No Avengers for you! Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Monster Hunter X Final Fantasy Online, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and more took the spotlight in Square Enix's conference.
While many E3 conferences so far have mixed up the formula with on-stage antics (EA Play) and a rapid-fire of in-jokes (Bethesda), Square Enix played it safe with a more traditional round of trailers, reveals and more Keith David than any of us deserve. Square Enix also broke the mold this year by... uh... not really showing much of anything.
First up was Shadow of the Tomb Raider with a much deeper look at the game's improved stealth and combat mechanics. Lara goes full Dutch in her third outing since the series' outstanding top-to-bottom renovation, using the environment to better conceal herself and become the ultimate predator. Is it too late to pull the Predator out of retirement for one more DLC cameo?
Next up was some love for the Square Enix's immensely popular Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood with two reveals: Under the Moonlight Patch 4.3 and what's that? The pitter-patter of tiny cat paws? Yep, looks like our best Palicoes are bringing the hunt to Final Fantasy XIV with a Monster Hunter crossover event.
Next up, we've got various illustrations of superheroes and monsters... one looks a lot like Iron Man... could it be? The Avengers game we've been waiting for? Yep, it's a trailer for the free Life is Strange prequel The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Admittedly, this looks adorable and the team at Dontnod have a near-flawless track record with the series.
Some shadowy figures, the iconic stylings of Akira Toriyama. Of course, it wouldn't be a Square Enix show without some kind of Dragon Quest presence. The news here is that Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age has a release date and a new trailer; coming 4 September to North America and Europe.
Dragon Quest is followed by a series of flashing title cards with mountains of dates, lore and concept art for a game we know nothing about (interesting?). The game is called Babylon's Fall. It looks like it could be a lore-heavy boss-fight extravaganza courtesy of Platinum Games.
Another teaser trailer for 2B's XB ENHANCED ADVENTURE on Microsoft's side of the tracks, Nier Automata: BECOME AS GODS.
Eight brave souls, eight classes, eight paths to take. Ohh, Octopath. I get it now. Excuse me while I take a match to my search history.
I'm actually incredibly keen for Octopath Traveler on Nintendo Switch. It has a refreshingly accessible story for a JRPG and its combat has a steady pace that I can get used to. There's a demo up on the Nintendo eshop if you haven't checked it out already.
Next trailer is the whirlwind of madness that is Just Cause 4. Rico's return takes him to a vast fictional South American country with extreme weather effects like whirlwinds, lightning, sandstorms and blizzards; and new vehicles like jetskis and microjets. The iconic grapple is now customisable with loads of add-on options to really push the limits of what a grappling hook can do. This game is going to be a streamer's Wonderland.
Has anyone else noticed that Rico is slowly morphing into Nathan Drake?
Another mysterious trailer with little information, except this time it kicks off in live action. The Quiet Man seems to be about a hearing-impaired punk beating down on gang members and leaving them a packed lunch before going on his way? That's all I've got.
It's Sora, Goofy, Donald and Elsa. The whole gang has returned from yesterday's trailer at the Xbox conference with no additional footage and almost no diegetic sound effects whatsoever. Bold move.
There you have it, some great news for Final Fantasy XV online fans but otherwise not a lot of what we haven't seen already. No, there were not any Avengers present at this conference. Hopefully, Square Enix is saving that reveal for Sony's show later today.


Bernard Tomic has been handed a heavy defeat at the ATP Barcelona Open on Wednesday, going down in 48 minutes to Juan Monaco of Argentina.
The No.7 seed brushed aside the Aussie 6-0 6-2 to reach the third round of the ATP 500 event, where he will next face 10th seed Jeremy Chardy.
Monaco went a perfect five-from-five on break points, and saved the only break point he faced in the match.
Tomic's service troubles were also evident in his second serve winning percentage, with the 20-year-old able to claim just 29 per cent of points behind his second delivery.
The Aussie No.1 will next head to Munich for the ATP 250 BMW Open to continue his French Open build up.


In July 2016 (5 and 17) I collected data on planetary nebula NGC 7027 with the help of the Burke-Gaffney Observatory. I returned to this target to retrieve more data, this time with the SBIG camera. I also wanted ionised oxygen information.
For all images. FITS Liberator, GIMP. North is up; east is left.
Luminance only, 15 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots.
Hydrogen-alpha filter only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots.
Oxygen-III filter only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots.
This thing is small but bright!


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Slack (WORK) Stock Jumped Over 7% as Price Target Raised to $37 from $32 at Stephens
Slack Technologies Inc (NYSE: WORK), a software company that designs and develops communication platform meant to provide real-time messaging. File sharing and also archiving, is getting popular during the COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing. Since the year began, its shares have been on the rise, whereby it has risen 55.92% YTD, 29.72% in the last three months, 32% in the last month and 10.53% in the past week. Meanwhile, yesterday Slack (WORK) stock jumped by 7.68% to $35.05. And after hours it gained 1.17% more to reach $35.46.
The company is expected to release the first-quarter earnings report on June 4. The report is going to be a decisive indicator of how the shares will move in the next few weeks and probably quarters.
Slack (WORK) stock might rally if the reports align with top expectations, however, a correction might be imminent if the report does not agree with most expectations. This is because a significant number of investors follow what top Wall Street analysts give.
In the past 52 weeks, WORK shares have been ranging between $15.10 at lowest and at $42.00 at its highest. At the time of reporting, Slack Tech shares had a market capitalization of $18.28 billion with around 425.48 million outstanding shares.
Analysts Expectations on Slack Technologies and Its Stock
"This work messaging service is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.07 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +73.1%," wrote Zack Consensus Estimate. "Revenues are expected to be $186.54 million, up 38.4% from the year-ago quarter," it added.
The Zacks Earnings ESP do compares the most accurate estimate in relation to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the given period. A positive Earnings ESP is a strong indicator of a possible earnings beat, essentially when it comes in hand with a Zacks Rank #1, strong buy.
On the other hand, Stephens analyst Ryan MacWilliams raised the Slack stock price target from $32 to $37. According to McWilliams, Slack's value proposition has been further accentuated in the current remote working environment. However, he is concerned by the level into which investors are expecting too much as the coronavirus holds the market hostage.
According to its metrics on its official webpage, Slack has recorded over 12 million daily active users, over 119 paid customers, 65 of the Fortune 100 use its services whereby it's in over 150 countries.
The company runs an $80 million fund called The Slack Fund to support developers and also small companies which are building apps for the company.
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The Dunvegan has a long history dating back to the 1850s. From research and a little insider knowledge, it would appear that the 25th Clan Chief, Norman MacLeod commissioned the Dunvegan Inn around 1858, from plans worked on by esteemed Inverness architect Alexander Ross. The property was originally recorded as the 'Factors House'.
This World Gathering of the Clan MacLeod – the Clan Parliament, normally happens every four years and was due to happen in 2022. Due to the public health crisis the event has been postponed to 2023, starting July 22nd and finishing July 28th.
The Parliament usually has a full itinerary of events, classes and day trips – with plenty of time to socialise with fellow clansfolk. Further information on the Clan Macleod Parliament can be found on the website https://clanmacleod.org/our-events/parliaments/ More details on events are expected to be published in due course.
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Another great book! The Pirate Captain has bought a boat from Cutlass Liz and payment is due! The captain comes up with hair-brained, and hilarious, schemes to gain the funds and save his crew. The characters are wonderfully odd, Defoe has a great sense of humor. This is a must read for anyone!!


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In the past, the Board of Supervisors appointed an advisory Boundary Redistricting Committee (BRC) to study proposed changes to the boundaries. The Board of Supervisors could make revisions before adopting the final redistricted boundaries.
Today, the CRC is independent of the Board of Supervisors. In 2016, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 958 requiring Los Angeles County to assemble such an independent commission following the Federal Decennial Census.
Bylaws and Values
Commission Staff & Resource Support
Agendas are posted in accordance with Brown Act. Because of COVID-19 and for the health and safety of the community, CRC meetings will be held virtually until further notice. The CRC may revise the schedule as needed with suitable public notice provided.
Post-2021 Meetings
2021 Meetings and Hearings to Select Final Map
2020 Meetings to Select Commissioners
External Communications and Presentations
2021 Public Hearings
Translated Materials and Outreach Kit
Redistricting in the News
Public Outreach Plan
Redistricting Maps & Resources
Los Angeles County has 5 supervisorial districts, serving the County's 88 cities and more than 100 unincorporated areas. Los Angeles City, given its size, is divided into community areas that are served by different Board of Supervisors.
2011 SD MapPDF
Unincorporated AreasPDF
CitiesPDF
County Statistical Areas (CSAs)PDF
LA City CommunitiesPDF
LA City Neighborhood Councils
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View Hub of Public's Submitted Maps and Plans
Final Map & Map Submissions
2011 Redistricting
On December 15, 2021, the County of Los Angles Citizens Redistricting Commission passed resolutions to adopt a final redistricting plan and report. Click here to view the final redistricting plan and all other submitted maps in the Redistricting Hub. Click here to download the final redistricting plan, including shapefiles.
Past Meetings and Supporting Materials
Past Public Hearings and Resources
Final and Submitted Maps
Redistricting Mapping Software
What is Redistricting?
Every ten years, supervisorial districts must be redrawn so that each district is substantially equal in population. This process, called redistricting, is important in ensuring that each Board of Supervisors member represents about the same number of constituents. In the County of Los Angeles, the CRC is responsible for drawing these supervisorial districts. Redistricting is done using U.S. Census data, which is usually released around March 31, 2021, but was not released until August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the County of Los Angeles, the redistricting process must be completed by December 15, 2021.
Why is Redistricting important?
Redistricting determines which neighborhoods and communities are grouped together into a supervisorial district for purposes of electing a Board of Supervisor member. Our independent redistricting commission, made up of members of the public, are responsible for redrawing the next district map for our supervisorial districts. You have an opportunity to share how you think district boundaries should be drawn to best represent your community.
What criteria will be used when drawing district lines?
District lines will be adopted using the following criteria in order of priority:
Each district shall be reasonably equal in total resident population to the other districts, except where deviation is required to comply with the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 or allowable by law.
Districts shall comply with the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Districts shall be geographically contiguous.
The geographic integrity of city, local neighborhood, or community of interest shall be respected in a manner that minimizes its division.
To the extent practicable, and where it does not conflict with numbers 1-4 above, districts shall be drawn to encourage geographic compactness.
Besides the above criteria, districts shall not be drawn for purposes of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.
How Can the Public Participate in Redistricting?
The CRC wants active public participation for input and dissemination of redistricting information.
Sign up for Meeting Information
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CRC meetings are open to the public and posted along with other County Commission meetings and on this CRC website. CRC meeting schedules, agenda, minutes, and recordings of meetings will be posted and made available.
CRC Meeting Information
Overall, 12 public hearings were held between June and September 2021 before the release of the U.S. Census Bureau data. These were followed by 4 additional public hearings in Fall 2021 to review proposed CRC Redistricting map options.
CRC Public Hearings Information
When will the process begin and end?
The CRC must finalize the Redistricting Plan no later than December 15, 2021.
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Public Outreach Continued
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CRC Proposed Redistricting Plan Options
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Final Redistricting Plan
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Commissioner Hailes Horacio Soto
Commissioner Hailes Soto developed an interest in voter rights and redistricting while in college. He completed his education at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies and Planning, and California State University, Long Beach, with a Master's degree in Public Administration (MPA). Consequently, he understands and can apply applicable State and Federal legal requirements that deal with redistricting and voting.
Throughout his career with the City of Bell Gardens, he has developed a reputation as a quick learner and a dedicated worker who can handle a variety of tasks effectively. As a city planner, he prepared fact-based reports for the decision-making bodies (i.e., Planning Commission and City Council). In that role, he understands the importance of being a steward of the public trust. His work at Bell Gardens has provided him with the foundational understanding of State and Federal laws and processes to minimize the potential of legal challenges.
Having been born and raised in Los Angeles, he also knows the diverse demographics, its cosmopolitan urban areas, and geography of the County of Los Angeles. He is committed to ensuring that all geographical areas in Los Angeles County are properly represented. He believes the diverse demographics must be addressed during the Los Angeles County Citizens Redistricting Commission's deliberations.
Moreover, Commissioner Hailes Soto understands that this Commission has a great potential to be a national model. He views his role as a commissioner as a unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in voting rights – something that he embraces and celebrates.
As an avid international traveler, he has learned to appreciate how special Los Angeles is. He is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Public Outreach Toolbox
Below you can view and download (1) a fact sheet about the Citizens Redistricting Commission and redistricting, (2) a detailed presentation about redistricting, and (3) a flyer about upcoming summer public hearings. Please check back as we will continue to update this section with translated materials for the 12 threshold languages. To request corrections or documents to be translated to specific languages, please email the Clerk at tle@crc.lacounty.gov.
Redistricting Fact Sheet
Redistricting Presentation
Public Hearings Flyer
Redistricting Fact Sheet (English) Redistricting Presentation (English) Public Hearings Flyer (English)
Hoja de datos de redelimitación de distritos (Spanish) Presentación de redelimitación de distritos (Spanish) Aviso de audiencia pública (Spanish)
行政区再編ファクトシート (Japanese) 行政区再編プレゼンテーション (Japanese) 公開会議の通知 (Japanese)
گزارش‌برگ تغییر ناحیه‌بندی (Farsi) ارائه در ناحیه‌بندی (Farsi) اطلاعیه جلسه عمومی (Farsi)
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ក្រដាសការណ៍ពិត ការបែងចែកមណ្ឌល (Khmer) បទបង្ហាញ ការបែងចែកមណ្ឌល (Khmer) សេចក្តីជូនដំណឹងស្តីពីសវនាការសាធារណ (Khmer)
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선거구 획정 사실 보고서 (Korean) 선거구 획정 사실 프리젠 테이션 (Korean) 공청회 공지 (Korean)
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Tờ Thông Tin về Tái Lập Quận (Vietnamese) Bài Thuyết Trình Tái Lập Quận (Vietnamese) Thông Báo điều Trần Công Khai (Vietnamese)
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Suggestions on How to Define Community of Interest
The Commission needs to know four key things from you about your community:
The economic and social interests that bind your community together.
Why your community should be kept together for fair and effective representation.
Where your community is located.
What nearby areas do they want to or not want to be grouped with?
While there are no clear rules on how to define a community of interest, we've identified ways for you to describe your community.
Begin with your county or city.
Mention the street names and significant locations in your neighborhood to help us identify the parameters of your community.
What are your shared interests?
What brings you together?
What is important to your community?
Are there nearby areas you want to be in a district with?
Nearby areas you don't want to be in a district with? Why or why not?
Has your community come together to advocate for important services, better schools, roads, or health centers in your neighborhood?
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Commissioner Mary Kenney
Commissioner Mary Kenney is a retired lawyer, most recently practicing in Pasadena, CA, as Deputy General Counsel for East West Bank, one of the largest independent banks headquartered in California. East West Bank was founded to serve the immigrant Chinese- American community. East West is the leading bank serving the Asian community in the United States. Commissioner Kenney also practiced in Pasadena as Associate General Counsel for Fannie Mae, a mortgage industry wholesale lender, supporting the development of affordable housing initiatives, including initiatives that addressed inequities in delivery of financial services based on race. Earlier in her career, Commissioner Kenney worked in downtown Los Angeles for more than 25 years. More recently, she volunteered at Patriotic Hall in downtown Los Angeles for the Los Angeles County Bar Association Veterans Project, assisting veterans who are unemployed and at risk of homelessness, by assisting in clearing outstanding traffic tickets (frequently resulting in the veteran's loss of his or her driver's license) and expunging criminal records.
Commissioner Kenney is a graduate of Smith College, majoring in Latin American Studies; she received her J.D. degree from the University of Southern California. She worked and studied Mexican law with the University of Houston in Mexico City, Mexico. She currently (pre- pandemic) visits Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, five times per year as part of a support outreach to six charities serving the homeless individuals, educating special needs children and kindergarteners, and providing shelter to unwed teenage mothers and daycare services. Her grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century from Lithuania and never learned to speak English. Her grandfather was a coal miner in Pennsylvania and a member of the United Mine Workers. She currently resides in the 4th Supervisorial District, along with her husband and her son and his family (including 4 children). She has long-standing ties with all areas of the county, having attended elementary school through 8th grade in the east end of the 1st District, and having resided in the north end of the 2nd District, the south side of the 3rd District, and the south side of the 5th District. She is committed to a careful, intentional, fair-minded, and impartial approach to establishing supervisorial district boundaries in an equitable manner.
Thai V. Le, Clerk and Mapping & Technical Support
Thai V. Le is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC) where he researches and advocates on issues of social equity, racial justice, and intersectionality. He is also a consultant with KH Consulting Group of Los Angeles.
As a mixed-methods researcher, Thai uses a series of spatial, quantitative, and qualitative tools to incorporate data-driven analyses in examining policy topics including immigration, economic mobility, public finance, and the digital divide. Currently, Thai is working on his dissertation which looks at the inequitable barriers to citizenship and integration that immigrants face. He focuses on how race/ethnicity, class, gender, and immigration status facilitate cumulative disadvantages and inequitable outcomes. He is interested in identifying these intersectional experiences to shape policies that will close such disparities.
Thai's experiences in research and advocacy also include collaborative reports and policy recommendations with research groups, such as the Equity Research Institute (formerly the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity) and the Connected Communities and Inclusive Growth team—ranging in topics from economic recovery and housing to broadband access. Thai's collaborative work with organizations and research centers focus on addressing local inequities to uplift marginalized communities' voices.
Education: He holds a master's degree in Public Policy from USC and a bachelor's degree in International Development Studies and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Commissioner David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D.
Commissioner David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D., is a public health professional, civic leader, and electoral reform advocate who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles to join the inaugural class of the (now-David J. Epstein) Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law.
Before law school, David attended college at Princeton University and public health school at the University of Michigan. While working in the Bay Area, he earned a UC Berkeley Extension certificate in alcohol and drug abuse studies.
David's career includes service as a state scientist in air pollution health risk assessment, work as an environmental consultant specializing in air quality, and a term on the independent Hearing Board at the South Coast Air Quality Management District. He has also worked as an attorney for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (now Consumer Watchdog) and on litigation related to public parkland and the environment. For summer employment during law school, he worked in Boston for the National Environmental Law Center and in Los Angeles for the Center for Law in the Public Interest.
As a volunteer, David has donated time to the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles; has given presentations on behalf of the Climate Reality Project; and has served as a condo association president, public safety chair of a Los Angeles neighborhood council, a board member of Californians for Electoral Reform, and a board member and president (2009-2013) of the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. He is the founder and executive director of Los Angeles Voters for Instant Runoff Elections.
David lives in Burbank with his sweetheart, who teaches kindergarten in the Los Angeles Unified School District. They share interests in live music and food around Los Angeles. In appreciation of the environment, David enjoys bicycling and hiking, and drives an all-electric car.
Commissioner Daniel M. Mayeda (Co-Chair)
Commissioner Daniel M. Mayeda is the Associate Director of the Documentary Film Legal Clinic at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. In this role, he trains and supervises law students in the provision of pro bono legal services to independent documentary filmmakers. Prior to this appointment, Dan practiced law for nearly 35 years, most recently as a shareholder in the Los Angeles law firm of Leopold, Petrich and Smith (now Ballard Spahr), where he specialized in litigation involving the media and entertainment industries.
Dan has been a longtime advocate for accurate and sensitive depictions of Asian Americans in the media. He is the longest serving member of the Board of Directors of East West Players, the country's premiere Asian Pacific American theatre organization which was recently recognized as one of "America's Cultural Treasures." Since 2000, Dan has helped lead a national, multi-ethnic coalition of civil rights and media activism groups to advocate for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in Hollywood and in the media.
Dan has written and spoken extensively on media, intellectual property, and Asian American community issues. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and has taught media courses at California State University, Los Angeles, and California State University, Northridge.
Dan grew up in the South Bay (Gardena/Torrance), lived in Westwood and West Los Angeles while attending UCLA, and also lived and worked for a few years in the Washington, D.C. area. He now resides in Culver City and has been actively involved in local neighborhood and city matters for more than 30 years.
Commissioner Carolyn Rose Williams (Co-Chair)
Commissioner Carolyn Williams partners with nonprofit leaders and organizations to create meaningful change. She is a professional, certified life and executive coach and volunteers as a restorative justice mediator working with youth, impacted persons, and families to achieve mutually agreeable outcomes. With more than 35 years in consulting and corporate America, her experience covers organizational development, training and development, and corporate philanthropy.
Her professional background includes evaluation research, large-scale systems change, creating and managing large philanthropic initiatives, employee program development, and community leadership. She has evaluated cultural change programs; trained managers and leaders; managed multimillion-dollar philanthropic budgets, employee programs, and community initiatives; and led or worked with small to large (over $1-billion) nonprofit organizations and institutions.
Recently selected as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles County Redistricting Commission, she currently serves on a number of local boards. These include the Dymally Institute at California State University, Dominguez Hills (founding board chair); Center for Nonprofit Management; Towne Street Theater; Lynwood Education Partners Foundation; Executive Support Network; and Women in Leadership Vital Voices (executive committee). Other past involvement includes founding board member/Emeritus University of Southern California (USC) Price School of Public Policy, Downtown Women's Center (former board chair), United Way Community Investment Committee, USC Black Alumni, Council on Foundations Corporate Committee, and the Conference Board Education Committee.
Carolyn has been recognized over the years for her community work, receiving awards from All Peoples Community Center, the Downtown Women's Center, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, National College Resources Foundation, Southeast Communities Intervention & Prevention Programs, NAACP, Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation, and the Greater African American Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Carolyn holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana Tech University, a Master of Public Administration from USC, and professional certificates from Boston College, USC, the Center for Nonprofit Management, and the Association for Talent Development. She has done other graduate-level study at California State University, Los Angeles (psychology); Cal Poly Pomona (business management); and USC where she completed all Ph.D. coursework in applied behavioral science. She is also a fellow/graduate of California Connections, Leadership California, Leadership Southern California, and the Management Action Program. She enjoys theater, traveling, reading, and has one son, Joshua, who is a chef/actor/singer.
Carlos de Alba, Director of Media Strategy
His extensive background in multicultural marketing, brand messaging, media planning, media buying, and negotiating yields a solid platform for managing social and cultural challenges and opportunities. He is always staying abreast of new trends in the market and seeking ways to apply these to any clients. Currently he leads all media strategies for First 5 LA and Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
First 5 LA
Carlos has work side by side with First 5 LA to ensure its advertising budgets are maximized while meeting all marketing and advertising goals. He has implemented media strategies for various departments within the organization. Some of those departments include Best Start and Welcome Baby.
Baby Safe Surrender
Carlos played an important and vital role by implementing media strategies, especially in buying and strong negotiations to create awareness among the Hispanic and African American markets. With limited budgets, he managed to extend the message within the Los Angeles County and his strong negotiation skills resulted in a 37% plus added value for the campaign.
LA Department of Health Services, Office of Women's Health
Women often put their family and other responsibilities first and their health last. His work helped to bring light to this issue, urging women to receive preventive care, offering them an easy source of useful information by calling a hotline. Carlos managed the general market, Hispanic market, and African American market media efforts with focused on driving brand awareness and brand positioning within Los Angeles County.
Carlos developed all media strategies for L.A. Care's brand, Medicare Program, and Family Resource Centers for all ethnic groups within Los Angeles County. His knowledge and relations with all media platforms in Los Angeles County is vital when negotiating.
Additional Experience:
Los Angeles Zoo, Molina Healthcare, Bienvenidos , Verizon Wireless, Sit N' Sleep, Los Angeles Dodgers, Wescom Credit Union, Manufacturers Bank and many others.
B.A., Communication Science, ITESO (Guadalajara, Mexico)
AD-U – Advertising University (Various Advertising LA Agencies)
UCLA – Media Buying
Professional Expertise
Media Strategies
Media Negotiation
Media Placing
Media Pre & Post Analysis
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
AD-U – Advertising University
American Advertising Agency Association
Holly O. Whatley, Esq., Independent Legal Counsel
Holly Whatley is a Shareholder of the firm Colantuono, Highsmith and Whatley, PC, and specializes in providing legal services to local public agencies throughout the State. Her practice includes both advisory and litigation matters, focusing on election law, municipal finance issues, public utility rates, matters involving Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFCOs), land use, California Public Records Act, the Brown Act, conflict of interest laws, CEQA and public works. In 2013, the last year they made such an award, the Daily Journal recognized her as one of the top 20 municipal lawyers in California. Holly currently serves as the Commission Counsel for the San Diego County Local Agency Formation Commission. She previously served as City Attorney for La Habra Heights and Assistant City Attorney of Calabasas, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena.
Holly has a particular expertise in litigating complex cases in a broad range of areas, including class actions against public agencies. She has represented cities in municipal finance litigation, including writ actions involving multi-million-dollar claims. Engagements include a constitutional challenge to A.B. 1484, the post-redevelopment legislation, a $10-million per year dispute between Los Angeles County and 47 of its cities regarding property tax administration fees, a multi-million-dollar dispute between a telecommunications carrier and more than 30 cities regarding telecommunications user taxes, and a $24-million per year dispute between Chevron and the City of Richmond regarding business license taxes.
Holly also leads her firm's Elections Law practice and has litigated many elections disputes, including initiative proposals, ballot argument disputes and the like, including recent writ matters involving a voter-approved measures. She provides advice to local agencies on elections practices and compliance with Elections Code requirements and has advised cities transitioning from at large elections to district-based elections.
Education: Holly graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. She received her J.D from the University of Texas School of Law in 1992 and joined the California Bar that same year. While in law school, Holly taught legal research and writing to first-year students.
Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough, Ph.D., Executive Director
Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough, Ph.D., is President of KH Consulting Group (KH). She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy/International Public Policy & Management (IPPAM).
She founded KH in 1986. KH specializes in strategic planning, organizational design and restructuring, organizational development and corporate culture, human resources, and process improvements. She has extensive expertise in public policy, strategic planning, organization change, management audits and performance reviews, program and service delivery, accountability metrics, community needs assessments, and stakeholder buy-in.
She has consulted throughout the United States and in Asia, Europe, and Australia. KH has served more than 200 clients in 25 states and 9 foreign countries. Much of KH's work involves local, state, and federal governmental agencies; higher education and K-12 educational systems; non-profit organizations; transportation systems; utilities; and health care providers.
Gayla has personally served hundreds of clients, including the County of Los Angeles Civil Grand Jury (19 projects), County of Los Angeles (15 departments), City of Los Angeles (12 departments), Los Angeles World Airports (LAX), Telstra Enterprise & Government (Australia), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Port Authority of New York-New Jersey, County of Orange (California), City of Beverly Hills (CA), City of Pico Rivera (CA), San Francisco Community College District, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Los Angeles Community College District, University of Southern California, City and County of Denver, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), County of Los Angeles Civil Grand Jury, and 30% of the community colleges in California.
Prior to KH, she was with:
Willis Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin), Managing Consultant, in Washington, D.C.; Sydney, Australia; and Los Angeles, CA
Academy for Educational Development (AED), Management Division, Senior Program Officer for a not-for-profit research firm in Washington, D.C.
University of Virginia, Center for Youth and Family Studies, Assistant Director for a psycho-educational, clinic approved by American Psychology Association, and Instructor
Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, Learning Disabilities Resource Teacher and Learning Disabilities Supervisor of a training institute
Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA, Assistant Teacher
VISTA volunteer in eastern Tennessee, where she focused on community organizing after college
KH has been ranked among the top 18 business consulting firms in Los Angeles, 2019, 2020. She has been named one of the top 50 women at 50+ in Los Angeles by BTW; Ten Women of Achievement, Century City (California) Chamber of Commerce; and Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement honoree in Marquis Who's Who. She has been involved in the Organization of Women Executives (former President/Board member); Women's Leadership Council (member); and National Association of Women Business Owners Los Angeles (NAWBO-LA) (former Board member). For Northwestern University, she is on the Council of One Hundred (member) and served on the School of Communication's National Advisory Council (member for 12 years). She has published more than 20 articles and chapters in books on public sector, research, and management issues.
Education: She holds multiple degrees: B.S., Northwestern University, School of Communications; Masters, Tufts University; Ph.D. and Masters, University of Virginia; and an Administrative Fellow/post-doctorate, The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship), Princeton, NJ.
Commissioner Doreena Wong, Esq.
Commissioner Doreena Wong, Esq., currently works at Asian Resources, Inc, (ARI) as its Policy Director, in its Los Angeles office. ARI is a non-profit, community-based organization with its headquarters located in Sacramento. Established in 1980, ARI is dedicated to providing multiple social services for the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities and to addressing the needs of other low-income communities of color, immigrants and limited-English proficient populations. Her work focuses on advocacy to increase access to health care and transform the current health care system to be more equitable and responsive to the communities ARI serves.
Before coming to ARI, Doreena was the Director of the Health Access Project at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles, where she worked to: 1) promote access to affordable, culturally and linguistically competent and quality health care for vulnerable populations and 2) help ensure the effective implementation of health care reform across the country and state through outreach, education, enrollment, and advocacy. She has more than 30 years of experience as a civil rights attorney, with expertise in the areas of health care, language access and voting rights while working at a range of public interest legal organizations, including: 1) the National Health Law Program; 2) a Los Angeles civil rights firm specializing in enforcement of consent decrees in race discrimination cases; 3) Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, CA; 4) the ACLU of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; and 5) the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C.
Doreena is also a well-known social justice advocate who has helped to found several Asian-American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights group, including API Equality-LA and the Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Network. She graduated from New York University School of Law in 1987 as a second career after having worked as a health care professional for nine years.
Commissioner John Vento
Teaching political science for more than 20 years, Commissioner John Vento encountered varied opinions about the voting process from his students. Comments regarding disenfranchisement, such as "my vote does not count," emerged as a recurring theme in classroom conversations before and after elections semester after semester. When the opportunity to serve on the Citizens Redistricting Commission arose, John recognized it as a way to integrate his passion and expertise regarding the election process and election outcomes with the voices of his students in pursuit of public service. His goal is to positively impact the Los Angeles County citizens and ensure future students that their vote does indeed count.
John is a second generation Angeleno, having been born in La Cañada and spending many years in Santa Monica, Westwood, and Long Beach, before settling down in Palmdale. John earned degrees in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Fullerton, and is currently a full-time, tenured professor of Political Science at Antelope Valley College (AVC). John teaches courses in American Government, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. At AVC, he serves on the Honors Committee and the Law Scholars Program. He also oversaw the Model United Nations Program from 2004 to 2012, which underscores the fundamental necessity of international diplomacy.
John and his wife, Sarah, have three children, and have been volunteers for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Alumni Association for many years, and as Co-Chairs of the UCLA Community College Scholarship Program in the early 2000s. He is an active blood donor, having given more than 10 gallons to the Red Cross and UCLA hospital. He is also a CORO Alum, and participated in the Neighborhood Leadership Program.
In the community, John coached youth soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. He was an American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) referee, ran five LA Marathons, and is involved in his son's Scout Troop. As his friends and neighbors will attest, he has extensive experience selling Girl Scout cookies (Samoas are his favorite), popcorn, wreaths, and countless other products that support local schools, sports teams, and troops. Additionally, he brings intimate knowledge about the roads and highways of Los Angeles – he has spent the last decade driving his children to various extra-curricular activities in and around Los Angeles County. He is an avid sports fan and, as a young boy, often dreamt of playing football for both the UCLA Bruins and the Los Angeles Rams. For now, however, John Vento is content to cheer his children's sports teams on from the sidelines.
Commissioner Brian Stecher, Ph.D.
Commissioner Brian Stecher has been a policy researcher, educational program director, and teacher. In 2019, Brian retired from the RAND Corporation, where worked for 30 years as a Senior Social Scientist studying national and state education policy. His research examined the implementation and impact of federal and state laws related to education, particularly accountability systems. For example, he led a national study of the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; he directed a study of the effects of California's Class Size Reduction Act on students and teachers. Prior to working at RAND, Brian worked for seven years as a Professional Associate in the Eagle Rock and Pasadena offices of the Educational Testing Service, developing tests and helping families and schools understand the appropriate use of test results. Previously, he served as Director of Project SEED, a mathematics education program for inner-city elementary school students in Richmond, CA, and Columbus, OH.
He began his career teaching mathematics to elementary students in the Compton, Willowbrook, and Enterprise school districts. He has served on numerous national and State of California Advisory Boards, including the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Academy of Science. He has authored more than 100 research papers, journal articles, and technical reports. In 2012, he received a lifetime achievement award from the California Educational Research Association. Brian earned a Ph.D. in Education from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Oregon, and bachelor's degree from Pomona College.
On the personal side, Brian has deep roots in Los Angeles that give him an appreciation for the geographic and demographic diversity of the County. His maternal grandmother came to California from Lithuania, and she moved to Los Angeles more than 100 years ago. His mother was born in Los Angeles, as was Brian, and he has called Los Angeles County home for most of his life. He has lived or worked in communities and neighborhoods throughout the County, including the Fairfax District, Reseda, Claremont, Hermosa Beach, Compton, Sherman Oaks, Eagle Rock and Santa Monica. Brian has been active as a volunteer in his community. He co-chaired the School Site Council at his children's elementary and middle schools and served as a member of the school district's Technology Advisory Committee. He was a volunteer referee for 16 years with the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO), where he learned to apply the Laws of the Game in a fair and unbiased manner regardless of the color of a team's uniform or the region they represented.
Brian believes whole-heartedly that Los Angeles County's diversity is its strength. He brings to his role as Commissioner not only a love of the County, outstanding analytic skills, and a commitment to fairness and objectivity, but also a belief that the legislative boundaries set by the Commission must be sensitive to the cultural and community identities of voters.
Commissioner Saira Soto
Commissioner Saira G. Soto is the deputy executive director for the Children's Defense Fund-California (CDF-CA). In addition to assisting in the guidance of the organization, Saira leads the development, implementation, and expansion of CDF-CA programs for children and youth.
Saira has a background in environmental science, labor, and social justice advocacy. She began her career studying clean water access and its impact on the health of migrant farm worker communities. She was compelled to join the labor movement after witnessing the harsh working conditions and constant workers' rights violations suffered by this community. Before joining CDF-CA, she was the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Service Employees International Union, Local 721, where she fought alongside public service providers and advocates for the preservation of public assistance programs.
In her current role as deputy executive director, Saira is committed to raising strong, literate, empowered children who are not merely citizens in waiting.
Saira was awarded the prestigious CDF Beat the Odds® scholarship in 1998, and later earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Systems-Environmental Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. She is a native of Durango, Mexico, and was raised in East Los Angeles with her parents and six siblings. Saira is inspired by her family and her community's tenacity to innovate even in the most challenging of circumstances. She resides in East Los Angeles with her wife and their beloved dogs.
Commissioner Priscilla Orpinela-Segura
Commissioner Priscilla Orpinela-Segura is a communications professional with ten years of expertise in stakeholder engagement, crisis management, and public policy.
Currently employed with AARP California, Priscilla serves as an Associate State Director – Communications, a role that provides her the opportunity to serve as a communications lead for the Hispanic/Latino population. Prior to joining AARP, Priscilla was the Communications & Public Affairs Manager for the City of Norwalk, where she led an innovative year-long Census campaign. She was also the former spokeswoman for the City of El Monte and Central Basin Municipal Water District.
An advocate for higher education, Priscilla has also served as a part-time educator at California State University, Los Angeles, where she also obtained her Master of Arts in Communication Studies. Priscilla obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from the University of La Verne.
Daughter of Mexican-immigrant parents, Priscilla was raised in northeast Los Angeles, where she currently resides with her husband and puppy, Mickey.
Commissioner Nelson Obregon
Commissioner Nelson Obregon was born in New York City. His parents were Cuban immigrants. Growing up, his family moved between New York City and Miami, Florida, several times before settling in Los Angeles in 1967. Nelson has lived in northeast Los Angeles ever since. He attended Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools, followed by East Los Angeles College and California State University, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Social Science.
His working career essentially has two parts: His first career was with Pacific Telephone/AT&T where he worked for 18 years. Although he felt fortunate, he was not satisfied with his career because he always held aspirations to pursue teaching. In response, he switched careers and began his second career as a teacher of Social Science for LAUSD for 15 years.
He considers himself a native Angeleno and was always amazed by the complexities of its legislative lines and how they were created. He considers his selection as a Commissioner as an honor.
Commissioner Apolonio "Polo" Morales
Commissioner Apolonio "Polo" Morales grew up in El Monte and resides in District 4 in Whittier with his partner and two sons. He was raised by undocumented immigrant parents and experienced the hardship that families face within a broken immigration system firsthand. His understanding and belief in providing inclusive spaces that create belonging were shaped by this upbringing. These core beliefs have led him to work toward social justice and equity for all communities.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with an English degree with an emphasis on Modernism and earned an Education minor. After teaching English in East Oakland and at Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, he coordinated Harvey Mudd College Upward Bound's La Jolla Summer program where he helped first-generation, college-bound students from the San Gabriel Valley experience and learn to succeed at college life.
As a former labor organizer for the California Nurses Association/United Steelworkers' Healthcare Workers Alliance, he learned to organize healthcare workers and advocate for their rights at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. His passion for community organizing led him to work with the faith community through L.A. Voice where he served as Director of Communications and Development on housing and immigrant issues. Apolonio moved to the Bay Area to work for Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO) as a community organizer during the foreclosure crisis, then as Director for Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA), and lastly as the National Immigration Lead Organizer for the PICO National Network's (now Faith in Action) Campaign for Citizenship. His work within the PICO National Network provided an opportunity to work with diverse faith beliefs, including the Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Jewish, Lutheran, Methodist, Muslim, and Unitarian community.
Currently, he is proud to serve the immigrant community as the Director of External Affairs at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights where he continues to fight the good fight to pave the way for future immigration legislation by building, maintaining, and expanding diverse coalition work through the coordination of the California Table for Immigration Reform and the Los Angeles Action Table.
At a local level, as a steering committee member, he works to promote civic participation through the Whittier Latino Coalition (WLC), a grassroots community organization which led and won redistricting in Whittier, CA, to help promote adequate representation within the City Council. The WLC organizes training for community members on how to run for office as well as connecting the Latino community together with their local, county, state, and federal elected officials and their respective departments.
In his spare time, he writes short stories and has been published in the online publications KCET Departures and Tropics of Meta. Most recently, he was published in East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, a collection of 31 essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from 18th-century Spanish colonization to 21st-century globalization published by Rutgers University Press. He also contributed as a writer to The 'Mexican' OC, a play about the history of Mexican American activism in Orange County, which was turned into a radio play on KPFK Pacifica Radio and performed both at El Centro Cultural de Mexico in Santa Ana and Chapman University.
Commissioner Mark T. Mendoza
Commissioner Mark T. Mendoza's career spans more than 30 years, consisting of employment in both the public and private sector. He possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Urban Economics from the University of Southern California and a master's degree in Real Estate Development (MRED) from the School of Urban Planning and Development from the University of Southern California. He presently serves as a Program/Project Manager for a Southern California based right-of-way consulting firm, with program-level responsibility for multi-billion-dollar public works projects in transportation, water conveyance and storage, and vehicular congestion and pollution relief.
Mark began his career as a Project Manager for the Los Angeles County Transportation Authority (LA Metro). He was principally responsible for the Mid-Wilshire Red Line tunnel project station site acquisitions; the Green Line light rail station site acquisitions including the South Bay aerospace community and solely negotiated with TRW, Northrop, Rockwell, etc.; and the Blue Line light rail property acquisitions in the South Gate, Willowbrook, Compton, and Long Beach areas. He later worked for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) in the capacity of Manager of its 31-person real estate department.
Mark has multiple decades of experience interpreting and applying various promulgating federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including the California Code of Regulations. He is well-versed with Caltrans requirements, directives, dictates, procedures, and protocols for on-system projects as well as the Caltrans Local Assistance Procedures Manual. He is highly familiar with the established policies of many other agencies he has served, such as Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles County Sanitation District, Los Angeles County Flood Control, and Los Angeles County Public Works.
Mark served on the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) Relocation Assistance Appeals Panel, which deliberates over contentious, unresolved matters between the Agency and entities displaced by its project. He has authored the comprehensive written policy to address the relocation assistance appeals process for displaced residents and businesses used today by the Alameda Corridor-East Construction Authority (ACE). Additionally, Mark served on MWD's internal appeals panel, which held hearings and deliberated on matters associated with the Diamond Valley Reservoir project which included acquisition of nearly 15,000 acres of property and displacement of hundreds of businesses and residents.
A lifelong resident of the County of Los Angeles, Mark grew up in Montebello, CA, and currently resides in La Verne, CA, where he enjoys the diversity of the Los Angeles County landscape when exercising outdoors, riding his motorcycle, or walking his rescue dog, Heathcliff.
Commissioner Jean Franklin
Commissioner Jean Franklin is one of the original founding members and Executive Director of United Job Creation Council (UJCC), a non-profit organization formed in 2006 to advocate for jobs and construction job training programs for disenfranchised low-income residents residing in south Los Angeles communities.
Jean was successful in directing the City of Los Angeles to implement the organizations Local Hire Job Creation Initiative. The organization led south Los Angeles community in a united campaign to implement new construction local hire ordinances and public policies to establish employment opportunities for residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles. Under her leadership, the organization coalition network grew from 10 churches to more than 100 combined churches and community-based organizations.
She formed the Los Angeles Alliance of Ministers and Pastors (LAAMP) in a community effort to encourage the faith-based community to advocate for local hire. The coalition successfully collected 5,000 signatures on petitions, urging the City to adopt local hiring practices. Under her leadership, the faith-based alliance garnered the support of workforce organizations, including Los Angeles and Orange County Building Trades to partner with UJCC in its Local Hire Job Creation Initiative to effect new ordinances and public policies to establish construction employment opportunities for chronically unemployed and disenfranchised community neighborhoods. The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) adopted the language from UJCC Local Hire Initiative in February 2008, resulting in an MOU for its collaborating practitioners and service providers. The Los Angeles City Council adopted the CRA Construction Career Ladders Policy, which (UJCC) initiated.
In January 2014, UJCC and Jean received recognition from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Los Angeles City Council for their outstanding work in mentoring justice-involved youth (ages 12-24) returning from juvenile camps and prisons. She represented United Job Creation and the faith-based collaborative as a guest at an Obama White House Reception honoring the grand opening of the Smithsonian African American
Exhibit and represented Los Angeles faith-based and community-based organizations at the Obama White House first African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference hosted by President Barak Obama.
In 2016, Jean became Director of Anchor of Hope International Ministries, Inc., and implemented the Criminal Justice Courage Campaign Initiative that consists of a collective union of faith leaders interested in Criminal Justice Reform, consisting of pastors, faith leaders, and citizens and representing more than 100,000 congregates committed to making California communities safer through advocacy, policy, and successful prison and reentry ministries and long-term success of the formerly incarcerated and families. The organizations mission is to encourage local churches and houses of worship to develop and implement effective evidenced- based prison and reentry ministry to serve both the spiritual and practical needs of citizens returning from incarceration and their families. Anchor of Hope Ministry's interest is to reduce recidivism; improve employment attainment and retention; and increase and improve collaborative partners' ability to serve justice- involved individuals by reducing the barriers to employment of the formerly incarcerated and at-risk youth through vital mental health, pre-employment, housing, and legal resource assistance.
Jean has been a member of the City of Refuge-LA church since 1985 and is a Minister and Auxiliary Leader at the City of Refuge-LA Church, under the leadership of pastor, Bishop Noel Jones.
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criticism ▶ Exhibitions
Henry Moore at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Markus Lüpertz at Michael Werner, Daisy Youngblood at McKee
"Henry Moore: Master Drawings from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation" at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, through May 14, 2004 (17 E 76 Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, 212 772 1950)
"Markus Lüpertz: About the Three Graces" at Michael Werner, through May 29 (4 E 77 Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, 212 988 1623
"Daisy Youngblood" at McKee through May 29 (745 Fifth Avenue between 57 and 58 Street, 212 688 5951)
Henry Moore, Studies for Sculpture in Various Materials 1939 pencil, crayon, watercoulor, pen and ink on off-white light-weight wove, 10 X 17 inches
Despite the vagaries of his artworld reputation, Henry Moore endures in popular affection as one of the most accessible and satisfying of major twentieth century artists. These contradictory perceptions are in fact linked: His popularity raises suspicion on the part of cognoscenti who often dismiss him as a period piece, a kind of "entry level" modernist who presents an essentially humanist vision through a fusion of avantgarde styles.
Such views misconstrue his achievement, however, as a modern romantic. Synthesis is fundamental to a vision which finds holistic commonality between the primitive, the prehistoric, the organic, and the geological.
Moore is the subject of a stunning exhibition of several dozen important drawings all of which have been loaned by the foundation he established during his lifetime. It is presented at the New York premises of the old established London old master dealers, Hazlitt, the first public exhibition at this space, and commemorates the completion of a catalogue raisonne of Moore's drawings. Such an exhibition really belongs in a museum.
While Moore's sculptures became ubiquituous in postwar recontructed cities, it was actually through graphic work that he established his breadth of appeal. A controversial innovator in carving in the interwar period, with the outbreak of World War Two he took to drawing, and to modeling maquettes, as his principal means of expression. He was commissioned by his friend Kenneth Clark as a government appointed, "Official War Artist," chosing the Blitz as his subject, depicting shelterers in London's subway system, the "Tube". These were exhibited at the National Gallery, where Clark was director, on walls bereft of masterpieces packed off to shelters of their own, in the Welsh mountains. In terms of popular repute, the Shelter Drawings turned a wildman maverick into a hero of the people overnight. Without resorting to sentiment, he managed to invest his subject with tenderness and empathy, revealing a situation that was at once historically specific and primordial.
Henry Moore, Study for 'Tube Shelter Perspective: The Liverpool Street Extension' 1940-41 pencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink on off-white light-weight wove, 9-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches
The current show opens with drawings from life of standing or seated women, and improvised receling figures. Despite his affinity with abstraction and his deconstructive liberties with anatomy, a crucial aspect of Moore's vision remained rooted in observation throughout his career: He would periodically break off from sculpture to draw, in sustained periods, from a model. Although the vast majority of his works depict women, his vision was essentially unerotic. He was drawn towards monumental, stocky heavy-limbed figures, always presented as self-absorbed, placid and grounded. Even in "Reclining Figure," (1929) where the body is broken open to reveal inner fissures, through a use of brazenly colored collage elements that radically flatten the picture plane, a sense of wholeness and composure prevails.
What makes many of these drawings so extraordinary is the sense of a sculptor using graphic mediums experimentally to advance his highly particular understanding of form. Moore would center a reclining figure on the page, as in the charcoal and wash "Reclining Figure," (1933), and then fill the margins with countless approximations of the same figure from different angles, exploring two fundamental aspects of his sculpturality simultaneously: a sense of form in the round, and of a dynamic relationship between interior and exterior. The drawings reveal a fluid evolution within the artist's mind that would be carry across, in sculptural form, to an equivalent volumetric sinuousness.
In "Studies for Sculpture in Various Materials," (1939), a profusion of sculptural ideas, in contrasting scales, fill the page to form a pulsating tapestry of ideas. Other drawings would explore further this issue of scale, which was so important to him, placing sculptural ideas in vast panoramic vistas, or socially accomodating groups within imaginary walled compartments. The polished, presentation drawings are as fascinating for what they reveal about scale as the more sketchy, automatic ones are about fluidity.
Moore discovered by accident the expressive potential of the repulsion of watercolor by wax crayon, a device he would use to particularly dramatic effect in his Shelter Drawings, as in another war commission, his drawings of coal miners at work (the artist's father had been a miner). He could convey with almost spooky effect a sense of humanity alive within the bowels of the earth. The crayon would pick out contour lines, rather like jigsaw pieces, describing volume by linear means.
The pictorial naturalism that comes across in Moore's late drawings can be problematic even for the hardened admirer: an addition of realistic hands and a sweet face to the otherwise business-as-usual biomorph in "Recling Woman in a Setting," (1974) seems to trivialize his own language. But there are stunning surprises, even in the late drawings. "Man Drawing Rock Formation" (1982) which has charcoal, chalk and other mediums over lithographic frottage, recalls the rubbed charcoals of Seurat (one of which Moore owned). This drawing is almost a manifesto for romanticism: Rock encrustations inspire patterns of growth and form in the mind of an artist who is literally absorbed in the act of observation.
Markus Lüpertz Three Graces 2000 bronze, hand painted from edition of six, 26-1/2 x 19 x 7-3/4 inches Courtesy Michael Werner, New York and Cologne
Markus Lüpertz has often seemed too good for the historical company he keeps. He is identified as part of the neo-expressionist wave that came to the fore in German art of the 1980s. He shares with his peers in that movement a willingness to collide the sensual and the cerebral; he parts with many of them, however, in the heights he attains in both directions.
His new exhibition at Michael Werner, just a block from the Moore drawings, presents sculpture and hand colored etchings on classical themes. His classicism bears a strong German accent, mediated by a Nietschean sense of the dionysian. There is often a tension in Mr. Lüpertz's work between full-blown expression and an element of irony and historical aloofness, especially where he deals with mythic subjects tinged by association with the Third Reich.
The show is dominated by four hieratic heads, strikingly and disconcertingly displayed at ground level, that are named (mixing Greek and Roman) for the protagonists of the Judgement of Paris: Venus, Hera, Athene, and the hapless Trojan prince himself (all 2002). At once other and familiar, as befits the gods, they pit rough against smooth, earthy color against neutral grayness, legibility against inchoateness, volume against plane.
The "Three Graces," (2000) are again handcolored bronze; just over two feet high, the group relates to a monumental aluminum work on the same subject placed publicly in Berlin recently. Their stockiness might put you in mind of Moore's early drawings, if you've come from there, but their undulations, at once gracious and jocular, reference beauty, if obliquely. A far cry from the prim, smooth curves of Canova, these graces recall those of Cranach or Rubens, and the bathers of Cézanne.
Daisy Youngblood, Horse Crucifixion 1975 low-fire clay and wood, 11-1/2 x 12 x 2 inches Courtesy McKee Gallery
Henry Moore and Markus Lüpertz each in his own way references the timeless and the tragic in sculpture. Daisy Youngblood achieves a quieter, but equally lingering melancholy in her extraordinary work.
McKee is showing more than a quarter century of her poignant images in clay and bronze of animals, mothers and infants, and holy men. McKee presented a overview of similar scope in 1999. In the intervening period, Ms. Youngblood received a MacArthur genius award and has relocated from New Mexico to Costa Rica.
The portraits of named spiritual teachers sitting in meditation, or preaching, are blessed with grace and charm, but the more startling works are her wistful animals, especially those in low-fired clay and found wood. It is rare to find a modern scultural animalier who strikes such a balance as Ms. Youngblood does between symbolic potency and observational credibility. She achieves the former without resorting to overt primitivism or direct reference to archaic precedents, and the latter without the fuss of naturalism.
Even where her symbolism might, from the telling of it, sound contrived, as in "Horse Crucifixion," (1975) with its Bambi-like mournful victim suspended from a twig, or "Horse on a Rock," (1980), with its cleft forehead revealing a hollow interior, sentimentality is spared by a pervading sense of cosmic resignation. The tender economy of her animals share with those of the prehistoric cave painters a sense of unrushed urgency.
A version of this article first appeared in the New York Sun, May 6, 2004
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Joseph Beuys at Gagosian Gallery and Georg Baselitz at Michael Werner
Poet, Printer, Prankster: Marcel Broodthaers in Retrospect
An Exhilarating Tension Between Depiction and Means: Eugène Leroy's Watercolors
William Tucker: Recent Sculpture
Poet, Printer, Prankster: Marcel Broodthaers in RetrospectAn Extreme Painter: Eugène Leroy at Michael WernerThe Yorkshire Connection: Books on British SculptureAbstract Expressionism Is Alive and Well in DenmarkA.R. Penck: New System Paintings at Michael WernerJanuary 2009: Ken Johnson, Elizabeth Schambelan, and Joan Waltemath with moderator David CohenJames Lee ByarsLucy Williams: The Day the Earth Stood StillYves KleinWilliam Tucker: Recent Sculpture
A Part of the Main: Davina Semo at Marlborough Contemporary Sun and Earth: Melanie Schiff at Kate Werble Wood, Light and Steel from Ash: Xu Bing's Phoenixes Paul Cézanne: Site/Non-Site
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Dual Visions: Len Bellinger and Denise Sfraga in Bushwick If These Walls Could Talk: Ryan Oskin and Kate Stone at Transmitter Pareidolia: Jeremy Stenger at Kristen Lorello Uncomfortable Questions: Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks


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Zatoka Staszka (ang. Staszek Cove) – zatoka na Wyspie Króla Jerzego, część Zatoki Admiralicji między Przylądkiem Agat na północy a Demay Point na południu.

Do zatoki schodzi Lodowiec Baranowskiego. W południowej części zatoki leży Przylądek Blok, a w jego pobliżu ujście Potoku Fosa. Nazwę nadała polska ekspedycja naukowa na cześć prof. Stanisława Baranowskiego.

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34-year old Anton talks in the office of his work, at NGO Alliance Ukraine, where he deals with national programs to prevent the spread of HIV.
Tall, charming and open, he appears as any other charity bureaucrat, with a steady commitment to human rights.
But from 16 years of age, his youth was blighted by addiction and, later, by the discovery of an incurable virus.
"I did drugs for fun. I was a DJ in clubs, playing a mix of progressive house, NRG and progressive trance. The club industry was ripe in Kiev in the mid-1990s. It was a good job for any student. After the night ended, I would go to the manager and get cash. This income was enough to provide me with drugs - amphetamines and ecstasy mostly. A lot of dealers were in the clubs.
"Following the weekend, I could not fall asleep. So I started taking heroin. Not for fun, but to go to sleep. First I snorted and then injected between the muscles. Soon I realized I liked it. My body needed it and after half a year of using, I started injecting in the veins.
"I would buy heroin from Nigerian students in the University. They brought in large quantities. On the campus, I just walked over to a connecting building to buy the stuff from the African guy. I didn't need to go on the street.
"I made one last effort to quit. I left to a village 60 km from my home in Kiev. To my grandparents. I thought there would be no heroin there. No friends of mine would encourage me to use it. This is a good exit strategy, I thought. But it was a big mistake.
"Here I met my other friends with whom I used to play football with as children. They made their own opioids - shirka extracted from poppy heads.
"They break the heads, clean the seeds away, cut it into strips, dry the skin, grind and powder it into a dust, and mix this with baking soda, acetone and vinegar. In one and half hours, you have a brown liquid - a village heroin - you can inject.
"In the counytrside the poppies grew in the gardens. Sometimes we bought them, other times at night we went into fields and picked as many as we wanted. I ran from heroin in the city to the village, where there was the source. So began my new period of drug usage with another product.
"I developed abcesses. Problems with my health. Heroin does not waste the veins as quickly as shirka.
"In villages there is no access to clean syringes. There was one pharmacy ten km from place where I was staying. So it was normal practice to use and re-use syringes.
"In Kyiv, I bought shirka already pre-loaded in syringes or in big quantities from dealers. I was injecting up to five times per day.
"One good way of transporting the drug is inside condoms. A dealer can pour the liquid in through a funnel and then knot it up. You can hide a condom. If the police try to frisk your body, they won't find it. Then a user can pierce the condom directly with a needle. Today, shirka is still sold in condoms.
"Yes, I had relationships with some girls. But that was not my first need. It was an opportunity to get benefits, not because of feelings for girls.
"In 2003, I found out I was HIV positive. My first reaction was just OK, I will live how many years before I die? My life now had a deadline - in three, four, five years. I decided to have enough fun as possible before I died. So I continued my drug using even more. It gave me a comfortable excuse. It was a silly reaction. But many users have it. They take a lot for three or four years, until they go.
"But in 2004, I found information about opioid substitution programs - a drug to replace shirka.
For ten years Anton has been taking buprenorphine tablets to replace shirka.
Marriage, pills, therapy and a senior office job has helped him stay clean for a decade.
Dressed in an ironed shirt and jersey, with a perfect haircut, he has become the white-collar mid-level professional expected of his background.
The only trace of his past on Anton are his contorted fingers, bent inward to the palm.
He says this resulted from injecting his veins in the top of his arm, near the armpit.
He mimics moving his fingers across a keyboard in the air.
"But I can just about type," he says.


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Fatlip Returns Out of "Torpor" on Long-Awaited Sophomore Effort (Album Review)
Posted by: Legends Will Never Die September 21, 2022
Fatlip is a 53 year old MC from Los Angeles, California who came up in the late 80s as a member of The Pharcyde. He eventually branched out with a solo debut of his own The Loneliest Punk the day after Halloween in 2005 & now coming fresh off his recent collab album with Blu this past spring called Live From the End of the World, he's enlisting Sccit & Siavash the Grouch to produce a majority of his long-awaited sophomore album right here.
After the titular intro, M.O 99 & & RBX tag along for the first song "Wake Up" to jump on top of a funky beat talking about how partying so much to the point where they couldn't get out of bed whereas "February" takes a more acoustic route getting on a more conscious tip lyrically. Sccit comes into the picture for the trap-laced "Energy" talking about being built to last & after the "Message #1" skit, "Dust in the Wind" dives into more jazzier territory thanks to Chris "The Glove" Taylor with Krayzie Bone joining Lip spitting some life shit.
"My Bad" by The Pharcyde goes into cloudier turf confessing that frustration got them going blind & after the "Message #2" skit, Sccit & Krazyie return for "The Way" to explain how it's supposed to be over an upbeat instrumental. "DC" brings back the synthesizers talking about still being free & after the final "Message" skit, The Pharcyde returns for the wavy penultimate track "30 Minutes Late" confessing being a half hour late for rehearsal. "Fulla Flava" though is a rich closer talking about never being a fake mobster.
Now I know The Pharcyde has been celebrating the 30 year anniversary of their iconic debut Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde throughout 2022 & hopefully the trio puts out a new album through Rhymesayers Entertainment in the near future but if you enjoyed The Loneliest Punk like I did, then you're gonna want to check out Torpor. Lip sounds recharged on the mic after his 17-year break from the spotlight & the production throughout is impressively slick.
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