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The agencies listed on the Agency 100 demonstrated substantial growth over the past three years.
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Local Business Women's Group Looks to Re-Form
A group of local businesswomen is meeting Friday, Aug. 30, to discuss re-establishing a Memphis chapter of the Business and Professional Women of Tennessee.
The group is meeting at 11:30 a.m. at Jason's Deli, 3473 Poplar Ave.
Meeting organizer Martha Ervin said the group welcomes any woman who is interested in "sharpening your leadership skills, developing opportunities to meet and share experience with other women and becoming more informed on issues crucial to women in business."
Ervin is finance chair for Business and Professional Women of Tennessee, a state affiliate of BPW Foundation. The national group is an advocate for women on work-life balance and workplace equity issues.
Miss Lee's Preschool, the preschool of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School, has been reaccredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
The accreditation includes more than 450 criteria and 10 standards on which a preschool's operations are judged every five years.
The preschool, which was founded in 1924 and became part of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School in 1987, has been accredited since 1998.
Miss Lee's has a current enrollment of 125 students, including three new classrooms for 2-year-olds that opened in August. The new classrooms were added in an expansion several years ago during a renovation of Grace-St. Luke's.
The Greater Memphis Chamber has teamed up with online executive education company Gazelles Growth Institute to offer members access to online training from the nation's top business experts at an exclusive discount.
The Gazelles Growth Institute has similar arrangements with other chambers of commerce across the U.S., including the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, and plans to expand its offer to chambers in Canada and Australia as well.
Through these partnerships, chamber members are able to purchase a corporate membership at a 10 percent discount.
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate from April through June, much faster than previously estimated. The steep revision was largely because U.S. companies exported more goods and imports declined.
The Commerce Department said second-quarter growth was sharply higher than the initial 1.7 percent rate it reported last month. And the growth this spring was more than double the 1.1 percent rate from January through March.
The improvement in the trade deficit helped offset a weaker government spending.
Economists expect growth will stay at an annual rate of around 2.5 percent in the second half of the year, helped by steady job gains and less drag from federal spending cuts. Still, some say higher interest rates might restrain the economy's expansion in the second half.
Rates could rise even further if the Federal Reserve decides to reduce its $85 billion a month in bond purchases at its September meeting. The Fed will consider the stronger second-quarter growth when making a decision next month. The bond purchases have helped keep long-term borrowing rates low.
Average U.S. rates for fixed mortgages declined this week but stayed close to their highest levels in two years.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan fell to 4.51 percent. That's down from 4.58 percent last week, the highest since July 2011.
The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage dipped to 3.54 percent from 3.60 percent, also the highest since July 2011.
Rates have risen more than a full percentage point since May when Chairman Ben Bernanke first signaled that the Federal Reserve might reduce its bond purchases later this year. The purchases have helped keep long-term interest rates low.
Mortgage rates remain low by historical standards. But the sudden spike in rates could slow the housing recovery's momentum.
U.S. sales of newly built homes dropped 13.4 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 394,000, the government said last week. That's the lowest level in nine months.
Also in July, fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes for the second straight month, according to the National Association of Realtors. Still, the decline has been modest and the level of pending homes sales remains close to a 6 ½ -year high reached in May.
Mortgage rates have been rising because they tend to follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield also has surged on speculation that the Fed's stimulus will slow. But the rate on the 10-year note declined this week to 2.78 percent from 2.90 percent last week.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits remained near the lowest level in more than five years last week, a sign that companies are cutting few jobs.
First-time applications for benefits fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 331,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, inched up 750 to 331,250 after falling to its lowest level since November 2007 the previous week.
Applications for unemployment benefits reflect layoffs. At the depths of the recession in March 2009, they numbered 670,000. The average has fallen 10 percent this year.
All told, nearly 4.5 million people received unemployment benefits in the week that ended Aug. 10, the latest period for which figures are available. That's about 30,000 more than in the previous week.
The figures "signal no let-up from the recent pace in employment growth, which has been strong enough to keep unemployment trending down," said Jim O'Sullivan, an economist at High Frequency Economics. "If anything, claims are suggesting further acceleration."
Though employers are cutting few jobs, most have yet to start hiring aggressively. Fewer layoffs can increase net job gains, even if hiring doesn't rise much.
Employers have added an average of 192,000 jobs a month since January. That's enough to gradually lower the unemployment rate, which fell to 7.4 percent in July.
The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence is expanding and plans to move from 5100 Poplar Ave. to 1919 Lynnfield Road, Suite 200, in September.
"We want to make it easier for our more than 200 agency members from West Tennessee, East Arkansas and North Mississippi to engage with us and participate in events and networking," said Nancy McGee, who leads the Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence.
McGee said the alliance has been working to let the Mid-South nonprofit sector know that the organization provides training, education, management consulting, research and advocacy outreach.
"The main thing we want to accomplish is for the nonprofit sector to develop a clearer understanding of what we do," McGee said.
Sue Malone, the founder of San Francisco-based group Strategies for Small Businesses, will facilitate a small-business loan workshop in Memphis Sept. 9.
The event, to be held at the Renaissance Business Center at 555 Beale St., will feature Malone discussing funding availability for startup businesses or expansion options for current businesses.
The public is invited to the workshop, which will be hosted by Tennessee Small Business Development Center and the U.S. Small Business Administration. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with another from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm. At the conclusion of the workshop, attendees can have a loan application ready to submit.
The international chef competition Battledish is coming to Downtown Memphis in October.
Six chefs will compete for titles such as "most delicious" and "most creative" as well as for best modern, best cocktail and "most authentic."
The event is Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. All ticket holders will get to vote for their favorites, along with a panel of guest judges.
Chefs and other details will be released weekly. The contest website at dishcrawl.com/memphisbattle has more information and registration details.
Members of Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality, an organization made up of men and women who are currently or formerly homeless, will be hosting the fourth in a series of "Know Your Rights" workshops for the city's homeless.
The workshop will be Saturday, Aug. 31, at St. Mary's Episcopal, 700 Poplar Ave.
Members of H.O.P.E.'s Street-Watch initiative will be available to help individuals fill out surveys about their experiences with the Memphis Police Department.
Organizers with the Street-Watch initiative will also have complaint forms available to document instances of police harassment.
"We believe that over time, we can use data compiled from these complaints to pinpoint areas where police harassment is most likely to occur, what time of day or night, and begin to weed out officers who believe that a badge and a gun give them the right to treat people on the streets of Memphis like second-class citizens," said Marcus Mitchell, a project organizer.
Visible Music College is launching a student work-scholarship program this fall.
The new program will employ 70 students in positions transferrable to the professional, post-collegiate world. Students will work hours weekly in recruitment and advancement, media and marketing, building management, music publishing, hospitality, admissions and more.
The college is preparing to start its fall semester with a capacity enrollment of 129. Students moved in to campus housing in Memphis on Aug. 10.
U.S. home prices rose 12.1 percent in June from a year earlier, nearly matching a seven-year high. But month-over-month price gains slowed in most markets, a sign that higher mortgage rates may weigh on the housing recovery.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index slowed only marginally from May's year-over-year gain of 12.2 percent, the fastest since March 2006. And all 20 cities posted gains from the previous month and compared with a year ago, according to the report released Tuesday.
Home prices in Las Vegas soared 24.9 percent from a year earlier to lead all cities. Purchases by investors have helped.
Other cities hit hard by the housing bust also posted stunning gains in the past year. Prices have jumped 24.5 percent in San Francisco and nearly 20 percent in both Los Angeles and Phoenix.
Still, 14 of the 20 cities posted smaller gains in June compared with May. That's unusual considering June is the middle of the summer buying season.
And in cities less affected by the housing crisis, gains have been more modest. Prices in New York and Cleveland are about 3 percent higher than a year earlier. Prices rose 5.7 percent in Washington, D.C., and 6.7 percent in Boston.
Most economists expect the overall index to slow to single digits in the coming months, which they see as a more sustainable pace.
Dot Foods Inc., an Illinois company that redistributes food to convenience stores, vending machines and other food service vendors, will build a $24 million distribution center in Dyersburg, Tenn.
Company officials and state and Dyersburg leaders announced the plans Monday, Aug. 26, in Dyersburg.
The warehouse, the company's first in Tennessee, is to be built on Tenn. 211 in the Dyersburg Industrial Park and will mean 157 new jobs in the Dyer County area in the warehouse's first three years.
A temporary office opens in the fall, with the center itself scheduled to open in September 2014.
The company begins hiring truck drivers and looking for management staff immediately.
The 166,494-square-foot warehouse will include frozen, refrigerated and ambient storage as well as a 9,500-square-foot garage for tractors and trucks.
The center will serve Dot customers in a five-state area.
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich is offering a bike to each student with perfect attendance in 12 elementary and middle schools in the Shelby County Schools system and Achievement School District.
The Bike Rewards program is funded by the Hyde Family Foundation and is part of the District Attorney General's office Truancy Reduction Program.
The bicycles will be awarded at the end of the school year to students who have no absences and no tardy occurrences for the entire year.
The elementary schools in the program are Ford Road, Hickory Ridge, Shannon, Westwood and Winridge.
The middle schools in the program are Chickasaw, Georgian Hills, Hamilton, Hickory Ridge, Ridgeway, Sherwood and Westside Achievement.
The schools have approximately 7,500 students.
When Richard Montanez started working for PepsiCo, he was a janitor.
Today, he's 56, he heads multicultural sales and community promotions across PepsiCo's North America divisions, and he is the company's top Latino executive.
Montanez was this month's featured speaker of the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club.
He spoke to a crowd Thursday, Aug. 22, at the BRIDGES facility Downtown about how he achieved success after inventing the idea and recipe for "Flamin' Hot Cheetos" – one of the company's top-selling snacks – and how that success had roots early in his childhood.
"Let me tell you about everything that came my way when I was your age," Montanez told the young people in the crowd at BRIDGES. "Nothing came my way when I was your age!"
Instead, his was a classic rags-to-riches story. "Why can't I fit in like everyone else?" he asked his mom at one point during his grade school years. It was at a time when other children shot him quizzical looks when he'd do "strange" things like take out his packed lunch and unwrap – a burrito.
"This is who you are," his mother told him. One day, she packed him an extra burrito to give to a friend. Soon, he was sharing his food.
And after that, he was selling burritos for 25 cents. It was an anecdote that displayed his early affinity for seizing opportunity.
"Young people, be who God created you to be," Montanez said. "Once you fall in love with yourself, you're free."
Once he got a foot in the door at PepsiCo mopping floors, he made up his mind: "I'm going to mop this floor where everybody who walks on it is going to look twice."
Boscos Restaurant and Brewing Co. on Sunday, Sept. 1, will be bringing back its Derailleur Ale custom brew.
The light, hoppy beer will be available for sale at all Boscos locations in Tennessee and Arkansas.
Boscos Squared in Overton Square also will celebrate the beer's return with an evening of beer and live music Sunday.
The event begins at 5 p.m., and all proceeds from the evening will benefit Boscos Cycling and the Mid-South Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Georgia Gorringe said it took her five years to write the tale of a woman who listens to talk radio and is turned on by the voice of a man she hears.
"And that voice on the radio, oh, he had a magic voice! And it just turned her on!" Gorringe said laughing during an interview with KUTV.
Her adult daughter, Bobbie Posey, is proud of her mother's accomplishment but says she was taken aback by the amount of steaminess in the book.
"Sometimes I'm like, mother, how could you do that? How can you write that?" said Posey. "But she did!"
The 176-page book, titled "No Good-Bye," came out in February and is available on Kindle and Amazon. It isn't available in book stores. Gorringe wrote it under her pen name, Georgie Marie, and released it using a company that helps authors self-publish.
"Sometimes, the sound of a voice is all it takes to dial up a fine romance," the tease on Amazon says. "But can you really fall in love with someone when you have never been in the same room?"
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DENVER—Army Spc. Brandy Fonteneaux's death came not on a battlefield in Afghanistan but on an infantry post in Colorado—allegedly at the hand of a fellow soldier—and that makes the pain even worse for her family.
The 28-year-old from Houston had been stabbed 74 times when she was found in her room in a Fort Carson barracks on Jan. 8, Army investigators said. Officials said she had also been choked.
"We could have taken this much better if Brandy had been killed in war," said Fonteneaux's aunt, Bevenley Thomas, who raised her from infancy. "But to be murdered here in the U.S. in your barracks in your sleep is just not right."
A court-martial is scheduled to start Monday for Sgt. Vincinte Jackson, an Army combat engineer charged with murder and premeditated murder in Fonteneaux's death.
If convicted, his sentence could range from life in prison with a chance for parole in as few as 10 years to life in prison without possibility of parole, Army officials said.
His attorneys declined to comment.
Jackson, an eight-year Army veteran from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., was 40 at the time of the killing. He was with the 576th Engineer Company, 4th Engineer Battalion. Fonteneaux was a food operations specialist in the 4th Engineer Battalion.
Authorities haven't publicly divulged any motive for the killing. There was no evidence Fonteneaux was sexually assaulted, Thomas said, although Army officials told the family some of her clothing had been removed or pushed up to her neck.
Fonteneaux knew Jackson but they were not close, Thomas said. Fonteneaux had told her family that Jackson confided in her about his crumbling marriage.
Thomas said she asked Fonteneaux if she and Jackson had a romantic relationship, and she replied, "No, Mom, he's married. He's too old."
"I know her like that," Thomas said. "We didn't have secrets."
Jackson deployed to Iraq for five months in 2005-06. He went to Iraq again in February 2009 for about two months and then was sent to Afghanistan for nearly a year. Jackson received the Purple Heart, but the details of his injury were unavailable.
Thomas, also from Houston, said Army officials told her family that Jackson did not show signs of post-traumatic stress at the time of the killing. She still wants the military to pay more attention to servicemen and women returning from combat deployments.
"I definitely want justice, but I also want them to look closer at our soldiers," she said. "The least we can do is to make sure that they are healthy and get themselves back into society."
"I don't understand what's going on out there (at Fort Carson)," she said.
Fort Carson officials say they recognize the effects of multiple combat deployments and have programs in place to help soldiers and their families at the post just outside Colorado Springs.
Mental health teams have been decentralized and placed within Fort Carson's major units to make it easier for soldiers to get help, the post said in a written statement. Nutritional counseling, fitness classes, therapy, child care and other services are also available.
At a pretrial hearing in May, prosecutors and defense lawyers both made an issue of Jackson's mental state, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.
"Sgt. Jackson had a knife with him and he snapped," said Capt. Jeremy Horn, a defense lawyer. He said prosecutors have no evidence of premeditation.
Prosecutors said Jackson acted with deliberation and could recall the gruesome killing in detail.
Fonteneaux grew up in Houston nurtured by three sets of parents: Thomas, her aunt; Verona Fonteneaux, her biological mother and Thomas' sister; and her godparents.
"I asked my sister if I could raise Brandy," Thomas said. Thomas wanted a child but had suffered miscarriages, and Verona Fonteneaux had five children and financial problems, and needed help, Thomas said.
Brandy Fonteneaux had a nurturing personality herself, her mother and aunt said. When her track teammates at Texas Southern University grew discouraged, she would say, "Hey, let's just give it our best." As a food service specialist in the Army, she would withhold dessert from fellow soldiers facing a fitness test.
She got a degree in kinesiology from Texas Southern and then joined the Army in 2009 to help pay off college loans. All the while she remained close with her family. "She didn't grow up and get away. She grew up and became closer," Thomas said.
She spoke with her family daily by phone, text or Skype until Saturday, Jan. 7, when no one heard from her. The next day, the family asked Fort Carson officials to check on her, and she was found dead in her room.
Since then, it has been hard for her entire extended family, her mother and aunt said. Their houses are lined with photos of the young woman with her broad, beaming smile, and they feel her absence keenly at family gatherings.
"I have my days," Verona Fonteneaux said. "Some days I'm OK. Sometimes I sit and cry."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — For years, activists have warned that fracking can have disastrous consequences — ruined water and air, sickened people and animals, a ceaseless parade of truck traffic.
Now some critics are doing what was once unthinkable: working with the industry. Some are even signing lucrative gas leases and speaking about the environmental benefits of gas.
In one northeastern Pennsylvania village that became a global flashpoint in the debate over fracking, the switch has raised more than a few eyebrows.
A few weeks ago, Victoria Switzer and other activists from Dimock endorsed a candidate for governor who supports natural gas production from gigantic reserves such as the Marcellus Shale, albeit with more regulation and new taxes. Dimock was the centerpiece of "Gasland," a documentary that galvanized opposition to fracking, and Switzer was also featured in this summer's "Gasland Part II," which aired on HBO.
"We had to work with the industry. There is no magic wand to make this go away," said Switzer, who recently formed a group that seeks to work with drillers on improved air quality standards. "Tunnel vision isn't good. Realism is good."
For Switzer, the endorsement was a nod to reality — for some of her onetime allies, a betrayal. Either way, it was a sign that anti-drilling activism is evolving, with some opponents shifting tactics to reflect that shale gas is likely here to stay.
Plenty of anti-drilling activists still want nothing to do with the industry and continue to call for a ban on fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, the technique that drillers use to siphon gas from shale deposits more than a mile underground. In New York state, opponents have so far succeeded in blocking natural-gas development in the Marcellus Shale.
But Pennsylvania residents concerned about drilling no longer have the luxury of simply calling for a ban, Switzer said. Not with the Pennsylvania and West Virginia portions of the Marcellus already yielding more than $10 billion worth of gas annually, making it the nation's most prolific gas field.
"It's in full swing, and it's simplistic to think you could just tell them all to stop," said Rebecca Roter, another Pennsylvania activist.
The enormous volume of gas flowing from the Marcellus and other U.S. shale formations has turned energy markets upside-down and led to wholesale prices that are about one-third of what customers in Europe or Asia pay. That has led to lower costs for consumers and industry.
And that, in turn, got the attention of Vermont's anti-fracking governor.
It was Gov. Peter Shumlin who, in early 2012, signed the nation's first statewide fracking ban. But now he's promoting the economic benefits of natural gas. Last month, Shumlin spoke out in favor of a $90 million expansion of the state's natural gas pipeline system — which will transport fracked gas — saying the project was critical to industry, the environment and people who are struggling to pay energy bills.
Some drilling critics, meanwhile, have become reluctant partners with an industry they dislike.
Robert Donnan had been an outspoken critic of drilling in general and Range Resources, the company that sunk the first Marcellus well in 2004, in particular. In February, he leased his land to Range, according to public documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Donnan didn't respond to requests for comment, nor did members of the group to which he belongs, Marcellus Protest, whose stated goal is to "stop the destruction of our environment and communities caused by Marcellus drilling."
But one of Donnan's cousins said family members felt they had little real choice, considering their 296-acre property southwest of Pittsburgh is already surrounded by drilling.
"The choice is either sign the lease and have some control, or don't sign and have no control" over what happens in the area, said Geoffrey Smith, adding the family will still keep an eye on everything the drillers do.
"We're watching for any spills, any violation of the lease, for any hanky-panky with the money," said Smith, who praised his cousin for keeping the industry's "feet to the fire" on environmental issues.
Donnan is still speaking out, too. In the spring, he published a letter to the editor saying "gas production is filthy business." He also denounced drilling at a public forum in Pittsburgh — though without telling the audience he had signed a lease.
Range spokesman Matt Pitzarella said the company views Donnan's decision to sign a lease after years of criticizing the industry "as an endorsement" of drilling, since he's clearly aware of the risks involved.
Some environmental groups are seeking to partner with the industry in a different way.
In southwestern Pennsylvania, environmentalists recently joined charitable foundations and major oil and gas companies to form the Center for Sustainable Shale Development, which aims to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region. And in Illinois, industry and environmental groups worked together to support a bill on fracking that both sides could support.
That's similar to what Switzer is trying to accomplish in Dimock, the tiny crossroads where pro- and anti-drilling forces descended after state regulators held a gas driller responsible for contaminating residential water supplies with methane.
More than a year after Switzer and other residents settled their lawsuit against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., the rancor has mostly subsided. And Switzer settled on a new approach to the industry that she calls her "landlord."
"You have to sit down and not be the enemy," she said.
This year, Switzer and Roter co-founded Breathe Easy Susquehanna County, an organization that seeks to persuade companies to use advanced technologies to limit emissions. The group has won plaudits for its non-confrontational style.
It's a small, quiet effort to set aside philosophical differences over the wisdom of natural gas production and focus on how the negative impacts can be minimized. The group has even attracted pro-drilling residents who had clashed with Switzer and others who spoke out against the industry.
Switzer and Roter said it's time to move past the pro-gas, anti-gas dichotomy. The reality, they point out, is that thousands of wells have already been drilled, new compressor stations are going up and pipelines are being laid.
At Breathe Easy, Roter said, "we decided our first goal was to make concern about air quality mainstream as mainstream as going to church in this rural county."


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Boulder, Larimer, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties — along with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife — have scheduled open houses to provide information about potential locations suitable for safe recreational sport shooting. The meetings:
Larimer County: 6 to 8 p.m. June 27 at the Carter Lake and Boyd Lake meeting rooms in the Larimer County Courthouse Office Building, 200 W. Oak St., Fort Collins.
Gilpin County: 6 to 8 p.m. July 11 at the Gilpin County Community Center, 250 Norton Drive, Black Hawk.
Clear Creek County: 6 to 8 p.m. July 16 at Idaho Springs City Hall, 1711 Miner St., Idaho Springs.
Boulder County: 6 to 8 p.m. July 23 in the Boulder County Commissioners' third floor hearing room in the Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder.
Further information about the Northern Front Range Recreational Shooting Management Partnership is available online, at SportShootingPartners.org. People can also call project coordinator Garry Sanfacon at 720-564-2642 or email email@example.com.
Residents of Boulder, Larimer, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties will get to review an effort to set criteria for identifying locations where recreational target shooting on public lands along the northern Front Range would be appropriate — along with designating areas where officials think shooting shouldn't be allowed.
Those four counties — along with the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife — have entered a partnership to develop "a multi-jurisdictional strategy to provide safe, responsible and accessible recreational sport shooting opportunities while addressing conflicts near residential areas and with other recreation users."
Work has begun on crafting that strategy, which could become a planning tool in future decisions about sites that pose recreational sport shooting opportunities.
The Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting Management Partnership has scheduled four open houses to update members of the public about the project and share ideas for identifying areas that could be developed for target-shooting sites, as well as areas where such shooting should be restricted or prohibited because of safety concerns.
The criteria might wind up suggesting guidelines for local government land-use decisions about applications for developing or expanding shooting ranges on private properties.
Boulder County Commissioner Deb Gardner said officials would like those open houses to "really be a two-way conversation" with the people who show up.
Officials "will share the information we've gathered so far" and solicit comments from the open house attendees, Gardner said.
The target shooting that the federal government allows in most of western Boulder County's national forest lands is an issue that's drawn shooting advocates and critics to a number of Boulder County commissioners' meetings over the past several years. Some residents express alarm about the safety of continuing to allow sport shooting in such areas as Left Hand Canyon, or on a former community dump site near Nederland, or a onetime Nederland town dump off Magnolia Road.
This past Thursday, Gardner and Michelle Krezek, the Boulder County commissioners' staff deputy, hosted a meeting of representatives from the participating counties, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Forest Service.
Clear Creek County Commissioner Tim Mauck said that the partnership was formed in the hope that the jurisdictions could come up with "an organized effort to manage recreation while providing opportunities for multiple uses on public lands."
The preliminary criteria that the group is using include consideration of a site's distance from any nearby homes, campgrounds, unincorporated residential subdivisions, and neighboring cities and towns. Other criteria could include: access to the site, the availability of parking, and its distance from roads, the conditions of those roads; possible wildfire hazards; and possible environmental impacts.
Officials have emphasized that any decision won't be binding. Those decisions will still be made under each government agency's own procedures.
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Human Barbie Sarah Burge—you know, the one who stuffed her 7-year-old kid's Christmas stocking with a liposuction voucher and gifted her with a breast implant fund for her birthday—is coming stateside with daughter Poppy with two specific goals in mind: winning Toddlers & Tiaras and competing together in pageants all over the country. To sample the horror, take a look at this.
Naturally, this raised the hackles of reigning champ Eden Wood (who I've deduced is almost certainly not a real little girl, but a teeny, tiny dementor who latched onto the Pepsi Girl in those '90s commercials and sucked her soul out of her dimples), whose PR rep Andrew Sullivan had this half-correct thing to say: "[Sarah Burge] is a psychotic piece of garbage. I really hope the USA government can remind this lady that in this country, we don't do stuff like that." Ah, but if only that second part was true, Mr. Grown-Up Man Who Lies Down To Allow Eden Wood To Step On His Face When She Feels Angry. [Radar]
- Star Jones just made $500k selling her "disgusting, moldy, leaky, dangerous" New York, uh... penthouse. Is there an alternate theme song for The Jeffersons called "Movin' On Laterally"? [TMZ
- Placido Domingo emerges as a big Lady Gaga fan. Does this mean every time he's on Twitter he's told that he's "similar to" Terry Richardson? And, like... is he? [Daily Mail]
- Meanwhile, Gaga says she's sexually submissive: ''In the bedroom now, I really like being told what to do." As long as she's aware that Rihanna's got the Top 40 market cornered on that one and continues to wear Jim Henson puppets as formalwear we're cool. [Contact Music]
- Being on the set of Nadya "Octomom" Suleyman's first adult film in the San Fernando Valley was probably like skipping the first fun 45 minutes of Boogie Nights and going right to the part where William H. Macy shoots himself and it becomes 1980. [TMZ]
- Tinsley Mortimer's boyfriend Prince Lorenzo Borghese is helping her grieve in the difficult days following the death of her Chihuahua, Bella. Related: some mediocre Gossip Girl spec script was written on a MAGIC COMPUTER THAT MAKES EVERYTHING YOU TYPE HAPPEN FOR REAL. [Page Six]
- Jonah Hill joins Leonardo DiCaprio for Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street. [Vulture]
- But who cares, kinda, because here's Jeymes Samuel of U.K. hip-hop outfit The Bullits talking about his cooler-sounding upcoming black Western short They Die By Dawn: "It's set in 1890 with every single black actor in Hollywood swagged out cowboy style – Langston, Oklahoma. I am super, super excited." Killer cast includes Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams and Rosario Dawson. [Indie Wire]
- Cee Lo Green's gonna appear on the Parks & Rec season finale. [Perez Hilton]
- Kim and Kris are probably getting a divorce trial instead of settling out of kourt. [Radar]
- On Chelsea Lately, Jennifer Love Hewitt joined the ranks of every 14-year-old boy in 1998 by telling Chelsea Handler that she had a nightmare about her boobs shrinking. [The Sun]
- After 11 years, No Doubt is releasing a new album on September 25. [Billboard]
- Jessica Alba insists that her marriage to Cash Warren is "not always about swinging from chandeliers," which is both a metaphor I've never heard and an immensely disappointing one because I totally imagined them spending at least 40 minutes a day dangling from the Strass crystal fixture in their living room. [Digital Spy]
- During the Linda Evangelista trial it was revealed that when Salma Hayek was pregnant, doctors said that her daughter might be born with Down Syndrome. (Baby Valentina turned out perfectly healthy.) [Ace Showbiz]
- Recent divorceé and Smash's resident hideous-shawl-wearer Debra Messing does not know if she believes in the institution of marriage anymore. [People]
- Recent divorceé and Smash's resident hideous-shawl-wearer Debra Messing should take note that Waka Flocka Flame enjoys the company of older ladies ("them Stifler moms"). [Vice]
- Flo Rida is fighting back against a lawsuit filed against him when he failed to appear at a gig, claiming they did not provide him with the transportation he asked for. It happened in Australia and not Florida, thereby saving you a terrible "No Rida" joke that is singing in my heart. [Express]


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Seventeenth-century English Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale wrote, rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved." At least since then, that sort of thinking has been a major impediment to protecting women against sexual violence.
Of course, the impediments are many. In fact, social psychologists have discovered that one of the biggest challenges is in the way we categorize an occurrence. There is a "rape prototype" that influences what counts as a "rape" and what counts as something else — say, consensual sex or a seduction. (Legal scholar Martha Chamallas has a compelling article on that topic.) The purest form of the rape prototype, complete with racial details, includes a brutish man (usually black), unknown to the victim, bounding out of the bushes or breaking into a home and violently forcing himself on a young, innocent, white (probably blonde) woman.
Elements of this prototype can be found throughout our culture, from the cinema (see above) to political ads (see below). And that same prototype, many have argued, has interfered with our ability or willingness to recognize or respond to the harms associated with atypical forms of sexual violence, such as marital rape, date rape, same-sex rape, prison rape, and party rape.
Amesty International has just published a disturbing study about the sexual violence against Native American women in the U.S. To be sure, there are numerous causal factors (including jurisdictional ambiguity, budgetary constraints, and bureaucratic indifference) behind the trends described. But, in additon to those situational factors, a less obvious causal contributor, we suspect, is the rape prototype.
In the eyes of many Americans, the brutalization of Native American women, because they do not match the prototypical victim, does not seem quite as bad and the perpetrators do not seem quite as heinous as they might, were the similar trends occuring to women in a midwestern suburb. In fact, the legacy of cultural stereotypes and historical practices might well contribute to the sexual violence against Native American women, or so the Amnesty International Report suggests. To paraphrase Justice Hale, in many contexts, rape is easily proved, but rarely prosecuted. We excerpt the summary of that Report below.
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Sexual violence against Indigenous women in the USA is widespread — and especially brutal. According to US government statistics, Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women in the USA. Some Indigenous women interviewed by Amnesty International said they didn't know anyone in their community who had not experienced sexual violence. Though rape is always an act of violence, there is evidence that Indigenous women are more like than other women to suffer additional violence at the hands of their attackers. According to the US Department of Justice, in at least 86 per cent of the reported cases of rape or sexual assault against American Indian and Alaska Native women, survivors report that the perpetrators are non-Native men.
Sexual violence against Indigenous women is the result of a number of factors including a history of widespread and egregious human rights violations against Indigenous peoples in the USA. Indigenous women were raped by settlers and soldiers in many infamous episodes including during the Trail of Tears and the Long Walk. Such attacks were not random or individual; they were tools of conquest and colonization. The underlying attitudes towards Indigenous peoples that supported these human rights violations committed against them continue to be present in society and culture in the USA. They contribute to the present high rates of sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and help to shield their attackers from justice.
Treaties, the US Constitution and federal law affirm a unique political and legal relationship between federally recognized tribal nations and the federal government. There are more than 550 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes in the USA. Federally recognized Indian tribes are sovereign under US law, with jurisdiction over their citizens and land and maintaining government to government relationships with each other and with the US federal government. The federal government has a legal responsibility to ensure protection of the rights and wellbeing of Native American and Alaska Native peoples. The federal government has a unique legal relationship to the tribal nations that includes a trust responsibility to assist tribal governments in safeguarding the lives of Indian women.
Tribal law enforcement agencies are chronically under-funded – federal and state governments provide significantly fewer resources for law enforcement on tribal land than are provided for comparable non-Native communities. The lack of appropriate training in all police forces — federal, state and tribal — also undermines survivors' right to justice. Many officers don't have the skills to ensure a full and accurate crime report. Survivors of sexual violence are not guaranteed access to adequate and timely sexual assault forensic examinations which is caused in part by the federal government's severe under-funding of the Indian Health Service.
The Federal Government has also undermined the authority of tribal governments to respond to crimes committed on tribal land. Women who come forward to report sexual violence are caught in a jurisdictional maze that federal, state and tribal police often cannot quickly sort out. Three justice systems — tribal, state and federal — are potentially involved in responding to sexual violence against Indigenous women. Three main factors determine which of these justice systems has authority to prosecute such crimes:
– whether the victim is a member of a federally recognized tribe or not;
– whether the accused is a member of a federally recognized tribe or not; and
– whether the offence took place on tribal land or not.
The answers to these questions are often not self-evident and there can be significant delays while police, lawyers and courts establish who has jurisdiction over a particular crime. The result can be such confusion and uncertainty that no one intervenes and survivors of sexual violence are denied access to justice.
Tribal prosecutors cannot prosecute crimes committed by non-Native perpetrators. Tribal courts are also prohibited from passing custodial sentences that are in keeping with the seriousness of the crimes of rape or other forms of sexual violence. The maximum prison sentence tribal courts can impose for crimes, including rape, is one year. At the same time, the majority of rape cases on tribal lands that are referred to the federal courts are reportedly never brought to trial.
As a consequence Indigenous women are being denied justice. And the perpetrators are going unpunished.
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For the full summary, click here. For the full report, click here. And to listen to an NPR (All Things Considered) story on the report, click here.
4 Responses to "Unrecognized Injustice — The Situation of Rape"
April 28, 2007 at 3:54 pm
[…] The Situationist has an excellent post up about Amnesty International's study about the sexual violence against Native American women in the U.S. […]
April 30, 2007 at 6:18 am
Rape and sexual abuse will remain, in practical terms, untouchable by most legal process. Yet these are founded upon male sexual response that goes without ever being questioned….until now. This remnant of bestial, evolutionary biology may finally be consigned to the scrap heap of history and with it, the extensive downside of male sexuality. A new interpretation of the moral teachings of Christ is on the web and being tested. It offers the promise of an entirely new sexual paradigm between men and women, making rape, abortion, contraception and all sexual abuse redundant ideas.
Check these links:
April 30, 2007 at 10:07 pm
More on Rape of American Indian Women
At the Situationist (a blog associated with the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School which is co-authored by a classmate of mine in law school), there is a post about Amnesty International report about the higher
March 17, 2009 at 12:03 am
[…] For a related Situationist post, see "Unrecognized Injustice — The Situation of Rape." […]


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Lifting the flaps will easier for children than lifting the book
Moo. By Matthew Van Fleet. Photography by Brian Stanton. Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 18 pp., $16.99.Ages 2–4.
By Janice Harayda
There are books that children can't put down. Then there are books, like Moo, that some can't pick up.
This obese book weighs nearly two pounds, about 10 percent of the average weight of the group most likely to respond to it, 2-year-olds. Would you want to lift 10 percent of your weight every time you felt inclined to pick up a book? If you aren't sure, consider: The average American adult weighs 191 pounds if male and 164 pounds if female, according to government research. So you'd be lifting — and hauling around — a 16- or 19-pound tome.
Yes, 2-year-olds could turn the pages of this book if you laid it on a table, and no doubt many would enjoy it. Moo is a touch-and-feel, lift-the-flap book that uses bold color photographs and a scant rhyming text to describe the sounds and behavior of seven baby and barnyard animals – cows, pigs, sheep, goats, ducks, chickens and horses. But the book lacks a signal charm of its ancestor Pat the Bunny, dimensions that allowed it to fit into small hands. Why read a new behemoth before a well-proportioned classic?
Best line/picture: "Now the day is done and with a / Moo cow, moo / Goodbye from all the animals … / cock-a-doodle doo!"
Worst line/picture: "Mommy hen, / Fuzzy chicks, / Roosters strut and stretch. / Cluck chicken, / Eat chicken – peck, peck, peck!" Stretch does not rhyme with peck.
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© 2102 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Overhauling the trig tests turned out to be much more epic than I had intended. Guess that's one of the hazards of writing the test generating code in Perl 6 while Rakudo is still under heavy development.
The old test code was very, very thorough in testing each configuration. Basically, we looped through a list of angles, and tested each angle with every possible way it could be called for each type we wanted to test. So say the angle is 45 degrees. Then for the Num type, we'd call
sin(45.Num, Degrees), and
sin(:x(45.Num), Degrees), and then we'd call the same for the equivalent of 45 in Radians, Gradians, and Circles. Then we'd start it all over again using Rat instead of Num. And so on and so forth.
In practice, any implementation is likely to redispatch the trig functions to two basic sets of methods, one for reals and one for complex. So that's exactly what the tests do now (leaving out the complex case because it is long:
for TrigTest::cosines() -> $angle { my $desired-result = $angle.result; # Num.cos tests -- very thorough is_approx($angle.num(Radians).cos, $desired-result, "Num.cos - {$angle.num(Radians)} default"); for TrigTest::official_bases() -> $base { is_approx($angle.num($base).cos($base), $desired-result, "Num.cos - {$angle.num($base)} $base"); } }
Then, instead of trying to exhaustively test the rest of the cases, we try to generate one test for each case, and leave it at that. For instance, here's the Rat tests for cos:
# Rat tests is_approx((-0.785398163404734).Rat(1e-9).cos, 0.707106781186548, "Rat.cos - -0.785398163404734"); is_approx((0).Rat(1e-9).cos(Circles), 1, "Rat.cos(Circles) - 0"); is_approx((0.785398163404734).Rat(1e-9).cos(:base(Radians)), 0.707106781186548, "Rat.cos(:base(Radians)) - 0.785398163404734"); is_approx(cos((1.57079632680947).Rat(1e-9)), 0, "cos(Rat) - 1.57079632680947"); is_approx(cos((135).Rat(1e-9), Degrees), -0.707106781186548, "cos(Rat, Degrees) - 135"); is_approx(cos(:x((3.14159265361894).Rat(1e-9))), -1, "cos(:x(Rat)) - 3.14159265361894"); is_approx(cos(:x((250).Rat(1e-9)), :base(Gradians)), -0.707106781186548, "cos(:x(Rat), :base(Gradians)) - 250");
The use of
.Rat(1e-9) is to ensure we have a Rat argument — longer decimal numbers may become Nums otherwise. This tests an additional case (
Rat.cos(:base(Radians))) that was never actually tested before. Despite that, the number of Rat tests overall goes from something like 160 to 7.
That's good, because I added three more types to be tested. Two represent generic
Cool types:
Str and
Str is used to test real numbers in a non-
Cool type.
NotComplex is a non-
Cool type which returns a
Complex which you call
.Numeric on it. The final type,
DifferentReal, is a
Real type which is not built-in.
Much to my surprise, I actually turned up a couple of bugs in Rakudo's trig implementation when I tried this testing approach with
atan2, the oddball trig function which normally takes two real arguments. First, we were not being generous enough on what the second argument would accept, which was easily corrected. Second, our fake enum standing in for
TrigBase looks exactly like an
Int to Rakudo. So
2.atan2(Degrees) is indistinguishable from
2.atan2(1), which is definitely not what the user wants. Luckily that's a pretty silly way to call
atan2 anyway.
The process of getting this to work turned up a few Rakudo bugs in the non-trig code, which have been reported. I won't go into the details here.
By my reckoning, this means there is only one thing left on my list for the numeric grant, srand and rand. I will try to finish them off tomorrow. Thanks to The Perl Foundation and Ian Hague for supporting this work.


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Heads up, this one's long, personal, and maybe sort of pointless, but it's been swimming around in my head for a long time, and since I did just ask everyone to tell me about themselves, it seems relevant.
This post has been in my head for months–as a matter of fact, I started writing it there the day I came back to this blog, but I kept coming up with reasons not to flesh it out and post it. When I came up with the July Challenge, it was on my mind, and then I read this post at Tree Heals Go Woosh (which is, by the way, the best blog name ever). It got me thinking about all of that stuff again since the end of Wrath/beginning of Cataclysm brought a lot of this to the forefront for me.
Over the course of Wrath, I learned so much about WoW. I'd been playing half-blind for a couple of years, I realized, and with the leap into blogging, I suddenly had a world of information and experiences at my fingertips. As an expansion, Wrath encouraged that exploration, and I honed a lot of my skills there.
I had a lot going on in my life during that expansion, too; a lot of change: my father-in-law passed away from cancer, my brother-in-law had a heart attack and a stroke, my daughter started kindergarten, and my son was diagnosed with autism. I was stressed out, at my highest weight ever, dealing with my own issues on top of everything else, and profoundly insecure.
I started using WoW and its many, many things to do as an escape, but more than that, I started to find my identity there. I didn't know who I was out here. To myself, I didn't have any worth out here in the real world. I couldn't stop the pain my husband was experiencing from the loss of his father. I didn't know how to reach my son. I felt like I was shortchanging my daughter.
In WoW, I was becoming a decent moonkin, my dps improving little by little as I grew determined to become a better player. My raid awareness improved leaps and bounds. I was writing boss strats for this blog, so I knew the fights inside and out. I was succeeding in Warcraft at the same time I felt like I was failing in the real world.
I did what I could with my family, I did everything I knew to do with my kids, I comforted my husband the best I knew how, but I never felt like I was doing enough. When they all went to bed, I'd log in to WoW and be someone that didn't suck for a while. When I did fail, I took it hard, because more and more I was finding my security in the game.
At the end of Wrath, most of the guild was burned out, myself and my husband included. Everyone had much shorter tempers, and those that were past getting irritated had gone completely indifferent. There was a lot of bickering, a lot of being nasty behind people's backs, and a lot of disappointment. We were on edge, and we got pushed too far. After a tough week of discussing it with each other and with the officers, we left our guild of four years. It sucked, and my safe WoW identity began to crumble.
We found a new guild and joined, and they were great. They weren't raiding at the time, which gave us some breathing room before Cataclysm came out. We went into Cataclysm raiding and hoped for the best; we enjoyed the fresh, mostly positive attitudes we found in our new guild.
But every guild has its issues, and when we went to 10-man from 25, things got messy. People started to quit–the people we felt closest to in our new guild started to fall away one by one. The things tying me to WoW were disappearing.
I won't go into details, it's kind of personal (I know, like the rest of this isn't), but I had my eyes opened to what I needed to be doing one night to connect with my family, and I quit raiding altogether.
With the end of raiding came the end of WoW for me for a while. I play to raid; I always have. Everything else is fun, but it's not raiding. Over the next several months, I got to know both my kids a little better. I spent more time with my husband. I refocused on my faith. I started writing fiction and poetry. I started to figure out who I was.
The biggest change, though, came when my husband and I kicked our weight loss into high gear last summer. Suddenly, I could do things–things I thought were impossible. I could walk for miles, lift weights, even run!
My writing started to garner some appreciation. I watched fat start to melt away. I grew closer to my husband and spent more time with my kids. I learned more about my faith and where I stand. My accomplishments stacked up; my confidence grew. I didn't need WoW to tell me I was a worthwhile person anymore–I was proving it to myself in all the ways that really mattered.
When the kids started school, I suddenly had time on my hands. They were gone for hours during the day, and they went to bed early at night. I realized I missed WoW, and I started playing again. Through a random encounter with a former guild member (and friend) in Baradin Hold, I rejoined my original guild. They needed raiders, and I was in a position to give it a go again.
Now I play for different reasons. I play because it's fun. I play because I like improving my game, I like killing bosses, I like the camaraderie, I like my guild.
I'm not just Ambermist the druid (though I like being Amber very much, don't get me wrong! :D), I'm a lot of things. I'm a mom, wife, friend, writer. I've accomplished things that have nothing to do with achievement points.
The game is fun again for me, not because it changed, but because I did.


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I think of all the good that is done in the name of WordPress and blogging, and a 9 year old humbles me.
A couple weeks ago, a 9 year old food blogger attracted attention for the photographs she'd taken of her "uninspiring school cafeteria lunches" in Scotland. Local officials ordered her to stop taking pictures and to stop publishing them on her blog. The world responded with accusations of censorship. Within two hours, the local council reversed their decision. The social web moves fast.
In addition to taking pictures of her school lunches, little Martha Payne had set up a JustGiving fundraising project to donate food to the Mary's Meals charity which feeds poor children in impoverished nations such as Malawi.
On her blog, Never Seconds, Martha (aka VEG) explained:
This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today.
I only write my blog not newspapers and I am sad I am no longer allowed to take photos. I will miss sharing and rating my school dinners and I'll miss seeing the dinners you send me too. I don't think I will be able to finish raising enough money for a kitchen for Mary's Meals either…
…I mentioned in my blog that last year my friends and I set up Charity Children at school and we made felt soaps and candle holders. We had a sale and raised £70 for Mary's Meals enough to feed 7 children for a whole year!
My blog is being read all over the world and some people have said I am very lucky to have lunch at all. They are right. Lots of readers have asked how they can support Charity Children but because I can't make enough felt soaps so it is best if you support Mary's Meals directly.
According to the BBC, within a few hours, her simple request helped raise enough money to build a school kitchen in Malawi. People around the world reached out to support her by giving to Mary's Meals.
Donations range from a few pounds to a couple of hundred. The majority of the donations are very small, adding up to make a huge impact.
According to a spokesperson from Mary's Meals:
"Thanks to this fantastic support, Martha has now raised enough money to build a kitchen in Malawi for children receiving Mary's Meals as part of our Sponsor A School initiative and has broken the record for hitting a Sponsor A School online fundraising target in the quickest amount of time".
Martha's goal was to fund the building of a school kitchen, about £7,000 (USD $11,000). To date, 6,539 people have donated and they've exceeded that goal by 1373% raising over £96,000 (USD $150,000), enough for 13 kitchens, feeding thousands of children worldwide.
If you would like to join her cause, you can donate through Just Giving.
While you are at it, consider setting up a method of donating to your own favorite charity and make a difference in the lives of others. With the millions of people in the WordPress Community, I think we could make some serious fundraising waves, don't you?
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Hillsdale tennis falls to Leslie; Reading girls win
HILLSDALE — The Hillsdale High School girls tennis team hit its first bump of the season.
Despite playing in several close matches throughout the day, the Hornets were handed their first setback of the season Friday with a 7-1 loss to the Leslie Blackhawks in a Southern Michigan Independent Tennis League match.
Hillsdale (3-1, 2-1 SMITL) fell into second place in the conference standings as Leslie (3-0 SMITL) gained sole possession of first.
Jamee Thompson gave the Hornets their lone victory of the day at No. 2 singles, defeating Leslie's Chelsey LaRock in straight sets 6-2, 6-1.
Hillsdale dropped a pair of three-set matches. Casey Lemerand fell 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 at No. 4 singles, while the team of Lauren Allen and Jenna Holland fell 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1 doubles.
"Most of the matches were close today," Hillsdale coach Scott Robare said. "It was a competitive match."
The Hornets have a busy week in front of them. After host Lansing Christian on Monday, the Hornets travel to Kalamazoo Comstock on Tuesday. Hillsdale will host the SMITL Tournament next Thursday.
Prep Track
Reading at Concord
The Reading High School girls track team ran to a 116 1/2-28 1/2 victory over the Concord Yellow Jackets in Thursday's Big Eight Conference dual. In the boys meet, Reading was defeated by the Yellow Jackets 75-62.
Jenny Davis and Emily Cook each won two events to lead the Reading girls. Davis took first in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.2 seconds and won the long jump at 15-0. Cook won both the shot put (28-10) and the discus (92-0).
Erika Speith took first in the 200-meter dash, while Teresa Eidenier won the 400-meter dash (1:06.5). Michelle Davis won the 300-meter hurdles (49.9) and Taylor Wrozek won the pole vault (8-0).
Shannon Cummins had a big day for the Reading boys, winning four events. Cummins took first in the 110-meter hurdles (16.8), the 300-meter hurdles (44.0), long jump (17-7) and the 200-meter dash (24.3). Dylan Ash won the high jump with a height of 5-4.


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The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned (PDF) the preliminary injunction that forbade sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
In late June, following a lawsuit filed by Apple earlier this year, a California court granted an injunction against Samsung that banned the sale of the Galaxy Nexus in the United States. The two companies have been undergoing a massive worldwide judicial battle over patents for several months.
"We hold that the district court abused its discretion in determining that Apple established a sufficient causal nexus," the court wrote on Thursday.
This appeal focused specifically on Patent 8,086,604, which deals with search interface.
"The causal nexus requirement is not satisfied simply because removing an allegedly infringing component would leave a particular feature, application, or device less valued or inoperable," the court added.
"A laptop computer, for example, will not work (or work long enough) without a battery, cooling fan, or even the screws that may hold its frame together, and its value would be accordingly depreciated should those components be removed. That does not mean, however, that every such component is 'core' to the operation of the machine, let alone that each component is the driver of consumer demand. To establish a sufficiently strong causal nexus, Apple must show that consumers buy the Galaxy Nexus because it is equipped with the apparatus claimed in the '604 patent—not because it can search in general, and not even because it has unified search."