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Amazing parking garages around the world | Fox News - 0 views

  • The world’s first LEED-certified garage, built in 2007, is covered with blue, green, and red panels; has a solar array on the roof; and includes free bicycle storage.
  • Cool and sleek, not very often. But the Veranda Car Park does all three. The mirrored glass, aluminum, and steel structure blends with the skyline, and the
  • natural light means you won’t lose your bearings when looking for your car.
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  • ge holds 300 cars and has a rooftop restaurant with ocean views. Natural light illuminates each level of the modern, angular building; it has a series of art installations; and the 7th floor is used for yoga classes, weddings, wine tastings, parties, and more.
  • Henry Ford used his first car, has been retrofitted as a parking garage
  • A winner of the RIBA Award (a U.K. architecture honor), this circular structure has steel cables supporting strips of gray Oregon pine that wrap around the building, making it elegant, open, and inviting.
  • building hides the comings and goings of the cars but still allows for light and air, plus it reflects changes in the sky.
  • Three of the four walls are living walls—they're covered with bamboo and flowering vines.
  • Greenway Self Park
  • This parking garage uses corkscrew wind turbines to collect wind energy, is stocked with electric charging stations, utilizes natural ventilation, and has a rainwater collection system.
  • rking garage and resdiential complex in one sleek, terraced package. An image of the Himalayan mountains, which echoes the building's mountainous shape, decorates the northern and western sides
  • y’s parking
  • Locals chose the titles of the 22 books, including Charlotte’s Web, Tao Te Ching, and Catch-22.
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Bullying On Twitter: Researchers Find 15,000 Bully-Related Tweets Sent Daily (STUDY) - 7 views

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      Started a system that tracks key words and emoji's that can we connected to bullying
  • how they were able to develop their system of labeling tweets. Ranks were assigned to certain words and emoticons (smiley faces, frowning faces and the like), and a machine would then read the value of each of these words and symbols.
  • their research also lead to a new role: the reporter.
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  • Incidents of "reporter" style tweeting recently made negative headlines when a 17-year-old boy snapped a photo of a man dying in the street, but didn't stop to assist him. His apathetic actions sparked a debate -- when do we, as onlookers, interfere?
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