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Have you ever wondered about those stone "tools" that evolutionists discover? Sure, some of them are obviously of human origin-even works of art. Others look more questionable. Last year I reported in TJ on a controversy over the discovery of what are claimed to be early Paleolithic stone tools in North America.1 These primitive stone "tools" were unearthed near Calgary and Peace River, Alberta, Canada.2,3 The "artefacts" consist mainly of various chipped quartzite cobbles interpreted as choppers. These "tools" are similar to "early Paleolithic tools" commonly found in Europe and Africa, including the lower portion of the Olduvai Gorge, East Africa. The Alberta "tools" have presented several nasty difficulties for evolutionists, which was reemphasized in a recent exchange of opinion on the subject in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.4,5
Evolutionists have devised an elaborate classification system for stone tools ranging from the most primitive early Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the youngest, exquisitely crafted tools. This classification is based on the idea of the evolutionary development of man over several million years. The first people to enter the United States, passing southeast through Alberta from Alaska and the Yukon Territory, were the Clovis people who manufactured sophisticated stone tools. This was supposed to have happened at 11,000 years B.P. in the geological time scale. The particular problems these Alberta "tools" present is that the early Paleolithic supposedly occurred much earlier than 11,000 years ago, suggesting that the timing of man's entry into the New World was perhaps more than 100,000 years ago. There is little evidence for the early Paleolithic in North America within the uniformitarian system, except for a few disputed sites. Thus, the Alberta "tools" confuse not only the New World chronology, but also the Old World chronology. Another possibility is that the sophisticated Clovis people entered the New World along with what evolutionary theory would brand as primitive people. This scenario would muddy up the neat tool classification system. Or the "tools" can simply be geofacts, products of nature and not man, and thus cast doubt on all those other early paleolithic "tools" found elsewhere in the world. Regardless, the paleoanthropologists have problems.
In the recent exchange of opinion in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Jonathan Driver from the Archaeology Department of Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, British Columbia, makes a case that the Alberta "tools" are geofacts. In the spirited exchange, some obscure information was divulged that makes me lean toward the opinion that practically all, if not all, of these "early Paleolithic stone tools" are geofacts. Thus man never was so primitive over such a large area of the earth for a lengthy time.
Driver adds more information to the dispute by pointing out that nature can chip rocks similar to the markings found on "early Paleolithic tools." He lists several examples, including three artefact-looking stones eroded out from an "ancient tillite" that was formed long before man was supposed to have come on the scene within the evolutionary time frame, and basalt cobbles flaked by percussion as a result of falling into a gorge on the Zambezi River. (A "tillite" is supposedly consolidated glacial debris, mostly dated 200 million to 2 billion years old. I have previously made a case that these particular rocks are better explained as resulting from gigantic submarine landslides during the Genesis Flood- see my book Ancient Ice Ages or Gigantic Submarine Landslides?).6
Driver also rejects the belief that the experience of the analyst is important for distinguishing between artefacts and geofacts. Driver further states that supposed diagnostic criteria distinguishing between naturally- and humanly-flaked rocks have not been tested and are held by faith. However, he believes that the stone "tools" from Olduvai Gorge, Africa, (similar to those in Alberta) supposedly a million years old or older, are really human artefacts because they were found in fine-grained sediments, which precludes natural abrasion by high energy water flow.
Chlachula and Leslie counter most of Driver's points, sticking to their belief in early Paleolithic artefacts from Alberta. They also divulge further information, reinforcing my opinion. They plainly state that much circular reasoning occurs in distinguishing artefacts from geofacts. If the evidence fits the establishment view of the evolution of man, then the cobble or chip is considered an artefact, but if it does not fit, the rock is rejected. (Much of this probably goes on behind the scenes and is never published.) They state that there is a tendency:
" … to question records, which may be genuine, by means of selectively applied and occasionally simplified arguments about the capacity of natural processes to generate them, because they simply differ from the established pattern of cultural manifestations."5
They also point out that if evidence for a high-energy environment is used as a criterion to judge between artefacts and geofacts, the number of paleolithic sites around the world would be greatly reduced. Chlachula and Leslie thus reject the criterion of distinguishing an artefact by a fine-grained sedimentary or low-energy environment, pointing out that one of their sites in Alberta is within fine-grained lacustrine clay. Turning their argument around, if their Alberta rocks are really geofacts, then those in Olduvai Gorge could also be geofacts according to Driver's fine-grained criterion.
One point of the discussion seems fairly clear, namely that rocks chipped to look like primitive "tools" can occur in high-energy water processes. This being the case, there is strong evidence for the catastrophic transport of the many millions of quartzite rocks strewn over large portions of southern and central Alberta, as well as surrounding areas, before the Ice Age. Based on 1) the transport of these exotic rocks from the Rocky Mountains 700 kilometers or more, 2) the sometimes large scale of the deposits, and 3) the abundant percussion marks, a regional catastrophic flow of water is implied.7 Those quartzites found in lacustrine clays could simply be reworked after this catastrophic process, probably by being picked up and dropped by floating ice or icebergs in a lake adjacent to an ice sheet. Likewise the stone "tools" from Olduvai Gorge could have been fashioned by high-energy water flows and finally deposited within fine-grained sediments.
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- Oard, M.J., Did 'Old World Early Paleolithic' People Travel to North America?Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 14(3):3-5, 2000. Back
- Chlachula, J., Geology and Quaternary environments of the first preglacial palaeolithic sites found in Alberta, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 15:285-313, 1996. Back
- Chlachula, J. and Leslie, L., Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35:871-884, 1998. Back
- Driver, J.C., Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta: Discussion. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37:871-874, 2000. Back
- Chlachula, J. and Leslie, L., Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta: Reply. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37:875-878, 2000. Back (1) Back (2)
- Oard, M.J., Ancient Ice Ages or Gigantic Submarine Landslides? Creation Research Society Monograph No. 6, Creation Research Society, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1997. Back
- Klevberg, P. and Oard, M.J., Paleohydrology of the Cypress Hills formation and Flaxville gravels; in: Walsh, R.E. (ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 421-436, 1998. Back


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We all want to be good stewards of our bodies, but most of us don't have the time or money for crazy extensive product overhauls and all-organic lifestyles. So what can you do to be responsible and healthy, even with limited time and resources? Eco-model and environmental activist Summer Rayne Oakes shared a few tips with us. To find out her advice, just keep reading.
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Introducing Emergency Contraception in the Mexican Family Planning Norm
Council researchers described how emergency contraception was included in the Mexican Family Planning Norm in order to better understand the barriers and opportunities for getting other essential women's health drugs approved.
This study was conducted to understand the process that led to the inclusion of emergency contraception (EC) in the Mexican Family Planning Norm (NOM) and to identify the factors that influenced this achievement.
Council researchers conducted in-depth interviews with eight prominent decisionmakers from state and federal government institutions. According to these decisionmakers, the determining factor for the inclusion of EC in the NOM was the external review of scientific evidence by experts from the National Centre for Equity of Gender and Reproductive Health that proved EC pills are not abortifacient. Other important factors that contributed to the inclusion were the ample support of civil organizations, the demand for EC by the population, and the minister of health's support of EC. The inclusion of EC in the essential drug list was perceived as a logical next step after its inclusion in the NOM.
The introduction of EC in Mexico shows the importance of scientific evidence on decisionmaking. The process took about a decade, which reflects the complexity of converting research results into public policy. Measures should be taken to facilitate these processes for the benefit of women and the society as a whole. The Council, in collaboration with partners, will explore ways to facilitate the approval of other essential drugs for women's health in Mexico.
Introducción de la anticoncepción de emergencia en la Norma Oficial Mexicana de Planificación Familiar" [Introducing emergency contraception in the Mexican Family Planning Official Norm] (abstract) (HTML)
Lara,Diana K.; van Dijk,Marieke G.; Garcia,Sandra G.; Grossman,Daniel
Gaceta Médica de México 143(6): 483-487
Publication date: 2007
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How a top law firm destroyed itself.
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An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.
Photographer Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets.
Hear Jonah Weiner discuss this article on the Longform Podcast.
After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.
How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.
At one time, a whole generation of New York Times reporters wished they could write like McCandlish Phillips. Then he left them all for God.
It comes from the soil of the desert Southwest. Inhaled, it can cause incurable, even fatal illness. And, thanks to global warming, valley fever is spreading fast.
An Israeli journalist's six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.
A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America's war on drugs.
In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.
"If I were a bitch, I'd be in love with Biff Truesdale. Biff is perfect. He's friendly, good-looking, rich, famous, and in excellent physical condition. He almost never drools."
A profile of the world's top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.
On Silvio Berlusconi's hedonism.
Berlusconi is Italy's waning Hugh Hefner, alternately reviled and admired for his loyalty to his own appetites—except that he's supposed to be running the country.
"Before I put down my phone, I took a picture of my son. I worried that if I didn't I would never believe he had existed."
The homeless population of New York City is higher than it's been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.
On Pham Xuan An, Time's Saigon correspondent during the Vietnam War, who led a double life as an intelligence agent for Ho Chi Minh.
Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East for 15 years. Now he's directing Bashar al-Assad's war in Syria.
How the Keystone XL became the defining environmental test of Obama's presidency.
Life inside Za'atari, a camp for Syrian refugees just across the Jordanian border, where "the dispossession is absolute. Everyone has lost his country, his home, his equilibrium. Most have lost a family member or a friend. What is left is a kind of theatrical pride, the necessary performance of will."
On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who "created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality."
From a Tokyo smash-and-grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.
A member of the Pink Panthers, Milan Poparic, escaped from prison yesterday.
The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
How a secretive Israel billionaire seized control of an untapped iron ore deposit beneath one of Africa's poorest countries.
The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.
"As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late."
On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.
A series of mysterious, dangerous interactions in a Mexican bathhouse.
"In every public bath, there tends to be a fight from time to time. We never saw or heard any there. The clients, conditioned by some unknown mechanism, respected and obeyed every word of the orphan's instructions. Also, to be fair, there weren't very many people, and that's something I'll never be able to explain, since it was a clean place, relatively modern, with individual saunas for taking steam baths, bar service in the saunas, and, above all, cheap. There, in Sauna 10, I saw Laura naked for the first time, and all I could do was smile and touch her shoulder and say I didn't know which valve to turn to make the steam come out."
Kosovo's leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?
On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.
Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn't live in it.
On Swedish game designer Markus Persson and his singular creation, Minecraft, which has sold over twenty million copies and earned Persson over a hundred million dollars last year.
Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.
On Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.
A neighborhood, a building, and a woman's precarious existence at the periphery.
"No doubt there are those who will be critical of the narrow, essentially local scope of Fatou's interest in the Cambodian woman from the Embassy of Cambodia, but we, the people of Willesden, have some sympathy with her attitude. The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world—in its dramatic as well as its quiet times—we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?"
The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.
A caretaker becomes enmeshed in the relationships of the homeowner.
"I'd never have picked Julian out as a sensuous type if I hadn't read Hana's diary; he seemed too busy and prosaic, without the abstracted dreamy edges I'd always imagined in people who gave themselves over to their erotic lives. And yet, because of the secret things I knew about him, I was fixated on him the whole time I watched him cook, and then afterward, while we sat opposite each other eating at the little table he pulled up to my armchair."
How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.
In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.
On Christmas Day, an elevator operator cons holiday charity out of a variety of tenants.
"On the way home from work a few nights earlier, Charlie had seen a woman and a little girl going down Fifty-ninth Street. The little girl was crying. He guessed she was crying, he knew she was crying, because she'd seen all the things in the toy-store windows and couldn't understand why none of them were for her. Her mother did housework, he guessed, or maybe was a waitress, and he saw them going back to a room like his, with green walls and no heat, on Christmas Eve, to eat a can of soup. And he saw the little girl hang up her ragged stocking and fall asleep, and he saw the mother looking through her purse for something to put into the stocking—This reverie was interrupted by a bell on 11. He went up, and Mr. and Mrs. Fuller were waiting. When they wished him a merry Christmas, he said, 'Well, it isn't much of a holiday for me, Mrs. Fuller. Christmas is a sad season when you're poor."
A father and son work the Chinese cattle markets in this story from the 2012 winner of the Nobel in Literature.
"People trusted him implicitly. If a transaction reached a stalemate, the parties would look at him to acknowledge that they wanted things settled. 'Let's quit arguing and hear what Luo Tong has to say!' 'All right, let's do that. Luo Tong, you be the judge!' With a cocky air, my father would walk around the animal twice, looking at neither the buyer nor the seller, then glance up into the sky and announce the gross weight and the amount of meat on the bone, followed by a price. He'd then wander off to smoke a cigarette."
The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.
A week in the author's life when it became impossible to control the course of events.
As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform?
A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
My guide tapped at Brando's door, shrieked "Marron!," and fled away along the corridor, her kimono sleeves fluttering like the wings of a parakeet.
A tale of romance gone wrong, from MacArthur Fellowship winner Junot Diaz's new collection This Is How You Lose Her.
"Alma is a Mason Gross student, one of those Sonic Youth, comic-book-reading alternatinas without whom you might never have lost your virginity. Grew up in Hoboken, part of the Latino community that got its heart burned out in the eighties, tenements turning to flame."
A new teacher begins work at a TB hospital in rural Canada.
"The number of students who showed up varied. Fifteen, or down to half a dozen. Mornings only, from nine o'clock till noon. Children were kept away if their temperature had risen or if they were undergoing tests."
In this previously-unpublished Fitzgerald story, a saleswoman wants a cigarette, and perhaps encounters something more profound.
"Smoking meant a lot to her sometimes. She worked very hard and it had some ability to rest and relax her psychologically. She was a widow and she had no close relatives to write to in the evenings, and more than one moving picture a week hurt her eyes, so smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road."
The uncomfortable, and increasingly vital, relationship between Barack Obama and billionaire donors.
The story of John Laroche, which led to Orleans' The Orchid Thief, and tangentially, the film Adaptation.
What the health care industry can learn from how The Cheesecake Factory does business.
The history of a relationship between a son and his mostly-absent father.
"He lay down. His spine pressed into the soil a notch at a time, undid him. Upside down was a land of female legs. He was fond of these new bell-shaped skirts, wide enough to crawl under and be kept safe, and wished he had waited to marry, or married differently. He thought, What if I stayed here? Let the sun swallow me, and the orange dazzle under my eyelids become not just the thing I see but the thing that I am, and let the one daisy with the bent stem, and the rose smell and the girl upside down on the pub bench eating an upside-down ploughman's with her upside-down friend be the whole of the law and the girth of the world."
On the scene of the darkest games in Olympics history.
Part of our Olympics primer, on the Longform blog.Surfing San Francisco with a true believer.
Part of our collection of stories on surfing for Slate.With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world.
Remembering George Plimpton's old-fashioned style.
Above all, he was a gentleman, one of the last—a figure so archaic, it could be easily mistaken for something else. No, my father's voice was not an act, something chosen or practiced in front of mirrors: he came from a different world, where people talked differently, and about different things; where certain things were discussed, and certain things were not—and his voice simply reflected this.
The bizarre story of the disappearance of "downtown legend" John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.
On the complex nature of a presidential second term and what Obama would do if he wins one.
A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.
A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.
He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of "Drawing Restraint 9"), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song "Let It Will Be" seems to borrow from his "O Let It Be," though he says, "I'm fully prepared to accept that it's a coincidence").
A profile of 22-year-old hacker George Hotz, who in 2007 became the first person to successfully unlock the iPhone. A few years later, he became the first person to successfully hack the Playstation 3. And, shortly thereafter, he became the first person to get sued by Sony for it.
The expansion of private-security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. But armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren't hired guns but hired hands. These workers, primarily from South Asia and Africa, often live in barbed-wire compounds on U.S. bases, eat at meagre chow halls, and host dance parties featuring Nepalese romance ballads and Ugandan church songs. A large number are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.
A history of the cell phone ringtone.
Many recent hip-hop songs make terrific ringtones because they already sound like ringtones. The polyphonic and master-tone versions of "Goodies," by Ciara, for example, are nearly identical. Ringtones, it turns out, are inherently pop: musical expression distilled to one urgent, representative hook. As ringtones become part of our environment, they could push pop music toward new levels of concision, repetition, and catchiness.
A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.
A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.
Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.Sometimes a writer does a really amazing piece that makes me jealous. Other times they do a piece that just makes me want to give up. Every time I read Katherine Boo I'm just glad that I don't even attempt to do narrative writing. It would be embarrassing to have anything I write put up against her. This dispatch from a refugee center for Katrina victims is heart wrenching and does more than anything else to bring home the psychological dimensions of American urban poverty.
What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?
An imaginative, unpopular boy and a depressed older man face the dangers of winter.
"Something was wrong here. A person needed a coat. Even if the person was a grownup. The pond was frozen. The duck thermometer said ten. If the person was mental, all the more reason to come to his aid, as had not Jesus said, Blessed are those who help those who cannot help themselves, but are too mental, doddering, or have a disability?"
A profile of Quentin Rowan, a.k.a. Q. R. Markham, 'author' of last fall's short-lived spy novel hit Assassins of Secrets, which was pieced together using more than a dozen sources.
As the hip-hop group Odd Future rose to fame, their sixteen-year-old breakout star Earl Sweatshirt mysteriously disappeared.
(After a stretch at a school in Samoa, he seems to have reappeared yesterday.)
An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.
A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald's gives out $300 signing bonuses.
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company's 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed.
Here's how they made it home.
Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.
After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.
Married sitcom writers, once famous for their love, buckle under sexual and creative differences.
"The funniest lines in their work, the lines with that satisfying crackle of sadism, were mostly his, but he was aware that it was Pam's confidence and Pam's higher tolerance for cliché that had won them their big contracts. And now, because she wasn't engineered for doubt, Pam seemed to think it didn't matter that she'd gained fifteen pounds since moving to the mountains and that she was thumping around the house with the adipose aquiver in her freckled upper arms; she certainly seemed not to care that they hadn't had sex since before Labor Day; and she'd been pointedly deaf to certain urgent personal-grooming and postural hints that Paul had dropped during their photo shoot for L.A. Weekly."
How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history.
A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.
Frank rarely smiles, even when he's being funny. "There are three lies politicians tell," he told the real-estate group. "The first is 'We ran against each other but are still good friends.' That's never true. The second is 'I like campaigning.' Anyone who tells you they like campaigning is either a liar or a sociopath. Then, there's 'I hate to say I told you so.' " He went on, "Everybody likes to say 'I told you so.' I have found personally that it is one of the few pleasures that improves with age. I can say 'I told you so' without taking a pill before, during, or after I do it."
Why Whitney is Lucy, only less lovable:
This may sound like blasphemy to anyone who loves Lucille Ball, the woman who pioneered the classic joke rhythms that Whitney Cummings so klutzily mimics. Cummings has none of Ball's shining charisma or her buzz of anarchy. Yet she does share Lucy's rictus grin, her toddler-like foot-stamping tantrums, and especially her Hobbesian view of heterosexual relationships as a combat zone of pranks, bets, and manipulation from below. "This is war," Whitney announces, before declaring yet another crazy scheme to undercut her boyfriend, and it might as well be the series' catchphrase.
A profile of Ahmet Ertegun: son of the Turkish ambassador, teenage collector of 'race' music, producer and pseudonymous songwriter for records by Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner, founder of Atlantic Records, confidante to Mick Jagger, impeccable dresser.
A profile of Ahmet Ertegun: son of the Turkish ambassador, teenage collector of 'race' music, producer and pseudonymous songwriter for records by Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner, founder of Atlantic Records, confidante to Mick Jagger, impeccable dresser.
A stand-alone piece of the manuscript that became The Pale King, this story details a young boy's mysterious and doomed obsession.
"During the five weeks that he was disabled with a subluxated T3 vertebraoften in such discomfort that not even his inhaler could ease the asthma that struck whenever he experienced pain or distressthe heady enthusiasm of childhood had given way in the boy to a realization that the objective of pressing his lips to every square inch of himself was going to require maximum effort, discipline, and a commitment sustainable over periods of time that he could not then (because of his age) imagine."
An early take on the dark side of cyberspace:
Like many newcomers to the "net"--which is what people call the global web that connects more than thirty thousand on-line networks--I had assumed, without really articulating the thought, that while talking to other people through my computer I was going to be sheltered by the same customs and laws that shelter me when I'm talking on the telephone or listening to the radio or watching TV. Now, for the first time, I understood the novelty and power of the technology I was dealing with.
Life, and debt, in New York.
I've historically been pretty good at getting by on what I have, especially if you apply the increasingly common definition of "getting by," which has more to do with keeping up appearances than keeping things under control. Like a social smoker whose supposedly endearing desire to emulate Marlene Dietrich has landed her in a cancer ward, I have recently woken up to the frightening fallout of my own romantic notions of life in the big city: I am completely over my head in debt. I have not made a life for myself in New York City. I have purchased a life for myself.
The world's foremost Sherlock Holmes expert found dead in a locked room, leaving no note.
There was something else, he said, something critical. On the eve of his death, he reminded me, Green had spoken to his friend Keen about an "American" who was trying to ruin him. The following day, Gibson said, he had called Green's house and heard a strange greeting on the answering machine. "Instead of getting Richard's voice in this sort of Oxford accent, which had been on the machine for a decade," Gibson recalled, "I got an American voice that said, 'Sorry, not available.
A young man Japanese man visits his estranged, domineering father.
"Still, it was not their physical features that made it difficult for Tengo to identify with his father but their psychological makeup. His father showed no sign at all of what might be called intellectual curiosity. True, having been born in poverty he had not had a decent education. Tengo felt a degree of pity for his father's circumstances. But a basic desire to obtain knowledge—which Tengo assumed to be a more or less natural urge in people—was lacking in the man."
The case for coaches in professions other than music and sports. Like medicine, for example:
Since I have taken on a coach, my complication rate has gone down. It's too soon to know for sure whether that's not random, but it seems real. I know that I'm learning again. I can't say that every surgeon needs a coach to do his or her best work, but I've discovered that I do.
The first thing I did at Walt Disney World was to take an oath not to make any smart-aleck remarks. A Disney public-relations man had told me that attitude was everything. So I placed my left hand on a seven-Adventure book of tickets to the Magic Kingdom and raised my right hand and promised that there would be no sarcasm on my lips or in my heart.
How mitigation specialists are changing the application of the death penalty:
In Texas, the most prominent mitigation strategist is a lawyer named Danalynn Recer, the executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. Based in Houston, GRACE has represented defendants in death-penalty cases since 2002. "The idea was to improve the way capital trials were done in Texas, to start an office that would bring the best practices from other places and put them to work here," Recer said recently. "This is not some unknowable thing. This is not curing cancer. We know how to do this. It is possible to persuade a jury to value someone's life."
The story of the Caughnawagas, "the most footloose Indians in North America," and their gradual assimilation.
The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan's military.
The anatomy of a 1930 epidemic that wasn't:
Was parrot fever really something to worry about? Reading the newspaper, it was hard to say. "not contagious in man," the Times announced. "Highly contagious," the Washington Post said. Who knew? Nobody had ever heard of it before. It lurked in American homes. It came from afar. It was invisible. It might kill you. It made a very good story. In the late hours of January 8th, editors at the Los Angeles Times decided to put it on the front page: "two women and man in Annapolis believed to have 'parrot fever.'"
A man, a woman, and a child negotiate their uneasy triangle in the days and weeks following 9/11.
"His briefcase sat beside the table like something yanked out of a landfill. He said there was a shirt coming down out of the sky."
On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.
A profile of Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer and the author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto.
A profile of Vogue Creative Director André Leon Talley.
From our guide to haute couture genius at Slate.
I felt, in some substantive yet elusive way, that I had had a hand in killing my mother. And so the search for a bed became a search for sanctuary, which is to say that the search for a bed became the search for a place; and of course by place I mean space, the sort of approximate, indeterminate space one might refer to when one says to another person, "I need some space"; and the fact that space in this context generally consists of feelings did not prevent me from imagining that the space-considered, against all reason, as a viable location; namely, my bedroom-could be filled, pretty much perfectly, by a luxury queen-size bed draped in gray-and-white-striped, masculine-looking sheets, with maybe a slightly and appropriately feminine ruffled bed skirt stretched about the box spring (all from Bellora in SoHo).
A profile of Rupert Murdoch from 1995, as he fought monopoly charges in the U.S. and U.K. and prepared to expand his empire into China.
Murdoch is a pirate; he will cunningly circumvent rules, and sometimes principles, to get his way, as his recent adventures in China demonstrate.
Childhood acquaintances, meeting again in adolescence.
"In the morning you all slept in, victims of jet lag, reminding us that despite your presence, your bags crowding the hallways, your toothbrushes cluttering the side of the sink, you belonged elsewhere."
A profile of California congressman Darrell Issa:
A few days after we met in Las Vegas, Issa called me. He was concerned about all my questions regarding his early life and didn't see why they were newsworthy. The conversation was awkward.
Inside the world of online dating:
If the dating sites had a mixer, you might find OK Cupid by the bar, muttering factoids and jokes, and Match.com in the middle of the room, conspicuously dropping everyone's first names into his sentences. The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye? That would be eHarmony.
A profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden's #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda.
A commencement address to the graduates of Harvard Medical School on how their chosen profession is changing and what they'll need to learn now that they're out of school.
On the soul of the commuter:
A commute is a distillation of a life's main ingredients, a product of fundamental values and choices. And time is the vital currency: how much of it you spend—and how you spend it—reveals a great deal about how much you think it is worth.
Fred Wilpon, the owner of the hapless New York Mets, had more than $500 million tied up with Bernie Madoff when the Ponzi scheme was exposed. Now he may be forced to sell his beloved ballclub.
A profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger written during his first year in office as Governor of California:
"You know, the thing I love about Mexican women is how furry their pussies are."
Joyce Hatto, unknown to even the most ardent classical music collectors until late in her life, released a string of incredible performances of great works, distributed by her husband's mail-order CD business. But how was it possible for her to record difficult works at such a dizzying rate? And if wasn't her playing, who was it?
How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.
The discovery of 30,000-year old, perfectly preserved cave paintings in southern France offer a glimpse into a world that 21st-century humans can never hope to understand. The article that inspired Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.
The questionable close relationship between a mobster/informant and an F.B.I. agent during a bloody Colombo crime family battle.
Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They're gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.
A profile of Steve Carell, whose last appearance as Michael Scott in The Office airs tonight.
Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?
We ate in our own restaurants, stayed in our own hotels, and hired our own guides. We moved through a parallel Paris—and a parallel Rome, Milan, and so on.
The reporter takes a whirlwind guided bus tour of a Europe with a group of Chinese tourists.
On a neuroscientist's personal mission to solve the mystery of how the brain processes time.
On Chuck Lorre, creator of the #1 (Two and a Half Men) and #2 comedy on American television, former cruise ship guitarist, composer of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, and recently antagonist of Charlie Sheen.
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Please do not desecrate a Led Zeppelin thread with by typing the name of the band that I will not mention.
Alrighty guys - anybody that thinks Led Zepplin has any right to be on the same stage as Bon Jovi might as well head over to the Hawk boards because that's about as delusional as you would have to be to think Bon Jovi would stoop to such lows to find a band worthy of opening for them.
A program isn't built on one player and it doesn't succeed because of one player, thus a program won't fail if it doesn't get that one player.
Yeah, Robert plant is going on tour with Allison Kraus in 2008. They just did a duet album that is pretty good. I doubt Plant does anything with Bon Jovi unless Kraus is there. Plus Bon Jovi sucks
I find it very hard to believe that Led Zeppelin would open for ANYBODY! let alone Bon Jovi. There may be some truth to just Plant...but I doubt it. If Zep does do a world tour, which I hope to God they do, Des Moines probably isnt going to be on the list. Page and JPJ seem all about it, but Plant has his obligations w/ Allison Krauss and little Bonham w/ Foreigner....unless you've got a link to prove me wrong, which I kinda hope I am. GET THE LED OUT!
sorry guys I was just kidding about Zeppelin opening for Bon Jovi. If Zep goes on tour in the US I pray that they will be far far away from Bon Jovi for obvious reasons. If Zep is anywhere in the midwest I'm there. As cloneice said best band ever
I can't beleive you all fell for that...I just watched this message board and laughed!
This thread is hilarious
damn my finals have made me ********. that or all the beer. whats everybodys favorite zeppelin song??? mine has to be "over the hills and far away"
"Hey Hey What Can I Do"
If they come within 500 miles and tickets are less than $300/piece, I'm going. They haven't announced yet whether this was a one time thing or if they are going to go on tour. I hope they need the money. For the first concert there was 18,000 seats and 1 million requests for tickets. Twenty million people crashed the website when details of the gig were announced. A lucky 10,000 got tickets for the show, the band's first full set in 27 years.
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You know how there are things that you are supposed to like because everyone else does but for some reason you just don't? Led Zep is one of those things for me. I mean I understand that Stairway is one of the best songs ever written. I understand that Plant is considered one of the best rock vocalists and that Page one of the best guitarists. I understand that they have influenced almost every rock musician since 1972. I'm a big fan of 70s-80s rock/metal but for some reason I just can't get into Zep. I have no idea why.
I don't like Stairway to Heaven at all but love nearly every other song they have. Have you listened to CD's like Physical Graffiti?
With Bon Jovi on 4-20... Nice touch, pass the doobie. Anyway, here are my favorites in no particular order Over the Hills and Far Away Ramble On What is and What Should Never Be
Nothing to see here mods. Keep moving.
In My Time of Dying Nobody's Fault But My Own Good Times Bad Times
Originally Posted by CYCLONE STATE yes they are opening for bon jovi With very special guest Enya!
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March 21, 2011
Morningside College Choral Composition Festival features new works
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Choirs from Sioux City area high schools and Morningside College will perform three new, original compositions during the Morningside College Choral Composition Festival Concert at 7:30 p.m. April 10 in Eppley Auditorium.
The new compositions are the winning entries from Morningside's first annual choral composition contest held earlier this spring. Each of the winning composers – Dale Grotenhuis, A. Eric Heukeshoven, David von Kampen – will conduct a clinic for the participating high school choirs in the afternoon prior to the April 10 concert.
"This event provides a unique opportunity to support and promote the creation of new choral music and for young musicians to interact with the composers who created the music they will be singing," said Tim Watson, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Morningside.
The Morningside College Choir, Bel Canto Singers, Singing Men of Morningside and Eclectix Jazz Ensemble also will perform during the concert, which has a $5 per person admission charge.
Grotenhuis is a retired professor and director of choral activities at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Currently living in Jenison, Mich., Grotenhuis has over 200 choral works in print by various publishers. His arrangements also can be found in many hymnals. In addition, he has composed five works for symphonic band.
Von Kampen is a graduate student in music composition and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is a three-time winner of the Vancouver Chamber Choir Young Composers Competition, a 2008 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Competition finalist, and 2007 recipient of the Vreeland Award for exceptional creative ability from the UNL School of Music.
Heukeshoven is an instructor in the music department at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota (Winona). His compositions are performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe. He is a member of the American Composers Forum, ASCAP and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.


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Ellen Pearson -- the woman who was married to Robert Kardashian when he died -- claims the Kardashian kids don't have a leg to stand on in their lawsuit against her for selling portions of their father's diary to the tabloids ... TMZ has learned.
Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Rob Jr. all banded together last month to sue Pearson for profiting off the diary ... a diary that contained a slew of juicy personal information.
The Kardashian kids claimed in their suit that the diary was left to them in Robert's will, but in her response filed earlier this week ... Pearson claims that just isn't the case and the diary is rightfully hers.
Pearson also shoots down the idea that she hid the diary from the Kardashians, but she does fully admit to selling it to the tabloids and owns up to the fact that she got paid for it.
In the end, Pearson claims the Kardashians have no case and is asking a judge to toss it out completely.
A judge has yet to rule.
The Kardashians are hypocritical sh*ts. They have sold every last waking moment of their lives.
I dont think ANYTHING from someone diary should be sold or published. But at the same token If he left his own personal diary to someone in a "Will" then one should expect it to eventually be read and distributed... TRUST NO ONE! He was an atty and trusted THAT (his) family? LMAO
Sounds like the idiots are afraid of what their dad might have thought of them and his then wife wrote it down, truth hurts doesn't it? LOSERS!!!
Yeah, go ahead, give them money! Maybe they can finally get themselves some clothes that actually fit! Or they will finally suffocate on their greed. So despicable!
It's her diary too do with what she wants, those trash fame hoes sell themselves everyday. What is the difference??? Absolutely nothing. Diary talks about how selfishhis trash family was..
Because they are attractive, well dressed (usually) & rich, they have been excused from all culpability.They are immoral, depraved, vulgar & unscrupulous.The tragedy is, that these miscreant people are still employed by the E NETWORK & RYAN SEACREST(their enabler).What a gross iniquity,
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As a boarding school, Notre Dame offers the advantages of leadership development and personal growth through an informal curriculum of community living.
In this online video series, CAIS Boarding Schools aim to bust boarding myths and misconceptions once and for all, and prove how our offer MORE... to parents, students and society as a whole!
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2013 Ford Focus 1.0 EcoBoost live photos
Enlarge PhotoHow small is too small, when it comes to engines?
Those of the "no replacement for displacement" school of thought might be thinking more about performance than they are gas mileage, but at what point does downsizing actually start to harm gas mileage, rather than help it?
As carmakers strive to attain better MPG figures, many are beginning to build smaller engines, often turbocharged to make up for the lack of displacement.
High tech, not-so-high MPG
Ford's eagerly-awaited 1.0-liter, 3-cylinder EcoBoost is one such example.
Designed to replace a naturally-aspirated 1.6 four-cylinder in terms of performance, yet improve on its economy, the EcoBoost is getting praised around the world by the motoring press.
It will come to the U.S. in the nose of the 2014 Ford Fiesta. In that format, with 123 horsepower and 148 lb-ft of torque at 1,400 rpm, Ford is claiming the highest gas mileage "of any non-hybrid" in the U.S. market.
In Europe, the 1.0 engine in a Ford Focus gets 47 mpg. Subtract the 15-20 percent difference between European and U.S. figures and you get an average of around 40 mpg--not bad at all, for a gasoline car.
2012 Ford Focus 1.0 EcoBoost
Enlarge PhotoIf only it were that simple.
UK site Honest John runs "real mpg" figures compiled from owner accounts. In the real world, Focus EcoBoost owners are only achieving 34 mpg--72 percent of the official claims.
Across the entire site, owners in the UK are averaging 88 percent of official figures, so 72 percent is hugely off-target. It's also barely above that of the 33 mpg 2012 Ford Focus SFE sold in the U.S.--with its 2.0-liter engine.
The story is similar for another award-winning engine, the Fiat TwinAir.
Under the stubby hood of a Fiat 500, it's said to achieve almost 59 mpg. In reality, owners are getting 40 mpg--70 percent of the official number, and no better than the regular (and much cheaper) four-cylinder 1.2-liter.
Quick drive: TwinAir engine in a Chrysler Ypsilon subcompact
Regular engines in each range, without the high-MPG fanfare, are comfortably achieving over 80 percent of the claimed figures--so why are the "eco" engines struggling?
Under-sized, over-stressed?
The average economy of downsized engines isn't just affecting cars at the bottom of the market--even larger vehicles are struggling to show any benefits.
On Fuelly, Ford F-150 drivers are averaging 17 mpg--both with the 3.5-liter V-6 EcoBoost engine, and the supposedly less efficient V-8. And Toyota has dropped the four-cylinder 2.7 from its Toyota Sienna minivan, since the larger 3.5-liter V-6 achieved the same 21 mpg.
It suggests that when it comes to gas mileage, there's simply a point where a smaller, less powerful and lower-torque engine has to be worked too hard in normal driving for its benefits to show.


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The afternoon fixture is a prime opportunity for the public to view two of the most exciting and talented Investec Super Rugby teams live in action.
On Thursday 31 January at 4pm, the Chiefs team will run a Coaching Clinic for eight– thirteen year old local players that have been invited to attend the session by King Country Rugby Union. The clinic will be held at the Tongariro Domain in Tongariro Street, Taupo. The public are encouraged to watch and take part in an autograph signing session afterwards.
The Taupo District Council, King Country Rugby Union and Suncourt Hotel have provided great support behind the scenes to continue to bring Investec Super Rugby to Taupo.
King Country CEO David Trewavas said 'We are rapt to have the Chiefs back after a very successful camp last year. We reckon it was the camp in Taupo that kicked off a successful season".
The Chiefs will be making the most of their time in Taupo, enjoying the tourist attractions including Prawn Park, Huka Jets, the White Water Rafting Simulator and The Great Lake Hole in One.
Chiefs coach Dave Rennie is expected to use the teams first hit-out for the season as a trial match. Players will be working hard to secure a starting position for the Investec Super Rugby's first match against the Highlanders in Dunedin on 22 February.
Families are encouraged to bring picnics into the park but no alcohol or commercially branded take-away food is allowed be taken into the ground. Food and beverages will be available on site.
Kick off for the Chiefs v Highlanders pre-season match is at 3.00pm at Owen Delany Park in Taupo and tickets are available from www.ticketdirect.co.nz, www.chiefs.co.nz or at the gate on match day. Ticket prices are $15 for adults on the embankment and $25 for a grandstand seat. Kids 14 and under are FREE on the embankment. Gates open at 2.00 pm.
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