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"Angkor Archeological Park, Cambodia" Top 5 Page for this destination Cambodia by muddybok
Cambodia Travel Guide: 9,229 reviews and 26,482 photos
Angkor Wat, Cambodia's greatest tourist attraction & over 100 temple ruins were once magnificent display of Khmer Empire. Most of these temples were abandoned in 15th century & gradually cloaked by dense forest.
Thanks to "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" the movie, Cambodia is now attracting much tourist & their USD.
I personally like Ta Prohm more than Angkor Wat. Possibly due to its unique jungle ruin atmosphere.
Really don't mind a backyard like that!
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Hello Bokman, Outstanding pages. Thanks for the virtual tour. Tomas Eriksson :)
Happy new year 2008! Nikos from Greece and Emmy from Thailand.
You must almost make clear that the mines were also planted by the U.S. and British Government. The reason unknown. And questions still unanswered
Hi! My name is Lara @ though I'm not as sexy as Ms Croft or Ms Jolie, I love exploring, discovering & studying new things too. These are great Cambodia tips. I will check the rest later. Take care! =)
Nice pic of the Mantis Shrimp. I use to have one as apet in a saltwater aquarium. Very entertaining to watch at feeding time.. Cheers B-out
Great cambodia pages.. Enjoyed your photos and reading your tips.. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing firsthand one day..
Thank you for the bird-day wishes :-))) ... Thank you again for the post bird-day wishes :-)))
I suppose warning on landmines has to be made but can be overdone. I fear that many of my countrymen still regard Cambodia as a war zone
lets hope so. you know i have mood in updating. :-)
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Rick Cooper opens his 17th season tonight as the West Texas A&M men's basketball coach knowing some things never change.
Buffs basketball
What: West Texas A&M at New Mexico Highlands, 8 p.m., John A. Wilson Complex Center, Las Vegas, N.M.
When: 8 tonight.
Radio: KGNC (710-AM).
Noteworthy: This is the season opener for the Buffs.
"The games are always faster than practice," Cooper said. "So these first games are always a learning experience of game speed. That's always a concern for me."
The Buffs open their 2009-10 season at 8 tonight visiting Division II the New Mexico Highlands Cowboys, a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Last year the Buffs split with Highlands losing in Las Vegas, N.M., and winning at home. Highlands won the RMAC West Division title. The Cowboys were ranked number one in the pre-season RMAC poll led by returning All-American guard Roman Andrade who averaged 20.2 points a game last year.
"Andrade can play," Cooper said. "And in this case, Highlands had the chance to learn about game speed playing exhibition games against the University of Texas-El Paso and New Mexico. That will be interesting to see how that plays out."
Cooper returns a pair of starters in senior guard Nick Burns and 6-foot-7 forward Bijan Dotson.
Burns averaged 11.2 points per game and will be counted on for a scoring punch. Dotson put on 15 pounds of muscle from a year ago when he led the Buffs in blocks with a team-high 18 while averaging 8.9 points and 5.3 rebounds.
"I like this team," Cooper said. "The work ethic they have is really good and I enjoy coaching them. They do what we ask them to do and really try hard. Those are all good signs.
"I don't know what that type of feeling means on my part and how that will equate to wins and loses. But I think it bodes well for us down the road."
HOOP SCOOP: The Buffs play next in a two-day tournament at Southwestern Oklahoma State Friday and Saturday. ... The first West Texas home game is set for Nov. 27 against the University of Texas-Permian Basin out of Odessa. ... The Buffs are scheduled to play with eight new players to their program tonight.
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Easy Salad to throw together, and another one the "french chef" liked. Goes well with almost any meal. If you want to give it some kick, add some Feta Cheese!
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- 2 cups Baby Spinach
- 1⁄4 cup crushed walnut pieces
- 1⁄2 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
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- 1 -2 whole strawberry, sliced thin
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5A volleyball tournament is talent rich with some tough first-round matchups
The Knights are led by senior outside hitter Kaitlin Verbitski and senior libero Kelly Erwin. Lehi is led by libero Cydney Lund and hitters Rylin Roberts and McKayla Houghton.
Defending 5A state champion Pleasant Grove will take on Davis, normally a top team from Region 1. But the Darts have struggled this season and enter the tournament a fourth seed. The two teams met earlier this season, with Pleasant Grove sweeping Davis.
The Vikings have been led by Brisa Winterton, Madison Wolford and Rachel Gale this season.
Third-ranked Bingham will play Cottonwood, and the Miners won the region title without losing a set. In fact, they've lost two sets in the last two months.
"The flip side to sweeping teams in three is that we haven't had a lot of fatigue," Glasker said. "So we've been able to work on stuff at practices. Our kids, for sure, understand that our region isn't indicative of what we're going to see at state."
Which is why the Miners played against teams like Lehi, Riverton and Pleasant Grove all summer.
"The great thing about this year is that whoever wants it is going to get it," she said.
The Miners are led by senior outside hitters Lexi Thompson and Tori Glasker, as well as Gracie Tuifua.
"I feel bad that three really solid teams are going to get knocked out in that first round," she said.
Region 2 champion Taylorsville also won its region title without a single loss. The Warriors face West Jordan, a matchup that favors the athletic squad.
The 5A tournament begins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday with all teams playing again later that night. The championship is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, with 4A's champion match taking place at 5 p.m.
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Absolutely. lighttpd can act as a proxy to a different web server for content that it doesn't handle locally.
A simple configuration would look like this - say you want lighttpd to send every request in
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Trintey starts things off with what turns out to be a pretty good d.p., but it takes a while to work up the energy before it's suddenly over. Only Sweet Stuff, looking for all the world like a made up fourteen-year-old, hits the ground running, moving well, not letting the camera detract her, and giving monster head.
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Neymar Transfer Twist
Premier League champion Chelsea is considering reviving its interest in Neymar less than a week after the teenage striker signed a five-year contract with Brazilian club Santos, the Telegraph reported.
Chelsea, which last week had a 23 million-pound ($35.8 million) bid rejected by Santos, has been given encouragement that a deal for the 18-year-old could still be done before the transfer window closes Aug. 31, the newspaper added.
Mascherano to Milan?
Inter Milan made a 20 million-pound bid for Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano, the Sun reported, citing Inter Sporting Director Marco Branca.
Barcelona has also tabled an offer of 12 million pounds for the Argentina captain, which is 8 million pounds short of Liverpool's valuation, the Sun said.
Mascherano was left out of the team beaten 3-0 at Manchester City three days ago and didn't travel to Turkey for today's Europa League game against Trabzonspor.
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England coach Fabio Capello wants Paul Scholes to declare publicly that he's available if he's to play in next month's Euro 2012 qualifying matches, the Independent reported.
The 35-year-old Manchester United midfielder regrets turning down the chance to return for this year's World Cup, the paper said. Scholes quit the national team six years ago.
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Wigan rejected Birmingham City's improved bid of about 9 million pounds for Charles N'Zogbia, the Guardian reported.
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Man Is Sentenced In Patient Info Thefts from Florida Hospital in Celebration
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WINTER HAVEN | A 36-year-old Winter Haven man was sentenced Monday to about a year in federal prison for his part in stealing patient information, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Dale Munroe II worked at Florida Hospital in Celebration, registering patients as they came to the main emergency entrance.
Sergei Kusyakov paid Munroe to steal information about patients involved in vehicle crashes so they could be referred to lawyers and chiropractors, records state.
The hospital discovered the data breach in August and identified more than 12,000 patients whose health information was illegally accessed, records state.
Kusyakov pleaded guilty earlier this month to federal charges and faces up to 45 years in prison. A sentencing hearing is set for March 25.
Munroe pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to obtain health information and wrongful disclosure of health information. In addition to prison, he must serve two years of supervised release.
Munroe's wife, Katrina, who worked as an insurance representative for the hospital, also has pleaded to conspiracy to obtain health information. Her sentencing hearing is set for March 11.
Dale Munroe's plea deal stated that patients whose information was stolen would receive a phone call within a couple of days to a week after their visit to the hospital.
The caller knew specifics about the motor vehicle accident and the patient's hospital treatment and would offer the patient a referral to a lawyer or chiropractor.
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Having a little trouble with this static 'inheritance' in php 5.3 I need to test if a static function exists in static class but I need to test it from inside a parent static class.
I know in php 5.3 I can use the 'static' keyword to sort of simulate 'this' keyword. I just can't find a way to test if function exists.
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// parent class
class A{
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the idea is that if subclass has a function, it will be used,
otherwise it will not be used.
I tried:
These 2 do not work.
Any ideas how to do this? By the way, I know about the possibility to passing a lambda function as a workaround, this is not an option in my situation.
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I love it here in teen misc. Bragging about "looking at titties" and stuff.
I saw Motley Crue at an outdoor Monster Fest a couple of years ago. Boring as hell. Awful.
No 1980s "Shout at the Devil" stuff; video screen images were dull; long drawn-out boring versions of...
I like cats more than I like people. Thanks for sharing!
You could look up some of the stickied full body or upper/lower workouts and do some substitutions for barbell exercises. Some ideas:
Chest: Dumbbell bench- flat and incline; flyes
Legs: goblet...
I don't see a double chin in your avi.
The stickies say that carbs are non-essential and to use them as you like to fill in after protein and fats are met. I think you may have read that carbs are 4 calories per gram and got it mixed up....
Those who want to do more should do so, then.
If some think they are hitting all-out intensity for 30 minutes of 20/10 intervals, then good for them.
I do cycle of 20/10 Tabata intervals for 8-10 rounds, or 4-5 minutes. I go all out, and will do either a heavy bag or a sledgehammer swing on a tire. I read the official site too and follow that.
Ironic tone of the thread has rapidly changed.
Has she asked for your help?
Congrats on your selection.
Check the "contest prep" section...they will probably be more helpful. Check out Layne Norton's "Peak Week" thread sticky.
They're dumbbells. I assume he means a 66 lb DB in each hand.
No, I have no boxing skills. I just blast on it when I do HIIT. Other times I'll do more structured combinations for regular cardio, but I still can't box. It's just cardio for me.
You know it, bro! Love the sludgy stoner metal stuff. Reminds me of old Sabbath.
If you just want to do it for cardio (more than actually becoming skilled at different striking combinations, footwork, etc), try a Tabata style HIIT protocol. Twenty seconds on of all-out "punchout"...
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Tuesday, August 5 2008
The Bombing of Bonneville
Bonneville is firmly committed to the "Female Gaze" in an industry where everything is geared towards only what men want to see.
Monday, August 4 2008
Better You Be a Team Player
Sports, as emphasized in films such as Eight Men Out and The Untouchables, are a helpful way of organizing and enforcing our daily behaviors.
Monday, July 28 2008
Rebel Rebel
The time is ripe for revisiting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as we're all aware that individual freedoms are still being suppressed by governments around the world.
Thursday, July 17 2008
American Film Theatre
In what might be called the curse of Chekhov, the common setting is a living room, the common characters a family, and the common dynamic a stew of bitter backbiting and recrimination that ultimately gives the lie to Tolstoy, because here each unhappy family seems perfectly alike.
Sunday, July 13 2008
Michelle Pfeiffer as Pfeminist
I Could Never Be Your Woman is the lone feminist antidote in a sea of venomous, misogynist, adolescent male comedies that people turn out for en masse.
Sunday, June 29 2008
Love on the Rocks
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'s dark, witty banter and assessment of human malice made my brain tick and also made me glad I wasn't married.
Sunday, June 22 2008
Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters
A closet full of monsters is a scary place where "straight people" can safely negotiate and articulate their fascination and/or dread of "difference" in sexual preferences.
Thursday, June 12 2008
The Incredible Hulk: Madly in Anger with You
With The Incredible Hulk ripping through movie screens in mind, Williams hunkers down on the couch with two silly, strangely stirring seasons of the TV show.
Monday, June 9 2008
Old Time Religion
In the span of 90 amazing minutes, The Green Pastures performs a feat untold in most religious cinema: it actually explains and illustrates faith.
Monday, May 19 2008
Living the Dream: The Life Before Her Eyes
Kaisischke's grotesque images of the natural world remind me of Sylvia Plath. She is a master of highlighting the splendor and tragedy working side-by-side in everyday life.
Monday, May 12 2008
The Demise of Horror Culture?
While the horror classics of 1968 may have indeed revitalized the genre, few today are aware of these movies' impact on the canon...if they acknowledge them at all.
Thursday, May 8 2008
Godzilla: The Biggest Blockbuster
This summer's blockbusters got nothin' over the biggest, beastiest blockbuster of all...
Tuesday, May 6 2008
Cultural Meanings in America Make Benefit Glorious Bank Accounts of Creationists
Is Ben Stein taking a page from Michael Moore? No, from Borat is more like it.
Thursday, April 24 2008
Rod Serling and His Evil Art
Serling began his career as one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. But it only took one trip to a particularly troubled 'gallery' to undermine his importance and influence within the entertainment industry.
Sunday, April 20 2008
Love in the Time of Record Shops
Technology may have changed the way we obtain music, but as Nick Hornby's High Fidelity reminds us, it can never alter our love affair with the medium.
Monday, April 14 2008
A Terrifying Ruby Jubilee
As a pivotal year of social change and as a cultural stepping stone, 1968 saw the radicalization of American society, and an accompanying revolution in the realm of horror genre filmmaking.
Wednesday, April 2 2008
Five from Beyond the Fringe
In the following five examples of fringe films, we have movies so amazing, originality so outstanding, that the entire cinematic situation offered defies comprehension.
Sunday, March 23 2008
The Escape Artist
The desire to escape that lives in each of us, and the consequences of acting on that desire, is what makes us care for Chris McCandless (Into the Wild), and what makes his short life such a compelling story.
Tuesday, March 4 2008
Standing by Stephen King
Childhood and the end of innocence are vividly portrayed in Stephen King's novella The Body, and Rob Reiner's excellent interpretation, Stand by Me.
Monday, March 3 2008
Sex, Conservative Style
Love, American Style's debut was at the very instance when everything censors and prudes had worried over seemed to bubble and blister just beneath the social surface.


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Education, Crisis, and Whether We Love the World Enough
By Laurie E. Naranch
"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable."
-- Hannah Arendt, "The Crisis in Education" 1954
Education in the United States is generally seen to be in crisis. At the secondary school level, we frequently hear how our scores in math and science lag behind other nations. Here we see that social class is a greater predictive factor of graduation than are other factors given the ways public education is funded through local property taxes and state-level funding. These economic disparities correlate all too often to the locations of racial and ethnic minorities. Teachers in public schools are closely scrutinized as test scores are used to determine their worth; common narratives frame teachers who resist as if they don't care about good teaching and learning accountability.
Amor Mundi 3/1/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Amy Ireland is thinking about a genocide at the level of "genus-cide," the eradication of humanity itself. The threat is not weaponry but technology. And the exemplary precursor is the horse: "In the United States--where competition with the automobile was at its most intense--there were about 26 million horses in 1915. By the 1950s only 2 million remained." The question Ireland asks is whether humans are going the way of horses to be replaced by more efficient machines. Will artificially intelligent machines consume humans' fuel? "Far from being actively malevolent, an artificially intelligent agent endowed with enough power only needs to be indifferent to become a murderer. What are we, after all, but fuel? Atoms that can be freely disassembled and reassembled into something else - a thousand paperclip factories, for instance, or a massive supercomputer, capable of mathematical calculations we can't even begin to imagine in our current state of technological paucity. Even the clearly delimited goal of creating exactly one million paperclips can warrant the wasting of an entire planet, for a fully rational AI would never assign zero probability to the hypothesis that it has not yet achieved its goal.... There is something satisfying about imagining a malevolent artificial intelligence that actively wants to destroy us because it fears us, loathes us, or at least finds our existence frustrating and inconvenient. But the notion that something will destroy us out of sheer indifference is much harder to swallow because it forces us to consider the possibility of our utter insignificance. Bostrom surmises with all the level-headedness of a pure statistician that the odds against humanity's survival are overwhelmingly high. The default outcome of our construction of a single strong artificial intelligence is, quite plainly, extinction. His intention, naturally, is to raise awareness of the risks that lie behind this seemingly anodyne technological innovation and encourage governments, corporations or other entities that may one day attempt to build strong AI to implement rigorously tested control measures before letting the thing out of the box. All this is well and good, but it rests upon a deeper anthropomorphic supposition. What if the most radical gesture a flailing humanity can make at this juncture is not to increase its investment in security and control, but to pass it on? What if we are entangled in a larger evolutionary process that we never had control over in the first place? The real question then, might not be how to survive the construction of strong artificial intelligence but whether or not the survival of the human race is a good thing after all." Ireland is right to pose the question of "genus-cide," although her tone is a bit blithe. The threat is not the eradication of human beings but, as Arendt writes in The Human Condition, the loss of the human condition, those characteristics of being human like labor, work, action, and (sometimes) thinking. As Arendt writes, "This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself. There is no reason to doubt our abilities to accomplish such an exchange."
Karl Ove Knausgaard was commissioned to travel from Sweden to the Viking's first settlement in Newfoundland and then drive across the United States in order to reflect on the state of America. In part one of his two-part "Saga," Knausgaard offers this insight into a specifically American form of poverty, the poverty of imagination and the abandonment of distinction: "I'd seen poverty before, of course, even incomprehensible poverty, as in the slums outside Maputo, in Mozambique. But I'd never seen anything like this. If what I had seen tonight--house after house after house abandoned, deserted, decaying as if there had been disaster--if this was poverty, then it must be a new kind poverty, maybe in the same way that the wealth that had amassed here in the 20th century had been a new kind of wealth. I had never really understood how a nation that so celebrated the individual could obliterate all differences the way this country did. In a system of mass production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical restaurants, identical motels and, as an extension of these, by identical TV screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical entertainment and identical dreams. Not even the Soviet Union at the height of its power had succeeded in creating such a unified, collective identity as the one Americans lived their lives within. When times got rough, a person could abandon one town in favor of another, and that new town would still represent the same thing. Was that what home was here? Not the place, not the local, but the culture, the general?"
Peter Railton gave the John Dewey Lecture at the American Philosophical Association Meeting this year, where amidst reflections on philosophical thinking, personal courage, and political activism, he offered a guileless and moving account of his personal struggle with depression. "And what of depression? Perhaps we all know the mask of depression, that frozen, affectless face we catch glimpses of on our students, colleagues, and friends. I can't do anything about that. But perhaps I can do something about the face of depression--its visible image in the minds of our children and parents, teachers and students. Because in truth, we are still to a considerable degree still in a world of 'Don't ask, don't tell' with regard to depression and associated mental disorders, such as anxiety, even though these will severely affect one in ten of us over the course of a lifetime, and often at more than one point in a lifetime. So there's nothing for it. Those whose have dwelt in the depths depression need to come out as well. Some already have, but far too few adult men (big surprise!), and especially far too few of the adult men who somehow have come to bear the stamp of respectability and recognition, and thus are visible to hundreds of students and colleagues. It's no big deal, right? We're all enlightened about this. Then why do the words stick in my throat when I tell you that another theme uniting the three episodes I have recounted from my life, and that has played an equally important role in shaping my philosophy, is that they were all accompanied by my depression. This moody high school student, this struggling protester, this anxious young faculty member--they were all me and they were all living through major depressive episodes at the time. And there have been other such episodes, some more recent. Thankfully, for me and especially for my family who have been through so much already, not right now. Did others know? I don't know. Some must have guessed--perhaps those who themselves had known depression in their lives could see the mask of depression upon my face. But the thing is: I couldn't say it. I couldn't say, 'Look, I'm dying inside. I need help.' Because that's what depression is--it isn't sadness or moodiness, it is above all a logic that undermines from within, that brings to bear all the mind's mighty resources in convincing you that you're worthless, incapable, unloveable, and everyone would be better off without you. Not a steely-eyed, careful critique from which one might learn, but an incessant bludgeoning that exaggerates past errors while ignoring new information, eroding even the ability to form memories. A young man once had the courage to tell me, 'My brain is telling me to kill myself, but my body is saying "no."' Happily, his body won. But it doesn't always. Every year, thousands of young men don't win the battle. We are captive audiences to our own minds, and it can become intolerable." Depression, Railton suggests, is still in the closet, and this causes untold pain at colleges, where, as a recent study shows, the mental health of college Freshmen is at an all-time low--something that will not surprise any of us who teach in this nation's colleges and universities.
In Railton's speech on depression discussed above, he also has this tidbit on meetings: "Oscar Wilde is still right--because the cost of building a society where the people have more say in how their lives are run is still many, many meetings. What is a meeting, after all, but people deliberating together with a capacity to act as a group that is more than just a sum of individual actions, and this sort of informed joint action is a precondition for significant social change. Come together, decide together, act together, and bear the consequences together. We must own our institutions or they will surely own us. As Aristotle told us, one becomes a citizen not by belonging to a polity or having a vote, but by shouldering the tasks of joint deliberation and civic governance. And there is no civic or faculty governance, no oversight of discrimination in hiring and promotion, no regulation of pollutants, no organization of faculty or students to initiate curricular reform, no mobilization by professional associations to protect their most vulnerable members or to promote greater diversity, no increased humaneness in the treatment of animals and human subjects, no chance to offset arbitrariness and bullying within offices and departments, no oversight of progress and revision of plans in response to changing circumstances, without actual people who care spending long hours in the work of planning, meeting, and making things happens. The alternative is for all these decisions to be made at the discretion of those on high--or not at all." At a moment when faith and participation in all institutions is rare and the pursuit of individual pursuits comparatively common, Railton's reminder of what Arendt calls the power of talking and acting together is worth heeding.
David Cole writes that the Senate Torture Report, when read in full, leads to fundamentally different conclusions than most of the headlines and early accounts suggest. Above all, the report blaming the CIA for lying may have missed the real story: "The full story is more complicated, and ultimately much more disturbing, than the initial responses--mine included--suggested. And because these documents may be the closest we come to some form of accountability, it is essential that we get the lessons right.... So why did the committee focus on efficacy and misrepresentation, rather than on the program's fundamental illegality? Possibly because that meant it could cast the C.I.A. as solely responsible, a rogue agency. A focus on legality would have rightly held C.I.A. officials responsible for failing to say no--but it also would have implicated many more officials who were just as guilty, if not more so. Lawyers at the Justice Department wrote a series of highly implausible legal memos from 2002 to 2007, opining that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in coffinlike boxes, painful stress positions and slamming people into walls were not torture; were not cruel, inhuman or degrading; and did not violate the Geneva Conventions. The same can be said for President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and all the cabinet-level officials responsible for national security, each of whom signed off on a program that was patently illegal. The reality is, no one in a position of authority said no. This may well explain the committee's focus on the C.I.A. and its alleged misrepresentations. The inquiry began as a bipartisan effort, and there is no way that the Republican members would have agreed to an investigation that might have found fault with the entire leadership of the Bush administration. But while the committee's framing may be understandable as a political matter, it was a mistake as a matter of historical accuracy and of moral principle. The report is, to date, the closest thing to official accountability that we have. But by focusing on whether the program worked and whether the C.I.A. lied, the report was critically misleading. Responsibility for the program lies not with the C.I.A. alone, but also with everyone else, up to the highest levels of the White House, who said yes when law and morality plainly required them to say no."
The Little Voice Inside Your Head
Adam Phillips worries about what's inside us: "We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called selves. Nothing makes us more critical--more suspicious or appalled or even mildly amused--than the suggestion that we should drop all this relentless criticism, that we should be less impressed by it and start really loving ourselves. But the self-critical part of ourselves, the part that Freud calls the super-ego, has some striking deficiencies: it is remarkably narrow-minded; it has an unusually impoverished vocabulary; and it is, like all propagandists, relentlessly repetitive. It is cruelly intimidating--Lacan writes of 'the obscene super-ego'--and it never brings us any news about ourselves. There are only ever two or three things we endlessly accuse ourselves of, and they are all too familiar; a stuck record, as we say, but in both senses--the super-ego is reiterative. It is the stuck record of the past ('something there badly not wrong', Beckett's line from Worstward Ho, is exactly what it must not say) and it insists on diminishing us. It is, in short, unimaginative; both about morality, and about ourselves. Were we to meet this figure socially, this accusatory character, this internal critic, this unrelenting fault-finder, we would think there was something wrong with him. He would just be boring and cruel. We might think that something terrible had happened to him, that he was living in the aftermath, in the fallout, of some catastrophe. And we would be right." In other words, critical thinking is essential, but let's also recall that it is dangerous. All thinking is an attack on the status quo and the common world in which we live. That is what Arendt means when she wrote, "There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous." That doesn't mean we should stop thinking critically, but it does mean that thinking requires knowing when thinking is, and when it is not, needed. That is the moment of judgment.
Novelist Gary Shteyngart spent a week watching Russian television and living like a Russian oligarch: "Here is the question I'm trying to answer: What will happen to me--an Americanized Russian-speaking novelist who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child--if I let myself float into the television-filtered head space of my former countrymen? Will I learn to love Putin as 85 percent of Russians profess to do? Will I dash to the Russian consulate on East 91st Street and ask for my citizenship back? Will I leave New York behind and move to Crimea, which, as of this year, Putin's troops have reoccupied, claiming it has belonged to Russia practically since the days of the Old Testament? Or will I simply go insane? A friend of mine in St. Petersburg, a man in his 30s who, like many his age, avoids state-controlled TV and goes straight to alternative news sources on the Internet, warns me in an email: 'Your task may prove harmful to your psyche and your health in general. Russian TV, especially the news, is a biohazard.' I'll be fine, I think. Russians have survived far worse than this. But, just in case, I have packed a full complement of anti-anxiety, sleep and pain medication."
Andy Greenwald considers what made the recently concluded sitcom Parks and Recreation successful and what it's legacy might be: "Art doesn't always have to be a dark mirror reflecting reality. It can and should also be a window, thrown open to let in every last bit of possible light. Parks and Recreation never quite resembled the real America. But every episode was imbued with the idea that maybe it could, if only we, the people, cared a little more and tried a little harder. The Wire, the greatest drama of the young 21st century, left us with a tough legacy to reckon with. Parks and Rec, the best comedy of that same century, gifted us with a beautiful model to which we can collectively aspire. I doubt the future will be as bleak as David Simon's vision for it or as rosy as Mike Schur's. The joy of being a TV fan is that we get to consider both. That's not a cop-out, by the way. That's a compromise, and one that even President Leslie Knope could accept. After all, Parks was built on the bedrock belief that opposing ideas could not only have merit, they could coexist. Like the show itself, it's an idea that sounds simple but in practice is anything but."
Lunchtime Talk with Ari-Elmeri Hyvonen, a Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Fellow
"Arendt's Critique of Modern Society as an Analysis of Process Imaginary"
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 1:00 pm
Now Accepting Applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowships!
The Hannah Arendt Center announces three post-doctoral fellowships for the 2015-2016 academic year.
To learn more about the fellowships, including how to apply, click here.
Application Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2015
HAC Virtual Reading Group - Session #5
HAC members at all levels are eligible to participate in a monthly reading group led online via a telecommunication website by Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
For questions and to enroll in our virtual reading group, please email David Bisson, our Media Coordinator, at email@example.com.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Bluejeans.com, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk with Angela Maione, our Klemens Von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellow
"Figuring Rights: Wollstonecraft and the Right to Political Community
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Weis Cinema, Campus Center, 6:30 pm
Courage To Be: Lecture and Dinner Series, with Uday Mehta
Putting Courage at the Centre: Gandhi on Civility, Society and Self-Knowledge
Invite Only. RSVP Required.
Property and Freedom: Are Access to Legal Title and Assets the Path to Overcoming Poverty in South Africa?
A one-day conference sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, the Human Rights Project, and the Center for Civic Engagement, with support from the Ford Foundation, The Brenthurst Foundation, and The University of The Western Cape
Monday, April 6, 2015
Bard College Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Courage To Be: Lecture and Dinner Series, with Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism
Invite Only. RSVP Required.
Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center's eighth annual fall conference, "Privacy: Why Does It Matter?," will be held this year on Thursday and Friday, October 15-16, 2015! We'll see you there!
This week on the Blog, Johannes Lang explores the moral and political consequences of emotion entering into the public sphere in the Quote of the Week. American moral and social philosopher Eric Hoffer provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking. In a special feature, we recognize Aliza Becker, one of her Associate Fellows, and her creation of the American Jewish Peace Archive: An Oral History of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Activists (AJPA). And we appreciate Arendt's engagement with Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in our Library feature.
This coming Friday, March 6th, the Hannah Arendt Center will host the fifth session of its Virtual Reading Group. We will be discussing Chapters 10-13 of The Human Condition.
The reading group is available to all members and is always welcoming new participants! Please click here to learn more!
The "E" Word, Part Two
This Weekend Read is Part Two in "The "E" Word," a continuing series on "elitism" in the United States educational system. Read Part One here.
Peter Thiel has made headlines offering fellowships to college students who drop out to start a business. One of those Thiel fellows is Dale Stephens, founder of Uncollege. Uncollege advertises itself as radical. At the top of their website, Uncollege cites a line from the movie "Good Will Hunting":
You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
The Uncollege website is filled with one-liners extolling life without college. It can be and often is sophomoric. And yet, there is something deeply important about what Uncollege is saying. And its message is resonating. Uncollege has been getting quite a bit of attention lately, part of a culture of obsession with college dropouts that is increasingly skeptical of the value of college.
At its best, Uncollege does not simply dismiss college as an overpriced institution seeking to preserve worthless knowledge. Rather, Uncollege claims that college has become too anti-intellectual. College, as Uncollege sees it, has become conventional, bureaucratic, and not really dedicated to learning. In short, Uncollege criticizes college for not being enough like college should be. Hardly radical, Uncollege trades rather in revolutionary rhetoric in the sense that Hannah Arendt means the word revolution: a return to basic values. In this case, Uncollege is of course right that colleges have lost their way.
Or that is what I find interesting about Uncollege.
To actually read their website and the recent Uncollege Manifesto by Dale Stephens, is to encounter something different. The first proposition Uncollege highlights has little to do with education and everything to do with economics. It is the decreasing value of a college education.
The argument that college has ever less value will seem counter intuitive to those captivated by all the paeans to the value of college and increased earning potential of college graduates. But Uncollege certainly has a point. Currently about 30% of the U.S. adult population has a degree. But among 20-24 year olds, nearly 40% have a college degree. And The Obama administration aims to raise that number to 60% by 2020. Uncollege calls this Academic Inflation. As more and more people have a college degree, the value of that degree will decrease. It is already the case that many good jobs require a Masters or a Ph.D. In short, the monetary value of the college degree is diminished and diminishing. This gives us a hint of where Uncollege is coming from.
The Uncollege response to the mainstreaming of college goes by a number of names. At times it is called unschooling. Unschooling is actually a movement began by the legendary educator John Holt. I recall reading John Holt's How Children Learn while I was in High School—a teacher gave it to me. I was captivated by Holt's claim that school can destroy the innate curiosity of children. I actually wrote my college application essay on Holt's educational philosophy and announced to my future college that my motto was Mark Twain's quip, "I never let school interfere with my education"—which is also a quotation prominently featured in the Uncollege Manifesto.
Unschooling—as opposed to Uncollege—calls for students to make the most of their courses, coupling those courses with independent studies, reading groups, and internships. I regularly advise my students to take fewer not more courses. I tell them to pick one course each semester that most interests them and pursue it intently. Ask the professor for extra reading. Do extra writing. Organize discussion groups about the class with other students. Go to the professor's office hours weekly and talk about the ideas of the course. Learners must become drivers of their education, not passive consumers. Students should take their pursuit of knowledge out of the classroom, into the dining halls, and into their dorms.
Uncollege ads that unschooling or "hacking your education" can be done outside of schools and universities. With Google, public libraries, and free courses from Stanford, MIT and Harvard professors proliferating on the web, an enterprising student of any age can compose an educational path today that is more rigorous than anything offered "off-the-shelf" at a college or university. I have no problem with online courses. I hope to take a few. But it is a mistake to think that systems of massive information delivery are the same thing as education.
What Uncollege offers is something more and something less wholesome than simply a call for educational seriousness. It packages that call with the message that college has become boring, conventional, expensive, and unnecessary. In the Uncollege world, only suckers pay for college. The Uncollege Manifesto promotes "Standing out from the other 6.7 billion"; it derides traditional paths pointing out that "5,000 janitors in the United States have Ph.Ds."; and cautions, "If you are content with life and education you should probably stop reading… You shall fit in just fine with society and no one will ever require you to be different. Conforming to societal standards is the easy and expected path. You are not alone!"
At the core of the Uncollege message is that dirty and yet all-so-powerful little word again: "elitism." Later in the Uncollege Manifesto we are told that young people have a choice between "real accomplishments" and the "easy path to mediocrity":
To succeed without a college degree you will have to build your competency and reputation through real world accomplishments. I am warning now: this is not going to be easy. If you want to take the easy path to mediocrity, I encourage you to go to college and join the masses. If you want to stand out from the crowd and change the world, Uncollege is for you!
At one point, the Uncollege Manifesto lauds NPR's "This I Believe" series and commends these short 500 word essays on personal credos. But Uncollege adds a twist: instead of writing what one believes, it advises its devotees to write an essay answering the question: "What do you believe about the world that most others reject?" It is not enough simply to believe in something. You must believe in something that sets you apart and makes you different.
Uncollege is at least suggesting that it might be cool to want, as it has not been for 50 years, to aim for excellence and to yearn to be different. In short, Uncollege is calling up students at elite institutions to boldly grab the ring of elitism and actively seek to stand outside and above the norm. And it is saying that education is no longer elite, but conventional.
It is hard not to see this embrace of elitism as refreshing although no doubt many will scream the "e" word. I have often lectured to students at elite institutions and confronted them with their fear of elitism. They or someone spends upwards of $200,000 on an education not to mention four years of their lives, and then they reject the entire premise of elitism: that they are different or special. By refusing to see themselves as members of an elite, these students too often refuse to accept the responsibility of elites, to mold and preserve societal values and to assume leadership roles in society.
Leading takes courage. In Arendtian terms, it requires living a public life where one takes risks, acts in surprising ways, and subjects oneself to public judgment. Leading can be uncomfortable and dangerous, and it is often more comfortable and fun to pursue one's private economic, familial, and personal dreams. Our elite colleges have become too much about preparing students for private success rather than launching young people into lives of public engagement. And part of that failure is a result of a retreat from elitism and a false humility that includes an easy embrace of equality.
That Uncollege is selling its message of excellence and elitism to students at elite institutions of higher learning is simply one sign of how mainstream and conformist many of these elite institutions have become. But what is it that Uncollege offers these elite students who drop out and join Uncollege?
According to its website, Uncollege is selling "hackademic camps" and a "gap year program" that are designed to teach young people how to create their own learning plans. The programs come with living abroad programs and internships. Interestingly, these are all programs offered by most major universities and colleges. The difference is money and time. For $10,000 in just one year, you get access to mentors and pushed to write op-eds, and the "opportunity to work at hot Silicon Valley startups, some of them paid positions." In the gap year program, participants will also "build your personal brand. Speak at a conference, Write an op-ed for a major news outlet. Build a personal website."
None of this sounds radical, intellectual, or all-that elitist. On the contrary, it claims that young people have little to learn from educators. Teachers are unimportant, to be replaced by mentors in the world. The claim is that young people lack nothing but information and access in order to compete in the world.
What Uncollege preaches often has little to do with elitism or intellectual growth. It is a deeply practical product being sold as an alternative to the cost of college. In one year and for one-twentieth of what a four-year elite college education costs, a young person can get launched into the practical world of knowledge workers, hooked up with mentors, and set into the world of business, technology, and media. It is a vocational training program for wannabe elites, training people to leap into the creative and technology fields and compete with recent college graduates but without the four years of studying the classics, the debt, and the degree. The elitism that Uncollege is selling is an entrepreneurial elitism measurable by money. By appealing to young students' sense of superiority, ambition, and risk-taking, Uncollege stands a real chance of attracting ambitious young people more interested in a good job and a hot career than in reading the classics or studying abstract math.
Let's stipulate this is a good thing. Not everybody should be going to liberal arts colleges. People unmoved by Nietzsche, Einstein, or Titian who are then forced to sit through lectures, cram for exams, and pull all-nighters writing papers cribbed from the internet are wasting their time and money on an elite liberal arts education. What is more, they bring cynicism into an environment that should be fired by idealism and electrified by passion. For those who truly believe that it is important in the world to have people who are enraptured by Sebald and transformed by Arendt, it is deeply important that the liberal arts college remain a bastion apart, a place where youthful exuberance for the beautiful and the true can shine clearly.
We should remember, as well, that reading great books and studying Stravinsky is not an activity limited to the academy. We should welcome a movement like Uncollege that frees people from unwanted courses but nevertheless encourages them to pursue their education on their own. Yes, many of these self-educated strivers will acquire idiosyncratic readings of Heidegger or strange views about patriotism. But even when different, opinions are the essence of a human political system.
One question we desperately need to ask is whether having a self-chosen minority of people trained in the liberal arts is important in modern society. I teach in an avowedly liberal arts institution precisely because I fervently believe that such ideas matter and that having a class of intellectuals whose minds are fired by ideas is essential to any society, especially a democracy.
I sincerely hope that the liberal arts and the humanities persist. As I have written,
The humanities are that space in the university system where power does not have the last word, where truth and beauty as well as insight and eccentricity reign supreme and where young people come into contact with the great traditions, writing, and thinking that have made us whom we are today. The humanities introduce us to our ancestors and our forebears and acculturate students into their common heritage. It is in the humanities that we learn to judge the good from the bad and thus where we first encounter the basic moral facility for making judgments. It is because the humanities teach taste and judgment that they are absolutely essential to politics. It is even likely that the decline of politics today is profoundly connected to the corruption of the humanities.
Our problem, today, is that college is caught between incompatible demands, to spark imaginations and idealism and to prepare young people for employment and success. For a long while now colleges have been doing neither of these things well. Currently, the political pressure on colleges is to cut costs and become more efficient. The unspoken assumption is that colleges must more cheaply and more quickly prepare students for employment. For those of us who care about college as an intellectual endeavor, we should welcome new alternatives to college like internet courses, vocational education, and Uncollege that will pull away young people for whom college would have been the wrong choice. Maybe, under the pressure of Uncollege, colleges will return to their core mission of passionately educating young people and preparing them for lives of civic engagement.
I encourage you this weekend to read the Uncollege Manifesto. Let me know what you think.
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From today's NY Times: Bringing Kids to enjoy summer Math a Bard.
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(RICHMOND, VA) -- Virginians who engage in certain sexual activities will remain at risk of going to jail and losing their voting rights after a Senate panel's refusal Wednesday to change the state's ``crimes against nature'' law.
The Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 9-5 to defeat the changes, which made it through the House of Delegates this year for the first time in history.
The 200-year-old law makes it a felony for consenting adults -- even married couples -- to engage in oral sex or sodomy. Several other states have repealed similar laws.
Del. L. Karen Darner, D-Arlington, has proposed repealing the law for eight years, arguing that the state cannot police citizens' bedrooms and that the law fails to reflect the reality of modern life in Virginia.
This year, under a new Republican majority, Darner changed her tactic. She proposed instead to reduce the crime to a class 4 misdemeanor -- lowering the maximum fine from $2,500 to $250, eliminating the possibility of a jail sentence, and allowing those convicted to retain their voting rights.
This was enough to win the support of the House Courts of Justice Committee, which previously had defeated the bill with a few smirks and no debate every year. The full House approved the bill 50-49 last week.
The bill's demise marks the Senate's first response to a package of controversial measures sponsored by Democrats that were approved by the Republican-controlled House earlier this month.
The Senate has yet to render a verdict on a proposal to extend from three weeks to three years the amount of time death-row inmates have to present new evidence of their innocence to the courts. Also pending are proposals to make it easier for ex-felons to regain their voting rights.
Speaking in favor of changing the ``crimes against nature'' bill Wednesday -- and also at previous hearings -- was 23-year-old Loree Erickson of Richmond, who has used a wheelchair since she was 5. Because of her disability, she told the committee, the only way she can experience intimacy is through committing a felony.
``It's now considered a felony for me to express intimacy with the person I love the only way I can,'' Erickson told the committee. After the vote, she added: ``I think it's ridiculous to criminalize the way someone expresses intimacy with another person.''
The crime is rarely prosecuted, but opponents argue that the law has been used to selectively target gay men or to cast doubt on a woman's fitness to retain custody of her children.
Speaking against the bill was The Family Foundation and the Virginia Assembly of Independent Baptists.
``This is a time for strengthening the moral fiber of the commonwealth,'' said Jack Knapp, executive director of the Baptist group. ``Reducing the penalty won't do that.''
The local members of the committee -- Republican Sens. J. Randy Forbes and Frederick M. Quayle of Chesapeake; D. Nick Rerras of Norfolk; and Kenneth W. Stolle of Virginia Beach -- opposed the changes.
Darner pledged to try again next year.
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A trip between star systems could easily use up 500 units. How can I increase the maximum fuel capacity?
I don't think you can...but you can salvage fuel by scanning ship remains.
There is no way to increase the Normandy's fuel reserves in ME3. However if you travel around the map you might get a light ping when you hit a certain area (similar noise to when you approach a planet). Actively pinging in close proximity to this hidden planet will reveal a destroyed fuel depot which will give you a one time fuel refill of X amount of fuel. There's usually one in each system. However revisiting this destroyed depot will not refuel you.
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Putin Spokesman Rebuffs Gorbachev Call for Premier to Quit Power
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman dismissed a call by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for Putin to pull out of March presidential elections.
"The former leader of a vast nation, who presided over its collapse, is calling on a person to step down who managed to save Russia from the same fate," Dmitry Peskov told state television Rossiya late yesterday.
Gorbachev, 80, on Dec. 24 said Putin, 59, had been in power for too long after two terms as president and one as prime minister. "There shouldn't be a monopoly of power, we don't need any czars," he told Ekho Moskvy radio.
Putin announced in September that he would seek to return to the Kremlin in March 4 presidential elections, pushing aside his protégé, President Dmitry Medvedev. He is confronting the biggest demonstrations of his 12 years in power over alleged election fraud in Dec. 4 parliamentary polls.
At least 30,000 people thronged Sakharov Prospect, a wide avenue in Moscow named after Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, on Dec. 24, police said. The event organizers said as many as 120,000 people attended the rally, with protests also held in other cities. On Dec. 10, tens of thousands of Russians rallied across the country, including at least 25,000 in Moscow, according to police.
Medvedev, 46, replaced Putin in the Kremlin for four years because of a constitutional ban on three consecutive terms. Two more six-year terms would give Putin 24 years at the helm, making him the longest-serving leader since Josef Stalin.
Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for helping to bring an end to the Cold War as president of the Soviet Union. The former Soviet Communist Party general secretary, who introduced a policy of "glasnost," or openness, has criticized Putin for clamping down on media freedoms and political opposition.
Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, a period later characterized as an era of stagnation that paved the way for economic collapse in 1991, was a "huge plus" for the country, Peskov said in October.


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I come from Alderaan yes THE Alderaan that was destroyed because our illustrious Princess sacrificed her home planet MY home planet for her band of rebels. She chose her side and now Im choosing mine. As soon as I get off this transport heading to Corellia Im going to make her pay. Her and her rebel friends are going pay in FULL for the lose of Alderaan oh gods they will PAY!
My name is Jek Sporkwind and I wish to join the Imperial Military in the quest to vanquish this blight upon humanity
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Douglas W. "Tiny" Jones, 61, of Amarillo, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2001.
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Mr. Jones graduated from Palo Duro High School in 1959. He was a lifelong resident of Amarillo. He worked for A.B. Fincher as an auto parts salesman.
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Bernanke Reviews Fed Communications Amid Backlash on Purchases
Federal Reserve officials are undertaking their broadest review of public communications in three years while confronting backlash from some politicians and foreign governments over a $600 billion monetary stimulus.
Central bankers are weighing whether Chairman Ben S. Bernanke should hold regular press conferences and where to draw the line between confidential policy discussions and officials' public comments, the Fed said yesterday in minutes of its Nov. 2-3 meeting and an Oct. 15 videoconference held by governors and regional presidents.
Holding press conferences and setting clearer limits on officials' remarks may let Bernanke better communicate his message on the benefits of a record Fed balance sheet, said Drew Matus, a former New York Fed staffer. Yields on 10-year Treasuries have risen since the decision, and the political assault on the Fed has prompted some economists to speculate that it may be reluctant to complete or expand the purchases.
"More communication is better from the chairman," said Matus, senior economist at UBS Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut. "Whenever the chairman steps back, the void is filled" by other officials who may confuse investors, Matus said. "If they do this right, there will be less of this confusion generated."
The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting showed that a minority of Fed governors and presidents were skeptical of the additional Treasury purchases, saying they may have a "limited" effect on the recovery, risk "unwanted" weakness in the dollar and risk a surge of inflation. Most policy makers favored the move, betting it would reduce interest rates and boost asset prices, aiding growth and employment.
Unemployment Forecasts
Fed officials also raised their unemployment projections for the next two years while lowering their 2011 growth outlooks. Some policy makers increased their long-run jobless- rate projection, signaling they see some further permanent effects from the recession on U.S. unemployment. The median range rose to 5 percent to 6 percent from 5 percent to 5.3 percent.
U.S. stocks remained lower after the report, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling 1.4 percent to 1,180.73 at the 4 p.m. close of trading in New York after fighting broke out between North and South Korea and amid concern the European debt crisis would slow global growth. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 2.78 percent.
Inflation Target
The last broad review of communications in 2006-07 focused on how to give the public more information on policy objectives. Before that, Bernanke and some other officials advocated adopting a numerical inflation target, and others, including former Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, said they were more skeptical. Ultimately the Fed decided to double the frequency of published economic forecasts to four times a year and add a third year to its projections.
During the Oct. 15 videoconference, Fed officials discussed whether to adopt a numerical inflation or price-level objective and decided to retain the policy of giving policy makers' long-run inflation projections, yesterday's minutes said. Officials see price increases of 1.6 percent to 2 percent as consistent with their legislative mandate for stable prices, according to yesterday's report.
The issue may get more attention in the coming months. Last week, two Republicans, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker and Indiana Representative Mike Pence, held a joint press conference on their proposal to remove the Fed's full employment mandate and focus the central bank on stable prices alone. Corker plans to introduce legislation next year.
Press Briefings
Officials also discussed Oct. 15 whether it would be "useful" for Bernanke to "hold occasional press briefings to provide more detailed information" on the FOMC's outlook and decision-making than is included in the post-meeting statement.
Bernanke is the only head of a major central bank who doesn't give press conferences to explain actions and projections. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa each hold one after every policy meeting, while Bank of England Governor Mervyn King speaks once a quarter.
This year Bernanke has traveled around the country for several on-the-record, unscripted discussions with screened audiences, including students in Jacksonville, Florida, on Nov. 5. Still, having press conferences is "tricky" and may not necessarily work in Bernanke's favor, said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Getting Message Across
"It may be more difficult to get the message across," said Silvia, a former congressional economist. "Ben Bernanke is not running for public office and may not be as attuned as a congressman dealing with questions from the media."
The FOMC triggered a stock selloff with its statement on Aug. 10, which investors took as a signal the economy will falter. Bernanke waited until Aug. 27 to clarify that signal, saying in a speech that the Fed "will do all that it can" to keep the recovery going and that the "preconditions" are in place for improved growth in 2011.
Since Aug. 27, inflation expectations and stock prices have risen.
The breakeven rate for 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, the yield difference between the inflation-linked debt and comparable maturity Treasuries, has risen to 2.1 percentage points from 1.63 percentage points on Aug. 27. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has climbed 11 percent.
China, Germany
Bernanke's words have competed for news coverage with criticism by China and Germany, a letter from 23 people, including former Republican officials and economists, calling for a halt to the purchases. Another letter from four top Republican lawmakers expressed "deep concerns" over the plan.
In the days after this month's decision to buy more assets, Bernanke published an op-ed article explaining it in the Washington Post, discussed it in Jacksonville and defended it before an audience of current and former Fed officials at a conference in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Policy makers offered a range of views on the asset purchases, dubbed QE2 for the second round of quantitative easing. Fed Governor Kevin Warsh said he was "less optimistic than some" about the program's benefits, and many other policy makers gave speeches or interviews.
"Now is the time to strike if the chairman wants to regain ground lost," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial Inc. in Chicago, which oversees about $44 billion.
'Frenzied Pitch'
"Bernanke has to figure out how to put the genie of communication back into a bottle," she said. "I doubt we would see as much backlash to QE2, as legitimate as some of it is, if the debate hadn't reached such a frenzied pitch from within the walls of the Federal Reserve to the public so quickly."
Bernanke will be in Columbus, Ohio, for a "Conversation on the Economy" with business leaders on Nov. 30, at the same time that a House Oversight subcommittee is holding a hearing on the Fed's stimulus and potential changes in the central bank's role.
"At the end of the day it gets to a very basic philosophical debate about Fed openness," said Stephen Stanley, a former Richmond Fed researcher who's chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut. "We're getting a sense of what it means to be a transparent Fed."