September 9, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-The Florence Freedom were down to their final out Sunday night when Drew Rundle ended the game with a 3-run homer, giving the Freedom a 7-5 win.

With the Freedom trailing 5-4 and with two runners on, Rundle sent a 2-1 changeup from Gateway Grizzly closer Richard Barrett(0-1) over the right field wall to tie the series at two and send it back to Gateway for a decisive game five Monday night.

The Freedom took a 1-0 lead in the second off a solo homerun by Eddie Rodriguez.

Gateway came right back and placed five runs on the board in the fourth, but the Freedom began to chip away at a 5-1 deficit.

In the sixth, Rundle hit an RBI double to the gap in right center field to cut the lead to 5-2. Then in the seventh, Peter Fatse singled home two runs on an infield single. There was also an error on the shortstop Richie Jiminez Jr which allowed the second run to score.

With Gateway leading 5-4 in the ninth, the Freedom started their rally against Barrett. David Harris drew a leadoff walk. Junior Arrojo then lined a single into center. After Fatse flew out to left field and Rodriguez reached on a fielder's choice, Rundle then extended the Freedom's season with his heroics. Rundle was mobbed at home plate by his teammates as they celebrated his game winning homerun.

It was the eleventh win for the Freedom this season when trailing after the fifth inning.

The Freedom bullpen pitched five perfect innings after starter Andres Caceres went four innings giving up five hits on five runs (one earned). Brandon Mathes struck out four batters in his four innings of perfection. Jorge Marban(1-0) then collected the win pitching a 1-2-3 ninth.

The Freedom and Grizzlies will play a fifth and final game to determine who will play in the Frontier League Championship Monday night. RHP Brad Allen (1-0, 0.00) will make the start for Florence. RHP Tim Brown (1-0, 2.25) will take the mound for the Grizzlies. The game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 7:20 on Real Talk 1160 and realtalk1160.com.

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Freedom to Marry has launched the National Engagement Party, a program of house-parties nationwide to raise awareness and funds for battles to win marriage ballot-measures in key states this November.

The National Engagement Party will take place in cities across the country on Saturday, Oct. 13.

"With marriage on the ballot in states from Maine to Washington, from Minnesota to Maryland, we all need to get engaged -- and Freedom to Marrys National Engagement Party is a way all of us across the country can raise the money and awareness to fuel big wins this November," said Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry.

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Janis Upchurch, like most, remembers exactly where she was on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

I was teaching first grade, Upchurch said. We heard about it, turned on the TV, and thats when the towers started to fall. My son was in elementary school at the time, but that event made up his mind about joining the Marines.

Upchurch, the president of Blue Star Mothers Chapter 12, was one of 50 to 75 people who participated in the 2012 Freedom Walk on Saturday morning. The event was started five years ago to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as honor all retired and active duty military, police and fire personnel.

Gary Young, an Air Force veteran, brought his sister and son with him for the walk. Young said he has been involved in the event for all five years, and he wouldnt miss it for the world.

I like the purpose behind it, Young said. Id like to see more people participate though. I dont think anyone has forgotten about what happened, but it would be nice if they came out and joined with us in remembrance.

There were snacks and drinks preceding the walk, as well as a short ceremony consisting of a prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the playing of taps by Muskogee High School Band Director Steve Wiles.

Oscar Ray also gave a short speech where he addressed the importance of remembering the tragedy, but also the higher importance of celebrating the heroes and their accomplishments.

Im pretty sure when the families who lost someone that day remember their loved ones, they smile, Ray said. This should be more of a celebration of life than a somber remembrance.

Thea Devers, who also is an Air Force veteran, said she spent the morning of Sept. 11 at work and couldnt believe it when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

I was a courier for the White House and the state department, Devers said. The Pentagon was one of my many stops. It could have been me in there when it happened. I thank God I missed it.

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September 8, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-The Gateway Grizzlies spoiled the first ever home playoff game for the Florence Freedom with a 5-2 win on Saturday night at the Home of the Florence Freedom.

The Grizzlies now lead the best of five division series 2-1 with the Freedom facing elimination Sunday night.

Gateway got a solid start from Chris Enourato(1-0) who limited the Freedom to five hits in his five innings while striking out four. The only run he surrendered was an RBI groundout by Pierre LePage in the third inning, which gave the Freedom a 1-0 lead.

The Grizzlies took the lead for good in the fifth. Jonathan Johnson was hit by Freedom starter Andy Clark(0-1) with the bases loaded to tie the game at 1-1. Chris McClendon then reached on a fielder's choice to produce another run for a 2-1 lead.

Clark worked 6.1 innings giving up four hits on three earned runs. He struck out six, but also hit three batters.

The Freedom attempted a comeback against the Grizzly bullpen in the eighth. Drew Rundle's RBI double against Zach Treece cut the deficit to 5-2. However that would be the closest they would get as Richard Barrett earned his second save of the postseason retiring the Freedom 1-2-3 in the ninth.

Rundle and Peter Fatse each provided the Freedom offense with two hits. McClendon went 1-5 with 2 RBI, while Rogelio Norris went 1-4 with a solo homerun for the victorious Grizzlies.

The Freedom and Grizzlies will play game four of their divisional series Sunday night. LHP Andres Caceres (7-3, 3.90) will make the start for Florence. RHP Paul Tremlin (7-4, 3.72) will take the mound for the Grizzlies. The game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 5:50 on Real Talk 1160 and realtalk1160.com.

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Freedom senior James Caldwell (right) gets to the sideline on a long kickoff return against Draughn on Friday in Morganton.

Freedom High senior running back David Burgess said after Fridays 34-14 home win over Draughn that 1,000 yards was his goal this season.

Reaching that mark is almost a foregone conclusion after the game of his life.

Burgess racked up 230 yards on the ground in the first half alone and finished the Patriots victory over their county rivals with 287 yards and four touchdowns on just 18 carries. His total shattered his previous career high of two weeks ago by more than 100 yards.

In the process, Burgess eclipsed the 2,000-yard rushing mark for his varsity career and now has a county-best 704 yards and 11 TDs on 67 attempts this fall.

We started off the game trying to run it inside on them, Freedom coach Mike Helms said. Then we went to the spread, and thats what really worked for us. Davids a special kid and he had a special game. Weve grown to expect that kind of thing from him.

(Burgess) just broke tackles and made us miss, Draughn coach Scott Lambert added. Theyve got some very talented athletes over there.

Burgess 67-yard touchdown run made it 6-0 Freedom after one quarter. The Wildcats (3-1) stormed back, though, to lead 14-6 with 4:42 to play until halftime after TDs on the ground by Adam Estep (17 carries, team-high 68 yards) and Dustin Bryant (11 carries, 37 yards).

Freedom (3-1) had a quick answer. Burgess pulled within one yard of 2,000 after a 7-yard dash up the middle into the end zone, set up by a 63-yard kickoff return by James Caldwell. His two-point conversion reception from quarterback Shawn Fairchild knotted the score.

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It's Week 3 of Operation Football. In the Eastern Valley Conference, only two teams have won both of their games in conference play.

Little Chute was visiting Freedom and their new head coach, Clint Kriewaldt, the former Steelers linebacker and special teams ace.

The Mustangs were up 7-0 and added to it in the third. Mitchell Ciske goes up top to Jed Alberts for a 57-yard touchdown. That's 13-0 Little Chute.

Freedom tried to make a run. Nathaniel Peters hurdled a tackler.

That set up a one-yard touchdown play, 13-6.

Late in the fourth, the Irish were getting a little luck. The ball bounced off the hands of Chad Verhasselt and into the hands of Riley Garbe. Freedom's hopes were still alive.

But they couldn't capitalize. Mitchell Waters dropped back, scrambled, and was sacked.

Little Chute holds on to win, 13-6.

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The federal government's long-awaited Office of Religious Freedom will be unveiled soon, after months of delays caused by difficulty in finding someone the right person to head the office.

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Five nuns from Our Lady of the Good Shepherds congregation returned to Cuba on Aug. 28 with a small statue they had taken 50 years ago when they left after Cubas communist revolution. As recognition of the Cuban governments advances toward freedom of religion, the Episcopal Conference of Cuba noted that the religious act was another sign of the improved relations between the church and the government.

Interestingly, this past summer, during remarks on the State Departments annual report on International Religious Freedom, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, Freedom of religion is not just about religion. For Cubans, in particular, this is very true.

In Cuba, every aspect of life is controlled by the state. Freedoms in general and specifically freedom of religion are not fully available, and persecution of those who publicly profess a creed exists today. Freedom of religion is a right that every human being should be allowed to enjoy without restriction of any government or political entity.

Religion in Cuba must be presented in the context of its recent history, in a spirit of truth and justice, putting aside our personal interests or agendas with no other objective except the truth.

When we talk about Cubans and religion, we must begin with what the people in Cuba have experienced and are experiencing today.

From the 1960s until 1990, discrimination against Christians slowed the growth of churches. Christians suffered under Cuban communism. In the early years some pastors and priests were placed in re-education camps a type of concentration camp where they were forced to perform manual labor in agriculture in order to survive and where many met their death. These so-called camps were part of a rehabilitation program known as military units to help agricultural production or UMAP by its Cuban acronym.

Christians and their families could not receive a good education or good jobs. This pushed religious people to the lowest levels of society. Even by the mid-1980s, Cubas government declared Christians could still not hold jobs where they would influence other people, especially children. This means no Christian teachers, social workers, counselors, etc. The result of these restrictions was that very few people wanted to be associated with Christianity as it would lead to the loss of job or status, as well as other discrimination.

One of the hardest realities of this strategy is that children are shamed by their teachers and others to disown religious symbols and renounce religious practices.

In his last newsletter published only a few weeks before his death, Oswaldo Pay, a Catholic, wrote that it is shameful that a child must feel fear in her school because she attended a church service.

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Computerworld Hong Kong - The "core values of Hong Kong" (freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law) are the most debated topics in many election forums of the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) Election, which is scheduled on Sunday (September 9).

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September 6, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Gateway Grizzlies SAUGET, IL - Freedom starting pitcher Brad Allen shutout the Gateway Grizzlies over eight innings and Florence held on for a 4-1 win Thursday night at GCS Ballpark in game two of the Frontier League Divisional Series.

The win tied the series at one with game three scheduled for Saturday night in Florence, KY at the Home of the Freedom. Right-hander Chris Enourato will get the start for the Grizzlies. First pitch is set for 5:05 CT.

Allen (1-0) allowed only two hits while striking out a career-high nine batters. A Richie Jimenez Jr. double in the third and an infield single by John Shelby in the fifth inning were the only Grizzlies hits against Allen.

Grizzlies starter Alex Kaminsky (0-1) matched Allen pitch for pitch until allowing a Peter Fatse RBI double in the seventh inning for the game's first run.

Kaminsky surrendered only one run on two hits in six and a third innings. He walked three and struck out four.

Florence added two runs in the eighth on a Grizzlies error and a David Harris RBI single. The Freedom got one more run on two hits and a Pierre LePage hit by pitch RBI in the ninth to take a 4-0 lead.

Jon Myers hit a solo home run in the ninth inning off of Freedom closer Jorge Marban to give the Grizzlies their only run in the game.

Playoff tickets are on sale through the Grizzlies Ticket Office. To get tickets, call 618.337.3000 or go online to gatewaygrizzlies.com.

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Democrats celebrated the Obama administration’s efforts to promote Internet freedom abroad, according to the language of their newly approved, previously godless party platform.

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The cost of freedom under austerity is weighing more than ever on prisoners who struggle with financial instability on release and are more likely to re-offend than ever, continuing a vicious circle of crime and punishment just as prisons approach full capacity across Britain and the rest of Europe, charities say.

According to reports from nationwide prison organizations, the majority of ex-offenders struggle to cope with debt, housing costs, unemployment and austerity upon release from prison.

They say that the financial factor is borne out by the the rate of recidivism -- or relapse into crime -- which has reached record highs in 2012, with 90 percent of prisoners having previous convictions, according to the Ministry of Justice.

Chris Bath, executive director of Unlock, the National Association of Reformed Offenders, told CNBC that prisoners face "enormous financial barriers" on release from prison, and he warned that the cycle of crime, punishment and re-offending -- which costs the British economy 95 billion pounds ($150 billion) a year -- is set to continue if the financial hardship faced by prisoners on release is not addressed.

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"If I had a pound for every person I've met who said to me 1I thought prison was going to be the hard bit,'" he told CNBC.

"At least in prison you have a roof over your head and food in your stomach. The moment you walk out of prison you become a social leper, a low-skilled ex-con -- you are completely lost and you become nothing."

With 75 percent of employers saying they would reject someone with a conviction, Bath told CNBC that it was extremely hard for ex-offenders to return to the "straight and narrow" and find a job in a society where even the most skilled and experienced workers cannot find employment.

Indeed, with most prisoners reported to be "financially excluded" even before they enter prison, and a third having no bank account, according to research by the Civil and Social Justice Survey, the chances of going straight and returning to a decent and law-abiding way of life when no-one will employ them is slim, Bath told CNBC.

However, with 230,000 people going through the criminal justice system every year and 9.2 million of Britons of working age having criminal records, according to the Police Crime Database, Bath told CNBC that there is an urgent problem of millions of people exiting the prison system to a "society that doesn't want them back."

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Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis is to be awarded the freedom of Sheffield after councillors unanimously approved the honour.

Ennis, 26, from Sheffield, was crowned champion heptathlete on 4 August.

Ennis would now be consulted over when she was able to officially sign the scroll granting her the honour, Sheffield City Council said.

Freedom of the city did not carry any special privileges and was purely ceremonial, a spokesman said.

Julie Dore, Labour leader of Sheffield City Council, said she believed Ennis had been "overwhelmed" by the reaction her Olympic win had sparked in her home city.

She said she hoped the heptathlete would be proud to accept the honour of freedom of the city.

The award comes just days after Sheffield United renamed one of its stands after Ennis.

Club owner Kevin McCabe said it was a fitting tribute to honour Ennis' achievements during the London Games as she was "probably Sheffield's biggest ever star".

Since her Olympic victory, Ennis has received a number of accolades - of varying kinds - including becoming the cover star of children's comic the Beano and having a lion cub named after her.

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Olympians Sir Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis are set to be given the freedom of their home cities. So what does it mean to be a freeman or freewoman?

Will Britain's most successful Olympian be able to graze his cattle on The Mound in Edinburgh?

Or if the gold medal-winning cyclist decides to ditch his bike and attempt to park his car for free on George Street, will he be "exempt for tolls and charges in the city", as freemen of the past would have been?

Similarly, if Ennis wants to use her freedom of Sheffield - expected to be approved on 5 September - to drive sheep through the centre of the city, will she be allowed?

The answer is no. The award is symbolic and grazing rights are not part of the modern freeman's privileges.

Hoy, who will get his freeman status on 16 September, would still expect a parking ticket from the Scottish capital's blue meanies.

So what use is being given the freedom of the city?

Philip Whiteman, from the Institute of Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham, says it is "not dissimilar" to the Honours list awarded on behalf of the Queen.

"It is effectively the only way that a local authority can confer honours," he explains.

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DETROIT -

Freedom Institute will host a career conference on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, designed to help get Detroiters back to work.

The career conference will take place at Fellowship Chapel Campus located at 7707 W. Outer Drive in Detroit, and will include Career Boot Camp, a Job Expo and a Senior Wellness Law Day.

"Freedom Institute continues to be dedicated to providing the community with quality events," says Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Founder and Chairman, Freedom Institute. "Detroit cannot move forward until Detroiters get back to work. This career conference will serve as a resource to all who attend."

The Freedom Institute for Economic, Social Justice and People Empowerment is 501c3 organization created to impact and enhance the quality of life for individuals with a particular emphasis on people of color.

Over a decade ago, Freedom Institute began Freedom Weekend as a vehicle to help uplift the local Detroit community with hopes of making an impact statewide and nationally.

"We are excited to have our first career boot camp," says Monica Anthony, Executive Director, Freedom Institute. "The boot camp will guide those who are looking for work and/or who have been unemployed for a long time onto path of success. We are also pleased to have the return of several of our core activities with the Senior Wellness Law Day and the Career Expo."

All activities are free and open to the public. For more information call (313) 347-2834.

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Freedom 7, NASA's first spacecraft to launch an astronaut into space, has landed in Boston for display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

The space capsule, which on May 5, 1961 lifted off with astronaut Alan Shepard for a 15 minute suborbital mission, arrived at the JFK Library on Aug. 29. On loan from the Smithsonian, Freedom 7 had previously been on exhibit for 14 years at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

"Freedom 7 has arrived!" the library announced on its Facebook page. "Thanks to a generous loan from the (National) Air and Space Museum, Freedom 7 will be here until December 2015."

The 7.8-foot (2.4 meter) tall spacecraft, which weighs about 2,300 pounds (1,040 kilograms), will go on display at the JFK Library on Sept. 12. The capsule's public debut coincides with the 50 year anniversary of Kennedy's speech at Rice University in Houston, where he famously championed a manned moon mission. [America's First Spaceship (Infographic)]

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"We choose to go to the moon," Kennedy said on Sept. 12, 1962. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

Less than seven years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved JFK's goal of landing on the moon. Armstrong, who died on Aug. 25, will be remembered at a national service in Washington, D.C., to be held on Sept. 12 also.

The JFK Library has not yet announced the details for the opening of its Freedom 7 exhibit. The display marks only the second time that a Mercury spacecraft has visited Massachusetts. Liberty Bell 7, which followed Freedom 7 into space, was displayed at the Museum of Science in Boston in 2002.

The JFK Library hosts a permanent exhibit devoted to the space program, which includes a moon rock returned to Earth in 1971 by the Apollo 15 crew.

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Freedom 7, NASA's first spacecraft to launch an astronaut into space, has landed in Boston for display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

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The cost of freedom under austerity is weighing more than ever on prisoners who struggle with financial instability on release and are more likely to re-offend than ever, continuing a vicious circle of crime and punishment just as prisons approach full capacity across Britain and the rest of Europe, charities say.

According to reports from nationwide prison organizations, the majority of ex-offenders struggle to cope with debt, housing costs, unemployment and austerity on release from prison.

They say that the financial factor is borne out by the the rate of recidivism - or relapse into crime- that has reached record highs in 2012 with 90 percent of prisoners having previous convictions, according to the Ministry of Justice.

Chris Bath, Executive Director of Unlock, the National Association of Reformed Offenders, told CNBC that prisoners face "enormous financial barriers" on release from prison, and he warned that the cycle of crime, punishment and re-offending - that costs the British economy 95 billion pounds ($150 billion) a year - is set to continue if the financial hardship faced by prisoners on release is not addressed.

"When you're released from prison you become a social leper...or low-skilled ex-con" he told CNBC.

"If I had a pound for every person I've met who said to me "I thought prison was going to be the hard bit," he told CNBC.

"At least in prison you have a roof over your head and food in your stomach. The moment you walk out of prison you become a social leper, a low-skilled ex-con - you are completely lost and you become nothing."

With 75 percent of employers saying they would reject someone with a conviction, Bath told CNBC that it was extremely hard for ex-offenders to return to the "straight and narrow" and find a job in a society where even the most skilled and experienced workers cannot find employment.

Indeed, with most prisoners reported to be "financially excluded" even before they enter prison and a third having no bank account, according to research by the Civil and Social Justice Survey, the chances of "going straight" and returning to a decent a law-abiding way of life when no-one will employ you is slim, Bath told CNBC.

However, with 230,000 people going through the criminal justice system every year and 9.2 million of Britons of working age having criminal records, according to the Police Crime Database, Bath told CNBC that there is an urgent problem of millions of people exiting the prison system to a "society that doesn't want them back."

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