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Blue Crane is the real estate development arm of the investment company Runway Group of Bentonville, which was founded by Steuart and Tom Walton, the grandsons of Walmart Inc. founder Sam Walton. \"The four buildings do have kind of a unique blend and look to themselves, all by each other. Because it's different and unique - call it what you will - from our end, I think that's what really piques our interest. Lundstrum and his partner, Ken Hall, spearheaded the renovation of the Apollo Theater, as well as the housing developments Little Emma and Big Emma, which have added more than 100 residential units.
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Bathroom
\"Bathroom charts the evolution of the bathroom and the habits and lifestyles to which it gave rise. It shows how and why the bathroom emerged and how it became an international symbol of key modern values, such as cleanliness, order and progress. The modern bathroom, its technologies and its customs have been exported globally through colonialism, the media, fashion, world expositions and tourism. Barbara Penner explores the conflicts this process has caused, as well as discussing more user-friendly and low-tech alternatives, which are set to become ever more relevant in our environmentally conscious age. Abundantly illustrated, Bathroom examines examples from history and from across the globe.\"--Publisher description.
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Loving Hershey from the inside looking out
Somehow over the last 12 years she became an inside dog who only went outside to use the bathroom. Not only did I have a puppy peeing on my floor but my potty-training two-year-old. When she wasn't staring at us with those big brown eyes through the living room windows, she was using the backyard as a chew toy.
Journal Article
My private spa
The evolution from yesterday's purely functional and usually soulless bathroom to today's private oasis that comes in all shapes and sizes - sometimes almost like a piece of art - continues to open up new horizons for newly planned houses and apartments as well as remodeling projects: from introducing elements of ancient bathhouse cultures to the latest materials and products. With a careful choice of projects from all across the globe, this volume showcases an exceptional spectrum ranging from small and intimate baths to wide open spa landscapes - from size S to XL. They all have their own special way of extending an invitation to immerse, relax, and let go.
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Hábitat vulnerable: requerimientos arquitectónicos en viviendas de zonas de riesgo de Jocotepec
El presente estudio analiza las necesidades espaciales de familias que residen en viviendas afectadas por hundimientos de suelo en Jocotepec. La investigación se llevó a cabo con la participación de los moradores de 17 viviendas, utilizando un enfoque mixto que combinó encuestas y dinámicas participativas como herramientas de recolección de datos. Los resultados evidencian que los menores de edad representan el 16% de la población y las personas con discapacidad el 3%. Entre las características espaciales más valoradas por los habitantes se destacan las áreas verdes (59%), la amplitud de los espacios (35%), una buena iluminación (29%) y la ventilación natural (24%). También Se mencionan aspectos como la accesibilidad, el confort, la presencia de dormitorios con baño, una distribución funcional y espacios para mascotas (6%). Asimismo, los espacios adicionales más solicitados corresponden al jardín y al baño, ambos requeridos por el 59% de los participantes. Finalmente, la mayoría expresó su preferencia por una tipología de vivienda unifamiliar aislada.
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Emergence of Polarized Ideological Opinions in Multidimensional Topic Spaces
Opinion polarization is on the rise, causing concerns for the openness of public debates. Additionally, extreme opinions on different topics often show significant correlations. The dynamics leading to these polarized ideological opinions pose a challenge: How can such correlations emerge, without assuming them a priori in individual preferences or in a preexisting social structure? Here, we propose a simple model that qualitatively reproduces ideological opinion states found in survey data, even between rather unrelated, but sufficiently controversial, topics. Inspired by skew coordinate systems recently proposed in natural language processing models, we solidify these intuitions in a formalism of opinions unfolding in a multidimensional space where topics form a nonorthogonal basis. Opinions evolve according to the social interactions among the agents, which are ruled by homophily: Two agents sharing similar opinions are more likely to interact. The model features phase transitions between a global consensus, opinion polarization, and ideological states. Interestingly, the ideological phase emerges by relaxing the assumption of an orthogonal basis of the topic space, i.e., if topics thematically overlap. Furthermore, we analytically and numerically show that these transitions are driven by the controversialness of the topics discussed; the more controversial the topics, the more likely are opinions to be correlated. Our findings shed light upon the mechanisms driving the emergence of ideology in the formation of opinions.
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In the bathroom
After being shrunk by a shrinking machine and ending up on a dog having a bubble bath, Alexander, his cousin Judy, and a tiny robot try to survive encounters with insects, soapy bubbles, and bathtub and toilet drains.
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