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Liberty Day events celebrate Patrick Henry, founding fathers

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HARVARD Roger Erber is all for the celebratory nature of Liberty Day weekend. But his true hope is to send off those who attend the Harvard conference with some lasting perspective.

"It's more than just a party," Erber said. "We have a vision here."

Erber and other Liberty Day organizers will put that vision into motion at the conference this weekend at the Starline Factory. Festivities kick off with a concert Friday night, followed by a conference during the day Saturday before evening activities, which include entertainment, reenactments, a fashion show, costume parade and dance.

The yearly event celebrates Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death," speech, and examines the founding fathers' views on a given topic. This year, speaker Paul Jehle will address America's foreign policy.

The hope is that attendees will get a feel for the way our founding fathers would approach modern issues of foreign policy, Erber said.

"At least if we are thinking straight on some things, if nothing else it will affect our votes and how we think about things," he said.

Liberty Day didn't start out so ambitious.

The first year, Roger and Maggie Erber gathered their family of eight children in their living room to recite speeches and sing songs to celebrate Henry, a figure the family has always held dear.

"Everyone had an assignment to do something just to stir our hearts to liberty," Roger Erber said.

Those they told about the day expressed interest in attending the next year. For several years thereafter, Liberty Day was an event spread mainly by word of mouth the Erber's invited those in their church and other homeschool families they knew.

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Liberty Day celebrates Henry, founding fathers

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HARVARD Roger Erber is all for the celebratory nature of Liberty Day weekend. But his true hope is to send off those who attend the Harvard conference with some lasting perspective.

"It's more than just a party," Erber said. "We have a vision here."

Erber and other Liberty Day organizers will put that vision into motion at the conference this weekend at the Starline Factory. Festivities kick off with a concert Friday night, followed by a conference during the day Saturday before evening activities, which include entertainment, reenactments, a fashion show, costume parade and dance.

The yearly event celebrates Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death," speech, and examines the founding fathers' views on a given topic. This year, speaker Paul Jehle will address America's foreign policy.

The hope is that attendees will get a feel for the way our founding fathers would approach modern issues of foreign policy, Erber said.

"At least if we are thinking straight on some things, if nothing else it will affect our votes and how we think about things," he said.

Liberty Day didn't start out so ambitious.

The first year, Roger and Maggie Erber gathered their family of eight children in their living room to recite speeches and sing songs to celebrate Henry, a figure the family has always held dear.

"Everyone had an assignment to do something just to stir our hearts to liberty," Roger Erber said.

Those they told about the day expressed interest in attending the next year. For several years thereafter, Liberty Day was an event spread mainly by word of mouth the Erber's invited those in their church and other homeschool families they knew.

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Edison edges ice-cold Liberty

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Liberty played the type of game it wanted to play against a difficult opponent on its biggest stage of the season at home Tuesday.

But one thing about basketball: No matter what, it's tough to win if you don't put the ball in the basket.

Liberty didn't, not often enough, and the No. 2 seed Patriots lost a 39-35 decision to No. 6 Fresno-Edison in a Central Section Division I semifinal.

"The pace was perfect; the defensive effort was exactly what we wanted," Liberty coach A.J. Shearon said. "We just didn't make shots we've made all year."

Edison (25-7) ended the game on an 11-2 run. Jamont Wilson scored on a putback, a layup and two free throws to make it 34-33 Tigers, and then Braxton Hicks stretched the lead to three with a pull-up jumper with about a minute left.

Liberty (20-8) cut it to 36-35 with a spinning, acrobatic baseline drive by sophomore Aaron Marcus, but then Daylon Potts hit two free throws -- the second one banked in -- and Kyle Ferreira missed a 3-pointer with less than a second left.

"We finally made some free throws, and Braxton made a big, big shot," Edison coach Tim Wilkins said. "If you'd have told me we scored 39 points and won, I'd tell you you were crazy."

The pace of the game was exactly at Liberty's preference. The Patriots committed 15 turnovers, but not many of them led to Edison fast breaks, and Liberty forced 21 turnovers with its varied zone defenses.

"If we would have lost some crazy game played at their pace, that would have been harder to deal with," Shearon said. "Sometimes you just have to accept that it wasn't your night."

Bray Barnes had 14 points to lead Liberty, but Ferreira, a sharpshooter who easily leads the Patriots in scoring, was held to 7 points and just one 3-pointer -- it tied the game at 27 at the end of the third quarter. Much of that was due to Edison's swarming man-to-man defense, led by guards Keith Hayes, Sergio Rocha and Will Lee.

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Liberty Mutual CEO's Pay Up 24% To $6.6 Million Last Year

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The CEO of Liberty Mutual Holding Company Inc. made $6.63 million last year, up 24 percent from 2012, not including $4.67 million in incentives that will provide value in future years and depend on the company's performance.

Company CEO David H. Long's compensation included $1.08 million in salary, $4.91 million in a bonus, $327,380 in value realized on restricted units and $318,983 in "other compensation," according to a Massachusetts state filing made public Friday.

This is the second year that mutual insurance companies in Massachusetts such as Liberty Mutual or Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. have disclosed their executives' compensation.

A Massachusetts law took effect July 1, 2012, requiring mutual insurers to publicly reveal their executives' compensation, which had not been public before.

Mutual insurers are owned by policyholders, unlike publicly traded companies owned by shareholders. Publicly traded companies disclose executive compensation each spring in a proxy filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mutual companies don't have stock, which is offered to executives at publicly traded companies as an incentive to boost the company's performance. Mutual companies do, however, use performance units which act as phantom stock, emulating a company's market value. In Liberty Mutual's case, appreciation units and restricted units "will provide a value at a future date based on the company's book value when they are redeemed by an executive," according to the company.

Liberty Mutual's Chief Financial Officer Dennis J. Langwell was compensated $2.15 million, not including $1.05 million in appreciation units and restricted units that will provide value in future years and depend on the company's performance.

Chief Investment Officer A. Alexander Fontanes was compensated $3.99 million, not including $1.65 million in appreciation units and restricted units that have value in the future.

Executive Vice President Timothy Sweeney was compensated $3.7 million, not including $1.5 million in appreciation units and restricted units.

Executive Vice President J. Paul Condrin III was compensated $3.7 million, not including $1.62 million in appreciation units and restricted units.

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