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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is planning a summer move for Barcelona attacker Alexis Sanchez, according to reports from the Sunday People.
Despite having enjoyed a first-team renaissance at the Nou Camp this season, there is talk that the Chile international will be allowed to leave this summer.
Juventus have been heavily linked with a £20m offer for the impish forward, and now it appears that Arsenal are also keen.
Arsene Wenger is thought to see Sanchez as an ideal addition to his attacking line after being impressed with his displays across the last few months.
The 25-year-old would also slot neatly into their playing system after spending the last few years at Barca, where he has perfected his skill set after emerging as a talented, yet raw, wide attacker at Udinese.
Juve are favourites to land the South American, who spent much of his early career in Italy.
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Home » Acorn Stairlifts Wins Export Award
This is not the first time that the company has won this award. Acorn had been recognized in the Insider Growth 100 Awards in the year 2012 for being one of the fastest growing companies in the UK. To make it onto the Growth 100 list is certainly a significant accomplishment as companies must show continuous increase in turnover for 5 years starting from a base point of 1 million pounds.
During the last 4 years, the company's revenue more than doubled from £31million to £71million and more than 56% of the company's revenue comes from abroad. Its premium quality products include Acorn 120 straight stair lift, Acorn 180 Curved stair lift and Acorn Superglide outdoor stair lift.
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Most ideas and concepts have currency in a particular context and time. The use, or passing from use, of any such terms generally means that a specific big change has become routine, part of the background, and the new reality.
Convergence, for example, was a big idea in the 1990s. One almost never hears the term used, in the 2010s. Some 20 years ago, the big idea was that an era of application-specific networks was ending. All networks were "converging" on multi-purpose platforms that could deliver any media type.
The term also was used to describe the rise of multi-function devices able to display many media types, or to describe the the ability of applications to interact with each other.
At this point, we simply assume that is the case. On a more-granular level, it is hard to remember that "smartphone" and "Wi-Fi hotspots" once were "hyped" terms in the past.
At this point, all the "convergence" items are simply part of the existing fabric of networks, devices and apps. What was less well widely understood 20 years ago was the fundamental change in business models, however.
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In the "non-converged" world, all networks were application specific, and that also meant that the network owner created, packaged and sold the apps the network supported.
That now is broken. While any network owner can create some managed apps and services (carrier voice, carrier messaging, linear TV and Internet access provide examples), most apps now are created and delivered independent of the access network.
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Does the e-coli outbreak have any implications for Riverford customers?
We are watching the situation but we're confident there's nothing for Riverford customers to worry about:
- cases have been confined to one part of Germany, the UK cases being people who have travelled there
- we know exactly where all our produce comes from and how it is grown. As a precautionary measure we carry out regular testing for presence of bacteria, to make sure the agricultural safeguards we have in place are working effectively. Recent tests on produce grown at home and by our Spanish growers has shown no presence of e-coli bacteria.
- We have our own transport system so none of our produce gets mixed up with other people's
- We have been growing organic vegetables for 25 years, using tried and tested farming methods. More detail (possibly more than many of you want to read!) below about our farming methods.
That said, we do always advise customers to wash produce that is not going to be cooked. It does after all come from a farm not a factory. A good salad spinner is an excellent investment here.
Where do Riverford's beansprouts come from and how are they grown?
On Sunday the E.coli outbreak had been linked to beansprouts on a German farm. While it is now unlikely they are the source, we'd like to offer some information on our own supply.
Brett Kellett who grows our beansprouts grows in very small batches which are constantly turned and flushed with water.
Beansprouts are the only crop that Brett grows and the whole process takes place indoors. It is more of a hygienic factory type environment than that of a farm. The young sprouts obtain all the energy they need for growth from the seed, naturally reserved there by its mother plant. Hence, no fertiliser or manure is needed or used.
Brett sterilises all of his seed, before germination. To ensure his hygiene standards are effective, he tests every batch of his product for the presence of bacteria, guaranteeing they are perfectly safe and healthy to eat. There are reports that two of the staff at the German farm had previously suffered E. coli and it is possible that these staff infected the crop. Brett has only a couple of employees, who are fully aware of UK legislation that food handlers must inform their manager and not report to work if they have food poisoning symptoms (not that any of them ever have had).
Where do Riverford's cucumbers come from?
The UK cucumber season has just started and all our cucumbers are homegrown for the coming months. For some of the year we sell Spanish cucumbers grown by Paco Sanchez, a grower we know well and trust. Our cucumbers have been recently tested and are completely clear of E-coli.
What about salad crops more generally?
Most of our summer salad crops are home grown, on our own farm or our local grower group farms. Because we use no heated greenhouses (it is far more environmentally sound to use the Spanish sun) at some times of year crops come from Spain. We work closely with a small group of committed organic growers, visiting them frequently.
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We have complete faith in the organic growing methods we use. We are applying traditional farming methods, tried and tested over time. Most of our veg is grown on farms like Riverford, a mixed arable and livestock farm. Livestock plays an important part in maintaining fertility, and enabling a good rotation of crops, with vegetable growing alternating with clover leys grazed by stock. We are not aware of any organic vegetable growers (other than at garden or allotment scale) who do not use some element of animal input for fertility. Non-organic vegetables commercially grown use large quantities of nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides – which bring their own risks and costs to the environment.
What is Riverford's policy on the use of manures?
Manures are required in organic systems to ensure that nutrients are maintained within the soil. In a natural ecosystem, such as woodland, plants grow, leaves senesce, fall and decompose. Deer and birds feed and deposit their droppings and all of the nutrients are cycled and maintained within the ecosystem. Farming by its very nature disrupts this as we are deliberately removing nutrients from the ecosystem in the shape of lettuces, carrots and potatoes to feed ourselves. As farmers it is our job to put these nutrients back into the system.
As organic farmers we aim to do this as close as possible to mother nature's cyclic plan. The ethos of organic farming to keep the nutrients maintained and cyclic within the farm. Like all organic farmers, Riverford, composts the vegetables it cannot sell for use as fertiliser as well as using farm yard animal manures to maintain health soils, crops and ultimately people.
This is in stark contrast to conventional farmers, who typically use artificially produced nitrates to fertilise their soil. The production of these fertilisers requires huge amounts of energy and is ultimately unsustainable. Hence, the price of artificial fertilisers is closely linked to the price of oil and as they become more and more expensive, more and more conventional farmers are starting to spread manure as a means of fertilisation.
So what's the difference between an organic farmer using manure and conventional (non organic) use?
To put it simply a non-organic farmer can apply manure (including human sludge) completely unregulated. Organic farming has strict standards on manure use. Nearly all manure has to be composted for 6 months and has to reach a temperature of 55oC for three consecutive days in order to achieve sterilisation of pathogenic bacteria (this happens as part of the natural biochemical / composting management process). Fresh manure (slurry) can be used but only if it is from organic animals (which are likely to have lower levels of E. coli in their gut due to their high-grass diet).
In its report published in 2000 on organic foods the Food Standards Agency concluded that there are likely to be lower levels of pathogens in manure used on organic farms: "The Soil Association recommendations for manure storage and treatment (solid manure composting and slurry aeration) on organic farms, are likely to lead to enhanced reductions in the levels of pathogens in stored manures which are destined to be spread on the land." There are further factors to support this argument. It has been shown that animals consuming a high grass diet have naturally lower levels of E. coli in their gut. Soil Association standards stipulate that 60% of a ruminants diet must be grass based. Non-organic animals are typically fattened on grain. Finally organic systems have a much more biologically active soil than non-organic systems. Pathogens will not survive if there is strong competition from other organisms, hence the risks are lessened in organic systems.
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Karlie Kloss stars in the latest EnC spring/summer 2012 ad campaign. The 19-year-old famous supermodel flaunts her amazingly shaped body and lovely baby face for the second time after appearing in the label's fall/winter campaign.
Some brands stay close to their favorite images especially when
we are talking about the world's most sought-after models. Such is
the case of Korean brand EnC that features Karlie Kloss in their
spring/summer 2012 ad campaign. The 19-year-old famous supermodel
flaunts her amazingly shaped body and lovely baby face for the
second time after appearing in the label's fall/winter campaign. In
fact, Karlie Kloss rocks every single shoot, magazine spread or
fashion show she stars in. Well, she is not called the
model-of-the-moment "the (new) body" for nothing!
The new EnC spring/summer 2012 ad campaign is based on "the united concept of modern couture and modern femme." The images were lensed by renowned photographer Jason Kibbler, who has worked for numerous legendary brands. The campaign was filmed at a luxury house in New York. There is a lot of movement through lines and structures, fab details, embellishments, and an array of vivid, energetic and sensitive colors. Take a peek at the images and watch a campaign video!
Gorgeous Karlie Kloss is popular not just for her muscular body
and lovely personality, but also for baking cookies for designers.
"She baked me peanut butter cookies when she came in for her
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the most beautiful girl in the world, if you make everyone's life
miserable, you won't get far. Karlie is a rare balance of beauty
and personality," Alexander Wang said in an interview.
As she's reaching new heights in her career, it's practically impossible not to see beautiful Karlie gracing every magazine cover or starring in ad campaigns. "Really, I have to pinch myself every now and then and just step back and realise all the cool things I've been able to experience, and the incredible things I've been able to do since I've started this career. Every single day I'm shocked. When I started this career I had no idea that it would lead to where I am today, and allow me to travel to all these beautiful places," the model said in an interview with Harper's Bazaar.
Maybe it's her adorable face or her chameleon-like ability, yet Karlie's down-to-earth attitude is the one mesmerizing everyone. "Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two, but I never really followed [fashion] that closely until I became involved in it," she confessed. Well, now she is the most in-demand supermodel and the muse of some of the most famed designers. And once again she manages to deliver perfect poses for EnC's spring/summer 2012 ad campaign.
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College students at three North Texas universities are embracing a new way of getting around.
The University of Texas at Dallas was the first in the Metroplex to strike a relationship with car-sharing company ZipCar.
The online rental company charges members about $7 per hour to rent a car.
Six cars are parked on the UTD campus, where about 60 percent of the student body commutes, for students and the community to rent.
"It's incredibly convenient," said UTD junior Meaghan Berry, who uses the cars for errands.
Berry said ZipCar was helping her with class in an unforeseen way.
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ZipCar seems to be breaking into the Texas market by starting on university campuses before expanding into actual cities. Only five Texas cities have ZipCar, and all of those markets have campuses.
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This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about n-Nitrosodimethylamine. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-800-232-4636. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. It is important you understand this information because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present.
n-Nitrosodimethylamine is produced by industry in small amounts but may be formed in the environment from chemical reactions. It causes liver cancer in animals. This chemical has been found in at least 1 of the 1,177 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What is n-nitrosodimethylamine?
n-Nitrosodimethylamine is produced by industry only in small amounts for research. At room temperature, it is a yellow liquid with no distinct odor. It was used to make rocket fuel, but this use was stopped after unusually high levels of this chemical were found in air, water, and soil samples collected near a rocket fuel manufacturing plant. It is used in some cosmetic and toiletry products and in cleansers.
n-Nitrosodimethylamine is unintentionally formed during various manufacturing processes and in air, water, and soil from reactions involving other chemicals called alkylamines. It is also found in some foods and may be formed in the body.
What happens to n-nitrosodimethylamine? when it enters the environment?
- n-Nitrosodimethylamine may be found in air, water, and soil.
- When released to the air, it is broken down by sunlight in a matter of minutes.
- In water, it may break down when exposed to sunlight or by natural biological processes.
- When released to soil, it may evaporate into air.
- It could also sink down into deeper soil.
How might I be exposed to n-nitrosodimethylamine?
- Eating food containing it, such as cured meats, fish, and cheese.
- Using toiletry and cosmetic products such as shampoos and cleansers that contain it.
- Breathing or inhaling cigarette smoke, which may contain low levels.
- Eating foods containing alkylamines, which can cause n-nitrosodimethylamine to form in the stomach.
- Working in industries such as tanneries, pesticide manufacturing plants, and rubber and tire plants.
How can n-nitrosodimethylamine affect my health?
When people were exposed to very high levels of n-nitro-sodimethylamine, liver damage occurred. Little else is known about the heath effects of n-nitrosodimethylamine in people. Liver effects have also been seen in animals that ate food, drank water, or breathed air containing high levels of n-nitrosodimethylamine.
Mice that were fed n-nitrosodimethylamine during pregnancy had offspring that were born dead or died shortly after birth.
How likely is n-nitrosodimethylamine to cause cancer?
n-Nitrosodimethylamine exposure has been shown to result in an increase in liver and lung cancer in animals. No information is available on whether it causes cancer in people. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that n-nitrosodimethylamine may reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.
Is there a medical test to show whether I've been exposed to n-nitrosodimethylamine?
Samples of your blood and urine can be tested to determine if you have been recently exposed to n-nitrosodimethylamine. These tests must be done soon after the exposure occurred. These tests will not tell you whether your health will be affected by n-nitrosodimethylamine. They are not routinely available in hospitals and clinics because they require special equipment.
Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
The EPA recommends that levels in lakes and streams should be limited to 0.00069 parts of n-nitrosodimethylamine per billion parts of water (0.00069 ppb) to prevent possible health effects from drinking water or eating fish contaminated with n-nitrosodimethylamine.
The EPA requires that spills or accidental releases of 10 pounds or more of n-nitrosodimethylamine be reported to the EPA.
The federal recommendations have been updated as of July 1999.
Carcinogen: A substance that can cause cancer.
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service.
Evaporate: To change into a vapor or a gas.
National Priorities List: A list of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites.
Pesticide: A substance that kills pests.
ppb: Parts per billion.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1989. Toxicological Profile for n-nitrosodimethylamine. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
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ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
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An assistant construction superintendent oversees projects at job sites in the building construction, heavy construction and civil construction industries. In conjunction with their superiors, assistant superintendents manage the building, repair and maintenance of bridges, tunnels, new homes, office complexes and more. Depending upon the size of the project, he or she might report to a construction superintendent at the job site or might be the main supervisor at the site, reporting to the project's overall manager. A person in this role is an employee of the project contractor.
The tasks of an assistant construction superintendent might include hiring craftspeople and laborers, assigning work, planning the allocation of building materials, managing budgets and tracking project schedules. A person in this role might also oversee project subcontractors and suppliers and interact with local government agencies or other client organizations. Day-to-day work at the job site for the assistant superintendent can include both administrative and technical responsibilities.
In a typical day, he or she might meet with subcontractors and suppliers and inspect carpentry, pipe fitting or other work in progress. Reviewing blueprints, taking inventory of incoming materials and performing employee reviews also are part of the job. Sometimes a person in the role of assistant construction superintendent is called an assistant superintendent, assistant field superintendent or another related title.
A person in this role should understand and enforce safety rules at the job site. Assistant construction superintendents must be knowledgeable about local and regional building codes, regulations and procedures. Solving problems also is an important part of the job of the assistant superintendent. Strong skills in the areas of planning, organizing, communicating and leadership are necessary to perform this job successfully. A strong attention to detail also is a desirable trait for people working in this role to have.
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You need to apply through mail with your qualifications in your CV and if it suits them they will call you to work with them in their office.
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8th June, 2014 – 10th July, 2014
First impression, first day formalities, infrastructure
There were no as such formalities you just need to be dressed nicely in black&white and have the introduction with the office staff with some sharp discussions and start your concern tasks provided to you by the seniors, you will also get the one hour lecture from the senior advocates on the working style of the Indian judiciary and other relevant topics.
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We often given the tasks on day to day basis and were totally based on the work of the clients.
Work environment and people
Conditions were tough you have to be disciplined and enthusiastic and have to complete the task within the provided duration. Still you can enjoy a lot if you are serious working kind of a guy.
Best things
Best things were you were taken to various courts for the demonstration of the working style of the judiciary which is best for the first or second time interns.
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December 26th, 2019 NEW MOON ~ Aries
Tell me a story, sweet Mother,
Of the Ancestors and their days,
Of how they walked with beauty,
Learning the Medicine Ways.
As you relate the stories,
I am allowed to see
The importance of every lesson
And how it applies to me.
Through another's example
I share the laughter and the tears.
Through another's experience
I learn how love can conquer fear.
Together we can journey
Through those other times,
Reclaiming all the wisdom
Of the legacies left behind.
~Jamie Sams
The Guardian of the Medicine Stories. The Keeper of Heyokah Medicine and Humor. The Teacher Who Teaches Without Pointing a Finger. The Preserver of Speaking from Personal Experience and Truth.
She Teaches Us…
How to teach through telling stories that contain lessons. How to balance the sacredness with irreverence/using humor creatively. How to speak from our experience without judging others or being self~righteous. How to be a student in life as well as the teacher, preserving the wisdom gained.
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Phishers Spoof CEO, Request W2 FormsNote: this is a reprint of an article originally posted on Krebson Security. The original article can be found here.
With tax filing season in the United States well underway, scammers who specialize in tax refund fraud have a new trick up their sleeves: Spoofing emails from a target organization's CEO, asking human resources and accounting departments for employee W-2 information.
Stu Sjouwerman, chief executive at security awareness training company KnowBe4, told KrebsOnSecurity that earlier this week his firm's controller received an email designed to look like it was sent by Sjouwerman requesting a copy of all employee W-2 forms for this year (full disclosure: KnowBe4 is an advertiser on this site). The email read:
I want you to send me the list of W-2 copy of employees wage and tax statement for 2015, I need them in PDF file type, you can send it as an attachment. Kindly prepare the lists and email them to me asap.
Turns out, KnowBe4 just hired a new chief financial officer. The controller answered that she didn't have access to that information, but that the new CFO could help. Sjourwerman said an analysis of the email headers showed the phishers used someone's GoDaddy email server and the return address was not associated with the company.
"Our CFO had just stepped through all of our awareness training and smelled something phishy," Sjourwerman said. "The two of them walked up to me and asked if I had requested a PDF with all W-2's. Obviously, I hadn't, and congratulated them on a good catch. But imagine if we would have sent off those W-2's! It would have opened up our employees to identity theft because the W-2's have their full name, address, wages and Social Security number."
Fraudsters who perpetrate tax refund fraud prize W-2 information because it contains virtually all of the data one would need to fraudulently file someone's taxes and request a large refund in their name. Indeed, scam artists involved in refund fraud stole W-2 information on more than 330,000 people last year directly from the Web site of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Scammers last year also massively phished online payroll management account credentials used by corporate HR professionals.
According to recent stats from the Federal Trade Commission, tax refund fraud was responsible for a nearly 50 percent increase in consumer identity theft complaints last year. The best way to avoid becoming a victim of tax refund fraud is to file your taxes before the fraudsters can. See Don't Be A Victim of Tax Refund Fraud in '16 for more tips on avoiding this ID theft headache.
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How Moisturize your Skin after the Beach
Summer means specific care for our skin to make up for constant sun exposure, especially if we're going to the beach. We want to tan all over, so we spend too many hours baking on the sand. However, UV rays can be very harmful if we overexpose to the sun or if we do not take the necessary safety measures.
Dry skin is one of the most visible and immediate effects. It can only be countered with nourishing cream, lotions and hydrating drinks after we've showered and exfoliated properly. Here at OneHowTo we'll show you how to moisturize your skin after the beach.
Prior to properly hydrating your skin, it is recommended that you cleanse it in depth regularly to remove salt and other debris from the sand or the ocean. To do this, use body and facial exfoliant scrubs to remove impurities and dead skin cells. Apply them weekly to allow for a much better absorption of the creams and lotions you will apply later.
Exfoliate the skin as you take a warm shower, as it will help you to relax and moisturize the whole body naturally.
First, the most basic step to moisturize the skin after a day at the beach is to apply body moisturizer all over the body to nourish the skin and prevent it from getting too dry after the salt and the sun.
It is recommended to use a cream that contains elastin and collagen to stimulate the re-growth of these elements in your organism, as the sun destroys those components and your body needs to produce them once again. By doing all this, you'll stop premature aging in its tracks.
Do not forget that the face should also be continuously hydrated. You should use a specific facial cream for the skin, since the skin is more delicate than on the rest of the body. If your face is dry and red after going to the beach, you should use a calming night cream so that the skin can be repaired and deeply nourished as you sleep.
In addition to moisturizing products, it is also very important to drink lots of liquids to hydrate the body from inside out; this will help your skin regain its previous freshness and elasticity.
It is likely that one of our goals in going to the beach is to tan our skin naturally, which certainly requires some extra care if it is to look good. We recommended using a product to prolong the tan.
A moisturizing lotion with aloe vera, for instance, can maintain the tan while preventing the appearance of marks and peeling caused by sunburns. But that golden tone will also be extended if we drink plenty of natural fruit juices and eat certain foods such as carrots, which bring shine and much-needed vitamins to our skin.
Regarding that last point, it is good to know that sunburn can be treated with specific nourishing creams for that purpose. We can enhance the effects of these calming lotions by applying chamomile bags on the affected area, which will relieve the burning sensation. We can also use homemade aloe vera ice cubes to cool the skin.
Now that you know how to moisturize your skin after the beach, tell us your skincare tips in the comments section.
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The Alliance for Professional Counselors (APC) is a new membership organization within the counseling profession that is aimed at promoting the inclusion of all qualified counselors in regulations and policies enacted by state, federal, and private insurance/employment agencies and bodies. We are dedicated to promoting excellence in standards of practice, and regulatory policies that are informed by the best available evidence.
The APC has been founded by individuals and groups who have long advocated for inclusion of ALL counselors within our professional organizations, and at state and federal levels. We are a true alliance of counseling professionals and academics. We value the diversity of graduate programs across academic disciplines which have historically contributed to the profession and the training of highly competent Professional Counselors.
The APC is passionately committed to defending and promoting the right of all qualified counselors to obtain certification and licensure, and to practice in the counseling specialty areas in which they have been trained. We promote a vision of unity in the counseling profession, and seek to advance professional identity by the articulation of standards based upon evidence, and the removal of false and unjust distinctions that divide us.


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I am so excited to say that I have been voted Second Place "Best Artist of Long Island" 2012 by readers of The Long Island Press.
For 2010 and 2011, I came in First Place. What a great honor to have my work recognized in this capacity. I LOVE what I do, and I guess it shows in my work!!
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July 17, 2017, 258.5 miles
Camping and Motel Colibri, Caraquet, New Brunswick
(Due to slow or nonexistent internet while we were in Canada I am behind on the blog I will be catching up now that we are back in the states. I hope you enjoy your trip with us thru the Canada and the Maritimes.)
Today was a long travel day, 258.5 miles, our route was still following along route 132 along the Gaspe coast line. There were still 4 coaches following along together. We all check our travel logs we received at the beginning of our trip, each of us deciding where we want to stop for the day, (gas, grocery, or potty breaks for us and dogs)! This trip we would find a Walmart at our 216.2 mile where we all decided it would be a great place to replenish our pantries. There are social get togethers every afternoon, decided by your coach number, either odd or even, we are number 3…so we turn out to be odd…LOL!
They called this a Walmart Superstore and maybe for the area it is, it doesn't even come close to the super stores in the states. Guy has been looking everywhere for a mexican restaurant but they don't exist. So I thought I would make him some enchiladas…there was no corn tortillas, or enchilada sauce, or chilies. I guess he will need to wait until we get back to the states.
Our group had a free day the next day to tour the Village of the Acadians, this is a village with a display of houses, farms, church, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop as well as a school that portray the way of life for the Acadians from the 1700's to 1949. There are more than 40 buildings which are each staffed with interpreters in period costumes. One building is the Hotel Chateau Albert, a replica that once existed in Caraquet but was destroyed in 1955 and recreated at the Village.
The Village was so large and took Guy and I over 3 hours to walk thru, it was very interesting listening to the interpreters, who spoke French and English. They told us about the owner and how many lived in the homes, what their occupation was, and some were even cooking on the old iron stoves.
If you wanted something they were cooking, they wanted you to barter with them for the food. Some people would bring in the firewood for the stove, or sweep the floors. There were outdoor stoves where women were baking bread that they sold in the gift store.
There were barns with horses, cows, pens with pigs, goats, sheep.
That night there was a pot luck, which we were not looking forward to as it was hot, and sitting in the sun trying to eat didn't sound to good. After walking around Cyndy and Holly saw that luckily one of the rigs had great shade from some trees, so everyone set up their chairs in the shade behind the coach. The food that everyone brought was so varied, if anyone went away hungry it was their fault. I had made white chili and was so happy that I brought none home with me. We don't seem to be eating many meals at home, lunches seem to be eaten on the run while we are touring the areas, dinners, we seem to not eat after having a social hour at 5:30 or 6:00, we aren't hungry.
Well, its been a great time here in Caraquet but its time now to head out to Cavendish, PEI, so tag along with us on this amazing adventure.


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A data breach is a type of privacy incident that happens whenever an unauthorised person could have gotten access to someone else's personal information. They are the result of failing to protect personal information. We believe that people and organisations need to protect personal information to prevent other people and organisations from suffering real harm. Harm is any damage that the data breach causes.
Why do data breaches cause harm?
Data breaches and other privacy incidents damage organisation's public reputations, existing relationships, and prospects of getting new business because:
- they have the potential to expose personal information in a public or semi-public way; and
- the mere prospect of having your personal information exposed affects how you behave.
For example:
Imagine that you are dancing by yourself in your living room. You would probably be fairly uninhibited, not overly self-conscious, and fairly relaxed. Now imagine that you knew there was a surveillance camera in your living room from which your security company could watch you dance. You would have no way of knowing whether they are actually watching you or not at any given moment, but there is always the possibility that they could be. I'm sure you'd dance a little less enthusiastically, that is – if you continued to dance at all.
There is an excellent TED talk where Glenn Greenwald uses the dancing analogy to explain why privacy matters:
In the same way, there is always a possibility that an unauthorised person could have accessed your data subject's personal information in a data breach. You may not even have any way of knowing whether or not they have.
How do data breaches cause harm?
Public backlash and data privacy legislation punishes the responsible organisation. Data breaches cause harm to the organisations responsible for them by:
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- Ruining reputations for new business – new leads or prospects will avoid a vendor or service provider who has a reputation for causing data privacy incidents;
- Sowing distrust in a workforce – employees are unlikely to trust someone who has caused their personal information to become compromised and may no longer want to work for them;
- opening themselves up to disciplinary or corrective action from the Regulator – who will have extensive powers when POPI commences;
- making themselves liable for class actions – where an affected portion of the public bands together and sues them; and
- requiring themselves to adopt rigorous and expensive information security standards going forward – to prevent more breaches from happening.
What harm have data breaches caused?
A cautionary example of the harm that data breaches can cause is the TJX case from the United States. They are a clothing retailer with many brick-and-mortar stores. One Christmas, unauthorised people gained access to the WiFi network in once of the stores and managed to access customer credit card information:
- The organisation failed to protect personal information and hackers accessed data from more than 45 million customer credit cards;
- Approximately 25% of the people affected by data breaches in the US generally become victims of identity theft;
- The incident cost the company an estimated $246 million in settlements; and
- The company has to maintain a rigorous information security plan and be professionally audited for compliance for the next 20 years as a result.
It is clear that incidents like this cause people and organisations real harm.
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You can:
- do your best to guard against data breaches by having appropriate information security; and
- be ready to handle data breaches with an Incident Response Policy.
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Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Capacity Building on REDD+ for Forest-Dependent Indigenous Peoples
(P153585, FCPF Grant No. TF0A3570)
June 30, 2017
This Capacity Building Project (CBP) is being funded under Phase two of the Readiness Fund of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) being managed by the World Bank (WB). The CBP has two components, one for forest-dependent indigenous peoples and another for Southern Civil Society Organizations and Local Communities. Its objective is to provide forest-dependent indigenous peoples, and Southern CSOs and local communities with information, knowledge, and awareness on REDD+ to enhance their understanding on REDD+, and to enable them to engage more meaningfully in the implementation of REDD+ readiness activities. The aim is to support activities that empower and enable these stakeholder groups, to enhance and influence REDD+ development outcomes, and also to strengthen mechanisms for inclusion, accountability, and participation. It is being implemented through the WB's "Procedures for Small Recipient-Executed Trust Fund Grants".
Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education) was chosen as the Recipient for the East Asia-Pacific and South Asia region. The project beneficiaries are forest-dependent IPs and their representative organizations and institutions in the ten FCPF eligible countries in Asia and the Pacific, namely Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam which are eligible to participate in regional learning and exchange activities (Component 2). Of these ten countries, six (6) countries are eligible to participate in national-level activities (Component 1), namely Bhutan, Fiji, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Vietnam. This is the first progress report prepared for the project, covering the period of project effectiveness (October 31, 2016) to June 30, 2017.
The project development objective (PDO) is to strengthen: (i) the knowledge of targeted forest-dependent indigenous peoples on REDD+ Readiness at the national level and (ii) knowledge exchange at the regional level.
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Marc Faber: Stocks are about to fall 40%—at least!
Faber, editor of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, believes that stocks in the U.S. and in many places around the globe are in a central bank-fueled bubble. And while he can't put a time on when that perceived bubble will pop, he prognosticates that once it does, the outcome will be horrifying.
"For the last two years, I've been thinking that U.S. stocks are due for a correction," Faber said Wednesday on CNBC's "Trading Nation." "But I always say a bubble is a bubble, and if there's no correction, the market will go up, and one day it will go down, big time."
"The market is in a position where it's not just going to be a 10 percent correction. Maybe it first goes up a bit further, but when it comes, it will be 30 percent or 40 percent minimum!" Faber asserted.
A 40 percent decline from Wednesday's close would take the S&P 500 to 1,264, a level that hasn't been seen since the early days of 2012.
Faber says low yields and stimulative central bank policies around the world have led to a condition in which "all assets are grossly overvalued … and eventually this will unwind and cause some problems."
Despite his massively bearish call, Faber said he's "not short the market yet," since he doesn't know how high stocks could go in the interim. Still, he makes clear that "I'm not interested to buy momentum, I'm interested to buy value."
Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.Dr. Doom also trades currencies and commodity futures like Gold and Oil.
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According to the Palestinian Information Center, Haaretz Hebrew newspaper mentioned this topic on Sunday and added: "the Zionist movement known as "ZOA House", which was founded by Israeli rabbi Meir Kahane, held its first organizational meeting late last week in New York City. The movement demanded Palestinians to be deported to the Arabic countries.
Haaretz also wrote that spokesman at the meeting confirmed that there are many similarities between Kahane and Trump. The meeting was held in "Young Israel" temple located in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
It also added speechers affirmed that new leaderships must come to power to manage the movement. They expressed the hope that Trump's victory in US presidential election would let the movement to be active freely and a chance for such leaders to come to power.
According to Haaretz, the House activists hope that the movement will be removed from FBI's list of terrorist organizations during Trump's presidency.
The newspaper also wrote Yitzhak Mordechai Friedman, President of the Association of American Rabbis, defended the House Movement and its request on deporting Palestinians by giving a speech in the meeting.
It's worth mentioning that US officials had banned the activities of the movement because of its racist plans and violent applications against non-Jews.


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Scott Joplin opera leaps back to life / Re-creation of ragtime 'Treemonisha' at Stern Grove shows off score's marvels
Ragtime and opera joined hands and danced together in the most joyous fashion at Stern Grove on Sunday afternoon, with a vigorous and utterly charming performance of Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha."
The only large-scale work to survive from the pen of the greatest of the ragtime composers, "Treemonisha" is still a comparative rarity in performance for reasons that have as much to do with history -- the piece was never performed during Joplin's lifetime, and his original orchestrations have been lost -- as with the opera's intrinsic merits.
Sunday's semi-staged performance did nothing to conceal the dramatic slightness of the piece, which was published in 1911. But the score, superbly led by conductor Rick Benjamin, is a resourceful marvel, a multifarious mixture of straightforward rags and dances, waltzes, sentimental ballads and full-scale arias.
Nothing else Joplin left us suggests a comparable stylistic or expressive range. Although the score is deeply rooted throughout in the syncopated rhythms, harmonies and instrumental sonorities of ragtime, he uses those elements to create set pieces that go far beyond the conventions of the style.
For this performance, Benjamin, an expert on music of the period, unveiled his new arrangement of "Treemonisha" for the 11-piece Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. That lithe, pungent blend of strings, woodwinds and brass -- which Benjamin claimed was the dominant instrumental sound for American theater bands from California to Maine -- gave the performance a lively grace that helped fill the sunny meadow to perfection.
Set among the impoverished black inhabitants of an Arkansas plantation in 1884, "Treemonisha" offers an urgent plea for the importance of education in improving the condition of former slaves.
It pits the 18-year-old title character, the only member of her community to have had any schooling, against the conjurers who prey on people's superstitions by selling them "bags of luck" to ward off evil (although the nature of their wares is unspecified, one conjurer's reference to himself as the "goofer dust man" suggests that he is in the same line of work as, say, Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess").
The dramaturgy is relatively perfunctory -- Act 1 is devoted to exposition, Act 2 to the conjurers' kidnapping of Treemonisha and Act 3 to her rescue -- and plenty of time is taken along the way for dances, songs and even a forest ramble in waltz time for eight scary bears that, sadly, was not staged.
But Joplin's ingenuity in expanding his palette to dramatic ends is striking, as in the Act 3 duet for Treemonisha's parents or some of the vocal writing for Treemonisha herself, which combines operatic phrasing with ragtime melodies.
On Sunday, the title role was sung with plenty of flair and assurance by soprano Indira Mahajan, who handled both the high notes and the rhythmic flow of the role splendidly. Soprano Shalanda Bond and bass-baritone Frank Ward made strong contributions as Treemonisha's parents.
Tenor Albert Lee sang sweetly as Remus, the young man who rescues Treemonisha and is rewarded with the opportunity to preach at length to the community (and the audience) on the unremarkable proposition that "wrong is never right." Gene Heard and Courtney Brown were an aptly villainous pair of conjurers, and the chorus, led by Lynne Morrow, sang skillfully.
The afternoon began with orchestral versions of three of Joplin's piano rags, "The Strenuous Life," "Pleasant Moments" and "Elite Syncopations." These were first-rate renditions, marked by rhythmic strength and streamlined elegance.


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- Get your pieces out into the centre quickly. The opening is a race to see who can get their pieces out first while keeping at least a share of control of the centre.
- This is the main point to remember; all the other rules are just footnotes to this one
- More detail on winning the race:
- Move pieces not pawns, and
- move them to their best squares in one move if you can, and also
- try to gain time if you can by aggressive moves.
- Move minor pieces out first, not your Q or RRs which can be attacked and lose time
- Get a firm foothold in the centre and don't give it up
- Generally move Knights straightaway to f3/c3 or f6/c6
- Move your king to safety at the side by castling King's-side (which also gets your Rook into play)
- Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack
- Keep your queen safe
- Don't grab pawns or attack if you haven't completed development
- What to do if there is a lead in development:
- If you are ahead in development, start something going and open up lines for your better pieces
- If you are behind in development, don't start anything and keep things closed until you have caught up
Lasker's rules for the opening
- Do not move any pawns in the opening of a game but the King and Queen pawns.
- Do not move any piece twice in the opening, but put it at once on the right square.
- Bring out your knights before developing your bishops, especially the Queen's Bishop.
- Do not pin the adverse King Knight (ie. by Bg5) before your opponent has castled.
Why should you move the knights first? Well, knights are very much more effective if they are in the centre. (Bishops are more effective here too, but they can work from a distance). For the opening that has to mean Knights moving to c3 and f3 (or c6 and g6). Where should the Bishops go? The White King's Bishop on f1 could go to b5,c4,d3 or even e2. Which is best? That depends on what your opponent is up to. So, move your knights straight away to the centre, and while you are doing that your opponent's moves may suggest to you where you should put your bishops.
Fine's rules for the opening
- Open with either the e-pawn or the d-pawn.
- Wherever possible, make a good developing move which threatens something or adds to the pressure on the centre.
- Develop knights before bishops.
- Pick the most suitable square for a piece and develop it there once and for all.
- Make one or two pawn moves in the opening, not more.
- Do not bring your queen out too early.
- Castle as soon as possible, preferably on the king's side.
- Play to get control of the centre.
- Always try to maintain at least one pawn in the centre.
- Do not sacrifice without a clear and adequate reason, eg.:
- it secures a tangible advantage in development
- it deflects the opponent's queen
- it prevents the opponent from castling
- it enables a strong attack to be developed
(from My System)
- Development is to be understood as the strategic advance of the troops toward the frontier line (the line between the fourth and fifth ranks).
- A pawn move must not in itself be regarded as a devloping move, but merely as an aid to development.
- To be ahead in development is the ideal to be aimed for.
- Exchange with resulting gain of tempo.
- Liquidation, with consequent development or disembarrassment.
- The pawn centre must be mobile.
- There is no time for pawn hunting in the opening, except for centre pawns.
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Students discuss artist Beyonce and the topic of race
Alex Palmieri – General Assignment Reporter
There has been a lot of news surrounding Beyonce and race in the past few months. From her Super Bowl performance, to her newest album "Lemonade," her actions and music videos have created buzz among people, including editor of the U.S. mail online, Piers Morgan.
The comments Morgan made were very controversial, saying Beyonce made a song about "Black Lives Matter" just months after her Super Bowl halftime show featuring performers dressed in uniforms resembling those of the Black Panther Party. Morgan also pointed out there was a music video for her song "Lemonade" flashing back to Hurricane Katrina with protesters facing off cops, and a wall reading "Stop Killing Us." Morgan said the album essentially resembles Beyonce's thoughts on the black race instead of her actual music.
Beyonce is such a role model to so many people that she should make comments about what she believes in. There is really no harm in what Beyonce is doing. If she wants to be a voice and speak politically about what she feels, so be it. She is using her right of the First Amendment and preaching in what she believes in.
Royale Jamison, freshman business major, had similar thoughts. He said it is Beyonce's right to say what she wants, when she wants. Jamison added that Beyonce can exercise her opinions about any matter that is relevant because it is our right in America.
"Isn't freedom of speech the freedom we all have?" said Jamison. "I see no harm in what she's doing. People just want to make a big deal out of nothing."
Jamison said Beyonce is a music artist; and if she wants to express her feelings, she should have the right to do that without being criticized.
"Her main goal is to sell records," said Jamison. "But she's human; she has a voice too."
Michelle Szymaszek, senior double major in education and English, said the world we live in today is very sensitive. She said if Beyonce wants to voice out her opinion, she can express herself and her community in any way she wants. She said Beyonce talking about the black community is good because it shows her consideration and what she stands for.
"She has a right to do what she wants," said Szymaszek. "It's not offending anyone; I think everyone is just overreacting."
Szymaszek said people's freedom stops when we inhibit freedom from others. Because of this, she said everyone has to say what they believe in and make their voices heard. She added Beyonce is a huge role model to everyone.
"To have an artist of her caliber saying things like this just makes her an even bigger idol," said Szymaszek.
Andrew Wynne, art education graduate at SCSU, said when it comes to Beyonce, she can almost do no wrong. He said he is neutral on the topic but wants to know why Beyonce just started to make these comments.
"It's her First Amendment right to say what she wants," said Wynne. "It's my First Amendment right to say if I agree or disagree. I'm a fan of Beyonce. I just want to know why she hasn't made comments in the past."
Wynne said Beyonce talking about politics is good because everyone knows what she believes in. He added that Beyonce is has not done anything worth being upset over.
"Beyonce is just talking politics and I see no harm in it," said Wynne. "Beyonce is a role model to a lot of people. Let her do what she wants."


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It is best not to look too closely at Edvard Munch's screamer at the exhibition "The Art of the Brick," which opened this week at Discovery Times Square. Because then you would see that the head is pieced together out of beige and white Lego blocks, their studs protruding. Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," on display nearby, has a smoother surface, composed of 4,573 "bricks" (as they are called by aficionados), but you'd never mistake it for the original — the overall effect is more allusion than illusion.
The portrait's creator, Nathan Sawaya, seems perfectly content with that. He has snapped together a Legoistic survey of art masterpieces, along with galleries of original constructions. In varied forms, this show of his work has appeared in other cities and toured internationally but has never been shown in New York.
Everything is built from Lego blocks using only the colors that Danish company makes available. And mostly, it looks it. Mr. Sawaya proudly notes on the "Mona Lisa" label that "a blurred photo of the brick replica version could easily be mistaken for a blurred photo of the original."
Such a mistake is less likely with Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" (1,694 pieces) — the painting's ornament consists of a transparent Lego sphere — and seems impossible with the table-size version of the Great Sphinx of Giza (2,604 pieces). But the resemblance to blurred photos is a useful standard to keep in mind when confronted with an exhibition entirely composed of Lego pieces.
After all, toys are never meant actually to function as real objects do. They are only meant to come close enough to stir the imagination: they let us approach the world from a distance and begin to make sense of it. One of the things we learn from play is the art of approximation, so why not relish here the approximation of art?
In fact, it is difficult to walk through this exhibition and pass a version of Rodin's "Thinker" (4,332 pieces) or see Mr. Sawaya's own life-size piece "Blue Guy Sitting" (21,054 pieces), and not smile in amazement at the ambition and or admire the skill. We can examine "The Thinker" to see how pieces deftly weave a knot of relations among the face, bent arm and closed fist. And if we blur our vision while looking at "Blue Guy Sitting," we see that rigid, rectangular blocks have molded an embodiment of relaxed contentment.
Some constructions are alluring for other reasons. The dinosaur (80,020 pieces) impresses with its scale, occupying an entire gallery, its snapped-together plastic pieces resembling fractured fragments of fossilized bone. And the Moai figure from Easter Island (75,450 pieces) is large enough so that you almost don't have to blur its pixelated construction mentally to imagine the original's sculptured curves.
As might be expected, of course, not everything works. Partly because of the medium's limitations, ideas and emotions tend to be exaggerated. Some evocations of artworks are crude; Mr. Sawaya's version of Caspar David Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" (3,002 pieces), for example, hardly retains, as the label suggests, "the same feeling of awe in the vastness of the scene." Some of Mr. Sawaya's original works and commentary also have a greeting card simplicity. ("Dreams are built," reads a homily on one wall, "one brick at a time").
But what is going on here? Despite some awkward or kitschy examples, we get a very particular kind of pleasure from these constructions. It has something to do not just with the use of toy blocks as an artistic medium but also with the character of the bricks themselves.
What a strange ambition this is in the first place! Why pick a medium that offers not unlimited possibilities but very few? It would be like a poet deciding to use only half the letters of the alphabet.
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Mr. Sawaya not only restricts himself to Lego blocks, but he also avoids using any specialty pieces with slopes or curves, and completely resists the lure of the more exotically machined ingredients of Lego's Technic kits. Almost every element here is rectangular. So bricks, once designed for children to build towns and buildings, are now used to evoke human shapes and brush strokes.
Some artists relish such restrictions, which function like the rules of a card game or the constraints of a puzzle. Scott Weaver, for example, used only toothpicks and glue to create a sculpture of San Francisco now on display at the Exploratorium in that city.
Mr. Sawaya also clearly loves his chosen medium. He would have to, considering that he left a career as a corporate lawyer to devote himself to it. A portrait here (4,125 pieces), we are told, is of "my partner Courtney, who has tolerated a man who plays with Lego bricks all day."
The artist also has a large following among AFOLs (Adult Fans of Lego, as that fandom's acronym has it on sites like the Lego users group Lugnet). One sculpture here has almost become Mr. Sawaya's trademark: "Yellow" (11,014 pieces) shows the torso of a man entirely made of yellow bricks. He is ripping open his chest as a jumble of pieces pour out, the sole contents of his hollow innards. A self-portrait?
Mr. Sawaya's playfulness is contagious. And the limitations are part of the appeal. Basic Lego bricks are so minimalist, almost anything made using them inspires a bit of wonder. In other situations, the way an object is made becomes a secondary consideration. Not here. We look at any Lego construction and can see how it is put together. The act of making is visible in what is made.
Imagine how different the effect would be if Lego colors and shapes could be readily customized. We would simply piece together the colors and shapes we wanted — a "Mona Lisa" smile block or a Vermeer-like pearl. The result would seem less like something constructed than like something manufactured.
And the process would not be displayed in the result. This was one of the problems with the Lego sets that proliferated in the 1990s, in which specialized, ornate pieces were associated with fanciful sci-fi themes, distracting from the original vision.
In its pure form — and Mr. Sawaya is drawn to that pure form — the Lego block is at once the least technological toy around. But in another way, it is also one of the most technological, technological in the original sense of the word, alluding to craft and mastery — techne — the art of making.
We are looking at a form of technology on display. And the effect is playful and strangely contemporary. Mr. Sawaya's use of rectangular blocks ensures that we can't take even the smoothness of a line for granted. So we see how continuous curves are created out of discrete elements. His constructions almost reflect an early digital aesthetic, which is why these Lego constructions can seem as pixelated as a dissolving digital photo.
The company itself has gone still further along this path in the last 15 years, combining its old-fashioned celebration of techne with the most contemporary techniques: its Mindstorms series are literally technological. They are computerized machines: they can be controlled; their central bricks can be programmed.
But there is no need to go that far. The exhibition reminds us that Lego constructions are amazing not primarily because of what they are but how they came to be what they are. A large plastic sculpture of an American Indian might seem of little interest in itself, but at the Legoland park in the company's hometown, Billund, Denmark, Chief Sitting Bull is said to be a highlight, 36 feet tall and constructed out of 1.75 million bricks.
In recent years a Japanese builder, Kazuyoshi Naoe, has created intricate models of World Heritage sites using Legos, including Westminster Abbey. Now, courtesy of Mr. Sawaya, we have varieties of Monet, Rembrandt and the Statue of Liberty — constructions that offer a playful approximation of reality while celebrating Lego's lure.


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