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Freedom bounces back

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Jessica Harrington's dual-purpose performer showed smart form over hurdles last winter, but was well beaten in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and subsequently at Fairyhouse.

He ran with more encouragement when third behind Fame And Glory back on the level in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan and he was the 15-8 favourite for this two-mile handicap.

Sensibly settled towards the rear by Fran Berry as outsider Cloone Rocket set a ferocious pace, Steps To Freedom made gradual headway through the field.

He quickened up to lead heading towards the furlong marker and soon put the race to bed, passing the post with four and a half lengths in hand over Night Glimmer. Rattan and Norah Starr filled the places.

Harrington said: "I'm absolutely delighted and to do that under 10st 3lb is a good performance. I've been stymied with the wet summer, with all my horses in fact.

"He settled brilliantly. He is entered in the Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown next Thursday and also in the Ebor at York and the Irish St Leger so he has plenty of options.

"We'll wait and see where the ground is good. He's a very good Flat stayer and in the autumn will go back over hurdles and hopefully we'll have a fine spring next year."

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Freedom's Noyes set for East-West appearance

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MORGANTON --

On Monday night at the Greensboro Coliseum, recent Freedom High graduate Rob Noyes will become the first Patriot boys player under seventh-year coach Casey Rogers to participate in the N.C. East-West All-Star Game.

The 64th annual boys contest which pits the top 10 seniors on either side of the state will begin at 8:30 p.m. after the completion of the girls game. Rogers, who played in the game in 1998 after leading the Pats to a 4A state title as point guard, has relayed to Noyes what he can expect.

I told him its guard-oriented, Rogers said. Theyre not going to draw up many plays for you like I did, so hit the glass like a wild man.

The focal point defensively for anyone playing Freedom the last two seasons, Noyes said he welcomes the lack of attention.

I know its going to be fast-paced, said Noyes, who signed in April to play college ball at Lenoir-Rhyne. A lot of shooting, a lot of running. I like to run. I think theres defense but a lot more offense.

Noyes led Freedom in both those facets of the game during his junior and senior seasons as the team compiled a 47-10 record, claiming the South Mountain 2A/3A Conference (SMAC) regular-season and tournament titles as well as a 3A West Regionals bid this past winter.

The 6-foot-6 center averaged 17.0 points, 10.2 rebounds and 3.1 blocks in 2011-12 en route to numerous accolades. Noyes was named SMAC player of the year, first team All-Region 10, All-State 3A by NCPreps.com, All-3A West Regional, All-Burke County Christmas Invitational and first team All-County by The News Herald.

Rogers said its no surprise what Noyes accomplished.

Right away in the workouts before his junior year, I knew what he could become, Rogers said. He wont be outworked. And as good a player as he is, hes a better person. Hes one of the best teammates Ive ever seen in my time as a player or coach.

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Freedom Reigns at Dundalk

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Jessica Harrington's dual-purpose performer showed smart form over hurdles last winter, but was well beaten in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and subsequently at Fairyhouse.

He ran with more encouragement when third behind Fame And Glory back on the level in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan and he was the 15-8 favourite for this two-mile handicap.

Sensibly settled towards the rear by Fran Berry as outsider Cloone Rocket set a ferocious pace, Steps To Freedom made gradual headway through the field.

Harrington said: "I'm absolutely delighted and to do that under 10st 3lb is a good performance. I've been stymied with the wet summer, with all my horses in fact.

"He settled brilliantly. He is entered in the Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown next Thursday and also in the Ebor at York and the Irish St Leger so he has plenty of options.

"We'll wait and see where the ground is good. He's a very good Flat stayer and in the autumn will go back over hurdles and hopefully we'll have a fine spring next year."

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Ron Paul-inspired Freedom Festival planned before Republican National Convention unravels

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Freedom Festival is dead.

It never secured a contract to bring tens of thousands of people to Fantasy of Flight just before the Republican National Convention. It suspended ticket sales. Its spokesmen stopped returning calls.

And this week, its website started automatically redirecting visitors to the Liberty Avengers, a new group with plans for its own pre-RNC event.

The avengers include some of the same Ron Paul-inspired organizers who started with Paul Festival 2012 still on track for three days of music and activism at the Florida State Fairgrounds and who later moved on to Freedom Festival over differences with the Paul Festival team.

Now that Freedom Festival has fizzled, some activists have transferred their efforts to an event called Liberty Unplugged.

"We just really wanted something to happen this weekend, so we don't lose all the momentum that's been created," Liberty Avengers co-founder David Foster of Tallahassee said.

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Impressive Steps To Freedom in control at Dundalk

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The Irish Times - Friday, July 13, 2012

STEPS TO FREEDOM registered his first victory of the year with an impressive performance in the Boylesports.comHandicap at Dundalk yesterday. Jessica Harringtons dual-purpose performer showed smart form over hurdles last winter, but was well beaten in the Supreme Novices Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and subsequently at Fairyhouse.

He ran with more encouragement when third behind Fame And Glory back on the level in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan and he was the 15 to 8 favourite for this two-mile handicap.

Sensibly settled towards the rear by Fran Berry as outsider Cloone Rocket set a ferocious pace, Steps To Freedom made gradual headway through the field. He quickened up to lead heading towards the furlong marker and soon put the race to bed, passing the post with four and a half lengths in hand over Night Glimmer. Rattan and Norah Starr filled the places.

Harrington said: Im absolutely delighted and to do that under 10st 3lb is a good performance. Ive been stymied with the wet summer, with all my horses in fact.

He settled brilliantly. He is entered in the Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown next Thursday and also in the Ebor at York and the Irish St Leger so he has plenty of options.

Well wait and see where the ground is good. Hes a very good Flat stayer and in the autumn will go back over hurdles and hopefully well have a fine spring next year.

Meanwhile, Golden Lilac is viewed by many as something of a certainty for the Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes, but John Oxxs Alanza is taken to spoil her party at Newmarket today as well as her compatriot, the Aidan OBrien-trained Maybe.

Having won over 10 furlongs last year and an extended nine on her return to action when beating Cirrus Des Aigles, there is a small chance Golden Lilac could be caught for speed.

There is no doubt she is the classiest horse in the race, but she is priced up accordingly whereas Oxxs Alanza appears to have gone under the radar. She won three on the bounce last season and that the Aga Khan left her in training suggests Oxx believes he can get a big win out of her and after a pipe-opener behind Emulous, she was a comfortable winner of a Group Three last time.

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What “freedom of the press” should mean

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The new pamphleteers.

A bas-relief (c. 1450) of the German printing pioneer Johannes Gutenberg checking his work while his assistant turns the press. Photo: Getty Images

The phrase freedom of the press is perhaps so familiar that its historical origin, and its possible meanings, can be overlooked.

The press to which it refers is often identified by many in England with the big-P Press of Fleet Street: the professional journalists who have press cards and go along to press awards; the very sort of people who we imagine once upon a time wore press hats, were inspired by Scoop, and regularly gossiped and drank at El Vinos.

Here, the freedom of the press is the general right of the gentlemen and ladies of the Fourth Estate to do as they wish without impediment.

But this may not be the best way of understanding the term. In fact, the expression freedom of the press significantly predates the existence of the modern newspaper industry, which was largely a product of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Instead, the expression freedom of the press came out of the great age of pamphleteering and protest which occurred during and after the civil wars in Britain of the mid-1600s. The actual formulation seems to have been first used in the 1660s, although the concept was promoted emphatically a couple of decades before by John Milton in his Areopagitica of 1644.

So when the term was first deployed it was not a label for the privileges of any big P Press consisting of a professional journalistic class working on a finite number of publications, for such a class of people did not then exist. It would appear to have had a more straightforward meaning: it described the general right of every person to have access to and make use of (literally) a press so as to publish to the world at large, without the intervention of licensors or censors.

In this way freedom of the press was not some entitlement of a media elite but a more basic right of anyone to circulate their ideas more widely than they could do simply by themselves.

And this general freedom was crucial. Before the rise of newspapers, and long before the extensions of the franchise and the existence of telecommunications and broadcast media, any right to free expression would have had little effect if all what one said or wrote was limited to being received by those around you and your correspondents. The ability to physically mass publish material was the key means by which wider circulation could be gained for a contribution on a matter of general importance.

If freedom of the press is taken with this meaning then its application to internet-based communication is obvious. Computers, mobile telephones, and tablets have replaced presses as the means by which any person can publish their opinions to the world and assert unwelcome facts in the face of the powerful. Accordingly, blogging and tweeting are more akin to pamphleteering than newspaper reporting. And like pamphleteers, bloggers and tweeters are fully subject to the perils of the law of the land but not to any sector-specific regulatory code.

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Liberty’s Malone Says Sirius Will Eventually Be Spun Off

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By Edmund Lee - 2012-07-12T22:29:19Z

Billionaire John Malone said his effort to take control of Sirius XM Radio Inc. (SIRI) will eventually lead to a spinoff of the largest U.S. satellite-radio company.

Malones Liberty Media Corp. (LMCA) announced plans six weeks ago to assert control of the satellite-radio company after receiving approval from the Federal Communications Commission. The goal is to spin off Sirius, in keeping with Libertys history of making its properties, including DirecTV and Liberty Global Inc., into their own publicly held companies, he said yesterday.

If Im in control, I like to have separate companies, run independently, with public shareholders investing in that business, Malone told reporters gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho, for an Allen & Co. conference. There is no question eventually Sirius will be an independent company. The question is, in what time frame and in what circumstances?

Liberty needs FCC approval to complete a takeover because Sirius holds airwave licenses issued by the agency. Sirius holds airwave licenses issued by the agency. Sirius, led by CEO Mel Karmazin, has opposed Liberty control in its own FCC filings.

The company will probably execute a so-called Reverse Morris Trust, which involves splitting off its Sirius stake as a separate entity and giving its stockholders the option to hold or sell their Sirius shares, according to James Ratcliffe, an analyst at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York.

Malone said he had dinner with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski last night, declining to say what was discussed.

Sirius rose 1.7 percent to $2.07 at the close in New York. The stock has climbed 13 percent this year. Liberty shares, up 15 percent in 2012, fell less than 1 percent today to $89.64.

Liberty Media Chief Executive Officer Greg Maffei isnt likely to want the job of running Sirius, Malone said. As head of Liberty, Maffei manages a holding company with a wide range of investments, everything from cable programmer Starz LLC to the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

Gregs not an operating man, Malone said yesterday. There are plenty of good managers, including inside the company.

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South Africa Tourism to ride the Cocktail surf on TV

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Mumbai, July 13:

South African Tourism and Illuminati Films have launched a 30-second co-branded TVC (television commercial) campaign for tourism promotion of South Africa. Illuminati Films produced the Bollywood film Cocktail which hit theatres on Friday and has been shot extensively in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tapping into South Africas varied experiences, Cocktail features three friends in the movie Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty, visiting Cape Town for a holiday together, which also marks a turning point in the movies plot. The TVC campaign is aimed at young adults and couples, and packages Cape Town in South Africa as a fusion of fun and adventure.

Commenting on the new initiative, Ms Hanneli Slabber, Country Manager, South African Tourism, said, Through the association with the film Cocktail on this TVC campaign, we want to showcase the best that Cape Town has to offer to Indian travellers. The movie showcases the star cast having a fun-filled holiday in South Africa and it blends perfectly with our positioning as being an exhilarating, fun and memorable holiday destination. This association gives us an unprecedented opportunity to showcase South Africa on the Bollywood stage and reach out to the vast section of movie-going audiences.

Indian tourist arrivals to South Africa in March 2012 rose to 34.5 per cent. The number of travellers increased from 5,308 in March 2011 to 7,138 in March 2012. According to the latest figures, South Africa has received 21,139 Indians between January 2012 and March 2012, which is a jump of 23.1 per cent compared to the same period last year.

The 10-day TVC campaign is on air from July 6 across channels such as MTV, Channel V, ETC, Zing, Star Movies, HBO and NDTV Good Times.

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We will battle for free speech: News Ltd chief

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News Ltd will take proposed changes to media regulation to the High Court, says Chief executive Kim Williams

News Limited chief executive Kim Williams at the SA Press Club in Adelaide. Picture: Matt Turner Source: AdelaideNow

NEWS Limited chief executive Kim Williams has upped the stakes in the media regulation debate, declaring he is willing to go to the High Court to protect free speech.

Speaking at an SA Press Club lunch in Adelaide yesterday, Mr Williams outlined a case against both "Finkelstein" and "Convergence" reviews now before Federal Government.

He said the "preposterous and foolish" Finkelstein recommendations should be treated with caution.

The Finkelstein recommendation for press standards to be overseen by a super regulator was "prima facie bad" because journalists could be fined or jailed with no right of appeal.

When asked how far he was willing to take the company in the fight against the proposed regulations should they be implemented, Mr Williams was unwavering in his response.

"We'll take the matter as far we can - I'll take it to the High Court. If people intend to have this stoush ... let's have it."

Promoting a "consumer first" model of reporting, Mr Williams said it should be the public, not the government, who set the news agenda.

"Consumers anoint the winners, not governments or regulators," Mr Williams said.

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