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Kirsty Gray will be in Toronto on November 1st where she will give lectures on Industrial England. She will explore the Industrial Revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries transformed the world and dramatically changed the lives of our ancestors in many ways.
This one-day workshop will be co-sponsored by Toronto Branch and the Canadiana Department of North York Central Library, and will be held in the Library's Auditorium.
Early-bird rates apply until today and members of the Ontario Genealogical Society enjoy a further discount on the workshop fee.
For additional details and to register on-line go to http://torontofamilyhistory.org/learn/workshops/industrial-england-workshop/
Then she will come to Ottawa the next day where she will appear from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, and she will give two lectures at the Woodroffe United Church Banquet Hall, 207 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa ON.
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2. Solving Problems Through Family Reconstruction
The lectures will be sponsored by the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO). Admission is $10 per person at the door.
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WASHINGTON — When it comes to education, the Republican field of presidential candidates has a unified stance: Get the federal government out of schools. How they'd do that varies.
Take the Education Department. Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, along with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, want to shut it down altogether, while Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich want to shrink it. Offering student loans? Herman Cain says the department should get out of that business.
And then there's the Bush-era education accountability law, No Child Left Behind. Perry calls it a "direct assault on federalism," while former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has long expressed animosity toward the law.
Although former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has said "we need to get the federal government out of education," he has been more willing to praise certain Education Department policies.
While polls show that voters clearly care about education, it hasn't been a driving issue in the race. Instead, it percolates at times. When it does, the dialogue — like many other issues in the race — has been primarily focused on the general theme of limiting the federal role more than on specific education policies.
Any comments of praise of a federal education policy can lead to accusations that a candidate supports federal overreach, said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
For example, after Romney praised the Education Department's "Race to the Top" program, which has had states competing for billions in grant dollars, Perry called Romney out on it during a Sept. 22 debate saying, "Being in favor of the Obama 'Race to the Top,' that is not conservative."
Generally, the candidates support more school choice options for students.
Limiting the federal government's role in education isn't a new argument among conservatives, many of whom disagreed with the decision to create a Cabinet-level department during the Carter administration.
President George W. Bush took a different view. He campaigned heavily in 2000 on the passage of No Child Left Behind and the need for tough assessment standards, specifically to help low income and minority children. Under No Child Left Behind, which was signed in 2002 with widespread bipartisan support, students are tested annually and schools that don't meet proficiency requirements face sanctions. The law, however, has become increasingly unpopular with critics saying it's too rigid, led to schools being unfairly deemed as "failures" and to teachers teaching to the test.
Many other Republicans went along — at least early on.
Santorum voted for the law.
When Texas' plan on No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, Perry proudly said that "Texas was a model" for the national law and that the approval meant Texas would receive almost $400 million in new federal funding.
And in 2005, Romney testified on Capitol Hill in praise of the law. "I do look to the federal government to help set the benchmark where we can compare to how well we are performing, and, if we are not performing, to insist that we do the job or that we suffer the consequences at the state or local level," Romney said.
The candidates' records on education are revealing.
Bachmann has said she was driven to first run for office because of concerns over the education her more than 20 foster children were receiving. Two years ago, Gingrich hit the road with the Rev. Al Sharpton, a liberal civil right advocate, on a listening tour on education that Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined.
Huntsman, as Utah governor, signed a law in 2005 that defied the No Child Left Behind Act by giving the state's education standards priority over the federal requirements.
Perry has refused to have Texas adopt curriculum standards adopted by nearly every state or have his state compete in the Race to the Top competition, saying it "smacks of a federal takeover of public schools." Perry's positions helped earn him a rebuff by Duncan that he felt "very, very badly for the children" of Texas.
Romney used to support closing the Education Department, but in 2007 he said he'd come to see the value of the federal government's role.
In recent months, President Barack Obama has brought education back into the national political realm. He announced states could apply for waivers around many of the proficiency requirements in No Child Left Behind if they met certain requirements. He advocated for the passage of a jobs creation bill rejected by the Senate that included $30 billion to hire educators.
And, Obama announced he was using executive authority to allow potentially millions of qualified students and college graduates to consolidate their loans and accelerate a program that based payment options on income.
The announcement on student loans sparked some discussion among the GOP candidates at a forum. Bachmann said Obama's effort was an "abuse of power" that will give people incentives to dodge debt. Gingrich said government loans should be reprivatized before Obama bankrupts the entire country "by promising to every young person you will not have to pay your student loan as a student."
And Cain said that, "I do not believe it's the responsibility of the federal government to help fund college education."
Margaret Spellings, who served as education secretary under Bush, said the anti-federal talk on education among GOP candidates concerns her. She said the candidates should be speaking primarily about the needs of kids over adults and better ways to close achievement gaps and educate poor and minority kids — things she said she's not hearing about as much as she'd like. She said she wonders what would happen to important programs under a dissolved Education Department, such as educating disabled children.
"The federal role in education has always been around the needs of poor and disadvantaged kids, so I'd like to see the focus on that, I'd like to see talk of accountability," Spellings said.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 23, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Many studies have shown that a glass or two of red wine a day is heart-healthy, and much of the benefit has been attributed to the anti-hypertensive effects of antioxidants found in red wine called polyphenols.
But a new Dutch study suggests that these polyphenols, at least in isolation, may not lower blood pressure after all.
Study author Ilse Botden, a graduate student at University Medical Center in Rotterdam, said the new findings "do not support" a lowering of blood pressure by polyphenols as the source of red wine's benefits to the cardiovascular system.
The findings are slated to be presented Friday at the American Heart Association's High Blood Pressure Research meeting in Orlando, Fla.
The new research involved 61 people averaging about 61 years of age, all of whom had borderline high blood pressure. Participants were given dairy beverages that contained either the red wine polyphenols or a harmless placebo.
Botden's team found no difference in blood pressure levels between the two groups after four weeks on the regimen.
"Red wine drinking may still be beneficial to prevent cardiovascular diseases. However, this apparently occurs in a blood pressure-independent manner," Botden said.
Dr. William O'Neill, a professor of cardiology and the executive dean for clinical affairs at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, agreed that the findings do not mean that red wine, in moderation, isn't heart-healthy.
"We know that moderate consumption of red wine helps decrease a person's risk for heart disease and heart attack," said O'Neill, who was not involved in the study.
Instead, this research seems to say that wine does not decrease heart risk through the mechanism of lowering blood pressure. Instead, red wine may have anti-inflammatory properties that lower cardiovascular risk, he said.
Another theory is that something in red wine help decreases the "stickiness" of blood and decreases the risk of a blood clot that could cause a heart attack, O'Neill said.
"We always want to get out a magic potion, and put it in pill form, but this study shows us that it's more complicated," he said.
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She noted that the people in the study had borderline high blood pressure, and the results may not apply to people with higher blood pressure levels. The study also only lasted a month, she said, and the benefits from polyphenols might take longer to accrue.
"There are multiple components in red wine and taken together, these ingredients have been shown to decrease blood pressure and prevent clotting and heart attacks," Steinbaum said. Moderate consumption of red wine is also part of the Mediterranean diet or lifestyle, which is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. "This lifestyle is good for heart health," she said.
Research presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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YORK, Maine — Just after 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 6, Matt McTighe walked into a ballroom full of 2,000 people — gay, lesbian and straight — at the Holiday Inn in Portland, a room electric with energy and anticipation.
YORK, Maine — Just after 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 6, Matt McTighe walked into a ballroom full of 2,000 people — gay, lesbian and straight — at the Holiday Inn in Portland, a room electric with energy and anticipation.
The campaign director of Mainers United for Marriage had seen enough election results to feel confident that the same-sex-marriage ballot measure to which he had devoted 2� years of his life was going to pass.
He had not slept in three days, and was sick — a bug swept through the campaign office several days earlier, wreaking havoc on the already tired staff. All of that was evident as he spoke with a croaking voice, but so too was the deep emotion he was feeling.
"There had been incredible energy in the room all night long. It was the coolest thing," said McTighe, a York resident. "To walk up to that podium and see this sea of people, and to make the announcement and watch their reaction is something I'll never forget. It gives me goosebumps right now talking about it."
On Nov. 6, Question 1 on the ballot asked Mainers if they would approve a measure allowing marriage licenses to be issued to same-sex couples. It passed 53 percent to 47 percent — the mirror opposite of the 2009 vote when efforts to repeal a same-sex marriage law passed by the Legislature were successful.
Although only 33, McTighe brought years in the trenches of senate, congressional and issue campaigns, as well as lobbying, to his job of campaign manager of Mainers United for Marriage — the Yes on 1 organization. He started volunteering for campaigns when he was in high school and was an old hand by the time he graduated from George Washington University.
He worked as a lobbyist for an international trade organization on Capitol Hill, coming to know legislators on both sides of the aisle. Openly gay, he said he's always been an independent, and has worked on campaigns for Republicans and Democrats.
In 2003, he was wooed by the pro-same-sex-equality Human Rights Campaign because of his gay and lobbying credentials. As their immigration and military lobbyist, he worked on the lobbying campaign to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell.
He was brought to Massachusetts in 2006 as campaign director of Mass Equality, the group formed to defend the state Supreme Court's opinion allowing homosexual couples to marry, which was ultimately successful.
"It was one of the most satisfying things I've done in my career — until last Tuesday," he said.
It was while subsequently working as government relations director for a Boston law firm that he found York. He had a weekend place first in York Harbor and then Cape Neddick.
"I fell in love with York, so much so that, even though I worked in Boston, I ended up moving to Maine," he said.
It didn't take long for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders to hire him to take a look at how to come back from the 2009 same-sex-marriage-law repeal effort. He spent all of 2010 conducting research, developing a message and establishing a game plan.
"We made a decision to bring marriage on the offensive. The reason we lost 32 of 32 times before," he said of the national movement, "is that we were always playing defense. We never won a ballot campaign. That's why we lost before, because we were on their (opponents') deadline, not our own."
McTighe said he had time to use all of his experience to create a cutting-edge campaign. For instance, a sophisticated voter modeling database was created, using public information on individual voters. The next step was a poll of 5,000 people, which was cross-referenced with the database. As a result, he was able pinpoint a swath of voters who the data suggested were on the fence about same-sex marriage.
In January 2012, GLAD delivered 105,000 signatures on a petition to create a new law — ultimately the first in the country in which same-sex marriage won at the ballot box. By then, McTighe said, campaign workers had scattered across the state, having one-on-one conversations with Mainers targeted by the voter modeling.
"We assumed 750,000 Mainers would vote in the presidential election. I know 250,000 who are already on my e-mail list and another 200,000 who we're never going to win," he said. "We needed to be talking with those people in the middle."
For the last six months, he's lived in Portland while keeping his place in York, and he had to curtail his work as a volunteer firefighter for York Village Fire Department. But he said that on Nov. 6, it was all worth it.
"I want to thank the people of Maine for being open-minded enough to talk with us," he said.
Not surprisingly, he's had many offers from issue campaigns across the country in the days since the election. But he said it would have to be a wonderful offer to take him from York.
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Seven members of SEAL Team Six have been punished for supporting development of a video game released last month, according to a U.S. military official.
The SEALs worked as paid consultants for Electronic Arts, the company that made "Medal of Honor Warfighter." They received letters of reprimand and forfeited half of their pay for two months. The SEALs do not face jail time.
The official did not say what, if any, information the SEALs revealed by participating in the video game's development. However, a written statement from Deputy Commander of Naval Special Warfare, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, indicates this is more about making an example of these sailors after a string of high-profile SEAL products.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as Sailors in the United States Navy. The non-judicial punishment decisions made today send a clear message throughout our Force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability," Bonelli wrote.
The military official did not know how much the SEALs were paid.
The video game hit store shelves on October 23. In a press release, EA said "Medal of Honor Warfighter" was "written by actual U.S. Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas," and that it "features a dotted line to real world events and provides players a view into globally recognized threats and situations letting them experience the action as it might have unfolded."
In September, "No Easy Day," a book written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, was released to the public. The book gives a firsthand account of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Imagine a place where Gatsby, Sinatra and Bourdain would all feel at home.
Now imagine such a place on the corner of 19th and Ferry in downtown Niagara Falls.
Jonathan "J.B." Boas could imagine such a place.
And so, when the opportunity arose to become general manager at The Topper Social Club, he took it with great excitement. After months of renovations, improvements to the bar and stage areas, menu consultations and plate selections, he'll open the swanky, 160-seat dinner-and-a-show restaurant on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
"We just felt this neighborhood needed something like this to bring an upscale clientele to 19th Street and Ferry Avenue," said Boas, who once operated the Little Yellow Chocolate House on Center Street in Lewiston.
Working in collaboration with Carl DeFranco, who owns both the building and block, and Wine on Third chef Kevin Robertson, Boas has built an upscale establishment unlike anything else in the city.
For starters, "We're a live entertainment venue in Niagara Falls; we're one of the few that were built for live entertainment," he said. "You can go to a lot of different little bars and it's cool, and it's fun to hang out, but they weren't built for music. They stick a band in the corner and you can't really hear them. The room's not built for the acoustics. This is a venue that was built for live entertainment."
The Topper has a dance floor, a large stage, a DJ booth, a piano bar and even a mirror ball. The venue will welcome bands of all musical genres, offer open mic nights and dance lessons.
The "flare bar" (as in flame) has a handmade wood wine rack; a custom, rotating German craft beer tower with 16 different selections; a super-fast frozen drink machine; a lounge with VIP bottle service; and, of course, Boas, working his "Cocktail"-like magic behind the counter.
"I think we've got some neat stuff," Boas said.
Dinner selections will include steak, pork tenderloin, fish, chicken, vegetarian and pasta dishes. Offerings on the American-fusion menu range in price from $8 to $26.
"We're going to have our à la carte menu, which is kind of an eclectic, casual-to-fine-dining menu," Robertson said. "We also have some lounge-style food - sandwiches, appetizers. We want to create a flair with the food."
In the spirit of old-school, big-city underground supper clubs, each Saturday night guests can enjoy a different, four-course prix fixe menu with craft beer and wine pairings while watching a different band perform.
"There's nowhere to go and do what we offer," Boas said. With what he calls great food, a unique bar and unmatched live music variety, "Who wouldn't want to come here?"
Inside the spacious Topper, there are posters of classic rock stars and '50s crooners on the walls, mirrors behind the black-and-white tables and chairs, and chalkboards scrawled with specials.
"It's nostalgia just walking in this place," Boas said.
He credits DeFranco with making the corner of 19th and Ferry a safer, more appealing destination. He promises guests that The Topper, with a Niagara Falls Police substation next door and four Marines manning the perimeter, is a safe spot to spend an evening.
"People don't have to worry about this corner," Boas said.
The Topper is, technically, a membership-based establishment that is open to the general public. Boas said those who join can take advantage of valet parking, immediate seating and invitations to private events.
The Topper is located at 492 19th St., Niagara Falls. The restaurant is open Wednesday through Sunday (though not on Thanksgiving), from 4 p.m. until midnight. For more information, call 1-877-652-3813 or visit www.thetopper.net.


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This Tony Award-winning musical brings the cultural peace movement to life through song and dance. Hair is a fun and exciting musical that you're sure to enjoy. " Hair won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival as well as Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Hair was also nominated for an additional seven Tony Awards including Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design and Best Sound Design. The cast recording was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album."
The musical profiles the lives of various colorful characters, created by Gerome Ragni and Jamie Rado and directed by Diane Paulus, all of who are activists working for free love and peace. Hair boasts the talents of many young actors including Dionne (Phyre Hawkins), Berger (Steel Burkhardt), Woof (Mart DeAngellis), Hud (Darius Nichols), Claude (Paris Remillard), Sheila (Caren Lyn Tackett), Jeanie (Kacie Sheik), and Crissy (Kaitlin Klyan). Their inspired performances of iconic songs "Aquarius," "Hair," "Good Morning Starshine" and "Let the Sunshine In" composed by Galt MacDermot, preach a message of peace, set to thrilling and upbeat melodies. Directing these musical numbers are Music Director/Conductor David Truskinoff and Music Coordinator Seymour Red Press.
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Serena Williams captured her first tournament title since returning to tennis, beating Marion Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 to win the Bank of the West Classic on Sunday.
The 13-time major champion overcame two breaks in the first set to rally for a dominating finish. She went ahead 5-0 in the second and never relented.
"Coming back and hearing the claps when I walk out there are moments that I truly missed," Williams said. "It's so awesome to be back and to be a part of those moments. Not everyone can be a sports, I don't know if 'star' sounds full of myself, but I've worked hard for that title.
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"So, yes, I say it and I take pride in it."
The victory was even sweeter because the ninth-ranked Bartoli beat the former world No. 1 in straight sets in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year.
The appearance in the final also was the first for Williams since winning at the All England Club in 2010 and her best showing since missing nearly a year because of blood clots in her lungs and two foot operations.
All those worries washed away this week.
Unseeded and ranked 169th, Williams mowed down the competition with relative ease, including a 6-1, 6-3 thumping of Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals. She capped it off with a vintage performance against a well-rested Bartoli, who advanced when Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova withdrew in the other semifinal because of a strained abdominal muscle.
"I hated those triple digits," she said, chuckling. "Now I've got to get to single digits."
Sporting a long-sleeve green shirt and black skirt, the conservative outfit — by the Williams sisters' standards, anyway — matched her strategy. She was calm and cool behind Bartoli's go-for-broke shots and second serve topping 100 mph, having a harder time with the elements.
"Serena, she already can improve from one day to the other," Bartoli said. "So you can imagine from one match to the other. I knew before the match started it was different than Wimbledon."
Williams had struggled serving into the sun on a crisp and clear day at Stanford, even hitting a few serves with a shortened toss and awkward delivery. She was broken in the third game of the match and eventually went down 4-2.
Williams saved two break points and moved back to 4-4 with a break, pumping her fist in celebration. Bartoli broke back and served for the set at 5-4, first requesting a trainer to deal with the bruise.
After a long rally on set point for Williams, somebody in the crowd yelled "out" while Bartoli returned a ball from the baseline. The French woman kept playing before hitting the next ball into the net to give Williams the set.
Bartoli argued unsuccessfully with the chair umpire to replay the point, and she requested a trainer between sets. She lost her serve in the second game, went down 5-0 and watched as Williams skipped around the court at Taube Tennis Center.
"I'm sure she's going to tell you that she can play even better," Bartoli said. "And I'm sure that she will."
Such a small victory for Williams has never meant so much.
After winning Wimbledon in July 2010, she was out for nearly a year recovering from various health scares. The worst were two foot operations and blood clots in her lungs that left her depressed and "on my deathbed," as she put it, much less wondering if she could ever play again.
Now Williams is not only back but ready to make a run on the hard-court series this summer and at U.S. Open beginning in late August.
Even if she's not ready to call herself the favorite.
"I haven't thought about (the U.S. Open). Right now, I just put myself right at the bottom," Williams said. "I feel like I just want to start and go in. My confidence is better, which is what I was planning for. I don't even think like that. When I get there, I'm going to have the same chance as everybody else."


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by Becky Sindelar
April 18, 2014 — As a Jesuit with a Ph.D. in physics, Brother Jonathan Stott is used to being asked if his work in science and his religious vocation ever conflict. His answer: "In all honesty no" – which always surprises people.
"Science and faith are not in conflict, and if they are it usually means you have either a bad image of God or a bad image of science," says Br. Stott.
He points out that Catholic theology is actually quite comfortable with science. "God created the world around us and there is nothing to fear of it," Br. Stott explains. "This is God's handiwork. It's not going to challenge your faith."
Br. Stott, who is currently in his first year as a physics professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, was focused on science before religion. He grew up in central Connecticut outside of Hartford and received his bachelor's degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts in 1993. He went straight to doctoral studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, receiving his Ph.D. in physics in 1998.
Next he took a post-doctoral position at Northeastern University in Boston, where he worked for two years on remote sensing — trying to measure things at a distance. "In my case, we were doing medical imaging, so we were trying to image what's inside the body from outside, so you don't have to cut anything open."
That work, he says, had nothing to do with his Ph.D., titled "Theoretical Studies of Dendrimeric and Heliclinic Liquid Crystals." He notes wryly that "the theory of phase transitions in liquid crystals is not a good way to get a job."
Br. Stott continued his medical imaging research next at Massachusetts General Hospital, and it was during his years in Boston that he discovered his religious vocation. He found himself getting more and more involved with his parish, St. Ignatius in Chestnut Hill.
"I reached a point where I realized my personal fulfillment was coming from the work I was doing at the parish, while I was becoming increasingly less happy with the work I was doing that was paying me," Br. Stott says. "So that was the club God was beating me over the head with to tell me that perhaps I should be looking somewhere else."
A priest at St. Ignatius put Br. Stott in contact with Jesuit Father Jim Hayes, a vocation director, and Br. Stott began thinking seriously about becoming a Jesuit. He joined the Society of Jesus in 2004.
From the start, Br. Stott felt strongly called to be a Jesuit brother, and he spent two years in the novitiate and then three years studying philosophy at Regis College in Toronto. He knew that formation would mean putting his scientific research on hold for a few years, but he expected to eventually get back to it.
The opportunity arose during his regency period of formation, when Br. Stott was assigned to work at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., for two years. Because he was never trained in astronomy, Br. Stott spent time learning so that he could make a productive contribution. "As Jesuit life would have it, just when I started to feel comfortable I was assigned to theology," he says.
After completing his theology studies at Boston College, Br. Stott began his current position as a physics professor at Fairfield University, where he's enjoying the challenges of teaching for the first time.
"I've been up late at night preparing lectures. I'm also trying to figure out what the students' strengths are and how to teach effectively. It's been a learning experience for both of us," says Br. Stott.
Most of the work he does is teaching required physics courses for programs like engineering, chemistry and pre-med that need a year of physics to graduate. He also teaches a physics course on music and sound for non-science majors. "My father was a music teacher, so I come from a musical family, and I thought it would be fun to teach. I'm teaching students how musical instruments work and how things make sounds," Br. Stott explains.
When he's not teaching, Br. Stott finds time to analyze data between classes, much of it medical imaging and optical work related to the post-doctoral research he did at the Vatican Observatory.
He says his favorite part of the job is working with the students. "They're mostly freshmen and sophomores, so they're still excited and have enthusiasm. They still enjoy learning — they haven't had that beaten out of them yet. You can have a lot of fun with them," he says.
"There's an idea that we do science because it gives us mastery over the world," Br. Stott says. "The reason I do physics is because it's beautiful. And I can't imagine living in a world where you aren't allowed to appreciate that kind of beauty. So that's one of the things I'm trying to communicate to my students."
Br. Stott says science is beautiful and should be appreciated for that. "We don't just look at a sunset and appreciate it because the blue light has been scattered out by Rayleigh scattering. We appreciate it because the sunset is beautiful. To turn physics into something where that's not true, you've really lost something."
He reconsiders the original question about whether there is a conflict between faith and science. "It becomes a conflict when the sunset stops being beautiful," he says.
Do you want to learn more about vocations to the Society of Jesus? Visit www.jesuits.org/become for more information.


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Today Grant does the television color for Oklahoma City Thunder games. You all know how critical I am of TV announcers but Long does a solid job. No word on whether he chats with Thunder assistant Mark Bryant on what could've been during the Celtics playoff run in 2003. Also oddly enough, you can find "I Love Grant" Long t-shirts on cafe press. Oh wait I get it: it's a Long Sleeved Shirt that says "I Love Grant." Tricky to read that when you have my mind...
***August 2014 Addendum*** Grant has been let go from the Thunder because of financial issues.
Long's financial troubles came out in the open in July when KOKH-25 reported that Long had failed to repay a $5,000 loan from Larry Rowell, an Oklahoma City jewelry store owner. Rowell said Long had agreed to pay him back $6,000 in 45 days. Court records indicate several other businesses had filed lawsuits against Long.Celticslife wishes Grant the best in getting his financial problems resolved.
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1st Quarter
- Bosh missed on a dunk makes up for it on D with a steal
- Bosh gets the putback bad transition D Grizz score
- Hedo makes a jumper answered by Randolph
- Jose makes a nice jumper.
- Bosh missed a jumper as he was being doubled
- drive does not fall for Bosh and Raps D not looking good early (8-8)
- Raps shooting is bad as Calderon misses
- Gay with a nice turn around ( Grizz lead 12-9)
- Raps can buy a bucket and D is awful (Grizz 16-9)
- Calderon scores out of time out.
- Bosh great move in post to score trail by 5
- Mayo hits and lead is 7 Raps score and Mayo makes it back to back scores
- Rasho to Bosh nice pay.
- Score on break with Jack in the game (Grizz 23-20)
- Raps get a bucket and the lead just 1
1st QTR thoughts- Not the same energy on D. Bosh looks good Calderon too but no one else really stepping up. Where is Andrea as he has been the invisible man in the first quarter.
2nd Quarter
- Gay scores to open 2nd, Jack to Bosh and the score like the chemistry
- Marco off target as a lot of Raps are on this night.
- Bosh is a one man show with 19 and Raps up 6
- Jack out of control on drive and steps out.
- Gay scores and draws a foul.
- Williams ties it up for Memphis.
- Rotations and reactions on defense seem slow and a step behind.
- Hedo a 3 from the corner and Raps jump on top by 1
- Bargnani fumbles pass and Memphis cut through a see of Raps in the paint like butter
- B.C in stands does not look happy and he has reason not to be.
- Bosh has 23 and is bringing it, needs more to join the party.
- Bosh is a beast on the Offensive end, Randolph getting it done on O but not D
- Bargnani on bench with 3 fouls and he has done little.
- Jay Triano does not look amused on the bench.
- Grizz showing more effort and hustle and score couple easy ones off turnovers (6 in QTR for Raps)
- DeRozan drives and has it knocked out of bounds.
2nd Qtr Thoughts- Bosh looks good on offense. No hustle on D beyond the big block by DeRozan at end of half
3rd Quarter
- Turnovers, Turnovers Turnovers (11 of them )
- Grizz just look hungry and Raps struggling to match that
- Calderon drives and draws foul
- Corner 3 wide open look for Grizz
- DD flies in for 2.
- Steal and leads to break and a foul called on Calderon
- Bosh count it and a foul.
- Bargnani good for 3 and game is tied.
- Another 3 and Bargnani is 4 for 4 in the QTR
- DD gets blocked by Mayo
- DD gets up and throws down on the putback.
- Randolph is killing it.
- Bosh with answer (30 point in 3rd)
- Rasho missed a chippy
- Rasho gets the putback
3rd QTR- A little improvement but not much. DD came alive that Quarter that block at end of half seems to have got him going, Grizz still giving the effort.
4th Quarter
- Rasho scores again on the inside.
- Gay on putback and he let's you know about it
- Jack hits jumper.
- Rasho checks out with 8 and 6...Bosh returns.
- Bosh denied by Randolph and score in Transition Memphis
- Calderon a miss offensive board leads to a Bosh score.
- Bosh Draws foul (91-91)
- Turnover and Memphis push it and draw foul on Bargnani.
- Gasol scores and Bosh called for the foul. (Grizz lead 98-94
- Randolph running and scores as trailer on the break
- Gasol has been a beast on the glass.
- Mayo big 3 extends lead to 5.
- Raps offense gone cold at bad time
- Turnover and easy score
- Jose make a big shot cuts lead to 6.
- Hedos shot rolls out
- Bosh scores make it 37 but in an L
Raptors did not have the complete team effort the needed. Beyond Bosh everyone else played in spurts. This was just not good enough and Bosh deserved more from his team tonight. If Raps want to be a contender or even a playoff team these are losses you can't have.


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52-year-old man drowns in St. Croix River
Man was pulling dock out of river when accident occured
TAYLOR FALLS, Minn. — A 52-year-old man drowned while attempting to remove a dock from the St. Croix River near Taylor Falls.
According to the Chisago County Sheriff's Office, Steven Richard Labarron was pulling a dock out of the river near a steep bank at about 11:40 a.m. Sunday when it disconnected from the rope and struck his head. Labarron fell into the water.
Rescue workers performed CPR and transported Labarron to St. Croix Regional Medical Center in St. Croix, Wis.
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The company I used to work for before we had automated unit tests to test our work. However the coding standards and architecture was not very important for tests. Of course you had to indent code correctly and put your braces where you are supposed to put your braces, but no one would go nit picking through your tests code. This seemed reasonable to me as the tests were usually changed frequently and the idea was to quickly write a test and then start seriously writing the code.
The new company has just got the hang of unit testing our work, but they expect you to spend time making sure the test code looks as pretty and well thought out as the code it is testing. I personally think it a waste of time since tests are internal and while test code should be neat, it does not have to be as perfectly engineered as the code that goes out the door to the customer.
Am I wrong in my belief? What is the right thing to do here fellow programmers?
Frequency of how often our programmers have to modify / extend / reuse existing unit tests varies, some more often and others less often. We are using Python Django and most of the test architecture is built-in and most tests are just simple functions. Very less setup/teardown needed.


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Welcome to Black Friday, one of the busiest in-store shopping days of the year in the U.S. And Cyber Monday is right around the corner, a holiday that was created to push online sales. Given this intense shopping period, I decided to look at online and in-store satisfaction levels of U.S. consumers who had purchased two major holiday categories, TVs and computers.
I examined data for 1,300+ consumers who had recently purchased TVs and 1,600+ who had purchased computers. The analysis compared satisfaction across multiple steps in the process for online and in-store buyers across just about every element of the new purchase experience.
As you can see from the chart below, consumers are happier with the TVs and computers that they end up purchasing in stores. While the information for making a decision is more satisfying online, just about every other part of the process is better in stores.
The bottom line: Stores still play an important role in consumer electronics


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Volt app displays realtime charge cost
Volt app displays realtime charge cost
I think Tesla should put an app into the iPhone and Android app stores. Some features to include video of complete car assembly, video of a store, locations of all stores and possible charging stations, how to order features, etc it's almost free advertising.
I see Elon has an app in the works that checks car charge rate. Another app, or part of an app i'd like to see available to the public and those with Tesla car orders is an app where you can watch your car being manufactured and even converse with the assembly line workers. How cool is that?
The app starts out with a diagram of the factory and a red dot to show where you are in line.An RFID tag is put on your Tesla for tracking along with your name or ID name. As your car moves through the factory, you can watch it on your smartphone app. Inside the factory would be 20 or so live video stations with comunication computer screens and microphones for the assembly workers to use dragon speech to talk to text with you hands free when they have time. You could even text them back on your phone and the assembly workers would see your text on a screen and reply by microphones. If no video station, then general videos describe where your at whats happening in the manufacturing process. Think of it as social manufacturing.
Car clients could have the option of making their car manufacturing viewing public, or just to a selected group of choice. It would be great publicity, have examples on Facebook etc. the owners would know exactly what's going on with their car orders. Assembly workers might like it and get a moral boost as well as help in recruiting assembly workers and everyone would love watching the cars be manufactured.
I like it!
While its a cool idea, I think it's a little impractical. I mean, it would only be able pickup your specific car when it came time to add the options you've selected. On top of that, it would drive people demented if they saw "their" car have to go back in the line for rework/fixes. As for talking to the workers working on your car, I don't think those multi-function robots have conversation modules. Design oversight I'm sure :D
No talking to workers! Interupts workflow, slows production, increases errors.


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Quoting myself and recent email to friends:
I'm reading and enthralled by the "mystery of grace" and the family drama in Kate Hennessy's bio of her grandmother Dorothy Day. Though Day was rarely in Appalachia, her life's story has enough entanglements with the region you could almost consider a Child of the Mtns. Her Grandmother Molly Mee was from Rome, Ga and grandfather John Houston Day from Cleveland Tn.
Day's lover John Forster, the father of Dot's only child Tamar who was the Mother of Kate Hennessy; Forster had roots in Asheville NC where he and brothers and sisters were childhood friends of Tom Wolfe.
Pages 215 and ten pages following about the mystery of Tamar's husband David Hennessy, with references to Lolita and Arthur Miller is about as remarkable a story of an extended family member of a Saint Ive ever encountered and that includes my experience with Calvin Turner in Gaffney SC in 78 and the best of Conroy's stories. In fact Conroy's Great Santini was of the three Tamar referenced when she explained her Kate's father to her.
Tamar had a failed Catholic Worker farm in West Virginia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... le/513821/
Dorothy Day Was a Saint for Difficult People - The Atlantic
A Saint for Difficult People. From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
Even without these ties this book is a must read as soon as either of you can make the time.
Joe Cumming says many consider Marshall Frady's bio of ML King his best writing. I already see the similarity Kate puts on Day's "Call" to that Frady Spotlights with King.
In April 1967 Day was on the steps of the Holy Family Catholic Church NYC near the United Nations among the crowd of 400,000 as King spoke against the Vietnam War. But I have seen no evidence yet the two ever met face to face.
And would like your thoughts at whatever length you can allow if and when you do read.
Hope things otherwise are well with all
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'Magic Mushroom' Drug May Improve Personality Long Term
by John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Many individuals who took a single dose of psilocybin -- the active ingredient in what the drug culture calls "magic mushrooms" -- showed alterations in personality characteristics, largely for the better, that persisted for more than a year, a prospective scientific study showed.
Participants who reported "mystical experiences" during the hallucinogen sessions tended to show increases in the personality dimension known as openness, according to Katherine A. MacLean, PhD, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University.
They found no adverse effects from the drug exposure.
Openness is generally considered a positive characteristic and includes such traits as aesthetic appreciation and sensitivity, imagination, intellectual engagement, and awareness of feelings in themselves and others, the researchers indicated in an online report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
The findings were consistent with previous studies and anecdotal reports from psilocybin users, who have said the drug changed their interactions with the world long after the acute effects wore off, MacLean and colleagues said.
"Although there is still much to learn about the mechanisms by which hallucinogens might produce positive changes, the increases in openness observed in the present study indicate novel avenues of future research into the biological and psychological mechanisms of psilocybin treatment," they wrote.
The researchers suggested as well that mystical experiences with nonpharmacologic origins could have similar long-lasting effects on personality -- a hypothesis deserving more research insofar as such experiences have been found to help people fight addictions and cope with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Psilocybin is obtained from a variety of mushrooms and acts at the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor. It exploded in popularity for inducing "mind-expanding" hallucinatory experiences in the 1960s. Among the purported benefits are increased creativity, greater appreciation of music and visual art, and more tolerance of other people.
The current research involved 52 adult volunteers, whose self-described motivations were generally "curiosity about the effects of psilocybin and the opportunity for extensive self-reflection."
They were counseled extensively in several sessions before receiving the drug, and it was delivered under supportive conditions to minimize adverse reactions, according to accepted practice for human studies of hallucinogens.
There were actually two studies, both blinded with crossover designs, which individually have already produced published reports.
In one, participants underwent a series of eight-hour sessions in which they received a relatively high dose of psilocybin (30 mg per 70 kg of body weight) or methylphenidate at 40 mg per 70 kg as a control.
In the other study, participants had five sessions in which placebo or various psilocybin doses ranging from 5 to 30 mg per 70 kg were given.
Participants in both studies underwent personality assessments at baseline, one to two months after each drug session, and about 14 months after the last session, using the NEO Personality Inventory. This instrument evaluates five personality dimensions: openness, extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
Acute psychosensory effects in each session were measured as well with several questionnaires aimed at detailing "mystical experiences."
The current analysis focused on outcomes after the 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin sessions.
Openness scores with the NEO Personality Inventory at baseline averaged about 64. At the first personality evaluation after these high-dose psilocybin sessions, openness scores increased by a mean of 2.8 points.
Having a mystical experience during the 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin session was key to the increase in openness scores, the researchers indicated.
They found a significant correlation between high "mystical experience" ratings in the acute-effects assessments and increases in openness (r=0.42, P=0.002).
Among the 30 participants who met criteria for a "complete mystical experience," openness scores increased an average of 5.7 points, whereas there was no significant change in openness scores among the 22 others.
At the 14-month evaluation, openness scores in the participants who had complete mystical experiences had declined slightly but remained significantly higher than at baseline, by 4.2 points (P=0.05).
Participants who did not have complete mystical experiences had no long-term changes in openness.
There were no significant changes in the other four dimensions of the personality inventory at any point in the study.
MacLean and colleagues also checked on whether baseline openness scores were correlated with the likelihood of having a mystical experience. They were not (r=0.12, P=0.41).
The researchers characterized the increase in openness as probably a good thing for participants.
"Although the present study did not directly investigate the corollary benefits of increased openness, significant increases in nearly all of the facet scores indicate the potential for improvements in aesthetic and cognitive domains," they wrote.
Limitations to the study included the recruitment strategy: Participants were not drawn randomly from the community, but rather were weighted toward people who were already interested in the psilocybin experience.
"Nearly all of the participants in the present study regularly engaged in spiritual activities such as religious services, prayer, and meditation. It is possible that such individuals are particularly sensitive to the mystical-type effects of psilocybin, which were predictive of increases in openness," MacLean and colleagues wrote.
Also, neuroticism scores (reflecting anxiety, moodiness, and other negative traits) on the personality inventory at baseline were nearly one standard deviation below population norms.
As a result, the researchers conceded, the effects of the drug per se could not be separated from the self-selection bias.
The research was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Council on Spiritual Practices, the Heffter Research Institute, and the Betsy Gordon Foundation.
All authors declared they had no relevant financial interests.
Primary Source
Journal of Psychopharmacology
Source Reference: MacLean K, et al "Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness" J Psychopharm 2011; DOI:10.1177/0269881111420188.
Source: https://www.medpagetoday.org/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/28788?vpass=1


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Here's an amazing article from The Ladders Marc Cendella which I wanted to share with you. It's time to get out and meet and greet to help your career! It's all about the networking!
"A phone's never landed you a job, a promotion, a raise, or a new customer, yet you might allocate more of your day to kissing up to your device — updating apps, clearing calendars, jumping at every new email alert — than to building up relationships with your peers. And that's a problem."
You need to ask yourself if your awesome technology knowledge is getting in the way of your getting ahead. Here are three reminders:
Talk to people. If you only interact with your fellow human beings through technology, you're really missing out. Real people have a great "user interface" — they smile, laugh, frown, generate unique and sometimes surprising insights, and can give you instantaneous feedback on their reactions. Real people can also solve problems, agree to quit being a complete hassle, slip you the critical bit of info you were missing, or be spontaneously impressed by your fantastic-ness. Ya never know. If you insist on texting-emailing-facebooking as the only way you'll connect with others, you'll miss out on a good part of your career (and life's great enjoyments, too). So more often than you're comfortable with — put down the phone, close the laptop, and go talk to people and see if that doesn't work out better for you. Stop optimizing.
Setting up your voicemail to email you the text of your latest messages is a neato trick. Downloading the app that pings you every time your Google alert mentions your name within 100 words of "technology-savvy" is spiffy. And connecting your printer to your phone to your iPad to your desktop so that you can wirelessly print your resume from the beach house is awesome. But all your optimizing is really just goofing off, procrastinating, and avoiding dealing with the pain of going through your real "to do" list.
Quit kidding yourself. Tickling your tech toys is high-tech half-gassing it. Put the gadgets down and put yourself back to productive work.
See the real world.
Reading industry blogs, watching focus groups on your laptop, and making killer pie charts of industry trends can give you a command of the industry heights.
But you'll be missing out on the devil. He's in the details, it's known. And you can't get a feel for the details if your face is grinding a screen all day.
"Management by walking around" became a popular catchphrase to get comfy desk-dwelling Mad Men out of their chairs to mingle with the plebs.
Today, let's call it, "experience by closing down"… power down the iPhone, close the lid on the laptop, and put away the Kindle.
When you actually let go of the technology intermediary, what do you observe about how people use your product, talk about industry problems, or collaborate to achieve goals? Just watching people, and chatting with them about what they're really hoping to achieve, can be eye-opening.
Most professionals find a world of difference between their personal observations and conclusions based on digitally digesting industry ephemera.
Turn off the power and turn on your insight. You'll be better for it."


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Can you confirm that the Web Orbiter is working correctly independently?
Yes the 5 digit installation id is for Dianemo Systems. Can you confirm that the Web Orbiter is working correctly independently?All the bestAndrew
Andrew,I had trouble previously getting your iOS orbiter working on my 810 install (using version 1.1), but I think the problem was on my end using the wrong device number. I had been using the device number of my core, not of the web orbiter device (RTFM . I can confirm it works great on my iphone 3GS on a 1004 install from yesterday. Plugged in the device number of the web orbiter and used the 7 digit installation number from the upper left hand corner of the admin pages as the installation number.The up and down swipe to display/hide the options at the bottom is a nice addition. Thanks-Edit: Note to self... one should read the rest of the manual before commenting....
Strangely enough, after successfully trying weborbiter through my browser, the iphone app works. I don't believed I changed anything... Weird. 2 Things: - In comparison, RoamingOrb seems about twice as quick (using wifi only). - In Dianemo app, pressing a light command, or any button that does not load a new screen, the load indicator goes on forever.
Thank you Andrew now i can conne to connect on external i have an other error like thisauthentification error please verify your user credentials !connection errorthe operation could'nt be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1012)and i I want to know the resolution for a IPADbecause when I touch the IPAD it takes time to reactthanks hanafi
Hi Andrew, I successfully had v1.0 working great on my Dianemo Core. After updating to v1.1 and following wiki instructions I am getting 'connection error - communication error'. i am using an early gen ipod touch running iOS 4.2.1 Any ideas on what this may be?ThanksGarath
ok Andrew I have a home automation company here in France and I want to know how I can have the system for my clients dianemo
Hi Andrew, Unfortunately I have not been able to get the new version to work. I followed your earlier post and have ensured IP settings are correct etc. Is the new version only compatible with Dianemo 10.10 as I don't think that my Nerve Centre has updated to the newest version yet.
Thanks Andrew, This may be my problem. I do not think I am running 10.10, rather still 7.10 Shouldn't this update be automatic? Is there an easy way to verify this?thanks
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Noisebridge Phones
Noisebridge makes calls
API: dial 1 + area code + 7 digit number VOIP service provided by flowroute. Account maintained by email@example.com
Noisebridge tested internal extensions include:
2222 Red Payphone by the door (ATA MAC: 00:1c:10:ca:36:fc) 2466 Sony Quadrastation 2.4
Noisebridge recieves calls at:
415.449.8862 2222 and 2466 are valid extensions Asterisk looks at the file /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom/enter-4-digit-ext to sound the request for extension message
911 service is not available.
nils donated a Cisco IP Phone for use with the space. It can make outgoing calls to US Numbers through asterisk running on pony using adi's voicepulse account.
- Some members have expressed a desire to setup a payphone out front of 83C that can make free calls using VoIP to anywhere, but some members have raised objections that said phone outside would be too much of a liability and suggested it move inside.
- An awesome old red payphone was donated on Dec. 9th. NBers quickly got to work opening it up and figuring it out. It's missing some bits and but will be put into operation soon enough.
Land line
For safety it would be good to have a single land line that can call 911 and doesn't depend on having power or Internet access. Could we do this? Schoen 00:48, 4 October 2008 (PDT)
Internet calling
It is possible to use WebRTC, Websockets and the built-in implementation of these contained within the Freeswitch codebase to make calls to/from the internal telephony resources from a web browser.


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On the penguins...
•According to producer John Davis, several different types of penguins were "auditioned" for the roles. Because of the bird flu scare, the penguins had to be North American. The actual penguins finally chosen to play the roles are Gentoo Penguins, which grow to be about 20-36 inches tall. John Davis relates, "We found the right penguins and we built an entire penguin habitat next to the stage in Brooklyn. And then, we had pools for them and lounging areas and all that stuff. And we got to go in every day. I got to go in every day and play with the penguins which was amazing."
•The scenes weren't all filmed with the live penguins, though. Many of the difficult scenes were done with CGI penguins. As a credit to the animators, it's very difficult to tell in some scenes whether the penguins are real or CGI. But, it made a difference on set. Jim Carrey said, "I always opted for using the live penguins whenever I could. It's about 70/30 kind of thing." And, Mark Waters talked about the decision to include live penguins saying, "If we did work with live penguins half the time, which is what we ended up doing, then everything would be held to the standard of it has to be as kind of crazy and anarchic and funny as actual penguins are."
•The penguins in the movie get very loud at times, and Jim Carrey had some interesting things to say about acting with those loud-beaked penguins: "They're a maximum disturbance, and they actually sound like the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park. I thought, "That sounds like a raptor or something like that." Mark said they actually used the sound of a penguin's voice for those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, which is kind of cool."
•Where are the penguins now? Mark Waters revealed, "The reason we got these penguins is that we highjacked them, legally, when they were being transferred from the Biodome in Montreal to Hong Kong. And so, now they've landed in Hong Kong again at the Ocean Park Institute there. And they're living happily there again.
On the very cool set temperatures...
•Carla Gugin, who plays "Amanda" in the film, related, "It was hysterical because the penguins don't function very well over 40 degrees. So, literally our set was 40 degrees and we shot in the winter in New York. We started sort of when it was still warm out, and then we were freezing on set. And then, finally the outside caught up to the inside. But, I'm not good in the cold at all. "
•Carla also let us in on an interesting little production secret, watch for this scene in the film: "The scene that we shot very briefly outside of Tavern on the Green where it said, 'It's spring.' Walking into that scene in the sleeveless dress and everything, it was, I think again, like 13 degrees or something. And so, it was that kind of thing where we're all in the van and the heat's on and we've got our booties on. And it's like, "Okay, go." The mission was drop everything, run outside, and then act, "It's so warm and beautiful."
On filming at the Guggenheim Museum...
•Director Mark Waters relates about going to the actual Guggenheim Museum, "We had to kind of shoot everything at night in between the time that the museum would close and reopen in the morning. We'd have to bring in the entire carnival of people and light the whole place and shoot the sequence. And Angela Lansbury is 85 years old and it's 4:00 in the morning, and she's dancing around with Jim Carrey, getting spun around. And I'm saying to myself, I can't believe this is real. They actually let us in here to shoot? Are they out of their minds?"
•Angela Lansbury marveled about the use of CGI in the scene at the museum saying, "We were just pretending that [the penguins] were there, because that was at the Guggenheim Museum with priceless art all over the walls, although it had all been pushed aside, you understand. But, that whole thing where the water comes whooshing down, it was a wonderful special effect because certainly that wasn't the way it was. I don't know how they did that. That was the miracle of special effects."
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