Freedom High football team blanks Liberty in Bethlehem battle

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Jason Roeder sent Jake Young a text early this week.

The message conveyed from coach to player was simple expect to see the ball a lot against Liberty.

Freedom called Young's number on its first play from scrimmage Saturday. The senior all-purpose threat turned a pass from Jonah Gundrum into a 39-yard gain.

Whether making a touchdown-saving tackle, punting or snagging passes, Young continued hurting the Hurricanes all afternoon. He finished with 236 yards from scrimmage and caught two touchdown passes to lead Freedom to a 29-0 thumping of rival Liberty at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium.

By winning its final EPC South Division game, Freedom (8-2 overall, 6-2 South) secured a home game for the Districts 2-11 Class 4A subregional playoffs. The fourth-seeded Patriots will host No. 5 Whitehall (8-2, 6-2) in a Friday night quarterfinal. It's a rematch of a Week 7 game they won 29-28 in overtime.

For a fifth straight season, Liberty (5-5, 4-4) won't be part of the subregional field. The Hurricanes needed to beat Freedom to nab the final subregional playoff spot. That berth instead went to Pleasant Valley.

Young played a central role in sending Liberty to the Eastern Conference 4A playoffs rather than districts. He caught nine passes for 196 yards and ran three times for 40 yards.

His final catch buried Liberty.

The Patriots already held a 22-0 lead when they called for a reverse pass late in the third quarter. After running back Joe Santos avoided a big loss by flipping the ball to wide receiver Kylon Pretty, Pretty grabbed the ball and fired to an uncovered Young on the right side of the field.

Young snagged the ball and cut back toward his left, racing into the end zone for the final touchdown of the day.

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Freedom Pass offered for 6 New England ski areas

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Six ski areas are joining together to offer a new sort of season pass this coming winter.

The Freedom Pass is being offered for Granite Gorge in Keene, Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester, Black Mountain in Jackson, Bolton Valley in Vermont and Ski Ward in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

The cost is $495 for adults, $149 for college kids, $415 for juniors, seniors and the military and a family can get the pass for $1,250.

There are no black-out days.

An adult freedom pass with unlimited tubing is $695 an a family freedom pass with tubing is $1,600.

Seniors are defined as 65 years and older and juniors are 6-13 years old.

The college students must be full-time and must present their student identification.

The passes are available at each of the six ski resorts participating in the freedom pass program and links to the NH resorts can be found at http://www.skinh.com.

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Marines receive Freedom of Glasgow

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About 100 commandos were joined by veterans, cadets and a military band on the parade from Holland Street to George Square today before Commandant General, Major General Martin Smith, was awarded the city's highest honour by Lord Provost Sadie Docherty.

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The freedom ceremony was the idea of councillor Malcolm Cunning, who wanted the council to recognise the history and dedication of the entire Royal Marine Corps.

It is awarded to "persons of distinction or persons who have rendered eminent service to the city".

Comedian Billy Connolly was the last person to receive the honour from Glasgow in 2010.

Major General Smith said: "The Royal Marines are humbled to have the Freedom of the City of Glasgow conferred.

"It is with particular pride that the commandos will parade through the streets of Glasgow on this occasion, marking this historic milestone in the long history of the Corps and its relationship with the city.

"I am honoured to be able to present my officers and marines to the Lord Provost during this, our 350th year, and we couldn't be more proud to exercise this honour in Glasgow, a maritime city with which we have such a strong bond."

Following the freedom of the city ceremony, the Lord Provost and Commandant General took a salute as the Royal Marines marched past.

Royal Marines Reserve Scotland was originally formed as City of Glasgow Centre Royal Marines Force Volunteer Reserve in 1948.

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Pittsburg's defense stifles Freedom

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PITTSBURG -- Pittsburg High's football team kicked its defensive intensity up a notch in the second half to beat Freedom 24-13 Friday night and clinch at least a share of another Bay Valley Athletic League title.

Isaiah Lopez and Michael Chatman both had fumble recoveries, and the Pirates held the Falcons to just 50 yards of offense after halftime. Both fumble recoveries came after sacks and helped Pittsburg (7-2, 4-0 BVAL) score the final 17 points of the game.

The Pirates are BVAL champions for the second straight season and the fourth time in five years. Friday's victory came despite committing 10 penalties and turning the ball over twice.

"They're tight and they play for each other, but they're very emotional," Pittsburg coach Victor Galli said of his team. "They play on emotions. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes that's a bad thing. They have a lot of passion, but sometimes we have to be smarter."

Jaylyn Morgan and Nick Moore combined for 246 rushing yards and scored a touchdown each. Morgan's score, a 2-yard run, capped a 15-play drive to open the second half that gave the Pirates their first lead of the game 14-13. .

Lopez's big moment came on Freedom's next drive. He forced a fumble while sacking Freedom quarterback Joe Sweeney, then recovered and returned the ball for a 33-yard touchdown.

Chatman's fumble recovery came after teammate Charlie Ramirez's sack and helped the Pirates run out the clock at the end.

Pittsburg trailed 13-7 at halftime after turning the ball over twice. Freedom (6-3, 3-1) made the Pirates pay for both, scoring on touchdown passes from Sweeney to Gio Fauolo and Scotty Sanders.

But the Falcons offense couldn't get going in the second half, and the Pirates held a BVAL opponent to under 200 yards of offense for a fourth straight game.

The Pirates can make it an outright league championship with a win over Antioch next week in the Big Little Game. If Pittsburg falters in its final regular season game, Freedom can claim a share of the league title with a win over Liberty in next week's Bell Game.

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Freedom Magazine Publishes Article On ADD/ADHD Controversy

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2014

If not for its consequences, ADHD screening might seem funny, as theres hardly a child alive who would fail to register on an ADD or ADHD assessment scale.

After working with journalist Ray Richmond on the October 2014 Freedom Magazine feature 'The Attention-Deficit Fraud,' editor Jennifer Johnson was curious just how easy it is for a kid to get an ADD/ADHD diagnosis.

A mom herself, Johnson knows the parental M.O., the first place parents turn with concerns about their kids: the Internet. So she Googled "Does my kid have ADHD" and completed an assessment based on DSM-V criteria and other screening measures for ADD/ADHD.

I figured my 12-year-old daughter an excellent test subject, she writes as never has there been a child so NOT afflicted with ADD or ADHD. The kid can focus. She reads 900-page books over a long weekend, is teaching herself Japaneseyou get the idea.

Yet, based on her answers, Johnsons daughter registered in the high range of Moderate ADHD on the test scale, well above the threshold indicating her child should see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD.

This exercise confirms the view of Dr. Allen Frances, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University, who was interviewed for the Freedom story. Weve taken normal development and turned it into a mental disorder, Francis said. The drug companies are getting wealthy on the backs of millions of vulnerable kids who have no business being diagnosed with anything. Its pure greed. Theyre conducting an uncontrolled experiment without informed consent on a vast army of kids who have no clue what these powerful medicines are doing to their young brain.

The Freedom feature also includes the poignant, personal account of another parent who medicated his son to regulate the childs behavior, with frightening results, in I Wont Take Them.

It also reveals:

Long neglected by the media, the article states, many journalists today question whether attention deficit is anything more than a spurious label concocted by the psychiatric industry as an underhanded and imminently dangerous marketing tactic.

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Ambitious 8.5m plan to build world's biggest public observatory in the North East

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An ambitious 8.5m scheme to build the biggest public observatory in the world in the North East has been revealed.

It is the brainchild of astronomer Gary Fildes and a funding drive to get it up and running officially starts on November 7.

Called the Kielder Observatory Astronomy Village, it will contain a 60 seat planetarium, a specially built 500,000 telescope with a one metre wide aperture accessible to wheelchair users, and an accommodation block for visiting astronomers.

Special glass topped pods for use by members of the public to observe the night skies are also planned.

It will be based on the site of the already hugely successful Kielder Observatory which already boasts 25,000 visitors a year.

Once the village is opened, the existing classroom where Gary and volunteers host lectures and talks about the stars and the universe could see visitor numbers treble to 75,000.

Organisers hope it will be up and running within five years.

However Gary said: If the money came in tomorrow we could build it in two years.

There are a lot of hurdles - we need a design team and a project director to bring it together, which is not my skill set, but Id love to think within the next five years it will be developed on land right next to the observatory weve already got.

I want to create the worlds biggest and best centre for astronomical outreach, here in the North East.

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Leonid meteor shower in mid-November expected to be tame

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By Blaine P. and Friedlander Jr. November 1 at 5:13 PM

Grab your gloves, a coat and fresh coffee: In mid-November, the Washington skies will feature a modest few shooting stars darting across the heavens. The annual Leonid meteor shower occurs the night of Nov. 17-18.

The Leonids have produced some of historys most spectacular meteor storms, but astronomers from the American Meteor Society and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada predict as in most years a normal, tame shower this year, with between 15 and 20 falling stars an hour at peak. In realistic terms, that means youll catch a handful each hour.

Hopefully well have a clear night. Find a dark place, allow your eyes to acclimate to the night and look up. Sip that coffee slowly because youll need to be patient. For us here on the East Coast, the showers official peak will be early evening Nov. 17, but you should see a skittering meteor or two even after the official peak for several hours.

Meteors happen when the Earth, on its annual trek around the sun, smacks into the dusty trails left behind by comets. These dirt particles strike our atmosphere and burn up thats when we see brilliant streaks of light. As the American Meteor Society explains, the Leonids are often bright meteors with a high percentage of persistent trains. Also, the moon will be out of the way, making viewing easier.

In the case of the Leonids, the parent is Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Horace P. Tuttle, a co-discoverer, was an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory after the Civil War. He died in 1923 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Falls Church. (German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel was the other discoverer.)

Early in November, the big gaseous Jupiter rises in the east around midnight. Coincidently, the planet loiters near the front paws of the constellation Leo. (The Leonids are named from the constellation Leo, from whence the shooting stars appear to emanate.) Jupiter can be seen quite well at negative second magnitude, very bright. By mid-month, the planetary king ascends our heavens around 11 p.m., and by months end, the planet climbs into prime time, rising around 10:15 p.m.

With a good view of the southeastern horizon, catch the fleet Mercury in the morning early in November. At about 6 a.m. Monday, for example, this quick little planet is about 11 degrees above the southeastern horizon, at zero magnitude. By the end of this week, it sinks a few degrees to start the day, making it hard to observe by mid-November.

Our reddish neighbor Mars lazily lollygags low above the horizon after sunset in the southwestern sky. The red planet is now near first magnitude (dim), setting after 8 p.m. this month. Venus is hard to see, and Saturn is lost in the suns glare now.

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