The fourth edition of this popular title provides a practical & comprehensive reference for all those concerned in drafting & interpreting wills & in giving effect to their provisions The commentary is supported throughout by an extensive range of specimen clauses & model wills are provided in a separate appendix All precedent material is included on the accompanying CD-Rom enabling practitioners to adapt precedents for their own use Fully updated A Practitioner's Guide to Wills now covers the Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule & Law of Succession Act) 2011 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 Trusts (Capital & Income) Act 2013 & the Inheritance & Trustees Powers Act 2014 the latter making major changes to the intestacy rules family provision legislation & trustees' statutory powers of maintenance & advancement It examines the impact of these legislative changes as well developments in taxation affecting wills notably the new relevant property trust regime & its impact on pilot settlements the new residence nil rate band the reduced rate of IHT for gifts to charity & the new rules on trusts for disabled beneficiaries The impact of the new residence nil rate band on planning & drafting is considered together with the role that nil rate band gifts & discretionary trusts might still have to play in financial planning The chapter on construction of wills has been rewritten following the Supreme Court's decision in Marley v Rawlings & subsequent cases including Reading v Reading are considered The chapter on testamentary capacity has been revised in the light of developments since the Mental Capacity Act 2005 including Simon v Byford which considered the extent to which dementia affects testamentary capacity Other recent cases discussed include the Court of Appeal decisions in Ilott v Mitson & its implications for testators who wish to exclude close family members from benefit ...

' If you care about something you have to protect it If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love you have to find the courage to live it' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend New Hampshire hits a foul ball & kills his best friend's mother Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary & terrifying ...

While used for centuries in Sufi circles the prayer known as ' The Most Elevated Cycle' or ' The Prayer of Protection' had never before been available in English This book provides a lucid English translation of this beautiful & powerful prayer written by the great Sufi master Muhyi al-Din Ibn ' Arabi as well as a transliteration for those unable to read Arabic but who wish to recite it in its original language It also delves into the prayer's contemporary life & historical transmission & gives details of generations of well-known scholars & Sufi masters who transmitted the prayer providing an intimate insight into Islamic history ...

Claiming the courtesan's child It's been more than three months but Oliver Gregory still remembers the exquisite night he shared with a beautiful woman in Paris Discovering her working at the discreet London gentlemen's club he part-owns comes as a shockeven more so when he realises she's pregnant! Oliver knows the pain of being an outcast & will do all in his power to ensure his child is not born illegitimate Cecilia will return to his bedas his wife! The Society of Wicked Gentlemen The hour is late & the stakes are high ...

This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author DH Lawrence (Ian Mc Kellen) best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal & professional career including his tempestuous relationship with his wife & sometime collaborator Frieda (Janet Suzman); his battle against censorship (LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned in England for years); & his bisexuality ...

A Primer of Ecological Statistics Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory experimental design & parameter estimation for ecologists & environmental scientists The book emphasizes a general introduction to probability theory & provides a detailed discussion of specific designs & analyses that are typically encountered in ecology & environmental science Appropriate for use as either a st&-alone or supplementary text for upper-division undergraduate or graduate courses in ecological & environmental statistics ecology environmental science environmental studies or experimental design the Primer also serves as a resource for environmental professionals who need to use & interpret statistics daily but have little or no formal training in the subject The book is divided into four parts Part I discusses the fundamentals of probability & statistical thinking It introduces the logic & language of probability (Chapter 1) explains common statistical distributions used in ecology (Chapter 2) & important measures of central tendency & spread (Chapter 3) explains P-values hypothesis testing & statistical errors (Chapter 4) & introduces frequentist Bayesian & Monte Carlo methods of analysis (Chapter 5) Part II discusses how to successfully design & execute field experiments & sampling studies Topics include design strategies (Chapter 6) a 'bestiary' of experimental designs (Chapter 7) & transformations & data management (Chapter 8) Part III discusses specific analyses & covers the material that is the main core of most statistics texts Topics include regression (Chapter 9) analysis of variance (Chapter 10) categorical data analysis (Chapter 11) & multivariate analysis (Chapter 12) Part IV-new to this edition-discusses two central topics in estimating important ecological metrics Topics include quantification of biological diversity (Chapter 13) & estimating occupancy detection probability & population sizes from marked & unmarked populations (Chapter 14) The book

Includes:: a comprehensive glossary a mathematical appendix on matrix algebra & extensively annotated tables & figures Footnotes introduce advanced & ancillary material some are purely historical others cover mathematicalstatistical proofs or details & still others address current topics in the ecological literature Data files & code used for some of the examples as well as errata are available online

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The current one-size-fits-all educational model requires students to adapt to the system but in order for students to thrive schools must change in deep & substantial ways This book is a catalyst for creating the kind of empowering engaging & effective learning environments that all students need to succeed in school & life 232 pages Metzger Maure Ann ...

On 9th August 2001 twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh a double-A Category high-security prison in south London to HMP Wayland a Category C establishment in Norfolk He served sixty-seven days in Wayland & during that time as this account testifies encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously over-stretched prison service but the spirit & courage of his fellow inmates Prison Diary Volume II Purgatory is an extraordinary work of non-fiction where Jeffrey Archer reveals what life is like inside the walls of Britain's prisons ...

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve & a half hours & will not be let out again until midday; eighteen & a half hours of solitary confinement There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting
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- & he is being locked up for eighteen & a half hours unable to speak to anyone This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century not Turkey not Nigeria not Kosovo but Britain On Thursday 19 July 2001 after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail He was to spend the first twenty-two days & fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh a double A-Category high-security prison in South London which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals Hell the first volume in Archer's The Prison Diaries is the author's daily record of the time he spent there

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Up-&-coming secretary Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden) is whisked off to factory owner Hoffmeister&s (Alan Rickman) estate to serve as a tutor for his young son It is there that Friedrich catches the eye of the boss&s younger wife Lotte (Rebecca Hall) after which their instant attraction is challenged both by Zeitz&s general reticence & Mrs Hoffmeister&s loyalty to her husband Beautifully filmed & set in Germany just prior to WW1 A Promise tells the powerful love story of a married woman & her husband s protege separated first by duties then by war they pledge their devotion to one another but can they ever be together? ...