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THIS MODERN WORLD

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Third Wheel I get that you’re into some weird shit, but I never asked to hear about it. So, I don’t understand why you feel compelled to send me unsolicited text messages looping me into your fucked-up sex life. Like, that’s cool that you enjoy a good romp with your friendly neighborhood courtesans, but I find your invitations to join you on said libertine ventures just a tad inappropriate. What have I ever done to make you think I’d appreciate the invite? While I commend you for at least asking if I’d be interested in fulfilling your voyeur fantasy, consider my answer from now on the same in perpetuity: hard pass.

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THE FLY

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A couple of weeks ago, Fly took notice of Santa Clara County Supervisor DAVE CORTESE’s penchant for sponsoring events in his colleagues’ districts, which looked a bit like an effort to boost his profile for the race he’s running for State Senate District 15. Well, we heard quite a bit of feedback since then about Cortese dipping into his office budget for other self-promotional things, like Cortesebranded schwag, which he appears to be using more in a more political manner than seems appropriate. According to our spies, Cortese has been handing them out at events not just outside the county district he represents. He’s specifically setting up booths and doling out county-funded tchotchkes emblazoned with his own name in the bounds of State Senate D15, where he’s competing against San Jose Councilman JOHNNY KHAMIS, former Assemblywoman NORA CAMPOS, former Federal Elections Commission chair ANN RAVEL and some out-of-the-blue nobody named TIM GILDERSLEEVE for JIM BEALL’s seat. At the Rose, White and Blue Parade—an event in Supervisor SUSAN ELLENBERG’s district that Cortese sponsored with county money—the state Senate hopeful rode in a car flanked by volunteers hoisting They “Elect Dave Cortese” Did banners, making it clear What? that it was blatantly a SEND TIPS TO campaign appearance. FLY@ Yet, observers say, his METRONEWS. entourage took the COM occasion to shower onlookers with some impressively high-quality tote bags adorned with his name under a county seal and accompanied by his District 3 phone number and online landing pages. Meanwhile, some pilots at the Reid-Hillview Airport—a decades-old facility in Supervisor CINDY CHAVEZ’s district that she and Cortese want to close—have been miffed about several big blue banners bearing his name that his staff hung on the fence to advertise the upcoming “Day on the Bay” in Alviso. “It’s just tacky,” a resident pilot remarked when Fly swung by the other day to see the display firsthand.

LEANING IN Executive coach Amii Barnard-Bahn has testified several times before California lawmakers about the need to expand female leadership on company boards.

All A-Board Law requiring more women on boards sparks sweeping change BY ALISHA GREEN

ESTIFYING ON this piece of legislation was eyeopening.

As California lawmakers debated a bill that would require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards, Amii BarnardBahn says she was struck by how little they knew about the selection process for corporate governance. “Every committee meeting I went to, we had to re-educate the legislative committees because most of them have not worked in large corporations,” says Barnard-Bahn, managing principal of the eponymous Barnard-Bahn Coaching & Consulting, who testified several times in support of SB 826. Some state lawmakers appeared surprised to learn there’s no transparency around who is nominated for board seats at public companies, she says. Some asked if people could just

submit a resume for an open board seat. She doesn’t fault them for their ignorance, though. “It is a very closed process,” Barnard-Bahn acknowledges. Going on a year since then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law, Barnard-Bahn says she’s still combating misinformation and resistance to the idea of bringing women into the boardroom in Silicon Valley and beyond. Conservative activist group Judicial Watch, for one, is challenging the legislation in court, saying it creates “an unconstitutional gender-based quota.” State Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), one of the bill’s sponsors, batted away the notion that demanding equity is unconstitutional. In fact, she says, it’s good for business, as evidenced by studies commissioned by Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Capital International, which

found correlations between higher performance and gender diversity on company boards. Regardless of how the lawsuit plays out, public companies in Silicon Valley—and across the country—are already adding women to their boards to better reflect the voices that make up 51 percent of the US population and 58 percent of the labor force. In July, the last company on the S&P 500 with an all-male board finally added a woman. Having women represented on 100 percent of the boards of S&P 500 companies is progress compared to seven years ago, when just one in eight of those companies had any women at all on their boards. But there’s still plenty of progress to be made: Women remain underrepresented in that group at large, holding about 27 percent of the total board seats, according to recent reports. It’s clear now that there is momentum toward closing the gender gap in public company’s boardrooms. The debate the California’s legislation sparked played a significant role in that movement, and it’s spreading to other states. Paired with ongoing pushes by the institutional investor community, including agencies like CalPERS, there’s hope that boardrooms will achieve gender parity much sooner than past progress would have predicted.

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Other states are following California’s lead in pushing for progress. Similar legislation has been discussed or 19TSA006_PAD_JOA_Nonevent_SJC_4c_4-3438x4-8438_Cruz_M.indd introduced in states including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Illinois. In Illinois, the legislation as introduced would have also taken on the underrepresentation of minorities on boards, but after threats of lawsuits, the bill was reduced to a reporting requirement on the gender and race of board members. And Barnard-Bahn says legislation was one of the options discussed this summer when she was in Washington, advising the state’s Women’s Commission during talks about ways to increase the number of women on boards. The institutional investor community has also ramped up its activism in recent years around boosting diversity and closing the boardroom gender gap. CalPERS voted against more than 400 directors at some 141 companies last fall after those companies didn’t improve the diversity on their boards. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said last year that it “expects to see at least two women directors on every board” of companies it backs.

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While California was the first state to require gender diversity on boards, it was nothing groundbreaking in the international context. At least 10 countries already have similar requirements. Norway’s law requiring listed companies to have women in at least 40 percent of board seats has been on the books for more than a decade. “We are not extreme by any stretch when you look at Europe,” Barnard-Bahn says. Some of the longstanding bias in the process might not even be intentional. Since boards have historically been dominated by men, whose networks often include mostly men, nominations for board seats have tended to go to other men. With increased attention in recent years to the gender gap issue at all levels in the tech sector and beyond, more companies have been taking action to be intentional about diversity. San Mateo-based SurveyMonkey, founded in 1999 as a maker of online polls, reached 50 percent women on its board in August 2018 with the appointment of Erika James, dean of the Emory University Goizueta Business School. James had connected several times with SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie during previous years and appreciated what she saw as his genuine commitment to diversity at the company. “He recognized women and other underrepresented minorities have an important voice when it comes to business, and he wanted that reflected at the highest level,” James says. James is also the first black woman to lead a top 25 business school. SurveyMonkey was looking to grow its offerings for the academic sector but, before James’ appointment to its board, lacked someone with access to that network or an understanding of the academic environment. “That happened to be a form of diversity contributing directly to the growth of SurveyMonkey,” she says. Even with such examples of women who are leaders in their fields being added to boards to spur company growth, “tokenism” was one of the arguments lobbed against the California legislation. TheBoardlist CEO Shannon Gordon finds herself bristling at arguments around tokenism when it comes to adding women to boards. TheBoardlist is a site that connects companies with qualified women

candidates for board positions. Of more than 3,000 board candidates on theBoardlist site, some 75 percent are in the C-suite or already serve on a board. It’s hard to imagine someone of that caliber being a mere token, Gordon says. There are so few seats on boards, and every seat is such an important role, that it’s hard to believe a company would add anyone lacking the qualifications, she adds. “They’re brought on because they bring something really important to the table,” Gordon says. The suggestion that boards would have to add unqualified women as a result of California’s legislation are steeped in gender bias. “Women have to prove they’ve done it before they can go on a board. Men are invited because of their potential,” says Julie Castro Abrams, founder and CEO of How Women Lead. The San Rafael-based group promotes women’s voices and helps advance their leadership. “This is the bottom line: Change is hard. A lot of people don’t like change,” Castro Abrams says.

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HOME SWEET HOME Abodu's design has been the first one approved under San Jose's new initiative to streamline construction of backyard homes.

First ‘Granny Flat’ Design Pre-approved Under San Jose’s ADU Plan BY GRACE HASE A week after San Jose unveiled a plan to expedite construction of backyard cottages, city officials have given their seal of pre-approval to one vendor’s 495-square-foot dwelling design. And building templates from two more vendors are close to follow. Abodu announced toward the end of last week that the template for its $199,000-plus backyard unit was the first to be approved under San Jose’s accessory dwelling unit (ADU) Master Plan Program. The initiative aims to fast track the construction of ADUs— commonly referred to as backyard or granny units—by working with builders to pre-approve certain design plans. The idea is that homeowners who opts to build a backyard units from a pre-approved plan will spend less time and money on the project. Rosalynn Hughey, San Jose’s planning director, people can save 60 to 90 days on the design process by

opting for a pre-approved prefabricated unit. And by picking a plan from vendor’s like Abodu, homeowners can also save time on permitting. “Because the city has already vetted and approved the structural plans, the applicant can use the city’s fastest, over-the-counter plan review service, obtaining the building permit in 60 to 90 minutes with proper submittal of the plans,” Hughey explained. “While some custom ADU designs that are small and simple may also move through our plan review process very quickly, pre-approved plans are, by nature, set up for fast review.” Abodu’s units will come fully constructed, including plumbing and electric. The 495 square feet includes a bedroom with a built-in wardrobe, a bathroom with a built-in vanity, a kitchen with a full-size fridge and freezer, stovetop, oven, dishwasher and sink, as well as a living room.

“ADUs are great way to add lowimpact density in the Bay Area,” Abodu co-founder John Geary said. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo— who backed the city’s ADU Master Plan—praised Abodu’s involvement. “We won’t solve our housing crisis $650,000 at a time; we have to bend the cost curve in order to build more housing,” Liccardo said. Another organization, prefabADU, is also closing in on having its initial plan approved. Founder Steve Vallejos says they will offer four different designs. “Our solutions are based on the idea that it’s a panelized product, they’re economical and we also include financing,” he said. “When you look at the whole picture with what we’re trying to do with the city of San Jose, we’re trying to make if faster and more affordable to reach people. I jokingly tell people that ADUs are an affluent product.”

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Institutional investors hold some 78 percent of the market value in the US broad market Russell 3000 index, according to Bloomberg data. That large stake means their activism could have greater impact than state legislation, observers note, but every effort drawing attention to the gender gap helps support the others. Studies previously predicted it could take 40 to 50 years to reach gender parity on public company boards absent any action to address the issue, as noted in California’s legislation. That finally seems to be changing. “People are excited we’re not going to have to wait two generations to have more profitable and better-governed companies,” Barnard-Bahn says. There’s no state report yet on how much progress has been made in California as a result of the law. The first deadline is coming soon, with all publicly traded companies based in California required to have at least one woman on its board of directors by the end of the calendar year. Under that requirement, 184—or nearly one-third—of California’s publicly traded companies will be required to add a woman to their board this year, according to a report by Board Governance Research.

Bigger Changes Many who helped bring about California’s law say the policy’s success is in the discussion it prompted about why the gender gap remains and what can be done to close it faster. That discussion gets at bigger themes, too, they say. “At the end of the day, technically the women on boards bill is not about gender. It is really about people and having the best-qualified people governing our corporations,” Barnard-Bahn says. No company has only men as employees, investors and customers, she points out. “If you believe people making decisions should look like the people being affected by those decisions, it is really hard to argue with the fact that things need to change,” Barnard-Bahn says. “It just makes good business sense.”

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SIGN OF OLD TIMES The ghosts of businesses past haunt this sign on South First Street near Keyes.

Blight or Bling? One man’s blighted, throwaway eyesore is another man’s local character BY GARY SINGH

EARS AGO, the Urban Blight Exploration Junkie often relapsed on this very page, reporting from crumbling eyesores like Hacienda Gardens Shopping Center, the industrial wreckage of Stockton Avenue or the aromatic tire-shop wonderland of Keyes Street. In the latter case, the junkie last explored this thoroughfare 10 years ago, but failed to elaborate on the cross streets that link this stretch of underbelly all the way to

downtown. So allow me to rectify this predicament immediately. First, some background: At least 20 years ago, the city was already drawing up philosophical schemes to expand and gentrify the downtown core southward down First Street and westward along San Carlos, some of which is now starting to happen. Meaning, the next few years might provide the last opportunity to explore the gloriously incongruous neighborhoods between 280 and the celebrated Burger Bar roadside masterpiece at First and Keyes. I’m mostly talking about the leftover commerce along First and Second streets, but any such journey also

includes glorious tentacles of decaying industry that expand outward from those streets. This whole part of town might seem like blighted throwaway trash to any high-falutin’ real estate crook, but it exudes more character than any other neighborhood near downtown. Every facade is totally different, a throwback to the days when street level retail was still interesting to look at— that is, before the city started foisting all this homogenized fauxluxury crud on the rest of us. Although a casual drive-by might suffice, any legit exploration of the area must be done on foot. You need to slither in, around and between the wreckage. Of course, there are ghosts, or djinns, as the Sufi mystics might suggest. In this neighborhood, the physical and the temporal aspects of San Jose seem to merge, as old buildings—just like spirits—often appear out of nowhere, even after the real estate crooks have attempted to gentrify them out of the way. Fifty years ago, for example, the

legendary bar and restaurant, Arturo’s Quiet Village, occupied the building still standing at 950 S. First St. In recent years, the building housed T&T Aquarium and Koi Pond. Two distinct and truly wondrous crumbling old signs—one on First Street, the other at the back entrance on Second Street— provide all the intrigue you need to get started. On each sign, pieces of Quiet Village still peek through from half a century ago, while the more recent layers designating the aquarium are likewise decaying with the wind. Those two signs, together, are a microcosm of the whole neighborhood. They refuse to die. Right next door, at 940 S. First, one finds Bruce Barton Pump Service, a family business going back nearly a century in the same building. You don’t often find this stuff in San Jose. In this neighborhood, everything crashes into everything else. Furniture stores fade into humble Mexican eateries. Rusted barbed-wire and cracked parking lots accompany businesses you wouldn’t notice unless you went looking for them. Industrial yards left over from decades ago still remain, even as hipster breweries encroach down the block. In places, knee-high weeds rise from ruptured parking strips and Banda music blasts from car stereo installers. A yoga studio, a vaping place or a Vietnamese-owned auto repair business might appear, again, seemingly out of nowhere. And tire shops are ubiquitous. Just walking the sun-baked streets, you can smell rubber from the tire shops, motor oil, marijuana smoke and amazing carnitas cooking at some unidentifiable place. Unfortunately, there’s always a dark side to these journeys. These areas can be dicey at nighttime. On certain corners, low-rent hookers lobby the downtrodden johns of the underworld. Back alleys, while supposedly cleaned up over the last decade, still occasionally recall the dismal drug-addled character of downtown in the ’80s. What does it all mean? I’ll tell you. As soon as the real estate syndicates succeed in gentrifying the downtown core with overpriced restaurants, banks and ping pong tables, the ignored-for-decades street riffraff will seek refuge near First and Keyes instead. That’s right—First and Keyes might be the new First and Santa Clara in about 10 years. Chalk it up to progress, San Jose style.

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HE CHECKED all the boxes. Single mom. Two kids. Annual household income less than $40,000. To the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), that placed her firmly in the “extremely low income” category—making her poor enough to qualify for a Section 8 rent voucher, one of the nation’s most generous public benefits.

At least on paper. According to the Santa Clara County Housing Authority, which administers Sec. 8 subsidies in Silicon Valley on behalf of HUD, the

recipient made at least double what she reported. And when her eldest daughter married and moved out of state in the fall of 2017, the housing agency claims she conveniently kept that information to herself while continuing to collect rent payments calculated for a bigger family size. A case manager flagged the certification papers in early 2018 after noticing suspicious inconsistencies; the housing authority’s compliance unit followed up on the hunch and unearthed what looked like pretty clear evidence of fraud. They discovered that the longtime voucher holder, a paralegal at a local law firm, earned income from two attorneys with separate practices but shared office space. Each lawyer paid her about $40,000 a year, but

she reportedly concealed one of those salaries by submitting falsified tax forms to the housing authority whenever her rent subsidy came up for renewal. Housing officials say she continued the racket for eight years. After terminating her benefits in May 2018, they demanded a $104,712 refund, making it, dollar for dollar, one of the biggest ripoffs in the agency’s history. Though officially an open-andshut case of grift, the tenant says her side of the story shows how fraud can cut both ways. The woman accused of stealing taxpayers’ money—who asks to withhold her name—says the housing authority manufactured a charge against her based on piecemeal

evidence and shoddy record-keeping. For 25 years, the woman says she relied on Sec. 8 to help keep a roof over her head as she raised her daughter, then a son, and eventually three nephews and a niece. From her vantage point, she says high turnover at the agency has resulted in cases like hers getting passed from one specialist to another so often that relationships, records and context get lost along the way. Sources familiar with the agency’s inner workings echo her point about decades of federal disinvestment making lax compliance par for the course. In their recounting, the local housing authority invests too little in program integrity and early detection of fraud, which usually involves income underreporting and unauthorized occupants.

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Housing Authority staff can’t vouch for everyone receiving Section 8 benefits BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Part of the problem, for example, is that Enterprise Income Verification, the HUD software used by housing authorities nationwide to monitor cases, only tracks what clients earn from full-time employment and has no way of knowing firsthand what anyone makes as an independent contractor. As a result, the local agency—like many of its peers—lacks the resources to do much except take clients at their word while Silicon Valley’s burgeoning gig economy makes vetting subsidized renters increasingly difficult while fraud in virtually all sectors grows more sophisticated. Meanwhile, even potentially honest mistakes fester into bureaucratic nightmares, and orchestrated scams fall below the radar for years. Or, in some cases, more than a decade.

Out of Sight Katherine Harasz, who became head of the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara in 2016, acknowledges that there’s no targeted system for sniffing out fraud, inadvertent or otherwise. She says she only found out about the paralegal’s case when Metro inquired about it because “these are not decisions that float up to the executive director level.” Neither do statistics about subsidies paid to legally ineligible recipients, which she says didn’t come to her attention either until this newspaper asked for them. That’s because, according to Harasz, the agency had to go “line by line” and “case by case” to come up with a

log of 860 or so claims from August 2016 to the same time this year. Of those allegations, 38 resulted in demands for repayment totaling $724,046. Going back to 2015, when the agency formed its compliance unit, that amount comes close to $1.1 million. But how much of that has been collected is unclear—even to the people in charge. “For the record,” Harasz says, “we don’t keep a tally.” But her best estimates figure that $535,019 is collected and $526,677 is pending under written agreements. In the scheme of things, Harasz says that’s “a drop in the bucket” for an agency with more than 17,000 clients and an annual budget surpassing $380 million. Case managers who spoke to Metro on

condition of anonymity, however, say there’d be a bigger drop in the bucket if the agency devoted enough resources to correct missteps and purge unqualified applicants from a benefits roll with a waiting list more than 60,000 names long and 13 years closed. In other words, needy residents don’t receive housing because dishonest subsidy recipients with higher incomes are occupying units intended for people of lesser means. Yet no one’s really asking about the agency’s track record on fraud. And it doesn’t reflect well on the housing authority that the biggest scams were discovered not by the agency’s deskbound compliance team or harried case workers, but through outside probes—and by pure chance.

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HUD designed Section 8 housing vouchers to provide affordable housing for the poorest of the poor— people who otherwise couldn’t secure decent accommodations on their own. Under the program, low-income tenants pay a third of their personal income—be it $50 from recycling cans or $500 from public cash assistance—to participating landlords. The government picks up the rest of the tab. To prevent anyone from improperly enriching themselves off a subsidy reserved for the disabled, the elderly and the destitute, HUD prohibits Sec. 8 rental property owners from leasing to relatives. Landlord Theodore Nguyen allegedly finagled a way around the rule by passing ownership of a threebedroom, two-bathroom San Jose condo he bought in 2005 for a little over $400,000 to his mom, his sister and a buddy named Rod Allen. All so he could collect a HUD check to lease to his grandmother, Doan Vo. For more than a decade after the Toyon Avenue property was deeded to Nguyen, records indicate that he lied to the housing authority by claiming in forms, again under penalty of perjury, that the apartment belonged to Allen and that the tenant had no familial relation to the landlord. Based on that alleged misrepresentation, Nguyen collected $1,212 a month in Sec. 8 subsidies and $243 from his grandmother for five years through 2010. On June 1 of that year, Nguyen asked the housing authority for a rent increase, putting $1,580 a month in his pocket—with, again, more than 80 percent covered by the HUD voucher. In 2015, Nguyen requested yet another hike, and the housing authority agreed to up the rent to $1,700, with $1,416 of it coming from Sec. 8. The final ask came in early 2016, when Nguyen was apparently ready to take his money and run. The housing authority acquiesced to another rent raise, shelling out $1,666 out of a total $1,950. In May, Nguyen notified the authority that Vo would move out, ending more than a decade-long scheme that bilked taxpayers to the tune of about $200,000.

During those years, the housing authority recertified the subsidy time and again, taking claims made by the landlord and client at face value. The landlord would’ve been in the clear, too, if not for the amazing coincidence of a housing authority employee moving into the same apartment complex and overhearing a neighbor talk about how Vo and Nguyen were related. In this case, the housing authority actually sued to collect the money, which memorialized the saga in a lawsuit that culminated last month with a $206,000 settlement deal. The housing agency wasn’t the only party to luck out in this case, however. Nguyen pulled off an elaborate fraud punishable by years in prison—and all he has to do is pay back what he took.

Team Player Agencies that work with the housing authority praise Katherine Harasz for making the agency more cooperative, transparent and effective since taking the helm in 2016. Harasz, for her part, has one good thing to say about her predecessor, Alex Sanchez. That is that under his tenure, in 2008 to be exact, he secured broad regulatory waivers for the local housing authority under a Clinton-era HUD program called Moving to Work, or MTW. So-called MTW agencies gain more spending flexibility in service of three goals: to reduce overhead costs, incentivize clients to become self-sufficient and increase housing choices for low-income families. “That was a huge federal lift,” Harasz says, “and I think his overall focus was very federal, which makes sense because this is a HUD agency. But I think what happened is that the local relationships were kind of left unattended.” By the time Harasz took his place the following year, tensions between the housing authority and partner agencies were so inflamed that Santa Clara County plotted a hostile takeover and San Jose threatened to revoke a decades-old contract with the autonomous HUD affiliate. With Measure A starting to generate some $950 million in affordable housing revenue, county Supervisor Cindy Chavez wanted greater control of the housing

authority. Meanwhile, Jacky MoralesFerrand, San Jose’s housing czar, grew increasingly frustrated by the city’s lack of sway over the HUD affiliate, whose five commissioners are appointed by county supervisors. “The community was undergoing this huge shift,” Harasz says, “where all of these local governments and non-profit service agencies were coming together to figure out how to tackle our rising homelessness. So I was at the table getting to know everyone and getting to know everyone’s concerns, and just started to listen and tend to these local relationships. What’s really nice is that once you start leveraging your resources, your impact is so much more powerful.” Though San Jose’s housing officials didn’t get around to renegotiating its contract to gain a vote on the housing authority’s commission,

Harasz at least gave the city a voice at meetings. She also made peace with the county to quell talk of a takeover. “So we’ve taken a lot of steps since then to bring everyone into the conversation,” she says. Jennifer Loving—the CEO of Destination: Home, a non-profit that coordinates a regional multi-agency effort to tackle Silicon Valley’s storied housing and homelessness crisis—used to show up to the housing authority’s commission meetings to criticize the agency’s lack of cooperation. Since Harasz took the reins, though, Loving says she’s seen the agency transform from oppositional force to team player; she now chairs its commission. “She has brought exactly the kind of leadership that we need, and because of her, so many more people have been helped,” Loving says. “Especially the most vulnerable people. And that’s critical.”

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HOUSING CZAR Katherine Harasz, the head of the Santa Clara County Housing Authority, has been credited with transforming the agency into a collaborative force as the region tackles the ongoing housing crisis. But internally, she’s being criticized for paying too little attention to fraud prevention and compliance.

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ON GOOD AUTHORITY The local housing authority is responsible for housing some 18,000 clients in Silicon Valley, where Sec. 8 vouchers and project-based subsidies are in such high demand that 60,000 people added their names to the agency’s waitlist when it last opened in 2006.

Under the more collaborative leadership of Harasz, the housing authority flexed its Moving to Work spending flexibility by issuing more project-based vouchers to help finance desperately needed below-market-rate apartments. She says many of those projects—including Second Street Studios, San Jose’s first complex built entirely for the formerly homeless— languished for years since the loss of redevelopment funding until the housing authority stepped up. Harasz credits the Moving to Work designation for allowing her to ramp up the agency’s public housing development and, as of this past year, to tie as much as 40 percent of its voucher inventory to specific projects. But the freedom afforded by MTW comes at the public cost of regulatory scrutiny.

Stretched Thin William Fischer, a senior analyst for the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, says some MTW agencies have leveraged their spending flexibility to improve outcomes for

the clients they serve. But he says research shows that for the most part, MTW agencies tend to spend more on management and less on Sec. 8 vouchers and quality assurance. “It can be harder for HUD to provide oversight over MTW agencies because they’re using different rules—rules that they created themselves,” he says. Sources inside the local housing authority that’s been the case here, too, and that the Santa Clara County Housing Authority’s MTW status has created a blind spot when it comes to program integrity. Though Harasz enjoys goodwill with outside entities, there’s been some unrest among both the unionized and unrepresented rankand-file employees, many of whom blame the agency’s special status for what they call weak oversight, a bloated administration and unprecedented turnover among front-line staff. With caseloads-per-specialist teetering in some instances toward the 400 and 500 mark, many of them say they’re stretched so thin that their clients suffer. And so does the integrity of the benefits administered. Inspections have reportedly been

Check, Please The best way to fight fraud is to prevent it. That’s both policy and practice for the SIU, according to the team’s boss, Umesh Pol.

“We don’t want to be punitive at all,” he says. “We just want the client to be forthcoming. In that spirit, we focus a lot on early fraud, on making sure that the data the client provided is accurate so we don’t end up taking their word for it and prevent them from going down the wrong path.” As the local administrator of state and federal medical, cash and food benefits, the county SSA deals with far more clients than the housing authority—about 70,000 people a year for food stamps alone, for example—but smaller individual entitlements. And the quality assurance, not to mention investigative, arm of the department, the SIU trains case managers to spot red flags and helps clients sort out inconsistencies as much as possible before they ever receive benefits. The team also cumulatively identifies about $1 million to $2 million a year in improperly obtained subsidies. If there’s enough suspicion to merit the effort, the SIU sends investigators— none of whom are armed but all of whom are Peace Officer Standards and Training-certified—to surveil a scene or make an unannounced visit. “Not all require that, of course,” Pol says. “But if someone claims that they’re a single person and you hear that a parent is actually living with them, the only way you could establish that is if you make a home visit.” The housing authority’s policy, on the other hand, is to notify clients at least a month or more ahead of time. Even if a housing specialist suspects fraud. Pol balks at hearing about the housing agency’s MO. “If you announce it, then what’s the point?” he asks. As a rule, the SIU tries to work with clients to remedy inadvertent mistakes. But if the fraud is determined to be deliberate, and exceeds a certain dollar amount, then Pol says he refers it for prosecution. “Normally, we establish a threshold,” he says. “Let’s say it’s more than $5,000. If that’s the case, then we’d typically want the DA to look into it. But it’s not just the dollar amount, it’s the intent. If there was malice, that’s also something we refer to criminal prosecution.” Because of the resources SIU devotes to early detection, it’s rare for fraud to go unchecked for long, Pol adds.

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reduced to perfunctory walkthroughs—some just minutes long and all scheduled after giving clients a one-to-few-months notice. With so little time for customer service, let alone fraud detection, several employees say much of the certification process has been reduced to the honor system. “When people are this rushed, it’s easier to miss the warning signs,” says one employee who asked to remain anonymous because of what she described as an internal culture of retribution. “Word spreads fast, and if people know they can get away with something, they’ll keep gaming the system.” As a Moving to Work agency, the housing authority had the option of opting out of compliance assessments to HUD. So it did. Now, HUD only comes calling if there’s a fire to put out—like the kind of rampant mismanagement plaguing the housing authorities in Richmond and San Francisco. And HUD’s Office of Inspector General dedicates its limited bandwidth to critical audits at the worst of the worst of its agencies. After years without any program integrity team whatsoever, the housing authority formed a compliance unit in 2015 to police itself. In a presentation to the commission that year, agency officials said the new unit would work hand in hand with federal regulators and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office to police fraud. But all of the work the team has produced since then has been kept from the commission, San Jose’s housing department, the county and, when Metro asked for its audits last week, from the media, too. A spokesman for DA Jeff Rosen says his office hasn’t heard about any fraud involving the housing authority in years. Except, that is, for a case referred by the county Social Services Administration, which boasts a 16-member Special Investigations Unit (SIU) that conducts actual fieldwork— stakeouts, surprise visits and the like— to chase down suspected fraud.

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grand theft and fraud and have since posted bail and pleaded not guilty to the charges. When asked if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything the housing authority could have done to catch the alleged fake-babies scheme, Harasz shrugs her shoulders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, they faked birth certificates,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How would we know that?â&#x20AC;? Even proponents of stronger compliance at the agency concede that point. In rare instances, fraud is calculated enough to evade the most discerning case workers. Pol, of the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SIU, says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important to conduct thorough eligibility checks at the outset and whenever thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a significant change to a case. Because while the Fourth Amendment protects against unwarranted searches and drug tests, courts have held that home visits to verify claims by public welfare recipients about occupancy and family size are considered reasonable. Perhaps a routine eligibility visit may have exposed the Quintero twins sooner. Or maybe their alleged duplicity could only have come to light, as it did, through an anonymous tip, which the housing authority oddly discourages on the program integrity page of its website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cannot accept or investigate any allegation,â&#x20AC;? it states, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you do not provide your name and contact information.â&#x20AC;? Jenny Phamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a 31-year caseworker at the housing authority whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out on leave after getting written up by her supervisor for what she calls workload-related deficienciesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;says the agency could nip most of its compliance problems in the bud if it spend more time educating clients about what fraud entails and what they risk by bending the rules. But the frenetic pace of the job makes that kind of one-on-one quality insurance nearly impossible, she says. The paralegal echoes Phamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they just gave me a warning, I wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve corrected whatever they told me needed correcting,â&#x20AC;? she says, noting how her credit is pretty well shot because of the judgment issued against her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything was wrong until they told me to give them $100,000-something back. I guess Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just pull that out of my mattress.â&#x20AC;?

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TACO TIME MACHINE The crew behind Bay Style Catering cross borders and generations.

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N A PARKING lot near the former Memorex campus, deep inside one of Santa Clara’s sprawling industrial compounds, a crew is dramatically backlit against a red setting sun. As a graffiticovered train rumbles past, three large, tattooed men— sporting black chef coats, aprons and backward, impeccably clean baseball caps—bustle around a custom built plancha. They are Yordi Najera, Steve Gutierrez and Kellen Wallace, owners and operators of the Mexican-inspired popup Bay Style Catering, and today they are working to feed the hungry, beerdrinking crowd at Golden State Brewery.

Bay Style’s menu is simple and delicious. Customers may choose from either street tacos or mulitas (more on this later), with a choice of seven fillings—including beef, chicken, pork and a vegetarian option. There is no salsa bar where patrons can add onions, cilantro or extra sauce. Najera, Gutierrez and Wallace prefer to personally build and garnish each taco, making sure the blend of toppings is to the customer’s liking. It makes sense to trust them. These three friends came up the hard way—sweating it out as dishwashers and prep cooks in the hangersize corporate kitchens of Silicon Valley—and they know what’s good. Every cut of meat on the menu is a testament to their expertise, and each rub, marinade and highly refined

technique they deploy tells a different story about their respective pasts. Both Gutierrez and Najera worked for one of San Jose’s most notoriously cheap chefs, and it shows. They don’t waste money buying additional meat for their carne asada preparations. Instead, they butcher whole beef shoulder—carefully separating the tender Denver steaks and country ribs from the tougher cuts. The seared beef is tender, juicy and packed with the flavor of ribeye. They spin the leftovers into some of the best beef barbacoa I’ve ever tasted. Slowly cooked in a thick sauce of chilies, spices and aromatics, the meat is both incredibly rich and so delicate it can be cut with a spoon. The savory, decadent qualities of the barbacoa are balanced by the tang of sherry vinegar. The depth and complexity of flavor elevates this humble cut of meat, transforming it into something truly noble. Wallace is the most talkative of the bunch. Over the course of just a few minutes, he caught me up on the last five years of his life, which he spent working in a small town in Baja California. It was there that he truly learned the simple pleasure of peasant

cuisine. He waxed poetic about the village abuelas conjuring magical dishes from just three or four ingredients. When I tried his al pastor, I could taste that divine inspiration. The pork is doused in a strong marinade of achiote paste with pineapple and guajillo chiles. It is then meticulously layered on a spit and slow roasted for hours. The result is sweet and savory—with a vivid red, deliciously charred crust that ties the entire presentation and experience together. Mulita in English means “little donkey,” a name I didn’t understand until Najera explained it to me. Much like the pack animal it’s named after, the Mulita is small, compact and designed to hold everything. Essentially it’s a double-decker quesadilla, filled with meat, cheese, onions, cilantro and a spicy avocado sauce. I choose to fill mine with carnitas and the vegetarian option of papás y rojos (potatoes and peppers). The carnitas was soft and well-seasoned, with just enough of a crisp edge to make it stand out against the other fillings. The papás y rojos were meaty and crunchy, as the spuds benefited from a good sear on the plancha. The chicken was the sleeper hit. As a rule, I never order chicken in my tacos. Too often it is underseasoned, overcooked and bland. However, their achiote chicken blew me away. Using dark meat rather than white chicken breast, Bay Style marinates their bird in an achiote and garlic paste before searing it on the hot plancha. The result is a deep, mahogany exterior and juicy interior. After the final bite of my taco, a subtle spice lingered, continuing to warm my palate. Gutierrez’s garam masala spice blend deserves all the credit here. Drawing inspiration from his Mexican and Fijian heritage, the seasoning mix is an apt metaphor for Bay Style Catering as a whole. There is so much history wrapped in the food we eat. Globetrotting spices, seasonal fruits and vegetables, even cooking vessels all tell a story about the people behind the dish— the lives they’ve lived and the journeys they’ve taken.

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The rap gods have smiled on San Jose. This weekend’s Kings of the West extravaganza brings a completely stacked lineup—including Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, The Game, E-40 and Warren G—to the Shark Tank. These hip-hop heroes come to town as part of a broader series of concerts celebrating the SAP Center’s 25-year history. There isn’t much that hasn’t been said already about these OGs of West Coast rap. Whether you loved Are We There Yet?, prefer to partake in any number of Snoop’s cannabisrelated online ventures, or want to go dumb alongside one of the Bay Area’s most infamous lyricists, it’s all here. (CJP)

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THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS Sat, 7:30pm, Free CSMA, Mountain View In anticipation of 2020—and Beethoven’s 250th birthday—the Community School of Music and Arts hosts the latest installment in its a concert series honoring the beautiful sonatas of our good friend, Ludwig van. Composed over the course of three decades, the 32 sonatas are widely recognized as some of the most important compositions in music. Axel Schmitt, CSMA faculty member and winner of the Los Angeles Liszt Competition, will perform at Tateuchi Hall. The evening’s performance will feature four sonatas, including “The Tempest” and “Waldstein.” (CJP)

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Sun, 7pm, $61+ SAP Center, San Jose It’s sure to be a wild night when Colombian singer and songwriter Maluma brings his 11:11 world tour to the SAP Center. Maluma’s 2016 single “El Perdedor” is just one of several of his videos that have tallied more than a billion views on YouTube. Part of the new school of Latin heartthrobs, this young South American combines the bad-boy swagger of Pitbull with the charm and naturally disarming vibe of Enrique Iglesias. Mainstream US listeners will recognize him from his sultry feature on “Medellín”—an ode to Maluma’s hometown on Madonna’s latest album, Madame X. (CJP)

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MANÁ Sep 27 at SAP Center

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PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE Sun, 3pm, $10+ SJICA, San Jose Zach Leary, son of pioneering psychonaut Timothy Leary, is the host of “The MAPS Podcast” as well as “It’s All Happening with Zach Leary.” James Fadiman is an author and psychedelic researcher. During the Talking Art: Psychedelic Medicine event, the pair will discuss microdosing psychedelics—such as psilocybin and LSD—and the potential benefits of the practice, such as boosts to creativity and focus, as well as the history and politics of the countercultural movement. This event comes at the tail end of the “Surreal Sublime” exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, where many artists have incorporated psychedelia into their work. (CJP)

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CIRQUE MEI

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Sun, 10am, Free St. Brother Albert Church, San Jose

Wed, 7:30pm, $35+ Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto

Wed, 7:30pm, Sold Out Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Authentic Polish cuisine, music and dance can be difficult to come by in this area. But every year, around the middle of September, the South Bay Polish community throws a party at St. Brother Albert’s Polish Catholic Mission. Food, of course, is primary, so count on plenty of pierogi and kielbasa to go around. Bands will be playing Polish folk music throughout the day, and dancers will repeat steps that have been passed down through generations. Traditional Polish crafts, like amber jewelry, woodwork, textiles and crystal glass will be available for sale. (AG)

From the Hebei Province in China, this impressive group of flexible and high-flying performers is sure to dazzle. Watch as more than 40 world-class athletes incorporate elements of traditional and contemporary Chinese circus into their respective routines. The troupe blends dance, gymnastics and acrobatics in a mix of deathdefying stunts and awe-inspiring skill. Hoop-diving, ladderbalancing, body contortion and an act that tests the limits of just how many individuals can hitch a ride on a bicycle—these are just a few of the talents in store. Children and JCC members receive a $5 discount to the show. (CJP)

Each year the Steinbeck Center presents the Steinbeck Award, celebrating musicians, writers, documentarians, thinkers, artists and activists whose work embodies the empathetic spirit and values of John Steinbeck. Previous recipients include Bruce Springsteen, Rachel Maddow and Ken Burns. This year, British folk-pop superstars Mumford & Sons are set to accept SJSU’s illustrious prize in a celebration at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall. The award is going to Mumford & Sons both because they’ve written songs inspired by Steinbeck and also because they’ve demonstrated a serious commitment to social engagement through their Gentlemen of the Road project, which supports global and local charities fighting for social justice. (GS)

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

J BALVIN Oct 17 at SAP Center

MARK FARINA Oct 19 at The Ritz

LUKE COMBS Nov 6 at SAP Center

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FILTHY PIG In Richard Diebenkorn’s ‘Disintegrating Pig,’ an ashen, messy gray background swirls around a distorted swine.

California Sky Two new Richard Diebenkorn exhibits highlight artist’s eye for the West Coast BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

WO OF STANFORD University’s museums are devoting this curatorial season to one of their most celebrated alumni, artist Richard Diebenkorn (d. 1993). On Sep. 20, two of his paintings will be on display in “Left of Center: Five Years of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University,” an exhibit devoted to West Coast artists. His Girl on the Beach (1957) and Ocean Park #60 (1973) will represent the artist’s approaches to figurative and abstract painting.

Concurrently, at the Cantor Arts Center next door, there’s “Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor,” which opened on Sep. 4. Both could be thought of as an amuse-bouche rather than the kind of bountiful buffets that career retrospectives tend to proffer to a certain set of museum-goers. But non-museum-goers can also participate in all things Diebenkornian. Interactive and online components of “Richard Diebenkorn at the Cantor” include The Sketchbooks Revealed and a technological experiment in sleuthing in regard to his 1967 painting Window. Diebenkorn’s wife Phyllis (d. 2015) donated 29 of her husband’s sketchbooks to the Cantor, the contents of which have all been scanned to

become an everlasting digital record of his works in progress and his thought processes. With 39 drawings, Sketchbook #16 is full of oddities like a pear and a halved banana, above yet another banana, being ignored by a robed figure with their back to the beckoning fruit. The artist plays with these shapes to experiment with shadows made of cross-hatching. There are also several sketches of an overcoat hanging on a wire, a model in a state of repose and a dog’s head. Diebenkorn painted a series of work from interior rooms that look out onto gnomic, geometrically arranged landscapes. In the 92 inch tall Window, an empty folding chair gazes at a red clay courtyard and a series of mismatched, whitewashed houses. The painting has also been scanned and uploaded for viewing on a monitor that hangs to its left. This independent project by the engineering physics major Katherine Van Kirk trained an infrared camera on Window. Beneath the painting’s finished surface, she discovered several previous incarnations of the work. You can scroll back and forth on Window to see what ghostly objects still linger

there faintly disguised, such as a pair of glasses and a naked torso. To give us a sense of who the man was, the curators installed a large black and white photograph of the mustached artist. Sporting a freshly pressed checked shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, the photographer captures Diebenkorn in profile looking out onto what must be one of his peaceful and unpeopled courtyards. Apart from his winsome expression, it reveals next to nothing about him. The photo hangs in the round on the top floor of the Oshman Family Gallery rotunda, along with a handful of other canvases. The subject of one of them, an early painting titled Disintegrating Pig (1950), is a portrait of a black pig that’s so fat it can barely hold its shape together. An ashen, messy gray background swirls around its distorted body like a gritty, polluted storm. The palette has more in common with a Franz Kline than it does with Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series. Ocean Park #60 at the Anderson contains colliding panels of pale blues and wintry greens, while #94, made three years later, confines a rectangle of three different blue hues to the top quarter of the canvas. The rest of the painting is a wash of variously influenced taupes—colors contained within a cloud that’s about to burst. Architectural lines come to the foreground. A roofline and the outline of an open doorway peer through the murkiness. In this series, Diebenkorn remakes the visible world by condensing and collaging their various components. He merges the pastoral and urban impulses of a place in flux. The buildings and vistas are recognizable but from a hazy distance. Diebenkorn looks at the landscape from above, and as it cycles through time. Tangible, manmade objects blur until they become unreal. These paintings are a record of one neighborhood in Los Angeles, and of his ardor for the distinctive light that shines in Californian skies.

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SQUAD GOALS All grown up, the gang is back to finish ‘It’—once and for all.

Together Again The gang reunites for a head-scratcher of a sequel in Stephen King’s ‘It, Chapter 2’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

TEPHEN KING ONCE described the film version of Cujo (1981) as “a big dumb Sonny Liston of a movie.” He was referring to the famed boxer: disreputable, graceless, but an unstoppable puncher. To which pug would one compare It, Chapter 2? My vote is for some middling middleweight known for occasionally landing a powerful sucker punch, but who just sways around the ring until the bell is rung. Andy Muschietti’s It Chapter 2 is

a textbook “getting the band back together” movie. Twenty-seven years later, we re-meet the Loser’s Club, that group of small-town rejects who sent Pennywise the Dancing Clown back to hell in 1989. As children, they swore a blood oath to return if the monster ever revived. Now the six are recalled to action by Mike (Isiah Mustafa taking over for Chosen Jacobs). Mike stayed put at the hellmouth in Derry, Maine, living above the public library and studying the multi-formed horror. Turns out the local Native Americans knew him all too well, long before It (Bill Skarsgard) materialized in bad clown form: walleyed, needle toothed and with a bulbous forehead upon which the makeup has cracked like rotting plaster.

The grown up Losers all have serious worldly success (the question of “What is up with that plot point?” will be addressed in a minute). Derry gives you a recovered-memory effect. Like the town where you went to college, the farther you get away from it, the more you forget why you left in the first place. But what should feel like a slowly gathering evil that one cannot forestall arrives with the inevitability of a mandatory sequel. The first It was more than just a bad clown; like MobyDick, he was just a mask that some unknowable pure evil glared through. Now we know what’s behind the mask, and the explanation is dissatisfying. Some of it works. The creatures are fun, thrust rapidly into the camera and shaken like the props in a carnival’s dark ride. Someone will, and maybe should, pick apart the Jade of the Orient restaurant scene as a racist joke about the weirdness of Asian food. But there’s something to be said for the shock of all that blazing green neon on its front, and the way a banquet turns into a Hieronymous Bosch painting. Far better is Joan Gregson as Mrs Kersh, a longtime resident of Derry,

whom Jessica Chastain’s Beverly interrogates. Gregson is the best part of the movie. It’s easy to see why she dominated It Chapter 2’s previews; the old lady with a rictus of a smile, and a peekaboo of ulcerated skin visible through a gap in her house dress. She uses loaded words to torment the molested Bev: ”I was always Daddy’s little girl.” It’s almost scarier than the yelp-inducing punchline. There’s an anecdote about Garbo being disappointed by the ending of Beauty and the Beast: “Give me my beast back.” One wanted the Losers back. The kids grew up into successes, the opposite of the way it tends to work after childhood trauma. Ben, the fat kid of the gang (Jeremy Ray Taylor) blossoms into the muscular Jay Ryan, and now apparently owns a yacht. Yesterday’s wiseass Richie (Finn Wolfhard) is now played by Bill Hader, an immediately recognizable TV comedian—unhappy, but successful. James McAvoy’s Bill is a horror novel writer surrogate for Stephen King. (King himself is in the picture, as a pawky Maine antique shop owner, part of a running joke about how nobody likes the endings of Bill’s books. If only the ending of It Chapter 2 weren’t a perfect example of why people complain.) Chastain, who is distracted here, doesn’t at all seem like the person Sophia Lillis’ Bev would have grown up to be. In flashbacks Lillis is very touching; few things in It, Chapter 2, bear as much horror as the memory of Bev’s father perfuming her with an atomizer, before whatever it was that he did next. The scene has a Blue Velvet vibe. Give It, Chapter 2 credit for suggesting that the monster rejoices at anti-gay violence; bad enough that it bites the heads off children, It is also a homophobe. Still, this script needed the attention of someone funny. It’s padded with rock climbing, swampswimming and hand-holding. This creature is not just of sudden violence, but of blocked drains, sewers and puke-fountains. It Chapter 2 revels in a textbook King trope—revealed in his book of essays Danse Macabre: if he can’t work the levers of terror or horror, he’ll go for the gross-out.

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IN THE AIR ‘The Goldfinch’ is an engrossing but never convincing adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel of grief and art.

Artful Ashes SUCH IS NOVELIST Donna Tartt’s skill that she found a way to refresh the horror and disgust of Sep. 11 via an imaginary attack. Around 2001, a right-wing mad bomber strikes the inner chambers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vanished in the ashes is a small painting (c. 1650). It possesses the same kind of romance as a Vermeer—a rendering of a sad, tame goldfinch, tethered by a golden chain. Missing and presumed destroyed forever, it’s actually in the possession of young Theo (Oakes Fegley) whose beloved mother died in the bombing. Preparing for his suicide in an upscale Amsterdam hotel room, Theo (played as an adult by Ansel Elgort) flashes back on his guilty life. Fostered with an upper-class family—the kind of people who put their children in suits and ties at age 8—Theo is a poor relation of sorts. Yet he thaws the chilly mother of the family (Nicole Kidman) and bonds with the witty, wry youngest (standout Ryan Foust). Suddenly, Theo is whisked away to a strikingly desolate part of Las Vegas with his gambling father (Luke Wilson) and his worthless spray-tanned girlfriend (Sarah Poulson). Then: to the atelier of a warm old Dickensenian craftsman (Jeffery Wright) in The Goldfinch Manhattan who trains him in the way of the antique. Emptied by grief, Theo grows into a sort of replicant: R; 149 Mins. three-piece-suit wearing and poreless, with a job peddling Valleywide dodgy colonial furniture. Enter the supercilious blackmailer, Denis O’Hare, who knows all of Theo’s secrets. The villain describes Theo’s furniture as “Frankensteins,” since they’re cobbled together from various sources. Roger Deaken’s photography is rich, but it’s not a putdown to say The Goldfinch itself is Frankenstinian. Here are elements of Great Expectations joined to Ripley’s Game with some Arthur Miller at the finish. Mostly the film copies Dickens’ approach to mysterious bequests, lifelong guilt and sudden reversals of fortune, in a sprawling tale that John Crowley (of Brooklyn) keeps engrossing, but never completely convincing Handily stealing this wayward movie: Finn Wolfhard as Boris; a hawk-nosed goth from the Ukraine who holds up a black parasol to the Vegas sun. Wolfhard is so good looking that directors naturally think of him for uncanny roles (It and Stranger Things, so far). Just as it’s highly likely Wright will soon be taking over for Morgan Freeman, so it seems Wolfhard will be taking over for Johnny Depp. Wolfhard’s common-sense and alertness for opportunity combats The Goldfinch’s tendencies towards WASP starchiness; for example, the treasure Theo should have cherished turns out to be a civics textbook. —Richard von Busack

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SWEET TOOTH Cake co-headline Shoreline with Ben Folds.

Have Your Cake A LITTLE BIT of country, a little bit of rock & roll and a little bit of hip-hop swagger. For the second summer in a row, alt-rock hit-machine Cake joins forces with singer, songwriter and piano-pop powerhouse Ben Folds—hitting the road with guitars, trumpets and vibraslap in tow. Cake was founded three decades ago in Sacramento and ascended the alternative rock charts with a bright and bubbly antidote to grunge’s dour and sour sounds. For every sludgy riff, Cake had a crisp and spritely rebuttal; to each downer lyric, Cake responded with wit. “I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooooooonnng… jacket!” frontman John McCrea exclaimed, stretching his signature monotone for emphasis on “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” from the Cake & Ben Folds band’s 2001 Columbia Records debut, Comfort Eagle. Ever since its first record, 1994’s Motorcade of Sep 13, 7pm, $35+ Generosity, Cake has delivered consistently catchy Shoreline melodies, driving basslines and poetic metaphors Amphitheatre, that are as clear as they are zany. Mountain View Perhaps it is something about California’s Central livenation.com Valley. In the same way that the Modesto-bred Grandaddy so expertly channeled the existential dread of internet-connected suburban sprawl with songs about robots working in the dark, Cake zeroed in on toxic masculinity through the prism of high-powered automobiles. “Race Car Ya-Yas” is a brilliant takedown of machismo, road rage and commuter culture, while “Going the Distance” is the tale of a man racing against himself in an empty arena as his lover languishes in the cold shadow of his ambition. Though the band hasn’t released a full-length album since 2011’s Showroom of Compassion, there were hints of new music with the release of “Sinking Ship” last August, the lead single from their yet-to-be-released seventh studio album. This summer’s tour also comes on the heels of Folds’ first major book release, a memoir titled A Dream About Lightning Bugs. A North Carolina native, Folds first achieved national success as the frontman of Ben Folds Five. The band’s 1997 single “Brick,” from the album Whatever and Ever Amen, lit up alternative rock and pop radio all over the country with bouncy keys. As a solo artist, Folds has performed with William Shatner, Regina Spektor and even authors like Neil Gaiman. His impressive resume doesn’t stop there: Folds was a main contributor to the soundtracks of two of the mid-2000s most quirkiest films—Hoodwinked! and Over the Hedge—and even served as a judge on NBC’s a cappella competition show, The Sing Off. —Avi Salem & Nick Veronin

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SEP 11–19 | “THIS IS FOR THE TWO-YEAR-OLDS WHO CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE THEY SPEAK HALF-ENGLISH AND HALF-GOD. SHAKE THE DUST.” From Anis Mojgani’s legendary performance poem, “Shake the Dust.” Anis has a way with words that tells me he may know another world better than this one, yet he stays here and loves it because we can still grow. His tweets have been very poetic lately: @mojgani I compiled a lot of this week’s events over a couple of slices at the new Pizza Flora (78 S First St, San José.) They specialize in delicious, handcrafted, homemade vegan and veggie pies. Scrumtrulescent! This Thursday, the San José Museum of Art welcomes four immigrant community members to tell their stories as part of “Journeys: How Immigrants Made a Home in San José.” $5 after 5pm. One of my favorite photogs, Polaroid Jay, has carved his own seat at the table of South Bay photography with his quick lens and almost equally speedy development. I thoroughly enjoy what he does with his camera. See his work at Orange Moon Salon on Park Avenue in San Jose this Saturday. These events and more in my listings below. = MUST SEE

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WED 9/11

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

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, September 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

NIGHT OF THE LIVING PROG 3.2 Thursday, September 12 • Ages 16+

GOGOL BORDELLO

Thursday, September 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

RANDOM RAB

CEDAR ROOM

Everyday Happy Hour: 4pm– 5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays: Exotic cocktails and island vibes. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

plus Lapa

Friday, September 13 • Ages 16+

IYA TERRA THRIVE

plus Tribal Theory

The California Honeydrops

Saturday, September 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

RICK N JIMMI’S ALL STAR JAM Sunday, September 15 • Ages 16+

LIL KEED

SAM'S BBQ

Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 9/17, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 9/18, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

plus Jasiah

Sunday, September 15 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

L.A. WITCH

plus Spirit Mother

ELDER ISLAND

plus Dirty Nice

Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 4 & 5 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz/ Keznamdi (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa/ Myrne (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Wed, 6pm: Blues & $2 Brews w/ Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Bob Gonzalez Band featuring Aaron Madsen. Fri, 6pm: Tony Lindsay Band. Sat, 6pm: Marina Crouse Band. Sun, 11am: Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Evan Thomas Band. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night.

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

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

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

8pm. Hosted by Coral Best. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

Wed, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Uncle Hank. Thu, 10pm: Live DJ. Fri, 10pm: Live Band/ DJ. Sat, 10pm: Live Band/ DJ. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 10pm: Game Night. Tue, 7:30pm: Risky Quizness. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

KARAOKE | QUARTER NOTE

THU 9/12

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

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

DEATH METAL | VALDUR, DEATHGRAVE

Tuesday, September 17 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES)

COMEDY | LAUGH-TIKI WITH CHAD OPITZ

Friday, September 13 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+ Saturday, September 14 • Ages 16+

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

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9pm. No comedy tonight. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

ART AFTER DARK | SURREAL SUBLIME, TRACY SNELLING

7pm. San José Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S First St, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

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

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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

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

FRI 9/13 SCOUT DEGENDERETTE, LATTERS, "YIKES!" & DUSTLORD

7pm. Peace & Justice Center, 48 S Seventh St, San Jose

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

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

STAGE | ONE WOMAN SEX AND THE CITY

7:30pm. Also Sat. A Parody of Love, Friendship & Shoes. 3Below Theatres, 288 S Second St, San Jose

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR

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

THE RITZ

Fri, 8pm: Kung Fu Vampire: 11th Annual Friday The 13th Party. Sat, 9pm: ‘90s Nite. Wed, 9/18, 7pm: Ex Hex, Seth Bogart, Taleen Kali. Thu, 9/19, 8pm: Tooth & Nail. 400 S First St, San Jose

KARAOKE | ROCCO'S BLUE MAX SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

HIP-HOP | CYPHER WITH AUDIODRU

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

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

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 | RED STAG LOUNGE

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

SAT 9/14 OPEN MIC | POETRY LOUNGE

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

SPEAK JUSTICE! SEMINAR SERIES

2pm. Discussing gender with Grace Talice Lee. Be The Change Yoga & Wellness, 947 Park Ave, San Jose

POETRY MEETUP WITH THE GARLICKY POETS

COMEDIAN | JESSICA KIRSON

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

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

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE

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

PHOTOGRAPHY | MAGIC MOMENTS EXHIBIT 6pm. Music by DJ Shea Butter. Orange Moon Salon, 953 Park Avenue, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

KARAOKE & DANCING

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

SUN 9/15 SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Terrie Odabi. Sat, 9pm: Patron Latin Rhythms. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

SV PRIDE DRAG BRUNCH

11am. SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

DJ/DANCE | SUNDAY SERVICE

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

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

JAZZ JAM

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

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

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

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

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

KARAOKE | KATIE BLOOM’S

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am. Campbell

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MON 9/16 RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

ART CLASS | LIFE DRAWING

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

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

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

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

JAM | WEEKLY SESSIONS AT FIVE POINTS

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657401 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kevin Pham, 180 Great Oaks Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95119, Kevin Pham, 30 W. Virginia St. Unit 2, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business onname 01/28/2014 underlisted file number This business wasPham. or names herein587505. on 07/12/2019. /s/Kevin conducted by: An individual T. Hoang filed the This statement was filed/s/Minh with the CountyDate Clerk ofwith Santa clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016 Clara County on 08/01/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657753 ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tafoya NO. 16PR178443 Properties, 481 N. 10th St., San Jose, CA, 95112, Kenneth Tafoya.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARKRegistrant This business is being conducted by an Individual. PASCOE CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries beganKELLY. transacting business under the fictitious business creditors, contingent creditors, andon persons who may otherwise name or names listed herein 04/02/2019. /s/Kenneth beTafoya. interested in statement the will or estate, or both of:the MARK PASCOE This was filed with County ClerkKELLY. of A Petition for Probate hasonbeen filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Santa Clara County 08/13/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of 09/04, 09/11/2019) California, County of Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests that James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT #657420 Clara be appointedBUSINESS as personal representative to administer following person(s) is (are)requests doing business theThe estate of the decedent. The petition authority toas: Red Curbs Skate Shop, 40923 Grimmer Blvd., Fremont,ofCA, administer the estate under the Independent Administration 94538, Skateboarding LLC. This business Estates Act.Red (ThisCurbs authority will allow the personal representative is being by aobtaining Limitedcourt Liability Company. to take manyconducted actions without approval. Before Registrant began transacting under the taking certain very important actions, business however, the personal fictitious business nametoorgive names herein on representative will be required noticelisted to interested persons unless they haveentity waivedwas notice or consented the of 04/01/2015. Above formed in thetostate proposed action.) The independent administration authority will California. /s/Jesse Van Vleck. #201120210305, This bestatement granted unless anfiled interested files anClerk objection to the Clara was withperson the County of Santa petition andon shows good cause(pub whyMetro the court should08/28, not grant County 08/02/2019. 08/21, 09/04, authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as 09/11/2019) follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657643 the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing following person(s) (are)objections doing business KP andThe state your objections or fileis written with theas: court Enterprises, Big Basinmay Way, #180, Saratoga, before the hearing.14435C Your appearance be in person or by yourCA, 95070, KK Capital, LLC, EAP Enterprises, LC. This business attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the is being by claim a Joint Venture. has decedent, youconducted must file your with the courtRegistrant and mail a copy notpersonal yet begun transacting business under fictitious to the representative appointed by the courtthe within the business names herein. entity later of either name (1) four or months fromlisted the date of firstAbove issuance of was formed in the state of California. /s/Katrina M. Kidd. letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section#17775908. This statement thefrom County Clerk 58(b) of the California Probate was Code,filed or (2)with 60 days the date of Santa County onto08/09/2019. of mailing or Clara personal delivery you of a notice(pub underMetro section08/21, 08/28, 09/11/2019) 9052 of the09/04, California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney in California law. ORDER TOwith SHOW CAUSEknowledgeable FOR CHANGE OF NAME. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person CASE NO. interested in the19CV352684 estate, you may file with the court a Request forTO Special (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and ALL Notice INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): appraisal estate assetsKirwan or of any or account as provided SandraofElizabeth forpetition a decree changing names in Probate CodePresent section 1250. A Request Special Notice form as follows: name: SandraforElizabeth Kirwan. is available from the court clerk.Elizabeth Attorney forGreene. petitioner: MARK Proposed name: Sondra THE COURT A. GONZALEZ, Leadall Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE THE appear ORDERS that persons interested in thisOF matter COUNTY Street, Suite 300,below San Jose, beforeCOUNSEL, this court373atWest the Julian hearing indicated to CA, show cause, if408-758-4200 any, why the petition for11/09, change of name 95110, Telephone: (Pub CC, 11/02, 11/16/2016)

should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard NAME STATEMENT #622566 and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the

Thepetition followingshould person(s) is (are) doing business Van Hoa Lam, is not be granted. If no as: written objection 979timely Story Rd., #7087, Jose,may Ca, 95122, Lam,without Quoc a filed, theSan court grantNuh theThuan petition Anh Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: December 31, 2019 at 8:45 is conducted byProbate. an marriedfiled couple.Registrant not yet(pub begun am, room: on: Augusthas 5, 2019 dates: transacting business under 09/11/2019) the fictitious business name or names 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

CASE NO. 19CV353075

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Kiersten Renee FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Nichols for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Kiersten Renee Nichols. Proposed name: Kiera Renee NAME STATEMENT #622752 Foran. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

Thematter following person(s) is this (are)court doingatbusiness as: Free Spirit, 380 appear before the hearing indicated below S. 1st San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, E. Zayante to Street, show cause, if any, why the petition for8093 change of name Rd.,should Felton,not CA,be 95018. This business is conducted byto anthe individual. granted. Any person objecting name Registrant not yet begun under the that changehas described abovetransacting must file abusiness written objection fictitious business name orfor names listed herein. /s/Michael R. days includes the reasons the objection at least two court Hillbefore This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa the matter is scheduled to be heard and mustClara appear County 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/09,petition 11/16, 11/23/2016) at theonhearing to show cause11/02, why the should not be

granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may

grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: FICTITIOUS January 7, 2019 BUSINESS at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 20, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019) NAME STATEMENT #621712 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657944

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bambini Furtuna, 20 N. Santa Cruz Ave., STE B, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Healthy Remedies 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 Delaware. /s/Stephen Luczo, Member. #201622310337. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Moss Designs, 1514 Burrell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95126, Elise Moss. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2015. /s/Elise Moss. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/19/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Taliangel Transport, 6203 San Ignacio Ave Suite 110, San Jose, CA, 95119, Jonathan Tautai Leaupepe. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2019. /s/Jonathan Leaupepe. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #656966 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aron Builders, 889 N. San Anotnio Road STE 110, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Aron Construction Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2018. Refile in facts from previous filing #640583. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Navneet Aron, CEO. #C4009910. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/22/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657925 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Habana On Wheels, 460 W Taylor, San Jose, CA, 95110, Osvaldo Ruiz. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/16/2019. /s/Osvaldo Ruiz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657921 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Creating Comfort LLC, 1975 Murguia Avenue, 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 07/27/2009. Refile in facts from previous filing #592467. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Denise Herndon, Managing Partner. #200918710210. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657770

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1024 Media, 174 Goldenrain Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111, Demone Lee Carter. 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/Demone Lee Carter. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Home In Harmony, 1848 Booksin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Dawn Abernathy. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dawn Abernathy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658075

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657117

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Waala Peeka, 285 Calypso Court, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Yogesh Kondareddy. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2019. /s/Yogesh Kondareddy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658084 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mason And Market, 19444 De Havilland Dr., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Giftsuite LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/27/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Shireen Gupta, Owner. #201732910022. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/21/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658128

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SLP Machining, 1585 N 4th St., Unit K, San Jose, CA, 95112, Taehyun Kim, 10160 Parkwood Dr., Unit 3, Cupertino, Ca, 95014. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/13/2019. /s/Taehyun Kim. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/13/2019. (pub Metro 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: R Janjua Transports, 1532 Moorpark Ave Apt 3, San Jose, CA, 95128. 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/Amarjit Singh Janjua. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV353004

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658107

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Yong Bum Lee for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Yong Bum Lee. Proposed name: Sean Lee. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: January 7, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: August 19, 2019 (pub dates: 08/21, 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657657 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Images By Gina M Dias, 4944 tony Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Gina Mrie Dias. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2019. /s/Gina M Dias. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657802 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capricorn Hotel Group, 15640 Kavin Lane, Monte Sereno, CA, 95030, Capricorn Global Investments, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kamal Patel, CEO. #3426323. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/14/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657807

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sunny Portraiture, 1679 S Main St., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Freelancer Inc, 173 W Hamilton Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/15/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sanjeev Manucha, President. #C3877260. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658162 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Hero Builders, 2. Hero Builders Inc., 3. Hero Builders, Inc., 4. Hero Builders, A California Corporation, 21670 Shillingsburg Ave., San Jose, CA, 95120, Hestia Construction Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Melanie Griswold, Secretary. #C4284328. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/23/2019. (pub Metro 08/28, 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657617 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alum Rock High Booster Club, 1435 Koll Circle, Suite 106, San Jose, CA, 95112, Randi Maureen Mcmasters, Fulgence Fulay, 1776 Educational Park Dr Building K, San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than A Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Randi Mcmasters. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): JOHN RAY BALL CASE NUMBER: 19PR186317 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): JOHN RAY BALLA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California,County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 18, 2019 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Yourappearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the courtwithin the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code,or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408-758-4217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657929 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cosmic Energy Therapy Center, 10845 N. Wolfe Road, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Qi Wang, 2345 Sutter Ave Apt 4, Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Qi Wang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657881 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RHR Creations, 3309 Famille Ct., San Jose, CA, 95135, Ritu Boparae. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ritu Boparae. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/15/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658091 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Summit Psychotherapy, 859 University Ave., #21, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Felicia Barr. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Felicia Barr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/22/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MAY AL-DADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADA CASE NUMBER: 19PR186225 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MAY AL-DADA, AKA MAY ALI AL-DADAA Petition for Probate has been filed by KHALED AL-DADA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa ClaraThe Petition for Probate requests that KHALED AL-DADA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 16, 2019 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner: Tisa M. Pedersen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SBN 251466Thoits Law, APC400 Main Street, Suite 250Los Altos, CA 94022650-327-4200(Pub Dates Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

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

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658083

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658003

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658458

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

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JC Enterprises, 890 E Evelyn Ave., Sunnyvale, Ca, 84086, Jeffrey Thomas Brown. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jeffrey Thomas Brown. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/05/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #657926

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658226

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Roberts Enterprises, 874 Rubis Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, James Lee Roberts, Eric Allan Roberts, 822 W Iowa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Tracy Ann Roberts, 1211 Ballena Blvd, Alameda, CA, 94501. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than A Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/22/2009. /s/Eric Allan Roberts. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/16/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Innovative Cost Management Services, Inc., 2. innovative Cost Management Insurance Services, Inc., 3. ICMS, 95 So. Market St., #600, San Jose, CA, 95113. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/1986. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Michael P. Finnerty, President/CEO. #1535634. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/27/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658306

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658362

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Karaoke, 1694 Tully Rd., #20, San Jose, CA, 95122, Quang Huy Dang, 5768 Chesbro Ave., San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/18/2019. /s/Quang Huy Dang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/26/2019. (pub Metro 09/04, 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Camino Law Group, 181 Devine St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Nathan Aaron Poulos, 2062 Harmil Way, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/30/2019. /s/Nathan Aaron Poulos. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): STEVAN PHELAN CASE NUMBER: 19PR186581 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): STEVAN PHELANA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: 10/30/19 Time: 9:01 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408758-4217(Pub Dates: 9/04, 9/11, 9/18/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658419 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Murphy Mutual Water Company, 10230 Whiskey Hill Lane, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Barbara J Hauer, Amado Gutierrez, Joseph Jr Biafore, Pamela J Cornaggia, Linda Paolo Meiss, James G Frost, Jack Marshall Meiss. This business is being conducted by an Unincorporated Association Other Than a Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2019. /s/Amado Gutierrez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658418 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Graceful Bites, 1225 Vienna Dr., Space 299, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Grace Ann Mendoza. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Grace Ann Mendoza. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV354070 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petition of: Vicky Jeannette Merlino for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Vicky Jeannette Merlino. Proposed name: Jeannette Merlino. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: January 14, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: September 4, 2019 (pub dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658231 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hanna’s Lashes, 5239 Roeder Road, San Jose, CA, 95111, Ha T Le, 570 Keyes St #330, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/27/2019. /s/Ha T Le. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/27/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658361 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Travels With Flea, LLC, 2528 Nube Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/27/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Felecia Cassandra Leak, President. #201921410120. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/30/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658383 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ally Mobility, 1400 Coleman Ave., Suite G25, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Almario Espiritu. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Thaddeus Espiritu, CEO/Pres. #C3553118. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/03/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CASE NO. 19PR185912 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 1, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara, as Special Administrator of the estate of JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property commonly known as 1775 S. King Road, in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, more particularly described as:Lot 706, as shown on the Map entitled, “Tract No. 1790, Tropicana Village, Unit No. 2”, which Map was filed for record in the Office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on September 18, 1958, in Book 97 of Maps, Pages 38, 39, and 40.Excepting Therefrom the Underground Water or Rights Thereto with no rights of surface entry, as granted to San Jose Water Works, A California Corporation, recorded in Book of Official Records Numbered 4194, at Page 273. The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights-of-way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. The real property is to be sold on an “as is” basis except for title. All bids or offers must be in writing and accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer tax and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Publice Administrator of the County of Santa Clara as Special Administrator of the estate of JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO reserves the right to reject and all bids or offers. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited. For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the listing agent, Lynne Olenak, Sereno Group Real Estate, 12124 Saratoga-Sunnyvale, Saratoga, CA 95070; Telephone: (408) 656-0895. All written bids or offers must be in sealed envelope and will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on October 1, 2019 at the offices of the Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 or thereafter, as allowed by law. James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator County of Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Publication Dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/2018)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #658004 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Falcon Learning, 1128 Jacklin Rd., Milpitas, CA, 95035,

2nd Eye LLC. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 09/14/2018. under file No. 646428. This business was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company: Filed on 08/20/2019. /s/Rajesh Cheethirala, Owner. (pub dates: 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658427 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. SCCIPA, 2. Santa Clara County IPA, 1051 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Suite 750, Foster City, CA, 94404, Individual Pracitce Association Medical Group Of Santa Clara County Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/02/1986. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/John K Kraft, MD. President. #C1530026. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/04/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #658515 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sweet Hayah, 1134 Willow St. #11, San Jose, CA, 95125, Nehal Abuelata. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/11/2019. /s/Nehal Abuelata. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 09/06/2019. (pub Metro 09/11, 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYO AKA JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, AKA JOYCE CARAVAYO CASE NUMBER: 119PR185912 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of (specify all namesby which the decedent was known): JOYCE MARIE CARAVAYOaka JOYCE M. CARAVAYO, aka JOYCE CARAVAYOA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California,County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to takemany actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interestedpersons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files anobjection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: October 4, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Yourappearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the courtwithin the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code,or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner (name): MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110 (Telephone): 408-7584217(Pub Dates: 09/04, 09/11, 09/18/2019)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Hi, I'm your sales representative for UnTherapy, a free program designed to provide healing strategies for people who are trying too hard. Forgive me for being blunt, but I think you could benefit from our services. I don't have space here to reveal all the secrets of UnTherapy, but here's an essential hint: every now and then the smartest way to outwit a problem is to stop worrying, let it alone and allow it to solve itself. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People in Northeast

India weave long, strong suspension bridges out of the living roots of fig trees. The structures can measure up to 150 feet and bear the weight of hundreds of people. In accordance with astrological omens, let's make these marvels your metaphors of power for the coming weeks. To stimulate your meditations, ask yourself the following questions. 1. How can you harness nature to help you get where you need to go? 2. How might you transform instinctual energy so that it better serves your practical needs? 3. How could you channel wildness so that it becomes eminently useful to you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you climb to the top of Mt. Everest, you're standing on land that was once on the floor of a shallow tropical sea, where 400 million-year-old fossils of marine life still abide in the rock. Over the course of eons, through the magic of plate tectonics, that low flat land got folded and pushed upward more than five miles. I suspect you Geminis will have the power to accomplish a less spectacular but still amazing transformation during the next 10 months. To get started, identify what you would like that transformation to be. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1996, when Gary

Kasparov was rated the world's best chess player, he engaged in a series of matches with a chessplaying computer named Deep Blue. Early on in the first game, Deep Blue tried a move that confused Kasparov. Rattled, he began to wonder if the machine was smarter than him. Ultimately, his play suffered and he lost the game. Later it was revealed that Deep Blue's puzzling move was the result of a bug in its code. I'll encourage you to cultivate a benevolent bug in your own code during the coming weeks, Cancerian. I bet it will be the key to you scoring a tricky victory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American hero Harriet

Tubman escaped slavery as a young woman. She ran away from the wealthy "master" who claimed to "own" her, and reached sanctuary. But rather than simply enjoy her freedom, she dedicated herself to liberating other slaves. Nineteen times she returned to enemy territory and risked her life, ultimately leading 300 people out of hellish captivity. Later she served as a scout, spy, and nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War, where her actions saved another 700 people. In 1874, the U.S. Congress considered but then ultimately rejected a bill to pay her $2,000 for her numerous courageous acts. Don't you dare be like Congress in the coming weeks, Leo. It's crucial that you give tangible acknowledgment and practical rewards to those who have helped, guided and supported you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Novelist Wallace Stegner

wrote, "Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for." I hope that in the last nine months, Virgo, you have resolved which of those three options is true for you. I also trust that you have been taking the necessary actions to claim and own that special placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to acknowledge it and treasure it as the power spot where you feel most at home in the world. If you have not yet fully finished what I'm describing here, do it now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Earth's species are going extinct at a rate unmatched since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Among the creatures on the verge of being lost forever are birds like the cryptic treehunter and spix's macaw, as well as the northern white rhino and the vaquita, a type of porpoise. So why don't we clone the last few individuals of those beleaguered species? Here are the answers. 1. Cloned animals typically aren't healthy. 2. A species needs a sizable population to retain genetic diversity; a few individuals aren't sufficient. 3. Humans have decimated the homes

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of the threatened species, making it hard for them to thrive. Conclusion: Cloning is an inadequate stopgap action. Is there a better way to address the problem? Yes: by preserving the habitats of wild creatures. Inspired by this principle, Libra, I ask you to avoid trying halfway fixes for the dilemmas in your personal sphere. Summon full measures that can really work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Though patched together and incomplete, the 2,200-year-old marble sculpture known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace is prominently displayed at Paris's Louvre Museum. It's a glorious depiction of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and is regarded as one of ancient Greece's great masterpieces. For hundreds of years it was missing. Then in 1863, an archaeologist discovered it, although it was broken into more than a hundred pieces. Eventually, it was rebuilt, and much of its beauty was resurrected. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, could recover the fragments of an old treasure and begin reassembling it to make a pretty good restoration. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "I've learned

that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me," said actor Sidney Poitier. That can be a dynamic meditation for you during the next three weeks. I think you will derive substantial power from putting it into action. If you're ingenious and diligent about finding those positive outlets, your anger will generate constructive and transformative results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1905, at the age

of 30, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the novel Anne of Green Gables. It was a tale about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island. She sent the manuscript to several publishers, all of whom rejected it. Discouraged, she put it away in a hatbox and stored it in a closet. But two years later, her ambitions reignited when she re-read the story. Again she mailed it to prospective publishers, and this time one liked it enough to turn it into a book. It soon became a bestseller. Since then it has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 36 languages. I figure you Capricorns are at a point in your own unfolding that's equivalent to where Montgomery was shortly before she rediscovered the manuscript she'd put away in the hatbox.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Toxorhynchites are species of large mosquitoes that don't buzz around our heads while we're trying to sleep and will never bite our skin or suck our blood. In fact, they're our benefactors. Their larvae feast on the larvae of the mosquitoes that are bothersome to us. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that you be alert for a metaphorically comparable influence in your own life: a helper or ally that might be in disguise or may just superficially seem to be like an adversary. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Audre Lord identified herself as a black writer, lesbian, librarian, mother, feminist, civil rights activist and many other descriptors. But as ardent as she was in working for the political causes she was passionate about, she didn't want to be pigeonholed in a single identity. One of her central teachings was to celebrate all the different parts of herself. "Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat," she testified. These approaches should be especially fun and extra meaningful for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. I encourage you to throw a big Unity Party for all the different people you are. Homework: "We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings," wrote Audre Lourde. True for you? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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