for the exact bounty you have gathered in recent weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your inspiration for the coming weeks is a poem by Piscean poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins like this: "The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; / The secret anniversaries of the heart, / When the full river of feeling overflows." In accordance with astrological omens, Pisces, I invite you to create your own secret holiday of the heart, which you will celebrate at this time of year for the rest of your long life. Be imaginative and full of deep feelings as you dream up the marvelous reasons why you will observe this sacred anniversary. Design special rituals you will perform to rouse your gratitude for the miracle of your destiny.

Homework: It's my birthday. If you feel moved, send me love and blessings! Info about how to do that at FreeWillAstrology.com Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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metroactive SVSCENE PHOTOS BY GREG RAMAR

MIKE MUIR of Suicidal Tendencies at The Bash Music & Craft Beer Festival hosted by ALT 105.3 at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

Grabbing a bite at SAN PEDRO SQUARE.

Warm weather, cold beer and punk rock were all in ample supply at THE BASH—the ALT 105.3-hosted concert featuring Rancid, Pennywise and Suicidal Tendencies—held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

Celebrating FATHER’S DAY at The Fairmont in downtown San Jose.

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