Thursday, July 2, 2009
Herhold: The 'Hands' artwork gets a few captions
The results are tallied. The jokes are told. The puns have surfaced. And maybe we have a keeper or two.
After getting more than 300 nominations for my caption contest for the "Hands'' artwork at Mineta San Jose International Airport, I'm smiling as I recite the best of the bunch.
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After getting more than 300 nominations for my caption contest for the "Hands'' artwork at Mineta San Jose International Airport, I'm smiling as I recite the best of the bunch.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Alaska Airlines to begin daily service between San Jose and Austin
Jun 23, 2009 (AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX) -- ALK Quote Chart News PowerRating -- Alaska Airlines (NYSE:ALK) said on Monday that a daily service between San Jose, California and Austin, Texas will start on 2 September 2009.
Operated on Boeing 737-800s and accommodating 16 passengers in first class and 141 in the main cabin, the new flight will depart San Jose at 08:55PST, arriving at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport at 14:15CST. The return flight will depart Austin at 15.00CST and arrive in San Jose at 16:40PST.
Flights will be available for purchase from Thursday 25 June at http://www.alaskaair.com.
Operated on Boeing 737-800s and accommodating 16 passengers in first class and 141 in the main cabin, the new flight will depart San Jose at 08:55PST, arriving at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport at 14:15CST. The return flight will depart Austin at 15.00CST and arrive in San Jose at 16:40PST.
Flights will be available for purchase from Thursday 25 June at http://www.alaskaair.com.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
San Jose Inches Closer to Reaching Goal of 100 Percent Energy Independence
San Jose, CA - Achieving a goal of 100 percent energy independence is a little closer for San Jose thanks to a momentous move by the City Council today. The City Council authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop potential lease terms and guidelines for developing an organics-to energy bio-gas facility.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Club Caribe
1001 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95110
phone: +1 408 297 7272
This Latino joint has been a favorite San Jose meeting spot for quite a while and once you step inside, you will quickly see why. You can listen to salsa music every Thursday or dance to live bands performing high-energy Hispanic music other nights. The signature libation is Jarritos, a tropical Cuban mixture of fruits and liquors that is sweet and potent (watch out how many you down). A very spacious, elegant establishment, it does not allow sportswear, so dress sharp.
San Jose, CA 95110
phone: +1 408 297 7272
This Latino joint has been a favorite San Jose meeting spot for quite a while and once you step inside, you will quickly see why. You can listen to salsa music every Thursday or dance to live bands performing high-energy Hispanic music other nights. The signature libation is Jarritos, a tropical Cuban mixture of fruits and liquors that is sweet and potent (watch out how many you down). A very spacious, elegant establishment, it does not allow sportswear, so dress sharp.
Friday, May 29, 2009
AAMS Newsletter
Check out the Association of Air Medical Services May News and Views.
Highlights -- AMTC 2009 in San Jose, CA education sessions.
Highlights -- AMTC 2009 in San Jose, CA education sessions.
Club Havana Nights
San Jose is very popular for its nightlife joints, come down to Club Havana Nights and you would know, why? At this energy-packed club, you would find yourself immersed in fantastic music spun by the in house DJs or the live concerts that take place here. Spread over two floors this place houses three bars and multi-level dance floors. Besides this place is also available for private parties.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Eco-Friendly Restaurants - San Jose, CA
Bella Mia in downtown San Jose, is a Certified Green Business and participates in Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) ‘Save Energy Program’, which uses local, seasonal products, energy efficient lighting and recycles all possible products.
Tanglewood, a newly opened restaurant on Santana Row, maintains the ‘Green’ theme with presenting diners with the motto of “Dining in the Season”. This restaurant, the newest concept from Left Bank Restaurant Group, presents a menu that celebrates the day’s best seasonal ingredients, grown and raised on small, local sustainable farms, ranches and fisheries. Staff invites guests to reconnect with the rhythm of nature’s seasons while you enjoy the harvest of this unique American cuisine.
Manresa is the showcase for the inventive cuisine of Executive Chef David Kinch. Influenced by French and modern Catalan cooking, Chef Kinch finds inspiration from American ingenuity and the vast bounty that California has to offer. Manresa's biodynamic vegetables are grown exclusively for Manresa at Cynthia Sandberg's Love Apple Farm in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and harvested in the morning for the evening menu. Love Apple Farm originally became known for growing 100 varieties of heirloom tomatoes each year but the farm is now the exclusive kitchen garden for this restaurant. Join Manresa for the ultimate farm-to-table experience.
Village California Bistro and Wine Bar features California inspired cuisine focusing on the bounty of artisan quality seasonal ingredients right here in their backyard from the Wine Country to the Central Valley and the Pacific waters surrounding the Northern California coast and Monterey Bay. Emphasizing freshness, quality of ingredients and classic cooking techniques our chef, David Starr, creates ever changing seasonal menus.
Tanglewood, a newly opened restaurant on Santana Row, maintains the ‘Green’ theme with presenting diners with the motto of “Dining in the Season”. This restaurant, the newest concept from Left Bank Restaurant Group, presents a menu that celebrates the day’s best seasonal ingredients, grown and raised on small, local sustainable farms, ranches and fisheries. Staff invites guests to reconnect with the rhythm of nature’s seasons while you enjoy the harvest of this unique American cuisine.
Manresa is the showcase for the inventive cuisine of Executive Chef David Kinch. Influenced by French and modern Catalan cooking, Chef Kinch finds inspiration from American ingenuity and the vast bounty that California has to offer. Manresa's biodynamic vegetables are grown exclusively for Manresa at Cynthia Sandberg's Love Apple Farm in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains and harvested in the morning for the evening menu. Love Apple Farm originally became known for growing 100 varieties of heirloom tomatoes each year but the farm is now the exclusive kitchen garden for this restaurant. Join Manresa for the ultimate farm-to-table experience.
Village California Bistro and Wine Bar features California inspired cuisine focusing on the bounty of artisan quality seasonal ingredients right here in their backyard from the Wine Country to the Central Valley and the Pacific waters surrounding the Northern California coast and Monterey Bay. Emphasizing freshness, quality of ingredients and classic cooking techniques our chef, David Starr, creates ever changing seasonal menus.
Friday, May 22, 2009
SAN JOSE PLANTS ITS ROOTS IN GREEN MEETINGS AND TRAVEL
SAN JOSE, CA – San Jose, voted in 2009 as the greenest of 12 cities by Green Tech Media, is grounding itself in the wide world of responsible travel and meetings. Going beyond the standard programs, initiatives all throughout San Jose are forcefully changing the way business is done. From hotels, to the Convention Center, to City organizations and Mineta International Airport -- all are making strides to ensure that San Jose puts its best carbon footprint forward. The vision is to make this kind of environmental responsibility the standard so visitors can “stay to play!” for years to come. Initiatives include:
Green Hotels
One of the few hotels in Northern California to utilize an Ozone Laundry Plan, Hotel Valencia on Santana Row debuted this program in February to save water, gas and electricity, as the cycles run a shorter time and use cold water to conserve. Also unique to Hotel Valencia is a Heatsvr, a liquid pool blanket technology that reduces temperature and expected to save 15-40 percent of natural gas usage for the pool and spa. Low flow toilets and shower heads along with biodegradable key cards, no use of Styrofoam products and electronic mailings all contribute to keeping one of the most popular hotels in San Jose seeing green. Calculated by energystar.com, as of May 23, 2008 the hotel has reduced its carbon footprint by 47,739.57 pounds.
The “Green Team” at Dolce Hayes Mansion monitors environmental practices and maintaining new standards sustainability. The ‘Green Team’ also researches and coordinates property and staff involvement in local environmental projects or programs. In addition, Hayes Mansion provides biodegradable food to-go containers, uses local and sustainable food and beverage products and energy efficient appliances and lights bulbs.
The San Jose City Council recently recognized the Hilton San Jose has a Green Business. The staff uses energy saving printers, faxes etc, sensored lighting and offers a linen re-use program to each guest. Cups, lids and straws are made from 100 percent U.S. grown corn, also known as PLA plastic. Use of PLA plastic saves 10 gallons of gasoline for every case of 20 oz cups.
The Clarion Hotel in San Jose saves approximately $15,000 a year with a PG&E initiative that provides air conditioning motion sensors to save energy and water conservation systems for their sprinklers, showers and faucets. They use a paperless reporting program and a guest linen program, where guests can reuse their own towels and sheets.
The DoubleTree Hotel partners with many green organizations, including the Arbor Day Foundation, to plant new trees in the area. They are proud members of the California Green Lodging Program and the Green Meeting Industry Council. The hotel is a member of the Earthcare program, which allows a 100-guestroom hotel to save 72,000 gallons of water through linen and towel reuse. Eco-friendly materials are used for renovations and remodels, and energy efficient appliances are purchased. Staff also focuses on avoiding printing brochures and correspondence whenever possible.
The San Jose Marriott stands out by offering a “Green Meeting Planner Package” that includes environmentally friendly meeting room writing pads. For every 4 pads consumed, the equivalent of one mature tree is saved, 733 gallons of water are saved, 144 pounds of air emissions and 29 pounds of solid waste is reduced. Marriott San Jose also uses ‘Green Works’ cleaners, Brita filters, corn starch drinking cups that are 100 percent recyclable and is building toward linen-less tables in all meeting spaces for 2009. The hotel also recently launched a beta test partnership with the Clorox Company utilizing their environmentally friendly “Green Works” product line for cleaning guest rooms.
Initiated by Fairmont San Jose and adopted by all the Fairmont hotels across the state, this San Jose hotel offers complimentary parking to the overnight guests who drive Hybrid cars. The Fairmont San Jose also implements several green programs pioneered by Fairmont headquarters, such as the Green Partnership Program— a comprehensive commitment to minimizing hotels’ impact on the planet, accompanied by a guidebook on sustainable best practices in the lodging industry. The program emphasizes sustainable and responsible practices such as recycling, kitchen-waste diversion, retrofitting energy-efficient lighting, conducting community-outreach programs and buying green power. The Fairmont’s Eco-Meet program helps meeting planners by providing a meeting structure that encourages maximum waste diversion and environmental awareness for conference delegates.
Green Hotels
One of the few hotels in Northern California to utilize an Ozone Laundry Plan, Hotel Valencia on Santana Row debuted this program in February to save water, gas and electricity, as the cycles run a shorter time and use cold water to conserve. Also unique to Hotel Valencia is a Heatsvr, a liquid pool blanket technology that reduces temperature and expected to save 15-40 percent of natural gas usage for the pool and spa. Low flow toilets and shower heads along with biodegradable key cards, no use of Styrofoam products and electronic mailings all contribute to keeping one of the most popular hotels in San Jose seeing green. Calculated by energystar.com, as of May 23, 2008 the hotel has reduced its carbon footprint by 47,739.57 pounds.
The “Green Team” at Dolce Hayes Mansion monitors environmental practices and maintaining new standards sustainability. The ‘Green Team’ also researches and coordinates property and staff involvement in local environmental projects or programs. In addition, Hayes Mansion provides biodegradable food to-go containers, uses local and sustainable food and beverage products and energy efficient appliances and lights bulbs.
The San Jose City Council recently recognized the Hilton San Jose has a Green Business. The staff uses energy saving printers, faxes etc, sensored lighting and offers a linen re-use program to each guest. Cups, lids and straws are made from 100 percent U.S. grown corn, also known as PLA plastic. Use of PLA plastic saves 10 gallons of gasoline for every case of 20 oz cups.
The Clarion Hotel in San Jose saves approximately $15,000 a year with a PG&E initiative that provides air conditioning motion sensors to save energy and water conservation systems for their sprinklers, showers and faucets. They use a paperless reporting program and a guest linen program, where guests can reuse their own towels and sheets.
The DoubleTree Hotel partners with many green organizations, including the Arbor Day Foundation, to plant new trees in the area. They are proud members of the California Green Lodging Program and the Green Meeting Industry Council. The hotel is a member of the Earthcare program, which allows a 100-guestroom hotel to save 72,000 gallons of water through linen and towel reuse. Eco-friendly materials are used for renovations and remodels, and energy efficient appliances are purchased. Staff also focuses on avoiding printing brochures and correspondence whenever possible.
The San Jose Marriott stands out by offering a “Green Meeting Planner Package” that includes environmentally friendly meeting room writing pads. For every 4 pads consumed, the equivalent of one mature tree is saved, 733 gallons of water are saved, 144 pounds of air emissions and 29 pounds of solid waste is reduced. Marriott San Jose also uses ‘Green Works’ cleaners, Brita filters, corn starch drinking cups that are 100 percent recyclable and is building toward linen-less tables in all meeting spaces for 2009. The hotel also recently launched a beta test partnership with the Clorox Company utilizing their environmentally friendly “Green Works” product line for cleaning guest rooms.
Initiated by Fairmont San Jose and adopted by all the Fairmont hotels across the state, this San Jose hotel offers complimentary parking to the overnight guests who drive Hybrid cars. The Fairmont San Jose also implements several green programs pioneered by Fairmont headquarters, such as the Green Partnership Program— a comprehensive commitment to minimizing hotels’ impact on the planet, accompanied by a guidebook on sustainable best practices in the lodging industry. The program emphasizes sustainable and responsible practices such as recycling, kitchen-waste diversion, retrofitting energy-efficient lighting, conducting community-outreach programs and buying green power. The Fairmont’s Eco-Meet program helps meeting planners by providing a meeting structure that encourages maximum waste diversion and environmental awareness for conference delegates.
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