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JA Exploring Economics
JA Exploring Economics tackles a complex subject and makes it accessible and fun for high school students through hands-on activities. JA Exploring Economics teaches concepts such as supply and demand and inflation, and teaches students about the effect which governments and the individual have on the global economy and on the price of a loaf of bread.
By making economics engaging and relatable, JA Exploring Economics helps students better understand the impact they have on the economy as consumers and taxpayers, and teaches important personal financial lessons around spending, saving and investing.
Junior Achievement gratefully acknowledges MetLife Foundation for its dedication to the development and implementation of JA Exploring Economics.
Session One Economic Systems: Who Makes the Big Decisions?
Students examine how the economic system that a society uses for production, distribution and consumption of goods and services significantly affects the individuals in that society.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the impact of a society's economic system on the decisions it makes about the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
- Evaluate how the following characteristics affect the efficiency of a market: money, private property, limited government, exchange of resources in available markets and entrepreneurship.
Session Two Supply and Demand: What's It Worth to You?
Students illustrate the impact of supply and demand on the economy by participating in an economic situation using real-life examples.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Review the concepts of supply and demand.
- Define market-clearing price.
- Demonstrate the interaction between supply and demand in a free-market economy.
- Respond to real-life examples of price and other market forces that influence supply and demand and the market-clearing price.
Session Three Supply and Demand: The JA Market Game
Using an experiential game format, students demonstrate the interaction of supply and demand and how market forces affect the price of products.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Explain the interaction between supply and demand in a free-market economy, and the market's drive toward establishing a market-clearing price.
- Apply real-life examples of market forces that influence supply and demand.
Session Four Saving and Investing: Risks and Rewards
Students explore concepts related to consumers, savers and investors, including how wealth increases in different saving and investing options. They compare the characteristics, risks and rewards of several options.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Recognize ways to earn and increase wealth through saving and investing.
- Analyze examples of wealth acquired through saving and investing.
- Evaluate different methods of saving and investing including varied risks and rewards.
Session Five Government's Role in the Market
Students analyze the effect of government on the economy, including intervention through the production of public goods and services, taxes and its role in protecting private property.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Categorize public versus private goods, and explain why governments intervene in the economy by providing public goods.
- Express why individuals and businesses pay taxes.
- Analyze the impact of the government's role in protecting private property.
Session Six Money, Inflation and the CPI
Students learn about inflation and its effect on prices, consumer purchasing power, the willingness of financial institutions to loan money and how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) monitors inflation.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Define inflation and demonstrate its connection to the availability and value of money in a market, as well as its effect on prices and consumer purchasing power.
- Explain and calculate how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures consumer prices.
- Recognize that inflation can impair a market economy by affecting consumer confidence and funds available for investment.
Session Seven International Trade
Students compare trade policies and the global economy through a simulation based on the increased utility (satisfaction) of international trade.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Describe the significance of international trade.
- Analyze the impact of trade on national and international utility.
JA Exploring Economics enhances students':
- Concepts in banks as borrower and lender, command economy, consumer price index (cpi), consumer purchasing power, demand, distribution, economics, economic isolationism, economic systems, federal reserve system, free-rider problem, inflation, inflation rate, international trade, investing options, market economy, market-clearing price, nonrivalry, percentage change, private property, production, public vs. private goods, public vs. private sector, regional trade, risk versus reward, saving options, simple interest, supply, supply and demand, tariff, taxes, trade restrictions, utility, united states bureau of labor statistics (bls), world trade.
- Skills in analyzing information, categorizing data, charting, decision-making, evaluating alternatives, evaluating information, graphing, listening for understanding, oral and written communication, negotiating, public speaking, reading for understanding, solving algebraic equations, working in pairs and groups.
JA Exploring Economics is a series of seven required sessions recommended for students in grades 9 through 12. The average time it takes to present each session is 45 minutes. Materials are packaged in a self-contained kit that includes detailed session plans for the volunteer and materials for 32 students.
All JA programs are designed to support the skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. These programs also augment school-based, work-based and connecting activities for communities with school-to-work initiatives.
For more information about this program, read the Program Summary.
To see how this program correlates to California State Education Standards and the Common Core Standards, click here.


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This story says independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin still owes his election law attorneys $520,000, from work they did for him during 2016. Yet, McMullin and his attorneys did not file any ballot access lawsuits. He could have been on the ballot in more than twelve states if he had done so. He had a very strong potential cases against Florida, Texas, and Wyoming.
A party called Better for America, which was formed in the spring of 2016 to find a candidate similar to McMullin, did file and win a ballot access lawsuit against New Mexico. Better for America then got on the ballot in New Mexico and nominated McMullin, so he was on the New Mexico ballot because of a lawsuit. However he himself had no connection to that lawsuit. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.


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The SEC's Madoff Report
The SEC decided to take a look at how it failed to uncover the Madoff fraud. The SEC's Inspector General has been running an investigation and compiling information. The SEC Inspector General, H. David Kotz, released a public version of their report on August 31: Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme – Public Version
The big question being whether it was case of internal corruption or just incompetence. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and the fraud looks so obvious, you have to wonder how they missed it. I think it is more important to learn from the mistakes so they can avoid this happening again. But people are still looking for heads to put in the guillotine.
Senate hearing
Of course, politicians are looking to blame someone. Today at 2:30, the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing concerning Oversight of the SEC's Failure to Identify the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi Scheme and How to Improve SEC Performance. The witnesses currently slated are:
- H. David Kotz, Esq., Inspector General of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
- Mr. Harry Markopolos, Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Fraud Examiner;
- John Walsh, Esq. Acting Director, Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, SEC
- Robert Khuzami, Esq., Director of the Division of Enforcement, SEC
Was there corruption?
The investigation did not find evidence that any SEC personnel who worked on an SEC examination or investigation of Madoff had any financial or other inappropriate connection that influenced the conduct of their examination or investigatory work. The report also concludes that former SEC Assistant Director Eric Swanson's romantic relationship with Bernard Madoff's niece, Shana Madoff, did not influence the conduct of the SEC examinations of Madoff. The report concludes that no senior officials at the SEC directly attempted to influence examinations or investigations of Madoff and that there was no evidence of interference with the staff's ability to perform its work.
How much did the SEC know?
The Inspector General found that the SEC received more than ample information over the years to warrant a comprehensive investigation of Madoff. Despite three examinations and two investigations being conducted, a thorough and competent investigation or examination was never performed. Between June 1992 and December 2008 when Madoff confessed, the SEC received six substantive complaints that raised significant red flags concerning Madoff's operations. There was enough for SEC to question whether Madoff was actually engaged in trading.
What about private investors?
I found it unusual that the Inspector General includes information from private parties about their due diligence findings of Madoff's operations. Many sophisticated investors gave significant money to Madoff. But there were traders, funds, investment banks, and other investors who thought something was not right with Madoff. They were concerned about the suspiciously consistent returns, the lack of transparency, the use of a small captive auditing firm, and the lack of an independent custodian.
The decisions to not invest were made based upon the same red flags that the SEC considered in its investigations, but ultimately dismissed. The Inspector General concludes:
The SEC examination program should analyze the approaches utilized by private entities who conducted due diligence of Madoff's operations and apply these methods to strengthen their program. They should also seek to learn from these private entities through training mechanisms and in fact, several private entities informed the OIG that they would be willing to conduct training of SEC examiners in their due diligence approaches. Learning from private sector efforts would improve the SEC's ability to conduct meaningful and comprehensive examinations and detect potential fraud.
- Executive Summary of the Madoff Report
- Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme – Public Version
- Monday Morning Quarterbacking with the Madoff Report by Ellen Padgor of the White Collar Crime Prof Blog
- PBS Video: Madoff Report Highlights SEC Lapses in Detecting Fraud from Bruce Carton of Securities Docket
- Lessons from Madoff (& the SEC) by Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq.
- The SEC's Madoff Report by Larry Ribstein of Ideoblog


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Covert Affairs Season 2 Episode 4: "All the Right Friends" Quotes
You are either the best operative I have ever seen, or the absolute worst. I can't make up my mind.Annie
Jail doesn't scare me. It's a censored press that scares me.Carlo
You'd be one of the three public faces of the CIA...the DCI, me, and you.Arthur
Annie: I'm American.
Carlo: But before that?
Annie: Before that, I was American.
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Basically, listed companies on the stock market can be placed under two categories in terms of their share prices. On one side, there is the category of stocks that trade at comparatively high price per share. On the other side, there is another category that fairly trade at low price per share. One deliberation when it comes to stock trading is the decision on whether to purchase low-priced stocks or high-priced stocks. A few investors argue that buying low-priced stocks comes with many benefits. For instance, Warren Buffett, a veteran investor, argues that:
"The key to successful investing is to buy low, [and] sell high."
Low-priced stocks may however not be necessarily cheap. In other words, it is important to look beyond the mere cheap price of a stock. This is because a number of factors can contribute to how high or low a stock price can be.
For example, during stock split (when an institution decides to divide its existing shares into multiples), the price per each of the divided shares reduces by default while their values remain unchanged.
When the shares of an institution become undervalued, it can also lead to a low-priced stock. Undervalued stocks are stocks that are sold at prices presumed to be below their true intrinsic value.
Due to the above contributing factors, using only the market price of a stock to determine its worth may be sometimes deceptive. In fact, some stocks may not be even worth the low price being paid for.
For instance, cheap stocks that post fewer earnings may turn out to be costly if their price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is high.
Note that in general, the higher the P/E ratio, the more expensive the stock. The Ghana Stock Exchange publishes P/E ratios of the various listed stocks on its website.
Recognising the underlying (or intrinsic) value of a stock when making decision on low-priced stocks would be useful.
Now, before we begin to list some of the benefits of buying low-priced stocks, we should bear in mind that buying low-priced stocks may also come with some downsides. In the meantime, let's focus on their upsides.
Lower initial investment
Low-priced stocks offer investors the opportunity to start with minimal amounts. This is particularly beneficial for low income earners as well as new investors who may not have that much to begin with. Besides, it makes it easier for one to invest as much of his investible money as possible.
Remember that shares are bought in wholes, not in fractions. For instance, you cannot purchase 2.5 shares of a company's stocks. Neither can you purchase 2.99 units of shares from the stock market- You are allowed to purchase in whole numbers such as 2 shares, 3 shares, etc.
Let's assume that you have only GH¢50 at your disposal to purchase some stocks on the GSE. With this amount, you can only afford one share of AGA (AngloGold Ashanti Limited) which is currently traded at GH¢37 per share. Thus, the remaining GH¢13 may be left idly.
Meanwhile, the same GH¢50 could purchase 55 shares of CAL bank stocks (currently traded at GH¢0.9 per share), leaving just GH¢0.5 unused. In effect, low-priced stocks can offer maximum utilisation of one's investment.
High potential for growth
Low-priced stocks, in particular, undervalued stocks, appear to have greater potential for growth. In general, it is likely for the share price of a low-priced stock to rise steeply if the company comes out with something favourable. This places its shareholders in good position to make some gains.
With any slightest increase in share price, investors owning more stocks stand a greater chance to increase their returns. For example, an investor with GH¢500 can purchase 10,000 shares of a stock priced at GH¢0.05 If the share price of this stock increases by 0.01 to GH¢0.06, the investor's stock value would be GH¢600 (that is, 10000×0.06). This would be 20% appreciation from the original purchase price.
In comparison, if an investor use the same GH¢500 to purchase 100 shares of a stock priced at GH¢5, he may not achieve similar results when the price of the stock appreciates by 0.01. In this instance, the value of the investor's stocks would be GH¢501 (that is, 100×5.01), representing just a 0.2% appreciation.
It may also be important to note that not all low-priced stocks have the potential to appreciate exponentially at a given time. Moreover, the price movement of a few low-priced stocks tend to be erratic and risky.
A typical example is CPC (Cocoa Processing Company) stock, known to be one of the low-priced stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange. In fact, the share price of CPC can increase or drop by 50% within a particular trading day.
Over the past five years, CPC stock (currently priced at GH¢0.02/share) has periodically enjoyed substantial [±50%] price movements within some particular years. Notwithstanding these significant movements, the opening and closing prices of CPC stock have remained unchanged in each of the individual years (since 2011).
In effect, in terms of annual returns, CPC stock has recorded 0% from 2011 to 2016.
The potential for high dividend earnings
Dividends are paid on each share held by a shareholder. This means that the higher the number of shares owned, the higher the earnings derived from dividends. All things being equal, as stock prices fall, they become cheaper to buy.
Thus, you get the chance to buy an investment at a bargain rate. Low-priced stocks offer you the advantage of acquiring increased number of shares at the same monetary value. Let's have a look at the example below:
Two investors, Gadasu and Ashai, both had GH¢1,000 at their disposal to purchase some stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange. They both settled on purchasing shares of Societe Generale Ghana Limited (SOGEGH).
However, Gadasu completed his purchase on 31st December 2014 while Ashai bought his shares two years later, on 30th December 2016. The price per share of SOGEGH on 31st December 2014 and 30th December 2016 was GH¢1 and GH¢0.62 respectively.
Hence, with the GH¢1000, Gadasu possessed 1000 shares while Ashai owned 1612 shares of SOGEGH.
Now, in May 2017, Societe Generale paid a dividend of GH¢0.033/share to each qualified shareholder. Gadasu and Ashai therefore earned GH¢33 and GH¢53.2 respectively from the dividend pay-outs.
It can be deduced from the above example that the low price of SOGEGH stock in 2016 gave Ashai the advantage to acquire more number of shares compared to what Gadasu attained in 2014. Ashai's increased number of shares therefore made him earn more in dividends than Gadasu even though they equally invested GH¢1000.
Unfortunately, not all companies follow a regular pattern of dividend payments. Furthermore, the dividend yield of many stocks may be considered too low. Thus, the advantage of earning more dividends from low-priced stocks may not be practical for all stocks.
Improved diversification
Diversification continues to be a common term in the investment world due to the associated positive outcomes. Earlier in this post, it was mentioned that low-priced stocks make it affordable for investors to start with minimal amounts of money. The affordability factor allows investors to be able to invest a small amount of money in a diversified portfolio.
Now, imagine a low-income earner who wish to invest GH¢50 in a diversified stock portfolio. If this investor selects Anglogold Ashanti (AGA) as one of his stock picks, he may end up spending almost all his GH¢50 on just a single share of AGA since one share of AGA is priced at about GH¢37.
On the other hand, the investor may be able to purchase a mix of stocks comprising CAL bank (currently priced at about GH¢0.9), SOGEGH (currently priced at GH¢0.75) and probably GOIL (currently priced at GH¢2.29).
For example, out of the GH¢50, he could spend GH¢20 on 22 CAL shares, GH¢10 on 13 shares of SOGEGH and GH¢20 on 8 shares of GOIL. This therefore gives the investor the opportunity to reap many of the benefits associated with investment diversification.


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In 2007, Duarte participated in a discussion about whether a woman – who was the only candidate for a Zoning Board of Adjustments alternate position – could dedicate the necessary time because she is a mother
Concord, NH – During a Candia Selectman meeting on April 23, 2007, several selectmen – including Senate District 16 candidate Joe Duarte – debated whether an applicant for a vacant zoning board of adjustments alternate position could dedicate the necessary time to the position because she was the mother of a young child.
The applicant, Amanda Soares, was the only person to apply for the position. While some public officials in the room stated that the applicant's personal family commitments weren't up to the board to comment on – and that the question would likely not come up for a male applicant – Duarte persisted:
"Selectman Lazott stated he did not want to stretch her too thin. Selectman Duarte stated he was not on with the ZBA appointment because she was just appointed to the Planning Board as an alternate. Selectman Brennan stated he did not think the appointment was a big deal pointing out that he holds a full-time job and serves on many Boards and Committees. One Selectman noted that Selectman Brennan did not have a family and this requestor does.
Selectman Giffen reiterated that Mrs. Soares was extremely capable and that the ZBA meetings were typically short. Selectman Giffen advised he would not want to turn any volunteers down. Tax Collector Sanders mentioned she was aware that Mrs. Soares no longer had a daily commute to Massachusetts. Road Agent Lewis stated some months the ZBA does not meet. Selectman Giffen motioned to appoint Amanda Soares to the Zoning Board as an alternate member. Seconded by Selectman Brennan. Chairman Kelley stated he was still deciding because he was not sure about her time considering she has a small child. Selectman Brennan said the Board should let her make her own decisions regarding her time. Selectman Duarte stated attendance for two alternates for the Planning Board last year was poor and both had families. Ingrid Byrd of Depot Road wondered if the Board would be having the family discussion if the applicant was a man … Selectman Giffen mentioned that Mrs. Soares had perfect attendance when she was on the Solid Waste Committee and Conservation Commission. (Candia Selectmen, Approved Candia Selectmen's Public Meeting Minutes, April 23, 2007)
The vote was postponed, but during the same meeting Duarte seconded a motion to approve two men for a town committee with no discussion of whether they have domestic responsibilities at home.
"Selectman Giffen to make recommendations on members for a Town of Candia Website Committee: Selectman Giffen advised public notice was placed in the paper for Public Meeting held on 4/19/07 for the purpose of establishing a website Committee. Selectman Giffen stated only two individuals showed up to volunteer. Selectman Giffen motioned to appoint Joe Miele and Larry Twitchell as members of the Town's website committee with one-year terms, term to expire 4/23/08 effective today's date. Seconded by Selectman Duarte. All in favor. Motion carried." (Candia Selectmen, Approved Candia Selectmen's Public Meeting Minutes, April 23, 2007)
In a follow-up meeting about the appointment, Duarte directly questioned the female applicant about her "full agenda" including other time commitments. Soares responded by saying her husband could be home to run the household in the evenings.
"Selectman Duarte noted Mrs. Soares had a full agenda and asked her if she had enough time to devote to another Board. Mrs. Soares stated most of the meetings were held in the evenings when her husband is home and able to maintain the household … ZBA Chair Boyd Chivers pointed out that Mrs. Soares was the only person who expressed interest and did not know how the Board could turn her down. Secretary Chabot verified an advertisement was run for the position and Mrs. Soares was the only interested party. Selectman Giffen moved to accept the recommendation of the ZBA for the appointment of Amanda Soares as an alternate member with a term to expire on 10/28/08. Selectmen Lazott and Duarte indicated they were opposed. ZBA Chair Chivers noted the ZBA unanimously recommended her appointment." (Candia Selectmen, Approved Candia Selectmen's Public Meeting Minutes, May 14, 2007)
Statement from Granite State Progress Executive Director Zandra Rice Hawkins:
"It appears Joe Duarte judges women based on his own personal opinion of what her domestic roles and responsibilities should be, rather than letting a woman decide for herself. While other public officials pushed back, Duarte persisted in making this an issue of a woman's assumed role in a household and at no time raised concerns about the sexist nature of the conversation. In fact, he asserted that it was relevant despite the candidate's demonstrated commitment to other town committees and the fact that she was the only applicant for the position. Duarte, himself, was serving on multiple committees at the time."
This is not the only time Duarte has stood in the way of women. In 2014 Duarte voted against the New Hampshire Paycheck Fairness Act, an act to ensure women receive equal pay for an equal day's work; and in 2012 he voted to allow any employer to deny coverage for contraception based on the employer's own personal beliefs. (SB207, Roll Call #235, 5/14/2014; HB1546, Roll Call #117, 3/7/2012) Duarte also endorsed Donald Trump for President.
Note: Soares later went on to successfully complete 5 years of service on the Candia Board of Selectmen. She resigned in early 2015 when her family moved out of the area. (Candia Selectman, Candia's Selectmen's Public Meeting Minutes, 1.12.15)
Granite State Progress is a progressive advocacy organization that addresses issues of immediate state and local concern. Granite State Progress works as a communications hub for the progressive community to provide a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems.


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In addition to length, you'll also get to choose your finish from a subtle palette of whites. Finally, choose a tilt wand or a tilt cord for your operating convenience. All Breezewood blinds include a handsome, color-matched, 3-inch crown valance with two standard 3-inch returns.
Standard Routing Lift Design: Routing holes for the lift cord are punched through the center of each slat. The number of route holes depends on the length of slat. The slats then rest on rungs of the ladderbraid.
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Periodic dusting with a feather duster or vacuum cleaner brush is all these blinds will require in the form of maintenance. These blinds are resistant to chipping, cracking, fading and are inherently dust repellent. If necessary, they can be cleaned with soap and water to remove stains. They are fully washable and will not warp if exposed to water or humid conditions.
Inside Mount:To determine the size of Breezewood blinds you need, measure across the width of the window opening in three different places - top, middle, and bottom. Measurements should be taken within the window jamb. Use your smallest measurement when ordering. To determine the appropriate length, measure the length of the window opening from the underside of the soffit to the surface of the window sill in two places. Use the smallest of these two measurements when ordering.
Child safety
Be aware that it is possible for children to become entangled in window covering cords. To reduce the risk of accidents, all cords must be kept out of reach of children. A cord cleat is an effective way to implement this essential precaution. To mount the cord cleat at a safe height, take into account furniture or other objects upon which a child may climb. Then, after the use of the shade, simply wrap the excess cord around the cleat.


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I've added a couple of new items to my shop today for the February BYOC. Love is in the air this month. :: eyebrow wiggle ::
My new Crazy For You papers and elements are excellent for highlighting the people you love in your scrapbook pages – that goes without saying. Also? Equally perfect for proclaiming your love for a caramel macchiato, or your new camera (oh how I do so love my new camera!). This month's awesome mix of colors is perfect for boys, girls, coffee, cameras, a new pair of shoes, Ryan Gossling – there's no limit to how smitten you can get.
The exception being a restraining order. A restraining order would be a hard limit on how smitten you can get. (I'm looking at you, Ryan Gossling!)
For now, prepare to fall deeply in love with these new additions. The foxes are so cute, can you stand it?
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All of the products in the February BYOC line are on sale, with additional Buy More, Save More discounts of up to an additional 30% off. Sale ends 02/04/2012.
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Fiji Time: 12:36 PM on Thursday 22 February
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Tevita Vuibau
Monday, April 28, 2014
RESHMA Chand would not have made it through to her graduation day if it was not for the constant support and encouragement of her family.
Mrs Chand was among those who graduated from FNU with a Bachelor of Commerce in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management on Friday.
After having an arranged marriage in 2001, Mrs Chand feared her lofty education goals would remain unfulfilled.
"That was one of the first questions that I asked my husband, will you allow me to study? He was happy with that so I was very thankful," she said.
Though her husband supported her quest for higher education, there were still more challenges to follow.
"We had financial difficulties and my husband and children were in the West while I studied and worked here in Suva and it was quite difficult."
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An outspoken critic of the government's electronic surveillance programs, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado said Sunday he was not convinced that a program to collect huge amounts of information about Americans' phone calls had led to the foiling of any terror plots. He also called for a renewed debate over the Patriot Act, which authorizes much of the data collection.
In making the assertion, Udall, a Democrat and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared to be distinguishing the results of that program — which uses metadata associated with phone calls, including numbers called and the duration of conversations — from those of the newly revealed PRISM program, which analyzes data collected from foreigners who use Internet services such as Facebook and Skype. Several officials have said PRISM has been effective.
"It's unclear to me that we've developed any intelligence through the metadata program that has led to the disruption of plots that we couldn't have developed through other data and other intelligence," Udall said on the CNN program "State of the Union."
Udall, who for years has criticized electronic data collection by the government as too sweeping, called for a reopening of debate over the Patriot Act and a "fulsome debate" on the limits of government intrusion as it seeks to deter terrorist threats.
Government officials also had sharp words for the person who leaked the documents describing classified surveillance programs to The Guardian and The Washington Post. In an interview with NBC News, James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, warned that the revelations could create serious risks to national security.
"For me, it is literally — not figuratively — literally gut-wrenching to see this happen, because of the huge, grave damage it does to our intelligence capabilities," he said.
Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, spoke with barely disguised anger about Glenn Greenwald, whose articles in The Guardian newspaper last week described the surveillance programs.
Greenwald "says that he's got it all and now is an expert on the program," Rogers said on the ABC program "This Week." "He doesn't have a clue how this thing works. Neither did the person who released just enough information to literally be dangerous."
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This article draws from experiences of the Pat Hall Dance and Movement Class, which meets Saturday afternoons at the Mark Morris Dance Center in downtown Brooklyn and attracts approximately sixty devotees, both professional dancers and amateurs. Instructor Pat Hall describes her classes on her web site as an "environment and dance community that nurtures, heals, renews, and inspires the body and spirit through the joy of dance." She frequently engages the ensemble of master drummer Frisner Augustin to accompany classes.
Through my long experience of Vodou music as listener, performer, and analyst, I have notated a number of kase, and I have proposed that a principle of contrast or opposition to the main pattern from which the kase departs distinguishes and identifies it structurally (Wilcken 1992, 3–4; Wilcken 2005, 195–6). In brief, an ensemble—three full-sized drums, one or more frame drums, one bell or gong, and one rattle—with each instrument performing its own pattern in increasing degrees of ornamentation, produces what I am calling the "main pattern." The lead drummer initiates the kase. The second and third drummers fall in as rapidly as possible with supporting patterns; bell and rattle maintain their previous patterns, and the bass foundation of the frame drum falls silent for the duration of the kase. Several types of structural opposition serve to distinguish the kase. One type throws off the phrasing by breaking halfway into the main pattern. Another utilizes timbral opposition: for example, slaps in lieu of open tones. Not least is the kase that has the lead drum emphasizing offbeats, and it seems that both listeners and performers experience this type as the most dramatic.
One hears the kase throughout a Vodou dans (dance), the nightlong rites that celebrate the various spiritual nations. Salutations to the most powerful lwa (spirits), conducted by a team of initiated personnel, include the orientation of sacred artifacts, pirouettes, genuflections, and the pouring of libations before the drum ensemble, the center post, and the altar. The master drummer performs the kase during salutations, and particularly the vire (pirouette). Although Laënnec Hurbon tells us that the vire functions to establish equilibrium (1993, 110), we often see the onset of possession in that moment. Whether or not the salutation routine brings down a spirit, drumming continues through three songs, after which the priest signals the ensemble to stop. Possession may occur during these periods, as well as during salutations. The master drummer launches the kase when he feels the spirit or when he notes its subtle signs in another.
The dance and movement class meets from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays in a studio large enough to accommodate the approximately fifty to sixty people who attend. The drummers sit along a short side of the rectangular space. Pat Hall's partner, musician and storyteller Pam Patrick, plays percussion and provides a constant presence in the ensemble. Two drummers alternately lead the instrument ensemble: James "Tiga" Jean-Baptiste, a key artist in the band of his father, Gaston "Bonga" Jean Baptiste; and Frisner Augustin, artistic director of La Troupe Makandal. Both lead drummers were born in Haiti, and both play for Vodou rituals in New York, but generational differences mark their styles, with Jean-Baptiste (the younger) more prone to fuse foreign musical elements with traditional Haitian drumming. When he plays for the class, Hall teaches African and African-derived dances not from Haiti; when Augustin plays, the dances are traditional Haitian.
The class has a two-part structure. During its first hour, students face a mirror on a long side of the room. Hall faces the students and leads them through warm-up exercises. After several opening stretches she stops to welcome the students and share her thoughts on how best to enjoy the class—for example, by focusing less on perfect body movement and more on the drums, letting them guide your feet. In this brief yet crucial orientation, she establishes feelings of community and mutual nurturing. The warm-up resumes and builds in intensity until it closes in the first drum circle of the class, with the formation of an arc facing the drums. Students so inspired take the opportunity to solo freestyle before the drums. During the second half of the class, students move across the length of the space toward the drums in rows of four, following the lead of Hall, who begins with single steps, then develops them into routines. This second hour of the class culminates in a second drum circle.
Sarah Dupuy was born in White Plains, New York, to Haitian parents. Her parents separated, and she grew up with her father, the publisher of a progressive Haitian newspaper. She traveled to Haiti and experienced her first ritual at the age of nine. Dupuy's mother was a manbo (female priest), but it was only after her mother passed away that Dupuy "caught the spirit"—and that occurred in Pat Hall's class, while Frisner Augustin was accompanying. She hears a layering and texturing in Haitian drumming that leaves room for spontaneity. "Come on," the drums tell her. "You're coming with us." Vodou, Dupuy asserts, is universal. One simply has to be open to catch the spirit (Dupuy 2008).
Lois E. Wilcken is executive director of La Troupe Makandal (www.makandal.org), a Haitian drum and dance troupe based in New York City, and accounts manager at City Lore. She holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University.
...the path to transcendence follows a loop created by the interaction between the dancer and the drums. One feeds off the other, and this holds true in both temple and dance class.
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The activities of the Fortean Society, apart from Tiffany Thayer's magazine Doubt, are somewhat unclear. Perhaps that was intentional; as Thayer said, with his usual bravura, "Many details of Fortean endeavor are necessarily surreptitious, because any activity with the avowed intention of causing men to think for themselves and to cherish self-respect is opposed in this world by very powerful interests."
But we have here an excerpt from a brochure, published to promote the society in 1956 or 1957, that gives a few details on the membership structure, and specifies some of the people in it. The organization is rather complicated, including Corresponding Members, Life Members, Accepted Fellows, Honorary Founders, Founders, and Non-Member Named Fellows.
Many famous and intriguing names appear on the rolls, but it's always been equally unclear how many actually joined, and how many were drafted. The Non-Member Named Fellows seem to fall into the latter camp: people whose work Thayer simply stamped with his seal of approval. H. G. Wells and H. L. Mencken were probably listed against their will; Dreiser sent them both copies of Fort's books, and they wrote back to protest.
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Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all levels of social organization. Still, despite the vast amount of research on conflict and narrative in a number of disciplines, no one has yet examined how these play off of each other; in fact, most studies treat narrative merely as a source of information about conflict rather then as a part of conflict's process. The contributors to this collection argue that language consists of socially and politically situated practices that are differentially distributed on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other categories. Each of them, writing from the perspective of their own disciplines, challenges previous assumptions about narrative and social conflict as they interpret a range of disputes that emerge in a variety of settings. Taken in total, these essays substantially further our theoretical and methodological understanding of narrative and conflict and how they intersect.
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South Africa focused on beating complacency
As testament to how committed South Africa were to not easing up for the dead rubber in Centurion, one needed to look no further than Jacques Kallis. On the eve of the Test, he turned up for his first optional practice in years, according to most of his team-mates.
As it transpired, Kallis injured his calf while training and missed the match, but that paved the way for Kyle Abbott to make a memorable nine-wicket debut and contribute to South Africa's whitewash of the series, something they don't usually achieve.
South Africa have not had to play many Tests where the result would have no bearing on their series. The last time that happened was in Australia in 2008-09. They are used to pressure at Test level and, unlike in limited-overs cricket, it has not been their undoing.
This time, South Africa faced the challenge of complacency. With the series won and the No.1 ranking secure, they were the side that had nothing to lose, but they didn't want to lose and that was the difference.
"To win so convincingly in this Test was important," Graeme Smith said, after his team beat Pakistan by an innings inside three days. "In matches like this, it's very easy to be soft or not to give commitment to the cause. Even if you are 10% off your game at this level, then you are not going to be able to produce a performance. To see our batsmen front out and our bowlers put in the hard yards shows good signs as a team. It shows we are hungry and we have good determination."
It was to South Africa's benefit that they had two young and unestablished players coming into the XI. Rory Kleinveldt and Kyle Abbott were both keen to stake their claim as next in line and they succeeded to different degrees. Kleinveldt bowled well with little reward in his first spell of the first innings and again in the second, while Abbott had a dream debut.
Abbott said complacency was the buzzword used in the build-up to the match and Smith confirmed the management wanted to zero in on it. "This team is about maturity and professionalism. The focus has been good. The guys understand what it takes and have been preparing that way."
The upshot was South Africa winning all their Tests in the home summer. The last time they achieved that was in 2002-03, when they beat Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan in two Tests each to finish 6-0. Smith had only just started his career then and is certain the team he is charge of now is better than the one he first made mark in then. "I've said before that this is the best team I have played in as a South African cricketer but that doesn't mean they won't be big challenges ahead." That realisation is what makes this side more grounded than teams of the past.
Their ability to be ruthless in an efficient rather than over-enthusiastic manner is another difference. South Africa have a reputation for playing the game hard. Now, they play hard and methodically. "We've managed to play a positive brand of cricket," Smith said. "We've been on the front foot but it has not been a brash style of cricket, it's a clinical one."
The surgical chopping up of opposition is something South Africa developed abroad - they have been unbeaten overseas since 2006 - and Smith was keen to apply that at home. "Coming back from a long time on the road, we could have taken it easy home but we wanted to play well here," Smith said.
Crowds in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Centurion got to experience their champion side. Durban lost out, but through their televisions they would have seen that perhaps South Africa will return to Kingsmead stronger than before. Next season will be the Test of that. Stadium attendances were higher than in previous seasons and attention on the team was greater because of their success.
Milestones piled up, especially for Smith, who is now the darling leader, having spent much of his decade in charge fighting the tide. His own relaxed nature is proof that he is finally comfortable in his own space. "Everything is a stepping stone to the next. It's about making sure you stay focused, respect the position you are in and the people you come up against. It hasn't been easy but I am confident and happy with the way I have been able to handle the pressure of the job. The inner strength and support I've had is something I am extremely proud of."
He wants more. Smith is no longer the man who wanted to walk away from leadership after the 2011 World Cup. He is now the captain that wants to sail the ship into unchartered territory. Although he says the word "dynasty" was not taught to him at school, he knows he is building one.
"We'd love to win as the South African team. We'd love to play the game hard, in the right spirit and challenge all around the world. I'd love to look back one day and see that we were part of something special. And for as long as I can, I want to make the most of it."
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Hines filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Aug. 20, citing a rise in production costs, pricing pressure from large customers and weather-related factors. The Irvine, Calif.-based company is the industry's largest producer of ornamental shrubs and container-grown plants in the country, operating seven nurseries in four states. It sells to more than 6,670 retail outlets. Its customers included Home Depot, Lowe's, Wal-Mart and many independent garden centers.
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Alexander Graham Bell Makes a Human Skull Appear to Scream
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander was the middle son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother was a portrait painter and accomplished musician. She was hard of hearing, but with the help of an ear tube, which was a cone-shaped tube with the smaller end held in her ear, she could hear some sounds. Alexander's father was a well known teacher and author of textbooks on correct speech, as well as the inventor of "visible speech" (a code of symbols that indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue and lips in uttering various sounds), which helped hearing-impaired people speak.
Alexander, as well as others in his family, was very interested in learning about the human ability to hear and speak. He and his brothers made a model of the human skull that when attached to a bellows (a device whose sides are squeezed to pump out air) could scream "Ma Ma".
FYI: Diagram of Alexander Bell is from Janice VanCleave's Scientists Throughout the Ages.
Alexander also taught his dog to growl steadily while he manipulated the dog's mouth and throat. As he did this, the dog seemed to say, " Ow ah oo, ga?ma?ma", meaning, "How are you grandmother?"
By 1870, both of Alexander's brothers had died of tuberculous (a lung disease), so his parents moved to Brantford Ontario, Cananda to a healthier climate. In 1871, Alexander moved to Boston to pursue his goal to help the deaf by opening a school for teacher's of the deaf. This school later became part of the Boston University where he became a professor of vocal physiology (study of how the body produces sound) and elocution (art of speaking clearly). Being interested in how the human body makes and receives sounds, he experimented with a real human ear he got from the medical school at Boston University. He attached a stalk of hay to the bones of the middle ear and then observed the hay when sound was directed into the ear. The sound caused the hay to move. This experiment led to his inventing a device called a phonautograph. When a person spoke into the phonautograph, a stretched skin vibrated causing a rod to move which traced out a pattern on a piece of smoked glass. Bell's students could "see" their voice. Today sounds can be seen on different electronic instruments, such as the oscilloscope.
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Bell had been experimenting with sound most of his life and while the telephone is what he is most known for, it was a telegraph that could carry more than one message at the same time that he was trying to invent. Working and thinking of this idea and remembering how singing into a piano caused the strings to vibrate gave him an idea on how to transmit and receive speech over electric wires. He had the idea but needed someone with more electrical knowledge so in 1875 he hired Thomas Watson who worked in an electrical shop. On March 10, 1876, Bell accidentally spilled acid on his clothes and shouted, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." Watson heard this now famous sentence in another room through the speaker of what is now called a telephone. Telephone is from the Greek word tele for "far off" and phone for "sound." By July 1876, the Bell Telephone Company was in business. Within ten years there were over 150,000 telephones in the United States.
The year following his invention of the telephone, Bell married Mabel Hubbard, a deaf student in his class whom he had taught to speak. With income from his telephone invention, Bell was able to spend his life on other inventions and in working for the deaf.
He met six-year-old Helen Keller in 1887. Helen was both deaf and blind. Bell directed Helen's parents to a school where they met Annie Sullivan, the teacher who taught Helen how to communicate with other people. Helen and Bell remained friends throughout his life and worked together to help people with disabilities. In order to communicate with Helen, Bell learned sign language (a language in which hand gestures are used to stand for different words of speech and also to represent the letters of the alphabet) and Braille (a system of writing for blind people, using raised dots for letters that one "reads" by feeling these with the fingertips). Helen could "hear" by feeling a person's lips, as well as by feeling someone's hand signals with her hands. She could "speak" by signing, but by the age of 10 she had also learned to speak out loud.


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COHOES — "Hairspray" at Cohoes Music Hall offers joyous testimony to the delights and thrills of musical theater. A sunny, big-hearted staging of the 2002 Broadway musical adapted from the 1988 John Waters movie, C-R Productions' "Hairspray"is both goofily fun and stirringly inspirational. See it if you can before it closes next Sunday (10/24).
"Hairspray" — music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan — is a confection with heart and soul. The musical fuses the sounds of 1960s girl groups, bubble-gum pop and the R&B of early Motown to the story of a bouncy, overweight teen named Tracy Turnblad, whose cheer and optimism are so big they dwarf even her physical size. Her mission to permanently integrate Baltimore' teen TV danceathon, called "The Corny Collins Show," which allows only the occasional "Negro Day," suppplies both the plot and the social commentary for "Hairspray."
The way in which the creators sneak cultural criticism in among the musical's glossy good times is appealingly devious. Neither the show nor the Cohoes production push the messages. Instead, audiences are treated to more than two hours of ridiculously infectious music delivered by an attractive, fresh-faced cast that sings well and moves even better. When the big production numbers get cranked up and two dozen handsome young people are singing and dancing in jubilant celebration, only a true grump could imagine wanting to be anywhere else but watching them.
Kudos to the director-choregrapher, Michael Susko, making his C-R Productions debut, for the casting, led by the marvelous Meg Doherty as Tracy. She's alive in the role, winning in her can-do enthusiasm but able to convey, with a quick downcast glance or briefly faltering facial expression, the effect of insults and other indignities inflicted on her by the thin, the pretty, the popular.
Talent runs deep in this cast. Ryan Crimmins delivers more than just hunk-with-a-heart stereotyping as Link Larkin, the "Corny Collins Show" hearththrob who becomes Tracy's boyfriend and co-conspirator in the integration effort. Amy Nielson and Emila Senn are pleasingly hissable villainesses as the blonde mother-daughter duo who want to keep the status quo, which in their case means an all-white show and Link as Amber's beau. Cory Washington brings a bright personality and physical panache to Seaweed, leader of the black teens and son of "Negro Night" DJ Motormouth Mabelle. And special nods to C-R Productions co-founder Jim Charles and actor Bill Douglas, who are perfectly paired as Tracy's parents, the rotund Edna and the diminutive Wilbur, respectively. (Edna was played by Waters' muse, the drag queen Divine, in the original movie, by Harvey Fierstein on Broadway and John Travolta in the 2007 movie musical.)
Working on and in front of Jen Price Fick's excellent multilevel set, and supported by an ace band led by musical director Kenney M. Green, director Susko keeps the action moving while finding time, when appropriate, for tender moments and occasional PG-rated humor. This isn't just shiny, hummable fun. It's a complete, fully realized evening of musical theater.
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Operatoonity.com review: Oscar presented by Opera Philadelphia; a co-commission and co-production with The Sante Fe Opera
Live performance: Sunday, February 15, 2015
The Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA
Music: Theodore Morrison
Text: John Cox and Theodore Morrison
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4.0 stars
And the Oscar goes to . . . Opera Philadelphia!
It may be Oscar Weekend across the globe, but for the last two weekends, Opera Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love's preeminent opera company, deserves an Oscar for offering the East Coast premiere of a new American opera of the same name, co-commissioned and co-produced with The Sante Fe Opera.
Oscar's production values were exquisite. Philadelphia audiences were treated to a world-class performance by arguably the world's most outstanding and in-demand countertenor David Daniels. But most importantly, a new American production was ushered into the repertoire–one with heft, musical beauty, and promise for a fresh new future for opera, one that isn't reliant on tasteless regietheatre-style regurgitations of classic operas or endless reproductions of La Traviata.
As a new production, as new productions are wont to be, the show itself had some imperfections, which is why I gave it four stars. While it was a noble choice to paint Wilde as a tragic hero, the parts of Wilde's life highlighted in Oscar combine to recreate a sort of grim limbo. From time immemorial, "new" productions have been refined or reworked based on audience and or critics' reactions. While Theodore Morrison's music was resonantly and refreshingly melodic, the overall tone of the show itself needed a little polishing and more seamless integration, as if Morrison and Cox couldn't decide what kind of show it was supposed to be. Oscar is alternately a despairing commentary on insufferably rigid Victorian mores and occasionally broadly satirical while very rarely bright. Agreed, dehumanization and imprisonment of human beings because of their sexual preferences aren't the stuff of uplifting subject matter.
While Oscar effectively showcased the stain of intolerance on humanity, it rarely conveyed Wilde's bright and often biting wit. Wilde himself used humor to lampoon societal values during Queen Victoria's time. Yet, there are only glimmers of his comedic genius in the libretto, lines such as, "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder." The broad satire of Wilde's trial to close Act I was nothing short of a tour de force:
However, irony might have also served this production. Generations of theatregoers derived intense pleasure and entertainment from a beloved playwright's public genius but reveled in the condemnation of the same man's private proclivities. With such an unrelentingly dark treatment, more brightness would have made the dark scenes that more impactful. One broadly satirical scene does not an eye-popping production make.
One of the show's welcome devices was making a narrator out of the ghost of American poet Walt Whitman, who sets the scene for the drama. Whitman met Oscar Wilde during his 1882 American tour but had passed away by the time Wilde reached the height of his fame. This from-the-grave commentary intrigued. Whitman ellipses the time between the premiere of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and his prosecution for "gross indecency." Again, a bit more of Wilde's life as the toast of London would have made his fall from grace that more deeply felt.
Baritone Dwayne Croft was perfect in the role of Whitman, which required an immortal grace, and he was equal to the task in voice and presence.
Without equivocation, the writers drove home Wilde's obsession with his young lover Bosie. Making Oscar Wilde's young lover a non-speaking balletic role was an inspired device, lending the production a welcome elegance and beauty.
As Bosie, Reed Luplau, a dancer from Western Australia, made a stunning Opera Philadelphia debut. Seán Curran's choreography fit Luplau like a kid glove as Luplau dipped and glided into Wilde's reverie, evoking the Irish-born playwright's tortured longing for a sheerly lovely young man, whose father, the Marquess of Queensbury, was committed to Wilde's downfall.
The roles of Ada Leverson and Frank Harris were expertly sung by soprano Heidi Stober and tenor William Burden, a standout from last season's Silent Night. Both performers valiantly endeavored to make their mark but were unfortunately burdened (pun wholly intended) by three very slow-moving scenes. While it is a time-honored operatic technique to comment on action that has occurred earlier, such as Frank's infamous luncheon parties in the old days or Whitman's devolution into poverty at his end, it's not necessarily the most dramatically punchy technique.
So, the show overall is flawed, but Opera Philadelphia's execution was just about flawless. One can't underestimate the value of their partnership with The Sante Fe Opera on this endeavor. These co-productions turn out to be much greater than the sum of their resources. Ingenious sets; world-class performances; inspired direction, lighting, and costumes are just a few values that one can expect when companies cooperate rather than compete. A very capable Opera Philadelphia orchestra conducted by Evan Rogister in his Opera Philadelphia debut showcased the compelling musical voices Morrison has created to tell the story, without overwhelming the singers.
Opera Philadelphia is taking on important work and more than a little risk with works like Oscar. They are informing and shaping the landscape of new American opera and will continue to do so with this season's Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD and next season with another East Coast premiere of Cold Mountain by Jennifer Higdon and Gene Scheer. And the entire opera firmament is better and stronger for their daring to reach beyond what is known and comfortable.


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