There are times when family arguments can get out of hand, and when this happens the police are normally called in to sort out events. But taking this a stage further will mean that a Las Vegas domestic abuse attorney may well have to be called upon to represent someone who is accused of battery or the like. A Las Vegas domestic violence attorney will certainly know how to present the case so that the sentence for his client can be mitigated.

Everyone knows how this problem starts. A word here or there, a look and tempers fray to levels where someone throws a punch or a slap. Although many of these cases are isolated, there are families where this kind of behavior is an escalating pattern to the point of death in the most extreme cases. Getting help is often not available for the party being damaged and they tend to keep this kind of behavior pattern to themselves because they feel ashamed of what is going on. However, the secrecy surrounding such events is what makes it escalate to unacceptable levels.

For example, if it is a woman who is being hit or slapped on a regular basis by the man in her life, she will often cover the incidents by wearing thicker makeup or not showing herself in public until the bruises have gone away. So great is her shame that she may even tell doctors that she fell or bumped into something rather than tell the truth about what has gone on.

This is not always a woman who will suffer in this way either. Men have been known to be seriously beaten by their wives or girlfriends and they will never raise a hand to protect themselves because they were not brought up that way. These victims too will often excuse the bruising from the beatings by saying that they are sports injuries. However, injured they are and as such they should find recourse with the police.

The person who commits these crimes may have all kinds of mental stress going on which is often not taken into account. However, stress can never really be thought of as a defense in any situation no matter how high it is. The expert will try to put any mitigating circumstances over to the judge in such cases and he also has the knowledge to emphasize on relevant points which may cut his client some slack.

In some cases where a wife has been continually mistreated over the course of some years, it often culminates in the wife taking some weapon and killing the offending person. She may have had to wait for him to be asleep to do something about the situation and this then could be construed as murder. However, a good expert will show that these circumstances deserve some consideration particularly where there are children involved. If he can demonstrate that the lives of the children may have been at risk then the lady can often claim self defense even if it was while he was sleeping.

Due to the global crisis experienced by most people worldwide, many people nowadays find it hard to fit their income, earned from their day jobs, to their continuous growing needs. That is why many people are looking for an additional or part-time job in order to have extra earnings. And most of them think that having a business is one of the best ways to get the extra income that they need.

So if you are one these people who needs an excellent part-time job that can assure you huge income at the end of the day, then try engaging in a wholesale business online. This type of business has a growing popularity at present because of three main reasons, and these are following:

• First of all, a wholesale business is very easy to establish and manage if you have all the right stuff. This simply means that you need to acquire three important things, which include an excellent business plan with good marketing strategies, a fast internet connection, and the most important, SaleHoo. Having an excellent business plan which contains marketing strategies will help you assured that you can easily avoid risks and failures. Then, a fast internet connection is needed because all transactions of your business will all take place online when you bring your wholesale business in online markets like eBay. Finally, you need to become a member of SaleHoo in order to access all its genuine, reliable, and outstanding wholesale products and services.

• Next, having a wholesale business online can easily make you become successful. This is because when you have SaleHoo’s wholesale items, many resellers and shoppers online will surely become your loyal customers. Plus, all transactions can easily and quickly be completed all thanks to the dropshipping services you have acquired from SaleHoo.

• Finally, engaging in an online wholesale business can take you to greater heights. Simply because the more customers you will have and the faster your services, then the more profits you will earn from your online wholesale business. And then, you can easily roll your capital and gradually expand your wholesale business online in no time.

Chris-Craft boats can trace its roots back to 1874 when Christopher Columbus Smith, age 13, built his first wooden boat for duck hunting. By 1930 Chris-Craft had become the world’s largest builder of mahogany powerboats. This second part of the brief history of the classic boat builder covers the period from 1930 to the present day.

The Great Depression of the 1930s caused Chris-Craft boat sales to decline significantly. The company had to produce a range of low-priced basic ‘runabout’ powerboats to stay in business.

During World War II, Chris-Craft built some 12,000 small patrol boats, utility launches and rescue vehicles for the United States Navy and Army. Some Chris Craft boats saw service on D-Day (6 June 1944), landing allied troops on the beaches in Normandy.

After the war, Chris-Craft expanded wooden boat production and introduced an all-new range of pleasure boats just in time for the American consumer boom of the 1950s. Chris Craft had wooden boats (at one time, the company had 159 different models) for just about every type of recreational pursuit on water.

The company sold their ‘top of the range’ wooden boats to famous customers and Hollywood stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Chris-Craft boats were not only the best available, made from the finest mahogany, but also were easy to operate. Amongst the “celebrities” of the day, owning a Chris-Craft became de rigueur. Lower-priced Chris-Craft boats were also of high quality, built using mahogany, teak and brass. The Chris-Craft brand became virtually synonymous with pleasure boating.

In 1955, Chris-Craft manufactured its first fiberglass boat and, in 1957, the company acquired a metal boat building division. The company continued to be independent until Shields & Company and National Automotive Fibers acquired it 1960.

The last wooden Chris-Craft boat was built in 1971: a 57-foot mahogany Constellation. This marked the end of the Chris-Craft wooden boat-building era. Chris-Craft had sold more than 100,000 boats to customers in America, Great Britain, Italy, France and many other countries. Many of these Chris-Craft boats are still in use today.

Since the 1970s, Chris-Craft has undergone a number of corporate restructurings and changes in ownership. Today, Chris-Craft, Inc. is a privately held company based in Sarasota, Florida. Chris-Craft, Inc. currently offers sixteen models of runabouts, center consoles and express cruisers ranging from 20 to 43 feet. Although, the company no longer builds boats with wooden hulls, wood is still a significant feature in every new Chris-Craft boat.

Over the years, many prominent American families have owned Chris-Craft boats. Among them are the Fords, the Firestones, the Hearsts, the Morgans, the Sloans and the Vanderbilts. Two U.S. Presidents have owned Chris-Craft boats. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy both used their boats to get away and relax with their families.

The Chris-Craft name and the distinctive look of the mahogany hulls have become such American icons that Chris-Craft boats are in demand for films and television shows. In recent years, Chris-Craft boats have featured in many films including House Boat, Donavan’s Reef, Back to School, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Godfather II, On Golden Pond, The Dirty Dozen, Striking Distance, Pearl Harbor, Mission: Impossible III, Fool’s Gold and The Proposal and in the television series The Sopranos.

Copyright 2010 Clive Goodhead

Clive Goodhead writes on business, internet and other subjects of interest, including wooden boat building [http://www.wooden-boat-building.com], from his base in Marazion, Cornwall, in the far west of the United Kingdom.

Clive also manages ‘Marazion Guide’, your online guide to the ancient charter town of Marazion, situated on the shore of Mount’s Bay in the far west of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. As well as being one of the most popular holiday destinations in the United Kingdom, Marazion is the “gateway” to the world famous St Michael’s Mount. To read more about Cornwall and, in particular, Marazion and St. Michael’s Mount visit Marazion Guide.

There have been a lot of breakthroughs in the field of sciences and technology. While there are a lot of absurd innovations, there are still some that are indeed very helpful and can be utilize d for a variety of purposes.

Recently, people have been using pastlife regression therapies (PLRT) to heal people who have presented with a host of issues, from been emotionally wounded to having reoccurring pattens in their lives they can’t explain. In order for you to better understand the topic, I have created a list of FAQs that you can use as a reference:

1. What is past life regression therapy? This is the newest approach to heal yourself against stress, fatigue and other challenges that you might be facing at the moment. Most people attribute the hardships that they are experiencing right now to whatever they were or doing during their past life. Often, past life regression therapy treats not only the mind, but your body as well.

2. What is PLRT based on? Past life regression therapy puts its thrust into the cause and effect relationship. Whatever you were during your past life does play a very huge role on what you are right now. IF you want to have a sound physical, mental or spiritual wellbeing, then you need to understand where your emotions are coming from and why you are feeling what you feel. From this point of view, if anything bad happens to you, that is not bad karma but it is rather your soul choice to learn higher things and lessons.

3. What can pastlife regression therapy do for me? If you undergo pastlife regression therapy, it can heal you in different aspects like stress, anxiety, and irrational fears. There are also claims that healing the past life can also heal your current life in terms of health problems and understanding disorders. Basically, during the entire process of pastlife regression therapy, you will look for solutions on your current problems based from your previous personalities or persona.

4. Are there benefits from pastlife regression therapy? If you want to go further with what you have, you can always turn to your pastlife project and perform a little check here and there. Once you have accessed your past life, you can now easily rewrite how you would have lived according to your own preference.