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House of Spies
By: Daniel Silva
Narrated by: George Guidall
Series: Gabriel Allon, Book 17
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
From Daniel Silva, the number one New York Times best-selling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal. She was his best-kept secret....
Daniel Silva delivers another winner
By Maine Knitter on 07-20-18
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation "since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond" ( Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
By Walter Glenn Viers on 07-18-16
The English Spy
Audie Award, Best Male Narrator, 2016. Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with 17 thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back - from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East.
By RBH on 07-31-15
The New Girl
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather ballet slippers were glossy and bright. She was proper, the new girl, modest. But there was something else about her.... At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful raven-haired girl who arrives each morning in a motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman.
George Guidell
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled listeners with 16 thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back - from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. His brilliant creation, Gabriel Allon - art restorer, assassin, spy - has joined the pantheon of great fictional secret agents, including George Smiley, Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Simon Templar.
If new to Daniel Silva, great book. Otherwise...
By Brian Corbin on 07-20-14
The English Girl
Gabriel Allon, Book 13
Daniel Silva delivers another spectacular thriller starring Gabriel Allon, The English Girl. When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems...and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth.…
Best Gabriel Allon novel for me so far
The Fallen Angel: Gabriel Allon, Book 12
After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter's Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome.
When will Gabriel retire?
By Audiophile on 07-23-12
Portrait of a Spy
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Haunted by his failure to stop a suicide bomber in London, Gabriel Allon is summoned to Washington and drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen who was once a paid CIA asset.
Superb New Volume in Silva's Gabriel Allon Series
By jb on 08-01-11
When Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel Allon is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the night of the pope's death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to Gabriel.
Unfortunately the last one
By Wade on 07-18-20
The Defector
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Six months after the blood-soaked conclusion of Moscow Rules, Allon is in Umbria, trying to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when a colleague pays him a shocking visit. The man who saved Allon's life in Moscow and was then resettled in England has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, and they blame Allon for planting him.
cliffhanger at the end???
By Douglas Nelson on 08-02-09
The Rembrandt Affair
Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife, Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem. And it is one only Gabriel can solve.
Get Set for an Action Ride
By Howard on 09-14-10
Moscow Rules
In the new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Secret Servant, the death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spy craft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now.
Pronunciation Rules
By William on 08-22-08
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican.
Well worth the time
By Dan on 07-29-08
The Secret Servant
Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst who also happened to be an asset of Israeli intelligence. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground.
One of the very best
Prince of Fire
Narrated by: Guerin Barry
Now Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history.
great book, horrible audio
By S. Davis on 06-05-08
A Death in Vienna
Narrated by: John Lee
Sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, the art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sidetracked by a photograph that throws his world upside-down. Could it really be the face of a man who during the last days of World War II had brutalized his mother on the Death March from Auschwitz?
Quite a Special Novel Indeed
By Adam on 04-12-04
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia's richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea's exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia's vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov's name off his kill list.
Disappointing. The run stops at 21 books.
By Kristine on 07-14-21
The Confessor
Detective Gabriel Allon returns in Daniel Silva's stunning thriller of ancient and modern betrayal, long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds that takes the listener from Munich to Venice to the Vatican.
good story but over rated
By Alexandra Salomon on 03-20-06
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new summer blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon.
A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva's runaway best seller The Black Widow was one of 2016's biggest novels. Now, in House of Spies, Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge - determined to hunt down the world's most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin.
Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London's glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread.
The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that the true source of Martel's enormous wealth is drugs. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction of the West. Together, under Gabriel's skilled hand, they will become an unlikely pair of heroes in the global war on terror.
Written in seductive and elegant prose, the story moves swiftly from the glamour of Saint-Tropez to the grit of Casablanca and, finally, to an electrifying climax that will leave listeners breathless.
But House of Spies is more than just riveting entertainment; it is a dazzling tale of avarice and redemption set against the backdrop of the great conflict of our times. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is "quite simply the best" (Kansas City Star).
©2017 Daniel Silva (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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What listeners say about House of Spies
The Hunt Continues
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Yes, very well written and interesting story.
Have you listened to any of George Guidall's other performances before? How does this one compare?
George is a master! All his performances are awesome!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
It's July again and that means the time has come for another Gabriel Allon adventure from the #1 New York Times Best-selling and award-winning thriller author Daniel Silva. This year's book is the 17th in this amazing series of thrillers and it's called House of Spies.
House of Spies comes on the heels of the highly successful The Black Widow and picks up four months after the events portrayed in that unputdownable work of fiction. Gabriel Allon and the supporting cast of much loved of characters are back for another heart pounding adventure in the treacherous world of espionage, terrorists, drug dealers and assassin's.
Gabriel is now head of the secret organization called The Office and he has to put an end to a series of terrorist attacks orchestrated all over the world by the elusive ISIS mastermind, Saladin. We've made Saladin's acquaintance in The Black Widow and after some unresolved dealings between him and The Office the chase continues with even more intensity in House of Spies. The plot moves swiftly from old London to celebrities filled Paris, from historical Israel to the powerful United States, from a peaceful village in Corsica to Morocco's dangerous Casablanca. We have trained spies, deadly special operators, unwilling accomplices, hateful terrorists, innocent victims and a very scary plot seemingly out of today's news…
Once you start reading, or listening, you won't want to stop! I finished Gabriel's latest adventure in just two listening sessions and and at the end I was left wanting for more!
House of Spies is brought to life as a great audiobook by one of the best actors, voice over artists and narrators in the Audiobooks Industry. His name is George Guidall and if you are familiar with the Audies Awards you'll probably remember that he won one Audie two years ago as Best Male Narrator of the Year for his performance of The English Spy: Gabriel Allon, book 15, also by Daniel Silva.
George Guidall delivers House of Spies in a calm, soothing and familiar cadence. He uses many different voices and always appropriate accents for all the characters and by doing so it keeps everyone clearly differentiated in the listener's mind. You will just know who is speaking by the French, Israeli, British or Arabic accents employed in his excellent performance. He is one of my favourites narrators of all times and in my mind he is Gabriel Allon, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Mitch Rapp and The Gunslinger from the Dark Tower series. It feels like I listened to George Guidall my entire life, although there are probably just 12 or 13 years, I love his reading style and I consider him part of my beloved family of narrators with whom I spend long and satisfying hours every day!
Daniel Silva is one of my favorite thriller and espionage authors and he continues to deliver great entertainment with his latest novel, House of Spies, which I highly recommend to everyone familiar with his works and to those who want a good thriller in the likes of Mark Greaney, Robert Ludlum Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn.
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Dr. Meggin McIntosh
YES! This is what I want and expect!
I have read or listened to every one of the books in this series. And this is why. There were a couple lately that weren't as good as previous ones but this one is definitely a 5 star. And there isn't enough to say about George Guidall...the perfect narrator. Perfect.
Coffeeforclosers
Same story since first Silvia book.
Weak premise. Last five books are a rehashing of Gabriel Alon's life. Need to be more creative rather than repeating same old thing.
Zara Altair
Lots of telling
Action interspersed among lots of telling. Overall it bogs. Even George Guidall's talented reading couldn't overcome the "telling" drag.
Good.. but was expecting more...
I always look forward to Silva and his "Gabriel Allon" series. This book for me was a little slow in getting into the heart of the book. All of the other books were of Gabriel doing what he does best...being a spy and doing the grunt work. Now he is more or less behind the desk which to me sort of takes the drama away...his mystique. Still enjoyed the book though.
I've heard much better, prefer older stories. For such an elusive enemy, Saladin was caught too easily...
R. Denton
Not Silva's best, but okay
If you could sum up House of Spies in three words, what would they be?
Recycled material throughout
If you've listened to books by Daniel Silva before, how does this one compare?
It's not in the top 5. It's okay and still entertaining, but is really full or materials and situations recycled from previous works. About the only real new material is the current situations around the world woven in.
What does George Guidall bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
George Guidall is one of my favorite performers. He has amazing range and an incredible array of voices. Always seems to get his timing and phrasing to match what is happening in the book. Once you have listened to a lot of his performances, you sometimes have to stop and think what book you are in. "Wait a minute, did the Cheyenne Nation just speak to Gabriel Allon?"
Not really. Mostly predictable, especially since using the same "setup" of house and personnel on the Riviera.
This has been a lengthy series, so it is inevitable that things will get recycled due to the nature of Gabriel Allon and his position, but I think Silva could have pushed the envelope a bit more.
Christopher Keller returns as Peter Morrow
Christopher Keller first showed up in Book 2 of the Gabriel Allon series as an Allon nemesis the English assassin living on Corsica and working for a crime boss. He returned as a lead character in Book 15 as the English spy not quite completely reformed. He returns again as a lead character in this novel, Book 17 in the series, this time as Peter Morrow a British espionage agent.
One of the things I like about Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series is the frequently reappearing characters. Archeologist and best surveillance artist ever Eli Lavon appears inmost of the Allon novels. London art dealer Julian Isherwood appears in many. Leader of The Office, and the man who recruited Gabriel Allon into Israeli intelligence, Ari Shamron appears in all as the wise old leader. Uzi Navolt appears in most of the series novels and is Allon's competitor to lead The Office when Shamron retires (he does lead for a while). Allon's tragic first wife Leah appears again and again. Chiara first appears as a member of Allon's team and is now his second wife. .Mikhail Abramov the good looking Russian Jew also called Gabriel without a conscience appears repeatedly as a team member. CIA agent Sarah Bancroft appear in several books as a member of Allon's team and became the long time girlfriend of Mikhail. Dina Sarid was injured by a Palestinian bomb before joining the office and is now an expert on terrorism. Rimona Stern, Shamron's niece, is an intelligene expert often assigned to the team. Then there is CIA operations director Adrian Carter and MI5 deputy Graham Seymour who often interface with Allon. There are several other repeating characters.
In House of Spies we find that Gabriel Allon has assumed the leadership of The Office and that he and his wife Chiara now have two young children. We also learn that even as head of The Office, Allon is still going to get his hands dirty; Gabriel does not stay in his office but actually leads the three nation team out to find and kill a terrorist who in intent on setting off a dirty bomb in London.
House of Spies is an outstanding espionage suspense novel and is a great addition to the Gabriel Allon series. George Guidall narrates superbly as usual.
No way to improve on Gabriel and the office
I have so come to love ALL of the regular characters in Daniel Silvia's novels. One of the marks of a great author (think john Grisham jack Higgins Jamie ford ) is the ability to keep the reader so interested without sexual scenes and profanity especially using the Lords name in vain I can't say this book was his best only because everyone is the best one I don't see how he can improve. The action is so thrilling I stay up late at nite listening. Note to Daniel Silvia: please don't let any of the main characters die as I have so much invested in them
Diana N
Another brilliant book by Daniel Silva!
Would you consider the audio edition of House of Spies to be better than the print version?
George Guidall is a wonderful reader and a master reading Daniel Silva's books. No wonder he's received 3 Audie Awards! I've been waiting for House of Spies for a whole year to follow Gabriel Allon's journey in becoming the head of the Mossad, and the sequel to The Black Widow. I'm loving this book and if you haven't entered in the world of Gabriel Allon yet, I recommend that you do. It's an adventure that spy thriller readers should not ever miss! Well done Mr. Silva! Again!
It's fun, thrilling and an eye opener to world geopolitics!
I don't want to stop listening to it.
Get it now! You won't regret it!


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U.S. Carries Out First Federal Execution in 17 Years
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The Justice Department has put to death Daniel Lee, 47, marking the first federal execution in 17 years, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against a last-minute attempt to halt the execution.
Lee had been convicted of killing three people, including a child, as part of a broader racketeering scheme to fund a white supremacist cause. He had waited more than 20 years on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Tata, JSW Steel plan massive capacity expansion to meet anticipated demand
Beefed up by strong set of numbers for the previous quarter and rising steel prices, JSW Steel yesterday announced that it will hike up its steel capacity by 37 per cent in the next two years.
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Beefed up by strong set of numbers for the previous quarter and rising steel prices, JSW Steel yesterday announced that it will hike up its steel capacity by 37 per cent in the next two years. Clearly, it does not intend to relinquish its position as India's largest steel maker to Tata Steel. The latter is now a strong contender for the title having recently got the NCLT's nod to acquire Bhushan Steel, barring further litigation challenges of course.
"We have decided to expand our capacity from 18 MT (million tonne) to 24.7 MT, which includes addition of one MT at Vijaynagar and 0.67 MT at Dolvi unit, and also expand our downstream projects by 2020," Seshagiri Rao, JSW Steel's joint managing director and group chief financial officer, told reporters while announcing a nearly two-fold rise in consolidated net profit (year-on-year0 to Rs 2,879 crore in the March quarter. "Looking at the domestic demand growth, we see a shortage of steel if we don't expand in the next two years," he added.
The Sajjan Jindal-led company had announced an overall estimated capex plan of Rs 26,815 crore last year. This is now expected to be enhanced by Rs 17,600 crore to implement new projects. "The company is now implementing a cumulative capex pipeline of Rs 44,415 crore by March 2020, of which it has already spent about Rs 4,700 crore in FY18," said Rao, adding that the projects are planned to be funded by a mix of debt of Rs 25,000 crore and internal accruals of around Rs 19,000 crore.
According to Bloomberg, Tata Steel, which returned to green in its Q4 FY18 results, also aims to double domestic capacity to 26 million tons in five years. The company has pegged capex at around Rs 8,000 crore for the current fiscal.
The reason both steel biggies are scaling up to record levels is the anticipated jump in domestic steel consumption on the back of the government push for infrastructure projects as well as strengthening consumer demand. Rao, for one, expects steel consumption in the country to grow by 7-7.5 per cent in FY19. According to him, the domestic growth outlook is improving as structural reforms are expected to increase productivity and incentivise investments.
Going forward, JSW Steel hopes that the 17 per cent growth in the automobile industry, 14 per cent in the appliances industry and infrastructure and housing sector growth will create huge demand for domestic steel players. In order to meet that demand, Tata Steel and JSW Steel are not only expanding their respective facilities but will also keep an eye out for more beleaguered assets going under the hammer.
Currently, Tata Steel is embroiled in a legal tussle with UK's Liberty House over Bhushan Power and Steel while JSW Steel is awaiting NCLT approval for Monnet Ispat and Energy (MIEL) acquisition.
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TC21: Casey Crescenzo – The Dear Hunter
Posted on 15th October 2015 14th July 2016 by Mark Fraser
The Curator Podcast: Episode 21 – Casey Crescenzo from The Dear Hunter
This podcast is primarily about creativity, and over the course of the past twenty episodes I've spoken to some pretty productive people. Casey Crescenzo is probably amongst the most productive. Over the course of ten years The Dear Hunter's oeuvre is as impressive in its scope as it is in its musical diversity, with their album/EP collection 'The Color Spectrum' comprising 36 songs all on its own.
Which is wonderful, because the genre hopping nature of their music is about is staggering as the sheer volume. As you'll find out when you listen to the podcast, Casey is the kind of guy who treats songwriting like a job and it's this approach which many productive artists seem to share in common, whether they're aware of it or not. Except, Casey is a super passionate and insightful guy, and is just so thankful that he gets to do what he does.
There's no lengthy story in this week's show notes about how I first got into The Dear Hunter. Instead, all I can offer is rumination on their music – it's deep, it's cinematic, it somehow feels weighty. How people classify progressive rock music is anyone's guess, but to me this just feels like epic rock music, and that's why I'm drawn to it. It's bursting with ideas, it's driven by a strong sense of narrative yet still somehow feels hugely personal.
They are, in just about every single way, the exact opposite of the punk rock that I grew up listening to. Except, their sound is more immediate than most prog bands. There's a peppiness to the melodies which means that hooks come thick and fast, and never leave your head.
The connotations of the very term "prog rock" and the diversity of that genre
He tries not to pigeonhole the sound because it can limit the creative scope
The music he grew up on sounds nothing like his band
Casey thinks that perhaps one of the reasons they aren't a huge band is because they aren't in a specific genre
Coming from a creative household and when Casey remembers wanting to be a guitar player/songwriter
When people who consider themselves high art conduct interviews like they're special, I never look at myself like that. I just think, this is a way for me to speak.
Parents being receptive to being a musician, but also being wary because they'd seen the pitfalls of being a career musician
His parents worry more about Casey when he does something different as opposed to worrying about the pressure of the work
"Do the thing that you believe you should do – don't worry about what they're going to think until it's too late"
"The moment when I worry about people think is when an album is finished, mastered and ready to go out"
On the fear of having your art accepted – "As a creative person it should only be self-expression, but that's the scariest thing: if you're doing it only out of self-expression, at some point it goes through a filter and becomes a product…and it's up to whoever buys it to think whatever they want about it."
Wanting people to take away something from a record that you put into it, and hoping that the opposite doesn't happen
Wanting to give people what they want after letting him do The Dear Hunter for ten years, but it doesn't have any bearing on what he's doing when he's doing it – only after the creation is complete does the hope and fear set in
It's taken a lot of hard work to find an audience for The Dear Hunter
It's good that there are musicians out there that still makes music that makes people think and isn't all about creating hits
Music as a product is okay, but it's a different world from the kind of world bands like The Dear Hunter operate in where people want music that provides them a little bit more
The discipline of creating music and treating it like work comes from his parents
The feeling of euphoria after completing a piece of work is worth any amount time or work
We chat about the graphic novel for Act I
How Kevin Pereira making the orchestra for Act IV happen
How Act IV is like the culmination of every element The Dear Hunter have incorporated into their sound
And a whole bunch more stuff!
Casey is a very open and honest guy, and his passion shines through in this interview. I hope you enjoy it.
The Dear Hunter – The Old Haunt
The Dear Hunter – Wait
The Dear Hunter – Ouroboros
'Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise' is available now through Equal Vison Records.
You can get it, and the rest of their discography, over here.
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Tracheal Transplant Brings High Hopes for Tissue Engineering
by Thomas R. Collins • November 1, 2009
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Without the transplant, the woman's hopes were dim. The only solution for this particular woman, who had both tracheal and bronchial compromise, was to take out her entire left lung and lower trachea and sew a stump of the right lung onto the bottom of the larynx, Dr. Birchall said. That has a 50 percent mortality rate, and the people who survive have very little functional capacity for the rest of their lives.
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When you try new things, he said, you need a little serendipity. The patient's mother had once turned down a new treatment for heart disease, but later died. For that reason, she was accepting, possibly, of something that had only previously been tried in pigs and mice, Dr. Birchall said.
Tracheal Transplant Tried
The center received ethical permissions from the Catalan Transplant Organization. And in March 2008, a human donor trachea was retrieved and treated with the detergent-enzymatic method for 25 cycles.
It was placed in the bioreactor with cartilage cells and epithelial cells from the patient, with hopes that the two would mix nicely. Both nasal and bronchial cells were tested for the epithelial cells. But the nasal cells actually grew too quickly, so the bronchial cells were used.
Doctors knew they still had the pneumonectomy as a last-ditch back-up measure if the specimen didn't turn out well. We didn't know what we were going to get, Dr. Birchall said. When we took it out of the bioreactor, it was beautiful.
The patient had her operation on June 12, 2008. The diseased bronchus was removed and replaced with the tissue-engineered trachea. The elasticity of the tissue allowed it to be fitted well to the larynx and the bronchi, he said.
While Dr. Birchall called it beautiful, he did admit it was pale because it wasn't vascularized, but that soon changed. There was not good mucociliary function for two months, but that also improved, he said.
The woman went home after 10 days but was breathing on her own in half that time. She could have gone home after five days, in fact, Dr. Birchall said. In a month, she had normal lung function.
Typically, if a graft is going to be rejected, a person's system develops antibodies to a graft within two months, but it's been a year for this patient. She's been on no immunosuppressant and never has been, he said.
Dr. Birchall is encouraged by the results but is careful not to get carried away. It's only one patient, he said. It's only by repeating this experience and incrementally getting it better and better that we will really prove whether this has any long-term prospects.
Small Steps Yield Large Gains
History has shown that little steps can end up yielding big gains.
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How can individuals benefit from this, and what questions should consumers be asking?
Though recent research has made significant headway in providing us with information about risk factors for and genetic links to various diseases, we are still quite a long way from being able to truly predict our medical future. That uncertainty, and the desire to decrease our risk of preventable diseases, drives many of us to embrace a healthy lifestyle—eating well and exercising to promote long-term health, seeking preventive medical care, and undergoing regular screening for cancer. The same desire to ensure against potential future health issues is also the motivation behind a recent surge in interest in adult stem cell collection.
There are two types of stem cells: embryonic and adult. Embryonic stem cells are found in early-stage embryos. They are undifferentiated, or immature, cells that have not yet developed into specialized body cells (blood cells, nerve cells, or muscle cells, for example) and have the ability to develop into almost any type of body cell.
Adult stem cells are also undifferentiated cells that can be found among differentiated, or specialized, cells within the tissues of the adult body and can develop into the cell type of the tissue in which they are found and, in some cases, can become specialized cells of a different tissue. These cells—found in the brain, bone marrow, peripheral blood, blood vessels, skeletal muscle, skin, teeth, heart, gut, liver, ovarian epithelium, and testes—maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found.
Why collect and store adult stem cells?
Until fairly recently, adult stem cells have been collected primarily for research purposes. Scientists study them to learn about the cells themselves and how they might be used to treat various diseases, to screen new drugs, and to study potential causes of birth defects.
The purpose of storing one's own adult stem cells through a specialized stem cell banking service is, obviously, more personal. Those who choose to do so are taking the step proactively, with the idea that, should they encounter specific healthcare challenges in the future, they would be able to use the stored cells to their own benefit.
Are there ethical issues surrounding adult stem cells?
While there has been controversy related to research conducted using embryonic stem cell lines because these cells are taken from a human embryo (created through in vitro fertilization), adult stem cells do not present the same ethical issues.
How are adult stem cells collected?
At NeoStem adult stem cells are collected from circulating blood. This means that an individual will first receive two injections of a stem cell mobilizing agent, which increases the number of stem cells in the bloodstream; then the stem cells are collected during a process similar to platelet donation, lasting three to four hours. The collected stem cells are then stored in a cryo-preservation tank. Normal activities can be resumed almost immediately after collection, and one should not lose any time from work.
What else should consumers know about adult stem cell banking?
Adult stem cell banking offers an opportunity to take a proactive step that will potentially provide medical benefit in the future, but there are no guarantees that people will use the cells they have banked or that their cells will be able to be used for future regenerative or other medical advances.
Adult stem cell collection is currently not covered by insurance, so the consumer pays for the collection and the storage.


The AfterAccesssurveys – recently launched in Bangladesh by a regional ICT policy think-tank, LIRNEasia– reveal important statistics regarding mobile and internet access and use in the country.
The AfterAccess surveys have revealed that by late 2017 only 13% of Bangladeshis aged 15-65 had EVER used the Internet and social media. This is despite 45% of the same age group owning an Internet-friendly device.
Recently I apprehended looming anarchy due to lack of regulatory clarity on blocking websites in Bangladesh. Evidently it has struck the country's popular online newspaper.
It was back in 2009 that I was criticized for saying that regulation based on an understanding of the operative Budget Telecom Network Model did not permit strict regulation of quality of service. It was also around then that we started focusing on taxes as a factor. That was repeated many times in Bangladesh by us, for example, when I outlined what needed to be done to achieve Digital Bangladesh. That these things have to be said again and again, indicates we have not been very effective. The national exchequer gets Tk 51 of every Tk 100 spent by a mobile user, leaving less money for the operators to develop network and run business smoothly, the GSMA said yesterday.
Mustafa Jabbar, the newly appointed minister for the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, cannot waste much time on receiving bouquets and greetings. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has offloaded this portfolio on him after unceremoniously ejecting her veteran comrade in October 2014. Since then Hasina had been minding this ministry besides discharging her prime ministerial duties. She depended on two junior ministers – Zunaid Ahmed Palak for Information Technology and Tarana Halim for Posts and Telecommunications – to run the show. It had been a poor show and Jabbar must fix it.
When we discovered that Nepal had only spent 2.6 percent of the universal-service funds it had collected since 1997, we were shocked. No government could do worse, we thought. But we were wrong. The Bangladesh government's disbursement rate is much easier to calculate.
A senior UN official has blamed the telecoms networks for threatening the road safety across Asia and the United States of America.
When I was working for the government of Bangladesh I was given a free Teletalk SIM. I wanted to use it. Who doesn't like free stuff? I tried. Since I spent a lot of time at the Secretariat, I managed to actually make some calls.
The second submarine cable is supposed to guarantee Bangladesh better international connectivity for the following reasons: Bangladeshi ISPs are eager for SEA-ME-WE5, the second submarine cable. It lands at Kuakata, the southwestern coastal village, this year. Kuakata is 300 nautical miles away from Cox's Bazar. The two vastly located undersea cable landing facilities will bolster the country's international connectivity. They will also salvage Bangladeshi ISPs from the Indian carriers' oligopoly.
India cannot advance from 1st place. So they should be happy about their place in the AT Kearney Index. Just a few years ago, I was asking what the Government of Bangladesh could do to get on the Index. Not only are they on it, they are advancing. Sri Lanka can be happy about advancing 3 places.


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Q: friend LinkedQueue; expected a declaration I am very new to C++. I was working through following example from here. I am getting expected a declaration error in line friend LinkedQueue<T>;. My understanding is that I need to use a statement like friend TYPE LinkedQueue<T>;. Is the code posted on the website wrong?
C++ program to implement Queue using Linked Representation
#include <iostream.h>
template<class T>
class Node
{
    friend LinkedQueue<T>;
    private:
    T data;
    Node<T> *link;
};
template<class T>
class LinkedQueue {
    public:
        LinkedQueue() {front = rear = 0;} // constructor
        ~LinkedQueue(); // destructor
        int IsEmpty() const
        {return ((front) ? 0 : 1);}
        T First() const; // return first element
        T Last() const; // return last element
        LinkedQueue<T>& Add(const T& x);
        LinkedQueue<T>& Delete(T& x);
    private:
        Node<T> *front;  // pointer to first node
        Node<T> *rear;   // pointer to last node
};

    template<class T>
LinkedQueue<T>::~LinkedQueue()
{// Queue destructor.  Delete all nodes.
    Node<T> *next;
    while (front) {
        next = front->link;
        delete front;
        front = next;
    }
}
template<class T>
T LinkedQueue<T>::First() const
{
    if (IsEmpty())   { cout<<"OutOfBounds()";  return -1; };
    return front->data;
}
template<class T>
T LinkedQueue<T>::Last() const
{
    if (IsEmpty()) { cout<<"OutOfBounds()";    return -1; };
    return rear->data;
}
    template<class T>
LinkedQueue<T>& LinkedQueue<T>::Add(const T& x)
{
    Node<T> *p = new Node<T>;
    p->data = x;
    p->link = 0;
    if (front) rear->link = p;  // queue not empty
    else front = p;             // queue empty
    rear = p;
    return *this;
}
    template<class T>
LinkedQueue<T>& LinkedQueue<T>::Delete(T& x)
{
    if (IsEmpty()) {  cout<<"OutOfBounds()"; return *this; };
    x = front->data;
    Node<T> *p = front;
    front = front->link;
    delete p;
    return *this;
}
void main(void)
{
    LinkedQueue<int> Q;
    int x;
    Q.Add(1).Add(2).Add(3).Add(4);
    cout << "No queue add failed" << endl;
    cout << "Queue is now 1234" << endl;
    Q.Delete(x);
    cout << "Deleted " << x << endl;
    cout << Q.First() << " is at front" << endl;
    cout << Q.Last() << " is at end" << endl;
    Q.Delete(x);
    cout << "Deleted " << x << endl;
    Q.Delete(x);
    cout << "Deleted " << x << endl;
    Q.Delete(x);
    cout << "Deleted " << x << endl;
    cout << "No queue delete failed " << endl;
}

Thanks.

A: You have to declare class LinkedQueue somewhere before class Node.
Use forward declaration like this:
template<class T>
class LinkedQueue; // forward declaration

template<class T>
class Node
{
    // definition ...
};

template<class T>
class LinkedQueue {
    // definition ...
};

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The Average Salary of Cell Phone Tower Climber
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General Maintenance ... $36,940/year /> 2012-2016 +4.2%
Occupational Health ... $70,920/year /> 2012-2016 +19.1%
Salary Insights •
Workers casually referred to as "cell phone tower climbers" are properly called radio, cellular and tower equipment installers and repairers. These workers climb towers to install, maintain and repair cellular, radio and other communications equipment. They must endure risky work and exposure to the elements, but they are well paid for the work they do.
Cell Tower Climber Earnings
The average salary for radio, cellular and tower equipment installers and repairers was $48,380 a year as of 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The median salary was $46,260 per year, meaning that half of workers earned more than this and half earned less. The biggest employer of these workers, wireless telecommunications carriers, paid $56,060 a year on average. Among the states, Texas employed the most radio, cellular and tower equipment installers and repairers. The average wage there was $40,940 a year.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 49-2021 Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
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Scientific journal censors Brian Hooker's analysis of CDC vaccine data; the Church of Science orders 'burning of books'
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(NaturalNews) Yet another astonishing development has taken place that demonstrates the extraordinary degree of scientific censorship being pursued to bury the story about scientific fraud at the CDC. The science journal Translational Neurodegeneration has pulled a data analysis study conducted by Brian Hooker, who published a re-analysis of CDC data regarding MMR vaccines and autism. The journal web page which previously showed the full abstract of the study now reads:
This article has been removed from the public domain pending further investigation because the journal and publisher believe that its continued availability could cause public harm. Definitive editorial action will be taken once our investigation is complete.
The statement goes on to explain "The complete article is available as a provisional PDF." but that PDF has also been desperately deleted.
Every effort has been made by this journal to memory hole this scientific research, no doubt under pressure from the CDC and the vaccine industry.
No scientific errors were found
Importantly, the journal Translational Neurodegeneration did not find any scientific errors with the study. The paper has not been officially retracted. It has simply been manually deleted from the journal's website in order to avoid the public from reading it.
Here's the screen shot of the online book burning conducted in the name of "science:"
This is scientific censorship at its most offensive. We are witnessing the collapse of the very idea of the scientific method which must, by definition, allow for questioning the status quo. Under the censorship watch of the vaccine industry, the modern world of science is devolving into the Church of the 16th century, where absolute faith was demanded of all, and any who dared question that faith were branded heretics.
Astonishingly, the Translational Neurodegeneration journal says that allowing the public to read this scientific abstract could "cause public harm." This is uttered with the same vitriol that the Church once used against Galileo, who was persecuted for his scientific beliefs and whose books were banned and burned for two hundred years. In those days, the Church declared that allowing the public to read about a heliocentric model of the solar system would also "cause public harm."
Little has changed since then: Knowledge and truth are always suppressed by systems of control in order to prevent the public from learning.
The very foundation of vaccine mythology is so fragile that it cannot withstand scientific scrutiny
Today's censorship of Brian Hooker's work is extraordinary, considering that the data used to write the paper was provided to Brian Hooker by a top CDC scientist who has now publicly admitted to committing scientific fraud that resulted in vaccines harming countless African-American children over the last twelve years. If anything, the new paper by Brian Hooker would help prevent harm among more African-American children. Yet the science journal somehow claims that Hooker's study data is so incredibly dangerous that the mere READING of the abstract will constitute harm to the public.
This is a crucial point to note in all this: The very foundation of modern-day vaccine mythology is so fragile that the industry is entirely unable to withstand scientific scrutiny. The mere asking of questions or publishing of CDC data is so dangerous to the vaccine industry that all such activities must be immediately and aggressively crushed.
In observing this, I dare say that any "science" which cannot withstand scientific scrutiny is no science at all. This wholesale attempt by the CDC and the vaccine industry to crush skepticism and erase published papers is an outright admission that the vaccine industry is little more than a house of cards. No body of science grounded in solid evidence would ever fear a few honest questions from independent researchers.
Scientific book burning
What you are witnessing here is nothing less than a scientific book burning -- a deliberate effort to destroy and censor the science that the establishment doesn't want the public to see.
It begs the question: What could be so dangerous in Brian Hooker's analysis of CDC data that it merits an online book burning?
The answer is that Hooker's study isn't dangerous to the public but rather dangerous to the credibility of the CDC and the vaccine industry -- an industry steeped in criminal operations, money laundering, quack science and literal genocide.
By any means necessary, the public can never be allowed to learn the truth about the link between MMR vaccines and autism. This truth must be silenced at all costs, for if the public learns this truth, they will never trust the CDC again (and the whole vaccine house of cards will implode).
See Brian Hooker's recent interview with Gary Franchi here:
Real science is "public harm." Fraudulent science is "public health."
Just to be clear here, when an independent researcher analyzes the CDC's own data and publishes the truth, that's called "public harm." But when the CDC commits scientific fraud and alters study data to bury the truth about MMR vaccines and autism, that's called "public health."
It's important that we all keep our terminology straight.
When black babies are poisoned with mercury in the form of vaccine preservatives, that's called "medicine." When an independent journalist points out the link between mercury in vaccines and autism in babies, that's called being "anti-science."
When the government forcibly injects African-American babies with vaccines like we saw taking place in Maryland, that's highlighted as "Good medicine." When a scientist working at the CDC goes public and admits to over a decade of scientific fraud regarding those vaccines, that's declared "Non-news" and censored by the entire mainstream media.
The conspiracy of silence on vaccine damage to children knows no bounds. Government, media and science journals all actively conspire to shut down anyone who dares engage in actual scientific scrutiny of vaccine safety. The vaccine industry is the one place where science is absolutely NOT allowed.
Why the vaccine industry is technically a cult
To have any career at all in government, the media or the science journal industry, you must pledge absolute and unswerving FAITH in vaccines, regardless of what the evidence reveals. You must cast aside any real pursuit of actual science and swear allegiance to a dogmatic medical cult which worships vaccines as sacred artifacts of perfection which can never be questioned.
The scientific method be damned, vaccines are automatically assumed to be perfect and therefore no questions can ever be raised about vaccine safety or efficacy. Vaccines are assumed to never cause harm to anyone, therefore anyone who even dares to ask whether vaccines are safe must be immediately and aggressively censored, fired, threatened and shut down.
Vaccines are to science what Kim Jong-Il was to liberty. The "vaccine regime" is entirely based on authoritarian scientific censorship which is perhaps best described as a "scientific dictatorship." There is no freedom of thought when it comes to vaccines; all thoughts must conform to the status quo or be relentlessly disparaged. I make these statements with the same courage and truth that Galileo invoked when he uttered, "Facts which at first sight seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which had hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."
When it comes to vaccines, all science has been abandoned and replaced with the "consensus of the faithful" -- a delusional agreement among vaccine cult followers to accept on sheer faith the idea that vaccines are perfect medicine. More importantly, this belief system requires adherence to the even more bizarre belief that when toxic substances like mercury are added to vaccines, they magically become "perfect" additives which are rendered harmless by decree.
How the vaccine industry fell in love with a poison
This is how mercury, one of the most toxic elements in existence today, continues to be added to vaccines alongside widespread declarations that mercury in vaccines is "completely safe" to be injected into the bodies of children and pregnant women.
When mercury exists outside the realm of vaccines, it is widely considered to be extremely toxic to neurology and the environment. Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, for example, are condemned by the EPA and environmental groups as extremely harmful. Mercury in fish is condemned by the FDA as toxic to expectant mothers. Mercury in fluorescent light bulbs is widely known to be so toxic that when you break one of these bulbs, you're technically supposed to call for a hazmat team cleanup.
And yet, as if by magic alone, mercury in vaccines is universally declared "safe." This is obviously accomplished solely because of the magical aura of vaccines which impart a spell of safety to all chemicals added to vaccines. "Magic" is the only explanation remaining for this, and it is this magic which is routinely invoked by the vaccine industry to explain why they knowingly use toxic mercury in their products.
This toxic mercury is so safe, we're told, that vaccines cannot possibly cause damage to anyone. The vaccine industry is so sure of this that they managed to strong-arm Congress into passing laws that grant the vaccine industry absolute legal immunity from all damage caused by their products. How's that for safety? This legal immunity, we've learned, holds a higher power than the U.S. Supreme Court. It is the highest power of the land and cannot be pierced by any legal strategy of any kind.
This delusional belief in the safety of mercury has transformed the vaccine industry from one that originally sought to help humanity to a system of mass medical poisoning and racial genocide which now exists primarily to prop up vaccine profits and create future medical patients for the pharmaceutical industry.
Join the protest against Translational Neurodegeneration for its brazen scientific censorship
Join Natural News in protesting the outright scientific censorship carried out by Translational Neurodegneration by emailing their editorial offices at:
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Let them know that we demand Brian Hooker's abstract be restored for public viewing. The scientific book burning must stop.
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Among Bart Topping's fondest childhood memories of the ranch he grew up on are those of working alongside his father and grandfather. "When there was work to be done, there was always family there to do it." The 2,000-acre ranch adjoining the San Joaquin River continues to be a family operation. With a mitigation bank and a conservation easement on large portions of the property, it will be conserved for perpetuity as a working landscape.
Wildflowers blanket the hills at Topping Ranch.Photo by Thelma Valdez.
Topping's herd of 350 mother cows and their calves are raised for natural beef, free of antibiotics and growth hormones. The cattle graze on the ranch from mid-September to late spring, when Topping takes them to graze in the High Sierra for the summer. This protects the ranch land by crating a natural rotation cycle.
Among the property's notable features are its rich wetlands areas. In the spring, a rainbow of wildflowers comes to life, nourished by the vernal pools that fill with water and then disappear as the weather heats up. More than 200 animal and plant species live in the pools, including the vernal pool fairy shrimp, a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. Thirty-two other plant and animal species are also under federal protection.
It was those early memories of working the ranch and "the freedom to be outside and go for miles in the quiet open space" that led Topping to decide to conserve the land. After setting up a mitigation bank through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the 40 percent of Kennedy Table that lies on his property, Topping decided to investigate setting up a conservation easement on another portion of the ranch. He heard about the Sierra Foothill Conservancy (SFC) and, clearly one who does his research, Topping asked to be on the board so he could find out what land trusts are about.
For those who pass by in years to come, this working landscape will tell the story of the family ranch and all that it embodies: freedom and open space, family values, the benefits of hard work, and the rewards of living in harmony with nature.


Despite the temptation of upcoming gorgeous fall fashion you're seeing in your local boutiques, we're still not quite to a point where we can pack away those sundresses. Now is the time to start slowly and creatively start transitioning your summer favorites into fall. So ladies, don't pack away those strappy sandals yet.
A little lost on how to transition those cute strappy sandals into fall? Here are a few tips I've found useful.
1. Loving that summer sundress? Try adding tights to it!
2. Don't pack away those strappy sandals or peep toe pumps yet. Add them to some of your favorite fall pieces.
3. Add some fall colors like orange, red, rust and mustard yellow to your summer pieces.
4. A scarf will update any outfit will a little flare. So add it to your classic summer cut offs and tops for a little extra.
5. Put out those boot cut jeans and add them to your cut summer tops and sandals.


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Cette espèce africaine vit au Bénin, au Cameroun, en République centrafricaine, en République du Congo, en République démocratique du Congo, en Côte d'Ivoire, au Gabon, en Gambie, au Ghana, en Guinée, en Guinée-Bissau, en Guinée équatoriale, au Liberia, au Mali, au Niger, au Nigeria, en Ouganda, au Rwanda, au Sénégal, en Sierra Leone, au Soudan, en Tanzanie et au Togo.

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Home / News / HEMA faces claim by Levi's over stitching
Denim giant Levi's recently won a court case in Belgium against the well-known department store HEMA about the shape of the stitches on the rear of its jeans.
What was the case about exactly?
The dispute was not about the LEVI STRAUSS trademark or the characteristic red label. Rather, it involved the well-known V-shaped stitching on the pockets of Levi's jeans. This is also widely known as the 'arcuate trademark'. The V-pattern has been registered as a trademark in the Benelux region since 1981. Furthermore, Levi's also registered the trademark in the EU in 2004.
A protracted battle
It is not the first time that these brands have fought over the V-shaped stitching. Levi's first encountered a variation on its trademark in 2003. The parties reached a settlement in 2014. In that year, HEMA recognised Levi's exclusive rights and the company declared that it would no longer use the trademark or variations on it. HEMA kept to its promise for a long time, until Levi's once again discovered a variation on its trademark in 2015.
What did the court rule?
Brussels Commercial Court declared in the first instance that there were a number of differences between the two patterns, which meant that they could not be considered identical. This was because HEMA did not use two, but rather three curved lines in the pattern. Furthermore, the lines did not meet exactly in the middle, but instead more to the left side of the trousers.
Despite the fact that the shapes were not exactly the same, the court did concede that they showed a considerable likeness, were used for identical goods and that the public is very familiar with this shape. The court then also ruled that HEMA's use of its variant of the V-shape created confusion and so constituted an infringement of Levi's trademark rights.
The court prohibited HEMA from making further use of the V shape and awarded damages against the HEMA of around €4.5 billion, based on the 221.603 pairs of trousers that it had previously sold in the Benelux region. Levi's originally sought damages of €50 per pair of trousers. However, the court found this amount to be too high and lowered it to €20. Nevertheless, it is a huge amount. Trademark infringement can be very costly.
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ISSUE 25 | December 2016
We're heading towards the end of term and to the final week of Book Giving Assemblies in 2017. The team has had a wonderful time working with schools, sponsors, role models, and our distribution partner Scholastic Australia, and we're appreciative of all the hard work and goodwill you've extended towards our community as a whole. During this term, Books in Homes has distributed 54,000 books to 15,000 children and schools all across this amazing country. We've had some fantastic feedback. Enough to fill this ezine many times over, as well as our Term 1, 2017 catalogues, which are currently in production. We recently sat together in the office and reminded ourselves why this ezine is called The Bridge. If you don't know the story just click on the link in the right hand column. One of the themes that emerged out of our interpretation and understanding of the story is that bridges can be pathways to aspiration. They cross between now and tomorrow, between inaction and action, and between the ordinary world and the extraordinary world. In this issue, we're sharing one such inspirational story—that of how Year 6 at Auburn North Public School decided to write and publish a book. We truly believe that Project Manager Jaqui Lane, who was a previous Role Model at the school, has enabled those talented Year 6 children to truly cross the bridge towards fulfilling the first of many dreams and ambitions. Congratulations to all who participated in this great endeavour.
Peter Large
Chief Executive Officer &
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees
PS That's me smiling in the back row at the Auburn North Public School book launch!
AUBURN NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WRITE, ILLUSTRATE AND PUBLISH THEIR OWN BOOK –
The Adventures of Cleo the Clownfish at Pacific Primary
On 30 November 2016, a group of Year 6 students from Auburn North Public School launched a book they had planned, written, illustrated and published.
The idea for the book originated from Books in Homes Role Model, Jaqui Lane, who attended Auburn North Public School's Book Giving Assembly in November 2015. After the Assembly, the school librarian, Cathy Clift, and a group of students met in the library. It was there the students hatched the idea to create their own book.
Once a fortnight throughout 2016, a group of students came together to create their book, with Jaqui taking them through each step of the planning, creative writing, illustration, and production process.
The book, The Adventures of Cleo the Clownfish at Pacific Primary, takes the reader on a journey through a day at school based on four key safety messages: Stranger Danger, Road Safety, Bullying, and We Are All. Targeted at primary school students aged between 6 and 10, the reader has options to choose from each of the scenarios—options that school children everywhere have to consider.
The Adventures of Cleo the Clownfish at Pacific Primary is available for $20 plus $7 postage and handling from the Auburn North Public School office at 100 Adderley Street, Auburn, NSW 2144, or by downloading an order form from the website: http://www.auburnnth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/
Check out the book trailer below!
FOOTY FABLES – OUT NOW!
Some of you may not know that our great friends at the National Rugby League (NRL) have been INCREDIBLY supportive of Books in Homes in the past few years. Indeed, several NRL players have become Role Models and attended Book Giving Assemblies all over Australia. Usually it's the players handing out the books to children, but on this occasion, it's the NRL that has published a book—the latest edition of Footy Fables! It's chock full of player information and some snappy caricatures, and it's out just in time for Christmas. Click on the image below for more information.
TERM 4, 2016 – STEPHANIE ALEXANDER BOOK PACK COMPETITION WINNERS!
There were over 300 entries in the Term 4, 2016 competition. Congratulations to the following students who submitted outstanding entries and won one of the 25 prize packs donated by Scholastic Australia! Your book packs and certificates will be sent to your school with the preview packs at the beginning of Term 1, 2017.
Charlotte G, Townview State School, Qld
Olivia M, Penshurst Primary School, Vic
Jimeal T, St Francis Xaviers School, Lake Cargellico, NSW
Bree L, Townsville South State School, Qld
Breana M, Townview State School, Qld
Brooklyn R, Sunset State School Qld
Pam M, Townsville South State School, Qld
Tate M, Queens Beach State School, Qld
Neo K, Christ the King Catholic School - Djarindjin Lombadina, WA
Ava C, Trinity Catholic School – Richmond North, Vic
Naqtalie M, Matraville Soldier's Settlement Public School, NSW
Reuben H, Townsville South State School, Qld
Bottrie W, Bowen State School, Qld
Adelia Grace V, Trinity Catholic School – Richmond North, Vic
Rory A, Queens Beach State School, Qld
Zaciary R, Sofala Public School, NSW
Natasha C, Townview State School, Qld
Declan M, Moree West Public School, NSW
Moana A, Whalan Public School, NSW
John N, Blackburn English Language School (Maroondah Campus), Vic
Zayne C, Wyoming Public School, NSW
Luke M, Matraville Soldier's Settlement Public School, NSW
Jorge N, Townview State School, Qld
An N, Trinity Catholic School – Richmond North, Vic
Danh N, Trinity Catholic School – Richmond North, Vic
Books in Homes named its ezine THE BRIDGE after receiving a beautiful letter from Walgett Community College Primary School a few years ago. It tells a wonderful tale about a much loved mentor from town called Mrs Robyn Pearson. It is a story about being unable to read, getting lost, signs, levies and bridges. Want to read the full story? Then click the link below.
Copyright © Books in Homes Australia 2016, All rights reserved.
The Charitable Foundation for Books in Homes Australia · 1767 Botany Road · Banksmeadow, NSW 2019 · Australia


Qatar will stage the AFC's under-23 championships in 2016, which will also serve as an Olympic qualifier, but the wait to find out who will host the expanded 2019 Asian Cup will go on until sometime next year.
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said a date had not been set for a decision on whether Iran or United Arab Emirates would host the 24-team showpiece event.
"Probably in 2015, by next year we will decide," the Bahraini royal told reporters in Manila on Saturday.
The UAE are favourites to add yet another sporting event to their resume as hosts, but the Iranian bid claimed to receive support from FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who visited Tehran last year.
Shaikh Salman said he had no preference.
Hosting the event involves high cost and limits the number of AFC members who can realistically stage it. Australia were the only bidders for the 2015 event and 11 'interested' bids for 2019 quickly became two.
Money could be an issue for Iran, who agreed to extend nuclear talks with world powers this week after failing to secure a deal that could have meant major relief from sanctions that have hammered the standard of living in the country.
The financial issues have also impacted the country's football programme, despite a proud group stage showing at the World Cup in Brazil earlier this year.
Iran coach Carlos Queiroz eventually agreed an extension to his contract in September after lengthy negotiations, with the former Real Madrid and Portugal boss bemoaning the financial restrictions his team face.
Iran, though, lost out on the under-23 championships with the AFC's competitions committee selecting 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar over them, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan on Friday.
Qatar, who won the Gulf Cup of Nations this week, hosted a largely successful 2011 Asian Cup -- albeit with pitiful attendances at matches not involving the host team.
The top three sides from the 16-team biennial competition will qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.


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Building model airplanes? That is so 1950 (not that 1950 wasn't a good year for those who may have been there). Find a creative match for your life with help from some locals as part of the Library's Boom Time Series this Wednesday, February 22nd at 6pm.
The need to provide care for an ill or aging family increases as we round the corners of maturity. Let the Library's Boom Time Series provide some options, ideas and personal experiences about care-giving for your life this Wednesday, February 15th at 6pm.
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The Grand Rapids Farmers" Market membership will hold its second organizational meeting of 2017 on Monday March 6th at 6:00 PM at Second Harvest North Central Food Bank, 2222 Cromell Dr, Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
This is the second of three opportunities (last meeting will be April 3rd) for new aspiring members to present their business plans and product line to the membership for consideration for membership. Click "How to Join" for information, details and forms on joining the market for the 2017 season.
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This week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) exhibition Onyx International have been showcasing a new E Ink Android phone prototype they have created that can run on a single charge for week.
Onyx International is already well known for creating E Ink devices and has created the Boox series of e-readers. The new E Ink Android phone is currently only in development at the moment and is more of a proof of concept than a finished production ready device.
The E Ink Android Smartphone created by Onyx runs Google's Android operating system, which has been tweaked to run on a monochrome screen. Watch the video below to learn more about the E Ink Android phone project and see it in action.
Unfortunately no information on pricing or worldwide availability has been released as yet for the E Ink Android phone, but as soon as information comes to light we will keep you updated as always.


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LOOP: President backs away from raising age limit on guns
Published by Joshua Mercer at March 12, 2018
GUN DEBATE President Trump backed off his call for raising the minimum age to buy a gun, but he did pledge to help states pay for firearm training for teachers. The president also pushed to improve the background check system for gun purchases. http://cvote.it/2FK5jkc
REPEAL TAX CUTS? Congressional Democrats have released a tax hike plan they promise to implement if they win the House and Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. The plan would increase the highest marginal tax rate from 37% to 39.6%, and would increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 25%. http://cvote.it/2FN0FSB
DEMOCRATS 2020 Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, says she won't run for president in 2020. http://cvote.it/2FKI3m4
WIN FOR DECENCY Those creepy sexual ads next to news stories might be a thing of the past. http://cvote.it/2FMvSoS
GAY MYTH REVEALED? Shocking new evidence has come to light involving the 49 people slaughtered in a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016. Despite what the mainstream media and LGBT groups have long claimed, the killer was not motivated by anti-gay hatred. In new testimony in the trial of the killer's wife, she claims he had no idea that Pulse was a gay nightclub. http://cvote.it/2FGFYrg
PENSIONS & TUNNELS States and cities are buried in debt because of massive costs of pensions for government employees. Nicole Gelinas says Uncle Sam should provide a solution: "Offer states credit, in the form of more federal infrastructure money, if they pare back their pension and health-care obligations to future retirees." http://cvote.it/2Hpsu0b
SEXUAL IDENTITY Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University writes that because biological sex is unchangeable, those who undergo sex-reassignment surgery merely "become feminized men or masculinized women." http://cvote.it/2Hsa675
IT'S ABOUT TIME The Florida Legislature overwhelmingly approved legislation to stay on daylight savings time all year. The bill sponsor, State Sen. Greg Steube, said he got the idea from a barber: "One of the barbers had young children and it had such a negative impact every time they set their clocks back [that they had trouble] getting their kids up for school." http://cvote.it/2FEUMH1
HUMANAE VITAE Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stressed that any attempts to change the Church's teaching on contraception outlined in Humanae Vitae would be "a crime against the Church." http://cvote.it/2HqghZ0
PAPAL TRIP The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania this September. http://cvote.it/2HokH2F
SAINT OF THE DAY Blessed Angela Salawa was a maid for many years, and eventually became a Secular Franciscan who worked with wounded and sick soldiers during World War I. Abandoned by everyone before her death, she died on March 12, 1922. http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS READINGS "I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me." (Ps 30:2) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
BEAUTY One artist's quest for liturgical beauty. http://cvote.it/2FL1f35
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Ришра́нш () — коммуна во французском департаменте Воклюз региона Прованс — Альпы — Лазурный Берег. Относится к кантону Вальреа.

Географическое положение

Ришранш расположен в 50 км к северу от Авиньона. Соседние коммуны: Грийон на севере, Вальреа на северо-востоке, Ла-Бом-де-Транзит на юго-западе, Солерьё и Монсегюр-сюр-Лозон на западе.

Гидрография
Коронн, приток Ле, пересекает юг Ришранша с востока на запад. По коммуне протекают Ольер и канал дю Мулен со стороны Вальреа и Талобр по границе Ришранша и Визана.

Демография
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 696 человек.

Достопримечательности
 Самое старинное комтурство тамплиеров в Провансе.
 Беффруа.
 Статуя Богородицы Нуар, Нотр-Дам-де-Коронн, датируется XIII веком.
 Церковь, переделана в начале XVI века, на базе церкви тамплиеров 1147 года, разрушенной с закрытием ордена тамплиеров.
 Часовня Нотр-Дам-де-Бон-Ранконтр, XVII век.
 Часовня Сент-Альбан.
 Оратории Сен-Жозеф, Богородицы и Сент-Ирьез.

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Palace Dog
By R.E. Nelson
Release Date Feb 27, 2015
In April 1975, as the government in Saigon is falling, Michael Andrews prepares to make his way back to Vietnam to find the love he was forced to leave.
But Michael's journey begins four years earlier. He joins the Air Force to keep out of the Army and out of Vietnam, but his first assignment is teaching English in Saigon to members of the Vietnamese military in an Army program called Palace Dog.
As an artist, and a man, before his time in Vietnam, Michael found life lonely and unsatisfying. In the midst of war, Michael searches for direction and meaning. He ultimately finds love and hope with Thao, a young Vietnamese art student, only to have their already uncertain future wrenched from them when he is pulled out of the country.
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would decide the What, How and For Whom decisions faced by all societies.
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The Sad State of the Animal Rights Movement
Gary L Francione
Two things came to my attention this morning that really speak volumes about the very sad state of what is referred to as the "animal protection movement."
The first item is an article from The Times of London. The writer, Tessa Williams, proclaims that after 25 years as a vegetarian, she is now eating meat again. She points out that she is "not the only staunch veggie to give up a lifetime devotion to pulses and tofu in the past year. The Food Standards Agency in Britain states that the number of people eating a partly or completely veggie diet fell from 9 per cent in 2007 to 7 per cent in 2008."
The reason for Williams' return to meat:
I see my decision to return to meat as part of a bigger change in Britain's food culture. We've shifted away from the old-school "meat is murder" approach, and now well-sourced meat is seen as healthy and natural.
We've been swayed by Jamie, Hugh and Gordon. They seem to love animals, yet have no trouble killing well- brought up specimens and putting them in a pie.
Recent advances in food labelling have also made it easier to understand where our meat is from, and how it is raised. The Soil Association stamp means that animals have been reared under strict organic guidelines on welfare. Guilty former vegetarians are also reassured by Freedom Food labels, which guarantee that animals have been kept in RSPCA-approved conditions.
Moving to the country also changed my outlook. I now live near a village butcher, who rears much of the meat he sells. I can see his happy pigs snuffling in their field from my office window. And I walk past his cows and sheep every day. Their journey to his shop window, via the abattoir, is shorter than my school run.
The article ends with a section prividing step-by-step instructions on "how to be a born-again carnivore."
This is where the happy meat/animal products movement is leading. And it is certainly not confined to Britain. In the United States, animal protection organizations promote initiatives such as California's Proposition 2, which will do nothing to help animals but will falsely reassure humans that animals are being given significantly improved "humane" protection.
The underlying premise of the modern "animal protection" movement is that it is acceptable for humans to use animals as long as they are treated "humanely." Those who support this position may want better treatment than the welfarists of the 1940s or 1950s sought, but the principle is the same: use does not matter; only treatment does. That is a fundamental difference between the abolitionist approach and the approach adopted by the large new-welfarist organizations. The abolitionist position rejects all animal use and sees creative, nonviolent vegan education as the primary strategy to employ.
The second item involves NBC refusing to air PETA's Veggie Love ad during this year's Super Bowl because the ad, which has models in various stages of undress caressing themselves and otherwise using vegetables in suggestive ways and claims that "vegetarians have better sex," is too sexually explicit.
It is unclear to me why PETA and those who think that this sort of thing is acceptable do not recognize that sexism and speciesism are very closely linked. As long as we continue to commodify women, we will continue to commodify nonhumans. Sexism is not only inherently objectionable; it is a most ineffective way to increase consciousness about nonhumans. PETA has been promoting its sexist anti-fur campaign for over almost 20 years now. Has it had any effect? The fur industry is stronger than it has ever been.
Moreover, Super Bowl ads cost a great deal of money. Putting aside the other issues raised by this ad, how can anyone think that this is a good use of money? How can PETA be killing 85% of the animals it rescues when it apparently has money to waste to make and market ads of naked women licking pumpkins and appearing to masturbate with vegetables?
Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that groups like PETA, HSUS, and the other corporate welfare groups do not think that they are doing the right thing. Indeed, I am quite sure that they think that they are. It is my view that they are in error.
© 2009 Gary L. Francione
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