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40th UAE Anniversary  "Better City, Better Life", "Then & Now" (in UAE Yearbook) 
15 Jan 2012 Moving to 27th floor apartment in Beach Tower 1, Al Khan District, Sharjah

2011 Updates
2011-in-review 2011 vacation: overview & albums  Summer-time in Dubai
 "Duex Nuits dans Paris" photos of dinner cruise on the Seine during PERF's 83rd meeting
Requesting safer pedestrian access at Ikea   Idea for Al Taawun St intersection at E-11
■  Built AlBadiaLife.info website for residents and visitors to our village in Festival City, Dubai

2010 Updates
■  Our "2010-in-review" web page, with newspaper links from newspapers in eight countries.
■  Bob assigned as Integrity Technical Specialist on Laggan-Tormore field Shetland Gas Plant
■  2010 Newsletter   ■ "Threads of Grace" reunion of Celebration and Post Green on 25 Sep 2010
■  Wedding of daughter Meagan to John Valenzano, Houston 10/10/10,  Rev. Nan Doerr celebrant
■  40th engineering class reunion sailing in Sweden. ■ Colin's wedding to Stephania, 14 May 2010

We and ShihTzus "Chai" & "PDQ" live in a top-floor condo with Yemeni architecture at "Al Badia Hillside Village" of Festival City in Dubai, near Dubai Airport, with landscaped paths to nearby Al Areesh club

(Moved here autumn 2009 - from Clear Lake, TX home - when Bob was offered "Technical Specialist - HSE Design" by Petrofac in Sharjah, a necessary move because Houston EPC businesses underwent downturn transitions. He became "HSE, Risk & Regulatory" Design Integrity leader on Yoloten sour gas field project in Turkmenistan, to export natural gas to China through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan via the world's longest pipeline provides Turkmenistan a competitive alternative to Russia)
Bob's Skype #  001 832-426-2582