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Girls basketball: Freedom 61, Wiregrass Ranch 56

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Fri. December 5, 2014 |

WESLEY CHAPEL Freedom was in urgent need of a timeout after seeing a 16-point lead shrink to two.

Coach Laurie Pacholkes message was well received. And it helped to have Taylor Emery among those receiving it.

Be calm. Stay composed, said Emery, who did just that with layups on her teams next two possessions. Emery scored 33 points, 12 in the final quarter, and Freedom (7-0) grabbed a hard-earned 61-56 victory at Wiregrass Ranch on Friday.

Both teams entered unbeaten and Freedom had revenge on its mind. In a rugged 6A-8 district, Freedom didnt even make the playoffs last year. Wiregrass knocked off the Patriots in the district semifinals.

Emery, coming in at a clip of 41.5 points per game, actually saw her scoring average drop Friday. Amanda Melosky led Wiregrass (9-1) with 24 points. She heated up in the third quarter, after the Bulls had missed their first seven shots to fall behind 43-27. Freedom missed its last eight of the frame though, and it was 44-36 entering the fourth.

The Patriots went back up by 10 before Emery picked up her fourth foul, and quick back-to-back scores from T.K. Kidd and Melosky pulled Wiregrass to 48-46 with 5:09 left.

Out of the timeout, Freedom ran plays for Emery, with Alex Sadler and Bianca Igwe providing perfect assists. The margin never got below four. Igwe finished with seven assists and 11 rebounds to lead Freedom. Sadler had five assists.

The game was 15-all through one quarter, then Freedom turned up the defense, causing eight turnovers while committing just one in the second quarter for a 35-23 halftime lead.

We lost it in the second quarter, Bulls coach John Gant said. The last 11 minutes of the game we played Wiregrass Ranch basketball. Good defense, and we stopped handing it to them. Most teams would have folded up and died against a team as good as Freedom.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CoP Mod Scenario: Monolith Fortress Wave 2 (Freedom) – Video

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In the global struggle for Internet freedom, the Internet is losing, report finds

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The year 2014 marks the moment that the world turned its attention to writing laws to govern what happens on the Internet. Andthat has not been a great thing, according to an annual report from the U.S.-based pro-democracy think tank Freedom House.

Traditionally, countries eager to crack down on their online critics largely resorted toblocking Web sites andfiltering Internet content, with the occasional offline harassment of dissidents. But that has changed, in part because online activists havegotten better at figuring out waysaround those restrictions; Freedom House points toGreatfire, a service that takes content blocked in mainland China and hosts it on big, global platforms, like Amazon's servers, that the Chinese government finds both politically and technologically difficult to block.

In the wake of these tactics, repressive regimes have begun opting for a "technically uncensored Internet," Freedom House finds, but one that is increasingly controlled by national laws about what can and can't be done online. In 36 of the 65 countries surveyed around the world the state of Internet freedom declined in 2014, according to the report.

Russia, for example, passed a law that allows the country's prosecutor general to block "extremist" Web sites without any judicial oversight. Kazakstan passed a similar law. Vietnam passed decrees cracking down on any critiques of the state on social media sites. Nigeria passed a law requiring that Internetcafeskeep logs of the customers who come into their shops and use their computers.

There's a bigger worry at work, too, Freedom House says: the potential for a "snowball effect." More and more countries, the thinking goes, will adopt these sorts of restrictive laws. And the more that such laws are put in place, the more they fall within the range of acceptable global norms.

Also shifting those norms? According to Freedom House, "Some states are using the revelations of widespread surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as an excuse to augment their own monitoring capabilities, frequently with little or no oversight, and often aimed at the political opposition and human rights activists."

Indeed, in the United States, too, 2014 has been a time of writing rules about the Internet into law. The Federal Communications Commissionwill not manage to wrap up work on so-called net neutrality rulemaking by Dec. 31, but there's no doubt that this year marks the first timethe American public got hugely engaged in thedebate over how the Internet should operate within our borders.

It's worth noting that there were afew bright spots elsewhere in the report. India relaxed a rule on online access and content that it had put in place last year afterriots in the country's northeast. Meanwhile, Brazil passed an "Internet bill of rights" -- calledMarco Civil da Internet -- that has both net neutrality and privacy protections.

This year also saw the start of a global attempt to create a set of pro-Internet model laws under the banner of the NETmundialInitiative, with the support of Brazil and the nonprofit Internet governance organization ICANN. But that effort is only just now getting off the ground. And as the Freedom House report shows, world leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin and others aren't waiting around for its guidance.

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Online freedom declines, amid NSA effect

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Washington (AFP) - Internet freedom suffered this year as a growing number of countries stepped up efforts to spy on users and censor online postings, a global survey showed Thursday.

The report by the non-government watchdog group Freedom House said online freedom declined in 36 of 65 countries surveyed.

In some cases, governments use revelations about surveillance by the US National Security Agency to justify efforts to boost their own monitoring of Internet users and to crack down on dissent.

"Countries are adopting laws that legitimize existing repression and effectively criminalize online dissent," the report said.

"More people are being arrested for their Internet activity than ever before, online media outlets are increasingly pressured to censor themselves or face legal penalties, and private companies are facing new demands to comply with government requests for data or deletions."

The lowest score for Internet freedom was in Iran, followed closely by Syria, China, Cuba, Ethiopia and Uzbekistan.

Nineteen countries were rated "free," with the highest scores for Iceland and Estonia. Thirty-one countries were rated partly free and 19 "not free."

But a majority of countries saw declines in freedom.

Forty-one passed or proposed laws to criminalize or limit online speech or to expand surveillance between May 2013 and May 2014, the report said.

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District divided over freedom camping

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Top 10 Holiday Park owner Roger Kett is upset restrictions on freedom camping at Koromiko will shift more campers into Picton car parks.

Marlburians will be able to provide feedback on the Marlborough District Council's proposed freedom camping trial from April.

Mayor Alistair Sowman said opening up more freedom spots would make Marlborough more welcoming to visitors.

Regulations encouraging campers to stay at designated areas instead of parking on the roadside would protect the environment.

"It is important that we give a signal that Marlborough welcomes visitors," Sowman said.

"We also know that there are some travellers who, for one reason or another, do not want to stop at camping grounds or holiday parks.

"What we're trying to do is find a workable way of discouraging these visitors from creating problems for the region."

There has been public support for opening up Blenheim Railway Station car park and A&P Park to self-contained campervans.

But in Picton and Seddon, camping ground owners say freedom spots will put them out of business.

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