Five reasons to look forward to the work week: The People Speak, Mobile Musings at Nokia, The Second City, Deathtrap, ChoreoProject Awards.
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Mineta Airport’s new Terminal B has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for its innovative approaches to energy conservation and recycling. Throughout the building, energy efficiency surpassed energy usage standards by 16 percent. Recycled materials featured prominently in the construction of the Terminal too, diverting 920 tons of discarded construction materials from landfills.
Congratulations to the Ibrahim family of Egypt on the birth of their daughter. The child is one of the first to be born in a new, democratic Egypt, and the family celebrated her birth by naming her after one of the prime instigators of the revolution, Facebook.
With RDA money in the lurch, the City of Santa Clara is looking for alternatives to funding the proposed stadium for the 49ers. At their meeting on Tuesday, City Councilmembers plan to send a sharp message to Governor Brown: “Hands off our stadium money.” Nevertheless, the state could seize as much as $40 million, previously earmarked for the stadium.
The neighborhood commonly known as Carlton, located around Carlton Avenue not far from Blossom Hill Road, is in San Jose but feels a bit like nearby Los Gatos. The neighborhood is made up of ‘60s-era homes situated on big lots located on quiet side streets, and offers close-up views of the hills.
President Obama had dinner Thursday night with twelve leaders of Silicon Valley’s high tech industries. Among the prominent guests were Steve Jobs, John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Carol Bartz and Mark Zuckerberg. The dinner was hosted by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Google has lost a valued client in the person of pundit Glenn Beck. The pundit has added Google to communists, fascists, and Islamic radicals aiming to establish a New World Order. And while he hasn’t directly called for a boycott of the search engine giant, he announced that he will be more circumspect about how he researches things online.
Proposition 8 is still in the courts, but Facebook took a major stand toward advancing the cause of gay rights by offering the option of adding “domestic partnership” and “civil union” to people’s relationship status.The option, however, is currently limited to a handful of countries, with various attitudes toward civil unions.
This month, the big news online is online news. On Feb. 2, Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily, the world’s first iPad “newspaper,” at a cost of $30 million. Stealing his thunder a couple days later, AOL announced its purchase of the Huffington Post for $315 million. And then, last week, Gawker Media relaunched its fleet of edgy blog sites with a radical redesign that fundamentally rejected the traditional blog format.
Trio Nobilis plays at Le Petit Trianon Theatre on Feb. 20 as part of the San Jose Chamber Music Society’s 25th season.
