DOMESTIC RELATIONS Family Violence: Provide that a Hearing Shall Be Held Within Ten Days of the Filing of a Family Violence Petition or as Soon as Practical Thereafter, But in No Case Later Than Thirty Days After the Filing of a Family Violence Petition; Provide for the Conversion of Protective Orders to Permanent Orders

This portion of the Act, pertaining to petitions seeking relief from family violence, extends the length of time between the petition and the time of the hearing from ten to thirty days. Further, it gives the court discretion to convert a temporary order granting relief from family violence to a permanent order

DOMESTIC RELATIONS Alimony and Child Support Generally: Provide a Right to a Hearing When an Income Deduction Is Ordered Because of a One-Month Delinquency in Child Support; Provide Removal of Certain Exceptions to Applicability in Income Deductions

This portion of the Act accomplishes a housekeeping task of cleaning up a portion of chapter 6 of title 19, relating to the inclusion of non-Title IV obligors in income deduction orders. Further, the Act eliminates the fifteen¬day waiting period previously allotted a child support obligor after an order was entered as an opportunity to contest an income deduction which was issued upon a showing of a one¬month delinquency. Under the Act, the obligor may request a hearing within fifteen days after receiving notice of delinquency. However, if the obligor does not exercise this right, the income deduction order takes effect without a hearing and without the additional fifteen days which were previously provided to contest the order

DOMESTIC RELATIONS Family Violence: Provide that a Hearing Shall Be Held Within Ten Days of the Filing of a Family Violence Petition or as Soon as Practical Thereafter, But in No Case Later Than Thirty Days After the Filing of a Family Violence Petition; Provide for the Conversion of Protective Orders to Permanent Orders

This portion of the Act, pertaining to petitions seeking relief from family violence, extends the length of time between the petition and the time of the hearing from ten to thirty days. Further, it gives the court discretion to convert a temporary order granting relief from family violence to a permanent order

An index to the first eleven volumes of Ainsworth\u27s magazine, 1842-1847, a Victorian periodical

Ainsworth\u27s Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, and Art made its first appearance in February, 1842. Owned and edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, illustrated by George Cruikshank, published in London by Hugh Cunningham, it was a bargin at eighteen pence. To a greater extent than any of its predecessors, Ainsoworth\u27s was a literary magazine. Previous successful monthlies had been owned by publishing houses, with literary editors at the finanical and ideological mercy of the publishers--according to the literary men. Ainswroth\u27s hope was that a plan, which invests the real property and the real responsibility of a Magaine in literary hands, may give great freedom to writers...and therefore be more favourable to the prosperous exercise of their talents, than is frequently the case under established arrangements.1 This freedom, however, was not to be licence. Although free of a publisher\u27s restrictions, this was to be a family magazine, addressed not to Mothers only, but to Daughers. 2 The necessity to preserve the virture and vacuity of the minds of these young persons was laready beginning to diminate the Victorian literary scene. Ainsworth\u27s Magazine had its initial success assured in the person of its owner-editor, William Harrison Ainsworth. By the time he undertook proprietorship of a magazine, Ainsworth had been a publisher, an editor, a contributor to the popular annuals and monthlies of the day, and had written six best-selling romances. Historical romances; sporting, domestic, and social novels; travel books; scientific and pseudoscientific studies; and biographies were among the books with wied appeal, and they were given serious consideration in the magazine. Not only the books reviewed, but the reviews themselves, are an important part of the context of the writings of the novelists and prose writers of the era to whom we give our serious consideration today

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Bonds and Recognizances: Provide that Certain Persons Arrested Without a Warrant Upon Acts of Family Violence Shall Not Be Eligible for Bail Prior to an Appearance Before a Judicial Officer; Provide for Increased Bail and Specific Conditions for Release for Offenses Involving an Act of Family Violence; Provide for Bail Only Before a Judge in Certain Offenses Involving Family Violence and Serious Injury; Provide a Definition

The Act requires a law enforcement officer making a warrantless arrest for an act of family violence to bring the accused before a judicial officer for a bond hearing before release. Furthermore, it requires one accused of family violence, when serious injury occurs and there is danger of further violence, to be brought before a judicial officer, who is authorized to impose specific conditions of bail designed to deter further violence. The Act further requires increased bail and special conditions be included in the posted schedule of bails for family violence offenses. Finally, the Act provides a definition of serious injury

Report from the February 4/1/1979 Coordinating Council Meeting

As regional and caucus representatives gathered for the opening session of the semiannual NWSA Coordinating Council meeting on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland on February 15, they were asked to respond to two questions in introducing themselves: What is your vision of the future of NWSA? and Have you and/or your program paid your 1979 dues? Juxtaposed, the questions reflected the experience of the organization in its first two years—encompassing the idealism of NWSA\u27s founding and the pragmatic exigencies of supporting national organization. The questions, asked and answered on Susan B. Anthony\u27s birthday, began a meeting at which Council members worked at both visionary and administrative tasks, believing with Susan B. that failure is impossible

Working the System: The Role of Islam in Student Negotiations of a Midwestern Charter School

“What should the role of Islam be in American public life?” Rather than answer this question through broad, theoretical discourse, I turn to a case study of Somali Muslims in a Midwestern charter school. Through this case study, I analyze how individual Muslims, tied to communities and Allah in diverse ways, actively negotiate how to incorporate their religious practices into public space. I argue that by examining specific strategies used by individuals in an actual school setting, as opposed to making generalizing assumptions, one can better understand that Islam already plays a variety of constantly changing roles in American public life

NWSA News

TASKFORCE REPORTS Elizabeth Baer Initial Efforts of theCurriculum Taskforce The Curriculum Taskforce is fortunate in having several strongly involved participants: the PreK-12, Lesbian, and Student Caucuses, and the New York and Northwest regions. To date, several of the participants have singled out areas of prime concern to them and are inviting those interested to send materials, ideas, and support