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5'-AMP-activated protein kinase activity and protein expression are regulated by endurance training in human skeletal muscle
Frøsig, C., Jørgensen, S. B., Hardie, D. G., Richter, Erik A. & Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, 2004, I: American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. 286, 3, s. E411-E417
AMPK activity and isoform protein expression are similar in muscle of obese subjects with and without type 2 diabetes
Højlund, K., Mustard, K. J., Stæhr, P. A., Hardie, D. G., Beck-Nielsen, H., Richter, Erik A. & Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, 2004, I: American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. 286, 2, s. E239-E244 6 s.
Richter, Erik A. & Galbo, H., 2004, I: International Diabetes Monitor. 16, 5, s. 1-9
Differential effect of bicycling exercise intensity on activity and phosphorylation of atypical protein kinase C and extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase in skeletal muscle
Richter, Erik A., Vistisen, B., Maarbjerg, S. J., Sajan, M. P., Farese, R. V. & Kiens, Bente, 2004, I: Journal of Physiology. 560, 3, s. 909-918
Galbo, H. & Richter, Erik A., 2004, International textbook of diabetes mellitus. DeFronzo, R. A., Ferrannini, E., Keen, H. & Zimmet, P. (red.). 3. Ed. udg. Chichester, England: IEEE Computer Society Press, Bind 1. s. 771-794
Exercise signalling to glucose transport in skeletal muscle
Richter, Erik A., Nielsen, J. N., Jørgensen, S. B., Frøsig, C., Birk, J. B. & Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, 2004, I: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 63, 2, s. 211-216
Gender differences in substrate utilization during submaximal exercise in endurance-trained subjects
Roepstorff, C., Steffensen, C. H., Madsen, M., Stallknecht, Bente Merete, Kanstrup, I., Richter, Erik A. & Kiens, Bente, 2004, Regulation of lipid utilization in human skeletal muscle during exercise: Insights from studies on gender comparison and substrate availability. Roepstorff, C. (red.). Copenhagen: Institut for Idræt, Københavns Universitet, s. 97-110
Interstitial glycerol concentrations in human skeletal muscle and adipose tissue during graded exercise
Stallknecht, Bente Merete, Kiens, Bente, Helge, Jørn Wulff, Richter, Erik A. & Galbo, Henrik, 2004, I: Acta Physiologica (Print Edition). 180, 4, s. 367-377
Knockout of the alpha2 but not alpha1 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase isoform abolishes 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-beta-4-ribofuranoside- but not contraction-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle
Jørgensen, S. B., Viollet, B., Andreelli, F., Frøsig, C., Birk, Jesper Bratz, Schjerling, P., Vaulont, S., Richter, Erik A. & Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, 2004, I: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279, 2, s. 1070-1079 10 s.
Muscle- and fibre type-specific expression of glucose transporter 4, glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase proteins in human skeletal muscle
Daugaard, J. R. & Richter, Erik A., 2004, I: Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology. 447, 4, s. 452-456
Regulation of hormone sensitive lipase activity and Ser563 and Ser565 phosphorylation in human skeletal muscle during exercise
Roepstorff, C., Vistisen, B., Donsmark, M., Nielsen, J. N., Galbo, H., Green, K. A., Hardie, D. G., Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, Richter, Erik A. & Kiens, Bente, 2004, Regulation of lipid utilization in human skeletal muscle during exercise: Insights from studies on gender comparison and substrate availability. Roepstorff, C. (red.). Copenhagen: Institut for Idræt, Københavns Universitet, s. 111-123
Roepstorff, C., Vistisen, B., Donsmark, M., Nielsen, J. N., Galbo, H., Green, K. A., Hardie, D. G., Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, Richter, Erik A. & Kiens, Bente, 2004, I: Journal of Physiology. 560, 2, s. 551-562
The alpha2-5'AMP-activated protein kinase is a site 2 glycogen synthase kinase in skeletal muscle and is responsive to glucose loading
Jørgensen, S. B., Nielsen, J. N., Birk, Jesper Bratz, Olsen, G. S., Viollet, B., Andreelli, F., Schjerling, Peter, Vaulont, S., Hardie, D. G., Hansen, B. F., Richter, Erik A. & Wojtaszewski, Jørgen F P, 2004, I: Diabetes. 53, 12, s. 3074-3081 8 s.
AMPK and insulin action: Responses to ageing and high fat diet
mTORC2 and AMPK differentially regulate muscle triglyceride content via Perilipin 3
Circulating FGF21 in humans is potently induced by short term overfeeding of carbohydrates


Don't be fooled by the chilly weather outside, because pool party season is only a few weeks away!
As the 2019 calendar takes shape, we're starting to get a clear look at the return of your favorite dayclubs. It all kicks off with Marquee Dayclub on March 1st, who will feature Lema, M!ke Attack and Andrew Rayel in the first few weeks. One day later, Encore Beach Club opens, with headlining acts that include Lost King, Diplo, Flosstradamus and RL Grime. That brings us to Liquid Pool, which will open its doors on March 8, complete with events hosted by DJ Buza, Cutswell, DJ Phoreyz and DJ Scooter.
Unfortunately, clubs like Wet Republic, Daylight Beach Club, Drai's Beach Club and TAO Beach have yet to announce their summer calendar. We're expecting news from all of those clubs in the coming days, so keep your eyes on this page for update information.
As always, MyRSVP is the easiest and most convenient way to book VIP tables, bottle service and private cabanas at all of the top day and nightclubs in Las Vegas and beyond.


Chapters are the focus for local activities. Each chapter selects their own officers and coordinators and plans activities to suit their membership needs and desires. There is no set venue other than to serve the VCOA members within the chapter area. Please email Ryan Ottochian for information on forming a chapter in your area. He will be happy to provide information and assistance on chapter formation as well as event and activity planning.


In the meantime, Fortus is happy to try something as loose and spontaneous as Headtronics.
The trick to GNR-speak is to identify the noncommittal signifiers. When you see them, you know that the opposite of the attached statement is the objective truth.
Attached Statement = "We're gonna [...] get an album out soon."
Objective Truth = "We're not gonna get an album out soon."
His choice of tone is awful.
This kind of thing reminds me of posts like Rovim or wcuck who always claimed NuNuNuGNR was a real band and everyone had a say on everything, Fortus' input mattered, Dizwald's input mattered, etc. Of course it is the same with Slash and Duff back but at least I never believed anything would change.
I was gonna say, I remember him saying that and thinking "ha, more like 2014!"
I wish this was real... I'd buy it.


Being a part of NAC's cohort has helped our grassroots coalition build tactful capacity-building strategies, many of which we were able to apply immediately to our programs that we run, including our bi-annual education summit. We also feel better equipped as an organization transitioning into a 501©(3) thanks to NAC's coaching and trainings which has provided us tools for capacity building and templates to help our formalization process.
NAC opened up, created, and provided space for our group to develop our program into a nonprofit organization. NAC provides technical support, one on one coaching, and cohort gatherings for training of common struggles with other organizations. I absolutely love the work that this team stands for. Amazing work and amazing team.


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The AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match was a one-off all-star game between two representative sides organised by the Australian Football League to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Australian rules football. The match was intended to celebrate the contribution of State of Origin and interstate matches to the history of the code.

The match was played on 10 May 2008 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, between Victoria (the "Big V") and the "Dream Team", with a crowd of 69,294 in attendance.Victoria won the match by 17 points: 21.11 (137) to 18.12 (120).

Background

In 2007, the AFL announced that it would support a return of the State of Origin concept as a once-off carnival as part of the 150th anniversary of Australian rules football scheduled for 2008. The format of the carnival was not announced at this early stage.

The media featured several opinions on how the series could work without unduly interrupting the AFL season. There were suggestions that each state be individually represented, with a two division format to ensure that there would be no one-sided matches between the stronger states and the weaker states, and there were also suggestions for Victoria to be divided into separate Metro and Country, both of which are features of the annual AFL Under-18 Championships.

Many of the options that the AFL considered featured composite teams of weaker states, similar to the Allies team which represented Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory collectively during State of Origin series in the 1990s.

By December, the vision for a full carnival had been reduced to a single all-star match, to be played between Victoria and the Dream Team, a composite team of all other states, territories and countries, on a State of Origin selection basis. The match would be held as a stand-alone match on the weekend between Rounds 7 and 8, on Saturday 10 May.

South Australia's Graham Cornes was critical of the format, saying that it deprived non-Victorian players of the honour of wearing a state guernsey. He felt that each state should have been given the opportunity to field their own team.

Amid concerns over player participation, the AFL considered introducing penalties for selected players who refused to participate. Instead, players were paid A$5,000 each to compete in the match, and the players agreed to donate the money to the AFL Players Association to be to distributed to three charities, a special past players fund, the Ladder program to combat homelessness and RecLink, which funds football leagues in remote communities in the Northern Territory.

In early 2008 the AFL announced the full details of the match and branded it as the "AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match", deliberately distancing it from the former State of Origin series. It promoted the event by announcing two captains would be Jonathon Brown (Victoria) and Andrew McLeod (Dream Team).

Victoria wore its traditional navy blue guernsey with a white V. The Dream Team wore a predominantly white guernsey, with beige cuffs and collars, and blue numbers and side panels; the names of 1246 community and grass-roots football clubs competing within the Australian states and territories eligible for the Dream Team were also included in small beige text across the front.

Squads

In April 2008 the AFL announced 40-man squads for both teams, which would later be trimmed to 25 per side. All AFL teams except Essendon and Melbourne had at least one player selected in one of the sides. The match was played with an extended interchange bench of seven players instead of four.

Several high-profile players pulled out of the match in the final weeks before the game. Gary Ablett Jr, Nick Dal Santo and Brad Johnson pulled out for Victoria, while Luke McPharlin and Irishman Tadhg Kennelly dropped out for the Dream Team.

Final teams

List

Allen Aylett Medal

The Allen Aylett Medal for best on ground was awarded to Brendan Fevola, who kicked six goals for Victoria.

Scorecard

See also
2008 AFL season
State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match – contested in 2020 to raise funds for the recovery efforts following the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season

References

External links

 Official 150 years website

Australian Football League
Australian rules football games
Australian rules football State of Origin
Hall of Fame
History of Australian rules football

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I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Shanghai in China to install our very first Mainland China installation! This was undertaken for a new company called Mini Storage Shanghai. Mini Storage Shanghai is located in Pudong, Shanghai, China and is a new construction which is, essentially, in the "western" part of Shanghai and has a large ex-pat community to support it.
This operation is unique for a couple of reasons; the first being that it's one of about two "real" Self Storage facilities in Shanghai and, more importantly, it is Shanghai's first purpose built multi-level facility. The property consists of four floors of storage with around 150 units on each floor, giving a maximum start-up of around 600 units.
Secondly it is the only self storage facility in Shanghai to be wholly owned by foreigners. Manuel Mauritz, one of the owners and the person who I worked with to bring the installation to fruition, is Austrian and comes from a family that has extensive self storage knowledge. Manuel and his business partner are using this knowledge to start to change the Self Storage landscape in Shanghai with plans to expand across Shanghai and eventually the rest of China.
Manual explained that using a proven self storage model is important, because it provides consistency of message to your customer and allows the building of your brand. This is, of course, the aim for Manuel and Mini Storage Shanghai as they grow.
With 100 million people in China's middle class (a number that's growing rapidly), self storage makes sense in Shanghai as it will provide a service that I believe that, once understood, will be in very high demand as this middle class starts to exercise its buying power and realise that they can too have "the toys" without having to keep them at home.
Storman is, as always, proud to be associated with any new self storage venture and I am sure that all of you will welcome Manuel and his team into the self storage community and wish them well as they face developing a whole new market. Thank you for choosing Storman, Manuel – and we all wish you well.


With back to school just around the corner and the opioid crisis resulting in a record number of overdoses and emergency room visits, now is as good a time as any to open, or reopen, the dialogue of how to talk to your kids about drugs.
Which communication approaches work and which do not work when engaging in conversations with our kids about substances? Why do people use substances?
When engaging our kids in conversation about substance use, it serves us as parents to know the differences between substance use, misuse and abuse.
First off, let me clarify what I mean by use, misuse and abuse.
So, how to talk to your kids about drugs?
Understanding the difference between use, misuse and abuse is important because it guides parents towards real and factual conversation about drugs and alcohol. A common trend for parents when discussing drugs with their kids is to embellish and provide overwhelmingly negative data with the hope that this information will serve as enough of a deterrent to scare their children away using drugs and alcohol.
These scare tactics serve only to present the parent's position to our children as unauthentic, disingenuous and dishonest. Once you lose credibility with regards to topics as important as this, it is very hard to regain their ear let alone their trust. The scare tactic approach results in most subsequent dialogue being dismissed in the future.
I have years of experience working with youth ages 10 to 25. As a father of two adult children and with my experience talking to kids in the classroom and in the addiction treatment environment, I can tell you that the Regan era Just Say No and This is Your Brain on Drugs methodologies do not work.
Eggs fry as soon as they touch a hot surface, but what does this have to do with kids who have seen their friends smoke a joint or drink a beer and nothing bad happened? An egg and a hot pan are very different than a person's brain and a beer, or a brain and a benzodiazepine. This information serves as a disconnect from reality and the underlying message is both lost and discredited almost instantly.
When a parent presents the notion that if you smoke marijuana, you will lose your memory, never be motivated to be successful or ruin your life, it discredits from the possible life experiences that the youth may know. A person who already uses or has used marijuana, that did not lose their memory, they didn't die, they didn't quit school or work and that person may even be quite successful.
What happens next is that the parent's view of the substance comes into question and then is often disregarded as nothing more than a manipulative tactic to further control and to have decisions made for them. During your discussion with your child about drugs, it's important to include a balance in the information. This helps to prevent your discussion as being viewed as biased and with an ulterior agenda.
The question that needs to be answered: What do people get from using drugs?
It seems very unlikely that the number of people that abuse substances would do so if all that happened were the short and long-term negative effects, deteriorating health and other adverse consequences. Although there is a high probability of these aforementioned symptoms occurring with substance abuse, it only presents as part of the story. Despite these negative effects and consequences, what is glaringly absent from the majority of discussions with our kids is What do people get from using drugs?
People use drugs as a solution to an already existing problem, malady or situation. Having a discussion with your child about the reasons people use drugs can be even more important then the discussion about the substance itself.
While substance use is often attributed to escaping or numbing from something painful (feelings, emotions, physical pain), sometimes the core or underlying issue can be boredom, celebration, thrill seeking and or the need for chaos.
As a Certified Addictions Counselor, when I am learning about a client in a one on one session, many times I hear "I was a good kid, from a good family, I had everything provided for me and I never experienced any kind of traumatic event… I don't understand why I feel the need to use?".
When identifying underlying issues, for which substance abuse is the symptom of, it sometimes becomes quite apparent quickly as to why a person is using drugs or alcohol. Sometimes we must delve a little deeper however. Issues of mental health can take some time to identify but talking together is the best way to understand. Observing patterns of when a person uses, in which situations, and what feelings and emotions they are experiencing prior to use is very critical.
With this healthy dialogue, we will get a better understanding of why the youth is using….
Is it after getting a good mark on an exam?
Receiving acceptance from their peers?
Is it when there was nothing else to do?
These are important discussions to have with your child. Even if your child hasn't used substances in the past these discussions prepare them for situations that they might find themselves in in the future.
Talking also serves to help your child begin to learn about themselves more. What makes them tick. To begin to be introspective towards identifying how they have dealt with emotions feelings and situations in the past and to evaluate how they could manage these things in the future.
It gets them talking, it gets them thinking. Adolescents are much more likely to make healthy decisions for themselves if they themselves feel that the decision is being made by none other than themselves.
Part of youth development is being able to explore one's independence and revelling in the idea of making one's own decisions. For many kids, teens and young adults, most decisions in their life have been made for them, on their behalf, or for their best interests.
When it comes to substances, this is often viewed by youth as an opportunity to make a decision for themselves independently of their parents or authoritative caregiver.
So how do we talk to our kids then?
Like any conversation, it is best to be as prepared as possible by educating yourself. In this digital age, kids are more informed than ever before about the pharmacology and the biological effects of different substances. Kids may have the knowledge base to experts about the substances you are about to engage a conversation about. Some might even have the recipes and formulas to manufacture certain drugs!
Know the language, know some facts about the substance that you are going to discuss.
Secondly, speak to your kids in the present tense. Kids live in the here and now.
Brain development in the Prefrontal Cortex is still under construction until a person is approximately in their mid twenties. The Prefrontal Cortex is the part of the brain is what weighs outcomes, forms judgments and controls impulses and emotions. For adolescents, long term effects and consequences are most often an afterthought. Young people want to know about the here and now. One year in the future seems like an eternity to a youth and is not very relevant towards making the decisions of today.
Many kids are focused on their image and their social status and acceptance with peers. Their views and opinions of substance use are often attached to the views of the peer groups in which they are seeking acceptance from. A good habit to get into while talking with your kids is by asking "What do you think….?" "Do you know any kids at school that are…? "Hey, have you ever come across a situation at where….? This kind of communication is inclusive rather than didactic. Asking open ended questions promotes discussion and the sharing of information rather then short abrupt "yes or no" answers.
Anytime a parent asks their child for feedback concerning a decision, it empowers them and makes them feel part of the process. Your child will be much more onboard with making an informed and educated decision with regard to substance use if they feel as though the decision is coming from themselves and from their own analysis.
This is an extremely good opportunity to discuss issues of mental health, self esteem, or feelings of inadequacy or feelings of "less-than". People use substances of all kinds to escape from these painful, emotions or feelings. From grief, trauma, the absence of acceptance and from physical pain.
Here is a golden opportunity to make yourself available to your child to not only highlight why people engage in substance use but to open dialogue and let them know that they can talk about themselves and their emotions and feelings with you. Sometimes talking helps us to understand ourselves better.
Understanding ourselves will ostensibly help us make better or healthier decisions for ourselves. Talking to your kids about drugs can be an excellent way to promote healthy communication with your child and let them know that you are there for them without judgement.
As it was twenty years ago, one hundred years ago, and even before, Peer Influence is a part of youth's development. This can be both a positive and negative factor in your child's life. Peer Influence can motivate kids to join a sports team, study on a Thursday night or try an audition for the drama club.
Sometimes, however, it can put our kids into situations where riskier decisions are put before them. The best way to prepare kids for this is to take a proactive approach and have these discussions in advance. Peer influence is very powerful and it can result in your child making a decision that may not align with their own views or values simply because being accepted is a much stronger impetus in their decision making.
Resiliency is a person's ability to overcome challenges. By discussing protective factors and risk factors and we are promoting resiliency. Peer influence will undoubtedly be a contributing factor in your child's decisions both positively and negatively.
A youth's resiliency to substance abuse increases the more protective factors that they have in place. Their resiliency also is increased with the fewer risks that they are exposed to or are made to endure. Our role as parents is to help set our children up for success when it comes to making decisions for themselves. While we cannot eliminate many of the risk factors our kids are exposed to, we can work diligently towards ensuring as many protective factors as possible.
Talk to your kids, empower them in the decision-making process. By having healthy, open and factual conversations about the decisions and situations that our kids assuredly will experience over the next developmental years of their lives, we, as parents, can promote many protective factors, impart valuable information and ensure that your child feels safe and comfortable, knowing that they have someone to talk to when it comes to substance abuse and issues of mental health.


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Greening Toronto: Forgoing towers for trees, or how collaboration creates a condo site with public green space
For Mark Mandelbaum, high-rise residential construction is a walk in the park. Literally.
As chairman of Lanterra Developments, Mr. Mandelbaum has spent more than a decade adding to downtown Toronto's skyline with an array of towers that include condominiums, offices, stores and public squares. One of his favourite playgrounds of late is the Bay Street corridor, with projects such as the 50-storey art-inspired Burano and the massive mixed-use Maple Leaf Square near the Air Canada Centre. Construction will start soon on The Britt, on the spot where the swanky Sutton Place Hotel once welcomed the world's rich and famous. So when the province put two acres of land for sale a few years back near the corner of Bay and Wellesley streets, Mr. Mandelbaum was intrigued. At $65-million, it was perfect for two or three towers.
But as it turned out, the neighbourhood's battle cry was for more parkland not more high-rises. Hoarding around the property declared "We want a public park" in huge block letters. Though Lanterra had intended on adding some green space, the community protest prompted Mr. Mandelbaum and his team to come up with something more palatable.
"We knew the area so well … and we had a vision that we could perhaps do something creative and unique to see if we could make everybody happy," Mr. Mandelbaum recalls. "…We couldn't just put up a regular building on the site. It [had] to be something special, because it will end up being a very landmark central community focus for the entire Bay-Yonge street area. When you come back in five years, this will be where people will be hanging out."
Pre-sales will soon begin on 11 Wellesley, a proposed 60-storey curvaceous tower surrounded by a 1.6-acre public park. Both have been envisioned by innovative architects and designers, all of whom were keen to contribute to a more livable and captivating city.
Peter J. Thompson / National PostIn front of an inspiration wall, architect Bruce Kuwabara says the plan for 11 Wellesley has "a real idea about how to make the city work."
"This is genius," says architect Bruce Kuwabara of the project known as 11 Wellesley. "It's not just a piece of land [where] they made a development and they're calling it Art Deco. This is a brilliant piece of city building. It's got a real idea about how to make the city work. And the location couldn't be better."
Mr. Kuwabara is founding partner of KPMB Architects, which is collaborating with Page + Steele/IBI Group Architects on 11 Wellesley. KPMB prefers working on cultural and academic institutions, but will take on certain high-rise projects that will become "active participants in the urban environment" — in other words, where it's "much more about a hybrid of what's on the ground and what's in the air," he says. That's why KPMB said yes to Maple Leaf Square several years ago, and now to 11 Wellesley.
According to Mr. Kuwabara, Toronto's design culture has advanced to the point that purchasers expect much more than the traditional "square base with a square box on it." It's now as much about a beautiful building as it is about location, price per square foot and amenities, he says, which is why developers looking for exceptional height should be creating exceptional buildings. Buildings should have an individual identity, he adds, and they should give something back to the public realm.
Lanterra"It's a rectangle stretched in the corners. We want that total continuity all the way through, from landscaping to architecture to interior design."
That's what the entire design team is trying to achieve with 11 Wellesley. Some call the design non-linear or free-flowing, but Mr. Kuwabara prefers to use such words as "voluptuous" and "elegant," given the building's curvy form.
"It's a rectangle stretched in the corners," he explains. "It's kind of being tugged and pulled. The inner planning of the tower is quite straightforward, and then it's about elasticizing the perimeter and then tugging it and pulling it and stretching it. We want that total continuity in the project all the way through — from the landscaping to the architecture to the interior design."
The interior picks up on the curve appeal, starting right from the street entrance and carrying through to the suites and amenity spaces. The circular lobby is swathed in honey-coloured Douglas fir and symmetrically curved, with its lounge showcasing a spectacular semi-circular contemporary fireplace suspended from the 15-foot ceiling. The suites — ranging from 300 to 878 square feet and priced from $199,900 — echo the geometry with a simple curve on the pantry doors. There's curved furniture by the swimming pool, while the gym has a wraparound balcony and raceway-track lighting in the ceiling to create movement and energy.
"There's nothing that makes me happier than when an interior designer and an architect are harmonious with one another — when it feels like both the interior and the exterior have their own distinct personalities yet still relate to one another," says the project's interior designer, Alessandro Munge, principal at Munge Leung. "They don't feel like one juxtaposes the other. We believe in a holistic experience when you enter a space, that there's harmony between your experience from the interior to the exterior. This particular project is a fine example of that."
Peter J. Thompson / National PostIn KPMB's offices, Bruce Kuwabara, whose firm prefers to design cultural and academic institutions, took on this project, believing it will become an "active participant in the urban environment."
And then there's the park. Robert Ng of NAK Design Group aims to making it lush, open and accessible, with walkways that criss-cross in all directions and a series of grass knolls and flower meadows to beckon visitors. Because the park sits above the underground garage, Lanterra is adding a metre and a half of soil to support root growth. The tower is purposely positioned on the northeast corner of the site to maximize sunlight for the park. A community consultation meeting will take place soon to finalize park amenities.
"This is a high-density city core, where green space is only relegated to your sidewalk and your tree promenade," Mr. Ng says. "The opportunity for something like this — a building within a park — is very rare. Everybody is pushing for these parameters, but it's all dollars and cents. If you can find the funding to support this, then it's obviously something that we want to look forward to [in the city] in the long run."
With 78,670 residents (quadruple that during the daytime when people arrive to work, study and play), Ward 27 has fast become what Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam calls the most "park-deficient" area in the GTA. More than 25,000 new residential units are pending municipal approval in her ward alone, she adds, putting daycare, recreational centres and parkland high on her wish list. That said, she's delighted Lanterra scaled back its original development plans, made good on its park promise, and encouraged a flow between the design of the building and that of the park.
"I'd love to think that this great working relationship … will be a model to be replicated in other land transactions and other redevelopment process reviews," she says.
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Here are most of the books that I read in 2014, and what I've read so far in 2015! Have you read any of these?
I'm attempting to read 50 books this year, as long as college doesn't get in the way like last year. Excuses, excuses, I know!
There you have it! Now you're all caught up on (most of) what I've read in the past few years. At the top of my blog on the right-hand side, I now have a "Currently Reading" list. Right now I'm reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and Finders Keepers by Stephen King.
Let me know what you've read, or what you suggest for me to read next, and catch up with me on social media!
Until next time, stay happy, follow your dreams, don't be afraid of doing big things, and smile lots!


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David Morales-Morales carried out his B.Sc. (1992) and M.Sc. (1995) studies at the School of Chemistry of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship by the Mexican Government to carry out Doctoral studies at the University of Essex (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan R. Dilworth. In 1997, he moved to the "Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory" at the Oxford University (UK), getting his Doctorate in 1998. In the same year Prof. Morales-Morales was offered a posdoctoral position by Prof. Craig. M. Jensen in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, where he carried out research relevant to the development of a new generation of PCP pincer complex and their use in C-H activation and C-C bond formation. A beneficiary of the National Program for Repatriation of the National Science and Technology Council (CONACyT-Mexico), Prof. Morales-Morales has worked since May 2001 as a researcher at the Instituto de Quimica-UNAM. His research interests include the chemistry of pincer compounds; the synthesis of phosphorus and sulphur-based compounds and its use as ligands with transition metals; metal-mediated organic synthesis; and mechanistic studies. Prof. Morales-Morales has published more than 60 papers and a chapter in the book "Modern Coordination Chemistry", edited by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002). More recently he has served as editor of the book "The Chemistry of Pincer Compounds" (Elsevier) and he has co-authored a textbook on Organometallic Chemistry, published in Spanish by UNAM. He belongs to chemistry societies in Mexico and the United States. Prof. Morales-Morales has been a visiting professor at the Instituto de Materiales de Aragon-CSIC (Zaragoza, Spain), The Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der WWU Munster in Germany, and the Metal Mediated Synthesis - Debye Institute at the University of Utretch (Netherlands).
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