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The T he Smear Smear m Card Card For a serial offic officeholder, ceholder, P PAUL AUL FFONG ONG sure sure running has issues runn ning smooth campaigns. TThe he state assemblym assemblyman man who carpet-bagged from his way fr om Cupertino Cupertino u to San Jose to run ffor or a seat on th the he City Council first ffound ound Metro etro rreported eported that trouble tr ouble this yea year ar when M he owed his fformer orrmer campaign manager/ lobbyist RI RICHIE CHIE R ROSS OSS $100,000 dating Fong efforts back to 2008.. Fo ong made no eff orts to pay off the debt dur during ing his six years in the state legislatur legislaturee but ssupported upported all of the bills R Ross’ oss’ clients sponsor e TThen ed. hen in sponsored. They February February, y, Fong violated v Did campaign law bbyy using What? a a a photo of him and San Jose police officer SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O i unif in uniform iform ffor or political poolitical liti l FLY@ FL Y@ campaign ads.. Now his cam mpaign METRONEWS. METR ONEWS. COM CO M manager manager,r, DENN DENNIS IS CCHIU, HIU, has injected rrace ace into the Di District strict 1 fight against CCHARLES HARLES““CHAPPIE” CHAP PPIE”JONE JONESS by sending out an inflamm matory email to supporters inflammatory in rresponse esponse to a mildly critical mail piece. B efore attackingg the mail piece,, Chiu Before goes after Jone es’ campaign manager Jones’ manager,, V ICA JLOUNY, ca alling him a ““Palestinian Palestinian VIC AJLOUNY, calling activist, who se rved as a high-r anking served high-ranking member of the P alestinian Liber ation Palestinian Liberation Or ganization ((PLO) PLO) in the 1990s.”” He added Organization that Ajlouny is known k ffor or his negative political attack.. ““This This is all about making people think Ch happie has a ter rorist Chappie terrorist working ffor or him m,”” Ajlouny told Fly y. “It is him,” Fly. rracism acism at its wo orst.”” San Jose M ayor worst.” Mayor CCHUCK HUCK R EED, wh ho rrelies elies on Ajlouny Ajlouny’ss REED, who political advice,, as well as the local NAA CP chapter NAACP chapter,, blasted Fong,, calling his campaign ’s comments ““racist” racist” and campaign’s “xenophobic.” TThey hey also noted that just this summe er Fong was calling ffor or summer Fox News host BO B BE CKEL to rresign esign BOB BECKEL over inappr opriaate comments about inappropriate the Chinese.. Ch iu told Fly he wanted to Chiu apologize to Ajl lounyy, saying it was not his Ajlouny, “intention to br ring rrace ace into the campaign,” bring never and,, “I would ne ever have assumed that he offense would take off e ense to the mention.”” Chiu then asked ffor or Ajlouny’s A phone number so the two coul ld talk.. Ajlouny said their could conversation,, an nd Chiu’s explanation,, has and matter.. not rresolved esolved thee matter

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ALL A LL H HANDS ANDS O ON ND DECK ECK Staffe Staffers ers for Congressman Mike H Honda on nda (D-San Jose) closely co oordinated efforts with his re-election campaign early in th e race. coordinated re-election the

IInternal emailss show Mike H Honda’s onda’s staffers violat violated ted H House ouse ruless BY B Y JOSH K KOEHN OEHN

s one of this year’s year’s fiercest congressional congression nal rraces aces approaches the th he finish line, internal em mails indicate that staffers stafferrs emails for fo or seven-term incumbent M Honda (D-San Jose) Jose) Mike Honda violated House House rules violated prohibiting mixing campaign campaig gn prohibiting acctivity with official business. busine ess. activity They also suggest a payThey to o-play ethic—conferring to-play benefits to contributors and d benefits prospective donors—has prospective ta aken hold in the office of taken a congressman who has cast ca ast himself as a leading champion ch hampion of the poor. poor.

Late L ate last month, a fformer ormer o Honda staff staffer ffeer appr approached oached Met Metro tro with email emails ls that th hat giv givee an inside lo look ok into the ccampaign a p g and displa ampaign display p ay a disr disregard egar g d

ffor or o la laws aw ws that fforbid orbid ccommingling o om mmingling an elected rrepresentative’s epresentativve’s work rrepresenting epresenting the public with electioneering.. The electioneering Theyy pr provide ovvide a glimpse at how eas easyy it is ffor or incu o incumbents umbents to improve impr ove their chanc chances es of o get getting ttting rreebyy selling ac access policymakers elected b cess to p olicymak keers people money. to p eople with mone ey. weree sen sent These emails wer nt almost ttwo wo w before months b effo ore fformer ormer ccommerce o ommerce department Ro depar tment official R o Khanna challenged Honda last spring sspring,, raising questions ab about Honda’s out how Honda H a’s behind ccampaign ampaign has cconducted onducteed itself b ehind doors. closed do ors. Van Heide served JJennifer enniffeer V aan der Hei de has ser veed Honda’s staff as Honda a’s chief of st aff ff ffor or o almost Minneapolis nativee who 14 yyears. eears. A Minneap oliss nativ law degree from rreceived eceivveed her la aw degr eee fr om the University California’s U nivversit n e ty of C aliffornia o a’s Hastings College Law, Van began C ollege of L aw, V aan derr Heide b egan law Hoopa her la aw ccareer areer rrepresenting epresen nting the Ho opa Valley Tribee in nor northeastern Humboldt V aalley Trib theaastern Humb oldt County, matters C ountty, handling mat ttteers such as the tribe’s deadbeat trib e’s litigation againstt a deadb eat timber poacher. 2000, timb er p oacher. In 20 00, she joined Honda’s Honda a’s ﬁrst ccongressional ongressio onal ccampaign ampaign served legislative director and ser veed as his legisla ativve dir ector

ffor or a yyear o eear b effo ore asc ending to the top before ascending position p osition in n his Washington Washinggton t D.C. D.C. office. office. Honda a’s rreputation eputation as a lik eable—if Honda’s likeable—if not har h hard-partying—progressive d artyying—pr d-pa i ogressiv ive often ft lea aves e V aan der Heide to “run the show w,” leaves Van show, a sour source ce sai said. id. In a F eb. 9, 2013, email pr ovided v Feb. provided to Met Metro, tro, V Van an a der Heide used her p ersonal Gmail G addr ess to ccoordinate oordinate personal address ate an in invitation nvvitatio on to an official St State Depar nt R o oundtable with thenDepartment Roundtable tmen Lamar amar Honda ccampaign am mpaign manager L Heystek. day earlier,, He ystek. In n an email dated a da ay earlier Heystek wrote He ystek wr rote in a message with the line, Asian subject bj line li e, “Suggested “S d South S hA sian i Invitees State Roundtable, In nvvitees ffor or or St ate Dept. R oundt o able,” that he had d ccompiled ompiled “a list of South Asian tech/investment who've A sian tech h//in nveestment ffolks olks o who'v ve past”” but donated to o ccandidates andidates in the past “MH. not to “MH H.” (MH is in rreference effeerence to Honda’s initials.) Honda a’s ini itials.) Van “Great V aan der Heide rresponded: esponded: “Gr eat aree we doing outr outreach lists—how ar each to Can them ffor or o $?? C an we at least ccollect ollect emails and send ne newsletters wsletttters or something if we ccan't an't do straight electronically asks electr o ally now? Also do yyou onic ou o have list Asians ha ave the lis st of the South A ssians now endorsing/supporting endorsing g/s /supporting MH? I w want aant to make mak ke sur suree we w ar aree including all of them. Invites In nvvites goin going ng out ﬁrst thing Monda Monday ay morning..” morning

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8 was flag.. waas a biggerr rred ed flag “My initia initial was that’s al rreaction eaction w aas that ’s really messed up,,” the sour source really messe ed up ce said. “I interpreted Let subordinate interpreted that as: L et the sub ordinate to do the traceable traaceable act.” Emails ccontinued to instruct the o ontinued source participate officee source to pa articipate in the offic staff staff and ccampaign’s aam mpaign n’s ccoordination. oordination. The message messages unanswered. es went unans sw wered. The pressure staffer pressure ccontinued, on ntinued, ti d and d the th st taff ffer ffe resigned. resigned. “I w was trying non-verbal aas tr y to send out nonying -veerbal signals that I’m I not ccomfortable, omffo ortable,” the source box, source said. “The ““Theyy put me in a b ox, so what w was Oncee yyou aas I supp ssupposed osed to do? Onc ou o have meeting minds,, then haave a meet ting of the minds there’s there’s a cconspiracy. on nspiracyy.” The sour source ce told Metro Mettro that the rreason eason for now, little moree for o ccoming oming forward fo orwar a d now w, a lit tttle mor than a mont month before th b effo ore the election and almost l a year yeaar and d a half h lf after ft the h emails il were were sent, iss to “close that chapter of my life. my lif fe.” The sour source, ce, who has no known connection opposing connection to the opp osing ccampaign, ampaign, a added, “Pub “Public bee blic resources resources should b used ffor purposes, or public o pub blic purp oses, not campaign campaign work.” Van Maben, Vaan der Heide H and Meri Mab en, Honda’s district director, Hondaa’s dist trict dir ector, who has worked that work keed in th hat rrole ole ffor or 13 yyears o eears and was many waas included i l d d in man ny off the h emails il provided Metro, provided to Met tro, declined rrequests equests ffor o or interviews. Sources described Maben, interviews. Sour S ces describ ed Mab en, who has vvolunteered ol olunteered her home ffor or o Honda fund fundraisers, draisers, as an incredibly incredibly dedicated employee. dedicated em mplo oyee e . “She works basically jobs,,” the sour source basically ttwo wo w o jobs ce said. “She’s “She’s doingg the ccampaign ampaign job and her own job job..” In an ema email, both oth ail, Scudder said that b women have the rules in haave ffollowed ollowed o assisting the Honda ccampaign. aampaign. “Both JJennifer en nniffeer and Meri, and all members staff, members off the st aff ff,, only work on the ccampaign time.. This ampaiggn on their own time is offic officee policy. have poliicyy. Both of them ha ave supported the supported th he Congressman Congressman ffor o or years, yeears, and ar aree happy happ py to vvolunteer olunteer to help when the they able,,” he wr wrote. ey ar aaree able ote. Several staffers Seveeral fformer o ormer staff ffeers told Metro Mettro that Honda Honda’s officee do does make efforts a’s offic es mak ke eff ffo orts to differentiate officee work fr from diff ffeerentiatee official offic om campaign Babbar,, a fformer campaign efforts. eff ffo ff orts. Anil Babbar ormer o Honda field d rrep ep who now works as the dir director government ector of go oveernment affairs ffor or o the Sant Santaa Cl Clara County Association lara C ountty A ssociation of R Realtors, ealtors e , told t Metro, Mettro, “I did some campaign was myy campaign work, w but it w aas on m time. Babbar, attended State time.” Babba arr, who at tttended the St ate Department Departmen nt function, added that when

he w was as a with Honda's offic office, e, ““there there w was aas a fir firewall ewaall b between ettween w us and the ccampaign am mpaign staff. st aff ff.” ff” It’s from emails,, thoug though, It ’s clear fr om the emails gh, Van Maben weree that V aan der Heide and Mab en wer w from publicly-salaried far fr om the only publicly y-salaried d employees emplo oyeees who ccarried arried out ccampaign ampaaign activities.. Emails fr from February activities om F ebruary 2013— 2 moree than a month b before Khanna mor effo ore Khann na announcee his would ld announc hi ccandidacy—show andidacy a did y—show h Heystek that He ystek often sent messages to many staffers as man ny as 20 st aff ffeers and internss at a time,, instructing them to blast ou out time ut links positive press about through to p ositive pr ess ab out Honda thr rough Facebook Twitter. Fac ebook and T wit w tter t . slew Quick to acknowledge that a sle ew of so social posts from staff would cial media p osts fr om st aff wo ould Van sent raise eeyebrows, yebr e ows, V an a der Heide sen nt a Heystek’s emails: rreply-all eplyy--all to one of He eystek’ y s email ls: “sorryy ffolks bee “sorr olks o but this shouldn't b staff ccoming oming i fr ffrom om official ffi i l st aff ff en masss we outsiders,, not us us..” The b bottom need outsiders otttom t m of like from Van that email, lik ke most others fr om V an a Heide’s account, included der Heide ’s Gmail ac count, includ ded a signature signature with her official title as chief staff “Congressman Mike of st aff ffor or “C o ongressman Mik ke Honda H (CA-17). (C A--17).” Heystek He eystek y rresigned esigned as ccampaign ampaign March manager in Mar ch and did not rrespond espond interview to an emailed inter view rrequest. equest. Honda’s officee In another ttwist, wist, Honda w a’s offic may have broken staffers ma ay ha h ave also l br b ok ken rules l on st affe aff ffers carrying personal carrying out p ersonal errands ffor or o staffer instructs Honda. In one email, a st aff ffeer inst tructs source Metro’s the sour ce of Met tro’s emails that they th hey spend partt of their work hours need to sp end par h personal helping Honda set up his p ersonaal Netflix account TV. N ettfl flix ac count on his home TV V. Leaving Honda’s L eaaving v aside the fact that Hon ndaa’s racee with Khanna has often ffocused rac ocussed on savvy enough whether Honda is tech sa avvvy enou ugh Silicon Valley, Honda to rrepresent epresent Silic on V aalley, the Ho onda staffer st aff ffeer acknowledges that the rrequest equ uest have gray-zoned propriety ccould ould ha ave gra ay--zoned the pr oprieetty limits of public ttax ax dollar funded activity. “Yes, staffer writes,, ““that’s activit ty. “Y Yees,” the st aff ffeer writes th hat’s boarding personal a rrequest equest b oarding p ersonal (sic), but life. such is lif fe.” The House Ethics Manual w warns aarn ns against handling the b boss’ personal oss’ p ersonaal matters clock. mat ttters on the official clo ck. “I wouldn’t have that wouldn n’’t ha ave applied to a job tha at like [setting Netflix has something lik ke [set tting t up N etfl et flix accounts], source ac counts],” the sour ce said. Khanna’s Khanna a’s ccampaign aampaign declined story. ccomment omment ffor or this stor o y. The ttwo w wo ccandidates andidates will meet Oct. O State University 6 at San JJose ose St ate U nivveersitty ffor or o their t first and only debate of the ccampaign. ampa a aign. Twenty-nine days later,, N Nov. T went w ty-nine da ayys later ov. 4, vvoters otters have say. will finally ha ave their sa ay.

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Despite V Van aan der Heid Heide’s de’s use of her personal email addr personal address ess and a time st stamp amp Saturday, would on a Satur daay, which wo ould most likely bee cconsidered day from lik keely b onsidered a da ay off fr om email’ss ccontent work, the email’ onten nt and the subject—an State Department tment subject t— —an official St atte Depar violate several eevent—appear vent e —appear to violat te se veral House rules rregarding egarding ccampaigns. ampaiggns. According House A ccording to the Hou use Ethics “[A] solicitation Manual “[ Manual, A] solicit ation n ffor o or ccampaign ampaign political may bee or p olitical ccontributions ontribution ns ma ay not b linked action link keed with an official ac ction ttaken ak keen bee ttaken byy a Hous House Member or to b ak keen b se Memb er employee, Member may or emplo oyeee, and a Mem mber ma ay not accept any linked ac cept an ny ccontribution ontribution that is link ked e Member with an action that the Memb M er has being asked ttaken ak keen or is b eing ask ed to o ttake. ak ke.” source, was A House sour ce, who w aas not authorized to sp speak eak on the t rrecord ecord and asked bee named, told ask keed not to b t Metro, Mettro, “Events bee ccampaign “E “Ev veents ccan an b aampaign i n or official, ffi i l but b theyy ccan’t bee b both. doesn’t look good. the an a ’t b oth. It do e n’’t lo esn ok go od.” Ken Scudder,, the ccongressman’s K een Scudder onggressman n’s ccommunications ommunications director, directo or, told Metro Mettro in an email that Honda cco-hosted o-hosted the official rroundtable oundtable with Mitul Desai, a strategic partnership senior advisor ffor or strateg o gic par tnership at the St State Department’s ate Depar tmentt’s South & Central Asian Bureau, Feb. C entral A sian Bur eau, on nF eb. 21, 2013, Santaa Clara U University. at Sant nivversit e ty. Among the attendees weree se several locally 20 at tttendees wer vera e al lo cally elected variety officials ffi i l and d a variet i ty off high-ranking hi h h ki CEOs and go government veernment rrelations elations have eexecs—many xxecs—man ny of whom might m ha ave had a difficult time meeting Desai wer weree it Honda’s invite. not ffor or Honda o a’s in nvvite. took saying we’re “I to ok that as sa ayying we w know we ’re supposed bee doin doing this,, but right not supp osed to b ng this weree just get getting started, now wer ttting st a ted,” said the ar source emails.. sour ce who supplied thee emails Van Heide’s make suree V aan der Heide ’s note to o mak ke sur that Honda supp supporters are orters ar re put on invite the in nvvite list also ccould ould violate v an admonition on page 30 309 9 of the House Ethics Manual: “House Memb Members, too, M ers, to o, bee aaware appearance should b waare of the ap ppearance impropriety from of impr oprietty that ccould ould d arise fr ro om championing the ccauses aauses of o ccontributors o ontributors favoritism and ttake aak ke ccare ar a e not to show w fa avoritism o to over them o veer other cconstituents. o onstitu uents.” staffer approached Metro The st aff ffeer who appr o oached Metro internal with this and other inter rnal emails said Heystek Van der began that He ystek and V aan de er Heide b egan staffer off-hours assigning the st aff ffeer with h off ff--hours ccampaign ampaign work, withoutt eeven ven e rreceiving eceiving from staffer a rrequest equest fr om the st aff ffeer to vvolunteer olunteer o on the ccampaign. ampaign. This is also a violation of House rules rules.. The st staffer aff ffeer said that the ff invite rresponsibility esponsibilitty of ccoordinating oordin nating the in nvvite list—while breath list t— —while in the same br b eath noting an intention to solicit ccontributions— o ontributions—

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As the debate rrages As ages on whether w San Fr Francisco ancisco 49ers player Ray McDonald should be suspended susspended for for a domestic violence incident incid dent involving his pregnant pregnant ﬁanceé, ﬁaanceé,, a review review of court records records shows sho ows that 10 of the team’s players plaayers have been arrested arrested since January Janu uary 2012. If their 2012. th i poor start t t to t the th season wasn’t ’t bad b d enough, h, the th h he Niners are are leading the National National Football League on this ignominious igno ominious stat.. McDonald and All-Pro All-Pr o linebacker Aldon Smith accounted for for six of those arrests. arrrests.. Unfortunately, Unfortunatelyy, the getting in on the act.. At players aren’t aren’t the only ones o At the team’s teaam’s inaugural inaugural home game in Santa Clara’s Clara’s new Levi’s Levvi’s Stadium, Stadium,, police arrested arrested 31 fans faans for for alcohol-related alcohol-related offenses, offenses, including at least one liquor-fueled liq quor-fueled brawl. brawl. The ruckus proves provess that dazed and confused ffootball ootball fans faans and playerss liked to do two things—drink beerr and kick some ass.

MAXED OUT Scores of city employees rack racked ed up inappropriate expenses on their procurement cards.

Audit Nails City Hal Halll W Workers orkers over Char CCharge ge Card Card Abuses Abuses One would think the ffelonious eelonious indiscr etions of o eex-county xx-countty Sup ervisor indiscretions Supervisor George Geor ge Shirakawa Shirak kawa JJr. r. w wasting aasting ttaxpayer axpaayeer d ll to ffeed dollars eeed d his hi own appetites appetites i would ld serve ser ve as a w warning arn a ning to public emplo employees. oyeees. But appar ently ly not. apparently An annual audit of San Jose’s Jose’s procurement (p-cards) pr ocurement ccards ards (p -caarrd ds) has unearthed litany unear thed a li itan ny of violations— alcohol purchases, personal alc ohol pur chaases, p ersonal ccar ar a rrentals entals and far to too spent o much mu sp ent on ffood. ood. entertaining group One department deparrttm ment enter taining a gr oup charged city $2,800 of 28 delegatess char rgged the cit ty $2,8 00 to wine and dine diine at a fancy downtown employee rrestaurant. est e aurant. An n emplo loyeee used d his hi city cit ity charge brand-new char rge g ccard aarrd to rrent ent e a brand-ne w BMW personal use totaled. ffor or p o ersonal us se after his ccar ar got tot aled. bought people don’t Another b ougght 10 p eople who don n’’t city $255-a-head eeven veen work ffor or the cit o ty $2 55-a-head VIP tickets dinner. Staffers tick keets to an aawards war a ds dinner r. St taaff ffeers in department racked $45,000 another depar rtment rack keed up $45,0 00 by at a business owned o by their supervisor, superrvvisorr, purchases—a who signed off ff on the pur chases—a blatant interest. blat ant cconflict onflicct of inter o est. And another OK’d purchase several manager OK’ d the pur chase of se veral e without IT. ttablets ablets a withou ut cconsulting onsulting IT T. city Inside’s The cit ty hass rresisted esisted San jose Inside ’s disclose rrequests equests to dis sclose the names and departments depar tments cited c in the audit. ““As As want give much as we might m w aant to giv ve yyou ou o names,, we also aree legally rrequired names o ar equired to protect employee city pr otect emplo oyeee cconfidentiality, onfidentialitty,” cit ty spokesman Dave Vossbrink says. sp ok keesman Da ave V o ossbrink sa ays y.

Cit City ty A Auditor uditor Shar u Sharon on Erickson sa says ays y th he ssystem yystem the cit ty uses to rrecord ecord ch harge the city charge ccard a d use needs to b ar bee ccentralized entralized to iimprove im mprove o veersight. i h “Holding “H ldi a p -card oversight. p-card is a privilege privilege,, not a right, and that pr rivilege is ccontingent ontingent up on rresponsible esponssible privilege upon ccompliance o omplianc e with cit city ty p policy, olicy, y,” Cit y” City ty Auditor Sharon says. A uditor Shar on Erickson sa ayys. P-cards aree meant ffor low-cost P -cards ar o or lowcost equipment, officee supplies and tra travel— eq quipment, offic aveel— never personal use.. n ne veer ffor or o p ersonal use from 939 Going back a yyear eear fr om April 1, 93 39 logged 41,000 purchases chasees ccard-holders a d-holders lo ar gged 41,0 00 pur amounting million am mounting to $12.8 million—a milli ion bucks moree than before. b bu ucks k mor h the h yyear eear b effo ore. In n moree than 8 80 instances, employees m mor 0 inst ances, emplo oyeees tried t bypass p-card’s single-purchase to ob yypass the p -caard’s single -purchase limit $2,500 byy billing multiple ti times. lim mit of $2,50 0b imes. peers In n other ccases, ases, p eers signed off on ccard aard statements supervisors, which st tatements instead of sup ervisors, wh hich may have discouraged anyone from m ma ay ha ave disc ouraged an nyo one fr ro om speaking they saw sp peaking up if the ey sa aw something that t appeared city policy. ap ppeared to ﬂout cit ty p olicyy. There’s practicee Ther e’s also a ccommon ommon practic off turning in rrestaurant estaurant rreceipts eceipts that aren’t makes th hat ar en n’’t itemized, which mak kes e itt impossible im mpossible to see whether the ccardar a dbought alcohol city h holder b ought alc ohol (against cit ty rules, That’s Shirakawa ru ules, of ccourse). ourse). That ’s how Shirak kawa turned prompting tu urned in his rreceipts, eceipts, pr ro ompting thee virtually single ccounty o ty to rreform ount effo orm vir tually eevery ver ery sing gle policy prevent similar eexpenditure x enditure p xp olicy to pr event e simila ar abuses.—Jennifer Wadsworth ab buses.—Jennif e feer W aadsworth o

Former Sann Jose P Police olice Ch Chief hief McNamara Joseph Mc cNamara Dies JJoseph oseph D. D. McNamara, McNamarra, the San Jose Jose police chief nationally known ffor police or o his progressive pr ogressive vie views ws on dr drugs, rugs, guns and ccommunity ommunity policing, policing, died d in his sleep last week after a yyears-long eears-llong battle batttle t with pancreatic pancr eatic cancer. cancer. He was waas 79. The “cop “cop noir” novelist, novelist, Ho Hoover oveer Institution research research ffellow eelllow and la law aw enforcement enf fo orcement veteran veteran st started tarted his ccareer areer as a Harlem H l beat beat ccop op in in N New ew Y York o ork k City. Cit ty. He later earned a do doctorate ctorate fr from om Harvard Har vard University Un niversitty and d led the San JJose ose Police Police Depar Department tmen nt fr from om 1976 until retiring retiring in 1991. 1991. When he ﬁrst came came to San JJose, ose, the city’s cittyy’s p police olice were were em embroiled mbroiled in charges char ges of brut brutality alitty and d racism. He immediately implemen implemented nted a p policy olicy to hire hire mor moree women and a minorities minorities,, disciplined officers officers ffor o or excessive exc x essivve use off force fo orce and d rrequired equired d th them h hem to fforge orge a o civil relationship relationship with the t public public.. “No “N o one help helped ed pr propel opel San JJose ose into the upp er echelon n of go od cities upper good

and the b e [p est olice depar tment] in best [police department] the nation mor moree than McNamara: ccommunity ommunitty p olicing, rrecruitment ecruitment policing, and promotion promo otion of minorities and women, ne eighborhood in nvo olvement; neighborhood involvement; a [department] [departm ment] that looked looked [out for] fo or] and cared cared about a out the community, ab communitty,” said T o om McEn nery, who served served as mayor maayo or Tom McEnery, during eight eigh ht of McNamara’s McNamaraa’s 15 years years as chief. chieff. “He “H He was waas a chief and person person we could could all a learn from from and our city citty should pr o from oﬁt from his example. example.” proﬁt —J Jeenniffeer W ads a worth —Jennifer Wadsworth

WORDS W ORDS W WITH ITH FRIENDS F “What does he stand to gain g from it? Money. Media. Names. Organizat tions. Not to mention, Organizations. Silicon Valley has some of o the least-loyal D Democrats t and d no-party t preference p f voters. t … As long as he doesn’t talk k about his stance on social issues he has a lot to gain.”

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OPEN O PEN ENVIRONMENT EN V IRONMEN T The airy architect architecture ture of the new Anderson Colle Collection ection building at Stanford Un University niversity showcases works artists—and there’s admission artworks. w by many well-known art tists—and there ’s no admissio on charge to view the artworks s.

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UCIFER U CIF FER H HAS AS RISEN at Stanford University.. Stan ford University That is, is, Lucifer, Luciferr,, the celebrated celeb brated 1947 Jackson Jackson Pollock Pollock painting painting now hangs against a white background. w It sits opposite oppo osite Mark Rothko's Pink Over Red, Pink and White W Red, completed 10 years later. later. Both to together geth her cconstitute onstitute just ttwo w wo of byy 8 86 artists 121 works b 6 ar tists in the Anderson Collection Stanford, located C ollection at St S anffo ord,, lo cated in a new north brand ne w building bu uilding just nor th of the B.. Geral Gerald Cantor Center Iris & B ld C antor C enter ffor o or Visual Arts. Designed byy Richar Richard Olcott, V iisual Ar ts. De esigned b d Olc otttt, the building eexists xxists solely to house Collection iconic the Anderson C ollection of ic onic post-WWII American Art, postt-WWII W Am merican Ar t,, mostly

painting and sculptur painting sculpture. e. Admission Ad dmission is i fr ree, allowing an nyone to w aander in and free, anyone wander eexperience x erience works pr xp previously eviously seen on only nly in n te xtbooks. textbooks. L egendary ar ollectors, Harr Legendary artt ccollectors, Harryy W W.. an nd Mar garet Anderson— orr and Maryy Mar Margaret Anderson—or “H Hunk”” and “Mo o” as the ccouple ouple “Hunk” “Moo” ar re ccommonly ommonly known—ha ave are known—have rresided e esided lo cally ffor o or o ver 50 yyears. eears. Th his locally over This p articular ccollection ollection fforms orms o the bul lk of particular bulk th heir ccontemporary ontemporary works man ny of o their works,, many w which wer cated in their A ttherton t weree lo located Atherton h home om back east,, the th he home.. Originally fr from ttwo w wer wo ver St anffo ord students weree ne never Stanford students,, b ut after ft h half lf a ccentury entury off de d velopi l ing i but developing rrelationships, e elationships , the Andersons have haave b een integral ccomponents omponents of been th he art art professor-student-dealerproffeessor-student-dealerthe ccollector o ollector ne xus ffor o or half a ccentury. entury. nexus T Their daughter atricia ((AKA AKA A daughter,, Mar Maryy P Patricia “P Putttter”),, also ccontributed ontributed to “Putter”), th he ccollection. ollection. the

Their massive massive gift happened happened entirely ecent initiatives entirely due to rrecent initiatives at Stanford, further Stanffor o d,, schemes to fur fu ther the required required arts arts education education n of eevery very single student in eevery Someone,, very major. majorr. Someone somewhere, ﬁnally somewhere, on that campus campus a realized realized that teaching eeveryone veryone how to b bee creative entiree creativve helps hellps the entir world in the long run.. As As a result, result,, a holy trinit trinityy of three three new neew buildings is underway. Concert underway. The Bingg C oncert Hall opened opened at the beginning beginniing of 2013. The Anderson C Collection ollectiion at Stanford Stanffo ord is now the second second new new structure, structure, with the McMurtry McMurtry Building Bu uilding ffor o or the Department Artt and Historyy Department of Ar an nd Art Art Histor scheduled to rise fr from om m the earth earth next next fall. All three three will exist existt in the vicinity vicinitty of the C Cantor antor Arts Arts Center, Cen nter, and people people are area are already already rreferring effeerring to o that ar ea of campus campus as the Stanford Stanffo ord Arts Arts District. Studio S di art art majors j will ill now get to mingle with the ar artt history hiistory students and eeveryone moree veryo one will be be able a to mor easily inc incorporate Cantor Center orporate the C antor C enter exhibits Collection exhibits and the Anderson Anderson C ollection in their studies and rresearch. essearch. Imagine taking and walking taking an art art history history class c walking across byy across the grass to see works w b

Jackson Jackson Pollock, Pollo o ck,, Mark Rothko, Ro othko, Frank Stella or Franz Frranz Kline—all Kline—all of which are are included in n the Anderson Collection. Collection. Inside the th he building, building, the collection collection exists exists upstairs, upstairs a , but downstairs downstairs one finds the Wisch Family Gallery, Wisch i Gallery, which currently currently has h a photography photograph hy exhibit, exhibit, Peaceful Peeaceful Presence: Prreesence: Leo Leo Holub and the Artist Portrait Visitors Poortrait ra Project. Prroject. o Viisitors can can see portraits portraits of o 55 of the artists artists whose work exists existss upstairs. upstairs. For For the opening o ening reception, op reception, I slithered slithered like liike a serpent serpent into a sea of more more distinguished-looking diistinguished-looking media types. tyypes e . It was waas obvious obvious that the building buildin ng and the collection collection were were designed desiggned to complement complement one another. another. The Th he natural lighting is what stands stand ds out first and foremost. fo oremost. A long, long, open open staircase staircase ascends, ascends, ever ever so slowly, slowlyy, toward ttow waard the collection collection upstairs. upstairs. Lighting Liighting from from the upstairs upstairs windows envelops envelops the entire en entire openopenair environment, en nvviron nment, providing nment, providing a playful plaayyful way way for fo or anyone an nyo one to experience experience the collection. collection. The natural lighting also floods floods the entire entire lobby lobb by as soon soon as anyone an nyone enters. enters. The building exudes exudes a contemporary contemporrary air, air, but still dovetails dovetails with the more m e classical mor classical architecture architecture of the Cantor Can ntor Center Center next next door. door. All of which was was a intentional,, and at the reception, reception,, architect architect Richard Richard Olcott Olcottt stood stood on the th he stairway stairway and explained explained the th details det d tails il for fo or all ll to t hear. h hear. The Th natural t l light, as it seeps into the scene, s scene, is key, key, he said. It makes m es sense. mak sense. I mean, wasn't wasn't a Lucifer Luciffer e thee light bringer? bringer? The Andersons And dersons themselves themselves also attended attttended the th he reception, reception,, explaining explaining that their gift g was waas one that will keep keep on giving. giving. Students for for o generations will take take advantage ad dvantage of this assemblage of iconic iconic modern m dern pieces. mo pieces. Again, Again, the open-air, environs open-aair, naturally-lit naturallyy--lit en nvvirons drive drive home home the idea,, at least for fo or me, me, that this is a collection collection accessible accessible to anyone. an nyone. There Th here are are no crazy, crazzy, overoveerthe-top the-top experimental exp perimental pieces. pieces. You You o don't need d to be be schooled schooled in stuffy stuff ffyy academic academic artspeak. a tspeak. You ar You o can can be be as Luciferian as you Lucifferian e yo ou want. want. And it's free. free. Just Just bring money m mone y for for o parking. parking. With With i Rodin's Rodin's Gates of Hell already already a common common n stop for fo or busloads of tourists outside ou utside in the garden, garden,, and with the Cantor Cantor Center's Center's current current show, show w, “Sympathy “Sym mpath hy for fo or the Devil: Devil: Satan, Satan, Sin,, and the th he Underworld, Underworld,” currently currently rocking rocking out ou ut nearby, nearby, Pollock's Pollock's Lucifer Luciffer e completes com mpletes the trifecta triffeecta of transgression. transgressiion. Were Weere I a Milton scholar, scholar, I would have haave grown grown horns and quoted passages passsages out loud.

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know eeverything k verything hi fr ffrom om m yyour our weight i h to yyour our o sleep habits to o yyour o our current current heartt rate rate—and potential hear —and p oten ntial ttapping apping of dataa ffor makee the their dat or profit o profit ccould o ould mak implantable byy implant able chip idea sound ttame ame b ccomparison. omparison. Br oadlyy, these new new technologies t technolo gies Broadly, ar effeerred to as “wea arable de vices.” aree rreferred “wearable devices. The elativveely low w ccost ost and nonTheyy ar aree rrelatively in nvvasive, meaning they they don’t don’t have haave to invasive, b d or other wise bee implanted,, injected otherwise put into yyour our body body in or der to work. order Most are are bracelets, bracelets, like like FitBit FitBit or JJawbone awb w one or w aatch-ttyype de vices—of watch-type devices—of ccourse, ourse, now the ne wlyy announc ed newly announced Apple Watch ccomes omes to o mind. Some ar or sho ts. aree worn lik likee glasses or shoee inser inserts. Man ny wrist-band-style wristt--band-sttyle y fitness Many track ers, in par ticular, at a glanc trackers, particular, glancee rresemble esemble stur dier Livestrong Livestr e ong sturdier brac elets. Their bright ccolors, olors, lithe bracelets. cur ves and smo oth sur rfaces, with a curves smooth surfaces, discr eet scr een or rrow ow of tin discreet screen tinyy lights lights,, ha ave a str eamlined, athletic ath hletic app eal— have streamlined, appeal— the opp osite of the b eh hemoth opposite behemoth timepiec es that weighe ed down wrists timepieces weighed when w aatches that ccould ou uld do more more watches than just tell time deb buted in the debuted early ’8 0s. ’80s. The simplicit eir ph hyysical simplicityy of the their physical design masks technolo ogical technological ccapabilities apabilities that ccould ould so on make make soon them as vversatile ersatile and intelligent i as almost any an ny diagnostic machine in a do ctor’s offic daay. doctor’s officee to today. Minor softw are imp roveements software improvements ccould ould turn eeveryday veerydaay sp ports wearables sports into sophistic ated mon nitors ccapable apable of sophisticated monitors detecting cir culatory p roblems, hear circulatory problems, heartt def feects, br eathing disor rders and mor e. defects, breathing disorders more. “They’re right say, “The y’re not able ri ight now to sa ay, ‘Sorryy but yyou have ‘Theree ‘Sorr ou ha ave ccancer,’ a er,’ or ‘Ther anc wrong heartt is something wr ong with w yyour our hear here,’ her e,’ but that is the Holy Hol H Grail ” Grail,” says Robert Scoble, industryy sa ayys R obert Sc o oble, a tech t industr watcher Rackspace w atcher with Rackspa ace who last book yyear ear cco-authored o -authored a b ook with Shel Age Context: Israel ccalled alled The A ge of o C ontext: Mobile,, Sensors Sensors,, Dat Dataa and the F Future Mobile uture of Privacy y. Privacy. The technic al ccapabilities apabilities of some technical wearable de vices today todaay ar eady devices aree alr already close to those of Class II medic al medical monitors they would wo ould rrequire equire monitors,, but they go vernment testing an nd ccertification ertification government and b effor o e the ould b aapproved oved ffor or o before theyy ccould bee appr medic al use medical use.. “Get ttting the FD A to approve approve it is “Getting FDA going to ttake ak ke a couple couple yyears, eears,” Sc oble Scoble sa ayys, “so it will b e esting to see says, bee inter interesting who gets thr ough that pr p ocess. But through process. it ’s long and it isn n’t ’ guaranteed. guarranteed. L ook it’s isn’t Look

at what h the he FD FDA A did to 23andMe 23andMe, dM ,” he h said,, rreferring effeerriing to the st startup, artup, rrecently ecently acquired ac quired by by Ancestry.com, Ancestry.c . om,, that uses analysis DNA analy ysis to rre-create e-create family histories n late 2013,, the FD A ordered ordered histories.. In FDA the ccompany ompan ny to stop selling its kits due to the p oteential ffor or o false rresults. esults. potential What mak m es the technolo gy makes technology surprising is its dec eptive simplicit y. deceptive simplicity. T odaay’ y s pu ulse monitors ccan an gather Today’s pulse and upload d lar ge amounts of dat large dataa to cial media a user’ om mputer and so user’ss ccomputer social pr ofile. A gy advanc es profile. Ass the technolo technology advances and dat g is rrefined, efined,, deep er dataa gathering deeper le vels of in nffo ormation emer ge. This levels information emerge. This,, in the nearr futur e, ccould ould b future, bee used in medic al ccare a e and ccoverage ar overage set tings. medical settings. “It is som mething that we as an something industr re going to ha ave to addr ess,” industryy ar are have address, sa ays y Monis sha P erkash,, CEO and says Monisha Perkash, ffounder ounder off L o UMO Bo dy T eech. “W We LUMO Body Tech. “We ha ave b een de veloping p g these things g ffor or o have been developing some timee and now find ourselv es ourselves bumping up u against that. Wher Wheree will the dat o? How will it b dataa go go? bee used?” Curr enttlyy, most wearables don ’t Currently, don’t eexercise xercise de eep dat ollection,, analysis deep dataa ccollection, analysis,, and sharin ng ccapabilities. apabilities. De vices lik sharing Devices likee the F itBit,, Glass o, GoQii, LinxF it, FitBit, Glassyy Pr Pro, LinxFit, V eeloComp puter and Rac eY Yo ourself VeloComputer RaceYourself ccan an monito or its users’’ hear monitor heartt rates and ffootfalls, ootfallls, temp erature, sp eed temperature, speed and str ess, but the inf fo ormation is stress, information pr esented in a simplified fform o orm that is presented just adequ uate ffor o or eeveryday verydaay sp orts use adequate sports use.. L ori G p chased a F itBit Fle Lori G.. pur purchased FitBit Flexx in Mar ch of this t yyear eear to aid in a weight March loss rregime. egimee. “I did m esearch and lik ed the myy rresearch liked ed so man ffeerent fact that itt track tracked manyy diff different things ayys. “I enter ed m things,,” shee sa says. entered myy weight and goal. Set S m er of steps p er myy numb number per da ay, ccalorie aloriee int ake, etc day, intake, etc.. After the first week, eek, I w a pr as etty impr essed with ith the was pretty impressed o verall sch heme of things overall scheme things.. Entering each glass of o w ater, eevery very bite very water, bite,, eevery morsel and d eevery very aer obics class and aerobics then rreviewing eviewing w it weekly to see yyour our pr ogress— —and b elieve me —I w as a progress—and believe me—I was making pr ogress.” progress. In gener ral,, the ccompanies ompanies that general, mak vices ar ery early makee thesee de devices aree in a vvery st age of de evelopment,, so their sights stage development, ar en’t set so s far ahead, sa ays y JJulien ulien aren’t says Blin,, organizer organ nizer of a rrecent ecent W eearable Wearable Health and dF itness cconference onffeerence held Fitness at the Plugg And Pla ay T ech e C enter, a Play Tech Center, st artup inc cubator in Sunn yvale. startup incubator Sunnyvale. “Most off the wearable technolo gy technology is ab out fit tness, and they they are are mostly about fitness, track keers off ffootfalls oottfalls f heart trackers and heart rh hyythms,” Blin B sa ayys. “When p eople ttalk alk rhythms, says. people

But B fur ffurther th h possibilities her possibilities ibili i eexist xxist i within i hi a new addition Apple’s new additi ion to Apple ’s latest iOS: Health,, an app a that ccomplies o omplies data datta from from health and ﬁtness apps,, lik like heartt rate ﬁ apps ke hear and ccalories alories burned,, as well as offers off ffeers a place store emergency info. place to stor re emer gency inf fo. HealthKit is the ac accompanying new developers’ com mpan nyying ne ew de eveelopers’ tool info bee shared tool that enables en nables such inf fo to b shared between apps. According Wall bettween w app ps. A cco ording to the W all Street partt of this vventure, Street JJournal, ournal, as par enture, Apple has par partnered Epic,, a p tnered with Epic medical provider, dataa mediccaal rrecords ecor o ds pr ovvider, to supply dat to HealthKit, little HealthKiit,, but lit tttle is known yyet eet about about the arrangement. ar Also on the medical front, t medic al rrecords ecords fr ont, developer drchrono currently deveeloper dr d chrono is curr ently ttaking aking sign ups ffor Betaa testers ffor Google o or Bet o or its Go ogle mediccal rrecords ecords application—not application—not Glass medical fo or patient use u , but ffor o or doctors’. doctors’. The for use, d ctors to cconsult onsult patients’ app allows do doctors inffo more more quickly q haavving info and without having eak eeye ye ccontact ontact when the eyy’re in to br break they’re con nveersation n with a patient. conversation “W We’re a ne w wearable 2.0 “We’re new technology technology platform, plattfo orm,” says saayys Igor Mikhnenko, and CMO Mikhnenko, co-founder co-ffounder o of Moscow-based Gero Moscow-b -based Ger o Lab Lab during his investor Wearables in nvestor e pitch at the W eearables conference. conffeerence. “Our mission is noninvasive chronic in nvvasivve diagnosis diaagnosis of chr onic diseases in early stages. stagges.” The company compan ny bases its product groundbreaking product on gr oundbreaking rresearch esearch of the Hum Human Locomotome Project, man L ocomotome Pr oject oject, which uses eeveryday veeryda day activity activitty trackers track keers such as F FitBit measuree motor itB Bit to measur activity stress behavioral activitty signatures, sign natures, str ess and b ehaavvioral changes and identify d identif fy triggers that may maay indicate metabolic, psychiatric indicate me etabolic, ps ycchiatric and neurological neurological a cconditions. onditions. Using this dataa fr from Using thi is rresearch esearch and dat om individual wearsable devices, Gero w de vices, Ger o can subtle,, unc unconscious can identify identiffy subtle onscious adjustments brought byy chronic adjustmentts br ought on b chronic conditions. conditions. The ccompany ompan ny claims 60-85 percent accuracy identifying 60-85 p ercent e ac curacy identif fyying conditions Parkinson’s conditions such as P arkinson’s Disease, depression, Disease, obesity, obesitty, depr ession, migraines, migraines, anxiety anxiet a y and sleep disorders, disorders, osteoarthritis Type diabetes. osteoarthriitis and T yype II diab etes. “Today Bluetooth devices “T Todaay most m Blueto oth de vices don’t other,, but our don’t talk talk tto o each other Bluetooth serves Bluetooth hub h ser ves as the hardware hardware platform plattfo orm to o ccommunicate ommunicate with all these devices devices e in a ‘connected ‘connected home’ home’ environment, says en nvvironmen nt,” sa ays y Nahid Alam, CEO of Lithouse, Lith house, which markets markets to wearable de device evice makers. makers. For in these areas, For start-ups start-ups areas, the health ccare market tie-in provides are mark keet tie -in pr ovides potential investors potential in nvestors with an attractive attttractive business model, mo odel,, especially especially since since studies show sports aree often sportss wearables ar

returned returned d or left l ft unused d after ft a month m h or so—a so—a phenomenon rrecently ecently ttagged agged as “wearables abandonment”. abandonment”. “Will “W Wiill I retire retire Flex Flex when I get there?” there?”” Lori Lori G says saayys of reaching reaching her h weight loss goal. “Not “Not a chance. chance.” She says saayys she previously previously used an app to track her w walking alking and ffound o ound it wasn’t Flexx ju just wasn’t as accurate accurate as her Fle ust at counting accounting counting steps and ac counting ffor or o pauses. currently about pauses. She has curr ently met ab bout two-thirds weight-loss goal. two -thir hi ds d off h her weight i ht-loss -l go al. l Health ccare bee are wearables ccould ould b prescribed patients,, making their prescribed to patients t use a medic medical necessity—translating al nec essity— —translaating into a ccaptive aptive market market for for o which a premium bee char charged. premium ccan an b ged. Faced Faced with this dynamic and with wi increasing field, increasing ccompetition ompetition in the field d, some sports sports wearables makers mak keers are are feeling feeelin ng the pressure market pressurre to engage the medical mediccal a ma ark keet sooner sooner rather than later. laterr. “The opportunity opportunitty in the U.S. U.S. alone is about says about $2 billion,” sa ays y a representative SmartMonitor, representative of Smar tMonitorr, a company makes company that mak es “SmartWatch, “SmartWaatch,” essentially a brac bracelet detect elet that ccan an de etect epilepsy disorders epilepsy attacks, atttacks, sleep disor ders or even even Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s emergencies emergencies and a alert alert families and ccaregivers. aregivers. The health ccare is,, in are industry industry is n turn, embracing wearable technology. technology. For For many man ny health care care companies, companie o es, the new huge new wearable tech rrepresents epresents a hu uge leap fforward. bracelet o orwar a d. A brac elet that ccould ould d alert senior alert an emergency emergency rroom oom or senio or ccare are nurse that a patient is showing sig signs gns of a stroke, lifesaver fraction strok ke, could could be be a lif feesaaveer at a fra action of the ccost ost of current current technologies. technologiess. Consumer Consumer health ccare are organizations aree also weighing in. organizations ar “We “W We are are definitely seeing a lot of movement mo oveement in this space, space, and wee are are very veery interested interested in technologies technologiess that are improved are driving to impr oveed health healtth outcomes byy enablingg and outcomes ffor or patients b o empowering better emp owering them to b etttter track k and monitor their health at home, home, as well w as improving imprrovving engagement between bettw weeen patients and their health ccare providers aare pr oviders v to manage health cconditions, Carisa onditions,” says saays ys C arisa Hodges-Kaplitz, Hodges-Kaplittzz,, senior manager off publishing and digit digital al innovation inno ovvation ffor o or the American Heartt Association’s Patient Americcaan Hear Association n’s P atiient and Healthcare Team. Healthcare Innovations Inno ovvations T eeam m. “Our organization organization does does much h in the way engaging way of scientific research research and eng gaging in programs leverage programs that le verage these emerging emerging technologies, technologies, to learn what w can positive impact. can drive drive to p ositive health impa act. For For example, example, leveraging leveeraging Heart360—a Heart36 60—a

Digital Di Digita it l Dog Dog introduced The Bow-Lingual, intr oduced 12 Japanese years ago by Japa anese company Takara, offer T aakara, purported to off er dogtranslation, to-human tr anslation, analyzing transmitted wirelessly from barks tr ansmitted wir elessly fr om microphone a micr ophone on the t dog’s collar to a rreceiver eceiver that categorized different them into diff eren nt emotions. A soon Meow-Lingual soo on ffollowed. ollowed. Even if the rresulting esulting translations proven tr anslations had pr p oven totally comprehensible, compr ehensible, basic b pet seem emotions don’t se eem all that impenetrable—more impenetr able—m more ffood ood and moree attention ap appear mor ppear to be current universal motives.. But the cur rent spate of pet wearables wearables a popping Rover up ffocus ocus not on R over or Fluffy’s quantifiable ffeelings, eelings, but on qu uantifiable data—mostly in the t rrealm ealm of health. heal th Among thee many: th. FitBark, much like the human device its name suggests, tracks tracks a dog’s physical activity and rrest, est, allows a a user goals to set fitness goal ls and syncs up The health to a phone app. Th he heal th data it gathers can be shar sshared ed with To ensuree that a veterinarian. T o ensur around neither owner norr pet laze ar ound FitBark on the couch, FitB Bark can rreceive eceive from data fr om some human human fitness trackers. tr ackers. A device worn as a collar and Voyce synced to an app, V oyce monitors canine’s vitals, such as a ca anine’s heart and rrespiratory espiratory rrates, a ates, sleep and This wearable calories burned. T his wear able offers also off ers users the ability bilit to t sharee info shar info on social media (mostly probably photos—no one pr p obably wants Rover’s to know Rover ’s heart h rrate) ate) or veterinarian. with a veterinaria n. Tagg, attaches pet’s T aagg, which attach hes to a pet ’s collar,r, off offers health collar ers heal t monitoring in th primary addition to its prim mary function locator.. The device as a locator d (also phone—there’s synced to a phone e—there’s a here), sends theme her e), send ds notifications preif a pet has gone beyond b pr eand that’s set boundaries, an nd if that ’s the case, provides map of the pet pet’s provides a m ’s current cur rent location. —Heather —Hea eather Zimmerman

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WEDNESDAY 9/24 | 9:00 pm Wax Wednesday:

Quartet (Jazz) FRIDAY 9/26 | 9pm

Orenda Fink (of Azure Ray) Starover Blue SATURDAY 9/27 | 8:30pm Michael Zilber

Quartet (Jazz) SUNDAY 9/28 | 7pm-11pm The Eulipions Jazz Jam

Session with Peppe Merolla (Jazz) Next Week...Wed10/1 - Stripmall Architecture, Silent Pictures Thurs 10/3 - Frank Tusa Trio Fri 10/3 - The Wild Reeds Sat 10/4 - Alex Conde Quartet

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Chef’s Tasting & Craft Beer Dinner Five-Course Tasting Menu Expertly Paired with Craft Beers Friday, October 3, 2014, 6:30 pm $75 per person inclusive For additional information, visit brownpapertickets.com/event/862057 - Seating is limited Toll House Hotel 140 S. Santa Cruz Ave Los Gatos www.tollhousehotel.com/ﬁrestonewalker | 408.884.1054

Jeff Cianci

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Jack Rose Libation House takes its name from a favorite concoction of novelist John Steinbeck, who for a time lived on a property that bordered the old La Hacienda. Ernest Hemingway also wrote fondly of the Jack Rose cocktail and accordingly, its namesake has the feel of an old hunting lodge bar where I imagine both novelists would comfortably enjoy themselves—maybe even avail themselves of the (now) vintage typewriter decorating the entryway. Completing the rustic theme; a small library seating area decorated with leather bound books, hunting trophies adorning the walls and orange-tinged Edison bulbs that give the bar a gentle glow. The drink menu, of course highlighted by the signature Jack Rose, divides the offerings between lighter cocktails and those with big, bold flavors. The Libation House also features several current mixology trends with house punches, gin & tonics on tap and barrel-aged cocktails, which develop concentrated, bold flavors. The Jack Rose cocktail is a delightful concoction of Larids 100-proof apple brandy, fresh lemon and housemade grenadine. The sweet lemony, apple flavor makes it incredibly easy to blithely sip away but it’s deceptively drinkable, with the 100-proof brandy nearly masked entirely by the fruit forwardness of the cocktail. While its season may be running short, on the big and bold cocktail menu I found a favorite in the Kentucky Buck, which takes house-made strawberry infused bourbon, with simple syrup, bitters, fresh lime and ginger beer. The bartender let me try a sip of just the strawberry-infused Maker’s Mark they use in the drink and it was enjoyably mellow, with a slight strawberry flavor that wasn’t overpowering. In my opinion, The Kentucky Buck could do without the simple syrup and still be plenty enjoyable. The Libation House is one of those bars that also happens to serve food—unfortunately no one under 21 is allowed, so leave the kids at home. The food menu features cheese and charcuterie plates, delicious bacon wrapped dates and several pizzas. From the pizza menu I tried the Happy Hawaiian with pineapple bites, mozzarella cheese and bacon. Like other food items at Jack Rose, the pizza unpretentiously arrives on a baking sheet. Unlike many other Hawaiian pizzas I’ve had before, the pineapple pieces were much smaller and guaranteed you got the sweet and salty bacon and pineapple combination in each bite. Unfortunately the pizza was quite greasy but did not stop a friend and I from enjoying every last piece. —Jeff Cianci JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE 18840 Saratoga-Los Gatos Road, Los Gatos. 408.395.3500 or jackrosebar.com

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ACK ROSE Libation House takes cocktails seriously. This house of mixology, tucked away off Highway 9 on the grounds of the former La Hacienda Inn, specializes in creating homemade syrups, shrubs, bitters for their creative classic cocktail FRUIT FORWARD The key ingredient of menu—and their extra strawberry-infused bourbon makes for mellow ﬂavors in the Kentucky Buck cocktail. effort shines through.

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ot only does the tenth month herald cooler weather and—at the very end—Halloween, but it lends its name to the year’s longest festival celebrating something key to many other parties that take place over the months: beer. Local restaurants mark Oktoberfest by serving German dishes—and turning the patio into a beer garden, offering a chance to enjoy the last of the good weather for a couple months.

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE 18840 Los Gatos-Saratoga Blvd, Los Gatos German food and German beer on tap served on the patio. Sep 27, 4-10pm. The Internationals will take the stage from 5:30-9:30pm. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. NAGLEE PARK GARAGE 505 E. San Carlos St, San Jose The Oktoberfest celebrations at Naglee Park Garage were the precursors for the San Jose KraftBrew festival and ultimately Silicon Valley Beer Week. Naglee Park Garage celebrates its 8th Annual Oktoberfest this year with a special menu created by chef Louis Silva, German beers and live music in the patio. Oct 2-4. MOUNTAIN VIEW OKTOBERFEST 895 Villa St, Mountain View Taking place over two days in the parking lot behind Steins, the event features authentic German beer, cuisine, live music and a 7,000-square-foot beer tent. For the kids, there will be jumpy houses, face painting, games and prizes. Oct 4-5. SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET 87 N. San Pedro St, San Jose General admission is $25, which includes a souvenir 16-oz. stein and two pints of German beer from the booths. Entertainment includes German bands, a BratDog eating contest and the return of the Dachshund races. Oct 11, noon-5pm HARRY'S HOFBRAU SAN JOSE 390 Saratoga Ave, San Jose A special Oktoberfest menu and German beer events are featured throughout the month. An “Erdinger Keep-the-Stein Night” on Sept. 25 helps kick off the festivities. Sep 25-Oct 26. CAMPBELL’S 20TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST Downtown Campbell Campbell’s 20th Annual Oktoberfest takes place over two days in downtown. In addition to beer and food, there will be more than 100 arts and crafts booths. Oct 18-19. TESKE’S GERMANIA 255 N. First St, San Jose Complementing Teske's traditional German fare during Oktoberfest will be a series of weekend performances on Fridays and Saturday featuring music by The Gruber Family Band and Teske's official band, The Internationals. Through Oct 25. FAULTLINE BREWING CO. 1235 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale A specialty menu of German dishes with a California twist will be accompanied by German music on the weekends, to go with the in-house brewed German-style beers on tap. Through Oct 24. —Andy Lee

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German for a Month

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ELTON EL TON JOHN Oct 2 at SAP SAP Center

LARRY LA ARR RY THE CABLE GUY Oct 3 at at The Mountain Winery

TOM T OM PETTY AND THE HEAR HEARTBREAKERS TBREAKERS Oct 5 at SSAP AP Center

SNOOP SN NOOP DOG, ICE CUBE, THE GAME Oct 10 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

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San P Pedro edrro Squar Squaree Market,, San S Jose Free Sat, 7pm, Fr ee singer-songwriter When New YYork ork singer-songw writer Screens Jesse CCafiero afiero started Split Scr eens weree intr introspective in 2012,, his songs wer ospective and melancholic (think Bon Iv Iver). ver). There’s introspection Ther e’s still plenty of intr ospection lyrics. and melancholy in Cafiero’s Cafiero’s ly yrics. But now he’s he’s couching those lyrics aree overflowing with in tunes that ar dreamy, hooky, dr eamyy, ffeel-good eel good vibes, eel-good vibes, hook ky, singsing funkyy gr grooves. along melodies and funk o ooves. Screens’s Split Scr eens’s latest rrelease, elease, Bef Before foorre the SStorm torm t , is a breezy breezy batch of o songs combining wide-r wide-ranging anging influences— influ uences— ’70s-pop rradio, space-rock adio, Americana,, sp pace-rock and classic R&B—into a unifi unified fied whole that is at once nostalgi nostalgic ic and modern.. (A (AC) C)

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electronic Fans of bass, electr onnic and anything in between will ﬁnd that Return of the Boom Zap Z has them covered. cover ed. Boom Zap hhas as been a center”” EDM go-to party ffor or “left of o center three Hosted ffor or thr ee years. Hoste ed by rresident esident DJs GoldenChyld, AJ Orbit, O Rcade, Ace Dubstantial, Eni and DJ A ce (who Ustreams Ustr eams the events live) the party can is set up so all DJs ca an spin the direction turntables in any dir e ection they night please, leaving the ni ight open ROTBZ ffor or surprises. RO TBZ has become platform a platf orm ffor or both DJs D and catch emerging attendees alike to ca tch emer ging and hard. styles played loud an nd har d. TTrap, rap, glitch—you house, juke, glitch— you name it— this party dishes them m all out. (RG)

RE-IGNITION RE -IGNIT TION

San Jose Rock Sh Shop, hop, San Jose Tue, T ue, u 7:30pm, $6/7 $6/ /7 When the Sex Pistols Pistols exploded onto the scene in the mid-’70s, struck people were were struc ck by how caustic was. But and angry their music m compared that was nothing compar ed to the much louder (and ( angrier) hardcore har dcore sound too come out of Washington W ashington D.C. in in the early ’80s. served And if the Pistols ser ved as a primer for for all punk punk to come, it was Brains wrote Bad Br ains that wr w ote the blueprint hardcore. ffor or har dcore. Seattle Seatttle group group Rearee a Badd Br Brains Ignition ar ains tribute ﬁery band led by the ﬁ ery ffemale emale singer has Om Johari, who ha as wild charisma expressions, and even wilder ffacial a expr acial essions, whether in Re-Ignition, Re-Ign nition, or when she perf performs orms her own original work. (AC) (AC)

HERB ALPER ALPERT T Novv 77-8 -8 at thee Montalvo Arts Center

JUDAS JUD AS PRIEST PRIEST Nov 16 6 at Civic National Civic

YO Y O GABBA G GABB A GABBA! GABBA! LIVE! Nov 21 2 at City National Civic

USHER Nov 2244 at SAP SAP Center

FLEETWOOD FLEETW OOD MA MACC Nov 25 at SSAP AP Center

MYTHBUS MYTHBUSTERS: TERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS Dec 118 8 at City National Civic

Y&T Decc 31 at Rockbar Theater

CAKE Dec 31 3 at City National Civic

CHERRY CHERR RY POPPIN’ D DADDIES ADDIES Jan 31 aatt Montalvo Arts Center music For mus ic updates and contest giveaways, giveaway ys, like us on Facebook metrofb.com at metr ofb.com

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Perpetual Motion

MOVING M OV ING FORWARD, FO ORWA R D, LOOKING LOOKING B BACK ACK Jim m Campbell’ Campbell’ss piece, ‘H ‘Home ome M Movies ovies 300-3,’ is one of many pieces from the San Jose Museum of Art’ Art’s will ’s permanent p collection that wil ll be on display in the new exhibit,, titled ‘‘Momentum: Experiment Momentum: An Experi ment in the Unexpected.’

A new exhibit at the San Sa an Jose Museum m Art, of Art t,, ‘‘Momentum,’ Momentum,’ urges u artists and patrons patro ns to consider what w moves them m BY B Y NICK VERONIN V ONIN VER

s the th he San Jose Jose Museum Mu useum of Art enters its 45th year, yearr, museum staff sta ff and curators curators are step taking a st tep back to reﬂect on how farr they’ve come and they’re where they y’re going, going and they are asking the public to help them gain some perspective with a new w exhibit. “The 45th anniv aanniversary ersary is sor sortt of mid-life, Robin Treen, special ecial mid-lif fe,” muses musses R o obin Tr een, sp projects pr ojects ccoordinator oordinator d at the museum.

“W “Where Where do yyou ou go fr from om her here? e? Wh What hat is it that you you rreally eally w aant to do?” want Momentum: An Exp eriment in the Experiment U Unexp ected, which op ens on Oct. Unexpected, opens 2,, at tempts to help the museum attempts an nswer these questions b displaayyiing answer byy displaying a wide variet ty of piec es fr om the variety pieces from SJ JMA A’s p ermanent ccollection, ollection,, ha aving v SJMA’s permanent having a numb er of lo cal performers, perfo ormers, number local w writers e ers writers,, musicians and other mak makers rrespond e ond to the piec esp es with works or o pieces p erfo ormances of their own,, and th hen performances then as sking at tttendees to do the same—in same—in — asking attendees pr rose, p oetry, on the danc ﬂoor and a prose, poetry, dancee ﬂoor th hrough visual ar t. through art. “I alw ayys think of artwork artwork as kind kin nd always off a cconversation, on nversation,” Tr een sa ayys. “I think th hink Treen says. an ny cr eative endea avor rreally eally is any creative endeavor is..”

“The vvery ery traditiona al,, kind of traditional, old-school idea of a museum, museum,, is that old-school ther nal vvoice oice telling theree is this institution institutional yyou ou what the work me eans and what means went into it,” says saayys Kat K o oh,, curatorial Koh, asso ciate at SJMA. “Th he museum associate “The appr oach to ar approach artt now iss a lot mor moree par ticipatory and op en n. The audienc participatory open. audiencee has mor he pr ocess.” moree agency in th the process. In put ting to gether Momentum, putting together K oh w as rresponsible esponsible ffor o or cho osing the Koh was choosing works fr om the museu um’s permanent permanent from museum’s ccollection ollection to displa ay. When W thinking display. ab out what piec es belonged belo onged in the about pieces eexhibit, xhibit,, K oh sa ayys she th hought ab out Koh says thought about the various kinds of mo m vement movement and momentum. She chose piec es pieces that had mo ving elem ments, such as moving elements, videos e that hinted at es videos,, as well as piec pieces mo vement mor ractlyy— —works movement moree abstr abstractly—works in which the vie wer ccan a rreally an eally see the viewer momentum and mo vement e movement of the ar tist,, either in str okes ong brush str artist, strong strokes or lines ccarved arved in wo od. And then wood. ther graphss, which ha ave theree ar aree photo photographs, have

fr ozen a si ngle moment in time and frozen single dra aw the vie vviewer’s wer’s at tttention to the draw attention passage off the yyears. ears. “T ime and a mo vement ar ery “Time movement aree vvery closely cconnected, on nnected,” K oh sa o ayys, echoing Koh says, Tr een in her h eexplanation xplanation of wh hy this Treen why eexhibit xhibit ma akes sense at this junctur e. makes juncture. While K oh w as bus osing Koh was busyy cho choosing works to plac p xhibition, placee in the eexhibition, Tr een wor rked on selecting 10 ar tists Treen worked artists who woul d ser ve as “inter veners” would serve “interveners” or “disrupt tors.” Included in this “disruptors. gr oup is a ccomedian, omedian, a graphic group designer an nd a designer of bicy cles, and bicycles, a vventure enture ccapitalist apitalist turned st and-up stand-up ccomedienne, omedienn ne, and the curr ent p oet current poet laur eate off Sant ounty. laureate Santaa Clara C County. All of th he individuals selected b the byy Tr een ha ave crafted rresponses esponses to the Treen have works sele ected b oh. F or eexample, xample, selected byy K Koh. For Damien Sm mith, principal danc er with Smith, dancer the San Fr rancisco Ballet, will rrespond espond Francisco to the Fr ed d Sprat tt’s 19 65 painting Fred Spratt’s 1965 Gr renholm e w a ne with w danc e, which he Grenholm new dance, will p erfor orm while simult aneously perform simultaneously eeping hi k is ffeet eeet wet with paint. His keeping his danc aptured on video and dancee will b bee ccaptured shown adj acent to the painting adjacent painting,, while the marks he lea aves on the ccanvas anvas leaves under foott will also b ecorded and underfoot bee rrecorded on ccamera ameraa pr ojected onto the flo or in projected floor fr ont of th he painting front the painting.. While th he rresponses esponses of the 10 the “inter veneers”” ar ortant to the “interveners” aree imp important eexhibit, xhibit K xhibit, o sa oh ayys the interaction of Koh says the patr on ns that is most critic al to the patrons critical eexhibit. xhibit. “The mo ost imp ortant la ayer is the most important layer rresponse esponse of o our audienc es,” she sa ayys. audiences, says. V iisitors to the museum will ha ave the Visitors have chanc aw on ttablet ablet ccomputers, omputers, chancee to dra draw write p oettry and pr ose rresponses esponses poetry prose to piec es, aand to danc pieces, dancee on a danc dancee flo or. “Thi xhibition challenges floor. “Thiss eexhibition traditionall notions of what an eexhibition xhibition hibiti n lo llooks oks k lik d ffeels eeels l lik e.” likee and like. K oh sa ays she hop es the eexhibition xhibition Koh says hopes will help p eople br eak out of the people break pr econceivved notions of what a preconceived museum iss supp osed to b supposed bee lik likee or lo ok lik e, and a that it ma ay inspir look like, may inspiree cr eativitty iin the museum patr ons. creativity patrons. Man ny p eop ple don ’t ffeel eeel lik Many people don’t likee the theyy ar aree cr eative en nough to mak t,, she creative enough makee ar art, sa ayys. “That t’s not true at all. I b elieve says. “That’s believe eeveryone veryone is i cr eative in their own w ay.” creative way.

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ARTS TS metroactive metr oactivve AR ART A RT A seemingly-innocuous blank white painting drives a trio of French friends insane in this Fr ench comedy. $17-$32. comedy y. Thru Oct 19.. $17 -$32.. City C Company, Lights Theater Company y, San Jose. Joose.

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entertainment from from or orchestra chestra to rrock ock and rroll. oll. Every 1st Fri, Altos. 6pm. Downtown LLos os Al tos.

Name:: A History of LLocal ocal W Watering atering Holes.”Thru Oct 31. LLos os Gatos

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“Ron Dell’ Dell’Aquila: Aquila: Photogr Photography,” aphyy,,” an exhibit of unapologetic intensity and hue. Thru Nov Arastu: Celebration 16. “Salma Ar astu: Celebr ation of CCalligraphy,” alligraphyy,,” ffeaturing eaturing texturee and the blend of textur calligraphy sacred calligr aphy on sacr ed texts. “Karim Thru Nov 16. 16 “K Karim Alwali: abstract The Civilization Code,” abstr act paintings. Thru Nov 23. Clara. Santa Clar a.

A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized or ganized by San Jose Jazz. Pedro Every Fri, 77-9pm. -9pm. San P edro Squaree Market, San Jose. Squar

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The P Palo alo Al Alto to Players present present th the he West premiere Fish,” W est Coast pr emiere of “Big Fis sh,” power a story about the magical powe er of storytelling. Thru Sep 28.. Lucie Luccie Theater,r, P Palo Alto. SStern tern Theater alo Al to.

A weeklyy showcase of Bayy Area’s Ar ea’s budding music scene across acr oss all genres. genres. Most Tuesdays, Tuuesdays, Theatree on San 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatr Pedro P edro Square, Square, San Jose.

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Laugh until your stomach hurt hurts ts improved at this impr oved battle of wits,, all audience-sourced audience-sour ced and suitablee entiree ffamily. ffor or the entir amilyy. Ongoing. $12-$15. $12 -$15. CCamera amera 4,, San Jose.

THE GREA GREAT AT AMERICAN PARK TRAILER P ARK MUSICAL In this LLos os Al Altos tos Stage Stage production, Company pr oduction, sparkling sparkling like aluminum siding, this campy, campy y, caustic musical ffable able adultery, is ripe with adul teryy, hysterical hysterical pregnancy, pr egnancyy, strippers, murderous murderous o ex-boyfriends, Costco, and th the he Ice CCapades. apades. Thru Sep 28, 3pm m or 8pm. $18-$32. Bus Barn Theater,, LLos Altos. Theater os Al tos.

THE GGYPSY YPSY An inside look at a ffamily amily anchored anchor ed in the stage-speciﬁcally, speciﬁcally y, burlesque.. Audiences Audiencees won’t’t ever look at show busine business won ess way. $14-the same way y. Thru Oct 5.. $14 $24. Theatre. $2 4. Sunnyvale Theatr e.

HOUSE AND GARDEN The theatrical diptych ffollows ollows characters the same set of char acters as from they move fr om the drawing drawing rroom oom of an upper-middle-class pp s British country manor (House) and the grounds grounds of the estate (Gar Garden rdden). The audience stays pu put, ut, while the actors dash between two adjacent theaters. Thru Octt Pear Avenue 5,, 8pm.. $10. The P ear A vvenue Theatre, View. Theatr e, Mountain View w.

KISSS ME, KA KIS KATE AT TE The delightful rrendition endition of a ““play-within-a-play,” play-within-a-playy,” ,” Kiss Me,, KKate ate is an award-winning award-winning talee of messy passion,, humor and rromance. omance. Thru Oct 18. $20-$39. $20-$339. Saratoga Theatre. Sar atoga Civic Theatr e.

*concerts *c oncerts LLOS OS AL ALTOS TOS FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY A monthly community celebration eaturing all celebr ation ffeaturing

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA ATI T Opera Night. First Friday of Opera every month. San Jose.

*art art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “Hot Spot:: Bay Area Area Studio Studio Glass”,”, glass artwork artworkss by various Glass workss fr from artists, including work om Bonny Doon Art Glass, Holy City Art Glass and LLundberg undberg Studios. Studios. Thru Oct 5. Los Los Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR ARTS ARTS CENTER “Night, Smoke, and Shadows: Atmosphere The Presence Presence of A tmosphere Century.” in the 19th Century .” Thru Oct Observe Nature.” 6. ““Artists Artists Obser A ve Natur e.” “Brought Thru Oct 6. “Br ought to Light: Documentaries by SStanford tanford “Miniaturee SStudents.” tudents.” Thru Oct 6.. “Miniatur Worlds: W orlds:: Indian Court Paintings Paintings from fr om the Collection.” Thru Oct 20.. “The New Landscape: Gyorgy Experiments in Light by Gyor gy 17. “Sympathy KKepes.” epes.” Thru Nov 17 7. “S ympathy ffor or the Devil.” Devil ” This exhibit Devil. captures captur es the visual history of Satan in art. The centerpiece of acquired the exhibit is the newly acquir ed Jackson Pollock, Jack son P ollock, titled LLucifer uciffeer. Thru Dec 1. “Robert Frank Frank in America.” This collection of 130 photographs photographs examines Robert Frank’s Frank’s work from from the 1950s. Thru Jan 5. Stanford. Stanford.

DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM “Creative in Common” “Creative Common” explor explores es ffamily amily by inviting visitors to rreﬂect eﬂect on their own experiences and associations,, and to rrespond espond to the question: what does family family mean to you? Thru Mar.. Santa Clar Clara. Mar a.

HISTORY MUSEUM HISTORY GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “Wher “Wheree Everybody Knows Your Yoour

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GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “The Bride Series,”” solo exhibition Jennifer Vaiola by Jennif er V aaiola aka CAKE. Thru Oct 18. San Jose.

ART AR T ARK GALLER GALLERY Y “In 3-D: 3-D: Selected Art,”” by Paciﬁc Group. P aciﬁc Rim Sculptors Gr oup. Thru Oct 25. San Jose.

MONTALVO MONT ALVO ARTS ARTS CENTER “Fun & Games: Six Artists Consider Play and Wellbeing,” Wellbeing,” workss by local and work international artists that play, explore, invite visitors to play y, explor e, create. participate, and cr eate. Thru Saratoga. Oct 31. Sar atoga.

ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE "The The Oper Operature" aturee" by Anatomical Theatres Theatr es of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r) presents (A ATOM-r) pr esents innovative performance aree perf ormance artists who ar pushing the boundaries of culture. digital cul ture. First Fridays only, only y, San Jose.

*events *e vents SOUTH FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY ARTWALK AR TWALK A self self-guided guided evening tour through thr ough galleries, museums, and independent businesses eaturing exhibitions and special ffeaturing performances, perf ormances, including SStreet treet Parque Eats & Live Beats at P arque Pobladores. De LLos os P obladores. First Friday of the Month. Venues Veenues along street throughout S. First str eet and thr oughout downtown San Jose.

SILICON V SILICON VALLEY ALLE A Y MUSIC FESTIVAL FE STIV VA AL In conjunction with South First presents Fridays,, the SVMF pr esents Anna Maria Mendieta. Ms.. Mendieta, the principal harpist with the Sacramento Sacr amento Philharmonic, has performed perf ormed as a soloist and as a member with many symphony orchestras or chestras and chamber music groups across gr oups acr oss the country. countryy.

JOIN US OCTOBER 18TH AND 19TH FOR THE INAUGURAL CONCERT OF THE WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA’S NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR, MICHAEL DiGIACINTO ON THE PROGRAM: MOZART’S SYMPHONY NO. 41 (THE JUPITER), SIBELIUS’S FINLANDIA AND SOLOIST, AMIR KHOSROWPOUR PERFORMING SHOSTAKOVICH’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2

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Saturday, October 18th 7:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 81 N. Second St., San Jose

Sunday, October 19th 3:00 p.m. West Valley College Theater 14000 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga

TICKETS: General–$20.00 I Seniors–$15.00 I Students–$10.00 I Children under 12 free with paying adult BUY SEASON TICKETS/FOUR CONCERTS AT A 25% DISCOUNT: General–$60.00 I Seniors–$45.00 I Students–$30.00 GROUP DISCOUNTS: Order ten or more tickets and receive a 20% discount off the regular price. ONLINE: www.winchesterorchestra.com I Information: (408) 866-5302 or winchester@pacbell.net

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UNDEAD FOR A CAUSE The seventh annual San Jose Zombie Crawl will help raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Booze and Brains USUALLY PEOPLE tend to look like zombies the day after a big night out. But this Thursday, the walking dead will descend upon downtown San Jose with the aim of scaring up some money—and good times—for a good cause. The seventh annual San Jose Zombie Crawl begins at 6pm at South First Billiards on Sept. 25. That’s the designated starting point for the night, which unfolds with two groups of partiers—dressed as reanimated corpses, of course—limping, drooling and lurching on two separate pub crawls, according to event organizer Kristin Silver. After each group hits the first three bars, they will switch tracks and head for the other three before reconvening at Splash for a big undead dance party. “Splash has been a really fantastic place to end the San Jose Zombie Crawl night,” Silver says, noting that it has two dance floors, plenty of room and an upstairs patio. South First Billiards, Proceeds from the event will go to benefit the AmeriSan Jose can Cancer Society, Silver says. Sep 25, 6pm, $5 Silver started the event in 2008 after seeing a similar Facebook.com/ zombie crawl at Burning Man. Inspired to replicate the SanJose.ZombieCrawl pub crawl in San Jose, she asked all that year’s participating bars to donate a little bit of money to help with advertising. After the first event, she had money left over, so she donated the money to the American Cancer Society. “I thought it was hilarious,” Silver says. “I just did the first one to see if I could do it and see if it could be done around here.” But after that, the Zombie Crawl got a bit more personal for her. The next year Silver’s mother died from cancer. From that point on, she has presented the annual crawl as a charity event. Silver sells tickets to help with administrative costs and the rest goes to charity. Some of the participating bars donate a portion of their night’s profit to the cause. While many just come out for the fun, Silver says, others are aware of the event’s charitable bent and come to support the cause. “We always have people who come out with their own stories,” Silver says. Just last year a woman who participated told Silver that the night of the crawl had fallen on the anniversary of one of her best friends dying from cancer. This year the participating bars are Fahrenheit Lounge, The Old Wagon Saloon & Grill, The Loft, O’Flaherty’s, Freddie J’s and Da Kine Island Grill—plus South First Billiards and Splash. Each bar will offer drinks within a range of $3-$6, and some will have specialty drinks, such as the “Zombie Necrosis” at O’Flaherty’s. This year’s crawl will also mark the end of an era. Silver will be stepping down and the future of the event is uncertain. “It’s something that I’ve done for so long and it’s been fun, but it’s time for new adventures,” she says, noting that she’d be happy to have someone else pick up where she left off, but as of right now she isn’t sure what will happen. It’s hard to believe the event is gone for good. Anyone who’s ever seen a good zombie movie knows that once the undead are out, they’re out for good. — Nick Veronin

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TROLL T ROLL DOLLS DOLLS The underground-dwelling g Boxtrolls make a handy Othe Other er for the denizens of Cheesebridge reality, they’re creatures.. Cheesebriidge to hate, but in reality y, the y’re gentle creatures

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HER HERE’S RE’S A MYTH that keeps keep ps the city of Cheesebridge Che esebridge obedient. The Boxtrolls takes Cheesebridge. It’ss a place in Ch eesebridge. It’ strange crooked str ange cro oked city on a hill, and it lookss like someone pulled Mont Saint-Michel straight M ont Saint -Michel str aight up Prague. It’ss a gaslit pile out of Pr agu ue It ue. It’ looming streets, with loomi ng streets s, crooked drainpipes gutters.. ainpipes and deep gutters dr Here, H ere, once upon u a time, ““the the Trubshaw was T rubshaw Baby” B w as kidnapped and taken by b the trolls who live under the streets sstreets..

Lord L ord Portley-Rind Portleey--Rind (voiced (vvo oiced by by Jared Jaared d proud non-entity chest Harris),, a pr H oud nonentitty with a ch hest full medals,, has ac accepted fu ull of medals cepted the offer off ffeer of a freelance fr e eelanc e exterminator exxterminator to rid the city citty of these monsters.. The eexterminator th hese unseen monsters xxtermin nator Archibald Kingsley does is Ar rcchibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsle ey do d es the great th he vvoice o oice with gr eat ﬂair and gusto). Snatcher hulking, creature Sn natcher is a hulking g, unctuous cr eatture w the most horrible teeth this sidee of with Essex. trolls Es sseex. x And as he hunts the tr rolls o with h steam-powered machinery, ste eam-powered machiner y, he and his h gang terrify alerts: ga ang terrif fy the town with rred ed aler ts: “Hide babies!” “H Hide yyour o our tender and delicious bab ies!” trolls are peaceful little Th tr The olls ll ar re actually ll p eaceful f l lit li tttlle l tinkers—they’re hermit-crab like tin nk kers—the e eyy’rre hermit t-crab lik ke in tthe way discarded w wa ay they’ve theeyy’vve adopted disc arded ccardboard aardboard boxes both home.. Instead b o as b oxes oth clothing and home In nstead Trubshaw Baby, they’ve off eating the Trubsha aw Bab by, the ey’v y ve raised ra aised him as one of their own. The creatures gabble—they cr reatures ttalk alk in a snarling gabble —ttheey hiss they’re theyy ha have hi iss if the y’re ccornered—but ornered—but the o ave

names,, based on pictures English names n the pictur es boxes they wear. of the b oxes the ey wear r. “F ““Fish” ish h” is the (Isaac ffoster o oster father of “Eggs”” (Is saac HempsteadWright), baby W rright),, the human bab by who is now a grown boy. gr own b oy. Meanwhile, useless Lord’s Mean nw while, the usele ss L ord’s Winnie daughter W iinnie (Elle Fanning) F is becoming with lore b ecoming fascinated wit th the lor re of the trolls. Comes day Cheesebridge’s tr olls. C omes the da ay of Cheesebridge ’s fair—a medieval fair r—a — ccelebration, elebration,, with h medie val mystery-play m yystery--pla lay rre-enactment e-enactmeent off the h baby snatching. Winnie famous bab by snatching g. W iinnie meets Eggs,, who is pr prowling, seeking Eggs owlingg, se eeking his kidnapped friends.. kidnapp ed friends Boxtrolls, hardly whatsoever The Boxt troolls, har dly based b whatso eveer credited source, Snow’ss on the cr edited sour ce, Alan A Snow’ Here Monsters!, another Her re Be Monst teerrs!, s is ano other amazing stop-motion animation byy the ffeat eeat of stop -motion anim mation b Portland-based Laika P ortland-based studio L aik ka ((Caroline, Car aroline o e, Paranorman.) It’s surprising Paranorman .) It ’s surpris sing how smoothly number styles aree smo othly a numb er of visual st tyyles ar here. phosphorescent blended her e. In their phosphor p escent below streets, trolls look rrealm ealm b elow the str eetss, the tr olls lo ok like Pee-wee’s lik ke P ee-w e ee’s Playhouse rrefugees, efugees, gentle trogs Wayne tr ogs rresembling esembling Wa ayyn ne White and Garyy P Panter’s creatures. Tenniel, Gar anter’s cr eatures. JJohn ohn T eenniel, Lewis Carroll’s L ewis C arroll’s ccollaborator, ollaboratorr, ccould ould have created “White ha ave cr eated the “Whit te Hats”— decaying mustachioed the dec aying y must achio oed rroyals, oyyals,

obsessed with wiith cheese-tastings. cheese-tastings. The “red “red hats”—the hats the troll-hunters troll oll-hunters hunters who long ffor or o placee at the cheese-table—are their plac cheese-table—are crafted with h that delight in human malformation spurred malffo ormatiion that spurr ed the old British tv tv show sh how Spitting Spittting t Image. Image. The Boxtrolls Boxtroolls is as much nouveaunou uveaucabaret cabaret as itt is steampunk. The grotesque grotesque is is never never e far aaway. way. (Winnie, (Wiinnie, the prettiest prettties t st creature creature in the film,, pulls wrathful faces—she’s faaces— —she s ’s an infuriated Shirley Shirleey Temple.) Tem emple.) Astor Astor Piazzolla-like Piazzolla-lik ke keyboards keyb y oards are a e in the air. ar airr. Central Central to the Trubshaw is a corseted Trubshaaw Day Day festivities Da festivities e corseted “Krakovakian” “Krakovaki v ian n” diva named Mme. Mme. FrouFrouFrou, bee a red-hot Frou,, who is i supposed supposed to b red-hot number. number. Seeing Seeeing her on stage, stage, one remembers rememberss how Rocky Rock ky the Squirrel Squirrel would mutter mutttter “That face! face! Where Where have haave I seen that face!” byy one of faace!”” when blinded b Boris Badenov’s Baden nov’s disguises. disguises. The Boxtrolls Boxttrolls o is a narrow-escape narrow-escape actioner, actioner, a young-love young-love story, story, and parable of how h ffear ear e of the Other Other is used to keep keeeep the populace populace in line. line. And it is noticeably no oticeably rather leftleaning. myy first criteria leaning. That's Th hat's not m for fo or a cartoon, cartoon, o , but I’ll certainly certainly ttake ake it. Recently, Reecentlyy, the th he final flange of the Atlas Atlas Shrugged Shrugggged trilogy triilogy slunk into a ffew ew of our nation’s nation’s theaters. theeaters. Seeing how well The Boxtrolls its political Boxttrolls o presents presents e political argument, argument, this film suggests adaptation su uggests an adapt ation of Ayn Ayyn Rand’s have Rand’s prose prosse cinderblock cinderblock might ha ave made more better more money money and been been b ettter t done as animation…perhaps aniimation…perhaps with funny funn ny animals. anim mals. Cartoons Cartoon ns have haave slants—The slants—The Lion Kingg isn’t isn’t apolitical—and a olitical—and The Boxtrolls ap Boxtroolls makes makes pointed poin nted comedy comedy of what Marx called ” called d “commodity “commodity fetishism. fetishism. e It’s It’s sometimes sometim mes eeven ven a little littttle didactic: the villainss rreassure eassure themselves themselves that they’re they’re doing the right thing when capturing terrifying captu uring and terrif fyying these little little creatures. creatu ures. “Do Do the boxtrolls boxtrolls understand understand d the duality dualitty of good good and evil?” evil?”” one o of the gang asks portentously, portentousslyy, like like an editorial writer laying it on laaying y n thick about about the Muslim Threat. Threat. This This is a movie movie that ends with an emblem m of rroyalty oyaltty being being tossed on the rubbish byy pinko rub bbish heap as a hit b pinko folkie Reynolds (covered byy fo olkie Malvina Malvvina R eynolds (c overed b the Oregonian Loch Oregon nian band L och Lomond) Lomond) clears the theater ttheater.. I didn’t didn’t want want to be be cleared; clear l ed; d I would w ld have have happily ha h il satt for fo or seconds. secondss.

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THE EEQUALIZER QUALIZER (R;; 131 min.) McC McCall all (Denzel Washington), ormer black ops W ashington), a fformer agent, thinks thinks he’s he’s embarking on life—nothing like e—nothing lik a quiet new lif ke ensure ffaking aking your own death to ens sure an uneventful rretirement. etirement. But then thhen he Grace encounters Teri Teri e (Chloë Gr ace Moretz), Moretz), a girl whom he ffeels eels compelled compelleed to from Russian help escape fr om violent Rus sian gangsters. (Opens Fri.)

HECTOR AND THE SEAR HECTOR SEARCH CH H HAPPINESS FFOR OR HAPPINE SS (R;; 114 min.) Simon P Pegg egg (Shaunn of the Dead) stars as a psychiatrist, wh who, ho,, ffearing earing lifee to he hasn’t hasn’t experienced enough in i lif properly decides pr operly advise his patients,, dec cides to travel search secret tr avel the world in sear ch of thee secr et to true happiness. (Opens Fri.)

JEALOUSY JEAL OUSY (Not rated; rated; 77 min.) Philippe Gar Garrel rrel dir directs ects Garrel, tale his own son,, LLouis ouis Gar rel,, in a ta ale of barely scraping an actor bar ely scr aping by whoo leaves actress mother Clothilde,, an actr ess and the mo other of his child,, to pursue a rrelationship elationship actress. The with Claudia,, another actr ess. Th he story inspired Garrel’s was inspir ed by the elder Gar rell’s own ffather— ather—tr très rès ès meta, non? (Open (Opens ns Fri.)

LAST LA ST D DAYS AYS IN VIETNAM (98 min.) Ther Theree is little examination examination War ar today in 20 2014, of the Vietnam W 014,, far far war’s finish. less of the war ’ss humiliating fi nish nish. ennnedy Documentary maker Rory KKennedy assembles (the daughter of RFK) assembl es a group participants. gr oup of witnesses and partici pants. They include then-Secr then-Secretary etary of of State State Kissinger,, Richar Richardd Armitage, Henry Kissinger Armitaage,, CIA Frank agent Fr ank Snepp,, and Juan Valdez Valdez last and Mike Sullivan,, two of the la ast 11 oof off the Marines airlifted off the rroof American embassy in Saigon. The T half,f, in shadowy libr library ary lighting, first half lighting, is a bit too talking-heads ffor or the th he large large screen. scr een.. Stick Stick with it, because the thhe story off the th evacuation ti off Saigon S i is i ffar ar more more thrilling—and saddening. The film moree or less blame-fr blame-free—though ee—though is mor severely things might have been sever e ely different Graham diff erent given Ambassador Gr raham Martin’s deliberate unwillingness Martin ’s deliber ate unwillingne ess to see what was coming;; Martin’s Martin’ss lack of fforesight oresight meant that the worst woorst thousands option ffor or rremoving emoving tens of tho ousands of rrefugees efugees had to be used:: an airlift slow, by slow w, small helicopters,, something som mething draining teaspoon. like dr aining a pond with a teas spoon. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)

Revivals Re vivals THE AD ADVENTURES VENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY HUCKLEBERR Y FINN/HENRY FINN/HEN NRY EDITOR ALDRICH, EDIT OR (1939/1942) Mickey Rooney in the hard-to-adapt har d-to-adapt classic—“He is my

THEOLDD THE OLD DARK ARKHOUSE/ HOUSE/ RED DUST REDDUS ST (both 1932) James Whale in invites nvites you shelter to take shel ter from from the storm stoorm with weirdos a houseful of weir dos in a classic c of lurks ffacetious acetious horror: horror:: KKarloff arloff lurk ks about scar-faced as Morgan, Morgan,, the scar-f aced butler bbutler,r, but extremely Ernest Thesiger is the extr emely ffey ey ceremonies. Imitated master of cer emonies.. Imita ated time compact and time again,, but the com mpact original survives with sur vives in comparisons wit th everything later—most else that came later—mos st notably Rocky Rock ky Hor Horror rroor Pictur Picture re Show w. BILLED WITH WITH A slice of imitation W. W. Somerset Maugham exotica set in thee jungles of "Cochin China" (Vietnam) on o a rubber plantation two days by boat boat away from heree pronounces from a city everyone her p onounces pr "Saygon." Just arrived arrived from from Saygon is fresh-as-paint fresh-as-paint peroxide peroxide blonde bloonde trollop trollop Jean Harlow, Harlow w, who (like the par pparrot rot that is her familiar) familiar) is chatty, chattyy, ﬁne-feathered ﬁnee-feathered and rude. She curls up ar around ound the boss

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Huckleberry Huckleberry against all comers,” com mers,” said that per perceptive ceptive 1930ss critic Otis Ferguson. Ferguson. Rex Ingram Ingram as Jim, Walter Walter Connolly and William William “Fred “Fred Mertz” Mertz”” Frawley Frawley as the mountebank mouuntebank French French rroyalty. oyaltyy. BILLED WITH WITTH Henry Aldrich,, Editorr. Jimmy LLydon ydoon as the proto teen, proto Archie Archie Andrews Andrews teen n, getting a position as the editor of the Centerville thhe Center ville paper. paper. (Plays Sep 2929-30 30 inn P Palo aalo Al Alto to at the Stanford Sttanffoorrd Theatre.) Theatrre.) e ) (RvB) (RvB B)

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Sleeping it Off DREAMING D R E A MING OF OF DYING DY ING One half of dream dream-pop m-pop duo Azure R Ray, ay y, Orenda Fink F went through dream thera therapy apy to help her overcom overcome me the death of her dog. Then she s wrote an album inspired by y the experience.

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HER HERE RE ARE ARE two important impo ortant facts to understand unde erstand about Blue Dream, Drea am, the latest solo album from m Orenda Fink, half of Alabama Alab bama dream-pop duo Azure Ray. Ray. First, the songs were e inspired by the dev astatin ng experience of her devastating dog passing ng away. away. Secondly, Secondly y, passin although it it might seem contr adictory y, it’ contradictory, it’ss probably the most joyful, joyful, o hopeful album she’s she’s ever written. “I had this eexistential xistential crisis crisis,” ,” F Fink ink saayys. “It hit me says. m har harder der than I had eexpected. xpected. I w was as lost in a st state ate of nott knowing what death despair of no is,, what it me is means eans ffor o or me me,, ffor o or m myy do dog, g, myy husband, my m my family—everybody. family— everybodyy.

It made me rrealize ealize that I had no framework fra amework ffor o or death. I’v I’vee hear heard d all a this th his stuff fr from om diff different ffeerent rreligions, eligions, but I’ve I’v ve never never b believed elieved one set of thin things.” ngs.” om serious grieff Fink Fink suffered suff ffeered fr from w when her do dogg died. So much, in fact, fa that saw her th hat she sa aw a therapist to help he er through th hrough the ordeal. ordeal. During that period, p e d,, the singer and song erio songwriter writer dreams, eexperienced x erienced vivid, emotional dr xp eaams, and an nd eexplored xplored her ffeelings eeelings of loss through th hrough the ps psychoanalytic ychoanalytic pr process ocess e therapy. wasn’t off dream dream therap y. It w asn’t until a yyear e and a half later ear later,, after she had d worked through ough much of the pain pain, w work ed thr n, that th hat she w was as able to st start art writing m music about ab out the eexperience. xperience. Whe When en she sh he ﬁnally rreturned eturned to music music,, the songs so ongs she wr wrote ote ultimately became becam me Bl lue Dr eam. Blue Dream. Fink is no stranger to spirituali sm, Fink spiritualism, an nd she ’s sp ent plent and she’s spent plentyy of time ccontemplating o ontemplating death. She sa ayys tha at says that her he er mother is a “Southern witch,”” an nd she has eexplored xplored spiritual and th hemes in pr evious work, such as themes previous

her debut solo eff effort, ffo ort, Invisible Ones Ones,, was inspired byy traditional which w as inspir ed b mysticism. Haitian music and m y ysticism. But isn’t simply Blue Dream Dream isn ’t simpl ly a ccerebral erebral mystical; eexploration xploration of the m y al; it is ystic trying a grueling and tr ying emotional journeyy of self self-discovery. journe f- discover e y. was intense,” “The whole thing w as so intense ,” Fink says. likee I ffound myself yself F ink sa ayys. “I ffeel eel e lik o ound m process. during the pr ocess. I rrealized e ealized that I’vee kind of b been een on aautopilot I’v utopilot ffor o or maybe was the last 10 yyears—or ears— or ma m ayybe I w as something running i aaway way fr ffrom om so omething hi ps psychically ychically and this pr process rocess rreally eally facee m myy demons demons.” fforced o orced me to fac d .” Dream perhaps Blue Dr ream e is p erhap ps the most straightforward Fink straight tfor o waard rrecord ecord F ink has eever ver mid-2000s, partt of rreleased. eleased. In the mid-20 00s, as par Azure Ray, A zure Ra ay, she rreleased eleased d a handful of rrecords ecords that melded got gothic thic Southern dreamy indie-rock. Ass a ffolk olk music and dr o eam my indie -rock. A solo ar artist, tist,, she she’s ’s eexplored xplored mor moree te textures, xtures, instruments and fforms o orms of eexpression. xpression. On Invisible Ones, Ones, she she’s ’s back b backed keed b byy a several songs,, but on Haitian choir on se veeraal songs Blue Dr Dream, ream e , she pla plays ayys sim simple, mple, midtempo songs—dreamy temp o ffolk-rock olk o k--rock songs— —dream my and lush in te texture, exxture, but strip stripped pped to their baree essenc essencee and sung with bar w a hushed It’s and optimistic cconﬁdence. onﬁden nce. It ’s only with rrepeat epeat listens that the depth

spirituality of spirituali itty and the ccomplexity omplexitty of become apparent. theme b eco ome appar pp ent. wasn’t It w asn a ’tt a ccoincidence oincidence that she kept k ept the word wo ord “dream” “dream” in the album’s album’s title.. Not weree dreams key title Not only o wer dreams a k ey overcome grief,f, to helping her o vercome her grief theyy also b became tool the e ame a to ec ol of spiritual ccommunication, ommuniccation,, which she ffeels eeels helped develop help ed herr de velop her own kind belief about of b elief ssystem yysstem ab out death. Her departed rrecently ecently de eparted dog dog dominated dreams. never those dr eam ms. And while he ne ver spoke, Fink believes was guide,, sp oke, F ink kb elieves he w aas a guide helping to heal her and lead her toward healing. tow waard hea aling. “Dreams aree so p powerful “Dr eamss ar owerful ffor o or into, says—“not ttapping apping int to,” Fink Fink sa ayys—“not only in myy p personal m ersonaal eexperiences, xperiences, but in the entiree world fr from eexperiences xperiencess of the entir om beginning time—and like the b eginn ning of time —and I ffeel eel e lik ke there’s deep there. ther e’s a de eep well of wisdom ther e. likee immor immortality. That to mee is almost lik talitty. It’s God. It’s It ’s a vversion eersio on of Go d. It ’s just the tip of iceberg—just having the ic ebergg— —jjust ha avving the tip of the iceberg was myy mind.” ic eberg w ass enough to blow m Fink Death rremains e emains an enigma to F ink (there’s (ther e’s eeven ven e a song on the rrecord ecord “You Aree a Myster Mystery”). ccalled alled “Y You ou Ar y”). But she says beliefs sa ays y she ffeels eeeels ccomfortable omffo ortable in her b eliefs now and in n accepting accepting that mystery— myystery— theree is a including the t idea that ther unconsciousness ccollective ollectivve unc u onsciousness that eexists xxists aree all a par partt of of,f, and that that we ar cconnects onnects uss all. joy Fink The rrecord ecor o d rreﬂects eﬂects the jo oy F ink has understanding ffound ound in reaching o reaching e an underst anding peaceful acceptance dog’s and p eacefu ful ac ceptance of her do g’s passing,, and having moree optimistic passing d ha avving a mor outlook theree outlo ok on n death. By ccontrast, ontrast,, ther is actually one o song on the rrecord ecord written before writ tten t b effo ore she’d she’d worked worked through through grief.f. It’s her grief Itt’s called called “Poor “Poor Little Littttle Bear. Bear.” It’s songg that is the most dir directly It ’s the son ectly about dog—and it’s tear-ab out her do d g—and it ’s a sad,, tear jerker. totally jerk er. It has haas a tot ally different diff ffeerent ffeeling eeeling than the rrest e of the album. est album was happy—I was “I w as ha appy—I — w aas almost euphoric,,” F Fink says. likee I had euphoric ink sa ayys. “I ffelt elt e lik different a line into a diff ffeerent understanding. understanding. shook When he died, d , it rreally eally sho ok me didn’t have walked that I didn ’ ha ’t ave anything. an nything y .I w aalk keed situation into the sit tuation with a ccomplete omplete slate.. There blank slate There is hope hope in the music because once started writing,, I still b ecause on nce I st arted writing moree hopeful ffelt eelt the pain, pain n,, but I had a mor hopeful outlook. outlo ok.”

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Rock/Pop/ Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop THE B BACK ACK B BAR AR ORIGINALL Every W Wed, ed, 9pm: The CCypher, ypherr, ffeat. e eat. Hip-hop,, Jungle,, Soul,, Reggae, BreakBeat, House Dubstep, TTrap, rap,, Br eakBeat,, Hous se more. and mor e.. San Jose.

BLACKBIRD BLA CKBIRD T TAVERN AV VERN Thu, Sep 25,, 7pm: Diana Rosss Party. Wed, After P artyy. W ed,, Oct 1,, 8pm: FFATALE: ATA ALE: Dirty Boots + TTara aara Alesia.. San Jose.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed, Sep 224, Wed, 4, 8pm: The Rex Goliath. Fri, Sep 26, 8pm: Prom. 27, Newave Pr om. Sat, Sep 27 7, Adultt Club. San Jose. 8pm: Adul

CITY NA NATIONAL AT TIONAL CIVIC Thu, Sep 25, 8pm:: Diana Ross: In the Name of LLove ove Tour. Toour. Sat, 27-28, Sep 27 -28, 8pm & 2:30pm: SSymphony ymphony Silicon Valley: Valley: An Italian TTour. oour. San Jose.

THE HUDDLE Fri-Sat,, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: -11:30am:: Live bands.. Free. Free.. 21 and over. over. Fremont. Fremont.

JOHNNY V’S Every W Wed: ed:: Geology w/ / Benny Medicina,, Rock & Roll KKaraoke. araoke. Thu:TTrafﬁc rafﬁc w/ House Music.. Fri: Workout Party. TTrap rap Shop.. Sat:The W orkout P artyy. Every Sun:: Sundaze w/ DJ $pen Money and Bartender Heidi.. Fri, Sep 26,, 8:30pm:: Symbol Syymbol Six,, AntiS i l,The Social, Th Evicted, E i t d,The Th LLosing osing i Kind,, FF.U.X. ..U.X.. San Jose.

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Wed, W ed Sep 224, ed, 4, 7pm:: Johnny Cat 4, Cat & Friends. Thu,, Sep 25, 7:30pm: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, Sep 26, 8pm:: Kaye Kaye Bohler. Bohler. Sat,, Sep 27, 277, 8pm:: South 46 Twist Tw wist to South. TTue, uue,, Sep 30, 7pm:: Fred Fred McCarty. McCartyy. Wed, W ed, Oct 1,, 7pm:: Denis Dove Party P arty Night. CCampbell. ampbell.

LLOFT OFT B BAR AR AND BIS BISTRO TRO Every Thu: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

MOSAIC MOS AIC Fri-Sat, 66-9pm: 9pm: Jazz ffor or dinner.. San Jose. dinner

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO Every W Wed, ed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, Sep 25, 6pm: Deeva & the Blazers. Blazers Fri, Fri Morvan Sep 26, 6pm: Laurie Mor van Band (On TTour). 27, oour). Sat, Sep 27 7, 6pm: Terry Ter e ry Hanck. Sun, Sep 28, 12pm: School of Blues SStudent tudent Jam. Mon, Sep 29, 6pm: Theme Jam Night w/ Rock Classics (Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Aer osmith, Cheap TTrick, rick, r & more). mor e). Tue, Tue, u Sep 30, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. San Jose.

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OASIS O ASIS Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Wed Doug. Sunnyvale.

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SONOMA CHICKEN CCOOP OOP Thu-Sat, 9pm: Late Night at more. the Coop. Live DJ and mor e. San Jose.

SSTUDIO8 TUDIO8 Fri, Sep 26: Driicky Driicky Graham Graham Performing Backss P erforming Live Snap Back Sat, Sep 27: Dom and TTattoos. attoos. a KKennedy. ennedy. San Jose.

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Fri: LLoft oft Fridays w/ DJ Exr Exrated, ated, J-Quest. Sat: The Upstairs Party P arty w/ DJ Howhigh, DJ RQ, RQ, DJ Sequence, DJ Christylz. San Jose.

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Psyched Out THESE DAYS, terrestrial radio isn’t the first place most would turn in search of new or obscure music. For fans of the esoteric, Bandcamp and SoundCloud are an obvious go-to. Digging through crates of used vinyl at an independent record store also works. But this weekend—all day Friday and Saturday—fans of the spacey sounds of modern psychedelic music, will be tuning into KFJC, Foothill College’s radio station, as it will be broadcasting live from the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia in the United Kingdom. Liverpool International KFJC’s low-wattage frequency (89.7 FM) can be hard to Festival of Psychedelia get a fix on—especially for those outside of the South Bay. Yet, even while the station broadcasts at a frequency Live on KFJC 89.7 FM that is dwarfed by the major commercial radio outlets in Sep 26 & 27, 6am-7pm the Bay Area, KFJC works hard to punch above its weight kfjc.org class, by delivering programming, like the live broadcast of the psych festival, that listeners can’t get anywhere else. According to Eric Johnson, general manager at KFJC, broadcasting the psych fest is likely to be the radio station’s largest undertaking to date. They’ve covered events in Japan and New Zealand—both further away than Liverpool—but this time around they’ll be doing much more than they have in the past. “It’s pretty huge,” he says, noting that KFJC will capture live sound at three individual stages, conduct artist interviews and stream live high definition video of the festival, some of which will be cached for repeat viewing. In spite of the challenges posed by the broadcast, Johnson says he is “confident” that the station and the team of six heading across the pond will be able to handle it. More than that, he is “looking forward to it.” That’s because he and the rest of the staff at KFJC—along with the student DJs— feel the work they are doing is important. Johnson, who has been at KFJC since 1991, says he doesn’t know anything about commercial radio, and it’s pretty clear he doesn’t care to learn. “I think it’s kind of been a mission of college radio to be an alternative to mainstream,” he says. “We’re looking to sort of satisfy folks who get a little tired of the formulated stuff out there. We’re looking to draw attention to bands that may not otherwise get attention.” The bands playing at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia include: Goats, Woods, Allah-Las, Suuns, White Hills and Amen Dunes, among many more. Bringing KFJC listeners live performances of these artists is equally as important to Johnson. “There are things that happen live that just don’t happen in the studio,” he says. “Live, sometimes, is far more amazing than studio.”—Nick Veronin

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The follo Th ffollowing ll wing i person(s) () is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Amazing Gr een Green Landscaping Ser Services, vices, 110043 0043 Torrance Toorrance Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Irma Cor tez. Cortez. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrrant a began tr ransacting a business transacting under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her ein on herein 09/1 8/2014. 4 09/18/2014. /s/Irma Cor tez Cortez This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/1 8/2014. 9/18/2014. (pub Metr ro 9/2 4, 10/01, 10/01, Metro 9/24, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15/2014) 0/15/2014)

The follo Th ffollowing ll wing i person(s) () is (ar (are) e) doing business b as: Thir dSpacee Fintess, ThirdSpace 5550 50 S. 1st S St., t., San Jose, CCA, A, 95113, 95113, Thi ThirdSpace rdSpace Inc, 1193 93 G ardeen Hill Dr r.., Garden Dr., LLos os o Gatos, Gatos, CA, CA,, 95032. 95032. This business is conducted by by a corpor ation. corporation. Above Abo ve entity was w formed in the state of California R egistrrant a hass not Registrant yyet et begun tr raannsacting transacting business unde er the under fictitious busin ness name business or names liste ein. listedd her herein. R efile of pr evioous Refile previous file #59 3028 due d to #593028 publication rrequirement eqquirement not met on pr e evious previous filing. /s/Mitchel Lan nce Miller Lance PPresident resident #3646 971 #3646971 This statemen statementt was filed

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596510 #5965 10 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business SAMcon, as: SA Mcon, 4229 4229 Littleworth Littlewor th W Way., aay., San Jose, CA, CA, 95135, 95135, Samia Michaiel. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ransacting a business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/Samia Michaiel This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/16/2014. 9/1 6/2014. (pub Metr Metro ro 9/2 9/24, 4, 10/01, 10/01,

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FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #596034 The following following person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: TTacos aacos Y Mariscos Santa Cruz, 11 1148 48 S Capitol Av., Av., Unit 1, San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Abelina Garcia G arcia Santiago, 114453 4453 Chrisland Ave., Ave., San Jose, CCA, A, 95127. 95127. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 9/1/14. 9/1/1 4. /s/Abelina G Garcia arcia This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on 9/03/2014. 9/0 3/2014. (pub Metr Metro ro 9/24, 9/24, 10/01, 10/01, 110/08, 0/08, 110/15/2014) 0/15/2014)

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The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: Ho w Healthy How W ellness Center, Centerr, Wellness 205 70 V alley a Gr eenn 20570 Valley Green Dr r.., Cupertino, Cupertino, CCA, A, Dr., 9 5014, Spencer Ha au 95014, Hau Chir roopractic. Chiropractic. This business is conducted by by a corpor raation. corporation. Abo ve entity was Above formed in the statee of California R egistrraant began Registrant tr ransacting a busine ess transacting business under the ﬁctitiouss business name or names listed her ein on herein 8/2 5/14. 8/25/14. /s/Spencer Hau CEO #365806 3 #3658063 This statement wa wass ﬁled with the Coun nty County Clerk of Santa Clar raa Clara County on 8/2 5/20 014. 8/25/2014. (pub Metr ro 9/1 7, 9 /24, Metro 9/17, 9/24, 110/01, 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014) 4

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596299 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing d business as: Easts Eastside ide TTechnology, echnology e , 2005 Sereno Ser eno Ave., Ave., LLos os o Altos, A CCA, A, 94024, 94024, Serano Serrano a o Capital LL LLC. LC. C This business is conducted by by a lim limited mited liability company company.. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrraant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansactting business under thee ﬁctitious business listed name or names list ted herein. her ein. /s/Joseph Larkins Manager #201326810227 #201 326810227 This statement wa wass ﬁled with the Coun County nty Clara Clerk of Santa Clar raa County on 9/1 9/10/2014. 0/20 014. (pub Metr Metro ro 9/1 9/17, 7, 9 9/24, /24, 110/01 0/01 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014) 4

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #596332 The follo following wing pers person(s) on(s) is (ar e) doing busin ness (are) business as: 1. Harmony Harmony,, Bir Birth rth and FFamily, amily, 2. Harmony Harm mony Bir th R esources, 3321 21 E. Birth Resources, Campbell, Campbe Campbell, ell, CCA, A, 95008, 95008, TTrinhity, rrinhityy, LL LCC. LLC. This business is conducted by by a lim limited mited liability company company.. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrraant began

transacting business transacting under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 9/10/14. 9/1 0/14. Velisek /s/Jackie V elisek e CEO #201423810034 #201 423810034 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/1 0/2014. 9/10/2014. (pub Metr 7, 9/24, 9/24, Metroo 9/1 9/17, 110/01, 0/01, 10/08/2014) 10/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596323 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Shastha FFoods, oods, 2205 2 205 Ringwood Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA, 95131, 95131, Bondsforever Bondsfor ever Inc. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California R egistrant began Registrant tr ansacting business transacting under the fictitious business name or names listed her ein on herein 6/1 0/2004. 6/10/2004. R efile of pr evious Refile previous file #4 46142 due to #446142 publication rrequirement equirement not met on pr evious previous filing. /s/Subr ramanian a /s/Subramanian Krishnan PPresident resident #C2 266386 #C2266386 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on 9/1 0/2014. 9/10/2014. (pub Metr 7, 9/24, 9/24, Metroo 9/1 9/17, 1/01, 10/08/2014) 10/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596176 #596 176 The follo following wing person(s) is (are) (are) doing business as: Div Divaa Homes & Investments, Inv estments 7746 estments, 46 N. N White Rd., San Jose, CCA, A, 95127, 9 5127, Marilu Nieto. Nieto. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her herein ein on 9/1/14. 9/1/14. /s/Marilu G. Nieto This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 9/08/201 9/08/2014. 4. (pub Metr Metroo 9/1 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/24, 110/01, 0/01, 10/08/2014) 10/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596169 #596 169

Thhe follo The following wing person(s) (are) is (ar e) doing business as: as s: Mauby Mauby Landscape Service, Se ervice, 566 5669 9 Snell Ave., #342, A ve., #34 2, San Jose, CCA, A 95123, A, 95123, Brian Debasitis, De ebasitis, 6 6283 283 Mahan Dr., A, Dr r.,. San Jose, CCA, 9 5123. 95123. Th his business is This co onducted by by a conducted ind dividual. individual. R e ant began egistr Registrant tr a ansacting business transacting un nder the fictitious under bu usiness name or business na ames listed her ein on names herein 9/ /5/14. 9/5/14. /s /Brian Debasitis /s/Brian Th his statement was This file ed with the County filed Cle erk of Santa Clar Clerk Claraa Co ounty on 9/05/201 4. County 9/05/2014. (p ub Metr 7, 9/2 4, (pub Metroo 9/1 9/17, 9/24, 110/01, 0 0/01, 110/08/2014) 0/08/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B U NESS USI BUSINESS NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T # 5966182 #596182 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: as s: Declutter Solutions, 11304 304 Shasta Ave., Ave., San Jose, Jos se, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, Andrea Andrea McAuley. Mc cAuley. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. ind dividual. Registrant R e ant began egistr transacting tr a ansacting business under un nder the fictitious business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein ein on 9/8/14. 9/ /8/14. /s/Andrea /s /Andrea YY.. McAuley This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Cle erk of Santa Clar Claraa County Co ounty on 9/08/201 9/08/2014. 4. (pub (p ub Metr Metroo 9/1 9/10, 0, 9/1 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/ /24, 110/01/2014) 0/01/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #595597 # 595597 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) (are) is (ar e) doing business as: s: 35 35 King of San Jose, as 5541 41 W West est JJulian, San Jose, Jos se, CA, CA, 95110, 95110, San Jose Jos se #1 Collectiv Collective. e. This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a limited liability lia ability company company. y. Above Ab bove entity was formed for rmed in the state of California Ca alifornia Registrant R e ant has not egistr transacting yyet e begun tr et ansacting business bu usiness under the fictitious fic ctitious business name na ame or names listed herein. he erein. /s/Marcus /s /Marcus Sosa PPresident resident id t #3686359 #3 3686359 This Th his statement was filed file ed with the County Clerk Claraa Cle erk of Santa Clar County Co ounty on 8/20/201 8/20/2014. 4. (pub Metroo 8/2 8/27, 9/03, (p ub Metr 7, 9/0 3, 9/10, 9/17/2014) 9/ /10, 9/1 7/2014)

SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT OFF WITHDRAWAL W ITHDRAWA ALL FFROM ROM PARTNERSHIP P AR A RTTNERSHIP P OPERATING OP ERATING UNDER FI CTITIOUS FICTITIOUS B USINESS NAM ME BUSINESS NAME #595754 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) / entity (ies) has / hav havee withdrawn withdr rawn a as a ge general neral partner(s) par tner(s) fr from om thee partnership par tnership oper operating raatting under d th the ffollo following ll win i g ﬁctitious business name(s). VR VRB B EEvents vents Plus, 11 1100 00 Phelan W Way., aay., San Jose, CA, CA, 95122, 95122, Rosalinda R osalinda R. Reyes Reyess Filed in Santa Clar Clara ra County on 1/2 1/23/2014 3/20 014 Under File No No.. 58 587344. 7344. /s/Rosalinda /s/R osalinda Reyes Reyes e was This statement wa as ﬁled with the Coun County nty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 8/2 5/20143. 8/25/20143. (pub Metr ro 9/11, 9/1 9 7, Metro 9/17, 9/2 4 110/01/2014) 4, 0/01/2014) 9/24,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595987 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: Almaden R Ranch anchh Firewood, Fir ewood, 119731 9731 Almaden R Road, oad, Sa San an Jose, CA, CA, 95120, 95120, Kerry Kerry e Bruce Musco Musco.. This business is conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ansacting busine business ess under the ﬁctitiouss business name or names listed her herein eiin on 9/2/14.. 9/2/1 4.. /s/Kerry /s/K erry Bruce Mu Musco usco This statement wa was as ﬁled with the Coun County nty Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra 9/02/2014. County on 9/02/2 014. (pub Metr Metro ro 9/1 9/10, 0, 9/1 9 9/17, 7, 9/24, 9/2 4, 110/01/2014) 0/01/2014)

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEM MENT #595896 The follo following wing pers person(s) son(s) is (ar (are) e) doing busin business ness as: R Rookies ookies Spor Sports tss LLodge, odge, o 11535 535 Merid Meridian dian Ave., A ve., San Jose, CA, CA,, 95125, 9 5125, RL RLodge, odge, Inc. Incc. 5829 58 29 Lalor Dr Dr., r.,. Sann Jose, CA, CA, 95123. 95123. This business is conducted by by a corporation. corpor ation. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the statee of California Registrant R egistrant has not yyet et begun tr transacting raansactting business under thee ﬁctitious business name or names lis listed ted herein. her ein.

/s/Micahel Hobson PPresident resident #3692193 #36 92193 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clara Clerk of Santa Clar ra County on 8/2 8/28/2014. 8/2014. Metro 9/10, 9/17, (pub Metr ro 9/1 0, 9/1 7, 9/2 4, 110/01/2014) 0/01/2014) 9/24,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #596003 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Pinnacle Pi l Property Property t Management, 2005 Sereno Ser eno Ave., Ave., LLos os o Altos, CCA, A, 94024, 94024, Sereno Sereno Capital LL LLC. LC. C This business is conducted by by a limited liability company company.. Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California Registrant R egistrrant a has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansacting business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed her ein. herein. /s/Joseph Larkins Manager #201 326810227 #201326810227 This statement was ﬁled with the County Clerk of Santa Clar ra Clara County on 9/02/201 4. 9/02/2014. (pub Metr ro 9/1 0, 9/1 7, Metro 9/10, 9/17, 9/2 7, 110/01/2014) 0/01/2014) 9/27,

FICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595917 #5959 17 The follo following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: G GADGETFACTORY ADGETFFACTORY OUTLET.COM, OUTL ET..COM, 3140 3140 De La Cruz Blv Blvd., d., Santa Clara, Clar ra, a CA, CA, 95054, 95054, SMBGENIE, SM BGENIE, IINC., NC., 4 4208 208

Volpala V o olpala Pl., Manteca, CCA, A 95337. A, 953377. This business bu usiness is conducted bbyy a Corpor Corporation. ation. The Th he above above entity was formed fo rmed in the state of California Ca alifornia Registrant R e ant began egistr tr a ansacting business transacting un nder the fictitious under bu usiness name or business na ames listed her ein. names herein. /s s/Bai Asubr raamaniam /s/Bai Asubramaniam R a ana av Ravana CE EO CEO #3 3106915 #3106915 Th his statement was This file ed with the County filed Cle erk of Santa Clar Clerk Claraa Co ounty on 8/2 8/2014. County 8/28/2014. (p ub Metr 3, 9/1 0, (pub Metroo 9/0 9/03, 9/10, 9//17, 9/2 4/2014) 9/17, 9/24/2014)

FIICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT NAME # #5956 619 #595619 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar e) doing business (are) s: Portal, Portal, 2 529 Alma as as: 2529 S t eet, PPalo tr alo Alto, CCA, A, Street, 9 4301, 301 PPaul aul C. C Murphy y. 94301, Murphy. Th his business is This co onducted by by a conducted ind dividual. individual. R e ant has not egistr Registrant yyet e begun tr et ansacting transacting bu usiness under the business fic ctitious business fictitious na ame or names listed name he erein. herein. /s s/Paul C. Murphy /s/Paul Th his statement was This file ed with the County filed Cle erk of Santa Clar Clerk Claraa Co ounty on 8/20/201 4. County 8/20/2014. (p ub Metr 3, 9/1 0, (pub Metroo 9/0 9/03, 9/10, 9/ /17, 9/2 4/2014) 9/17, 9/24/2014)

FIICTITIOUS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B U NESS USI NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT # #595859

as: 1. All Gr Green eenn Ser Services vices LLC, LL LCC, 2. High Quality Quuality Office Cleaning Cleaning, g LL g, LLC, LCC, 11289 289 R Reamwood eamwoood Ave., Ave., Sunnyvale, Suite 6, Sunny yvale, CCA, A, 94089. 9 4089. This business is i conducted by by a limited liability company. compaanyy. Abo ve entity was w Above formed in the state s of California R egistrant beg gan Registrant began siness tr ansacting bu transacting business under the fictit tious fictitious business namee or names listed her hherein ein on 8/20/201 4. 8/20/2014. /s/Mair /s/Mairaa Elvia Ochoa Flor es Flores This statementt was filed with the County C Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/2 27/2014. 8/27/2014. (pub Metr /03, 9/10, 9/10, Metroo 9/ 9/03, 9/1 7, 9/2 4/2014) 9/17, 9/24/2014)

FICTITIOUSS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS B USINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #595334 The follo following wing person(s) p is (ar (are) e) doing business b as: Nancy the CCA A Notary, Notary y, 11609 609 PParkmoor arkmoor Ave., A ve., Apt #1 #145, 45, San Jose, CA, CA, 95128, 95128, Nancy TTran. ran. This business is i conducted by by a individual. Registrant R egistrant hass not yyet et begun tr transacting annsacting business unde under er the ﬁctitious business businness name or name names es listed herein. her ein. /s/Nancy TTran ran This statementt was ﬁled with the County C Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 8/1 8/14/2014. 4/2014. (pub Metr Metroo 9/ 9/03, /03, 9/10, 9/10, 9/17, 9/1 7, 9/2 9/24/2014) 4/2014)

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Notice is hereby hereby giv i en that, th t pursuantt given to the authority of section 24049.5 24049.5 of the Business and PProfessions rofessions Code, the S State tate Boar Boardd of Equalization will sell the follo wing described following liquor license, at public sale at 2 50 S 250 Second , San Jose, CCA A 9 5113 on October 3, 3, 95113 201 4 at 11am in the 2014 Auditorium. LIQUO R LICE NSE LIQUOR LICENSE N UMBER: 2 1-510216 NUMBER: 21-510216 CCOUNTY OUNTY IIN NW HICH WHICH IISSUED: SSUED: Santa Clar Claraa TYPE OF LICE NSE: TYPE LICENSE: 21. Said liquor license was seized seized bbyy the S tate State Boar Boardd of Equalization to rrecover ecover delinquent sales and use tax es, taxes, inter est and penalties interest incurr ed by by Hieu Duy incurred V u, a seller within the Vu, meaning to the Sales and Use TTax aax law law,, to wit. TTAX: AX: $7,021.00; $7,021. , 00; IINTEREST: NTEREST: $1,278.88; $1,278.88; PE NALTIES: $752.10; $752.10; PENALTIES: CCOSTS: OSTS: $4,5 19.00; $4,519.00; TTOTAL: OTAL: $ 13,570.98. $13,570.98. The license is to be sold to the highest bidder bidder.r. The bidding pr rocess will be opened. process PProspective rospective bidders should refer refer to sections 7701.510 01.510 to 701.680, 701.680, inclusiv e, of the code of inclusive, Civil Procedure Procedure for the pr rovisions go verning provisions governing the terms, conditions, and the effect of th sale the l andd th the liability of defaulting bidders. The bid must be in the name of the applicant(s) and cannot be in the name of the nominee. The tr ansfer of said transfer license is contingent upon approval approval of

Alcoholic Alcoholic Beverage Beverrage a Control. Conntrrol. Applicant must receive receive Department Department of Alcoholic A Beverage Beverage Control Conntrrol within 75 75 days from from m the date of the application appplication and the escrow esccrrow must close within witthin 120 120 days of opening, opeening, otherwise, the salee may be cancelled. Buyer Buyyer is to pay all escrow MINIMUM esccrrow fees. M INIMUM OPENING OPENING BID BID IS: IS: $13,600 For $13,600 For additional addditional information, contact conntact Business Taxes Taaxes Representative Reppresentative Brian Briaan Caldwell Caldwell at 408-938-7773. 408 8-938-7773.

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the applicant by by Department the Depar tment of Alcoholic Bev Beverage erage Control Contr ol in accordance accordance law,, rules, with the law and rregulations egulations administered administer ed by by that department. depar tment. The successful buyer, buyerr, within 48 hours of the sale, excluding weekends ex cluding w eekends and holidays, will be rrequired equired to open an escrow escr ow account with a Boardd of Equalization Boar approved escrow appr oved escr ow company,, deposit in company escrow, escr ow, in lawful money States of the United S tates of America, an amount rrepresenting epresenting the full sale price of the license and, within 30 days escrow of the date escr ow is opened, apply for the transfer tr ransfer a of the license transfer and pay tr ansfer fees department to the depar tment of

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CECIL CE CIL@METR METRONEWS.COM ONEWS..COM Okay, Okay y, Cecil. Sixteen S years ago ago, o, at the end off a column about whether zinc cure “Today lozenges cur re the common cold, you wrote:: “T To oday you don't hear much about vitamin e vitamiin C as a cold cure. I'll bet you a jumbo box of Contac that the same thing happens h to zinc.” Did you win the t bet? Did you lose? W e’re lef ft We’re left hanging here e. —sbunny8, from the Straigh essage Board here. Straightt Dope M Message You Y ou were o were left ft hanging because because I was waas left hanging—nobody hanging— —nobody took took my my bet. bet. Too Too bad; I could could have Conttaac. The haave used that Contac. zinc vs. vs. colds colds controversy contr o oveerssy hasn’t hasn n’t ’ made much h progress, progresss, and d is i nowhere nowher h e near a firm conclusion conclusion n one way way or another. anotherr. But you you o know kno ow me: I like lik ke to bring closuree to the great closur g eat questions of our gr time.. While that’s time th hat’s not easy eassy in a field as squishy squish hy as medicine, med dicine, I’ve I’ve come come up with a methodology metho dology to t get things off the dime. dime. You’ve Y ou’vve heard o heard of o meta-analysis? meta-analysis? I take tak ke it to the next neexxt level: leevel: meta-meta-analysis. m taa-metta-analysis met a . Meta-analysis Met taa-analyssis may maay be be crudely described described as the study off studies. studies. Meta-metaMeta-metaanalysis is studying stud dying studies of studies. studies. Meta-analysis Met a-analysis uses u sophisticated sophisticcaated statistical statisticcaal out conclusions techniques to tease t conclusions from from mess a cconfusing onfusing o meess of data. dattaa. Meta-metaMettaa-mettaa analysis is simpler: simp pler: it relies relies on eye-rolling, eye-rollingg, wisecracks,, and wisecracks d snark. buiildup. Let’s Let’s get to work. Enough buildup. To recap: recap: The T claim, first bruited 1. To by by George George Eby Eby in 1984, 1984, was was that a zinc lozenge held under the tongue would u alleviate cold in as little alleeviate v cold symptoms symptoms y littttle as two tw wo hours. hours. Eby Eby is an n interesting interesting individual. individual He’s He’s not a physician, ph hys ysician, but rather is head of the George George Eby Eby Research Eb Resear e ch Institute in Austin, Austin, Texas. Texa xas. His home page, page, at coldcure.com, coldcure.com, displays displaays y a GIF of a rippling American Americcaan flag and a photo of himself holding a bottle bottttlle of the zinc lozenges he sells. sells. Zinc isn’t isn n’t ’ the only metal metal he’s he’s taken tak ken e an interest interrest e in; he h also believes belieeves magnesium will cure cure depression. depression. e 2. Despite his hiis lack of marquee marrquee q cred, cred, Eb Eby by and his zinc zin nc claims have haave been been ttaken ak ken e seriouslyy by by the medical medical research research establishment. est reck ko oningg, as ablishment.. By his own reckoning, of 2010 there therre had h been been “14 double-blind, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical plac ebo-controlled, o clinical trials” of zinc cold cold o cures, cures, which “produced “prroduced widely differing diff ffeerin ng results results with . . . one-half one-half showing success successs and the remainder remainder failure.” showing failure. be 3. You Yo ou or I might m be discouraged discouraged byy results Not b results like lik ke that. t Not Eby. Eb by. He drew drrew is, a distinction between bet etw ween ionic—that ionicc—that — is, chemically chemic caally reactive—zinc reacctivve—zinc and chemically chemiccaally bound, b ound, nonreactive nonreaactive zinc. zinc. His conclusion? conclusion? We’ll W e’ll get to that. thaat. First First an aside. aside. 4. From From what whaat I can caan make mak ke out, the ionic-vs.-bound ionic c-vs.-bound d business arises largely largely from fr om a drawback draawba w ack of ionic zinc: it tastes taastes unbelievably unb elieevvably gross. g oss. (Remember: gr (R Reemember: you’re you o ’re supposed supp osed to hold ho old the lozenges under your your o

tongue.) to ongue.) My assistant assisttaant Una, Una, n who has tried trried them—I th hem—I assure assure you you o I didn’t didn n’t ’ put her up u to this—offers testimony: th his—off ffeers the following following o testimon ny: “The kind kin nd with ionic zinc taste taste so dreadful dreadful I ccan't aan't ' use them h due d to nausea.” To To improve i prove imp the th he taste, taaste, many man ny formulations fo ormulations on the market m mark keet now bind the zinc to glycine glycine or o citric cit tric acid. having 5. Mere Mere experimentation exp x erimenttation a haaving v proven pr roven e little, littttle, researchers reesearchers then turned to o meta-analysis meta-analysis and other methods methods of o rreviewing evie v wing multiple studies. studies. The idea, to o oversimplify: oveersimpliffy: trends trends not apparent apparent in n numerous numerous small studies may maay jump p out ou ut when the numbers numbers are are viewed viewed in n aggregate. ag ggregate. Obvious Obvious problem: prro oblem: many man ny small sm mall piles pil les of crap pushed into one big one don’t do on n’t ’ thereby therreeb by become become research research gold. On to those reviews: revie v ews: w 6. Caruso Caruso et al (2007) (2007) started started with 105 zinc zin nc studies and pruned them down to t 14 4 the team deemed scientiﬁcally scientiﬁcally valid. valiid. Conclusion: zinc lozenges and nasal C o onclusion: sprays sp praayys did nothing; zinc nasal gel couldn’t coulldn n’t ’ bee ruled out. b 77.. Back to Eby. Eb by. Based on his 2010 review review off 14 studies (mostly the same ones), ones) hee claimed the deciding factor was waas the th he proportion pr roportion of ionic zinc: the more morre a given g ven giv e dose do ose had relative relative to total total zinc, zinc, the better bettter t colds. it fought fought o colds. Eby Eby is (unsurprisingly)) bigg on lozenges, lozenges, but he thinks the ones onees using us sing bound bound zinc, zinc, which include most mosst of those th hose currently currently out there, there, are are worthless. worthleess. Corollary, C o ollarry, based on Una’s or Unaa’s experience: exp x eriencce: e for for o zinc zin nc to cure curre what ails you, you, it has to make maak ke yyou o sick. ou 8. Hemilä (2011) looked look keed at 13 of thee studies—seven oui,, six non. stu udies— —sseeven oui non. But Hemilä Hemillä proposed prroposed his own explanatory exxplanatory variable: variab ble: the he effective eff ffeective zinc preparations preparations had a dose d th off at least 75 milligrams. milligrams. 9. Singh and Das (2011) performed performed o d what’s wh hatt’s known as a Cochrane Cochrane systematic systemat y tic review revie v w of 15 studies. studies. They Theey offered off ffeered no judgments ju udgments about about dosage, dosage, formulation, fo ormulation n, or other otther such minutiae. minutiae. They Theey just declared declarred (well, (w well, not “just”—the “just”—the Cochrane Cochrane method meth hod is quite qu q uite rigorous): rigor g ous): zinc is effective. eff ffeective. may 10. Zinc advocates advvocates a ma ay now chirp: multiple agree—zinc m rreviews evie v ew ws (sorta) (sorrta) a agr ee—zinc (maybe meta-meta(m maayybe sometimes) works! My met ta-m a metaconclusion: looking conclusion: o When rreviewers evie v ew wers lo oking att the data three th he same basic dat ta ccome ome up with thr o ee different about way diff ffeerent ideas ab ff out the right w ay to use u the bee charit charitable. There’s th he stuff . . . well, let's b able. The ere’s plenty pleentty of rroom oom ffor or o doubt.

FREE W WILL ILLL ASTROLOGY A STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): It It’s ’ss no secr secret. et. The weal thy one percent percent of the population popuulation has been wealthy getting pr ogressively weal thier. Meanwhile, the poor progressively wealthier. ar er. I’m m wor ried ther aree becoming steadily poor poorer. worried theree is a metaphorically similar tr end in your y lif e. Am I right? If trend life. so, please do all you can to rreverse everse it. Bor row ener gy Borrow energy fr om the rich and abundant part ts of your lif from parts lifee so as to lift up the neglected and under e endowed parts. Her e’s underendowed Here’s one example of how you could pr pproceed: oceed: For a while, be less concerned with people whoo think you’r you’ree a star star,r, and give mor ho accept and love your moree attention to those wh who shadow side. TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): “I“ choose a lazy person

to do a har s, the world’s richest hardd job,” says Bill Gates Gates, willll find an easy way to man, “because a lazy person wil do it.” That ’s good counsel for for you yoou right now, now w, Taurus. Taaurus. That’s with YYou’d ou’d o be wise to get in touch wi th your inner lazy bum. Let the slacker within you uncov ver the least str essful uncover stressful way to accomplish your difficul According to my difficultt task. According analysis of the astr ological ome ns, ther or astrological omens, theree is no need ffor you to suff er and str ain as you deal d with your dilemma. suffer strain

GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): If you y don don’t ’t identify and

expr ess your conscious desires, desires, your unconscious express desir es will dominate your life. life. I will say that again in desires diff erent language, because it ’s crucial you understand different it’s the principle. YYou’ve oou’ve got to be ve ery clear about what very you rreally eally want, and install a shi ining vision of what you shining rreally eally ll wantt att the th core core off your everyday e d life. life. If you don’t d ’t don do that, you will end up being controlled coontrolled by your habits and old programming. programming. So be imperious, impperious, Gemini. Deﬁne your dearest, dearest, strongest strongest longing, and be ruthlessly devoted to it.

CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): He Henri enri CCartier-Bresson artier-Bresson

(1908-2004) was an influential Fr (1908-2004) French ench photogr photographer, apherr, who transform a pioneer of photojournalism wh ho helped tr ansform photography photogr aphy into an art fform. orm. Inn 1986 he was invited to Palermo, P alermo, Sicily to accept a prize ffor or his work. The hotel although he stayed in seemed oddly ffamiliar amiliar to him, al though he didn’t why.. It was on only discovered didn ’t understand why nly later he discover ed place that the hotel had been the plac ce at which his mother honeymoon. wheree and ffather ather stayed on their hone ymoon. It was wher comparable he was conceived. I fforesee oresee a co omparable development on the horizon ffor or you, you CCancerian: anceriaan: a rreturn eturn to origins, origins evocative perhaps inadvertent; an evocativ ve encounter with your influence rroots; oots; a rreunification eunification with an infl fluence that helped aree today today.. make you who you ar

LLEO EO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): With exp expert pert execution, notes musician Ben Lee can play 15 no otes per second on his violin. Superstar eater P Pete ete Czer Czerwinski rwinski needs just 34 12-inch pizza. Jerry seconds to devour a 12 -inch pizz za. When Jer ry Miculek off crack is holding his rifle, he can get of ff eight cr ack shots at targets moree thann one second. While ffour our tar gets in a little mor capable perfect upside-down, Aicho Ono is capa able of doing 135 perf ect head spins in a minute. I don don’t ’t expect e you to be quite flawless so lightning ffast ast and utterly flaw wless as these people weeks, in the coming week s, Leo, but I do d think you will be future, unusually quick and skillful. For the fforeseeable oreseeable futur e, speed and efficiency ar aree your sp specialties. pecialties. VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23-Sept. 23-Sept. 22): A Ass the makeup artist

R Matthews had ffor or the film Dallas Buyers Club, Robin a daunting task. During the 23 days d of shooting, she had to constantly tr transform ansform leadd actors Matthew McConaughey and Jar ed Leto soo that they appear ed Jared appeared either deathly ill or rrelatively elatively he healthy. althy. Sometimes she day.. She had to switch them back and fforth orth five times a day was so skillful in accomplishing this ffeat eat that she won the A Academy cademy A Award ward ffor or Best Ma Makeup akeup and Hairstyling. Her budget? A meager $250. Th he film was a shoestring The production. herr your inspir inspirational indie pr oduction. I’m naming he ational rrole ole model ffor or the next ffew ew week weeks, s, Vir V Virgo. go. I believe that you, create wealth too, can cr eate magic without a weal th of resources. resources.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): “I am m a seed about to

br break,” eak,” wrote wrote SSylvia ylvia Plath in her poem “Thr “Three ee W Women.” omen.” That That’s ’s how I see you right now, now, Libr Libra. a. YYou ou o ar aree teeming with the buoyant ener energy gy that th throbs hrobs when a seed is rready eady to spr out. You You o have been been biding your time, sprout. gathering the nourishment you need, waiting for for the right cir circumstances cumstances to burst ope open en with your new ﬂavor ﬂavor.. And now that nervous, nervous, hopeful, ecstatic moment is arrive. brave! about to ar rive. Be br ave!

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): TThe he English verb

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make mild or inn nocuous.” But it once had an additional innocuous.” from from sense: “to rreclaim eclaim m fr om wildness.” It was derived fr om wordd cicur the Latin wor ccicurare raare, which meant “to bring back from draw fr om madness, ttoo dr aw out of the wilderness.” For your Scorpio, cicurate purposes, Scorpi io, we will make cicur ate your theme, concentrate from but concentr ate on these deﬁnitions: “to rreclaim eclaim fr om bring from draw wildness, to brin ng back fr om madness, to dr aw out wilderness.” weeks, of the wildernes s.” In the coming week s, you will be areas territory. exploring rrough, ough, luxuriant ar eas of unknown ter ritory. wrangling YYou ou will be wr angling with primitive, sometimes energy. urge extract turbulent ener gyy. I ur ge you to extr act the rraw aw vitality there, serve you ﬁnd ther e, aand nd harness it to ser ve your daily rhythm and yourr long-term goals.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov. (Nov. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): “Y “You You o can exert no aree not susceptible to influence,” said influence if you ar psychologist Carl Carrl Jung. Extrapolating Extrapolating from from that idea, we can hypothes hypothesize size that the mor moree willing and able you aree to be influenced, greater ar influennced, the gr eater your influence might be. Let Let’s ’s make this th his your key theme in the coming weeks. increase week s. It will be an excellent time to incr ease your clout, wield mor moree authority authority, y, and claim mor moree of a say in the cr creation eation of o your shar shared ed envir environments. onments. For best rresults, esults, you should shouuld open your mind, be very rreceptive, eceptive, and listen well. CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N ((Dec. Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): Congr Congratulations, atulations,

CCapricorn. apricorn. YYour oour cur ccurrent rent dilemmas ar aree mor moree useful and inter esting than any that you have had ffor or a long interesting time. If yyou can even ppartiallyy solve them, the changes g you set in motio motion on will impr improve ove your entir entiree lif life, e, not just the cir cumstancces they immediately aff ect. Of the circumstances affect. sever several al dividend dividends ds you may rreap, eap, one of my ffavorites avorites is this: YYou ou o couldd liber liberate ate yourself fr from om a messed-up kind of beauty and a become available for for a more more soothing and delightful deelightful kind. Here’s Here’s another potential beneﬁt: YYou oou mayy tr ansform yourself in ways that will transform help you attract attract more more useful and interesting interesting dilemmas in the futur e. future.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): Alan Moor Mooree is the

British author who who wrote wrote the graphic graphic novels W Watchmen aatchmen and V for foor V Vendetta eendettta. He is now nearing completion of Jerusalem, a novel n he has been working on ffor or six years. It will be b more more than a million words words long, almost double the th he size of Tolstoy’s Tolstoy’s o War W aar and Peace Peeace, andd 200,000 200 000 wo words ords d bigger bi th the than th Bible. Bibl ““Any A Any editor dit saltt would tell me to cut two-thirds worth their sal w two-thirds of this Mooree tol told book,” Moor ld the New SStatesman tatesman, “but that that’s ’s not going to happen happen.” n.” Ref Referring erring to the author of Moby Dick, Moore Moore adds, addss, “I doubt that Herman Melville had an editor editor.. If he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring boring stuff about whaling: ’Cut ’Cut to the Let’s Mooree and Melville your chase, Herman.’”” Let ’s make Moor the rrole ole models in th he coming week, Aquarius. YYou ou o have permission to sp sprawl, prawl, rramble, amble, and expand. Do NO NOTT cut to the chase.

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 119-March ch 20): For a long time, an

Illinois writer na named med ArL ArLynn Lynn y Leiber Pr Presser esser didn didn’t ’t Shee had 325 friends on Facebook and go out much. Sh was content to get g her social needs met in the virtual rrealm. ealm But then she ealm. s embarked on a year year-long long pr project oject in which she sou sought ught fface-to-face ace-to-face meetings with all of her online buddi buddies. ies. The experiment yielded sometimes complicated butt mostly inter interesting esting rresults. esults. It took her to 51 cities ar around ounnd the world. I suggest we make her your inspir inspirational ationaal rrole ole model ffor or the coming week weeks, s, Pisces. In at leas least st one way way,, it it’s ’s time for for you to move out of your imag imagination gination and into the rreal eal world. YYou’re oou’re dreams primed to turn ffantasies a antasies into actions, dr eams into practical pr actical pursuit pursuits. ts.

Homework: What’s What’s your favorite favorite excuse? Try Trry not to say it orr think it during the coming week. Report rresults esultss to Truthrooster@gmail.com. Trruthrooster@gmail.com.

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