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LIVING SECTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL INSIDE: PUZZLES E2 COMMUNITY E3 COUPLES E5 ANIMAL MAGNETISM Where the wild things really are: A safari in Botswana. Page E6 COURTESY OF MISS REPRESENTATION hits hard on the destructive combination of lack of representation of women in leadership and the denigrating messages in the media. abqjournal sage Film asks, is By Carolyn Flynn Sage Editor get this conversation started, I asked Kristi D. Lawrence what she found most disturbing about the documentary which has two public showings in Albuquerque this week. bothered says the publicity chair for the networking group, FemCity Albuquerque, which is hosting the event at Sandia Preparatory School on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

The provocative documentary, a 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection, depicts the way negative media messages about women combine destructively to ensure that women are underrepresented See FILM on PAGE E4 FREYA INGRID NEWS Ever wondered about Legos? Completed Lego bricks come off the production line in Denmark at a rate of 2 million per hour. Lego builds an empire in miniature By Howard J. Bennett Special to The Washington Post I a Lego nut. I started building with Legos when my son turned 7, and I never stopped. My office is filled with displays that include vehicles, buildings and scenes from and Do you know the history behind the building toy so popular that it was named Toy of the Century by Fortune magazine in 2000? Legos were invented by a Danish carpenter-turned- toymaker named Ole Kirk Christiansen.

The company began in 1932, but the bricks that are used today created until 1958. The name Lego comes from the Danish phrase which means The factories that make Legos operate 24 hours a day and are almost completely automated. The process begins when colored plastic granules (very small fragments) are suctioned through tubes and sent to molding machines. The plastic is heated to 450 degrees. The softened plastic is forced into molds using 25 to 150 tons of pressure.

The plastic cools in less than 10 seconds and is then ejected into large bins. Up to 2 million Lego pieces are made every hour. about 33,000 per minute! Christiansen insisted on making the highest-quality toys possible, which explains why Legos fit together so perfectly. Each Lego mold is accurate to within two- thousandths of a millimeter. For every million Legos made, only 18 are rejected because they meet the high standards set by the company.

In my opinion, the most amazing Lego sculptor is Nathan Sawaya. His work proves that Legos can be used to make art (www. brickartist.com). Here are some additional cool facts about Legos. Lego makes about 22 billion pieces every year.

More than 300 million of Founder insisted on highest quality for Toy of the Century See LEGO on PAGE E4 HISTORY Albuquerque author Carolyn best-sellers find appreciative audience among children and adults By Donna Olmstead Journal Staff Writer A sk author Carolyn Meyer how it is she has written more than 50 best-selling young adult books, and tell you just how her life unfolded. The Albuquerque writer brag about her staying power, though many of her books have won awards or are required reading in school. Instead, she points to the ones that have helped her young adult readers the most on their way to becoming productive adults. Fostering that spark of intelligent curiosity in young readers is what drives much of the work. And what keeps her spinning out stories.

But that seemed the unlikely route. along there was never a discernible she explains. teacher, a nurse or a secretary were options for women of my generation. But to be a writer? Even now, even if you go to the Iowa Workshop and graduate, it still do it. To be a writer you just have to blunder along and figure out how to do it as you go along.

You learn from your While Meyer boast, her fans will. Elizabeth Anker, owner of Alamosa Books on Paseo del Norte and Ventura NE, says, wish more people in Albuquerque knew what a great treasure they have in their midst. She is the best at what she does. She writes engaging, informative, lyrical and witty historical fiction. Her books are clean and clear enough to put in a hands but captivating and with sufficient depth to please an adult carved out a niche by letting readers fall in love with historical and mythical characters by seeing them through the eyes of young adults like themselves.

In her latest book released in October, Daughter: The ADOLPHE Author Carolyn Meyer, with more than 50 books, has carved out a niche for depicting historical and mythical characters through the eyes of young adult characters, prompting one fan to describe her as a treasure, captivating young readers but having the depth to please adult readers. COMES ALIVE COURTESY OF CAROLYN MEYER Best-selling young adult author Carolyn Meyer likes to get in the spirit of the historical figures who inspire her books. For a book signing of Bad she dressed as Marie Antoinette. See AUTHOR on PAGE E4 About will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at Sandia Preparatory School theater, 532 Osuna NE.

Wednesday night is appropriate for grades one through 12. Thursday night is for 18 and older. Tickets are $5 at the door. For information, contact Kristi D. Lawrence at gmail.com or 678-576-8938.

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