1st Quarter 2013: On the Business-As-Usual Bulwark: Changing Values at the Brink

During the 2012 year-end holiday season, deadly gunfire in an Oregon
mall and a Connecticut elementary school left all Americans with broken
hearts.  Wondering how to stop the carnage, most responses call for greater gun control, school security, and mental illness prevention and treatment. This incomprehensible violence followed Hurricane Sandy that caused at least 125 deaths and over $60 billion in direct losses(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/superstorm-hurricane-sandy-deaths-2012_n_2209217.html), whose impact demanded immediate help for recovery to those devastated and displaced, which has been forthcoming.