The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 69, No. 26 - June 25, 2020
Congratulations to the Dodgers Foundation
and the Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2020 ESPN Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year in recognition of the work of the Dodgers Foundation. The City of Inglewood thanks the Dodgers not just for the work they do here in our community, but for what they do for the entire
community of baseball. Photo courtesy Dodgers Foundation.
Arts Stimulation is Making a Difference for the Chronologically Gifted During Pandemic
“Adding beauty in a world for others to
enjoy means even more for those that are
chronologically gifted, who are on the cusp
of cognitive decline. And, it’s our job to see
if we can make a difference in that way,” as
noted cognitive care educator, Lauren Mahakian,
believes whole-heatedly.
In response to this belief, Mahakian is spearheading
her innovative Live Love Art program,
which launches on July 7, 2020 in Southern
be exacerbated. Live Love Art is meant to
provide personal arts moments to celebrate the
arts and in the process of it all, just may serve
to stave off further health declines. Mahakian
believes, “Why not, in the middle of a crazy and
chaotic world where the chronologically gifted
are not at the top of the list and furthermore
have been earmarked as the most vulnerable
- it’s time for us to offer a platform for them
to celebrate who they are!”
Live Love Art is an 8-week program, meeting
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am – 2
pm and early registration is required due to
limited enrollment. Program Features Include:
Wellness Distancing of 6 feet; Lunch; Certified
Dementia Specialist-led activities; Special Accommodation
such as handicap accessibility;
food request; incontinence, etc. are available.
To register, please call Lauren at (310) 383-1877
or at lauren@familyconnectcare.com. •
California at the Mary & Joseph Retreat Center
in Palos Verdes and is targeted at favorable
arts intervention of cognitive decline and/or
preventing its exacerbation.
This type of arts-driven approach has versions
worldwide and most noted museums,
hubs for the arts, have, for many years,
opened their arts portals for seniors and the
cognitively challenged. One most noted is
at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),
with its “Meet Me at MOMA.” Mahakian’s
Live Love Art involves a similar philosophy
in celebrating people’s gifts and talents, who
otherwise might feel their best days were behind
them. Live Love Art informs participants to
live in the moment of now. Targeted at seniors
and most even, those cognitively challenged, it
has been proven, that people remember better
when they are immersing themselves in the arts.
Live Love Art, a program incorporating
stimuli, an approach created and trademarked
by Mahkian is grounded on the benefits offered
by the arts; a program fully embracing painting,
poetry, literature, music, movement and classic
film and involving participants on all levels with
the intention to foster healing and well-being.
With added stressors we are now coping
with as relates to the historic pandemic and
an ever-changing new world, cognition can
decline and existing cognitive impairment can
Seniors
What’s Art Got To Do With It?: Everything for Chronologically
Gifted with Cognitive Impairment. Drum Therapy: Residents getting moderate cardio-drumming which provides great brain workout!
Citizen Scientist from page 2
cars to identify and sidestep any potentially
mission-moldering hazards.
SPOC was developed at NASA’s nearby
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has already
proven itself to be adept at recognizing and
labeling various types of terrain. This data
is translated into a visual map that mission
team members can refer to when determining
the most prudent path for the rover. The
classification algorithm is already in use but
the system can benefit from further training
and additional datasets. The more data present,
the better equipped SPOC will be in
automatically distinguishing between cohesive
soil, treacherous rocks, smooth and sturdy
bedrock, and perilous sand dunes. Mars is
a veritable obstacle course of pitfalls for our
intrepid and steadfast Curiosity.
Play a part as Citizen Scientists the world
over collaborate together to collectively
create the Solar System’s very first public
benchmark for Martian terrain classification.
Your contribution will be used for neural
network models to better understand Martian
environments that will aid NASA in many
more missions to come. Autonomous space
exploration will be reliant on good datasets
to recognize locations that are safe to traverse
and your succor and eagle-eyes are the first
steps in that very direction of developing
the technology necessary for cutting edge
space exploration.
So spare a few online sessions to the Curiosity
Rover this summer. This little lump of cogs and
gears and high-gain antennas is depending on
your keen space sleuthing and vigilant fingerclickery
to maneuver around the unknown
horizons of Mars. Today, getting its wheels
unstuck from uncooperative crags. Tomorrow,
doing donuts on some distant Martian bluff. •