Weekly summary of scores and more from throughout the Valley: Cardinal football team ranked in Top 10; Wondolowski scores a hat trick to push Earthquakes past Toronto; Christen Press breaks the Stanford soccer team’s career scoring record; Utes crush Spartans in Salt Lake City.
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San Jose’s young jazz saxophonist Oscar Pangilinan is continuing the tradition of jazz jams at the Hedley Club Lounge after long-time friend Hristo Vitchev recently passed the torch.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: an animation festival, bluegrass and BBQ, reasons to be pretty, a romantic symphony, and South First Fridays.
Companies across Silicon Valley have been taking advantage of an Energy Department grant program that refunds up to 30 percent of the cost of transitioning to greater energy efficiency. The funding has helped companies acquire pricey solar panels, wind turbines, and Bloom boxes to generate energy. The grant is set to expire this year.
President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines stopped by Silicon Valley on his way home from the United Nations Summit in New York. While here, he addressed a gathering of Filipino Americans with the Philippine Development Forum at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. The event was sponsored by the Ayala Foundation. Aquino also met with local business leaders and toured HP headquarters in Palo Alto.
Anthony Thomas of Morgan Hill appeared in a Los Angeles court on Friday to stake his claim to the 840-pound, 180,000 carat emerald found in Brazil. Thomas claims that he paid $60,000 for the gem, now valued at $327 million. When he took the stand on Friday, Thomas faced a barrage of questions from lawyers representing all the other people who claim that the emerald is theirs.
The case of the off-duty police officer who faked the arrest of his step-daughter’s boyfriend took a turn yesterday, when the boy’s parents released a cell phone video of the incident. The new video, taken by the boy’s father, is being cited by the boy’s parents as evidence of what actually happened, but also by the police officer’s attorney as evidence that the policeman did not overstep his bounds.
As Major League Baseball saunters into the final weeks of the season, the prolific documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has completed a compelling two-part mini-series, The Tenth Inning, that serves not only as an insightful sequel to his nine-part Baseball, but also provides a compelling and definitive backdrop to the national pastime during the past decade-and-half.
Angelgate takes a new turn as prominent super-angel Ron Conway writes a scathing email to the participants in a secret VC meeting. The scandal, which broke earlier this week, suggests that prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley are “colluding” to lower startup valuations and keep new and traditional investors out of the market. Conway slammed the participant, writing that, ““Your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and ‘making a buck.’”
Because the state budget is stalled in the Legislature, the California Transportation Commission has put $932 million in transportation funding on hold. When added to the $3 billion that it put on hold last month, the total amount of transportation funding for roads and rail that is being delayed across the state amounts to almost $4 billion. Among the projects that are delayed are several local road improvements.
