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Former New England Patriots coach Chuck Fairbanks died of brain cancer on Tuesday, according to the team. He was 79.
Fairbanks coached the Patriots from 1973-78, leading the franchise to some of its greatest success by the end of his tenure, including two playoff berths. The Patriots were 3-11 prior to his arrival and went 11-3, 9-5 and 11-5 over his final three seasons.
Fairbanks' Patriots legacy has been widely discussed, in part because of how his time with the franchise ended, with Fairbanks ultimately becoming head coach at Colorado in 1978. But most agree the foundation created by Fairbanks was instrumental, as a big part of his success came in drafting top-notch players, including offensive lineman John Hannah, linebacker Steve Nelson, tight end Russ Francis and cornerback Mike Haynes, among others.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick acknowledged Fairbanks' across-the-board influence last September.
"Chuck has been a good friend for a long time and he's meant a lot to this organization. At the time he came here, he did a great job turning the Patriots around and making them into one of the top teams in the AFC," Belichick said.
Belichick also touched on some of the football-specific areas in which Fairbanks had a big influence in the 1970s.
"They were things that stood the test of time and have been a big principle of this league for many, many years, [with] the disciples and people with him -- 3-4 defense, the way he organized the draft, personnel meetings," he said.
Fairbanks also coached the Oklahoma Sooners from 1967-72, and famously gave offensive coordinator Barry Switzer the nod in 1970 to implement the wishbone offense, which turned Oklahoma into an offensive powerhouse for the next two decades.
Fairbanks came to Oklahoma as part of Jim Mackenzie's staff in 1966, and became head coach after Mackenzie died suddenly from a heart attack a year later.
The Sooners went 10-1 and beat Tennessee in the Orange Bowl in Fairbanks' first year. But the program sputtered in the late '60s, as "Chuck Chuck" bumper stickers began to pop up all over the state. After another slow start in 1970, Switzer convinced Fairbanks to turn to the wishbone, which Texas had invented and been running to great success. The Longhorns annihilated Oklahoma's new offense the following week. But the wishbone gradually took shape, and it would be seven years before the Sooners would lose to Texas again.
In six seasons as Oklahoma's head coach, Fairbanks won three Big Eight titles and 52 games, but a loss was the most famous college game he coached. In the 1971 "Game of the Century," Fairbanks' second-ranked Sooners held a fourth-quarter lead over Nebraska. But the top-ranked Huskers rallied with a game-winning touchdown drive and went on to capture the national championship.
SoonerNation's Jake Trotter contributed to this report.

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This 1974 Dodge D800 Truck Factory Oleynik Race Car Transporter is one of the few relics I've ever seen from the support side of racing to survive outside a museum.
Currently for sale on eBay, it was apparently one of six haulers build by Oleynik Body of Detroit by Chrysler in 1974 and went on to carry cars raced by team drivers Bob Riffle, Gene Dunlop, the Fink Brothers, Arlen Vanke, and Ronnie Sox.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:34 pm
before we begin this topic, i'd like to make ONE concrete definition/rule for it, although i only do this because i think it'll help the topic along. this one thing is this:
that we have control of ourselves.
allright, now that that's out of the way, i'ma jump right in.
we control ourselves, but what limits do we have on outside control? i mean, we can control weather we are going to punch an object, but do we really control how that object acts afterwards? and what about other people? is there any way to 'control' another person.
ah, you've prolly found the loophole
(stupid thoth, forgot to define control, i'll show him).
well, sir or madam, whichever is most appropriate, this is purposeful. use the loophole, that's what it's there for, after all.
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:10 am
Thank you, i'll do that!
Well yes, but i mean its what weve been taught/seen what happens that defines the end results yes? Perhaps, but i couldn't say from experience.
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:53 pm
you could go down that generic path, and i think that that's it, but then, i'd like to just do a refresh of this idea... it could change.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:58 pm
well, you know my view on control.....
we have none, its a matrix, there is no need, why?? there is no control, only by fate, fate is our control
least thats what i think today....... hehehe, im still a bit confuzzled
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:50 am
we have control... I think. i mean, we have personal control. and we control how we look at things.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:02 pm
yeah, suppose in that way, but not in what we do, or what our ilves consist of.
We have no control over where we are born etc, or what we look like (naturally, not like michael jackson) and culture etc.
but i think theres more to it than that...... something bigger
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:02 pm
Well but think about it, we usually do fall addicted to what we believe we control.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:39 pm
An argument lasting hundreds of years, free will Vs determinism, i enjoy igniting brain cells thinking about the theory of infinite possibility, that every action has it's cause, ad it's consequence, and so forth.. but if one could truly see the decisions (control) from every perspective possible (???) then one could feasably predict the future, having really weird de ja vu's at the mo aswell.. anyone vibin'?
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:43 pm
I dig. and why dont you register, cat? but anyways, I like the ideas of infinite possibilities as well, but I don't like it, cause that means there's alot more for me to see and do and such before I die. and perhaps afterwards, too. no way of knowing, really, as I cant predict the future.
and I dont think anyone can (acurately) because there's always some unseen variable. the best pool player in the world lines up a shot. a shot he's made billions of times before. a shot that he could never miss. he takes it, thinking perfection is his, and yet the wind blows slighly, or a door opens, or someone un-buttons their coat, or there's a hair on the table, and the shot misses.
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:48 pm
Ultimately what we control is what we ourselves do, and what we can convince others to do, but then again that's again linked to what we can do. For example, you can punch someone with the intent to knock them back or knock them down. After the punch in thrown, however, what actually happens is up to them, their mussles, gravity, and minutely on the air. We can try to make things happen a particular way, and can make it likely that it will happen that way, but we can't force it or be sure it will happen that way.
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:31 pm
wow, Realist, we finally agree on something.
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:36 am
Indeed, as do i. that sums it up entirely as i thought about it.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:14 pm
we have no control you say? well i do belive that we indeed do have control because it is our humanism and emotions that control us, so thus, control them and we control ourselves, in the waking world we do something, crap out of time, i'll finish this later
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:11 pm
But can you ever truly control your emotions? Can you ever truly control yourself? All of us fall victim to indulgences at one time or another, even the best and most trained of us all. We do maintain some control, such as when we see something we truly desire, but restrain ourselves from pursuing, but the issue here is *complete* control. We can indeed restrain ourselves for prolonged periods of time, but in the end we can never truly control all the things about us.
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The Xbox 720's features will be interesting once the console is revealed, but EA says this system needs to be more about its design and what it can offer consumers in addition to gaming.
Hopefully state of the art tech is implemented, we all know pc will always be ahead but this is time for xbox to re claim its title as tech giant, DO IT microsoft!
oh and forget services its all about the games
One of the main reasons i'm thinking of switching to PC, is that companies now care for TV services more than gaming itself. I really buy gaming consoles just for the games.
Exactly. When I read "More about....services", I just thought "How is that physically possible for the Xbox brand to be more about services?? Are they going to cut out games entirely?"
Didn't anyone seek to report this article for the misleading title?
pc is about to get even better!
"In other news, Gabe said that Valve wants to move on to DRM-free releases"
also since source engine 2 is coming imagine the free amazing content on pc!
@ Cam977 below
"EA's president of labels Frank Gibeau said while giving his Keynote at GamesCom 2012 that he's seen Sony and Microsoft's new machines."
maybe there is some truth then?
It would be nice to have a cheaper console with only console game services.
Although I suspect 3-5 Tflops will be the goal of Microsoft and Sony. If you consider the possibility of GPU + APU. Max I would expect is 130W at very maximum. Which if you consider 8850 to be in the running it runs at 2.99 Tflops + APU which are said to aim up to 1 Tflop. Possibly 2 APUs running along side each other in the consoles with possibly GPU on the side.
Misleading title!
EA merely suggested this happen, they didn't directly state it IS what's happening.
EA made zero mention of the 720 as well. This isn't new from Examiner. Just rate the site down so we don't have to deal with their hit hungry crap.
People are still going on about power? Its about the games. not power. PS2 was the weakest system of last generation yet had the greatest library by far.
Isn't all about graphics, more power means better A.I, better physics, bigger gaming worlds etc I look forward to seeing what Microsoft and Sony come up with next generation and I will be buying no matter which is the most powerful.
it seems people still believe that powerful hardware only means prettier graphics but they couldn't be more wrong. More power, specially for physics and AI will enhance games beyond what any gimmick could.
Not sure if this is the right wording to express my point but my English is limited.
You can always attain such effects by simply taking focus away from processing... you guessed it, the graphics. Optimization and stability will lead to better games far more than blindly upping the power and causing development costs to rise.
Great games have always existed regardless of power. Or all those ps1/xbox classics simply deal now that they are "outdated"?
Actually, more power is not necessary in hardware or more of x, y, and z.
It is often to do with the tools available and the ease of using that "power" or better said, possibilities.
PS3 is an excellent example. It's processing power is almost unmatched, yet poor design caused it to lag behind its direct competitor. Some smart design decisions (instead of bonehead ones) would have made it a screaming monster!
Can we stop bring the ps2 up,it was weaker than other systems but didn't stop Sony's first party from trying to make beautiful or a game thought technically impossible on their system.
@ronin Why would cost go up? If the system is strong enough than they wouldn't have to optimize as much because it could handle it.
I'm surprised that people still clamor to power, when this entire generation is turned up side down. The most powerful console is last place, and the least powerful console is at the top!
Get it, it ain't the power, but the application of said hardware!!!
It is almost always been about software, and very little hardware.
@scofios Yes it was the weakest of the bunch, but you had alot of talented devs that made kickass games despite the limitations.
To all the people downplaying the importance of power look at the wii's lineup vs the ps3/360's lineup. Really are you people this dense? Sorry it's not even a contest.
You can sit there and scream retro pride ect all you want, but new generation games should take advantage of more powerful hardware.
"The most powerful console is last place, and the least powerful console is at the top!" Well since i am not a shareholder of either company, do you have a relevant point for a gamer?
Sorry never was interested in the sales game, funny how during the gamecube's gen, nintendo fans were it's all about the games. This gen it's lol #1 in sales and the highest metacritic score ever, so will good games be the goto argument for the wii u.
Always a nintendo guy shouting about how "power" is overrated, yeah yes it's easy to say that when your games have been the same since the gamecube. Why would power matter to games that are still stuck in the past.
I swear too many retards think, just because gamers think power is important, that we are all mindless graphics whores.
So why do you nintendo guys need to buy the wii u, the wii should be more than sufficient since you don't deem power or graphics as relevant just gameplay. If that is truly the case you should be perfectly happy with the original nintendo entertainment system's graphics
"You can sit there and scream retro pride ect all you want, but new generation games should take advantage of more powerful hardware."
There you said it *take advantage of more powerful hardware*. Keyword "take advantage of"! PC has plenty of brute force power, but is rarely taken well advantage of.
It is about easily accessible power that will make an impact.
"Sorry never was interested in the sales game, funny how during the gamecube's gen, nintendo fans were it's all about the games. This gen it's lol #1 in sales and the highest metacritic score ever, so will good games be the goto argument for the wii u."
To be fair, there will always be people saying something about something on every side of the fence. Stereotyping an entire group of people based on individual experiences isn't realistic.
Finally, sales is *THE BEST* method of determining demand for a product. If consumers buy one item over another, then there are more people vouching for it than another competitors product, pure and simple. It is the strongest vote, regardless of what the reason is.
FYI, no I'm not much of Nintendo fan.
"Always a nintendo guy shouting about how "power" is overrated, yeah yes it's easy to say that when your games have been the same since the gamecube. Why would power matter to games that are still stuck in the past."
What is so different about Xbox 360/PS3 games? It is pretty much the same games that existed on the PS2/original Xbox just a larger scale.
Furthermore, Wii actually has games that has never really been done prior with motion control. That little popular thing that changed an entire industry and propelled consoles to grandmas and soccer moms.
"I swear too many retards think, just because gamers think power is important, that we are all mindless graphics whores."
Nothing you have said have told me anything else, albeit I don't necessarily believe that about gamers in general.
"So why do you nintendo guys need to buy the wii u, the wii should be more than sufficient since you don't deem power or graphics as relevant just gameplay. If that is truly the case you should be perfectly happy with the original nintendo entertainment system's graphics"
There is a lot of "generality" in what you are saying so it's hard to discuss, but I think what most people talk about power, they are talking about negligible increase in power. By almost all respect the PS3 and Xbox 360 is on par, and any differences are almost negligible. They really don't enable much difference and I certainly don't want to pay gobs of many for this negligible impact.
If you want power to matter, make it so. Don't give me something that I can't tell!
Ironically, the Wii U is again introducing new "power" that other consoles don't have, such as the tablet. It also introduces a much better facility to handle new ways to experience your game that isn't possible on other consoles. Example of this is the PS3 inability to have cross game chat, which Wii U will have plenty of RAM to handle. Not everything in hardware power has to be to "graphics..." or richer environments.
PS2 was the weakest system.
Explain why it runs games like god of war 2 , shadow of te colosses, grant turismo 4, Black if it was weak???
It had great games, but the hardware was the weakest of the bunch. Which proves that power isn't the be all and end all.
Art direction and pov. They remove a lot of stuff to add to the visuals. Gotta sacrifice one for the other.
People seem to think that power only equates to graphics because that's all the developers use power for, better graphics. That's thanks to the vocal fanboy idiots who only want "photo realism" in their games and forget that if all resources are put into making a game look good, the rest of the game will suffer for it. You want people to know what "power" truly entails, tell the developers to actually use it properly.
Call me old fashioned but I only want a games console for playing games if I want to watch TV shows and sports then I will use my TV on its own for that.
The only thing I have hooked to my TV is a console so the more features the better.
I also only want a phone to just make calls on & not help me how to find my way or locate a gas station when run out of gas. better yet tell me about a restaurant before i eat or order from it , but you know what who needs all the convinces of the modern tech world to help navigate & entertain us or just make life easier.
Yes you are old fashioned and outdated. It's 2012 the time for dedicated technology is over.
Yes I understand you want gaming but at this moment having a dedicated gaming console is suicide. These are going to be media devices that also play games.
Well then sell your console. You clearly dont need a gaming PC or consoles. They are redundant to you as you can play games on your smartphone and/or tablet. Why spend money on a device that will become redundant?
Consoles will always be bought for 1 reason and 1 reason only: to play games. All the other crap is just a bonus. No one will buy a console to access facebook, stream movies or listen to music. That is why apps on a console are not a necessity. They are nice to have but no will buy a console for them.
Are you trying to say they were wrong to do so?
Home Consoles from here on out will me multimedia & multi-service devices.
Frankly, I don't see why that has to be "wrong".
Why can't we all have both, Imalwaysright?
"Well then sell your console. You clearly dont need a gaming PC or consoles. They are redundant to you as you can play games on your smartphone and/or tablet. Why spend money on a device that will become redundant??
"Consoles will always be bought for 1 reason and 1 reason only: to play games. All the other crap is just a bonus. No one will buy a console to access facebook, stream movies or listen to music. That is why apps on a console are not a necessity. They are nice to have but no will buy a console for them."
1. Never use the word always because nothing is forever.
2. People want media devices in their consoles.
3. Gone are the days that consoles are used in your words for gaming because the "hardcore gaming" community can't sustain them.
4. So people didn't buy the PS3 because it was the cheapest Bluray player? Or that you could use Linux on it correct? Or people didn't get an Xbox because it could be a replacement for over priced cable?
Look I understand you are passionate about gaming but really if you think that consoles are only for gaming than you are really foolish.
@ Persistantthug They bought a PS3 because it was the cheapest and the best Blu ray player at the time. Everyone knows that. Dont you?
@ JBSleek Of course people they apps on their console. Will people buy a console for those apps? No. Do you know anyone that bought a console to access facebook? I dont. When discussing with your friends wich will be the best console next gen does any of them say that console X will be better than console Y because you can access facebook with it? I doubt it.
People dont buy consoles for apps. Look at the Wii. The thing outsold the self-proclaimed entertainment hubs by a wide margin and didnt needed the ability to access facebook to do so. 3ds is stomping the Vita and is lacking in the media capabilities vs the Vita. Consoles will sell regardless of what apps they have and dont need them at all. Consoles sell because of its games, every other crap is just a bonus.
and you want your mobile phone to be just a phone right?
You're aware that not everyone has a phone as smart as your ass, right?
Plenty of people still use "dumb" cell phones. Not everyone has any sort of need for internet or Angry Birds.
Some people still live in huts Silent, what's your point?
Comparing smart phones to HUTS?
Talk about a stretch.
I don't want a media center, I want good videogames.
Design and service features is what EA wants?
No EA you took enough of our money.
I want good games and an awesome media center. Both damn it!
I hope EA has nothing to do with anything about the next gen systems
Gaming should be put first before anything else. That is the console I will buy. Sure having apps and services like Netflix...etc is awesome, but I can get that on my PC and even my phone these days, games however are a different matter. 1st party and Exclusive games are what define a platform IMO. Next-Gen consoles need to differentiate themselves from each other. They didn't do a good job this gen. Look at the PS3 and 360 library, nearly identical.
The more exclusive content a console has, the higher chance there is of a consumer buying your console. I believe that if next-gen consoles all have amazing exclusive games, there is a much higher chance of people being multi-console owners.
Sadly many will read just the title and come to the wrong conclusion. Is it me or does EA talk too much?
EA says something... nothing to see here move along.
Edit: My apologies. I re-read what you stated and I was wrong.
Gaming should move on to convenience. Put your disc in the console, while you play, it downloads to the system, so that if you're leaving, you can swap the game to your controller's screen and play anywhere, and so that if you wanna play the game, you don't need the disc anymore, all you need is the controller so that you can simply stream the software to your controller, and save anywhere.
call me old fashioned but shouldnt it be about GAMES first and all that other crap secondary?
Anyone else tired of the guessing game and all this cryptic so called "news"? I am really interested in an official announcement with stone solid specs and features, everything else is just rumor in my opinion.
I think the more services and multimedia functionality the better. There's no reason for added functionality to decrease from raw hardware power.
Wasn't it about a month back an article "confirmed" the new Xbox would be called Next Box not Xbox 720? I don't believe this like I didn't believe that until MSFT themselves report it. I build my own gaming PC's but still like consoles for the majority of my gaming. A couple years ago I read multiple articles around "PC gaming is dying" and because of rumored next gen news, the interest seems to be shifting back to PC gaming for core gamers. I have a PS3 and 360 but if rumors hold true, I may support one if I shift back more to PC's.
Games better be in 60fps, I don't care about extreme graphical upgrading.


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Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (5.07%), State Street Corp (3.95%), Capital World Investors (1.81%), Edgewood Management LLC (1.45%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.41%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.01%). Company insiders that own Paypal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, Frank D Yeary, Gary J Marino, John D Rainey, John J Donahoe, Jonathan Auerbach and William J Ready. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Paypal. Which major investors are selling Paypal stock? PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Man Group plc, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. and First Trust Advisors LP. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach and William J Ready. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paypal. Which major investors are buying Paypal stock? PYPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Melvin Capital Management LP, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Marshall Wace LLP, Manning & Napier Group LLC and Johanson Financial Advisors Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paypal. How do I buy shares of Paypal? Shares of PYPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Paypal's stock price today? 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Photographer's Note
This is a picture of St. Giles' Cathedral which sits on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh's Old Town. Despite its name, St Giles' Cathedral is not, in fact, a cathedral. The title gives an idea of its magnificent scale, but was only strictly correct for two short periods when Bishops served in the Scottish Church, from 1633-8 and from 1661-89. A more correct name for it nowadays is therefore "The High Kirk of St. Giles" or the "High Kirk of Edinburgh" and it is now the principal place of worship of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh.
I have previously posted a similar picture in colour but, looking through my archives, I thought this one might look quite nice in black and white. This is the west end of the cathedral seen from the northwest.
The origins of St Giles' date back to about 1130 when a parish church was built to serve Edinburgh during the reign of King David I. The church was originally granted to the Lazarites and its dedication was to St Giles as the patron saint of lepers. Over the years a building that probably started as a simple nave and chancel grew aisles along each side, plus transepts and a tower over the crossing.
In 1385 English troops under King Richard II sacked Edinburgh and set fire to St Giles'. The damage was quickly made good and over the following centuries St Giles' Cathedral grew organically: an aisle added on here, a chapel there. The main external change came in about 1500 when the tower was heightened and the stone crown added to its top. By this time St Giles had become a collegiate church, one served by a college of canons whose role was to service the many chapels and altars in the church and pray for the souls of rich patrons and their families.
The Reformation, the storm of change that swept across the Church in Scotland in 1560, was ignited by a sermon preached in St Giles' by John Knox on 29 June 1559. Knox went on to become Minister of St Giles' and his statue now stands in the nave.
By 1581 St Giles' served three different Reformed congregations and internal walls were built to separate the areas they used. Other parts of the church were used for a variety of purposes, including storage space for Edinburgh's guillotine, the Maiden. Except during the short periods when it was formally designated a cathedral in the 1600s, St Giles' spent much of the following 250 years divided by internal walls. In 1684 the crown on top of the tower was repaired, but otherwise the late 1600s and the 1700s were a period of stagnation and decay.
By 1800 St Giles' Cathedral was in poor condition. It had by now been divided internally to form four separate churches, plus a meeting house for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, a police office and a fire engine house. It took a major restoration of the interior between 1871 and 1883 to finally remove the post-Reformation internal walls and return the church to the more unified, if still complex, space that can be seen today. This was largely paid for by the publisher William Chambers.
You can see some pictures of the interior of this church here and here.
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macjake (93825) 2013-05-10 17:22
Hi John
Who would have thought i'd be writting a critique from Santiago Chile!!!!! I actually had NO intentions to do so.....i was just going to check my emails and such. That all changed when i viewed your photo here. What a shot my friend! What a shot! The dark light and the entire presentation is so beautiful to my eyes. Wouldnt change a darn thing. It looks haunting will still keeping a softer look too. What can i say....one of your best.
I should get going...getting up super early to catch a flight to cusco peru.
rogerl (1632) 2013-05-10 17:35
John, what a magnificent capture. The building gives you great material to work with, but the range of light in the B&W is really wonderful against the cloudy sky, with dark shades dominating. Fantastic detail throughout. Great shot! Thanks.
adidas5nb (5743) 2013-05-10 18:49
beautiful high contrast pic.like the b n w format.great pov,light management and details.
Really stunning work, John. You've put the 'gothic' in gothic cathedral here with the deeply dramatic lighting and perfect conversion to B&W. The glow of the fascinating spire against the cloudy sky is fantastic.
Your history of the place is wonderful, and of course you know I appreciate a long, historically erudite note! You don't say, however, what the building is today (or at least I don't think I saw it here). Does it remain an active church, or has it been re-purposed into a museum or other use?
In any event, this simply makes me want to visit Edinburgh even more, to get a crack at this beautiful building and the rest of the city!
jadesgran (5433) 2013-05-10 21:25
Hello John
Wow! THis cathedral looks very impressive in monochrome.I am not a lover of same, but Les will love it so I will leave it to him to comment.
Best Wishes
jjcordier (79299) 2013-05-10 22:52
Intйressante version noir et blanc de cette superbe cathйdrale d'Edinburgh. Trиs bon cadrage.
SnapRJW (31631) 2013-05-10 23:53
Hello John - What a pleasure to see, I cannot imagine this could look any better as your conversion is tip-top. The way the building stands out so crisply against the softly shaded sky is exceptional and the tonal range and detailing is first rate. I'm so glad you posted this, it is such a change from the usual floodlit scenes we see in colour and so much more dramatic. Well done. Superb! Have a good weekend. Rosemary
jhm (193931) 2013-05-11 0:33
Hello John,
Again a black and white picture of these wonderful St. Giles Cathedral.
Your light management is perfectly founded, certainly the lovely entrance in Gothic style.
Maybe a colour picture as second image John!
Very well composition, nice presentation.
Thank for sharing.
Have a nice weekend,
williewhistler (16606) 2013-05-11 2:04
Hello John, what a fine subject for your mono treatment with the added bonus of being a night time shot.
The drama that you have instilled is first rate,with all those lovely architectural features standing out against the night sky.
There is a fine range of tones with the lights suitably subdued for the occasion.
Black and White as it should be,congratulations all round.
Best wishes Les.
bartekp (4746) 2013-05-11 2:32
HI John,
Wow!!! I know this place and building and in b&w looks 100 times better. Perfect composition. If i remember there it is not to many lights,so it is hard to make photo. The fronton and tower are sharp and catch eye.
Have a nice weekend
timecapturer (49288) 2013-05-11 2:35
Hi John
nicely rendered B&W shot this. This medium always works well with buildings like this, as it adds atmosphere and seems to bring out the magnificent stonework so beautifully. A flawless execution and presentation, I like it!
Enjoy a peaceful weekend - Brian.
marabu61 (11587) 2013-05-11 3:12
Hello John
Beautiful and strong black and white capture of this amazing cathedral. The clarity and sharpness is amazing, the exposure superb, there is really nothing not to love about this composition. Truly stunning indeed.
have a good weekend
olive224 (2719) 2013-05-11 3:23
I love this B&W shot, it is really awesome !
The framing is perfect and the light management very nice
Your B&W conversion is excellent !
holmertz (85237) 2013-05-11 7:44
Hello John,
I can only agreee with everybody else that this is a magnificent photo. The church is a fine piece of Gothic architecture and the crispness of this photo, with an excellent greyscale and contrasts, does full justice to the many fine details.
Kind regards,
No_One (4) 2013-05-11 8:54
Hi John,
That is a majestic building, and one very worthy of the name of Cathedral. Funny how it happens though, there is a cathedral in Dublin that is not actually a cathedral either (the Pro Cathedral). This is an amazing building, and you captured so much beautiful detail in the stone works. The long exposure has created wonderful bursts of light, and created a real exhibit of a structure. Stunning place and shot.
Thanks also for the excellent note, fair play to Mr Chambers. Its nice that people can restore things like this and all these years later we all can appreciate the efforts.
Have a great weekend
wolf38 (30) 2013-05-11 9:06
Hi John. My compliments for this masterful black and white photo. I like the subtle nuances Zwisch black and white. Also, the contrasts are perfect. Very nice - and a good contribution to TE.
Rgds, Wolfgang.
saxo042 (38078) 2013-05-11 9:19
Hi John,
A very good picture! This church looks magnificent from this position. I feel almost belittled here, but maybe that is the purpose of churches anyway... You have indeed found a good POV here and the light and contrasts are perfect.
Kind regards
mesutilgim (117068) 2013-05-11 10:20
Hello John,
Very nice b&w nocturnal capture !
Perfect light management and very good graphical values.
Many interesting notes enriches your entry.
TFS and have a nice weekend
carlo62 (81155) 2013-05-11 11:38
Ciao John
ho riconosciuto subito la bella cattedrale, ricordo molto bene la mia visita ad Edimburgo.
Hai effettuato un bellissimo scatto, eccellente nell'esposizione e la grande scelta del b&w, che crea una piacevole atmosfera.
agjika (3177) 2013-05-11 14:34
Hi John,
You will be pleased to hear that I cannot fault this photo! As far as church architecture and bw are concerned this is an excellent photo.I like the way three brightest areas create a triangle which allows the eye to travel around the photo. I also like the sense of depth that the chain creates. Maybe some dark clouds to add a bit of eery!
Very well exposed and contrasted.
Royaldevon (66128) 2013-05-12 2:04
Hello John,
My first impression was - what a haunting photograph. I don't mean that in any sort of derogatory way, just the atmosphere it produces, and any photograph that brings an atmosphere is working well!
It is lovely, John. The highlights and shadows are like shining a light onto a face, where the prominent features, in this case, the beautiful carvings, stand out, producing wonderful contrasts.
Yes, a fine posting.
Have a lovely Sunday,
Bev :-)
delpeoples (60326) 2013-05-12 5:46
Caro Giovanni
It looks like you've got the same malady as your countryman weetrees with B&W. Which is a good thing, and meant as a compliment to you: his monochromes are sensational. Having seen your colour version, I quite like this one. It's great seeing nocturnal images done in B&W very artistic. There are good contrasts, strong blacks and white and excellent light control. The reflections on the tiling are especially attractive and the details in the architecture have come out beautifully. Thanks for sharing, enjoy your Sunday.
Un abbraccio
PS: Sorry I've been off the air for a while, I'm in Melbourne and not accessing internet as much
chrisvek (7003) 2013-05-12 7:48
Hello dear John
Excellent night shot with splendid architectural details and awesome lightning usage.Very good job.
Have a nice day
Silvio1953 (194353) 2013-05-12 10:50
Ciao John, fashinating nocturne shoot, great view of fantastic cathefral, splendid light, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
bayno (18348) 2013-05-13 6:13
Caro John,
wonderful B & W with a complete mastery of light, the atmosphere is a little dramatic (but not like in Transylvania ;) )though the cathedral is beautiful, excellent framing and details, the picture is always accompanied by a good note, well done...
my best regards,
mkamionka (55332) 2013-05-15 6:20
Hi John,
stunning work. I like very much the architecure it is very impressive. The night photography is my favourite. Interesting idea to use b&w I have to try it some time with my blue hour photos. Great perspective too, well corrected (I believe).
I have taken recently some blue hour shots but did not have a chance to work on them.
I am indeed a member of English Heritage and I have enjoyed it, however I consider to cancel this membership from this year. Difficult call for difficult measures :(
I have never been to Ediburgh but it is high on my list of places to visit in the UK. May be this year?
Kind regards,
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Four years ago, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took time from his Republican presidential campaign to talk at length about the role of religion in America and in his life.
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It is entirely appropriate to ask "questions about an aspiring candidate's religion," Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in a sober, here's-what-I-believe address in College Station, Texas, in December 2007.Video: Romney on his Mormon faith in 2007 (on this page)
This time around, the same questions are being asked: Are Mormons really Christians? Should evangelical Christians refuse to even consider voting for them?
But this time, Romney's response is very different.
"Poisonous language doesn't advance our cause," Romney said Monday in comments at the Values Voters Summit, a conservative gathering in Washington.
That's the same venue where an influential minister in the Southern Baptist Convention, the Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, told reporters that he was endorsing Texas Gov. Rick Perry because Romney is "not a Christian" and the LDS Church is "a cult."
Perry said he disagreed with Jeffress, but he also refused Romney's demand that he "repudiate the sentiment and the remarks."
To which Romney replied Tuesday: "I just don't believe that that kind of divisiveness based on religion has a place in this country."
An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday suggests that such questions also may no longer resonate with voters as loudly as they once did.
In the poll, 66 percent of Republican primary voters said they had no concerns about Romney's faith or its effect on his potential presidency; only 13 percent said they were concerned. The rest said they didn't know enough to judge or weren't sure.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, meanwhile, declined to comment on the controversy, referring reporters to church materials on its website.)Romney forced to revisit religion issue
Skepticism since the 1820s
As Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, a prominent religious conservative political group, said in an interview this week on CNBC: "The fact is, Romney's been around this track before."
Mormons and evangelicals
The answer to the question "Are Mormons Christian?" depends on who's doing the asking. Although there are many differences between the systems of belief, here's a look at some of the more significant ones:
• God
Evangelicals believe in the Trinity, a "triune" God made up of three equal and divine entities: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Mormons also generally believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but they believe the three entities are "separate beings, yet one in mind, power, wisdom and purpose." God and Jesus are real beings of flesh and bone, and Jesus is his literal son through Mary. The Holy Spirit is non-corporeal and can reside in believers.
• Scripture
Evangelicals believe the original Bible manuscripts are the unchanging, perfect word of God. Disagreements over its meaning are due to differences in translations over the centuries.
Mormons believe in the same Bible but say that because its original texts are lost, its accuracy can't be assessed. Nor is the word of God unchanging; Mormons believe that in the 1820s, Joseph Smith Jr. discovered a new book of the Bible, the Book of Mormon,
• Salvation
Evangelicals believe salvation of the spirit is primarily faith-based, received through confession of faith in God through the sacrifice of Jesus.
Mormons believe in universal salvation through grace, which is the reunion of spirit and body so one may face judgment before God, and significantly in salvation through good works, which can determine to which of three levels of heaven a Mormon may ascend.
• What about the secret magic underwear?
It's not magic, and it's not secret. The "sacred garments" or "Temple garments" — typically undergarments resembling a T-shirt and knee-length undershorts — are worn at all possible times by Mormons who have taken part in a special ceremony as a reminder of the covenants they make in the Temple. They are widely available online.
— Alex Johnson/msnbc.com research. Sources: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Southern Baptist Convention; United Methodist Church; Philip Roberts, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research; "Garments," by Evelyn T. Marshall and Daniel H. Ludlow; "In These I Believe," article by Gordon B. Hinckley in Ensign magazine, July 2006; Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology
Skeptics of Mormonism "have been around since the church started" in the 1820s, said Scott Gordon, dean of the business school at Shasta College in Redding, Calif., and president of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, an umbrella organization of nonprofit groups that seek to answer critics of the LDS Church, as the denomination prefers to be called.
That's why the same questions keep "coming up over and over again," Gordon, a ward mission leader and former bishop in the church, said in an interview this week. "Part of the difficulty is most people don't know what a Mormon is."
The church is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and its American members are disproportionally distributed in the western United States. Consequently, Gordon said, Mormons tend to be more often misunderstood in the eastern half of the country.
"Those are the folks who have beards and drive buggies — oh, wait, those are the Amish," he said.
Unfamiliarity combined with portrayals of the church "as being cultish, as being secretive — I think it makes some people nervous," he said, even though "we're fairly traditional Bible-believing Christians."
"The idea that we're somehow not traditional Christians because we don't believe exactly like a Southern Baptist believes ... seems very small," he said.
But Philip Roberts, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a leading Southern Baptist institution in Kansas City, Mo., said the evangelical distinction was drawn over much more than differences of opinion that developed a millennium after Jesus' crucifixion.
The LDS Church "radically reconstructs the historic Christian doctrines on God, Jesus and salvation," said Roberts, the author of "The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism" and for many years a senior leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's second-largest denomination.
"I think evangelicals look at Mormons as basically having a belief in God and the 10 Commandments, and Mormons are generally known to be morally traditional and to confirm much of the Judeo-Christian ethic," Roberts said in an interview this week.Not just Mitt: Other power players of the Mormon faith
But "they deny the confessions of the church," he said, referring to a series of statements of fundamental Protestant beliefs about salvation over the centuries.
The common thread through those writings is that Jesus is the only intermediary with God in salvation from spiritual death, which can be received only by confession of faith in God through the sacrifice of Jesus. In other words, evangelicals and other Protestants believe salvation is "faith-based."
Mormons believe that faith in God and the atonement of Jesus are part of salvation, but they also put significant emphasis on living a kind and productive life on Earth. In that sense, salvation in the LDS Church is said to be "works-based."
And Roberts said that while evangelicals and many other Protestants believe the Bible is literally true, Mormons "say it's full of errors ... and had to be supplemented with their three books."
They are:
- The Book of Mormon, which the church says founder Joseph Smith Jr. discovered in New York and published in 1830.
- The church's Doctrines and Covenants, which it says Smith received through divine revelation.
- The Pearl of Great Price, which collects Smith's doctrinal writings.
"There's an obvious disconnect with historical Christianity," and on that ground, it's appropriate for evangelicals and many mainline Protestant denominations to consider the LDS Church a "theological cult," Roberts said.
"Their claim to be the only true church is a radical reconstruction of the Christian faith," he said. "If the Mormon Church were to say 'we are a separate world religion,' like Islam, we'd say: 'Fine. They're not a cult.' But there's no common basis for identity with other Christian groups."
Official positions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jeffress: 'My comments are not fanatical'
In interviews after his comments at the Values Voters Summit, Jeffress made the same point, saying he regretted that his remarks had been misinterpreted as a dismissal of the LDS Church as a "sociological cult like David Koresh," who was killed along with 21 followers of his Branch Davidian sect in a confrontation with federal authorities in 1990. He stressed that he was speaking of it as "theological cult" in doctrinal terms.
"There are people out there who want to try to paint me as the Jeremiah Wright of the right," Jeffress told Chris Matthews in an interview on MSNBC-TV's "Hardball," referring to President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor. "But my comments are not fanatical — it's just true that Mormonism is not a part of historical Christianity," particularly in its teachings on salvation, he said.
Jeffress acknowledged that, on that basis, "I don't believe all Baptists are Christians or all Catholics are Christians."
"Nobody goes to heaven in a group," he said. "We go individually to heaven or hell personally based on what we believe in Jesus Christ."
While some reports have characterized Jeffress' views as outside the mainstream, research shows that it is the dominant philosophy among evangelicals and other Protestant.
In a survey of Protestant ministers (.pdf) released this week by LifeWay Research, 75 percent disagreed with the statement "I personally believe Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) to be Christians." Sixty percent said they "strongly disagreed."
The results were relatively consistent across age groups, years in church leadership and levels of theological education. (The poll, which interviewed 1,000 senior ministers across the country, reported a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.)
Evangelical ministers were more likely to "strongly disagree" that Mormons are Christians than were mainline Protestant ministers — that is, pastors of Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian and other non-Catholic, non-evangelical churches. But even half of those pastors said they, too, "strongly disagreed."
Such views are not new.
In 2000, for example, delegates to the the United Methodist Church's General Conference voted without debate to declare that "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by self-definition, does not fit within the bounds of the historic, apostolic tradition of Christian faith."
And in 1998, Lifeway — which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention — published Roberts' book "Mormonism Unmasked," part of a convention-led campaign called The Mormon Puzzle. Another book in the program, "The Mormon Puzzle: The Challenge of Mormonism," declared: "Regardless of what the Mormon missionaries or television commercials say, the Mormon church is anti-Christian."
Gordon, head of the Mormon apologetics group, said: "No, we're not Tulip Calvinists, and we're not Southern Baptists. (But) we are Christians.
"We believe in the Bible. Do we have some differences? Yes. Otherwise, there'd be no need for a Mormon church.
"I wonder how the Jews felt about early Christians — 'They can't be Jews, because they have the New Testament'?"
Will doubt translate to votes?
Whether the revival of such decades-old discussions will have a significant impact on the 2012 presidential campaign is not clear.
Whether evangelicals should vote for Romney or any other Mormon for president is a separate question, Jeffress said. His endorsement of Perry, he said, was based not just on Perry's personal confession of faith but also on his more conservative stances on issues like abortion and gay marriage.
"I think you've got a Christian in Barack Obama ... and a non-Christian in Mitt Romney, and I've said publicly I would vote for Mitt Romney if it comes down to that," Jeffress said.
Roberts, of the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said he would be "concerned" if Romney became president, but "I would not stand up in the pulpit and say you must not vote for him."
"Although (Romney) affirms his Mormon faith," he said, "when you punch the ballot," the real question becomes 'Does this man have the judgment I follow?'"
It was Gordon, the former LDS bishop — not Mormon critics — who said Romney should have real concerns about whether evangelicals and other Protestants would be willing to vote for him.First Read vote: Is Romney the inevitable nominee?
"Making it through the primaries will be difficult because of the Southern evangelicals," said Gordon, who called invocations of "traditional Christianity" by Mormon skeptics simply "code for Southern Baptist."
"And when we turn to the General Election, you're going to run into a whole other set of questions that Republicans wouldn't ask," he said, among them:
- "What about the Mormon position on African-Americans?" The church, while it has been integrated since its founding, did not admit black men to leadership positions until 1978.
- And "what about the church's involvement in Proposition 8?" The church strongly supported the 2008 California ballot initiative that restricted same-sex marriages, sending letters to every Mormon congregation in the state and launching a national fund-raising drive that generated half of the $40 million in total donations to the pro-proposition campaign, its organizers said.
"That's no big issue among Republican primary voters," Gordon said. "It could be with independent and women voters."
At the same time, there's a risk of a backlash vote in Romney's favor if opponents focus too much on his faith, he said.
"Mormons hold a lot of power in Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Colorado, and all those could be swing states," Gordon said. "If people alienate the Mormon vote — and Mormons are truly active voters — they may be tipping the balance."
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Relatively warm, Bermuda's a bargain
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BERMUDA - When New England is fast in winter's clutches, this island delivers a dose of spring tonic. Although locals consider Bermuda chilly, it's balmy compared with the Northeast. Ocean waters may be cold, but crowds are few, and the price is right.
Just a two-hour direct flight from Boston (although some of the best deals are on
May into September is Bermuda's peak season. I've found that by visiting between November and March, when temperatures are usually in the 60s, Bermuda is uncrowded and affordable.
"We had a fabulous time,'' said Abbe Levin of Boothbay, Maine, who visited in March. "My husband and younger son golfed daily - they got great deals - and my older son and I explored beaches upon beaches with no other people.''
"Deals'' is the key word. Bermuda tends to be pricey, with expensive lodging, dining, and taxis, but there are ways to avoid the high costs. One of the biggest expenses can be getting around, as there are no rental cars, just scooters. Scooters aren't ideal for everyone, and can be dangerous. "Just about every flight leaving the island has at least one person in a cast or with a nasty road burn from a scooter accident,'' one hotelier told me during my first visit. Taxi fare between Hamilton and the airport or Dockyard can reach $50 with tip.
Bermuda's public transportation system covers the island end to end from a hub in Hamilton. Bus fare is $4.50 cash (coin only) or $4 token, but the better deal is a transportation pass, which ranges from $12 for one day to $45 for seven and includes ferries. Savvy travelers use the bus to get to their hotels from the airport. "We used the bus system exclusively,'' Levin says. "It was cheap and convenient, very laid back and relaxing, and we actually met lots of locals.''
While many visitors limit their dining options to either their hotel or restaurants in the chief tourist areas, these often have big-city prices. If you want to know where the locals go, ask folks.
"Winter is a great time to eat out in Bermuda because restaurant owners suffer from the lack of tourists, so they'll put on great offers to get locals to leave the house and eat out,'' says Mary Dunn, an island resident.
One of her winter favorites is the Hog Penny, a jolly British pub serving comfort foods such as steak and fries and roast chicken. "It's a small cozy place with a bar, and they do a really good winter deal.'' Another is Pearl, a new sushi restaurant. "The food is excellent, and if you go before 7 p.m. everything on the sushi menu is half price.''
Dunn offered a night life tip: Hubies jazz club in Hamilton. "It's a very local, Bermudian place to go. You get people from 18 to 80 years old. It's tiny and intimate - like being in someone's living room - entry is $5, drinks are cheap, and the live music is fantastic.''
By asking everyone from taxi drivers to museum guards, I've hit on a few jackpots in Hamilton. One is The Spot, a cafeteria-style restaurant on Burnaby Street serving good food at a fair price. Another is the Fork Out Dine Around (www.diningbermuda.com), valid through April 15. It provides three three-course dinners at any of nine participating restaurants for $135. But my all-time favorite is The Fish Hut, an ultra-local joint on Court Street. It serves big portions of some of the island's best fried fish and often has a lobster special.
Deals aren't limited to food. For a quick and relatively inexpensive round of golf, the Fairmont Southampton has an 18-hole, par-3 executive course ($59 for 18 holes, $49 for nine holes, $17 cart, $25-$30 rental clubs).
"I don't think I'd previously played a par 3. I thought it might be boring and that you couldn't hit a wood off the tee,'' says Jeff Cohen, of Brunswick, Maine, a recent visitor. "But I enjoyed it. It gave me a chance to practice my irons, the views were lovely, and the course was beautifully maintained.''
For serious golfers, Bermuda's Three Nights and Three Rounds special (800-BERMUDA, www.bermudatourism.com) is valid through March 31. The package delivers not only a room at one of the island's high-end resort hotels and greens fees at some of its top courses, but also daily breakfast, club rentals and cart at each course, and three sleeves of golf balls. Package play is on the Port Royal Golf Course, home to the 2009 and 2010 PGA Grand Slam of Golf, Riddell's Bay Golf and Country Club, and Belmont Hills Golf Club. Per person rates, including taxes and based on double occupancy, are $599 at the Fairmont Southampton, $672 at the Pompano Beach Club, and $673 at the Newstead Belmont Hills Golf Resort & Spa. Listed greens fees plus club and cart rental total about $590, and the least expensive listed room (at one of these hotels) is $199 per night, so the package is a deal.
Most accommodations offer winter specials. Before booking anywhere, check online since Internet booking often nets a hefty discount. Also check whether the quoted rate includes service or resort fees and the 7.25 percent government occupancy tax.
Winter rates at the oceanfront Surf Side Bermuda Hotel (800-553-9990, www.surfsidebermuda.com) begin at $180 for a room, $225 for a one-bedroom suite with full kitchen. Internet-only rates and other specials can lower those costs to $132 and $164. It's a nice, if a bit tired, clifftop property, with a good restaurant, pool, fabulous views, and an eroding beach.
The oceanfront Reefs Resort (800-742-2008, www.thereefs.com) is a gorgeous property with three restaurants, private beach, spa, pool, tennis courts, fitness center, and on-site bike and scooter rentals. The Take 5 package, valid through March 31, includes five nights' lodging; daily breakfast, afternoon tea, and dinner; one round-trip airport taxi transfer; and a three-day bus/ferry pass, with rates beginning at $1,869 for two.
Far more low-key are the island's guesthouses and cottages. Situated upon beautifully landscaped grounds and with a patio fronting on Hamilton Harbor is Granaway Guest House (441-236-3747, www.granaway.com), a renovated manor house dating from 1734 with a cottage. Winter rates are $100-$160 including breakfast for a manor room, $150-$200 for the self-catering cottage. Fronting on a private beach about 10 minutes from Hamilton is Grape Bay Cottages, where a two-bedroom cottage is $270 per night through March 31, with a five-night minimum.
Hilary Nangle can be reached at hilary hilarynangle.com.


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Exelon included in Dow Jones Sustainability Index for seventh year in a row, named one of the top 15 S&P 500 companies by the Carbon Disclosure Project
CHICAGO - The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) and Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) have recognized Exelon as a global leader in carbon emissions performance and reporting and as an industry leader in corporate sustainability.
DJSI named Exelon to its North America Index for the seventh consecutive year, in recognition of the company's corporate sustainability performance. Inclusion in the index is based upon an in-depth analysis of economic, environmental and social criteria, such as climate change strategies, energy consumption, human resources development, knowledge management, stakeholder relations and corporate governance.
"As one of the largest energy utility companies in the country, Exelon has a special responsibility to manage and report on the economic, environmental and social impacts of its business operations," said Christopher M. Crane, president and CEO of Exelon. "Under our Exelon 2020 program, we have eliminated the equivalent of more than 80 percent of Exelon's annual carbon footprint, and we take pride in being recognized as a company that is working effectively toward a clean energy future."
Exelon is also one of 15 companies - and two U.S. utilities - to be named to CDP's S&P 500 Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI) in acknowledgment of its leadership in reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change. Further, Exelon is one of seven utilities to be named to CDP's S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) for excellence in carbon emissions reporting.
Exelon is the only U.S. energy utility to be named to both the Global 500 CPLI and CDLI, which recognize the world's largest companies for leadership in carbon emissions performance and disclosure.
CDP gave Exelon a carbon disclosure score of 94 in 2012, an increase from its score of 79 in 2011. Exelon's CDP carbon performance grade improved to an A in 2012 from a C grade last year.
In addition to Exelon 2020, Exelon had numerous achievements in the area of corporate sustainability in the last year. For example:
• Exelon further expanded its clean energy portfolio through its acquisition of the 230-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One project in California, as well as adding 138 megawatts through nuclear uprates.
• Exelon's Constellation business helped government, institutional, commercial and industrial customers in 10 states and the District of Columbia achieve 195,000 megawatt-hours of energy savings.
• Exelon and Constellation contributed approximately $37 million to charities and nonprofits in the communities they serve to support education, environmental stewardship, community development, arts and culture, and energy assistance.


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Going on 2 weeks
Since Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty were last together. He's rarely been seen back in LA while she went off for another holiday with friends before returning to London, where she was spotted yesterday wearing skinny jeans and big boots and today in her version of the boyfriend jeans that look so much better than Katie's.
As you can see, Sienna seems either pre-occupied with texting someone on her blackberry or at least pretending to be pre-occupied in front of the paps. Either way, buzz from London gossips is that she's itching to get back to Balty and growing more insecure by the day about what he's doing now that she's not around, vacillating from manic euphoria when they have a good chat, to miserably regretful when she wonders whether her reputation has been irretrievably broken as a result of this romantic entanglement.
Was told exclusively by a source earlier this week that Sienna was given a stern shakeup recently by a member of her management team, and these were the words that supposedly hit closest to home:
"Women don't like you at all. And men don't like you enough to make up for it."
Too true. And quite a conundrum.
Doesn't matter that the hipster girls watch what she wears. Hipster girls don't spend money at the movie theatre.
In the new season of Entourage (more on that later) Ari tells Vince – you're in Movie Star Jail.
Sienna Miller is in Movie Star Jail.
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The Room Holds One Maddeningly Fun Puzzle After Another
Jan 21, 2013 5:00 AM PT
The Room is an iPad 2 game available in the iTunes App Store for US$1.99.
Sometimes thousands of user reviewers really get it right: The Room has nearly 100,000 reviews in the App Store with an average ranking of 5 out of 5 stars, which is a feat that grabbed my attention. Hence, I promptly downloaded The Room.
But what is The Room? It's a moody, atmospheric mystery puzzle game set inside of a room, set inside of a safe, set inside of a pointy box inside the safe, and so on and so forth. The puzzles come in the form of mechanical levers, secret panels, configurable keys, codes, and even some three-dimensional visual cues that can only be seen from special angles through a special lens.
The puzzles are built on the outside of the safe and interior "boxes," and they yield to your virtual manipulation. You can flick your way all around the safe, for example, looking at it from all angles. To interact with it, you double tap to zoom into an area. At which point you'll find a sliding panel that opens a door that reveals a key that opens a lock that reveals a book that reveals another key that includes a letter that alludes to some astounding new power of the universe. (Of course, these aren't the actual steps -- no spoilers here -- it's just an example.)
Sound complicated? It is and it isn't. Usually you can rotate and zoom around until you pinpoint a likely element that will react to your touch. An innocuous switch or a manufacturing cover plate that slides to reveal a hidden recess and a key. Obviously the key will fit a likely lock, so you use the key to open that lock, which might be on the other side of a box, and boom, you're cracking the case. One step will lead to another.
What If You're Not Very Smart?
Don't worry, The Room isn't a puzzler that's so hard that you won't be able to finish it. At least, I'm guessing most people can eventually figure it out. Sure, I was stuck several times and on the brink of despair, only to find a visual cue to keep me on track. Fortunately, when you're really stuck, a built-in in help system lets you tap a question mark to receive a clue to you, which helps encourage you to examine an area more closely.
At one point, I spent about 10 minutes looking and prying and swiping and zooming to no avail. I didn't want to resort to the help clue but finally realized that I had to. The answer? I needed to use the built-in accelerometer in the iPad to physically change the angle of the iPad to get some orbs to rotate and move to activate another secret panel. Because I had the iPad propped up on a table in an immovable position, wiggling the iPad around never even crossed my mind.
The graphics of the devices and boxes and sound effects are all fantastic. If you have headphones, play it with the headphones. Not only will you hear some audible cause-and-effect sounds to help you along the way, you'll get a dose of moody ambiance. Sometimes you'll hear creaking or the wind or the sound of horse hooves somewhere outside the room, and while not exactly scary, you're still emerged in a dark room trying to open up boxes to reveal some vaguely ominous secret power.
As for the underlying story line I keep mentioning, it comes mostly through letters that you find along the way. You have to pay attention, but the plot isn't where you get satisfaction out of the room: It's the puzzles. Each time you do something right, discover something through even a tiny bit of ingenuity, you get a little does of satisfaction. These successes build on each other, moving you into a habit loop of look, examine, poke, swipe, and find to reveal something new. Aren't you a smart one?
That's the genius of The Room. Even if you get stuck, you just get another clue that you have to figure out; consequently, this little iPad game is surprisingly fun to play.
All-in-all, The Room evokes the old-school Myst game but keeps the focus of your attention on or in a box. While I can't imagine want to play through the game again myself, I can imagine giving it to a kid or adult to play while on a road trip or when you're stuck in a cabin with 3 feet of snow on the ground. It really is a five-star game.


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Misbehave responsibly with e-cigarettes: Column
- One out of 10 high school students used e-cigarettes last year.
- They can be odorless%2C which makes them much easier to bear than morning breath.
- They are less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
As someone who hates smoking and loves children, even children who smoke, I was delighted to learn the other day that more and more kids smoke electronic cigarettes.
According to data furnished this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of 10 high school students used e-cigarettes last year, twice the number from 2011. CDC Director Tom Frieden said these teenagers might develop "a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes." Yes, and they might also develop an addiction to Caesar salads and Golden Girls reruns. Who knows?
Dread Drakkar Noir
E-cigarettes have several things going for them. Unlike regular cigarettes, they can be odorless, which makes them much easier to bear than morning breath, hippies, public restrooms and Drakkar Noir.
They are less harmful than conventional cigarettes. A 2011 Journal of Public Health Policy study found them to be "much safer" than cigarettes. They deliver vaporized nicotine into people's lungs without nearly as many carcinogens and irritants. They are, like Larry King's eighth wife, much better than the original.
Because they simulate the look and feel of real cigarettes, e-cigarettes could be more effective than nicotine patches at weaning smokers off the real thing, as a Boston University study documents. Former anti-tobacco U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, now a board member of an e-cigarette firm, said they are "the first thing I've seen in years that has promise for decreasing tobacco use in our country."
One would think that anti-tobacco activists would welcome all this, but they don't for a simple reason: E-cigarettes are much too cigarette-y. The enemies of tobacco are against anything that resembles tobacco, including candy cigarettes and Big League Chew. "We must keep our youth from experimenting," said Tim McAfee, director of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health. The more popular the product becomes, the more suspiciously it is perceived.
Reality deflection
A spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration, which wants to regulate e-cigarettes, said, "We don't want the public to perceive them as a safer alternative to cigarettes" — a puzzling statement considering that is precisely what they are.
Anti-smoking absolutists oppose e-cigarettes for the worst of reasons — because they are safer. Their obstinacy makes their mission all the more difficult to achieve and to justify. It is hard to demonize something that means you little or no harm. That's why no one talks about banning vitamin C or invading Switzerland.
E-cigarettes, though neither nutritious nor geopolitically neutral, are not that big of a deal. Ingesting strange chemicals is — let's face it — part of growing up, even if they are addictive. Indeed, it has even become a custom for presidential candidates to catalog all the illegal substances they have used, and to be duly applauded afterward for their vast experience. That is because we cherish the freedom to be stupid more than the duty to be safe.
Kids, like politicians, do foolish and dangerous things, and it is up to adults to make sure that they misbehave as responsibly as possible. Basic tips: If you jump out of an airplane, wear a parachute. If you visit the Neverland Ranch, bring an adult. And if you inhale something besides oxygen, an electronic cigarette won't kill you, at least not immediately.
Windsor Mann is the editor of The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism.
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Self-Measurement for Assessment of the Response to Trandolapril
Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique
Serum Markers Acute myocardial infarction and Rapid Treatment
Simultaneous Multiple-Angle Reconstruction Technique
Simultaneous Multislice Acquisition using Rosette Trajectories
Somatic Mutation And Recombination Tests
specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, times (objectives)
Supportive Medical Aid Responding (to individual needs) Team
SMARTAny of a number of trials: Cardiology
1. Second Manifestations of Arterial Disease.
2. Serum Markers Acute Myocardial Infarction and Rapid Treatment.
3. Study of Microstent's Ability to Limit Restenosis Trial.
4. Study of Medicine versus Angioplasty Reperfusion Trial Immunology Study of Monoclonal Antibody Radioimmunotherapy.