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To hear Tracy Nelson tell it, her decision to ask Willie Nelson to sing a duet with her on "After the Fire Is Gone" was mostly just kismet meeting standard industry practice.
"I loved that song and knew I wanted to cover it just as soon as I heard the Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn version that was such a huge hit in 1971," recalls Nelson, no relation to the Red Headed Stranger, from her home outside Nashville.
Primarily considered a blues singer, she had recently left her band Mother Earth and signed a solo deal with Atlantic Records. Written by L.E. White, a close associate of Twitty's who had been in Bill Monroe's band before turning mostly to songwriting, "After The Fire Is Gone" was Twitty and Lynn's first No. 1 as a duo. It also won them a Grammy for Best Country Duet.
While Nelson loved the song, she was underwhelmed by her version of it.
"As soon as I heard the playback, I knew I needed a male part," she recalls. "It just didn't work with me singing it by myself."
She learned from the Atlantic office in Nashville that labelmate Willie Nelson happened to be in town. By 1974, Willie's career makeover as a Texas outlaw was proving to be like the shot heard round the world. Turning his back on the system and its gatekeepers, he became the king of Austin and brought Nashville to heel like the Goths sacked Rome. Ms. Nelson tracked Willie down by phone and they made arrangements for him to come to the studio that night and take a shot at the track.
"We were on the same label, so the whole thing just seemed to make sense," says Tracy. "We were basically done. This was one of the last parts we needed. The problem was, Willie wanted to work really late and I'd already been at it all day."
While awaiting Willie's arrival, Ms. Nelson went to the Exit/In, a popular Nashville live-music venue.
"So I walk in there really just to kill some time, and I run into Linda Ronstadt, who was in town performing with Johnny Cash at the prison," Nelson reflects. "So I told her what was happening and that she should come back to the studio and join in on this."
Willie finally arrived and, as Tracy describes it, "the whole thing was just a hoot, very organic feeling."
"We were all very relaxed. Willie and I thought it was actually kind of funny, because we were such an unlikely pairing. I just remember all of us being very loose, not feeling any pressure, just having a good time."
Willie did a couple of takes, and then Ronstadt added some harmonies and the session broke up.
"He just nailed it," says Nelson. "I loved Willie already, but that night I got a glimpse of why he is so popular and so loved, because he's not just a country singer, he can sing anything."
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"It was all very whimsical and somewhat haphazard and turned out to be one of the most successful things I ever did," Nelson recalls. "I'll forever be honored to have been able to perform with Willie."
Atlantic liked what it heard and released "After The Fire Is Gone" as a single to country radio. It sprouted wings and took off, finally running out of steam at No. 17 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. There was nothing else out there like it -- it pulled no punches, there was no dumbing down, it was so outside the loop it worked.
"We were so lucky because John Fisher, the Atlantic Nashville guy, just loved that song," says Tracy. "He went all out for us, radio, promotion, you name it. Every time we'd get some startling bit of cool news about the song, it seemed to always have happened because of something John Fisher had done."
"And because the single did so well, Willie and Waylon and those guys kind of adopted us," she continues. "We'd find ourselves on bills with them or playing at the same festivals. So there was a lot of friendship that developed from Willie and I having done that one song together. Waylon Jennings will always be one of my favorite people."
"My band and I dined out on that song for a few years," she laughs. "We'd go in to a play someplace where a guy like Ferlin Husky had been the weekend before. We weren't really a country band at all, but that song got us a lot of bookings in some unlikely places."
"Someone just sent me a video of us doing the song on Ralph Emery's show Pop! Goes the Country with Willie's band. That was such a strange moment in time, Willie and I both sort of outsiders doing Ralph's show."
The song, which turned out to be the highest-charting tune in Ms. Nelson's career, earned both artists 1974 Grammy nominations for best country duet.
"The oddest thing is that the same week Willie and I were nominated for Grammys, Atlantic let both of us go," she laughs. "Is this a crazy business or what?"
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Title: Between the Spark and the Burn
Series: Between #2
Author: April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher: Dial
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The conclusion to Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, this gothic thriller romance with shades of Stephen King and Daphne du Maurier is a must-read for fans of Beautiful Creatures and Anna Dressed in Blood.Why I'm waiting on Between the Spark and the Burn: I adored the first book in this series. Everything about it was amazing to me; the writing style, the original premise, and the interesting and out-of-the-box characters stole my heart and I cannot wait to see more of their story in this next book.
Freddie once told me that the Devil created all the fear in the world.
But then, the Devil once told me that it's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry.
The problem with River West Redding was that he'd done both to me.
The crooked-smiling liar River West Redding, who drove into Violet's life one summer day and shook her world to pieces, is gone. Violet and Neely, River's other brother, are left to worry—until they catch a two a.m. radio program about strange events in a distant mountain town. They take off in search of River but are always a step behind, finding instead frenzied towns, witch hunts, and a wind-whipped island with the thrum of something strange and dangerous just under the surface. It isn't long before Violet begins to wonder if Neely, the one Redding brother she thought trustworthy, has been hiding a secret of his own . . .

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IFixit: Oculus Rift used loose OLED displays and hybrid Fresnel lenses
The first Oculus Rifts are sent and iFixit has a copy of the VR glasses in hands. The teardown conducted by the website that the consumer version of the VR goggles with twin OLED panels features and uses hybrid Fresnel lenses.
The Oculus Rift displays images at a resolution of 1080×1200 pixels per eye. Thanks to the teardown is now clear from iFixit that the VR goggles uses twin OLED panels, each having a diameter of 90mm which brings the pixel density of 401ppi.
Is a two OLED panels Fresnel lens mounted. These lenses ensure that the 90mm displays are big displays when the user sets the VR goggles on the head. According to iFixit makes Rift use of hybrid Fresnel lenses, where one layer has been added to that mimics a traditional lens with bulging. This makes it possible to focus by the headset to move up or down on the face. By doing so the wearer is looking through a different part of the lens, wherein the focus is always changing anything.
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It is not the first time that an Oculus Rift iFixit disassembles. Previously, the site did a teardown of the development versions DK1 and DK2. The latest development version made use of the entire front panel of the Samsung Note 3, including 5.7 "-amoledscherm. At one screen was used to control two eyes.
The consumer version utilizes separate panels, making it easier to get a good eye sharpness, because the screens can be moved independently of each other. The development versions of the Rift also made use of traditional lenses to focus and were supplied with different lenses sets. With the hybrid Fresnel lenses Oculus has ensured that this is no longer necessary.
According to iFixit, the Oculus Rift is also relatively easy to repair. The VR goggles scores a 7 on the field of reparability. However, the website notes that are commonly used fragile ribbon cables and that it therefore is very difficult to detach the lens, and displays the motherboard.Viewing:-423
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Shitty images here refers to the following kind of images.
- Not so good images.
- Images where your eyes are closed.
- Images with unwanted objects in the frame.
- Basically the images i would delete.
During the Photo-shoot, I take multiple shots, sometime with the same perspective, under the same light and same pose of the subject; it's because of the various reasons.
- I don't want to capture a picture of you with eyes closed.
- I sometimes experiment with different settings on the camera.
- The previous shots weren't really as per my expectations.
- Sometimes I place myself at a different location or distance from the subject.
SO, post this shoot, is it okay for you to ask for the "not so good shots" (shitty ones)? Well, I don't know about others, but I don't like to give out the shitty images to anyone.
SO what happens to those shitty ones? I discard those images.
I often get to hear that "the images you think might be shitty, might look pretty good to me" so why don't you just loosen up a little and give me all the images….?" Well, to answer your question, if I'm doing a free session for you, then technically you don't own any right of the images; however as a friendly gesture I do give out a few images to you. If you've hired me on a paid assignment, then we can work out on the images including the shitty ones, but just to let you know that shitty images are just shitty, Also remember… poop smells bad no matter whosoever smells it.
SO final verdict..
Shitty images – paid assignment – we'll work out on something.


text: Okay so here the deal. My brother is in the airforce(US) in japan right now. He ordered an ibook through apple education (he's in the airforce comunity college or something) and gets it shiped state side so we can ship it to him. (apple won't ship and US priced ibook to japan, even though he's on a US base). The problem is when he ordered it on the phone he told the lady he wanted the combo drive book, not the cd-rom only. I get the ibook, load up some pictures and stuff for him, and notice that it can no burn cds. I go uh-o. He sends me the recipt and it indeed says ibook cd-rom only. (so he only paid for the cdrom one). so apples not going to take it back(it was BTO). and now he really want a combo drive, (or a superdrive). its going to cost him a couple of buck(hopefuly not to many) and i know it will void the apple care. so here is my question to the mac rumors group. what superdrive does the 14" use? are there any apple service manuals on the internet for the 12" i found the combo drive used in ibooks $150 and DIY. I'm not to scared of DIY but i would like a guide. I remember seeing someone post about a ibook G4 12" superdrive upgrade, i just can't find it. thanks for you help


text: Hello everyone, Ive been here before but needed to take a break mostly because my last post involved telling about my difficult childs suicide attempt and it scared me to see it in print. I also went thru a computer crash but was able to borrow a laptop to lurk on occasion so I have been thinking and praying for many of you. Anyway, I have a lovely new computer for Christmas and a great need to be here so I am back. My difficult child D is doing just ok, my p-doctor understands the need for a mood stabilizer now so we have added Lamictal at just 125 mg, when we added another 25 mgs he got very disorganized, spilling things and just air headed, p-doctor felt that was a side effect so doesnt want to increase it. I will ask about adding another MS at our next appointment. The Lamictal has worked pretty well for the depression but we still are dealing with impulsivity and anger. I wonder if it is a little bit of mania or the ADHD showing its symptoms more now that the depression is lessened. Anyway I am open for suggestions on a second MS. I have some great news, my youngest probable difficult child M has been adopted. Something tells me he might be my hardest kid to raise. He is showing speech delays, sensory issues, quirky behaviors and my favorite(not) anger. He also will head bang or slap his face on occasion when angry/frustrated, obsesses with the TV, and uses 3 pacifiers to self comfort 1 in mouth, 1 in each hand. Many people want me to remove the pacifiers from him but I am not going there! He is very interested in people with good eye contact, has good imaginative play, the most adorable smile with dimples. He is just started to transition to the pre-school program from Early Intervention. Life continues to be too busy but I must be an optimist because I keep thinking it will slow down. LOL


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Alex Anzalone
Postion: Linebacker
Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 241 lbs
Arm length: 32 1/8"
Hand length: 9 1/8"
225-pound bench press: 16
Vertical jump: 30.5"
Broad jump: 9'8"
40-yard dash: 4.63s
20-yard shuttle: 4.25s
3-cone drill: 6.88s
60-yard shuttle: 11.71s
Turning dreams into a reality pic.twitter.com/fU9rSrUM5I
— Alex Anzalone (@AlexAnzalone34) March 6, 2017
Caleb Brantley
Postion: Defensive lineman
Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 307 lbs.
Arm length: 32"
Hand length: 9 ¾"
225-pound bench press: 21
Vertical jump: 27"
Broad jump: 8'9"
40-yard dash: 5.14s
20-yard shuttle: 4.62s
3-cone drill: 7.66s
Caleb Brantley: "I left a lot of plays out on the field." He admitted he needs to improve his motor and effort.
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) March 4, 2017
Bryan Cox Jr.
Postion: Defensive end
Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 265 lbs.
Arm length: 33 ¾"
Hand length: 9 ½"
225-pound bench press: 16
Vertical jump: 26.5"
Broad jump: 9'1"
40-yard dash: 4.89s
20-yard shuttle: 4.46s
3-cone drill: 7.36s
🏃 💨 – @BEECox_UF recorded a time of 4.90 seconds in the 40-yard dash.
Be sure to watch the #NFLCombine on @nflnetwork! pic.twitter.com/drMUYw12hK
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Jarrad Davis
Position: Linebacker
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 238 lbs.
Arm length: 33 ½"
Hand length: 9 ¾"
225-pound bench press: DNP
Vertical jump: DNP
Broad jump: DNP
40-yard dash: DNP
20-yard shuttle: DNP
3-cone drill: DNP
*Will be full participant at UF Pro Day
Jarrad Davis has sooooo much juice. Legit sad he's not working out at combine. Could be an all timer if fully healthy
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Marcus Maye
Position: Safety
Height: 6-foot-0
Weight: 210 lbs.
Arm length: 32 ½"
Hand length: 9 1/8"
225-pound bench press: DNP
Vertical jump: DNP
Broad jump: DNP
40-yard dash: DNP
20-yard shuttle: DNP
3-cone drill: DNP
*Will be full participant at UF Pro Day
A dream unfolding #NFLCombine17
— Marcus Maye (@alldayMAYE) March 2, 2017
David Sharpe
Position: Offensive lineman
Height: 6-foot-6
Weight: 343 lbs.
Arm length: 35 3/8"
Hand length: 10"
225-pound bench press: 19
Vertical jump: 20.5"
Broad jump: 8'1"
40-yard dash: 5.44s
20-yard shuttle: 4.78s
3-cone drill: 7.87s
Good note/reminder from @MoveTheSticks – Florida OT David Sharpe was late off snap of ball because he was legally blind in right eye
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) March 3, 2017
Jalen "Teez" Tabor
Position: Defensive back
Height: 6-foot-0
Weight: 199 lbs.
Arm length: 32"
Hand length: 8 5/8"
225-pound bench press: 9
Vertical jump: 31"
Broad jump: 10"
40-yard dash: 4.62s
20-yard shuttle: DNP
3-cone drill: DNP
"I'm the best overall player in the draft, not just the best cornerback." https://t.co/pJYE4C8nfr (via @NFL_CFB) pic.twitter.com/EeseIDJjMd
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The NFL fined Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin $100,000 on Wednesday for stepping on the field of play and interfering with Baltimore Ravens returner Jacoby Jones's kickoff return during a Thanksgiving night game.
The league also said it would consider taking away future draft picks from the Steelers for Tomlin's actions. Tomlin has said he did not intentionally step on the field of play while he was looking at the return on the Jumbotron, but the punishment may have been harsher because Tomlin is on the NFL's competition committee.
The league also said a 15-yard penalty should have been called on Tomlin.
The $100,000 fine is reportedly the fourth fine of $100,000 or greater. Only New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who was fined $550,00 for his role in the "Spygate" scandal, has been fined a greater amount.


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'Sierra Designs' recently released a unique sleeping bag that is free from zippers and other kinds of external hardware. As many frequent campers know, zippers can lead to pinched skin and drafty seams. This unique sleeping bag eliminates those common problems by doing away with zippers entirely.
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A door creaks open in a central New York Apartment on a blustery April day. A trembling, blinking creature emerges from the dark recesses within, moving slowly into the harsh afternoon light, a la The Beast of Disney fame. Who is this pale and disheveled form, you ask, wearing a bewitching mix of leggings and marinara-stained t-shirt with mismatched socks, inquiring of the cat as to the time?
It is I, the closet-dweller. I, who revels in the dark embrace of the closet by day and gazes, hypnotized, at glowing screens by night. I, who wrangles toddlers and recycles all those beer bottles whose labels I have not torn off in a frenzy of unused energy. I, who provides almost no monetary but much comedic support to my steadfast and lovely roommates. And where, you might ask, are these providers of vegetable knowledge, givers of gentle prodding into the warmth of the kitchen? Whither, they not of the closet?
My fellow denizens of small-town America have fled to England, leaving me to face alone the yawning cupboards empty of onions and greens and the anxiety-producing prospect of a solo farmer's market. But I will not quaver! For they have also left me to indulge pleasant pastimes: Washing the dishes in one's underwear whilst belting hits of the lovesick-country variety. Feeling no compunction about eating ice cream for breakfast. Talking to the cat freely in his natural tongue.
So I will press on, knowing as I do the shadowy contours of the apartment, the insomniac secrets of its culinary abundance. Join me, on this journey of discovery and peril, of fear and opportunity, as I leave the closet and prepare to fend for myself.
Tonight's adventure involves pasta, mushrooms, butter, three-buck chuck, and the musical stylings of Ms. Dolly Parton. Let's begin:
You might want to start by tying a red ribbon around your ponytail and clearing away some dishes, while listening to this song.
Ponder the contents of your fridge while you do so, and the big questions, such as, why exactly is food at the bottom of the drain so much less appealing than food on a plate? What does the mime in Dolly's video symbolize? Where can I find those suspenders she's wearing?
Congratulations. You have earned your first glass of wine. This can be consumed while cutting up some garlic and if you're me, your second-to-last shallot. Chopping can be soothing but also boring, so you should listen to this awesome song. I give you my full permission to dance around singing the chorus into a wooden spoon, as I know you want to. Go on. If you can't be undignified and cliche in front of your cat, you're depriving an animal of the chance to harshly judge your melodramatics, and what kind of responsible pet owner would do that? Think of the animals!
If twangy, confusing, and unrequited love is not your thing (and if not, why not?) this is also a good opportunity to call someone you love but who lingers on the phone, as one: you have wine, and two: you can say, "I would love to talk some more, but I have to put these shallots and garlic onto the stove in a frying pan with a shitload of butter and salt and pepper. Goodnight!" (See what I did there? Subtle recipe instructions!)
Now, on to the improvisation portion of the meal. While the shallots and garlic are making sweet love to all that butter, fill a pot with water and set out the pasta of your choice. (I find it satisfying to methodically rip off the top of the box, but to each her own.) Cut up a hefty portion of portobello mushrooms. Throw those in with the other stuff. Here is where my night got tricky. I decided to be bold and go for a creamy sauce even though I had no cream. You could also take this recipe in the direction of the tomato-y balsamic if you have access to such things. What I did is perhaps unconventional, but turned out, well, let's be honest, pretty ok: tear up some cheddar cheese (white, extra sharp, just like yours truly, heyo) and pour in the heaviest liquid dairy you posses, but not sour cream or yogurt, obviously. You want to keep the liquid in proportion with how much you chopped and how much pasta you're making. With that in mind: pour a little bit of the wine from your glass into the pan but much more into your mouth. I also put some vegetable stock in there, cause it was in the fridge, and my mushrooms were a little withered and I thought it would perk them up. And yes, I realize this recipe is just to put a little of all your dairy products over pasta and mushrooms and eat it, but sue me. I've been living in a closet for six months.
I know you're as smart as you are pretty, so you've remembered to cook and drain your pasta during all the above innovative saucing. Mix all the stuff you've cooked together and put a bunch of stuff on it: salt, pepper, more cheese. And pour another glass of wine. You deserve it. And let me know how it turned out. For me, it was sort of weird, but I liked it. That's what she said. Closet-dweller out!


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Serve paella with tapas appetizers, a soup course, a sweet dessert, and wine or sangria. Since paella is a traditional Spanish dish, choose primarily Spanish dishes to go with it.
Start the meal with tapas. Choose three to five different tapas, and make enough that everyone can sample each dish. For the soup course, consider a cold soup, such as gazpacho, during warm weather or a hot soup, such as sopa, when the weather is cold. For dessert, consider flan if you want something cool or sopapillas with honey if you prefer something warm. When choosing a wine to pair with paella, take into account the ingredients in the dish and the flavors of the sauce.


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Now Santorum's hopes of winning the GOP nomination are thankfully slim, but he's still pushing remorselessly at the same themes. And the ideas driving his campaign are not restricted to him along. Of those ideas, the ones I find most disturbing here aren't his opposition to same-sex marriage as such (although I think that is unjust), or his argument in support of that opposition (which I find as flimsy as, well, a napkin). I know people who oppose same sex marriage--often on the basis of arguments I find flimsy--whom I'd describe as decent, well-meaning human beings. If they have a reason for standing where they stand, it's neither hate nor homophobia. You can talk to them about the issues, and they'll listen to you with (it seems to me) an openness to being persuaded.
In fact, I know opponents of same-sex marriage who actually seem to want to be persuaded--who feel compassion for the plight of their gay and lesbian neighbors and wish for their sakes that they could endorse a different view. But something--usually what they take to be the necessary implications of their religious faith--has led them to regretfully take the stand they've taken.
Now I think there are things going on in these cases that are troubling, but they aren't nearly as disturbing to me as what I see going on in the Santorum clip. What's so disturbing here is the in-group/out-group ideology which frames Santorum's perspective, his arguments, and his campaign.
The cartoon above exposes part of the dynamic that defines such bifurcating ideologies. But I think it's worth digging a bit deeper into this dynamic. If we look carefully at the clip from Santorum's campaign speech, we see Santorum framing his candidacy in terms of an epic struggle between two communities: "the faith community" and, of course, gays and lesbians.
In the spirit of the bible-thumper in the cartoon, Santorum goes so far as to describe LGBT responses to his attacks on marriage equality as a "jihad against Rick Santorum." But this labeling is the culmination of a broader effort to paint LGBT efforts for equality as an attack on the faith community as a whole. Referencing the landmark Lawrence vs. Texas case which declared sodomy laws unconstitutional, Santorum catastrophizes the implications of allowing that ruling to stand uncontested:
…we will see not only marriage destroyed but we will see ultimately the faith community destroyed and...ghettoized as bigots because they stand up and preach biblical truth.With a final flourish, he represents himself as, among the presidential contenders, the best defender of the faith community—the one who cares enough to fight the LGBT community's supposedly sinister efforts to realize marriage equality.
In evoking the language of jihad—which the American religious right takes, however imprecisely, to be Islam's equivalent of "holy war"—Santorum not only frames himself as a soldier in a war against Christianity's enemies, but seeks to place the pursuit of marriage equality into the same category into which so many conservative Christians locate the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Muslims and homosexuals are battering at the gates of the faithful, and the very survival of Christianity is at stake.
There is nothing especially new about this pattern of thinking, nor is there anything novel about using it to pursue political power. Nevertheless, it is worth reflecting on the structure of Santorum's rhetoric—because it helps reveal why this campaign speech before an anemically small gathering is not something to be laughed off or dismissed as just the ideas of a harmless crackpot who'll never get elected. After all, he did get elected to the Senate.
Santorum's rhetoric is dangerous precisely because of its structure. In fact, the ideological picture that Santorum paints on the campaign trail has precisely the same structure as those ideologies used to support what John Ladd, the recently deceased Brown university philosopher, has called "collective violence."
Ladd argued that there's a crucial difference between private violence pursued for personal gain and "collective violence," by which he meant violence done by people who see themselves as agents of a larger whole, and who target their victims not for personal reasons but simply because those victims belong to the enemy group.
So, for example, Anders Breivik—the homegrown Norwegian terrorist who perpetrated July's horrific attacks—saw himself as an agent of a culturally Christian west struggling against a hostile Islamic world and its enablers. He was not acting for personal gain but to further a conceived group mission. His victims were not chosen because of any personal qualities, but simply because they attended the wrong summer camp—and so identified themselves as members of the wrong group.
Ladd pointed out that collective violence occurs within the framework of a justifying ideology. And what does that ideology look like? Santorum's recent campaign speech is nothing short of a blueprint. First, the world is divided into groups—a chosen group and the "others." Ladd called this the "Doctrine of Bifurcation." Next, the groups are represented as being locked in a zero-sum struggle, one in which any gain for one group means a loss for the other. Members of the chosen group are faced with a solemn mission to defend their group—and by implication all that is good and right—against the dire threats posed by the others. This is what Ladd called the "Doctrine of Group Mission."
These elements are clearly present in Santorum's stump speech: There's us, the chosen group, the heterosexual Christians; and then there's them, the jihadis, the Muslim terrorists and the homosexuals. We're locked in a struggle in which any gain for them—even so modest a gain as no longer being subject to criminal prosecution for having a consensual sexual relationship—is perceived as a threat that may very well destroy us.
Sometimes, within such ideologies, a case is given for the direness of the threat. But such a case needn't be especially compelling (and Santorum's clearly isn't), since its function isn't to undergird a substantive philosophical position but to set up the ideological divide. That ideology, in turn, serves a function of its own, one which becomes clear at the close of Santorum's speech, where he announces himself to be the agent who will defend the chosen group. This becomes elevated to a sacred mission, a duty that others are shirking but that Santorum is prepared to live out, even at risk to himself.
Let me be clear about some things. I'm certain that Santorum has no plans of going on a killing spree. The fifty or so people in the room with him have no such plans. There is nothing about his ideology of division that explicitly promises violence. And just because collective violence is embedded in ideologies of division, it doesn't follow that every ideology of division gives birth to a murderous Anders Breivik. In fact, it may even be true that the impact f Santorum's message is partly sanitized by the "love the sinner, hate the sin" mantra, which operates (most of the time) to keep the violence against gays and lesbians covert and psychological rather than overtly deadly.
Nevertheless, ideologies of division are a stewpot for a distinct kind of violence. Not long ago the ideological message of "Islamic invasion" hit home with murderous consequences in Breivik's twisted psychology—causing quick defensive responses from some of those who had been preaching this message. They'd been preaching it not because they wanted anyone to go on a killing spree, but because they wanted to promote restrictive anti-Islamic policies. They couldn't—or wouldn't—see how supporting their agenda in these ideological terms could breed self-styled soldiers willing to take the war to another level.
Likewise, Santorum likely doesn't see how his rhetorical choices contribute to the patterns of thought that culminate in gay bashing. He and others will continue to paint overt violence against gays and lesbians as born out of the twisted individual psychologies of the perpetrators. But Ladd's message is that we make a grave mistake when we confuse collective violence for individual violence, precisely because we fail to see how our broader social patterns of thinking feed into the motivations of those who do the killing.
I need to stress here what I am not arguing. I am not arguing that Rick Santorum and his conservative followers are the enemy, an "other" group with whom we, the chosen ones, are locked in epic struggle. It would be frightfully easy to fall into that pattern of thinking—but to do so would be to fall prey to the very thing I am criticizing, a phenomenon so seductive that even moral outrage against it can easily slip into its perpetuation in another form.
What I am arguing is that Santorum is promulgating a dangerous pattern of thinking, dangerous in part because it is so seductive. It is a pattern that doesn't fall on just one side of party lines. On the contrary, the hostility across party lines is one of its effects. Santorum is a case study of how easily and naturally we fall into ideologies of division, without ever seeing the role that such ideologies play in fomenting the range of social problems we bemoan, from congressional deadlock to hate crimes.
And refusing to see this, we behave as if the rhetoric of holy war, the message that we are doomed unless they are stopped, is just a way to drum up votes.


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Photographing a newborn safely
Many photographs that have a baby hanging in a hammock or a cocoon are completed by doing two photographs and blending them together in photo editing software to create the final image. A hand is kept on baby at all times. In the third image you'll see that even though the photo was done outdoors and looks like it is hanging in a tree the baby is lifted very slightly off of a beanbag which has been edited out in the final image. The baby is being held in a parents hand underneath and also holding the top. The other parent is standing just out of the frame on the other side. If the baby woke up or started to make even the slightest movement she would have been lowered on to the beanbag and we would not have proceeded with this pose. A beautiful, creative portrait is never worth risking the safety of a baby.
If you're a photographer you've seen this a million times before. I'm writing this for parents though. If you are having a baby and considering baby portraits it is important that you know how to keep your baby safe during your photography session. Last year I had someone ask me if they could borrow my hanging cocoon. It made me really nervous. Because of this, I've quit using my cocoon even though I love it and always used it safely. It makes me sad though as those photos are so adorable and my clients love them!
So, instead of never doing poses like that I'm writing this so that I can link to it every time I post a baby on the blog that looks like it wasn't photographed in a safe manner. 🙂
Tips for safely photographing newborns:
1. Never place baby in a precarious position, safety always comes first.
2. Raising a baby high up off the ground or floor is not a good plan.
3. If you are unsure, don't do it! Trust your instincts.
4. Please don't hang a baby from any type of "stand".
5. Four hands helping is definitely the way to go.
6. Always have hands on baby at all times.
7. Blending two photos together isn't as hard as it looks.
8. If you want to try something new it's a good idea to have someone there that knows what they are doing.
Most professional photographers that have been in the business for a while know how to keep your baby safe. Some though, may not. If you are ever uncomfortable with a certain pose while someone is working with your baby it is totally okay to speak out.
such a great post, michelle. Really so helpful for parents to know & understand. And for photographers to hear again & again.


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Damn good book this one and definitely re-readable which for me is important as I tend to devour good books multiple times. My copy of ADB First Heretic is falling apart now I've read it so often. It does beg the question how Gav Thorpe could get this one so right but screw up the Beast Arises?
Took me a little while to get into these as I was reading them along with Ciaphus Cain and I started getting people confused. A really good series.
Seriously if your only going to read about one non-Space Marine character make it Ciaphus Cain. Normally I can't stand anything written in the first person but these books are just fantastic.
Got all 6 books in this series cheap off Trade Me in two 3 book omnibus's. Inconsistent reads but still worth it if you feel like something a little different. One thing that stood out for me when reading these is just how big a bunch of dickheads some Space Marine chapters can be.


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A Clue for William Grant's Birth Record
Cousins, here's a clue that will help us find a birth record for Eliza Esdaile's son-in-law, William Grant, the first husband of Louisa Green. The Hampshire Chronicle, dated 4 February 1822 includes the following death notice:
Died on the Jamaica station, William Grant, esq. of New Fishbourne, Purser of his Majesty's Ship Pyramus, aged 32 years.
Medical accounts of yellow fever on the Pyramus (in another blog post here) say the purser died in early November of 1821 so we're looking for a birth date between November of 1788 and November of 1789. I believe I've seen a naval record for him from the National Archives scrawled "born London", but I can't put my hand to it this morning.
If you take on the task of finding his birth record, recall that his parents, with their Scottish name, may be Presbyterian rather than C of E.


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i got some samples and i did autocomplete using jquery , its working well for single input values
but i need to pass multiples values after one by one in the textbox. Is it possible to pass multiple
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I want to store employee name,designation and department in session variable andretrieve in another page how to do this.
How do I Configure BDC column to have multiple values selected and make multiple entities data available in the same column.ÃÂ Currently it supports only single value for an item.ÃÂ This requirement is crucial need some solution immediately.
Use Case:
We are creating a storage location for technical product articles. These will be SharePoint publishing pages. Each page will have metadata assigned to it to make it searchable by properties. The possible values for one of the columns (Part Number) could potentially be sourced by our ERP system. I'd like to do this to eliminate the possibility of free-text entry errors, but there are probably over 10,000 parts so a drop-down list isn't feasible.
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The end user enters the part number and clicks a button to verify it against a BDC entry from our ERP system. If they weren't sure on the part number they needed, they could do a lookup from that metadata entry screen. They'd need to have the option to add multiple part numbers as one technical product article could reference multiple part numbers.
Is BDC an option for all of this or am I looking atÃÂ a custom metadata solution? I thought I heard along the way that BDC only supported one value choice, but I couldn't find a verification for that in the forums.
Hey all,
I am a little stumped, been trying to find some references to
this but I am coming up with more confusion than anything else.lol
Here is my scenario using asp.net and VB.
I have an aspx page with about 10 label controls on it and a
couple of image controls. Their data will be all populated dynamically by a
single URL query string that is passed to a 3rd party url query
string that retrieves an xml document with all of the information on it. I am
currently just using the page load event and from that I can get everything I
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the aspx.vb page.
However I thought for this project as I go forward I would
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I am not completely new to creating classes, I've done them
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So my thought is to approach it this way.
On the page load event I grab the URL query
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In the class I create a function that loads the
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The fork on the bicycle can break and cause the rider to lose control, posing a crash hazard.
An Authorized Specialized Retailer directly or Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. toll-free at 877-808-8154 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, email firstname.lastname@example.com or online at www.specialized.com and click on "Safety Notices" for more information.
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This recall involves all model year 2018 Specialized Allez (Base), Allez Sport, and Allez Elite road racing bicycles. The recalled bicycles have an alloy frame and composite fork. "Specialized" is printed on the downtube, "Allez" is printed on the bottom of each fork leg and "FACT" is printed on the inside of the left fork leg.
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Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled bicycles and contact an Authorized Specialized Retailer for instructions on how to receive a free installation of a new fork.
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COSTA MESA — Coach Doug Nichols can count the number of goals his Carden Hall Elementary girls' soccer teams have allowed the past two years at Daily Pilot Cup on two fingers.
This year, Nichols can just use his fingers to form a big zero.
No team scored on Carden Hall in the tournament. The Eagles turned in a dominant performance on defense.
The Eagles capped their run Sunday by shutting out Pegasus, 2-0, to defend their fifth- and sixth-grade gold division title at the Costa Mesa Farm Complex.
In five matches, Carden Hall outscored the opposition, 16-0. Getting quality shots off on the defense was difficult. When Pegasus managed a shot on goal in the second half, goalkeeper Hunter Gantos said she felt nervous.
She did not want the Eagles' shutout streak to end in the biggest match.
Most of the Eagles had been on this championship stage before, last year in the fifth- and sixth-grade gold division and two years ago in the third- and fourth-grade gold division. The experience catapulted Carden Hall to the top for a third straight year.


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