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Commission moves forward with park
Date: May 21, 2009
by: Kurt Schultheis | City Editor
The Longboat Key Town Commission agreed to move forward with the Bayfront Park concept plan at its Thursday, May 21 regular workshop. The plan does not include a baseball field.
The decision means the commission will allow town staff and Town Attorney David Persson to move forward with changes to the town's zoning code and Comprehensive Plan.
Because the new park plan calls for the deletion of the baseball field, the town must delete the requirement for a publicly supplied baseball/softball field or amend its Comprehensive Plan to suggest that the field is not required.
Persson said, in total, the changes that need to be made at the town and state level could take at least a year or more to accomplish.
Financing for the concept is unknown and is at least two years away from discussion, according to Town Manager Bruce St. Denis.
The Sarasota County Commission will discuss the park concept at a June 9 meeting.
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Each year on January 13, Missouri, as well as the rest of the country, honors the importance of Amber Alerts on National Amber Alert Day. This year will mark the 18th anniversary of the creation of the Amber Alert System. The date is an important reminder to Missourians to stay vigilant and to make child protection a top priority. AMBER (which stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) was created in 1996, when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with Texas police to develop an early warning system for finding abducted children. The program was soon adopted across the nation as a legacy to Amber Hagerman, the nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, TX, and then brutally murdered.
When a child is abducted, the greatest enemy of law enforcement is time. An Amber Alert warns the public immediately through the Emergency Alert System to be on the lookout for the missing child and the abductor.
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Amber Alerts are broadcast through a joint cooperative effort by the Patrol, the Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri media, and via email and text messages to the public. Once it is determined an alert meets this criteria, the Patrol's Troop F communications personnel issue the information to law enforcement and the media for immediate broadcast. MoDOT message boards along Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 play a vital role in dispersing the information via 48 permanent electronic message boards along Interstates 70 and 44.
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MIAMI, (UPI) — Officials at a Florida zoo said a giraffe was not seriously injured when she took a spill while fleeing from an unwelcome suitor.
Zoo Miami officials said Kita, a 15-foot-tall, 29-year-old giraffe, was fleeing the amorous advances of an unwanted suitor in the public feeding area Sunday afternoon when she tripped over some rocks and was unable to pull herself back up, the Miami Herald reported Monday.
Zoo spokesman Ron Magill said about a dozen staff members helped the giraffe stand back up using some straps.
The spokesman said the giraffe did not appear to be seriously injured,.
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Haruki Murakami Bingo.
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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.


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It took four people seven hours, but I think we finally did it. We found a name.
"It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to—worrying that things aren't going to work out."
- Khaled Hosseini
Sleeping Late.
I've made a new discovery. It's called Sleeping Late. It happened by accident, like most bolts of genius. I dragged myself out of bed at my regular time, 6am, and stumbled into the kitchen. I made the coffee, read my email. I sat down to read the paper. My leg encountered something sticky, and I slid off the chair to find a blot of something viscous (salad dressing?) stuck to the seat fabric. I decided to read on the sofa. After a few minutes, my feet were cold so I pulled the blanket over me. That was the last thing I remember.
Next, the clock read 8:30. I had slept two extra hours. I felt fantastic. On that day I learned so many wonderful things about Sleeping Late. First, you can read the newspaper without squinting. At 8:30, your brain can follow complex subject matter without re-reading whole sections for clarity. Coffee tastes better when you're well rested. As a special treat I heated the creamer in the microwave and poured it into my cup mimicking the moves of a flamboyant waiter who served us café au lait in Paris long ago. While my toast browned, I watched a woodpecker attack the thick trunk of the tree in the back yard. Was this the same sound that drove my husband to throw open the bedroom window and scream: "Stop that hammering!"? The rat-a-tat-tat seemed downright musical today.
I went upstairs to get dressed and was astonished at what I saw in the mirror. At 6am, I look like unmolded clay. My face is creased and misshapen, lined from the pillow and from age. Even the dog does not have the courage to look at me. But at 8:30, I look positively human. My skin is flesh-toned, and my eyes are actually open with a fair amount of healthy white sclera showing. The gray crescents that usually hover above my cheekbones miraculously evaporated somewhere in between 6am and 8:30. I did not require concealer makeup after Sleeping Late.
I checked my calendar and transcribed the details of the day's necessities. I gave the dog an extra Milkbone before leaving for work. On the highway, I slowed down to let a car merge in front of me. At lunch, I made all the calls on the list brought from home without banging the phone on my desk while navigating voice mail mazes, and took a brisk walk along the Mall. I took a group photo of a group of tourists, provided instructions as to how to use the automated meters. After work, I went to the gym, picked up a few groceries, and even collected the dry cleaning.
It's now 8:30 pm, and I'm going strong. Who cares if "the early bird gets the worm?" I never liked worms anyway.
I am considering setting my alarm clock for 8:30 every morning.
I think I'm on to something.
Just Think.
I had huge expectations for today. Wake early and work hard. The novel's next section needs reorganization. The structure must be reconsidered, rethought. Details must be secured, loose threads knotted, characters groomed. There is too much to do.
I overslept, did two crossword puzzles, returned non-urgent emails and checked FB in case anything important was posted (as if). Most importantly, I made a mental list of current excuses for not writing: I only have five hours before I leave to teach my class I have to call the electric company about an errant charge on my bill Both sons have moved back home - not sure how this interferes with my writing The chapters are impossibly scrambled, complicated, mottled with errors… I need to focus. I need to concentrate. I need to…THINK.
I remembered the words of an extraordinary instructor Margaret Meyers, at the Johns Hopkins University graduate program in Writing. Margaret said: "Make time to think." Genius. Margaret scheduled an afternoon appointment with herself once a week. She reserved a private room in the library at American University. She brought with her no electronics, no reading materials.
This was her exclusively reserved/preserved time to THINK. Thank you Margaret. Signing off…
Living Together. {Dementia}
My mother is living with me now. Her home, the house she shared with my father for forty-seven years, the house where my sisters and I grew up on Long Island, just sold. The nursing home where my father lives now is just six miles from my house, so it made sense that she would live here during his "incarceration." That's what we called it: incarceration. As if he was serving a term. As if he would ever get out. Four years ago, my father was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia, like the people profiled in Denise Grady's piece in the Sunday New York Times series titled: The Vanishing Mind. However, unlike the families in that article, my father's mind is not vanishing any more; it is gone entirely.
My mother commutes to the dementia ward every day where she watches him sleep, walks the halls hand in hand when he is awake and helps him with meals. He can no longer discern between the tray and the food, and will eat his napkin if left on his own. My mother knows every nurse and every administrator in the nursing home. She learned the family histories of each the aides. The security guard assigned to my father's door had fled the Ivory Coast after his father was imprisoned for selling goats to a dissident. The day aide, named Sunshine, lived with three other families in a two-room flat. She works twelve hour shifts six days a week and has not had a day off since last spring. My mother is entranced by their stories. I suppose they take her mind off the reality of my father's illness, or perhaps she's just a busybody. I don't really know.
For a while, our lives were dominated by my father's condition. His dementia spiraled into aggression: he bit, hit, swore, threw furniture and screamed as if stabbed with spears. He held my mother by the neck. He sobbed like his heart was breaking; that was the hardest day and we stood in the hall, my mother and I, clinging to each other as if waiting for our executions. My father never touched me in anger. During those enraged outbursts, he very definitely did not know who he was, who we were or what he was doing. I'd like to think that somewhere buried in his brain stem he knew that he would not harm his own child, but I'd be deluding myself.
And so we did not concern ourselves with small matters of her residency. I have a lovely guest room in my basement. It is comfortable and quiet. My husband moved a television into her room to keep her company and we bought a Bose radio so she could listen to the opera on Saturdays. She worked hard at being unobtrusive. She kept all her clothes in her suitcase: her underwear was sealed in one Ziplock bag, her socks in another. She stowed her laundry in a garbage bag in the closet and ran the washing machine early in the mornings when she knew I wouldn't be using it. After a few weeks, my husband and I went to Pier I and bought a dresser and a laundry basket. We stopped at the drug store to pick up a dental night guard for my clenched teeth and at a liquor store for obvious reasons.
"Unpack everything from your suitcase," I commanded my mother, "and put your things away. That way you won't feel like a guest."
She met my demand with a blank stare. "Grandma doesn't listen to a thing you tell her," my young son had confided years earlier, after spending a week with my parents who, he reported, permitted chocolate pudding for breakfast, snacks before dinner and bedtimes not at all. Nothing had changed; except that now my son was a half-grown adult and my mother was the one whose diet I monitored. She still didn't listen to me. Sometimes, when she's at the dementia ward, I take her few clothes and her bath towel and I run a load of laundry. I leave the clean and folded items on the foot of her bed like a sacrificial offering.
To my friends and coworkers, I announce: "My father is in the dementia ward and my mother is living in the basement." But that is somewhat sarcastic. In the privacy of my own mind, I am overwhelmingly proud. My mother is living with me during her most extreme time of need. I am helping. When I get old, I will look back on this period as the most impressive thing I've ever done. That is not to say that our living arrangement is easy.
One morning, I was working at my desk, when I sensed a timid knock on the door. "Come, " I shouted with out looking up.
"I don't want to bother you." She stood there with a lipstick smile. Lipstick, at eight in the morning. "Can I make you some toast?"
My stomach rumbled. "Okay."
I concentrated anew. Another knock. "Rye or wheat?"
"I don't care."
She thought for a second. "Rye." I waited, fingers poised above the keyboard. She whispered, pointing at my head. "Are those the headphones I sent you?" I had to smile. Clearly the pleasure she was feeling at helping my career was worth a moment. I pulled them off, holding them out for her to see.
"Yup, these are the ones you sent. But I think they're more of a psychological prop. I never even loaded the batteries." I laughed at my own ruse. She'd sent the noise-reduction headphones years before, when I complained that a household construction project interfered with my ability to think. They worked. Even without the batteries.
"Well, I don't want to interrupt." She pulled the door closed behind her.
Later, another knock on the door. "I'm sorry, Lisa. Do you have any raisins?"
"I don't like your bread so I'm making scones and I wanted to put raisins in them. I remember how you liked them." There was flour on the front of her sweater, as if she'd pressed her hands to her chest. "I found this one bag," she held up the oversized red pouch. "Do you know if you have any more?"
More? The bag was from Costco. And it was practically bulging with raisins.
"No," I said, turning my back to her. She retreated and I tried, tried to concentrate. No. It was not happening. I saved my work to the external drive and went downstairs.
My mother stood at the kitchen counter, elbow deep in dough. When she saw me, she smiled so brightly I almost flinched.
"I'm making muffins," she said, shaping a ball of dough and dropping it on the cookie sheet.
I reached for the coffee pot, but it was empty. "Oh, sorry," she said over her shoulder. "I didn't realize you wanted more. I washed the pot. I used steel wool because it was stained at the bottom. Now it's like new!"
I sat at the table and watched her. She looked like a kindergartener playing with sand at the beach.
"What happened to the scones?" I asked, not really caring. I shook out the newspaper and began to scan the headlines.
"I didn't like your raisins," she said, plopping another blob of dough on the pan.
I looked up. "You didn't like my raisins? How can you dislike raisins?"
She clapped her hands, snapping off the excess flour and bits of dough. "They were expired."
"Raisins expire?"
She slid the pan into the oven and set the timer.
"Yes, they expire. I checked the expiration date," she said. "So. We'll have muffins instead."
I watched her, bustling, busy, cleaning. I knew that she didn't want to be here, she didn't want to intrude on my life. But this is where we were. I remembered what she said recently when talking about my father's illness and the sad progression of the disease. She said: "this is part of life too." She sat with me and we waited, the two of us, together, for the buzzer on the oven to ring.
Don't you CARE!?
I had a tense disagreement recently with a cousin who disapproved of my unsentimental disinterest in material possessions. "Don't you CARE?" She was insulted! I had just spent a week cleaning out my childhood home. We exhausted two dumpsters and three industrial wheels of trash bags – and this was AFTER we donated most everything of usable value. Our meaningful collectibles fit easily into the back of my sister's car.
When I returned to my own home, I considered my own stuff that had amassed over the last twenty-plus years: I have a soup tureen in my basement - a wedding gift I think. I have the black-tie maternity dress I wore to my sister's wedding in 1988. I have all the Halloween costumes my children wore, a guitar that belonged to my grandfather, golf clubs that were my father's. What am I saving these for?
"Your things define you," my cousin said, adding: "When I'm gone my kids will find comfort in the things I've collected, things that meant something to me." I completely disagree. Once again, Jane Brody says it best. Here, she hits two of my favs: getting rid of stuff and taking vacation from the 24/7 internet umbilicus. Enjoy.
Failure, or Opportunity?
I'm starting with a new creative writing class today. As always, I wonder how to inspire them, how to excite them.
A phrase lurks in my mind: "Don't be afraid to fail."
Dr. Sanjay Gupta said those very words at the U of Michigan graduation ceremony this past Saturday. It's easy to say, "don't be afraid." It's decidedly harder to do.
An article in the Sunday NY Times has given me a great opener for my new class.
It's about failure and gaming (yes, I know, in direct conflict with my Words With Friends position). "I'm a gamer. I'm used to failing," Jane McGonigal said at the end of the article.
Failure in gaming is common; it is expected and anticipated. It taunts, challenges. Failure is not embarrassing. In fact it inspires renewed determination and vigor. Now there's a lesson!
I got pulled over.
I waited on the shoulder as the State Trooper assembled himself. I saw him in my rearview mirror. He adjusted his tie and his collar, stretched his neck and then fastened on his monster hat. He came to my window and began babbling: something about "traveling 76 in a 55…" He had pimples all over his bristly chin. He looked sixteen. "I've never had a moving violation before," I started.
That was not specifically true. 26 years ago I was looking at event spaces with my mother, planning my wedding.
At one intersection - and in a bit of a hurry - I rode on the shoulder in advance of the proper turning lane. Lights flashed almost immediately. As the officer approached the car, my mother punched my arm. "Cry," she said. She was serious! I didn't cry, and I ended up paying a huge fine.
This time, I received only a warning. The Trooper even waved at me as I sped away.
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Many years ago I was a both a part time sailing instructor and a full time crew member on the Vice President's plane. One day, I was giving tours of the plane to airport personnel during a 5-hour stop in Miami, FL.
After finishing up the last tour, one of the escort vehicle drivers told me he had to drive around the airport to perform a security check. I asked if I could join him as I had nothing else to do for a few hours and am an avid aviation buff. During the drive he asked me what I did when I wasn't flying with the VP. I told him I instructed new radio operators (my crew position) but on the weekends I taught sailing.
He said he had a sailboat and a power boat. I said that was odd, since most people had one or the other. He said "I look at it this way, if I need to go somewhere I take the power boat, but when I get on the sailboat I'm already there!" I've never heard it explained better than that!
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Buy This BioPharma Stock, Avoid This One
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When valuing BioPharma, it's the pipeline that matters. Especially in this environment of patent losses galore, investors need to go after stocks whose catalysts are being unreasonably overshadowed by current events that bear no influence on the long-term future. Those are the companies worth backing.
Amgen's (NASDAQ: AMGN) Pipeline Speaks Volumes
Amgen, in particular, is making solid progress in it R&D portfolio. The company is beginning a Phase II study on a sclerostin antibody for osteoporosis. Through its PCSK9 antibody, it is also targeting products that capitalize on the growing anti-obesity market. This candidate is producing solid Phase II data in helping patients manage LDL cholesterol levels to an optimal range.
I am further optimistic about the company's partnership with AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) in addressing the inflammation market. British drug developer AstraZeneca comes equipped with $9.3 billion in cash, which will allow Amgen to save more of its finances for subsequent R&D. Meanwhile, existing products like Sensipar, Vectibix, and Nplate have taken off like rockets, with 58% growth realized in 1Q 2012.
Whether it's buying out businesses in Turkey or buying out a cancer treatment company, management is targeting emerging economies and high-return markets. This will help Amgen complete its $10 billion share repurchase program, which represents nearly 15% of the current market cap.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Overvalued
I foresee J&J underperforming its peers over the near and long-term for several reasons. First, it's multiple of 23.6x past earnings is simply too high in light of forecasts for only 6.5% 5-year annual EPS growth. While 3Q 2012 EPS of $1.25 and top-line year over year drug growth of 14.5% were impressive, Europe continued to provide a headwind.
Furthermore, I do not like the company's "overdiversification", which is dragging down strong traction in certain segments. For example, the consumer business has fallen 4.3% in 3Q 2012 and overclouded (1) domestic growth in pharmaceuticals and (2) the integration of Synthes increasing sales in medical devices. The latter contributed 5.8% global operational sales growth.
SG&A expenses of 30.6% sales fell 210 bps as cost cutting initiatives started to pay off, but domestic business was still down 0.4%. International sales grew only 1.8% due to poor consumer good demand, which is enough of a headwind to consider selling it or spinning it off from the pharmaceutical segment. I wouldn't hold your breath that management will take this step within the next 2 years, so backing the stock now is little more than forgoing more attractive returns elsewhere.
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Great value and tremendous views, day and night
If you only take one pair of binoculars you will be in trouble. Everyone will be upset because they are not able to use them at the same time. We had trouble getting our wives to leave and go tour because of the view from the cabin and because of the kitchen. Kitchen appliances are evidently exceptional and the girls wanted to cook. Do not start a Wii game early in the morning or late in the evening down in the game room because there is a major game trail through the yard and when the elk start looking in the windows, it will break up you game of Wii or air hockey. The owner is great and easy to work with. All in all a great get away spot any time of year.
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Name: Steve Jones
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Description: Tim's hallway in Echo Park reminded me of my own in Laguna Beach. My building is a rental as well and the hallway was a great opportunity to showcase all the paintings I have been collecting for years.
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great collation of pictures .I is called wall of picture.
Hi Steve,
Wow what a surprise to see this. You may remember my wife Denise and I used to live in the apartment at the top of this beautiful staircase. We loved it and it took a backing trip around the world to get us to leave. Please let me know it ever becomes available again :)


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Just when you thought the menacing Dolphins-Jets rivalry was getting as tame as tourist-trap Times Square, bad blood is simmering again.
Rex Ryan never fails to provide hot sauce, and the Dolphins never fail to eat it up and spit it out.
Sure, its silly to see grown men hurling insults like they are back on the playground:
You better say youre sorry, threatens one.
Oh, yeah, make me, replies the other.
Ill kick your shins!
And Ill egg your house!
Not that professional athletes need extra motivation to get riled up like snorting bulls, right?
The eternally entertaining hatefest remains relevant even though both franchises have been on the wane. Thanks to the jumbled nature of the AFC East and much of the league, the 3-3 Dolphins and 3-4 Jets are actually in the playoff hunt. A 9-7 record could do it. The Patriots Tom Brady is looking mortal. Plenty of power teams are vulnerable. This could be a reversal-of-fortune season for the Dolphins if they seize the opportunity.
Sundays road game presents a juncture. The Jets are without two of their best players, Darrelle Revis and Santonio Holmes. Their quarterback situation is the mess it was predicted to be. Not only is Tim Tebow ranked the Most Overrated Quarterback in the NFL in a SI.com players poll, but Mark Sanchez is ranked second (tied with Tony Romo).
Tebow has been a mostly useless sideshow (two passes, 25 touches in seven games) except to unnerve Sanchez and agitate dissatisfied fans. Tony Sparano gets testy when asked why he hasnt called more plays for Tebow. Sanchez, in his fourth season, is still a second-tier quarterback who doesnt have a lot to work with on offense.
The Dolphins and much-maligned Jeff Ireland seem to have found an answer after years wandering the quarterback desert. Rookie Ryan Tannehill isnt as spectacular as Robert Griffin III or as prototypical as Andrew Luck but he is, so far, the steal of the 2012 draft. Even Ryan praised Tannehills accuracy and poise under pressure.
The Dolphins need to run against the Jets 30th-ranked rushing defense Sunday, which is exactly what Bush was doing effectively in the first meeting, a 23-20 Jets overtime victory. Then he was knocked out of the game when Jets defensive back LaRon Landry slammed his helmet into Bushs knee. Bush believed it was a calculated hit because earlier in the week Ryan had said the Jets were planning to apply hot sauce to Bush.
Bush shot back, linking Revis season-ending torn ACL injury in that game to karma.
What goes around comes around, he said. Its sad it happened like that, but Im going to be back.
On Wednesday, the sniping began anew when Ryan told New York reporters: Shoot, I apologized for my comments. I expect [Bush] to do the same, adding that he originally meant Bush warranted extra attention and We never want to hurt a player. He later told Miami reporters that he didnt really expect Bush to apologize.
Bush said it was too late for Ryan to revise his hot sauce comments.
I dont believe that, Bush said. Theyre the ones that started it. If there was any retaliation, it would come from us. But with this team, the caliber of guys and character of guys we have, we play with respect for the game.
The good thing about divisional opponents is you get to play them twice.
Landry hissed, Every time [Bush] sees me, hell remember that hit.
Extra spicy!
Linebacker Aaron Maybin told ESPN New York that the Jets want to sideline Bush, modulating the threat by adding, but were out to do it legally.
Dolphins center Mike Pouncey responded with a putdown of Maybin, who has tallied exactly one tackle this season: Hes done nothing in this league to even open his mouth. Hes a joke. If hes in there Ill have to be on punt-block or something to say something to him.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be watching.
Locker room bulletin boards will be plastered with material.
Fans in clan colors will be belligerent (even if they are wearing wigs).
Who says Dolphins-Jets aint what it used to be? Talk to any flight attendant who is a veteran on the MIA-LaGuardia route: Its crowded, chaotic, hostile. Its Heat-Knicks from the bad old days. Its South Beach vs. Broadway. Its our arroz con pollo vs. your bagels. Its our corruption vs. your corruption (OK, Miami wins, hands down). Its two cities that never sleep competing through their teams. Its the essence of football.


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S11E14: This isn't even fair. There are simply too many fantastic singers this year. American Idol's judges always say that "this year" is the strongest year they've ever had, but this year is actually what I hope for every time I tune into this show: too much good stuff. And to top it all off, I was afraid that having the ladies take on Whitney Houston would be a huge mistake, but it provided magnificent "goosies" moments for three of our six girls. And on the guys' side, the magic of Stevie Wonder proved fertile for the top performers. And to help them reach those heights, Mary J. Blige joined Jimmy Iovine as a capable and genre-appropriate coach for the top 13.
Unfortunately, though the gender separation clearly has no place in this competition, it doesn't stop at song choices. The results episode will find the bottom girl and the bottom guy facing off, and the judges will decide their fates a la Simon Cowell's X-Factor. This could be a move to prevent a truly-talented, yet under-appreciated singer from going home because with a crowd this fantastic, one false move could send an undeserving singer home.
There's not a single person without immense talent in this top 13, but all it took was the formidable catalogs of two music legends to separate the men from the boys and the women from the girls. Here are the night's performances, from the weak to the mind-melting.
Jessica Sanchez
"I Will Always Love You"
Oh. my. God. Who is this girl and where did she come from? This performance is nothing short of INCREDIBLE. Randy won't come out and say she's the best in the competition, but I'll say it. She's the best singer in this competition - and that's a tough thing to say in year like this. Steven says she may be the one, and I certainly hope she is. I have no more words. She's simply amazing.
Joshua Ledet
"I Wish"
He's a natural. Much like Jessica Sanchez did in her last performance of "Love You I Do," he's got that professional bump. He knows every facet of the song and he gets loose and gets into it. Randy says he can do anything, and he's probably right. Jennifer notes that he really feels the music, and it's true. Joshua performs with his whole being. Steven also loves it, but as usual he just repeats what everyone else says.
Hollie Cavanaugh
"All The Man I Need"
See what I mean about this being a tough year? Hollie chose a ridiculously difficult song; next to "I Will Always Love You" it may be the most challenging Whitney song she could have chosen and she actually performed it beautifully. I never expect her to sing like that, but she absolutely kills it. Jennifer stops herself from calling Hollie "the s--t." But I'll say it: Hollie is the s--t.
Skylar Laine
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go"
Okay, this is where I start to repeat myself: this is not fair. Skylar is fantastic too. She says she didn't grow up listening to Whitney and she's wary of the giant shoes she's attempting to fill, but it seems like that might be the best angle to come from because she's able to really sing it in her own way. She gave me a case of Jennifer's "goosies." She absolutely slays it. Jennifer and Randy say the beginning was rocky - I disagree - but that the end was the moment of the night, which was true until Jessica sang. Sorry, Skylar! Even with Jessica looming over the competition, this little firecracker still has a very solid spot in the competition.
Phillip Phillips
The reason this rock and roll imagining of Stevie's song works is because he doesn't let go of its Motown roots. They're still there, just with a blues-rock dressing. He performs the hell out of this song. I've got no complaints; he's got a great, strong voice. He is his music. The judges all love his unique take, and I just long for the day that we'll here him do something original.
Deandre Brackensick
"Master Blaster (Jammin')"
Dear God, Deandre. Just hearing him rehearse made me melt. This particular song has never been my favorite Stevie Wonder song, but give it to Deandre and it has that extra special something. My only fear is that this song might Reed-Grimm him. He doesn't get as many chances to really extend his voice and it's not a song the majority of the audience can get into. Steven loves it, Jennifer loves it, and Randy loves that he showed another side of his personality. Even with the obstacle of the song, he delivers one hell of a performance.
Heejun Han
"All In Love is Fair"
His is a very different rendition than Stevie Wonder's; Heejun's voice is just inherently a little more subtle than Stevie's. It was a little too light in the beginning, but then he built to the chorus and it was beautiful when he hit that final note. Jennifer and Steven love it. Randy says "It wasn't perfect, but it was really good." My thoughts exactly.
Jermaine Jones
"Knocks Me Off My Feet"
You've got to love Jermaine, and this week he does his thing even if he goes flat a few times and (as Jennifer notes) fails to make a real connection with the audience. Still it's easy to see why Jimmy Iovine is happy the judges brought him back. It's a great song choice and he sings beautifully, but it's not quite perfect. Randy doesn't like the way he rearranged the chorus and I agree. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and it's Stevie Wonder so it definitely ain't broke.
Colton Dixon
Colton just does his thing, and some people will think this is fantastic. I can't fault him for too many technical reasons - he was a bit out of tune at the softer moments - but it literally hurt my heart to hear a Stevie Wonder classic become a 30 Seconds to Mars ballad. It's not his fault - he didn't choose Stevie. The judges all love it, and while he's perfectly packaged for today's indie-rocker void, I'm just a little tired of the kids coming out of that mold.
Erika Van Pelt
"I Believe in You and Me"
Mary J. Blige calls Erika's voice "steak and potatoes," but says she can't go too Whitney. And that's exactly what she didn't do. The judges all love it, but they note that she's still playing it safe. And it's true. She's got a lot more fire to her voice; if we go back to her initial audition, it's got more punch than anything we've seen on the Idol stage.
Jeremy Rosado
"Ribbon in the Sky"
This is nice, but nothing more. My problem with Jeremy is that he's just good. He's got a great voice, but his nickname is simply too fitting. Jer-bear is like chicken noodle soup - it's great, but this competition is all about finding something and someone new and chicken soup is just too expected and familiar. Randy hits the nail on the head when he says Jeremy needs more swag; that's been his problem all along. He sings beautifully, but he doesn't own it and with these other singers around, he may not last very long.
Elise Testone
"I'm Your Baby Tonight"
She wanted to sing "Greatest Love of All" but Jimmy Iovine rightly tells her to do "I'm Your Baby Tonight." She seems a little resistant to the switch since she doesn't know the song, but her hesitation is what kills the performance. It's still obvious that she's got a great voice, but she's in contention with the song the entire time and the judges note that as well. Steven seems to think the song choice was the problem, but that's certainly not true. Elise needed to make a better effort to get into the song, but it was obvious she resisted at every turn.
Shannon Magrane
"I Have Nothing"
In rehearsals she sounds fantastic, but when she hits the stage it's like she's afraid to actually hit those notes. In fairness, she picked a significantly difficult song, but in the end, she's reaching for notes and shying away from them when she gets there and is doesn't work. Jennifer says she's got the chops, but her nerves did her in and that's exactly what happened. It's just sad that she may go home when in reality, she's got the pipes.
Who was your favorite? Who would you send home based on the night's performances? Let us know in the comments or get at me on Twitter @KelseaStahler


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T'ai Chi Ch'uan, at higher levels, emphasizes the development of internal mechanics and energy processes. Few things are as important as the kua, located where the ball joint of the thighbone, the largest and strongest bone in the body, connects to the hip.
At the beginning of one's study, attention is focused on the arms and hands and legs. But as one progresses, the torso is increasingly important. The hips and the kua then become crucial to the integration of the body.
Chen Zhonghua (Joseph Chen) of Edmonton, AB, Canada, is a disciple of Hong Junsheng and Feng Zhiqiang. Feng is one of the foremost practitioners of Chen style in China today. He and the late Hong Junsheng were students of the famous Chen Fa-ke.
Hong died in 1996. There were articles about him by Peter Shi-Zeng Wu of Australia in the April and June issues of T'AI CHI Magazine in 1998.
Chen Zhonghua gives interesting insights into a difficult subject, the kua. I have asked a number of teachers about the kua, what they are and how they function.
Usually, I received different answers, although that doesn't mean that anyone was wrong. Rather it is an indication of how hard it is to describe the kuas' function.
Often it is described as being in the inguinal crease, where each leg joins the torso. When you shift the weight from one leg to the other the kua of the weight-bearing leg is said to have closed and the kua of the non-weight bearing leg is open.
This does not conflict, necessarily, with what Chen Zhonghua says. He is being more specific.
Greg Brodsky's article represents the kind of serious study that is important and necessary to an understanding of the subtler methods of T'ai Chi Ch'uan practice.
One cannot get "true" understanding from a teacher alone. It largely requires intensive, intuitive study based on one's individual practice.
People do not become experts or masters based on just practicing what one or more teachers have told them.
A teacher may explain how to turn the waist or how to sink, but the student may not be able to do that because they haven't become properly song, or relaxed, or understand the relationships of the parts of the body.
Also, teachers, are not all knowing or absolute in their understanding. In addition, a good teacher may leave key matters for their students to explore and understand through their own practice. In the end, the student has to be able to do this to progress.
The T'ai Chi classics, after all, are simple and tersely phrased. But they have multiple meanings, some of them accessible only through long, insightful practice. Long practice alone won't do it. It has to be insightful. One has to be always looking deeper.
William Ting is from Shanghai, where he trained for many years as a closed door student of Lu Ji-tang.
He has 40 years of martial experience, T'ai Chi and Bagua and other martial arts. For the past 15 years, he has taught in the Mt. Laurel area of South New Jersey.
He teaches a very unique style of T'ai Chi not found extensively outside of China. He has previously written articles about methods and mistakes to avoid in August 1995, Empty and Fullness, August 2000, Flowing and Firmness, October 2000, and Relaxing and Expanding in February 2001.
Tu-Ky Lam writes regularly for T'AI CHI Magazine and has contributed important insights based on his studies with Ma Hong and on his own practice in New Zealand.
Yiquan, as he writes, is an important training methods. While it focuses heavily on standing, meditative postures, it does have other methods of practice to create a bridge to martial skills.
In the June 2003 issue of T'ai Chi Magazine, he wrote about Standing Practice and in June 2004 he wrote about Developing Strength Through Softness.
L. D. Pennington practices in Marietta, OH, at PRIDE Training Center with Catherine and Joseph Bigley, who she wrote are "two wise instructors with quite different teaching styles." She said, "By learning from them, I have come to appreciate how challenging it is to be a good teacher, even though my background includes many years of teaching other subjects.
"My early lessons revealed that the attitudes and ideas each student brings, and how the novice teacher reacts, form the core for continuing a positive student-teacher relationship."
Teaching is always a work in progress. Every student represents overt or subtle difficulty as he or she tries to understand what T'ai Chi is and how it works. And, as Pennington said, it is always an interesting challenge to create a group harmony.
In a related article, Dr. Brice Wilkinson discusses the problem of creating a qualified pool of T'ai Chi teachers.
A professor emeritus at Winona State University, Winona, MN, proposes a three-year major program leading to a certificate verifying that students are qualified T'ai Chi teachers.
In the article, he gives a sample proposal to submit to any university.
Dr. Wilkinson and Bahieh H. Wilkinson, an adjunct professor at Winona State University, have taught T'ai Chi there for over 25 years.
They are in their sixth year teaching T'ai Chi to the university's Warriors basketball team, which last year had their best year ever, winning 24 games and advancing to NCAA regional play.
Dr. Wilkinson currently has four apprentices completing a pilot program to become T'ai Chi instructors.
In Houston, TX, the county parks department has built a 53-foot diameter circular platform with a Yin/Yang diagram for use in practice and demonstrations by the T'ai Chi community.
Mike Cunningham who reports on the project, is a student of Cheng Jincai and a landscape architect for Harris County. He selected the platform as a project because of his interest in T'ai Chi.


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Part 2 Quick DrawSiguel Racing RX-7...The World's QUICKEST Pro Class RacerTo many of us racing is just a hobby. We buy performance parts, install them on our cars and maybe test them out at the local race track. But to Jose Torres of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico it is a livelihood. Before Jose even purchases a performance component from his local parts supplier he is conceptualizing how the product will work and how much time it will shave off his e.t. After the product is installed he will check it two, three, maybe four- times over to make sure it is working properly. Finally he will take his race car to the track, making sure nothing else was changed, and test the car over and over and over again to see if the product provides the expected improvement. If it does it stays on, if it doesn't it goes in the trash bin. It is that kind of dedication that has enabled Jose to capture the world's quickest import racer title with his Siguel Racing RX-7 (7.33 @ 179 mph). As a native Puerto Rican it is no surprise that racing is in Jose's blood. In geographical size Puerto Rico is smaller than the state of Maine and barely has a population of 4 million. However the country caters two impressive race tracks that are open four days of the week year round both within a 100 miles of each other. The fact is Puerto Rico produces more Pro Class cars per capita than any other country in the world.
In Puerto Rico there are two types of racers. You're either a piston head or rotary head. You are never both. The fan base in PR is also impressive and drawn in camps of rotary followers and piston lovers. These are die hard fans that will wear a rotor around their necks with a chain and bring pistons on rods to the track to pay homage to their heroes. As a rotary head it was obvious that Jose's Pro Class racer would retain the sleek silhouette of a third-generation RX-7. The Siguel Racing RX-7 first started its way to stardom in fiberglass form as the Mazda body mold was sent to Tim Mcamis Race Cars in St. Louis, Missouri. The chassis is basically a Pro Stock chassis that was modified to work underneath the RX-7 bodylines. The rolling chassis consists of Strange Engineering struts on the four corners combined with Strange double adjustable shocks in front and Koni double adjustable shocks out back. To slow the "7" down from its 170-plus mph blasts, a drag chute is on call with the aide of four disc brakes to bring the racer to a complete halt.
One thing about being on top you do not really want anybody else to copy your combination. So on our tech sheet that Jose filled out he wrote top secret for over half the information boxes and we were not allowed to photograph the engine. What he did fill out is that the powerplant consists of a 20B rotary engine that was ported, balanced and assembled by himself at his Siguel Racing Shop. Along with the fully built powerplant Jose modified the oil pump for more pressure and modified a Moroso aluminum oil pan to fit on the 20B engine. Currently Jose's RX-7 is the leader of the pack and there are many who would like to knock him off the pedestal. W also know the turbo system incorporates a custom-fabricated stainless-steel turbo manifold that utilizes 2-inch primaries and a Burns stainless-steel collector. Although Jose did not specify if the RX-7 is using a single, twin or triple turbo set-up, our guess is a huge single turbo unit. The intake manifold has also been custom fabricated from scratch but we do not know the specifications since it has been rated classified and there are no photos of the engine. Jose did give us information that a Microtech engine management controls the 20B engine. A total of three MSD 7AL-3 ignition boxes are used to make sure that maximum power is being generated for the combustion of methanol and pressurized air.
A Tilton dual-disc clutch and Jerico five-speed air-shifted transmission handle transferring of the power from the flywheel to the Mark Williams rear end. Weld Racing Aluma Star wheels wrapped with Goodyear gumballs provide the necessary traction needed to run the quarter in a touch over seven seconds at speeds of nearly 180 mph.
Carefully crafted tin-work dominates the entire interior. Although the ride only last seven seconds providing the necessary engine vitals is very important and mounted on the custom dash incorporating a very unrace like wood grain trim is a battery of Auto Meter electronics. The driver is secured tightly in an aluminum race seat by a Simpson five-point harness system.
As this story goes to the presses, the Siguel Racing RX-7 holds the world's quickest title but the margin of retaining the title is rather slim. The hard-charging Hoyos Focus has already claimed the world's fastest title and is out for Siguel's world's quickest championship belt. The next time these two Titans clash there will be bloodshed. This rivalry is definitely one of the more exciting in all of import drag racing.


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Tuesday August 20, 2013
Bird Walk with Susan B. Whiting is from 8 to 9 a.m. Meets at the Chilmark Community Center, 520 South Road. Visit chilmarkcommunitycenter.org.
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Life Drawing with Tom Maley is from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Featherstone. Cost is $10. Call 508-693-9566 or visit featherstoneart.org.
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Meets every Tuesday from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Howes House in West Tisbury.
Flea and Fine Arts Market is from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Every Tuesday through August 27. Call 508-693-1850 or visit featherstoneart.org
Writers Group is from 10 a.m. to noon at Howes House across from Alley's in West Tisbury. Call 508-693-2896.
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Coach (NYSE: COH) reported last quarter results that put sales at $1.16 billion, versus the same quarter last year of $1.05 billion. EPS also came in higher at $0.77, compared to $0.73 last year. Coach is seeing strengthening fundamentals and rising demand for its products, where the addressable market for women's accessories in North America grew by 10% for its last fiscal quarter. Based on Coach's recent strong performance we believe that other companies in the specialty retail sector will also perform well. These include companies such as Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL), Fifth & Pacific (NYSE: FNP), Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) and Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF).
The weak economy and high unemployment has pressured specialty retailers—the Dow Jones U.S. Specialty Retail index is flat over the past twelve months, compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is up 10% over the same period. Yet, differentiated accessories have been showing strength over the past few months. Bain & Co. sees global sales of personal luxury goods up 10% in 2012, led by Asia, up 18% and the Americas, up 13%.
Coach has been focusing on growing its already dominant-position in North American women's accessories, but outside of its key market, Coach has also doubled Coach Men's segment revenues to over $400 million and grew sales in China over 64%. The company also expects to grow global retail square footage 12% next year, with a focus on the U.S. and China. Citing new products and a new pricing strategy—which appeals to both high-end and value customers—S&P reiterated its $70 price target.
Ralph Lauren is looking to expand their product line to open itself up to more consumers. This includes offering handbags, footwear and denim. The company is also turning a focus to e-commerce and overseas expansion, opening fifteen new stores in China for 2012. Ralph Lauren, much like Coach, is also looking to implement a different pricing strategy that will expand its customer base—this should help drive next year's 14% EPS growth.
Fifth & Pacific has recently been through a transition phase, having sold Liz Claiborne and Monet brands to J.C. Penney and Dana Buchman to Kohl's. However, the company has retained its core brands—Juicy Couture, Kate Spade, and Lucky Brand—and plans to grow via e-commerce expansion. The company's Juicy Couture brand has been dragging it down however, but a turnaround from improvements in pricing and product mix is expected in the next two to three quarters—driving next year's EPS growth to 300%.
Estee Lauder is still executing its four-year strategy that it implemented in 2009, where it plans to further lower its costs and expand non-U.S. sales. 2013 sales are expected to be up 7% as the company expands overseas and refocuses more on the higher margin skincare business. Estee is also seeing positive growth in its high margin travel retail segment, which should continue to grow with a rebounding travel industry.
Tiffany's expects to see 2012 sales up 6%, and is supported by its retail expansion initiative—opening nineteen stores next year, but the company will experience some slight margin compression due to higher diamond and precious metal costs. Same store sales were up 1% for the first half of the year, being held down by an 11% decline in Japan due to store closures.
Of the specialty retailers, fund interest in Coach was the most notable, with Jim Simons as the top fund owner by shares in 2Q at 4 million shares—a 150% increase from 1Q. Meanwhile, Israel Englander also increased his stake, by over 500%, as well as tiger cub Patrick McCormack, by over 50%. Ralph Lauren saw Jim Simons and Lone Pine Capital upping their 1Q stakes by 190% and 45%, respectively. Fifth & Pacific also called Patrick McCormack a shareholder in 2Q, and Ken Fisher as its top fund owner by shares, with both fund managers taking new positions.
Specialty retail bulls, Lone Pine Capital and Jim Simons, were also top investors in Estee during 2Q, where Simons upped his 1Q stake by over 300%. Of all the companies, Tiffany's saw some of the lowest interest from top name funds in 2Q, with the most notable being Select Equity Group, which took a new position that made the firm the top fund owner at almost 2 million shares—what exactly do hedge funds see in Tiffany's? On the whole, fund sentiment was overwhelmingly positive for all the specialty retail companies we listed.
This group is expected to grow their EPS by at least 11% a year over the next half-decade, with Coach as the leader, sporting an expected CAGR of 15%. All the companies listed trade in line on a P/E basis, expect Coach. Coach trades at a trailing P/E of 16.5x, well below the average of the others, 24x. We see Coach as one of the more compelling picks, with Ralph Lauren another solid buy. Although Fifth & Pacific has some turnaround issues, the company should outperform in the longer-term. The company with perhaps the best growth potential is Estee, while Tiffany's should benefit from a rebound in Japan.
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How To: Clean an Oscillating Round Fan
We have almost polished off the month of June and July is knocking at the door. Having spent the month with our oscillating fans on to keep us cool, now is a good time to pause and take a few minutes to give them a quick clean. They have worked hard and could use a little bit of attention. (Plus it will keep your fan and your lungs in better shape!) Here's how...
How To Clean Your Oscillating Round Fan:
The small amount of time will increase the life of your fan and help to keep the dust down in your space. It should be done a few times a year, more if you tend to have a dustier space.
Your fan will run with a reduction in noise and with less resistance, reducing your energy usage. Every little bit helps right?
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and do it often. it makes the whole place look better. no matter how messy it is.
ummm...sorry to be a hater but that was a pretty uninformative 'How To'. Might as well have said, step 1, take it apart, step 2 clean it, step 3 put it back together.
A more useful article would have given us tips on how to get into all those nooks and crannies in the wire cage, how to get off that caked on dust on the blades, how to clean the place where dust accumulates on the motor. The article just stated the obvious.
It wasn't obvious to me.
i guess cleaning the wire cage & the other parts will be posted in "cleaning your oscillating fan part 2"
for the nooks & crannies, what about a can of compressed air (whatever it's called) that is used to clean keyboards?
quack quack i agree... thanks for detailing the obvious!
maybe you just dont use fans too often in Seattle? obviously that just means you're pretty cool already...
compressed air prob wouldn't work too well for a fan because it gets this "caked on" dust and since the fan is blowing all the time, the dust that is on the fan is usually pretty stubborn.
Haven't tried it but I thing a strong bristled brush would work the best on the wire cage. Use the nozzle of a good vacuum to suck off whatever dust you can from the motor. A good microfiber cloth (wet or dry) also works wonders on dust in general...doesn't just move it from place to place like a wet rag does.
I just take them outside and hose them down...not sure it it's good for longevity...theirs or mine, but I do wait till they're dry before plugging them in.
so i have a vintage sears fan at home and it recently started making an awful rattling noise that managed to scare my entire house.
is it necessary to oil an old fan? i haven't noticed any loose parts on it, it's just noisy now!
i don't know, grphcgurl, but from your description i wouldn't wanna be around when the shit hits your fan
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Civil War Marker Dedicated in Polk County
The dedication of the Polk Co. Civil War Trails marker was held in Benton at the Courthouse on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. Among those pictured with County Mayor Hoyt Firestone are Gerald Hodge, the new executive director of Tennessee Overhill Association, Mary Ann Peckham, executive director of the TN Civil War Preservation Association, Mrs. Marion Pressword, Polk County historian, Jenni Veal, tourism director of the Southeast TN Tourism Development District, Lee Curtis and Patricia Gray of the TN Dept. of Tourist Development.
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Firefighters were called to The Hart Center for Alternative Medicine, in the 100 block of South Second Street, around 10 a.m. for reports of a fire, the Aurora Beacon-News is reporting.
The businesses owner, who was the only person inside the building at the time, was able to escape safely.
Firefighters said that the fire was contained to the basement, and did not damage the upper floors. The cause appears to be accidental.
Combustible material left too close to a furnace appeared to have been the cause, fire officials said.
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April 14: Acting on a tip, an officer contacted a 19-year-old man. The man surrendered drug paraphernalia and was cited to Blaine municipal court. The case was also submitted to the county prosecutor for review of an unrelated offense.
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There's mandatory water rationing and also a boil order in effect for Braggs. Braggs is southeast of Tulsa in Muskogee County. We learned what's being done to increase the water flow.
The water problems here go back to supply and demand. There's simply not enough water to keep up with the customers who want it.
This site in neighboring Fort Gibson is something you won't see in Braggs. The town of 400 doesn't have the water to spare. The city's four wells have undersized water pumps and in a drought.
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Wayne Richardson and company working overtime.
"Our water tables drop and the size of the motor aren't able to push it up."
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Wave of internal migration as 19,000 women are forced from homes by domestic violence while forty per cent of groups working with abuse victims have cut staff or services in past year
The number of women and children across Britain being forced out of their homes by violent relationships is revealed for the first time today, raising fresh fears about the impact of council funding cuts on local refuges.
Almost 19,000 women aged between 15 and 88 sought state help to find emergency housing in 2008-09, showing the previously hidden scale of domestic-violence "migrants" forced out of their homes. Sixty per cent, or 11,300 victims, found shelter at a women's refuge – many of which are overstretched and facing unprecedented cuts.
A separate study, also being presented today, reveals for the first time the true level of cuts to frontline services for domestic-violence victims. Two-fifths of organisations working with victims of sexual and domestic abuse have laid off staff in the last 12 months, while 28 per cent have cut essential services such as outreach and children's workers to keep refuge beds open.
Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, said: "The Government's approach to domestic-violence services is irresponsible and ultimately dangerous.
"Ministers need to commission an urgent audit to assess the impact on women's safety. And they need to explain urgently how they will ensure that women whose safety is at risk will still get the help they need." The migration analysis, carried out by researchers at London Metropolitan University, used data from the Government's own Supporting People programme to build up the first picture of where victims of domestic violence go.
The study, which will be presented at the British Sociological Association's annual conference today, found that more then 9,000 women took children with them as they escaped, with 190 mothers fleeing with five children in tow. One in 10 suffered from an addiction, mental-health problem or learning disability; a third came from an ethnic minority. The average distance travelled was 20 miles in search of safety and housing support.
The research provides an insight into how far and why women are forced to migrate within the UK. The database captured all women seeking formal help in England after being forced to leave their home, highlighting which local authorities do not have adequate provisions. The Supporting People programme, for which funding was ring-fenced between 2003 and 2010, was fully devolved to councils last year. Janet Bowstead, a PhD research student at London Met's child and woman abuse studies unit, said: "Many of the women have tried to use the law to stay put and get rid of their violent partner, but it hasn't worked – they are forced into these journeys because of their perpetrators."
Last month, The Independent revealed that funding from local authorities for domestic and sexual-abuse organisations fell by 31 per cent from £7.8m in 2010-11 to £5.4m in the last financial year. Yet on average 230 women a day are turned away from refuges and despite under-reporting, police receive a call about domestic violence every minute.
The second study, by the University of Worcester, gathered evidence from 37 organisations across the UK. The scaling back of services and job cuts were common, with worries also raised over the ability of volunteers to take on the necessary child protection and safeguarding responsibilities.
Ruth Jones, a researcher, said: "The Big Society agenda isn't going to work. Most organisations are already run with some volunteers, but they are underpinned by paid professional staff. Without them, the services will not stay viable which means ultimately victims unable to leave potentially life-threatening situations."
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We have ring-fenced nearly £40m of stable funding up to 2015 for specialist local domestic and sexual-violence support services and made it clear that [these] services shouldn't be an easy target for local authority budget cuts."
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