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Elbe cycle trail, castles, wine and porcelain
Culture, relaxation, experience – there's more than enough in Meißen for everyone. Visit the historic centre, the Seelensteig and the city's world-famous porcelain factory before heading for one of the cosy wine bars for a glass or two of Saxon wine. Explore the surrounding area along the Saxon Wine Route or the Elbe Cycle Trail and visit the region's numerous castles. Enjoy the stunning views over the Elbe valley and the wealth of culture, art and shopping on offer in Dresden just 25 km away. Contact us if you have any other questions.
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My Sin Eau de Toilette
My Sin—the Powdery, Floral, and Ultra-Feminine Fragrance in Its Original Formulation
My Sin was created by the Parisian House of Jeanne Lanvin in 1925, but our customers who requested it remember wearing it in the '50s and '60s when it was most popular in the States. We found the fragrance in its original formulation. The woody, powdery scent mixed with soft floral notes is sure to conjure fond memories of nights spent dancing cheek-to-cheek. The eau de toilette strength is perfect for everyday wear. 1 oz. spray bottle.
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If you are staying at this hotel you should speak Portuguese. We stayed at this hotel and no one in the staff could speak or understand English. We had lots of misunderstandings and problems getting information about the city. The rooms and beds are very small.
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Sylvia J. Sloan Juve, 88, of Tampa, Fla., and formerly of Clearwater, Fla.,
passed away peacefully on June 30, 2010 at Adam's House ALF, Tampa,
She was born in Calais, Maine on March 26, 1922, the daughter
of the late Norman and Ethel (Bellis) Johnson. Sylvia proudly served her
country during WWII as one of the first WAVES. After completing her
Basic Training at Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, she
was stationed in Washington, DC in the Navy Dept. as a cryptographer.
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and her second husband, Bob Juve. She lived in Eagle River, Wis.,
with Bob and enjoyed canoeing, fishing and skiing in the Northwoods.
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sweetest smile on her face and enjoyed relating the stories of her time
in Washington, DC. She owned the Chere' Beauty Salon in New Port Richey
in the mid 1960s and was also a real estate agent for several
subdivision developers in west Pasco County. After her second husband
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In the heart of Piccadilly Circus, Ripley's Believe It or Not! is dedicated to the bizarre with over 700 weird and wonderful artefacts spread across six floors. Galleries include a dungeon, theatre, and miniature rooms, with exhibits ranging from a collection of rare Amazonian shrunken heads and fossilised dinosaur eggs to a matchstick model of Tower Bridge and a prehistoric shark jaw. Visitors can tackle the Mirror Maze and take on the LaseRace before exploring the new Foodscapes gallery, featuring artwork crafted from all manner of edible items including a Christmas-themed cookie village.
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GAROWE/HARGEISA/NAIROBI, 27 April 2008 (UNDP) - Unless the Horn of Africa country acts now to fight climate change and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the country will face dire consequences, including stunted development. According to the 2007/2008 global Human Development Report, even though developing countries emit less greenhouse gases than their developed counterparts, they will bear the brunt of the problem due to their lack of capacity to respond to drastic, large-scale emergencies caused by climate change.
The report, launched simultaneously today in Hargeisa and Garowe, focuses on the global problems caused by climate change. The high carbon emissions of developed countries threaten to stamp out and then reverse advances in health, education and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa – a region where MDG indicators are already dismally low.
"Although the country is making progress in some areas, it is little known to some that various coastal areas could eventually be at risk of submergence. In some years, the country could be at peace, with a booming economy; but even sooner than that, parts of it could be under water," said Bruno Lemarquis, UNDP Country Director, emphasizing that as a poor, water-stressed and low-lying country with a long coastline, the country is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
The impact of climate change includes increased drought and flooding, rising sea levels, declining agro-pastoral productivity, and the spread of malaria and other diseases. Harsh conditions and unsustainable livelihood patterns have further exacerbated environmental degradation and increased the intensity of exploitation of environmental resources, with charcoal production a particular concern as it strips bare the country's remaining forests and woodlands.
Lemarquis stressed that even though international and national aid agencies, local communities and other stakeholders are taking some action to work with flood-affected communities, the country needs to address longer-term development issues. Acceding to multi-lateral environmental agreements, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be a start.
"We all need to act now to ensure that future generations are educated and fed, and remain healthy," urged UNDP's Senior Economist for the Country Office, Sriram Pande, 'efforts by the administrations, international community, private sector, media and local communities must be redoubled to ensure that vulnerability is reduced, livelihoods are maintained, and natural resources are sustained to provide some form of legacy for the next generation.
"More trees need to be planted to take in extra carbon dioxide; charcoal production must be managed and controlled; alternative sustainable energy sources need to be adopted; the country needs to accede to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other environmental conventions in order to garner international support; women must be empowered; basic social facilities need to be provided to communities, who in turn need to use facilities already available; and above all, poverty must be reduced.
"Every man, every woman and every child in the country has some responsibility towards meeting these goals. As a country we can bank on and channel one of our most important resources to fight climate change and make progress in achieving the MDGs – our future – our youth."
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i have not laughed today at the HSS
maybe the show just isnt funny without her cue to laugh
i have not laughed today at the HSS
maybe the show just isnt funny without her cue to laugh
Having Gary/John Hein in the "Robin" chair is typical Wiggy insecurity. MrPluggo could have put Sal in the studio and had a great show today.. But no. Its PC Howard. Sal is to unpredictable "racist".
Sorry for my bad grammar. I am a non-English retard.
have they had Evil Dave on lately, that dude was funny
I would've liked to have heard Howard handle the show "alone," or at least without John and Gary filling in for Robin, and without the Bigfoot Jr schtick. After all, he regularly boasts that he alone is the show, and that the only thing he needs to do an interesting show is a microphone. It would've been the worst show he's ever done, but I still would've liked to have heard it.
Without robin/Jackie/Artie/Thursdays/Fridays/relevance/effort/Allison/dignity/credibility/honesty/thankfulness is the full title if this thread I think.
They had BigFoot Jr. but he didn't say much, at least when I heard the show. Why have him there if you aren't going to use him.
When I turned on the show this morning about 20 minutes into the show I was thinking hmmm, the show sounds good today. What is different. I didn't realize Robin wasn't there until the Natalie Maines interview. And the only reason I noticed was because there wasn't constant interruption during her segment.
He has never done the showman alone. Whenever Robin has been out he has had someone else there to fill in...Jackie, Fred, in the terrestrial days, I think he even had Dee Snider once. There were a few times Howard was out, back in the day before they ran best of shows, and Robin did it alone and had "the boys" fill in for Howard...one time she had Robin Leach (sp?) sit in for Howard. what I remember the most about these shows is that both Robin And Howard sucked without each other being there. Howard just rambles on and on about himself and Robin cackles even more than usual.


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Square Enix has announced that as of today Final Fantasy VIII is available for download on the Square Enix Store and Steam. Like the re-release of Final Fantasy VII, this version has been enhanced for modern PC's and has some new features like cloud saving, a magic booster and 45 Steam achievements. Like the original PC version, which was released back in 2000 by Eidos, Chocobo World is also available.
Final Fantasy VIII is available for $ 11,99 / € 12,99 on the Square Enix Store (NA / EU) and Steam.
North America already got the PlayStation 4 on 15 November and Sony sold 1 Million consoles in 24 hours and last Friday us Europeans can also get Sony's new console! Some gameshops were open at midnight for lucky gamers who preordered the console months ago, since it has already been sold out. The MediaMarkt in Germany didn't really do that and it was first come first served as you can see in the below video.
While Japan is still getting Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster in 2013 (26 December), Square Enix has announced that the PlayStatuon 3 version will be released in North America on 18 March 2014 and in Europe and other PAL territories on 21 March 2014. The HD remake of FInal Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 was first stated to be released this winter, which seems to be delayed a bit. With this announcement they've also released a new trailer and they have revamped the limited edition.
Last week Square Enix has presented their financial results over the last 6 months ending 30 September. In the previous news item it was already mentioned that since the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn the game has been a success. The game has sold approximately 1.1 million physical copies and 350,000 downloadable copies. The current number of active players has exceeded 600,000, which has already exceeded the peak of Final Fantasy XI. They did also announce three strategic changes to the digital entertainment business that they're going to take.
Western studios will shift focus to and focus on the production of online-based titles. Also the price model will change from fixed to other earning models (like F2P). Nosgoth, a F2P battle action game taking place in the Legacy of Kain environment that is currently in development by Psyonix for PC, was cited as an example.
Studios in Japan will accelerate the production of titles for smart devices. Titles like Dragon Quest VIII and Final Fantasy Agito will be available soon. Last change that Square Enix is going to take is to expand in Asia and to release Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in China.
Square Enix has announced that since the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn the total number of accounts has surpassed 1.5 million worldwide. Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a rebuild of the original version which was poorly received and takes place 5 years after the destruction of most of Eorzea by the primal dragon Bahamut. The launch of the game however did not go well. Due to an overwhelmingly positive response there were continued server issues. Some servers were closed for new players and the digital downloaded version was temporary suspended.
During last night's D23 Fan Expo in Tokyo new gameplay footage has been released of the recently announced Kingdom Hearts III! In the gameplay trailer you can see the new Sora, Donald and Goofy battling various heartless and bosses using a variarity of attacks.
At the very first D23 Fan Expo in Japan Square Enix has announced that next year they will release Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX for PlayStation 3. This will contain Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep: Final Mix and cinematic story videos of Kingdom Hearts Re:coded all in HD with trophy support. Both Final Mix versions of Kingdom Hearts II (which was originally released in 2005 on PlayStation 2) and Birth By Sleep (which was released in 2010 on PlayStation Portable) will be available for the first time in the west. Kingdom Hearts Re:coded is a remake from the mobile game Kingdom Hearts coded which was released in 2010 on Nintendo DS.
The first trailer has also been launced and you can vist the Japanese website.
After the release of an enhanced version of Final Fantasy VII for the PC on the Square Enix Store and Steam the wait is now for an enchanced version of Final Fantasy VIII for the PC. However there's a hint it might be coming soon. In the Japanese Square Enix Store you can pre-order Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster. When you spend 7,500 yen or more before 26 December 2013 you'll receive 50% off the PC version of Final Fantasy VIII (normal price 1,500 yen).
The PC version of Final Fantasy VIII was ported by Eidos and released back in 2000. In May this year Square Enix announced that the PC version will be released in Japan. According to the Square Enix e-Store the release of Final Fantasy VIII for PC is now planned for this winter.
A few days ago Square Enix has finally announced that Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster will be available in Japan on 26 December 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (sold seperately). Both games have been remastered in HD with updated textures and a remastered soundtrack.
Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster for the PlayStation 3 will be available for a retail price of 7,140 Yen and the downloadable version will cost 6,400 Yen. This version will include the FMV 'Eternal Calm', which was originally included with the game Unlimited Saga and on a demo disc.
For the PlayStation Vita both games are sold seperatly for 3,990 Yen each and the downloadable version will cost 3,660 Yen. You can also buy both games in the Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster Twin Pack for 7,140 Yen and the downloadable version will cost 6,400 Yen.
Also a special Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster PlayStation Vita will be available together with both games for 25,788 Yen.
Square Enix has also opened the official website of the game here.
During the presentation of the recent release of Final Fantasy V for mobile devices and the announcement of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for mobile devices Takashi Tokita had a little surprise at the end of the presentation. Final Fantasy VI will also be released on iOS and Android devices this Winter.
Final Fantasy VI will not be a straight port, but a remake in style of previous Final Fantasy releases for mobile devices with some enhancements. Like the battle system has been adjusted so you don't have to fight as much and can enjoy the game for what it is. The graphics will be optimised for mobile devices but are still in 2D.
At the end Kotaku asked Tokita if games like Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX or X will be included in the Legacy series. "If this Legacy project works out well, we would like to one day be able to work with VII."


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With a background in travel and present-day focus on raising her two small children, Lori Jahner set out to find work she enjoyed that would give her the flexibility she needed.
The 33-year-old from Aurora, Colo. decided on Cruise Planners American Express Travel, a home-based travel agent network headquartered in Coral Springs.
They have so much training to offer, ongoing education, and the branded name alone is so reputable and distinctive, Jahner said. Out of all the ones that I kind of looked into, this is the one that was standing out. More or less, its just the perfect opportunity so that I can do what I love, which is raising my kids but also selling travel.
She has plenty of company. More than 850 franchise owners around the country are actively selling travel through Cruise Planners after paying startup costs that range from zero to $9,995. Those costs cover initial and continued training, marketing and advertising programs, a website, accounting and customer management software and support from the home office.
Fueled by everyone from stay-at-home moms to firefighters and retirees, the number of franchisees has grown by 14 percent annually for the last few years.
That has not gone unnoticed by cruise lines, who welcome more voices pitching their product.
I think they are very important, said Camille Olivere, Norwegian Cruise Lines senior vice president of sales in North America. Theyre big supporters of ours and theyre bringing new people into the industry and that is something that we desperately need.
Cruise Planners agents sold $156 million in travel and related services last year, a 16 percent increase over 2011 and 48 percent jump over 2009.
Confident in continued growth, top Cruise Planners executives bought the company late last year from Palm Beach Capital, the private equity firm that had been majority owner since 2007.
CEO Michelle Fee, who has always held a stake in the company and now owns 50 percent, said she and fellow owners chief financial officer Tom Kruszewski and chief operating officer Vicky Garcia did not want to risk Cruise Planners being taken over by another investment group that might try to make changes.
We wanted to make sure that whatever we keep doing is in the best interest of the company, said Kruszewski, 60.
Before, Fee said, agents often asked whether the investment company would try to sell or change Cruise Planners. She said the purchase sends a good message.
It shows them that were in this with you, said Fee, 50, who co-founded the company with two partners 19 years ago. Those partners retired in 2007.
The company has invested about $2 million in technology upgrades and equipment in the last few years, including a mobile reservations system for agents that was introduced about a year and a half ago, and a consumer mobile app for iPhones and Androids that should launch later this month.
We just have to be cutting edge, Fee said. Travel is technology; we have to be there with the big guys. Not only are we matching them, but we want to be better.
Janet Fernandez, who started her Crise Planners franchise, Cruise Impressions, last July after working in different parts of the cruise industry since 1998, said she is already taking advantage of the latest tech innovations.


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Forms of family violence include child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, spousal or partner abuse, and elder abuse. These forms of violence are related, in that they occur within the context of the family unit. Therefore, the victims and perpetrators know one another, are related to one another, may live together, and may love one another. These various forms of violence also differ insofar as victims may be children, adults, or frail, elderly adults. The needs of victims differ with age and independence, but there are also many similarities between the different types of violence. One such similarity is the relationship between the offender and the victim. Specifically, victims of abuse are always less powerful than abusers. Power includes the ability to exert physical and psychological control over situations. For example, a child abuser has the ability to lock a child in a bathroom or to abandon him or her in a remote area in order to control access to authorities. A spouse abuser has the ability to physically injure a spouse, disconnect the phone, and keep the victim from leaving for help. An...
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Because children do not usually tell a physician directly if they are being abused physically or sexually, physicians use several strategies to identify child and adolescent victims. Physicians screen for abuse during regular checkups by asking children if anyone has hurt them, touched them in private places, or scared them. To accomplish this screening with five-year-old patients having routine checkups, physicians may teach their young patients about private areas of the body; let them know that they can tell a parent, teacher, or doctor if anyone ever touches them in private places; and ask the patients if anyone has ever touched them in a way that they did not like. For fifteen-year-old patients, physicians may screen potential victims by providing information on sexual abuse and date rape, then asking the patients whether they have ever experienced either.
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Progress in the battle against partner violence was slower. The battered women's movement brought new attention and a feminist understanding to the widespread and serious nature of partner violence. This growing awareness provided the impetus, during the 1970's and 1980's, for reform in the criminal justice system, scientific research, continued growth of women's shelters, and the...
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Bancroft, Lundy, and Jay G. Silverman. The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2002. Examines how partner abuse affects each relationship in a family and explains how children's emotional recovery is inextricably linked to the healing and empowerment of their mothers.
Barnett, Ola, Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, and Robin D. Perrin. Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction. 2d ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2005. Provides information about the different ways that domestic violence, and the warning signs associated with it, may be recognized at various stages in the life spans of individuals and families.
Dutton, Donald G. The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships. 2d ed. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. Dutton, a psychologist, began as a disciple of social learning theory and eventually came to understand that theory alone was inadequate to explain the multifaceted origins of spousal abuse.
Island, David, and Patrick Letellier. Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence. New York: Haworth Press, 1991. The first published book that addresses the issue of violence between gay partners. The authors write in a lively, straightforward manner that is easy to understand. Proposes novel ways of thinking about partner violence.
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In the 1970's, publicity about domestic violence, and more specifically wife abuse, made the public aware that many women did not live in peace and security in their own homes. Through the usage of the terms "abuse," "woman abuse," "battering," "partner abuse," "spouse abuse," "intimate violence," "family violence" and "relationship violence," feminists made the public aware of the problem. As a result of the publicity, women were identified as the most likely victims of domestic violence.
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The first theory, family systems theory, includes the application of systems theory to all current family therapy approaches. Systems theory stresses mutual influences and reciprocal relationships between the individual members and the whole, as well as vice versa. In family systems theory, abuse is seen as a feature of the relationship between the abused wife and her husband. Underlying the abusive behavior, both the abused wife and her husband have a frail sense of self. When they marry or establish a relationship, a battering routine or system unfolds. Several factors lead the man to have a drive for power and control over the woman. These factors include social conditions, the need for control, intimacy fears, and lack of awareness of his own conflicts regarding dependency. The abused woman, in turn, has a limited range of coping behaviors, dependency conflicts, a history of childhood family violence, and other psychosocial traits that are similar to those of the man. Change is prevented from occurring, and the dysfunctional interpersonal behavior patterns continue as a result of the unwritten expectations that control these behaviors....
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Clinical samples in which women are asked to describe their husbands' drinking patterns have provided the basis for the opinion that men beat their wives when they are drunk. Researchers have found that from 35 to 93 percent of abusers are problem drinkers. Better controlled studies have found that in only 25 percent of the cases was either partner drinking at the time of the abuse.
Individuals are more likely to be an abused woman or an abusive man if they were abused as a child. It is less clear that a relationship exists between witnessing wife abuse as a child and experiencing it as an adult. Researchers have found that men are more likely to become adult abusers if they observed domestic violence as boys. The data are inconclusive regarding a woman's chance of being abused if she observes domestic violence as a child. Men who observed domestic violence between their parents are three times more likely to...
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Male partners severely assault more than 1.5 million married and cohabitating women each year. Of women treated in hospital emergency rooms, 22 percent to 35 percent are there because of symptoms related to abuse. Approximately 20 percent to 25 percent of all women are abused at least once by a male partner. Victims of boyfriends tend to be young (sixteen to twenty-four years old), while victims of current or former spouses are likely to be older (twenty to thirty-four years old). Women in families with incomes over $50,000 are four times less likely to be abused than are women in families with annual incomes of less than $20,000.
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Walker describes three levels of intervention in terms of feminist psychological theory. Primary prevention changes the social conditions that directly and indirectly contribute to the abuse of women. Examples would include eliminating rigid gender role socialization and reducing levels of violence in society. Secondary intervention encourages women to take control of their lives and to break the cycle of violence. Examples include crisis hot lines as well as financial and legal assistance. A shelter where the women will slowly regain their ability to make decisions for themselves and where they will be safe is an example of tertiary intervention. At this level, women have been totally victimized and are unable to act on their own.
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The "rule of thumb" was born in English common law, which stated that men had the right to beat their wives as long as the weapon they used was "a rod no bigger than their thumb." Early U.S. judicial decisions supported the right of men to beat their wives. The government's hands-off policy and the legal sanction to a husband's right to control the behavior of his wife were the two major impacts of the court rulings. The first wave of feminists in the nineteenth century briefly exposed the existence of wife abuse and made some efforts to criminalize it. This state of affairs continued until the 1970's, when the second wave of feminism exposed the public to the abuse that many women experienced in their own homes. The battered women's movement identified two key concerns: first, to create a society that no longer accepted domestic violence and, second, to provide safe, supportive shelter for all women who were abused.
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Sources for Further Study (Psychology and Mental Health)
Abrahams, Hilary. Supporting Women After Domestic Violence: Loss, Trauma, and Recovery. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2007. A guide for helping women after they have left an abusive relationship. It explains why women feel grief, anger, and confusion in these circumstances and how they can regain a positive sense of self-esteem.
Ammerman, Robert T., and Michel Hersen, eds. Assessment of Family Violence: A Clinical and Legal Sourcebook. 2d ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. Leading figures in the field of family violence review the research and examine strategies and measures relevant to assessment of the problem. They also comment on treatment planning and legal requirements. Other areas of concern include epidemological models, intervention planning, and standards of practice.
Browne, Angela. When Battered Women Kill. New York: Free Press, 1989. A study based on interviews with 250 physically abused women, forty-two of whom had killed their batterers, shows how "romantic idealism" drives the early stages of the abusive relationship. Obsessive "love" continues along with the abuser's need to physically control the woman. In addition, coping and survival strategies of the battered women are presented.
Buttell, Frederick P. "Moral Development Among Court-Ordered Batterers: Evaluating the Impact of Treatment." Research on Social Work Practice 11, no. 1...
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Domestic Violence (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
Any abusive, violent, coercive, forceful, or threatening act or word inflicted by one member of a family or household on another can constitute domestic violence.
Domestic violence, once considered one of the most underreported crimes, became more widely recognized during the 1980s and 1990s.
Various individuals and groups have defined domestic violence to include everything from saying unkind or demeaning words, to grabbing a person's arm, to hitting, kicking, choking, or even murdering. Domestic violence most often refers to violence between married or cohabiting couples, although it sometimes refers to violence against other members of a household, such as children or elderly relatives. It occurs in every racial, socioeconomic, ethnic, and religious group, although conditions such as poverty, drug or alcohol abuse, and mental illness increase its likelihood. Studies indicate that the incidence of domestic violence among homosexual couples is approximately equivalent to that found among heterosexual couples.
Domestic violence involving married or cohabiting couples received vast media attention during the 1990s. The highly publicized 1995 trial of former professional football player and movie actor O.J. (Orenthal James) Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman thrust it onto the front pages of...
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Domestic Violence (Encyclopedia of Public Health)
Societies have made important gains in addressing the problem of domestic violence, particularly in the area of service delivery to its victims. However, millions of women are battered by their intimate partners every year in countries around the globe.
During the 1960s, the women's liberation movement began drawing attention to violence committed against women, and the battered women's movement began to form. At its core was the outrage of women who argued that individual cases of violence against women in the home added up to an enormous and unacceptable social problem. By the end of the 1970s, statistics proved that isolated cases of abuse were part of a shocking national problem. Victims became more visible; so, too, did the inadequacy of society's response. The battered women's movement emerged, becoming one of the most powerful social justice and service movements in United States history.
Shelters and hotlines began to spring up around the country. What began as a social, service-based response to crisis began to take on political urgency. The staggering numbers of women and children turning to shelters perpetually outpaced the growth of the movement. The shelter work uncovered endless horror stories: law enforcement officials who mislabeled domestic disturbances, judges who ruled in favor of perpetrators, and health care providers who mishandled violence-related injuries. At every turn, women seeking help could expect indifference, hostility, and endangerment. It became clear that helping women in crisis required more than front-line emergency services. It required changing the established social institutions and creating or changing the laws that affected them. During the 1980s, a vibrant network of nearly two thousand domestic violence programs in the United States organized into state coalitions, formed to take on the challenge of pressuring social institutions to adequately respond to victims.
The 1990s proved to be a watershed decade. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA, 1994) was passed, a major federal bill that provided more than $1 billion to assist shelters, train law enforcement personnel and judges, and support other crime-prevention efforts addressing violence against women. The decade also saw, via live television, the trial of football legend O. J. Simpson for allegedly murdering his former wife, Nicole, and her friend. Though he was eventually acquitted of criminal charges, Simpson's case prompted unprecedented media coverage of the issue of domestic violence.
The domestic violence movement clearly has a rich history of achievement. The critical front-line service provision crisis response, while central to saving some women's and children's lives, can never realize its mission: to reach out to all victims. Despite its rapid growth, the service system is unable to keep pace with widespread need. Prevalence statistics and anecdotal evidence all point to the epidemic nature of domestic violence: Nearly one-third of American women (31%) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. Yet only a small fraction of abused women ever go to a shelter.
The domestic violence movement's agenda remains predominantly shaped by the quest to improve services for, and to make laws accountable to, domestic violence victims. As a result, the notion of domestic violence prevention in North America and most of Europe relies heavily on punitive criminal intervention. Although the movement has consistently educated policymakers and other institutions, the advocacy community has not focused collective attention on developing an agenda for preventing domestic violence at its earliest stages.
The criminalization of domestic violence and the sensitizing of criminal justice agents should by no means be abandoned. However, emphasis must also be given to other sectors of society, including communities of faith, health delivery systems, and workplaces. Preachers, doctors, employers, coworkers, friends, and family members are all in a prime position to reach out to help women facing abuse, as well as to let batterers knowerhaps for the first timehat their behavior is simply unacceptable. Evidence suggests that many battered women are actually more comfortable talking with friends and family members about the violence in their lives than with trained domestic violence professionals whom they do not know. Developing leadership within each of these arenas, then, represents a huge potential for disseminating more broadly messages that can begin to change the social norms.
Unfortunately, pervasive cultural acceptance of domestic violence at all levels of society helps to explain how the justice system has historically responded to domestic violence. Typically, police have not taken the problem seriously, rarely arresting perpetrators. When battered women persevered and tried to press charges, district attorneys often refused to support their cases, and the cases that did make it to court were likely to be dismissed.
While laws have strengthened the ability to respond to domestic violence cases, covert attitudes that condone battering explain why inaction is the norm rather than the exception. According to a 1996 public opinion survey, almost half of Americans (47%) currently believe that men sometimes physically abuse women because they are stressed out or drunk, not because they intend to hurt them. Clearly the domestic violence movement has yet to cultivate widespread attitudes that condemn violent abuse of women.
One of the greatest challenges facing the domestic violence movement is the widespread perception that spousal abuse is a "private matter." Domestic violence is often perceived as private business between two individuals that requires therapy rather than intervention. Creative approaches are needed in order to move a private matter into the sphere of public concern and to translate that public concern into a widespread social consensus for action. A successful strategy would include the following: a comprehensible institutional change approach to empower individuals to make contributions through the institutional structures that touch their daily lives; an emphasis on prevention that is partnered with an ongoing commitment to victims; a multifaceted media campaign that begins to change the collective social consciousness; and a reigniting of the community-based, political activism that spawned the movement in the first place.
For example, in the early 1990s, The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) began to explore ways to strategically inject the politics of outrage back into the domestic violence movement in the United States, combining media and community-based activism into an overall approach. In 1994, the FVPF launched a nationwide media and grassroots organizing campaign called "There's No Excuse for Domestic Violence." It targets the friends, family, and coworkers of victims of abuse who sanction the violence with their silence and whose actions can help change social norms. The campaign includes public service announcements that trumpet the campaign's key messages that "domestic violence is everybody's business" and "there's no excuse for it." In one powerful print ad, viewers are confronted with the image of a man brutally beating his cowering wife, under the words: "If the noise coming from next door were loud music, you'd do something about it." These public service announcements provide a toll-free number individuals can call for a free action kit, which details concrete ways people can address abuse in their workplaces and communities.
These and other programs that generate and communicate this kind of collective sense of indignation about the problem of domestic violence work toward a broader, more comprehensive approach that involves ever more components of society. Their aim is to proactively affect public policy and wide-ranging institutional policies, community responsibility, and individual action, and to move a "private issue" into a public space in which domestic violence is forbidden.
(SEE ALSO: Alcohol Use and Abuse; Antisocial Behavior; Gun Control; Homicide; Violence)
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Hutchinson Police DepartmentWednesday, 7:50 a.m. - Sarah E. Law, 20, Hutchinson, reported her house in the 100 block of West Seventh was broken into and money was taken.
8:37 a.m. - A 24-year-old Hutchinson woman was arrested at the LEC for failure to appear.
8:56 a.m. - Janice K. Riddle, 59, Hutchinson, reported a truck struck her vehicle near 15th and Plum and did not stop.
11:12 a.m. - Charles E. Wheaton, 19, Hutchinson, reported the vehicle he was driving struck another driven by Emmett E. Allen, 73, Hutchinson. Wheaton was cited for inattentive driving.
11:40 a.m. - Aaron D. Niblack, 32, Hutchinson, reported receiving harassing phone messages from a male.
11:45 a.m. - Jason P. Davenport, 41, Hutchinson, reported someone trespassing at his rental residence in the 500 block of East Ninth.
Noon, Marcelina R. Proffitt, 89, Hutchinson, reported someone entered her residence in the 700 block of Monterey Place and stole a silver wedding ring.
12:44 p.m. - An employee of Walmart on East 17th reported an unknown white male left the business without paying for merchandise in Feb. 8.
12:44 p.m. - An employee of Walmart on East 17th reported an unknown white male left the business without paying for merchandise on Feb. 7.
12:54 p.m. - Elizabeth Alvarez, 22, Lincoln, Neb., reported a male used her Social Security number to gain employment.
2:02 p.m. - Karmen E. Davenport, 44, Hutchinson, reported the theft of a Kenmore dishwasher from the 500 block of East Ninth.
2:30 p.m. - Bradley M. Beveridge, 36, Hutchinson, was taken by Ems to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center after his vehicle left the roadway at 28th and Waldron and struck a vehicle owned by Nadine V. Miller, Hutchinson. Beveridge was cited for driving while suspended and no proof of insurance.
3:24 p.m. - Luke D. Barnes, 21, Hutchinson, reported his house was burglarized and cash taken in the 900 block of East 30th Terrace.
3:44 p.m. - Claire E. Rhoades, 68, Hutchinson, was taken to the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center emergency room after the vehicle she was driving at Third and Poplar was struck by another driven by Michael P. Fleming, 19, Haven.
4:20 p.m. - David W. Keast, 46, Hutchinson, reported someone struck his 2006 Dodge Dakota while it was parked in the 400 block of East 16th sometime overnight.
5:25 p.m. - Bobbie J. McGirvin, 23, and Robin Garcia, 51, both of Hutchinson, reported being battered by a known female.
6:07 p.m. - A 15-year-old Hutchinson girl was issued a juvenile notice to appear for theft/shoplifting after an employee of Claire's on East 11th saw her trying to leave the business without paying for merchandise.
6:32 p.m. - A 17-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested at his residence in the 300 block of East Walker for failure to appear.
7:40 p.m. - Brian R. Hill, 37, Hutchinson, reported being battered by a known male in a lobby in the 500 block of North Main.
8:43 p.m. - A 22-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested on ring Road for a failure to appear warrant.
7:12 p.m. - Michael L. Rhoades, 27, McPherson, reported his purple and white 1984 Harley Davidson FHL was stolen from the 100 block of North Washington.
11:55 p.m. - Shirley K. Grubbs, 57, Hutchinson, reported an unknown subject broke a kitchen window and damaged a screen in the 3400 block of Jeffery.
Thursday, 12:03 a.m. - A 28-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested for criminal trespassing and criminal damage to property after forcing entry into the residence of Danielle N. Dyer, 21, Hutchinson, in the 300 block of Kansas.
12:43 a.m. - Sondra K. Jeffries, 34, Hutchinson, reported someone forced entry into her residence in the 600 block of East Ninth and took miscellaneous electronic items.
2:14 a.m. - A 20-year-old Haysville man was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear.
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Tuesday, 11:09 p.m. - A 25-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested in the 100 block of south Race in Arlington for interference with a law enforcement officer.
Wednesday, 12:08 a.m. - A 24-year-old Wichita man was arrested at Arlington and Salem in Arlington for driving while suspended and illegal display.
3:34 a.m. - An 18-year-old Edmond, Okla., man was arrested in the 4000 block of South K-96 for driving while suspended.
This list is compiled from online bulletin items provided by local law enforcement departments.


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Letting in touch with apartment owners isn't always easy, said Mayor Dewey Bartlett.
"We, the City of Tulsa, really don't have a way to reach out and contact owners that live out of state, other than by phone and email, if we have a problem," Bartlett said. When the city does reach out with questions or concerns, "sometimes they are either ignored or are minimally addressed," he said.
In the aftermath of the Jan. 7 shooting deaths of four women at Fairmont Terrace apartments near East 61st Street and South Peoria Avenue, Bartlett is proposing what amounts to a new permit requirement to operate an apartment.
Since August, six fatal shootings have taken place at the 336-unit Fairmont Terrace complex, owned by California-based SolRey Properties. While the site has a gate and on-site security -- still criticized as lax by some tenants -- it's in a neighborhood filled with several other apartment complexes also recognized as crime hot spots.
Bartlett's plan is "to require that if anybody does own and operate a residential rental apartment unit or complex, that they must get a permit from the City of Tulsa to do that," he said.
Likening the idea to the state's authority to license liquor store owners, Bartlett described it as a way to ensure apartments meet certain standards.
"When that permit is granted, there will be some requirements that will be required of an owner and operator insofar as it deals with cleanliness, safety issues, tenant issues," Bartlett said.
The plan would likely require a city ordinance and thus city council approval, he said.
Just as state authorities can yank the license of a liquor store operator, so too could the city take action against apartment owners.
"If we have the ability to take away their license to do business, then that should be sufficient enough to get someone's attention if they're not abiding by rules and regulations," Bartlett said.
Bartlett's plan is but one reaction to the shooting deaths and a surge in homicides to start the year, with eight murders tallied as of press time.
On Jan. 17, a gathering of spiritual leaders will tackle some of the thorny questions related to gun violence.
Planned in advance of the Jan. 7 shooting deaths, the meeting's focus has shifted somewhat since it was conceived in reaction to the Newtown, Conn. school shootings.
The Tulsa violence "just intensified the sense of urgency, that we can do at least what we can as people of faith to address the issues involved with gun violence and violence of all kinds, basically," said Rev. Todd Freeman, pastor of College Hill Presbyterian Church.
The gathering at his church is being organized by Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry. Topics will include gun control, but Rev. Ray Hickman, the ministry's executive director, said he expects "a conversation that deals with education, health care, poverty, gangs, with other environmental issues that affect people."
Addressing the problem of violence as a community was also the focus of Chief Chuck Jordan in comments made to city councilors on Jan. 10.
"We encourage and solicit any community help we can get," Jordan told councilors. Councilor G.T. Bynum, whose district includes the Fairmont Terrace apartments, asked what Tulsans could do to help the police.
Jordan emphasized the need for people in the community to speak out.
"Without a doubt, we're trying to transition into a primarily intelligence-led policing organization. Intelligence takes information from the public. We don't want to find out about the bad guys after they've committed a violent crime," Jordan said.
Hickman noted that the effects of such a crime extend beyond those directly affected. The four women killed, 23-year-old Rebeika Powell, her twin sister, Kayetie Powell Melchor, 33-year-old Misty Nunley, and 55-year-old Julie Jackson, leave behind family and friends, including Powell's three-year-old son who was found alive at the crime scene.
"Economically, it puts that whole area in a position that it may be unpopular, unsafe," Hickman said, adding, "That's not helpful for city growth. ... That's not what Tulsa wants as far as a reputation."
Bynum proposed creating a "public safety intelligence working group," which met for the first time Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Jordan said he is "amenable to any kind of information gathering we can get that would give us more intelligence."
Technology didn't come up in the conversation, but it may in future discussions about intelligence.
Last year, the Oklahoma City Council approved the purchase of 16 license plate scanners for use mounted on patrol cars. This year, Dallas approved the purchase of 28 such readers, with plans to use them on patrol cars but also "in fixed locations in high crime areas," according to The Dallas Morning News.
Such technology, when paired with electronic databases, spots stolen cars and vehicles registered to people with outstanding warrants, for example.
"The success of the system is predicated on what databases are utilized by the police department," said Bryan Sturgill, who works in the marketing department of 3M, which recently acquired one manufacturer of such equipment, PIPS Technology.
Officer Leland Ashley, a spokesman for the Tulsa Police Department, said in an interview that the department is in the early stages of considering such equipment. Often, cities apply for federal grant money to pay for the units. The 3M equipment starts at about $13,000 per fixed unit, according to a sales official with the company.
"We have not identified a vendor to even get their product to test," Ashley said.
Whether such technology can actually lower crime remains in doubt, as researchers with George Mason University in 2010 reported they were unable to document a reduction in crime in spots where such technology is in place.
Other cities have attempted to tackle the problem of apartment complex crime. Houston police train apartment owners and managers in an eight-hour classroom course, then award a "Blue Star" designation to propewwrties which also meet other requirements based on a review of "lighting, perimeter fencing, landscaping, on-site security crime prevention efforts, and tenant screening procedures," according to the HPD website.
The Houston Chronicle reported in July that only 63 complexes had earned the designation since 2005 through the voluntary program.It remains to be seen what sort of lasting changes might result in Tulsa from the recent wave of violence, but one thing seems clear: "There are people in the community that do care," Freeman said.
Anyone with information about the Fairmont Terrace shootings may call anonymously at 918-596-COPS. To speak with a detective, call 918-596-9133.
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The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance has fallen to its lowest level for more than four years and employment has reached a record high, but long-term and youth unemployment have increased, new figures show.
The so-called claimant count fell by 29,200 in July - the ninth consecutive monthly drop - to 1.4 million, the lowest since February 2009. Total unemployment, including those not eligible for benefit, fell by 4,000 in the quarter to June to 2.5 million.
But youth unemployment, among 16 to 24-year-olds, increased by 15,000 to reach 973,000, while the number of people out of work for more than two years rose by 10,000 to 474,000, the highest since 1997.
Other figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that average weekly earnings, including bonuses, increased by 2.1% in the year to June, up by 0.3% on the previous month.
It is the first time the rate has gone over 2% since 2011, but ONS said it reflected unusually high bonus payments in April. The number of people in work increased by 69,000 in the quarter to June to 29.78 million, the highest since records began in 1971. The figure is 301,000 higher than a year ago, giving a rate of 71.5%.
The unemployment rate has remained at 7.8%, as opposed to the 7% figure given by new Bank of England governor Mark Carney as a possible trigger for changes in interest rates.
Meanwhile, the number of people classed as economically inactive, including those looking after a sick relative or who have given up seeking work, fell by 10,000 in the latest quarter to just under nine million, a rate of 22%.
ONS said the number of people aged 16 to 64 in employment has almost recovered to what it was at the start of the recession five years ago, but the employment rate has not recovered as much because of a 673,000 increase in the population of this age group.
The employment rate for men is unchanged at 76% but has increased by 0.1% to 66.7% among women while self-employment has jumped by 6,000 to 4.1 million and unpaid family workers have risen by 6,000 to 111,000.