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For the past six months, Church at the Bar -- presented by the local renegade Christian group Connected Life (www.connectedlife.us) -- has been meeting at an Arvada nightclub, the D Note, on the last Tuesday of the month, when it offers up libations and salvation. "We wanted a place where people would feel more comfortable," says Matt Honeycutt, a founder of Church at the Bar, who greets worshipers with a pint of beer in his left hand.
On a table just inside the entrance to the D Note, there's more proof that this is an unusual night of worship. Keychain bottle openers are emblazoned with the words "Come Join the Party," and a Church at the Bar handbill features a 1794 William Blake poem that crystallizes the group's philosophy. "The church is cold, but the ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm," Blake's "The Little Vagabond" reads. "But if at the church they would give us some ale...we'd sing and we'd pray all the live-long day, nor ever once wish from the church to stray."
As Honeycutt greets visitors, the church band, Phantom Handshake, takes the stage. The young musicians look like members of an MTV-ready rock band, all baggy pants, T-shirts and crooked baseball caps. They warm up the fifty or so folks gathered here with some amplified Christian rock, while the God-loving lyrics of the band's songs flash on a pair of giant screens flanking the stage.
Mike Shepherd, leader of the group, then takes the stage and welcomes everyone to Church at the Bar. His mention of the church's title elicits a collective hoot from the largely twenty- and thirty-something audience, which includes a number of stylishly dressed, attractive women (a good draw for both bar crowds and church congregations, apparently). About half the parishioners are enjoying beers or cocktails, while others sip soft drinks. A few children sit with their parents.
Shepherd's a handsome fellow who sports a Western-style plaid shirt, a beard and a close-cropped '50s-style haircut. His gaze is captivating, and so are the opening points of his address: "If you farted for six years straight," he says, "you'd release the energy of an atomic bomb." That gets the congregation's attention, as does a tidbit about a pig's orgasm lasting thirty minutes. "These are things you'll only learn here at Church at the Bar," he notes.
Next up is Trevor Bron, the night's guest speaker, who admits he's never delivered a sermon in a bar before. "The more you drink, the better I get," he says, borrowing the joke of many a bar musician. "Me, I drink a little beer and then I fall asleep, which makes it exactly like church." The crowd chuckles.
Bron's sermon on finding your identity, on determining the handle that God intends for each one in his flock, is short and sweet, peppered with good humor, references to The Bourne Identity and quotes from the Bible. "Your identity only becomes a crisis if you don't have a real one," he says.
This rocks. For the first time, I'm at a church having fun and a glass of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I'm getting a stirring, to-the-point message and rock and roll -- without a word about why I'll go to hell for dancing, drinking or voting Democrat. In my mind, I can see the pastor at the Baptist church where I found salvation, all the while wondering why Christianity's namesake drank but my folks could not; the pastor's face is blood red. And I can see Jesus tilting back a glass of wine, smiling down from on high.
For Shepherd, holding church in a bar makes perfect sense. "That's where believers are more likely to go," he says, "if they're disconnected with God and the traditional church, but still have a tugging in their heart for something more." Such people need to know that "there's more to life than this life," he adds. "There's more to life than eat, drink and be merry and then you die."
Shepherd had been worshiping at a progressive church that lost its appeal last year; after that, he and a few fellow Christians began meeting at each other's homes. In August, they moved that meeting to the D Note, which typically books live acts whose music ranges from indie rock and blues to salsa and bluegrass. "It's a different sort of expression," says Adam DeGraff, who owns the bar with his family. Church at the Bar rents the room once a month, and its attendees make for a good night of bar business. The religious group's "subversiveness" is appealing, DeGraff adds, and matches his establishment's policy of being "open and accepting of all belief systems."
Shepherd can trace his belief systems back to the Southern Baptist church, where he was ordained as a minister seventeen years ago. But his new congregation rebels against Southern Baptist thinking and is part a growing group of Christians who are tired of the finger-pointing and facades at some churches. "We don't wear any masks," he says. "One thing about this generation is they're tired of BS. And they call it when they see it."


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Jupiter has long been an object of wonder, with its dramatic Great Red Spot, its numerous and varied satellites and the stunning collision of the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with the Jovian atmosphere in 1994. This unit will introduce you to our solar system's largest planet and its major satellites and the history of their exploration.
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The Cassini-Huygens Mission: Follow-up File (Released March 2005)
A Happy New Year's landing
The Huygens European probe, a component of the Cassini-Huygens Mission to the planet Saturn and its moons, has landed on Saturn's moon Titan, a mysterious satellite that has perplexed astronomers for decades. The Cassini-Huygens Mission, a project of NASA, ESA and the Italian space agency, was launched Oct. 15, 1997, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Saturn, its rings, and its many moons.
Built by the European Space Agency (ESA), the 705-pound (320-kilogram) Huygens probe landed on Titan between 7:45-7:46 a.m. EST (1245-1246 GMT) on January 14, 2005, as scheduled, and apparently began beaming at least some data to NASA's Cassini orbiter for later transmission to Earth. [8]
Expecting pictures and atmospheric measurements, ESA science director David Southwood confirmed the Huygens probe sent data up to the Cassini spacecraft, which transmitted the information back to antennas on Earth. Applause erupted at mission control in Darmstadt, western Germany at the news. The data are expected to shed light on the composition of Titan's atmosphere and surface, and possibly on the origins of life on Earth. Early data showed that one of Huygens' experiments, designed to measure the Titanic winds, had begun to work, said Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA mission manager. Officials hoped that usable scientific data, including pictures, would follow hours later. ''We clearly have an engineering success,'' Lebreton said. ''We are going to work very hard to convert this into a scientific success.''
Mission officials had waited seven years for Huygens to reach its destination, and had tears in their eyes as the first signal was picked up, indicating that the probe was transmitting to its mother ship, the international Cassini spacecraft. Science director Southwood said the mission had passed a difficult and critical step. Huygens was spun off from Cassini on December 24, 2004, to begin its free-fall toward Titan, the first moon other than the Earth's to be explored by a spacecraft. Named after Titan's discoverer, the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, the probe carries instruments to explore what Titan's atmosphere is made of and to find out whether it has the cold seas of liquid methane and ethane that scientists have theorized .
Timers inside the probe awakened it just before it entered Titan's atmosphere. Huygens is shaped like a wok and covered with a shield to survive the intense heat of entry. On the descent, it was to shed its heat shield and collect information on wind speeds and the makeup of Titan's atmosphere using a special camera and instruments. The data transmitted back to Cassini will, in turn, be relayed to NASA's Deep Space Network in Pasadena, California, and on to ESA controllers in Darmstadt.
Titan is the only moon in the solar system known to have a significant atmosphere. Rich in nitrogen and containing about 6 percent methane, its atmosphere is believed to be 1� times thicker than Earth's. Alphonso Diaz, science administrator for NASA, thinks Titan may offer hints about the conditions under which life first arose on Earth. Diaz describes Titan as a time machine that will provide us the opportunity to study conditions that may well have existed on Earth in the beginning. It may have preserved in a deep freeze many chemical compounds that set the stage for life on Earth. Part of a $3.3 billion international mission to study the Saturn system, Huygens is also equipped with instruments to study Titan's surface upon landing. Scientists were not sure exactly what it would hit when it landed at about 22 mph. The probe floats and can survive a landing in methane or ethane, which exist in liquid form due to temperatures of 292 below zero F. One hazard would be landing on a solid slope in a position that doesn't permit a strong signal back to Cassini. Engineers at ESA were counting on the probe having at least three minutes to transmit information and images from Titan's surface, before its battery ran out or Cassini traveled out of range. [9]
Background: Unveiling the mystery of Titan
The Cassini-Huygens Mission arrived at the ringed planet Saturn and maneuvered into orbit on July 1, 2004. Cassini will study the Saturn system from orbit for at least four years. This orbiter-probe combination is the first human spacecraft to go into orbit about Saturn. All prior missions simply snapped their amazing images of Saturn and its rings and moons as they flew by. None stuck around long enough to delve into the mystery of Titan, the only moon in our solar system shrouded by an atmosphere so dense we can't see through it at visible wavelengths. Simply, Titan looks like a featureless yellowish-orange globe in orbit about Saturn. [1]
On October 26th, 2004, Cassini swooped by Titan and peeked through its hazy atmosphere with radar to take the first surface images we've ever seen of this alien terrain. The October 26th flyby marked the first time Cassini's imaging radar was used to observe Titan. The radar instrument works by bouncing radio signals off Titan's surface and timing their return, a process similar to timing the returning echo of one's voice across a canyon to tell its width. Radio waves can penetrate the thick veil of haze surrounding Titan. The radar instrument team of Dr. Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and leader of the radar instrument team so far has mapped about 1% of Titan's surface, and already there are surprises. [1,44]
"Titan is a dynamic place with complex geologic processes that may be shaping its surface. Its surface may well be covered with organic materials, but we still don't know how much of the surface is liquid or solid. The fact that we have seen few craters tells us that Titan's surface is young," stated Dr. Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona. [1, 4]
Instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft have sent back the most detailed images ever captured of Titan's surface. They've also presented scientists with a major mystery: Scientists expected the a huge cloud formation over the moon's south pole, spanning 620 miles (1000 kilometers) at its widest, but they also expected it to be made of methane, and it isn't. Titan's atmosphere contains an abundance of methane, which was detected many years ago by spacecraft that flew past the planet. When recent images from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii showed clouds at Titan's south pole, scientists assumed they were methane. According to their model, Titan is so cold that methane can form liquid pools on its surface. When this liquid is heated by the sun, it evaporates, forming methane clouds. Water clouds on Earth work the same way. The sun heats the ocean; water evaporates, and clouds form in the atmosphere. Because Titan's south pole is currently pointed toward the sun, it is receiving the greatest amount of heat right now. So a massive cloud form over the south pole fits the model perfectly - if the cloud is made of methane. [2]
However, according to data gathered by Cassini, the particles that make up the cloud are too big to be methane. "I don't believe it," says Chris McKay, a planetary scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. "It would be like flying over Earth and saying the clouds are not water. If those clouds are really not methane, then a lot of the things we think about Titan are wrong. A lot of things we think about those clouds are wrong - the whole explanation of why they're there." The Cassini science team has not yet had time to fully analyze the data sent back by the spacecraft, so they don't yet know what the clouds are made of. One possibility, McKay speculates, is ethane, except that ethane is a photochemical product that is produced in the upper atmosphere and rains downward. So it wouldn't make sense that a massive ethane cloud would appear at the south pole of Titan. [2]
Another possibility, according to McKay, is that it could be some sort of organic polymer, essentially plastic particles. But, as with ethane, these would form from above. There's no known reason why a massive cloud of them should exist at Titan's south pole. One plausible scenario is that the cloud particles could start out as methane, produced as expected on the ground and carried aloft. Once airborne, however, they become coated with some other substance, perhaps ethane. Further study of the spectral data collected by Cassini, together with laboratory-based experiments should enable scientists to unravel the mystery, but it will take some time for them to do so. [2]
Meanwhile, down on Titan's surface, another mystery is unfolding. Recent images have revealed stunning surface detail, never before seen. But, according to Caroline Porco, team leader for the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) aboard Cassini-Huygens, "we don't know exactly what we're looking at." The "don't know" part applies both to the moon's surface composition and to its topography. Figuring out what the moon is made of should be relatively easy, using data from Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument. Different materials reflect light at different frequencies. Each pixel captured by the VIMS records the strength of the light reflected at each of 352 distinct frequencies. Some of these frequencies are visible to human eyes; others are in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. By analyzing this spectral data, scientists should be able to figure out Titan's surface composition. The analysis requires intensive computation, matching the observed spectra to standards stored in spectral libraries here on Earth. [2]
Surface mysteries
Titan's topography will be even tougher to figure out. According to Porco, because of the global haze layer, we do not see shadows on the surface of Titan, and because we don't see shadows, we can't look at an image and immediately deduce what's up and what's down. There could be massive mountains and deep valleys there, or the surface could be completely flat. At this point, there's no way to tell.
Titan is unlike the planet Mars and the icy moons of the planet Jupiter, which have little or no atmosphere. So the techniques that have been used for interpreting airless bodies, all those methods of examining solid surfaces from planetary spacecraft that have been learned over the last half century, don't apply, according to Porco. Because Titan is a very different environment, what scientists can use is a combination of data from several different Cassini instruments, collected over a long period of time. During its four-year mission, Cassini will make many more close passes by Titan, 45 in all, during which it will collect both radar data and stereo images. By integrating these two types of data, the Cassini science team will be able slowly to build up a picture of Titan's topography. That process, however, will take months - or even years. [2]
"Titan is not an ice ball"
An important new finding made by Cassini's Italian-built imaging radar system, in its radiometry mode, is that "Titan is not an ice ball," according to Ralph Lorenz, an imaging radar team member from the University of Arizona at Tucson. "Titan emits heat more effectively than ice balls" more typical for solid bodies in the outer solar system, he said. This new thermal finding will be significant in later calculations on the complex interaction of organics on the surface and in the atmosphere, according to Lorenz.
But imagery from the radar, along with Cassini's ISS and VIMS, provided the most striking findings of this first Titan flyby. About 25 of the flybys will also involve the radar, developed starting 14 years ago by Alenia and five other Italian contractors in connection with the JPL. Non-radar-imaging data shows that the known continent-sized feature in the southern hemisphere, dubbed Xanadu, appears white with acoastline-like appearance where it transitions into dark material also on a continental scale. The nature of either terrain type is unknown, although areas farther north indicate a higher level of organics. [3]
The October 26th flyby, which was the first, was the only one that imaged the landing area for the Huygens probe before landing on Titan's surface. The flyby took 500-1000 images and detailed chemistry measurements. Infrared imagery showed the landing site to be about a 50-50 mixture of light and dark terrain (if the dark area is terrain and not a liquid). The Huygens team had no prior imagery with which to pick exactly where the probe would land. Huygens project scientist, Jean-Pierre Zebreton, said that the team was delighted by the site's diversity once it saw the probe's projects landing site. [3]
The radar portion of the October 26th flyby lasted only about five minutes, but it was an intense five minutes of precise pointing activity for the spacecraft, according to Dr. Charles Elachi. The initial radar pass covered an approximately 75-mile-wide by 1250-mile-long strip well north of the area imaged by the Cassini ISS and the VIMS. The radar and imaging data will eventually be overlapped, but, because of design limitations, the imaging instruments and 13-ft. radar dish cannot be pointed at the same area simultaneously. [3]
The radar and other key instrument findings include:
First images of Titan's surface from Huygens
The first pictures revealing the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, were shown from the Huygens probe during its landing on January 14, 2005. The images reveal what look like drainage channels on the surface of what, until that moment, was a planet totally hidden from view. The image unveiling marked the end of a successful journey for the hardy Huygens probe and the culmination of 25 years of work by mission managers, scientists, engineers and supporters.
Huygens' first image, taken from an altitude of 16 kilometers, had a ground resolution of about 40 meters, according to Martin Tomasko, principal investigator for Huygens' Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR). Tomasko said on January 14th that Huygens research teams had about 350 pictures to work with. The image appears to show ravines that could have been carved by the liquid hydrocarbons thought to cover much of Titan's surface. The ravines, stubby drainage-like channels, appeared to funnel toward what appeared to be a shoreline, researchers reported during their initial reactions to the image.
"If it's not a sea, it appears to be a lake of tar-like material," explains John Zarnecky, principal investigator for the Huygens' Surface Science Package, which is taking data from the surface of Titan. Zarnecky says that the 350 images taken by Huygens of Titan's surface were only about half the anticipated photographic harvest researchers were expecting from Huygens 2.5-hour descent to the Titan surface. Unfortunately, one of the two communications channels on the satellite apparently malfunctioned, significantly cutting the number of images received by NASA's orbiting Cassini satellite and relayed to mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.
The communications channel glitch was the only Huygens mishap that mission managers have reported. While the redundant transmission channel is not working properly, only one of the probe's six instruments - a Doppler tool to study Titan's winds - is dependent solely on that channel and may be compensated for by data from ground-based observations, said mission scientists. "This is a historic event," ESA Science Director David Southwood says. "The torch has now been passed from the engineers who delivered the probe and got the data sent to Cassini to the scientists who will evaluate the data." [9]
Titan's wind speeds
A preliminary estimate of the wind variations with altitude from about 110 kilometers (68 miles) down to the surface has been recovered by a joint team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, collaborating with the Huygens Doppler wind experiment team led by Dr. Michael Bird in Bonn, Germany, and with the ground-based European Very Long Baseline Interferometry team led by Dr. Leonid Gurvits.
As the Huygens probe descended through Titan's upper atmosphere strong westerly winds of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles) per hour buffeted the probe. Near the surface of Titan, however, the winds eased to a mild breeze. A network of radio telescope facilities, located around the world, received the radio signals transmitted by the Huygens probe to the Cassini orbiter during the probe's descent and landing on Titan. The information from the radio telescopes was originally intended to supplement similar wind data received from the Huygens Doppler wind experiment. However, because the onboard experiment failed to return data, the "ground-based work salvaged the Doppler wind experiment," according to Sami Asmar, a JPL co-investigator on the Huygens Doppler wind experiment. He had reported detecting the signal on the ground from the Green Bank Telescope facility in West Virginia: "The signal from the Huygens probe was not designed to be detected on Earth. Sometimes it pays to eavesdrop," explains Asmar. The winds were determined by the Doppler shift of the signal. [10]
Meanwhile, back on Saturn�
Colorful new images of Saturn have been taken by the Cassini spacecraft. In the first image, the icy moon Mimas is set against a dazzling and dramatic portrait of Saturn's azure northern hemisphere and the shadows of its rings. A second image shows that Saturn's northern polar region is a dim blue.
The blue color of Saturn's northern latitudes may to be linked to the apparently cloud-free nature of the upper atmosphere there. A precise understanding of the phenomenon may come from further study by Cassini imaging scientists. In the first of these colorful views, Mimas moves in its orbit against the blue backdrop of Saturn's atmosphere, which is draped by sweeping shadows cast by the rings. A few large craters are visible on Mimas, giving the icy moon a dimpled appearance. The second view shows Saturn's northern polar region, where shadows cast by the rings surrounding the pole appear as dark bands. The ring shadows at higher latitudes correspond to locations on the ring plane that are farther from the planet - in other words, the northernmost ring shadow in this view is cast by the outer edge of Saturn's A ring. Spots of bright clouds also are visible throughout the region.
The view of Saturn and Mimas was taken by the Cassini spacecraft's narrow angle camera on January 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) from Saturn. The view of Saturn's northern polar region was taken with Cassini's wide angle camera on December 14, 2004, at a distance of 719,200 kilometers (446,900 miles) from Saturn. [11]
Fingerprints of an unseen moon
A few relatively small moons, clearly visible in major gaps between Saturn's rings, had been discovered in Voyager data. With diameters as little as 12 miles (20 kilometers), these moons are known to gravitationally shepherd ring particles as well as maintain gaps between the rings. But whether or not every one of the dozen or so gaps in Saturn's rings have embedded moons is an important question the Cassini spacecraft is designed to answer. Scientists also do not know how Saturn's rings originally formed or exactly what they're made of.
Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado led a study of Cassini images suggesting one possible new moonlet. Porco has said that she has "circumstantial evidence" for a small moon in the Keeler gap, near the outer edge of Saturn's main rings. The evidence is in the form of "spiky wisps" of material that protrude into the Keeler gap from its outer edge. The features resemble those generated on the inner edge of the F ring by the shepherding moon Prometheus, Porco says. The moon has not been seen yet, and Porco suspects it's no bigger than about 3 miles (5 kilometers) or so in diameter. She stressed that the size estimate is just a guess, based on the size of the gap - just 22 miles (35 kilometers) wide - the dynamics involved, and the fact that the moon has never been seen. [12]
New Cassini data from the inner rings has yielded more reliable approximations of the masses of two of Saturn's ring-bound moons, Atlas and Pan. The research implies the moons are very porous - similar to moons orbiting just outside Saturn's rings. The low densities suggest that all the inner moons and satellites were smaller bits and pieces that were gravitationally pulled together; basically orbiting rubble piles.
Early in March, the Cassini orbiter will swing past the moon Enceladus, whose surface is relatively young, about 100 million years, and has many interesting features. The ice that coats it is especially clean, and gives the moon the highest albedo, a measure of light reflectivity, of any body in the solar system. Enceladus has an albedo greater than 90 percent, whereas the Earth and its moon have albedos of 38 percent and 12 percent, respectively. [13]
Molecular oxygen detection
On the last week of February 2005 several new images and data from the mission were published in the journal Science. Among the findings is the detection of molecular oxygen around Saturn's A ring. (The ring system names begin from the inside out in this order: D, C, B, A, F, G, E.) Molecular oxygen forms when two oxygen atoms bond together. It is rarely seen beyond Earth, where it is created continuously as a byproduct of photosynthesis in plants. On Saturn, where there is no plant life, molecular oxygen must be formed in a different way: through a chemical reaction between the Sun's radiation and the icy particles that comprise Saturn's rings, according to scientists.
Scientists studying radiation in the rings of Saturn also found evidence of oxygen. Doug Hamilton of the University of Maryland said the main radiation belts in the rings are comprised mostly of oxygen and water. According to Hamilton, this is most likely the result of the bombardment of the planet's rings and icy moons by the radiation trapped in Saturn's magnetic field. Molecular oxygen has also been found above the icy Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto).
Working in coordination with Hamilton's group, a group of scientists at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University found an unexpected radiation belt in the D ring, and they learned that the radiation belts of Saturn are more intense on the night-side of the planet. [13]
Undulating kinks and theft by Prometheus
New images from the Cassini spacecraft released on Friday, December 3, 2004, reveal undulating kinks in one of the Saturn rings and the theft of ring dust by a moon of Saturn. The kinks are seen in greater detail than ever before and the "thievery" has been photographed for the first time. The Saturn moon Prometheus is the likely culprit.
The material in Saturn's ring - ice and rock from the size of dust to mountains - orbits the planet in a flat plane divided into several rings. In the F ring, kinks travel along the orbital path, looking a bit like moving bumps in a road. Scientists have speculated in the past that Saturn's moon Prometheus creates the kinks by pulling material from the F ring and temporarily putting batches of the stuff on a slightly different path. That view is bolstered by an image that appears to show a faint strand of material running from the F ring to Prometheus, presumably lured there by the moon's gravity. The potato-shaped satellite is about 63 miles (102 kilometers) long. The kinks in the F ring are seen in an animation with 44 panels taken at 3-minute intervals. The rings appear to tilt during the sequence because of the spacecraft's movement south and away from the planet during the roughly 2-hour photography session. [14]
The pulling of material from the F ring would not be the first time Prometheus has stolen something. In Greek mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to the mortals. [14] Unlike the mythological Prometheus, however, the very real Cassini-Huygens Mission has not been "punished" for giving us its gifts of knowledge. The severe conditions of interplanetary space or those of the gargantuan Saturnian system have been no match for the perseverance of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft in its quest to continue the mission of Prometheus in enlightening humanity. This mission is expected to continue until at least 2008, when Cassini's four-year journey around Saturn is expected to come to a triumphant end.


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1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. | 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. |
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At the invitation of Republican Leaders, the Commission visited Bangka today to clarify its suggestion of discussions in Batavia (K290 [1]).
2. Cochran expressed the personal hope that both parties would accept this suggestion unconditionally. While agreeing that the Republicans cannot be expected to make binding decisions prior to the restoration of Djokjakarta, he hoped that they will be prepared to discuss all matters referred to in the Council's directive [2] of March 23rd. He considers that they might either:-
(a) Enter into tentative agreements regarding a cease-fire order and participation in a round table conference subject to confirmation after their re-establishment as a Government in Djokjakarta or;
(b) If the Dutch can be persuaded to restore the Republican Government, probably discuss the political issues simultaneously with the actual process of the restoration.
3. Herremans expressed personal agreement with Cochran and stressed the need for early decisions to hold a round table conference at The Hague 'as contemplated in the Security Council directive'.
4. The Republican Leaders find the invitation to a conference embarrassing. Hatta is anxious to avoid opposing the Americans but feels that acceptance of the invitation prior to any decision on the restoration of the Republican Government at Djokjakarta, will not only lead to further delay but will also be likely to have serious repercussions in the interior and among the Republicans in general.
5. The Republican Leaders have requested the Commission to arrange for Djuanda, Laoh, Kusnan and Halim now at Djokjakarta to visit them as soon as possible. They have also sent a message to Maramis at New Delhi to ascertain the reaction of the Indian Government and of other 'New Delhi Conference' powers to the latest developments. They are unlikely to reply to the Commission's invitation until they have consultedthe Leaders from Djokjakarta, received a reply from Maramis, and know officially the Netherlands' reaction to the invitation. They expect the latter to be a conditional acceptance. There is now no possibility of commencing discussions by March 30th.
6. Dutch officials here are stressing the importance of the Federalists participating in any discussions and the interest of the Federalists in the question of the restoration of Djokjakarta.
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1 The Lord said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought out of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants. | 1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.' |
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Though officials for the Tamalpais Union High School District say they are postponing plans to introduce New Tech Network to Tamalpais High School, skeptical parents and others aren't buying it.
An online petition, started Thursday through Change.org, is gathering signatures from Tam Union community members asking the district's trustees to "stop the rush for New Tech Network at Tamalpais High."
According to the petition's web page, 134 people had signed it as of Monday evening.
The petition was originally drafted in early April, when some Tam High parents were saying the district was doing a poor job of communicating to the Tam High community its intentions with New Tech, a program that involves project-based learning techniques.
Fears among some apparently subsided when Tam High Principal Julie Synyard held a community meeting and explained that any New Tech plans were being put on hold and that the teaching method would not be implemented in the 2014-15 school year.
But concerns have been revived by three contracts that the district Board of Trustees is considering signing with New Tech in a meeting set for Wednesday. One of those contracts pertains to an agreement regarding Sir Francis Drake High School and another involves San Andreas and Tamiscal high schools.
The third contract is what has some parents questioning the district's intentions. It would secure New Tech training for the district's Instructional Technology Teacher Collaborative program, which is offered to teachers to provide training for project-based learning and other approaches as schools move to adapt to Common Core standards.
Parent Mitch Wortzman sent a letter to trustees, asking for clarification on how much of the contract, for $204,750, is intended for Tam High, directly or indirectly.
"We are dumbfounded as to why the district is intent on contracting with New Tech, which constitutes a material and expensive change to our instructional methods, without proper due diligence," Wortzman said. "We are potentially damaging one of the greatest schools in the country and risking our children's education on an unproven experiment."
Board president Bob Walter said he is frustrated with some of the community feedback the district is receiving about New Tech; he said many concerns are based on misinformation, including "much of what is said in the petition."
"I really don't know why they have New Tech in their sights," Walter said. "For some reason, there is a continuing full frontal assault. I would say some people are probably genuinely confused. When you get so much misinformation like this, that's part of the issue."
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Lectures, panel discussions at Burke on 'Plastics Unwrapped'
There are 2 lectures left in the Burke Museum's "Plastics Unwrapped: The Good, the Bad, the Debate," connected with its current exhibit, which runs through May 27.
'Plastics Unwrapped: The Good, the Bad, the Debate'
The vivid, thoughtful exhibit, "Plastics Unwrapped," on display at the Burke Museum through May 27, is custom-made to provoke conversations addressing both the upside and downside of plastics in modern life. They'll take the form of lectures and panel discussions presented by the Burke and the UW Program on the Environment, collectively titled "Plastics Unwrapped: The Good, the Bad, the Debate." Two are left, both happening 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle; $5 at door (free to UW students, staff and faculty with UW ID).
The series opens Wednesday with "The Benefits of Plastic," a panel discussion featuring Brenda Fukai-Allison (from Boeing), Jennifer Zumsteg (Harborview Medical Center) and Thomas Malone (MicroGREEN Polymers).
Upcoming topics include "Plastics in the Ocean" on April 24, and "Electronic Plastics: The National and International Management Debate" on May 22.
Info: 206-543-5590 or go to www.burkemuseum.org .
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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb has not played in a game since getting hurt against the Buffalo Bills on October 14.
Kolb suffered rib and shoulder injuries, and has only recently returned to the practice field in a limited capacity.
With his health improving, though, people are starting to wonder when he'll be ready take the field again.
"They feel good," he said of his ribs. "I think the biggest thing is what level can I actually go and play at right now.
"That's what I'm trying to work through, is getting all the way back to, I can't say 100 percent, but trying to get back to where velocity is there and all that kind of stuff."
Kolb passed for 1,169 yards and eight touchdowns with just three interceptions this season, guiding the Cardinals to a 3-2 record as a starter.
The Cardinals have not won since he went down, though, and with the team's continued struggles at the quarterback position, the hope is he'll be able to return in the very near future.
That will not happen until he -- or at least, his ribs -- can handle the beating that comes with being an NFL quarterback.
"There's a number of certain things that bother it," Kolb said of the injury. "And it's not just bothering it, but it's affecting my performance."
When that is not the case you can expect to see Kolb back on the field. However, there is no set date or time frame for when that will happen, and it's worth noting he would not rule out being able to go Sunday against the Jets.
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1 During the third year of King Jehoiakim's reign in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it with his armies. | 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. |
2 The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah. When Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon, he took with him some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God and placed them in the treasure-house of his god in the land of Babylonia. | 2 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god. |
3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, who was in charge of the palace officials, to bring to the palace some of the young men of Judah's royal family and other noble families, who had been brought to Babylon as captives. | 3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility-- |
4 "Select only strong, healthy, and good-looking young men," he said. "Make sure they are well versed in every branch of learning, are gifted with knowledge and good sense, and have the poise needed to serve in the royal palace. Teach these young men the language and literature of the Babylonians." | 4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians. |
5 The king assigned them a daily ration of the best food and wine from his own kitchens. They were to be trained for a three-year period, and then some of them would be made his advisers in the royal court. | 5 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king's service. |
6 Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four of the young men chosen, all from the tribe of Judah. | 6 Among these were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. |
7 The chief official renamed them with these Babylonian names: Daniel was called Belteshazzar. Hananiah was called Shadrach. Mishael was called Meshach. Azariah was called Abednego. | 7 The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego. |
8 But Daniel made up his mind not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the chief official for permission to eat other things instead. | 8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. |
9 Now God had given the chief official great respect for Daniel. | 9 Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, |
10 But he was alarmed by Daniel's suggestion. "My lord the king has ordered that you eat this food and wine," he said. "If you become pale and thin compared to the other youths your age, I am afraid the king will have me beheaded for neglecting my duties." | 10 but the official told Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you." |
11 Daniel talked it over with the attendant who had been appointed by the chief official to look after Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. | 11 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, |
12 "Test us for ten days on a diet of vegetables and water," Daniel said. | 12 "Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. |
13 "At the end of the ten days, see how we look compared to the other young men who are eating the king's rich food. Then you can decide whether or not to let us continue eating our diet." | 13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." |
14 So the attendant agreed to Daniel's suggestion and tested them for ten days. | 14 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. |
15 At the end of the ten days, Daniel and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the king. | 15 At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. |
16 So after that, the attendant fed them only vegetables instead of the rich foods and wines. | 16 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. |
17 God gave these four young men an unusual aptitude for learning the literature and science of the time. And God gave Daniel special ability in understanding the meanings of visions and dreams. | 17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. |
18 When the three-year training period ordered by the king was completed, the chief official brought all the young men to King Nebuchadnezzar. | 18 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them in, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. |
19 The king talked with each of them, and none of them impressed him as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they were appointed to his regular staff of advisers. | 19 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's service. |
20 In all matters requiring wisdom and balanced judgment, the king found the advice of these young men to be ten times better than that of all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom. | 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. |
21 Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus's reign. | 21 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus. |
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Saturday, December 2, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Practical Mac | Glenn Fleishman Bright little stocking stuffers for Mac usersSpecial to The Seattle Times Stockings are often stuffed with tiny treasures — in years past, I've paradoxically found Hanukkah gelt in mine — which makes this an appropriate time of year to look at small gems for Mac OS X. These tools that I use regularly have tunnel vision, carrying out just one limited task, but they improve Mac OS X by smoothing down the rough edges that Apple left to others to burnish. Given that all the for-fee software have trial versions, you might want to stuff a download in the stocking with a promise of a license if your giftee likes the program. Default Folder: There's nothing I like less than hunting for a document or the folder that contains it. Apple's Spotlight, added in Tiger, is one tool to pinpoint an item by its contents, but it's not yet powerful enough to replace my normal filing technique: creating folders by project nested into folders by client, publication or purpose. Default Folder's intent is to allow you to keep track of and rapidly return to folders that you use often or have recently visited. After installing the program, you see a set of five buttons on the far right of every open and save dialog box. (You can choose to exclude Default Folder from appearing in programs where it interferes with non-standard file navigation dialog boxes.) The five buttons each have dropdown menus. The lower four buttons reveal current hard drives, preferred folders you've set to appear, recent folders and folders currently open on the Desktop, respectively. The top button controls behavior, like trashing a selected item, revealing the current folder on the Desktop or creating a new folder. Information: www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.html, $34.95, 30-day trial TextExpander: I wrote about TextExpander at length back in June, but suffice it to say that I'll trade typing a few characters for a paragraph any time. The utility lets you create typing "macros," which are triggered by entering a shortcut and then pressing a key like Tab or Space. You can also select these shortcuts from a menu. A shortcut might be your mailing address or a thumbnail mugshot; text and images can be mixed, or you can choose to use pure text. I particularly like TextExpander's short list of tokens that stand in for the current date or time in several formats, or that can move the cursor position. You might, for instance, use the default "ddate" shortcut to drop in the current day of week, month, day, and year. Information: www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/, $29.95, frequent noninterrupting reminders after 30 days of use Easy Envelopes: Ambrosia Software makes a pile of games and utilities, but its free Easy Envelopes Widget takes the cake for scratching an irritating itch. The Widget, which appears in Tiger's Dashboard after installation, lets you quickly compose and print envelopes for any size supported by your printer. The tool lets you search the Address Book for entries, or you can paste addresses right in.
Information: www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/easyenvelopes/, free Pando: Pando is my favorite of a new class of software and Web sites designed to help you bypass the attachment limits imposed by almost all Internet service providers and Web-mail companies. Most of those firms limit you to attachments totaling 2 to 10 megabytes in size. And e-mail isn't the ideal way to send large files, either, as e-mail programs are typically much slower than file-handling software at uploading and downloading documents. Pando is a software package that works in concert with the company's Internet file servers to let you transfer collections of files up to 1 gigabyte in size. Each recipient needs to have a copy of Pando, which is available for Mac and Windows. There's currently no cost for the software or transfers. Creating a package to send to someone involves browsing for files or dragging them into a window. Enter recipients, click Send and the files are uploaded to a Pando server, and the recipients receive a link to use within their copy of Pando to retrieve the file. (Pando uses distributed downloading, which means that your computer, any other recipient and Pando all act as repositories for anyone downloading the file you sent.) Information: pando.com/, free, still in beta testing Fission: For quick trimming, splitting and fading of popular Mac and Windows audio formats, Fission excels. But the greatest ability of this simple tool is that it can edit compressed audio formats — MP3 and AAC — without a loss of quality. Typically, if you rip music into one of those formats from a CD or create your own music or podcast and encode as MP3 or AAC, you can't edit without degrading audio quality. Most audio editors decode the compressed format, allow you to make changes, but then have to re-encode the files, which can make a high-quality audio track sound mushy. (If you started with an uncompressed format like AIFF or Apple Lossless, you can trim or cut in Fission and encode directly, avoiding loss.) Fission can be used to remove commercials from programs recorded off Internet radio (perhaps using Audio Hijack Pro from the same developers), split a long file into several smaller ones and add audio transitions. It's also a good way to create ringtones for phones that can handle MP3 and AAC formats. (It can't work with protected AAC files sold by Apple via the iTunes Store.) Information: www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/, $32, demo version purposely degrades audio quality of saved files Glenn Fleishman writes the Practical Mac column for Personal Technology and about technology in general for The Seattle Times and other publications. Send questions to email@example.com. More columns at www.seattletimes.com/columnists Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company |
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Our Faculty
Polish professor's annual trip home
Peter Przytula has guest lectured at Stanford University, the Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs in Minneapolis, Minn.
Each spring Peter Przytula takes a group of St. Cloud State University students to his native Poland. The trip includes visits to historic cities and a day at a concentration camp. Students sample restaurants, ballet, opera and take tours of media outlets.
Students often cite the recollections of Holocaust and Polish uprising survivors as the most unforgettable aspect of the trip. "I hope students will come to appreciate other cultures and learn the depth of European history. I hope they will learn a lot about how mass communications is done in a new democracy and realize they do not do things that differently from us," he said.
Przytula, an professor in the Mass Communications Department, has led the trip since 1997.


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The strong contrasting instrumental voice in the hsaing ensemble is that of the small double reed instrument called hne. For certain ceremonial compositions such as the sido gyi, a larger version of this instrument, the hne gyi is employed. The patt waing and hne frequently work together, often going into a kind of musical game of tag in which the player of the drum circle improvises a short phrase which must be imitated precisely by the hne player with the audience passing judgment throughout. Two other melody instruments, the kyi waing and the maung hsaing, fill out the ensemble, usually supporting the drum circle but often switching sides to play with the hne for purposes of contrast. The kyi waing is a high-pitched set of bronze gongs played with mallets and set in a gilded wooden circular frame similar to, but lower than that of the patt waing. The maung hsaing is a set of bronze gongs lower and more mellow in tone than those of the kyi waing. The gongs of the maung hsaing are set in a rectangular frame.
The foundation of the musical structure of hsaing music is provided by these instruments. The hcau loun patt by name means six drums but is, in fact, a set of eight drums played by a single musician. Two large double-headed drums dominate and are used to set the underlying patterns of the music. In addition, a row of six smaller drums sit in front of the player and with these he creates patterns of contrasting high pitches to offset the basic patterns played on the large drums. The bell and clapper, his and wa, each played by a different musician, provide the main beats of the music with the stroke of the bamboo or wooden clapper maintaining the synchronization of any rhythmic or melodic phrase. In addition to these instrumentalists, there is often another musician in the group who plays whatever other drums may be required to create to a particular atmosphere for a special composition. There may also be a singer with the ensemble, but frequently the bell or clapper whether accompanying the voice or playing as solo instruments.
Two other instruments not traditionally part of the hsaing ensemble may be used to accompany songs in the more intimate court singing style. These are the saung gauk, a beautiful wooden harp with silk strings, elaborately gilded with the sound-body covered with deer skin. The patala is a xylophone with bamboo keys also used to accompany the voice. Both the harp and xylophone require the addition of the bell and clapper whether accompanying the voice or playing as solo instruments.
The Burmese musical system is based on a series of seven notes arranged in a number of different patterns of strong and weak notes to provide a rich variety of modes. When the hsaing performs a purely musical concert, it usually begins by playing in the ceremonial mode Hkun Hnathan Gyi. The principal portion of the performance requires that the drums be returned for playing in the Than You mode. The hsaing may play this way until midnight at which point the drums are returned for Nga Bauk. In the early hours of the morning the musicians will begin the last portion of the performance playing in Patt Sa Bou. However, when the hsaing accompanies either dance or drama, the tunings must be changed frequently in accordance with the compositions required by the action on the stage.


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[394] The Role of Cytopathology in the Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts Greater Than 3 cm
I Chebib, K Yeager, M Mino-Kenudsen, W Brugge, MB Pitman. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background: The role of cytology in pre-operative evaluation of pancreatic cysts is controversial. Recent guidelines recommend cysts greater than 3 cm be resected without cytologic diagnosis. In this study we evaluate the usefulness of cytology in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic cysts greater than 3 cm.
Design: The study cohort consists of resected pancreatic cysts greater than 3 cm between 2003-2007. Clinical, radiologic and pathologic information was evaluated and a multimodal approach was used to pre-operatively triage cysts for resection. Cysts not needing resection required either 1) benign lesional epithelium or 2) cyst contents without an epithelial component AND no atypical features on EUS (no thick cyst wall, invasion, mural nodule or dilated main pancreatic duct) AND CEA either greater than 192 ng/ml (consistent with a neoplastic mucinous cyst) OR an elevated amylase and low CEA (consistent with a pseudocyst or serous cyst). A cyst needing resection required at least atypical cells consistent with a mucinous cyst with moderate dysplasia or malignant epithelium. Cases were considered non-diagnostic if the fluid contained no epithelial cells, no radiologic information on the cyst was available or CEA was not analyzed. Cyto-histological and statistical analysis was performed.
Results: There were 105 resections of pancreatic cysts larger than 3 cm, 69 females (average age 53.4 years) and 36 males (average age 66.5 years). Thirty-one cysts (29.5%) had prior FNA, 21 females (average age 55.0 years) and 10 males (average age 67.4 years). When compared to histology, excluding six non-diagnostic cases, there were 9 true negatives, 10 true positives, 6 false negatives and 0 false positives. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 62.5%, 100%, 100%, and 60.0% respectively. Seventy-four (70.5%) cysts did not have prior FNA, 48 females (average age 52.6) and 26 males (average age 66.1). Of these cases, 38 (51.4%) were unnecessarily resected and 36 (48.6%) had moderate dysplasia or malignancy.
Conclusions: Patient management based on pancreatic cyst size results in unnecessary surgery in half of patients with pancreatic cysts > 3cm. The combination of cytology, radiology and cyst fluid analysis appropriately triages patients for surgery with high specificity and a PPV of 100%.
Category: Cytopathology
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Before it got overshadowed by David Remnick's epic New Yorker profile of President Obama, the big news involving the White House was the President's speech on NSA surveillance on Friday, in which he addressed criticisms about the scope of the program and proposed some ideas for reform.
Reactions from journalists and experts ranged from cautious optimism, to frustrated disappointment, to a what-did-you-expect kind of resigned acceptance. Some news outlets, reporting on the speech from both sides of the reporting-versus-opinion wall, managed to hit all these notes at once.
ProPublica, a formidable force for transparency on the surveillance beat for years, preempted the speech early Friday morning with a rundown, rampant with links. The "Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance" that ProPublica's Kara Brandeisky highlighted included misleading statements the President has made about truly fundamental truths—including exactly how the NSA's surveillance works, how useful that surveilled information has been, and how Edward Snowden blew the whistle. This one is a must-read if you've missed it.
Then, during the speech on Friday morning, The Guardian and The New York Times both ran very thorough live blogs online, containing summaries, analyses, and commentary. The Times version, written by Charlie Savage and David E. Sanger, was full of direct quotes and very straightforward. The Guardian's, overseen by Spencer Ackerman, was much more colorful—setting the tone even before the speech began by linking out to Twitter pictures of protesters outside the Department of Justice and predictions from progressive blogger Marcy Wheeler.
Later, the Times also guessed at what speech responses would be from tech giants Google, Microsoft, and others, without actually getting any (in short: they're probably not happy). And Peter Baker dissected the "crucial caveat" of the second half of President's Obama's vow to "end" the bulk telephone data program "as it currently exists." The Washington Post hit the speech from several angles as well, including reporting from Scott Wilson, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller and a "plain English" version by tech writer Brian Fung.
The most helpful news analyses were those that broke down, piece by piece, the different aspects of the NSA's surveillance program, the criticisms of each, and then the White House's response to each—and in this, the Times and the Guardian continued to lead. With so many scoops and storylines having come out of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, it's often difficult to keep up with all of them, and President Obama's speech certainly didn't address them all. So the Times's clean and simple graphic was a useful tool to make sense of the mess, as was the Guardian's "six major areas of concern" post by James Ball.
On the more opinionated side of the internet, Glenn Greenwald—whose response is now so much in demand that he sometimes appears to break the laws of physics—published an appropriately scathing column in his old home The Guardian Friday afternoon (it's likely the best and fastest way for him to get his thoughts across at length until Pierre Omidyar's forthcoming news outlet launches). His headline, and its purposeful use of scare quotes, says it all: "Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public." He lambasts Obama and so many other DC leaders for responding to public criticism by making things "prettier and more politically palatable" with "reforms" that have no real effect other than calming dissent.
Greenwald certainly wasn't alone in his skepticism, though other writers' tones were slightly less acidic. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones called Obama's plan "Pretty Weak Tea." John Cassidy at The New Yorker website zeroed in on Obama's lack of specifics about the changes in NSA metadata collection and retention. If the government doesn't store the data itself, as Obama announced, who will hold it, and how will accessing it work? So many details have yet to be worked out, and that working-out will require a lot of time and effort. "The main takeaway from Obama's speech…was that the White House is seeking to toss this hot potato to Congress," wrote Cassidy. "And since Congress is hopelessly divided, it is perfectly possible that nothing very meaningful will change."
Cassidy's colleague Ryan Lizza, on the other hand, seemed to take Obama's promises of metadata-collection reform at face value, interpreting the speech as "a major policy change" and "incredible victory" for critics of the program. Fred Kaplan at Slate thought everyone should have had lower expectations to begin with, because "these reforms were always going to be about stiffening the oversight of key NSA programs—not greatly altering, much less scuttling, the programs themselves." As for the "mixed bag" of oversight that he gathered from Obama's speech, Kaplan writes in the end that it's "much better than nothing."


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Entrance Corner Student Expert 1.Tell us something about yourself. What are you doing currently? I am Uma Farooq from Sikar Rajasthan. I am studying in 1st year MBBS in Seth G.S Medical College and Kem Hospital 2.When did you start thinking about PMT? It was my childhood dream to become a doctor. I took biology after my 10th and I knew that to get into the best medical college in India, I have to clear AIPMT with a very good rank. So I started thinking about its preparation in 11th class. |
3. What was you rank and what all options you chose in various counseling rounds? I scored All India Rank 72 in AIPMT and chose Seth G.S. medical college in 1st counseling round itself 4. Why you chose Seth G.S. medical college? Is there any specific reason? I always wanted to study in Mumbai as whole of my maternal family and all live in Mumbai and I love this city. Seth G. S Medical College is one of the best college in Maharashtra and India. 5. Which books did you follow during your preparations? I followed NCERT books strictly along with coaching books. 6. Have you taken any Coaching? Do you think coaching makes an impact in cracking PMT? Yes. I had taken coaching from Allen career institute Kota. According to me, coaching is meant for guidance. They cannot spoon fed you. It is you who has to study and in the end, Its your hard work and sincerity which matters. 7. Did you follow any routine during your preparations? Yes I analyzed previous year papers and talked to some seniors and then I made a time table and studied accordingly. 8. Did you join any test series? No. I followed my coaching institutes test series only. 9. How much time in a day you spent on an average for preparations? On an average I studied 12-13 hours a day. 10 .On which subject did you give more stress and why ? My chemistry was poor so I had given more stress on chemistry. 11. What in your opinion do you think is the secret to your success? Hard Work, Sincerity, Immense faith in God and Of course my positive attitude. 12. What was your strategy just one month before the Final Exam? For me one month before exams was the time to relax and have confidence on whatever I had studied till that day and I didn't panic at all. 13. Any advice for Entrance Corner readers? What tips you want to share with them? I would like to say that you just need to be focused, determined and optimistic to clear any entrance exam and you should have full faith that you will definitely get through with flying colors |


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