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Do you still love L.A.? The high cost of housing is testing our affections, UCLA poll shows | Los Angeles Times
The high cost of living — for housing, in particular — continues to be a drag on their satisfaction, according to a recent UCLA quality of life survey conducted in Los Angeles County. “The overall rating is one point above the midpoint, which suggests an overall mediocre rating,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, who oversaw the survey as director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. “No way to get around that.” … “Clearly, we have seen an increase in concern about climate change this year,” said Yaroslavsky, a former member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. “This undoubtedly has to do with the disastrous California fires we experienced.”
Another stock market record, but it’s a different kind of boom | Wall Street Journal
David Shulman, senior economist at UCLA Anderson Forecast, came up with the notion of the not-too-hot, not-too-cold Goldilocks economy when he was at Salomon Brothers in 1992. “The market’s behaving like we’re in a Goldilocks world, and I think that’s justified the increase in [valuations] for stocks this year,” he says.
The No. 2 Metro bus connects the fantasies and realities of Los Angeles | Los Angeles Times Column
(Written by Frank Shyong) As a freshman at UCLA, back when rides only cost $1.25, I rode this line all the way to Chinatown whenever I craved dim sum; to Echo Park Lake, near where I had elote and huitlacoche in a blue corn quesadilla; down Broadway Avenue past what was then the L.A. Times building, and dreamed of working there someday. The bus helped me let go of the fantasy of sunshine and palm trees that I and so many other transplants arrive with. The windows put the beauty and inequality of the city on a single roll of film, walls of greenery hiding palatial homes giving way to pastel pink, yellow and gray stucco marked with graffiti. At night, the view became a Technicolor neon smear. What I most appreciated about the bus, and what I think a lot of us love about the idea of public transit, is the people. Because a city is its people, and in L.A., people are from everywhere and go through everything. Poverty, mental illness, struggle, exhaustion and kaleidoscopic diversity — the bus makes you look all of that in the face.
If you need a break during the ‘Avengers’ movie, plan ahead | New York Times
Jonathan Kuntz, a film historian who teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, remembered seeing “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962 and going to his car during intermission, thinking the movie was over (it ran a whopping three hours, 48 minutes).
UCLA researchers share key to staying sharp as you age | KABC-TV
UCLA scientists are looking for superagers to take part in a unique study. “What’s the name of this place?” asked Dr. Gary Small, the director of the Longevity Center at UCLA. “The Semel Institute,” replied 81-year-old Sandra Jacoby Klein of Santa Monica. Klein is very aware of her surroundings. Longevity experts have classified her as a superager. “Superagers are individuals who live to their 80s, 90s and beyond and have their cognitive health and their physical health,” Small said…. “What we’re looking at are genetic factors,” Small said. “But we also know that non-genetic factors are probably even more important.”
‘Artist in residence’: How one phrase is powering L.A.’s cultural explosion | Los Angeles Times
Israeli-born choreographer Danielle Agami has participated in multiple residencies, including one at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA that assisted her with the creation of “Calling Glenn” for her L.A. contemporary company Ate9. She noted that being an artist in the United States has so much to do with creating “a product.” “I love that somebody sees it,” she said. “But I also feel like the product could change if you had better terms, if you had more time.” That includes time to refine a piece even after it premieres, she said.
Lionsgate TV head talks ‘what’s really important in life’ at Taste for a Cure | Hollywood Reporter
Lionsgate Television Group president Sandra Stern offered a bit of advice as she accepted the 2019 Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award at the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center’s 24th annual Taste For a Cure fundraiser: “If you ever need a wakeup call about what’s really important in life, please visit the Jonsson Center,” she told the assembled crowd…. She found herself “blown away” by the dedication of the caregivers she’s encountered — “the value that they place on every individual life” — and recently became an active supporter of the Jonsson Center. “UCLA is down the street. It’s my alma mater. I teach there at the law school — it’s a place that’s close to me.”
NRA battles internal strife, external pressures as its president steps down | Washington Post
“The Trump era should be a sign of great celebration for the NRA . . . and internally it seems like they’re imploding,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School. “And it comes at a time when the gun control movement is stronger than it has been.”
California’s increasing STD rate presents public health crisis | San Jose Mercury News Opinion
(Commentary written by UCLA’s Jeffrey Klausner) Sexually transmitted disease rates in California are at a 25-year high. That is a public health crisis. The state leads the nation in new cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia, and Los Angeles leads the state in both. California has the highest number of babies born with syphilis each year. You read that right: babies born with syphilis, a majority of whom will either die before their first birthday or be left with severe, life-long disabilities.
Los Angeles County uses technology to locate missing seniors | KNBC-LA
While some technology that tracks people can raise red flags about privacy, experts said in this case the upside outweighs any concerns. The program “seems like a very good potential use of location-tracking technology,” said John Villasenor, a professor of engineering and public policy at University of California, Los Angeles.
Are digital memories ruining our real ones? | New York Times
Do you agree with Dr. Daniel Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, that videos can “rob our moments of their ephemeral power”?
Nutopia collaborates with UCLA accelerator program | Variety
Nutopia, an entertainment blockchain-powered financing platform, has opened for project submissions, with the support of the UCLA Venture Accelerator. Nutopia is expected to launch this May. June Chu, Nutopia co-founder and CEO, created the company with the help of UCLA’s accelerator program. Nutopia has grown into a multimillion-dollar international venture.
Challenges for AI visual recognition | Australian Broadcast Corp.
“Well, these systems have gotten quite a bit better at recognizing objects, and in certain standardized tests they classify images in terms of a thousand object categories about as well as humans do,” said UCLA’s Philip Kellman. “But we set out to figure out how they’re doing it and whether they make good models for the human visual system.”