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Fear Is Waiting For You

THIS MODERN WORLD

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I brought my sister out to the city so she could meet the charming, somewhat older Australian man I’d been dating for the past several months. It was supposed to be a fun night out, pub-crawling our way through downtown on a recent balmy summer evening as you got to know one of my favorite siblings. My excitement at the prospect of you two meeting made your behavior all the more crushing. A few drinks into the night, you began making advances on my sister and me, trying to wrangle us into a threesome. Thankfully, my sister’s reaction mirrored me own: revulsion over you apparently leading me on just to fulfill your little fantasy. It’s not even that I’m opposed to the idea of a three-way—but that’s something you earn, negotiate and—I hope— keep completely separate from anyone I’m related to.

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THE FLY

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Year and Far

The drawn-out political battle around San Jose Planning Commission appointments has been vexing enough. From politicking over equity and representation to outrage over the last-minute addition of a fourth finalist—GEORGE CASEY, at Councilman JOHNNY KHAMIS’ behest—vying for two seats on the influential land use commission, it’s been a headacheinducing several months for all involved. So it seems fitting that in an already confusing process, a typo nearly added an extra year to the term of one of the newly appointed planning commissioners. PETER ALLEN, one of seven members of the Planning Commission, identified the flub in an email to City Clerk TONI TABER following last week’s appointment of ROLANDO BONILLA and MARIEL CABALLERO to the land use body. Allen told Taber that her initial staff memo about the appointment referenced two vacant seats, one with a term expiring on June 30, 2020, and the other on the same date in 2022. However, a supplemental communique from Taber cites the latter term—Bonilla’s—as expiring in 2023.

They No one clarified the Did discrepancy during the What? presentation before the City Council voted 6-5 SEND TIPS TO to assign Bonilla to one FLY@ seat and 10-1 to place METRONEWS. Caballero in the other. COM “With all due respect to my new colleague,” Allen wrote to Taber, “I hope you can and will address this concern post haste.”

HOUSING HELL Christine Hanchett thought she found the downtown home of her dreams— but she says her offer fell through because of the city’s delays and broken promises.

Up and Away Condo purchase becomes bureaucratic nightmare for one San Jose resident BY GRACE HASE

Taber—whose office recently drew criticism for some bizarre redactions to the public record—acknowledged the mistake, which she blamed on being rushed.

No matter. Bonilla’s rumored to be angling to succeed D5 Councilwoman MAGDALENA CARRASCO, who terms out in 2022. Unless, that is, she wins her bid for Santa Clara County Supervisor DAVE CORTESE’s seat in 2020, in which case Bonilla’s Planning Commission post would make a convenient steppingstone for the special election to finish the last two years of Carrasco’s term.

Hanchett signed the purchase and sales agreement, and San Jose officials

T SEEMED like a steal. For just shy of $450,000, Christine Hanchett could make the cheery yellow condo in San Jose’s historic Hensley district her new home. So, in early 2017, the software sales manager put in a bid for the one-bedroom, one-bath unit at 435 N. Second St., which happened to be owned by the city.

promised to bring the deal before the City Council for a routine vote of approval within two weeks. Two weeks came and went with no vote and no word from the city. Hanchett began to worry. While city officials went radio silent, Google made national news for finally coming out about its plans to build a massive corporate hub on the western edge of downtown. Property values began to rise at the prospect of the search-and-advertising giant’s planned development. Journalists called it the “Google effect.” Hanchett would’ve welcomed the

news with a host of other downtown property owners, but she wasn’t quite sure where her pending sale stood with the city. Her once-competitive offer of precisely $448,000 began to look plain cheap compared to how much surrounding homes began to sell for in the wake of the Google announcement. But the city kept stringing her along, she says, making her unsure of whether to hold out hope of securing her coveted abode in the beating heart of San Jose. Instead, she spent the ensuing two-plus years fighting for answers as $13,000 of her own money sat locked in title. What she expected would be a straightforward 45-day transaction festered into a bureaucratic nightmare. Thirty-one months later, the condo remains uninhabited and off the market, leaving Hanchett in limbo and a coveted downtown abode empty amid a housing crisis of historic proportions. “If I had known that that wasn’t going to come through, I could have taken that money and bought something else at the time,” Hanchett

laments. “I was waiting on this. I can’t buy a condo for $448,000 now. It makes me so angry.”

That the city owns a residential property is unusual to begin with. Nanci Klein, San Jose’s director of real estate and second in command at its Economic Development Department, says the Second Street condo is the only house in the city’s possession and that an alleyway between McLaughlin Avenue and Sherlock Street is its only surplus property on the market today. “The city never land-banked,” she explains. “So the [sites] we have are mostly right-of-way takes from roadways. This was very much an unusual sale for us.” San Jose scooped up the property in the early aughts when the city had a policy of helping senior-level staffers with mortgage payments so they could move close to work. The last person to live in the North Second Street condo was Barbara Attard, who served as San Jose’s independent police auditor from 2004 to 2008, when the City Council—bowing to pressure from the police union— voted behind closed doors against renewing her contract. After Attard moved out, the condo sat empty for the better part of the next decade. When the city finally decided to list the property online in 2017, it caught Hanchett’s eye. Email records show that it took 10 months from the time Hanchett signed the purchase pact to when city officials finally began answering her questions about the delay. In January 2018, city real estate manager Terry Medina shared some new information about the deal. He told Hanchett that the city should’ve given non-profit organizations the first right of refusal, according to a new state law. “At this point I need to offer the property to affordable housing groups, recreation and education agencies for a 60-day period,” Medina wrote in an email to the city’s outside real estate agent, Kelly Aronica. “If any of those groups express an interest in the property, they have 90 days to negotiate the fair market value of the property. At the conclusion of the potentially 150 days, if we can reach an agreement on the fair market value, I can offer

Sell Out By summer 2018, city officials decided to reject Hanchett’s offer. The market had simply changed too much during the drawn-out delay, and Klein wanted to re-evaluate the price of the condo. The new appraisal pegged the property value at $578,000—more than $100,000 over the originally agreed upon price. To make up for the setbacks, however, city officials offered to sell it to Hanchett for $513,000. Hanchett wonders if the delay was all a ploy by the city, which knew about the Google deal long before news of San Jose’s negotiations with the company went public. “Of course all the real estate prices hopped up,” Hanchett says. “How was I supposed to know? They all knew. There’s no way they didn’t know Google was going in.” But Klein insists that the time lag had nothing to do with the Google land sale, which was approved at a December 2018 council meeting. San

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Home Alone

the property to the general public for sale. … Since the property was rented previously, I also need to offer the property to the former tenant.” When those 60 days were up in March 2018, Hanchett circled back with Medina. He told her there were “complications” with the sale. Then, once again, the city’s line of communication went dark. Hanchett later learned that Medina misled her about having to renege on the agreement to give non-profits a first crack at a bid. “That ended up not to be true,” Klein admits. “There was a question in the midst of all of this which didn’t help the timing about the impact of new state rules. It would have been a different situation if the city owned the building, but at one level it didn’t meet the test for surplus affordable housing property.” In other words, the city screwed up. And City Attorney Rick Doyle acknowledges as much. The years-long delay had nothing to do with the “state law surplus property issue,” he says, because of San Jose’s status as a charter city and exemption from that right-of-refusal requirement. So what gives? The city’s real estate division “sat on it [for] a long time and dropped the ball,” Doyle says. “There’s no other way to look at it.”

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An inside look at San Jose politics

DOWN AND OUT South Bay officials urged the public to prepare for the power to go out in some areas for as much as a week.

SJ Braces for PG&E Outage BY MICHAEL MOORE AND GRACE HASE South Bay residents should start preparing for a possible widespread electricity blackout that could last up to a week, starting this Wednesday. Officials from Santa Clara County and the city of San Jose sent out an email blast Monday warning residents that PG&E plans to turn off power in the area to reduce the risk of wildfire. “PG&E has alerted county and city officials about the potential for a PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff event impacting 29 counties in Northern California, including approximately 38,000 customer accounts in Santa Clara County,” the notice read. Earlier this year, Northern California’s largest electric utility provider alerted the public and regulatory authorities that it may implement “public safety power shutoff” scenarios at times of “extreme weather or wildfire conditions,” according to the PG&E

website dedicated to public information about the program. During such a power shutoff, PG&E may turn off electricity for entire communities, cities or even counties in order to reduce the likelihood of live, damaged power lines igniting dry vegetation and sparking large-scale wildfires. At a press conference Monday afternoon, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo recommended that residents who lose power should “shelter in place.” “We do not want you driving on the roads,” he said. “That is because street lights and street signals will not be operational in those areas. For everyone’s safety, we do not want them driving.” Lori Mitchell, the director of San Jose Clean Energy, also warned that clean energy customers could be affected too. “Although many residents are customers of San Jose

Clean Energy, they’re also customers of PG&E for distribution services,” she said. “It’s important to realize that all customers are vulnerable to this.” San Jose officials are particularly concerned that power will go out in eastern and southern parts of the city. Almaden Valley Councilman Johnny Khamis said his office has been reaching out to residents across social media and knocking on doors to warn them about the power shut off. He said he’s particularly concerned about elderly residents in his district who may need electricity to power certain medical devices. “I have a lot of seniors that live in my community,” he said in an interview Monday evening. “A lot of them are [by] themselves and they don't tell other people about their medical needs. I’m hoping that the neighbors will get together and talk. Let’s use this as a preparation for something bigger.”

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Jose’s BART extension, high speed rail and follow-up work from the 2017 Coyote Creek flood were among the many priorities on the city’s economic development work plate, she notes. “There’s a lot going on at any given time,” Klein says. Despite city officials deeming $513,000 a “fair market value of the property,” the San Jose council in October last year decided in closed session to nix Hanchett’s new offer and try to finagle a better deal. “Council determined that they wanted to put the property back out on the market because there was a recognition that the council works for the whole of the community,” Klein says. “If it was possible to get additional dollars, that was their responsibility to maximize the dollars in return to the city.” Shortly after the council decision, in a Nov. 27, 2018, email, Mayor Sam Liccardo apologized to Hanchett. “You have every right to be frustrated by the process, which appears to have been poorly executed,” he wrote. However, he explained, he felt an “ethical and fiscal responsibility” to serve all of the city’s residents, not just one person trying to buy a publicly owned property. “I’m not going to exacerbate [the] real estate [department]’s mistakes by making another error of judgment to compensate for the first,” Liccardo added. As of this week, the North Second Street condo has yet to return to market. In a late July interview, Klein told Metro that she expected to put the condo up for sale in September. Yet even today, it remains unlisted. The whole ordeal has Hanchett feeling frustrated and cheated. In her view, the city broke its promise, and violated a legally binding agreement by changing the rules as it went. “They didn’t adhere to contracts,” she says. “Why am I bound by real estate law and they’re not? We did everything in good faith and exactly on the timeline. There’s legal guidelines for real estate transactions and, evidently, they don’t have to follow them.”

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STAYING UPBEAT Conductor Barbara Day Turner, right, is taking her baton on the road this season after the San Jose Chamber Orchestra was booted from its longtime venue.

Playing Around San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s season spans Silicon Valley’s venues BY GARY SINGH

T THE PIANO, Maestra Barbara Day Turner of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra is accompanying violinist Rick Shinozaki inside the Schiro Gallery on the fifth floor of the main library, adjacent to the Beethoven Center at SJSU. Passages of musical consonance seem to bookend “non-note” sections of noise and cacophony.

For downtown San Jose’s Noon Arts & Lectures series, Turner is previewing the chamber orchestra’s

29th season—in particular, a violin and piano reduction of Durwynee Hsieh’s “Memoir of an Ordinary Man,” which premieres this Sunday. Hsieh is present to help answer audience questions about the piece. I’m in the back row of the classroom seats, just like I often was in college. Turner says Hsieh’s piece needed a home, so this weekend is the right time to premiere it. Over the last 28 seasons, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra has premiered 180 works by contemporary composers, both local and from out of town. And in case anyone’s confused, “contemporary” means

still alive. Current. Right now. A piece that came out in 1940 is not “contemporary music.” As such, the orchestra’s philosophy since its inception has been to prioritize the works of living composers, not just dead Western Europeans. This is important, especially in a town where most classical music enterprises and their lumbering old-school patrons still bludgeon to death the same repertoire from 100-300 years ago, a ridiculous attitude that never really existed until the 20th century came along to unleash the advent of recording technology and more adventurous musical philosophies. By comparison, in the Baroque era of J.S. Bach or the Classical/Romantic eras of Beethoven’s life, there was no such concept as only performing works by dead composers from a few centuries earlier. In fact, in Beethoven’s day, it was quite likely that no one had even heard of J.S. Bach, simply because his music wasn’t being performed anywhere. Which is why, on a San Jose Chamber Orchestra program,

you’ll almost always see a premiere by a contemporary composer in the mix with more traditional pieces. This has been the case for 28 years now. In more diplomatic language, Turner explained all of this during the presentation. And her description of Hsieh’s piece as “needing a home” was apropos because the chamber orchestra finds itself in a similar predicament after recently losing its years-long home at Le Petit Trianon. The new property owner, out of sheer un-Christianlike cruelty, booted all the local arts non-profits out of the building with almost no advance notice—even those under contract—so the orchestra lost its offices and its main performance venue. As a result, the orchestra was forced to scramble and switch its entire 2019-20 calendar to various venues all over Santa Clara County. This proved to be extremely difficult. The dates of the concerts were booked out far in advance. Soloists had signed contracts at least a year ahead of time, which included getting flown in for specific dates. Likewise, many working union musicians had already booked their calendars for the season. Subscriptions and tickets were already in the pipeline, and finding new venues with the same dates open became nearly impossible. But after some brutal legwork, the 2019-20 season is now set in stone. The season opener this Sunday goes down at the Santa Clara University Recital Hall. In addition to Hsieh’s “Memoir of an Ordinary Man,” the program includes Telemann’s “Don Quixote Suite.” What a combination. So for the time being, the orchestra remains without a permanent home venue. Another performance during the upcoming season will be at the California Theatre with sjDANCEco, another with eight cellos and orchestra inside the San Jose City Hall Rotunda, plus gigs at Mission Santa Clara, McAfee Performing Arts Center in Saratoga and 3Below Theatres & Lounge. What’s more, the orchestra’s office has now found a temporary home inside the old Valley Title Building at First and San Carlos, right next to the new San Jose Jazz offices. The baby grand piano that used to reside at Le Petit Trianon now sits in the office lobby. So the orchestra has at least a few years to contemplate its next move. Nothing will seem ordinary from here on out. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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TESTING... Elizabeth Skovran’s lab at

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San Jose State University is refining a process by which bacteria eat rare-earth metals to allow for efficient and economically viable recycling.

HERE IS A blender in the corner of the Skovran biology lab on the fifth floor of Duncan Hall at San Jose State University. It’s similar to the kind found in kitchens everywhere, only this one’s not for making pesto.

The brand name is Blendtec, made quasi-famous by a series of cheeky YouTube videos known collectively as “Will It Blend?,” in which a whitelab-coated technician tosses golf balls, cigarette lighters and even an

Amazon Echo into the appliance. (Spoiler alert: They always blend.) The blender at SJSU operates in that same spirit—except in Elizabeth Skovran’s lab, they aren’t looking for likes and lulz. Instead, Skovran and her team are chopping up electronics in an effort to help the environment and potentially launch a very lucrative business. Every few months, Skovran and her students get out the old Blendtec and toss several used smartphones into it. Using a fume hood to deal with the toxicity of the task, they reduce their mobile handsets to a

fine black powder. That pulverized cellphone stuff is then put into a medium with a culture of bacteria— specifically, a subset known as “methylotrophs.” To the untrained eye it might appear that Skovran and her team are competing to create the Worst Smoothie Ever. In fact, they are refining a process that could revolutionize the electronics industry. Skovran and her collaborator, Michigan State biochemist N. Cecelia Martinez-Gomez, are looking for a solution to an ominous worldwide problem. They aim to develop a method for safely, cleanly, cheaply

and efficiently recycling rare earth elements (REEs). REEs are an essential material in the tech industry. The list of technologies that would not be possible without the 17 metals classified as REEs is enormous: Smart phones, batteries, satellites, GPS equipment, electric-vehicle engines, computer hard drives, wind turbines, X-ray machines, dental implants, lasers, LED lights, loudspeakers, even military weaponry. “They are vital,” says microbiologist David Reed of the US Dept. of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory,

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Microbe Machines Harnessing the power of metal-munching bacteria, a San Jose State scientist pioneers a new path to rare-earth recycling BY WALLACE BAINE

the nation’s leading facility for nuclear and other materials research. “We would not have the world we live in today without them.” What’s more, these metals are just as crucial to the world of tomorrow. “They’re pretty much critical for all green technology,” says biologist and researcher Vicki Thompson, also at the INL. “Wind power uses them for its magnets. Electric cars use them for batteries. They’re involved in most of our lithium-ion (rechargable) batteries.” The problem is that these materials can only be obtained via

environmentally devastating mining practices, and China controls about 80 percent of the world’s production of these elements. The United States has exactly one mine for these materials. The Mountain Pass Mine in the Southern California desert, which has already been shut down twice, is preparing to ramp up production to offset rising tariffs on Chinese REEs. Anticipating big disruptions to the REE market because of Chinese domination and the Trump administration’s trade war, a company called UCore is exploring opening a new mine in Alaska.

These materials are notoriously difficult to recycle and the vast majority of them—95 percent according to some reports—end up in landfills. So, the race is on to find a way to effectively recycle REEs, and Skovran thinks she might have the answer. Scientists have been studying the unique properties of methylotrophic bacteria for decades, but only in recent years was it discovered that these bacteria—which are commonly found in lakes, in soil, even on the leaves on plants—have the ability to extract rare earth metals from raw ore and post-consumer electronic

garbage. They can even pull REEs from industrial waste byproducts, such as “fly ash,” a coal product, and “red mud,” a waste product of aluminum production. The bacteria convert these waste metals into inorganic crystals within their cells by emitting chemicals that bind with rare earth metals, then drawing them back into their cells and consolidating them into crystals. The bacteria use methanol as their primary food source, and the crystals made up of REEs act as enzymes that they use to digest their food. The Skovran team is working to

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LEARNING EXPERIENCE Elizabeth Skovran with a graduate student in her SJSU lab. Skovran enjoys working with graduate and undergraduate students. figure out how to stimulate that process by making the bacteria hungrier for REE-laden waste. That way, the organisms can do the heavy lifting of separating the rare earth wheat from the industrial waste chaff, and make reclaiming REEs commercially viable.

EATING IT UP Contrary to their name, rare earth elements are not all that rare. They are found everywhere. However, mining REEs is only feasible in places where there are large concentrations of them. Even in those cases, REE mining involves a complex process to separate and purify the metals found in ore. This process includes bathing the ore in acid and washing it with solvents. One of this process’ byproducts is radioactive sludge. Regions with REE

mines in China—a country notorious for lax environmental regulations and low labor costs—have been devastated by crop failures, animal illness and widespread cancer. The environmental consequences of mining, along with the Trump administration’s trade policies, have exerted enormous pressures on finding ways to recycle REEs. Currently, however, that process is timeconsuming, prohibitively expensive and highly toxic. “If you open up a computer hard drive and you want to get the magnet out that contains these rare earth metals,” Skovran says, “it takes considerable time to break into all these electronic components and grab the parts from the computer or cellphone that has these metals.” As a result, rare earths are recycled at a rate of about 1 percent. And even if recycled, they still generate waste. “They usually ship them out of the

country, to China or Africa,” Skovran says of thrown-away cell phones and electronics. “And they usually sit in big piles in landfills. There is a lot of nasty stuff in your cell phones— brominated flame retardants, mercury, cadmium—lots of bad stuff. Waste accumulates over time, and as things break down, it could leach into and poison the water supply.” The push to find new ways to recover these REEs from electronic waste and other waste streams has intensified in recent years. “Five years ago,” Reed says, “there was very little [effort to find new recycling methods]. You’d occasionally see a paper on it. But now, it’s become obvious that it’s something we really need to address.” There are other companies and research units working on the problem, but the Skovran approach may be unique. “We are in the

discovery mode now,” says MartinezGomez, Skovran’s Michigan State collaborator. “We are literally learning something new every week.” Skovran and Martinez-Gomez have been pursuing the bacterial method for four years now. In that time, they’ve learned that methylotrophic bacteria release a molecule, called a “chelator,” that binds to the rare earth materials and then absorbs it back into the cell, creating a tiny inorganic crystal of pure metal within the bacterial cell. “Our separation process is pretty efficient,” Martinez-Gomez says. “The microbe is doing all the work for us.” Skovran shows me a collection of petri dishes, filled with black powder (our iPhone smoothie) dotted with tiny pink polyps. Those are the methylotrophic bacteria. There are still problems to crack with this approach. Though the bacteria are good at drawing out the REEs and purifying them, they don’t do it at scale. Like an animal feeding at a trough, the bacteria reach a saturation point and stop absorbing the metals. The Skovran team is attempting to engineer the bacteria to keep them working past their “full” point. (An alternative avenue would be to take the bacteria out of the loop completely and somehow isolate the molecular chelator they release to attract the metals.) Another problem: The organic solution to extracting REEs doesn’t do anything about the remaining waste material. “If you were to blend up a cellphone,” Skovran says, “and put that in a solution, it’ll absorb [the REEs], but what about the remaining toxicants left behind in the cell phone? What’ll you do with that?” One answer, Skovran believes, lies in fly ash, a fine powder that is a byproduct of coal power plants that is used in the production of cement. Fly ash has valuable stores of REEs. Once those metals are extracted, the material can still be used for cement, creating, at least theoretically, zero waste. “[Post-consumer] electronics is sexy to talk about,” Skovran says. “But in reality, if you really wanted to avoid that toxic waste, blending up all these waste electronics would just release more toxic products.”

MICROBIO MENTOR

The discovery of the process by which methylotrophic bacteria use REEs is less than a decade old. Researchers had isolated a particular gene which worked as an enzyme, allowing the bacteria to consume methanol as its primary food source. But another similar gene was discovered in the bacteria’s DNA that resisted anyone’s efforts to figure out its purpose. Skovran was working in her post-doc program at the University of Washington, contributing to the investigation of these bacteria and the mystery gene. “The gene was known about for about 20 years,” she says. “But you delete the gene from the cell and there was no effect.” The connection between the bacteria and rare earth metals eventually came from the metals side of the equation. Researchers at Gifu University in Japan were studying the effects that REEs had on micro-organisms associated with plants. It was then they discovered that methylotrophic bacteria needed rare earth metals to digest their main food source. Though she was steeped in the workings of the bacteria, Skovran at that time knew almost nothing about REEs. “I had to look at the periodic table to figure out where they were,” she says. Still, she said, everything changed in the outlook for her research after that. “When that (Japanese) paper was published, I had an aha moment for sure. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a great new addition to the field of biology in general.’ Nobody thought these rare earth metals had any physiological or inherent role in biology. And this proved that they did.” In the rarefied world of methylotrophic bacteria, the Gifu discovery qualified as a bombshell, Skovran says. “In fact, it was a little disbelieved at first, because it was so baffling. There was a lot of pushback in the field. But the more and more the scientific community started accepting that, yep, they actually do these things, then the field got more exciting. We started researching how they do that, and this idea came into play: Let’s take this process they do naturally and turn it into something valuable to society.”

Skovran landed her faculty position at San Jose State shortly after the discovery. But, she says, the two events were largely incidental. She came to SJSU because she was intent on working with undergraduates. Major US universities are largely divided between research universities offering doctorate degrees (often referred to as “R1” universities) and primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). As an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Skovran had a rewarding experience under the tutelage of an inspiring teacher, and it was important to her to follow that template as a teacher and a researcher. “I had a professor that I looked up to a lot, and I wanted to be that kind of professor. It was always on my mind. I wanted to have a similar kind of job where I worked with undergraduate students and could facilitate their careers by enabling them in research.” At SJSU, Skovran works with a couple of dozen students, most of them undergrads (there are a few master’s degree students in the program as well). Some of those students, she says, are primary authors on some of the papers that have been published out of the lab’s research, an invaluable experience for undergrads. “It opens a lot of doors,” she says. “A lot of my undergrads have gone on to top PhD programs after they graduate, or get snapped up by the biotech industry, especially because they have their names as first author on publications.”

BACTERIAL BUSINESS Within the next few years, the team’s ambitions are to develop a platform that is both affordable and efficient for extracting REEs from commercial waste. “What route do we take at that point?” Skovran asks. “Do we want to turn this into a company? Or do we want to focus on making cool discoveries and maybe partner with someone? I don’t know.” Quietly but urgently, governments, industry and researchers are looking

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for ways out of an unsustainable situation. For example, geologists in China have recently discovered a way to isolate the geological characteristics that make REEs abundant in that country. In theory it might be possible to artificially engineer rare earth materials—similar to the way way jewelers create diamonds in the lab. The Trump administration is working with the Australian government to create a more stable source of REEs without China. The US Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute in Ames, Iowa and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among those focused on production and processing of REEs. “We work at a national lab for the department of energy,” says Reed of the INL. “Our focus is how do we

make energy sources for the future? Companies may be looking down the road 10, 20, 30 years—how can we make money from this? Our goal is to look at [recycling efforts] and figure out, can it be scaled? That’s why we’re doing techno-economics, life-cycle analyses, lab-based scaling. Before a company is going to do a full-scale investment, you want to show a technology can work.” One thing everyone agrees on is that rare earth elements will remain vital to a growing economy and a technologically advanced future. And there’s no plausible replacement for REEs on anyone’s horizon. “The demand is high,” said Martinez-Gomez, “and it’s only going to get higher.”

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VINE TIME Paul and Vicki Kermoyan of P&V Winery.

WHEN PAUL KERMOYAN and his wife Vicki purchased the 2.5-acre parcel in Coyote Valley that would become the P&V Winery estate vineyard, they really were just looking to make wine for themselves. Kermoyan grew up in Fresno, the son of Armenian parents, and has always enjoyed tinkering with food and drink. During college he got into brewing and he’s long been passionate about cooking, but it wasn’t until later in life that he tried his hand at making wine. The community development director for the City of Campbell took a shine to it right away. “I can do this!” Kermoyan remembers thinking. He started hanging out with winemakers Steve Peterson at Emmalily and Larry Schaadt at Regale, learning the ropes and honing his palate. Soon after the Kermoyans acquired their 50-year-old Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel vineyard they realized that they would be producing far more wine than they could ever hope to drink or give to friends. “We knew right away that we should probably just sell the wine,” Kermoyan says. “One thing led to another, and the next thing you know…” Paul and Vicki are now producing an estate Cab and Zin as well as a Chardonnay sourced from an organic vineyard in Brentwood, and a Pinot Noir from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Recently, Kermoyan planted Petite Verdot and Merlot—along with some more Cab—at the estate. He has also taken over management of a small Syrah vineyard in San Martin and the property owner let him harvest those grapes; he plans to use them to produce a Syrah or perhaps a blend, which should be ready by 2021. He chuckles as he recalls the time he won back-to-back first-place ribbons in a guacamole-making contest. It was back when he was living in Ventura in the early 2000s. He had an avocado tree in his backyard and his coworkers loved his guac. It just so happens that the second year he entered the contest, The Food Network was in town filming for a show called All-American Festivals. “People always ask me, ‘What’s the secret?’” he says. “And I ask them, ‘Do you like cooking?’ Cooking is a lot like wine making. You try different spices, different techniques to bring out a superior dish. It is an art. It really is.” As with home brewing and home cooking, Kermoyan knows what flavor profile he is looking for in his wines. He keeps things light. “I don’t over-oak,” he explains. “Too much oak is like too much rosemary: it overpowers a dish.” —Laura Ness & Nick Veronin

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SO FRESH Aloha Fresh serves never-frozen ahi, shipped straight from Hawaii three times a week.

Genuine Art Aloha Fresh relocates to Japantown, stays true to cultural roots of poke BY JOHN DYKE

HE HAWAIIAN WORD “poke” (rhymes with “OK” and not “spoke”) means “to cut into chunks.” More popularly, poke is a native Hawaiian pupu (appetizer)— traditionally prepared simply, with freshly caught island fish, sea salt, seaweed and ground kukui nuts. It’s akin to Hawaiian soul food, and what author Rachel Laudan describes as “the thing to have with a beer after work.”

The truth is nobody really knows the origins of poke, as historical food studies of native Hawaiian culture never made reference to it. Poke recipes first began popping up in Hawaiian cookbooks sometime in the mid-1970s. With

ingredients such as soy sauce, sesame oil and chili, the dish became a testament to Japanese-Hawaiian fusion. More recently—much to the horror of some Hawaiians—the word has been associated with a popularized “California-style poke,” which has seen astounding growth in the fast-casual restaurant market here on the mainland. A whole subgenre of these restaurants have dedicated themselves to serving up bowl after bowl of raw fish and rice. Along with this Californ-ification of poke, we’ve seen the addition of myriad sauces and toppings—such as teriyaki with corn, tomatoes and even potato chips. And, as if that weren’t enough cultural slander, some establishments have changed the spelling to “poki,” while others

have added unnecessary diacritics to the name. Read: pokē or poké. Now, I’m not absolving myself of any sins. I too have partaken in more than my fair share of Cali-style poke because, let’s be honest, it’s delicious and I was unaware of any identity politics in the poke world. Aloha Fresh is looking to change all that. This local poke joint is owned by Hawaiians on a mission. They resolve to bring back traditional poke to the South Bay. The restaurant is not new. It got its start back in late 2015 in Cupertino. However, the owners of Aloha Fresh recently relocated their restaurant to San Jose’s Japantown neighborhood. “People in Japantown understand what we’re all about,” manager Vanessa Nimi says. “In Cupertino, many people were looking for the ‘Chipotle-style,’ where they can choose their sauces and mix and match different flavors. But with Hawaiian-style poke, everything is pre-marinated.” Aloha Fresh’s mission begins with delivering the freshest fish possible. Their never-frozen ahi tuna is flown in straight from Hawaii three times a week, and their sustainable salmon can be tracked down to where and when it was caught and by whom.

Those fish, along with shrimp, scallops and tako (octopus) are then marinated in a curated selection of house sauces for a grand total of 14 poke options. Another big reason for the move was that the old Aloha Fresh had no physical kitchen. In Japantown they now have a full spread that allows them to offer hot food like fried chicken, spring rolls and kalua pork. They also have milk teas ($4) and tropical dessert items like guava butter mochi ($2). Aloha Fresh has only three options for its poke bowls: one scoop ($10.75), two scoops ($13.75) or a “surf ’n’ turf” option with one scoop of poke and a hot food item ($14.50). The bowls come with a base of rice or salad and two sides, such as crab salad, pickled onions or housemade kimchi. I’ve had a surf ’n’ turf bowl before with their unctuous kalua pork at the Cupertino location, but something about hot protein with cold poke was a bit off-putting to me. So, on my recent visit to the new digs, I opted for two scoops with spicy shoyu ahi, kukui nut salmon and the black rice ($1 extra) as a base. For my sides I chose the seaweed salad and the hard-toresist Hawaiian mac salad. One bite into the fish and it’s easy to understand why Aloha Fresh goes out of the way to ensure the freshest catch; the texture and flavor is unlike any other poke I’ve tasted. The spicy shoyu had a well-balanced flavor of salt, ginger and a bit of a kick from the chili oil, gently warming my mouth, while the kukui nut salmon had a savory blend of sesame oil and sweet onions that enhanced the flavor of the fish. For me, the black rice is a no-brainer; its earthy flavor and toothsome bite is well worth the slight upcharge. The mac salad’s pasta is cooked perfectly soft, well-seasoned with mayo and occasional flecks of sesame seeds. The seaweed salad offered a fresh respite from all the earth, salt and sweet in my bowl. Paying heed to cultural dishes’ origins is an uphill battle, but it’s worth it to prevent cultural appropriation by overzealous restaurateurs—and to get a taste of the genuine article.

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CASSETTE STORE DAY

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ALCHEMY TOUR

Thu, 8pm, $10+ Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose

Fri, 5pm, $25+ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

Celebrate Día de los Muertos with Teatro Visión’s evening of song, dance and story. Based on B. Traven’s novel, Macario tells the story of a poor woodcutter who dreams of a day without hunger. It has been adapted for the stage by Evelina Fernández, with original music by Russell Rodríguez, choreography by Samuel Cortez and Rodrigo García directing. Presented in Spanish with English supertitles, the show will be staged by the School of Arts and Culture. It runs Thursday-Sunday through Oct. 20. (CJ)

Solo producer Nghtmre and DJ duo Slander need no introduction to the EDC crowd. They are each arenarocking acts in their own right. On the Insomniac-produced Alchemy Tour, these LA-based artists join forces to present their bass-heavy, eyeball-exploding one-two punch of a show, “Gud Vibrations,” which they first road-tested back in 2016, in the wake of their collaborative Mad Decent release, Nuclear Bonds. These dubstep heavyweights are joined by Santa Barbara psytrance spinner Seven Lions and LA IDM trio The Glitch Mob, who are still riding the neon sine waves of their 2018 fulllength, See Without Eyes. (CA)

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Fri, Various Times, $15+ Red Morton Park, Redwood City

Fri-Sat, 8:30pm, $45 San Jose Civic

SHANGHAI QUARTET

For those who prefer their circuses old-school, Zoppé Italian Family Circus has a number for you: 1842. That’s when this traveling one-ring circus was established in Venice. Led by the multi-talented Nino the Clown— who happens to be part of the Zoppé family dynasty, which dates back six generations—Zoppé: An Italian Family Circus features refreshingly low-tech feats of acrobatics, juggling, equestrian arts and more, complete with oldfashioned outfits and old-country folk music. Runs WednesdaySunday through Nov. 3. (WB)

Nobody does enormous on-stage multimedia cube structures quite like deadmau5. The acclaimed Canadian DJ and glowing mouse helmet collector has been performing with his giant cube for close to a decade, but this year he’s unveiling “Cube V3”—the latest iteration of his mindblowing stage show. According to tour scuttlebutt, the cube requires a crew of roughly 40 people working an entire shift to build at each venue. Love him or not, there’s no arguing deadmau5 is a committed showman who wants to make sure his fans get their money’s worth. San Jose fans get two nights back-to-back. (WB)

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, the Shanghai Quartet has collaborated with the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Peter Serkin. In honor of its 35 years of touring, the group will be performing on four exceptional and rare instruments built by Gofriller Guarneri and Stradivari. They are known for performing traditional Chinese folk music alongside Western masterpieces and contemporary works. This Saturday’s program will feature a string quartets by Haydn, Tan Du and Semtana. (MS)

Sat, 7:30pm, $35+ Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose

* concerts FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS

SHANGHAI QUARTET

Oct 13 at San Jose Civic

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

J BALVIN Oct 17 at SAP Center

PLUKO Oct 17 at Bing Studio

MARK FARINA Oct 19 at The Ritz

REO SPEEDWAGON Oct 19 at San Jose Civic

CACTUS CLUB REUNION Oct 24 at The Ritz

PASQUALE ESPOSITO Oct 25 at Montalvo Carriage House

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Oct 27 at San Jose Civic

DREAM THEATER Oct 30 at San Jose Civic

FISHER Oct 31 at San Jose Civic

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CASSETTE STORE DAY

SILICON VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL

Sat, 8pm, $45 Heritage Theatre, Campbell

Sat, 10am, Free Streetlight Records, San Jose

Sat-Sun, 11am, Free Fremont Park, Menlo Park

Hard to believe it’s been 50 years since the Carpenters released their first album on A&M, and harder still to believe that Karen Carpenter was initially reluctant to come out from behind the drum kit to focus on her vocal talents. Her innate sense of rhythm combined with her honey-smoked alto lent gravitas to the string of pop rock hits she had with her brother Richard in the ’70s, lowering the sugar content of songs like “Close to You” and lifting songs like “Rainy Days and Mondays” from pop pablum to classic ballad. Campbell’s Heritage Theatre launches its 2019-20 season with a golden anniversary tribute to the superstar duo. (MS)

One day, disc rot will render your CD collection useless and those MP3s will be corrupted. And we all know streaming services will never pay artists what they deserve. The solution? Magnetic tape—in addition to vinyl, of course. So dust off that boombox! International Cassette Store Day is upon us. Fueled in large part by millennial nostalgia, the audiocassette has enjoyed a renaissance of late, as many bands choose to release albums on the medium. Streetlight Records marks this UK-spawned holiday—now its seventh year— by offering 20 percent off all used cassettes. (CJ)

The Silicon Valley Jazz Festival is a two-day celebration of music, culture and education. The festival unites jazz bands from Bay Area schools with established touring performers in an effort to spread appreciation for the art form and, hopefully, inspire the next generation of improvisational sax masters. The day festival at Fremont Park features 13 bands, plus vendors and food trucks. One paid concert will be held each evening at the Savanna Jazz club in San Carlos. Carl Saunders plays Saturday ($35) and Sunday is the Octobop afterparty ($20). Proceeds from the festival will fund various charitable endeavors of the San Carlos Kiwanis Club. (CA)

*mon BOB DYLAN

Mon, 7:30pm, Sold Out Frost Amphitheater, Stanford Bob Dylan, arguably the greatest songwriter of all time, is fast approaching the sixth decade of his career. In the ’60s and ’70s he was a folk balladeer, an obnoxious rock & roll revolutionary and everything in between. In the ’80s and ’90s he was hit or miss. But at the end of the century he turned a philosophical confrontation with his own mortality into a personal renaissance. Since then he’s released a slew of critically and commercially successful albums, claimed an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize, and appeared in a Super Bowl commercial. Tickets are sold out, but one Metro reader can win a pair at metroactive. com/giveaways. (CA)

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

JON BATISTE Nov 2 at Bing Concert Hall

LUKE COMBS Nov 6 at SAP Center

BROCKHAMPTON Nov 8 at Frost Amphitheater

SNAILS Nov 15 at San Jose Civic

‘DAMN THE TORPEDOES’ Nov 21 at Montalvo Carriage House

AGENT ORANGE Nov 22 at The Ritz

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 26 at SAP Center

POPTOPIA Dec 5 at SAP Center

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QUIET MOMENT ‘At The Lake, Morning’ by Jennifer Bartlett offers the elusive dream of a world settling into repose.

Room To Breath Nonrepresentational abstraction opens world of possibilities in ‘Left of Center’ BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

Y HEARTBEAT accelerated when I caught a glimpse of Joan Mitchell’s Before, Again IV from the bottom of the wide steps that lead up to the main gallery upstairs. Her periwinkle- and rust-colored scribbles were the welcoming salvo into abstract expressionism that I’d been waiting for. As I approached the secondfloor landing, I started to register the presence of dozens of other monumentally sized paintings alongside Mitchell’s. I suddenly

felt like a hound who’d caught the scent of the hunt, dumbstruck by the thought of what my senses had stumbled upon. In the past, I’ve shied away from nonrepresentational work, which often looks daunting and difficult to parse. Yet, despite the varying approaches and materials in this show, “Left of Center: Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University” presents something cohesive and communal—the unmistakable consciousness of the American West, and more often than not of California, in the mid to late 20th century. At a fifth anniversary celebration

of the Anderson this past Saturday, I had walked inside to look for the LED sculptures in the contemporaneous Jim Campbell exhibit. But none of his blinking lights captured my attention the way that the Left Coast paintings did. To be fair to Campbell, against the white walls, gallery lights and natural sunshine, his digital landscapes couldn’t compete with the analog textures of works like Robert Motherwell’s Italian Summer, Franz Kline’s Figure 8 and Frank Stella’s Zeltweg. In addition to the pleasure of spending time with the paintings themselves, any Art History 101 class would benefit from a field trip to the gallery. There are smart curatorial pairings that make the mind’s associative powers kick in. Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Black on Gray) hangs directly adjacent to Ad Reinhardt’s Abstract Painting. What used to read as a dull sameness pulsed to life, as if the two painters’ black moods were facing each other in a long-delayed but convulsive dialogue. Nearby, the painting I

liked the least was also the one I had the most affection for, Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square: Diffused. His concentric, off-kilter squares lie flat and dimensionless on the canvas. But the pale yellows—of faded sunflowers and depressed marigolds—paid homage to the kitchens and couches and cars of my childhood. When I was growing up, I had shoes and T-shirts in shades like these that seemed, for the sake of fashion back then, drained of their good cheer. My sense of nostalgia deepened as I passed by the contemplative melancholy found in Paul Wonner’s Figure by Window and Jennifer Bartlett’s massive At the Lake, Morning. They offer the elusive dream of a world settling in for a quiet repose. Wonner’s figure reads a newspaper in a cool blue room. She’s probably waiting in peace while the rest of her family swims in Batlett’s lake. What “Left of Center” conjures up is a sense of psychic real estate. No one in the Bay Area is lazily drifting toward a soporific state of being anymore. Those wide open, undeveloped spaces that visit the canvases no longer exist. I also loved the framed Leo Holub photographs of the artists with their paintings. I could put a face to the name of Robert Therrien, an artist who fashioned a blood red scaffold (No title (hangman)) out of enamel, aluminum and brass. In her portrait, Bartlett sits cross-legged on a stool in front of a still life with a dead bird flopped face down onto a table. And Jay DeFeo’s smile beams and belies the turbulent fire rising up from the center of her work. DeFeo’s Summer Image (For My Mother) is a conveyance that commemorates her mother’s death. She transports the complications of grief onto the canvas. She bends the body and its internal torment further even than Francis Bacon, until the physical self dissolves into unrecognizable curves and angles. “Left of Center” doesn’t feel stale and dated. Abstract work like this just makes the past seem more alive than the present.

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SENSELESS VIOLENCE In ‘Joker,’ madness, despair, chaos and cruelty run rampant in the world’s worst city, and there’s no Batman in sight.

Chuckleburg Joaquin Phoenix is ever-surprising as a Clown of Thorns in ‘Joker’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

O THE 23ANDME on Todd Phillips’ Joker, and most of the DNA is from two Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver (1976) and King of Comedy (1983). King of Comedy’s influence is clear in the story of a failed comedian. On the Taxi Driver side, we find the influence scriptwriter Paul Schrader brought in from Robert Bresson, a master of austerity. What if Joker had been a movie about a man imploding instead of exploding? Instead of an Au Hasard, Balthazar, Au Hasard, Joker about a man with laughing sickness, stuck in the worst city in the

world—a million bleak tenements rimming an erupting volcano of garbage. There’d be no “cathartic violence” to allow the wretched Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) pass for anything but a doomed antihero. Budget cuts to the city’s mental health program end Fleck’s prescriptions for seven different medications; he carries a dogeared card explaining his fits of uncontrollable laughter. Arthur nurses his shut-in mother, Penny (Francis Connor), who bathes in the light of the TV, watching a Johnny Carson surrogate (Robert De Niro). Penny writes unanswered letters to the wealthy thug politician Thomas Wayne (Brett Cullen), who promises Gotham City, Trumpwise, “Only I can

save you.” Penny used to work as a domestic at Wayne Manor. From that point her story gets unreliable. Arthur works for a rent-a-clown agency with some other grim types, derived from the doughnut-eaters in Taxi Driver—“Another day in Chuckleburg!” one says. He spins signs, or prances in a cancer ward in front of bald, hollow-eyed kids. His vision of the big time is a slot at an open mic comedy club, and he’s collecting gags in his smeary notebook: “Why are poor people so confused? A: they don’t have any cents.” Arthur is bruised skin and bones, with unwashed splotches of greasepaint on his jaw. Shirtless at home, he’s crumbled into positions that make him look like a figure in an Oskar Kokoschka painting. The 1970s-oid wardrobe is clownish on everyone: deafening plaids, garish colors and wide lapels. The makeup isn’t cheery. The fat lips, the bulbous nose, the black ringed eyes are an ancient code. “Laugh at this stupid bastard; he just got his ass beat.” One of Joker’s few jokes: laying on the asphalt after a stomping, his squirt flower leaks as if Arthur has wet himself. When New York was almost this bad in the mid-’70s, there were nihilist

clowns called punk rockers. There were anti-comedians, like Michael O’Donoghue; “Mr Mike” would have enjoyed Fleck’s idea of a knock-knock joke: “Who’s there?” “The police. Your son’s been killed by a drunk driver.” There was Andy Kaufman’s strategic bombing, murmuring bad jokes in a trans-Danubian accent and dissolving into pretend flop-tears. In performance, Arthur has enough skills to interest pale little Bruce Wayne (Dante Pereira-Olson) wandering alone on the grounds of his family manor; luring him close enough that he can use his fingers to draw the stunned child’s mouth into the rictus of a smile. It’s all part of Arthur’s transformation into a slow-dancing death clown, culminating with the film’s most lyrical sequence, a soft-shoe down a littered, ominous staircase. Phoenix’s maniac is never boring, always finding new layers of anguish; it’s even remarkable what he does with the cigarettes he chain smokes. When he finally finds his way, his voice is neither young nor old but pedantic—like a put-upon 12-yearold. Odd to see a picture this gigantic, with Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Icelandic strings groaning away with the noise of a calving glacier, made with nihilist midnight-movie themes. As for whether Joker is what Luis Bunuel called his primordial midnight-movie Andalusian Dog (1929)—“a desperate, impassioned call to murder”—something that copycats will answer: Given all the essays about the irrelevance of movies, it’s a sick joke that for once, the influence of film seems to have the power to conjure such a fear. This city-revenge film is smart enough to know that squalor, like waste-water, flows downhill: Arthur’s first victims are some rowdy, drunk stockbrokers who want to kick him around for laughs. Among the last images is a tableau familiar from this saga: a little boy in a filthy alley, standing between the bodies of his two parents. As staged here, it leaves us with no hope, no premonition of dashing Bat-adventure. All that can come after this is just a feedback loop of senseless loss and suffering.

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GOOD NATURED Nick Offerman’s new show, ‘All Rise,’ is built upon the premise that we are people first and partisans second.

Our Better Angels AT THIS POINT, it’s unclear whether anyone will be able to restore a sense of decency to public discourse, inspire a sincere spirit of bipartisanship and ultimately save our republic. However, if that individual exists, I have to believe they would be a lot like Nick Offerman. The actor, comedian, woodworker and all-around straight shooter has a knack for cutting through the bullshit without being condescending. Speaking with Offerman, it’s tempting to believe that you are talking with his bestknown character, Ron Swanson. A light-hearted libertarian and begrudging bureaucrat, Swanson dutifully served the fictional city of Pawnee, Indiana, on the beloved NBC sitcom Parks & Recreation. Offerman’s character was ostensibly a contradiction: a public servant so mistrustful of centralized authority that he keeps the bulk of his savings in gold…which he kept buried in various undisclosed locations around his hometown. And yet, as suspicious as he was of the government, Swanson was seldom suspicious of his Nick Offerman fellow man. Indeed, it seems Swanson always saw his neighbor as a person first and foremost, before Oct 11, 7:30pm, $59+ ever considering whether they might be an ally or an The Mountain Winery, enemy. “Parks & Recreation was a show universally Saratoga beloved for its optimism and its warm take on mountainwinery.com humanity,” Offerman says. “It said, ‘Look, we’re all dumb, and we’re all doing the best we can.’” Offerman has a new show, Making It, which he co-hosts with his Parks & Recreation co-star, Amy Poehler. It centers around a group of makers— textile artists, taylors, visual artists and woodworkers—who compete through a series of episodes for a chance at a $100,000 prize. The show will return for a second season this December. The idea, Offerman says, is rather simple: “Let’s make entertainment that promotes what’s good about people.” In that vein, Offerman is currently touring with a one-man show. All Rise, which comes to Saratoga this Saturday, is billed as “an often political, occasionally satirical mishmash of short monologues and folk music— something like A Prairie Home Companion meets The Colbert Report.” Though All Rise will certainly touch upon political subjects, the comedian says he isn’t aiming to skewer anybody in particular. Rather,in good-old Swanson-ian fashion, he intends to appeal to the better angels of his audience. “There is this sense that things are dire,” Offerman says of the current political climate. “The amount of ire in our society feels really ugly and dangerous. I’m going to try a lot harder with this piece of comedy writing to appeal to everybody.” —Nick Veronin

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CRAZY, SEXY, COOL The Black Lips have always charted their own strange path.

Ramblin’ Band After 20 years on the road, ATL punk weirdos Black Lips still sound like home BY AVI SALEM

T’S LUNCHTIME IN Atlanta and Jared Swilley is finally home—but not really, because he’s preparing to head back to the airport right after he hangs up. Also, what even is home when you’re in a band that tours all the time? “Touring runs in the family: Every male in my family is a preacher, and they go hard,” Swilley says. “For me it’s the same kind of thing, except I’m not preaching the gospel. But yeah, I get real antsy when I’m not on the road for, like, two weeks. I don’t like sitting still very often.”

Swilley, who plays bass for the Black Lips, is fresh off the plane from a trip to the Baltics. It was partly business (he says it was “way cheaper” overseas to take care of the busted front tooth that popped out after a heated argument), partly just for fun. He’s on zero hours of sleep, but he’s as animated as ever. Swilley tells me he’s back in town just to pick up a few belongings, check in with the neighborhood (specifically in regard to a “grizzled old redneck” neighbor who’s getting on his nerves) and to say hello to the houseguests he’s had the past few months. “My house has basically been a hotel for Europeans all summer,” Swilley

explains. “I don't really have a home so much anymore. I mean, I technically do—because I’m at my house right now—but I’ve always been a nomad. And it always seems to work out.” For the Black Lips, the nomadic way of life has been front and center for the better part of their two decades as a band. Swiley, along with vocalist and guitarist Alexander Cole, formed the group in the late ’90s from fire and brimstone in the heart of the Bible Belt (that is to say, formed out of a whirlwind of teenage debauchery and angst in the middle of a hot and sticky Georgia summer), and they’ve never looked back. The Black Lips’ current lineup includes Oakley Munson on drums, Jeff Clarke on vocals and guitar, and Zumi Rosow as saxophonist and sometime vocalist. Rosow, a model and jewelry designer, is also the band (and Gucci’s) unofficial muse. (Back in February, the Zumi bag debuted in the fashion house’s fall 2019 ready-towear collection.) The Black Lips’ sound might be described as avant garde fashion

meets rock & roll. Musically, the band has had a longstanding romance with quintessential sounds of the South—think gospel, blues and soul—but also draws inspiration from the glitz and glam (or lack thereof) of punk. The result is a lo-fi, rollicking, jangly amalgamation that’s as raw as it is enduring. Influences from the 13th Floor Elevators to Bo Diddley coalesce with the anti-establishment attitude of the Ramones to form something all its own—and damn catchy to boot. If you’re still wondering what that means, just listen to “Bad Kids,” arguably the Black Lips’ biggest commercial hit and most accurate self-descriptor. The sing-song hook laments, “Bad kids, ain’t-no-collegegrad kids/Livin’ life out on the skids/ Kids like you and me,” and every word rings truer than the last: Swilley is a high school dropout, the band was homeless for a period of time and their bad behavior and onstage antics defined much of the early part of their career. “The thing about us is that everything you see is what we are. This is the lifestyle we chose,” Swilley explains. “We’re honest, and what you see is what you get. We just try to live our best life.” These days the band is a bit more mature, both on and off the stage. After 20 years, they’ve also spread all over the globe, from Los Angeles to Canada and even Germany on and off. While Swilley’s technically the only one left with his Southern roots intact, the Black Lips’ sound has stayed true to its foundations across the span of eight full-length albums—each with more soul, scuzz and power than the last. Though they haven’t had a full-length release since 2017’s Satan's Graffiti or God’s Art?, Swilley says that two albums are on the way—one of which is the Black Lips’ rumored country album. “It’s our version of country,” Swilley explains. “It’s like, weird country, you know? And I think it's great. I’m really happy with it. I think this one’s really going to knock everyone’s socks off.”

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OCT 9–17 | “TO THE ONE AT THE BACK OF THE EMPTY BUS.” From the short poem, “Flood: Years of Solitude” by Dionisio D. Martinez. A solid ode to those wandering solo. I see you. Wednesday’s Flash Fiction Forum will feature a healthy cornucopia of little stories. SoCal’s Matt Sedillo comes up to share his thought-provoking spoken word on Thursday morning. Friday night, Nick Offerman brings his whole, handy unflinching persona to Mountain Winery. Ever joined a San Jose Bike Party, this Sunday is a great opportunity to see what it’s all about with the 3rd Annual Ride to the Bay. There is now a comedy open mic on Tuesday’s at Off The Hook in Campbell and it’s hosted by Jacob Contreras. I hope your summer is fading nicely. These and more events below and beyond... = MUST SEE

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COMEDIAN | CAITLIN GILL AT BACKYARD SJ 5pm. 35 S Second St, San Jose

SCREENING | METALLICA & SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY 6:15pm. West Wind Drive-In, 3630 Hillcap Ave, San Jose

JAZZ/SOUL | REN GEISICK LIVE AT AC LOUNGE 6:30pm. AC Hotel, 597 E El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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NTTG WAX WEDNESDAY WITH JAMES WAVEY & ECONO JAM DJ'S 8pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

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

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

SAM'S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 10/15, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 10/16, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Benton Street Blues Band. Fri, 6pm: Ben Rice Band (On Tour). Sat, 6pm: Gary Smith & The Houserockers. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: The Night Prowlers. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

THE RITZ

Wed, 7pm: mc chris, Schaffer the Darklord, LEX the Lexicon Artist. Thu, 8pm: Black Lips, Blue Rose Rounders. Fri, 8pm: Bit Brigade Presents: Mega Man 3, w/Double Ferrari & Starfarer. Sat, 8pm: Island Soul Vibez starring Finn Gruva. Sun, 5pm: UGWA: Devil's Night 15. 400 S First St, San Jose

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

7pm. Doors 6:30pm. 21+ $7. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES)

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

ALL-STAR COMEDY SHOWCASE

7:30pm. Hosted by Coral Best.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Fri, 10pm: Rock Vs. Rap Battle – featuring The Last Decade & DJ Reason One. Sat, 10pm: DJ Reason One. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

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10:45am. Room T-415, San Jose City College, 2100 Moorpark Ave, San Jose

13TH ANNUAL ART OF REMEMBRANCE ALTAR EXHIBIT RECEPTION

6:30pm. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

VIOLINIST MARCOS ZAMBRANO

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

HIP-HOP | THE CYPHER

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

DJ | SHAKIN’ NOT STIRRED WITH ROGER MOOREHOUSE

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

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

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

6:30pm. The Blue Door, 1502 Saratoga Ave, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

JAZZ | AARON PARKS LITTLE BIG

7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

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

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

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

COMEDIAN | APRIL MACIE

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

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: $3 Pop Thursdays. Fri, 10pm: DJ David Q & Soulemat3s. Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays: DJ Don Foley. Sun, 9pm: Branham Sunday Industry Party. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

FRI 10/11 EASTRIDGE OPEN MIC HOSTED BY NOOP

7pm. Eastridge Center, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Every night. Fri–Sat, 7pm. Sun–Thu, 9pm. 7 Bamboo, 162 Jackson St, San Jose

HUMORIST/ACTOR | NICK OFFERMAN

7:30pm. Mountain Winery, 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX

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

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

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Third Sol. Sat, 9pm: Jimmy D's StoneCold Rhythm & Blues Band. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

KARAOKE | RED STAG LOUNGE

Every night. 9:30pm–1:30am. Red Stag Lounge, 1711 W San Carlos St, San Jose

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR

8pm. Clandestine Brewing, 980 S First St, Ste B, San Jose

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

SAT 10/12 SANTA CLARA CITY LIBRARY COMIC CON

10am. Central Park Library, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara

OPEN MIC | POETRY LOUNGE

1pm. With featured headliner. Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

POETRY MEETUP WITH THE GARLICKY POETS

3:30pm. Gilroy Library, 350 W 6th St, Gilroy

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE

5pm. Crema Coffee #3, 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

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

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RIOT TEN Friday, October 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Manila Killa Saturday, October 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Monday, October 14 • Ages 16+

YUNG GRAVY Tuesday, October 15 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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SUN 10/13 SJ BIKE PARTY | BIKE TO THE BAY

Meet at 9am, ride 9:30am. Ride along Guadalupe Trail. Meet: Guadalupe River Park Conservatory, 438 Coleman Ave, San Jose

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Friday, October 11 • Ages 18+

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Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 21 Granger Smith (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 24 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 16+) Oct 25 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden/ So Pitted (Ages 16+) Oct 28 Blueface/ Coyotes (Ages 16+) Oct 29 & 30 Shoreline Mafia (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars/ Yoshi Flower (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Sinead Harnett (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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3pm. 21+ Small bites. Fashionable Attire. SP2 Communal Bar, 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

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

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

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

SAN JOSE POETRY SLAM

7pm. Poetry competition. Sign up at 6:30pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SUNDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT AT THE XBAR

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

[FREE] KARAOKE | KATIE BLOOM’S

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Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am. Campbell

MON 10/14 COMEDY | KEYES OPEN MIC

7pm. Hosted by Prisilla Torres. S & H Keyes Club, 396 Keyes St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

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COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

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

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

10pm. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS

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

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

A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN

TUE 10/15

7:30pm. $45–$75. Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd, San Jose

TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

TALENT CONTEST | GO GO GONE SHOW

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

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

TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

OPEN MIC COMEDY SHOW

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

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St.

TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

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

THE WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Tue & Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Fri & Sat, 9pm–midnight: Live rock 'n roll & blues from. Sun: Service Industry Night: 1/2 off drinks with industry card. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

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

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

7:30pm. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

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

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

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7:45pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

TUESDAY NIGHT COMEDY OPEN MIC

8:30pm. Hosted by Jacob Contreras. Off The Hook, 2369 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

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

9pm. Hosted by Pete Munoz. Rocco's Blue Max, 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

THU 10/17 THIRD THURSDAYS | SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

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

POETRY | THIRD THURSDAY OPEN MIC

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

BOSS FIGHT COMEDY SHOW

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

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The only man in your life with whom you should be discussing your recent sexual history is Dr. Maury Finkelbaum, your 7,000-year-old gynecologist. You and Neighbordude might be all kinds of fond of each other, but you have no agreement for sexual exclusivity, and you can’t violate a treaty that doesn’t actually exist. Still, assuming that he isn’t getting it on with anyone else, it’s natural that you’d feel guilty about an apparent asymmetry in sexual grazing. Human psychology evolved to have a sort of inner accounting staff monitoring the fairness level of our behavior— calculating whether we’re giving as much as we’re getting. However, unlike everybody’s grandma, evolution doesn’t care whether we’re nice people. It just wants us to survive so we can pass on our genes. Accordingly, this fairness monitoring system safeguards our physical survival through safeguarding our social survival. Even today, when we perceive that we’re getting more than our fair share of something—whether it’s cake or sex with hot strangers—our behavioral accounts payable team pings us in the form of feelbad: the noxious, gut-churning feeling of guilt. Research by evolutionary psychologist Daniel Sznycer and his colleagues deems guilt a “recalibrational emotion.” Translated from the Professorese, this means that our wanting to stop the feelbad from guilt motivates us to even the balance between ourselves and somebody we’ve shorted in some way. The thing is, emotion, which rises up automatically, with no effort from us, needs to be fact-checked by reason. Unfortunately, reason has to be dragged out of bed and forced to work. And that’s what you need to do with yours. Again, remember that you and this guy had no exclusivity agreement that would have barred you from venturing into other men’s beds, back seats or sex dungeons. Also, let’s get real on why you’re longing to tell. It isn’t to make the guy feel better but to make yourself feel better—to rid yourself of the psychological tension that comes from holding back information. Next, consider the view from

psychiatrist and evolutionary researcher Randolph Nesse that painful emotions are important motivational tools—just like physical pain, when you, say, lean back at a party, all apex of cool, and rest your palm on a hot stove. Just as the searing pain gets you to lift your hand pronto, you can use your guilt-induced discomfort in a positive way: as reinforcement against your stepping out on the guy once you two do have a relationship. Other helpful insight comes from research on attachment. The attachment behavioral system, explain social scientists Mario Mikulencer and Philip Shaver, motivates human beings, from infancy on, “to seek proximity to significant others (attachment figures) in times of need.” A person’s attachment style indicates the degree to which a person “worries that a partner will not be responsive in times of need (including the worry that one’s partner will flee the relationship entirely).” However, Mikulencer and Shaver note that “a growing body of research shows that attachment style can change, subtly or dramatically.” One way to change it is through asking your partner to be very physically and emotionally expressive with you in loving, cuddly-wuddly ways. Research by psychologist Brooke C. Feeney finds that the more an insecurely attached person sees their partner is there for them—like with touch that “conveys acceptance, warmth, and intimacy”— the more independent (that is, the less clingoramous) they can be. Finally, there’s something you can do to help yourself feel more secure, per Mikulencer and Shaver’s research: Turn on the TV in your head and run helpful programming—mental video of warm, fuzzy “attachment figures.” The researchers explain that “thoughts of an available and supportive attachment figure” lead people with a lot of attachment insecurities “to behave more like secure people.” Or, putting this another way, your response to a man being really loving to you would be to give love in return—as opposed to giving excuses like “I was so freaked out by how nice you were to me that I tripped and fell on somebody else’s penis.”

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About six weeks ago, I started dating the nicest guy. I have some intimacy issues (basically, fear of abandonment), and having somebody be nice to me is new and uncomfortable. I freaked out one night and had sex with somebody else. I know this guy I’m dating isn’t sleeping with other women, but we haven’t had the official talk. I don’t plan on doing this again, but I really want to confess. The guilt is terrible.—Disgusted With Myself

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657975 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - El Toro, 455 E. Main Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657977 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Nordstrom, 1425 East Dunne, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657985 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Trace, 651 Dana Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/1/2005. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657978 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - PA Walsh, 353 West Main Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658006 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Garden Gate, 10500 Ann Arbor Avenue, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed

herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658014 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Cumberland, 824 Cumberland Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658007 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Cherry Chase, 1138 Heatherstone, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657984 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Santa Teresa, 6200 Encinal Drive, San Jose, CA, 95119, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657981 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Nimitz, 545 Cheyenne Druve, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657988 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Sedgwick, 19200 Phil Lane, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657987 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Bachrodt, 102 Sonora Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/15/2003. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658015

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Great Clips, 20686 Homestead Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Grace GCCA LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/09/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Mark E Grace, Managing Member. #200925410138. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657971 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Del Roble, 5345 Avenida Almendros, San Jose, CA, 95123, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657989 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Graystone, 6982 Shearwater Drive, San Jose, CA, 95120, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/8/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657974 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Hayes, 5035 Poston Drive, San Jose, CA, 95135, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657982 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Parkview, 330 Bluefield Drive, San Jose, CA, 95136, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657983 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Child Development Centers - Faria, 10155 Barbara Lane, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Continuing Development Inc., 350 Woodview Avenue Suite 100, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Susan Dumars, President. #C0731266. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #655936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Rise Academy Inc., 2. Rise PTO, 3. Rise High School,

4415 Fortran Ct., San Jose, CA, 95134, Rise Education System Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/29/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mehran Moalem, CFO. #4135880. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658535

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658908

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1725 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658937

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barketplace, 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd., #1, Campbell, CA, 95008, Prospeross. Inc., 20410 Summit Woods Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95033. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/06/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tram N. Ross, Secretary. #C4289933. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658935

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658842

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658936

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658864

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

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Wash And Dry, 1062 Story Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Project Freedom LLC, 593 Kings Cross Way, San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Nam Nguyen, Owner. #201914110414. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/17/2019. (pub Metro 09/18, 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NANE STATEMENT #658714

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658907

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1705 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658909 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Branham Center, 1711 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Deborah Neisow Chang, Trustee, 134 Doud Dr., Los Altos, CA, 94022. This business is being conducted by a Trust. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Deborah Neishow Chang, Trustee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658839

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659012 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arvizuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comics, 2125 Cunningham Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Carolyn Banh-Trinh Arvizu, Matthew Sutter Arvizu. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Carolyn Arvizu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/31/2002. Refile in facts from previous filing #598401. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mamak Saffarpour, President. #3750618. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 09/25, 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658968 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fish Is Wild Fish Grill & More, 4180 N First., Suite #30, San Jose, CA, 94314, R&T Uniwealth Inc., 12918 Arabella Pl., Cerritos, CA, 90703. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/10/2010. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Randy Cheng, Secretary. #C3323898. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): MARGARET M. MADDEN, AKA PEGGY MADDEN CASE NUMBER: 19PR186579 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): MARGARET M. MADDEN, aka PEGGY MADDENA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: 10/30/19 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408-758-4217 (Pub Dates: 10/02, 10/09, 10/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659047

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. June&Teenth, 2. Juneandteenth, 3. Cherriedotco, 530 Showers Dr STE 7, #169, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Cherrie Randle. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/19/2019. /s/Cherrie Randle. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/20/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658822

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659079

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kristal Gardens, 1285 Hoffman Ln., Campbell, CA, 95008, Kristal Lynn Beck. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #595996. /s/Kristal Lynn Beck. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659133

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658892

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gilland Electronics, 15145 La Alameda, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, John Stover. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/05/1990. Refile in facts from previous filing #583296 /s/John Stover. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/24/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659168 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Elizabeth Kobata Arts, 1135 Pome Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Elizabeth Kobata. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/25/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659151 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Human Centered Leadership, 2. Human Centered Leaders, 3277 S. White Road, #21717, San Jose, CA, 95148, Rapid Reasoning, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #639979. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mark M. Whelan, Managing Member. #201623710310. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/25/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658836 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SimonMed Imaging, 105 South Dr., Suite 110, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Health Diagnostics of California, a Professional Corporation, 6900 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 700, Scottsdale, AZ, 85251. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/20/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Howard John Simon, MD, CEO/Owner/President. #200715610078. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/16/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Going 2 College!, 7062 Webb Canyon Drive, San Jose, CA, 95120, Annette Mackaness. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Annette Mackaness. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/26/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659207 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Norcal Hang Gliding, 1366 Teakwood Drive, San Jose, CA, 95128, Michael Anthony Briganti. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/26/2019. /s/Michael Anthony Briganti. This statement was filed with the

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659053 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Garden Spa, 5406 Thornwood Drive, Suite 130, San Jose, CA, 95123, The Garden Spa, PO Box 22271, San Jose, CA, 95151. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Bon Nguyen, CEO. #C4308069. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/23/2019. (pub Metro 10/02, 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659267 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: District Seven Kitchen, 979 Story Road, Unit 7048, San Jose, CA, 95122, Kireina Corporation, 1701 Magnolia Tree Court, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/30/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/To-Anh Pham, President. #4303241. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/30/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SPARTANBURG IN THE FAMILY COURT SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SUMMONS ACTION FOR DIVORCE 2019-DR-42-1046 THOMAS WHITT, PLAINTIFF RANDIE WHITT, DEFENDANT YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber, Alexandria M. Wolf, Attorney at Law, at her office at 1247 Boiling Springs Rd. Spartanburg, South Carolina 29303, within thirty days after the service hereof; exclusive of the date of such service; unless you received your copy be certified mail, in which case you must serve a copy of your answer on the subscriber within thirty five days after the service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Dated at Spartanburg, South Carolina the 10th day of March 2019. /s/Alexandria M. WolfAttorney at Law1247 Boiling Springs Rd.Spartanburg, S.C. 29303(864) 591-1568(Metro Pub Dates: 10/09, 10/16, 10/23/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658912 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pacific Anxiety Group, 1000 Fremont Ave Suite 145, Los Altos, CA, 94024, Pacific Psychology Group, Inc., 845 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tamara L. Hartl, Director. #C4141613. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/18/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

SR. MANAGER, PRODUCTION (JOB CODE: SMP-RP) Responsible for Managing & leading Production planning team for Intuitiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robotic Systems & Vision products. MS+3 or BS+6. Send resumes to Intuitive Surgical Ops, Inc., Attn: Hien Nguyen, 1020 Kifer Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must ref title & code.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659344 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Infinite Beauty By Yanna, 7174 Santa Teresa Blvd., STE A1, San Jose, CA, 95139, Adriana Andal, 3240 S. White Rd., #229, San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2019. /s/Adriana Andal. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659395 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: American Interior Plant Service, 491 Maple Avenue, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Shiloh Ventures, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/11/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #595079. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Leo N. Lemon, President. #C3694423. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659251 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nexdor Consulting And Engineering, 2066 N. Capitol Avenue Suite 3018, San Jose, CA, 95132, Nexdor Consulting And Engineering INCQ. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/30/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Dineth Madhuranga Ketagoda, President. #C4318491. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/30/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659474 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Carreira Finance, 1669 Hollenbeck Ave., #2-166, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Marc-Alexandre Carreira, 130 Descanso Dr., #495, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/20/2019. /s/MarcAlexandre Carreira. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #659475 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Shaka Brewing, 175 San Lazaro Ave STE. 140, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Shaka Brewing, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Shawn Ellis, Managing Member. #201926010320. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658949 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Santa Clara 4Kids, 363 Piercy Road, San Jose, CA, 95138, Care4Kids LLC, 5508 Century Manor Court, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/19/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ivan Solidum, Member. #201923810637. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/19/2019. (pub Metro 10/09, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2019)

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

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Love is when you

meet someone who tells you something new about yourself," wrote poet André Breton. I think that's an excellent principle to put at the top of your priority list in the coming weeks, Aries. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms, you should seek input from allies who'll offer insights about you that are outside your current conceptions of yourself. You might even be daring enough to place yourself in the paths of strangers, acquaintances, animals and teachers who can provide novel reflections. There's just one caveat: Stay away from people who might be inclined to fling negative feedback.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Constantine P. Cavafy's poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" imagines the imminent arrival of an unpredictable agent of chaos. "The barbarians are coming today," declares the narrator. Everyone in town is uneasy. People's routines are in disarray. Faces look worried. What's going to happen? But the poem has a surprise ending. "It is night, and the barbarians haven't come," reports the narrator. "Some people have arrived from the frontier and say that there aren't any more barbarians." I propose that we use this scene as a metaphor for your life right now, Taurus. It's quite possible that the perceived threat isn't really a threat. So here's my question, taken from near the end of the poem: "What are we going to do now without the barbarians?" GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some folklorists prefer the term "wonder tales" rather than "fairy tales." Indeed, many such stories are filled with marvelous events that feature magical transformations, talking animals and mythical creatures like elves and dragons and unicorns. I bring this up, Gemini, because I want to encourage you to read some wonder tales. Hopefully, as you do, you'll be inspired to reimagine your life as a wonder tale; you'll reframe the events of the "real world" around you as being elements in a richly entertaining wonder tale. Why do I recommend this? Because wonder tales are like waking dreams that reveal the wishes and curiosities and fascinations of your deep psyche. And I think you will benefit profoundly in the coming weeks from consciously tuning in to those wishes and curiosities and fascinations. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect that in the

coming days you'll be able to see into everyone's souls more vividly than usual. You'll have a special talent for piercing through the outer trappings of their personalities so as to gaze at the essence beneath. It's as if your eyes will be blessed by an enhancement that enables you to discern what's often hidden. This upgrade in your perception may at times be unsettling. For some of the people you behold, the difference between how they present themselves and who they actually are will be dramatic. But for the most part, penetrating to the depths should be fun, enriching, even healing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "This heart is rusty," writes

poet Gabriel Gadfly. "It creaks, it clanks, it crashes and rattles and bangs." Why is his heart in such a state? Because he has been separated from a person he loves. And so he's out of practice in doing the little things, the caring gestures and tender words, that a lover does to keep the heart well-oiled. It's my observation that most of us go through rusty-heart phases like this even when we are living in close proximity to an intimate ally. We neglect to practice the art of bestowing affectionate attention and low-key adoration. We forget how important it is for our own welfare that we continually refresh and reinvigorate our heart intelligence. These are good meditations for you right now, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "All the effort in the

world won't matter if you're not inspired," writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. I agree! And that's a key meditation for you right now. Your assignment is to enhance and upgrade the inspiration you feel about the activities that are most important to you—the work and the play that give you the sense you're living a meaningful life. So how do you boost your excitement and motivation for those essential actions you do on a regular basis? Here's a good place to begin: visualize in exuberant detail all the reasons you started doing them in the first place.

By ROB BREZSNY week of October 9

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are embarking on a vigorous new phase of self-redefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and reimagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist Richard Feynman: "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing." SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You've probably heard the saying, "Genius is 99 percent perspiration and one percent inspiration." It's often attributed to inventor Thomas Edison, but 16th-century artist Michelangelo expressed a similar idea. "If you knew how much labor went into it, you would not call it genius," he said about one of his masterpieces. I'm guessing that you Scorpios have been in a phase when these descriptions are highly apropos. The work you've been doing may look productive and interesting and heroic to the casual observer, and maybe only you know how arduous and exacting it has been. So now what do you do? I say it's time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Celebrate! Give yourself a thrilling gift. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you," declared astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that's even a little bit true, I bet you won't believe it in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, the universe will make a great deal of sense to you—at times even exquisite, beautiful, breathtaking sense. Life will be in a revelatory and articulate mood. The evocative clues coming your way about the nature of reality could tempt you to believe that there is indeed a coherent plan and meaning to your personal destiny. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2005, Facebook

was a start-up company barely on the map of the internet. Its president asked graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals on the walls of its headquarters. Choe asked for $60,000, but the president convinced him to be paid with Facebook stock instead. Years later, when Facebook went public, Choe became a multimillionaire. I suspect that in the coming months you will be faced with choices that are less spectacular than that, Capricorn, but similar and important. My conclusion: Be willing to consider smart gambles when projects are germinating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Experiment is the sole

source of truth," wrote philosopher and polymath Henri Poincaré. "It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty." He wasn't merely referring to the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct in laboratories. He was talking about the probes and explorations we can and should carry out in the course of our daily lives. I mention this, Aquarius, because the coming days will be prime time for you to do just that: ask provocative questions, initiate novel adventures and incite fun learning experiences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my opinion, Piscean singer, poet and actor Saul Williams produces highquality art, so he has earned a right to critique mediocre art. In speaking about movies and TV shows that are hard to enjoy unless we dumb ourselves down, he says, "We have more guilty pleasure than actual f------ pleasure." Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to cut back on your "guilty pleasures"—the entertainment, art and socializing that bring meager returns—as you increase and upgrade your actual f------ pleasure. Homework: I discuss some of my ideas about astrology in the article published here: https://tinyurl.com/RobOnAstrology

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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