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UCLA gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field solidifies herself as a Bruins legend | Los Angeles Times
Two similarities between John Wooden and Valorie Kondos Field became obvious, as Kondos Field coached her final UCLA gymnastics meet in Pauley Pavilion on Saturday. The first was the passion each evoked from UCLA fans in Pauley. Wooden cemented UCLA’s reputation as a basketball school. Now, Kondos Field has done the same with gymnastics. She has filled the stands with historic crowds, including the 12,270 fans who watched the Bruins defeat Utah State 197.575-194.850. The second similarity came as a white strip was peeled from the gymnastics floor before the meet, revealing the newly named Valorie Kondos Field Floor. Gymnasts of the future will tumble and dance beside her name, as the Bruins’ basketball players compete on John Wooden Court…. “I’ve spent my lifetime here,” Kondos Field said. “I’ve spent my whole life at UCLA. And what a blessing.” (Also: Los Angeles Daily News)
UCLA professor weighs in on New Zealand shooting and the challenges of governing live-streamed video | New Yorker
I spoke with Sarah T. Roberts, a professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who, over the past eight years, has become an authority on the content-moderation strategies employed by tech companies. (Her book “Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media” will be published by Yale University Press, in June.) In recent years, Roberts has watched with incredulity as companies such as Twitter and Facebook encouraged users to begin streaming live video. “There are not enough moderators in the world to monitor every live stream,” she said…. “Mainstream platforms are putting resources into moderation, but it’s a bit like closing the barn door after the horses have gotten out,” Roberts said.
A raised middle finger is protected free speech | New York Times
Joanna C. Schwartz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an expert on police misconduct litigation, noted that Ms. Cruise-Gulyas and a few others had their rights recognized only after they went through the trouble of bringing their cases to court. “The right is there, but the enforcement of that right is a more complicated matter,” she said, noting that many people who experience police misconduct do not report it. “There is a gap between what the Constitution allows and requires, and how police behave on the street. And getting from the street to the courthouse is a long and expensive process.” But Professor Schwartz added that the visibility of these individual cases might be a good thing.
Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims can sue gunmaker Remington over 2012 attack, court says | Washington Post
“This is a landmark and potentially historic ruling,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA School of Law expert in gun regulation. “It opens up an avenue to hold gunmakers responsible despite federal immunity. It will encourage a lot more litigation” against them as well as potentially permit discovery of internal corporate documents. (Also: Bloomberg)
UCLA medical students learn what hospitals accepted them for residency | KABC-TV
Dr. Kelsey Martin, dean of the Geffen School of Medicine, said the Match Day tradition brings her joy and hope. “It actually makes the whole job worthwhile because the students are so amazing. They work so hard, and they’re gonna go out and change the world to be great doctors,” said Martin.
Native Americans say movement to end ‘redface’ is slow | KNBC-TV
“It’s hard for me to say people don't know it’s wrong," said Kyle Mays, an assistant professor of African American and American Indian studies at the University of California-Los Angeles, who is black and Saginaw Anishinaabe. “They might not know Native people, (but) they know it’s wrong and it’s just OK to do because there are not any consequences for it.”
UCLA’s Kristy Edmunds receives inaugural Berresford Prize | ArtForum
The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) has established a new $25,000 award that recognizes cultural practitioners who have contributed significantly to the advancement, wellbeing, and care of artists in society. The organization announced that the inaugural prize recipient is Kristy Edmunds, the executive and artistic director of University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for the Art of Performance…. “The fact that this award was initiated by artists and named after a woman who is held in such high esteem makes the honor a truly staggering one,” she said. (Also: Broadway World)
A peek behind the curtain at movie ticket prices | Marketplace
While the final cost of tickets are determined by movie theaters, pricing can vary depending on multiple factors, said Jonathan Kuntz, UCLA professor of American film history, including the city the theater is located in and what run the film is in… Theaters, Kuntz said, are happy to break even on ticket sales if it allows them to “sell the marked up or overpriced popcorn, soda and hot dog.”
Internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock interviewed | KTLA-TV’s “Frank Buckley Interviews”
“Here was a new technology, this thing called packet switching. We weren’t sure if it was going to work in this first implementation. So, we got on the phone.” (Approx. 0:30 mark)
Californians must be mindful of drought conditions | KCRW-FM
“We have a research group here at UCLA, led by Alex Hall, who has been looking at this issue quite intently for the last few years. He has predicted, in his group, that we will have climate whiplash, which is really what we’ve seen for the last few years,” said UCLA’s Mark Gold. (Audio download – approx. 1:30 mark)
4 essential mental health tips for freelance and remote workers | Forbes
Socialization and networking are often prescribed as the best recipe for dealing with the “lonely freelancer” syndrome. “Regularly interacting with other people is utterly important for those working solo,” said Cynthia Telles, Director, UCLA Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence. “However, despite the common line of advice, freelancers should stop seeking company of other freelancers. When the people you see the most experience the same woes and deal with the same anxieties, you can find yourself trapped into a feedback loop of pressure and stress, aggravated by the experience of your peers.”
Do you actually need to wash your feet? | Self
“Bacteria [like] to feed on waste products that come out of your sweat glands, and they produce odor as they build up,” Robert K. Lee, D.P.M., chief of podiatric foot and ankle surgery at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, tells SELF. On a different note, there’s also the fact that vigorously washing your feet helps slough off dead skin cells. “The actual act of scrubbing or brushing (not just rinsing with water) helps to exfoliate your feet,” Dr. Lee says.
31 foods you shouldn’t eat on the low-FODMAP diet | Insider
“The low-FODMAP diet focuses on five different sugar and fiber categories that tend to cause digestive upset for patients with functional gut disorders,” Nancee Jaffe, MS, a registered dietitian at the UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, told Insider.
App warns California residents of imminent earthquakes | CGTN
Nobody saw the 1994 Northridge quake coming. But what if they had? 57 people were killed and thousands injured in magnitude 6.7 quake. Would a few seconds’ warning have made a difference? “A scalpel could be lowered during surgery, a train could be stopped,” John Stewart, an earthquake expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said.
The U.S. opposed a U.N. plan to study geoengineering to combat climate change | Motherboard
The United States’ deferral to the IPCC is “laughable,” said Ted Parson, an environmental law professor at the University of California Los Angeles. Under the Trump administration especially, he pointed out, the country has diminished the IPCC’s climate change recommendations.
The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration | Symmetry
This month, PWFA [plasma wakefield acceleration] turns 40. The concept was developed in an audacious 1979 paper by scientists Toshiki Tajima and John Dawson, both then at the University of California, Los Angeles. Today, several hundred physicists at institutes around the world study PWFA… “The amazing thing about plasma accelerators is that the naysayers have been coming up with why things wouldn’t work at every stage of the program,” says Chan Joshi, a particle physicist at UCLA who helped found the field of PWFA. In the beginning, he says, naysayers doubted plasma accelerator researchers could reach the high gradient they predicted they could reach, a thousand times larger than the conventional cavity. “Well that turned out to be not the case,” he says.
