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Freedom the story of the half-year in EPC South football

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Editor's note: Each week during the regular season, Stephen Miller will examine four Eastern Pennsylvania Conference football items in this space. Here is his look back at Week 5 and ahead to Week 6.

1. Freedom is the team of the half-year. It's no surprise to see Whitehall, Easton and Parkland near the top of the EPC South Division standings. Pat yourself on the back, however, if you had Freedom reaching the season's midpoint with the division lead.

The Patriots (5-0 overall, 4-0 South) enter Week 6 a half-game ahead of Whitehall and Easton in the division race. Freedom plays its last EPC crossover game of the season Friday against Dieruff, so it will head into the final month of the regular season tied with the Whitehall-Easton winner for the division lead.

Is Freedom the South's best team? It's hard to give the Patriots that nod given the track record and early-season play of Whitehall, Easton and Parkland.

Freedom has been the top story of the first half, though, because of its turnaround. The Patriots were a 2-8 team last season that struggled to score and gave the ball away too often.

The current Patriots have an efficient quarterback (Joe Young), a running game that has churned through the first five weeks, a solid defense and special-teams units that have produced big plays most weeks.

"I think we've been business-like in the way we've prepared," Freedom coach Jason Roeder said. "Coming off the year we had, I think it would have been easy to get off-focus after a couple of wins. I think we've handled the early success pretty well in terms of understanding what's ahead and that we have to get better every day."

What's ahead after Dieruff is a closing stretch against Whitehall, Parkland, Easton and Liberty. Those four games will determine where Freedom sits in the South pecking order.

That those games matter to the division race speaks to how well Freedom played during the season's first half.

2. Parkland finds a silver lining. When Whitehall jumped out to a 24-0 lead Friday, it forced Parkland to turn to its passing game. The Trojans never got closer than 14 points the rest of the night, but they showed the ability to move the ball through the air at times.

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Three Freedom Area football players march in the band

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When the Freedom Area High School Bulldogs football team runs to the locker room at halftime, three of the players stay on the field.

Senior Joshua Battaglia grabs his trombone, freshman John Blinn gets his tenor saxophone and freshman Michael Keith straps on the five drums that are sometimes calledthe quints.

Then they line up in a formation very different from football to play the music of Elton John in the marching bands half-time show.

They march, dance and play their instruments while wearing their football uniforms, including bulky shoulder pads. Though all Bulldogs wear the schools red and white colors, the uniforms of the instrument-playing football players stand out in more ways than one.

Michael and Donna Keith of New Sewickley quip that they never know what color their sons uniform will be at half time. Sometimes it gets really muddy, his mother said.

It appears that no one in the Beaver County school districts thinks any of this is unusual.

John, who has been playing the sax since fifth grade, said performing as an athlete and a musician on game nights issomething that has been going on in Freedom for years. He said he didnt start playing football until this year.

I played soccer for most of my life but it had stopped being enjoyable, said John, the son of John and Sherrie Blinn of Freedom. And, I am a bigger guy, so I decided to try football.

At 6 feet tall and weighing in at 200 pounds, he fits right in as a tackle. He and teammate Michael, a wide receiver, are pleased that they get varsity playing time in their freshman year.

Football coach Tim Dubovi says, I never cut anyone. As long as they are showing up for games and practices, they will be rewarded.

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Can China Innovate Without Freedom of Information?

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For many analysts, the idea that one might link China and ethics in the same breath in talking of information freedom might seem strange. In cyberspace, it is a country known more for its i-dictatorship rather than its e-democracy.

Yet, as surely as China has moved from peoples communes in agriculture to private household production or from banning private property to embracing it, China is also well down the path toward information freedom.

It may yet have several very big obstacles to cross, not the least continued censorship and punishment for dissemination of politically unorthodox ideas. But China is on that path, even if it would be a brave person who might predict the arrival time for the journeys end. Will it be in this decade or the next one?

As long as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains in power, its default position would appear to be one of information dictatorship and continued suppression of ideas that challenge key CCP orthodoxies.

The degree and character of censorship has changed massively in the last three decades. In spite of this widespread liberalization, the CCP is not giving up easily on this last bastion of dictatorship the control of information. In fact, since Xi Jinping came to power in November 2012, the screws have been tightened further.

One of the best indicators of this has been the issue of regulations concerning re-registration of all journalists in China dependent on their familiarity with CCP ideology. The regulations on journalists couple with a prohibition on Chinese news outlets from carrying news items from any other media source, especially foreign ones, without special dispensation.

So what basis is there for any hope that the CCP might tear down the remaining obstacles to information freedom in this secret state? One answer lies in understanding the trajectory of Chinas innovation policy and the related policy of CCP control of education, especially the universities.

The countrys leaders have staked the future of the CCP on a promise of national resurgence and leadership in science and technology. The trajectory of innovation policy in China has been impressive, as have been the necessary enabling departures from Communist orthodoxy.

One of the most significant was official recognition beginning in the middle of the first decade of this century that the private sector, not the government, was the key to establishing a thriving national innovation system.

A second evolution was the recognition that such a system depends on a vibrant and creative relationship between university-based research and the private sector.

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DCC moves on freedom camping

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Freedom camping at Macandrew Bay. Photo supplied.

Council staff yesterday confirmed they were introducing extra signs and security patrols at Macandrew Bay, and considering opening up the Bayfield Park car park to freedom campers using vehicles without toilets.

The changes aimed to end recent problems at Macandrew Bay, when freedom campers overcrowded the car park beside Ralph Ham Park.

The area was among three across the city designated for overnight stops by freedom campers in vehicles without toilets, initially for a two-year trial, as part of an easing of freedom camping rules across the city.

The Macandrew Bay car park was supposed to cater for up to five vehicles each night, but more than 15 vehicles were found to be staying in the area some nights.

That led to tension and complaints from some residents about freedom campers pitching tents, using the area's public toilets to wash dishes, clothes and themselves, and even defecating in private gardens.

The Otago Peninsula Community Board has also called for better policing of the area's rules and Cr Neville Peat, a peninsula resident, tried unsuccessfully at a council committee meeting in June to have the trial halted.

Instead, councillors voted to continue the trial while investigating the potential of open up alternative or additional sites around the city to freedom campers.

Yesterday, council reserves and recreation planning team leader Richard Saunders said in a statement the council was considering opening Bayfield Park car park, in Andersons Bay, to freedom campers.

Consultation on the idea had begun, but it was not clear yesterday how long that would take, and Mr Saunders was not available for comment.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Channels Margaret Sanger

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October 1, 2014|11:11 am

Thanks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a well-known liberal and feminist, Americans are getting an inside look at what Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, probably would have embraced today and who she would have embraced today. From her recent comments on abortion, Justice Ginsburg would have been praised by Ms. Sanger for her comments on poor people and abortion.

The oldest female judge on the bench, Justice Ginsburg gave an interviewto fashion magazine Elle recently. In full context, here is the question and answer session on abortion:

[Elle:] Fifty years from now, which decisions in your tenure do you think will be the most significant?

[Justice Ginsburg:] Well, I think 50 years from now, people will not be able to understand Hobby Lobby. Oh, and I think on the issue of choice, one of the reasons, to be frank, that there's not so much pro-choice activity is that young women, including my daughter and my granddaughter, have grown up in a world where they know if they need an abortion, they can get it. Not that either one of them has had one, but it's comforting to know if they need it, they can get it.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. I think that the country will wake up and see that it can never go back to [abortions just] for women who can afford to travel to a neighboring state

[Elle:] When people realize that poor women are being disproportionately affected, that's when everyone will wake up? That seems very optimistic to me.

[Justice Ginsburg:] Yes, I think so. It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people. [emphasis mine]

Firstly, her assertion that many young women today aren't as actively pro-choice because they know they can get an abortion whenever they need to is at best, a good public relations spin on how outnumbered young pro-lifers are to young pro-choicers as noted by former NARAL president Nancy Keenan when she said of the March for Lifea couple years ago: "I just thought, my gosh, they are so young. There are so many of them, and they are so young." She cited the lack of involvement of young people in the pro-choice movement when she resigned.

Secondly, as to her point about the promotion of birth only among poor people as a default to their not being enough access to abortion for them Margaret Sanger would have been cheering Justice Ginsburg on.

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Shark patrols start early

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NICOLE ASHER Bunbury Herald September 30, 2014, 11:59 am

Aerial shark patrols off Bunbury beaches began at the weekend and will run every day during the school holidays.

The patrols started eight weeks earlier than usual and will patrol beaches between Bunbury and Margaret River during the busy holiday period.

After the holidays, the patrols will be scaled back to weekends only until daily patrols begin again at the end of November.

The extra eight weeks of aerial patrols will cost the State Government $650,000.

Premier Colin Barnett said the extra patrols were to provide greater protection to beach users in the South West.

He said the move would bring the regional patrols in line with patrols in the metropolitan area.

Aerial patrols have proven very useful in spotting potential shark threats and, combined with local government and surf lifesavers on the shore, have enabled beach users to get real time advice on the risks at beaches, Mr Barnett said.

Bunbury Surf Life Saving Club president Peter Duncan said the clubs beach patrols would begin on Saturday.

He said lifeguards would monitor the ocean for sharks but was confident they would not impact on swimmers. Mr Duncan could not recall the beach ever being closed because of a big shark being sighted.

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