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National Americans United has issued a press release urging President Obama to "Act Swiftly to Fix the Flaws of the Faith-Based Office."
News outlets are reporting that Obama has selected Josh Dubois, a Pentecostal pastor who headed the religious outreach for Obama's campaign, to head the federal government's faith-based office.
Personally, I wish Obama would abolish the faith-based office. Since that is not going to happen, the next best thing would be to structure the office to comply with the First Amendment. That is what national AU is exhorting Obama to do.
Frankly, hiring his campaign's director of religious outreach already has the smell of political payoff. The Bush administration used the faith-based office as a tool to drum up political support from the religious community. It doesn't appear that Obama will do much more than funnel money to progressive churches instead of conservative churches.
It is as wrong to give federal money to support progressive religious organizations as it is to use federal money to support conservative religious organizations. Fairness requires that the government should remain neutral in regard to religion. Elections and politicians should not be permitted to chose winners and losers in the sphere of religion.


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Goop, mother, goop! All images by Francine Spiegel.
Artist Francine Spiegel likes goop and gore. She needs about 10 pounds of grits, five jugs of pancake syrup, 20 cans of whipped cream, Fruit Loops, fake arms, and some blood, just to get started.
That's the material she used for "Mud & Milk," her latest exhibition at Deitch, in which she depicts women as monstrous creatures, seductive and gory all at the same time, though the real grit to work lies in her inspiration. She's also motivated by her mother and horror films -- for her new gross-out show, she looked to the bonnet-wearing women of the spaghetti Western Four of the Apocalypse as her muse. "I like that they're shown as pioneers," she says, "and, at the same time, as reluctant victims."
Now that the goop has dried, Spiegel, who, on opening night became art herself performing her work in a storefront window, corresponded with us about some of her favorite indulgences. Howard Stern and Nellie Olsen from "Little House on the Prairie" made the cut.
What pleases you aesthetically?
Sometimes it's a pie in the face. But mostly it's goop and gore and how women are affected by it.
I've worked on pushing what I consider repellent on the outside and inside. I've been building fictional women that have been empowered and beaten down. With my new paintings I wanted to get distance from monstrous figures and defining who they are...
I started using my source material without cutting it up and pie-ing it. It's a graphic approach but it's freeing to work directly from any image that I'm drawn to. Images from different worlds can loosely exist and play off one another.
The women are changing too. They aren't as exposed and reconstructed, they're buttoned-up and plain. It's an effort to peel away the gore to explore the psychology underneath.
Where do these concepts stem from?
My interest in goop was gradual. I was making messy collages that were like landscapes and women were mixed into the terrain. Over time the mess affected the body and I focused on that.
I became absorbed in the world of staged goop and women. There are so many layers in it for me. It's defeating, empowering, about body issues and repression. It's self-deprecating and horrifying. I love how goop is corrupting. It brings chaos and breaks the conventional border so that you can get to these things instantly.
When Margaret Dumont gets a pie in the face or Carrie gets bloodied it makes me so emotional. I try to find a balance between making my work personal and not analyzing it too much. But I also really want to be critical and get to the bottom of things.
What's your working environment like?
I'm lucky to have a community of supportive artists. Most of us have been close since college. I paint in a pretty remote setting, which is good since I get distracted in the city.
But it's important for me to know my friends are psyched since I make it for them first. Performance has been a good way to get everyone together and work off the trust we have in each other. It's hard to work alone after you've felt the energy of collaboration.
What sorts of artists do you listen to?
Frank Zappa, Kate Bush, Flo and Eddie, Roky Erickson, Harry Nilsson, Comus' "To Keep from Crying". But mostly I listen to Howard Stern and books on tape. And I have movies on when I work.
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MISSION VIEJO - It's just her and her guitar.
Simplicity itself. She recorded the video with a laptop computer in her bedroom. Now, it could land this unknown singer an audience of more than 90 million people five weeks from today.
That's three times the audience of an "American Idol" finale.
Life has already turned upside-down for Capistrano Valley High School graduate Kina Grannis, 22. In the last two weeks, she's barely slept. She's received 10 marriage proposals. Her videos are among the most-viewed at Digg.comand YouTube.com. And she's won more than 200,000 fans from more than 40 countries.
"I can't even comprehend what's going on," says Grannis, who moved to Austin, Texas, last summer but is home visiting her family in Mission Viejo for the holidays.
Says sister Misa, 24, tracking viewership of the videos Friday: "It's crazy to see what countries she's reached. Just today we got Chile, Jordan, Estonia and Fiji."
And to think this all started with ⦠Doritos.
Grannis originally recorded her own song "Message From Your Heart" to post on her own Web site, which is lucky to get 200 views a day.
"The voice in the song is your heart telling you to remember it," she says. "It's about making sure to step back every once in a while and realize that just being alive is exciting."
After recording it, she heard Doritos was looking for unsigned acts to compete for a 60-second TV spot during the Super Bowl. She submitted her video to a panel of music executives, which honed the 352 entries to 10. Two weeks ago, her cell phone rang:
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A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues herethat shattered buildings are not merely "collateral damage," but rather calculated acts of cultural annihilation.
From Hitler's Kristallnacht to the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in the Iraq War, Bevan deftly sifts through military campaigns and their tactics throughout history, and analyzes the cultural impact and catastrophic consequences of architectural destruction. For Bevan, these actions are nothing less than cultural genocide. Ultimately, Bevan forcefully argues for the prosecution of nations that purposely flout established international treaties against destroyed architecture.
A passionate and thought-provoking cri de coeur, The Destruction of Memory raises questions about the costs of war that run deeper than blood and money.
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Dead Island 2 is in the hands of Spec Ops developer Yager, with original developer Techland currently working on Dying Light for Warner Bros.
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Napoleons Coronation
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Napoleons Coronation
Inside the Louvre
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Even the ceilings beautiful
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An amazing Egyptian pillar - the king used to have 60 of these in one room.
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List of most massive known stars
This is a list of the most-massive stars so far discovered, in solar masses (M☉).
Uncertainties and caveats[edit]
Most of the masses listed below are contested and, being the subject of current research, remain under review and subject to revision.
The masses listed in the table below are inferred from theory, using difficult measurements of the stars' temperatures and absolute brightnesses. All the listed masses are uncertain: both the theory and the measurements are pushing the limits of current knowledge and technology. Either measurement or theory, or both, could be incorrect. For example, VV Cephei could be between 25–40 M☉, or 100 M☉, depending on which property of the star is examined.
Massive stars are rare; astronomers must look very far from the Earth to find one. All the listed stars are many thousands of light years away and that alone makes measurements difficult. In addition to being far away, many stars of such extreme mass are surrounded by clouds of outflowing gas; the surrounding gas interferes with the already difficult-to-obtain measurements of stellar temperatures and brightnesses and greatly complicates the issue of estimating internal chemical compositions. For some methods, different determinations of chemical composition lead to different estimates of mass. In addition, the clouds of gas make it difficult to judge whether the star is just a single supermassive object or, instead, a multiple star system. A number of the "stars" listed below may actually consist of two or more companions in close orbit, each star being massive in itself but not necessarily supermassive. Other combinations are possible – for example a supermassive star with one or more smaller companions or more than one giant star. Without being able to see inside the surrounding cloud, it is difficult to know the truth of the matter.
Amongst the most reliable listed masses are those for NGC 3603-A1, WR21a and WR20a, which were obtained from orbital measurements. These entities are members of (different) binary star systems and it is possible to measure in both cases the individual masses of the two stars by studying their orbital motions, using Kepler's laws of planetary motion. This involves measuring their radial velocities and also their light curves, as they are eclipsing binaries. The derivation of binary masses requires relatively limited information about the orbital parameters but one key value that isn't always accurately known is the inclination. Without this only a minimum value for the masses can be derived, so several binaries are shown with masses as greater than a particular value. For eclipsing binaries, the inclination can be derived with better accuracy. The list gives only the inferred masses of stars according to recent best estimates and does not include superseded estimates of mass.
Relevance of stellar evolution[edit]
Some stars may once have been heavier than they are today. It is likely that many have lost tens of solar masses of material in the process of degassing, or in sub-supernova and supernova impostor explosion events.
There are also – or rather were – stars that might have appeared on the list but no longer exist as stars. Today we see only the debris (see for example hypernovae and supernova remnant). The masses of the precursor stars that fueled these cataclysms can be estimated from the type of explosion and the energy released, but those masses are not listed here.
List of the most massive stars[edit]
Known stars with an estimated mass of 25 or greater M☉, including the stars of Arches cluster, Cygnus OB2 cluster, Pismis 24 cluster and R136 cluster. Masses are their current (evolutionary) mass, not their initial (formation) mass. The list is far from complete, although the majority of stars thought to be more than 100 M☉ are shown.
|Wolf-Rayet star
|O-class star
|B-class star
|Luminous blue variable star
- ^ This unusual measurement was made by assuming the star was ejected from a three-body encounter in NGC 3603. This assumption also means that the current star is the result of a merger between two original close binary components. The mass is consistent with evolutionary mass for a star with the observed parameters.
- ^ These are minimum values with the orbital solution still uncertain.
Black holes[edit]
Black holes are the end point evolution of massive stars. Technically they are not stars, as they no longer generate heat and light via nuclear fusion in their cores.
- Stellar black holes are objects with approximately 4–15 M☉.
- Intermediate-mass black holes range from 100–10000 M☉.
- Supermassive black holes are in the range of millions or billions M☉.
Eddington's size limit[edit]
The limit on mass arises because stars of greater mass have a higher rate of core energy generation, their luminosity increasing far out of proportion to their mass. For a sufficiently massive star the outward pressure of radiant energy generated by nuclear fusion in the star's core exceeds the inward pull of its own gravity. This is called the Eddington limit. Beyond this limit, a star ought to push itself apart, or at least shed enough mass to reduce its internal energy generation to a lower, maintainable rate. In theory, a more massive star could not hold itself together, because of the mass loss resulting from the outflow of stellar material. In practice the theoretical Eddington Limit must be modified for high luminosity stars and the empirical Humphreys Davidson Limit is derived.[22]
Astronomers have long theorized that as a protostar grows to a size beyond 120 M☉, something drastic must happen. Although the limit can be stretched for very early Population III stars, and the exact value is uncertain, if any stars still exist above 150-200 M☉, they would challenge current theories of stellar evolution. Studying the Arches cluster, which is the densest known cluster of stars in our galaxy, astronomers have confirmed that stars in that cluster do not occur any larger than about 150 M☉. One theory to explain rare ultramassive stars that exceed this limit, for example in the R136 star cluster, is the collision and merger of two massive stars in a close binary system.[23]
See also[edit]
- Luminous blue variable
- Wolf–Rayet star
- Hypergiant
- List of least massive stars
- List of largest known stars
- List of most luminous stars
- List of brightest stars
- Lists of stars
- Supergiant
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Some pics from yesterday.
The 75-300/shutter priority/320th worked nicely as long as I stayed away from the focal extremes.
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2. My brother on a CZ400 after the seat fell off and made it lighter
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Column: Firing coach not enough at Rutgers
The easy part was getting rid of Mike Rice, something Rutgers had little choice in doing once the governor of New Jersey and the king of basketball weighed in on his videotaped transgressions.
Gov. Chris Christie wasn't going to have Rice remain as basketball coach at the state's flagship university, and quickly let it be known where he stood. So did LeBron James, in a tweet to his 7.8 million followers that was even more direct.
"If my son played for Rutgers or a coach like that he would have some real explaining to do and I'm still gone whoop on him afterwards!" James tweeted. "C'mon."
C'mon, indeed. You don't need to be a governor or a superstar to be outraged at the video of Rice kicking, shoving and shouting homophobic insults at players in practice. Anyone who watched the out-of-control coach abuse his young players likely came away with the same angry thought.
Anyone other than Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti, that is.
Oh, sure, Pernetti and university president Robert Barchi are on board now, expressing regret after firing Rice about how they handled the coach's initial punishment in December. Pernetti flat out said he was wrong, while Barchi released a statement saying he, too, had an epiphany of sorts after actually watching the tape Tuesday.
Apparently Barchi's change of heart came after he saw Rice throwing balls at players and calling them the kind of names that get people in fights at playgrounds around the country. For reasons known only to him, Barchi signed off on a punishment for Rice that included a three-game suspension and anger management courses without even bothering to watch the videotape back in December.
Had he done his job then, maybe Rutgers wouldn't be where it is now.
Their decision at the time didn't result in any great outcry because Pernetti and Barchi didn't say what exactly Rice had done to earn his suspension - which conveniently ended just before the school's Big East opener against Syracuse. Followers of the program were mostly perplexed about why their coach would have to sit out for what was vaguely referred to as inappropriate conduct and language.
I can't imagine what they were thinking when they went down the list of possible punishments. The physical abuse alone was a fireable offense, but the anti-gay slurs took it to a whole new level.
Three games and anger management courses? At a university where just three years ago, a student killed himself after his roommate used a webcam to spy on him kissing another man in his dorm.
My only guess is they thought the Rice video wouldn't surface. There can be no other explanation, because what is seen on the tape is so inflammatory that no reasonable person - much less leaders of our youth - could justify allowing Rice back on the court with the kids he was seen abusing.
And if they're that clueless in today's world of viral video then they need to go, too.


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For a little daysail like that I always try to plan things so that I go upwind on the way out, particularly if I have guests on board. That way, I should always be able to fetch the mouth of my home port sailing more or less downwind w/o tacking or gybing. Granted, where I sail this is probably a bit easier since the prevailing winds blow onshore. But, my aim is to do all the "hard" sailing on the outbound leg(s) and have a relaxing broad reach back home.
Excuse the arm-chair quarterbacking (or is that quarter
?), but if you had sailed a starboard tack, close-hauled or maybe a bit free (more or less to the southwest) on your outbound leg, and kept adjusting your course as the wind veered more to the north, your return leg would have still been a reach coming home. You also would have avoided crossing that shoal (which I'm guessing was getting pretty choppy as the wind piped up). If the wind had veer more to the south, rather than the north, you would have had an even easier time getting home.
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