Posts Tagged ‘hayward’
Monday, January 25th, 2010
California Attorney General Jerry Brown can’t abide car repair shop owners who rip you off for unnecessary work. News comes this morning about a judge in Alameda County who signed off on a:
“$1.8 million settlement that prevents Maurice Irving Glad (aka Mike Glad), owner of 22 Midas auto shops throughout California, from owning or operating an auto repair shop in the state, after the franchisee “deceptively lured” customers with cheap brake specials and then charged hundreds of dollars for unnecessary repairs.”
Now what do you suppose Mike did with some of that ill-gotten booty? Well, he traveled the world, natch, but he also produced an Academy Award-nominated documentary (narrated by Edward James Olmos!) called Recycled Life. (So all those people in the East Bay and the South Bay who thought they were just fixing their cars actually were financing the Hollywood dream factory by paying an average of $268 more than they should have….)
Anyway, get the deets below to see how our California Bureau of Automotive Repair does sting operations. And get the other side of the story from Mike’s mouthpiece via Henry K. Lee right here.
El Protector De La Gente, Jerry Brown:
Read all about it, after the jump
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Read below to see the message that came over the transom of this little blog yesterday, the very blog you’re looking at right now. It concerns a post from a year and half ago about an airplane crash-landing that resulted in no major injuries.
The missive, in its entirety:
“When you google Flying Vikings your false article comes up. If you do not fix your false statements. I will deal with you. My name is Celine Correa and I am a co-owner of Flying Vikings. You need to report on the many thousands and thousands of flight hours we have done. Call me and I will give you verifiable details no false hoods. You need to correct your article immediately.
Celine”
O.K. fine. If anybody wants to go through and find any of the purported “false statements,” well then have at it – that would help me out.
Otherwise, I don’t think I’ll be “reporting” on Flying Vikings’ “many thousands and thousands of flight hours” (is that a lot? My dad, currently pushing up daisies in Virginia, had five figures worth of flying hours with no accidents, AFAIK) in some sort of fairness-doctrine type of deal.
The comments are open on this post, if anyone wants to pipe up. Thanks for your help.
Here it is:
Another Accident Involving Hayward-based Flying Vikings, Inc.
Today’s headlines include news of the crash landing of a Flying Vikings, Inc. Cessna 172 in Oakland, California.
The San Jose Mercury News earlier reported that N61736 ”had a gas leak,” but now is going with ”mechanical problems” as the cause of this incident. KCBS, which labels this single engine plane the KCBS Radio Traffic Plane, is reporting the pilot claimed the oil pressure guage plummetted just before the engine conked out. This aircraft, built in 1974, suffered “substantial damage” during an incident in 1981.
The following language, written before today’s accident, appears on the Flying Vikings website:
Since Flying Vikings also has a contract with local news gathering organizations, students are offered opportunities to build time that no other school can. Fly 3 to 6 hours a day and get paid.
A visual aid to help imagine yourself staring at a motionless propeller low over the Bay Area. Click to expand:
The dash of a Cessna 172 and a view of Candlestick Park, from the incredible Telstar Logistics Flickrstream
Here’s a photo of a different Flying Vikings aircraft, a Piper that suffered a fatal accident in 2006. Readers may find this link, relating to the Piper crash, of interest, however, it might lead you to unproven speculation about the cause of that tragedy.
The Federal Aviation Administration and Cal OSHA should be able to determine the cause of this forced landing fairly easily.
A relatively happy ending to a scary situation.
So that’s the purported “false article” from 2008.
Actually, the only reason I found this incident noteworthy at the time was the number of conflicting reports about the cause of this incident. The National Transportation Safety Board investigated and concluded the problem was:
“A loss of engine power due to oil starvation. The oil starvation event was due to the failure of maintenance personnel to tighten the mounting bolts for the newly installed vacuum pump.”
Seems the pump had just been replaced three days earlier and the flight of June 30, 2008 was the first one using the new pump.
All the deets from the NTSB, after the jump.
Tags: 172, 172M, 740, accident, alan brooks, am, blog, california, cessna, crash, defamation, emergency, flying school, flying vikings, forced, hayward, incident, kcbs, landing, libel, mechanical, Metro Networks, N61736, news, ntsb, Oakland, owner, problem, radio, report, reporter, Richard Liu, SEA08LA155, skyhawk, slander, traffic, Westwood One
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Per Yelp’s Cathy H: Yes, the Western Addition’s Margaret Hayward Playground has the nicest public tennis courts in San Francisco. Says Cathy:
“I enjoy playing at the tennis courts on the corner of Laguna and Turk. Granted, kids in the hood ask you for your tennis balls… The court is lit at night! And parking is plenty!”
Just picture yourself there, inside the wind barriers and ‘neath the numerous church crosses.
Click to expand
See you there!
Tags: court, department, dept., district, fillmore, golden gate, hayward, laguna, margaret, Nicest, park, playground, public, recreation, San Francisco, street, tennis, turk, western addition
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Famed five-star Yelp-rated Coronet Theatre at 3575 Geary near Palm Avenue in the Inner Richmond district done closed down with a final showing of Million Dollar Baby on March 17, 2005. Did people camp out for ages to be first in line for a Star Wars movie premier back in the day? Oh yes. But that’s all history now.
These days, straight-out-of-Hayward Peck and Hiller is laying concrete For The Future, which will take form of a building from the Institute on Aging for housing seniors. We shall take a look-see, non?
The mise-en-scene. Click to expand:
Let’s take a peek up there at The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love. This tower crane operator sits and stands to make everything work.
Rebar sailing above Geary Boulevard. Mind the spilled motor oil…
Burly construction workers are on hand to protect the Porta-Potties from the One Who Shant Be Named:
And here’s what it will all look like, if you can see past the chain link and graffiti:
It’s too bad we lost the Coronet, but just try filling a 1300-seat one-screen theater in this Day and Age.
Get ready for the Inner Richmond, seniors!
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Coronet, Coronet the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all bay areans have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her projection, and the kings of Hollywood have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Tags: 1300-seat, 2005, 3575, avenue, boulevard, building, concrete, construction, coronet, crane, district, film, geary, Geroge, graffiti, hayward, house, inner, Institute on Aging, lucas, March 17, Million Dollar Baby, movie, multiplex, one-screen, operator, Palm, Peck and Hiller, Porta-Potties, premier, Rebar, richmond, San Francisco, seniors, star wars, theater, theatre, tower, workers, yelp
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
That didn’t feel so bad in the 415. A little scary at first, for a second or two. After that you could tell it wasn’t going to be a big deal…
| Magnitude |
4.3 |
| Date-Time |
- Monday, March 30, 2009 at 17:40:29 UTC
- Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:40:29 AM at epicenter
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| Location |
37.285°N, 121.620°W |
| Depth |
6.2 km (3.9 miles) |
| Region |
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
- 18 km (11 miles) N (7°) from Morgan Hill, CA
- 19 km (12 miles) E (91°) from Seven Trees, CA
- 20 km (13 miles) ESE (117°) from Alum Rock, CA
- 25 km (16 miles) ESE (104°) from San Jose City Hall, CA
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| Location Uncertainty |
horizontal +/- 0.1 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles) |
| Parameters |
NST=250, Nph=250, Dmin=7 km, Rmss=0.08 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=duration magnitude (Md), Version=1 |
| Source |
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| Event ID |
nc40234037 |
Tags: 4.4, 43, aftershock, ashbury, bay area, california, Caliveras, earthquake, fault, haight, hayward, morgan hill, richter, san andreas, San Francisco, san jose, scale, south bay, tembler, upper
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
How can you tell that San Francisco embraces the new look San Francisco Chronicle? Easily, just by seeing that the taggers and sticker artists of the Western Addition are already eyeing the new tannish vending racks much as other artists would look upon an blank canvas.
Seeing as how I haven’t purchased a newspaper (or pre-recorded CD, pre-recorded DVD, or any kind of Blu-Ray disc) so far this millennium, I don’t know any difference. But the dead-tree readers surely do, and they must appreciate the quite modest price increase of just 50 cents more, Sundays only.
Click to expand:
Speaking of which, some have taken to scratching off the new $2.00 Sunday stickers. Bad form. That must lead to consternation.
Will the new digital press make much of a difference?
Stay tuned…
Tags: 200, appearance, chronicle, digital, format, hayward, look, new, newspaper, press, price, San Francisco, sunday, tan, yellow
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
First, let’s all agree that denial, (also called abnegation), is:
”is a defense mechanism‘ postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept…”
Can a radio station be in denial? Well, how about the coverage KCBS AM 740 is giving to yesterday’s crash landing of a traffic-reporting Cessna 172. KCBS reports this incident thusly: “Plane Lands near I-80 Ramp” with an account about how “freeway traffic was not affected by the landing”.
Firstly, KCBS used this in the webpage URL: “Plane-Blocks-I-80-Off-Ramp” – so this was spurious information? Or maybe the plane blocked the off-ramp, but not the freeway? Secondly, other media sources correctly called this incident a “crash-landing,” as that’s what it was. Thirdly, KCBS reported last month’s other crash landing of a Cessna 172 in the bay area as a “crash landing.”
The dash of a Cessna 172 that didn’t crash land in the bay area last month, from the incredible Telstar Logistics Flickrstream
There’s lots of ways to report a story. KCBS certainly chose a drama-free approach. As must be obvious by now, you can put a Cessna 172 (that has a landing weight pretty close to a tiny 2-seat Smart Car) down in a very small piece of real estate, but yesterday’s crash landing could easily have been fatal.
So, better check yo self before you wreck yo self (again). Just saying,
Tags: 172, 172M, 740, abnegation, accident, alan brooks, am, cessna, crash, denial, emergency, flying vikings, forced, hayward, incident, kcbs, landing, mechanical, Metro Networks, N61736, news, Oakland, problem, radio, reporter, Richard Liu, skyhawk, traffic, Westwood One
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Today’s headlines include news of the crash landing of a Flying Vikings, Inc. Cessna 172 in Oakland, California.
The San Jose Mercury News earlier reported that N61736 ”had a gas leak,” but now is going with ”mechanical problems” as the cause of this incident. KCBS, which labels this single engine plane the KCBS Radio Traffic Plane, is reporting the pilot claimed the oil pressure guage plummetted just before the engine conked out. This aircraft, built in 1974, suffered “substantial damage” during an incident in 1981.
The following language, written before today’s accident, appears on the Flying Vikings website:
Since Flying Vikings also has a contract with local news gathering organizations, students are offered opportunities to build time that no other school can. Fly 3 to 6 hours a day and get paid.
A visual aid to help imagine yourself staring at a motionless propeller low over the Bay Area. Click to expand:
The dash of a Cessna 172 and a view of Candlestick Park, from the incredible Telstar Logistics Flickrstream
Here’s a photo of a different Flying Vikings aircraft, a Piper that suffered a fatal accident in 2006. Readers may find this link, relating to the Piper crash, of interest, however, it might lead you to unproven speculation about the cause of that tragedy.
The Federal Aviation Administration and Cal OSHA should be able to determine the cause of this forced landing fairly easily.
A relatively happy ending to a scary situation.
Tags: 172, 172M, 740, accident, alan brooks, am, cessna, crash, emergency, flying vikings, forced, hayward, incident, kcbs, landing, mechanical, Metro Networks, N61736, news, Oakland, problem, radio, reporter, Richard Liu, skyhawk, traffic, Westwood One
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