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Two Graves (Hardcover)
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To all fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's powerhouse series involving Special Agent Pendergast: Two Graves (no signed copies that I'm aware of but stay tuned, out December 11th) is a must read. For those who are not familiar with their wily, Sherlockian protagonist, this is not the book to start with. I'd say start with Relic or even The Cabinet of Curiosities. What happens in Two Graves is part of an ongoing story arc, and the full impact won't hit unless you're familiar with the characters.
That being said, fellow fans, this is a must-read. I can't say much about the plot because it's ALL spoilers. Let me just pose these two questions: What would it take to get the relentless Pendergast to give up chasing someone who has done him greivous injury? To get Pendergast to give up on everything? And the second part of the question is, what would bring him back once he's made up his mind?
I didn't see the answers to either question coming, and the twists and turns Preston and Child have brought to this story line are breathtaking. Oh, and one of Constance's secrets is revealed. I can't wait to see where Preston and Child take the story next!— Fran
After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.
But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels-perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture-NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta asks his friend Pendergast for help. Reluctant at first, Pendergast soon discovers that the killings are a message from his wife's kidnappers. But why a message? And what does it mean?
When the kidnappers strike again at those closest to Pendergast, the FBI agent, filled anew with vengeful fury, sets out to track down and destroy those responsible. His journey takes him deep into the trackless forests of South America, where he ultimately finds himself face to face with an old evil that-rather than having been eradicated-is stirring anew... and with potentially world-altering consequences.
Confucius once said: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves." Pendergast is about to learn the hard way just how true those words still ring.
About the Author
Douglas Preston is the co-author with Lincoln Child of the celebrated Pendergast series of novels, including such best-selling titles as "Fever Dream", "The Book of the Dead", "The Wheel of Darkness", and "Relic", which became a number one box office hit movie. His solo novels include the "New York Times" bestsellers "Impact", "Blasphemy", "The Codex", and "Tyrannosaur Canyon". His most recent nonfiction book, "The Monster of Florence", is being made into a film starring George Clooney. Preston is an expert long-distance horseman, a member of the elite Long Riders Guild, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has travelled to remote parts of the world as an archaeological correspondent for "The New Yorker". He also worked as an editor and writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. Preston is the Co-president of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the Governing Council of the Authors Guild.
Lincoln Child is the author of "Utopia" and "Death Match, " as well as a number of "New York Times" bestselling thrillers with Douglas Preston. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.
Praise For…
"The names Preston & Child on the cover of a book promise a unique reading experience unlike any other, and Two Graves delivers the high thrills one expects from the two masters...authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have delivered another exceptional book....The gothic atmosphere that oozes from the pages of Two Graves will envelop the reader in a totally unique experience...The mystery tantalizes, and the shocks throughout the narrative are like bolts of lightning. Fans will love the conclusion to the trilogy, and newcomers will seek out the authors' earlier titles."—The Washington Post
"Pendergast--an always-black-clad pale blond polymath, gaunt yet physically deadly, an FBI agent operating without supervision or reprimand--lurks at the dark, sharp edge of crime fiction protagonists."—Kirkus Reviews
"Preston and Child's high-adrenaline 12th thriller featuring maverick FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast wraps up the trilogy that began with 2010's Fever Dream and continued with 2011's Cold Vengeance with a bang....[an] intelligent suspense novel."—Publishers Weekly
"Two Graves provides readers exactly what they would expect from a Preston and Child novel --- thrills, high adventure, treacherous plot twists and well-researched scientific intrigue. The story is never predictable, and Pendergast is a multi-layered personality who keeps you guessing throughout."—Bookreporter.com
"The action is constant and starts with a bang."—RT Book Reviews
"Preston & Child have penned another intriguing and thrilling entry in the Pendergast series. Two Graves is never predictable and full of secrets that will please long-time fans and readers of thriller novels alike!"—New Mystery Reader
"A roller coaster ride of a novel....Preston and Child have a knack for writing nail-biting suspense novels. They do an incredible job making the plot complex. It seems as though ten different things happen at once, and then they masterfully tie everything together in a stunning finish."—Sacramento Book Review
"Another fast-paced murder mystery that crosses the country, dips into Mexico and then wallops Manhattan hotels. It's the perfect holiday gift for that thriller-genre lover in your life."—Asbury Park Press


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Redwall was first published in the UK in 1986 and in the USA in 1987. Brian Jacques wrote the book initially to entertain the children at Liverpool's Royal Wavertree School for the Blind. In 2007 the hardcover of Eulalia! was published to great acclaim by Philomel Books as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of this wonderful series.
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Good Grief! Is it actually 20 years since I first wrote Redwall? Twenty years, matey—two decades, a score, or eighty seasons, as the creatures of Mossflower would say. Do you know, I've enjoyed every moment of it! I feel deeply honored to have been selected by fate as the Recorder of Redwall Abbey, especially now that it is published worldwide—imagine all those different languages, and how many friends I've made. But none more so than my Redwallers in the good old U.S. of A. I really look forward to my annual American tour, what a great place! So, mates, here's to the next eighty seasons. Oh, don't you worry, I'll still be finding more tales for you from the "Redwall" saga, for all my young (and some not so young) friends who love to read them. If I ever do have to retire, I think I'll go to Salamandastron, and become a fierce old Badger Lord. Meanwhile, mateys, you keep reading 'em and I'll keep writing 'em. Just for you!
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According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the health reform law is having a positive effect on personal incomes and spending. According to the BEA, Obamacare accounted for about three quarters of the overall rise in Americans' incomes in January.
Personal incomes rose by 0.3 percent during the first month of the year — and the BEA explains that's partly because of the impact of the health law's consumer benefits. Obamacare's Medicaid expansion increased public health insurance benefits by about $19.2 billion. And the new refundable tax credits under health reform, like the subsidies available to help American purchase new plans in Obamacare's marketplaces, totaled about $14.7 billion.
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Brandon Heat
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First Appearance
Episode 1 "Destroyer in the Dusk"
18 (in street gang)
Voice Actor
Tomokazu Seki (Japanese)
Beyond The Grave
Deceased (turned into Beyond the Grave)
Brandon Heat was the human identity of Beyond the Grave. Once a member of a small time street gang, after meeting Bear Walken, he decides to join Millenion with his best friend Harry McDowell, becoming an expert sweeper and friends with the organisation's leader Big Daddy.
Brandon is a calm, kind, loyal man, despite being raised in the streets. He proves to be intelligent, and is even willing to give up his love to protect her. He is also a person of very few words, instead letting his actions speak for themselves. These personality traits would transition in later on when he became Beyond the Grave.
The Early DaysEditAt the age of 18, Brandon was a member of a small street gang, along with Harry McDowell, Jolice, Kenny and Nathan. Early on in the story, Uncle Jester, a man who raised Brandon's love, Maria, comes under attack by an assassin called Mad Dog Ladd. Jester is killed, along with Kenny and Nathan; Jolice was killed earlier by Ladd as a warning of sorts to others. Brandon and Harry are almost murdered also, but are saved by Bear Walken, who kills Ladd. After Jester's funeral, Maria meets Big Daddy, a friend of Jester and head of a mafia organisation. He wishes to keep this secret from Maria though, and becomes her new caretaker. Brandon decides to join the organisation with Harry, hoping to "buy proper graves" for Jolice, Kenny and Nathan. Being at the lowest level of the lower ranks in the organisation, Brandon worked in getting money from those who owe Millenion from loosing bets on the races. Harry makes 2 friends who he introduces to Brandon, Balladbird Lee and Bob Poundmax. Maria introduces Big Daddy to Brandon, who he befriends quickly, taking him on fishing trips and helping him decide on what to do in his life. One day, during a ball held by Daddy, an assassin came to try and kill Big Daddy but the boss is saved by Brandon, who shoots the assailant but takes a bullet as well. Big Daddy decides to enlist Brandon as a Sweeper, an assassin and bodyguard in the Syndicate.
Brandon Heat, SweeperEdit
Having become a higher ranking official, Brandon began working with Harry in much higher cases, involving actual killings. He meets Bunji Kugashira, a rogue hit-man matching his skill. Bunji joins Millennion after Brandon beats him in hand-to-hand combat, becoming his loyal right-hand man, to the point of calling him "aniki" ("bro" in the English translation).
Brandon then creates True Grave, his own squad in Millennion, lead by him and Bunji. He starts drifting away from Maria, finding it harder to face her every time he kills, not wanting her to know of his work, having been convincing her he was a businessman working with Harry.He and Bunji fight against Blood War and Cannon Vulcan, leaders of a smaller organization called Lightning, who have created prototypes of "Seed" through Dr. Tokioka and the first Orgmen. The Orgmen seem to be resistant to all arms, and all hope seems lost until it is discovered that these Orgmen can only last a week or so before turning to dust. Cannon is killed and Brad Wong takes a sample of Seed, before being shot at by Bear Walken and his team, Overkill. Brandon finishes him with War's own customized revolver, but after this incident, realizes that he is "unable to hear Maria's voice anymore". Three years later, set up to meet with Maria by Big Daddy, Brandon has no choice but to reveal his work as a sweeper to Maria, giving her to Big Daddy and leaving his love to keep her safe. Big Daddy falls in love with Maria and Maria gives birth to their daughter Mika.
Final Days/DeathEditAfter revealing himself to Maria, and revealing to Harry that Maria and Big Daddy were married, Brandon sat with Harry, talking to him about how much had happened in the past 10 or so years. The two visit Jolice, Kenny and Nathan's graves, Harry having forgotten them. Brandon reminds him, and Harry claims he'll buy them large graves, or even buy the entire cemetery. Brandon instead picks up some rocks around, preferring rather to build them larger himself. The two later go on a lift to see Big Daddy, where Harry reveals a plan to kill him. Brandon is shocked, as Harry explains they could both run the organization - he would have power and Brandon would get Maria - both would win. An angered Brandon suddenly lashes out, punching Harry to the ground. He drew his pistol and aimed it clearly at Harry, showing very clearly he would never betray Big Daddy. However, Brandon drops his gun, unwilling to kill his friend, and looks away. Harry calls out to him, and he turns to meet Harry's own pistol. Brandon is shot at in the chest, hitting the lift window, and then suffers other gunshot wounds.Harry runs up to him and sticks his gun on Brandon's glasses, breaking through the lens before firing through Brandon's left eye. The lift window breaks and he falls out of the window to his death.
However, that was not the end of the story. Sometime before this confrontation, Brandon went to visit Dr. Tokioka with an unusual request - that in the event of his death, the doctor was to use the necrolization process on him, mainly to prevent Harry from dragging Millennion further down. Tokioka at first had no intention of awaking Brandon - who he now named Beyond the Grave. However, when the prototype Orgmen that he and Dr. Laguna Glock produced broke out and went berserk, he awakened Grave to deal with them.
Relationships with other charactersEdit
- Mika Asagi (as Grave)
Trivia Edit
In episode 15, Brandon's tombstone indicates that he was born on year 19635 and died on 5th January 19662.


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Now just as it did recently for Superman, DC Comics is releasing a pair of hefty, 400-page hardcover collections that serve as a sort of survey for how the character has been portrayed and functioned in the publisher's comics line during since his first appearance. Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years and The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years aren't exactly the comics equivalents of greatest-hits albums, but they are nice starting points for newcomers and/or casual fans, offering quick, compelling overviews of the title characters through the decades.
The Batman volume, featuring Jim Lee's rendition of the character from the 2003 storyline "Hush" on the dust jacket, must have been particularly challenging to assemble, given the thousands and thousands of pages of Batman comics, featuring dozens of different takes by scores of creators.
Retailing | Shares of Barnes & Noble rose 5.5 percent Wednesday, to $21.69, following the announcement that the bookseller plans to split into two companies, one for its retail stores and the other for Nook Media. Barron's suggests those plans could buoy stock prices for a while, as long as the company doesn't change its mind (again) about the split. The magazine also notes the possibility that an outsider buyer could make a bid for the retail stores before the split takes place, leaving Barnes & Noble with the Nook, which will be combined with the company's successful college-bookstore operations. [Barron's]
Manga | Inspired by a line of T-shirts featuring the work of the manga artist Jiraiya, Guy Trebay talks to Anne Ishii and Chip Kidd about the popularity of hard-core gay manga, such as the work of Gengoroh Tagame, in the United States. [The New York Times]
Penn State's University Libraries have acquired the archives of graphic designer and author Chip Kidd. A Pennsylvania native, he graduated from the school's graphic design program in 1986.
Renowned for creating the jackets for such books as Michael Chricton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, David Sedaris' Naked and Gerard Jones' Men of Tomorrow, Kidd also designed the covers for Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Vertical Inc.'s Osamu Tezuka line, and Dave Gibbons' Watching the Watchmen. Kidd also wrote Batman: Collected, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan and the 2012 graphic novel Batman: Death by Design.
Next fall, Fantagraphics will publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, featuring stories by an array of well known Japanese manga creators, many of whom have never been published in English before.
Massive was originally slated to be published by PictureBox, but the company closed its doors at the end of 2013 and Fantagraphics acquired the book as part of its queer comics line. Translators Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins and designer Chip Kidd will remain on the book at its new home; the three also worked on The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, a collection of gay manga that PictureBox published last year to great acclaim.
The creators whose work is represented in the book are Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Gai Mizuki, Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, and Kumada Poohsuke.
We talked to Ishii and Kolbeins about their work and the gay manga genre in Japan and the United States.
I attended a small, perpetually broke Catholic high school that couldn't afford to employ a guidance counselor. If we could have afforded one, it's highly unlikely it would've been Neil Gaiman, as nice as that might have been.
At the time I was nearing graduation and about to go off to college to earn an expensive degree in pursuit of my lifelong — all 18 years of it — ambition to be a writer, Gaiman was just the writer of The Sandman (and a few other pretty great comics), and was, in fact, nearing the final story arc of that seminal series. At that point in my life, I certainly would've liked advice from the writer of one of my favorite comic series.
In the years since, Gaiman's bona fides have only increased. In addition to writing comics, he's written novels for adults and kids, he' s written picture books, he's written screenplays, he's seen his works adapted into television and film, and he's enjoyed the rarefied position of being a writer whose works are not only popular, but acclaimed, as well as being almost universally beloved in the field of comics, an industry with more than its fair share of crooks and cranks, of drawn daggers and venom.
Who better to offer advice to a young person about to embark — or at least attempt to embark — on a life in the arts, particularly a young person who would like to be a successful, professional writer of quality fiction? Someone who might want to grow up to be someone like, say, Neil Gaiman?
There's a nice, if too-short, video interview with graphic designer, author and comics writer Chip Kidd conducted last month at AGI Open London and which he discusses book-jacket design — he's behind those for Jurassic Park, The Secret History and Black Hole, among countless others — and, yes, his lifelong obsession with Batman (first documented in 1996's Batman Collected).
Of course, Kidd isn't merely a fan of the Dark Knight: He teamed with artist Dave Taylor on the 2012 graphic novel Batman: Death by Design.
"I've written a Batman graphic novel. That's a completely different thing," Kidd says in the video. "That's the most fun, because you're adding to the legacy of the character, and it's challenging because after 75 years, it's like, what do you do that hasn't been done, or that you feel you haven't seen."
He might have a common name, but he's got an uncommon talent. British artist Dave Taylor is working on his childhood hero Judge Dredd for 2000AD, and on his blog he recently revealed a great unpublished cover he had in mind for Batman: Death by Design, the 2012 graphic novel he collaborated on with Chip Kidd called Batman: Death by Design. The piece, which Taylor calls a "feel sample," designed to convey how the book might look.
The final cover featured a more marketing-friendly headshot of Batman, but this unpublished gem deserves to be seen.
DC Comics will resurrect its well-regarded anthology Batman: Black and White beginning in September with six double-sized issues.
Originally published in 1996 as a four-issue miniseries, the anthology was the brainchild DC's Vice President of Art Direction & Design Mark Chiarello, then a Batman Group editor, who sought out such top creators as Bruce Timm, Joe Kubert, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neil Gaiman, Ted McKeever and Katsuhiro Otomo to offer their own interpretations of the Dark Knight — in black and white.
The concept was revived in 2000 as a series of backup features in Batman: Gotham Knights, featuring contributions by the likes of Alex Ross, Paul Dini, Warren Ellis, Jim Lee, Chris Claremont, Paul Pope, Steve Rude, Harlan Ellison, Paul Grist, Darwyn Cooke, Jill Thompson and Mike Mignola. That title ended in 2006, but several Batman: Black and White have since been adapted as motion comics by Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment, and inspired numerous statues released by DC Direct.
According to the solicitation text provided to MTV Geek, September's Batman: Black and White #1 will feature stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee. Priced at $4.99, the 48-page first issue is scheduled to arrive Sept. 4.
BuzzFeed has debuted the Chip Kidd-designed covers for DC Comics' four Before Watchmen hardcover deluxe editions, which arrive this summer.
A renowned designer and art director, Kidd is widely known for creating the jackets for such books as Michael Chricton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, David Sedaris' Naked and Gerard Jones' Men of Tomorrow. However, he's also worked extensively in the comics arena, designing the covers for Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Vertical Inc.'s Osamu Tezuka line, and Dave Gibbons' Watching the Watchmen (for which he also designed the interiors), as well as the logos and trade dress for All-Star Superman and All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. Most recently, Kidd created a variant cover for Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3.
Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre and Before Watchmen: Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair arrive in comic stores June 26 and July 2 everywhere else; Before Watchmen: Nite Owl/Dr. Manhattan and Before Watchmen: Comedian/Rorschach go on sale July 10 in comic stores and July 16 everywhere else.
Publishing | Todd Allen analyzes the sales of DC Comics' New 52 titles from their September 2011 launch to the past month. Sales of any series tend to drop off from one issue to the next — Allen compares it to radioactive decay — and when the numbers drop below 18,000 for a couple of titles, DC tends to cancel them in batches and start up new titles to replace them. That plus crossovers and strong sales of some flagship titles has kept the line fairly stable until recently, but as Allen notes, the replacement titles tend to crash and burn pretty quickly, and overall sales have dipped a bit. [Publishers Weekly]
History | David Brothers has a great column for Black History Month, featuring Krazy Kat, All-Negro Comics and other titles by black creators. [Comics Alliance]
Events | Richard Pachter surveys the graphic novel scene at Miami Book Fair International, which this year will include appearances by Chris Ware, Derf Backderf, Marjorie Liu, Dan Parent and Chip Kidd, among others. [The Miami Herald]
Events | A group of Canadian creators and publishers are in Tokyo right now for the International Comics Festa, where they are selling an anthology that includes work by Darwyn Cooke, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Seth. Manga blogger Deb Aoki is there too, and she has all the details. [About.com]
Last Wednesday saw the release of Batman: Death by Design, a new graphic novel by Chip Kidd, writer and publication designer for the project, and artist Dave Taylor. Kidd has a rich background in designing book jackets and graphic novel projects, including Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Schulz and Peanuts, Jurassic Park, the Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again collection and many more. He also is a novelist and a musician, and even helped write an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Taylor, meanwhile, has been drawing comics for a few decades now, having worked on Force Works, World's Finest, The Shadow of the Bat, Tongue*Lash and Judge Dredd, among many others
Here's a description of the plot, as written by CBR's Jeffrey Renaud in an introduction to an interview with Kidd:
Set in the 1930s, Death by Design explores Gotham as it undergoes one of the most expansive construction booms in the city's history. Inspired by two real world events — the demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station in 1963 and the fatal construction crane collapses in midtown Manhattan of 2008 — Kidd asks what if, despite the years separating the incidents, they were somehow connected? And what if they happened in Gotham City, during a glorious golden age when a caped crusader protected its streets?
So what did folks think about it? Here are a few opinions from around the 'net:
Stefan Fergus, Civilian Reader: "Before picking this up, I had only seen one preview page, and I was really intrigued by the style and story – it looked gloomy and atmospheric, which are two things I've always associated with Batman. As it turns out, my initial impressions were right on the money, and I'm really glad I bought this – this is a great detective/investigative story, rendered in some truly wonderful artwork. Very impressive."


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Emirates Office Tower
|Emirates Office Tower
|Emirates Tower One
Emirates Office Tower, along with Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel
|General information
|Dubai, United Arab Emirates
|25°13′03″N 55°17′00″E / 25.21750°N 55.28333°ECoordinates: 25°13′03″N 55°17′00″E / 25.21750°N 55.28333°E
|Construction started
|354.6 m (1,163 ft)[1]
|311 m (1,020 ft)
|Top floor
|241.4 m (792 ft)[1]
|Technical details
|Floor count
|Floor area
|100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft)
|Design and construction
|Hazel W.S. Wong Norr
Group Consultants Int. Ltd.
The Emirates Office Tower, also known as Emirates Tower One, is a 54-floor office building along Sheikh Zayed Road in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Connected with the 56-floor Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel by a retail boulevard, the two towers form what is commonly referred to as the Emirates Towers complex. The tower has a total structural height of 354.6 m (1,163 ft) and roof height of 311 m (1,020 ft), making it the 23rd-tallest building in the world.[3] The Emirates Office Tower One is taller than the neighboring Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, but has two fewer floors. Construction of the building was completed on November 3, 1999.
Design and Style[edit]
The Emirates Office Tower is located in the financial centre of Dubai. The Emirates Towers complex designed by NORR represents modern business age architecture. Two equilateral triangles are one of their kind in Dubai. The tower consists of three large core walls. The walls support the load transferred at four levels by large steel trusses, which are connected to the cores with the aid of post tensioning and shear stud connection. A curved wall rising almost the whole height of one face of the triangular building provides a view of the city. Emirates Office Tower building is surrounded by clad in silver aluminium panels, silver and copper reflective glass. Flanking each tower at the base is a low curvilinear structure, that houses parking and service elements. Both towers rise from a terraced podium featuring a boutique retail mall, restaurants, and cafes with leasable retail area of 80,730 sf (7,500 sm), at the three storey base. Landscaping is an integral feature of the design with undulating land forms, water features, and a variety of plants creating a unique development in downtown Dubai.[citation needed] Located along the Sheikh Zayed road the buildings are one of the most distinctive pairs of skyscrapers. The buildings were designed by NORR's concept. They were the winning entry in the international design competition.[citation needed] Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice-President, the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai was the owner of the project. He requested that the project frame would be of the existing World Trade Center tower. The Emirates Tower One was built by his late father Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Completing this project became challenging to due strict indications for the client.[citation needed] For design and construction the architects were given 52 months. Leading architect – NORR Group have collaborated with engineers from Canada, UK, and Australia to design and build the towers. Completion of Emirates Office Tower has been with satisfactory approved by the owners. Currently accommodates the Private Office of His Highness Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Many international organizations and companies, including: Cartier, Rolls Royce, BMW have chosen the Emirates Office Tower as their business location. Emirates Tower Complex has a specific lightning design for the building at dusk. Dimming luminaires, switching lighting circuits, exterior and interior creates an illumination on the building.
See also[edit]
- List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
- List of tallest freestanding structures in the world
- List of tallest buildings in Dubai
- List of tallest office buildings in the world
- Emirates Towers
- ^ a b c d e "Emirates Tower One - The Skyscraper Center". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
- ^ Emirates Office Tower at SkyscraperPage
- ^ "100 Tallest Buildings in the World". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
External links[edit]
- Emirates Tower One on CTBUH Skyscraper Center
- Emirates Office Tower on Emporis (General database of skyscrapers)
- Emirates Office Tower on SkyscraperPage (Diagrams of skyscrapers)
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An Inspiring Life Lesson
An Inspiring Life Lesson
She felt alone in the aftermath of an auto accident, but was she alone when it happened?
Summer was supposed to be free of worries for a high school grad like me. No studying, no homework–at least not till I went away to college in the fall. I even had a good secretarial job at an industrial company so I could go off with some money in my pocket.
But one afternoon, while I tried to concentrate on entering orders into my computer, doubts crowded in: I'd never been on my own before. I was shy. I'd always lived in the same small town. How would I make it out there in the big, scary world?
I knew Mom would remind me that my guardian angel would be by my side, but I was getting a little too old for that kind of reassurance.
"See you tomorrow," I said to my supervisor before clocking out. I pushed open the warehouse door and headed outside to the parking lot. Mom's little silver Toyota shone in the blazing sun. Mom had saved a long time to buy it, her pride and joy. I got behind the wheel and headed home.
Then everything went black.
I opened my eyes in a strange room. Mom was there. I tried to sit up, but I couldn't move. I was freezing cold. My whole body was sore. My head felt like iron–too heavy to lift.
"What happened?" I mumbled.
"You were in an accident," Mom said. "Everyone's okay. Rest." I fell back to sleep, barely understanding her words.
Hours later a nurse helped me to shuffle into the bathroom for the first time. I stared into the mirror. Thirty-some stitches held my face together; smaller cuts marred the spaces in between.
My guardian angel sure wasn't by my side in the accident, I thought.
Still, compared to what I'd done, my face was nothing. Mom and the police officers had finally told me the truth: The accident was all my fault. I'd made the worst mistake of my life. Witnesses had seen me make a left turn on Route 37–right into the path of a white van going 60 miles per hour.
My Toyota–Mom's almost-new silver Camry–spun out into someone's front yard. I was knocked unconscious. Miraculously, the driver of the van wasn't hurt. No one was, except me.
About a week after I was released from the hospital, a police officer came to the house, citing me for the accident and assigning me a court date.
"You're lucky you didn't have a passenger in that car," he said.
"We have a lot to be thankful for," Mom said. She put her arm around my shoulder.
I still had no memory of the crash. I just knew that I could never make up for my mistake. I could see it on the policeman's face. I'd frightened a lot of people, caused a lot of damage. God must be so disappointed in me.
Mom and I went to see her car before it was junked. The passenger door was completely smashed in.
"It's just a car," Mom said. "What's important is that you're okay. Everyone's okay." That policeman was right about how lucky I was not to have had a passenger.
"What's this?" I said, reaching through the broken window. On the seat was a bandana. Like everything else in the car, it was covered in blood.
"That must belong to the man who helped you," said Mom. "Remember, I told you about him."
One of the witnesses at the scene was a man on a motorcycle. He'd stayed with me, trying to clean my face with his bandana, until paramedics arrived.
"We should wash this and return it to him," said Mom. I knew she was looking for something, anything, I could do to feel better about myself. Maybe this would help.
Finding the man turned out to be easy enough. He worked at a barber shop not far from the site of the accident. Mom and I dropped in and waited until he was between clients.


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