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N.C. basketball: Freedom, North Rowan win Western Regional titles

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GREENSBORO After battling through a last-second victory in its semifinal win a day earlier, the last thing Freedom coach Casey Rogers wanted Sunday was another close game.

The Patriots made sure that didnt happen, bolting to an early lead against North Forsyth, then holding off a pair of comeback attempts in a 76-59 victory in the N.C. High School Athletic Associations Western Regional 3A boys final.

Gabe Logan, named the tournaments most valuable player, scored 20 points and three other players finished in double figures for Morganton Freedom (31-1), which will play Wilson Hunt (26-6) for the state title on Saturday in Chapel Hill.

This will be the Patriots first trip to the state finals since 1998, when they won the 4A boys title for the second time. They also won in 1994.

Its a testament to these guys, said Rogers, whose team advanced to the regional final by beating Weddington 63-60 on Saturday at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center.

Weve talked about building a foundation of toughness. To come back 20 hours later to play in the regional final, and to play well, speaks to that toughness.

It helped that Freedom opened by outscoring the Vikings 17-5 in the first quarter and led by as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter.

While North Forsyth (22-9) led by Kedrick Flomos game-high 39 points twice fought back and cut the Patriots lead to single digits in the second and third quarters, Freedom was able to respond and blunt both Vikings rallies.

We just continued to talk about getting stops on the defensive end and doing a good job on the glass (rebounding), Rogers said. When they made moves, we got enough stops and did a good job of limiting their second-chance points.

North Rowan 58, Smoky Mountain 56: The Cavaliers advanced to a state championship game for the first time in three years after rallying late in the fourth quarter against the previously unbeaten Mustangs.

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Scottish salmon farming is Freedom Foods greatest success

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This means more salmon farmers are working to the RSPCAs higher welfare standards than in any other farming sector - including chicken, duck, dairy, beef, sheep and egg production. It makes the Scottish salmon farming industry Freedom Food's biggest success story to date.

The news comes as Freedom Food celebrates 20 years of improving the lives of farm animals and over 11 years since the RSPCA's welfare standards for farmed Atlantic salmon were first introduced (2002) and the approval of its first salmon producer - Sutherland based Loch Duart**.

Commenting on this success leading Scottish chef, Nick Nairn, said: "The salmon industry is so important to Scotland and I have been saying for years that good welfare practice inevitably results in a superior product that simply tastes better. So it's great news to hear that 70% of the Scottish Salmon farming industry is now part of the Freedom Food scheme."

Why is Freedom Food salmon such a success story?

Freedom Food's agricultural manager, Bob Waller, explains: "We believe it is because we have clearly shown that farming to RSPCA welfare standards makes good business - as well as good welfare - sense. For example, healthier fish and better bio-security means lower mortality, and therefore increased salmon production.

"Success for us, of course, means more animals benefiting from higher welfare standards. But to achieve that, we have to demonstrate to our members that there are not only measurable commercial benefits to joining Freedom Food, but that there is also a growing demand from consumers for higher welfare food.

And all the signs show that this is the case, with more Freedom Food labelled smoked and fresh salmon available than ever before in UK supermarkets including the Co-operative, Somerfield, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco.

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO) who confirmed the current 70% estimate also expects that this figure will continue to rise over the coming years.

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Freedom: What in the (modern) world does it mean?

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Years ago I pointed out in my first column for this paper that the word freedom and its relatives free and liberty are forever being bandied about by politicians (in particular) without anyones attempting to define them i.e., to find the referent, a term Stuart Chase uses in his classic book The Tyranny of Words.

This term means discovering what in the real world a word actually means and its critical to do this if we want language to mean anything. For example, it is easy to find a referent for the word hammer, less easy for the word water, even harder for more abstract words like (say) beauty, and, as I see it, nearly impossible for very abstract words like freedom. But if we just say, Oh, of course, freedom, and let it go without thinking seriously about it, we will be at the mercy of (and manipulated by) the blowhards and the demagogues. What does it mean to you?

For many years New Hampshire residents have been driving around with license plates that proclaim Live Free or Die. (Note: You can alter the motto on your plate if it conflicts with your beliefs, says the N.H. Supreme Court.) But few people seem to have asked what that injunction actually means for each individual. Live Free or Die may stir the soul, but what is its practical day-to-day impact? As I asked then, Who decides how free you are, and if youre not free enough, do you have to die, and if so, how? If apparently absurd questions like these arent answered, the motto, while perhaps inspiring, is essentially meaningless.

Therefore, I have for some time felt I should try harder to define free and freedom. (I am putting liberty to one side, since it tends to be defined by, and is used to define, freedom.) The Finedictionary.com gives the following broad definition of freedom:

Exemption from the constraint or restraint of physical or moral forces independence. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint (Oxford Dictionaries). I cant find a way to give any meaning to these broad terms except by coming down to specific instances of freedom and non-freedom as they affect us as individuals.

One can start with the question generated by New Hampshires motto. What does free or freedom mean as applied to each of us every day? My quest for the referent begins with a recognition of the innumerable constraints or restraints that actually affect ones power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.

Let us visualize freedom metaphorically as a large of piece of canvas, and then see what pieces of it have been cut out and what holes made by these various constraints or restraints. I was somewhat shocked to see that the canvas of freedom ended up pretty shredded by a vast variety of constraints, of some of which I had never thought.

Most obvious are the legal laws and rules. The state prohibits you from doing many antisocial things, and fines or punishes you if you hurt people or property. You are not free to do all sorts of anti-social things, such as shoot people, drive too fast, steal and so on and on. Were used to these, and trade our freedom to do them for the freedom from being shot, run over or robbed. They do, nevertheless, greatly curtail the total freedom Rousseau envisioned in his state of Nature.

These laws and regulations, strangely, may be less important than hundreds of other constraints in our lives limits cultural (dont malign your countrys values), societal (dont spit on the floor, dont be gay), familial (dont contradict your father), economic (dont get into debt), security (dont walk late at night in a strange place), all enforced by the omnipresent fear of criticism, of being thought a fool or a boor, of being hurt, of being ostracized.

Religious prohibitions are widespread they often prescribe what to eat (or not), to wear (or not), what not to read, what observances are required of the faithful. All are enforced by fear of punishment during life or after death.

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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry Standalone #9 – De Fayet’s Last Stand – Video

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Assassin #39;s Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry Standalone #9 - De Fayet #39;s Last Stand
We playthrough the Assassin #39;s Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry: Standalone version of the game as opposed to the DLC version. (Same Game but does not requi...

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Mercado: Freedom for Gloria

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AT STAKE in the 20l6 elections is the freedom and liberty of the Kapampangan's pride and icon, former president now Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

It is a clear certainty that Presidential aspirant DILG Sec. Mar Roxas has the least chance of garnering the votes of Pampanga. As the perceived surrogate and possible successor of President Aquino, Roxas will be the last guy who would spring Mrs. Arroyo from detention.

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, who recently announced his presidential ambition, is not expected to give a pardon to GMA should the senator win the derby. Cayetano has no known sympathy and political debt to her. May we hear from his local supporters and financiers?

Only two presidential hopefuls - Vice Pres. Jojo Binay and Sen. Bong Revilla are the possible persons who can free Mrs. Arroyo from her confinement.

Sen. Revilla, Lakas Party president, certainly is the candidate of Mrs. Arroyo. She is chairman emeritus of the party. Lakas commands a nationwide network of local organizations and is still capable of coming back with vengeance in the next elections.

The reason the Aquino administration is keeping the former president under lock is the fear and insecurity of Malacanang on Mrs. Arroyo's inert but explosive leadership capabilities.

President Noy is not taking any chances nor does he underestimate the political prowess of the harmless-looking, frail and sickly Kapampangan idol.

While her spokesperson and lawyers keep harping on the "deteriorating" physical condition of Mrs. Arroyo to stress her harmlessness and incapacity, Pres. Noy believes otherwise. Back of his mind is the lurking threat posed by this woman of steel, grit and courage. "Don't mistake her physical appearance, Mr. President," his dog whisperers often remind him. "She is capable of creating mischief by remote control."

President Noy's apprehension and insecurity were buttressed by the visit of two former Presidents, bishops, and national leaders to the lady in neck brace. Their visit per se speaks of her popular leadership and standing in the esteem of powerful and influential leaders of the nation.

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