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A mother who claims she lost her son to legal highs is this week launching a website warning others of the dangers of the lawful 'drugs'.
Karen Audino spoke out because she believes her 20-year-old son Jimmy Guichard died after taking synthetic cannabis.
She this week revealed Kent Police have told her the legal high - often marketed as 'herbal incense' - was found in his room.
Her new website comes in the week KentOnline launches its own campaign to crack down on legal highs.
Jimmy's family decided to turn off his life-support machine after he was found unconscious at his Gravesend home following a heart attack in October.
His mother Karen Audino claimed empty plastic bags found beside him were evidence he took the legal highs shortly before his death. She is now calling for a total ban.
She said: "I was told there were two packets by him. One was empty and one was full. His dad had said he had gone into Chatham that morning to purchase them."
The youngster's post-mortem, released in November, revealed there were no traces of alcohol or illegal drugs in his system.
His mother, who has been living in Northern Ireland after moving from Hextable in 2005, is struggling to come to terms with losing her only son.
She said: "It's absolutely heartbreaking to think that something that just anyone can walk in and buy from a shop, as if they're buying sweets and a newspaper, can do this.
"My life has changed beyond recognition. Some days are better than others and some days are absolutely terrible.
"We've just had Christmas and New Year and it was very, very poignant that there was an empty chair at the table."
The 42-year-old has since set up a Facebook campaign, Legal High Awareness and Prevention, which has had almost 800 likes at the time of going to print.
She is also launching a website this week, called Jimmy's Law, in order to share her son's story and raise awareness of the effects of legal highs.
She said: "I want a complete ban on the shops selling them. I want the shops to not be able to sell them from their website too.
"These legal highs need to be regulated and they need to be tested. We need to know what's going in them. We know what the components are for cannabis and cocaine but we don't know what the components are for legal highs."
She admits each and every day is a struggle when you do not have any answers for your only son's death.
She said: "My son is not going to be a number, he's not going to be a statistic. Something good has to come out of this."
Matt Ford, 17, is all too familiar with the pain caused by legal highs after he was left just minutes from death following a heart attack.
The teenager, formerly of Whitstable, was left shaking, foaming at the mouth, unable to move or speak and suffering from blurred vision after taking a bong of Exodus Damnation.
Within minutes he was being rushed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
He said: "I remember when the paramedics were there, every time I closed my eyes all I could see was a dragon-like, devil sort of figure. Every time I had my eyes open it was just horrible."
He added: "If I'd have known it would have happened I'd never have suggested buying the stuff."
"My son is not going to be a number, he's not going to be a statistic. Something good has to come out of this" - Karen Audino
He and his friends bought the substance from UK Skunkworks in the city, despite being underage, a matter the company were previously unavailable to comment on.
The former Canterbury College student added: "I want them banned. I don't want any to be sold in a shop ever again. They are horrible and disgusting."
Mr Ford is now worried about his health, after taking what he now feels is a 'lethal drug'.
"I've done illegal drugs and legal highs but no illegal drug has ever come anywhere near as dangerous as that."
See tomorrow, how every secondary pupil in one Kent town is to be told of the dangers of legal highs in police visits.
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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends as Jack, was a medievalist, Christian apologist, literary critic, academic, radio broadcaster, and essayist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England" . His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. Later in his life he married the American writer Joy Gresham, who died of bone cancer four years later at the age of 45.
Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies over the years. The books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, in TV, and in cinema. Examples include the 1988 BBC TV serialisation, the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the 2008 film adaptation of Prince Caspian.
Lewis was initially schooled by private tutors before being sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, in 1908, just before his mother's death from cancer. Lewis's brother had already enrolled there three years previously. The school was closed not long afterwards due to a lack of pupils — the headmaster Robert "Oldie" Capron was soon after committed to an insane asylum. Tellingly, in Surprised By Joy, Lewis would later nickname the school "Belsen". There is some speculation by biographer Alan Jacobs that the atmosphere at Wynyard greatly traumatized Lewis and was responsible for the development of "mildly sadomasochistic fantasies". After Wynyard closed, Lewis attended Campbell College in the east of Belfast about a mile from his home, but he left after a few months due to respiratory problems. As a result of his illness, Lewis was sent to the health-resort town of Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended the preparatory school Cherbourg House (called "Chartres" in Lewis's autobiography).
In September 1913, Lewis enrolled at Malvern College, where he would remain until the following June. It was during this time that 15-year-old Lewis abandoned his childhood Christian faith and became an atheist, becoming interested in mythology and the occult. Later he would describe "Wyvern" (as he styled the school in his autobiography) as so singularly focused on increasing one's social status that he came to see the homosexual relationships between older and younger pupils as "the one oasis (though green only with weeds and moist only with fetid water) in the burning desert of competitive ambition. […] A perversion was the only thing left through which something spontaneous and uncalculated could creep" . After leaving Malvern he moved to study privately with William T. Kirkpatrick, his father's old tutor and former headmaster of Lurgan College.
As a young boy, Lewis had a fascination with anthropomorphic animals, falling in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often writing and illustrating his own animal stories. He and his brother Warnie together created the world of Boxen, inhabited and run by animals. Lewis loved to read, and as his father's house was filled with books, he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as "finding a blade of grass."
As a teenager, he was wonderstruck by the songs and legends of what he called Northernness, the ancient literature of Scandinavia preserved in the Icelandic sagas. These legends intensified a longing he had within, a deep desire he would later call "joy". He also grew to love nature — the beauty of nature reminded him of the stories of the North, and the stories of the North reminded him of the beauties of nature. His writing in his teenage years moved away from the tales of Boxen, and he began to use different art forms (epic poetry and opera) to try to capture his newfound interest in Norse mythology and the natural world. Studying with Kirkpatrick ("The Great Knock", as Lewis afterwards called him) instilled in him a love of Greek literature and mythology, and sharpened his skills in debate and clear reasoning.
On 15 April 1917 Lewis was wounded during the Battle of Arras, and suffered some depression during his convalescence, due in part to missing his Irish home. On his recovery in October, he was assigned to duty in Andover, England. He was discharged in December 1918, and soon returned to his studies. Lewis received a First in Honour Moderations (Greek and Latin Literature) in 1920, a First in Greats (Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1922, and a First in English in 1923.
Lewis lived with and cared for Mrs. Moore until she was hospitalized in the late 1940s. He routinely introduced her as his "mother", and referred to her as such in letters. Lewis, whose own mother had died when he was a child and whose father was distant, demanding and eccentric, developed a deeply affectionate friendship with Mrs. Moore. "All I can or need to say is that my earlier hostility to the emotions was very fully and variously avenged", he wrote of her in his autobiography. He also said to his friend George Sayer: "She was generous and taught me to be generous, too."
In December 1917 Lewis wrote in a letter to his childhood friend Arthur Greeves that Jane and Greeves were "the two people who matter most to me in the world."
In 1930, Lewis, Moore, her daughter Maureen and Warnie moved into "The Kilns", a house in the district of Headington Quarry on the outskirts of Oxford (now part of the suburb of Risinghurst). They all contributed financially to the purchase of the house, which passed to Maureen, then Dame Maureen Dunbar, Btss., when Warren died in 1973.
Moore suffered from dementia in her later years and was eventually moved into a nursing home, where she died in 1951. Lewis visited her every day in this home until her death.
Lewis experienced a certain cultural shock upon first arriving in England: "No Englishman will be able to understand my first impressions of England," Lewis wrote in Surprised by Joy. "The strange English accents with which I was surrounded seemed like the voices of demons. But what was worst was the English landscape … I have made up the quarrel since; but at that moment I conceived a hatred for England which took many years to heal."
From boyhood Lewis immersed himself firstly in Norse and Greek and then in Irish mythology and literature and expressed an interest in the Irish language, though he seems to have made little attempt to learn it. He developed a particular fondness for W. B. Yeats, in part because of Yeats's use of Ireland's Celtic heritage in poetry. In a letter to a friend Lewis wrote, "I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology."
In 1921, Lewis had the opportunity to meet Yeats on two occasions, since Yeats had moved to Oxford.
Surprised to find his English peers indifferent to Yeats and the Celtic Revival movement, Lewis wrote: "I am often surprised to find how utterly ignored Yeats is among the men I have met: perhaps his appeal is purely Irish — if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish." Early in his career, Lewis considered sending his work to the major Dublin publishers, writing: "If I do ever send my stuff to a publisher, I think I shall try Maunsel, those Dublin people, and so tack myself definitely onto the Irish school." After his conversion to Christianity, his interests gravitated towards Christian spirituality and away from pagan Celtic mysticism.
Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism toward the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England we ended by criticisms of the inevitable flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race. After all, Ami, there is no doubt that the Irish are the only people … I would not gladly live or die among another folk."
Due to his Oxford career Lewis did indeed live and die among another folk, and he often expressed regret at having to leave Ireland. Throughout his life, he sought out the company of his fellow Irish living in England and visited Northern Ireland regularly, even spending his honeymoon there . He called this "my Irish life".
His separation from Christianity began when he started to view his religion as a chore and as a duty; around this time he also gained an interest in the occult as his studies expanded to include such topics. Lewis quoted Lucretius (De rerum natura, 5.198–9) as having one of the strongest arguments for atheism:
Lewis's interest in fantasy and mythology, especially in relation to the works of George MacDonald, was part of what turned him from atheism. In fact, MacDonald's position as a Christian fantasy writer was very influential on Lewis. This can be seen particularly well through this passage in Lewis's The Great Divorce, chapter nine, when the semi-autobiographical main character meets MacDonald in Heaven:
…I tried, trembling, to tell this man all that his writings had done for me. I tried to tell how a certain frosty afternoon at Leatherhead Station when I had first bought a copy of Phantastes (being then about sixteen years old) had been to me what the first sight of Beatrice had been to Dante: Here begins the new life. I started to confess how long that Life had delayed in the region of imagination merely: how slowly and reluctantly I had come to admit that his Christendom had more than an accidental connexion with it, how hard I had tried not to see the true name of the quality which first met me in his books is Holiness.Influenced by arguments with his Oxford colleague and friend J. R. R. Tolkien, and by the book The Everlasting Man by Roman Catholic convert G. K. Chesterton, he slowly rediscovered Christianity. He fought greatly up to the moment of his conversion noting, "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming." He described his last struggle in Surprised by Joy:
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.After his conversion to theism in 1929, Lewis converted to Christianity in 1931. Following a long discussion and late-night walk with his close friends Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, he records making a specific commitment to Christian belief while on his way to the zoo with his brother. He became a member of the Church of England — somewhat to the disappointment of Tolkien, who had hoped he would convert to Roman Catholicism .
A committed Anglican, Lewis upheld a largely orthodox Anglican theology, though in his apologetic writings, he made an effort to avoid espousing any one denomination. In his later writings, some believe he proposed ideas such as purification of venial sins after death in purgatory (The Great Divorce) and mortal sin (The Screwtape Letters), which are generally considered to be Catholic teachings. Regardless, Lewis considered himself an entirely orthodox Anglican to the end of his life, reflecting that he had initially attended church only to receive communion and had been repelled by the hymns and the poor quality of the sermons. He later came to consider himself honoured by worshipping with men of faith who came in shabby clothes and work boots and who sang all the verses to all the hymns.
Gresham's cancer soon went into a brief remission, and the couple lived as a family (together with Warren Lewis) until her eventual relapse and death in 1960. The year she died, the couple took a brief holiday in Greece and the Aegean in 1960; Lewis was fond of walking but not of travel, and this marked his only crossing of the English Channel after 1918. Lewis's book A Grief Observed describes his experience of bereavement in such a raw and personal fashion that Lewis originally released it under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk to keep readers from associating the book with him. However, so many friends recommended the book to Lewis as a method for dealing with his own grief that he made his authorship public.
Lewis continued to raise Gresham's two sons after her death. Douglas Gresham is an active Christian and remains involved in the affairs of the Lewis estate, while David Gresham returned to his mother's original Jewish faith. The two brothers are now estranged .
Media coverage of his death was almost completely overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day, as did the death of Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. This coincidence was the inspiration for Peter Kreeft's book Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley .
C. S. Lewis is commemorated on 22 November in the church calendar of the Episcopal Church.
Lewis was a prolific writer, and his circle of literary friends became an informal discussion society known as the "Inklings", including J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and his brother Warnie Lewis. At Oxford he was the tutor of, among many other undergraduates, poet John Betjeman, critic Kenneth Tynan, mystic Bede Griffiths, and Sufi scholar Martin Lings. Curiously, the religious and conservative Betjeman detested Lewis, whereas the anti-Establishment Tynan retained a life-long admiration for him .
Of Tolkien, Lewis writes in Surprised by Joy:
When I began teaching for the English Faculty, I made two other friends, both Christians (these queer people seemed now to pop up on every side) who were later to give me much help in getting over the last stile. They were H.V.V. Dyson … and J.R.R. Tolkien. Friendship with the latter marked the breakdown of two old prejudices. At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both.
In a footnote of the biography D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith 1939 – 1981 by Iain Murray, Murray notes the following: "Lewis is said to have valued ML-J's appreciation and encouragement when the early edition of his Pilgrim's Regress was not selling well. Vincent Lloyd-Jones and Lewis knew each other well, being contemporaries at Oxford. ML-J met the author again and they had a long conversation when they found both themselves on the same boat to Ireland in 1953. On the later occasion, to the question, 'When are you going to write another book?', Lewis replied, 'When I understand the meaning of prayer.'"
This last was based on the series of lectures Lewis had given at Durham University in 1943, designed to counter what he saw as a movement in contemporary literature and thought to de-humanise man. Lewis stayed in Durham, where he was overwhelmed by the cathedral. That Hideous Strength is in fact set in the environs of a university of a similar size to that of Durham ('Edgestow'), though Lewis notes in his preface to the book that this is the only resemblance between the two universities.
It is claimed that Lewis began another science-fiction novel, The Dark Tower, but it is unfinished; it is not clear whether it was intended as part of the same series as the completed novels. The manuscript was eventually published in 1977, though controversy persists about its authenticity.
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children and is considered a classic of children's literature. Written between 1949 and 1954 and illustrated by Pauline Baynes, the series is Lewis' most popular work having sold over 100 million copies in forty-one languages . It has been adapted several times, complete or in part, for radio, television, stage, and cinema. The series has been published in several different orders, and the preferred reading order for the series is often debated among fans; Douglas Gresham has stated that Lewis preferred that they be read in "Narnian chronology", not the order in which they were published .
The books contain many allusions to Christian ideas which are easily accessible to younger readers; however, the books are not weighty, and can be read for their adventure, colour, and richness of ideas alone. Because of this, they have become favourites of children and adults, Christians and non-Christians. In addition to Christian themes, Lewis also borrows characters from Greek and Roman mythology as well as traditional British and Irish fairy tales. Lewis reportedly based his depiction of Narnia on the geography and scenery of the Mourne Mountains and "that part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough" . Lewis cited George MacDonald's Christian fairy tales as an influence in writing the series.
Before Lewis's conversion to Christianity, he published two books: Spirits in Bondage, a collection of poems, and Dymer, a single narrative poem. Both were published under the pen name Clive Hamilton.
Lewis was very much interested in presenting a reasonable case for the truth of Christianity. Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, and Miracles were all concerned, to one degree or another, with refuting popular objections to Christianity, such as "How could a good God allow pain to exist in the world?". He also became known as a popular lecturer and broadcaster, and some of his writing (including much of Mere Christianity) originated as scripts for radio talks or lectures .
According to George Sayer, a 1948 loss in a debate with Elizabeth Anscombe led to his reevaluating his role as an apologist and his future works concentrated on devotional literature and children's books. Anscombe had a different recollection of the debate's emotional effect on Lewis. Victor Reppert also disputes Sayer, listing some of Lewis post-1948 apologetic publications, including the second and revised edition of his Miracles in 1960.
Lewis also wrote an autobiography titled Surprised by Joy, which places special emphasis on his own conversion. (It was written before he met his wife, Joy Gresham; the title of the book came from the first line of a poem by William Wordsworth.) His essays and public speeches on Christian belief, many of which were collected in God in the Dock and The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, remain popular today.
His most famous works, the Chronicles of Narnia, contain many strong Christian messages and are often considered allegory. Lewis, an expert on the subject of allegory, maintained that the books were not allegory, and preferred to call the Christian aspects of them "suppositional". As Lewis wrote in a letter to a Mrs. Hook in December 1958:
If Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair [a character in The Pilgrim's Progress] represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
This appeared at a time when scholars such as Albert Schweitzer and Rudolf Bultmann had portrayed Jesus' miracles and resurrection as myths. The concept that Jesus was not God but a wise man had gained ground in academic circles. In accepting the premise that Jesus had claimed divinity, Lewis was contradicting a viewpoint, popularized by H. G. Wells in his Outline of History, that Jesus had made no such claim.
This argument, which Lewis did not invent but developed and popularised, is sometimes referred to as "Lewis' trilemma". It has been used by the Christian apologist Josh McDowell in his book More Than a Carpenter . Although widely repeated in Christian apologetic literature, it has been largely ignored by professional theologians and biblical scholars.
Lewis' Christian apologetics, and this argument in particular, have been widely criticized. Philosopher John Beversluis in C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (1985, rev. 2007) described Lewis's arguments as "textually careless and theologically unreliable". John Hick, writing in 1993, states that New Testament scholars do not today support the view that Jesus claimed to be God. The Anglican bishop N. T. Wright commented that the 'trilemma' argument "doesn't work as history, and it backfires dangerously when historical critics question his reading of the Gospels.
Lewis used a similar structure in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when Professor Kirke advises the young heroes that their sister's claims of a magical world must logically be taken as either lies, madness, or truth.
These then are the two points that I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.Lewis also portrays Universal Morality in his works of fiction. In The Chronicles of Narnia he describes Universal Morality as the "Deep magic" which everyone knew.
In the second chapter of Mere Christianity Lewis recognizes that "many people find it difficult to understand what this Law of Human Nature [...] is". And he responds first to the idea "that the Moral Law is simply our herd instinct" and second to the idea "that the Moral Law is simply a social convention". In responding to the second idea Lewis notes that people often complain that one set of moral ideas is better than another, but that this actually argues for there existing some "Real Morality" to which they are comparing other moralities. Finally he notes that sometimes differences in moral codes are exaggerated by people who confuse differences in beliefs about morality with differences in beliefs about facts:
I have met people who exaggerate the differences, because they have not distinguished between differences of morality and differences of belief about facts. For example, one man said to me, "Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the Rule of Human Nature or Right Conduct?" But surely the reason we do not execute witches is that we do not believe there are such things. If we did — if we really thought that there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbours or drive them mad or bring bad weather, surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did. There is no difference of moral principle here: the difference is simply about matter of fact. It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there. You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
Lewis continues to attract a wide readership. Readers of his fiction are often unaware of what Lewis considered the Christian themes of his works. His Christian apologetics are read and quoted by followers of a wide range of religious denominations, including Catholics and Mormons .
Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, a few of which were written by some of his close friends, such as Roger Lancelyn Green and George Sayer. In 1985 the screenplay Shadowlands by William Nicholson, dramatizing Lewis's life and relationship with Joy Davidman Gresham, was aired on British TV (starring Joss Ackland as Lewis and Claire Bloom as Joy). In 1989 this was staged as a theatre play (starring Nigel Hawthorne) and in 1993 Shadowlands became a feature film, starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis and Debra Winger as Joy. In 2005, a one hour made for TV movie entitled C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia (starring Anton Rodgers) provided a general synopsis of Lewis's life.
Many books have been inspired by Lewis, including A Severe Mercy by his correspondent and friend Sheldon Vanauken. The Chronicles of Narnia have been particularly influential. Modern children's literature such as Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter have been more or less influenced by Lewis' series . Pullman, an atheist and so fierce a critic of Lewis' work as to be dubbed "the anti-Lewis, considers him a negative influence and has accused Lewis of featuring religious propaganda, misogyny, racism, and emotional sadism in his books. Authors of adult fantasy literature such as Tim Powers have also testified to being influenced by Lewis' work.
Most of Lewis' posthumous work has been edited by his literary executor, Walter Hooper. An independent Lewis scholar, the late Kathryn Lindskoog, argued that Hooper's scholarship is not reliable and that he has made false statements and attributed forged works to Lewis . C. S. Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham, denies the forgery claims, saying that "The whole controversy thing was engineered for very personal reasons... Her fanciful theories have been pretty thoroughly discredited." .
A bronze statue of Lewis' character, Digory, from The Magician's Nephew, stands in Belfast's Holywood Arches in front of the Holywood Road Library .
Lewis was strongly opposed to the creation of live-action versions of his works. His major concern was that the anthropomorphic animal characters "when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare". This was said in the context of the 1950s, when technology would not allow the special effects required to make a coherent, robust film version of Narnia.
The song "The Earth Will Shake" performed by Thrice is based on one of his poems, and the band Sixpence None the Richer are named after a passage in Mere Christianity. The Great Divorce has served as the inspiration for at least three pieces of music: a string quartet piece entitled The Great Divorce by Matt Slocum of Sixpence None the Richer, the song "The High Countries" by Caedmon's Call on their album Back Home, and Phil Woodward's 2007 rock album Ghosts and Spirits New Zealand Christian singer-songwriter Brooke Fraser also included a song entitled "C. S. Lewis Song" in her latest album "Albertine" which contains passages from his writing. Christian alternative rock band Poor Old Lu are so named because of a sentence in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Another alternative rock band, Future of Forestry, got its name from Lewis's poem The Future of Forestry. 2nd Chapter of Acts recorded an album entitled The Roar of Love, inspired by the first of the Narnia stories. British band The Waterboys quoted from the final Narnia book, The Last Battle, in their 1984 song "Church Not Made with Hands". Later, on their 1990 album Room to Roam, The Waterboys included a song entitled "Further Up, Further In", the title taken from the penultimate chapter of The Last Battle. Also, Joni Mitchell included a song titled "The Dawntreader" on her album, "Song to a Seagull."
The 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was based on his first installment in the Narnia series. Film adaptations have been made of two other books he wrote: Prince Caspian (released on 16 May 2008) and Voyage of the Dawn Treader (to be released on 7 May 2010).
Several C. S. Lewis Societies exist around the world, including one which was founded in Oxford in 1982 to discuss papers on the life and works of Lewis and the other Inklings, and generally appreciate all things Lewisian. His name is also used by a variety of Christian organizations, often with a concern for maintaining conservative Christian values in education or literary studies.


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Casey Snook, a 14-year-old girl from England, unknowingly racked up a $6,000 phone bill by uploading photos to Facebook while on vacation in New York City, according to a story published Friday in the New York Post.
During the five-day trip with her mother, Kate Snook, Casey snapped photos of the Empire State Building, Times Square, Grand Central Station, and Central Park. Eager to share her travels with her friends, she uploaded the photos to Facebook. But since Casey hadn't blocked her "data roaming" function, all that time spent on the Internet added up.
According to the Post, the family only found out about the phone bill only when Casey's father, Victor (whose name was on the cell phone account), called Kate to tell her that the UK phone company Orange had made a massive withdrawal on his bank account.
The Post reports that Kate and Victor have arranged a payment plan to settle the bill but claim that Orange didn't provide their daughter with a clear warning signal that she was incurring such charges or attempt to contact Victor. Says Kate, "I can't believe that a company would let a bill which is usually [$75] get up to that level," said Kate.
an Orange rep wrote:
"We know our customers want to use their smartphones while on holiday without the worry of a big bill at the end. That's why we offer a number of services, such as roaming bundles, which allow travelers to use data overseas and control the cost. All Orange customers have a number of protections in place — customers are even automatically opted-in to a roaming data cap, which limits their charges to £49 ($74) for a set amount of data. Customers receive warning texts to alert them of their data usage and we have an app that helps them monitor data usage, and opt in to a data bundle if needed. The customer received numerous text alerts, which updated them on the roaming costs for the USA, and also updated them on their data usage. Once they had reached the limit of their data bundle, the customer actively opted out of our roaming data cap so that they could continue to use data, effectively removing the inbuilt protection from large data roaming bills."
"If you know for sure that you won't be using your phone, simply turn off your phone's roaming data by clicking on "Settings," "General,""Cellular," and "Data Roaming Off."


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Donald Greene teaches at Hillsborough Community College and heâs written a new book called THIRD PARTY MATTERS (Praeger). In it he outlines the history of third parties, how they've affected the outcome of presidential elections, and how they influenced the two major parties.
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Looks like Old Navy is looking to shed its image as a fleecy family outfitter. In today's WWD, Old Navy says it wants to share "big fashion ideas" and target more fashion-forward twenty-somethings.
As a somewhat fashion-forward twenty-something, my interest in piqued, but I'm a little suspicious. Hasn't Gap Inc., the Old Navy parent company, told us time and time again they were revamping with a more fashionable image?
But according to executives a new marketting campaign with more stylish celebs and models will be just the beginning, ON also plans faster turnover, wardrobe-building pieces, store renovations and a new logo.
A new spring collection and marketting campaign that transition toward the new image will be presented this week.
"Spring is a pivotal point, but this is really just a beginning," Old Navy president Dawn Robertson told WWD. "We are far from arrived."
This first collection for February will feature an urban safari look with African prints, safari suiting, lots of khaki (nothing new there), red and prints. Next up in March a Palm Beachy collection of brights and whites, followed by a surfer-styled look for April. This will all lead up to a tropical collection for May and a glitzy vibe in June, to coincide with Old Navy's sponsorship of the MTV Music Awards.
I'm not sure if an alliance with MTV is really the way to win an older, more fashionable crowd, but whatever.


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|Understanding Your Air Box and Filter
|Written by Jacqueline Shipe
|Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:15
Your engine needs a reliable, clean air source to provide the air needed to support combustion. This process is allowed with the induction system, which transports air through a filter and on to a carburetor or fuel injection servo. From there, it travels through the intake pipes to each individual cylinder. However, dirty or unfiltered air can cause problems, which is why maintenance to the carburetor air box and air filter is so vital.
Carburetor Air Boxes
There is probably no other section of the induction system that needs as much regular maintenance as the air filter and carburetor box. The aluminum structure that houses the air filter usually attaches to the cowling, the engine mount, or directly to the carburetor. They are subjected to a lot of vibration, because they are connected in some fashion to the cowling and the engine. The carburetor heat flapper valve or the alternate air door also operates at least once every flight, often multiple times, and the moving parts wear with use.
Spots Prone to Wear
The flapper valve in the carburetor air boxes generally consists of a flat piece of aluminum with sealing material extending out around the edges. The valve is attached to a steel shaft. Older-model air boxes had the flapper valve attached to the top of the shaft. This caused the valve to be sucked up against the outlet hole that feeds air to the engine if the valve ever loosened and came off the shaft. This would close off the air source to the engine. Newer models come with the valve attached to the underside of the shaft to prevent this.
The shaft is held in place with two bearing assemblies, which are connected to each side of the box. An arm on the shaft itself provides a connection for the carburetor heat cable. These items not only wear from continuous vibration during flight, they also wear each time the carb heat is pulled on and pushed off. As the sealing material erodes, it can leave large gaps where air can seep in around the sides, making the carburetor heat less effective when it is on and allowing some hot air in even when the cable is pushed off. This hot air is unfiltered, plus it can cause the engine to have a richer-than-normal mixture, because the hotter air is thinner. Both of these situations are bad for you and your aircraft.
The box itself is also subject to wear. The flanges where the scat hoses are connected vibrate, which causes them to occasionally become loose or chaff holes in the metal. Also, several areas on the box are subject to cracks. Care needs to be taken when patching the box to be sure that no fasteners are extending through to where the flapper valve seals. Fasteners or pieces of metal that become loose over time can get sucked into the engine, so this area is in need of regular inspections. Alternate air mechanisms are not used as often as the carb heat is, but they still wear.
The boxes can be very costly to replace completely, depending on the model. The parts to rebuild the complete mechanism are expensive, as well. Fortunately, some companies make several replacement parts for the boxes that are much more reasonably priced than the factory parts.
Air Filter Replacement Requirements
The air filter element needs to be replaced periodically. The sponge-type filters in the Brackett assemblies are required to be replaced every 12 months or 100 hours. They may need replacement more often in dusty conditions. The front surface can be brushed off if a small amount of dust is on it, but the element can't be submersed in anything to be cleaned. Any paper induction air filter has a required replacement time of 500 hours, per airworthiness directive (AD) 84-26-02. Inspection of the element is required on every 100-hour and annual inspection.
Fabric Air Filters
There are new air filters that are made of neither paper nor sponge material but, instead, are made of fabric. These are called Challenger filters, and they have to be treated periodically with a special spray from K&N. Challenger Aviation states that these filters allow nearly 50 percent more airflow than paper filters and 60 percent more airflow than the sponge-type filters. This gives a slight increase in horsepower (two to four percent). These filters have to be cleaned with a special cleaning agent and must also be recharged every 100 hours or annually (or more often when in dusty conditions). They can be serviced up to 25 times over 2,500 hours before replacement is required.
ADs for Brackett Air Filter Assemblies
The Brackett air filter assemblies are the most widely used and are, for the most part, pretty reliable, although there are a couple of ADs on some of them. AD 81-15-03 calls for the replacement of the assemblies with an aluminum retaining screen and inspection for a gasket retainer. AD 96-09-06 requires installation of a gasket-retaining strip on certain assemblies to allow operation up to 500 hours and then calls for a complete replacement of the assemblies with a new type that is manufactured with the gasket-retaining lip from the manufacturer. AD 2002-26-03 calls for inspection for a retaining screen on the downstream side and installation of one if it's not there. This one applies to the Cessna 206 and 210 models.
Backfiring in the Induction System
The backfiring that can occur in an induction system while the airplane is being started can severely damage the element. There are times when there can actually be a fire in the carb air box that is undetected, because it is extinguished once the airplane starts. A sponge-type filter that is exposed to this will look eroded on the surface. Paper filters look blackened on the inside. Filter elements should be replaced if a fire has occurred.
Breathe EasyDespite the fact that maintenance on the carburetor air box and air filter is imperative, the work involved is fairly simple. The most time-consuming part is often the periodic examining of the system. A little maintenance on the induction system can help you and your engine breathe easier.


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World Trade Organisation Rule In Favour of US – China to Appeal
Yesterday is was revealed that The World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruled in favour of the USA's decision to impose the extra duty tax – which President Barack Obama put in place last year – on the import of Chinese tyres.
On the BBC website yesterday, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, was quoted as saying, "this is a major victory for the United States and particularly for American workers and businesses. We have said all along that our imposition of duties on Chinese tyres was fully consistent with our WTO obligations.
"It is significant that the WTO panel has agreed with us, on all grounds."
The main reason behind the US government's decision to add such a duty was due to the fact – the claimed – that the import of tyres made in China had more than doubled over the previous four years. This came at the same time that US production dropped by a quarter and saw around 15% of people working within the tyre manufacturing industry lose their jobs.
Following the WTO ruling however, representatives from China have already released a statement indicating that they plan to appeal. Once again, the BBC website this morning quoted officials from Beijing as saying they "regretted the ruling" and were "deeply concerned" about the potential impact of the decision.
This comes as a counter claim made by China has estimated that due to the US tariffs, their tyre industry is set to lose over £630 million and cost 100,000 workers their jobs.


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The lakeside spa, on 240 hilly acres near the intersection of U.S. 101 and Highway 46 East, is a great place to relax after wine tasting or festival-going. Soak in a private indoor or outdoor hot tub fed by natural mineral springs, or indulge in a massage or facial.
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The ambiance is amazing... tucked back in nature, you pass a lake as head to the very end of the long driveway where the spa building awaits you! They offer massages and facials and hotstone and wraps... Very friendly staff welcome you as you are guided to a beautiful locker room where they give you a robe and a towel and disposable flip flops. Most of their services come with a half an hour complimentary warm mineral spa in one of their private
open air patio mineral spas. My friend and I had what they call the winemaker's package early in the morning so instead of wine we were offered mimosas which they served us on a silver platter which we thought was a nice touch! We sat in our own open air hot "clean but smelly" tub of minerals for an hour and then went to our hour massages. Heaven. The two women at the front desk fell all over themselves suggesting different hotels and restaurants in the area and were so helpful. We ended up staying just down the street at La Quinta and ate at Chicos near the park in downtown... It was so good we went back twice. It was just down the street from the movie theater so we walked over and took in a current movie which was a great way to end the day after stopping in at a few tasting rooms ALL within walking distance in downtown! Paso Robles is the next Carmel!
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myself and 6 other friends booked spa treatments well in advance. When we arrived we were treated with an attitude of 2 ladies rolling their eyes at us while checking us in. Not much of an introduction given to acculmate one to the spa. Good massage, reasonably priced, however since there were 7 of us spa manager promised a comp fruit platter that she did not deliver. When I asked about it she just said sorry I forgot. No quiet room, only the lobby
if not having a treatment or sitting in the mineral tub. Finally we found the tubs dirty and the first one had a dead frog in it. Sent letter to owner who wasn't interested in my comments. Would not go back.
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Well just as I expected. Oldham County had two middle school cross country teams that won at state and there was only a small mention and the teams were labeled wrong. Not a big surprise.
Oldham County had close to 400 runners compete at Masterson Station Park on Oct. 26 with over 400 runners in some races. Our athletes represented Kentucky and our county against some 3,000 runners from across the state and The Era can't even distinguish between a boys team and a girls team.
In response to comments made regarding the La Grange City tax, I would like to put my 1% in! I do not live in the La Grange City limits but unfortunately work within the city limits. However I do live in Oldham County.
When we vote for elected officials such as President, Senators,etc., we vote for who we think will do the best for us as citizens of the United States. I have that right and I am very thankful for that.
La Grange city council recently passed new consumer fireworks regulations and fees. The reason cited was that state law now allows more and larger devices to be used. This reason is disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst.
While my best friend was designing her "signature scent" in a fancy parfumerie in Covent Garden, I was next door at the cookie shop, deciding between Double Chocolate Chunk and Raspberry Macadamia. Actually, I knew I would choose Double Chocolate Chunk, but I took my time because designing a signature scent takes forever.
Finally, she emerged smelling nearly as delicious as the cookie I was wolfing down. Holding up a small vial, she explained, "They store the formula, so, I can purchase more in the future!"
There is a reason that freedom of speech is the first amendment to the United States Constitution. It is because we are really the only country that has such unfettered freedom.
As is so frequently and eloquently pointed out by my friend Saddique Malik in various articles in the Courier Journal concerning Muslim fundamentalism – "free debate is a death-knell for fundamentalism." … "it's the freedom, stupid"
An effort by the Oldham County Sheriff's Department and the Oldham County Police on October 26th to remove prescription drugs from circulation in Oldham County was a big success.
In partnership with the DEA, the agencies took in a combined eighty three pounds of unused and expired prescription drugs, pills, liquids and creams. Three hundred used and unused syringes were also turned in.
What human act am I describing? Our body performs "rhythmic, vocalized, expiratory and involuntary actions."
Fifteen facial muscles contract and there is electrical stimulation of the zygomatic major muscle. That's the muscle that extends from each cheekbone to the corners of the mouth. This raises the corners of the mouth. Currents of varying intensity produce a wide range of facial responses.
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Area woman's story proves importance of screening
October 12, 2010 in The Daily Republic
STICKNEY It had been three years since Cindy Sperlich went in for a mammogram.
A friend urged Sperlich, now 52, of Stickney, to attend a free screening from the Avera Queen of Peace Cancer Center, so she went. It was February 2007.
"She kept on me until I said I'd go," she said.
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If you have questions about NHL 16 or the EA SPORTS NHL franchise this is the place to get answers.
NHL 16 delivers new features across the most played single player & team modes, gameplay innovation at every position and an unrivalled game day authenticity.
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Saturday, July 7th, Nonito Donaire (28-1) will face off against Jeffrey Mathebula (26-3), in defense of his WBO junior featherweight title. Donaire vs Mathebula Live The bout will be televised on HBO and should provide Donaire with the opportunity to gain momentum within the junior featherweight division.
Donaire vs Mathebula Live Donaire's promotional team, Top Rank Promotions, has a lot invested in the success of Donaire and will be looking to set him up for mega fights against the likes of Abner Mares, Orlando Solido, Juan Manuel Lopez, and Yuriorkis Gamboa.
Donaire vs Mathebula Live However, Donaire must continue to put together impressive victories in order to get the significant payday opportunities that he is seeking. Donaire vs Mathebula Live Donaire has stated that he feels he is a pay-per-view fighter and in order to create such a demand Donaire must look incredibly impressive as it is difficult to create such a demand within the lower weight classes.
Donaire vs Mathebula Live Stream This coming July 7, The Filipino Flash Nonito Donaire will defend his IBF Super Bantamweight title against South Africa's Jeffrey Mathebula. The venue of the fight is in Home Depot Center, Carson, CA USA. The Donaire vs Mathebula fight is a unification bout in the Super Bantamweight division where it will determine if who is the top fighter in this division.
Donaire vs Mathebula Live Stream The fight will be televised live in HBO PPV so that boxing fans can see the fight live. See also the fight live at the Home Depot Center, Carson, California. You can also see the fight live online via Donaire vs Mathebula live streaming.
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Watch Donaire vs Mathebula Online Free. This July 7, 2012 Nonito Donaire will fight to Jeffrey Mathebula at Home Depot Center, Carson, California, USA. So, are you willing again to watch the Donaire style for boxing punch power? Donaire vs Mathebula Live
WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire expects IBF champion Jeffrey "Mongoose" Mathebula of South Africa to stand and fight when they clash in a unification title bout at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California on July 8, Manila Time.
Donaire vs Mathebula Live Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said "the video we've seen of Mathebula shows he is a fighter that engages. He comes to fight."
Donaire vs Mathebula Live Mathebula has said he plans to use his height and reach advantage in the fight which has apparently made Donaire's manager Cameron Dunkin very nervous. Donaire vs Mathebula Live Stream
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1/2 yard burnt orange fleece
1/4 yard white fleece
1/4 yard black fleece
1 foot red fleece
2 shiny, eye-like buttons
1/4 yard of half inch foam sheeting
Sewing machine (optional, it can be sewed by hand also)
Sewing needle
Sewing pins
Matching burnt orange thread
White thread
Marker or fabric chalk
The estimates on fabric may be a little generous. We reduced the amount from what we had purchased because we had enough to make a small skulk (group of foxes). If you have extra material, you could always make more foxes. They are social creatures after all!
Step 2: Preparing the pattern
The dashed thick black lines indicate parts of the patten that need to be taped together. The pieces are labeled, so it's not hard to figure out. When everything is cut out and assembled, it's time to move on to tracing the pattern.
I used Faux fur and safety eyes to make one based on your pattern! His name is Wolf Weezl (as named by my 4 year old)
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Manuel Baptista Chivonde Nito Alves, the 17-year-old detained in Luanda since 12 September, began a hunger strike on Sunday, November 3.
His health has been deteriorating in the 54 days that he has been held in custody with no formal charge.
Journalist and human rights defender Rafael Marques de Morais has sent an urgent appeal regarding Nito Alves to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights and to the African Union Human and People's Rights Commission.
"Nito Alves is being detained in an illegal manner and is being subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment in violation of national and international law. I therefore call upon these international institutions to press Angola, as a member state, to free the young man immediately," Marques said.
The Angolan National Police kept Nito Alves in solitary confinement for about three weeks. During that time, prison guards threatened to kill him and the police did not allow him contact with his family. Nito Alves has still not been formally charged and his lawyers have not had access to his case file.
In his appeal to the international organisations, Marques also drew attention to Nito Alves's deteriorating health, as a result of the insanitary conditions in which he is being held. He has received no medical attention.
Marques says the illegal detention and the cruel treatment to which Nito Alves has been subjected are politically motivated. The youth was detained for allegedly ordering the printing of 20 t-shirts with the slogan "José Eduardo out! Disgusting dictator." He has been the target of political persecution since 2011, when, aged 15, he stared to express opinions openly against the regime of President José Eduardo dos Santos.
Other groups have sought to defend Nito Alves since his detention in September. The Angolan Bloco Democrático (BD) party has launched a campaign under the slogan "let Nito attend his school exams". The teenager is in the eleventh grade and risks failing the school year. The BD youth launched the campaign on Sunday with a candlelit demonstration in Luanda's Largo Primeiro de Maio square, calling on the authorities to let Nito Alves attend the school exams that started this week.
Amnesty International has launched an international campaign, calling on its members to write to President dos Santos to demand the immediate and unconditional release of Nito Alves. The news websites Maka Angola and Club-K and the Angolan human rights law centre Mãos Livres are circulating a public petition demanding his release.
Member of the European Parliament Ana Gomes also has also taken up Nito Alves' case. On 17 October she wrote to the chairman of the European Commission, Durão Barroso, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton. In her letter she asked if the EU delegation in Angola had visited Nito Alves in prison and if the European authorities had put any pressure on the Angolan government to free the teenager.


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September 14, 2008
BRAND NEW BLOG Slide Show and the Now YUDU IT! Challenge
Liz published this at 10:37 am
A Time Line of Digital Publishing Buzz
Four weeks ago I tried to break WordPress here by releasing a blog post every minute to showcase 260 of your blogs. That event got the attention of BlogDesignStudio, who said to me, "We'd like to offer to your readers 50 of our Edge, Premium Theme, to boost their blogs."
A new event came from the first.
Eleven days ago: We launched that event. It was called, That Brand New Blogging Feeling Event. Fifty participants each received a copy of the Edge WordPress Theme and a copy of my eBook The Secret to Writing a Successful Blog in return for submitting a photo with a caption describing the feeling of writing their first blog post.
I promised to compile the entries into a published whole.
Three nights ago, Tim Sanders and I were talking about the Responsibility Revolution happening in business. He spoke about green publishing which got me talking about the carbon free digital publishing platform I used to build the Brand New Blog slideshow.
Two days ago YUDU.com — that carbon free publisher, who now officially is my client — thought it was great idea when I said this a cool opportunity to sponsor a contest. So check out the slideshow of all your cool photos and captions on YUDU — where the site links actually link back from the photo pages.
But do remember to come back because what we have planned next is something also cool with cool prizes too.
OR click the link under the slideshow to see the ENLARGED version
in its natural habitat as two-page spreads.
I made this slideshow. Now it's your turn.
The folks I work with a YUDU are blogger friendly. When they heard about what I was doing they wanted to be a bigger part. We talked about the possibilites and the next thing you know we were defining
NOW YUDU IT! Challenge at
1pm 3pm Chgo Time Today
Start with a free YUDU account.
Get a chance to win a MacBook Air!
The TOP entry will get a US$180 professional acount at YUDU.com
Details will be on this blog at
1pm 3pm Chicago time today!
(See the clock in the sidebar to set your watch.)
Will you take the challenge?
C'mon, I did it. Now YUDU It!
If you would like a .png of the slide for your photo, you'll find in the flicker set.
–ME "Liz" Strauss
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15 Comments to "BRAND NEW BLOG Slide Show and the Now YUDU IT! Challenge"
September 14th, 2008 at 11:14 am
--Deb said
Liz, the slideshow is great! What a lot of work, and it looks fabulous. Chappy and I are honored to be in there (grin).
September 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Margaret said
I just went out back and told the frogboys that one of them got to bat cleanup in your slideshow at #50. Thanks for a fun contest, and great prizes.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Amy Derby said
I love it!!!
September 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Deb!
It was work of love. I so enjoyed solving the problems of getting all of the photos to go together in just the right way. 😉
Chappy looks wonderful in that photo. A sailor dog for sure.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Amy!
I'm a fan of the people who sent in the photos. I feel like I got to know each of you even more by doing this.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
schizo said
wow.as usual.
*kicks himself for not having sent in his cation*
September 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Now YUDU It! to Win a YUDU PLUS Account or maybe a MacBook Air! - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You're only a stranger once. said
[…] slideshow of the Brand New Blog Feeling went up earlier this afternoon. It was a thrill making it, because as I worked with captions and […]
September 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Schizo!
It would have been fun to see what you added to the mix! Next time you'll be here. Then I'll know.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:09 am
pelf said
Thank you for putting together such an awesome slideshow 😀
September 15th, 2008 at 6:24 am
ME Liz Strauss said
Hi Pelf,
Your page is up at flickr too if you want a copy of just that one.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
scatterbrain said
You did an amazing job with the slide show Liz. I'm enjoying your e-book as well.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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Good news for all our clients who can't make it to our shop during the week. Because starting this weekend, you can visit the Gamegear store between 14:00 and 18:00. We noticed...
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Tuesday 09 December, 2014
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Monday 28 April, 2014
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Friday 11 October, 2013
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Thursday 25 April, 2013
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In the weekend of 7-8-9 September it will be time for Gameland 2012 at Bobbejaanland. For 3 days we will transform the themepark into Gameland . Next to 55 themepark attractions, you'll find the latest games, gadgets and hardware all of the park. ...
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Sunday 03 June, 2012
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Thursday 15 March, 2012
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Wednesday 21 September, 2011
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Wednesday 29 June, 2011
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Saturday 18 June, 2011
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Thursday 16 June, 2011
Yes yes, after months of waiting he's here: the full blown wireless surround headset for the Xbox360/PC by Razer. Earlier this year we got to enjoy the stereo edtion called 'T2', but now we also have the big brother in stock.
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Tuesday 07 June, 2011
After a long day of press conferences (Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Sony), I`m happy to give it all in a nutshell: Modern Warfare 3 looks awesome, Microsoft will shove the Knect down your throat and will integrate it in every game. Personally: it`s not...
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Earlier this year, controversial blonde pundit Ann Coulter joked about putting rat poison in Justice John Paul Stevens's creme brulee.
Did Coulter give someone an idea? Check out this story, from the Star-Telegram of Forth Worth:
When federal appellate Judge Danny Boggs said at a Friday legal conference at Las Colinas that physical assaults aimed at judges have come mainly from "the deranged," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor underscored the safety concerns.
"Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, the staff decided to analyze them," she recounted. "Each one contained enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court."
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But we must call out Justice O'Connor for exaggerating the seriousness of the threat. It seems the ol' cowgirl is playing fast and loose with the record. As reported by SCOTUS press corps diva Linda Greenhouse:
The danger posed by the packages was immediately apparent. Each contained a typewritten letter stating either, "I am going to kill you," or, "We are going to kill you," and adding, "This is poisoned."
Supreme Court justices get accused of many things. But illiteracy is not usually among them.
Moreover, Justice O'Connor's casual statement of "I don't know why, the staff decided to analyze them" — implying the deadly treats came thisclose to reaching supreme judicial lips — is misleading. Again, per the Queen Bee:
All mail received at the Supreme Court is screened, and the tainted packages never reached the justices, said Kathleen Arberg, the court's public information officer.
So it's not that easy to poison a Supreme Court justice. Furthermore, even if the poisoned food somehow makes it past the initial screening, to reach a justice's chambers, success is still not guaranteed. Why? In addition to their other duties, some Supreme Court clerks serve as food tasters for their bosses.
Finally, we fail to see how Justice O'Connor's tale of the poisoned baked goods refutes Judge Boggs's point that most threats against judges comes from "the deranged." Clearly Barbara Joan March, who sent the poisoned packages to the Supreme Court — accompanied by notes that helpfully disclosed their toxic nature — is not a right-thinking person. At the very least, she's not the most sane, nor the most intelligent, resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Justice Recalls Treats Laced With Poison [New York Times]
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Is winning so here is why..... My husband said he wants to seperate from me so yes we are done I moved out, but I didn't want this at all he did. It's killing me inside that I have to go through this pain. He told me there is no chances anymore this is it the end for us but I don't wanna give up I wanna try harder and harder and harder :((( Uhg my heart is in so much pain.
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He has made this decision for you, so I think the best path forward is to accept the situation and take care of YOUR needs. If, after some space you guys reunite then all very well .. if not, then you will have good foundations to build a good life for YOU. Start writing a new chapter sister ..
I so feel for you! I feel this is the worse pain ever; twisting and turning you inside, and if that is not enough, it even tries to suffocate you. I hope you find that inward strength to endure it, unlike me-I spun completely out of control, I could not bare up under it. I became more transfixed towards meth, anything that took the reality away, numbing the pain.
Thankfully, the years (as Faust said) have passed, and have faded the intensity, but the damage is still there. The damage I cannot seem to heal, which has destroyed a greater happiness I can have with another man; some red flag always goes up, even if there is no cause-my mind goes way too far so it can protect me from ever feeling this pain again.
My thoughts are with you!
A few years back my wife just flat out left me, so I can totally feel your pain. It was really, really hard for me to get over it, and sometimes I don't really have, and this happened like, five or six years ago. Its one of those pains that fades in its intensity by still lingers. I wish I could say more, but when it was me, there was nothing anyone could say to make it stop hurting. And I've never been very good at applying verbal band-aids.


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