Posts Tagged ‘Berkeley’
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Well here’s the debut list from U.S. News (and World Report):
“Of all 44 hospitals in the San Francisco, California metropolitan area, the 14 listed below are the top-ranking. This metro area, also called the Bay Area, includes Oakland and Fremont.
1. UCSF Medical Center — San Francisco, CA
2. John Muir Medical Center — Walnut Creek, CA
3. California Pacific Medical Center — San Francisco, CA
4. John Muir Medical Center — Concord, CA
5. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center — Berkeley, CA
5. Seton Medical Center — Daly City, CA
7. Kaiser Foundation Hospital — Antioch, CA
7. Kaiser Foundation Hospital — Walnut Creek, CA
7. Kaiser Foundation Hospital — Oakland, CA
7. Kaiser Permanente San Francisco — San Francisco, CA
7. Mills-Peninsula Health Services — Burlingame, CA
7. San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center — San Francisco, CA
7. Sequoia Hospital — Redwood City, CA
7. Washington Hospital — Fremont, CA
Click on over for all the deets. They look like this:
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And UCSF Benioff Children”s Hospital is tops in its field in the Bay Area.
This whole thing is a national deal with many more urban areas covered, including:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Dallas, Denver,Detroit, Houston, LosAngeles,
Miami, Minneapolis, NewYork, Philadelphia,
Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Riverside, San Diego,
Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington DC
And you people down in San Joser haven’t been left out – you all have your own list. It’s topped by Stanford Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and the Regional Medical Center of San Jose. South Bay in the hiz-ouse.
Anyway, read what UCSF has to say about all this, after the jump
(more…)
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Starting….now!
Boy, it looks warm, huh?
Just another joint from famous Bay Area Photographer David Yu…
Tags: 2011, alcatraz, bay area, Berkeley, california, daivd, el sol, fisherman, fisherpeople, fisherwomen, fishhusband, fishwife, Golden Gate Bridge, hd, pier, RA, San Francisco, sun set, sunset, Video, yu
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
The KTVU is all over This New Issue of Concern:
“SPECIAL REPORT: Hackers* Turn Car Thieves With Keyless Locks“
So, what a $100 handheld 315 Mhz Wireless Remote Key / Security Jammer / Code Scanner can do for you, at the very least, is allow you to prevent some loser’s car from locking up for the night, dig? Then, after watching the pigeon walk away, you can simply open the car doors and trunk and then collect all the sweet sweet booty inside.
Jamming seems a lot simpler than code scanning, non?
Anyway, this is what KTVU is ascared of showing you. From China With Love:
My funny Valentine is delighted – she’s gotten two Kate Spades and $5000 worth of travelers’ checks so far since Feb 14th. Really, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Hurray!
But please remember, “this product is a supplementary tool to unlock, and can only be taken as friends locksmith studies.” So, don’t actually steal anything using this device that’s made exclusively for stealing things.
*Wouldn’t really call somebody who uses a simple jamming device a “hacker,” but that’s just me.
“Note: This product is a supplementary tool to unlock, and can only be taken as friends locksmith studies. Please comply with related laws and regulations.
- Detect, receive, copy all kinds of car remote control signals, then command the car as freely as the car’s owner
- Working frequency range: 305~330MHz
- It receives the signal sent by the fixed code anti-theft system, save and copy the master’s remote control signal
- The effective distance is 100 metres
- Save thirty remote control signals
- Decodability chip: PLC fake rolling code(5326), EV1527, PT2262, HT12E, HT6014
- Fit the mostly anti-theft system
- 2.5″ Blue background light LED screen
- 2 * Retractable antennas
- Coverage 50-100 meters
- Powered by 9V 6F22 battery (included) or 9~12V DC input
Tags: 315 mhz, auto, Berkeley, car, China, chinese, code, control, device, east bay, hackers, jammer, key, ktvu, Oakland, open, radio, remote, rf, scanner, secutiry, steal, thieves, unlock, wireless
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
(My Canon 1D Mark Whatever SLR died an early death at 140,000 clicks* possibly due to the fact that I wasn’t ascared of a little (or a lot) of rain. Nowadays I’m def. skittish, but no matter,) you can always count on famous photographer David Yu to be on the scene rain or dry.
As he was last Saturday night in Chinatown and North Beach and SoMA and the Financh and all over.
Check out his gallery of Year of the Rabbit festivities, why not?
Bunnies!
David Yu
Whoahhh Bundy!
David Yu
SuperLotto? No thanks! But SuperLotto PLUS? Sounds intriguing…
David Yu
And look who else was there – it’s your newly-minted Supervisor Malia Cohen:
(Yowser)
And your just-as-newly-minted Mayor Edwin Lee in the official San Francisco staff car, formerly used by General Burkhalter:
See you next year! (In scary, scary 2012, the year of the Dragon.)
*200,000 was the expected number of clicks I believe I was owed. ($300 minimum for a new shutter.) OTOH, my 5D Mark I has probably already exceeded its expected shutter life so I s’pose I shouldn’t complain too much. Living on borrowed time tho.
Tags: 2011, American, Anita Wong, ball, bay area, beauty, Bellaire, Berkeley, board of supervisors, ca, california, Casey Him, chinatown, chinatown usa, chinese, coronation, Coronation Ball, crowned, Cynthia Vuong, David Yu, davidyu, davidyuweb, Dragon, ed lee, edwin lee, First Princess, flickr, Fourth Princess, gallery, images, Joy Yin Le, June Quan, Lisa Fei, lottery, Malia Cohen, Mayor, miss, Miss Chinatown San Francisco, miss chinatown usa, Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Miss San Francisco Chinatown, Miss Talent, pageant, parade, photgraphs, photo, photos, pics, princess, queen, rabbit, rain, rainy, San Francisco, second, Second Princess, state, SuperLotto, SuperLotto plus, Third Princess, tickets, tiger, tx, upervisor, Walnut Creek, watch, year, year of the bunny, year of the rabbit
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Of course famous photographer David Yu was on the scene when June Quan was crowned Miss Chinatown USA for 2011.
The Coronation Ball is tonight, see below, and, of course, the big parade is tomorrow night.
(Don’t even take along a brolly to the parade – you’ll stay dry this year, most likely, Gaia willing…) [UPDATE: The Internet MIC just came by my house and tore up my prognosticator license. From now on, I'll leave this kind of stuff to the experts.]
From David Yu
Bon Courage to June Quan and all the participants.
Harrah’s Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Coronation Ball
Friday, February 18, 2011
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
(415) 982-3000
| 6:00 pm |
No Host Cocktails |
| 7:00 pm |
Dinner |
| 8:30 pm |
Dancing until midnight |
Tickets: $120
“Congratulations to Miss Chinatown USA pageant 2011 queen June Quan and the court.
Miss Chinatown San Francisco queen 2011
June Quan 關蓮珠
San Francisco, CA
Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce/First Princess
Casey Him 嚴紫萌
Walnut Creek, CA
Miss San Francisco Chinatown
Lisa Fei 費麟
Berkeley, CA
Second Princess and Miss Talent
Joy Yin Le 樂音
Bellaire, TX
Third Princess
Cynthia Vuong 黃佩芷
Bellevue, WA
Fourth Princess
Anita Wong 黃綺婷
San Francisco, CA
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Your Supervisor Malia Cohen dropped by the waterfront other day to check out the commotion at Warm Water Cove.
All the deets.
It’s generally a lot more flowery these days down there.
See? Here’s a shot from a while back:
And here’s one from last weekend:
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Should be quite flowery there this Spring…
Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, art, bay area, beach, Berkeley, biopsy, boalt hall, ca, california, central, Central Waterfront, dhil, gavin newsom, graffiti, Green Trust, GreenTrust, GreenTrust SF - Central Waterfront, larry hillblom, law, lawyer, Malia Cohen, Mayor, paint, project, San Francisco, school, SF, street, Sugar House, Supervisor, tag, tagging, tire, toxic, UC, ucsf, vandalism, warm water cove, Warm Water Cove Graffiti Vandalism Project 2007, waterfront
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
InsideBayArea has the deets.
Korematsu vs. United States
“Fred Korematsu Day in Berkeley
Come celebrate the first Fred Korematsu Day on January 30, 2011, at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Auditorium. The program includes keynote speaker Reverend Jesse Jackson and spoken word artist Beau Sia, as well as tributes from Karen Korematsu and California Assembly Members Warren Furutani and Marty Block. There will also be a screening of the film, Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story.
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, arguing that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity.
In 1983, Dr. Peter Irons, a legal historian, discovered key documents that government intelligence agencies had hidden from the Supreme Court in 1944. The documents consistently showed that Japanese Americans had committed no acts of treason to justify mass incarceration. With this new evidence, a legal team of mostly Japanese American attorneys re-opened Korematsu’s 40 year-old case on the basis of government misconduct. On November 10, 1983, Korematsu’s conviction was overturned in a federal court in San Francisco. It was a pivotal moment in civil rights history.
Korematsu remained an activist throughout his life. In 1998, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Bill Clinton. Korematsu’s growing legacy continues to inspire activists of all backgrounds and demonstrates the importance of speaking up to fight injustice.”
http://korematsuinstitute.org/korematsu-day/celebration/
(For a list of other Fred Korematsu Day events throughout the state, click here)
Join the Korematsu Institute in celebrating the first Fred Korematsu Day!
DATE & TIME
Sunday Jan. 30, 2011x
1:00pm-2:00pm: VIP reception
2:00-3:00pm: Main Program
3:00-4:00pm: General reception
4:00-5:00pm: Screening of the Emmy Award-winning film
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: the Fred Korematsu Story (60 min)
LOCATION
Wheeler auditorium
UC Berkeley campus
Berkeley, CA
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Wheeler auditorium is a 15-minute walk from the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. Click here for walking directions.
PARKING
Cal Performances does not offer parking validation for this event, but street parking is free in Berkeley on Sundays. For a list of parking lots near the UC Berkeley campus, click here. For more information about parking on campus, please click here.
SPECIAL NEEDS
Wheeler Auditorium is accessible to people with disabilities. The closest drop off point near Wheeler is the alongside South Hall (see campus map). From there, it’s a short walk up the ramp and into Wheeler.
TICKETS
$100 VIP tickets include: VIP reception + Program (and seating in VIP section) + General Reception + Film Screening
$25 Full Price tickets include: Program + General Reception + Film Screening
$15 Discount tickets for Teachers/Non-profit employees/Senior Citizens (65+) include: Program + General Reception + Film Screening
$5 Student tickets include: Program + General Reception + Film Screening
Tickets on sale now! Tickets available for purchase online, by phone, by mail and fax, and in person from Cal Performances. Tickets can be mailed to buyers or held at Will Call and picked up at Wheeler auditorium (not Zellerbach Hall) on January 30. Please buy your tickets before January 30. Though last-minute tickets will be available on the day of the event, purchases can only be made in cash.
Seating: VIP ticket holders will be able to sit in a VIP section of the auditorium. All other ticket holders are eligible for general seating, so please arrive early to find the best available seats!
Cal Performances
tickets.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-9988
Fax: (510) 643-2359
The Cal Performances Ticket Office is located at the northeast corner of Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Event web site: fredkorematsuday.org
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117833281622710&num_event_invites=0
For questions, email info@korematsuinstitute.org or call (415) 848-7727
PROGRAM
 Rev. Jesse Jackson
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A keynote speech by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. The founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Rev. Jackson is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Rev. Jackson has been called the “Conscience of the Nation” and “the Great Unifier,” challenging America to be inclusive and to establish just and humane priorities for the benefit of all. He is known for bringing people together on common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief. In 1999, Fred Korematsu was honored at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual awards dinner. |
 - Karen Korematsu
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Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu and co-founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education. Karen shares her father’s passion for social justice and continues to advance his legacy by helping the Institute with its development and outreach efforts and speaking at events around the country. |
 Beau Sia
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A performance by spoken word artist Beau Sia. Oklahoma-born Sia was one of the original cast members in Russell Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam, which won a Tony Award in 2003. He has also appeared in It’s Showtime at the Apollo, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and the film Slam. He has published a book of poetry, A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge, and released two spoken word CDs, Attack! Attack! Go!and Dope and Wack. |
 Rep. Keith Ellison
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A video message from Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Rep. Ellison is the first Muslim ever elected to U.S. Congress. He has represented the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives since taking office on January 4, 2007.
Keith’s philosophy is one of “generosity and inclusiveness.” His roots as a community activist and his message of inclusivity through democratic participation resonates throughout the Fifth District. His priorities in Congress are: promoting peace, prosperity for working families, environmental sustainability, and civil and human rights. |
 Asm. Warren Furutani
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California Assemblymember Warren Furutani, co-sponsor of the Fred Korematsu Day bill. Asm. Furutani was re-elected to the 55th District in 2010 for his second two-year term. Warren has over 40 years of experience and involvement in education and public service. He is also the chair of the Asian Pacific Islander American Legislative Caucus, which has ten members. In 2008, he authored Assembly Bill 37, which granted honorary college degrees to Japanese Americans whose education was disrupted due to their wrongful incarceration during World War II. |
 Asm. Marty Block
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California Assemblymember Marty Block, co-sponsor of the Fred Korematsu Day bill. Asm. Block was elected in November 2008 to represent the 78th District, one of the most diverse districts in the county of San Diego. He is a former dean and retired professor at San Diego State University (SDSU). His passion on education issues, both at the K-12 levels and collegiate levels shows a strong regard for those who have little or no voice in the political process. |
 Sydnie Kohara
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Emcee Sydnie Kohara is an award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the CBS 5 Eyewitness News Early Edition. She has served as an international correspondent and anchor for CNBC in London and Singapore. Kohara is no stranger to public service and community outreach. She was a political appointee under California Governor George Deukmejian, serving as Chief of Communications for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Kohara also helped found Camp CEO, a Girl Scout-sponsored retreat for at-risk teenage girls. |
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
All the deets are below.
Of course, you can always clean up the WWC on your own, but you’ll have a funner time this particular AM, Saturday, January 22nd, 2011.
And look, new District Ten Supervisor Malia Cohen is there!
(And don’t forget to check out the Whole Wheat Toast Warm Water Cove Park Rail Museum on your way home.)
Certainly, the sitch will be less contentious than in years past: [how does this shot show contentious-ness? confusing to readers, just steal a better shot from another site -ed.]
[why not something like this instead, The Man crushing the dreams of Urban Youth, PJ s/b all about telling stories with images, right? -ed.]
See you by the Sugar House!
Warm Water Cove Park Neighborhood Event
When: Saturday, January 22, 9-noon: come for all or part of the morning
What: Gardening: Help get the Park gardens ready for spring/summer/fall blooming! Add California Native and Drought-Tolerant Plants to the gardens we started 2 years ago. Also new Wildflower Seeding, mulching and weeding.
Where: Warm Water Cove Park, East end of 24th St. at the Bay’s edge, Dogpatch neighborhood.
Who: GreenTrustSF, SF Port, Progress Park
Details: 2 blocks east of Third St. Light rail stop.
Free parking.
Blue Bottle Coffee/Juice at 9:00 am, snacks for energy.
Please bring your own drinking water.
Tools and gloves provided.
Donations thanks to our sponsors: The Good Life grocery, Piccino Café, Recology, Flowercraft Nursery, SF Port
-Central Waterfont
www.gtsfcw.org, info@gtsfcw.org, 415-282-5516
Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, art, bay area, beach, Berkeley, biopsy, boalt hall, ca, california, central, Central Waterfront, dhil, gavin newsom, graffiti, Green Trust, GreenTrust, GreenTrust SF - Central Waterfront, larry hillblom, law, lawyer, Malia Cohen, Mayor, paint, project, San Francisco, school, SF, street, Sugar House, Supervisor, tag, tagging, tire, toxic, UC, ucsf, vandalism, warm water cove, Warm Water Cove Graffiti Vandalism Project 2007, waterfront
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Boy, you people really stayed away from this movie when it was released earlier this year. Oh well.
Anyway, the Red Vic is showing it today, so there you go.
This one is oppressive. Each of its 122 minutes is bleak, but you got to love the beginning (the first five minutes especially), the ending, and everything inbetwixt.
Well then, here’s the consensus: “With confident pacing, a smart script, and a top-notch cast, Animal Kingdom represents the best the Australian film industry has to offer.”
O.K. then. But now let’s hear from those who don’t like/love AK.
Here are the three people so far who didn’t cotton to Animal Kingdom:
Moving Pictures magazine. Granted, no one could miss the King of the Jungle lion metaphor. Maybe it’s a bit heavy-handed, but the movie only spends about 2% of its time on it and I liked the scene with the still photos of masked robbers and the one depicting the Outback as African savannah. And those rifles you saw were actually handguns.
The Village Voice. All right, but they’re his uncles, not his cousins. Pay attention, dude.
Slant magazine. So, if you didn’t like the “laughably operatic slow-mo and portentous orchestral music” I can see how that could ruin this picture for you, but I didn’t find it laughable at all. And, by the way, where’s your Sundance Grand Jury Award, pal? O.K then.
Anyway, everybody else in the world thinks this film is excellent.
Tags: 2010, Animal Kingdom, ashbury, australia, bay area, Berkeley, california, Century 5, Cinearts, clay, county, crime, Family, film, marin, Metreon, Mill Valley, movie, palo alto, Pleasant Hill, red vic. haight, row, San Francisco, san jose, Santana, Santana Row, Sequoia, Shattuck, street
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
We’ve had more U.S.S. Independences than you can shake a stick at over the centuries, but this one is the one we had during the bulk of WWII. She came straight out of Joisey in ’42 and survived The Pacific War only to get blowed up with atomic bombs during testing at South Pacific locales like Bikini Atoll in 1946.
Before:
Then after, after the big atomic kaboom at Bikini. Ouch:
Anyway, instead of sinking, the Independence kept on floating so the Navy towed her right to Hunters Point in south San Francisco. Now, let’s let Lisa Davis(?) of SF Weekly take over – here’s her bit from all the way back in aught-one.
So there you go. Most likely, this old-school baby aircraft carrier is down there resting with a cargo of nuclear waste not too far from our Farallon Islands, radiating away.
Oh well.
Tags: 2010, bay area, Berkeley, bikini, california, contamination, cv-22, cv22, cvl-22, cvl22, Farallon, farallones, hunters point, islands, lab, mavy, radiation, San Francisco, sf weekly, test, testing, u. s., u.s. united states, uss independence
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