Posts Tagged ‘Walnut Creek’
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
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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.
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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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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Walnut Creek has four-story developments now? Isn’t this place sort of dense for a what’s supposed to be a leafy suburb?
Those are the questions you ask yourself as you search for the big screen with your name on it in the Great Big Suburban East Bay.
Is the bulk of San Francisco’s ParkMerced this dense?
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If not, why not?
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, density, east bay, housing, park merced, parkmerced, San Francisco, Walnut Creek
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Never seen this in the 415.
But if you don’t have a car or some kind of vehicle, you need all the help you can get trying to get around in the Great Big East Bay, right?
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Sorry, heading south, maybe next time…
Tags: 680, Concord, east bay, hitchhiker, hitchhikers, north, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Via the hardworking East Bay Citizen comes news of a rally in support of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle “and our Law Enforcement Officers.” It will go down on Monday, July 19th, 2010 at the Walnut Creek Courthouse at 2:00 PM. O.K. then.
But there’s a catch – only those who support Johannes can come:
“Anyone who supports Johannes and our Law Enforcement Officers may attend. This is a peaceful rally to show our support for Johannes and the injustices he is experiencing.”
I don’t know, I’m not sure which “injustices” we’re talking about here. Killing somebody by mistake, that can put you in prison, right? Is anybody saying that the jury verdict of manslaughter is an injustice? (Obviously, the absurd murder charges* just weren’t going to happen, right? So, what else was there for the jury to choose from?)
Or maybe injustices could be death threats against family members? That’s all I can think of.
Anyway, here it is:
Claycord has more deets.
Will “hundreds of people” show up on Monday? There are 35 “confirmed guests” already…
*I can sort of see why murder charges brought early on, but I don’t know why they weren’t eventually dropped by the D.A. Oh well.
Tags: (BART), 2010, bay area, california, court house, courthouse, enforcement, injustice, Johannes Mehserle, july, law, oscar grant, police, rally, San Francisco, Walnut Creek
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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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