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Helping people with computers... one answer at a time.
Adding a wireless device without encryption to your network is tricky. There are approaches, but the best method is to get a device that supports encryption.
I have a small network (five computers, router/switch, wireless access point, and a printer). Recently, I set up two wireless security cameras. They don't operate with WPA, WEP, or TKIP turned on, so I set the security authentication on the access point to open access and No Data Encryption. I have implemented MAC Authentication for all wireless devices connecting to the wireless access point. I know that this is not the best security. I run Norton Security on all computers. What are your thoughts on my chances for security problems?
You're correct; this is not the best security.
I can't tell you what the chances of security problems are because that depends on a bunch of non-technical things, like whether someone is actually interested in breaking into your network for some reason and how close you are to other computers and WiFi networks.
What I can tell you is why your network can very easily be breached.
And then, I'll outline what I would do instead that would provide you as much security as your situation would allow.
The problem here is very simple: you have a wide-open wireless network. Anyone with sufficient knowledge and the desire to connect to your network and start poking around can easily do so. At a minimum, they would be able to see all of the data going to and from the wireless access point.
When enabled, MAC Authentication requires that you pre-authorize all computers that are allowed to access the wireless network by manually entering their unique MAC address in the access point.
Recall that a MAC address is a number that uniquely identifies every network adapter. No two network adapters are supposed to have the same MAC address. Thus, in theory, you're restricting access to only those computers on which those pre-authorized network adapters are installed.
In theory.
The reality is this:
Many network adapters can be programmed to be given any MAC address. That means if you know any MAC address that's been authorized on the wireless access point, you can configure your network adapter to have that MAC address.
MAC addresses are transmitted in the clear on wireless networks. That means that anyone listening in to the wireless traffic could identify the MAC addresses that have been authorized.
MAC address authorization is no barrier to someone who's targeting your network.
So what you have will keep honest people honest, but the bad guys can get in if they want to pretty easily.
There are three basic approaches to this problem.
To be totally honest, I'd get different security cameras. The lack of security in these security cameras is not just ironic, but actually quite troublesome. Even after we get everything else secure, anyone within range can monitor what your security cameras see, simply because they require open WiFi. Getting cameras that support WPA is the only correct solution.
And it's the solution that I recommend.
However, let's assume that for some reason, that's not an option.
A compromise solution that is relatively simple and improves security is to use two access points.
One access point (the one combined with your router, if you have a combined unit) should be fully secured with WPA security. This is also the access point that every computer and device capable of wireless encryption should connect to.
The other access point, connected to a port on your router, would be open.
This scenario secures your wireless connections from sniffing, but only for those devices using encryption. Devices connected to the open access point would still be transmitting in the clear and thus be sniffable.
This approach has a serious flaw: it does not protect you from people connecting to your network. Anyone in range can connect to your open access point. That means that, while they won't see your internal network traffic (assuming the router is doing its job), they can still cause problems by being connected.
That requires additional hardware.
Essentially, you need to treat the network with an open access point as a completely untrusted network. That means putting a router between it and you.
As a firewall, a router with NAT enabled protects what's "inside" your network from what's "outside". In a one-router situation, the router protects your local network from the internet. That's essentially what router #1 is doing in the diagram above.
If you have a segment of your network that is also untrusted - a condition that your open WiFi access point creates - then you need the second router to protect the rest of your equipment from whatever happens there. (There are variations on this approach that basically amount to different arrangements of the two routers.)
While maximally secure, it quickly gets more complex, as this is can be a tricky configuration.
For example, I'm sure that you'll want to access your security cameras on your open access point from computers on the other "secure" side of router #2. Depending on exactly how those cameras are accessed, you may need to perform additional configuration of that router to enable access across it.
Are you sure that you wouldn't really rather get security cameras that support WPA? It would make many things much easier.
And more secure.
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Connecting the cameras to the router through cables would do the job? But that's not in question?
Good tutorial.I have a router and the 123 easy instructions were not easy for me.I do not even see a program that shows if i have the ability to access a Wi=Fi.On my last
computer running XP it was easy.I am not hooked up yet? i planned to have 2 computers running the same program!
There is still another argument for avoiding the "solutions" with an open acces point, at least this side of the Atlantic: if your open network(-part) is used by someone driving by to do illegal things via on your network-connections, and you cannot prove that you have taken action to prevent this scenario, YOU are legally responsible for the consequences of the unwanted visitor's doings. And that can be very expensive (loss and damage, even time in jail, ....)
This seems like a fairly recent article. one alternative way i can see is a capture portal. that should allow any device to connect to your network but will redirect them to a radius based authentication. this way you should be able to protect a prat of your network. it is not a full solution for your problem but it does help a bit more than letting someone get unsecured access to even a part of your network. theoretically speaking if someone has access to your network and disrupts your internet connection the rest of your LAN suffers. In my lab we have similiar situation with HP's older ipaqs being used and a capture portal with encrypted cookie helps keep some of the bad guys out.
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Dealing With The Therapeutic Needs Of Adolescents
A lot is said about how kids today have never had it so good (at least in modern American society). Less is openly spoken about the fact that a growing number of these kids have problems dealing with their lifestyle. Some may turn to substance or alcohol abuse at an alarmingly early age while others can succumb to a wide range of mental disorders. In some cases, both the mental disorder and the substance abuse can occur around the same time. This can happen anywhere in the country but let's discuss what might happen in Minnesota and how Childrens Therapy in Minnesota can offer relief to both the affected child and its family.
Acquired At Birth Or As A Result Of Experience?
Some mental disorders can be recognized at an early age and suitable steps taken to assist the child lead a "normal" life. But, if a problem arises out of childhood experiences, it might not be immediately obvious even to immediate family members and could even go unnoticed through to the child's adolescence. It could be a decline in the child's schooling record, or, maybe the child becomes morose and hardly communicative at home – there are many ways in which a developing problem can manifest itself. When ignored, these tell tale signs can easily lead to the child developing a substance abuse problem on top of the mental issues that need to be addressed.
What To Do When The Problem Has Become Apparent
For substance abuse, we tend to think in terms of rehabilitation but, for this to be totally successful, the reasons why the child started to abuse drugs or alcohol should also be investigated and dealt with. To achieve this, most of the parents of such a child would probably consider Childrens Therapy In Minnesota to be the route most likely to lead to a permanent "cure".
However, for this to be successful there are several things that need to be kept in mind. Firstly, the parent (or someone close to and trusted by the child) will have to convince the child that action is, not only needed, but is also in their own best interest. A cooperative patient is more likely to benefit from any treatment compared to a combative one.
Assuming that the treatment weans the child away from the abuse and also helps correct associated mental disorders, the question of preventing a possible relapse should also be faced. In most cases, family counseling should also be considered. Both to help the family be more understanding of the problem and to correct any faults in the home environment that could have first caused the problem.
Options Family & Behavior Services Inc operating out of either Burnsville or Roseville have a well qualified staff fully equipped to provide Childrens Therapy in Minnesota.

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Newer drug delivery systems in anesthesia
Sona Dave, Deepa Shriyan, Pinakin Gujjar
Department of Anaesthesiology, Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:Sona Dave4C Bindiya, Reclamation Area, Bandra (West), Mumbai - 400 050, Maharashtra IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/joacp.JOACP_63_16
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DOI: 10.4103/joacp.JOACP_63_16
A paradigm shift in drug delivery systems have been noted recently.The focus nowadays is to obtain maximum benefit with lower side effects.It is a monetary burden to launch newer molecules hence the industry is concentrating on improving the efficacy of existing molecules. Thus controlled release, target controlled infusion and closed loop infusion have entered the scene. Applying pharmacokinetic principles, instead of mathematically calculating drug dose could improve safety and maintain steady drug levels in the body. When computers are applied to an efficient operating system, it will only magnify the efficiency. Most of these technologies which were earlier limited to research only have entered clinical practice. This has made it mandatory for the practicing clinician to familiarize themselves with these technologies. Our focus in this review has been to discuss newer drug delivery systems available for anesthesiology practice.
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Why do people listen to what God says at first, but not last? Holy Spirit-inspired "tongues" came on the Apostles this way: "there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:3-4 NKJV). The Apostles were Galileans, the multitude marveled: "how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?" (Acts 2:8 NKJV). Miraculously-given "tongues" (or native-languages) were a means of preaching the Gospel until the New Testament was completed. There are no miraculously-delivered "tongues" today, but we should "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3 NKJV).
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[May is Better Speech and Hearing Month. Every year, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) dedicates this month to raising awareness of conditions which impede communication, such as speech disorders and hearing loss.
For 2019, the theme is "Communication Across the Lifespan." The organization wants to highlight the importance of maintaining communication skills from childhood up to old age. We hope the following story will encourage to think about you and your family's hearing, and seek help earlier rather than later.
New non-profit aims to protect Seattle's musicians from the din of their own music
Sheldon Rosevear is a regular musician on Sundays at Conor Byrne Irish pub in the Ballard neighbourhood of Seattle. He supplements the income from these shows with others throughout the week. But it can be hard pay the rent with music as your career, never mind having to pay for healthcare: I have an appointment in March, and I know that that's going to be just under a week's worth of income for me," said Rosevear.
But a new non-profit called Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare (SMASH) has begun to offer funds to pay for at least one annual clinic visit for Seattle's musicians. The organization is committed to keeping the Seattle music community healthy through health education, the promotion of musicians' rights, and access to preventative healthcare.
The organization also gifted Rosevear a pair of custom earplugs which are used to protect his hearing during performances. These are part of a drive to equip Seattle's musicians with the gear and knowledge to protect their most valuable asset –their hearing. Since 2016, the organization has given free hearing tests and protective earplugs to dozens of Seattle musicians.
"I co-founded SMASH to take care of Seattle musicians through covering the costs of non-emergency doctor and Naturopath visits, hearing protection, dental care and more…this helps keep our music community thriving." – says Ian Moore the SMASH Board President.
Moore knows all about the dangers of loud guitars and crashing cymbals to your ears, having toured with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan in his earlier days.
"One of the most fundamental problems all musicians deal with is hearing loss, and you don't often realize that until it's too late," He explained.
Sensing need for more hearing health awareness among Seattle's musicians, he started SMASH after learning about a similar organization in Austin. Moore has plans to offer more services in the future, dependent on the generosity of private donors and business organizations.
Rosevear meanwhile, cannot thank them enough for the help that they have offered him.
"They're angels," he said
Why focus on hearing loss?
Hearing loss affects anyone, but it especially damaging for those in the music industry, where the ability to hear the instruments of your bandmates, as well as your own, is key to a good performance. Once your ability to hear fails you, performing live ceases to be an option. For professional musicians, this is a career-ending injury.
But when musicians develop hearing loss, they lose more than the music.We are able to communicate with others based on our ability to understand spoken language. Language itself, constantly evolving, dripping with context and nuance is one of the most complex things to listen to and make sense of.
With compromised hearing, trying to understand others requires much more concentration and can be very tiring on the body and the brain, especially in noisy environments. For musicians who spend most of their nights in the noisy bars and clubs, this difficulty in hearing can be amplified even further.
Persistent misunderstandings can be very frustrating for the person speaking as well as the person with the hearing loss. This makes socialising with friends and family events a trying experience. In many cases, the person with the hearing loss chooses to withdraw from these social situations rather than risk social embarrassment.
Luckily, hearing aids have been shown to improve speech comprehension in noisy places, and some models even have tinnitus management features which can be a boon for some musicians.
Are you also suffering from the effects of noise-induced hearing loss? Only you can take that first step toward better hearing health. Come and book a hearing test with us at Better Hearing Center today.


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Everything you need to know about Ryan Gosling's 'First Man' film
All eyes are on Damien Chazelle's next project First Man after the catalogue of Oscars wins and nominations for his last two projects, La La Land and Whiplash.
The film will kick off Venice Film Festival later this month - the same slot occupied by La La Land and other multiple award winner, The Shape of Water, in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Here's everything we know so far about the film which is already creating a buzz (Aldrin).
The story
First Man stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and recounts NASA's mission to put the first man on the moon, as well as the astronaut's life between 1961 and 1969. Based on James R. Hansen's novel of the same name, the film will, "explore the sacrifices and the cost — on Armstrong and on the nation — of one of the most dangerous space missions in history."
Eagle-eyed fans might have spotted that in the trailer Gosling wears an Omega Speedmaster watch. The Speedmaster successfully passed NASA's tests and became qualified for spaceflight in 1965. As the first men to set foot on the moon, the Omega model is, therefore, the first watch to stake the same claim, earning it the nickname "moonwatch."
The cast
Meanwhile Corey Stoll (House Of Cards) and Kyle Chandler (Manchester By The Sea) will play Buzz Aldrin and Deke Slayton, the men who undertook the NASA mission with Armstrong.
Jon Bernthan (Baby Driver, Sicario, The Wolf of Wall Street) will play Dave Scott, who walked on the moon in July 1971 as part of Apollo 15, making him one of only a dozen men to have set foot on its surface.
Claire Foy (The Crown) will play Armstrong's wife Janet Shearon and the trailer already promises that we will see the sacrifice Armstrong's family had to make in order for his mission to be possible.
The crew
Damien Chazelle broke records in 2017 when he became the youngest person to ever win the Best Director Oscar for La La Land. In that year he won the same award at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs as well as the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. This coming off the back of the back of the huge number of nominations and wins his previous film, Whiplash, means he is one of the directors to work with.
In charge of the script is (yep, Oscar-winning) Spotlight writer Josh Singer, and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce the film. The pair have worked on a number of YA successes from Maze Runner to Twilight.
What the cast and crew are saying
Speaking at CinemaCon in Las Vegan this April Chazelle told attendees that, "The goal is to bring moviegoers along with Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11. "
A lofty but vague promise that we've had to go on, but now the release is less than two months away, interviews with the cast have begun to give more details.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly this week Ryan Gosling discussed his experience of filming saying, "It's really hard in a film to convey just how small these capsules were and just how terrifying it was hurtling through space in these."
EW reveal that the crew recreated "scale replicas of the capsules" and had "LED screens playing footage of space to re-create what the astronauts would have seen out of the windows."
Sticklers for accurate adaptations of true stories can rest easy as the cast and crew have worked with the late Neil Armstrong's sister and family and rebuilt the home the astronaut lived in based on blueprints from the original house.
"It was amazing to watch Neil's kids, Rick and Mark, come into the house they had grown up in and see the level to which the crew was working to get this right," Gosling said.
In discussing what inspired Chazelle to revisit this point in history the director explained, "There's actually a tendency now to take some of these things for granted and forget just how difficult and unlikely and really risky and dangerous and crazy the whole endeavour was."
What critics are saying
Unlike some Oscar contenders which have already shown at Cannes or Sundance film festivals, First Man will will open the 75th annual Venice International Film Festival later this moth on 29 August.
As a result there are no reviews as of yet but a sneak preview that showed at CinemaCon had promising reactions from critics.
As Variety reported earlier this year, "One particularly stirring scene finds Armstrong answering his worried children's questions about whether or not he will make it back home after his lunar travels are over. He tries to deflect by noting that his team has confidence in their planning, before ultimately acknowledging that he could die. It's an insular performance, one that could put Gosling in the awards hunt. Foy also may factor into consideration with her portrait of a woman struggling to hold her family together while her husband makes his one giant leap for mankind."
Sounds like a surefire nod for Best Actor for Gosling.
As well as the promise of moving and nuanced acting, it also looks set to be a visual feast. In addition to what we've seen in the trailer, a Reddit user who saw Mission Impossible: Fallout in the cinema earlier this month saw four minutes of footage from the film in an exclusive look and marvelled at the cinematography.
"There was no sound with this shot - it was just absolute silence and it was perfect," they wrote. "It's one of the shots that makes you [not] able [to] move. The only word I have for the experience is ethereal. I have goosebumps thinking about it."
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McClatchy's Kevin G. Hall (2/2/15) wants to drop some (conventional) wisdom on you:
Few things defy gravity more than federal spending. In the nation's capital, what goes up does not come down. It goes up more.
Well, yes and no. The US population grows every year, and its economy grows on top of that most years. So it would be surprising if the real expenditures of the US government didn't generally get bigger and not smaller over time.
Hall tries to make that natural increase sound paradoxical, even sinister:
When President Barack Obama was elected, there was a temporary $535 billion increase in spending during the Great Recession. Yet as the recession faded and that spending ended, total spending eased just a fraction and just temporarily, never returning anywhere near the pre-recession total of $2.9 trillion.
"Yet"–as though one would normally expect the government of a country with 301 million people and a $14.5 trillion economy, as the US had in 2007, to spend the same amount as a country with 320 million people and an $18.1 trillion economy, as the US is projected to have in 2015.
As a percentage of the US economy, which is a more reasonable standard, the size of the federal government does, contrary to Hall's lead, go up and down: Federal spending was 22.3 percent of GDP in 1982, and 17.4 percent in 2000. At the height of World War II, which was the last time the United States faced a serious military threat (sorry, Cold War and "War on Terror"), federal spending topped out at 40.7 percent of GDP.
It's true that the proportion of the US economy devoted to federal spending increased markedly as Washington took on responsibility for insuring retirement (Social Security) and healthcare for the elderly (Medicare). These programs are very popular because they are very successful at doing what they are intended to do, which is reducing the chances that our grandparents, our parents and finally ourselves will end our lives in poverty, sickness and misery.
Some would see this as a good thing.
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But not Kevin Hall. "About half our spending these days is going to Social Security and various health programs, and most of those are extraordinarily popular politically," he quotes austerity advocate Rudolph Penner, then comments from his own perspective:
Therein rests the problem with federal spending. It's hard to cut programs that have a constituency with a vested interest.
By "a constituency with a vested interest," he means the people whom Social Security and Medicare are designed to help, i.e. "the tens of millions of Americans who receive checks from the government":
Want to reduce benefits or make significant changes to Medicare, the health program for those 65 and over? In 2014, there were 53.8 million Americans enrolled in Medicare…. Want to change the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for Social Security recipients to slow rising costs? There were 62 million of them as of December.
But do people who aren't yet on Medicare really want their parents and grandparents to receive less healthcare? Are they hoping to get less healthcare themselves when they retire? On Social Security, do they want their elders' retirement checks to be able to buy less every year, which is the effect of "chang[ing] the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated" (FAIR Blog, 12/9/12)? Is that the kind of retirement that the young and middle-aged are looking forward to?
It's not that the United States can't afford to keep supporting its elderly in the not-particularly-generous manner that it does today; the big debt projection numbers Hall throws at us turn out to be not so big when you look at them as a percentage of the projected economy. He wants us to be alarmed that Obama's budget plan would move the federal government's share of the economy from 20.9 percent today to 22.2 percent in 2024–"higher than post-World War II averages," he points out, but a trivial redistribution of what is expected to be a much larger economic pie.
But redistributing that pie would mean taking back a small fraction of the enormous gains that the wealthy have made over the past 40 years. And if there's one thing that journalists whose job it is to explain the economy to the rest of us are paid to understand, it's that the rich getting richer is meant to be a one-way street.
You can contact Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers' chief economics correspondent, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please remember that respectful communication is most effective, and feel free to leave copies of your message in the comments below.


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Churchill Capital Corp IV, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) run by former Citigroup banker Michael Klein, raised the size of its initial public offering (IPO) to $1.5 billion.
The IPO of Klein's fourth blank-check company had earlier planned to raise $1 billion.
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SPACs typically raise money in an IPO to pursue an acquisition without telling their investors in advance which specific company they will buy. This year, a clutch of private companies have gone public by merging with blank-check companies.
Earlier this month, healthcare services provider MultiPlan inked a $11 billion deal to go public by merging with another entity of Churchill Capital, while electric car maker Fisker agreed to go public through a $2.9 billion deal with a blank-check company backed by buyout firm Apollo Global Management Inc.
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings Ltd, backed by billionaire investor William Ackman, also raised $4 billion last week in the biggest IPO by a special purpose acquisition firm.
Churchill Capital Corp IV will be the second largest blank-check company after Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine.
Churchill Capital Corp IV will list its units, each made up of one share of class A common stock and one-fifth of one redeemable warrant, on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CCIV.U."
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are bookrunners on the deal. (Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Anirban Sen in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)


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When the payment protection insurance (PPI) scandal broke, not
many people realised how long the saga would last. With a 2018
deadline possibly on the cards for PPI compensation claims, we take
a look at what has changed in the wake of the biggest scandal to
have hit the British banking industry.
PPI is an insurance policy that should make repayments on loans
and so on, should the premium holder be unable to do so for a
variety of reasons. On paper, it sounded a great idea and a side
move to protect your finances.
In reality, however, the way the policy was sold to customers
meant that people either knowingly - or not as the case may be -
bought into policy that was effectively useless to them.
As a result, there are many changes that have been made:
Single policy PPI was when the customer paid for the policy
upfront and in one lump sum. They were not overly common but there
were a significant proportion of customers who had a single policy
What this meant in practice was that there was a significant
lump sum added to the cost of the loan, on top of which the
customer would also pay interest. What started as an affordable
loan, quickly became a financial mill stone around the neck for
many people.
When customers did complain or cancel their policy, they were
told they were not entitled to a refund of any monies etc. This can
longer happen.
Many people were sold the PPI at the time they took out a loan
or other credit product. It has been recognised that for many
people, applying for a loan, credit card and so on is an emotional
decision. They invest a lot of emotional energy into needing the
loan to be able to purchase something that is of importance to
This can make people more susceptible to suggestion and thus,
when the representative suggested what a great idea it would be to
protect your loan etc. people bought into the policy.
Some customers were also made to feel that their application was
more likely to be successful and so wholeheartedly bought this
additional policy.
Until the PPI scandal broke, many people may have been under the
impression that there was a whole different set of rules when it
came to consumer rights and financial products. This is not the
case; for example, you do not need to buy any other product from
the bank at the time other than your loan or credit card etc.
PPI showed the banking industry that it needed to change in
order to gain back the trust and loyalty of its customers. But, it
has left many people wondering if banking will ever be the same


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Thoughts Lead To Appreciation
To show the right to breastfeed her child, some women – and men – deem it necessary for a woman to stick out the breast.
Popping out the breast is natural. Breastfeeding is natural and that, of course, means there is no option but to expose her nipples.
Sex is natural.
Can two people sleep together in front of the White House, on Wall Street or anywhere else in broad daylight?
And no, sex is not sexual. It is satisfying that insatiable urge to survive in today's world!!!!
Besides, one may just feel the need to procreate while walking down the street. The urge is unbearable!!!!
The ridiculous part is that some women – and that includes Nigerians – who do not hesitate to publicly expose their nipple in the name of breastfeeding a child will kick a fuss should a man on seeing the nipple tender a compliment: Great tit!
Exposing the nipple is women empowerment; receiving a pass mark for doing so is against women's rights.
One wonders should a woman, while in public, feel some discomfort in her orifice, should she raise her leg to check that everything is in good order in her sweet nectar?
After all it is her body. Anyone who has issues with seeing a woman's private parts should look away.
Or is that considered sexual?
Women please: Breastfeed with activated common sense. Cover the nipple with a cloth when breastfeeding in front of others.
In commemoration of the individual – August 13 The Day Of The Individual.


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Balance in Treetops at Europos Parkas Slow art day in Europos Parkas Gintaras Karosas receives national award Documentary film EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania The work by Sasson Soffer at Europos Parkas Baroque Buildings of Liubavas Manor Converted into Museum Massimo Ghiotti artworks in Vilnius and Europos Parkas Public Training Seminar on the Dissemination of Norwegian and Lithuanian Experience in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage The project on the Revitalisation of Liubavas Manor Officine and Orangery The project increasing public accessibility of the museums has been launched Europos Parkas – one of the best museums Report of Gintaras Karosas in a seminar devoted to Landscape President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė visits Europos Parkas and Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum Events dedicated to honouring Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum with the Oscar for Europe's Heritage Artwork Kultūra (Culture) by Gintaras Karosas to be presented in Europos Parkas Europa Nostra Award to Gintaras Karosas was presented in Lisbon Gintaras Karosas's speech in the scientific conference of Lithuanian museums Liubavas Museum – winner of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award Europos Parkas celebrates its 20th anniversary A sculpture by a Belgian artist Damien Moreau has been unveiled Liubavas Manor Mill Being Transformed into a Museum Unusual exhibition in Europos Parkas Fragment of the Berlin Wall in Europos Parkas Europos Parkas has started the project for revitalizing of Liubavas manor watermill The works by Gintaras Karosas were presented in Europos Parkas A sculpture intended for the Millennium of Lithuania has been built in the Europos Parkas Europos Parkas becomes more accessible The Recognition of State Significance Europos Parkas featured in Lithuania Superbrands 2007 Ghiotti's Sculptures Returned to Europos Parkas Artist's House is Available Online Europos Parkas Guide Sculpture Gintare / Electricity Gintaras Karosas - laureate of The National Advancement Prize Competition "Light, electricity, energy" The documentary about Europos Parkas The idea of the Europos Parkas Festival was presented in the MIDEM The bloom of the Voices Underground's hillock is awaited this spring Competition to develop a sculpture Europos Parkas project has been granted by EU PHARE 2001 Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region Programme Lithuania Post has issued a postal stationery card "Europos Parkas" Mobile sculptures in Europos Parkas The Place – a new landscape artwork by Gintaras Karosas The 10th International Sculpture Symposium and the newest works President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus visited Europos Parkas during the celebration of the day of Europe The World's Largest Sculpture Made of TV Sets
Jerzy Jotka Kędziora exhibition
Balance in the Treetops
at Europos Parkas
Balance in the Treetops at Europos Parkas
This summer Lithuanian museum Europos Parkas, which features sculpture art created by the most famous world artists, welcomes an exhibition by the Polish sculptor Jerzy Kędziora a.k.a Jotka. The open-air museum space will exhibit a new trend in the world of contemporary art, namely the artwork that finds its location between the earth and sky.
Jerzy Jotka Kędziora creates balancing sculptures, which seem to defy the force of gravity and laws of statics, conveying the timeless message from the author to people of all cultures. According to the author, his sculptures illustrate unrealistic desires, like a dream of walking on a tightrope, offering a possibility to envision oneself in a completely different reality. The story behind each Kędziora's artwork would be no shorter than an actual person's biography - his artwork offers that much of content. The figures hanging above the heads of spectators seem to act in a similar manner as the bystanders: they observe, watch others go, imitate, and sometimes make fun.
Emerging as an actual spectacle between the earth and sky, this time Jerzy Kędziora's exhibition takes place in the combined landscape of Lithuanian nature and worldwide art. The expressive, dynamic, often ambiguous, and surprising sculptures will prompt visitors to balance on the verge of their imagination and new discoveries.
Jerzy Kędziora a.k.a Jotka says: "For years, I have been unsuccessfully trying to meet the challenge, which for the old political order, posed to me from behind our eastern border: Lithuanians, Georgians, Latvians, and even Kazakhs, whom I met at international plein-airs in Poland. They signaled a desire to show my works on their territory in their cultural areas. I was very pleased receiving the invitation from Gintaras Karosas - an outstanding artist, creator, animator and organizer of the Europos Parkas - very significant for contemporary sculpture not only for our part of Europe. The familiarization visit in January confirmed my belief that this is a great place for presenting balancing sculptures. Showing my sculptures in the context of the artworks of many celebrities of modern art gathered by Gintaras Karosas is a pleasure and raises the rank of the event."
The exhibition is open at Europos Parkas from July to November.
The oppening of the exhibition on Thursday, July 16th, at 4 PM at Europos Parkas.
Makoto Ito. Snail. Photo by L.Bielinis.
Slow art day in Europos Parkas
On Saturday, April 4th, 2020, we invite you to visit the Europos Parkas museum and to experience the art pieces created by world-know artists s l o w l y.
Each one of us can have unique and memorable art experience. Europos Parkas joins the international initiative "slow art day" when people all over the world visit museums and galleries to look at the art pieces s l o w l y.
It is an incentive to stop, to take a breath, to feel the "here and now" moment, to the joy of exploring art, nature, landscape, moments of mindfulness.
On the Lithuanian Statehood Day (the day of the crowning of Lithuania's King Mindaugas), President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania to Gintaras Karosas
Gintaras Karosas receives national award
On 6 July 2018, the Lithuanian Statehood Day (the day of the crowning of Lithuania's King Mindaugas), President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania to Gintaras Karosas for promoting Lithuania's name around the globe.
Gintaras Karosas is a sculptor, a public, cultural, and political figure, founder of the Europos Parkas (Park of Europe) and Liubavas manor museums, creator of numerous pieces of art and the artistic landscape of the Park of Europe, and author of a number of books and articles, researcher of cultural heritage, and laureate of a National Award of Advancement.
I am happy with the honorary award, I try to serve Lithuania every day in my work, by carrying on my family tradition,' says Karosas. 'It is a fond memory that my grandfather, Vladimiras Karosas, too, received the Order of Duke Gediminas for merits to Lithuania from President Antanas Smetona on 16 February 1931.'
The moments from the first public showing of Algirdas Tarvydas documentary film EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania
The moments from the first public showing of Algirdas Tarvydas documentary film EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania
The black and white film captures unique shots that reveal the beginning and creation of Europos Parkas. Film director A. Tarvydas shows a parallel between creation of Europos Parkas and revival of Lithuania: Act of Independence, the defense of the Parliament building in Vilnius as well as the storm of Vilnius TV Tower, the funeral of January 13th victims and other moments of our nation's determination. A.Tarvydas' documentary "EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING" covers more than a quarter-century of storyline and becomes a historic memory, showing a symbiosis between Lithuanian Act of Independence and Europos Parkas. This documentary is dedicated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuania in 2018.
The participants of the film showing enjoyed the comparison of Europos Parkas and Lithuanian history in the documentary, emphasizing that the parallel is not coincidental, in fact – when creating Europos Parkas, its creator Gintaras Karosas was creating Lithuania. However, according to the speakers, Lithuania's independence is incomplete just as the idea of the park has no end, therefore, it is important to continue to work in further creating Lithuania and its independence and is possible that film will have continuation.
The moments from the first public showing of Algirdas Tarvydas documentary film in the photographs
On Decemeber 30, 2017, at the Education Centre of Europos Parkas the first public showing of documentary "EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING" directed by the famous documentarian Algirdas Tarvydas, took place.
The first public showing of documentary EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING
On Decemeber 30, 2017, at the Education Centre of Europos Parkas the first public showing of documentary "EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING" directed by the famous filmmaker Algirdas Tarvydas, took place.
This documentary is unusual in many ways. The black and white film captures unique moments and exposes the very beginning of Europos Parkas, shows the creation process and tells us about famous artists. Film director draws a parallel between the Independence of Lithuania and the creation of the modern art museum, by using footage from the forest, which later becomes the park and the defense of the Parliament building in Vilnius as well as the storm of Vilnius TV Tower, the funeral of January 13th victims and other important moments of our nation's determination.
Tarvydas' documentary film "EUROPOS PARKAS. THE BEGINNING"covers more than a quarter-century of storyline and becomes a historic memory, showing a birth and growth of Europos Parkas – one of revived Lithuanian's identity. This documentary is dedicated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Restoration of the State of Lithuania in 2018.
Film creator Algirdas Tarvydas says: "I am a documentarian, that's why I must capture a story. By recording Lithuanian fights for Independence I couldn't possibly know the end results. Many times I risked my life when I stepped with camera into the whirlwind of events, where was shooting. Once I barely managed to not get killed. It was complicated, you're doing it and you do not know what's going to happen. It pains me, that young people are leaving Lithuania. It is necessary to work hard here, build a life, endure. This movie is about that."
Stella Sands, Gintaras Karosas, Brigita Krasauskaitė, Raminta Jurėnaitė
Sasson Soffer. Midmien. Europos Parkas
Moments from opening of the sculpture Midmien by Sasson Soffer
On July 30th, 2017 a gigantic sculpture Midmien by famous artist Sasson Soffer (1925–2009) was introduced in Europos Parkas. The gifted painter and sculptor was born in Baghdad, yet received recognition in the USA. The museum of Europos Parkas is especially grateful to the Sasson Soffer Foundation in the person of his wife Stella Sands, and the initiator of the idea and organiser artist Brigita Krasauskaitė, who worked at the foundation, for an enormous contribution to the permanent exposition of Europos Parkas.
Gintaras Karosas, the founder and creator of Europos Parkas, says: "The work of Sasson Soffer in Europos Parkas is a sculpture of real modern art, which is rarely met nowadays. We are glad that from now on the visitors of Europos Parkas will have a chance to admire a magnificent expressionistic, virtuously implemented work of a talented artist, gigantic, yet not disturbing the natural environment".
Moments from opening in the photographs
Sasson Soffer. Midmien
The work by Sasson Soffer at Europos Parkas
The sculpture Midmien by talented artist Sasson Soffer (1925–2009) will be presented to the public in Europos Parkas next Sunday, July 30, at 12 noon.
Born in Baghdad, Sasson Soffer became a famous artist of New York. At first known as an abstract painter, he later become well known for his expressive three-dimensional public sculptures, exhibited in many countries world wide.
More information and registration: +370 5 2377 077, email@example.com
Europos Parkas has implemented the project on the Conservation of Liubavas Manor Officine and Orangery and Its Adaptation to Cultural and Public Needs financed under the EEA financial mechanism's Programme Conservation and Revitalisation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Baroque Buildings of Liubavas Manor Converted into Museum
The buildings of the 18th century baroque architecture ensemble of Liubavas Manor have been revived for a new life. The financial support of the European Economic Area and the Republic of Lithuania has created possibilities to conserve the objects of Lithuanian cultural heritage and adapt them for cultural and public needs. The buildings of the central representation part – servants' quarters (officine)/treasury and orangery have been conserved and adapted for the needs of the museum.
The project was implemented by Public Institution Europos Parkas; Liubavas Museum of History, Cultural and Technical Heritage founded by the Public Institution in the watermill of the manor has been operating since 2011. The officine and the orangery of the manor accommodate museum expositions. The Museum implemented the project in co-operation with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) that has a lot of experience in the sphere of cultural heritage research and employs skilled specialists and experts.
An event presenting the results of the project will be held at 12:00 AM on Sunday, 30 April, 2017 in Liubavas Manor (Liubavas village, Vilnius District); during the event all those who are interested will be able to have a tour of the objects which have been the restored and converted into a museum as well as share their project implementation experience.
Massimo Ghiotti arwork at Europos Parkas
Massimo Ghiotti – in Vilnius gallery Titanikas and Europos Parkas
Famous Italian artist Massimo Ghiotti's sculpture exhibition On the other side of appearance opened at the Vilnius Academy of Arts exhibition halls Titanikas.
Large scale artworks by Massimo Ghiotti we can see exhibited in Europos Parkas. For his sculptures, Ghiotti uses the specific items of industrial constructions, often having the potential possibility of motion – springs, pistons, crane cutters. These connected items are not intended for motion, they embody the antique equilibrium, proportions, harmony. Here, the motion is pressed, framed, concentrated into the anticipated inner stress.
In the exhibition On the other side of appearance we enter into a different expression and meet the new metal forms used by Massimo Ghiotti. They have already lost their three-dimensional expression and intensive brutality, which were previously used by the author to express the force in the elements of sculpture. Metal is still dominant, but now it is used in a form of canvas. These are stainless steel plates, in which the relationship, continuity of the nature of work and tensions remain.
Gallery Titanikas and Europos Parkas information.
Public Training Seminar on the Dissemination of Norwegian and Lithuanian Experience in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
A seminar intended for everyone interested in the issues of the cultural heritage preservation and restoration will be held on 12–13 November 2014. It is expected that the seminar would be of particular use for the owners and managers of manor houses and other immovable heritage of Lithuania.
Participants in the seminar will be invited to take part in discussions, using a unique opportunity to put questions to the experts from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research and the Lithuanian researchers with many years' experience in the preservation of cultural heritage.
The seminar will take place in Europos parkas Education Centre. A visit to Liubavas Manor will be organised so that the participants in the seminar will have an opportunity to familiarise themselves with objects under restoration (the officine and the orangery) as well with those already restored and open to the public (the watermill museum).
The seminar is free of charge. The number of participants is limited, therefore, please kindly register in advance by writing to firstname.lastname@example.com
People will also be taken to the place of seminar by coach. The coach will leave at 9:00 AM from Forum Palace car parking lot at Upės Street.
Europos Parkas is implementing a project on the Revitalisation of Liubavas Manor Officine and Orangery
Public Institution Europos Parkas has launched, jointly with its partner the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), a project on the Conservation of Liubavas Manor Officine and Orangery and Its Adaptation to Cultural and Public Needs which is financed under the EEA financial mechanism's Programme "Conservation and Revitalisation of Cultural and Natural Heritage". NIKU is Norway's largest cultural heritage research institution the specialists of which are hired for the restoration of cultural heritage sites in Europe and other parts of the world.
The aim of the project is to restore the 18th century Officine and Orangery of Liubavas Manor as well as adapt them for the purposes of a museum. The project will be implemented in the period from July 2014 until the beginning of 2016.
The project increasing public accessibility of the museums has been launched
Public Institution Europos Parkas, one of the first NGOs in Lithuania, has launched the project "Increasing public accessibility of the Europos parkas and the Liubavas Museum situated in rural areas". The project has been supported by the Lithuanian-Swiss Cooperation Programme through the NGO Fund.
Aim of the project – to contribute to the increase of economic and social cohesion by improving access for socially vulnerable groups of the society in Vilnius Region to museums situated in rural areas.
Europos Parkas – one of the best museums
EUROPOS PARKAS, a museum in the centre of Europe, was named the third best Lithuanian museum 2012. The first place and the highest number of museum visitors' votes went to the Museum of Rokiškis Region, followed by Ch. Frenkel's Villa of the Šiauliai Aušra Museum. Experts of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture selected 20 most attractive museums in Lithuania, allowing the public to give their vote online.
The voting continued throughout November and December 2012. The awards ceremony was held on 20 December 2012 in the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, where sculptor Gintaras Karosas, founder of the Europos Parkas, was awarded a diploma signed by the Minister of Culture.
Europos Parkas' artistic landscape created within a neglected forest has been acknowledged as one of the best examples in Lithuania by the Committee of National Landscape Award organized by Lithuanian Ministry of Environment.
Report of Gintaras Karosas in a seminar devoted to Landscape
On 19 October, 2012, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania organized a seminar to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the European Landscape Convention. Gintaras Karosas delivered a report "Open-air museum EUROPOS PARKAS in the River Neris valley".
Europos Parkas' artistic landscape created within a neglected forest has been acknowledged as one of the best examples in Lithuania by the Committee of National Landscape award. The National Landscape Award was established by the Ministry of Environment regarding to the European Landscape Convention Article 11 seeking to exchange information about landscape management and to show good practice examples of landscape protection, management and planning.
Report of Gintaras Karosas in a seminar to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the European Landscape Convention
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė visits Europos Parkas and Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė visits Europos Parkas and Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum
The National Award Ceremony celebrating Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum becoming a winner of European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2012 took place on 18 September 2012. The event was held at the project site, Liubavas Village, Vilnius District. President of the Republic of Lithuania H. E. Dalia Grybauskaitė took part in the ceremony. Addresses by H. E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, H. E. Leif Arne Ulland, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, Dr. Roger Woodley, Vice Chair of the Europa Nostra Category 1 Jury, Gediminas Rutkauskas, Vice Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, and others honoured the event.
President of the Republic of Lithuania saw the exposition of Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum and later visited Europos Parkas, the open-air art museum, which is close to Liubavas.
More information about National Award Ceremony at Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum
Speech of Gintaras Karosas at the National Award Ceremony of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award in Liubavas
European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award
Events dedicated to honouring Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum with the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award
The National Award Ceremony to celebrate honouring Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum with the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2012 will be held on 18 September 2012. The Ceremony will be delivered at Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum, Liubavas Village, Vilnius District and is scheduled to begin at 11 a. m. The agenda of the National Award Ceremony includes an address by H. E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.
According to the Rules of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award, national award events are held in each awarded country and are aimed at drawing public attention to the importance of proper protection of cultural heritage.
Gintaras Karosas. Culture
Artwork Kultūra (Culture) by Gintaras Karosas to be presented in Europos Parkas
The new art work Kultūra (Culture) created by sculptor Gintaras Karosas will be presented to the public in Europos Parkas next Sunday, July 29, at 12 noon. Kultūra (Culture) is a huge work attributable to landscaping art, which is spread out in an expressive open-air museum's area of more than one hectare.
Five sculptural forms of bright colours, whose contours are reminiscent of silhouettes of an iceberg, mountain or architectural object, as if melt and re-emerge in the nature, forming a sequence completed with elements of wildlife. Weaving sculptural forms, which rise to a height of nearly eight metres, are built up of several hundred thousand small pieces of marble. This exclusive work of art was constructed in Europos Parkas by a team of 7 craftsmen for as long as three years.
Sculptor Gintaras Karosas says that the concept of culture is very broad: "The term of culture can be defined by words easier than by forms. However, when you have gained experience, it is the time when visions mature and you want to speak about basic matters of human life. For me, culture first of all means meaningful traces of the past and present of the man, which have been built up piece by piece by the humankind. Culture is paradoxical: as strong as a foundation, but also fragile and endangered; appearing to be clear, but difficult to depict; as monumental as a mountain, but also as misleading as a labyrinth".
Gintaras Karosas presented his book Liubavas to Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and invited him to visit Lithuania
EU prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award to Gintaras Karosas was presented in Lisbon
The best-preserved objects of the European cultural heritage were conferred awards at the solemn ceremony held by the European Union and Europa Nostra in Lisbon (Portugal). Sculptor Gintaras Karosas, the author of the project for the restoration of the Liubavas Manor watermill and its adaptation for a museum, received an honourable award. The whole list of the prize winners in the category of conservation includes 16 objects of European cultural heritage.
Gintaras Karosas delivered a report presenting the implemented project. The awards were presented by Androulla Vassiliou, the Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, and Plácido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra.
The solemn ceremony held at the courtyard of the Jerónimos Monastery (protected by UNESCO) was attended and addressed by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal, and members of the Portuguese royal family.
More information about the European Heritage Awards Ceremony
Gintaras Karosas' report delivered at the European Heritage Congress 2012
Gintaras Karosas, artist, creator of Europos Parkas and Liubavas Museums
Gintaras Karosas's speech The challenging establishment of Europos Parkas, Lithuania's first non-governmental museum in the scientific conference of Lithuanian museums
The endeavour to be the first in the post-independence Lithuania to open a museum by a non-governmental organisation presented a challenge, the experience and problems of which I would like to share with you. The establishment of a new museum, just like any other creative undertaking, is first of all related with the concepts of intuition, dream, vision, artist's self-fulfilment and the will to embody an idea. This is reminiscent with a long and exhaustive mountain climbing, expecting to see the promised wonderful landscape. On the way up we discover a whole variety of sights.
In the process of creating Europos Parkas museum there were two main fields of activity: the institutional, or the managerial, and that of the aesthetic value, or the artistic landscape creation-embodiment. The essence and value of a modern and contemporary art museum in the open air is the artistic landscape, which is now under development. This is not a cultural heritage that we inherit but rather the heritage that we want to develop and pass on to the coming generations. An open-air museum has its peculiarities as it is a museum of aesthetic landscape. It is always in a particular place in situ, nowhere else, and its essence lies in its genius loci. The spirit of the place, or the aura of the landscape, takes time to create as it requires thorough acquaintance with the location and polishing it for years.
Liubavas Museum – winner of the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award
Europa Nostra, the most influential heritage organisation in Europe, has recognised Liubavas Manor Watermill Museum near Vilnius a prime example in conservation of European cultural heritage, which is to receive European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award to highlight the excellence in restoration, done with love and care. The museum represents a conversion of one of the landmarks of cultural heritage, done at the initiative of sculptor Gintaras Karosas in 2011. The project had the support of the Financial Mechanisms of the European Economic Area and Norway.
Out of the 226 applications from 31 countries, the independent experts of Europa Nostra chose 16 that will be awarded for ultimate achievements in the category of heritage conservation. Only two cultural heritage sites located in post-communist European countries will receive this award.
Europos parkas celebrates its 20th anniversary
This year open-air museum Europos Parkas celebrates its 20th anniversary. The creation of Europos Parkas began back in 1987 when a nineteen-year-old artist Gintaras Karosas, having read in an inter-war geography textbook that the centre of Europe was near Vilnius, started creating a world art museum in wild woodland. In the summer of 1991 he built the first sculpture. The main driving force behind the foundation of Europos Parkas was a dream and a desire to have an exceptional ensemble of art and nature that would represent Lithuania. The development of Europos Parkas established in people's mind the perception of Lithuania as the country that is in the geographical centre of Europe.
The landscape of Europos Parkas has been constantly transforming, shaping and developing, thus creating a new quality over and over again. Now, the open-air museum covering the area of 55 hectares is home for more than a hundred artworks created by artists from all over the world. Europos Parkas has become one of the identifiers of the contemporary Lithuanian culture.
Damien Moreau. Reclining Woman
A sculpture by a Belgian artist has been unveiled in Europos Parkas
Reclining Woman, a sculpture by a Belgian artist Damien Moreau has been unveiling in Europos Parkas.
The Kingdom of Belgium donated the sculpture to the Republic of Lithuania on the occasion of its presidency of the Council of the European Union. The sculptor Damien Moreau took part in the sculpture uncovering ceremony. The Reclining Woman in Europos Parkas will represent a tiny part of the Belgian culture in Lithuania.
Liubavas Manor Mill Being Transformed into a Museum
The Public Institution Europos Parkas is executing the Restoration of Liubavas Manor mill, its Adaptation to Cultural and Public Needs, and is half-completed. The project is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and co-financed by the Republic of Lithuania.
The main goal of the project is to restore the mill for cultural purposes and to create a museum inside for the public. The museum will demonstrate the usage of mill equipment, and will share the history of Liubavas Manor. Much of the restoration has been completed, furniture is being constructed, the exposition and a web-site are being created.
Liubavas Manor Mill Museum will open its doors to visitors in 2011.
The exhibition "Europos Parkas: From a Dream to the Present"
An unusual exhibition in Europos Parkas
Europos Parkas invites visitors of the museum to come to see an unusual exhibition. Why is it unusual? It is because the stands of the exposition are situated not in a hall but right in the open air. The exhibition "Europos Parkas: From a Dream to the Present" presents the main principles of creation of Europos Parkas or, as the creator of the museum Gintaras Karosas says, it is a collection of answers to frequently asked questions.
The principle of the open air exhibition corresponds to the general idea of the open air museum: here grass means the floor, trees become walls of the exposition halls, and the sky serves as the ceiling. The exhibition reveals the way from the concept of the museum to its implementation, it brings the spectator emotionally and intellectually closer to the exhibited works of art.
There are twenty pages of a huge book with text and photographs, each designed for a certain topic. "Art", Black Sheep", "Friendly architecture", "People", "The Miracle". The project is partly financed by Lithuanian Cultural Fund.
On 9 November 2009 a fragment of the Berlin Wall was mounted and opened in Europos Parkas.
A fragment of the Berlin Wall in Europos Parkas
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the German Embassy together with the Goethe Institute in Lithuania gave the city of Vilnius a unique gift – a fragment of the Berlin Wall. On 9 November 2009 a fragment of the Berlin Wall was mounted and opened in Europos Parkas. The opening ceremony was attended by the German Ambassador in Lithuania Hans-Peter Annen, the Deputy Vilnius Mayor Vidmantas Martikonis, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Audronius Ažubalis, representatives of the project organisers, press representatives and a large number of guests.
After regaining of Independence, Europos Parkas,demonstrates opening of Lithuania for European art and culture. Europos Parkas, being among the first ones to invite artists from all over the world to come to Lithuania, started "tearing down Berlin walls" in the field of culture and became a symbol of new thinking and a bridge between different cultures.
Europos Parkas has started the project for revitalizing of Liubavas manor watermill
Public Institution Europos Parkas is implementing the project "Restoration of Liubavas Manor Watermill and its Adaptation to Cultural and Public Needs". The project is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and co-financed by the Republic of Lithuania.
The project is dedicated to preservation of valuable cultural heritage object in the district of Vilnius. Its duration is 18 months. Main purpose of the project is restoration of a former Liubavas manor watermill and its adaptation to cultural and public needs. In order to preserve and reveal valuable properties of the object to the maximum extent, the mill will be used as a museum.
The works by Gintaras Karosas were presented in Europos Parkas
On 25 June 2009 works created in 2001 – 2009 by the sculptor Gintaras Karosas, the founder of Europos Parkas, were presented in Europos Parkas.
The artist is creating exceptionally in the space of Europos Parkas. As Gintaras Karosas is also the author of the whole landscape of Europos Parkas occupying 55 ha, his works are firmly incorporated into the environment. Forming relations between sculptures and the landscape, for his works Karosas chooses minimalistic forms, foregoing details or, as he himself says, brushing unnecessary varnish off.
A sculpture intended for the Millennium of Lithuania has been built in Europos Parkas
On 29 April 2009, the opening of a new sculpture Conjuror created by one of the most prominent contemporary artists Magdalena Abakanowicz took place in Europos Parkas. This new work of art is created specially for the occasion of the Millennium of Lithuania and the event Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009. The author of the sculpture took part in the unveiling ceremony.
Prof. Magdalena Abakanowicz is one of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Mrs. Abakanowicz has organised over 100 personal exhibitions in the world, her works are included in the most important collections of museums all over the world.
This project is part of national program Vilnius – Cultural Capital of Europe 2009.
Europos Parkas becomes more accessible
This autumn, Europos Parkas announces good news for schoolchildren and pensioners of Vilnius city. The museum started implementing the project Increasing Access to Europos Parkas and Development of Collection supported by Vilnius City Municipality. Under this Project, groups of schoolchildren of Vilnius City and pensioners residing in Vilnius will be able to visit Europos Parkas for free the whole year.
Europos Parkas implemented the project supported by Fund for Project Development from EEA and the Norwegian Financial Mechanisms
Public Institution Europos Parkas successfully implemented the project Preparation of Investment and Technical Projects for the Restoration of Liubavas Manor Watermill and Its Adaptation to Cultural and Public Needs supported under EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanisms. All specified objectives had been achieved.
Lithuania's national logo presented in Europos Parkas
On 21 August 2008, Lithuanian national logo designated to promote the country's name and spread information about the country in the world, our peculiarities and distinctive features was presented in Europos Parkas. The conception based on which the Lithuanian national logo was created was grounded on the statement Lithuania is a brave country. Over 100 guests, i.e. Vytas Navickas, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania, managers of State Department of Tourism, Lithuanian Tourism Development Agency, and a lot of media representatives, participated in the presentation.
The Recognition of State Significance
Pursuant to Resolution No. 76 of 23 January 2008, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania accepted the activities of the museum of the Public Institution Europos Parkas as the project of state significance.
As the Government Press Service and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania emphasize in their press releases: "Europos Parkas museum is an outstanding object in Lithuania, integrating the naturally formed scenery and contemporary sculpture art, by thus creating the unique cultural landscape.
After accepting the museum activities of Europos Parkas as the cultural project significant to the state, the positive image of Lithuania will be shaped more effectively, the idea of the country in the geographical centre of Europe will be spread, and the accumulation of the cultural values as well as the formation of the cultural landscape will be further actively combined with the cooperation of the artists from different countries, provision of information about plastic arts to the public."
Europos Parkas Featured in Lithuania Superbrands 2007
On 30 October 2007 at Vilnius University, Superbrands, an international independent arbiter on branding, launched Lithuania Superbrands 2007, a national branding book. It features Europos Parkas amongst the 28 brands that have been performing beyond others within the market, that are exceptional brands in their values and success stories as well as original presentation.
Vilnius University and Europos Parkas are the only non-business organisations that earned the status of Superbrand.
This status is recognised as a benchmark for brand success. In over 70 countries, a national Superbrands Council, which consists of the most high profile and experienced experts in the market and leaders from media channels, is tasked with compiling a Superbrands list.
For over a decade, the Superbrand rating process is run in order to identify brands as high achievers in building their image and value within the market. Of the Baltic States, Lithuania is the first country that published a national book of Superbrands.
Massimo Ghiotti (Italy). Tetra vis / Power of Four
Ghiotti's Sculptures Returned to Europos Parkas
Having travelled around other European countries, in May 2007, sculptures by Massimo Ghiotti returned to Lithuania. Seven steel sculptures by the well-known Italian artist were displayed at the space of the open-air museum prepared specially for them. For his sculptures, Ghiotti uses the specific items of industrial constructions, often having the potential possibility of motion – springs, pistons, crane cutters. These connected items are not intended for motion, they embody the antique equilibrium, proportions, harmony. Here, the motion is pressed, framed, concentrated into the anticipated inner stress.
The exposition of the sculptures by M. Ghiotti in Europos Parkas includes the following creations: Tetra vis (Power of Four), Tetrachia (Divided Power), Rotante (Rotating Device), Onde (Wave Form), Vis (Power Source), Eraclitea (Hercules' Challenge) and Incursa (Running Gear).
Educational Tool Artist's House is Available Online
Visitors of the website of Europos Parkas are invited to visit an interactive Artist's House. It is an online version of the educational tool developed with participation of Europos Parkas within the framework of the international project DIDART.
Created under the umbrella of the project, six mobile Artist's Houses have been travelling across the countries of project partners. One of the houses is Gintaras Karosas's house. These educational tools allow an in-depth insight into the artist's oeuvre; discovery of his works, biography, as well as his hobbies, dreams, childhood memories, favourite music, and the very process of creation.
The interactive Artist's House is meant for schoolchildren, students, art teachers, art education professionals and everybody who loves art.
In December 2006, Europos Parkas Guide was published. The guide presents sculptures, built in the open-air museum during a period of more than fifteen years, their authors and brief description.
Gintaras Karosas, the author of Europos Parkas landscape, writes in the introduction of the book: "The guide does not explore all sculptures, environment art works, installations created during the period of time mentioned – considerably more of them had been created, however, not all projects are long-lasting – in the course of time, part of works created from short-lived materials have vanished.
Since the time touches upon works of art, photographs of some works will no longer correspond to the real picture, because their photographs were taken at the moment when they were put on exhibition. The landscape of Europos Parkas is still under formation and constant improvement which is why some works now appear in different areas of the park than those you have seen in photographs.
We wish you meaningful discoveries exploring the mysterious world of art!"
The publication was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and TOYOTA's centre Tokvila.
New Sculpture Gintare / Electricity
On 8 December 2006, Gintare / Electricity, a new work by Evaldas Pauza was unveiled in Europos Parkas. This sculpture is the winner of an international competition "Light, electricity, energy". 46 artists from 18 countries across the world took part in the competition. Competitors based in very remote countries such as Argentina and Cuba also submitted their projects.
The project of Evaldas Pauza, a Lithuanian artist, was recognised as the winner of the international competition. The word "electricity" originated from Greek elektron (in Lithuanian gintaras, in English amber). A little girl Gintare like a scientist explores the phenomenon of electrifying. The sculpture was sponsored by Rytų skirstomieji tinklai.
The National Advancement Prize was awarded to Gintaras Karosas for establishing the open-air museum of the Europos Parkas
Gintaras Karosas - laureate of The National Advancement Prize
On May 28, 2006, Gintaras Karosas was pronounced the winner of the Cultural Advancement Prize. The National Advancement Prize was awarded to Gintaras Karosas for establishing the open-air museum of the Europos Parkas. During the award ceremony, sculptor Gintaras Karosas voiced thanks "to the people who would lend well-meant assistance and to those, who at least would not hinder during the entire years of developing the Europos Parkas."
The young artist's dream to create a museum of modern and contemporary art became a reality. Thanks to his talent, creative efforts and persistent work, Karosas managed to turn the desolate location near Vilnius into a centre of attraction by placing an emphasis not on heritage, but rather on the subject of art of this century. The personal creative initiative became a cultural phenomenon, which has remained unexplainable for many people ridden with stereotypical thinking. The idea of establishing a museum, a park is usually seen as the prerogative of the state. However, the idea of the Europos Parkas is being implemented by non-governmental organisations.
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Competition to develop a sculpture
The open-air art museum Europos Parkas is opening a competition in partnership with the electric networking and supply company Rytu Skirstomieji Tinklai to develop a sculpture. The theme: "Light, electricity, energy". Participants of the competition are asked to submit sculpture project proposed for Europos Parkas (sketches, drawings or model – or its photographs); a description of the submitted work; images (slides, photos, etc) of previous artworks; a short author's biography (CV) and list of exhibitions. The deadline is April 30th, 2006.
Gintaras Karosas and Magdalena Abakanowicz
(the documentary Strolling through Europos Parkas)
Lithuanian national television created the documentary about Europos Parkas
Lithuanian National television created the documentary Strolling through Europos Parkas. Scriptwriter and director – Vidmantas Baciulis, cameraman – Vytas Plytnikas.
The film is sort of the mosaic of moods, arranged from different spectrums of the museum activities: both the daily activities and education as well as multicultural communication exist here.
Authors of the film, by refusing the didactics, summarize the route covered from the neglected, swampy forest to creation of the outstanding cultural object able to invite about 60,000 visitors per year.
The idea of the Europos Parkas Festival 2006 was presented in the international music industry fair MIDEM
In the 39th international music fair MIDEM 2005, which has taken place in Cannes (France) on January 23-27, in the joint stand of the Baltic countries Lithuania has for the first time presented its music industry. The new project Europos Parkas Festival has also been presented in the official stand of Lithuania.
The initiator and producer of the Europos Parkas Festival Odeta Abromaviciute sincerely thanks for all the people of the good will who have in every possible way have contributed to the presentation of the idea of the project in MIDEM and expresses a special gratitude to "Yanos" (Netherlands), "Carlson Wagonlit Travel", "Ermara" Ltd., "Concept Events & Media" Ltd., advertising agency "Aola", "Arx Baltica" Ltd., leisure and entertainment center "Belmontas", cocktail bar "Iki Ausros" and "Dora" Ltd. More information on MIDEM 2005
Patricia Goodrich. Voices Underground
Europos Parkas meets this spring awaiting the bloom of the Voices Underground's hillock.
The author of this earthwork created in Europos Parkas - American artist Patricia Goodrich.
Voices Underground plants the voices of forty-four artists from fifteen countries by sowing the seed of perennial wildflowers and burying bulbs over a three hundred foot site of stretched and spliced audiotapes. The recorded tapes include artists speaking about their artistic journeys, creative process and way of living in English and in their native languages. More information about Voices Underground created by Patricia Goodrich.
Europos Parkas in partnership with the packaging company "PakMarkas" is opening a competition to develop a sculpture.
The theme of the sculpture: "Catch The Wind" The implemented sculpture is to be exhibited in Europos Parkas. The deadline for submitting the projects is April 15, 2004.
The participants of the competition have to submit: sculpture project proposed for Europos Parkas (sketches, drawings or photographs); a description of the submitted work; images (slides, photos, etc) of previous artworks; a short author's biography (CV) and a list of exhibitions. More information about the competition.
Europos Parkas project
BSR Museums Co-operation: Tourism and Education
is co-financed by the EU PHARE 2001
Co-operation Programme in the Baltic Sea Region
Europos Parkas project has been granted by EU PHARE 2001 Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region Programme.
The aim of the project BSR Museums Co-operation: Tourism and Education is to establish a co-operative networking among museums that present modern and contemporary art within the Baltic Sea Region. A particular emphasis is made on education function of those museums and sharing the educational practice among them. Another issue that is addressed is promotion of these museums as cultural tourism attractions that provide both learning and fun experience.
The partners of the project are Louisiana Museum of Modern Art & Education Center Copenhagen (Denmark), The Wanås Foundation (Sweden), The Museum of New Art (Estonia), Foundation Abava Valley (Latvia) and Vilnius Art School for Children and Youth (Vilnius, Lithuania). More information about the project.
On November 29, 2003 Lithuania Post issued a postal stationery card "Europos Parkas"
Lithuania Post has issued a postal stationery card "Europos Parkas".
On November 29, 2003 Lithuania Post issued a postal stationery card "Europos Parkas". In Vilnius Main Post Office the new postal stationery card was cancelled with a first day cancellation on this day.
Postal stationery card is a post card with a printed stamp. The founder of the park, sculptor Gintaras Karosas has designed the card. The postal stationery card contains images of the Monument of the Centre of Europe. This sculpture indicates all capitals of Europe, information on the distances to them as measured from the centre of Europe. The unique stamp of the post card includes a logo of Europos Parkas.
Mobile sculptures by Mindaugas Tendziagolskis
Mobile sculptures in Europos Parkas
On July 31, 2003, the unique composition of movable sculptures, MOBILE GAMES was presented in Europos Parkas. It is an artwork made up of 5 separate sculptures. Each piece is a dynamic component of a larger work, specifically made for outdoor games. Both children and adults can enjoy the fun. These playful art objects are created so one can play alone, as a couple, or in a group.
The ancient origin of the very singular sculpture, MOBILE GAMES, is authentic to the Lithuanian culture. The creator of MOBILE GAMES is a young Lithuanian sculptor Mindaugas Tendziagolskis.
Don't miss the opportunity to experience this remarkable artwork; an experience you can enjoy not just visually, but with your whole being.
You are cordially invited to join in the game. You are always welcome: come and play in Europos Parkas.
Gintaras Karosas. The Place
The Place – a new landscape artwork by Gintaras Karosas – was presented to the public
On June 25, 2003, the new artwork The Place, by Gintaras Karosas, was presented to the public.
The artist using eight-meter-high steel poles, an array of boulders, and a pond assembled a huge artistic landscape. Using special technology, steel poles angled in a square were evenly covered with bright orange rust.
The Place was presented and introduced to the public by Gintaras Karosas, the artist and founder of the museum. The event which included a modern dance performance, was covered by art critic Laima Kreivyte. The sponsors, members and friends of Europos Parkas participated in the happening.
The Place is the fifth work by Gintaras Karosas created for Europos Parkas. The four other artworks are: Symbol of Europos Parkas, Monument of the Center of Europe, For Your Convenience and a sculpture made up of more than 3 000 TV sets called, LNK Infotree.
Art critic Laima Kreivyte about the landscape work THE PLACE created by Gintaras Karosas
DeWitt Godfrey. Europe Sculpture
Artūras Raila. White
Europos Parkas invites to see the newest works built at the park this season.
Sculptor from the United States DeWitt Godfrey (called by journalists a "Steel Man") created the largest object in Europos Parkas this year. In order to construct the sculpture the artist used more than 3,5 tones of steel squares and over 2000 extraordinary firm bolts. The flexible metal structure was constructed of thousands rectangular elements. Due to its unusual design the shape of the sculpture is self-pressed by inner powers. It seems like the author wanted to deny the myth of metal strength. Despite its deceptive form the sculpture is firm indeed.
Akihiko Kuwayama
is painting the playful Snake. Soon it will sneak into the meadow of
the park.
Three new sculptures of Lithuanian authors enriched Europos Parkas collection this year: Threshold 1838 by Egle Kuckaite Dreamy Pillow by Mija Dzeinara Ubartas and White by Arturas Raila.
President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus visited Europos Parkas during the celebration of the day of Europe
On the 9th of May, 2002 a lot of people visited Europos Parkas to celebrate the day of Europe.
At the park guests met with President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, the head of European Commission delegation in Lithuania Michael Graham, Minister of Foreign Affaires of Lithuania Antanas Valionis, chief negotiator with European Union Petras Auštrevičius and others.
Entrance to the Park was free. During the festivity President Valdas Adamkus was awarded as the most European Lithuanian. Sweet Jazz Band musicians amused guests; discussions took place all day long.
The guests of the park had a good time while looking around unique art pieces exhibited in the park. President met the young people, get acquainted with the exposition of the park and left his greetings in Guests' Book wishing for Europos Parkas to become the centre of attraction for whole Europe.
See more pictures from celebration of the day of Europe in the park.
A. Vesely's Chamber of Light - the sculpture with swinging floor
Illuminated Work by Mara A. Scrupe
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