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BMW working on concept credit card key fob

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- 19 hours and 48 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tech/" rel="tag"Tech/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/bmw/" rel="tag"BMW/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203231/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051188_opt.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res gallery of the BMW credit card key fob/small/strong/embr //div br /This is not the first time we've heard that BMW is developing a more efficient way to lose both your car keys and credit card information, and now more details have emerged about its multifunction smart key. The Smart Key, which contains a security chip that can talk to a card reader over short distances, may start out with a smaller function set than it ultimately ends up with as the technology matures. Storing access passes for public transportation and information to facilitate electronic payments are two abilities that BMW feels will eventually appeal to consumers, for instance. More interestingly, the key can be used to carry your personal preferences from car to car like a dongle. Owners would have the fob personalized to their ConnectedDrive preferences, which would then make those options available in any BMW, not just the owner's personal car. It's a novel way to ensure that your favorite radio stations and other services travel with you, provided you always insist on a BMW.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/"BMW credit card key fob/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203231/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051188_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203230/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051189_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203229/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051190_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203228/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051191_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-credit-card-key-fob/1203227/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/p0051192_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: BMW via a href="http://www.4wheelsnews.com/bmw-reveals-multi-functional-smart-key/"4 Wheels news/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/bmw-working-on-concept-credit-card-key-fob/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBMW working on concept credit card key fob/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/bmw-working-on-concept-credit-card-key-fob/"BMW working on concept credit card key fob/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:43:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/bmw-working-on-concept-credit-card-key-fob/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1381986/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/bmw-working-on-concept-credit-card-key-fob/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2oWc0UrwoVlQFCay8r9aOb2bVGE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2oWc0UrwoVlQFCay8r9aOb2bVGE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ru9A4l7e"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ru9A4l7e" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=VHMaWlsQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=VHMaWlsQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/SbVLwb3hXxQ" height="1" width="1"/

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Jamie Lynn Spears ready to sue over liposuction rumors

The Superficial - Because You're Ugly

- 21 hours and 1 minutes ago

img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1204 Jamie Lynn shopping/post_image/post_image-1204_jamie_lynn_shopping_00.jpg" border="0"br Jamie Lynn Spears is ready to sue some asses over reports that she had liposuction performed while pregnant, according to a href="http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/04/jamie-lynn-lipo-big-fat-lies/"TMZ/a: blockquoteWe're told the story is "100% NOT true" -- that Jamie Lynn has never had lipo and would "never in her life" do anything like it./blockquote I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess the story in question is this little item from a href="http://www.starmagazine.com/jamie_lynn_spears_liposuction/news/14920"Star/a. I should solve crimes: blockquoteJamie Lynn had just finished her hit Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 when she found the weight piling on. Not realizing she was expecting, she pleaded with her mom, Lynne Spears, to let her get liposuction, says a source.br "She didn't know she was pregnant when she filled out the health questionnaire prior to the procedure," a second source reveals. "Her mom approved the injections and went through tons of red tape to get the clinic to administer them to an underage patient."/blockquote Look, I'm sure the Spears family isn't that stupid to confuse pregnancy with getting fat. - - On second thought, this totally happened, but with one exception: They used a Wet Vac in the garage. emFOOSH!/em "Mama, I's skinny 'gain! Huh. Why's this here vacuum got a bay-bee in it alls a sudden? That ain't right..." div style="width: 425px; margin: 0 0 0 30px; padding: 0;"ul style="list-style-type: none; display: block; width: 425px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"li style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/jamie_lynn_spears_ready_to_sue.php" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1204 Jamie Lynn shopping/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1204_jamie_lynn_shopping_00.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/jamie_lynn_spears_ready_to_sue.php?bfm_index=1" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1204 Jamie Lynn shopping/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1204_jamie_lynn_shopping_01.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/jamie_lynn_spears_ready_to_sue.php?bfm_index=2" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1204 Jamie Lynn shopping/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1204_jamie_lynn_shopping_02.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/lili style="display: block; float: left; width: 90px; height: 134px; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/12/jamie_lynn_spears_ready_to_sue.php?bfm_index=3" style="display: block; width: 90px; height: 134px; background: #CCC; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; padding: 0;"img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/12/1204 Jamie Lynn shopping/gallery_thumb/gallery_thumb-1204_jamie_lynn_shopping_03.jpg" style="display: block; border: 1px solid #cccccc; width: 88px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/a/li/uldiv style="clear: left;"/div/div div class = "credit"Photos: a href="http://www.pacificcoastnewsonline.com"Pacific Coast News/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Xn4bG2-kh9O6u13EGloOU0pUEOU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Xn4bG2-kh9O6u13EGloOU0pUEOU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thesuperficial/SNxk/~4/S0EIhrpAmvg" height="1" width="1"/

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Fixing Accountability

Life is a street car named Desire

- 21 hours and 7 minutes ago

What about Navy?

The Navy Chief Admiral Suresh Mehta has launched a war against the media. Heavens knows that Indian media sucks and Barkha Dutt is the one of the worst example of hyper-ventilating dumb journalists this country has seen. But, even then, Admira Mehta’s comments–blaming everyone but himself and his force–are a classic example of passing the buck.

Let’s see what Navy has done:

a) There is a media war currently on between the intelligence sources and the Navy–both blaming each-other for the attacks. It seems, though,Â that the Intelligence did give some sort of warning which Navy either ignored or was too inept to act on it. Admiral Mehta blames it on systematic failure conveniently ignoring his own culpability.

b) According to a report in DNA, the Navy wanted a written request from the Chief Secretary before sending its Marine Commandos (MarCos) for operations. A request from Mumbai Police was not good enough. So, at the time of national emergency, Navy wanted its paperwork to be perfectly in order. Excellent. Please note: NSG was still on its way and there was no other force with similar expertise, training, and weapons as MarCos.

c) While the operations were currently on, J.S Bedi, Western Naval Chief, appeared on television with all the evidence his MARCOS had uncovered. To reiterate, while the operations were still on. While the entire security establishment deserves a kick on their backside for attempting to claim credit while NSG was still fighting the terrorists (Sukarshan thakur suggests in the Telegraph that media was invited to watch Nariman House operation–was this a fucking beauty show?), the Navy took it to another level by parading its MARCOS before the media. As many have pointed out, special forces should not address the media. Worse, they should not reveal operational details. It was pathetic. It was an attempt to explain why they had not been able to hit any terrorist after engaging them thrice. That makes it even more pathetic. If you have failed, go back and learn. Don’t offer explanations and excuses. Admit that you were not good enough. And again, go back and learn.

d) Here is perhaps the most explosive details,

In the end, the Maharashtra chief secretary had to prepare a letter and fax it to the navy. The marine commandos finally reached the hotels some two hours after the terrorists seized them. But they refused to go inside on the plea that they were not trained for such operations. They stayed outside, firing intermittently at the hotels while the terrorists moved around freely inside, killing at will.[link]

I don’t know how true this. I don’t trust the editorial standards of the Indian media. It also directly contradicts what MARCOS claimed about engaging the terrorists.

But if it is true, I cannot think of any other explanation except cowardice. If an unarmed cop refused to fight terrorists, it would be perfectly understandable. Committing suicide benefits know one. But some of the India’s best trained and best armed troops refused to fight terrorists in a moment of national emergency (once again, if it is true) is an inexcusable and unforgivable act of cowardice and dereliction of duty. I hope the media pursues this story to its logical conclusion and we get all the facts. Because Mumbai attack will not be the last time. And those unwilling to fight for India should be stripped of their uniforms; they don’t deserve to wear one.

Will it be too much to expect Admiral Mehta will go back and look at the state of his own forces. If this shameful conduct does not call for a full and impartial enquiry, then what will?

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Tories sack 10% of party HQ staff as credit crunch bites

Guardian Unlimited

- 22 hours and 29 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/40522?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Tories+sack+10%25+of+party+HQ+staff+as+credit+crunch+bitesch=Politicsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Conservatives%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CPolitics%2CUK+newsc5=Credit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=David+Henckec7=2008_12_04c8=1128982c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Conservativesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FConservatives" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Conservative party is making more than 10% of its staff at party headquarters redundant as a direct result of the economic downturn, guardian.co.uk can reveal./ppThe casualties include members of the party's policy section, which provides research and ideas for the next general election manifesto./ppThe decision follows a slackening off in donations as the global financial crisis bites. Some 24 staff at the party's Millbank headquarters were told on Monday that they could be made redundant. /ppIn a separate move the party is also closing the arm's-length Constituency Campaigning Services â€“ based in Coleshill Manor, in the West Midlands â€“ which provides campaigning material and acts as a call centre for constituency parties. Some 40 people there have been declared redundant./ppThe two divisions bearing the brunt of the redundancies in London are the party's external affairs and policy units, which are in effect being run down. A third division, the party's business relations department, was also facing closure, but sources say the department has been saved by a big Tory donor, Alan Lewis, chair of the Hartley Investment Trust and a former treasurer of the party, who agreed to bankroll all the staff. /ppThis department has links with two key Tory organisations, Conservative City Circle and Conservative City Future, and has strong links with the City of London. /ppIt is chaired by the MP Richard Spring, the vice chair of the party with special responsibility for business and entrepreneurship, and advises George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, on small business issues./ppThe decision to slim down the policy section some 17 months before the last date of an election is a surprise. The section writes and researches draft policy for the party â€“ and works closely with Oliver Letwin, the former shadow chancellor appointed by David Cameron to head the party's policy review. /ppThe West Dorset MP is also, alongside Cameron, a former member of the party's policy unit, after working closely with Margaret Thatcher. /ppThe external affairs department is run by George Eustace, David Cameron's former press secretary, and liaised with Christian and Muslim groups and local party associations. Sources said yesterday that Eustace was not one of the people to be sacked./ppMost of the staff facing the sack are footsoldiers, brought in to strengthen the party's work to win the next general election. /ppNone of the highly paid big hitters, including former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, the party's director of communications and planning, and marketing guru Steve Hilton, the director of strategy who is still helping the leader while working from California, are affected. /ppNor is the party's communications directorate or any of the departments bankrolled by Lord Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the party, including the campaigning section./ppThe changes have been initiated by Andrew Feldman, the new chief executive of the Tory party, with the backing of Giles Inglis-Jones, the party's head of human resources. /ppThe closure of CCS, funded by millionaire Tory donors, comes after the political funding watchdog the Electoral Commission cleared the organisation of being controlled by the Conservative party. Registered as a body independent of the Tories, it has received nearly £2m in donations since 2004, mainly from the Midlands Industrial Council, a Tory funding body, whose members include Robert Edmiston, a car importer and property developer. /ppIt had been under investigation for two years by the Electoral Commission after the Labour party complained that it was really part of the Conservative party and was subsidising campaigning in marginal seats by millions of pounds. /ppThe Electoral Commission did a U-turn in the middle of the investigation. Its initial findings, sent to David Wall, chair of both the CCS board and of its main donor, the MIC, said the commission believed the centre was "heavily subsidised"./ppLisa Klein, the director of party and election finance at the Electoral Commission, says in the letter (seen by the Guardian): "There may have been under-reporting of donations and election expenses by candidates, agents and the Conservative party accounting units who have benefited from the subsidised rates. These potential breaches are of concern to the commission, as the rules on donation reporting are fundamental to the transparency of party and election finance in the UK."/ppA Conservative party spokesman said: "The Conservative party was in discussion with the Electoral Commission in early 2008. These were clearly initial views prior to full information being provided and before a full investigation had been completed. The Electoral Commission has since concluded that CCS's charged rates were comparable to commercial rates. On this basis there is no evidence that donations should have been declared by the party and the commission decided to take no further action."/ppHe said: "Ahead of elections next year the Conservative party will be setting up an in-house campaign centre, which will coordinate the party's campaigning work across the West Midlands."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/conservatives"Conservatives/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/apyr8aPAaXZmzqIjGuEDCMQfNQo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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IMVOCAL.com - Give Your IM A Phone Number

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- 23 hours and 25 minutes ago

br /What it doesbr /br /In a nutshell, IMVOCAL is a solution that enables any mobile or phone user to dial into an Internet user without having to download any tool or application or pay anything. Basically, all you have to do is create an account and choose a 9-digit unique Internet call-in identifier. This becomes your VOCAL ID phone number, and from that point onwards any friend can call you and even leave a voice mail in the event you are not online. br brThis service has the added advantage of letting you be reachable without having to reveal your telephone number, so if there is a need for secrecy this service will do just fine for you. br brMoreover, a flash “call me” widget can be easily created and placed on blogs and related online resources to be instantly reachable. br brAs far as the supported countries go, these include the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and several Asian territories. It will be interesting to see which ones are added next. If you have any thoughts on that respect, make sure to drop the team a line and let them know. brbr /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“IMVOCAL lets you connect with friends, relatives, service providers and business colleagues all the time protecting your online identity.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is a solution that takes advantage of the latest advances in the field of communication and puts them to ready use.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /What information has to be furnished when creating an account? How do you choose the VOCAL ID number itself?br /br /Link: a href='http://www.imvocal.com'http://www.imvocal.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/imvocal-com-give-your-im-a-phone-number'http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/imvocal-com-give-your-im-a-phone-number/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=46PDEUf0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=5GRL1Tur"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=3jjQzlKW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=3jjQzlKW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=xfqjebdG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=xfqjebdG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=ynW9UJP4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=vxnouEM2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=vxnouEM2" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/_rLnDIeCun4" height="1" width="1"/

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Reading Classics - Mere Christianity (I)

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- 1 days ago

pHere we are, at the beginning of another round of Reading Classics Together. In the past months we've read four great Christian classics--emHoliness/em by J.C. Ryle, emOvercoming Sin and Temptation/em by John Owen, emThe Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross/em by A.W. Pink and emThe Religious Affections/em by Jonathan Edwards. And now we add to the list emMere Christianity/em by C.S. Lewis. I trust that this will be a slightly easier read than Edwards, whose great work we finished just a few weeks ago./p pIf you are interested in joining in this effort, please feel free to do so. Simply buy, borrow or download a copy of emMere Christianity/em and start reading. Our assigned reading for this week was nothing more than the Preface and Foreword, so you will not be far behind. Every week we will read a portion of the book and then return here on Thursdays to enjoy a little bit of discussion. It's a good, easy way of making your way through some of the classics of the Christian faith./p h2Discussion/h2 pThis week's reading was, by design, very simple. To help set the stage for the book, we read just the Preface and Foreword. Essentially, we learned a little bit about the book's genesis and Lewis' rationale for writing it. And, of course, we learned what he meant by the term "Mere Christianity."/p pLewis wastes no time discussing the book's origins. "The contents of this book were first given on the air, and then published in three separate parts as emBroadcast Talks/em (1942), emChristian Behaviour/em (1943) and emBeyond Personality/em (1944)." The book has been adapted slightly to fit the print medium, but is otherwise consistent with what he taught over the radio. In the Foreword, Kathleen Norris provides further context by setting these messages in the midst of the Second World War, in a day when people were asking questions about the nature and existence of God. Lewis "gave talks to men in the Royal Air Force, who knew that after just thirteen bombing missions, most of them would be declared dead or missing. Their situation prompted Lewis to speak about the problems of suffering, pain, and evil, work that resulted in his being invited by the BBC to give a series of wartime broadcasts on Christian faith." This is not a work of academic philosophy but a work of oral literature, delivered to people at war./p pIn the Preface, Lewis addresses the inevitable question of "what is mere Christianity?". He says it is "the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times." While he does not hide his own Anglicanism, he says that he will not be arguing for one particular denomination. Nor will he concern himself with issues of secondary importance since, as he says, these tend to fracture rather than divide and are not very useful for purposes of apologetics. "I am not writing to expound something I would call 'my religion,' but to expound 'mere' Christianity, which is what it is and what it was long before I was born and whether I like it or not." /p pNorris writes this: "The 'mere' Christianity of C.S. Lewis is not a philosophy or even a theology that may be considered, argued, and put away in a book on a shelf. It is a way of life, one that challenges us always to remember, as Lewis once stated, that 'there are no ordinary people' and that 'it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit.' Once we tune ourselves to this reality, Lewis believes, we open ourselves to imaginatively transform our lives in such a way that evil diminishes and good prevails. It is what Christ asked of us in taking on our humanity, sanctifying our flesh, and asking us in turn to reveal God to one another."/p pAnd so mere Christianity is the essence of the Christian faith--those beliefs that have been held in common by all true Christians through all of the church's history. And on that basis, I think we are ready to move forward, knowing what it is that Lewis hopes to accomplish through the book./p h2Next Week/h2 pFor next week, let's read Book I. It's not as bad as it sounds. There are five short chapters that together come in at less than 30 pages (which together are probably easier to read than 5 pages of Edwards or Owen!). I think this section is best read as a unit so we'll treat it in that fashion. So read those pages and come back here next Thursday!/p h2Your Turn/h2 pThe purpose of this program is to read these classics emtogether/em. So if there is something you'd like to share about what you read, please feel free to do so. You can leave a comment or a link to your blog and we'll make this a collaborative effort./pbr /strongSponsor:/strongbr /a href="http://www.rpmissions.com"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/RPMissions.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=1B1NO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=1B1NO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=3lvbo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=3lvbo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=nyqlo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=nyqlo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/474692906" height="1" width="1"/

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quot;Two people emerged from the ship, a man and his wife. .. Mrs. Wise immediately called for a doctor to look after the woman... The husband and wife were shown to Room 8, where the woman's condition continued to deteriorate... Eventually, the husband summoned the doctor, hotel staff and even the owner’s wife to Room 8 to ask a very unusual request: He asked that everyone present bswear an oath never to reveal their identities./bquot; So, begins and essentially ends Alexandria Virginia's a href="http://subvatican.com/femalestranger.html"mystery of the Female Stranger/a. br / The woman died and the man with her commissioned an elaborate tombstone which still sits in a href="http://oha.alexandriava.gov/oha-main/oha-cemeteries-wilkes.html#12"St. Pauls Episcopal Church Cemetery/a. The tombstone he commissioned reads:br / br / To the memory of abr / FEMALE STRANGERbr / whose mortal sufferings terminatedbr / on the 14th day of October 1816br / Aged 23 years and 8 monthsbr / br / This stone was placed here by her disconsolatebr / Husband in whose arms she sighed out herbr / latest breath and who under Godbr / did his utmost even to soothe the coldbr / dead ear of death.br / br / How loved how valued once avails thee notbr / To Whom related or by whom begotbr / A heap of dust alone remains of theebr / Tis all though art and all the proud shall bebr / br / To him gave all the Prophets witness thatbr / through his name whosoever believeth inbr / him shall receive remission of sinsbr / Acts. 10th Chap. 43rd verse”br / br / Was she a href="http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_online_exhibits/postcard/stranger.html"royalty/a? The a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosia_Burr_Alston"daughter of Aaron Burr/a? None of the people sworn to secrecy ever broke their oath.

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