* 408: 959-1122 San Jose, CA

The San Jose Mercury News reported that, " Philippe Kahn, who founded the company in 1983 and headed it until 1994, called the deal a ' great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

Walsh graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1955.

He served under Bob Bronzan as a graduate assistant coach on the Spartans football coaching staff and graduated with a master's degree in physical education from San Jose State in 1959.

: Four volcanoes ( two of them active ) rise near San Jose, in the center of the country ; one of the volcanoes, Irazu Volcano, erupted destructively in 1963 – 1965.

Costa Rica's main universities are the University of Costa Rica, in San Jose and the National University of Costa Rica, in Heredia.

That term ended in 1997 with the South-South Conference held in San Jose.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

San Jose, CA: Hih Art Studios, 2007.

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

*" Dark Alliance ", by Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News, August 1996.

Among Alexander's most notable built works are the Eishin Campus near Tokyo ( the building process of which is soon to be outlined in his forthcoming book Battle ); the West Dean Visitors Centre in West Sussex, England ; the Julian Street Inn ( a homeless shelter ) in San Jose, California ( both described in Nature of Order ); the Martinez House ( an experimental house in Martinez, California made of lightweight concrete ); the low-cost housing in Mexicali, Mexico ( described in The Production of Houses ); and several private houses ( described and illustrated in " The Nature of Order ").

Engelbart attended Program for the Future 2010 Conference where hundreds of people convened at The Tech Museum in San Jose and online to engage in dialog about how to pursue his vision to augment collective intelligence.

Edgar Codd worked at IBM in San Jose, California, in one of their offshoot offices that was primarily involved in the development of hard disk systems.

In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles " Doc " Herrold.

In 1973, the third American taiko group, San Jose Taiko, was formed in the San Jose area.

Japanese Canadian taiko began in the 1970s with Katari Taiko and was inspired by the San Jose Taiko group.

* San Jose Taiko

" Odaiko, San Jose Taiko Newsletter ( 1988 ): 1-4.

* San Jose Taiko

They advanced to the third round of the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs after defeating the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks both in six games, coming back three straight after the Sharks ' 2 – 1 series lead.

Although they finished second in the conference to the San Jose Sharks, the Wings became the first team in NHL history to top 100 points in nine straight seasons.

That set up a one-game showdown with the San Jose Earthquakes the winner would advance to the 2003 MLS Cup.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Wizards would lose the first game to defending champions San Jose Earthquakes, 2 – 0, putting in a seemingly impossible situation to score 3 goals and concede none in game 2 of aggregate goal series.

The San Jose Earthquakes used Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, home of the Oakland A's ( and Oakland Raiders ), for certain games during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

* Aerial view of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain, Central California, from " How Earthquakes Happen " at USGS

The Portland Timbers, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, and Vancouver Whitecaps names have all been used for successor teams in Major League Soccer, with other team names having been used in lower leagues.

The San Jose Earthquakes are an American professional soccer team based in San Jose, California that participate in Major League Soccer ( MLS ).

: For more information see San Jose Earthquakes ( 1974 – 88 ) and San Francisco Bay Blackhawks.

The franchise's roots trace back to 1974, when the North American Soccer League ( NASL ) awarded an expansion franchise to San Jose, named the Earthquakes.

The San Jose Earthquakes on the field at the O. co Coliseum | McAfee Coliseum in 2008

San Jose Earthquakes players, 2005

However, in January 2004, General Manager Johnny Moore, whose roots with the club dated back to his days as a player for the NASL Earthquakes, resigned after AEG and MLS considered allowing the team to be rebranded as San Jose America ( with ownership to transfer to the owners of Mexico's Club América ).

The owner of the San Jose Earthquakes, Anschutz Entertainment Group, announced on December 15, 2005 that the team was moving to Houston for the 2006 season because of the failure of efforts to secure a soccer-specific stadium for the team in San Jose.

In September 2006, after nearly nine months of inactivity ( displaying only Commissioner Garber's December 2005 letter of condolence to Earthquakes fans over the team's relocation ), the team's website was revived to display updates on the progress of starting up the expansion San Jose Earthquakes franchise and to allow fans to sign up for the Earthquakes Soccer, LLC e-newsletter.

On July 18, 2007, Commissioner Don Garber announced that the San Jose Earthquakes would resume play starting in the 2008 season after Lew Wolff exercised his option to purchase the new expansion team.

In October 2007 the Earthquakes announced they would be moving their offices from the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose to an office park across the street from their temporary home, Buck Shaw Stadium, and across the Caltrain tracks from the location of the former FMC site.

In 2010, the San Jose Earthquakes qualified for the playoffs as the West's # 6 seed with 46 points.

In 2011, the San Jose Earthquakes missed the playoffs after they finished seventh in the west and fourteenth in all of MLS.

Ever since their rebranding to the Earthquakes in 2000, the team badge has featured an inverted triangular shield containing a soccer ball invoking the rising sun used in the logo for the City of San Jose, a stylized ' Earthquakes ' wordmark, and a color palette of blue, black, white and silver.

Image: San Jose Earthquakes ( 2000-2007 ) logo. svg | San Jose Earthquakes logo ( 2000 – 07 )