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Lady Flames land in 22nd place at National Championships
April 5, 2014 | Chattanooga, Tenn.
Liberty University's women's gymnastics team placed second in Thursday's opening session of preliminaries, behind only Texas A&M, at the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics (NAIG) Club Championships at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Convention Center.
The Lady Flames scored 127.355 points as a team, placing them behind the Aggies (142.175) and ahead of the University of Texas (122.55), the University of Ohio's A team (121.575), the University of Denver (120.275), and Ohio's B team (92.55).
Overall, Liberty placed 22nd out of 75 schools based on Thursday's preliminary performance.
However, only the top team out of each of the eight sessions advanced to Saturday's team finals, in addition to the top two individuals in each of the four events.
Liberty Head Coach Rachel Steele wound up as the Lady Flames' only individual qualifier with her score of 9.325 in the floor exercise, the second highest in the session behind Texas A&M's Hannah Van Meter (9.375). She also came close to qualifying on the balance beam, an event she won at the national level while competing for Liberty as an undergraduate in 2010. She finished fourth with a score of 9.0, behind the Aggies' first- and second-place tandem of Stuckey (9.45) and Van Meter (9.2) as well as Tarrant County College's Sydney Reigel (9.05).
Steele, who placed third in the preliminaries and tied for 23rd overall with her All-Around score of 34.925, was competing in place of sophomore Alexanda Westcott, who didn't make the trip to Tennessee due to another commitment.
"That was unfortunate because she is one of our best girls and we really could have used her scores in the competition," Steele said. "We did the best we could without her and were really encouraging and kept a positive attitude. We had a really good time."
It was the first time in more than three years for the third-year coach to compete at NAIG Nationals.
"You're allowed to compete if you're a student and I'm in graduate school now," Steele said, noting there is no limit to the number of years of eligibility. "I trained two or three times with the team before we left and It was fun to be able to compete again."
Not wanting to take attention away from the team, she decided not to compete in the finals, but to allow junior Alyssa Frost the opportunity to perform on the balance beam in her place.
"She did well and hit her beam routine, scoring a 9.175," Steele said. "If she'd been eligible for a medal that would have tied her for ninth place."
Frost's score of 9.1 on the vault in preliminaries narrowly missed qualifying her for the finals behind Texas A&M's Molly Stuckey (9.2) and Van Meter and Reigel, who tied for second at 9.15.
"Alyssa's vault was a highlight of the day," Steele said. "She has a pretty competitive vault which helps her start value (for high degree of difficulty)."
Frost placed seventh in her preliminary session in the All-Around, also scoring well in the balance beam (9.1) and floor exercise (9.0, tied for ninth).
Freshman Jessica Hogue tied for 10th in the preliminaries in the All-Around with her score of 32.1.
"Jessie Hogue and Constance McNair (a sophomore) turned in really good floor routines," Steele said.
Hogue scored an 8.9, which tied her for 11th in the session, and McNair recorded a 7.75.
Senior Tiphani Comena also got to fill in for the Lady Flames in preliminaries, competing well on the balance beam (7.58) and vault (8.0).
"We counted both of her scores, so it was great she was able to contribute," Steele said.
Liberty's only male competitor was graduate student Jonathan Baldwin, who finished 20th out of 33 gymnasts in his session in the All-Around competition on the strength of his 23rd-place showings in both the rings (10.1) and parallel bars (10.9). Though he didn't qualify, he was also given a mercy rule exemption to compete in the finals on the floor for the experience.
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We are a small software start-up in London dedicated to transforming the telecoms industry. Just so you know - the global telecoms industry is undergoing radical change as companies move away from old polluting legacy phone infrastructures and start doing all their communications on software using standard servers. Now this is all fine as software is far cheaper and more flexible. HOWEVER - some of the heavy lifting tasks that were undertaken on the legacy systems can all be done via software BUT take up alot of CPU overhead - that is where Howler comes in!
We design software solutions that accelerate common telecoms tasks and make them run faster.
End result - we can make our software far cheaper than anyone else because its more efficient and you use far less hardware to run it. We genuinely want to transform the telecoms industry with our products.
Our first product is software only accelerator for transcoding. We also design software that runs on the cell processor - this is a highly performant vector processor from IBM (there is one in every playstation3).
Oh - we are called Howler because in the old days the signal you heard down a telephone line to set up a call was called a 'Howler'. We then named our core product Caraya (which isn't ready yet) after the Howler monkey.....confused? Yes I thought so...
Our first product is compatible with the open source soft switch market (soft switches like Asterisk & Freeswitch). However - our key target audience are VOIP resellers, telecoms integrators and VARS. Basically - if you want a phone system installed in your office who do you call? - these guys are Howler's target customers.
Because we are the new kids on the block we want potential customers to be assured that whatever they buy from us has a guarantee that it will work and do what it says - until we build up a brand in the market its understandable customers will be slightly nervous about dealing with us and the claims we make (which are all true by the way!)
What we want is a logo that will be displayed on our home page and order page to highlight that any product brought from us comes with 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. A 'square' design or rectangular would be preferable. Circular designs also considered.
This needs to be in keeping with our current Howler logo (see howlertech.com) and should contain the words 'Howler Alpha 100% Satisfaction Guarantee '. The text can be changed according to design etc 'Howler Alpha 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on all purchases' would be fine or 'Howler Alpha Guarantee - 100% Satisfaction on all purchases'. As long as it gets the point across!
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Whatever happened to Zuckerberg's Law?
In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg told a tech-conference audience that the amount of information people shared seemed to be doubling every year.
It was a bold prediction. It just doesn't seem to be coming true.
If anything, people are undersharing—and that poses a massive challenge to the Facebook CEO's vision of Graph Search.
Zuckerberg unveiled Graph Search, a considerable upgrade to Facebook's notoriously weak search feature, last week, to much fanfare. For the lucky few who get access to it—Facebook is rolling it out slowly—it will be far easier to learn which friends are available for dating, who might be a good recruit, and which restaurants friends frequent.
All that assumes, however, that people actually share that data with Facebook. Graph Search can only search what people share. And it's not clear most users actually share enough to make searches on Facebook interesting..
Facebook has been testing Graph Search internally. But Facebook employees are notoriously heavy users of the service. As early employee Kate Losse chronicled in "The Boy Kings," her memoir of her time at the social network, sharing is expected as part of Facebook's culture.
Consider this impressive number: Facebook users have collectively posted 240 billion photos to date, with its 1 billion users now uploading another 300 million a day. But three years ago, Facebook had 400 million users who were posting about 100 million photos a day. That's about a 10% annualized increase in photo-sharing activity—hardly the doubling Zuckerberg spoke of in 2008.
Location is another form of data that Facebook has tried to get users to share. But that's mostly been a flop. Facebook's standalone Places feature, more or less a Foursquare clone, was killed off in favor of a subtler inclusion of location information in status updates and photo posts. And it turns out that most Internet users—even savvy smartphone owners—aren't interested in checking in.
Facebook has made attempts to get people to provide better local data—for example, encouraging users to rate restaurants after they check in. But that assumes they've checked in at all.
What about work-related searches for recruiting—a category Facebook engineering manager Lars Rasmussen highlighted at the launch of Graph Search?
Pete Kazanjy, the CEO of TalentBin, a recruiting search engine which gathers information about prospective hires across multiple social networks and websites, has actually run the numbers.
TalentBin hasn't analyzed all of Facebook's users. Kazanjy describes its sample set as "heavily biased towards Silicon Valley types who have more of a proclivity to fill this stuff out." Even among that tech set, fully half had no job information at all on their profile.
The other half, on average, provided 120 characters worth of information about their work history. LinkedIn users, by contrast, had 1,800 characters of work information—15 times as much data.
"There's zero threat to LinkedIn from structured data in Facebook," Kazanjy concludes—because the data isn't there to search on.
So much for finding new hires through Graph Search.
Facebook's most recent attempt to accelerate the pace of sharing, a strategy it called "frictionless sharing," seems to have flopped.
A category of apps called "news readers," which more or less tricked users who clicked on a news story shared by friends to install an app that similarly reported their reading habits, drove users crazy. After specifically recommending the frictionless approach to developers, Facebook backtracked, saying that those features lead to "low quality user experiences."
Outside of limited categories, like music and fitness apps, frictionless sharing seems dead—and with it, the ever-increasing pace of information posting predicted by Zuckerberg's law.
So where does that leave Graph Search?
One theory people have—and until Graph Search is rolled out at scale, it's nothing but a theory—is that once Facebook users figure out that the information they post is easy for friends to find, they'll share more.
But that could just as well go the other way: The ease with which photos, check-ins, and likes can now be found might scare users into sharing less.
Graph Search was a necessary move for Facebook: As Facebook's Rasmussen points out in a blog post, the company had to upgrade the hodge-podge of disparate search engines it had built over time.
But Graph Search is necessary, not sufficient, for Facebook's success. The problem Facebook must solve now is making Zuckerberg's Law more than just a theory.


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What do come to your mind when you think of marriage? Look at the TV and you will see what most of our society thinks of it. On one channel you have one man dating thirty women at the same time to find his one-and-only love.
On the next channel, you have a man and woman meeting each other for the first time at the altar after being matched based on a survey. The next channel may have a woman with an astronomical budget looking for a dress that will make her feel like a princess/mermaid/model for the day.


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The Bishop of Tenorio's castle.
This castle was built as a monastery according to an order by Alfonso VI in honour of the saints Servando and Germano. But due to the fact that it is close to the Alcántara bridge it was transformed into a fortress for the defence of the town.
It is situated opposite the Alcántara bridge. It was reconstructed on the site of the ruins of the Arab castle. It is one of the finest examples of Mudejar military architecture in Spain. The cylindrical towers and crenellations with its horseshoe arches. The gateways are quite Mudejar.
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- Historic period: 14th century
- Setting: Alcántara Bridge.
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Assisted Living Foundation
We're an online directory of assisted living centers and senior housing communities in the United States.
Demographic: 30-50 year olds looking to find an assisted living center for their elderly parents.
These people are not necessarily new to the internet, yet an outlandish design might not fit with the project.
We want our Logo to fit the current design template of our Joomla! website. You can find a demo of that design (without logo) here: http://formerheroinaddict.com/joomla/
We'd like to naturally have the logo fill up the space in red.
We would consider having some slogan text embedded in the logo, perhaps underneath it or to the right of it, that reads "Find Assisted Living Centers in the United States". We probably want to use our own HTML to add this slogal, however, so feel free to leave it out.
We would like to have the logo include the name of the brand "Assisted Living Foundation" as well as include a customized, unique, new graphic to associate with our brand.
We want this graphic and text to be primarily grey scale with a splash of color, probably blue. We expect that the PSD files we receive will easily allow us to change this one splash of color (if for whatever reason this is not possible please let us know).
The graphic should fit within the header spacing (910x115) and should compliment the design of the preexisting template. Perhaps you utilize the 'light' effect of the template and have the logo bend in an rainbow shape around it, or maybe the logo seems to appear out of the top section of the template (where the date is shown). I'm not a designer, that's up to you.
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MTA approves reimbursements
Metropolitan Transportation Authority leaders voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to credit New Haven Line riders for suffering through service disruptions caused by last week's power failure in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
"This is the place for doing what is right," MTA board member Fernando Ferrer said. "This is right, you know an issue when you see it. This was a singular event, inconveniencing not only a host of people along the New Haven Line -- but significant portions of our regional economy."
At the same time, the railroad announced it will be able to increase service for Wednesday's commute to bring capacity to about 65 percent.
A week since the failure of the 138,000-volt feeder cable, the MTA board met Tuesday and took the unprecedented step of reimbursing Metro-North customers for weekly and monthly tickets not used following the power failure.
Customers with weekly and monthly passes will be able to redeem those tickets for a discount on future passes equivalent in price to the number of days service was reduced as a result of the electric failure, MTA CEO and President Thomas Prendergast said.
"If it is a weekly pass (the credit) will be worth one week, and if it is a monthly pass it'll be for two weeks," Prendergast said, "What set this apart was the magnitude and duration of the problem. That's what made it a one-off."
Based on average weekly fare revenue of $2.2 million on the New Haven Line, the total cost of granting the credits could break $4 million, Prendergast told the board before the vote.
Metro-North President Howard Permut announced that Con Edison has established a third transformer near Harrison, N.Y., to provide electricity so the railroad can run more electric trains during Wednesday's rush hour. Altogether, the New Haven Line railroad will be able to accommodate about 65 percent of its normal ridership of more than 31,000.
Board members echoed elected officials, including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, urging Prendergast to quickly and aggressively pursue recovering the costs of reimbursing riders and other costs associated with the lengthy service outage from Con Edison.
"I expect that claim to be quickly filed," board member Charles Moerdler said.
Ralph Scalia, a Westport commuter who was boarding the 5:02 p.m. train for Stamford on his Tuesday evening commute, said he was surprised the railroad was agreeing to a discount for riders based on the service disruption.
Scalia worried that the specific rules of the discount might result in him getting back less than half his $341 monthly pass cost from Westport to Grand Central Terminal.
"If they aren't going to charge the processing fee for the refund, then this is a great thing and a new thing in the history of the railroad," Scalia said. "It is definitely something that people deserve."
On Tuesday, Malloy sent a letter to the MTA board recommending they approve a refund plan that would hold Con Edison financially liable for the cost of reimbursing riders, as well as restoration of service.
"Not only has Metro-North service been severely disrupted, this incident has caused disruption in the critical Boston-New York corridor served by Amtrak," Malloy said. "This incident has had an enormous -- and unacceptable -- impact on the economies of Connecticut and New York."
On Sunday, Metro-North and Con Edison predicted full power being restored on the New Haven Line by Oct. 7, with the railroad hoping to restore its regular schedule the following day at the earliest if the replacement cable checks out.
On Monday, Con Edison officials revealed their initial finding that the failure of the feeder cable was likely due to a mistake in the process used to freeze a secondary cable placed out of service for the replacement of the cable. The area where the failure of the working feeder cable was found was close to an area where Con Edison crews had frozen the insulating oil in the pipe holding the out-of-service cable.
"In this case, we have confirmed that the fault is located just outside the "freeze pit" work area," the statement said. "
In addition, the ground surrounding the work area was frozen, and this unusual condition likely contributed to the feeder failure. We cannot recall a condition of this nature developing during any of our previous freeze operations."
During past service suspensions over the past two years, including a shutdown of the Danbury line after Superstorm Sandy, the railroad has resisted calls to offer credit based on weather-related disruptions, maintaining that it would be an administrative nightmare.
However, since last Wednesday's failure of the feeder cable, Malloy has publicly demanded reimbursement to compensate riders for the lengthy period of partial service, which can only accommodate 50 percent of the railroad's usual number of customers.
"Connecticut commuters should never have been put in this situation in the first place," Malloy said following the vote. "But the unprecedented action taken by the board today is the first step in making things right."


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Losing sleep over your home loan?
Over the past few months, my husband and I have been working with Housing Urban Development (HUD) housing counselors to modify our home loan and learn more about our mortgage options. It has been overwhelming to dig into the nitty-gritty details of the various government programs available to homeowners and to comprehend the fine print of our current mortgage.
Our situation is not unique and I know I'm not the only one losing sleep because of my home loan.
The National Military Family Association has heard from military homeowners across the Nation regarding their struggles with selling a home when they have orders to relocate. When PCS orders arrive, military families too often find their home is worth less than what they owe. In many cases, a LOT less.
While some families find renters, others struggle to maintain two house payments and make ends meets, or are forced to sell at a loss.
To help military families avoid foreclosure, the Treasury Department updated guidance to its Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) Program that may help in some circumstances. HAFA pays incentives for a short sale or a Deed-in-Lieu (DIL) of foreclosure used to avoid foreclosure when a borrower is financially unable to continue to pay their mortgage. Under the guidance, service members who cite a PCS order as the basis for their financial hardship when asking for help under HAFA will now be eligible even if their income has not decreased.
Our Association is continuing to work with policymakers to create better solutions for military homeowners. If you're a homeowner losing sleep over your home loan, seek help (888-995-HOPE) and learn more about your options. Your sleepless nights might become a thing of the past.
What are your concerns as a military homeowner – could the HAFA program help you?
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M&A activity jolted back to life in the middle of last year after lying in a near-comatose state for years.
Deal flow has increased, and — very important — more deals have been completed.
"Finally, CEOs are putting their capital to use," said Adam Patti, chief executive of IndexIQ, an alternative investment manager. "They feel more comfortable with the economy, and perhaps more comfortable with the regulatory uncertainty that has been occurring. Perhaps, they just want to get to work."
According to IndexIQ's analysis of data from global developed markets, 856 deals were announced in 2012, 511 were completed and 98 were canceled. In 2013, 814 deals were announced, 612 closed and 98 were canceled.
Year to date, 35 deals have been announced, 26 have been completed and five canceled.
Patti is seeing the increased activity in his firm's IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), which debuted in November 2009, based on the firm's two-year-old IQ Merger Arbitrage Index.
At times over the past few years, there were only 20 or 25 companies in the portfolio, he said. Now there are about 50.
"When deal flow increases," Patti said in a recent telephone interview, "merger arbitrage strategies tend to perform better because they get to capture that spread."
He said MNA's performance, which was "pretty dismal for three years," picked up last year. The fund was up 7.7% "with low volatility that is typical of merger-type strategies."
Patti said the firm would increase its focus this year on the small fund, which ended 2013 with some $23 million in assets, "because we feel the trend is finally coming to fruition. We think it's going to be a good year for M&A."
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Patti said IndexIQ's research showed that merger-arbitrage strategies lend themselves well to mechanical construction. Analysts examine data to identify attributes that merger arb portfolio managers consistently look for.
He and his colleagues studied 10,000 merger arb transactions over 10 years, looking for what made a successful deal versus an unsuccessful one. Dozens of criteria emerged.
Patti listed three core criteria for including a deal in the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index. A deal must be for the majority of the company. "We found that deals that aren't for at least 51% of the company generate poor returns."
They also found that deals receiving "low-ball" offers, even if they were bid up, generally got "busted"; they did not close. IndexIQ excludes busted deals from its analysis.
The analysts also look at the probability of a deal closing, and that probability influences holding periods. "We find deals close on an average of 120 days," Patti said.
"We hold some deals a lot longer than that, typically those with a high probability of closing by their stock price movements, but also based on industry; for example, utility deals because of a lot of regulation could take longer to close."
If a deal closes within the holding period prescribed by the probability of its closing, the fund reaps the rewards. Deals that fail to close within the holding period are removed from the index.
Patti and his colleagues rebalance the index every month. They consider only announced deals, he said. They do not speculate that a company might be acquired.
The deals are weighted based on trading volume. The more liquid a deal is, the higher its weight will be in the index.
IndexIQ invests in a deal at a critical juncture in the transaction, Patti said. "We find that once a deal is announced, there's an immediate spike in the price, but then that spike levels out, and that's where we're buying. Because we rebalance monthly, we're buying a deal on average with a two-week gestation on the announcement."
Most deals are cash deals. But for the portion of the index that comprises stock-for-stock deals, IndexIQ shorts the market exposure. Say 20% of the index is in stock-for-stock deals, the firm will short out 20% exposure split between domestic U.S. exposure and international exposure.
"Doing that gets rid of that market exposure," Patti said. "It doesn't take out individual company risk, but it gives you a bit of a higher return profile than would a typical merger-arb strategy and still provides lower volatility and overall better performance."
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AlterNet [1] / By Peter Drier [2] ecember 15, 2012 |
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has a 62-page list of mass shootings in America since 2005. It is Wayne LaPierre's resume.
For the past 21 years, LaPierre has been the National Rifle Association's executive Vice President and chief political strategist.
It is tempting to say that these shootings—including the most recent one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday—reflect something basically wrong with American culture or the nation's very soul. But the majority of Americans favor strict gun control laws. No, let's not burden Americans with collective guilt. The problem is more narrow—and more fixable—than that.
The long list of killings is due in large measure to the political influence of the NRA—and the campaign finance system that allows the gun lobby to exercise so much power. But an outraged and mobilized public can beat the NRA's clout and pressure Congress to put strong limits on gun sales.
The blood of the 27 victims of the Connecticut shooting, including 20 young children, is on LaPierre's hands. Of course, LaPierre didn't pull the trigger, but he's the NRA's hit man when it comes to intimidating elected officials to oppose any kind of gun control and the nation's most vocal advocate of gun owner rights.
There should be special place in hell reserved for LaPierre. He likes to fulminate about gun owners' rights. But so far he's has been silent on the nation's most recent gun massacre.
The NRA not only lobbies on behalf of "stand your ground" laws, but also offers insurance to members to pay for the legal costs of shooting people in "self-defense." The NRA also defends the right of Americans to carry concealed weapons, including handguns.
Adam Lanza—the 20-year old man who walked into the Connecticut school shot his victims with a semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle—is no doubt deranged. He's not alone. There are lots of crazy people around. But if we make it easy for them to obtain guns, they are more likely to translate their psychological problems into dangerous and deadly anti-social behavior.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2011 there were 15,953 murders in the United States and 11,101 (30 a day) were caused by firearms. Suicides and unintentional shootings account for another 20,000 deaths by guns each year. Of course, many more people are injured—some seriously and permanently—by gun violence.
The shooting in the Connecticut school was not an isolated incident. We've almost become used to a regular diet of gun-toting rampages. The most visible of them—like Columbine, the Virginia Tech killings, the murders in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater, and the Arizona shooting that nearly claimed the life of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and left six others dead—stick in our minds, but there are many others. Even more Americans are killed each year in one-on-one shootings.
Until we tame the power of the NRA, we can expect more killings like this.
The NRA has two knee-jerk responses to this. The first is that the Second Amendment gives all Americans the right to possess guns of all kinds—not just hunting rifles but machine guns and semi-automatics. Efforts to restrict gun sales and ownership is, according to the NRA, an assault on our constitutional freedoms.
The second is the cliché that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." To the NRA, gun laws have nothing to do with the epidemic of gun-related killings.
Both of these arguments are bogus, but the NRA has the money and membership (4 million) to translate these idiot ideas into political clout to thwart even reasonable gun-control laws.
Most gun-related deaths are committed by people who purchase their weapons legally. Others purchase or steal them illegally, but their ability to get access to guns is due to our lax laws on gun ownership. LaPierre's job is to make it easier for people to buy and use guns. And so far he's been very successful. Since the 1994 assault-weapon ban expired in 2004, Congress hasn't enacted any major gun regulations.
It is no accident that the United States ranks first in the world—by a wide margin—in gun-related civilian deaths and injuries. Compared with every other democracy, we have the most guns per capita and the weakest gun laws. But the danger isn't simply the number of guns; it is the type of guns we allow people to legally purchase. Other countries permit hunting rifles. But many Americans believe it is their right to own an assault weapon.
Even in countries with strong gun-control laws, some people will get their hands on a weapon and destroy others' lives. The tragic killing in Norway last year is testament to this reality. (Although let's recall that Anders Breivik bought $550 worth of 30-round ammunition clips from an American gun supplier for the rifle he used to kill 69 Norwegian kids at a summer camp. Thanks to American laws, it was a legal online purchase.) But the shooting in Norway was an infrequent occurrence; it is, in fact, one of the safest countries in the world. In contrast, the U.S. is off the charts in terms of murder rates.
In other well-off democratic countries, gun violence is rare and shocking. According to the recent comparative figures, the US had five murders for every 100,000 inhabitants. Finland was next with only 2.3 murders per 100,000 residents, followed by Canada (1.8), Belgium (1.7), France (1.3), England and Australia (both 1.2), Netherlands (1.1), Sweden (1.0), Germany (0.8), Norway (0.6) and Japan and Austria (both 0.5). In other words, America's murder rate is more than eight times greater than Norway's.
The news media will spend an inordinate amount of effort trying to figure out what was in Lanza's head before he put on his protective gear, carried two guns into the Connecticut school, and began his shooting rampage. Although the psychology and motives of the murderer may be fascinating, it should not be the major focus. There are plenty of deranged people in the world, but in most well-off countries they can't easily get their hands on a firearm.
Here's where the NRA comes in. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, since 1990, the gun rights lobby, led by the NRA, has contributed $29.2 million to candidates for Congress and the White House, 87% of it to Republicans. In the most recent election cycle, gun rights groups donated $3.1 million to political candidates and spent another $5.5 million in lobbying.
In contrast, since 1990 gun control groups have donated only $1.9 million to politicians, 94% to Democrats. In the most recent election cycle, these groups contributed only $4,000 to candidates and spent only $420,00 on lobbying.
Of course, Democrats are not immune from the NRA's influence. This summer, 17 House Democrats recently voted in favor of criminal contempt for Attorney General Eric Holder for his oversight of 'Operation Fast and Furious'. Not surprisingly, each of them received campaign contributions from the NRA in the previous two election cycles.
At the top of the gun rights food-chain is the NRA's Wayne LaPierre. It is hard to know if he's mentally unstable but he's certainly crazy like a fox (and Fox News). For example, LaPierre gave a speech earlier this year to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in which he said that President Obama was part of a "conspiracy to ensure re-election by lulling gun owners to sleep."
LaPierre added: "All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term." He also warned that everything that "gun owners across America have fought to achieve over the past three decades could be lost" if Obama won a second term.
Well, Obama did win a second term. In a statement soon after the Connecticut massacre, Obama called for "meaningful action" to curb gun violence. "Meaningful action" does not mean educating young people about bullying and violence. It does not mean instructing gun owners to be more responsible. It does not mean, as Mike Huckabee suggested on Friday, restoring God in our schools. It means pushing for strong gun control laws.
If Obama does take this kind of leadership, he will have the backing of an overwhelming proportion of Americans who support stricter guns laws. For example, 82% of Americans support limiting the sales of military-style assault weapons. Also, 87% of Americans support background checks on private sales of guns, including sales at gun shows. And 79% support requiring a police permit before the purchase of a gun. A majority of Americans oppose the NRA's top federal legislative priority—national reciprocity for concealed carry permits—which would allow people to enter any state with a concealed, loaded gun even if they fail to meet local permitting requirements. Not surprising, almost all (94%) police chiefs favor requiring criminal background checks for all handgun sales.
Although the NRA likes to portray itself as representing grassroots gun owners, the bulk of its money comes from gun manufacturers. LaPierre does not speak for America's gun owners. He is a corporate lobbyist. In fact, a majority of gun owners support stricter gun laws.
Every American grieves for the families and friends of the people killed and injured in the Connecticut shooting. But until we tame the power of the NRA, we can expect more killings like this, as well as the deadly daily diet of murders throughout America committed by angry and in some cases crazy gun-toting people whose "freedom" to own weapons of mass destruction LaPierre defends.
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Heyward's catch caps thrilling Braves victory
NEW YORK -- As he navigated a somewhat foreign territory and neared the end of his first game in nearly two weeks, Jason Heyward had the option of taking the conservative approach. But as soon as he began racing across the wet outfield grass at Citi Field, it was apparent he was determined to do something special.
"In situations like that, you always expect the ball to be hit to you, no matter where it is," Heyward said. "You want to be in that spot right there to make a play to win the game."View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- As he navigated a somewhat foreign territory and neared the end of his first game in nearly two weeks, Jason Heyward had the option of taking the conservative approach. But as soon as he began racing across the wet outfield grass at Citi Field, it was apparent he was determined to do something special.
"In situations like that, you always expect the ball to be hit to you, no matter where it is," Heyward said. "You want to be in that spot right there to make a play to win the game."View Full Game Coverage
Heyward has never experienced the thrill of hitting a walk-off home run. But if he does, the resulting sensation might not trump what he was feeling when he ended Monday night's 2-1 win over the Mets by diving to rob Justin Tuner of what would have been at least a game-tying single.
"I knew I had to dive off the bat, because I didn't think it was within my reach," Heyward said. "As I got closer, I was thinking, 'Obviously, you're going to try to make the play with two outs and the game on the line. If you don't catch it, so be it. Fortunately, I was able to get a good enough jump."
With runners at first and second and the right-handed Turner at the plate against Kimbrel, Heyward was shaded toward right field. As he started toward left-center to make the catch, no one would guess this marked just the fifth time he had played center field since beginning his big league career in 2010.
Heyward, who has primarily played right field, will handle the center-field duties while B.J. Upton misses at least another week with a strained right adductor muscle. Monday was the first game Heyward played since straining his right hamstring on July 11.
"He's a [heck] of an athlete and he has the Rawlings' Gold Glove for a reason," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He covers right field like a center fielder. He made a [heck] of a play to save the game."
An appreciative Craig Kimbrel stood on the mound with his arms stretched out after Heyward rescued the closer from what would have been his first blown save in more than two months. Reed Johnson, who had remained in left field after delivering the go-ahead single in the top of the ninth, jumped for joy after witnessing the dramatic catch.
"I think that is the highest I've jumped in six or seven years," Johnson said. "I said I was going to cry either way, whether he caught it or not. Happy tears is a good thing."
The Braves, held hitless through the first six innings by Dillon Gee, were staring at a potential shutout loss before they scored their only two runs of the game in the ninth against Bobby Parnell.
Brian McCann and Evan Gattis opened the ninth with consecutive singles off Parnell, and a passed ball by John Buck put pinch-runner Jose Constanza in position to score on Chris Johnson's one-out, game-tying groundout. This set the stage for Reed Johnson to come off the bench to drill his decisive single up the middle.
Johnson's game-winning hit came a little more than 24 hours after he lined out with the bases loaded and had a two-run home run taken away from him in Sunday's loss to the White Sox.
"It feels great, especially coming off the bench," Reed Johnson said. "To be able to help impact a game like that means a lot. It's tough in that situation against a closer, and it's even tougher when you're in a pinch-hit situation. It really feels pretty good."
After being held hitless through the first six innings, the Braves finally recorded two singles before loading the bases against Gee in the seventh inning. But like they had done twice on Sunday, they came away from this bases-loaded threat without scoring a single run.
"I felt like we were in a pretty good position to win [yesterday's] game a couple of different times," Reed Johnson said. "We didn't really have anything go our way. Today we did."
The Braves' 30th comeback win of the season was possible because of Julio Teheran. The only run the prized young right-hander surrendered came after Justin Upton misplayed Marlon Byrd's fly ball in shallow right field into a triple to begin the fourth inning. Ike Davis followed with an RBI single.
Three of the four hits Teheran allowed in his six innings could have been prevented with just a little defensive assistance. Davis' one-out double in the second inning landed on the left-field line just out the reach of Gattis, who is still adjusting to life as an outfielder. Daniel Murphy's two-out single in the third inning came courtesy of Johnson's late throw across the diamond.
But by the time the Braves scored twice in the ninth and then ended the game with Heyward's acrobatic theatrics, Gee was left empty-handed. In his previous start against Atlanta, he carried a shutout bid into the ninth inning before surrendering Freeman's walk-off home run.
"[Gee] pitched a great game, tremendous game," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "Certainly he didn't get much, but you have to credit [the Braves]. There's a reason they have a [seven-game] lead in the division. They have a great pitching staff, they've got a good club. They're tough to score runs on."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Contents >> Other areas of social concern >> Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: contact with the law
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Contact with the Law
Data from the 2002 NATSISS show that 24% of Indigenous Australians aged 15 years or over reported being the victim of physical or threatened violence in the 12 months prior to the survey, 16% reported being arrested and 7% reported being incarcerated in the five years prior to the survey.
PRISONERS(a): SELECTED INDICATORS - 2004
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE(a): WHETHER INCARCERATED BY SELECTED INDICATORS - 2002
Ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous imprisonment(a) - 2002-04
In 2002, over one in three (35%) Indigenous Australians aged 15 years or over reported having been formally charged at some time in their lives. Approximately one in six (16%) Indigenous persons reported having been arrested in the last five years.
The proportion of men who had been charged was more than double the proportion of women (50% compared with 21%). High proportions of both Indigenous men (24%) and Indigenous women (9%) reported being arrested in the last five years. The frequency of arrests of Indigenous people declined with age.
Support from family and community can help to prevent re-offending. However, offenders can have difficulty reintegrating with their family and community following contact with the criminal justice system. Indigenous people who had been arrested in the last five years were more likely to report not having access to support from someone outside their household in a time of crisis (15% compared with 9%). A greater proportion of Indigenous people who had been arrested in the last five years had moved house in the last 12 months compared with other Indigenous people.
Contact with law enforcement both reflects and leads to social and economic disadvantages. Unemployment was higher for Indigenous people who reported being arrested in the last five years (29% compared with 11% of those not arrested) and employment was lower (36% compared with 48%).
A higher proportion of Indigenous people who had come into contact with law enforcement reported being victims of personal violence. About half (47%) of Indigenous people who reported being arrested also reported being the victim of physical or threatened violence compared with 20% of those who had not been arrested.
Indigenous people(a): frequency of arrest(b) - 2002
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE(a): SELECTED INDICATORS OF SOCIAL ATTACHMENT - 2002
...family violence
Family violence and other violent crimes are widespread in many Indigenous communities (endnote 5). In 2002, one in five (21%) Indigenous Australians aged 15 years and over reported that family violence was a common problem in their neighbourhood or community. Survey respondents reported family violence as being a community problem much more in remote areas than in non-remote areas. It was also more frequently reported as a community problem by people living in overcrowded dwellings.
Other neighbourhood or community problems including assault, sexual assault and generally high levels of neighbourhood conflict were also more frequently identified as community problems by Indigenous persons in remote areas or living in overcrowded dwellings.
Indigenous people(a): proportion reporting selected neighbourhood or community problems by remoteness - 2002
...personal violence
In 2002, 24% of Indigenous people aged 15 years and over had been victims of physical or threatened violence in the last 12 months. Victimisation declined with age, with the highest level of victimisation reported by 15–24 year olds, and the lowest levels reported by those aged 55 years and over.
Data from the ABS 2002 General Social Survey and the 2002 NATSISS (endnote 6) show that, after removing the effects of the different age structures of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, Indigenous people recorded higher levels of victimisation than non-Indigenous people (20% compared with 9%).
People who are victims of violence may also experience other disadvantages. In 2002, Indigenous people who were victims of physical or threatened violence were more likely to be unemployed than those who did not report victimisation (21% compared with 11%) and less likely to be employed (39% compared with 49%).
Indigenous people who were victims of physical or threatened violence were more likely than those who did not report victimisation to assess their health as Fair or Poor (28% compared with 22%). Victims of physical or threatened violence were also more likely than those who did not report victimisation to have a disability or long-term health condition (43% compared with 34%).
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE(a): PROPORTION REPORTING SELECTED NEIGHBOURHOOD OR COMMUNITY PROBLEMS BY OVERCROWDING(b) - 2002
Indigenous people(a): victimisation(b) by selected health indicators — 2002
1 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2004, Australia's Health 2004, AIHW, Canberra.
2 Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003, Prisoners in Australia, cat. no. 4517.0, ABS, Canberra.
3 McCall, M 2004, Deaths in Custody in Australia: 2003 National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) Annual Report, Technical and background paper no. 12, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
4 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1997, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. HREOC, Sydney.
5 Gordon, S, Hallahan K, Henry, D, 2002 Putting the picture together: Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Abuse in Aboriginal Communities. Department of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia, Perth.
6 Australian Bureau of Statistics 2004, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, cat. no. 4714.0, ABS, Canberra.
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It became obvious during the 2012 presidential race that our current political system is incapable of responding to climate change and other urgent problems facing our country. The words "climate change," for example, were apparently so challenging that they were never mentioned in the presidential debates. So, what's a concerned person to do? The answer is closer than you think: Knock on your neighbor's door and start an affinity group.
An affinity group usually consists of 10 to 20 people, often neighbors or people who already know each other. Most come together to take bold action, like engaging in nonviolent protest to promote social change. But they also support one another through mutual aid—sharing food, resources and skills—to increase their resilience, economic security and well being.
Small groups based on social bonds and shared interests are the primary way we humans have always organized ourselves. Think of families, work colleagues, neighbors and social circles. The term "affinity group" for a small community formed around a political cause goes back to 19th century Spain. But small group organizing has been used to build every successful mass movement in history—by the anti-slavery campaigners in 18th century England, the civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South in the 1950s, and the feminists who formed small consciousness-raising groups in the 1970s.
I'm a long-time veteran of affinity groups, so I've seen first-hand how powerful they can be. Between 1977 and 1979, I was in an affinity group affiliated with the Clamshell Alliance that opposed the construction of the Seabrook nuclear power station in New Hampshire. We trained in Gandhian nonviolent civil disobedience and participated in a variety of protests. While we didn't succeed in stopping Seabrook, thousands of us got schooled in principled direct action and democratic decision-making.
In 1983, I joined another affinity group to "pledge to resist" a possible U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. This effort engaged thousands of people across the country and helped to containthe Reagan administration's interventionist impulses. Our affinity group of 15 people, the Five Rivers Organizing Group, remained together for years and was a source of personal support and mutual aid. It was also a place where individuals could join others to think strategically about how to take effective political and social action.
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Motivated by the urgency to respond to climate change, I've recently joined a dozen others to form an affinity group in Boston. The purpose of our group is to keep our spirits up, sing more, and engage in creative actions around the climate crisis. We have begun to reach out to other affinity groups in the Boston area to learn from their efforts.
I just watched the PBS Frontline documentary "Climate of Doubt" with four members of my affinity group. The film gave me a better understanding how the organized climate deniers worked to kill cap and trade legislation and influence public attitudes about climate change. Watching it alone might just have added to my despair about climate change. But watching the documentary with others allowed me to think proactively about its implications for us individually and as organizers.
The fossil-fuel industry is using its huge political clout to block urgent climate reforms in order to continue its short-term financial gains. As Bill McKibben wrote in "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," published inRolling Stone, "If people come to understand the cold mathematical truth—that the fossil-fuel industry is systematically undermining the planet's physical systems—it might weaken it enough to matter politically. Exxon and their ilk might drop their opposition to a fee-dividend solution."
The day after the election, McKibben and environmental group 350.org launched a "Do The Math" campaign calling colleges, individuals, and religious institutions to divest from fossil fuels. Targeting the fossil fuel industry's profits is an appropriate strategy and 350's new campaign looks promising. But we've clearly reached a moment when we also need to organize ourselves—whether it's to convince an institution we're part of to move its investments or to prepare our community for a "Frankenstorm" (like Hurricane Sandy) most likely caused by climate change.
Imagine, six months from now, the existence of a vibrant new social movement that no longer waits for elected politicians to lead. One that engages in direct action against the outsized lobbying power of the fossil fuel industry. Imagine college students and religious congregations organizing to divest from fossil fuel companies and reinvest in the new economy. Imagine all these efforts pushing Congress to separate "oil and politics" and find real climate solutions.
There are so many of us concerned climate realists out there. We know something must be done, now, and we know how difficult it is for one individual working alone to make a difference. Change has always started with people who made the decision that "enough is enough" and formed small groups for sustained and bold organizing. That's how the critical mass of broad social movements is formed. Just look at history.


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Facebook is in hot water with the Special Olympics after the tech giant banned a mother for posting pictures of her son competing in the event, according to reports.
Diana Cornwell of North Carolina posted photos of her son, who has Down Syndrome, to her Facebook page over the weekend. When she next logged on, she received messages from Facebook's monitoring team, saying that pictures she posted were violations of the Web site's user agreement, and that they must be deleted.
"Every photo was of my son at the Special Olympics Event," she told CBS.
Her account was disabled for three days until she took down the photos, according to SF Weekly. When she did, she received the following admonishment from the website's overlords: "Never upload anything that contains hate speech, support for violent organizations or threats to harm others."
A Facebook spokesman apologized, and said that Cornwell's account was flagged in error and that the company hopes she'll repost the pictures.
Cornwell isn't impressed. "This is not remotely over until they make some amends toward my son, toward myself, and the Special Olympics," she said.


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Tips for a Successful Midwinter
From Midwinter2007
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Adapted from the New Members Round Table (NMRT) "Conference Tips for ALA Annual"
Before Conference
- Check preview pages in December edition of American Libraries. Mark discussion groups and meetings of interest. Use ALA Handbook of Organizations for information about individual units and committees.
- Ask friends and colleagues what they are involved in and what they enjoy. Try to attend meetings or discussion groups with them at the Midwinter. Suggest that they introduce you to people.
- Plan for follow-up. Many libraries ask employees to report back on their meeting experiences. It is easier to synthesize needed information if you consider these questions before the conference.
- Cooperate with co-workers. If multiple people from your library are attending, talk with them about attending different sessions and meeting to discuss your experiences afterwards. Stay focused.
- Pack comfortable shoes. Pack light clothing that is comfortable but still professional. Pack snacks such as granola or power bars, apples and a few small bottles of water (if you do not have space buy some snacks when you arrive). Bring business cards.
At Conference
- Don't feel overwhelmed with the program guide at registration. When you have a free moment (hopefully your first night at the meeting), review the guide and revise your original schedule to fit the time and place of meetings. Don't schedule time too tightly. Allow enough time to go from one meeting to another. Schedule time for relaxing and sightseeing.
- Each day bring your revised schedule or tear out the program pages for that day as a reminder of meeting times and places.
- Meetings and discussion groups are at many different hotels in the city. The program guide provides maps which can help you gauge the distances between meetings. Don't worry if you arrive a little late or if you need to leave early. Attendees regularly come and go from meetings and discussion groups.
- If you want to get involved, attend committee meetings and introduce yourself to the chairperson.
At the exhibits
- Allocate plenty of time for the exhibits. Don't attempt to see all the exhibits in one day. Make several short trips. Use the program guide to select and find exhibitors.
- But also, allow for the seredipity of coming across a new vendor ... who just might have a product or service useful to your library.
- Don't pick up everything you see in the exhibits hall. Ask exhibitors to send you information after the conference. Take advantage of the "expocard" you get at registration--just have the exhibitor scan it! Or, if you have business cards, use them. Or, some people bring self-addressed labels.
- For materials you do pick up, make use of the on-site postal centers to ship materials back home or use bag check services. You will have a much easier time if you aren't trying to carry everything.
- Attend the exhibits early in the conference before vendor giveaways run low.
Other Conference Tips
- Check Cognotes, the daily conference newspaper, for last-minute additions and changes.
- Wear your badge to meetings and social events, but not on the street. This "brands" you as a visitor and a possible target.
- Attend vendor luncheons and receptions, talk to people in meetings, on the shuttle buses and at other events.
After Midwinter
- Keep Connections. Follow up with colleagues or presenters that you met. Getting to know new colleagues and peers is one of the most rewarding components of attendance.
- Apply Your Experiences. Even if you are not required to report on your time at Midwinter, you will retain new information and ideas better if you discuss them with co-workers. Share your notes or experiment with new ideas that learned about at conference.


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Scott has asked for pictures with regard to the Black Plastic fiasco, but I worry that this is not enough. We need to send a very strong message of solidarity among fans of this brand that we are very upset by this latest development. This petition is intended for people to indicate support for stopping this practice in MOTUC.
Note that this thread has been approved by dorrmann as a protected thread. It is protected in the sense that we are not looking for discussion either for or against the petition and posts that attempt to subvert the overall objective of this thread will be deleted, so please do not post negative comments or things like "I don't support this petition". The point here is solely to demonstrate how many fans DO support ending the practice of painting over Black Plastic in the Classics line. A simple post of "I support this petition" is all that is allowed or required in the thread.
If you are looking to discuss this issue, please use this thread... CLICK HERE
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Thanks in advance for your co-operation and support.
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In a conventional Mott insulator, magnitude of local spin moments remain fixed. They are `fixed spin Mott insulators'. We suggest that, in a multi orbital Hubbard model, when local Hund coupling is won over by inter-orbital superexchange couplings between neighboring sites, local spin moment can decrease its value in a cooperative fashion, through a first order phase transition, These are `Low spin state Mott insulators' (LSSMI). The minimal value of spins that can be reached are zero (half), for even (odd) number of electrons per site, We show that in LSSMI, depending on orbital degeneracy and electron number per site, novel quantum spin liquids can emerge, We discuss systems such as Fe arsenide, Fe selenide family and La2CoO3 in the light of our proposal. Certain long standing puzzles, including absence of any magnetic phase transition in La2CoO3 is explained in terms of a novel quantum spin liquid. Some properties of this spin liquid, a liquid of `quantum strings' will be discussed and some predictions made.


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President's Report
More Than a Restoration
President Colin Campbell
Gordon Wood, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Jim Lehrer, recipients of the Colonial Williamsburg Churchill Bell in April 2011 in recognition of lifetime commitment to citizenship education and public service, join Colin Campbell, left, and Andrea Mitchell, right, in a citizenship symposium.
The Idea of America Citizens Edition, the foundation's interactive online history curriculum for the general public.
From its inception, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has been a work in progress, a grand experiment in historic preservation and civic engagement.
No one had ever attempted anything like this before—a 20th century Virginia community returned to its 18th century appearance—and it demanded new, innovative methods of interpretation. We had to explore, with specialists and experts leading the way, how best to take advantage of the restoration of Virginia's colonial capital, Williamsburg.
Every step along the way, over many years, we gained insights into what worked and what fell short. We continuously improved our techniques, creating new programs to engage visitors and bring America's founding period alive. This enduring challenge remains an inspiration to all who work here. Getting it right enables us to have a beneficial and potentially lasting impact upon the work of self-government.
Today, once again, we find ourselves checking our assumptions against a shifting world, tested to keep up with a society that never sits still. In the span of a generation, communications technology has fundamentally altered the way people acquire, absorb, and share information. Computers in tablets and smartphones possess powers that were inconceivable a mere 20 years ago. It is a new world.
Yet, with all this easy, instant access to knowledge, we see a concurrent decline in heritage awareness, and the emergence of what has been described as "cultural amnesia." A worrisome diminution of civic education in our schools has growing numbers concerned over the strength and durability of democratic institutions.
Cultural commentators, examining current conditions from multiple perspectives, bemoan the state of American democracy, citing its polarized politics and the paucity of rational or even civil discourse.
We, in turn, have asked ourselves whether Colonial Williamsburg could make a more powerful and effective contribution to improving the state of civic knowledge and the foundations of public debate. Does the Revolution have lessons specifically useful to the American republic in 2012 and beyond?
We answer in the affirmative. The work of Colonial Williamsburg has become more compelling than ever.
American citizenship is constantly evolving. Over the course of our national history, the franchise became more comprehensive, more democratic, more shielding of civil liberties. Racial and ethnic hierarchies no longer shaped the republic. We discouraged privileged orders.
By so doing, we made the practical requirements of American citizenship more vital and significant. Civic passivity, while tolerable, was hardly desirable. We imagined an ideal of active citizenship, informed and principled.
But how exactly might Colonial Williamsburg advance that objective?
We begin by putting a straightforward label on what we are doing. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation—long more than a restoration—will position itself as a center for history, citizenship, and democracy.
We have been engaged in citizen education for most of our institutional history and more overtly in recent years. We believe it is time to be clear and forthright in saying what kind of place we are and intend to be.
Preservation is still at the heart of our mandate, but the physical restoration of Virginia's colonial capital is only the starting point for understanding—and learning from—America's founding.
One essential, first lesson of history lies in the recognition that great national conflicts and challenges often echo through the past. On the subject of a divided America, for instance, journalist Max Lerner wrote in 1957 that "one may see in these polar impulses the proof that American life is deeply split. One may prefer to see them as contradictory parts of a bewildering puzzle. Or one may see them as signs of an effort, on a grander scale than ever in history, to resolve the conflicting impulses that are to be found in every civilization but each of which occurs here with a strength and tenacity scarcely witnessed elsewhere."
Yes, Americans do tend to infuse our great debates with strength and tenacity.
And the stakes do matter to the world. We remain the hope of the world that democratic self-government, on a great scale, can be successfully sustained.
Democracy is not self-actuating. We have to work at it continuously, and Colonial Williamsburg offers a powerful instrument for taking part. Our mission is to take the founding period and the struggle for liberty—preface to rebellion, war, and constitution—and bring it to life so it has meaning and relevance.
Within an established institutional structure, Colonial Williamsburg will create new programs and build upon existing offerings with the objective of encouraging understanding of and exchanging views on the fundamental values of the nation, the genesis of these values, what it will take to sustain them, and why it is critical that we do so.
We will work within our historic frame of reference, the American Revolution, examining its sources and its consequences.
Our goal will be to advance the public's understanding of America's founding democratic principles; to use the past as a vehicle for illuminating the social trends and political choices America faces today; to tell historically authentic stories about people who sought liberty and prosperity and were determined to build a government that fosters both.
We want more people than ever in Williamsburg. An estimated 1.7 million visitors came to the Historic Area last year. Here is where we have consistently done outstanding work and where we continue to take an innovative approach to historical interpretation.
But today technology enables us to connect with the world. The reach of Colonial Williamsburg has never been greater. As you will see elsewhere in this report, our educational outreach and teacher development programs continue to expand. Visits to our Internet site are growing dramatically. If there are social media channels to exploit with the lessons of American history, we are doing so.
Scholarship, rock solid and credible, lies at the base of our efforts. But we have plenty of room to be creative about how we engage and most effectively connect the public with America's founding period.
What we have learned since the introduction of the Revolutionary City street theater interpretive program—the presentation of stories that trigger an emotional and intellectual response—has helped form the basis for going forward.
In our work, indifference is the enemy. We depict events that sparked a revolution, and, when we do it right, the ideas resonate in the present. The questions early Americans faced—on national unity, law, ethics, and enterprise—became the basis for the great clashes over slavery, diversity, immigration, suffrage, civil rights, and the very definition of liberty and citizenship.
How we take these great historic American issues and make them relevant to the present is only limited by the imagination we bring to the task.
What sort of things will Colonial Williamsburg—a center for history, citizenship, and democracy—undertake?
We will sponsor forums, discussions, and town meetings.
We will inquire into the role of the media in a modern democratic society.
We will explore the role of the courts and the rule of law.
We will examine the military and the role of religion in society.
We will examine the democratic efforts of other nations and link them to our own.
And all this will be done within the framework of the American Revolution and the first, core choices made by our founders.
We want to create new audiences—multi-generational, diverse, motivational. We want to build on existing programs for teachers.
The renowned historian Gordon Wood, a Colonial Williamsburg senior trustee, in the introduction of a collection of his essays published last year, writes that "we go back to the Revolution and the values and institutions that came out of it in order to refresh and reaffirm our nationhood."
"That for me," he says, "is why the Revolutionary era remains so significant."
We agree.
This great institution of Colonial Williamsburg, founded in the cause of the future, now has a decades-long legacy of its own. We intend to live up to it.
Colin G. Campbell
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We mentioned Microsoft's new Red Stripe Deal promotion earlier this month. It's not a special on Jamaican Beer but rather weekly discounts on Windows Phone apps and games. Every week Microsoft will highlight certain apps at a discounted price and you can pick them out of a crowd by the red stripe that surrounds their icon.
This week's deals includes the Xbox Live game Tiki Towers, the independent game Doodle Devil and the photography app Pictures Lab. All three Windows Phone apps have had their prices discounted from $2.99 to $.99.
Tiki Towers is a puzzle game where you try to navigate a group of monkeys across the forty-five gaming levels by building bridges with bamboo, coconuts, and vines. There is a trial version available and you can find Tiki Towers here in the Windows Phone Store.
Doodle Devil is a game of destruction where you destroy everything with spells and various deadly sins. Doodle Devil does have a free trial and you can find it here in the Store.
Pictures Lab is a photo editing app for your Windows Phone with a healthy stock of editing tools that includes effects filters, cropping tools, auto adjust features and photo sharing. As with the other Red Stripe deals, there is a free trial for Pictures Lab and you can find it here in the Windows Phone Store.
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STAGE TUBE: Stars of MAMMA MIA! Perform on IMUS IN THE MORNING
The Broadway stars of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' smash hit musical Mamma Mia!, "Dynamos" Judy McLane, Lauren Cohn and Felicia Finley, performed the ABBA hits "Dancing Queen" and "The Winner Takes It All" live yesterday morning, January 24 on "Imus in the Morning" on both television and radio nationwide. Click below to watch the performances!
Seen by over 50 million people around the world, Mamma Mia!, is celebrating over 4,600 performances at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre and remains among Broadway's top selling musicals. The original West End production of Mamma Mia! is now in its fourteenth year and has celebrated over 5,000 performances in London. The international tour has visited more than 74 foreign cities in 25 countries and been seen by over 4.3 million people. The blockbuster feature film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, is the most successful movie musical of all time grossing $600 million worldwide.
For tickets, schedule and information about Mamma Mia!, visit www.mammamianorthamerica.com.


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Photo Challenge: Pedalers' Paradise
Bike by Mike Allee
Celebrate the power of the bicycle! Cycling can be awesome fun, environmentally safe, and an excellent way to stay healthy and fit. May 1st marks the beginning of National Bike Month, highlighted by events such as Bike to Work Week, Bike to School Day, and other various National bike challenges.
It's time to gear up for this week's photo challenge and put all your emphasis into your best bike shot.
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