Are they paying for this?

The ad on the right popped up in an email subscription yours truly was using (Santa Monica Patch). If you click on the ad (which you can't do on our screenshot), it takes you to another page which contains the sentence:

"Now you can take the same test that noted psychiatry professor Gary Small, M.D., uses with his patients for research studies at UCLA. Answer the following questions about how you judge your own memory ability. We'll email you your personal and confidential results."

If you further click around that page, it appears to be connected to another site - newsmax - which runs news clips and ads. Is anyone paying for using UCLA's name? Small's name? Is permission required? Just asking.

In the dark

Power Outage Leaves Thousands of Westwood Residents in the Dark

The Department of Water and Power Does not have an estimated restoration time.

About 23,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers in the Pacific Palisades and Westwood areas were left without electricity this afternoon after a circuit breaker failed, according to the utility. The equipment failed at 1:37 p.m. and a portion of a receiving station that services the affected areas was de-energized about 10 minutes later, according to DWP spokeswoman Ellen Cheng...

Full story at http://patch.com/california/centurycity/power-outage-leaves-thousands-westwood-residents-dark

NOTE: Yours truly noted traffic jams building up to the west of UCLA due to signals not working. Be warned.

300 Mystery Now Resolved

As you can see, the 300 UCLA Medical Plaza mystery is now resolved. As per the Steve Cederbaum hypothesis, it was renamed after Wendy and Leonard Goldberg, the couple who gave $10 million for a program to study migraine headaches. We might note that the 200 building was previously renamed for a donor. But the 100 building is still unnamed (in case you had any spare change).

The Road to Riches (may be bumpy)

We'll just quote without comment:

The University of California has named a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur to lead a new venture capital fund aimed at bringing inventions based on faculty and student research to market.

UC President Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that TIBCO Software founder Vivek Ranadivé would oversee the independent fund that will be launched with $250 million from the office that manages the university's investments.

Ranadivé, a best-selling author and co-owner of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, says he plans to secure additional funding from private investors and to contribute a 5 percent stake himself.
Napolitano says the university's earnings would be funneled back into its retirement and endowment accounts.

But she says the venture fund's main purpose would be to finance the development of promising products in areas such as life sciences, technology, energy and agriculture.

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/news/education/article/Entrepreneur-named-to-lead-university-s-venture-6700265.php

Med Art or Ad?

From time to time, our blog brings you samples of med art, artworks on the walls of the UCLA medical complex. Presumably, the donors received a tax deduction for their in-kind contributions. In this case, we have illustrations from an obscure children's book that can be seen in the 200 building. The illustrations with accompanying labels might be seen as an ad for the book, not just art. So we won't give you name.

The 300 Mystery: Coming to an End?

The mystery of the new name of the 300 UCLA Medical Plaza building may be resolved later today. But as of this morning, it still awaited unveiling. As you can see, a truck was delivering supplies for a tent and reception. We'll keep you informed.

We know you love a mystery:

Into the Valley of Hasty Planning & Inadequate Funding, Rode the 5,000

Mihai Gherghina sacrificed sleep, study time and Thanksgiving holiday fun to make the application deadline for a long-cherished goal: transfer to a UC campus. When he clicked the "submit" button Nov. 29, a day before the deadline, the Orange Coast College student said he felt huge relief. But that emotion turned to fury when UC officials announced three days later that they would extend the deadline to Jan. 4 for those who missed it — but not those who made it, like Gherghina. The 26-year-old student said he has learning disabilities and could have used the extra time to hone his essay and burnish his application with another honors program he subsequently learned he had been admitted to...

The deadline extension, the first in years, has created major buzz — and decidedly mixed reactions — up and down the state. UC officials said they extended the deadline to expand the pool of high-quality transfer applicants needed to help fill the 5,000 additional seats being earmarked for California students next year and 5,000 more over the following two years. The expansion was approved last month by the UC Board of Regents, which has come under political pressure to allot more seats to Californians after years of increasing spaces for out-of-state and international students who pay full tuition...

Full story at http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-transfer-20151214-story.html