Author: uclafaculty

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Click me not!

Byuclafaculty

At least their grammar is better than on Wednesday, although not perfect.  Their spelling still needs work.  See our Wednesday post on what not to click on.  Anyway, the spam artists are still targeting UCLA. Don’t respond!========= Dear Bruin OnLine (UCLA) Member Our Client Service System has detected an unusual malware activities on your email account causing poor services. Rencently your email was confirmed accessible from other ISP as a result of our remote host failure in recongnising valid and invalid accounts. Please click on the following link [phony link shown] to reconfirm the validity of your email account still in use for us to return all…

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Millionaires

Byuclafaculty

The Sacramento Bee today has a table of UC millionaires (gross earnings in 2011).  You won’t be surprised that the list, with one exception, consists of athletic coaches and medical center faculty. The one exception is the UC Treasurer. The listing is at http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/08/the-university-of-california-spent.html But you don’t want to be on the list, right?[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6UllZwj9c?feature=player_detailpage]

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Hot Potato for Yudof

Byuclafaculty

UC report on anti-Semitism draws ire Nanette Asimov, August 9, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle(excerpts) Katherine Orr had just started her freshman year at UC Berkeley last August when she was stunned to see five students in military fatigues carrying what looked like rifles and stopping students at Sather Gate. “They were asking people, ‘Are you Jewish?’ They were trying to be like soldiers interrogating Palestinians along the border,” Orr said. “They were re-enacting what was happening on the West Bank.” To students who regard Israel as an essential Jewish homeland, this event and others like it that are staged each…

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It ain’t the King’s English and since it ain’t, don’t respond.

Byuclafaculty

The latest UCLA spam artists may use British spelling but their grammar and punctuation ain’t so good: This Email is from Ucla.edu admin We are under going maintenance by our engineers we will be shutting down account that is not verified to enable us create more space for our new account users you are to verify your account by filling the outlined Information below or your account will be terminated within 24 hours. ….Username: ….Password: ….City/State: ….Date Of Birth: We value your business and thank you for using Ucla.edu Service and we hope to serve you more better. Ucla.edu Admin…

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It used to be tough to be a tenant but now it may be tough for UCLA to be a landlord

Byuclafaculty

From the Daily Bruin: On April 26, Chick-fil-A – an Atlanta-based company at the center of a controversy because of its president’s recent expression of his views on same-sex marriage – signed a lease to move into the space where Burger King is currently located, said Steve Ritea, a UCLA spokesman. The restaurant is projected to open at 900 Westwood Blvd. next March. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the previous owners of the Westwood Plaza building where Burger King is currently housed, signed the lease with Chick-fil-A. In June, UCLA completed the purchase of the 10-story office building for $72 million and inherited the lease,…

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Talk to the Legislature

Byuclafaculty

If UCOP wants to keep its Regents-enacted pension system modifications from being overridden by some statewide legislative action, it will have to talk with the legislative leaders – very, very soon it appears – and not just the governor.  From the San Jose Mercury-News: Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Monday that legislative Democrats will deliver on “comprehensive” pension reform over the next four weeks, even if their labor allies don’t like it. “Will it cause some discomfort and unhappiness? Yes. Do you sometimes disagree with your allies and friends to do what you think is the right thing?…

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UCLA Cleans Up in the Olympics

Byuclafaculty

No, not with athletes.  But in case you missed it, here is an excerpt from a story in UCLA Today: Highly regarded lab ensures that Olympic athletes are ‘clean’ Anthony Butch is not an athlete or coach, but he and his team had to undergo their own kind of Olympic time trials before the Games opened in London.  Just a few weeks ago, Butch and his staff at UCLA’s Olympic Analytical Laboratory were working furiously to process hundreds of urine samples from members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. The testing had to be done quickly, since a positive result…

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Not clear this will go with the typical UCLA student budget

Byuclafaculty

From the Westwood-Century City Patch: Westwood’s Avco Center movie theater, which has been advertising a “new and exciting movie going experience” since it closed in December, will become a luxury six-screen movie theater with a full service restaurant and bar by early 2013. …iPic Theaters, based in Florida, announced a signed lease on Avco Center (10840 Wilshire Boulevard). …From their plush reclining seats, guests can summon “ninja-like servers” who deliver cocktails and meals during the movie. The theater will also have a full-service Italian restaurant called Tanzy, led by chef Andre Lane; cured meats, breads and mozzarellas at Parma Bar;…

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What’s Next?

Byuclafaculty

Headline from the Press-Enterprise:UCR takes on $5 million search for afterlife I think we’ll just leave it with the headline but the article is at: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20120803-ucr-takes-on-5-million-search-for-the-afterlife.ece And in case there is an afterlife, at least in Riverside, consider where you may be heading: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zyTUav_aU?feature=player_detailpage]

More Empowering

Byuclafaculty

We’ve been following UCLA Extension’s venture with Steve Poizner, the fellow who ran against Meg Whitman (and lost) in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary.  Up to now, there has been YouTube video PR for the program.  See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/07/empowered-to-people-poizner-ucla.html.  As that post noted, we are talking about a rather expensive program, although you get a “free” iPad if you enroll. Apparently, the empowered.com [http://www.empowered.com/] joint venture is now going to TV advertising, according to Poizner’s emailing service (although the sample TV ad is also on YouTube): [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGan8561x4w?feature=player_detailpage] Some long time followers of this blog will remember our Extension posts from…