The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the Rhenish Slate Mountains which is surrounded by the low ranges of the Taunus and Westerwald and called the Limburg Basin ( Limburger Becken ).

A critic for Slate magazine described a conference at which 1984's The Rolling Stone Record Guide was scrutinized.

In September 2008, Slate published a revisionist article which viewed The Big Lebowski as a political critique.

Slate is not to be confused with shale, from which it may be formed, or schist.

Slate can be made into roofing slates, which are installed by a slater and are a type of roof shingle, or more specifically a type of roof tile.

Slate has two lines of breakability: cleavage and grain, which make it possible to split the stone into thin sheets.

Slate-producing regions in Europe include Wales ( see slate industry in Wales ), Cornwall ( famously the village of Delabole ), Cumbria ( see Burlington Slate Quarries, Honister Slate Mine and Skiddaw Slate ) in the United Kingdom ; parts of France ( Anjou, Loire Valley, Ardennes, Brittany, Savoie ); Belgium ( Ardennes ); Liguria in northern Italy, especially between the town of Lavagna ( which means chalkboard in Italian ) and Fontanabuona valley ; Portugal especially around Valongo in the north of the country ; Spain see Slate Industry in Spain ; Germany's ( Moselle River-region, Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald, Thuringia and north Bavaria ); Alta, Norway ( actually schist not a true slate ) and Galicia.

Two other books, How the Mind Works ( 1997 ) and The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature which comprises many mental faculties that are adaptive ( and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism ).

* Atul Gawande, a surgeon who has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, pieces which have been collected in his books Complications and Better.

Geomorphologically, the Westerwald belongs to the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge ( Rhenish Slate Mountains ), which forms the greater part of that range ’ s eastern half on the Rhine ’ s right bank.

In January 1864, McConnel formed the Aberdovey Slate Company, which leased the land including Bryn Eglwys from the landowner, Lewis Morris of Machynlleth.

In January 2004, he participated in a forum on Slate. com called " Liberal Hawks Reconsider the Iraq War ", in which he dismisses the justification for war based on Iraq's lack of compliance with the U. N.

Gullette's essays, journalism and fiction have been published in magazines including The Face, Spy, Slate, Bidoun, Brill's Content, Gear, Entertainment Weekly, and KGB magazine ( which he founded as editor and publisher in 1991.

Slate traffic ceased on 1 August 1946, apart from the section from Duffws to the North Western yard through Blaenau Ffestiniog town centre, which was leased on 7 October 1946 to the quarry owners.

Slate found the newly added auto-mapping feature, which charts the player's progress through the game, something that players really needed, noting that it was the only feature in Super Metroid that the original Metroid should have had.

Previously classed as precambrian, but now accepted as early Cambrian are the Brand Group of rocks which include Swithland Slate, locally important as a source of roof slates and gravestones.

In 1997, when the Local Plan was in preparation, the Residents Associations of Bourne End and Wooburn successfully lobbied to stop Slate Meadow ( the field which separates the two settlements ) being designated for housing for the time being.

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However, Borland did not tour with this guitar and instead used Paul Reed Smith guitars, one of which is a Standard 24 in a Platinum Metallic finish, the other one being a Custom 24 in a Black Slate finish.

However, even further taxonomic revision began in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, in which researchers such as Allain and Chure showed that the Stonesfield Slate fossils probably belonged to several, possibly unrelated, species of theropod dinosaur.

The Ellenabeich Heritage Centre which opened in 2000, is run by the Scottish Slate Islands Trust.

In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article " And Now for Something Completely Deficient " that though Idle " has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days ... his jokey ' exposure ' of his own exploitation ( he has called tours ' Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python ' and ' The Greedy Bastard Tour ') is more irritating than funny.

However, Slate reviewer David Edelstein called it " a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie ," while Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News called it " the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II.

An article in Slate called the episode " shockingly close to the true story.

Slate. com called Pegg's performance of Scotty in the 2009 Star Trek film " juicily comic ".

Slate reviewer Rob Walker called the book full of nonsense, and said that Kiyosaki's claims were often vague, the narrative " fablelike ", and that much of the book was " self-help boilerplate ", noting the predictable common features of such books were present in Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

The title of book refers to the view of human nature that Sowell called " the unconstrained vision " in his earlier book a Conflict of Visions, and that Steven Pinker called " the utopian vision " in his book the Blank Slate.

" Prior to the episode's official broadcast on television in the United States, Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post called Limbaugh's guest appearance in the episode " genuinely funny ," and David Weigel of Slate commented, " I'm not at all surprised that Limbaugh would embrace the show and answer its mockery of conservatives ; the plotline is a perfect conservative narrative.

Coastal trade was also important, with the area called " Welsh Back " concentrating on trows with cargoes from the Slate industry in Wales, stone, timber and coal.

Fellow Slate columnist and Iraq war critic David Edelstein, though generally supportive of the film, wrote Fahrenheit 9 / 11 " is an act of counterpropaganda that has a boorish, bullying force ", but called it a " legitimate abuse of power.

She also does a podcast called Manners for the Digital Age with Slate ’ s technology columnist Farhad Manjoo.

She writes a regular feature on Slate called Human Guinea Pig, in which she attempts unusual activities or hobbies.

* In the 1994 special A Flintstones Christmas Carol, the character is called ' Jacob Marbley ' and is played by Mr. Slate ( John Stephenson ).

He currently writes a column for Slate called The Spectator.

On Monday, June 28, 2010 he produced a controversial article in Slate called An Agnostic Manifesto.

" Dubbing Nas " the real king of rap ", David Samuels of Slate described its recordings as " quasi-legendary " and called The Lost Tapes " a long-awaited step forward from an artist who was uniquely burdened by the success of his first record ", writing that it " isn't as good as Illmatic.

In 1873, before the railroad was built to Mojave, refined borax was hauled 175 miles by 20 mule teams from Slate Range Playa ( now called Searles Lake ) to the harbor at San Pedro.

His slate was called the “ Jim Hoffa No Corruption, No Dues Increase, 25-and-Out Slate .” Would he keep his promises?

Gandhian Freedom Fighter Mahesh Dutt Mishr, President of the Hindu Mahasabha Narayanrao Raghunathrao Kekre, Former Minister and RSS pracharak Madhukar Harne, Executive Director Clean Slate Internet Design Program and Consulting Professor of EE Stanford University Gurudatta Parulkar ( He also served on the board of a network security company called NetSift that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005 ) also hails from Harda.

He arrived in late 1794 by paddling with his family and household supplies in ten canoes, up the West Branch Susquehanna River and Pine Creek to the mouth of Slate Run.

" Hapworth 16, 1924: A Chatterbox Investigation ", Slate, September 11, 2000.

*" Why Some Feasts Are Moveable ", a Slate article

* François Furstenberg, " Jefferson's Other Family: His concubine was also his wife's half-sister ", review of Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, Slate, 23 September 2008

*" The Remixmasters ", Slate ( July 29, 2002 ) at slate. msn. com

", Ron Rosenbaum, Slate. com, Aug. 31, 2007

" The Great Proselytizer of Orgasm ", Slate.

*" Playboy Bunny: Vincent Gallo proves he just wants to be loved ", David Edelstein, Slate. com, 10 September 2004.

*" Slate ", a song from Anodyne ( album ), by US band Uncle Tupelo

", Michelle Tsai, Slate. com, April 2, 2007

", James Surowiecki, Slate magazine

*" Kitty Kelley: Colonoscopist to the stars ", Slate. com

* " Forget Homework ", Emily Bazelon, Slate, Sept. 14, 2006

*" Starbuck the Great ", Slate, Eric McHenry, Sept. 13, 2004

In 2007, it introduced " Slate V ", an online video magazine with content that relates to or expands upon their written articles.

* " Dietary Fibber: Don't be fooled by polydextrose and other fiber additives ", Slate.

* Slate Magazine's " So you want to be an Ayatollah ", explaining how Shiite clerics earn the title

", Slate. com, August 23, 2005.

* Cooper, Sean, " Why You Can't Get iPods At a Discount ", Slate.

In August 2010, they released a new acoustic version of " Clean the Slate ", different from the version available on their Myspace in 2007.

*" Two of Us: Inside the Lennon / McCartney Connection ", by Joshua Wolf Shenk, Slate. com