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Freedom Bats Quieted in 5-1 Loss to River City

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May 182013

May 17, 2013 – Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom After an Opening Night rout of the River City Rascals last night, the Florence Freedom bats went quiet in a 5-1 loss to the Rascals in game two of a three game series at University of Cincinnati Medical Center Stadium.

River City Starter Tommy Mendoza (W, 1-0) threw six innings of five-hit, one-run ball and got just enough production from his lineup to beat the Freedom and even the series at a game each.

River City wasted no time getting on the scoreboard as they put up two runs in the top of the first inning. Rascals left fielder Eric Williams led off the game with a walk followed up two batters later with another free pass to first baseman Jason Taylor. With DH Phil Wunderlich at the plate, the Rascals attempted a double steal. The throw from Freedom catcher Jimmy Jacquot went into centerfield allowing Williams to score. Wunderlich then grounded out to second base to score Taylor.

The Freedom cut the lead in half in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single by DH Byron Wiley, scoring second baseman Eric Groff.

With one out in the top of the fourth, Rascals center fielder Evan Crawford doubled to left field, stole third and then scored on a sacrifice fly from second baseman Andy Scott to give the Rascals a 3-1 lead.

Freedom Starting Pitcher Justice French (L, 0-1) went 5 1/3 innings in his Florence debut, surrendering three runs, but only two earned.

River City would add another run in the seventh on a two-out throwing error by Freedom shortstop Junior Arrojo and would add one more in the top of the ninth on a wild pitch by Freedom reliever Jason Wilson. None of River City’s five runs came on base hits.

The Freedom and Rascals meet again tomorrow night for the rubber match of this three-game season opening series. First pitch is 6:05 at UCMC Stadium, gates open at 5:05. Tickets are available at the UCMC Stadium box office or by phone at (859) 594-HITS.

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Press freedom - and its limitations

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May 182013

Western democracies, like the US, are seen as safe havens for press freedom. Yet, the ongoing AP scandal suggests that surveillance of journalists is no taboo. What is the situation in Germany?

There had been a serious information leak, causing nothing less than a threat to US citizens – that’s how US Secretary of Justice Eric Holder justified US government surveillance of Associated Press (AP) journalists. Surveillance in this case meant the collection of telephone records, allowing for the localization of the journalist’s confidential sources.

Among the media, this has caused considerable outrage – both in the US and abroad, including Germany.The Germanjournalist’s association (DJV) has condemned the surveillance as an “act against freedom of the press.” After all, without the – often anonymous – sources, investigative reporting would be close to impossible. At the same time, however, there is little fear that German journalists might be in for something similar.

What is a “threat to security”?

“For Germany, this is something unthinkable,” Michael Rediske, the head of the Berlin-Brandenburg branch of the journalist’s association told DW.

The Federal Constitutional Court, being the warden of Germany’sconstitution where press freedom is enshrined,sees thisas afar too important value, Rediske said.

As an example, hementioned the so-called “Cicero Affair:” In 2005, German law enforcement searched the offices of “Cicero” magazine after it had published information form a confidential government file. Following the search, the publication filed a lawsuit – and won.

In the case of the United States,there isa concern for terror andthe looming threat it poses. Thisplays an important role when dealing with issues of press freedom, said Wolfgang Donsbach of Dresden Technical University (TU). While there is no way to justify the government taking up such measures, it is at least partly understandable, he explained.

To justify measures like these,they are oftenlinked to security issues. It’s a point that Rediske, who also heads the German section of Reporters without Borders, doesn’t want to accept. “If its about preventing a crime, journalists will be reasonable enough not to publish information. But to simply classify information as ‘relevant to security’ is a well-known game the authorities play,” Rediske said.

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Tennis: Albemarle tops Freedom-South Riding to claim Northwest Region title

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May 182013

Despite a lightning delay that moved the action from outdoor courts to an indoor facility at the University of Virginia on Thursday, Albemarles boys tennis squad responded with consistently strong play all afternoon against Freedom-South Riding, winning 5-2 to claim the AAA Northwest Region boys tennis team championship in Charlottesville.

With a runner-up finish in the region, the Eagles will still advance to play in the state quarterfinals on May 31 in Newport News. They will meet the winner of the Northern Region, which will be decided in Fairfax next Tuesday.

Menacing weather threatened Thursdays showdown, and the Patriots seized control despite losing the top two singles matchups. Alex Cragg gave the Eagles the lead early, beating Albamerles Doug Corbett in the No. 1 singles match, 6-0, 6-0. Brian Park defeated Boris Yang, 6-4, 6-2, at No. 2 singles, but the Patriots cleaned up the remaining four singles matches and carried a 4-2 lead into doubles. In the No. 3 slot, Albemarles Jake Brooks defeated Soren Charmsaz, 6-2, 6-2; Charlie Shepard beat Joseph Kim, 6-3, 6-1 at No. 4; David Grbic beat Timothy Yao in No. 5 singles, 6-2, 6-4; and Joey Michel dropped Anchit Jolla, 6-2, 6-4.

Albamerle clinched the match at No. 3 doubles, as Shepard and Grbic defeated Yao and Jolla, 6-3, 6-2.

Freedom-South Riding, which finished the season 13-8 after graduating eight seniors from last years team, is still experienced enough to make a run in the state tournament, Coach John Bell said Thursday.

We had a significant rebuilding year. To go back all the way to the region finals, given what we had to overcome this year, Im really proud of the team, Bell said. The good thing about our boys is that theyre in great shape, theyre playing their best tennis right now, and theyve been to states before. So its not their first time doing this.

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Liberty pivots in ACA challenge

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May 182013

RICHMOND, Va. Judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday appeared skeptical that Liberty University can challenge the Obama administrations rule that most employers provide contraceptives in their employee health plans.

But at least one of the judges suggested that the health reform laws employer mandate could be at risk since last years Supreme Court health care ruling narrowed the Commerce Clause.

In addition to saying that the health laws employer mandate is beyond Congresss legislative authority, Liberty University attorneys argued that Obamacares individual and employer mandates violate their religious freedoms. They say it requires the school to cover contraceptives and other drugs that they say can cause abortions.

Obama administration lawyers said Liberty didnt include that complaint about birth control in its original claim the suit was first filed in 2010 but was largely put on hold as the Supreme Court case against the health law advanced so the school cant add that argument now.

The judges suggested in several questions that they might agree, given that Liberty filed its claim years before the regulation was released.

This case is very different from the case you filed a couple years ago, said Judge Andre Davis, who was appointed by President Barack Obama.

Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver said the university had always raised concerns that the law would require abortion coverage. He said its a pressing issue as the school will be subject to millions of dollars in fines starting in August.

The hammer is about ready to fall on Liberty, he said.

Dozens of other institutions are challenging the birth control issue but did not file their suits until after the proposed regulations were released.

While the panel of judges suggested they might not even rule on the birth control issue, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, spent a significant amount of time pulling out of Justice Department lawyer Alisa Klein whether the preventive coverage provision requires all insurance plans to cover abortion and drugs that Liberty says can cause abortions.

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Cytomedix to Present at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013

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May 182013

GAITHERSBURG, MD–(Marketwired – May 17, 2013) – Cytomedix, Inc. (OTCQX: CMXI), a regenerative therapies company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell technologies, announced today that Edward Field, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer, has been invited to make a presentation on Partnering & Collaboration at the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013, which will be held May 21-23, 2013 in London, United Kingdom.

Presentation Details

Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 11:55am BST (6:55 am EST)

Track Title: Commercialisation through Collaboration: What Does Partnering In This Industry Actually Look Like?

Location: Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London, UK

During the presentation, Mr. Field will highlight Cytomedix’s two collaborations that are advancing clinical stage therapies.The first is a collaboration with the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (CCTRN) for conduct of the PACE study, an 80 patient, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial designed to look at the safety and efficacy of ALD-301 in peripheral artery disease patients diagnosed with intermittent claudication.This is the first ever randomized clinical trial to look at the benefits of autologous stem cell therapy in this indication.The second collaboration is with Duke University Medical Center, which is conducting a Phase 1 clinical study with ALD-451 in patients that have been treated for glioblastomas, which is the most aggressive form of brain cancer.This open-label study is designed to enroll up to 12 patients and is intended to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of ALD-451 when administered intravenously in patients with grade IV malignant glioma following surgery, radiation therapy and treatment with temozolomide.

About the World Stem Cells Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013The World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013 is Europe’s largest and most senior conference for the stem cell research and regenerative medicine community.It is now in its 8th year. Topics covered will include streamlining clinical development, commercialising a stem cell-based therapy and exploiting alternative sources of funding. For more information please visit: http://www.terrapinn.com/2013/stemcells/index.stm.

About Cytomedix, Inc. Cytomedix, Inc. is a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell separation products that enhance the body’s natural healing processes. The Company’s advanced autologous technologies offer clinicians a new treatment paradigm for wound and tissue repair. The Company’s patient-derived PRP systems are marketed by Cytomedix in the U.S. and distributed internationally. Our commercial products include the AutoloGel System, cleared by the FDA for wound care and the Angel Whole Blood Separation System. The Company is developing novel regenerative therapies using our proprietary ALDH Bright Cell (“ALDH”) technology to isolate a unique, biologically active population of a patient’s own stem cells. A Phase 2 trial evaluating the use of ALDHbr for the treatment of ischemic stroke is underway. For additional information please visit www.cytomedix.com.

Safe Harbor Statement – Statements contained in this press release not relating to historical facts are forward-looking statements that are intended to fall within the safe harbor rule for such statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The information contained in the forward-looking statements is inherently uncertain, and Cytomedix’ actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, many of which are beyond Cytomedix’ ability to predict or control, including among many others, risks and uncertainties related to the Company’s ability to successfully execute its Angel and AutoloGel sales strategies, to achieve AutoloGel expected reimbursement rates in 2013, to meet its stroke trial enrollment rates, the Company’s ability to successfully integrate the Aldagen acquisition, the Company’s ability to expand patient populations as contemplated, its ability to provide Medicare patients with access as expected, the Company’s expectations of favorable future dialogue with potential strategic partners, and its ability to successfully manage contemplated clinical trials, to manage and address the capital needs, human resource, management, compliance and other challenges of a larger, more complex and integrated business enterprise, viability and effectiveness of the Company’s sales approach and overall marketing strategies, commercial success or acceptance by the medical community, competitive responses, the Company’s ability to raise additional capital and to continue as a going concern, and Cytomedix’s ability to execute on its strategy to market the AutoloGel System as contemplated. To the extent that any statements made here are not historical, these statements are essentially forward-looking. The Company uses words and phrases such as “believes,” “forecasted,” “projects,” “is expected,” “remain confident,” “will” and/or similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements in this press release. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking information. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ from the forward-looking statements. More information about some of these risks and uncertainties may be found in the reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Cytomedix, Inc. Cytomedix operates in a highly competitive and rapidly changing business and regulatory environment, thus new or unforeseen risks may arise. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Except as is expressly required by the federal securities laws, Cytomedix undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, changed circumstances or future events or for any other reason. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2012, as amended to date, and other subsequent filings. These filings are available at www.sec.gov.

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Dr. Steve Horwitz over Bleeding Heart Libertarianism (part 1) - Video

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May 182013

Dr. Steve Horwitz over Bleeding Heart Libertarianism (part 1)
Dr. Steve Horwitz joins Redefining Liberty of Texas A M University for a discussion of Bleeding Heart Libertarianism.

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Liberty University COMS 101 Persuasive Speech - Video

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May 162013

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I'm Sorry, This Class Sucks! - Video

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May 162013

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Bush Center Freedom Hall 2 - Video

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May 152013

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Obama Administration Scraps Free Speech

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May 152013

Two years ago, this column, along with others, raised an alarm about the Obama administration’s decision radically to diminish the due process rights of those accused of sexual harassment on American campuses. There’s a new outrage today, but first, a recap:

In a 2011 letter to colleges, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) mandated that in cases of suspected sexual harassment or sexual assault, universities were to reduce the standard of proof to a more likely than not standard. The new standard requires that fact finders believe only that there is a 50.01 chance that the charges are true.

I warned at the time that students falsely accused could see their lives upended and possibly destroyed. Clearly, if a student has committed a crime or serious offense, the university has a duty to investigate. But serious charges, which can blight careers, require serious guarantees of the rights of the accused. In a court of law, a defendant has the right to confront witnesses against him, the right to see any exculpatory evidence the state discovers, the right to be represented by counsel and the presumption of innocence. In felony cases, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.

No such safeguards are available to accused college students. As self-described feminist Judith Grossman discovered to her horror when her son was falsely accused of “non-consensual sex” by a former girlfriend, “the Department of Education’s OCR has obliterated the presumption of innocence that is so foundational to our traditions of justice.” Grossman recounted that her son was denied counsel, subjected to a two-hour long inquisition, refused the opportunity to present evidence (in the form of emails from the former girlfriend and other documents) and denied the opportunity to question witnesses against him. Thanks to Grossman’s legal expertise and assistance, her son was eventually cleared. Other students are not so fortunate.

Following the Education Department’s directive, the University of Hawaii announced that students may be evicted from dormitories after no more than an accusation. At Yale, an unsubstantiated charge of sexual assault against a star football player was enough to deny him a Rhodes scholarship. At Xavier University, a student who was found not guilty of sexual assault by a judge was nonetheless told by the university that he would be prohibited from participating in classes or extracurricular activities with his “victim.” Caleb Warner was banned from the campuses of the University of North Dakota for three years. When police investigated the case, they issued an arrest warrant for his accuser, charging her with making a false rape charge. Only after repeated interventions on Warner’s behalf by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) did the university finally admit that the charges were without foundation.

Having virtually obliterated procedural protections for those accused of serious offenses and crimes, the Obama administration has now added a new insult a restriction on free speech itself. For two decades, universities have struggled with the question of “speech codes,” tempted by the left to enshrine political correctness at the expense of the First Amendment. Most campuses have resisted, but through the Obama administration, the censors have triumphed all at once and everywhere.

A letter from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice addressed to the University of Montana but explicitly intended as a “blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country,” the government has altered the legal meaning of the term “sexual harassment.” The new rule directly contravenes Supreme Court decisions and previous rulings from OCR that harassment “must include something beyond the mere expression of views, words, symbols or thoughts that some person finds offensive.” The Supreme Court has ruled that to meet the test of sexual harassment, behavior must be “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.” Note the word “objectively,” meaning that a reasonable person similarly situated would be offended.

The reasonable person standard is now gone. The new definition of sexual harassment decreed by the Obama administration is “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” including “verbal conduct.” The purported victim now has the power to decide whether a young man or woman (but it’s nearly always a man) is branded a sexual harasser. It’s entirely subjective.

Obama promised fundamental transformation. This is part of it. Freedom of speech is sacrificed, and a new army of sexual harassment “specialists” will descend on America’s campuses to enforce the new dispensation.

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Free Speech for Conservative Students?

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May 102013

It sounded like a freedom-of-religion case when a Columbus, Texas high school relay-race team was disqualified from the state track championship because Derrick Hayes pointed heavenward after his team won the race. That would seem odd in a red state like Texas. It turned out that officials were so strict, they warned runners to make no hand gestures after the finish line. Hayes had apparently pointed forward, and then upward, and for that he was out.

It can be tough to be a student in today’s public schools. Never mind restrictions on the schools. It is becoming impossible to express a socially conservative or Christian viewpoint as a student. Across the land, everyone is ordered to welcome without a discouraging word any expression of the gay or transgender variety. But try to say the G-word or oppose abortion, and watch someone lower the boom.

In Minnesota, a sixth-grade student was prohibited by her public school from distributing pro-life pamphlets during lunchtime. One of the fliers read, “Save the baby humans. Stop abortion.”

A few days later, she was called into the school director’s office and told that some students find pro-life fliers offensive and that she was no longer allowed to pass them out during or after school hours, even if other students requested them. In an email to the student’s parents, the school’s executive director claimed that the content of the fliers was inconsistent with the school’s educational mission.

“The school has a right to censor students without violating their free speech,” the director wrote. “In short, public schools have every right to prohibit student speech.”

Lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit on May 3. “Public schools should encourage, not shut down, the free exchange of ideas,” said Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. “The First Amendment protects freedom of speech for all students, regardless of their religious or political beliefs.”

In New Mexico, a group of evangelical high school students aligned with the “Church on the Move” lost a round last month in their fight to give classmates two-inch “fetus dolls” with a pro-life message attached. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the school district’s authority to stop the doll distribution. Why?

The 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District established that students have free speech in schools, as long as it doesn’t disrupt school discipline. According to Education Week, teachers complained that students who had received the roughly 300 dolls that were handed out were throwing the dolls across classrooms, using them to plug toilets and in other ways causing serious disruptions in the school day.

There are no reports of any legal or disciplinary actions taken against the students responsible for vandalism.

In Michigan, the Students for Life chapter at Eastern Michigan University applied for student fee funding to host a display on campus called the Genocide Awareness Project, a traveling photo-mural exhibit which compares the contemporary genocide of abortion to other forms of genocide. EMU denied the funding request because they deemed the photos of the aborted babies and the event as too controversial and one-sided. But they’ve granted money to left-wing activist groups discussing “welfare rights,” as well as race-issues and abortion rights groups.

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Liberty University Homecoming 2013 - Video

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May 092013

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Liberty Energy Corp. Announces Appointment Of Industry Veteran CEO and COO Team

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May 072013

HOUSTON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Liberty Energy Corp. (LBYE) (“Liberty” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of two industry veterans, Miles D Bender and William T Jones, to the executive leadership team. Mr. Bender will come on board as the new Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors, while WilliamT Jones will serve as the Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Bender has been involved in the energy business for twenty-nine years. He was a founder, President and CEO of National Energy Group, Inc. (“NEG”), which he took public and which he helped grow from startup to over $300 million in proved reserve value, revenues of $54.7 million and cash flow of over $30 million. NEG owned working interests in more than 1,000 wells of which the Company operated over 90% with just under 100 employees. Market capitalization of NEG grew to nearly $350 million. He led NEG with respect to the identification, negotiation, completion, and integration of some 16 acquisitions for NEG, over 25 during his career. He led NEG in completing a $120 million acquisition and raising $175 million in 1996 and an additional $65 million in 1997. During his career he raised over $350 million for various enterprises. NEG was later sold in 2006 to publicly traded SandRidge Energy. He was President of the Georgia Oil and Gas Association and a Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).

Mr. Jones has been a licensed Petroleum Engineer for 40 years. In 2004, he formed Redmon Oil Company in Dallas, Texas. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer and Principal of Lynx Production Company, Dallas, Texas, from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Jones joined National Energy Group, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, as Vice President, Production and Engineering in 1994 and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Operations in 1996. After receiving a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1968, he began his career with Shell Oil Company in Houston, Texas. In 1973, Mr. Jones joined Tenneco Oil Company. After Tenneco Oil, Mr. Jones held various engineering and management positions with several independent oil companies in Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas. From 1989 to 1991, he was Senior Petroleum Engineer for Snyder Oil Company in Fort Worth before moving to Abilene to become Chief Operating Officer of Ard Drilling Company from 1992 until 1994.

“We joined Liberty as a platform for our’under the radar’ acquisition strategy, targeting acquisitions within the exploration & production and oilfield services sectors,” stated CEO Miles Bender.

Please contact David Sexton directly at 1-832-708-3909 or email info@energy-liberty.com to request additional information and ongoing updates.

ABOUT LIBERTY: Liberty Energy Corp. (OTCBB:LBYE) is an Independent Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company dedicated to the sourcing and production of oil and gas onshore in the United States. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company has signed agreements to acquire leases and royalties in Texas, covering several leases with extensive potential for future development. Currently the company is targeting mergers & acquisitions within the E & P or oilfield services of the upstream oil & gas segment.

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are within the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Liberty Energy Corp. bases these forward-looking statements on current expectations and projections about future events, based on information currently available. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release may also include statements relating to Liberty Energy Corp.’s anticipated financial performance, business prospects, new developments, strategies and similar matters. Liberty Energy Corp. disclaims any obligation to update any of its forward-looking statements, except as may be required by law.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

Miles Bender, CEO & Chairman Liberty Energy Corp

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Commission Votes Down Second Amendment Gun Resolution

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May 072013

VOL. 128 | NO. 89 | Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Shelby County Commissioners voted down a resolution Monday, May 6, that would have backed the idea of state legislators and county sheriffs across the state nullifying federal gun control laws they consider unconstitutional.

The debate about Commissioner Terry Rolands Second Amendment Preservation Resolution dominated a short commission agenda that also included a resolution honoring Commissioner Steve Mulroy for donating a kidney last week to the Methodist Healthcare transplant program.

Roland said he sponsored the Second Amendment resolution because his constituents wanted it. And he insisted the resolution was simply to state the commissions general support of the right to bear arms.

Im not going to change any minds here, Roland added as the debate continued.

Mulroy, a law professor at The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, questioned why the commission would want to do that. He also questioned the wording in the resolution which called on the Tennessee Legislature to reject and nullify the enforcement of any federal acts, laws, executive orders, rules or regulations in violation of the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee.

He termed the resolution an extreme right-wing position.

The commission also approved Monday a new five-year lease for Butcher Shop of Cordova LLC on county-owned property by Agricenter International at 107 Germantown Parkway. The initial term rent is $18,812.50 a month, or $225,750 a year.

The commission also approved a 240-unit apartment complex by Regency Homebuilders LLC at Lenow Road and Dexter Road, as well as a gravel pit by Memphis Stone and Gravel Co. at 10750 Pleasant Ridge Road.

In other action, the commission delayed for two weeks approval of $1.3 million in federal funding from the FBI and a $3.2 million contract for a new Sheriffs Department firing range. Commissioners wanted to hear more about who might use the range, and had questions Monday about whether the Memphis Police Department would be among those using the range.

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May 052013

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Pacific Media Centre hosts World Press Freedom Day

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Pacific Media Centre hosts World Press Freedom Day this Friday

AUCKLAND: A leading Australian journalism law professor and freedom of the press advocate will give New Zealands inaugural UNESCO World Press Freedom Day lecture at AUT University on Friday.

Professor Mark Pearson, professor of journalism and social media at Griffith University near Brisbane, will be speaking on the theme Press freedom, social media and the citizen, at the university on May 3, observed globally as media freedom day.

The public address is being hosted by AUTs Pacific Media Centre and supported by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and the School of Communication Studies. The international theme for the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day is Safe to speak: Securing freedom of expression in all media.

This broadens the debate, says Professor Pearson, who publishes a high profile blog on media law and free media issues, Journlaw.com.

It opens the way for an exploration of the libertarian origins of press freedom and the advent of social media and citizen journalism at a time when we are looking for new models of media responsibility and ethics beyond a social responsibility model some of which embrace cultural and religious notions of truth and story-telling.

Professor Pearson is the author of the popular textbook The Journalists Guide To Media Law, which has run to four editions, and Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued. He is also the Australian correspondent of the Paris-based media freedom advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontires (Reporters Without Borders) and is on the editorial board of the New Zealand-based Pacific Journalism Review.

The public address is being hosted by AUTs Pacific Media Centre and supported by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and the School of Communication Studies.

A half-hour documentary, Media Freedom in the Pacific, commissioned by the International Federation of Journalists will also be screened and speakers include Professor Judy McGregor, head of AUTs School of Social Sciences, and Tim McBride for UNESCO New Zealands communications committee.

Venue: WG126, Communications Precinct, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University, 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland City When: 5:30-7:30pm, May 3

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A leading Australian journalism law professor and freedom of the press advocate will give New Zealands inaugural UNESCO World Press Freedom Day lecture at AUT University on Friday.

Professor Mark Pearson, professor of journalism and social media at Griffith University near Brisbane, will be speaking on the theme “Press freedom, social media and the citizen”, at the university on May 3, observed globally as media freedom day.

The public address is being hosted by AUTs Pacific Media Centre and supported by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and the School of Communication Studies.

The international theme for the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day is “Safe to speak: Securing freedom of expression in all media”.

“This broadens the debate,” says Professor Pearson, who publishes a high profile blog on media law and free media issues, Journlaw.com.

“It opens the way for an exploration of the libertarian origins of press freedom and the advent of social media and citizen journalism at a time when we are looking for new models of media responsibility and ethics – beyond a social responsibility model – some of which embrace cultural and religious notions of truth and story-telling.”

Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) and is on the editorial board of the New Zealand-based Pacific Journalism Review.

The public address is being hosted by AUTs Pacific Media Centre and supported by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and the School of Communication Studies.

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UNESCO WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY LECTUREHosted by the Pacific Media Centre and supported by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and the School of Communication Studies

Press freedom, social media and the citizen

Professor Mark Pearson Griffith University

Friday, May 3, 5.30-7.30pm Communications Precinct Lecture Theatre WG126 Sir Paul Reeves Building 2 Governor Fitzroy Place Auckland City

Does social media mean press freedom is now for everyone?

The theme for this years UNESCO World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Safe to speak: Securing freedom of expression in all media, broadens the debate. It opens the way for an exploration of the libertarian origins of press freedom and the advent of social media and citizen journalism at a time when we are looking for new models of media responsibility and ethics beyond a social responsibility model some of which embrace cultural and religious notions of truth and story-telling.

Dr Mark Pearson is Professor of Journalism and Social Media at Griffith University, Australia, and has long been an advocate of press freedom. He is the Australian correspondent of the Paris-based global media freedom advocacy organisation Reporters Sans Frontires (Reporters Without Borders). Professor Pearson has combined careers in teaching and journalism. He was special reports editor of The Australian newspaper and his work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Fiji Times, the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association Bulletin and Crikey.com.au

Over the past two decades, Professor Pearson has also been involved with Pacific journalism at several levels. As author of The Journalists Guide to Media Law (4th edition with Mark Polden, Allen & Unwin, 2011), he has conducted media law training sessions for Pacific journalists in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga. Professor Pearson is on the editorial board of the Pacific Journalism Review and is a former editor of the Australian Journalism Review. His latest book is Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued (Allen & Unwin, 2012). He blogs from journlaw.com and tweets from @journlaw

Also, the new International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) documentary Media Freedom in the Pacific will be screened. Live streaming link at AUT On Demand: http://tinyurl.com/cryjgu6 ends

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"The Illuminati Were Amateurs" - Matt Taibbi Explains How "Everything Is Rigged"

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Apr 282013

From Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, back to his best, most floral of writing styles:

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.

You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three and perhaps as many as 16 of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that’s trillion, with a “t”) worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it “dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets.”

That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world’s largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world’s largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It’s about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates. In fact, in recent years many of these banks have already paid multimillion-dollar settlements for anti-competitive manipulation of one form or another (in addition to Libor, some were caught up in an anti-competitive scheme, detailed in Rolling Stone last year, to rig municipal-debt service auctions). Though the jumble of financial acronyms sounds like gibberish to the layperson, the fact that there may now be price-fixing scandals involving both Libor and ISDAfix suggests a single, giant mushrooming conspiracy of collusion and price-fixing hovering under the ostensibly competitive veneer of Wall Street culture.

Why? Because Libor already affects the prices of interest-rate swaps, making this a manipulation-on-manipulation situation. If the allegations prove to be right, that will mean that swap customers have been paying for two different layers of price-fixing corruption. If you can imagine paying 20 bucks for a crappy PB&J because some evil cabal of agribusiness companies colluded to fix the prices of both peanuts and peanut butter, you come close to grasping the lunacy of financial markets where both interest rates and interest-rate swaps are being manipulated at the same time, often by the same banks.

“It’s a double conspiracy,” says an amazed Michael Greenberger, a former director of the trading and markets division at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and now a professor at the University of Maryland. “It’s the height of criminality.”

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Grinders wanted for Transhuman Religion Study - Grinding

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Apr 282013

Posted by m1k3y on April 24th, 2013 in identity, posthumanism, religion

Venetia Robertson, shown below practicing catching cyborg flies, is seeking Grinders for a survey as part of her thesis. She says:

Hi all, I am looking for people who would like to answer a brief survey regarding the intersection of transhumanism and identity, with a focus on notions of the spiritual, religious, sacred etc. I am a PhD student from the University of Sydney, Australia, and my thesis explores ideas of identity, particularly identity that is beyond that which is purely human. Any data I can get from people who are interested in or actively engaging with grinding, body-hacking, wet-ware, transhumanism and/or becoming cyborgs would be greatly appreciated! Hit me up atvenetia.robertson@sydney.edu.auto be sent the survey and a participant information statement detailing my ethics clearance, or if you simply have questions.You can also check out my academic profile page athttp://sydney.academia.edu/VenetiaRobertson.Looking forward to hearing from you soon!

I took it myself on the weekend, and am keen to see what she comes up with.

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