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I'm sure that you have noticed that velvet is a huge trend this season. Am I right? Honestly, it's one of my favorite trends right now, so I really wanted to style something using it to show you how much I love it.
Today I wore a casual outfit, just T-shirt, black jeans, and sandals. What makes it special? The top is dusty pink velvet and that's so cute. I can't stop caressing it all the time haha. And I made this T-shirt stand out because I paired it with black jeans, black sandals, black bag (a lot of black , I know) and my Daniel Wellington watch that I wear every single day.
What do you like the most about this outfit? Tell me whatever you want about it in the comment down below and I'll be glad to read it!
Remember that until the 15th October you have a 15% discount on any products from Daniel Wellington using the code "thegoldlipstick".
Love and lipstick ❤


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Today being Father's Day, Jamie and I had lunch at my parents' house. Since I enjoy any excuse to make dessert for other people, I wanted to make a really special dessert for my dad, so I thought about his favorite desserts over the years, and the one that stood out most in my mind was Lemon Fluff. This dessert was quite simply, layers of Cool Whip, cream cheese and instant lemon pudding, on top of a thin crust made of butter, flour and crushed nuts, all in a 9x13 pan. My dad loved Lemon Fluff so much, and rightly so, that I remember him cutting two big pieces and stacking them in a bowl to eat with a spoon. It was easy to make since it was a mostly non-bake dessert, except for the crust, and as a kid it was hard to get through dinner, especially if dinner included lima beans (blegh!), knowing that there was creamy lemony goodness waiting in the fridge.
So with my memories of Lemon Fluff as inspiration, I decided to make an all grown-up version with a shortbread cookie crust, creamy and tart lemon pastry cream, smooth and tangy cream cheese and whipped cream, and to top it all off, candied lemon slices. I also wanted a reason to use my new and very pretty blue tart pan I recently found at Target.
When someone else has mastered a recipe for perfect tart crust and pastry cream, there's really no reason to not use their tried and true methods, so for this dessert, I turned to my baking cookbook by Dorie Greenspan, "Baking: From my Home to Yours". So the genius behind the lemony perfection of this dessert is all hers, although the layer of cream cheese filling is my own. This dessert is sweet but not too sweet, tart, smooth, creamy... with a buttery crumbly crust that perfectly complements the creamy filling. What could be more perfect?
There are a lot of steps to completing this tart, but don't worry, it is well worth it! After finishing his first piece this afternoon, my dad stated in what my mom described as a "sticky voice": "I think I require another piece." Somehow, I don't think the rest of the tart I left in their fridge will last through tonight. :)
Printable Recipe
Lemon Cream Cheese Tart
Sweet Tart Dough
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup powdered or confectioner's sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick plus 1 tablespoon (9 tablespoons) very cold (or frozen) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg yolk, beaten
- Tart pan, with a removable bottom
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, powdered sugar and salt. (For the following steps, Dorie Greenspan used a food processor, but I did just fine with a pastry cutter and my hands.) Scatter the cold butter pieces over the flour, and using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour until you have coarse crumbs (about 1-2 minutes). Add the egg yolk, a little at a time, stirring into the flour and butter with your fingers. Working quickly, work the dough with your fingers to incorporate the moisture into the flour. (The dough will appear very dry, and you might think it doesn't have enough liquid, but don't worry, it will come together.) After 2-3 minutes of working the dough, it should start to hold together enough so that you can gather it into a ball.
Grease your tart pan very thoroughly with butter or cooking spray. Take half the dough and press evenly into the bottom of the tart pan, all the way to the edges. Take the other half of the dough, and press evenly around the sides of the pan, ensuring that it comes all the way up to the top of the sides--you want a deep crust since you will be filling with two layers. Freeze crust in pan for 30 minutes before baking.
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Take a large piece of aluminum foil and spray the shiny side thoroughly with cooking spray. Fit the foil, greased side down, tightly against the crust. Bake for 25 minutes. Carefully remove the foil. If the crust has puffed, gently press it down with the back of a spoon. Bake for an additional 5 minutes until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack before filling.
Cream Cheese - Whipped Cream Layer
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 8 ounces cream cheese
Using the whisk attachment of an electric mixer, beat the whipping cream and powdered sugar until soft peaks form. Add the cream cheese and beat with the cream until it is smooth and thick. Transfer to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until ready to use.
Dorie Greenspan's "Most Extraordinary French Lemon Pastry Cream "
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- grated zest of 3 lemons
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (from 4-5 lemons)
- 2 sticks plus 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into tablespoon-size pieces, at room temperature
- medium saucepan and metal bowl, to be used as a double boiler
- instant read thermometer
- mesh strainer
- blender or food processor
Set the bowl over the saucepan. (The bottom of the pan should not be touching the water.) Place the thermometer into the liquid. Cook the lemon cream until it reaches 180 degrees F (I stopped when it reached 177 degrees F since I'm at a high altitude), whisking constantly to keep the eggs from scrambling. The cream will start out light and foamy, then it will thicken and the whisk will leave tracks. When it reaches 180, after about 10 minutes, immediately remove from the heat, and pour through the mesh strainer into a bowl. Discard the zest that's left in the strainer.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Pour lemon cream into a blender or food processor and add the butter, about 5 pieces at a time. Scrape down the sides of the container as needed as you incorporate the butter. Once the butter is in, keep the machine going and blend the cream for an additional 3 minutes for a light, airy cream. Pour the cream into a container, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate at least 4 hours.
Candied Lemon Slices
- 3 lemons, sliced into 1/4 inch slices
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups granulated sugar, plus extra for dusting
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and drop in the lemon slices. Boil for 2 minutes, then drain the peel in a colander and rinse under cold water. Refill the pot and repeat the boiling, draining and cooling twice more.
Rinse out the pot and pour in the 4 cups water. Stir in the sugar and lemon juice and bring to a boil. Return the lemon slices to the pot, cover and reduce the heat so that the lemon slices simmer gently in the syrup. Stirring now and then, simmer for 1 hour, until slices are soft and completely candied.
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the lemon slices to a wire rack set over a plate to drain and cool. Allow to dry overnight, then toss with sugar until well coated.
Don't throw out the syrup! What's left in the pot is a wonderful lemony simple syrup that can be used anytime you need a liquid sweetener. I poured mine into a jar to keep in the fridge for future use. One thing I plan to use mine in...hot tea on a chilly night.
Assembling the Lemon Cream Cheese Tart
Spoon the cream cheese mixture into the tart shell and spread evenly over the bottom of the crust. There's no need to use all of the cream cheese if you'd like a thicker layer of lemon cream on top--I used all but 1/2 cup of the cream cheese mixture.
Next, spoon the lemon cream over the cream cheese and spread with a spatula. Swirl the spatula to create any kind of design you'd like on top.
Lastly, arrange the candied lemon slices as desired on top of the lemon cream.
Carefully, press the bottom of the tart pan up to remove from the pan--if buttered well, it will come out perfectly cleanly. Set tart on a serving dish. Serve and be prepared for lots of compliments. :)

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Your idea of a good year - volume wise.
May 30, 2006, 03:52 PM »
Personally, I think this year is just insane. Two years, back to back, with over 60 basic figures, lots of ships and lots of exclusives. For a movie year, I can see it, but now, it's just too much.
So what would you like to see released in any particular year? Do you like the current volume? would like to see less? a lot less?
I'd definitely like to see less. I think less than 50 basic figures a year, 6-8 VOTC styled, 4-5 ships and no more exclusives!
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May 30, 2006, 03:58 PM »
20-25 New Figs
10-15 Repacks
3-5 Cinema Scene, Battle Pack
2-3 Ships
2-3 Deluxe or Beast Packs
2-3 Exclusive Figs
This is more than enough. I would love to see the distribution like it was during the first few years of POTF2 (1995-1998) which somewhat mirrored my choices above. Everything was plentiful and you had more than enough time to track everything down.
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Trust me, Anton, if you were not a completist, you would be wanting a lot more.
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May 30, 2006, 04:08 PM »
I do not mind the level of volume so far personally. I see how completist and MOC collectors do though. On average I have been buying half the figures in each wave and multiples of army builders. I certaintly do not need to buy the same Vader 5 times. Ironically I do not have it once.
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May 30, 2006, 04:10 PM »
I'm fine with the volume this year. Most of it is repacks anyway, that were $2 cheaper last year, so no reason for me to buy a repacked Chewbacca or "kicking" Obi Wan (or countless others).
Ideally, here's what I'd like to see this year instead.
- Battle of Carkoon (minus Barada and replaced with an all new alien)
- Battle Hoth (minus Rieeken and with a better SA Snowtrooper)
- Battle of Geonosis / Battle of Utapau
- Battle of Coruscant (this wave was fine)
- Battle of Tatooine / Escape from Mos Eisley (looks great to me)
- Battle of Endor (take out Palpatine and replace with VOTC Stormtrooper)
- Battle of Naboo (this sounds good)
- Battle of Yavin (sounds great, but add in a TIE Pilot)
Then don't forget the Ultra/Deluxe line, just 2-3 waves would have been great.
Plus one large bad ass all new vehicle and a nice playset and I'd be set.
And maybe some sort of army-builder wave to add in too. Most of the repacks I could do without, but I don't mind them as I can pick up a few here and there for customs if I want to.
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Nice topic. I could definitely stand a lot less product out there. Of course, I/we don't have to buy everything, but that is easier said than done. I've said before, I envy those first POTF2 years, where there was like 12-25 figures a year, some vehicles/beasts, and that is that. Part of me has wanted there to just be a more limited line, along the lines of the VOTC/VTSC - but less expensive possibly - so we get great figures, less overall releases, and spread out a little bit. I'm not usually a fan of all the repacks, unless it is stuff people had a tough time getting (or maybe weren't collecting yet), but the overall number of figures per year could be considerably smaller. Also, I'd like to see some of the "other" lines (retail ones anyways) trimmed back a bit. Everyone's tastes are different, but I wouldn't mind just seeing the 7" Unleashed continue running alongside the basic line in some capacity, and other than that, maybe some more Galactic Heroes. The other stuff doesn't really interest me, but I know that it might interest someone else. Going by numbers, I'd like to see things almost cut in half as far as the basic figures go. Maybe something like this:
Basic Figures
- Maybe about 30-40 per year, most to all of them new figures. Repacks that make sense (VOTC/VTSC figures in particular, and other top notch ones from the other lines - Evo. Anakin/Maul/Vader, ROTS figures, etc.). Otherwise, if we're really going to get limited, I wouldn't mind seeing a VOTC-styled line - maybe closer to 12-20 figures a year, which would make the $10 pricepoint easier to handle. I know, I'd rather see the prices lower too, but I'm saying if this is our only option.
- New ones are probably going to be few and far between, but 2-3 larger vehicles a year would be nice. Maybe 1-2 could be repaints/repacks (again, that make sense - I'm personally looking forward to the rumored AT-AT, Snowspeeder, and Imp Shuttle because I missed them the first time), and maybe 1 new one a year would be realistic. The $20 pricepoint ships are nice too, and can sell to the kiddos, so seeing that assortment continue would be good too. Beasts don't seem to be a big priority anymore, but I wouldn't mind seeing the Rancor, Bantha, TaunTauns, etc. get re-released at the appropriate times. A playset a year would be nice too, but probably unlikely.
Other Lines
- Again, it depends on each person. The top two (retail lines, that is, not including Gentle Giant, MR, etc.) to me are the 7" Unleashed, and the Galactic Heroes. Here you have collectors and kids both covered, and in some cases, both. Again, don't overdo the Unleashed - we don't need 20 of them a year, but having a few 3 figures assortments in a year wouldn't be so bad. Galactic Heroes could be a little higher volume, since it is a relatively inexpensive (and small) line, although throwing a new ship or two into the line would be ok.
- They can be a headache, but it is a way to get some other things we don't always see. Maybe some special figures here and there, preferrably repaints/holos if they are going to charge $13 or more for them. Sure, new figures are always better, but if we would - for instance - see a BARC trooper as an exclusive - I think we'd all be upset. Stick to things like the Shadow Stormtrooper and other repaints. Other than that, maybe vehicles/playsets/beasts would be good options in some cases. I also liked the glass sets, but I know some people have had more than enough of those. Plus, they could drop the figure and offer them cheaper. Maybe 3 packs of glasses for $10 instead or something. I'd also like to see things like the Rebo band again, whether it is exclusive or in the basic line. Maybe a nice box set that includes the whole thing together - the battle packs from this year aren't a bad idea - depending on the choices. You could set up some nice $20 battle packs with some nice choices. Just some ideas, I'm sure there are better.
Overall, yeah, I'd like to see things scale back a little bit. 2005 was my worst year ever for spending, and I thought this year would be better. It is, so far, but it isn't as much as I thought it would be. There just seems to be a general feeling of being overwhelmed for me, but that might just be me. Less figures overall, but more new figures, and a nice steady release schedule throughout the year. I could go with an average of 3 figures a month, or around 36 a year - especially if the brand in general is scaled back.
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May 30, 2006, 04:18 PM »
I like everything and..money isn't an issue for buying what I want this year but....
I have to be realistic...for a non-movie year I'm concerned about Hasbro's/Retailers' direction. I like to be able to buy new product annually but sincerely hope Hasbro won't shoot itself in the foot overproducing this year so kill the line later. Even though between myself and my co-collector brother we can buy whatever we want from Hasbro it sure would be nice to save some collecting time and money to use elsewhere. I DO have other hobbies I could spend it on. It doesn't help either when WOTC decides to put out 3, yes-3!, new SW related miniatures sets this year
My Idea of a relaxing non-movie year....
From Hasbro:
25-50 basic figures
1 or 2 exclusives around or near holidays
4-5 vehicles new OR repainted well
5-8 7in. Unleashed figures
From WOTC:
1 miniatures set
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- Battle of Coruscant (this wave was fine)
I beg to differ Chewie since battle of Coruscant has released, H&V has hit, and now Tatooine and VTSC and various other exclusives and I still have yet to even see a Cody, much less have one, on the shelf. I've bascially all but given up and will soon resort to either trades or EVIL Bay. Sorry frustrated
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Non-Pyongyang residents comprising the lower rank in North Korea's social system use smuggled mobile phones from China using Chinese networks with roaming coverage. Many defectors to South Korea communicate with their families back in the North by delivering these illegal mobile phones through brokers.
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In response to the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee files, Nadim Kobeissi tweeted
Mohammed Nasim: detained in Guantanamo because "his name sounded like the name of a Taliban leader." Such standards.
I scratched around, and here's what he was talking about:
In Feb 2003, Mohammed Nasim was taken into custody in Afghanistan by the United States military. Two years later, he was deemed to have been arrested in error, and two months later, he was released. From Andy Worthington's book:
Mohammed Nasim, like Mullah Jalil, was one of the 38 prisoners cleared for release after the CSRTs. Captured in February 2003, he described himself as "a poor man, very disabled: I am a poor farmer with very small kids," and denied the allegations against him, which centered on claims that he had commanded 25 Taliban fighters for a military commander in Kabul. "Since I knew my left and right hands," he said, "I never went out of my village."
Nasim had no idea why he was caught, as he had no obvious enemies, but wondered if it was because his name had been confused with someone else's. He also explained that, although the Pentagon had listed his date of birth as 1962, he was at least 55 years old, and he was one of numerous prisoners whose requests for outside witnesses to corroborate his story (his uncle and his brother) was turned down because the State Department had not received a reply to his request from the Afghan government within the very short time frame (just two weeks) that was allowed for responses.
His Wikileaked file indicates that this is exactly why he was picked up: his name was thought to be similar to someone else they thought might be someone they might want to arrest. Similar, that is, if "Mohammed" and "Mullah" are similar.
Detainee was apprehended after a name similar to his was heard on a radio intercept thought to be originating from a group of individuals acting as sentries, reporting US troop movements to the Taliban. It has been assessed that detainee is not the same individual mentioned in the intercept. He is not associated with the Taliban and/or Al-Qaida.
–Detainee was captured because he had the same name as one heard on an intercepted radio communication regarding troop movement.
–Detainee shares the same last name of a former Taliban leader.
–According to further reporting and analysis, the name that was intercepted was "Mullah Nasim." It was assumed by the capturing troops that "Mullah Nassim" and detainee were one and the same. While the name mentioned in the radio transmission is similar to the detainee's, it is not the same. (Analyst note: After careful review of detainee's files and national-level databases, there has been no documentation discovered indicating that this individual is now or ever has been addressed by anyone as "Mullah" or "Mullah Nasim.")
The story was more or less known — his sworn statement was already available — but as far as I can tell, the actual details of his mis-arrest were not officially admitted or confirmed until now. By the way, there were three Mohammed Nasim's in Guantanamo and I found twenty on twitter, just with that spelling.
A bit more from the BBC:
At least 150 people were revealed to be innocent Afghans or Pakistanis – including drivers, farmers and chefs – rounded up during intelligence gathering operations in the aftermath of 9/11.
The detainees were then held for years owing to mistaken identity or because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, the memos say. In many cases, US commanders concluded there was "no reason recorded for transfer".
- Sami al-Hajj, a Sudanese cameraman for al-Jazeera, was held for six years, partly so he could be questioned about the Arabic news network
- Abdul Badr Mannan, an author, was considered high risk, but his files states US officials may have been "misled" by the Pakistani security services
- Mukhibullo Abdukarimovich Umarov, a Tajik man, was arrested in Karachi in 2002 and spent almost two years at Guantanamo before being released – his assessment says the reasons for detaining him were "undetermined"
- Haji Faiz Mohammed was arrested in Afghanistan aged 70 and is described as having senile dementia – his file states there is "no reason on record" for being transferred
- Naqib Ullah, aged about 14 when he was arrested, spent a year in Guantanamo but his file states he had been kidnapped by the Taliban and presented no threat to the US.
From Amy Davidson, for the New Yorker:
Here are some of the reasons we've held people at Guantánamo, according to files obtained by WikiLeaks and, then, by severalnewsorganizations:
- A sharecropper because he was familiar with mountain passes;
- an Afghan "because of his general knowledge of activities in the areas of Khost and Kabul based as a result of his frequent travels through the region as a taxi driver";
- an Uzbek because he could talk about his country's intelligence service;
- a Bahraini about his country's royal family (both of those nations are American allies);
- an eighty-nine year old man, who was suffering from dementia, to explain documents that he said were his son's;
- an imam, to speculate on what worshippers at his mosque were up to;
- a cameraman for Al Jazeera, to detail its operations;
- a British man, who had been a captive of the Taliban, because "he was expected to have knowledge of Taliban treatment of prisoners and interrogation tactics";
- Taliban conscripts, so they could explain Taliban conscription techniques;
- a fourteen-year-old named Naqib Ullah, described in his file as a "kidnap victim," who might know about the Taliban men who kidnapped him. (Ullah spent a year in the prison.)
Our reasons, in short, do not always really involve a belief that a prisoner is dangerous to us or has committed some crime; sometimes (and this is more debased) we mostly think we might find him useful…Here are other signs, according to the files, that a prisoner is dangerous: attitude toward the Star Spangled Banner; having been caught wearing a Casio F91W watch (a common model); perceived support for fellow inmates who committed suicide (there have been five).And more: according to the Guardian, the "GTMO matrix of threat indicators for enemy combatants," which runs to seventeen pages, also lists having a connection to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or I.S.I.; given how much money we've given Pakistan to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda, that detail alone is enough to make one's head spin, if the Casio didn't do it already…Is a Casio watch better than no reason at all? "It is undetermined as to why the detainee was transferred to GTMO," the base commander wrote in a report on one of "three hapless Tajiks," as the Guardian described them, who had been shipped there after being rounded up with others—not on what supporters of Guantánamo like to call the battlefield, but in the library at the University of Karachi, in Pakistan. They were held for two years.
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The society's governing directors have unanimously approved a task force report that says the legal regulator should merge with the Society for Notaries Public of B.C. and expand the use of credentialed paralegals to lower costs for the public.
"The changes are going to help access to justice tremendously," said Art Vertlieb, president of the law society.
"It's the old analogy: If you go to the hospital, you don't see the neurosurgeon right away. You see the triage nurse. Our challenge is to get our members to buy in."
There are about 300 notaries in the province and nearly 11,000 lawyers, so the regulatory change is not a big deal.
But allowing paralegals to appear in B.C. courts under a system like Ontario's would be a major step, and many lawyers may balk at the prospect of lower-priced competition.
While lawyers can charge hundreds of dollars an hour, paralegals work for a fraction of that because they have far less legal education and handle less serious work.
Paralegals have been involved in legal aid service delivery in B.C. since the mid-'70s for minor legal tasks and by legal aid to meet criminal and civil legal information needs.
They are used for poverty law services such as welfare rights, EI appeals or landlord-tenant disputes — areas where lawyers traditionally don't practice or are too expensive to consult.
"To do a lot of legal work you don't need eight years (post secondary education)," Vertlieb explained.
"Ontario's model is basically a two-year community college course and they write a test. We may take that model or maybe there's one between two years and eight years."
In Ontario, paralegals are regulated, carry practice insurance and handle proceedings in small claims courts and Ontario courts of justice in matters under the Provincial Offences Act, Highway Traffic Act, in a summary conviction court under the Criminal Code, and before various tribunals handling landlord/tenant and workers' benefits cases.
B.C. allows paralegals to do some tasks under the supervision of a lawyer and they can appear in Family Court on some issues as part of a pilot project.
But judges have been reluctant to embrace a system that would allow more non-lawyers appearing before them when they are already dealing with a huge increase in unrepresented litigants who can't afford lawyers.
"Ontario had a long-standing tradition with paralegals going into court in that province … but B.C. has none of that tradition," Vertlieb said.
In Ontario when they brought in their licensing regime, he added, they expected about 800 people to sign up to become paralegals — 3,000 arrived and there are some 5,600 now working seven years later.
"Think what that does to representation and access (to justice)," Vertlieb said.
In B.C., the near monopoly lawyers enjoy on providing legal services and the inefficiency and expense of the courts have meant the poor and the middle class can't afford to defend or assert their rights, creating a serious justice deficit.
The crisis is not unique to the province, though, as most common-law jurisdictions are wrestling with similar concerns.
By way of counterpoint, in Denmark anyone is permitted to practise law, even for a fee, subject to certain exceptions with respect to appearances in the superior courts. Clients therefore have a choice — obtain legal services from a qualified, regulated and insured professional, or take their chances in a buyer-beware market.
In common-law jurisdictions, the U.K. has been leading the way in addressing these issues, with mixed results. Ontario has been on the forefront of change in Canada.
The Law Society of Upper Canada followed England's lead in co-ordinating legal services provided by other professionals, not just lawyers, and introduced paralegals more than half a decade ago.
In a five-year review of the move, the society deemed the change "by any objective measure … a remarkable success."
Washington state also recently created "limited licence legal practitioners" under the authority of the Washington state Supreme Court.
The Law Society of B.C. created a task force in the fall of 2012 to examine whether it should regulate all legal service providers, in particular paralegals.
Chaired by Bruce LeRose, a law society life bencher, it included Ken Walker, a law society vice-president, Godfrey Archbold, president of the Land Title Survey Authority, Satwinder Bains, an appointed bencher, John Eastwood, president of the Society of Notaries Public, Carmen Marolla, vice-president, B.C. Paralegal Association, Kerry Simmons, president of the Canadian Bar Association — B.C. Branch, and Wayne Robertson, executive director of the Law Foundation.
Their 41-page report was adopted by the benchers Friday.
"Access to justice is slipping out of reach for many British Columbians," said LeRose. "It is critical that the law society look for ways to reverse that trend, and these ideas could be a big part of that."
The task force said a method needed to be created to expand the scope and provide paralegals who have met prescribed standards with a certificate defining their function.
"The B.C. Paralegal Association is extremely pleased," said Marolla, of the 700-member group.
"We look forward to continuing to work with the law society to develop the criteria for certification for paralegals and to consider how best to create the regulatory framework to be developed for stand-alone legal service providers."
The task force recommendations could reduce some of the costs, eliminate the maze of multiple regulators that exists and end the hegemony of lawyers over legal services.
Still, it's not clear a single regulator of legal service providers will improve access to justice.
The task force, however, believes economies of scale can be achieved, and that's important.
"It is, simply put, more economically efficient to regulate legal service providers through one organization than it is to have to create multiple governance structures and regulatory bureaucracies, particularly when the same or similar services are being regulated," the report said.
"Not only does this duplication risk the creation of differing standards, it costs more to the system as a whole and is therefore difficult to justify."
Legal stakeholders will begin discussing the details of the societies' merger and a regulatory framework by which other existing providers of legal services, or new stand-alone groups, can provide credentialed and regulated legal services in the public interest.
Together with post-secondary institutions, they also will develop a program of specific, prescribed education or training standards for certified paralegals.


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An all-region Warner Archive Collection, manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD, Death of a Scoundrel gets a decent 1.85:1 enhanced widescreen transfer. No extras.
In a luxurious Manhattan mansion, Bridget Kelly (Yvonne De Carlo) finds disgraced financier Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) dead on his bed, his dead eyes gazing straight into the camera in an impressively long, unbroken take. In the nearby bedroom belonging to Sabourin's ailing mother (Celia Lovsky), Kelly tells homicide detective Capt. LaFarge (Morris Ankrum) Sabourin's life story, and the rest of the film unfolds in flashback. (She claims to have knowledge about how he died, but much of what she tells the police she couldn't possibly have known.)
Having spent the war in a Nazi prison camp in Czechoslovakia, after the war Sabourin is anxious to reunite with his long-lost lover, Zina (Lisa Ferraday), now living in South America. Instead he discovers that she has married Sabourin's brother, Gerry Monte (Tom Conway, Sanders's real-life older brother) and that they've used Sabourin's money to open an antique shop. Enraged, in exchange for a visa to the United States, Sabourin tells local, corrupt police about his brother's illegal immigration status and hidden cash, and police murder him for his loot.
In America, Sabourin becomes involved with petty thief (and coded prostitute) Bridget Kelly, who steals the wallet of oil baron Leonard Wilson (Victor Jory) after he accidentally drops it. Her boyfriend/pimp Chuck (Bob Morgan, his character inexplicably also called "Jack" in the film) shoots Sabourin, wounding him, but Jack is then immediately run over by a truck and killed. (This is dramatized via an impressive, startling bit of stunt work.) Taken to a nearby doctor, Sabourin learns from him that a revolutionary new drug called penicillin will be formally announced the following day. And so, using a cashier's check found in Wilson's wallet, Sabourin buys $20,000 worth of pharmaceutical shares from broker O'Hara (John Hoyt), later Sabourin's partner in crime.
While earning an instant $100,000, at the brokerage firm Sabourin meets wealthy widow Mrs. Ryan (Zsa Zsa Gabor, Sanders's ex-wife and future sister-in-law). Later still he becomes involved with Edith Van Renassalear (Coleen Gray), wife of a wealthy department store owner; and Stephanie North (Nancy Gates), Ryan's secretary and an aspiring actress. Later, Sabourin bullies some Broadway producers into casting her in the lead role of their struggling show.
Despite an impressive/alarming cast of character stars and also-rans (Sanders, Gabor, De Carlo, Gray, Jory, Conway, et. al.), Death of a Scoundrel never comes to life and is dull and flat when not embarrassingly bad. Rather than trading on Sanders's DeWitt character, the screenplay is specifically based, all resemblances "purely coincidental" aside, on notorious swindler Serge Rubinstein. The Bernie Madoff of his time, Rubinstein like Sabourin was found dead, murdered, in his luxurious Manhattan home, possibly by one of his many girlfriends. (The case was never solved.)
But instead of playing Sabourin as the king of cads, the script by Charles Martin, who also produced and directed Death of Scoundrel, envisions Sabourin as weasely manipulative and spineless, Lost in Space's Dr. Smith-as-Ponzi-schemer. Where Addison DeWitt was cool and sharp-tongued, Sabourin is merely a self-serving, sniveling coward, and for that reason not any fun to watch. He sells out his brother on a whim, getting all wide-eyed and panicky in the process, and later, when he pleads with Zina not to kill him, Sanders is totally unconvincing, like a first-time actor in community theater.
Besides the illogical structure of having one character tell Sabourin's story, including things she could not possibly have known about*, Death of a Scoundrel is strange and nonsensical in others ways. For instance, Czech-French Sabourin's velvety British accent is explained in a line that Sabourin had attended Oxford, but what about his sound alike brother? The film's ideas of high finance are often ridiculous: "I want to find out what Broadway shows need money!" Sabourin demands in one such scene. The dialogue is trite without being over-the-top funny: "Don't moralize with me, you tramp!"
Charles Martin had a strange, unaccountable career. He seems to have been a playwright first, best known perhaps for I'll Be Seeing You, which was later adapted into a successful film. That may have launched his intermittent career as a writer-director that began with No Leave, No Love (1946), an MGM production with Van Johnson, and My Dear Secretary (1948), an indie for United Artists starring Kirk Douglas. He directed no other films until Death of a Scoundrel eight years later, and nothing after that until the misbegotten If He Hollers, Let Him Go! in 1968.
Max Steiner wrote the score, one as overripe as the picture itself, while legendary DP James Wong Howe's cinematography is, atypically, flat and uninteresting.
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Part of Warner Home Video's manufactured on demand program, billed under the "Warner Archive Collection" banner, Death of a Scoundrel is presented in 1.85:1, 16:9 enhanced widescreen. RKO titles tend to be a little dog-eared, and this is no exception, though the presentation is basically fine and the widescreen image helps a bit. The mono audio (English only, no subtitles) is adequate. The disc is region-free.
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Hardcore fans of George Sanders may want to see this, but I found it a big disappointment, despite interesting components, and thus advise you to Rent It before buying.
* Not only does she bore them with Sabourin's long-winded life story, at the end the film cuts back to Capt. LaFarge and the other detective listening all this time. They're not only still standing, two hours later, they're in exactly the same position as when the story began.
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California's Yosemite National Park is warning more than 20,000 past visitors they are at risk of exposure to the potentially deadly Hantavirus after it claimed another victim. Three people have died out of a total eight people infected after using cabins in the park this summer. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
Updated at 8:12 a.m. ET: A third person has died from the rare, rodent-carried hantavirus after visiting Yosemite National Park, bringing the total number of infected persons to eight and prompting warnings that the virus is not contained to just one area of the park, health officials said.
Yosemite National Park doubled the scope of its warning on Thursday to some 22,000 visitors who may have been exposed to the deadly mouse-borne disease.
U.S. officials had recently sounded a worldwide alert, saying that up to 10,000 people were thought to be at risk of contracting Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) after staying at "Signature Tents" at the Curry Village lodging area between June and August.
As many as 2,500 of those individuals live outside the United States, health officials said.
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Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman identified the third fatality as a West Virginia resident who contracted hantavirus while staying in Curry Village tent cabins in June. The person died at the end of July, and laboratory tests confirmed on Thursday that the death was due to hantavirus, he said.
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Officials are expanding their efforts to notify visitors to a complex of tent cabins at Yosemite National Park who may have been exposed to a rare but potentially deadly rodent-carried virus.
Since June, eight park visitors, including six from California, have contracted the virus, according to Yosemite officials. Three of those infections have been fatal. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), hantavirus is spread by contact with infected rodents, primarily deer mice.
On Thursday, it was revealed that the virus is not confined to Curry Village, according to a statement from the park.
One of the infected campers, who exhibited mild symptoms and is recovering, stayed in multiple High Sierra Camps in Yosemite in July.
The five High Sierra Camps are similar to the Curry Village tent cabins, but they're spaced about six to 10 miles apart and are accessible only via backpacking trails at higher elevation than Yosemite Valley.
US officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus
The other seven cases have all been connected to the historic Curry Village tent cabins, which were recently been closed to the public.
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It can take up to six weeks for symptoms of the virus to show, though they usually appear two to four weeks after exposure. Early stage symptoms include fatigue, fever and body aches, and can rapidly progress to severe difficulty breathing.
While there is no cure for hantavirus, oxygen treatment can increase the chance of survival for infected persons in severe respiratory distress and early detection is key, CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell said.
The CDC warns that thousands of campers at Yosemite National Park could be at risk for the hantavirus. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Hantavirus was first thrust into the public's awareness in 1993, when the virus was identified during an outbreak in the southwestern U.S.
CDC officials say the 1993 outbreak – which infected 42 people from 12 states – is the most comparable incident to the current outbreak.
Health officials at the time scrambled to figure out what was making people sick, and though great strides have been made in the study of the virus, there are still many questions that surround it, said Craig Manning, with the Viral Special Pathogens Branch of the CDC.
Cluster of deadly hantavirus cases worries officials
"There was higher than normal rainfall during the summer of 1993 and that led to a dramatic increase in the population of deer mice, which resulted in more opportunities for humans to be exposed to the virus," Manning said.
Since 1993, there have been 60 cases in California and 602 cases nationally, Manning said, describing the infections as "quite rare."
About one-third of California cases have been fatal, in line with the virus' fatality rate which hovers at around 36 percent.
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Deer mice
Manning said the recent outbreak has caused people to worry that a house- or field mouse may pose a threat to them.
"The virus is very specific as to its preference for hosts," he said, adding that deer mice can be distinguished by their reddish-brown fur and white underbelly, and are smaller than field mice.
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Since June, eight park visitors have contracted the virus, according to Yosemite officials.
The deer mouse is one of four rodents which can carry the virus found in every state in the U.S. The white-footed mouse, cotton rat and rice rat can also host Hantavirus.
Deer mice are the most common carriers on the virus, and about 12 percent of their population is positive for Hantavirus.
California Department of Public Health officials issued the following advice for those going to wilderness areas where mice area present:
- Avoid areas, especially indoors, where wild rodents are likely to have been present.
- Keep food in tightly sealed containers and store away from rodents.
- Keep rodents out of buildings by removing stacked wood, rubbish piles, and discarded junk from around homes and sealing any holes where rodents could enter.
- If you can clean your sleeping or living area, open windows to air out the areas for at least two hours before entering. Take care not to stir up dust. Wear plastic gloves and spray areas contaminated with rodent droppings and urine with a 10% bleach solution or other household disinfectants and wait at least 15 minutes before cleaning the area. Place the waste in double plastic bags, each tightly sealed, and discard in the trash. Wash hands thoroughly afterward - Do not touch or handle live rodents and wear gloves when handling dead rodents. Spray dead rodents with a disinfectant and dispose of in the same way as droppings. Wash hands thoroughly after handling dead rodents.
- If there are large numbers of rodents in a home or other buildings, contact a pest control service to remove them.
More information is available at the CDC website's page on the hantavirus.
NBCLosAngeles.com and Reuters contributed to this report.


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It's been seven long months since the last episode of "Futurama," but we suppose we shouldn't complain considering the previous gap was seven years.
Our expectations are as high as an inebriated Bender for the latest batch of 13 episodes, the first two of which are set to air Thursday night on Comedy Central. That's because the creative team raised the bar with the show's return last June, offering one of the program's strongest seasons a television eternity after Fox canceled the cartoon comedy.
The animation aspect certainly helped, unlike, say with the various movie re-incarnations of the canceled-too-soon "Star Trek," in which the inevitable aging of the cast and William Shatner's various Tribble-like hairpieces added hurdles to recreating the magic on the big screen. But the triumphant comeback of "Futurama" rests most in the creators' sticking to their vision of a show that views the present – pop culture included – through the one-eye mutant lens of the 31st Century.
Bender's plea for "robosexual marriage" (human and robots), proved a highlight of last year's comeback mini-season, as did the YouTube spoof centered around troublesome viral videos captured with the eyePhone (which is exactly what it sounds like). "The Da Vinci Code" parody featuring Leonardo himself emerged as another favorite, as did the 100th episode in which one-eyed beauty Leela returned to the sewers, filled not only with her fellow mutants but clever allusions to "Metropolis."
The "Metropolis" reference offers a good example of how the show's built-in distance and its appeal to a geeky, cult audience gives "Futurama" more leeway in taking chances with its satirical pop culture-driven humor than even Matt Groening's other, much better known creation, "The Simpsons."
Thursday's return, meanwhile, features episodes with promising premises: one in which the cast of characters switch sexes, and another in which Earth is threatened by an invasion of tiny Bender clones. Check out a preview below as you get ready to go back to the "Futurama":
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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So I was lamenting earlier about my failure to come up with interesting group activities for my atheist organization. The same member quoted in that post just came up with a great idea – a Photo Scavenger Hunt! Grouping up members and making them take photos of themselves doing silly things or in front of silly things before a time limit runs out. "That's not as awesome as an orgy!" you say. Well I disagree! Why? Because it's going to be a Freethinking Photo Scavenger Hunt! With wonderful items on the scavenger hunt list like:
– Depict evolution somehow
– Laugh/cry in front of a place of worship
– Act out your favorite ridiculous scene from a holy book
Now all I have to do is finalize the list by Sunday…but I figure a lot of you here are even more creative/hilarious than I am, so I'm going to ask for your help. What do you want to see on that scavenger hunt list? Email me at jmccreig(at)purdue.edu.
DO NOT LEAVE COMMENTS WITH IDEAS IN THEM BELOW OR I WILL DELETE THEM AND SMITE YOU WITH A FIREY HEATHEN RAGE! General comments about how awesome this idea is are okay, but I don't want club members getting a sneak peak at the list (especially since a lot read my blog). You'll probably get some of the best photos posted here, so put those thinking caps on!


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There's a lot of confusion when it comes to using lenses designed for 35mm cameras on the current crop of Digital SLRS. Many photographers have sizeable investments in 35mm lenses for their film cameras, and for the most part their lens investments drive them towards a particular digital camera body, whether it's Nikon, Canon, Minolta (Sony), Pentax or Olympus.
Luckily, all the manufacturers retained their old AF mounts, except for Olympus, which uses the newly designed Four-Thirds mount. Sony retained the Minolta 'A' autofocus bayonet mount for the Alpha series cameras, allowing all the fine 35mm lenses out there since 1986 to be used. The same goes for Nikon and others.
However, due to cost constraints at the present time, most digital SLRs use a sensor that is smaller than the 35mm format size of 36mm x 24mm. This smaller format is 22.7mm x 15.1mm, and is known as the APS-C format. Sony and Nikon (and others) use a sensor size that is approximately the APS-C format size. As can be seen, the APS-C size provides a much smaller image area, 342.77 square millimeters versus 864 square millimeters for the standard 35mm format.
When a 35mm lens is used on the current crop of digital cameras, the smaller sensor size means that the 35mm lens will now have a narrower angle of view (also called FOV or field of view) than when used on a 35mm film camera body. This is due to the fact that the 35mm lens creates an image on the film (or sensor plane) that is is sufficiently large enough to cover the 36x24mm frame it is designed for.
When used in a Digital SLR that has a smaller sensor (and thus image size), the image formed by the 35mm lens is still the exact same size as before, but the smaller sensor can only use a portion of it. In effect, this constitutes an "in-camera" crop. This cropping is determined by the ratio of the sensor size to the 35mm format size, distance of the image plane from the front of the lens etc.
In most of the cameras using APS-C size sensors, the 'cropping' is equivalent to using a lens that has a narrower angle of view (telephoto effect). This Crop Factor (also known as Focal Length Multiplier) is around 1.5x (Sony Alpha) 1.6x (Nikon). In some cameras, Canon uses a sensor size that is slightly larger, which gives a 1.3x factor (this is the APS-H format). The Four-Thirds system used by Olympus and Lumix (Panasonic) has a 2x factor.
The focal length does not really change, of course. The smaller sensor's ability to register only a portion of the total image causes an APPARENT increase in focal length due to the cropping. This has the effect of using a lens with a narrower angle of view, the same as using a telephoto lens. (Luckily, the sweet center portion has the sharpest part of the image).
The image edges which may not be sharp, or have aberrations are cropped in-camera. For the user, it's easier to remember by multiplying the focal length of the lens they are using with the factor for that particular body, and that gives us the APPARENT focal length.
A lot of the confusion can be eliminated by using the term APPARENT rather than EQUIVALENT. for example, on my Sony Alpha 700 (which has a 1.5x multiplier for 35mm lenses), it would be more accurate to say that my Minolta 50mm lens has an APPARENT focal length of 75mm, rather than saying my Minolta 50mm is EQUIVALENT to 75mm.
This apparent increase in focal length does not affect the aperture, so the APPARENT focal length of 75mm is still at a fast f/1.7. This will serve as an excellent portrait lens, since it can frame head and shoulders perfectly, but you'll find yourself having to move back when you want to include more of the scene.
For most wildlife photographers, birdwatchers and even landscape photographers, the apparent increase in focal length can be a unexpected blessing – they get more 'bang' for the buck from their existing lenses. When coupled with the higher ISO capabilities of DSLR cameras and in-camera image stabilization that will let them handhold the camera in situations that would have required them to lug along a heavy tripod.
If you're using a MACRO lens, such as, for example my Sigma 50mm f/2.8 (a very sharp lens with a true 1:1 macro capability) the apparent increase in focal length permits the macro subject to be fill the frame without moving in as close. Since the stand-off distance is greater, more light can reach the subject. The increased distance also helps when photographing skittish subjects that are likely to fly or hop away if approached too closely.
When the subject is framed in the Sony Digital SLR, it is seen that the Depth of Field is greater for the same magnification when compared to using the lens on a 35mm film camera like my Minolta Dynax 800si. This is a great advantage for macro-photography where depth of field and subject lighting are always problematic.
The whole situation is different when it comes to wide angle lenses. This is where most photographers are ready to burst into tears. The 1.5x or 1.6x multiplier effect holds good on the wide angles too, and this means that a normal wide angle like 24mm lens which would give a 74 degree field of view on a 35mm format camera will now only provide a FOV of 62 degrees or so, approximately that of a 35mm lens. In the same way, an ultra-wide 16mm becomes an apparent 24mm a 28mm is an apparent 42mm and a 35mm lens behaves like a 52.5mm normal lens.
Given the fact that most wide angle lenses are EXPENSIVE, no photographer would like to see his investment reduced to a moderate wide-angle or a normal lens. However, such is life. You win some, you lose some. To get a true wide angle on the Sony Alpha 700, I would have to invest in a 18mm to get 27mm (luckily, that's included in the zoom range of my Sony 18-200mm lens that I bought with the camera). Since the 18-70mm is bundled as a kit lens, most owners will have at least a 27mm wide angle, albeit a slow one).
To get the 24mm, we'd have to invest in the very expensive Sony 16-105mm Zeiss coated zoom lens (apparent focal length 24- 157.5mm). Buying a faster wide-angle prime lens would be prohibitively expensive for any amateur, and even professionals would hesitate.
My advice? If you really need to shoot wide angle, just use your film camera. You can still buy a fine Sigma 24mm f/2.8 AF at a reasonable price. The Sigma 24mm is a good deal, since it had a matte black Zen finish that tended to flake off, giving the lens a "very used" appearance and usually marked down. This is just cosmetic, and does not affect the lens performance in any way.
The same Sigma lens was re-badged and sold by Ritz as their house-brand Quantaray lens, but with a different, more durable finish – but it's still the same lens. Don't be fooled by the appearance of either lens – this is a very high quality lens. Besides, you can always use the Sigma on the digital SLR as an apparent 35mm f/2.8 prime lens in place of a 'Normal' lens. You'd pay hundreds more to get a similar "designed for digital" Nikon, Sony or Canon lens.
Of course, all this talk about crop factors and multiplication factors will become moot when Full Frame digital SLRs become common. Canon already has one, and Nikon and Sony will follow shortly. In fact, I would not be surprised if the Sony Alpha 900 was not released in a few more months. When that happens, lenses will behave as they were designed and there will be no more confusion.
As for me, I rather like the fact that my Tamron 70-300mm now behaves like a 105mm-450mm super-zoom. With the Image stabilization turned on, I can actually hold that baby steady enough to use hand-held.
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This is the last Will and Testament of me of Richard Kelsey of North Court in the parish of Swingfield in the county of Kent yeoman in manner following that is to say I give and bequeath unto my natural and reputed son Thomas Kelsey of the parish of Adisham in the said County yeoman my Nephew William Kelsey of North Court aforesaid yeoman and my friend Mr. George Downe of the parish of Elham in the said County Gentleman Sum of Two hundred pounds three per Centum Consolidated Bank Annuities now standing in my Name upon Trust nevertheless that they the said Thomas Kelsey William Kelsey and George Downe and the survivors and survivor of them and that Executors and Administrators of the survivor shall and do well and duly pay or cause to be paid by and out of the dividends arising upon the said two hundred pounds Stock the clear Sum of ffive pounds a year unto my niece Susanna the wife of John Hills to and for her own proper use and benefit for and during the term of her natural life by half yearly payments the first payment to begin and be made when the next half years dividends on the said Two hundred pounds shall accrue due and I do direct that the receipt and receipts of my said Niece Susanna ___ shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge and discharges to my said Trustees for upon said dividends not withstanding her present or any future coverture and the residue of such dividends I do direct to be paid and applied to the said Thomas Kelsey his executors administrators and assigns to and for his and their own proper use and benefit for and during the term of his natural life of my said Niece Susanna and ____ and immediately after her decease then upon Trust and I do give and bequeath the said _____ ___ Two hundred pounds Stock unto the said Thomas Kelsey and to his Executors Administrators and assigns to and for his and their own proper use and benefit also I give and bequeath unto my Niece Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Richards the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of Great Britain and I give and bequeath unto my Nephew John Kelsey and Edward Kelsey and to Margaret the daughter of the said Thomas Richards by my said niece Elizabeth his wife thesum of Ten pounds a piece of like lawful Money which said last named four Legacies I do direct to be paid and payable within three Months next after my decease and also I give devise and bequeath unto the said Thomas Kelsey all and every my Messages Lands Tenements and hereditaments and the rest residue and remainder of all and every my Monies and Securities for Money and all other my real and personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever that I shall be possessed of Interested in or intitled unto at the time of my decease To hold all the same unto him the said Thomas Kelsey and to his heirs and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Thomas Kelsey solo Executor of this my will hereby revoking all former and other wills by me at any time or times heretofore made and declared this to be my last will and Testament In witness whereof I the said Richard Kelsey the Testator have to this my last will and Testament set my hand and Seal the sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight Richard Kelsey Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard Kelsey the Testator as ad for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other do hereunto subscribe our Names as witnesses Ann Moon, Will: Moon, Wm Knocker
|From grandma Nancy's Album
|From Grandma Nancy's album
Source: National Archives, prob/11/85In the name of god Amen the twentith daye of September 1 thousand five hundred and nintie five I John Woodgreene thelder of Higham in the countie of Kent yeoman beyng sick of bodie but of good and perfect memory thanks be given unto Almighty god I Do make and ordaine my last will and testament in manner and forme following First I bequeath my soul unto the hands of Almightie god my maker and Redeemer hoping by the Deathe and passion of Lord and savyoure Jesus christ to be saved and my body to be buryed in the churchyard of higham afore sayed : Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Johane Woodgreene ___ pounds of lawfull money of England to be payed unto her by my Executors at the daye of her marriage or at her age of one and twentie years which of them shall first happen. Item I give and bequeathe unto my Daughter Agnes Woodgreene _______ pounds of ___ like lawfull money to be paid unto her at her daye of marriage or age of one and twenty years as aforesayed. Item I do give and bequeathe unto Elizabeth Lambe daughter unto my sonne in lawe Lambe twentie Shillings of like money. Item I do give unto the ____ ___ which shall cary my bodie to churche eighte pence apiece. Item I do give and bequeathe unto my sonne John Woodgreene all ___ somme and sommes of money as are due and owing unto me by my sonne Lambe in as simple manner as I might have had and ____ the Same; And all my lands tenements and hereditaments lying and beying in the parishe of howe als hoo in the countie of Kent which I lately purchased of my sayed sonne Lambe to have to hym and to his heyers for __ uppon suche conditions as I hould the same except one ___ tenement with the appurtenance which now is in the tenure or occupation of James Bonham or his assigns Item I do give and bequeathe unto my sonne william woodgreene and to his heyirs for ever all that my like messauges or tenement with the appurtenance in the sayed parish of howe ___ in the tenure or occupation of James Bonham or his assignes. All the residue of my goodes unbequeaathed (my debts and legacys payed and performed I do give and bequeathe unto my beloved wife Margaret woodgreene and unto the sayed John woodgreene my sonne ____ I do make constitute and appoynte my full and equal Executors of this my last will and testament. And I do desire my loving friendes Robert Miller of Higham and William Pate of ffrindsburye to be my overseers to see this my last will performed as my trust is in them Item, my will is that my sonnes John and william and Johane my daughter shall not demand any legacys which were given to them by the will of theire grandfather, Allso my will is that my said executors shall within one yere after my decease enter into band unto my Sayed overseers to see that my last will and testament performed in all thinges according to the same _____ thereof John woodgreene in the presence of Richard wilkenson and william Pate
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"...Mary Louisa Stanners, the youngest child of a highly respected Scotch lowland family. Her father, William Stanners, also resided in Great Missenden, where he operated his own business as a builder and plasterer. He owned the kiln in which he made the brick he used, and was known as an upright tradesman, who served his country by good work with the best material. William Stanners and his wife, Susannah Taylor, had three daughters and two sons, the latter following him in his business. His success and good standing is evident by the fact that he built a pretty villa on the slope of the Chiltern Hills, famous for their beautiful beech woods. He lived in his home until his death at the age of seventy-five."
|London Gazette, April 10, 1821