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The second type of handset is called a smart phone. This mobile device encompasses all the capabilities of a feature phone without any of the limitations, combining form and functionality. Think of your smart phone as a miniature personal computer. Every device has an operating system - such as Apple's iOS or Google's Android - that has exponentially increased processing speeds. This allows you to do truly amazing things such as effortlessly video-chat with your friends, read your favorite books or magazines, and even play high-definition video games – all on your smart phone.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
AUGUSTA—Senators Susan M. Collins and Angus King announced the names of the two students who have been selected as delegates to the 51st Annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) that will be held March 9 to 16, in Washington, D.C.
Thomas Poblador attends Noble High School and serves as a student liaison for his school's mentoring program and is the student representative for his academic team. In addition, Thomas volunteers at his high school Writing Center, having accumulated over 400 community service hours. Last year, he competed in the National "We the People" competition in Washington, D.C. Thomas' future plans include pursuing a degree in political science or international relations. He has an interest in diplomacy and serving in the U.S. Foreign Service.
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Discovering the Beauty of God's Evolving Creation: My Story
A college student raised as a young-earth creationist shares his story of coming to understand and appreciate God's evolving creation.
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A college student raised as a young-earth creationist shares his story of coming to understand and appreciate God's evolving creation.
St. Thomas Aquinas helps us understand how the image of God in man might have developed through evolution.
A short guide to where BioLogos fits in the origins debate.
I became such an expert in young-earth creationist theology and science that it turned into a wrecking ball for my faith.
My childhood in the evangelical church gave me the toolkit that led me to eventually accept the evidence for evolution, and marvel at the God who created it all.
BioLogos president Deb Haarsma responds to Ken Ham's recent comments about Hugh Ross, and pleads for a more gracious conversation between Christians on issues of faith and science.
The 1930 showdown between evolutionist Schmucker and creationist Rimmer generated a lot of heat but shed very little light on the real issues behind the debate.
Recent high-school graduate Jacob shares about his journey from young-earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, and how his faith was challenged and strengthened along the way.
From a Judeo-Christian perspective, all of these curiosities dovetail into a profoundly meaningful explanation: Being made in God's image helps to explain our creative and investigative skills, particularly when we consider that God has specially engineered this universe to reveal himself to human beings.
The new Gallup survey shows in broad strokes the challenge we face. But more nuanced surveys find that only 8% of Americans are convinced creationists whose beliefs are dear to them, and only 4% are convinced atheistic evolutionists whose beliefs are dear to them. The vast majority of Americans are not sure of their position and are open to a conversation.
Because BioLogos accepts the scientific evidence for the age of the earth and common ancestry, Ham believes we are undermining the Bible and denying its authority. However, the authority of the Bible is key for all that we do at BioLogos.
Does Collins show that Evangelicals have turned the corner on the scandal Noll brought to light, or does the continued resistance of the majority of Evangelicals to Collins's work (about 75% reject human evolution) show that we as a collective group still do not take the life of the mind seriously?
Watch to see whether the debate encourages the opinion that science and Christianity are at war. We don't think you have to choose sides.
We can understand why man, modern man in particular, would like to mop the floors and bleach the walls. We might not be able to tame reality, but we can tame our perception of reality. We intellectualize in order to feel in control.
"There was no better way, in Boyle's opinion, to 'give us so great a Wonder and Veneration' for God's wisdom, than 'by Knowing and Considering the Admirable Contrivance of the Particular Productions of that Immense Wisdom,' by which he mainly meant the exquisitely fashioned parts of animals both great and small."
The idea that the story we know is only the very beginning raises a new question in place of Feynman's objection that Christianity is provincial. Is it presumptuous to claim that in such a grand universe, possibly with intelligent life arising in many places, the redemption and transformation of the entire cosmos starts here, on our pale blue dot?
Last week Ken Ham addressed BioLogos specifically in a blog post, in response to Daniel Hamlin's testimony told in our blog on October 14th.
The world is not full of items stamped "made by God"—the Creator is more subtle than that—but there are two locations where general hints of the divine presence might be expected to be seen most clearly. One is the vast cosmos itself, with its fifteen-billion-year history of evolving development following the big bang. The other is the "thinking reed" of humanity, so insignificant in physical scale but, as Pascal said, superior to all the stars because it alone knows them and itself.
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
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WASHINGTON — Here is a roundup of the main themes President Barack Obama touched on during Tuesday's State of the Union address:
Immigration Where he stands: Obama praised his administration's efforts at increasing border security by "putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history," but recognized that there is still work to be done. He specifically addressed creating a path for illegal immigrants to obtain citizenship and fixing the legal immigration system by cutting waiting periods and reducing bureaucracy.
What he said: "Send me a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away."
Gun Control Where he stands: "They deserve a vote." Obama's words about the victims of gun violence echoed in the House Chamber, summing up the president's stance on gun control. Obama called for a congressional vote on a series of gun control measures, including background checks in all gun sales and the prevention of anyone buying guns for resale to criminals.
What he said: "Senators of both parties are working together on tough new laws to prevent anyone from buying guns for resale to criminals. Police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets, because these police chiefs, they're tired of seeing their guys and gals being outgunned. Each of these proposals deserves a vote in Congress."
"They deserve -- they deserve a simple vote."
Climate change Where he stands: Obama recognized the extreme shifts in climate over the past 15 years and advocated a transition to more sustainable and environment-friendly sources of energy, such as wind and solar, in order to reduce America's dependence on oil. Obama also proposed the creation of an Energy Security Trust dedicated to shifting our cars and trucks off oil.
What he said: "We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act before it's too late."
"I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago. But if Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will."
Minimum Wage Where he stands: What is one thing Obama and Mitt Romney agreed on last year? Minimum wage. Obama recommended raising the federal wage to $9 an hour to help working families.
What he said: "Here's an idea that Gov. Romney and I actually agreed on last year. Let's tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on."
"We know our economy's stronger when we reward an honest day's work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we've put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong."
Troop withdrawal Where he stands: Obama announced that 34,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by next February and promised the war in Afghanistan will be over by the end of 2014.
What he said: "Beyond 2014, America's commitment to a unified and sovereign Afghanistan will endure, but the nature of our commitment will change. We are negotiating an agreement with the Afghan government that focuses on two missions: training and equipping Afghan forces so that the country does not again slip into chaos, and counterterrorism efforts that allow us to pursue the remnants of al Qaeda and their affiliates."
Debt & Deficit Where he stands: Obama's plan to reduce the national debt focuses on how to avoid the sequester and continue to reduce deficits without cutting education and job training, while asking the wealthiest Americans to pay more. Obama argued that over the last few years, "both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion -- mostly through spending cuts" and that the government is "halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction."
What he said: "To hit the rest of our deficit reduction target, we should do what leaders in both parties have already suggested, and save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected. ... Now is our best chance for bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform that encourages job creation and helps bring down the deficit."
Medicare Where he stands: Obama took a firm stance against cutting funds for Medicare -- one of the federal government's largest line items -- while acknowledging its contribution to the nation's debt. Obama advocated the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles plan and offered to reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies.
What he said: "Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population. And those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms -- otherwise, our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children, and jeopardize the promise of a secure retirement for future generations. But we can't ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful."
"We'll bring down costs by changing the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital. They should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive."
Roads and Bridges Where he stands: In an effort to create more jobs in the United States and improve the nation's infrastructure, Obama proposed a "Fix-It First" program, to put people to work on nearly 70,000 failing bridges, as well as roads. What he said: "Ask any CEO where they'd rather locate and hire: a country with deteriorating roads and bridges, or one with high-speed rail and Internet, high-tech schools and self-healing power grids. The CEO of Siemens America -- a company that brought hundreds of new jobs to North Carolina -- has said that if we upgrade our infrastructure, they'll bring even more jobs. And I know that you want these job-creating projects in your districts."
Universal Preschool Where he stands: Obama advocated for widespread enrollment in preschool, praising states like Georgia and Oklahoma that make it a priority. Enrollment in preschool, Obama says, means students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own. What he said: "I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than $7 later on -- by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime. ... So let's do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let's give our kids that chance."
Congress Where he stands: Obama had a lot of demands for Congress on Tuesday night. He asked Congress to vote on just about every issue and called for lawmakers to work together to be more effective by successfully solving problems regardless of party divisions.
What he said: "The American people don't expect government to solve every problem. They don't expect those of us in this chamber to agree on every issue. But they do expect us to put the nation's interests before party."
Foreign policy and America's future Where he stands: Obama's plan for America's future focuses on maintaining the nation's image as a role model for freedom in the world while reducing waste and wartime spending.
What he said: "In defense of freedom, we'll remain the anchor of strong alliances, from the Americas to Africa, from Europe to Asia. In the Middle East, we will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights, and support stable transitions to democracy."
"But as Americans, we all share the same proud title: We are citizens. It's a word that doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we're made. It describes what we believe. It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations; that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others; and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story."


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Saturday, January 12, 2013
FARMINGTON — The Farmington High School boys basketball team won a thrilling 70-65 overtime decision over Campbell on Friday night in Division III, handing the Cougars (7-1) their first loss of the season.
Bonny Eagle 57, Marshwood 47
Dover plays at Salem next Friday. North is 1-5.
Ashley Lemery led the Red Raiders (1-7) with 16 points (five 3-pointers), Chloe Routhier added 12, Emily Benway tossed in 10 and Seana Flynn had six.
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DURHAM — John Henrion is one of five seniors on the University of New Hampshire hockey team who made his college debut in a loss at Rensselaer more than three years ago.
The Wildcats scored twice in a span of 2:17 in the second period to snap a 1-all tie. Henrion connected at the 5:01 mark and defenseman Justin Agosta made it 3-1 at 7:18.
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The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) team recently conducted the first "convergent ablator" experiment using an X-ray streak camera to measure the velocity of the capsule implosion. The ablator is the plastic material surrounding the fuel in a NIF capsule that blows off (ablates) when heated by the X-rays inside the hohlraum. This causes a rocket-like implosion that compresses and heats the fuel to the conditions required for fusion.
Convergent ablator experiments measure changes in the capsule at various stages of the implosion. A thin metal foil called a backlighter is placed behind the hohlraum to generate X-rays that illuminate the capsule during the implosion, much like a strobe light.
In the March 24 experiment, 181 NIF beams heated the depleted uranium hohlraum with 1.475 megajoules of ultraviolet light, while eight beams heated the x-ray backlighter target located on the opposite side of the streak camera.The backlighter pulse illuminated the imploding capsule, and the ablator edges cast a sharp shadow on the detector.
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The first continuous streak camera record of a NIF implosion, captured by the diagnostic instrument manipulator insertable streak camera. The broad bright region extending the length of the record is the x-ray backlighter. The dark line in the center is the shadow of a fiducial (reference) wire over the hohlraum diagnostic window. The slanted lines are the shadows cast by the ablator as it implodes. The image shows the ablator moving inward and then exploding after stagnating near the center of the capsule. The bright x-ray self-emission at "bang time," the peak of the implosion, can be seen at the center.
Dr. Njema Frazier, a physicist in NNSA's Defense Programs, has been selected as a Nifty Fifty speaker as part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. Dr. Frazier will be speaking on "The Physics of Roller Coasters" to students at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on April 12.
NNSA is among more than 100 science and engineering institutions and organizations across the nation who has teamed up with the program to send top researchers as speakers to middle and high schools throughout the Washington, D.C, region, helping to inspire students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The Nifty Fifty are an integral part of the festival's mission to actively involve leading researchers from science and engineering institutions and organizations. Speakers were carefully chosen by festival organizers from hundreds of applicants for their differing fields, talents, divergent backgrounds and ages. Their names were submitted by more than 500 of the festival's leading partner organizations and then were culled down to the top 100.
Nifty Fifty speakers were also selected for their ability to convey the importance of science to young audiences and to the non-science public. Speakers will fan out in March and April to schools across the greater Washington, D.C., region.
The Nifty Fifty scientists and engineers include high technology entrepreneurs and financiers, policy makers, actors, journalists, educators, researchers, explorers, storm chasers, video game developers, alien hunters, astronauts and brain surgeons.
For more information on the USA Science & Engineering Festival see the Festival website.
When he hopped into the firetruck for his last run Monday, Pantex firefighter Bill Hickman was ready to turn over his title to a slightly younger person.
Hickman, who at 78 was thought to be the nation's oldest firefighter, marked his retirement Monday with one last drive under the flashing lights of a firetruck to a ceremony at the Plant to commemorate his 48 years at Pantex.
"I wholeheartedly salute Bill for his years of service at Pantex," said Pantex Fire Department Chief Mike Brock. "It's impressive to me to see how well he has taken care of himself and remained a valued member of this department. It's always hard when you see someone with that kind of experience walk out the door."
The International Association of Firefighters does not track the ages of all of its members, so the organization cannot say with absolute certainty that Hickman is the oldest active (non-volunteer) firefighter in the country. However, IAFF officials say they are unaware of an older active firefighter, so they presume that Hickman is the longest serving.
Hickman came to work at Pantex on March 30, 1964, as a boilermaker and welder. He joined the fire department in 1970 and has spent more than 30 years as a motor pump operator. He said he still wakes up every morning and does stretches and calisthenics, which allows him to complete the grueling firefighter combat challenge in well under the required seven minutes.
"48 years is a long time," Hickman said. "For the most part, it's been a very enjoyable ride. I'm glad for the time I spent at Pantex. But at 78 years old; it's time."
B&W Pantex metal worker Charles Thomas runs a water jet machine cutting out pieces for a 3-D Tyrannosaurus Rex puzzle. The metal shop employees completed the puzzles to present at Tuesday's 30th annual Step UP to Success program, where middle school students from across Amarillo, Texas, come to learn about various career options.
Thomas presented a program on pursuing a career in the skilled trades, using the puzzles to show what is possible in the hands of a skilled craftsman. Other Pantexans made presentations about careers in emergency services and engineering.
B&W Y-12 presented a check this week for $25,000 to the Boy Scouts of America, Great Smoky Mountain Council, to go toward the Great Smoky Mountain Council Capital Campaign, which supports capital development projects at Camp Buck Toms and Camp Pellissippi.
At left, Joey Andrews, Pellissippi district executive and Larry Brown, Scout executive, accept the contribution from Bill Klemm, B&W Y-12 deputy general manager and senior vice president of Operations, and Paul Wasilko, deputy manager, Uranium Processing Facility Programs and also BSA Pellissippi district chairman.
This money is in addition to a $5,000 B&W Y-12 corporate contribution (and individual employee contributions of $4,100) made in February, bringing B&W Y-12's total contribution for this year to $34,100.
NNSA is working with a small group of interested companies to further develop their approaches in support of potential reuse opportunities for the Bannister Federal Complex in south Kansas City.
In October 2011, the NNSA issued a Notice of Availability for the transfer, sale, or lease of its property at the Bannister Federal Complex. As a result, the NNSA received a substantial response from various companies, which included redevelopment plans that extended beyond the bounds of the NNSA property to include the GSA property. The current proposals include plans for the entire Complex, including NNSA's portion and the portion owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
NNSA, with GSA as a cooperating agency, is currently working on a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) study, which is analyzing multiple disposition plans related to the Bannister Federal Complex. Under NEPA, the study will consider the impact of each proposed federal action on the quality of the human environment.
Consistent with the NEPA process, NNSA will work with the small group of companies to further develop their approaches in support of potential reuse opportunities. This approach allows conceptual design and feasibility studies to be performed while not limiting the choice of reasonable alternatives available to the agency.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (SRNS), in partnership with the Society of Women Engineering and The Ruth Patrick Science Education Center, recently extended invitations to middle schools throughout the greater Aiken-Augusta area to select young women to participate in this year's "Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day."
Each participating school selected and sent to this event three female students who have shown an interest in a career involving engineering. The event is part of a greater effort designed to help area students take small steps toward easing the shortage of workers skilled in engineering disciplines.
During the day-long event, the participants also had an opportunity to interact with women currently working in various fields of science, technology and engineering. In addition, each received a special gift for attending.
The primary goals of these outreach programs are to enhance interest in science, mathematics, engineering and technology and to support improvements in education in the Central Savannah River Area by using the unique resources available at the Site.
The DOE Savannah River Operations Office provides a variety of science and literacy outreach programs at the Savannah River Site by funding and coordinating the efforts of several organizations.
Glenn York, cyber security specialist at the Los Alamos Site Office (LASO), has been named a fellow in the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and recognized as a distinguished leader in the information security community.
York serves on the cyber security team for LASO's Safeguards and Security office. Prior to joining LASO, he worked as a senior IT security engineer and team lead contractor at LASO. As a contractor, he led a team of three guiding an effort of 150 people in revising IT security policies and accrediting 67 unique systems in less than a year.
The ISSA, of which York has been a member since 2003, is the community of choice for international cyber security professionals dedicated to advancing individual growth, managing technology risk and protecting critical information and infrastructure. ISSA has more than 10,000 members in 150 chapters worldwide.
York has worked tirelessly over the years to raise quality and quantity of Information Security college courses, as well as promote participation in professional organizations.
York founded and serves as president of the Northern New Mexico Chapter of the ISSA. He is currently leading the planning effort for the Information Technology Security Summit New Mexico, scheduled for May 3, 2012, at Santa Fe Community College. The one-day conference will offer IT and information assurance professionals and entrepreneurs from all industries the opportunity to learn about the latest computer security trends, to network with peers, and to share remediation strategies.
A number of Pantexans volunteered Friday, March 30, to help renovate two Habitat for Humanity homes in Amarillo, Texas. B&W Pantex provided breakfast and lunch for the volunteers, who were encouraged to bring family members to help with the homes. Workers spent most of the day painting the exteriors, and also helped with other small jobs. Pantexans have built or helped with six Habitat homes, working alongside eventual homeowners.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility recently produced magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments. The hundred-tesla level is roughly equivalent to 2 million times Earth's magnetic field.
The team used the 100-tesla pulsed, multi-shot magnet, a combination of seven coils sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by a massive 1,200-megajoule motor generator. There are higher magnetic fields produced elsewhere, but the magnets that create such fields blow themselves to bits in the process. The system at Los Alamos is instead designed to work nondestructively, in the intense 100-tesla realm, on a regular basis.
To read more about the work see: http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/magnetic_field_researchers_target_hundred_tesla_goal.html
To see the video go to: http://www.lanl.gov/news/stories/magnet-lab-video.html


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Uncle Jiang (Anthony Wong) taught Fai (Francis Ng) and Nine (Lam Tze Chung) the Chinese traditional - Dancing Lion in order to win the contest that held by their company, which aimed to fire incompetent employees. But their company was shut down, Fai and Nine played Dancing Lion on the street, this video got million hits on the Internet. Sister (Teresa Mo) used this trend to open various courses e.g. "Dancing Lion for Kids" and "Weight Losing Dancing Lion" etc to make easy money. Dancing Lion became a new industry, competitors from everywhere emerged and price war took place. Their business dropped, and incurred a huge debt. This drove the rising power of Northern Lions. They committed suicide but failed. This braced up their spirit and they decided to versus Northern Lions in the fiery contest....
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Learning to play piano online can have a number of advantages over learning to play from teachers in person. If a person is able to find reliable sources of piano learning material online, online learning can be more comfortable, less expensive, less stressful, and maybe even quicker than going to piano lessons with a teacher.
Learning to play the piano can be a difficult prospect for some people. For many people, having a teacher there with them in person is probably the best way to learn. They can get hands-on instruction and explanation about music that may be hard for them to understand by themselves. However, for those who are good at more independent learning, finding and using online music learning material can yield tremendous benefits.
When practicing and learning piano online, a student can study from the comfort of their home. They do not have to be concerned about dressing a certain way. They can just wear what is comfortable for them. If they want to eat or drink while they study, they are free to do so. If the student was at someone else's home or place of business, the teacher may not want them to eat or drink around the piano. Comfort is a very important part of learning. When a student is comfortable, oftentimes they are more open to learning about the material that they are being presented with and the material is remembered easier.
The cost of taking piano lessons from a professional teacher can be high and, for some people, it can be difficult to continue paying for lessons for a prolonged period of time. There are a number of free or low cost sources of material for learning to play the piano online. The lower cost of studying piano online can take some strain off of a student's financial situation and the lowered stress can help the student be more optimistic about continuing to study and learn to play the piano.
As previously mentioned, decreased stress can help students learn easier and better. Going to piano classes with a teacher can present a student with goals and progress expectations that the student may not be comfortable with or ready for. If a student is not progressing the way a teacher would like them to, it could possibly be an embarrassing situation for that student. Also, some students may not be at a level where they are comfortable with performing in recitals, which some schools and teachers hold for their students.
Another benefit of learning piano online is that students can learn at their own pace. Some people learn quickly. Those people can move through their lessons as fast as they would like to, whereas if they were in a class with a teacher, that teacher may recommend that they follow a lesson plan.


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Edgar Award Nominee
One of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle
With a New Afterword
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King's assassin that would lead them across two continents. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.
Excerpted from Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides. Copyright © 2010 by Hampton Sides. Excerpted by permission of Anchor, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories Hellhound on his Trial, Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
How did the idea for Hellhound on His Trail come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray?
So many books have concentrated on either advancing or debunking conspiracy theories about the King assassination, but few have looked hard at James Earl Ray himself. Who was this guy? What were his habits, his movements, his motives? I found him to be profoundly screwed up, but screwed up in an absolutely fascinating way. He was a kind of empty vessel of the culture. He was drawn to so many fads and pop-trends of the late nineteen-sixties. He got a nose job, took dancing lessons, graduated from bar-tending school, got into hypnosis and weird self-help books, enrolled in a locksmithing course, even aspired to be a porn director. His personality had all these quirks and contradictions. He was supposedly stupid, but he somehow managed to escape from two maximum security prisons. Some claimed he wasn't a racist, yet he worked for the Wallace Campaign, called King "Martin Lucifer Coon," tried to emigrate to Rhodesia to become a mercenary soldier, and eventually hired a Nazi lawyer to defend him. He lived in absolute filth and squalor, but kept his clothes fastidiously laundered. And in the end, ironically, that's what caught him: A tiny identifying laundry tag stamped into the inseam of a pair of undershorts found near the scene of the King assassination.
The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of Hellhound on His Trail total more than 50 pages—how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther King's assassination? What was your research process like?
The research nearly gave me an aneurysm. But in the end, Hellhound is a work of narrative history, not a journalistic expose. I don't think I unearthed any massive bombshells that will change the world forever—like, say, proving once and for all that J. Edgar Hoover actually orchestrated the whole affair. Instead, what I unearthed were thousands and thousands of tiny details that make the story come alive on the page and make it possible, for the first time, to understand the tragedy as a complete, multi-stranded narrative. The book's packed full of novelistic detail—weather, architecture, what people were wearing, what the landscape looked like, the music that was playing on the radio. To get all this stuff, I had to do the usual sort of archival work—from the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin to the London newspaper archives—and I went pretty much everywhere James Earl Ray went, following in his fugitive footsteps: Puerto Vallarta, Toronto, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Birmingham, Lisbon, London. But my real ace in the hole was a retired Memphis cop named Vince Hughes who has compiled the most fascinating, and most comprehensive, digital archive about the MLK assassination on the planet: Crime scene photos, police reports, unexpurgated FBI files, audio tapes, and many hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents that proved a real godsend. Every non-fiction writer needs to find a guy named Vince. Thank God I found mine.
Has being a Memphis native affected your perspective on King's death?
I think all writers sooner or later need to return to the place where they came from. In this case, I wanted to go back to the pivotal moment in the place where I came from. The King assassination is probably the most profound, most devastating, most controversial event that's ever happened in my hometown. Growing up as a kid I was always somewhat ashamed that King was killed there. The shockwaves still emanate from Room #306 at the Lorraine and still reverberate over our city, and our country, and our world. As a journalist and a historian with deep roots in Memphis, I couldn't ignore this story if I tried. I had personal connections to it, as well. My dad worked for the law firm that represented King when he came to Memphis on behalf of the striking garbage workers. My grandfather had a photographic studio downtown—the Blue Light—that was very close to the action. I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job—as a staff writer at Memphis magazine—focused on race relations. All of these influences made the King assassination a natural next book for me. In the end, I wanted readers to come away from the book with a sense of Memphis as a character—as this amazing, rich, somewhat tragic city perched on the racial fault-line, the only city of any size in America named after an African capital. King could have been killed anywhere, in Akron or Anaheim, for godsakes. That he was killed in Memphis, the capital of blues, cotton, barbecue, rock 'n roll, soul, and the Delta, feels almost scripted by fate. And that's the way I came to regard the story, as a slow accretion of small mishaps and local circumstances that built inexorably toward what seems, in hindsight, like a Greek tragedy.
How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it?
It comes from the famous Robert Johnson blues song, "Hellhound On My Trail," which is about being pursued by fate, by the law, and ultimately by death. Johnson was the greatest of the Delta bluesmen, and he lived in and around Memphis much of his short tragic life. It was said that he'd gone to The Crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to learn to play the guitar, so he was always looking over his shoulder for his time to come. When King arrived in Memphis in 1968, he was representing black garbage workers who were mostly former plantation hands from Johnson country, from the Delta cotton fields. As a title, "hellhound" seemed evocative on twin levels: For King, who was constantly being hounded by death threats and Hoover's FBI, as well as for Ray, who became the target of the largest manhunt in American history.
The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them?
At the outset of my research, I took very seriously the idea that there might have been a conspiracy. I read all the conspiracy books, examined every angle. The only problem with the conspiracy theories that are out there, I found, is that they invariably fail the most basic test: They raise more questions than they address, they create more problems than they solve. And they're so monumentally complicated: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Green Berets, President Johnson, the Memphis Police Department, the Memphis Fire Department, the Memphis Mayor's Office, the Boy Scouts of America—everybody killed Martin Luther King! But as I got into it, it became clear that the evidence against James Earl Ray was overwhelming. He bought the rifle, the scope, the ammo, the binoculars. He checked into that rooming house three hours before the murder. He peeled out from the rooming house one minute after the murder, in the same getaway car described by eyewitnesses. He admitted to every one of these things. His only defense was that some other guy—a mysterious man he called Raoul —pulled the trigger. Well, there's not a shred of evidence that Raoul ever existed. So in Hellhound, I take the clear position that Ray did it, but I leave many doors ajar as to the question of whether he had help, whether he was working in the hope of winning bounty money, whether members of his own family abetted him. When in doubt, I generally err on the side of Occam's razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
Ray appears to have been inspired by George Wallace's racial rhetoric. What effect did it have on him?
Demagogues often fail to understand what happens when they put out their poison. Wallace and other segregationist politicians weren't literally saying, "Go kill King." On the other hand, they created an environment in which a disturbed but also ambitious man like Ray could think it was OK to kill King—could think that the society would smile on his crime. The culture of hate was intense in 1968, just as it is now. And Ray was powerfully drawn to it, so much so that he moved to Alabama for awhile and even volunteered for the Wallace campaign.
Can you compare Hellhound on His Trail to your previous books? Are there similarities among them?
I don't concentrate on any one period of history, I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. My histories tend to be character-driven, with a lot of plot, a lot of action. I don't think you'd find me writing about, say, the Constitutional Convention or the Transcendental Movement. A friend once told me I'm interested in "human disasters"— social storms of one sort or another, and the ways in which people survive them, through courage, ingenuity, grace under pressure, luck. That's true of the Bataan Death March, with the conquest of the West, and now, here, with the end of the Civil Rights era.
Aside from the amount of time required, how does writing a book differ from writing a magazine piece (such as you've done for Outside, among other publications)? Is it easy for you to move between these mediums?
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it. I approach my histories like a journalist, in fact. I look for the stress points, the controversies, the points of clashing and collision, and I look for subjects that still have a pulse in contemporary life. And when I finish a book, I like to jump right back in and take on a bunch of magazine assignments to clear my head and cleanse my palate. I think my journalism buttresses my history books, and vice versa.
What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist?
The first writer I ever met growing up in Memphis was Shelby Foote, the great Civil War historian, and he gave me certain ideas at an early age about what narrative history can aspire to be. My other deep influence was John Hersey, who wrote Hiroshima, and was my teacher in college. But really it all started when I was just a kid. By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
Some of the early reviews have described Hellhound as a non-fiction thriller. How do you feel about that?
A number of people who've read it have told me it reads like a big detective story—like Day of the Jackal, or something. If it is a thriller, then I suppose a critic could say that I've taken a national tragedy and turned it into an entertainment of sorts, and I don't like the sound of that. On the other hand, I don't apologize for trying to make history fluid and enjoyable to read. In fact, I work hard at it. I really wrassle with the structure and the architecture, the interweave of characters, the plot-lines and the pacing and all the thousand-and-one details that keep the story humming along. But if this book's a thriller, it's also a requiem—the story of the last days of a great man and the end of his movement. When it comes to the passages on King, I think it's quite evident to readers that, though I show him warts and all, I'm absolutely in awe of the man and his ferocious eloquence and his otherworldly courage. I think he was the closest thing we've had in our history to a heaven-sent agent of social change. People like King only come along every thousand years or so.
One of the most compelling things about Hellhound is the role of the FBI. In the first third, the FBI is something of a villain, but by the last third, it's the protagonist.
There's good and bad in all people and all institutions, and in this book, as with my previous ones, I'm more drawn to graduations of character than to absolutes. I don't wrap King and his movement in a halo-glow, as so many books have done. I've tried to make him human on the page—which means flawed, vulnerable, full of doubts, uncertain about the future, and buffeted by the stresses of his position. By the same token, I don't operate under the assumption that all FBI agents are evil, as so many of the conspiracy books have done. I find it absolutely fascinating that Hoover's FBI, the very agency that had done everything within its power to ruin and smear King, was then commissioned with the responsibility of finding King's killer. And once embarked on that task, they did an extraordinary job. It was the largest manhunt, for a single criminal, in American history. It got down to the level of fibers, fingerprints, laundry tags, and the microscopic numbers on a transistor radio. The field agents were doing the job they were created for—solving crimes important to the nation. It was one of the FBI's finest hours.
1. In Hellhound on His Trail, Hampton Sides examines a notorious moment in American history— the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray—and provides many never-before-revealed details about Ray, King, and the fateful events leading up to April 4, 1968. To fully appreciate the context of this tragic event in our nation's past, your discussion group might consider reading about the civil rights era in the 1960s and the larger issues that surrounded King's death. Here are some resources that offer interesting and useful information.
• Britannica Online entries for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination:
• The website for the King Center:
• PBS.org's "Learn and Explore" section; search "Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)":
• PBS.org's "Roads to Memphis" American Experience Film
2. Which characters came alive for you in Hellhound on His Trail? Did you learn anything new about some of the figures involved in this period of American history, or have you come to think about certain individuals in a different way based on what you've read about them?
3. In his "Note to Readers," Hampton Sides writes, "All writers sooner or later go back to the place where they came from." Having been a child living in Memphis when Martin Luther King was shot, do you think Sides separated himself from the events he reported on in this book? Consider this question in context to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 or the tragic attacks of 9/11: Is it possible to be a journalistic observer of an occurrence like this when it happens in your hometown?
4. Every fact and incident in Hellhound on His Trail is impeccably sourced, yet it has the narrative drive of a thriller. What did you think of the author's treatment of the subject matter? When reading about a major historical event such as this one, do you prefer a narrative like the one Sides has constructed, one that re-creates the immediacy of the time, or a more straightforward timeline of events? How might this book differ from other nonfiction titles you may have read on the subject?
5. There are many who believe that James Earl Ray was part of a larger conspiracy and was set up to be the "fall guy" for King's assassination. Based on the evidence the author presents in Hellhound on His Trail, do you believe Ray was the sole person responsible for King's death? If so, why do you think theories of a conspiracy have persisted?
6. Talk about Ray's escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City and his time on the lam before arriving in Memphis. Would he have been able to remain as anonymous today as he did then? Talk about how society has changed since 1968: are people more or less trusting of loners like Ray nowadays?
7. In Chapter 2, the author describes King as having reached a point in his career where he had "slipped in stature, even among his own people." Were you aware of this dip in King's popularity, and if so, was it surprising to you? Talk about history's perpetuation of legend: in highlighting the achievements of a man such as King, do any cracks in his reputation become repaired, or disappear, over time?
8. Chapter 4 details FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's vendetta against King and his determination to expose King's personal transgressions. But while Hoover and his staff regularly tried to leak salacious details to the press, in Sides's words, "the media never took the bait." Why do you think this was the case? How has the media evolved in the last 50 years, especially in matters regarding the private behavior of public figures?
9. Consider the political rise of George Wallace during this period, and the number of people—including James Earl Ray—who were galvanized by his presidential campaign, particularly his pro-segregationist, if not outright racist, positions. Does Wallace bear some responsibility for King's assassination?
10. Do you see parallels between any of today's political movements and George Wallace's campaigns for office?
11. The manhunt that organized in the hours and days after King's assassination was epic; most notably, more than 3,000 FBI agents took part, and it cost upwards of $2 million (which, adjusted for inflation, would be more than $13.6 million today). Considering how much Hoover despised King, was it startling that he mobilized the bureau to such an enormous extent to find his killer?
12. Martin Luther King "believed nonviolence was a more potent force for self-protection than any weapon," (page 159). Given the threats he routinely faced—including the firebombing of his home in 1956 and being stabbed by a deranged woman in 1958—why did King nonetheless ban his staff from carrying guns or other weaponry?
13. "The bureau was well aware of the existence of bounties on King's head," (page 343). By not better protecting King in light of these threats, and for not realizing the impact his death would have on the nation, should the FBI have shared the blame for King's death?
14. Book Two of Hellhound on His Trail opens with this quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ." Why did the author choose to include this quote? What do you think this quote says about Ray?
15. Was it surprising to read about how easily Ray was able to slip out of Memphis after the shootings? Could he have been stopped sooner? Do you think Ray could have gotten away with his crime if he committed it today?
16. As Ray flees Canada for Europe, his desperation becomes acute and he begins to make mistakes that leave him exposed. Why was he was able to remain on the run for as long as he did? Think about his two critical errors in London as he entered Heathrow Airport to board a flight to Brussels. Considering his meticulousness at other points while in hiding, why did Ray try to walk through customs with two slightly different passports and a loaded gun in his pocket?
17. Shortly after Ray pled guilty to killing King and was sent to prison, he began to recant his involvement in the assassination and asked to be put on trial. And in the late 1990s, members of King's family—notably his son Dexter and his wife Coretta—came out publicly to urge that Ray have his day in court. Should Ray been given a trial?
18. "Throughout James Earl Ray's life, the despair was panoramic. The family suffered from exactly the sort of bleak, multigenerational poverty that King's Poor People's Campaign was designed to address." Consider this paradox that the author highlights. What led Ray to his life of crime? If King's efforts had made a difference in the life of someone like Ray, would Ray have taken another path in life?
19. What would have happened if Ray himself was murdered, much like John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed by Jack Ruby? What benefits, if any, have come from Ray's remaining alive (until 1998) and speaking out? If Ray had died in the act of killing King, would the collective reaction of the country—riots, unrest—have been the same?
20. There are many labels that have been applied to James Earl Ray, among them: insane, criminal, racist, loner, oddball. How would you characterize him?
21. What do you believe would have happened to the civil rights movement had King lived? Would anything be different today?
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