Hi all you readers,
I want to thank all the people who have read the book and given me valuable feedback.
Every now and then I look on Internet to see what is being said about her death and I always find something new which interests me. This time I read that the amount of alcohol found in her driver´s blood (according to French officials of the investigation) would have been enough for him to be swaying,have slurred speech and definately clear enough for Mr. Layfayett not to let him drive his car. Here is some of the facts published;
Driver was legally drunk
A spokesman at the Ritz described Paul as an experienced driver who had received special security training from Mercedes-Benz at a centre in Germany. She said he had experience handling armoured vehicles.
A judicial source, which asked not to be identified, said Paul had a blood-alcohol level of 1.75 grams per litre of blood -- well over France's legal limit of 0.5 grams and the equivalent of a blood-alcohol reading of .175 percent in the United States.
According to France's National Association for the Prevention of Alcoholism, Paul's alcohol level was the equivalent of drinking nine shots of whiskey in rapid succession, or nearly 11 ounces.
Different concentrations of alcohol in the human body have different effects on the subject.
The following lists the effects of alcohol on the body, depending on the blood alcohol concentration (BAC). However, tolerance varies considerably between individuals, as does individual response to a given dosage; the effects of alcohol differ widely between people. Hence, BAC percentages are just estimates used for illustrative purposes.
Euphoria (BAC = 0.03 to 0.12%).
overall improvement in mood and possible euphoria.
increased self-confidence and courage
increased sociability
shortened attention span
flushed appearance
inhibited judgment. See:
impaired fine muscle coordination, such as writing or signing their name.
Lethargy (BAC = 0.09 to 0.25%)
sedation
impaired memory and comprehension
delayed reactions
ataxia; balance difficulty; walking is not stable.
blurred vision; other senses may be impaired
Confusion (BAC = 0.18 to 0.30%)
Profound confusion
Increased ataxia; Dizziness and staggering occur; speech is impaired
emotional lability
Impaired senses
Analgesia
Emesis (vomiting)
Stupor (BAC = 0.25 to 0.40%)
Severe ataxia
Lapses in and out of consciousness.
Unconsciousness
Anterograde amnesia
Emesis
Respiratory depression (life-threatening)
Death may occur due to aspiration of vomit while unconscious
Urinary incontinence
Decreased heart rate
Coma (BAC = 0.35 to 0.50%)
Unconsciousness
Reflexes are depressed (i.e., pupils do not respond appropriately to changes in light).
Marked respiratory depression. Heart rate drops. Death usually occurs at levels in this range.
Interesting, no? This time I want to hear YOUR oppinions about if the driver was drunk.I will answer everyone who writes to me or posts a comment.
Well through the feedback I have had from readers I have decided to name all the characters to make it easier for you to write about the characters without having to go back to the book all the time to remember names. I know this can be frustrating.
THIN AIR CHARACTERS
Jacqueline Bonhomie -French nurse Works in the Pitie Salpetriere as an ambulance nurse
Andre Berquerel - French surgeon, Jacqueline’s boyfriend. Works in the Pitie Salpetriere
Jacques Robson al Besir - Anglo-Frenchman FBI double agent semi retired, Jacqueline’s neighbour
Bill Blaggot - English, mercenary involved with André and Humbert Patrice. A very dangerous character
Suzanne -French, Jacqueline’s friend. Works in the Pitie Salpetriere Divorced, mother of two, psychiatric problems Humbert Patrice - French, ex stuntman, bodyguard, and French Secret Service (DGSE) Now chauffer to a rich Arab
William Robson - American serviceman at the end of the Second world war. Jacque Robson al Besir´s biological father now USA senator
Mr. Fye -English MI6
Jean Bernard - French, gay, operational DGSE agent
Max Blansford -English, MI5 operational agent. Married to Jennah Smythe- Leighton
Major Smythe-Leighton - English, operational special missions department, usually terrorist, military field work. Jennah´s father
Jean Paul - French, ambulance driver
Pierre - French, ambulance doctor
David- Russian NKVD operational agent Jean Bernard’s lover
Dempsey - French, worked on and off for the French Intelligence department. Franco’s friend
Franco - French, chauffer Roger and Dempsey’s friend
Troy West-American FBI operational
Eugene Frank -American, FBI non-operational. A trainer, ex field worker
Now doing pre retirement office work. Specialist in terrorism.
A friend of Jacque Robson
Some of these characters will be very important in my next book about the burning of the Winsor Tower here in Madrid.
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Happy new year to all my readers
Happy new year to all my readers.
So on to chapter three. Why do you think the engagement ring meant so much to Diana?Post me you answers on the comments page or to my Thin_Air1@msn.com e-mail.
In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. Conventionally, the ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future marriage.
In some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is worn on the left-hand ring finger, while in other countries, such as Poland and Ukraine, it is customary for the ring to be worn on the right-hand. Similar traditions date back from an early usage reportedly referring to the fourth finger of the left hand as containing the vena amoris or "vein of love".
In some states of the United States, engagement rings are considered "conditional gifts" under the legal rules of property. This is an exception to the general rule that gifts cannot be revoked once properly given. In the United Kingdom, the gift of an engagement ring is presumed to be an absolute gift to the fiancée.
Dodi Fayed bought £11,000 engagement ring for Diana
The Guardian, Friday 19 October 2007
Article history by Stephne Bates
· Visit to jeweller's hours before couple's fatal crash · Princess was never given purchase, inquest jury told
Dodi Fayed, the son of the Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, did buy Princess Diana an £11,600 engagement ring a few hours before the couple's death in the Paris crash in 1997, though he had no chance to give it to her, the inquest jury heard yesterday.
The jury, sitting in the high court, was shown grainy CCTV footage from the Repossi jeweller's shop, across the square from the Ritz hotel in Paris, taken the afternoon before the crash. It showed Dodi Fayed, who was not accompanied by the princess, surrounded by staff as he inspected rings before leaving with a brochure.
Later footage showed Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel, visiting the shop and taking an item in a bag to the couple's room in the hotel's Imperial suite. The bag was deposited in the hotel strongroom before the couple went to Dodi's flat elsewhere in the city.
A ring bearing the inscription "Dis-moi Oui" ("Tell me Yes") was recovered from the flat after the couple's death. A receipt dated August 30 1997, the day before the crash, listing a "bague de fiançaille" (engagement ring), was also recovered.
Happy reading
So on to chapter three. Why do you think the engagement ring meant so much to Diana?Post me you answers on the comments page or to my Thin_Air1@msn.com e-mail.
In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. Conventionally, the ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future marriage.
In some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is worn on the left-hand ring finger, while in other countries, such as Poland and Ukraine, it is customary for the ring to be worn on the right-hand. Similar traditions date back from an early usage reportedly referring to the fourth finger of the left hand as containing the vena amoris or "vein of love".
In some states of the United States, engagement rings are considered "conditional gifts" under the legal rules of property. This is an exception to the general rule that gifts cannot be revoked once properly given. In the United Kingdom, the gift of an engagement ring is presumed to be an absolute gift to the fiancée.
Dodi Fayed bought £11,000 engagement ring for Diana
The Guardian, Friday 19 October 2007
Article history by Stephne Bates
· Visit to jeweller's hours before couple's fatal crash · Princess was never given purchase, inquest jury told
Dodi Fayed, the son of the Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, did buy Princess Diana an £11,600 engagement ring a few hours before the couple's death in the Paris crash in 1997, though he had no chance to give it to her, the inquest jury heard yesterday.
The jury, sitting in the high court, was shown grainy CCTV footage from the Repossi jeweller's shop, across the square from the Ritz hotel in Paris, taken the afternoon before the crash. It showed Dodi Fayed, who was not accompanied by the princess, surrounded by staff as he inspected rings before leaving with a brochure.
Later footage showed Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel, visiting the shop and taking an item in a bag to the couple's room in the hotel's Imperial suite. The bag was deposited in the hotel strongroom before the couple went to Dodi's flat elsewhere in the city.
A ring bearing the inscription "Dis-moi Oui" ("Tell me Yes") was recovered from the flat after the couple's death. A receipt dated August 30 1997, the day before the crash, listing a "bague de fiançaille" (engagement ring), was also recovered.
Happy reading
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Chapter Two
This chapter is going to be focused on written work and opinions.
Do you think there were lots of affairs during the second world war between Americans and French women? How many single French women had American fathered babies during occupation by the American and allied forces?
Do you think Jacques father was typical, in so much that he recognised his son and wanted to marry her?
How do you think Mr. Robson’s American family felt about Jacques? Did they welcome him with open arms?
Tell me what you think of the double agent Jacques.
If you are good at drawing I would love your picture of Jacques. If you are not good at drawing please tell me which actor would make a good Jacques?
I wish to thank all the people who have bought my book and apologise for not getting back to this blog until now. Actually I am writing the film script of my book.
Do you think there were lots of affairs during the second world war between Americans and French women? How many single French women had American fathered babies during occupation by the American and allied forces?
Do you think Jacques father was typical, in so much that he recognised his son and wanted to marry her?
How do you think Mr. Robson’s American family felt about Jacques? Did they welcome him with open arms?
Tell me what you think of the double agent Jacques.
If you are good at drawing I would love your picture of Jacques. If you are not good at drawing please tell me which actor would make a good Jacques?
I wish to thank all the people who have bought my book and apologise for not getting back to this blog until now. Actually I am writing the film script of my book.
Monday, 31 August 2009
It is Diana´s aniversary today, 12 years have gone by
Lady Diana Spencer had been on holiday in Sardinia with her boyfriend and was killed in a traffic accident in Paris. Or was she? Maybe there was a conspiracy, or more than one, to kill her or make her dissapear.To Bill Blaggott it was just another job.To Mr. Fye a member of MI5 it was an operation. To Jacqueline Bonhomie it was the start of a disasterous day.
I would like to join in with this tribute
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I would like to join in with this tribute
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Sunday, 30 August 2009
Reading Comprehension Questions
Well Thin Air (ISBN 9781438995564.) is available now on Authorhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com
For those of you who have got a copy here goes the first lot of questions for
CHAPTER ONE
How did Jacqueline feel about waking up alone?
Tell me the sequence of events that happened when she woke up in the mornings.
What had happened to her boyfriend?
What was her boyfriend’s name?
Why do you think her boyfriend left her?
What was her boyfriend’s job?
What remedy did she use to prevent a nervous attack?
What did Jacqueline and her boyfriend sometimes do together with his laptop?
How did this make her feel?
Can you imagine Jacqueline?
Send me a drawing or photo of Jacqueline.
Did her boyfriend ask her to marry him?
Who was her street named after?
Do you know anything about this person?
How did he die?
What did she have for breakfast?
Who made it for her?
What is the nearest underground station to her house?
What did her work mates say to her about her rupture with her boyfriend?
What was the weather like in August of 1997?
What colours were in fashion that summer?
Where station did she get off at to go to work?
What was Jacqueline’s job?
Did she like it?
Why would you drop someone like a hot brick?
What do you think Jacqueline would have said to her boyfriend if she had bumped into him? Set the scene and write the dialogue.
Please answer the questions and post them on the blog. If you have any difficulty please e-mail them to me on Thin_Air1@msn.com
Enjoy
For those of you who have got a copy here goes the first lot of questions for
CHAPTER ONE
How did Jacqueline feel about waking up alone?
Tell me the sequence of events that happened when she woke up in the mornings.
What had happened to her boyfriend?
What was her boyfriend’s name?
Why do you think her boyfriend left her?
What was her boyfriend’s job?
What remedy did she use to prevent a nervous attack?
What did Jacqueline and her boyfriend sometimes do together with his laptop?
How did this make her feel?
Can you imagine Jacqueline?
Send me a drawing or photo of Jacqueline.
Did her boyfriend ask her to marry him?
Who was her street named after?
Do you know anything about this person?
How did he die?
What did she have for breakfast?
Who made it for her?
What is the nearest underground station to her house?
What did her work mates say to her about her rupture with her boyfriend?
What was the weather like in August of 1997?
What colours were in fashion that summer?
Where station did she get off at to go to work?
What was Jacqueline’s job?
Did she like it?
Why would you drop someone like a hot brick?
What do you think Jacqueline would have said to her boyfriend if she had bumped into him? Set the scene and write the dialogue.
Please answer the questions and post them on the blog. If you have any difficulty please e-mail them to me on Thin_Air1@msn.com
Enjoy
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Thin Air is on sale
Just as promised, right on scheduel, my book is now available on the authorhouse link above.
Also as promised here goe the listening comprehension questions for the video Who Killed Priincess Diana. If you haven´t already seen it click on
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2402759241963653626
have fun answering these questions;
1)What car were they traveling in?
2)Was another car involved?
3)Was an other vehicle involved?
4)What did Dodi´s father think?
5)What is the name of the tunnel?
6)What exam had Henri Paul taken three days before the accident?
7)Who were arrested after the accident?
8)Who had tapes of Diana´s telephone calls?
9)Who was going to be a victim of a similar accident in a tunnel?
10)Who did Diana fear?
Enjoy
Also as promised here goe the listening comprehension questions for the video Who Killed Priincess Diana. If you haven´t already seen it click on
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2402759241963653626
have fun answering these questions;
1)What car were they traveling in?
2)Was another car involved?
3)Was an other vehicle involved?
4)What did Dodi´s father think?
5)What is the name of the tunnel?
6)What exam had Henri Paul taken three days before the accident?
7)Who were arrested after the accident?
8)Who had tapes of Diana´s telephone calls?
9)Who was going to be a victim of a similar accident in a tunnel?
10)Who did Diana fear?
Enjoy
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