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Yesterday on my way home, I went to the supermarket to pick up a few things. Arriving at the door at the same time as a young mother and child coming from a different part of the parking lot, I was surprised when she paused, smiling, and motioned for me to enter first.

Several minutes into my shopping list, not finding a product after a frustrating search, I asked for information from an employee stocking produce. Even though he was busy, he left his workspace and walked me past several aisles to show me the exact spot where it was tucked away on a bottom shelf.

Then later, as I approached a crowded check-out line, someone already in line saw that I only had a few items in my basket and stepped back, indicating that I should move in ahead of her and a full cart.

I suppose you also have experienced these sorts of unpretentious kindnesses. They constitute everyday civility, neighborly actions that we might all associate with a less rushed and more polite period in our nations history or with how our mothers taught us to behave.

But they also illustrate the Golden Rule, a version of which was given by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets (Matthew 7:12).

Methodist New Testament professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, Ben Witherington, comments on this principle:

Jesus was by no means the first or only person to come up with a version of the Golden Rule. There is the famous saying of Rabbi Hillel (110 BCE-10 CE), for example: What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor; that is the whole Torah, while the rest is commentary on it; go and learn. It is worth pointing out that Jesus insists on a positive formulation of the maxim, whereas other forms of it, both Jewish and Greco-Roman tend to be negative. Jesus is not talking just about avoiding evil or (the) appearance of evil. He is talking about actually doing good to others.

Indeed, this advice is acommon maxim found in most religions and cultures. The principle for treating others as we would like tobe treated is reflected in the wisdom of ancient Egypt, India, Greece, Rome and Persia as well as taught in the major world religions and philosophies of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Zoroastrianism, Bahai, Humanism and Existentialism.

Soubiquitous and influential is this moral tenet that it was cited in the famous document Declaration Toward a Global Ethic, initially written by Catholic theologian Hans Kng and ratified in 1993 and later updated in 2018 by the Parliament of the Worlds Religions.

Yet, there is an element of selfishness implicit in the Golden Rule, for acting positively toward others may inspire positive behaviors toward oneself. Concerning the human tendency to act according to ones own self-interest, Jesus was not nave, notes Witherington: Jesus assumes self-interest and self-regard and seeks to stretch the audience toward self-sacrifice and regard and love for others.

There is an element of selfishness implicit in the Golden Rule, for acting positively toward others may inspire positive behaviors toward oneself.

Courteous manners, such as the ordinary ones cited earlier, often are encountered in our friendly Southern culture. Sadly, however, sometimes the motivation for such behavior other than training and habit may actually resonate more with the proverb, Honey catches more flies than vinegar, which teaches that it is easier to get what you want by being polite rather than by being rude and insolent.

But the aim of the Golden Rule is not the personal gain one might get in return for being kind to another. Instead, the instruction stresses how one must behave toward others in an actual situation and not what one might receive in an imagined one. The principle is about the way to honor and value another, regardless of whether there is a reciprocal benefit to oneself.

Understanding the rule in this way makes it clearly consistent with a teaching of the Apostle Paul. In his letter to the church at Philippi, he admonished: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others (Philippines 2:3-4).

The first 11 verses of chapter 2 concern our imitating the humility of Christ, as commemorated in the Christological hymn recited in verses 6-11. Richard Hays, professor emeritus of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, comments on this Philippian passage:

Christs obedience to the point of death (2:8) is offered to the Philippians as a pattern for their own obedience (2:12). Just as he obediently suffered, so the Philippians should stand firm in the gospel, even when it requires them to suffer (1:27-30). Just as he humbled himself and took the form of a slave, so the Philippians should in humility become servants of the interests of others. Thus, Paul takes a hymn whose original purpose is doxological and employs it in service of moral exhortation. Christ becomes an exemplar who illuminates the way of obedience.

The apostle is clear: Let the same mind be in you that wasin Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). In the same way that Christ was self-emptying in his humility and sacrifice for others, the followers of Jesus also must humbly and voluntarily serve the interests of both friends and strangers.

So, how do these two admonitions, one from Jesus and the other from Paul, relate to the current conflicts during the pandemic in America over getting vaccinations or wearing masks?

I am constantly amazed that people who claim to be Christians refuse to get a COVID vaccine or wear masks in public.

I am constantly amazed that people who claim to be Christians refuse to get a COVID vaccine or wear masks in public.

Given the frightening rise of infections and serious illness due to the spread of the Delta variant and reports that almost all pandemic deaths are of the unvaccinated it is self-evident that the Golden Rule is relevant. One should want to protect others by getting a vaccine, just as he or she would want to be protected from catching the virus from them. This conclusion is valid regardless of the religious or philosophical tradition one follows. No one really wants to get sick and risk hospitalization and death.

Even more to the point, however, is the instruction of the apostle. Anyone especially a Christ-follower must humbly regard the well-being of others more than his or her own welfare. Doing so implies that wearing a mask, whose purpose always has been explained as providing protection for the persons who are nearby, is an obvious way that a clear New Testament teaching can be applied to a contemporary ethical problem.

Yet, many Americans even Christians are claiming their personal freedoms trump any responsibility to do something that they dont wish to do. As an American, they argue, I am free to do as I please.

Thats not true, others will insist, citing a familiar exception: You are not free to yell fire in a crowded theater.

But this retort, it appears to me, does not really correspond to our dilemma today. Not wearing a mask or getting a vaccine on the basis of personal freedom is not like yelling fire in a crowded theater. That scenario envisions someone creating a dangerous situation for others based upon a fiction.

You are not free to know that there is a fire in a crowded theater but not yell fire and thus secretly escape to safety without warning others.

Another line of reasoning seems more pertinent: You are not free to know that there is a fire in a crowded theater but not yell fire and thus secretly escape to safety without warning others. This hypothetical case imagines one endangering others in the midst of an actual life-threatening situation. Not to get a vaccine or wear a mask, as the pandemic spreads, is literally threatening the wellness, perhaps even the very lives, of those persons around you as you argue that your are simply exercising personal freedoms and choices.

The disagreements over vaccines and masks actually concern health and safety and are not merely differences of political opinion or matters of individual liberty. These disputes between Centers for Disease Control supporters and anti-vax and anti-mask patriots are shattering friendships and splitting families in our terribly divided America.

In 2015, during an Ebola outbreak in West Africa that was threatening our own country, as well, the then little-known director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, was interviewed byThe Atlantic.As the article relatesFauci

raised the idea of personal freedom, which is really at the core of objections to vaccine requirements. Of course, [children] cannot [always] be vaccinated [at their young age], leaving them susceptible to anything, so choosing not to vaccinate is no more a matter of personal freedom than choosing to drive drunk or practice blindfolded archery in a crowded elevator .The central question is how to get people to care about infectious disease beyond ones own near-term likelihood of contracting something.

Now, six years after Faucis expressed uncertainty about how to get Americans genuinely committed to the measures needed to protect their fellow citizens, even their own family members, we are experiencing the very same conundrum. Yet, for Christians, the decision is not just whether or not to be good citizens. It is also about whether to be faithful Christ-followers.

To paraphrase my North Carolina friend, Dennis Foust, who put it so practically and profoundly in his St. Johns sermon recently: Obey Jesus. Love your neighbor. Get the vaccine, and wear a mask!

Rob Sellersis professor of theology and missions emeritus at Hardin-Simmons Universitys Logsdon Seminary in Abilene, Texas. He is a past chair of the board of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Chicago. He and his wife, Janie, served a quarter century as missionary teachers in Indonesia. They live in Waco, Texas.

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When a pro-vaccine passport argument is about restoring freedom and not about public health, what does that tell you about the argument?

A World Economic Forum (WEF) Agenda blog post suggests that by framing vaccine passports as a way of restoring freedom, it will divide and conquer the opposition.

In this context [Australia], introducing vaccine passports can be framed as restoring freedom to those who are vaccinated.With this framing, opposition to passports will be divided between two groups WEF Agenda, September, 2021

In the context of Australia,framing the vaccine passport argument as a way of restoring freedom to those who are vaccinated will divide the opposition into two groups, writes Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland John Quigginin the WEF Agenda blog.

Update, September 7, 2021: The WEF has now removed the article in question from the Agendablog. The story can still be found on The Conversation here.

By lumping the opposition into those who oppose public health mandates and resist vaccination pushes, the article oversimplifies the opposition and omits several key counterarguments,along with the WHOs warning that COVID vaccine passports may actually increase the risk of disease spread.

While vaccine passports will be seen by some as a way to increase freedom, for those without a passport they would constitute a denial of liberties that others are being granted Ada Lovelace Institute, February, 2021

In making the case, the article understandably equates arguments against vaccine passports as being against the vaccines themselves.

While there is much overlap between the two, a person can simultaneously be pro-vaccine as a personal choice, but fervently against vaccine passports.

The WEF article on pro-vaccine passport framing omits several key oppositional arguments, such as:

The extent to which each vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to susceptible individuals remains to be assessed World Health Organization, August, 2021

The articles argument in favor of vaccine passports is about framing them as restoring freedom to divide the opposition.

What does that have to do with public health at all?

Again, vaccine passportscarry a whole set of separate ethical and medical issues, many of whichare different from the issues of vaccines alone.

Freedom is what is fundamentally at stake with vaccine passports (i.e. freedom of choice, freedom to participate in society, etc.), and the articles argument is predicated on the idea that its OK to take away the freedom of millions of people to choose.

But those who oppose vaccine passports say it was never OK to take away that freedom in the first place, and the opposition is made up of much more than hardcore anti-vaxers.

This division makes it even less likely that effective opposition will emerge WEF Agenda, September, 2021

Whats more, the WEF contributor believes that once divided, the opposition will be less effective.

To confuse things, some people may switch between one argument and the other depending on the audience, he writes.

This division makes it even less likely that effective opposition will emerge.

He may be right here, in that there are so many arguments against vaccine passports that they could confuse the messaging and cause further division.

Or, he could be wrong, in that there are so many arguments against vaccine passports that they become impossible to ignore.

Protesters might make some noise, but in practice the biggest hurdle for vaccine passports will likely be the administrative failures that have plagued every aspect of Australias response WEF Agenda, September, 2021

Most people just want their freedom back, and they see two paths they can take.

For some, the quick and easy path is to do what the government says and wait for their freedom to be given back.

For others, it means taking to the streets totake their freedom back.

The WEF Agenda contributor writes that the biggest obstacle to vaccine passports wont be the people who risk arrest protesting the Australian government, but rather failures on the part of the administration.

Protesters might make some noise, but in practice the biggest hurdle for vaccine passports will likely be the administrative failures that have plagued every aspect of Australias response, writes Quiggin.

Theres going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia

Now that Australian premiers are threatening to block anyone who isnt vaccinated from participating in society, there is even more pressure on the Australian people to get in line, which may or may not prove Quiggin to be right about the effects of framing.

However, no amount of framing can change the fact that the COVID shots have never been proven to prevent transmission and that people dont like being coerced into getting medical treatment in exchange for a carrot-on-a-stick promise of freedom that is always just out of reach.

Were going to move to situation where, to protect the health system, were going to lockout people who are not vaccinated and can be Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia

NEW Australian Premier Dan Andrews plans to "lockout" unvaccinated citizens, only vaccinated will be able to participate in the economy in the future.pic.twitter.com/G0aghDIU7I

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Ahealth pass raises a distinct set of risks because of current scientific uncertaintiesregarding COVID-19 vaccines World Health Organization, August, 2021

Recently,the World Health Organization (WHO)published a 99-pageguide book for governments to follow with their vaccine passport rollouts.

The guidance report, funded in-part by the Gates and Rockefeller foundations, warns that due to scientific uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 jabs, Use of a DDCC:VS [Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates: Vaccination Status] as a health pass based solely on individual vaccination status may increase the risk of disease spread.

In other words, the WHO acknowledges that COVID vaccine passports may increase the risk of disease spread because the jabs themselves have never been proven to prevent transmission.

According to the report, Use of a DDCC:VS asa health pass raises a distinct set of risks because of current scientific uncertaintiesregarding COVID-19 vaccines.

While COVID-19 vaccines have demonstrated efficacy and effectiveness in preventing severe disease and death,the extent to which each vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to susceptible individuals remains to be assessed.

How long each vaccine confers protectionagainst severe disease and against infection,and how well each protects against current and future variantsof SARS-CoV-2needs to be regularly assessed.

There are still critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission and limited availability of vaccines World Health Organization, January, 2021

The WHO has been repeating the same message all year.

In January, 2021 the WHO put out an announcement saying that vaccine passports for international travel werent justified because, There are still critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission and limited availability of vaccines.

That remains true today.

What is the point of a vaccine passport if vaccinated individuals arestill getting sick and spreading the viruswhile those who have recovered from COVID-19 will most likelyproduce antibodiesfor the rest of their lives?

The WHO guide book for government vaccine rollouts acknowledges:

Once again omitting the above, the WEF contributor says that the vaccine passport argument is a matter of framing.

However, the UK-based Ada Lovelace Institute think tank concluded in February, 2021 that any current rollout of a digital was passport was not justified for several reasons, including a lack of evidence on preventing transmission and that vaccine passports risk normalizing health surveillance.

Those reasons remain valid today.

The expert group came to the view that, at present, vaccination status does not offer clear or conclusive evidence about any individuals risk to others via transmission [] therefore any roll out of a digital passport is not currently justified Ada Lovelace Institute Interim Report, February, 2021

The expert group came to the view that, at present, vaccination status does not offer clear or conclusive evidence about any individuals risk to others via transmission,the Ada Lovelace Institute interim report reads.

Without that, it cannot be a robust basis for risk-based decision making, and therefore any roll out of a digital passport is not currently justified.

The interim report went on to say, It is likely that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) will become endemic, like seasonal flu and other infectious disease-causing pathogens (or even better contained, like measles, or even eliminated), at which point it will no longer require the emergency and intrusive measures justified by its present transmissibility and fatality.

Accepting this as a reasonable scientific expectation for the near future, raises concerns about the longevity of emergency apparatus, and that such infrastructure once built will not be stripped back.

There were particular concerns in the expert group that digital identity systems could be introduced as part of an emergency infrastructure, but used for different or expanded purposes Ada Lovelace Institute Interim Report, February, 2021

Here we see one of the many arguments against vaccine passports that the article does not address the risk of a growing surveillance and police state that is given never ending emergency powers that trample all over the rights of citizens.

The WHO is aware of this as well, saying in the guide book thatthe very introduction of vaccine passports will most likely make people even more hesitant to take the jab.

According to the WHO, the introduction of vaccine passports may also increase vaccine hesitancy because ofprivacy and otherconcerns thatthe vaccination record could be linked to personal data and be used for functions other than those originally intended(e.g. surveillance of individual health status), or be used by unintended third parties (e.g. immigration, commercial entities, researchers).

We find that the introduction of vaccine passports will likely lower inclination to accept a COVID-19 vaccine once baseline vaccination intent has been adjusted for. Notably, this decrease is larger if passports were required for domestic use rather than for facilitating international travel Survey for publication in the Lancets EClinicalMedicine

This backs up a study to be published in The Lancets EClinicalMedicine journal that states:

We find that the introduction of vaccine passports will likely lower inclination to accept a COVID-19 vaccine once baseline vaccination intent has been adjusted for.

Notably, this decrease is larger if passports were required for domestic use rather than for facilitating international travel.

Despite all the warnings (including its own), the WHO still went ahead and published 99 pages to guide governments in their vaccine passport rollouts.

Its not going to be safe for people who are not vaccinated to be roaming around the place spreading the virus. Thats what theyll be doing Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia

By not acknowledging most of the key oppositional arguments to vaccine passports, the article says that its just a matter of framing.

The argument assumes that freedom isnt a fundamental human right, that the government can hold freedom hostage indefinitely during an emergency, and that its perfectly acceptable that people must be coerced into taking a medical procedure in order to win back their freedom.

And there are plenty of people in Australia and the rest of the world who are willing to go along with that.

But how can you frame any argument for vaccine passports as being valid that doesnt take into account the freedom of choice, the fact that COVID vaccines dont prevent transmission, and the glaring evidence that vaccine passports will lead to a two-tiered society under a system of social credit fueled by digital identity schemes that monitor and police your every move?

Theres going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated Dan Andrews, Premier of Victoria, Australia

The WEF contributor highlighted the anti-vaccine passport sentiment sweeping across Europe as an example where vaccine passports have been framed as restricting the freedom of the unvaccinated to do things for which the passport is now required.

Therefore, Resistance has been expressed primarily in these terms.

When it comes to Australia, the restoring freedom framing proposal to divide and conquer the opposition may or may not work out.

But this type of messaging inadvertently serves as a warning to the rest of the world about what happens to citizens when they allow their government to control just about every aspect of their lives, including what they do with their own bodies.

As Victoria Premier Dan Andrews said, Theres going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate in that if you are vaccinated.

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Former New York Governor George Pataki, a Catholic, applauded the Diocese of Brooklyn for challenging former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in court last year over his emergency order to restrict the sizes of public gatherings, including worship services. (Photo: Marc Nozell via Wikimedia Commons)

WINDSOR TERRACE George Pataki says people often ask if he is relieved that the COVID-19 pandemic did not happen during his three terms as governor of New York State, from 1995 to 2006.

I answer the exact opposite, said Pataki, who was governor on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center.

When things are going well, anyone can do the job, he said. But when things are going badly thats when, if you believe in your philosophy and your capabilities, you want to be a part of the fray.

I dont miss the office, he insisted. I love being home and with my family and doing things in the private sector. But I do miss the ability to make important decisions in times of crisis like during the COVID crisis.

Pataki made his personal state of the state comments in a telephone interview on Aug. 26, a few days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned amid sexual harassment allegations.

Cuomos departure coincided with ongoing investigations into an alleged cover-up of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, as well as reports that he used state resources to prepare a memoir for which a publisher agreed to pay $5 million.

Kathy Hochul, then the lieutenant governor, took the oath of office to replace Cuomo, a fellow Democrat. Pataki said he did not know Hochul, and had only visited with her once. Still, he expressed relief that she had taken charge of the states government.

I think Andrew Cuomo ran a very authoritarian, ineffective government that governed through intimidation and control and provided misinformation on so many issues, Pataki said. Having him removed and having Kathy Hochul come in is a very, very positive step.

Pataki applauded the Diocese of Brooklyn for challenging Cuomo in court last year over his order to limit the sizes of public gatherings, including worship services, in so-called hot zones of COVID-19 infections.

The diocese, under the leadership of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, argued that it had enacted safety protocols and, therefore, the governors order restricted religious freedom. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in late November 2020, ruling 5-4 in favor of the diocese.

Pataki said he had kept track of the lawsuit as it moved through the judicial system.

What the governor did was wrong and virtually punitive towards the Catholic Church and religion in New York State, Pataki said. I was hoping for the outcome that we finally got that, ultimately, the United States Supreme Court said his actions were unconstitutional.

He said he welcomed new leadership in Albany to reverse the pandemics damage to New York and its economy and to respond to spikes in violent crime, high taxes, and attacks on religious freedom all challenges he worked to address as governor.

Top Priorities

Pataki added that New York needs a change in direction.

So, he said, I would hope that Governor Hochul will not just look to be a new governor, but to put in place new policies whether its criminal justice or dealing with health issues, or opening up the government so people get true information.

He commended Hochul for releasing updated data on the nursing home deaths, thereby taking the first step in her pledge to govern with transparency.

But, he added, I find it incredible that over a year later, the state government still kept the numbers of people who died from COVID a secret. This is something that, if its not criminal, it certainly should result in any and everybody involved being fired and removed from state government.

Pataki also said he was alarmed to see people leave the state, and New York City in particular, because of high taxes and crime.

When I took office, we were the most dangerous state in America, he said. When I left, we were the safest large state and fourth safest state in America because we changed all the policies and directions in Albany. Now theyre in the process of changing them back.

An example, he said, is the no-cash bail law that has resulted in felons being arrested and released two hours later. Consequently, Pataki said, crime is skyrocketing.

Obviously, its a catastrophe for the victims, he said, but its highly destructive for us as a society. The most important thing the government does is provide for the safety of its people.

If I was Gov. Hochul, that would be one of my top priorities.

Not the Whims of One Person

Pataki also urged lawmakers to never again pass legislation giving the governor unlimited power via executive orders.

He said executive orders are important, and he issued well over 100 of them, especially in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. But, he noted, the Legislature erred with a law giving Cuomo additional executive power, saying he basically can do anything he wants for an unlimited period of time.

The consequences, he said, are a delayed reopening of businesses shuttered by the pandemic and unfair constraints on religious freedom. He said decisions regarding public safety should be based on science and not the whims of one person.

Steady Hand

Pataki is the most recent Republican to serve as governor and the last governor to complete each of his terms without scandal and early resignations. Today, he is a senior partner in a Manhattan law firm, but he resides with his family in Garrison, N.Y.

Brian Browne, a political science professor at St. Johns University, said Patakis terms as governor overlapped stretches of economic growth, including the dot-com boom.

Before Pataki, Browne said, the last New York governor to serve three terms was Mario Cuomo, whom Pataki unseated in 1994.

The elder Cuomo, Browne explained, was a prominent Democrat and a popular national figure. Patakis election victory, therefore, made him a giant killer.

But Patakis defining moment was the 9/11 aftermath, when his steady hand helped rebuild lower Manhattan, according to Browne.

Pataki campaigned to be president in 2016 but withdrew before the primary. On Aug. 26, he asserted he has no plans to run for any office.

I think, Browne said, history will be kind to George Pataki, particularly for what he accomplished as governor and what he accomplished politically, just getting elected three times in New York State.

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With three goals and two assists in a pair of games to open the 2021 season for the Lycoming College womens soccer team, junior Bella Green earned her first career MAC Freedom Offensive Player of the Week award.

Green, a South Williamsport graduate, opened the year with a two-goal, two-assist effort as the Warriors ran past Gwynedd Mercy, 8-0, on Saturday. She assisted on two goals in the first 11 minutes before adding a goal later in the first half and one late in the second.

Freshman Ali Koval made a splash in her first week playing libero for the Lycoming College volleyball team, averaging more than seven digs per set to earn the MAC Freedoms Defensive Player of the Week award.

Koval a North Penn-Mansfield graduate who leads the MAC Freedom with 7.08 digs per set had at least 17 digs in each of the teams four matches during its opening week. Koval opened her career with 17 digs, an assist and two aces against Manhattanville before helping the team to its first win of the year with a 17-dig, one-ace effort in a sweep of La Roche on Friday.

She capped the weekend with a pair more sterling efforts, as she posted 33 digs and added a kill against Penn State-Mont Alto before notching 18 digs and an assist in a 3-0 win over Notre Dame (Md.), the defending CSAC champions.

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Richard La Gravenese wrote and directed the famous American drama film Freedom Writers, which was released in 2007. The plot of the film is based on a 1999 book called The Freedom Writers Diary, written by a teacher named Erin Gruwell for her students and later compiled into real-time diary entries depicting their school life and what they learned in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School.

Not only that! Freedom Writers also includes some of the elements from a popular DC television show called City at Peace. The films title refers to multiracial civil rights activists who challenged a 1961 Supreme Court decision requiring interstate bus desegregation. Tracey Durning, a journalist, presented the basic idea for the film.

Who is also driving the creation of a documentary series about Erin Gruwell for ABCs Primetime Live news program. Tracey worked on the movie project as a co-executive producer, and it was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones. The latter was slain shortly after the production of Freedom Writers.

The movie includes few famous faces as its cast, which is another reason for making it a great hit! And many appeared for the movie and have also got good acclaim in their acting career and have made a good fan base among the audiences as well. The entire list of cast members for Freedom Writers includes:

Keeping an eye on the movies aggregators, Freedom Writer has successfully made a good impression before many major movie aggregators, and its claimed to be one among the movie with a good number of positive response comments.One of the movie aggregators, Rotten Tomatoes, has rated 70 percent as positive reviews out of 126. Another movie aggregator, Metacritic, has given the film a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, indicating that it is a positive film. With looking at such positive acclaim, we would recommend you to stream the movie!

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Under Delta level 2, if you're in a public facility it's now mandatory to scan in and wear a mask and if you're touching things like museum exhibitions then you should be hand sanitising regularly.

"We've set a cap of 734 people in the museum at any given time just to help people manage that space between their bubbles," Te Papa CEO Courtney Johnston said.

But not everyone's happy.

"It's unfair that a museum, a sport centre and other venues can have an unlimited amount of people, with the same rules we are under - yet we are only allowed 50," restaurant, bar and club owner Jordan Mills told Newshub.

The 50 person limit applies to conferences as well.

Conference centre owner Paul Retimanu, from Manaaki Management, said many bookings have been cancelled as a result.

"And at 50, I don't feel confident they are all going to come straight back," he said.

Many businesses are now hoping alert level 1 is around the corner, as level 2 is more about the punters than the profit.

"We are worrying about businesses' survival, certainly worried about profitability, cash flow and all those things," Wellington Chamber of Commerce CEO Simon Arcus said.

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2010 novel by Jonathan Franzen

Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications,[1][2] and called by some critics the "Great American Novel."[3]

The novel follows the lives of the Berglund family, particularly the parents Patty and Walter, as their lives develop and then their happiness falls apart. Important to their story is a college friend of Walter's and successful rock musician, Richard Katz, who has a love affair with Patty. Walter and Patty's son, Joey, also goes through his own coming of age challenges.

Franzen began working on the novel in 2001, following his successful novel The Corrections. The title of the novel was an artifact of his book proposal, where he wanted to write a novel that freed him from the constraints of his previous work. The cover of many editions of the novel includes a cerulean warbler, a songbird, for which Walter works to create an environmental preserve.

The novel opens with a brief look at the Berglund family during their time living in St. Paul, Minnesota, from the perspective of their nosy neighbors. The Berglunds are portrayed as an ideal liberal and middle-class family, and they are among the first families to move into urban St. Paul after years of white flight to the suburbs. Patty Berglund is a charming and youthful homemaker with a self-deprecating sense of humor; her husband Walter is a mild-mannered but principled lawyer with environmentalist advocacies. They have one daughter, Jessica, and one son, Joey, the latter exhibiting a precocious independence and talent for making money. Joey becomes sexually involved with a neighborhood teen named Connie Monaghan and begins to rebel against his mother, going so far as to move in with Connie and her family, making Patty and Walter increasingly unstable. After many unhappy years, and after both Joey and Jessica have gone off to college, Patty and Walter relocate to Washington, D.C., abandoning the neighborhood and house they have worked so hard to improve.

The second section of the novel is a story-within-a-story, presented as an autobiography written by Patty at her therapist's suggestion. She recalls her youth as a star basketball player, her alienation from her busy Democrat parents and artistically-inclined siblings, and her being date-raped. Instead of attending an East Coast elite college like her siblings, she obtains a varsity scholarship to the University of Minnesota, where she continues her successful basketball career. Through her best friend at the time, a possessive and disturbed girl named Eliza, she meets an attractive indie rock musician named Richard Katz, and his nerdy but kind roommate, Walter Berglund.

Shortly after finally detaching herself from Eliza, Patty suffers a career-ending knee injury, and attempts to woo Richard on a road trip to New York. Failing to do so, she settles down with Walter, who has been patiently courting her for more than a year. Despite being happy with Walter and raising a family with him, Patty is unable to forget her physical attraction to Richard. As a result, nearly twenty years after college, she betrays Walter in a brief affair with Richard during a stay at the Berglunds' vacation house, located on an unnamed lake in Minnesota. She learns that Richard denied her advances decades earlier out of respect for his best friend Walter.

The third section of the novel jumps to the early 2000s, and alternates in viewpoint among Richard, Joey, and Walter.

By 2004, a middle-aged Richard has finally found success as a minor indie rock star, with his breakthrough album Nameless Lake having been secretly inspired by his affair. Uncomfortable with commercial success, he burns through his new-found money. Walter, who has been working in Washington, D.C. for an unorthodox environmental organization called the Cerulean Mountain Trust, calls him to enlist his help for a personal project. Richard learns that the Trust is funded by a coal mining magnate who wants to strip mine a section of West Virginia territory before turning it into a preserve for the cerulean warbler, a songbird. Walter hopes to use some of the Trust's funding for his pet project, a campaign against human overpopulation. Believing that Richard's rock star reputation could greatly help the campaign, Walter meets up with him, and introduces him to Walter's beautiful young assistant, Lalitha. Richard notices that Lalitha appears to be deeply in love with Walter, and also learns from Walter that his marriage with Patty, who has been suffering from depression, is deteriorating.

After navigating many difficulties in relocating obstinate West Virginian families living on the proposed preserve territory, including convincing a body-armor manufacturer for the Iraq War, which Walter greatly opposes, to employ the displaced families, Walter and Lalitha complete the deals required to set up the future warbler preserve. After drinking for the first time in his life, Walter inadvertently declares his love for Lalitha, and they kiss, but stop short of having sex. Now able to use funding for the anti-overpopulation campaign, which they name Free Space, Walter invites Richard back to Washington D.C.. While attempting to show interest in the initiative, Richard reaches out to Patty, and tries to convince her to leave Walter and let him be happy. Patty refuses, and shows Richard the autobiography she wrote as therapy (Mistakes Were Made), trying to convince him that she still loves Walter. After reading it, Richard deliberately leaves the manuscript on Walter's desk for him to see. Hurt and enraged, Walter throws Patty out despite her claims that her affair with Richard is done and that she loves him. Lonely and directionless, Patty goes to Jersey City to live with Richard.

Meanwhile, the Berglunds' estranged son, Joey, now studies at the University of Virginia. He initially finds his new life unsatisfactory compared to his younger years in Minnesota; he blames the September 11 attacks and its effects on the people around him. His attempts to break away from his childhood sweetheart Connie fail when he finds himself seeking their intimacy. However, after a Thanksgiving at his roommate Jonathan's family in the D.C. suburbs, Joey meets Jonathan's exceptionally beautiful but mischievous sister Jenna, and is exposed to their father's Zionist politics, which along with increased involvement with neo-conservatives, further alienate Joey from his father. Through Jonathan's father's connections, Joey meets Kenny Bartles, an entrepreneur determined to profit from the ongoing Iraq War. Kenny is subcontracted by LBI for a highly lucrative Department of Defense project, to procure supply trucks to serve in the frontlines. Kenny convinces Joey to invest a large amount up-front, only for Joey to discover that Kenny has dubiously chosen an obsolete truck model for the deal.

At home in Minnesota, Connie suffers from depression, which is worsened by Joey's distant treatment of her. Joey impulsively marries her after she gives him her savings to invest in the subcontract, although he keeps the marriage secret from everyone, especially his parents. However, Joey continues to flirt with Jenna, and during a trip to South America is given a chance to sleep with her; during the act, he unexpectedly suffers impotence, and realizes his true love for Connie. His ensuing exploits in finding truck parts in South America are disastrous, and he is pressured to ship defective parts to fulfill his contract, causing him extreme guilt, which leads him to call his father for advice. Walter is proud of Joey's show of conscience, and Joey decides not to blow the whistle, instead donating much of the proceeds from his subcontract. He also eventually tells both parents about having married Connie, who now happily lives with him.

With Patty gone, Walter and Lalitha become lovers. However, increasingly depressive after his separation from Patty, Walter loses his temper on live TV at the inauguration of the new West Virginian body-armor factory, expressing his contempt for the displaced families and the Trust's corporate backers. He and Lalitha get fired as a result, and are forced to continue the Free Space initiative without the Trust's help, though Walter's speech leads him to become an icon for radicals across the country. They plan a large concert to raise awareness, but without Richard and the Trust the event becomes an echo chamber for already-radicalized youth. While on a road trip with Walter to visit campgrounds across the nation before the concert, Lalitha leaves early to manage the increasing destructiveness of concert attendees, and is killed in a car crash.

The penultimate section of the novel is a follow-up chapter to Patty's autobiography, written specifically for Walter. Patty reveals that she has not talked to Walter for six years. She lasted only several months living with Richard, aware of their long-term incompatibility.

For several months after her split with Richard, Patty stays with her college basketball friends, until her father was suddenly diagnosed with cancer. After traveling home to see him again in his final days, Patty visits each of her siblings to negotiate a compromise in the family's heated squabbles over the estate, and gradually redeems her relationship with her family, little though any of them agree with one another. Patty then lives alone in Brooklyn and works at a private school, where she found a passion for teaching and coaching young children. She relates that Joey has been successful in a new sustainable coffee business, while Jessica has focused on a career in publishing, and that Patty's separation from Walter has caused the siblings to become closer to each other despite their differences. Six years after she left Walter, Patty runs into Richard, who is now comfortable with his success. Richard convinces Patty to get in touch with Walter, saying she's good at telling stories, and this motivates her to write a concluding chapter to her autobiography.

After Lalitha's death, Walter retreats to his family's lakeside house in Minnesota, where the previously unnamed lake has been renamed Canterbridge Estates Lake after a new residential development built across the water from Walter's house. His new neighbors see him as a cranky recluse, obsessed with preventing their house cats from killing birds nesting on his property. One day, Walter, who did not read the manuscript Patty sent him, finds her on the steps of the lakeside house. Despite his rage and confusion, he eventually takes her back, and they rekindle their relationship slowly, spending all of their time together. Patty quickly earns the admiration of Walter's neighbors, but after less than a year, she and Walter move out, returning to her job in New York, where most of her family and their friends also live. According to Walter's wishes, the old lakeside house is turned into a fenced, cat-proof bird sanctuary, named in memory of Lalitha.

After the critical acclaim and popular success of his third novel The Corrections in 2001, Franzen began work on his fourth full-length novel. When asked during an October 30, 2002 interview on Charlie Rose how far he was into writing the new novel, Franzen replied:

I'm about a year of frustration and confusion into it...Y'know, I'm kind of down at the bottom of the submerged iceberg peering up for the surface of the water...I don't have doubt about my ability to write a good book, but I have lots of doubt about what it's going to look like.[4]

Franzen went on to suggest that a basic story outline was in place, and that his writing of the new novel was like a "guerrilla war" approaching different aspects of the novel (alluding to characters, dialogue, plot development, etc.).[4] Franzen also agreed that he would avoid public appearances, saying that "...getting some work done is the vacation" from the promotional work surrounding The Corrections and How To Be Alone.[4]

An excerpt entitled "Good Neighbors" appeared in the June 8 and June 15, 2009 issues of The New Yorker.[5] The magazine published a second extract entitled "Agreeable" in the May 31, 2010 edition.[6]

On October 16, 2009, Franzen made an appearance alongside David Bezmozgis at the New Yorker Festival held in the Cedar Lake Theatre to read a portion of his forthcoming novel.[7][8] Sam Allard, writing for North By Northwestern website covering the event, said that the "...material from his new (reportedly massive) novel "was as buoyant and compelling as ever" and "marked by his familiar undercurrent of tragedy."[8] Franzen read "an extended clip from the second chapter."[8]

On March 12, 2010, details about the plot and content of Freedom were published in the Macmillan fall catalogue for 2010.[9]

In an interview with Dave Haslam on October 3, 2010 Franzen discussed why he had called the book Freedom:

The reason I slapped the word on the book proposal I sold three years ago without any clear idea of what kind of book it was going to be is that I wanted to write a book that would free me in some way. And I will say this about the abstract concept of 'freedom'; it's possible you are freer if you accept what you are and just get on with being the person you are, than if you maintain this kind of uncommitted I'm free-to-be-this, free-to-be-that, faux freedom.[10]

Franzen has stated the writing of Freedom was deeply impacted by the death of his close friend and fellow novelist David Foster Wallace.[11]

Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, particularly for its writing and characterization. Shortly before the book's release, TIME magazine featured Franzen on its cover, describing him as a "Great American Novelist," making him the first author to appear on its cover in a decade.[12]

Sam Tanenhaus of The New York Times and Benjamin Alsup of Esquire believed it measured up to Franzen's previous novel, The Corrections. Tanenhaus called it a "masterpiece of American fiction," writing that it "[told] an engrossing story" and "[illuminated], through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, the world we thought we knew."[13] Alsup called it a great American novel.[3] In The Millions, Garth Risk Hallberg argued that readers who enjoyed The Corrections would enjoy Freedom, writing that readers are "likely to come away from this novel moved in harder-to-fathom waysand grateful for it."[14] An editor for Publishers Weekly wrote that it stood apart from most modern fiction because "Franzen tries to account for his often stridently unlikable characters and find where they (and we) went wrong, arriving atincrediblygenuine hope."[15]

Benjamin Secher of The Telegraph called Franzen one of America's best living novelists, and Freedom the first great American novel of the "post-Obama era."[16] In The Guardian, Jonathan Jones called him "a literary genius" and wrote that Freedom stood on "a different plane from other contemporary fiction."[17]

Michiko Kakutani called the book "galvanic" and wrote that it showcased Franzen's talent as a storyteller and "his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on American middle-class life." Kakutani also praised the novel's characterization, going on to call it a "compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times."[18] The Economist stated that the novel contained "fully imagined characters in a powerful narrative" and had "all its predecessor's power and none of its faults."[19]

Not all reviews were raving. Most lukewarm reviews praised the novel's prose, but believed the author's left-wing political stance was too obvious. Sam Anderson, in a review for New York magazine, thought the characterization was strong, but perceived the politics as sometimes too heavy-handed: "Franzen the crankmighty detester of Twitter, ATVs, and housing developments" occasionally "overpower[s] Franzen the artist [...] but if crankiness is the motor that powers Franzen's art, I'm perfectly willing to sit through some speeches."[20] Ron Charles of The Washington Post remarked that it lacked the wit and "[freshness]" of The Corrections. Charles praised Franzen's prose and called him "an extraordinary stylist," but questioned how many readers would settle for good writing as "sufficient compensation for what is sometimes a misanthropic slog."[21] Ruth Franklin of The New Republic believed the novel resembled a "soap opera" more than it did an epic, and that Franzen had forgotten "the greatest novels must [...] offer [...] profundity and pleasure."[22]

Alexander Nazaryan criticized its familiarity in the New York Daily News remarking that the author "can write about a gentrifying family in St. Paul. Or maybe in St. Louis. But that's about it." Nazaryan also didn't believe Franzen was joking when he suggested "being doomed as a novelist never to do anything but stories of Midwestern families."[23] Alan Cheuse of National Public Radio found the novel "[brilliant]" but not enjoyable, suggesting that "every line, every insight, seems covered with a light film of disdain. Franzen seems never to have met a normal, decent, struggling human being whom he didn't want to make us feel ever so slightly superior to. His book just has too much brightness and not enough color."[24]

In a scathing review, Brian Reynolds Myers called the book "juvenile" and "directionless", and filled with "mediocrities".[25]

Ross Douthat of First Things praised the "stretches of Freedom that read like a master class in how to write sympathetically about the kind of characters" with an abundance of freedom. Yet, Douthat concluded the novel was overlong, feeling the "impression that Franzen's talents are being wasted on his characters."[26]

Freedom won the John Gardner Fiction Award. Additionally, it was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The American Library Association also named it a notable fiction of the 2010 publishing year.

Oprah Winfrey made Freedom her first book club selection of 2010, saying, "this book is a masterpiece."[27][28] US President Barack Obama called it "terrific" after reading it over the summer.[29]

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By: Jonathan BombulieSaturday, August 21, 2021 | 6:01 AM

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Freedoms Damian Grunnagle works out during practice on Aug. 10, 2021, in Freedom.

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Freedoms Damian Grunnagle works out during practice on Aug. 10, 2021, in Freedom.

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Freedom head coach John Rosa talks with his team during practice on Aug. 10, 2021, in Freedom.

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Freedoms Carter Slowinski works out during practice on Aug. 10, 2021, in Freedom.

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Freedoms Josh Yeck works out during practice on Aug. 10, 2021, in Freedom.

Theres one particular stat coach John Rosa would like to see Freedom lead the WPIAL in this season.

Touchdowns? Yards? Turnovers? Sacks? Well, yeah, sure. What coach wouldnt want that?

But what Rosa really wants his team to lead the district in is smiles.

This game is about these kids enjoying their three or four years of high school football, Rosa said. Thats what we want to do. Thats my most important goal this year. I want the kids to have fun.

Rosas focus on footballs fun factor is a direct response to the way last season went for the Bulldogs. In a season often described as strange and challenging because of covid protocols, Freedoms season was stranger and more challenging than most.

After a 24-6 loss to New Brighton in the season opener, Greg Toney resigned when the relationship between the coach and his players fell apart. Rosa, the schools athletic director, stepped in on an interim basis.

It was a miserable couple weeks leading up to what happened, Rosa said.

The misery steadily dissipated, though, as the wins started piling up. Freedom won five of its last seven games, including a quality victory over playoff-bound Laurel.

After the season ended, when the time came for the school to look for a permanent head coach, Rosa stepped forward. The team had undergone three coaching changes in the previous four years, all during the season. The last thing the Bulldogs needed was another change in leadership.

We needed to try to get some stability, and the board looked to me knowing Ive been in the district 32 years, Rosa said. I know the kids. Just trying to get that stability back to have some sense of normalcy back in the program.

Rosa will field a lineup long on talent at the skill positions but lacking in experience in the trenches.

Cole Beck, a first-team all-conference pick on offense and defense who threw for more than 1,200 yards and 16 touchdowns, graduated. So did his top target, Reiker Welling. But Rosa is excited about his new quarterback: senior Carter Slowinski.

Hes probably a kid who, under most circumstances, would be a three-year or four-year starter, Rosa said. Hes a very talented young man, but he just happened to be playing behind Cole Beck the last couple years.

He waited. He paid his dues patiently. He contributed to our offensive last year as a wide receiver, and now hes going to be the guy. He can do a lot of things both with his legs and his arm. We think hes going to have an excellent season and hes going to be the catalyst for our offense.

Between four-year starter Josh Pail, three-year starter Damian Grunnagle and Josh Yeck and Tristen Clear, the Bulldogs have plenty of weapons at running back and wide receiver on offense and linebacker and defensive back on defense.

The biggest question mark is on the line. Freedom graduated all five starters.

Youve got to protect the quarterback and youve got to open up some holes for the running backs, Rosa said. Well see how that works with our offensive line. Theyre all first-year starters, but theyre good kids working hard. We hope they can develop quickly.

Freedom

Coach: John Rosa

2020 record: 5-3, 4-3 in Class 2A MAC

All-time record: 422-537-54

SCHEDULE

Date, Opponent, Time

8.27 South Side, 7:30

9.3 Western Beaver, 7:30

9.10 at Quaker Valley, 7

9.17 Riverside*, 7:30

9.24 at Neshannock*, 7

10.1 Laurel*, 7

10.8 at Ellwood City*, 7

10.15 at Beaver Falls*, 7

10.22 Mohawk*, 7:30

10.29 at New Brighton*, 7

*Conference game

STATISTICAL LEADERS

Passing: Cole Beck*

100-192, 1,278 yards, 16 TDs

Receiving: Reiker Welling*

38-759, 10 TDs

Rushing: Josh Pail

51-211, 1 TD

FAST FACTS

After going 12-0 at home the previous two seasons, Freedom was undefeated on the road last year, going 4-0.

With the WPIAL taking only the top two teams in each conference due to pandemic scheduling changes, Freedom saw its streak of four consecutive playoff appearances snapped.

Freedoms defense will face two radically different offenses in the first two weeks of the season. The Bulldogs will take on the Wing-T attack of South Side in the opener followed by the spread passing game of Western Beaver in Week 1.

Rosa is in his third stint as Freedom coach. He also held the position from 1996-98 and on an interim basis in 2018.

Jonathan Bombulie is a Tribune-Review Assistant Sports Editor. You can contact Jonathan by email at jbombulie@triblive.com or via Twitter .

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