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Remember that proposed shadow law? Could've been worse:

Builders in Britain have a particularly vexing challenge: a 900-year-old requirement that any new construction maintain a candle’s worth of sunlight for neighboring properties. U.K. landowners have had rights to natural light from the oft-overcast sky since the 12th century. In 2012, developers are paying dearly for casting shadows on nearby structures after a 2010 court ruling that the part of a building obstructing a neighbor’s natural light could be torn down.
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-19/for-london-developers-light-is-a-heavy-burden
 
Lrfox said:
Went to IHOP at 2:30am last night simply because of the red velvet pancakes. I wasn't disappointed. I don't regret that decision.
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I've been to IHOP more times this month than any other month ever simply due to red velvet pancakes. The cream cheese icing is what really seals the deal.
 
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-georgia-tech-bus-bunching.html
Georgia Tech researchers address bus bunching

April 19, 2012 By Liz Klipp

Bus Bunching Demo
As any city dweller knows, buses are rarely on time. It’s typical to wait a while, only to have several buses show up one after another, a phenomenon known as bus bunching.
Fortunately, researchers and students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a possible solution for bus bunching that provides better service to riders, simplifies the job of drivers and reduces work for management.
Industrial & Systems Engineering Professor John Bartholdi and Georgia Tech alumnus Don Eisenstein (MS IE 1983, PhD IE 1992), a colleague from the University of Chicago, have devised a way of computing the delays so gaps between buses “self-equalize.”
Now an interdisciplinary team of Georgia Tech students have built a system of tablet computers to control the trolleys using the equation on Tech’s main campus route, which carries more than 5,000 passengers a day.
“Because of its simplicity, our scheme is easy to implement and easy to adapt,” said Bartholdi, who is also the Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management. “We expect it to be useful for other transportation systems with short headways, such as subway trains or airport shuttles.”
The first step toward reliable bus service, Bartholdi says, is to abandon the fixed schedule and have drivers go with the flow of traffic.
Under the “self-equalizing” plan, each bus is equipped with a GPS and cellphone. The GPS constantly reports the bus’s position to a central server. When the server recognizes the bus has reached a stop, it sends a message via cellphone telling the driver how long to wait and when to proceed.
That departure time is calculated through the “self-equalizing” equation, which changes the headway of each newly arrived bus to an average of its former headway and the headway of the trailing bus. For example, if its former headway was larger, its new headway becomes smaller. Using the equation, gaps between buses will equalize even if a bus is added or removed, or if the bus route changes.
“The equation computes a wait time for each bus arriving at a control point in such a way that gaps between buses tend to equalize,” Bartholdi said. “Exactly how that happens is the magic of the mathematics.”
When the research team tested the system on Tech’s bus line earlier this semester, the researchers received positive results and favorable reviews from bus riders and drivers.
This is a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) at Georgia Tech, which combines students from across disciplines to solve a real-world project. The research outcomes will be published in Transportation Research Part B in May.

More information: Read more about Self-Coordinated Buses Resist Bunching here .

Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology (news : web)
 
oOLd Unsle SHowiNG me THIS!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17890754

I VERRY CITED!!!! OMGG!!!! MUST SAle to BOSTON! But NOT hit asberg!!!

MAYO und GUVNER should c offer TAXCREDTLINGS. Bild in BOSTON places. Or. Quincy!!!!.

BUT. MORE LIFBOATLINS. creating JOBS for wOODworkermans. Like BIG floting sky sraper. BUT. ON SIDE!!!
 
I'm sure many on here feel the same way. RIP MCA. Beasty Boys had a very speacial path, both musically and artistically.
 
Celebrity deaths usually don't faze me but this one kind of hit me.

He was still working and creating.

I knew about the cancer but I thought he was doing better. Very, very sad.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html

Inside the Kowloon Walled City where 50,000 residents eked out a grimy living in the most densely populated place on earth

By Pamela Owen
PUBLISHED: 07:21 EST, 5 May 2012 | UPDATED: 09:45 EST, 5 May 2012


Once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, these fascinating pictures give a rare insight into the lives of those who lived Kowloon Walled City.
Taken by Canadian photographer Greg Girard in collaboration with Ian Lamboth the pair spent five years familiarising themselves with the notorious Chinese city before it was demolished in 1992.
The city was a phenomenon with 33,000 families and businesses living in more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect.
 
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I didn't get to post it. But I second the sentiments on MCA. RIP. What a shocker. He influenced alot of people and was still making great music in a genre where 47 yo's usually don't have it anymore. This one hurts.
 
Any NASCAR fans here? No? Yeah that's what I thought. But check out who was racing at Talledega today:

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No joke, Ricky Bobby's paint scheme was in use today on a legit race car. Shake and bake!
 
Isn't a Microsoft sponsored car more susceptible to spectacular crashes?
 
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