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A man is dead after an accident on a farm in Coromandel.
Police said the man died after the ute he was driving rolled.
- 'Heart-wrenching tragedy': Mother and son the pair killed in North Otago tractor accident
- Man dies after 4WD accident on farm
They were called to the farm about midnight after the man failed to return home
He was found trapped beneath the vehicle about 2.35am.
Worksafe has been notified and the man's death will be referred to the Coroner.


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The Australian life sciences industry is invited to assist in the 2017 National Capability Audit for the Medical Countermeasures (MCM) Initiative, to survey and understand Australia's capability and capacity to support research and development for MCM products.
Examples of medical countermeasures include vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics used to combat chemical, biological or radiological threats, pandemics and spread of infectious diseases.
An initial audit in 2012 showed Australia was home to a small, but internationally networked medical technology, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector with pockets of MCM development excellence, however, there is a distinct need for Australia to develop these capabilities.
Australia has historically relied on the goodwill of its allies, but Australia's geographic isolation; unique regional and endemic disease profile; and the increase in global instability highlights our need to be strategic about our national preparedness.
To meet these challenges, the audit seeks to gather information that will help an MCM Business Plan under the Defence Department's Next Generation Technology Fund (NGTF). It will build an understanding of Australia's MCM assets, capabilities and capacities and will investigate how the medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector has changed since the last audit.
The results of this 2012 survey leveraged $7 million in funding to support a number of collaborative projects and provided evidence for MCM products to be included in the NGTF.
The survey takes between 15-45 minutes to complete and the audit closes on Monday 10 April 2017. Selected respondents will be approached and invited to a follow-up interview to discuss active participation in the MCM Initiative.
The audit is being undertaken by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group) in collaboration with d3 Medicine, a Certara Company.
Access the survey is available here or find out more.

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SEOUL: South Korean retail giant Lotte Group kept its jailed chairman in a key affiliate post Friday (Jun 29) despite an effort by his brother to oust him, re-igniting a bitter family feud.
The company has been assailed by scandal in recent years, with the founder's two sons engaging in a vicious and public battle for control.
The younger, Shin Dong-bin, ultimately prevailed, but was jailed for two and a half years in February in connection with the corruption scandal that brought down president Park Geun-hye.
His brother Shin Dong-joo reopened hostilities Friday and tried to have his sibling ousted from the board of an important Japanese affiliate, only for shareholders to stick with the incarcerated executive.
In a statement, Lotte said it was "relieved" at the decision that came despite what it called the "absence" of its chairman. "We hope to promptly overcome the current difficulties," it added.
South Korean business is dominated by the chaebol, sprawling but controversial family-run empires like Lotte Group, ranked fifth, and the biggest of them all Samsung.
The chaebols were instrumental in South Korea's rise to become the world's 11th-largest economy, aided by low-interest loans and close government connections.
But now they are criticised for stifling innovation and competition, while the controlling families are accused of running the firms like personal fiefdoms with minimal regulation by officials.
Family feuds and criminal charges – often related to tax evasion or bribery – regularly make headlines.
Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong was jailed last year for his own role in the Park scandal, although most of his convictions were quashed on appeal.
Elsewhere in South Korea Inc., the LG group named the adopted son of late chairman Koo Bon-moo as chairman and CEO of its holding company, the fourth generation of his family to lead the firm.
Koo Kwang-mo, 40, a senior executive at LG Electronics, was born a nephew to his predecessor.
But the elder Koo – who had fathered two daughters – adopted him in 2004 to ensure he had the status of the eldest son and preserved the direct male family line, an important consideration in a society that in some areas remains highly traditionalist.
Ordinarily nephews are well down the inheritance order in South Korea, following children, parents and brothers.
LG, the South's fourth-largest conglomerate and best known internationally for its household appliances, has its origins in a humble cloth shop opened by founder Koo In-hoe in 1931.
It now has 68 subsidiaries, 222,000 employees around the world, and according to government statistics an estimated total market capitalisation of 112 trillion won (US$100 billion).
But it faces mounting competition from Samsung and Chinese rivals in the key mobile and display sectors.
Many chaebol families own only a small proportion of their companies but maintain control through complex webs of cross-shareholdings between subsidiaries.
Unusually, the Koo family have largely avoided scandal, and also have an abnormally high collective stake in LG, owning 46.7 per cent of the holding company between them.
But Chung Sun-sup, head of corporate analysis site chaebol.com, said the group has been slow to acquire new units and invest in new technology because of the family's vested interests.
"Kwang-mo needs to show his managerial acumen if he wants to avoid public attacks over another chaebol succession," he told AFP.
President Moon Jae-in's government has sought to weaken the chaebols' economic power, but a raft of laws aimed at improving corporate governance, enhancing fair trade and protecting small shareholders have been stranded in parliament.
Chung blamed strong lobbying by the chaebols and political bickering between rival parties.


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Rawalpindi - The Anti Narcotics Force has launched operations against drug mafia across the country and seized more than 56kg drugs and held 16 suspected smugglers, a spokesman of ANF Headquarters informed The Nation on Thursday. He said ANF also impounded three vehicles being used by smugglers to traffic drugs. "Of 16 detainees, three were ladies smugglers," he said. The value of seized drugs is said to be Rs 174 million in the international market.
According to him, ANF seized 56.180Kg Narcotics valuing Rs174.74 million internationally, arrested 16 culprits including 3 ladies and impounded 3 vehicles while conducting 15 counter-narcotic strikes. The seized drugs comprised of 46.200 Kg Hashish, 7.650Kg Heroin, 3025 Xanax Tabs and 1.940 Kg Amphetamine (Ice).
He said ANF Rawalpindi arrested an accused namely Khyal Ur Rehman resident of Hangu from parking area of Islamabad International Airport and recovered 5 Kg Hashish from his trolley bag. In another operation ANF Rawalpindi recovered 6 Kg Hashish from personal possession of the arrested accused namely Toor Jan resident Upper Dir near Kamra Bus Stop, GT Road Attock. In third operation, ANF Rawalpindi intercepted a Toyota Corolla car near Golra Morr, Kashmir Highway, Islamabad and recovered 14.4 Kg Hashish from the said vehicle. A person on board namely Amin Khan resident of Peshawar was arrested on the spot. In forth operation, ANF Rawalpindi recovered 2.4Kg Hashish from personal possession of the arrested accused namely Niaz Gul resident of Peshawar near Burhan interchange Motorway M-I, Tehsil Hassan Abadal, District Attock. In fifth operation, ANF Rawalpindi recovered 3 Kg Hashish from personal possession of the two arrested accused persons namely Muhammad Ali resident of Lahore and Yasmeen Bibi resident of Kasur near Haji Shah Bus Stop, Main GT Road, Tehsil Hassan Abdal, District Attock.
In sixth operation, ANF Rawalpindi arrested an accused person namely Sarafraz resident of Swat at Islamabad International Airport and recovered 0.850Kg Amphetamine (Ice) from his personal possession. He was travelling to Jeddah (KSA) through Flight No.SV-889.
ANF Peshawar arrested two lady accused namely Badrooja Begum resident of Charsadda and Javeria, resident of Peshawar and recovered 3Kg Hashish from their personal possession. They were arrested near Naguman Bridge, Charsadda Road, Peshawar. In another operation ANF Peshawar arrested an accused namely Muhammad Amin resident of Hangu at Peshawar International Airport, who was suppose travelling to Dubai through Flight No.EK-0637 and recovered 0.940 Kgs Amphetamine which was concealed in his hand bag. In third operation, ANF Peshawar intercepted a Toyota Hiace Passenger van at Motorway Toll Plaza Peshawar and recovered 2.4 Kg Hashish from personal possession of the arrested accused namely Shah Azam resident of Khyber Agency. In fourth operation, ANF Peshawar arrested an accused namely Muhammad Gul resident of Peshawar at Peshawar International Airport and recovered 3025x Xanax Tabs (weighing 0.390 Kg) which was concealed in 4 x Plastic bottles. He was boarding for Jeddah (KSA) through Flight No.SV-795. In fifth operation, ANF Peshawar recovered 4.2 Kg Hashish from personal possession of arrested accused namely Khalid Khan resident Peshawar.
ANF Karachi arrested three accused persons namely Shay Haq, Shay Mureed and Shay Bilal all resident of Kech Balochistan and recovered 1 Kgs Methamphetamine from their personal possession. They were arrested near Chatry Park, Gulshan-e-Maimar Karachi. In another operation, ANF Karachi arrested an accused namely Syed Marjan resident of Kuram Agency at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi and recovered 260x Hashish filled capsules (weighing 1.9 Kg Hashish) which was concealed in musical instrument (Tabla). He was proceeding to Qatar through Flight No.QR-661. In third operation, ANF Karachi recovered 7.65Kg heroin from passenger bus at Bus Terminal, Super Highway Karachi. A person on board namely Sher Rehman resident of Khyber Agency was arrested during the operation. In fourth operation, ANF Karachi intercepted a Auto Rickshaw near Kabutar Chowk, main gate near Sindh assembly building road, Karachi and recovered 13.5 Kg Hashish from the said rickshaw. Resultantly an accused namely Habib Ullah resident of Peshawar was arrested during the operation.
He added separate cases have been registered against drug smugglers at respective ANF Police Stations under CNS Act 1997 and further investigations are underway.


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Side Orders • March 2, 2017
FLUID HAPPENINGS . . . The Hawaiian word, "kohola," means "whale" and Lahaina's Kohola Brewery is making a humpback-size splash with a variety of pilsners, ales and stouts.
The Beach Club at Aston Kaanapali Shores will present the Kohola Brewery dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday with four food courses and four, 4-ounce pours of local craft beer for $40 per person.
"We've turned the Beach Club into an actual restaurant rather than a private club for people owning units there. We were able to change all of the menus and make it more open towards the neighborhood," says Eric Faivre, the vice president of food and beverage for Aston resorts in Hawaii.
At the beer dinner, sip Pineapple Lokahi Pilsner and munch beer-battered furikake onion rings; quaff Red Sand Irish-style Red Ale and savor ahi poke cups; and drink Brouhard's Brown Southern English style brown beer with braised short ribs and jalapeno succotash; and Mighty 88 Double India Pale Ale paired with specialty chocolate dessert, says the Beach Club's Nathan Mau, general manager and chef.
Harry Troupe also plays there from 3 to 6 p.m. Fridays and Benny Uyetake plays 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays. For more details, call 667-2211, ext 3723.
Lahaina Coolers is planning another juicy wine tasting dinner Friday as it does the first weekend of every month. Sip Dry Creek chenin blanc, Byron chardonnay and Chateau St. Michelle cabernet with Caprese bruschetta melt; tomato basil crab bisque; and thyme-roasted duck breast in orange wine sauce. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $60 per person. Lahaina Coolers is on Dickenson Street in Lahaina. Call 661-7082
AROUND THE TOWN. . . The California pizza franchise that dishes up artisan crusts with a New York chew will be expanding to Kahului near Panda Express and GameStop.
Pieology filed a building permit to go into the former Cucina Bella space and it also has an Oahu parlor with two more in the making.
Rachelle and Bill Kirton, owners of Paia Gelato, are targeting to move their shop location Tuesday from one spot on the Hana Highway to another with all manner of fun and cool and creamy flavors.
Piko Cafe opened in January in the former ViDad's (some knew it as the Snow Factory) next to Longs Drugs in the Kihei shopping center. Partners are Mauians Kekoa Uyechi and his wife, Raven Uyechi, and his dad, Richard Uyechi, who has the most restaurant experience.
"We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner," says Kekoa. "It's a quick-serve coffee cafe and we do plate lunches like chicken katsu, teri beef, and mixed plate with mahimahi with lemon-caper butter sauce and more."
Richard worked for years at the legendary KC Drive Inn on Oahu, famous for its waffle dogs, and he brought the waffle dog recipe to Piko Cafe.
Just voted to be a trustee of the Culinary Institute of America in New York was Maui resident and movie star, restaurateur and manager to celebrities Shep Gordon of Wailea.
He's joining CIA's world-famous chefs such as Thomas Keller, Charlie Palmer and his Humble Market Kitchin partner Roy Yamaguchi.
Gordon is also being honored at the CIA's Museum of Natural History in New York City on April 19 along with Martha Stewart and Jaques Pepin to receive an Augie Award that commemorates the success and achievement of the industry's best and brightest.
On Tuesday, diners at IHOP at the Maui Mall in Kahului will receive a free short stack of world-famous buttermilk pancakes and in return will be asked to leave a donation to benefit local charities and hospitals in Hawaii. Since 2006, IHOP's National Pancake Day has raised $24 million for charities nationwide.
Paris and Donna Nabavi of Kaanapali will celebrate the ancient tradition of Persian New Year in their home March 25 with a lavish benefit dinner for local charities through his legacy fund. Email the famous West Maui restaurateur at email@example.com.


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Check it out! K. Cecchini's article on Langstrasse: Zürich's Red District is available now at Millennium Magazine . Download the magazine to see the full 10-page photo spread.
2nd Class to Paradise
Text & Photos by K. Cecchini @tonightatdawn
From the foreign perspective, Switzerland is synonymous with the Alps. If in Zürich and can't make the trek all way out to touch its great peaks, you need to seek out bucket list-worthy local views. Nearby Uteilberg Mountain and the city of Lucerne seem to be the next best thing and, although tourist destinations, they are not inundated with traps.
Towering Over the Alps
We took the bright red local train out to Uteilberg on our second day in country. The train runs regularly throughout the day which allowed us to explore the area without the stress of catching a trip back to town. At the trains stop, there's a small restaurant and a beautiful view of the Alps- but there was no need to linger there as the view is more pristine as you delve move up the paths.
It's a 'choose your own adventure'; the trails are marked with approximations of trek lengths ranging from an hour to most of a day.
A quick climb up past lights embedded in the antlers of mosaic reindeer and we had reached the main tourist summit with a hotel and restaurant. We ascended the steep stairs on the metal tower lookout to capture a breathtaking panoramic view of Zürich to the left and the Alps in the other direction.
We then continued to hike through well maintained trails and glimpsing at the Alps through the trees as the morning clouds dissipated.
Less than hour by train from Zürich, we were surprised to find that 2- 2nd class train tickets to Lucerne would cost us around a hundred American dollars. Yet, the information clerk declared it to be a "special place" so …all aboard!
My husband and I settled into a seat on the train and the conductor came to check our tickets. Oops, we had settled into a 1st class car; "up the stairs, then down, and to the back," he insisted in his thick German accent.
We reclined back in our new seats; 2nd class wasn't too shabby. But, alas, he compelled us forward again; "up the stairs, then down, to the back!".
We went up, down, and to the back until we came upon what was unmistakably the lower class car; we are not first class travelers by any means but after the reclining chairs and peace of the other cars, the difference between classes was stark. The smells of cheap food assaulted us as soon as the car door open and people were spilled out over the floors.
Fortunately, if the train ride was not quite worth 50 bucks, Lucerne was every bit the special place that we were promised.
We spent the day wandering the winding streets of Lucerne and the banks of its river. 35 francs for an hour on paddle boat allowed us to float ever so slightly closer to the commanding Alps where they appeared to rise above the pristine blue lake. We enjoyed lunch in one of the many European squares and dined near the river bank.
Before heading back to the station and our 2nd class world, we sat and watched the moon rise above the peaks in the distance.
Other Swiss Adventures:
Art & DADA in Zürich & YADA Yada Yada
Art & DADA in Zürich & YADA Yada Yada
Text and Photos by Kimberly Cecchini @tonightatdawn
-Hugo Ball, founder of the Cabaret Voltaire in the original Dada manifesto
Right now, insanity is more likely than CONCIOUSNESS with 7 hours to go til Newark in this pressurized tube. (See the reverse: "No Sleep Til Zurich").
Alas, customs will be easier if I just shut up and write rather than shout DADA over the Atlantic.
I'll admit, I never had much appreciation for this nonsensical self-declared non-art. I suppose I never appreciated that Duchamp's upside down urinal precluded me from having to do a handstand in a men's room to garner that perspective.
So, even though we were staying a few blocks over from it in Zürich's medieval section, I almost didn't even care to throw down 5 francs at its birthplace, the Cabaret Voltaire.
5 francs. 4 blocks (maybe). 3 X 10 minutes of film. 2 of us. 1st trip to Dada's heartland…perhaps it made too much sense to go.
But I relented. And it was well worth every damn CH franc.
If there is no performance on the schedule, the main attraction at Voltaire is the self-start film on Dada's history. If you've studied art history, you already know the basics; Dada was a reaction to the horrors of World War I and the "scientification of life". In this vein, it was a rejection of the organized principles of art making and was reconciled in different Western art centers such as New York where the "ready-made" was popularized (re-appropriation of every day objects as works of art(?) like the inverse urinal).
Yet, the film superseded my expectations in both form and content.
I entered the 'crypt' as they call it (a wine cellar in its previous life); it's cave-like ceiling is covered with a constellation representing the evolution of Dada. (Hey, a constellation may not be typical but it's still a form of organization-is it not? Just sayin'.) I hit the 'English' button and the film began projecting on a camera shaped screen and everywhere but; more successfully emphasizing the lack of structure valued in Dadaism. I was craning my head to watch the associated words and images being projected across a wall, a corner and above my head.
The film is filled with images and quotes that showcase DADA's history from its homeland in the neutral zone as the Zürich based artists reacted to the world crumbling beyond Swiss borders, to its geographical spread and it's influence on the development of new art movements such as surrealism.
After that, I meandered upstairs to look at the performance space with its random art (damn, I still don't know what to call it if the idea is nonart), and the extensive bar menu.
Their advertised tasting of 15 absenthi should, I would think, effectively highlight the effects of repeating Dada, eh?
Adding to the randomness was the guy who came off the street trying to read the young employee's fortune while I was browsing the small gift area. She was hesitant, saying she doesn't subscribe to fortune-telling. He was insistent and told her, when she inquired, that she would only pay if her fortune came true. Asking her about her favorite flowers and to pick a number he reiterated a vague report on a love life to be blossomed and such.
Vague and random and not worth a damn CH franc.
Contemporary Art in Zürich
We happened upon a number of other contemporary galleries-although we had to window shop a few of them as many are closed on Sundays and/or Mondays (like many things in Zürich). We spent the most amount of time in Lumas which hosts a list of global artists; beyond the bright array of 2D works, it's draw is making current art affordable by selling reproductions in a variety of commercial sizes.
There were also a Cindy Sherman exhibition at KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH that we were not able to fit in, advertisements for gallery openings and experimental theater throughout the city.
On the river in the old district, we visited a free contemporary art space in an old school building. There were a few pieces that I took a second look at – like the video diptych commentary on the Iraq War that featured one man slowly eating roses and another hitting his solder's helmet. Perhaps it's dada alive. But perhaps because I am more a fan of realistic rather than conceptual work, to me the story here unwinds into yada (dada) yada, and then we listened to a street band improvise in the museum's courtyard for a bit.
And then there's the pineapple rocket. dada.
For more on ZÜRICH: WOOOOOOOW! ZURI! and Rapperswil: 23 km
Langstrasse – Has Zurich's Red Light Been Replaced?
Text and Photos by Kimberly Cecchini
Langstrasse is German for "Long Street" and that it is.
Of course, yours truly, hoofed it.
Every metropolis has its dark underbelly, and Langstrasse is, or at least was, Zurich's. Once known as the red light district, travel sites now hail it as a Swiss Brooklyn (which really drives my husband nuts). Supposedly it has been fairly well cleansed of the rampant drug use and, ahem, red lights of its past and now it is a diversely populated, hip neighborhood known for its shopping and nightlife.
Switzerland is often considered one of the safest places in our chaotic world, and beyond my ingrained alertness, I felt at ease. Langstrasse was not much different; it had all the edge of today's East Village in Manhattan except the prostitutes were more easy to identify.
Heading down there in the evening from the Zürich transit hub, the first few blocks appeared to be a quiet middle class neighborhood, but we discovered there was more life deeper into the district. Absorbing all the warmth of the short summer like the rest of the town, we joined everyone who was crowded into the sidewalk seating at a trendier spot, DIE Bar, for a drink from the ink covered wait staff.
We ended the night hanging out the windows at Bagatelle. The dimly lit and eccentrically decorated bar felt like the kind of place you would be cool to know about. When we walked up, there was a lady of the night a few steps in front of a small crowd of young patrons on its porch. We purchased a couple of drinks at the bar where cash was nonchalantly stacked next to the computer. From our perch on the windowsill, we watched the revelers stretch off into the night.
More on Switzerland: WOOOOOOOOW! ZURI! , Rapperswil: 23 km , No Sleep 'Til Zurich
Text and Photos by Kimberly Cecchini
The Olympics. The World Cup. I thought that was basically it for major international sporting events-or at least I never heard about anything else at home.
Sometimes you have to step outside your borders – virtually or physically – to learn something new.
This summer I loosely followed the Commonwealth Games on the BBC, and now we are enjoying the pre-game celebrations for the European Athletics Championships.
Yes, America, the world sometimes plays games together without you. Didn't you get that Tweet?
Let's get schooled.
The first European Athletics Championships were hosted by Italy in 1934. For the 22nd edition, Zürich will be welcoming approximately 1400 competitors from 50 nations Tuesday the 12th of August until the 17th. Besides the long distance completions, spectators will watch all of the events in Letzigrund Stadium.
"That's what the Swiss do to psyche themselves up!"
Unfortunately, my husband and I will be on our flight back to the States when the games commence, but we are enjoying watching Zürich gear up for them.
Sunday night, we joined in on the festivities; a crowd of revelers dancing to American tracks spun by a DJ. Well after dark, the music was put on pause for a laser light show projected on the face of the Opera House (WATCH IT!!). A tribute to the European Championships and the home athletes, the animations cleverly incorporated a soundtrack, the building's ornate structure and images of Swiss athletic glories into a mesmerizing show. Not for nothing, the full moon hovering behind a gargoyle adorning the roof was a nice touch.
When we returned the next day, the grounds were in full swing. Besides the obligatory souvenir shop featuring the games' very happy cow mascot, 'Cooly,' there were a few interactive booths opened. We watched a family emulate sprinters on a mini track and adults poised on their backs while grasping a pole to appear as if they were vaulting into the sky via photographic magic.
Das Haus der Schweiz
The House of Switzerland, an ecologically minded showcase of Swiss culture and design has made its debut in Sochi, Milan and now at home in Zürich. The 3-story "home" is still scented by its bare spruce frame and the rustic style is contemporized by rough metallic accents. It's modular structure makes it transportable and reusable.
Text and graphics printed directly onto the wood details sources of national pride such as Swiss multiculturalism, innovation and ecological awareness.
One of the information panels, "We speak Swiss," perhaps can be translated into the Swiss tongue is flexible. Since the Swiss Confederation was not formed until the 19th century, the country recognizes 4 languages of its original linguistic groups-German, French, Italian and Romansh and the post identifies that 23.3% of its 8 million plus people hail from other countries around the world. German is predominant in the Zürich area but many posts and pamphlets are also presented in English-including the House of Switzerland-and we were able to converse with most people we encountered.
Zürich appears to reflect the nation's stats; a bartender at our hotel, the Altstadt called it an international city. The young woman said that although politics has stemmed the flow of immigration, she believes that most Swiss tend to be "open-minded" and folks of all backgrounds are welcomed by the majority of the populace. Walking about the area, we did cross paths with people of many different ethnic backgrounds, some interracial families and LGBT people sans the look of a tourist.
However, our host did say it is mostly native Swiss who hold higher jobs in such industries as banking and many immigrants are in the service sector; this was particularly apparent in grocery stores like The Coop and Migros. Albeit, there may be some income stratification and prices seem exorbitant compared to what I am used to in the States (a couple of British tourists agreed), but perhaps it balances out as a majority of Swiss employers do pay higher rates than most of the world and the unemployment is below 3.5%.
Switzerland and the Zürich Championships boast significant ecologically mindful practices in transportation, wastes and energy. With its extensive railways across the country (that seem as reliable as a Swiss watch in our estimation) and a web of tram-car wires crisscrossing Zürich, "the Swiss are world champions when it comes to rail use…". The House of Switzerland also claims that although it's citizens create a lot of waste, none of it ends up in landfills due to high rates of recycling and the fact that they incinerate the rest of garbage for energy.
According to its website, the games' committee has incorporated a number of efforts to reduce the Zürich Championship's carbon footprint such as including public transportation fees into the tickets and using clean energy to power the stadium. Most notably to me is their commitment to using existing infrastructure to minimize construction projects (as opposed to the disposable Brazilian World Cup stadium in the Amazon).
In general, although I did see things like bottles littered about, it appears to be at a fair minimum and the cities do seem to put forth significant efforts to maintain cleanliness in public spaces. In addition, the throw away mentality seems to be more confined to American chains as eat-in meals at many fast food spots are served on reusable dishes.
Swiss design goes well beyond Swatch watches and new chocolate bars. Zürich is a celebration of old architecture and a fusion of contemporary design that marries clean lines to functionality. Our sanctuary at the Altstadt Hotel is an example; its decor and furnishings are minimalistic, but it is set in the city's medieval district.
Yet the pervasiveness of Swiss progress lies in the numbers inked onto the House of Switzerland; 20 native Swiss have earned a Nobel prize. It is second to only the United States and Japan, respectively, in published academic papers and patents. In addition, over 8,000 parents can currently brag about their children perusing Swiss university degrees in the applied sciences.
The House of Switzerland is a self-celebration of the Confederation's culture, so I'm sure there is more nuances to the facts. Still with a lifespan second only to Japan (again) and high ranking on happiness lists, there must be something to be learned from Swiss society. If you have lived in Switzerland, I would love for you to share your inner perspective.
In the meantime, go Switzerland!
Cool Runnings. WALT DISNEY PICTURES., 1993.
"Ecological Sustainability." Ecological Sustainability. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
"Swiss Facts." News. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Aug. 2014.
Rapperswil: 23 km
Text and Photos by Kimberly Cecchini
We are writing at a table in front of our hotel and an inebriated Spaniard -who works at a Romanian power plant-has taken up residence next to us with a beer cursing about Obama and Putin and his daughter for not yet having a good job. He keeps apologizing, "I'm sorry about my mouth," and then he starts anew, "This hippie shit. Everybody's nice and you'll see that here…it's f—ing stupid."
I keep typing. My husband's more patient. The drunken monologue, if nothing else, is an interesting end note to a day of rambling about.
We had started on a stroll along Lake Zürich in the late morning, stopping to eat lunch on a rock slab where folks were taking dips and sunbathing. We looked over a cartoonish map while we munched and picked out a picturesque bridge -Holzsteg Rapperswil-as a goal for a trek outside the city limits.
We walked and walked through neighborhoods of picturesque homes and cafés lining cobble streets leading back to the lake. Across the busy thoroughfare, apartment buildings and stores climb the side of a hill up to the train tracks. We paused to lounge in small public parks on the shore and peered around the lake's bend to see of we could catch sight of the now fabled bridge. We walked on, until after 3 hours, the suburbs gave way to wineries and goat pastures.
Finally, we saw a sign for the bridge's locale that gave the missing perspective to our 'map': Rapperswil: 23 kilometers
Damn. I just heard our new buddy nail dramatically nail my inner recollection, "It's a cruel world." We turned back towards the city.
But I suppose the world is not so cruel, because we were able to take cover before the downpour and recover our tracks in 15 minutes by way of the city's water taxi.
No Sleep 'Til Zurich
Text and Photos by Kimberly Cecchini
Yes, I swiped a line from the Beastie Boys, but I'm not surprised by my delirium. When you fast forward through time by flying through the night, I feel that your ramblings can be forgiven. Ear plugs, eye masks, a meditation podcast and the dimming of the cabin to simulate nap time never lulls me to sleep with a crooked neck in coach.
So, no, no sleep until Zurich…sleeps.
As the cabin stirred again with stewards, I filled the window with my face to watch as we caught up to the sun's rise somewhere over the eastern Atlantic. The carpet of clouds looked like ocean waves caught in the midst of their wake while the sun burned the edges between clouds and space.
Eventually a crisp blue overtook the darkness. I put aside my inner squeamishness for the sea of single serving package waste and the stream of jet fuel that spewed behind us to reflect on the pinkish hues of the cotton below us. We are suspended in the heavens.
It is still fantastical to me. And utterly unnatural.
Soon we were descending amongst the clouds as they softly whisked about the craft. Dropping closer to the Earth, it appeared like the crisp perfection of a model train landscape. Modern wind turbines dotted the waters, homes wrangled into towns, trees clustered into forests and tiny animals grazed on swaths of astro green farmland.
After debarking in Amsterdam, my husband and I were both patted down for our connecting flight (apparently, taking off your shoes is not necessary anymore?). The short trip over to Zurich is uneventful and I really couldn't peek at the landscape as we land because there is a stranger in the window seat.
First Impressions
Once we retrieved our luggage in Switzerland, we were allowed to walk right out into the country. I found this to be just as unnerving as when my husband and I visited Spain by means of a layover in Germany. This, as I finally looked up today, is due to the Schengen Agreement through which participating European countries share law enforcement information. Albeit trivial, I will admit that we slightly begrudge having Dutch and German stamps in our passports rather than those that represent our travels, but we can't really hate an opportunity to avoid the hassles of customs.
So, yes, we walked right onto Swiss soil and found a train to the Zurich's main station. First impressions? Zurich has the feel of an old European metropolis; quaint old buildings on winding streets interspersed with slick, contemporary design, the particular sound of their emergency vehicles, and the smell of cigarettes that reminds me of how absent they have become in New York over the past decade.
One of my first photos, not surprisingly, we found later to be an icon on the tourist map- but you can't ignore this large curvy woman hanging from the rafters of the transportation hub. Searching for a cheap, first night dinner was a quest as inexpensive offerings are difficult to find at least so far. We settled for Nordsee, a Swiss fast food chain, and it far outranked Red Lobster with its fresh fish options laid out on ice. Although the Swiss-made chocolate bar from the grocery store for dessert was tasty, it turned out to be owned by Nestle.
The highlight so far is our hotel in the old section of Zurich, a boutique spot whose rooms each honor their own persona. The plaque outside our room features Slovenian poet and author Ilma Rakusa. The decor is an article about her in German and a photograph of what appears to be her drawing words on the series of colored rectangles on the far wall.
Right now I'm sitting next to the open windows-yes, open hotel windows, my fellow Americans-on the wide sill; the air is cool and crisp, I can see the clock tower reflected in the river, and I'm listening to chatter from the cafe below, the church bells ringing in unison across the city and a Swiss hip hop artist in the distance.
If my eyes don't just fall closed for exhaustion, I am counting on Zurich to lull me to sleep.


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"Study Classical Persian? Vous êtes sure? Totalement et complètement pointless. You'd better choose something useful. Economics, perhaps?"
This was the advice I received from the Secretariat at Brussels' Université Libre, where I wanted to enrol as an undergraduate, back then. But I stuck to my guns and enjoyed to the full four perfect years of being regarded as a nutcase by outsiders who did not know the exhilaration of studying an extraordinary subject that grows more gripping as it unfolds. We read the rock inscriptions of Darius, the King of Kings, dabbled in Zoroaster's Avesta, discovered the Islamic world empires, the terrifying Turcs and the mind-boggling Mongols. We fell in love with Timur and his extremely sophisticated lineage but the crème de la crème for me were the classes in codicology (study of manuscripts in all their component parts) and those in Persian literature and especially in classical Persian poetry. The antics, tantrums and sometimes heroic deeds of the Shahnama heroes, the tongue-in-cheek humour of Sa'di, Hafez' incomparable elegance and wit…the oh! so depressing nightmares of Sadeq Hedayat. What an opening to Persian culture and to world wisdom!
A few years later, I came back to Persian studies and started a PhD, still in French, still at Brussels. A mad topic: the botanical references within the giant work of the twelfth-century Persian poet, Nizami of Ganja. But the man was so great a poet, so wise a thinker that he filled the five years of my research with more delight than exasperation and sweat. I still consider him a boy-friend to this day! At the end of this research, I was granted a Wiener Anspach postdoctoral fellowship to spend a year at Oxford, following on which I was offered a part-time position as assistant researcher to the big Cambridge Shahnama project while being also appointed lecturer in Persian language, literature and art history at my home university in Brussels. I moved to Cambridge as full-time lecturer in Persian in 2002, when the post was created with the generous endowment of the Soudavar family. Never looked back since!
At the beginning of 2010, I became Trustee and Honorary Secretary of the Ancient India and Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. Anyone who has ever been at the Trust will agree that it is a unique place in Cambridge. Set in a lovely garden (frothing with old roses in May and June!), this gentleman's house, once home to Professor Harold Bailey, has become a centre for scholarly research and for the promotion of popular interest in the Indian Subcontinent, Iran and Central Asia. The AIIT houses a unique collection of books mainly centred on these domains, but spilling over into many neighbouring cultures. It also has a collection of manuscripts well worth perusing and holds Friday-evening talks on cognate subjects as well as seminars and conferences.
I am also Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 14, Stephenson Way, London), member of the Academic Committee of Iran Heritage Foundation, and member of the Management Committee of the Centre for Islamic Studies at Cambridge. In 2017, I became Tutor at the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, giving a Summer Course entitled "Jewelled Pages. The art of the Book in Persia and Japan" with Dr Laura Moretti. We hope to pass on our enthusiasm to a wider audience.
Dr van Ruymbeke teaches intermediate and advanced literary Persian to undergraduate students, bringing to bear her expertise in and love of one of the great canons of world literature
Dr van Ruymbeke welcomes approaches from potential graduate students with research interests relevant to hers. She requests that prospective students email her to discuss their proposed projects before sending in their applications.
I have just completed a monograph on the fifteenth century re-writing in Persian prose of the ubiquitous collection of Persian animal fables, the Kalila wa Dimna tales (Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli. Rewriting Kalila-Dimna in Timurid Herat). My fifteenth-century work, named Anvar-i Suhayli, has suffered virulent criticism both in Iran and in the West and was virtually put in the dustbin of Persian studies. I am thus – how exciting ! – reviving and studying what is tantamount to a forgotten text. It is a Mirror for Princes, containing advice for youths (aged from 7 to 77!) at Court. I have also worked on a series of essays related to this research ("Dimna's Apologia. The Place of Morality in the Trial of a Rhetorical Genius").
Nezami Ganjavi is never far from my thoughts, naturally. In 2011, I edited a volume of essays (A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim. Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa) following on the Nizami conference I organised with Professor Christoph Buergel for the Iran Heritage Foundation in Cambridge in 2004. You will find on my Academia.edu page several further essays (or abstracts of forthcoming essays) dedicated to Nezami.
Current PhD students
|Ms Parwana Fayyaz: Jāmi's Poetics of Vision and Poetry of the Eye in Salāmān va Absāl
|Ms Armaghan Khosravi Nia: To be confirmed


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Book vs Movie: The Crow
This is the first one: a comparison of the graphic novel version of The Crow and the movie version of the graphic novel.
You can find the article here.
In order by author last name.
With more than one work by same author, titles are listed alphabetically
Books with a sequel are numbered.
Series are listed by series title, not by individual books.
Sam Capra's Last Stand by Jeff Abbott Mar. 4th
The Wit and Wisdom of Ted Kennedy by Bill Adler
A Death in the Family by James Agee
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
Tuesday's With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women Series by Louisa May Alcott
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
100 Bullets Series #7-13 by Brian Azzarello
Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker May 12th.
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum
Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Fudge Series by Judy Blume
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
The Last Summer (of You & Me) by Ann Brashares
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series by Ann Brashares
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emilie Bronte
One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
The Princess Diaries Series by Meg Cabot
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky May 14th
The Lost Children by Carolyn Cohagan
The Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer
The Vampire's Promise Series by Caroline B. Cooney
The Janie Johnson Series by Caroline B. Cooney
Ageing Disgracefully by Colin Cotterill
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Airframe by Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1) by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (2) by Roald Dahl
The Courtesan's Daughter by Claudia Dain
Garfield's Pet Force Series by Jim Davis
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Little Book by Selden Edwards
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erikson
The Concubine's Daughter by Pai Kit Fai
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
Beastly by Alex Flin Feb. 1st
Beastly: Lindy's Diary by Alex Flinn
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
Julie of the Wolves Series by Jean Craighead George
The Rizzoli & Isles Series by Tess Gerritsen
Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Dear America: The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Little Girl is Dead by Harry Golden
Circle of the Moon (2) by Barbara Hambly
Sisters of the Raven (1) by Barbara Hambly
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Twin Sisters (1) by Janice Harrell
Twin Terror (2) by Janice Harrell
The Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Mysteries Series by Charlaine Harris
The Hannibal Series by Thomas Harris
The Clique Series by Lisi Harrison
Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith
Daughter of Deceit by Victoria Holt
Snare of Serpents by Victoria Holt
The Iliad (1) by Homer
The Odyssey (2) by Homer
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossini
The Bunnicula Series by Deborah and James Howe
Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos and the Women Who Wear Them edited by Karen L. Hudson
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Friday Night Knitting Club Series by Kate Jacobs
Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
The Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries Series by P.D. James
Reposessed by A.M. Jenkins
Death and the Girl Next Door by Darynda Jones
The Mammoth Book of Killer Women edited by Richard Glyn Jones
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Meowmophosis by Franz Kafka & Coleridge Cook
The Blood of Eden Series by Julie Kagawa
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Caroyln Keene
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
The League Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Emily Windsnap Series by Liz Kessler
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Vampire Hunter D Series by Hideyuki Kikuchi
The Bachman Books by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
Thinner by Stephen King
Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Confessions of a Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The View from Saturday by E.L. Koingsburg
Strangers by Dean Koontz
The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
The Guardians of Ga'Hoole Series by Kathryn Lasky
True North by Kathryn Lasky
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Remedies by Kate Ledger
The Claidi Journals by Tanith Lee
Bizenghast Series by M. Alice LeGrow
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum
Rx by Tracy Lynn
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Feb 14th
The Wicked Years Series by Gregory Maguire
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Babysitter's Club Series by Ann M. Martin
Babysitter's Club Friends Forever by Ann M. Martin
The Babysitter's Club Mysteries by Ann M. Martin
The Babysitter's Club Super Specials by Ann M. Martin
Babysitter's Little Sister by Ann M. Martin
Babysitter's Little Sister Super Specials by Ann M. Martin
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Vegas Vampires Series by Erin McCarthy
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Angela's Ashes (1) by Frank McCourt
'Tis (2) by Frank McCourt
Always and Forever by Lurlene McDaniel
Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel
Don't Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel
For Better, For Worse, Forever (2) by Lurlene McDaniel
Mother, Please Don't Die by Lurlene McDaniel
One Last Wish Series by Lurlene McDaniel
Saving Jessica by Lurlene McDaniel
Six Months to Live by Lurlene McDaniel
Somewhere Between Life and Death by Lurlene McDaniel
Till Death Do Us Part (1) by Lurlene McDaniel
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Wake Trilogy by Lisa McMann
Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood
The Tristan and Isolde Trilogy by Rosalind Miles
All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder by Frank Miller
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
Psychic Warrior by David Morehouse
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix May 22nd (Book 3)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brian
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Alex Cross Series by James Patterson
Witch and Wizard Series by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
The Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Circle Opens Series by Tamora Pierce
Final Friends Trilogy by Christopher Pike
The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Emily the Strange Series by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker
The Mayfair Witches Series by Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Light Before Day by Christopher Rice
Grandma's Attic Series by Arleta Richardson
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
Suspect by Michael Robotham
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Empty Promises by Ann Rule
The End of the Dream by Ann Rule
A Fever in the Heart by Ann Rule
If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
The Lust Killer by Ann Rule
Possession by Ann Rule
Too Late to Say Goodbye by Ann Rule
Holes by Louis Sachar
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar
Amy and Laura by Marilyn Sachs
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History by Richard Shenkman
Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Dread Locks by Neal Shusterman
If I Did I by O.J. Simpso Feb. 4th
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Immortal Life of Herietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy by Maya Slater
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Starr Report by Kenneth W. Starr
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Boyfriend by R.L. Stine
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
Fear Street Series by R.L. Stine
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray
Hitler: The Pictoral Documentary of His Life by John Toland
The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends from Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kriss Waldherr
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren
Jeffs by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
The War of the Roses by Alison Weir
The Dark Disciple Trilogy by Margaret Weis
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1) by Rebecca Wells
Ya-Yas in Bloom (2) by Rebecca Wells
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White
The Chicago Fire Trilogy by Susan Wiggs
The Tudor Rose Trilogy by Susan Wiggs
The Occult: A History by Colin Wilson
The China Syndrome by Burton Wohl
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Slave Trade Trilogy by Susan Wright
The Pen Pals Series by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Gossip Girl Series by Cecily von Ziegesar
Gossip Girl: The Carlyles Series by Cecily von Ziegesa
Adrenaline by Jeff Abbot
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
First Shot, Last Call (100 Bullets Series #1) by Brian Azzarello
Split Second Chance (100 Bullets Series #2) by Brian Azzarello
Hang Up on the Hang Low (100 Bullets Series #3) by Brian Azzarello
A Foregone Tomorrow (100 Bullets Series #4) by Brian Azzarello
The Counterfifth Detective (100 Bullets Series #5) by Brian Azzarello
Six Feet Under the Gun (100 Bullets Series #6) by Brian Azzarello
Cinderella by Titian Beresford
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
Mockery of Justice by Cynthia L. Cooper & Sam Reese Sheppard
Next by Michael Crichton
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Madness of Kings: Personal Trauma and the Fate of Nations by Vivian Green
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
DEAD(ish) by Naomi Kramer
The Limousine by N.T. Morley
Mister Monday (The Keys to the Kingdom Series #1) by Garth Nix
Grim Tuesday (The Keys to the Kingdom Series #2) by Garth Nix
The Crow by James O'Barr
Batman: Cacophony by Kevin Smith


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Lightly covered Italian meringue buttercream cake.
Embellishments such as florals, ribbons and topper provided by customer.
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Amanda Luberto
Amanda Luberto was born in California but considers herself a native to the Valley of the Sun. She started as a producer at KJZZ in October 2017, but also interned in the newsroom as a student. She is a proud alumna of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
She has been interested in radio since starting school in 2013. She spent two years as the music director for ASU's college station, Blaze Radio, and one year as station manager. She spent time as a music programming intern in Washington, D.C., at Sirius XM and as a tech broadcaster for Cronkite News on Arizona PBS. Luberto is dedicated and passionate about quality local storytelling and original content broadcasting.
Luberto also spent years as the co-founder and chapter leader of Arizona State University's chapter of I Am That Girl, an international women's empowerment organization focused on the collaboration of women and building self-love. She believes in the strength of women supporting women.
Her favorite podcast episode is This American Life's "Fermi's Paradox," and she highly suggests you listen to it. Off air, you can find Luberto adding to her list of concerts attended, sipping at a local coffee shop or cheering on the Arizona Coyotes.
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A big number of institutions and office owners base their choice of office furniture on their outward appearance. However, it is always imperative to pay more attention to detail and get to know the kind of materials used to make up the furniture. It is always advisable to get as much information as possible on the construction process of the furniture before placing any orders for items that will not only adorn your office space but serve very vital purposes as well.
Doing some background research on the different materials of furniture available as well as getting expert tips from interior design professionals would be quite helpful in choosing the most appropriate furniture material for your office. Some of the most common materials used to make modern office furniture include wood veneers, glass, melamine-faced chipboard, high-density polyurethane and laminates. Here are some of the most interesting facts that you may not know about the common materials used to construct office furniture.
Wood Veneer Is An Eco-Friendly Material Which Can Easily Be Recycled
Few people take time to consider whether the materials that are utilised to make their office furniture might not be eco-friendly. This is because most of them are more interested in their economic advantages. However, with environmental degradation increasing by the day, it is now important to consider the eco-friendly attributes of any material that we use in the production of items that we use.
Research has shown that making use of wood veneer is friendlier to the environment when compared with using solid hardwoods. This way, less use of natural wood in the production of furniture is possible since only thin wood slices from a log of a tree are utilised. This will conversely reduce the extent of environmental destruction brought about by the cutting of trees. It also allows wood veneer products to appear very unique, contemporary and beautiful, which always comes as an added advantage.
Melamine Faced Chipboard (MFC) Happens To Be The Favourite Material For Furniture In Learning Institutions
Since learning institutions such as schools and colleges happen to have more energetic youngsters, it is important to carefully consider what type of material of furniture is most appropriate in such surroundings. A robust and durable material will be preferable in order to avert any hazards from occurring. This makes MFC the most preferred material used to make furniture meant for learning institutions. It would be financially illogical to choose low-quality materials that are likely to break after a short while.
Glass Materials Have Remained Popular Over Many Years
Most of the offices all over the world still invest in glass furnitures such as tables and desks. Glass has remained quite popular as the material for making office furniture over several decades. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons why glass has consistently remained fashionable might be the fact that it creates an illusion of space. Because it is transparent, glass never blocks the views behind it besides blending well with many other materials that might come along with any furniture made of glass such as marble or wood.


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The University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) will continue to provide mentored research fellowships through a renewed grant for the GloCal Health Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center (FIC).
Managed and supported by UCGHI, the GloCal Health Fellowship enables doctoral and professional students and postdoctoral fellows from the University of California and low- and middle-income countries to spend the year-long fellowship studying diseases and conditions at international research sites in developing countries. Participants are matched with leading global health faculty and investigators from the GloCal Health Fellowship Consortium – comprised of UCSF, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Davis – and top international institutions. The goal of the program is to provide hands-on career development for the next generation of global health leaders.
UCGHI has offered GloCal Health Fellowships since 2012, training more than 70 fellows in the first five-year grant cycle. With the renewed support from FIC, the GloCal Health Fellowship program will offer fellowships for at least five additional years.
Twelve 2017-18 fellows begin their fellowships this month. From examining the role of self-testing in identifying HIV infection in Malawi, to evaluating how reading to infants impacts socio-emotional development in Peru, to investigating the influence of climate change on malaria transmission in Southern Africa, the new fellows are working towards developing transformative solutions to some of global health's toughest challenges.
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Winter is coming and will be here to stay before you know it. Coats, gloves and hats are great, but the best way to stay warm is to stay indoors, so it's time to ensure your heating system stays functioning. In order to keep your heater up and running your appliance will need a yearly maintenance. If your furnace shuts off for seemingly no reason at all, it may be a 10-second fix; however, it may also mean something serious. Here are some quick furnace maintenance tips to keep your furnace up and running throughout the entire winter.
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I hope this isn't the cream of the crop.
Until recently, I was unaware that a rival pinball game existed on the Switch: Pinball Arcade. This collection, from FarSight Studios, featured real-world pinball tables, many from Bally and Williams, that are highly regarded. Sadly, Pinball Arcade recently lost the rights to the Bally and Williams tables, which severely slashed their number of available tables. This is a real shame, but Zen Studios has snatched up at least the Williams tables and are making them available in packs of three or four. Volume 1 includes Fish Tales, Medieval Madness, Junk Yard, and The Getaway: High Speed II. Sadly, only one of these is unambiguously amazing—the rest are kind of dull.
Let's start with the best table: Medieval Madness. This is a long table with a castle centerpiece, several loops, and two "trolls" that pop up in front of the castle and must be knocked down. Your primary goal is to destroy the castle—this is mostly done through hitting it repeatedly. Other goals include looping combos, hitting ramps, and completing loops in order to activate "Madness" states, which feed into the many different versions of Multiball available in Medieval Madness—one of which features a whopping five balls for you to juggle. In real life, this table implemented a feature that would stop the ball from draining between the flippers after a failed ramp attempt. This appears to be replicated in the virtual version, as I had significantly fewer gutter balls than the other three. Medieval Madness is super fun and I've achieved all but one challenge star on it.
I don't want to say that Fish Tales is a bad table, but Fish Tales is a bad table. The layout is strange and not much is there to do. Your main goal is to "catch fish" by hitting targets, and then "exaggerate their size" by hitting a spinner within 10 seconds. Other goals include locking balls to activate Multiball and activating a cute dot-matrix minigame in which you try to shoot down waterskiers but not boats. In real life, this table had shorter-than-regulation flippers (about 1/8 inch shorter apiece). I have to assume that's been replicated here, as I had way more gutter balls (both between the flippers and through the actual gutters) than any other table. Both the One-Ball Challenge and Survival Mode are incredibly frustrating. Fish Tales is a bad table.
Junk Yard is probably the second-best table in this pack; it's fun but weirdly random. Your goal is to build objects with scrap that you "find" in the junkyard. The table features a pinball held aloft by a string that you can hit—it's supposed to be a "crane." A dot-matrix minigame where you try and hit a bulldog with pieces of toast while avoiding a girl is there as well as another minigame where you try to outrun the bulldog by mashing the flipper buttons. I still haven't really figured out Junk Yard, but it's a fun table that holds up well in both One-Ball Challenge and the Five-Minute Challenge. Survival Mode is more of a gamble.
Similarly, The Getaway: High Speed II is hard to work out. The goal seems to be to consistently shoot the ball through loops—one loop leads to a "Supercharger," which is a very cool visual and actually speeds the ball up. Other than trying to lock balls for Multiball, the table doesn't seem to have many other objectives that don't simply result in bonus points. I also had some problems with outside gutter balls here, not as bad as Fish Tales, but gutter balls always feel like robberies. The "Supercharger" feature makes this an interesting table, but I didn't love it.
All of the tables have a toggle between spruced-up Pinball FX3 graphical effects (like a fisherman standing on top of the table or explosion effects on the castle) or simply the original look. Swap between them with the B button at any time. I find that the FX3 effects don't add a lot, and are in some places distracting, so I kept them off. Sadly, all four tables have been censored or changed in some way to comply with Pinball FX3's E rating. This includes removing all references to alcohol or smoking, cleaning up the language in voice samples, and changing some of the cabinet art. I would not have noticed any of these changes had I not become aware of them (the lists of changed content are in each table's "legal" tab), but I'm a bit disappointed because of what it implies for future Williams tables (or Bally tables if Zen gets those, too). For example, given Pinball FX's E rating, we'll probably never see the Elvira tables.
I'm excited to see more Williams tables, as they are consistently praised, but of these four initial releases, I only fell in love with Medieval Madness. Hilariously, you cannot escape Fish Tales, because it will be distributed for free to anyone who already has Pinball FX3. Perhaps they knew nobody would actually buy it?


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Jesus had suffered humanity and their sins for well being of all. Good Friday 2019 comes once every year. This day is celebrated to show respect to Jesus Christ. Good Friday is good because it is as terrible as the day and it had happened for our well-being so that we can receive joy of Easters. People fast the whole day to celebrate the whole day. To celebrate the joy of Good Friday, use the Good Friday Quotes SMS on our website.
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1 In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of Hashem came to me:
vai-HEE d'-var a-do-NAI ay-LAI ba-sha-NAH ha-t'-shee-EET ba-KHO-desh ha-a-see-REE be-a-SOR la-KHO-desh lay-MOR
א וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהֹוָה אֵלַי בַּשָּׁנָה הַתְּשִׁיעִית בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִי בֶּעָשׂוֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ לֵאמֹר׃
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In the final chapter describing Yerushalayim's downfall, the prophet mentions the date of the start of the Babylonian siege of Yerushalayim, describing it as the tenth day of the tenth month. This day, the tenth of the month of Tevet, is one of the four fast days mentioned in Zecharya (8:19) that were instituted after the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, in commemoration of various stages of its destruction. Until today, Jews all over the world fast on the tenth of Tevet, to remember the Babylonian siege of Yerushalayim, to mourn over its destruction and to pray for it to be rebuilt.


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I went to the Meet The Pros meeting from the advertising agency Droga5 starring Lauren Costa, Shannon Washington, and Candice Drakeford. At first I didn't expect much since my concentration isn't really advertising, but it was worthy and enjoyable. There were a lot of people there, usually I've only seen few people in the meetings but I think they did a really good job promoting their event. I did have to stand up since all the seats were taken and I was very tired because I came from work at that time, and I was a little tired. At the end it was all worth it.
These women introduced themselves and then explained how they got into the field, which was not straight out of college or they had the career in mind. They actually got into advertising by accident and realized that was their thing. There was a lot of people in the meeting, including many professors and I was surprised. I even had to stood up during the whole meeting because there weren't seats available.
One thing that I learned from them is that is OK to be uncertain in the beginning, not everyone has everything figured it out. You just go with the flow and you find what you're looking for along the way. Don't give up and keep building skills, which can always be valuable in the end. Even though they were not exactly in the field I want to pursue, I did value their time and opinions.


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Welcome to my brand new website, just launched and this is my very first blog post. As a Hypnotherapist, I work with clients on a variety of issues and its very difficult to condense it down to one page. If you have any issue that you would like help resolving, even if it isn't on the list of things I do, please contact me to discuss.
I love my job, I enjoy seeing the changes in my client at the end of our sessions and hearing from them later on when they come back to tell me how their lives have changed. I am passionate about the benefits of Hypnotherapy and I will use this blog as a way of reaching out to people and showing them that there is a way forward and they can overcome those issues that are holding them back in life.


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This is an irrational sort of feeling, I know, and obviously I'd prefer that too many people want a painting rather than NOBODY, it's way better than the alternative, but nevertheless. Maybe I'll try auctioning off the next one, which usually assuages some of my guilt. (Yeah, yeah, I can hear the jeers now. It's a pretty dumb thing to angst over, I know, like having a phobia of piles of small unmarked bills or something.)
Who knew the rat would be so popular? If I were a clever and canny capitalist, or at least more susceptible to Rafferty's attempts at brainwashing, I would take advantage of this and do a veritable rainbow of happy rats.
Bein' me, I have a sudden urge to paint starnosed moles or something. Somewhere, there's a sketch of a starnosed mole in a trenchcoat saying "That's MISTER Starnose to you!" which is as far as I've ever gotten. (I always kinda wanted to do a sexy starnosed pin-up just to see if anybody would buy it, but y'know...)


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$84,000 for a 12-week treatment course – that's the price for Gilead Sciences' new hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi. While a cure will dramatically reduce cost related to the disease (liver transplant, risk of liver cancer, or cirrhosis) many fear that not all patients will have access to the drug, because of its high cost. Read more here. (Source: Joe Barber, FirstWord Pharma, 3/21/14).
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I think I get a BIG, fat, "F" for this year for blogging. I'm sorry for the lack of update. AHH! So here is the low down on the Guerrero household.
Skyler-Ian: SIR, has been busy with kumon and learning to read and write! He is perfecting his letters, and reading basic words like, "up", "hop". His teacher actually just came up to me and told me that he is doing fantastic! So proud =]
Spencer: Spence, has been a bit of a trouble maker lately. We are looking into putting him into pre-school into the same pre-k program SIR was in when he was 3! For now, Spence is still ALL "monkey see, monkey do."
Katelynn: Our Princess, is officially 3 months old and will be 4 months old on April 1st! She learned to roll on both her left and right side. Is able to pick up her head during tummy time, is babbling tons! A big drooler, and we can spy 2 little top teefies coming in! Dun, dun, dun! She is super chunks too!
Ric: Just recently had sinus surgery! Hallelujah! It was a long road to recovery but, nonetheless We are blessed and excited that he can actually taste, smell, again! Its the little things he took advantage of!
Pinky: For myself, trying to man down the home. Be a fantastic Mom, and a superior Wife! I've been back at work at Pinnacle Family Medicine. So, hence the lack of blogging. HAHA!
The Guerrero family is doing FAB, and busy! Especially, with summer coming up! My lack of blogging and VLogging is really bumming me out. I have tons of footage to edit! haha!
I promise, bear with me. It will all be up soon ;]
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Invite Only – Dick Clark productions and ABC today announced "2018 American Music Awards" performances from 10-time American Music Award-winning icon, Mariah Carey, as well as a collaboration from award-winning record producer and songwriter, Benny Blanco with multiplatinum artist Halsey and global superstar Khalid, who is up for four AMAs this year. These artists join previously announced performers Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Carrie Underwood. Hosted by Tracee
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What's better than attending Coachella? Attending all of the exclusive parties filled with your favorite musicians and other hot celebrities. Interscope Records set the bar over the first of the two-weekend extravaganza with their own festivities built for royalty. Taking over a luxury estate in Palm Springs, CA, the records label brought their A-game to their yearly Coachella party. Artists, tastemakers and industry professionals alike gathered to celebrate the weekend
Benny Blanco and friends including Diplo and Lil Dicky brought there exclusive Friends Keep Secrets rager to Coachella with Cash App. The party, which delivered some of the best twerking music around thanks to Diplo and Simi Haze, took place on Saturday, April 14th at Diplo's private residence in Bermuda Dunes. Kendall Jenner arrived with her crew early in the night. She spent the majority of her time at the
This year's Grammy Awards had plenty of special performances and surprises (Adele – WTF?!) but the best kept secret of music's biggest night was the "Friends Keep Secrets" after party hosted by Diplo, dFm, PizzaSlime, Ciroc and WeTransfer. Raging past 4 a.m. at the Beverly Hills home of mega-producer Benny Blanco, music A-Listers like Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Charli XCX and Mark Ronson came from


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The final concert of the 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers' Competition was held on June 14, 2018 at 6.00 pm at the Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Music Publishing House.
The Competition Jury consisting of: Marta Ptaszyńska (chairman), Ignacy Zalewski (secretary), Sławomir Kaczorowski, Leszek Lorent and Sławomir Zamuszko, after listening to the works qualified for the second stage, namely: Sonata per viola e batteria (emblem That. Rhythm.man), Fraszki durbaszki (emblem of Frapuccino), Landscape Out of Time (emblem of RIFF66TOY4JPY), From the cycle "Study in scarlet – Serpentinato" (emblem Klapancjusz) has decided as follows:
• The Main Prize – Tadeusz Baird Award – in the amount of $2,500 goes to the piece From the cycle "Study in scarlet – Serpentinato" for viola and percussion with a wandering waterphone;
• The distinction goes to Sonata per viola e batteria.
After opening the envelopes, it turned out that the authors of the awarded works are: Kamil Kruk – Serpentinato and Filip Sporniak – Sonata.
The awards ceremony will take place in September during this year's "Warsaw Autumn" festival.
Congratulations to the winners!


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The use of a moored (sitting on the bottom) upward-looking acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) allows to capture hydrodynamics of water column above the instrument. It is also possible to couple those profiles with variations in water depth.
During Fall 2013, Spring 2014, and Fall 2014 acoustic Doppler current profilers were moored in the inner and outer swales of Shoal E, offshore Cape Canaveral, in the Florida Atlantic coast.
Bottom stress shapes the mean circulation patterns, controls sediment transport, and influcences benthic habitat in the coastal ocean. Accurate and precise measurements of bottom stress have proved elusive, in part because of the difficulty of separating the turbulent eddies that transport momentum from inviscid wave-induced motions. Direct covariance measurements from a pair of ADV has proved capable of providing robust estimates. Sherwood et al.
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The comparison below sets out the Health and Social Care Bill's initial proposals as regards competition, what has now changed and some key questions that remain unanswered.
The original proposals in the Health and Social Care Bill
- 'Any willing provider' will be able to provide NHS-funded services.
- Providers to be permitted to offer services at less than the mandatory tariff price.
What has changed in the proposed reforms?
- Any willing provider now called 'any qualified provider' and will be phased in gradually from April 2012.
- Amendments made to outlaw price competition.
- Amendments to outlaw any policy to increase or maintain the market share of any particular sector of provider.
What is still unanswered?
- How will the any qualified provider policy work, will commissioners be able to commission whole pathways of care and how much flexibility will there be for them locally?
- Under fixed prices, how will commissioners extract value for money from providers?
- Will small voluntary sector providers be able to compete with larger providers?


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After months of keeping any hint of romance firmly under wraps between them, it's safe to say Gorka Marquez is no longer being shy about his feelings towards Gemma Atkinson .
The Strictly Come Dancing hunk shared a super intimate snap of the pair in bed together as a snoozing Gemma snuggled up to his topless torso.
Revealing his former co-star - and now girlfriend - was struggling with early starts, Gorka gave an insight into life behind closed doors in the caption too.
Joking about an earlier exchange, he penned: "'Shall we watch a movie Gorka?' "'Yeah OK then,' Then 20 minutes later...," he quipped, adding "4am starts are tough."
While some fans thought the pair, who only went public with their romance last month, looked like the ultimate 'couple goals' in their natural state, others worried what an unsuspecting Gemma would say when she saw the candid snap of her sleeping posted to her other half's social media.
"Gemma is going to kill you!" joked one of Gorka's followers.
"Lovely photo but you are gong to get it when Gemma sees this," another added.
While a third piped up: "I don't see why posting this was necessary Gorka. Some things should be left private... let's hope Gemma doesn't mind this picture being shared over the internet for millions to see. Not impressed at all."
The soap actress and the professional dancer, 27, have become inseparable since they met on the BBC show yet always insisted they were just friends.
Before Strictly started, Gemma was up front that she would be open to finding love on the programme.
She said: "I've been single for ages so there wouldn't be any curse for me. It would be a blessing."
Gemma has previously dated footballers Cristiano Ronaldo, 33, and Marcus Bent, 39, and was linked to Old Trafford legend Ryan Giggs, 44.