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2012 — As the economies of many southern European countries collapsed, increased oil prices and decreased production further aggravated the issues plaguing the petroleum-based industrial world. Oil-based plastics, fertilizers, and pesticides threatened the medical and agricultural foundations of the modern era, while rising fuel costs only worsened the situation. Restless populations across Europe began a 'European Spring' of protests and demonstrations, mirroring the 'Arab Spring' the year before.
A largely stalled Occupy movement in the United States attempted to resurrect the anti-government protests in America only to find that new laws made it even easier to arrest dissidents en masse and hold them indefinitely without charge. Without the human, political, or logistical resources necessary to continue the fight, the majority of people fighting for global equality had no choice but to go home and go back to work, or starve to death on the streets.
Asian markets continued to suffer for the indignities of the Western powers, and China began trading off some its holdings of the dollar to various bidders. American political rhetoric continued to insist on recovery while investors and analysts feared the collapse of a giant and the accompanying shock waves. As American economic power waned, the military took a more prominent role both at home as peace keepers and crowd control, and overseas as managers of recently overthrown nations. Along with NATO, the United States 'kept the peace' in the world's most volatile areas — however, most civilian populations in these nations resented the presence of foreign troops on their own soil, and guerrilla insurgencies in the occupied territories only grew in strength.
2013 — In June, a failed coup in Venezuela was revealed to have been instrumented in a joint operation by the Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's Mossad, leading to public demonstrations across the globe against the American and Israeli governments. OPEC, in a surprising response to the action against one of its member states, switched trade of its oil to the ever stronger yuan, dealing what many analysts considered twin fatal blows to the U.S. and EU economies.
The American government claimed that the agents in Venezuela were rogue and acting on their own, and dismantled the agencies involved. Months later the President announced the formation of the Department of Homeland Investigation, folding the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security into this new organization. In December, an exposé revealed that most of the members of the top secret and highly funded DHI were hired directly from not just the FBI and DoHS, but from the CIA and NSA as well (including all agents involved in the Venezuelan plot that weren't apprehended or killed in-country). While the mainstream press ignored the story, the government still quickly issued an official denial. Further denouncements rolled in from across the globe, but the American government and people soldiered forward.
The rioting in London, which had been taking place on and off for two years, finally came to a violent crescendo when multiple members of the royal family around England were murdered by various organized mobs on November 5th. Groups that had organized in secret online planned a multi-pronged suicide surge against several estates and autumn homes of Dukes, Earls, and various other symbolic nobles in the British Isles. An attempt was even made on Buckingham Palace, but was soundly defeated by the Life and Grenadier Guards.
The U.K.'s response was a violent crackdown, turning London into a militarized zone, and quickly spreading military forces out from the capital to control outlying areas. While resistance intensified across the United Kingdom, especially in North Ireland and Scotland, the aid of NATO and the U.S. helped contain the violence for a few years.
The murders, however, spurred on protesters in many other countries, and governments that did not rapidly militarize quickly found their systems of rule dismantled by angry populations. Trials were held in Spain, Italy, Greece, and other countries in an attempt to appease violent riots. Condemned as kangaroo courts by the remaining stable EU nations, these trials resulted in executions and life-term imprisonments for several former legislators and career politicians.
The peak of the solar storms that had begun more than half a decade earlier resulted in the loss of over 50 percent of the satellites orbiting Earth. As many digital satellite television providers, cell phone companies, GPS providers, and other sat-based industries tried to recover, Western economies suffered even more. Many companies went bankrupt due to lack of funding to relaunch satellites and lack of governmental support for space programs. Nearly all of the remaining companies sold themselves to larger corporations or government entities within their home countries, furthering fears of Big Brother states, given national control of telecom networks in most first world countries. China and India's strengthened space programs provided opportunities to many companies to begin a slow and expensive recovery, while helping further solidify Chinese monopolization of technological advances.
Multiple governments made accusations against one another (Americans against Chinese, Iranians against Israelis and Americans, Pakistanis against Indians, etc) that cyberattacks were being used to assess defensive capabilities of possible enemies. These claims were always quickly denied, although as a result of the attacks, America, China, and Iran amended their rules of engagement to include possible military response to computer hacks on government networks. More invasive surveillance legislation was also passed in all the aforementioned countries, legalizing many anti-insurgency monitoring tactics that had already been used for years on civilian populations.
2014 — Under the auspices of streamlining and efficiency, the American government nationalized several large corporations, immediately folding them into the bureaucratic machine that was Washington. Many U.S. citizens protested the moves against private industry, for fear that economic recovery had been all but abandoned by their government in favor of rapid militarization, federalization, and the formation of a police state. As more companies either willingly nationalized or were purchased by the federal government, protests started in earnest across the United States.
Fortunately for those in power, a strong National Guard presence as well as a smart distribution of military forces to population centers' law enforcement agencies ensured that all protests were contained. With the propaganda machine in full effect, many American people were lulled back to sleep with promises of access once more to cheap housing, high credit limits, and gas that didn't cost five dollars a gallon. The government only delivered on the last promise before dissolving, and only through subsidies that hid the reality that oil cost over the equivalent of 150USD per barrel. Despite the continued push for radical change by an ever growing number of discontented citizens, the lack of a united and organized revolt never produced any major overhauls in the American government in its final years.
2015 — More markets switched away from the USD to either the Euro or Yuan, signaling what was the unmistakable end of American foreign economic power. As they shored up against uncertain times, the American government began negotiations with regional leaders in an attempt to form a new super country on the North American landmass. Following these meetings, several South American countries threw in together and established a trade union of their own for increased strength and viability in the changing global market and the pressing energy and food crises.
Israel held turnover elections, and a new ultra-hardline government stepped in, the likes of which had not been seen since the Six Day War. An immediate recension of the territorial recognition of Palestine was followed by protests in the occupied territories and abroad. Fast and aggressive crackdowns combined with military excursions returned many former Palestinian territories to Jewish rule, and the dream of Palestinian sovereignty died before winter began.
Terror attacks from suicide bombings to rocket sieges against the Jewish state increased tenfold, and by end of the year, Israel was under martial law. The imposition of such a status on the country didn't seem to have an effect on the insurgent activities, however — attacks continued without interruption as Israeli Defense Forces were spread too thin after the latest campaign. Talk of changing conscription laws began in the Knesset.
2016 — Going a step beyond the Latin and South American Trade Union, the countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States formed a new super country they called the North American Coalition. Enacted as a temporary emergency measure, each government quickly forced through laws to make the change possible while suspending the normal operation of their respective nations. Many television and radio pundits hailed the measure as a long time coming, attempting to groom the public to blindly accept the transition. Journalists and press that questioned or attempted to call attention to the event as anything other than necessary quickly found themselves without jobs, and often imprisoned on false charges. Some were released by judges who still respected the idea of justice, but many more were jailed indefinitely.
A new government formed, consisting of the current political leaders of each of the three member states. The NAC immediately began to establish new trade policies within its substates, now called Territories, and no longer followed the traditional boundaries set by any one of its member countries. Each Territory had a legislative body composed of a mish-mash of legislatures from the previous substates, but endowed with very little actual power. Instead, most bureaucratic responsibility and decision making was handed to the regional Governors, appointed by majority decision in closed NAC legislative sessions. Many were men and women of power and influence in their region, some wealthy, some already in politics, but all willing to follow orders from the Coalition to the letter.


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Space Transfer
Space Transfer is a technology transfer broker network managed by the European Space Agency. Our goal is to obtain technology transfers between space and non-space industries by way of spin-out or spin-in activities. ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) aims at strengthening European industry by identifying new business opportunities for providers of space technologies and systems. It plays an important role in enhancing the know-how and competitiveness of these providers while broadening their business horizons. These considerations also apply for non-space to space technology transfers which represents the yin to the yang for Spacetransfer.
The Technology Transfer process is the process of using space or non-space related technology, expertise, know-how or facilities, and applying it, respectively, into non-space or space related purposes. This is done by analysing the needs of non-space and space applications and identifying suitable space and non-space technologies to meet these needs.

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The Strategic Development Planning Authority for Edinburgh and South East Scotland, has published its proposed Strategic Development Plan for public consultation, SESplan 2.
The proposed Plan deals with a range of strategic planning issues including housing, transport and green infrastructure and sets out a strategy for the City Region over a twenty year period from 2018 to 2038. The proposed Plan can be viewed here.
The current SESplan has played a key role in numerous major planning applications and appeals, and SESplan2 will be an equally important document for those in the development sector, setting housing targets and priorities across the City Region. Representations to the plan must be made in writing and submitted by no later than 24 November 2016 using SESplan's consultation portal.


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Tir Chonaill Gaels Club Notes 3rd August 2009
The senior team ended Fulham Irish interest in the championship last Sunday with a convincing 0-11 to 0-8 victory at Ruislip.
Paul Coggins troops are starting to move through the gears at the right time and knocking out one of their main challengers will have boosted confidence.
Paddy Callaghan was solid as a rock as full back with good support from Ronan Walsh and Shaun Campbell. Gary McCloskey won his fair share in midfield, while up front Kevin McMenaman showed his class with some excellent scores.
In the other game in the group St Brendans beat Parnells 0-8 to 0-6 to go through with the Gaels to the semi's.
The Gaels will play St Brendans in the final group game to decide who finishes top on the weekend of 15th/16th August.
Well done to all the Gaels lads who were beat by one point for London in the Intercontinental championship Final in San Francisco last Friday.
The club would like to pass on their deepest sympathy to club member Danny Gallagher and his family after the sudden death of his Daughter Amanda at the Weekend. Our thoughts and prayers are with Danny and his family at this very difficult time.
Funeral arrangements will be posted on the website when confirmed.
Any club members wishing to go to Brussels on Saturday 10th October will need to contact Secretary Stephen McLoughlin 07788723922 to book their place.
London juniors
London Juniors
Best wishes to the Gaels lads who play for London Juniors this weekend against Roscommon in the All Ireland semi final.
Results for 30/07/09, Jackpot £2,450
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Eddie Flynn, C/o Orchard Tavern.
Garry McCloskey, TCG.
Danny Gallagher, TCG
Brian Corry, TCG
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Lords warn against no-deal Brexit for financial services
The EU and UK markets face fragmentation and financial instability if Brexit negotiations result in a "no-deal", Britain's House of Lords has warned.
In a report named Brexit: the future of financial regulation of supervision, the House's sub-committee for EU financial affairs has urged the British government to clarify what outcome it is seeking from phase two of negotiations, on future relationships and transitional arrangements.
Failure on the government's part to provide guidance would force firms to trigger "costly and potentially irreversible contingency plans".
The report recommended the government engage with international standard-setter – to compensate for a loss of say on EU regulations – as well as to set out a comprehensive vision for domestic financial regulation post-Brexit. It warned that the transfer of regulatory powers "should not result in an unintended deficit of democratic scrutiny".
On the issue of continuity, the committee highlighted the need for a framework to manage contracts that were intended to span beyond Brexit's break-off date, and called for "delicate handling" of the translation of EU regulation into domestic law.
The committee said that while some regulation might need to be enshrined in statute, in some areas it might be more appropriate to set guidance and standards instead.
At the same time, the committee exhorted the government to resist EU regulatory propositions that risk causing market fragmentation and rolling back post-crisis commitments. It also called for the protection of the UK's fintech sector from initiatives threatening its "flexible and adaptive approach".
Kishwer Falkner, chair of the committee, said: "There is a risk of market fragmentation and financial instability if the UK loses access to the EU, as well as harm to customers and businesses. The UK's financial services sector is a global asset and both sides should want it to continue serving clients throughout Europe.
"The financial services sector needs greater clarity from the government about what it wants after Brexit, and it needs it now. A transition period is meaningless without a destination.
"Brexit is an opportunity to tailor the regulatory regime to strengthen the UK's financial services sector, but the UK must remain committed to the international standards put in place following the financial crisis and continue to shape them to ensure a robust regulatory regime."


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Invisalign is one of many popular orthodontic treatment options for adults.
There are more and more adult orthodontic patients these days, and it's not hard to figure out why. Appliances that are barely noticeable have been developed to give adults more discreet choices when it comes to orthodontic treatment. And many adults realize that investing in a smile makeover can have significant benefits, socially and professionally. Orthodontics can be an important part of that confidence-boosting makeover process. There is no such thing as being 'too old' for braces. Adults everywhere are taking advantage of the opportunity to receive orthodontic care, and now you can too.
Common Reasons Why Adults Consider Orthodontic Treatment:
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For many adults, the thought of having metal braces is enough to discourage them from receiving treatment. However, today's orthodontic treatment options offer a variety of braces and appliances that are comfortable, aesthetic, and customized to meet your needs. Types of braces include:
Why Should You Consider Orthodontic Treatment as an Adult?
At Seuss Orthodontics, we recognize that adults and children have different needs that require a different level of attention and care. We will work with you to ensure that you receive the most appropriate treatment, and that your needs are met with understanding and respect from us.
To learn more about the benefits of adult orthodontics, please contact us to schedule an appointment. During the initial examination, we will be able to determine the best possible treatment for your individual needs. During this initial examination, we can outline the treatment plan, time of treatment expected and the cost.
A large percentage of our patients are adults and they agree that it's never too late to improve their greatest asset - their smile.


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There is a new Malware Virus circulating the internet that mainly targets communities. It apparently is a mod post looking entry that will let members know that the community "is closing" then deletes all entries in the comm. (HOW SAD I KNOW T_T) The post will include links, which is obviously the virus, that will get ahold of yours (and your f-list's) personal info.
Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up, and let you all know that we are NOT closing this community any time soon so if a post like that DOES show up, please do not click anything. Report the entry to LJ. This goes for any other communities as well. So yeah, just to warn you guys. :)
Dear friends, I, as the maintainer of this community, have to inform you that due to recent tragic events, I've decided to stop using LJ as a platform for my community (and to remove everything that was posted here before). From now on, all new materials should be posted to the New community that I've recently created, as for old posts, you will find them here.
If you see a message like that around, Do not click the links! Apparently, it is not only infecting people, but deleting the coms as well once it takes control of someones LJ.
just be warned! :)
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MSI Z97 Gaming 6 Review
Test Setup and Overclocking
Published: 19th May 2015 | Source: MSI | Price: |
Test Setup
MSI Z97A Gaming 6
Intel Core i7-4770K
nVidia GTX780Ti
Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 & 2933
Corsair AX760i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H105
Custom Corsair 540 Air
Windows 7 x64
The high quality power section of MSI's motherboards always produces excellent overclocking results and the Gaming 6 is no different, taking our i7-4770K to 4.9GHz at a mere 1.25v. Impressive performance as always from an MSI motherboard. The benefits of quality components coupled to an easy-to-use BIOS.


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Waste Watch: Corporate handouts in Tennessee
Tennessee taxpayers are shelling out big bucks for what some are calling corporate welfare. Private companies and corporations are taking advantage of tax breaks, incentives and grants to the tune of $3 billion dollars.
This is the future corporate headquarters for Bridgestone Arena. The company got $56 million in incentives to move from one part of the state to another and they're not the only ones cashing in.
Much of Nashville's building boom is being financed with your tax dollars.
"It's a huge waste of taxpayer money," Mark Cunningham, with the Beacon Center says. "Additionally it's not the job of taxpayers to fund private businesses."
According to the Beacon Center, Tennessee taxpayers have shelled out $3 billion to private companies across the state in the last 10 years.
The Beacon Center's new website went online Wednesday and shows you who got the loot.
"The show 'Nashville' got basically $45 million and straight cash from the state and the city to say here's money just film here," Cunningham said. "Bridgestone we gave a lot of money to move from one part of the state to another."
Bridgestone got $56 million in incentives to build its corporate headquarters in downtown Nashville.
City leaders point to big projects like the convention center that are paying off.
"We had 1,128 days since this great facility opened and the economic impact directly has been $1 billion and that means we've been able to benefit from this great facility," Mayor Megan Barry said. "It means 2 million people have come to her town. They spent their dollars here and that's good for Nashville."
Still some say taxpayers are spending too much on big business.
"Everyone says it's creating jobs. If we're paying $5 million for five jobs, is that worth it? Ultimately, I don't even think that's the question a middle-class taxpayer like me, I don't think my money should go to corporations and to rich CEOs, I don't think it should. I should be able to spend my money how I want," Cunningham said.
Click here to see a detailed list of where your tax dollars are being spent.


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Castor & Pollux Good Buddy USA Rawhide Chips Dog Treats, 4-oz bag
Made from 100% USA beef and basted in a natural chicken flavor, these rawhide chips provide a delicious way to help keep your dog's teeth and gums clean. Rawhide is also a great solution for aggressive chewers or puppies that are inclined to chew on shoes, furniture, or anything they can find. Plus, they make great fetch toys!Key Benefits
- Made from USA-raised beef, basted with natural chicken flavor
- A delicious way to help keep your dog's teeth and gums clean
- Great solution for aggressive chewers or puppies that are inclined to chew
- Cooked with love in the USA with the world's best ingredients
- Make wonderful fetch toys
Please supervise your dog while they chew this rawhide. Swallowing large pieces can be harmful. Not for human consumption. Coating is water-soluble and may stain indoor material. Wash hands with warm water and soap after handling.
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Giving your pup delicious high-quality treats is a surefire way to earn his love and devotion for life. Good Buddy believes that all dogs are good dogs that deserve nutritious rewards any time there's an opportunity. These snacks can be given as motivation for learning a trick, to say "good job" when they're well-behaved or just because you love them!
Wood-Smoked Jerky Strips
Hearty and full of flavor, Good Buddy Jerky Strips are made with real chicken or salmon as the first ingredient, with a side of sweet potatoes for an extra-special treat. Dogs can't resist the robust, wood-smoked taste and chewy jerky texture, and there's no grains, corn, wheat, soy or any ingredients from China.
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Real-meat treats are always a favorite with dogs. Good Buddy Sausage Cuts delivers exactly what they crave with protein-packed bites of wood-smoked chicken or beef. This healthy, grain-free snack has no added fillers, poultry by-products, corn, wheat, soy or artificial flavors, colors or preservatives.
Grain-Free Dental Chews
Keep your little (or big) buddy's teeth sparkling clean with grain-free Good Buddy Dental Chews. With a unique texture in a bone shape, these easy-to-digest chews help freshen doggie breath as they fight plaque and tartar, and they come in two sizes. They're all-natural with no gluten, corn, wheat, soy, sorbic acid or sodium copper chlorophylin.
Natural Rawhide Chews
There's a Good Buddy Rawhide Chew for every pup, with options like braided sticks, chips, traditional bone shapes, curls, mini rolls and even pretzels. Sourced and manufactured entirely in the USA, these rawhide chews are made from 100% beef that's basted with natural chicken flavor for another layer of deliciousness. As your dog chews, they help clean his teeth and gums, too.
About Castor & Pollux
Natural Ultramix is made by Castor & Pollux, a company that's run by a team of experts in animal nutrition, organic and natural ingredients, and veterinary medicine. They're driven by a desire to give pet parents healthy, safe and nutritionally beneficial choices for feeding their furry family members. What began as two pet parents who wanted to provide the best food for their rescue puppy has evolved into an industry leader that sets new standards with purposeful pet food.
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By dawn on Jan 13, 2019
My dog has zero interest in these :( Usually like rawhide chips but this was a new brand for him to try.
My pups love these!
By Franky on Apr 19, 2018
Had been giving my two terriers Purina Busy Hearty-Hide Chicken-Flavored Rawhide Chips for many years, but they have apparently stopped manufacturing them. These are larger, but very close to the Purina product. My pups like them, and these seem to last longer. Wish they came in larger quantities. These are a bit pricey, but my babies are worth it!!
Good Rawhide Chips
By Kobesmom on Feb 2, 2018
I have been looking for a good rawhide chip with little success until I found these. They are a nice size and the dog loved them. Usually rawhide chips are gone in minutes, these ones lasted longer.
Terrific Product
By Wally on Mar 4, 2018
No poison and made in the US. My wonderful elderly Golden likes these and demands one each evening.
A Life Saver
By LadyDi on Sep 6, 2017
Both my little girl and I LOVE these rawhides. And, they are a life safer at a time when all other brands - made in Latin and South America - have been recalled!! This is the only brand, and location that conveniently sold them, after doing an extensive search of what was out there. We can't live with without our chewies, or Moms shoes don't survive!!
My pups love them
By Mimi on Oct 1, 2017
My two dachshunds love them. When I give them each one, they compete to somehow manage to get both of them at once. They recommend them!
My Puppy is 5 months old and that might be the reason.
By Abigail on Sep 6, 2017
My Puppy did not care for the "Good Buddy" treats. I gave them to My Puppy's Foster Mom and she stated her dogs loves them.
Chews for my doggie
By GingerAmy on Jun 30, 2017
My dog Will E loves rawhide, and I have not given him any chemical laced kind in awhile (once I learned how toxic they are!). Good Buddy is a great brand of natural treats, reasonably priced, and Will E loves them!
nice size for medium dog.
By Roger on Jul 18, 2017
First rawhide chews for my puppy. She had pig ears and some leather indestructible chew toys, but not raw hide. She approves.
Really great item
By Bambi77 on Jun 29, 2017
Amazing price and my dogs love them. They are not tooo thin, great size. Keeps my chihuahuas very busy.


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Like sad children in socks dismounting a deflating bouncy castle at the end of a fun party, like a cold tub of fries spilling into the bin after a busy lunch shift at McDonald's, like tired grandmas being driven home in silence after a lacklustre Thanksgiving meal. Sorry, excuse us, apologies: we were just trying to come up with slightly more positive analogies for the partner clear out at Dewey & Leboeuf than the one about "rats" and "a sinking ship".
Whichever way you spin it, things aren't looking good for the New York law firm. Disputes over compensation and towering debts have left the once 1,000-strong company on its knees, while a well trodden path out of the firm has seen almost every partner and the entirety of its crisis leadership team defect. May has seen 103 of the 182 departures heralded since the start of the year, with the Wall Street Journal reporting rival firms Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (15 partners), DLA Piper (14 partners) and Willkie Farr & Gallagher (12 partners) benefitting most from the collapse. Meanwhile, some unlucky lot have hired members of a crisis leadership team whose first action in a crisis is to leave the company, en mass, with immediate effect.
"There were several things that led to problems that led to the result we had," said Dewey office of the chairman member, bankruptcy specialist and chief underwhelmist, Martin Bienenstock. "Between [a] $30 million revenue shortfall and the $25 million of unavailable credit, we were looking at a working capital contraction of $55 million. This is why people weren't paid."
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Copecats was established in 1977, is not part of a large franchise, but family owned and operated. Copecats is one of the longer established Maroochydore printers, servicing the Sunshine Coast for over 30 years. We are a one stop shop printer and offer a wide variety of products, including full colour offset and digital printing.
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Bristol Academy 2
Is this in the same place as Academy 1? I've been to Academy 1, but I'm going to see Tegan and Sara in 2 on the 12th, and I don't know where it is, the Academy website is rubbish. Help please!
i believe theyre in the same building
but have no real idea
no not very good
it is Their First Assignment
Citizens on Patrol is one of the later ones.
I think Assignment: Miami Beach
is my favourite title. Shocking film though.
It's the upstairs bar bit
of the Academy
^see above
I need to boost my postcount for my EMA money
was there a venue change?
was it originally at the anson rooms? or did i dream that gig
If it's busy at the Academy 2...
...get there early or you'll see naff all.
What Damian said
I saw M.Ward there when it wasn't too busy and it was great, but busy = hot and no see much.
I saw Blood Brothers there
was fanfuckingtastic.
bad venue for seeing
hunchy men like M Ward, but the sound is superb in there, so thats something.
saw twilight singers in there
and it was pretty special too, once you got over the crapness of the venue.


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Soren Kierkegaard on Life
"Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward "
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot
HI Paul, my first spiritual Dad, cool that you are on blogspot, too.
please visit my sitedome time....
This line by Soren Kirkegaard is absolutely true. I fall into the habit of trying to live life backward than forward sometimes. God bless you and your family!


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Published on September 30, 2015
Spartanburg, SC— Twenty-four Medical Group of the Carolinas (MGC) practices hold Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) accreditations from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). In 2012, 18 MGC practices were designated as PCMH. PCMH recognition is awarded for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long‐term, participative relationships.
Along with the 24 primary care practices, two MGC Immediate Care Centers recently received NCQA Patient-Centered Connected Care Recognition.
"We have been a pioneer in South Carolina in embracing this model of care," said Nick Ulmer, MD, VP of Clinical Services for Medical Group of the Carolinas. "Medical practices in our organization meet our patients' needs through optimal wellness goals and education. Medical homes help patients feel more comfortable and reach their healthcare goals."
The NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home is a model of primary care that combines teamwork and information technology to improve care, improve patients' experience of care and reduce costs. Medical homes foster ongoing partnerships between patients and their personal clinicians, instead of approaching care as the sum of episodic office visits. Each patient's care is overseen by clinician-led care teams that coordinate treatment across the health care system. Research shows that medical homes can lead to higher quality and lower costs, and can improve patient and provider reported experiences of care.
"NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition raises the bar in defining high-quality care by emphasizing access, health information technology and coordinated care focused on patients," said NCQA president Margaret E. O'Kane. "Recognition shows that Medical Group of the Carolinas – Immediate Care - Eastside and Medical Group of the Carolinas – Immediate Care – Westside have the tools, systems and resources to provide its patients with the right care, at the right time."
To earn recognition, which is valid for three years, MGC's Immediate Care Centers demonstrated the ability to meet the program's key elements, embodying characteristics of the medical home. NCQA standards aligned with the joint principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home established with the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Osteopathic Association.
To find practices with NCQA PCMH Recognition, visit MedicalGroupoftheCarolinas.com.
Medical Group of the Carolinas is a group of more than 300 physicians in more than 22 specialties and primary care, serving 11 counties. Originally named the Spartanburg Regional Physician Group, the Medical Group of the Carolinas (MGC) offers eight OB/GYN practices at nine locations for women's health. MGC also offers three pediatric practices, and 28 primary care offices (family medicine and internal medicine) throughout the Carolinas. MGC has locations throughout the region including Spartanburg, Greer, Chesnee, Union, Boiling Springs and Duncan. Twenty-four practices have been recognized as Patient Centered Medical Homes.
NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations. It also recognizes clinicians and practices in key areas of performance. NCQA's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is the most widely used performance measurement tool in health care. NCQA's Web site (ncqa.org) contains information to help consumers, employers and others make more informed health care choices.
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We deliver a "keyword" account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over the last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance in German as Lebensform. We argue that life form has, since its earliest enunciations, pointed to a space of possibility within which life might take shape, but that the way that space is imagined and theorized in biology has transformed substantially; life form originated as a term referring to idealized, aesthetic possibilities, then transformed to describe biogeographic and evolutionary potentialities, and today, in the age of synthetic biology and astrobiology, has come to signal conjectural and future possibilities.
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The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has denied speculations within a section of the media that some thumb printed ballots have been found in the Ketu South District of the Volta Region.
The Commission said there is no "iota of truth in the claims" widely circulated on social media. According to the commission, its preliminary checks showed the information was false and must be disregarded.
Rumours were rife on Saturday that seals to some ballot bags had been broken and thumb printed ballot had been found in the bags.
The Executive Director of Danquah Institute, and a leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko who made the allegation also added that officials of the Electoral Commission were not cooperating on the matter.
But in a rebuttal, the Electoral Commission (EC) via its Facebook page said, no such thing had happened in the Ketu South constituency.
With almost a week to the country's general elections on December 7, many people have raised allegations including bloated ballots, broken seals and thumb printed ballots, most of which the EC has denied.
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Meanwhile, six ballot boxes meant for the upcoming polls in the Western Region have gone missing.
This was disclosed by the Takoradi chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Regional Secretary of the NPP, Charles Cromwell Bissue told Citi News six boxes of a bulk of 44 boxes got missing while being transported from the Western Regional Head Office of the Electoral Commission to the various constituencies.
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Last weekend, we hitched a ride with Ted and Sue for a quick weekend trip to Watervliet, Michigan to help celebrate the marriage of Nic and Jess Bitting.
The kids enjoyed the DVD player in their van on the ride.
And we ate lots of pretzels.
We happily joined up with Hollins and Rachel (and Reid and Jillian) when we arrived.
Aubrey and Jillian picked up right where they left off.
The first evening, all wedding guests were invited to attend a potluck by Lake Michigan. Our kids met their second cousins and we got most of them (okay, everyone minus Tyler, I realized later) to pose for a picture.
The hotel had an indoor water park and the kids loved spending the rest of the evening swimming.
The next day was Tyler's birthday. He opened presents in our hotel room. He was thrilled, but we made him wait to open everything but the books until he was home.
The ladies ready for the wedding.
Aubrey and Jill
My boys.
Tyler didn't want to pose...silly.
Between the wedding and reception, we had hors d'oeuvres, drinks, yard games, and pictures!
The Eigsti clan.
During the reception, Nic led everyone in singing Happy Birthday to Tyler and one other in the room. Tyler even got a few gifts from Wayne's aunt and a couple of cousins. How sweet.
Aubrey conked out before all the fun was over. She kept covering her head with my scarf.
There was a bonfire, dancing, and music. Little love was just too tired to keep going. We enjoyed making a lot of great memories on our brief trip. And, we enjoyed a safe and uneventful trip home. Back to school and work the next day. Phew!


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Accelerated Access Review: speeding up access to innovative drugs and medical technologies for NHS patients
Last year, the Government's Office for Life Sciences announced the Accelerated Access Review looking at how to get innovative medicines and technologies to patients as quickly as possible. The Wellcome Trust is pleased to be supporting this important review which is being led by Sir Hugh Taylor, Chair of Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. In this blog, he tells us more about what he hopes it will achieve.
It is a great privilege to chair the Accelerated Access Review. The central promise of the NHS is that it will be there for us when we need it. So finding new ways to get drugs, devices and diagnostics to patients faster is a very worthwhile task. Many benefits will flow from progress in this area: better treatment and health outcomes for patients; more cost-effective and affordable ways for the NHS to treat patients; and a more central role for research organisations and charities. This will also provide opportunities for business by getting their produces to patients quicker, and a major boost for our economy and the country if we can become a world-leader in designing, developing and using innovative products.
I am being given a huge amount of support. The Wellcome Trust is kindly backing the review. Professor Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, is also leading an External Advisory Group to support the development of our recommendations. His team includes experts from the pharma and medtech industries, small business founders, world-leading clinicians and researchers, patient champions, investors and others with huge international experience.
Harnessing the insights, ideas, expertise and potential solutions from the many organisations and individuals across the NHS, patient groups, academia, pharma and elsewhere will be central to the success of this review.
Already many organisations and individuals have contributed to early thinking. I held an event in March which brought together stakeholders with wide interests and expertise to help me to shape the big issues the review needs to tackle. It also made clear to me the ambition for change we all share. There will be further opportunities to get involved over the coming months, both virtually and at national events.
As Chairman of the Trust at Guy's and St Thomas', I see every day the impact that cutting edge medicines and technologies have on patients, on the wards and at our academic health science centre. But 21st century healthcare can only be delivered by a 21st century system.
Our challenge is eminently achievable, but it is not easy. We need to find a way of delivering modern, first-class healthcare in a practical, affordable and sustainable way. We have identified three main areas in which we believe there is significant potential for reform: regulation, reimbursement and uptake.
No-one will lose out if we get this right. Patients are not alone in wanting access to the best healthcare – providers want access to that too. My team and I are determined to produce a series of recommendations for ministers that can make innovative healthcare swifter, better and more widely available.
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Simplicity 2648 Goes Casual
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First of all I LOVE The hand placements in these images!! good job Gmarie.ReplyDelete
And I LOVE the outfit 100%
you look amazing!
Great job. IM in awe that you sew your clothing!
IM lucky if I can buy the right thing to wear.
Wow, this one is a show-stopper, and the yellow cardi makes it "pop" even more. No wonder you got so many compliments - you look fabulous!ReplyDelete
Ooooh - looks so smart and sophisticated!! Great dress!ReplyDelete
Love everything - the dress, the cardi, you... it's all awesome!ReplyDelete
I can see why you received so many compliments, it is an awesome dress. Great job.ReplyDelete
I really like that dress. I've always liked reverse fabrics and enjoy working with them. I have some right now that I bought a few years ago to make a jacket. They're spring colors and I should look for them in the closet. The timing is perfect. Keep up the great work.ReplyDelete
I like that a lot. The two contrasting fabrics make it look really elegant, and the belt is a perfect finish. The yellow cardigan also perked it up just enough! Great work!ReplyDelete
Love it! Very work-wearable in my eyes...JReplyDelete
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Oh! LOVE it so much!!!!ReplyDelete
Love your dress. Love the contrasting fabrics. Love it.ReplyDelete
This looks great! Nice fit; nice style. I bet it would look good with red accents, too.ReplyDelete
You have really done some great dresses, G.ReplyDelete
And, I've been thinking about you, wondering how the new job is going!
Beautiful!! It looks stylish and perfect for office wear! I have just "discovered" dresses and have amassed a whole 4 of them. LOL! I plan to enjoy them this summer. How I wish I could sew like you!!ReplyDelete
looks fab! the cardi is perfect for a pop of colorReplyDelete
Very stylish! Your sewing skills just keep getting better and better ~ love the color combo yellow with grey and/or black and the belt really sets it off. How fun to wear something you made that looks this terrific!!! Enjoy ~ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! Dresses are so easy to wear to work! I just bought a new sheath dress and a shirt dress and I am very excited to get them into the wardrobe mix! It's exciting to have a fun new professional job to actually dress nicely for!ReplyDelete
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The dress is such a good one for you - I love it! The color is good, the shape and the fabric. You go girl!!!ReplyDelete
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I think I can see what you were trying to achieve here, but for me it doesn't quiet work.
I think there is to much space above the 'heads' and think it should be cropped to just below the horizontal line. The other thing that distracts me is the 'half face' of the man in the background, IMO I would like to see him cloned out, as I don't think he adds to the picture.
What I do like is you are doing something different and not taking the standard type of picture, most of us take.
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BIG BANG THEORY: Learn Science From the Big Bang TV Show
The amount of research that goes into making a TV sitcom like The-Big-Bang-Theory is impressive given the accuracy of the facts they present. A typical 20 minute episode will contain at least 10 verifiable scientific facts, meaning one fact every two minutes. The show is so popular that a google search for "big bang" will yield more results about it than for the actual theory.
In the beginning
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool.....
Science101 in 15 minutes
The words of the Bare Naked Ladies song used to introduce the TV series explain the big bang theory and the universe . The age of the universe has been estimated to be 14 billion years and it begun from a single very dense and hot point that is expanding.Those are three facts that are covered in the theme song alone. The following accurate scientific facts are found in the remaining 15 minutes of the show.
1. The Higgs Boson
If someone asked me what that meant a few years ago I would not have been able to answer the question. But after watching an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" TV series, my interest was stirred and I came to learn that it is a sub-atomic particle with a very short lifespan that gives all other matter their mass. This particle is also called the "God particle" because scientists (of the quantum type) believe that without it the sub-atomic particles that arose from the Big Bang would have floated endlessly in space and therefore life as we know would not have arisen. I do not claim that I now understand quantum physics by watching a TV show- it is the interest that it generated in me to find out a little more about a subject that is the point.
Do you believe the science in the Big Bang Tv series is accurate?
2. Anthropic Principle
The Miriam Webster dictionary defines the anthropic principle as:
a : conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist —also called the weak anthropic principle
b : the universe must have properties that make inevitable the existence of intelligent life —also called the strong anthropic principle
This principle is brought up by Sheldon (Big Bang Theory) when he asks his friends if they knew what it meant.
3. International Space Station (ISS)
The International Space Station is a joint venture between five space agencies: NASA (US), FSA (Russian Federation), JAEA (Japan), CSA (Canada) and ESA (European Union). The main service vehicle is the Russian Soyuz after the American Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011. There are plans in the future to use commercial vehicles to supply the station and two trial runs have already been implemented by contractors. The Cygnus spacecraft by Orbital Sciences Corp will in December 2013 launch the first of eight missions in a US$ 1.9 Billion contract.
4. Search for extra-terrestrial Intelligence
This is the collective name given to the activities aimed at searching for signs of extra-terresrial intelligence. Many institutions of higher learning have been involved in the search including Havard and University of California, Berkeley. The search usually involves the use of electro-magnetic monitoring of the cosmos.
American Space shuttle program
That America retired its fleet of space shuttles and has to rely on the Russians to take astronauts to the International Space Station using the Soyuz Spacecraft that is based in Kazakhstan.
5. Lymbic and pre-frontal cortex
The pre-frontal cortex controls what is known as the executive function and controls the ability to differentiate among conflicting thought. The Limbic cortex controls behaviour, emotions, motivation and long term memory.
6. Worm holes and Black holes
The mechanics of these two features may be hard to understand, but the general concept can be explained. Generally, a black hole is a collapsed stellar system that has a very high density and pulls anything into itself. A black hole infinitely sinks into itself and has a very large mass that not even light can escape its gravitational pull. A worm hole is a theoretical tunnel in which one can move to a different time zone.
Though I may have not become a scientist from watching a single episode of the TV series, there is enough material there to get one started on journey of discovery of the sciences. Such quality research is commendable and the material should not just be used for entertainment: rather, it should be incorporated into class-room studies.
The actress who plays Amy is actually a scientist in real life and she helps with the scientific facts in the show, she is also the same actress who played Blossom which is mentioned by Raj in the show, kind of an in joke, I watch too much TV......
Excellent! I think you're absolutely wonderful to have explored some of these concepts from this "stellar" sitcom. I've been intrigued with the vocabulary, encouraged that apparently all America is intrigued, but never investigated it like you have! My husband, however, works as a software engineer on the Warner Bros. lot, and he has passed Johnny Galecki and said "Hi," as well as Kunal Nayyar, and Simon Helberg. It's a policy that workers on the lot don't engage the actors, but he walks by so often, the actors smile and say "Hello" so it's neat. You're right about googling merely "big bang". My daughter who doesn't watch it that much laughed when we just call it "Big Bang" rather than the whole title!
It gives me great pleasure to watch it each week. Excellent acting. I hope the writers realize how much they do to make our lives a little more informed and cheerful. Great hub!


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CAMP celebrates creative technology, art and design by bringing together like-minded professionals, artists, and students to share and shape experiences that educate, challenge and inspire. CAMP is hosted at the historical Theatre Junction GRAND in Calgary.
Our aim is to celebrate and explore digital culture. We educate, challenge and inspire our audience by giving a stage to renowned artists and professionals, hosting workshops, and creating networking opportunities. In addition, we also focus on bridging the gap between post-secondary and industry as well as support digital community-based initiatives.
The festival all begins with our curated creative and technical storytellers from around the world who share their passion, meet, interact and educate. CAMP takes shape because of the contributions from our sponsors and volunteers as well as the local and international artists and studios that lend a helping hand each year. Your participation does the rest.
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supply voltage rejection ratio (kSVR)
The absolute value of the ratio of the change in one supply voltage (with all remaining supply voltages held constant) to the resulting change in input offset voltage.
NOTE 1 See the reciprocal definition under "supply voltage sensitivity".
NOTE 2 This concept is sometimes referred to as "power supply rejection ratio".
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Schaumburg police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:40 AM Saturday to a report of a man down in the roadway — possibly hit by a vehicle — near Friendship Village at Schaumburg Road and Branchwood Drive. The victim has since been identified as Schaumburg High School senior, Mikias Tibebu, 18.
Police are seeking a hit-and-run driver after the death of Mikias Tibebu — recognized as an Illinois State Scholar and National Achievement Award winner, beloved friend and athlete, and a committed member of the Cross-Country and Track teams at Schaumburg High School.
Police shut down Schaumburg Road in both directions after finding the
victim on the south side of Schaumburg Road near the entrance to Friendship Village. Police reported CPR was underway just before firefighter/paramedics arrived. Several motorists turned on their emergency flashers around the scene to form a safe zone. Schaumburg firefighter/paramedics continued treatment with CPR and Advanced Life Support. However, Tibebu was pronounced dead at the scene at about 1:00 a.m.
Schaumburg Road was closed in the area, and the Schaumburg Police Department's Investigations Division and Traffic Crash Reconstruction Team was called out about 12:50 a.m. Schaumburg Road was re-opened at about 5:45 a.m. when investigators cleared the scene. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office is also working on the investigation.
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A conversation with Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry, an essayist and English professor at Harvard University, dives deep into questions of aesthetics as a moral guide in her book On Beauty and Being Just. This past spring, Mark Pasnik AIA met with Scarry in her office on campus for a conversation on the topic.
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Mark Pasnik: I thought we could talk a little bit about the values that you see in beauty. What are the kinds of core, functional values that it brings to us?
Elaine Scarry: There are many values that beauty brings to us. It certainly brings to us the immediate experience of acute pleasure. In this case, it's acute pleasure in a way that is simultaneously somewhat decentering. A number of 20th-century, midcentury philosophers, Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, have talked about the fact that when we come into the presence of something beautiful, we undergo an unselfing, or what Weil called a "radical decentering." That's crucial because there are lots of things in the world that bring about an opiated state, and there are lots of things that make you feel marginal or secondary. But there's almost nothing else that does both of those things at once, that makes you feel marginal at the very moment that you feel acute pleasure. That seems a kind of preparation or a rehearsal for caring about the injuries of the world or caring to repair injustices. Many people — my colleagues, your colleagues, artists, architects — believe that beauty for its own sake is a good thing.
Pasnik: You would agree with that view?
Scarry: I don't agree with it. I think that beauty may well be responsible for pressing us into concern with justice and pressing us into concern with the truth.
Pasnik: It creates action, essentially? That's one of its powerful tools?
Scarry: It does cause action. It's not as though you see something beautiful and then you shrug it off as though nothing happened. It prepares you for other things. It's not that I think we can be sure that an individual or an era that cared a lot about beauty also cared a lot about justice. I don't mean it to be quite that strict. It's much more supple. When you think of all the cruelty in the world, sometimes I'm astonished when you go back 10 or 20 centuries. On the one hand you find great instances of civilization, but on the other you often find the kind of violence we see today. Where in the midst of all this cruelty did the concern for equality and justice come from? Where did the idea come from that there has to be symmetry among individuals? That there is equality? I think where it came from is beauty.
Pasnik: Could you elaborate on the term "symmetry"? That's such a strongly used word in architecture, and I think you're talking more about equality and balance than geometric symmetry.
Scarry: I'm also talking about geometric symmetry. Symmetry is a word that you often hear being discredited, like it's something we're tired of. Yet symmetry is so crucial to many instances of beauty. It doesn't have to be a bilateral symmetry. It can be octahedrons inside of dodecahedrons and so on. Whether you're looking at a Japanese moss garden or a Greek temple or a vase or a child's face, it's going to be primarily characterized by symmetry. Sometimes people will cite instances of, let's say, somebody's face that isn't symmetrical, some ravishing beauty, but it's a tiny, tiny, fraction of asymmetry in the midst of great symmetry. If you have asymmetry in a face, it's when a soldier in Iraq has had his face blown up or somebody has bone cancer, and nobody confuses that with beauty. If you look at any account of justice, it always involves some definition of balance, equilibrium, beauty.
Centrepoint (2008). Book pages cut and folded, 25 cm × 18 cm.
Image: Abigail Reynolds
Pasnik: Do you find that to be more of a classical notion than a Modernist one? There are many architects who would argue against symmetry and look for dynamics that reflect our current society. I can think of a romantic beauty of a leaning, ancient barn; its lack of symmetry is actually one of its enduring, beautiful qualities. So I'm curious — you feel like it's a strong driving force?
Scarry: I do. Sometimes when we're talking about beauty, we're talking about the beautiful object itself, whether a person or a thing, and sometimes we're talking about the response to beauty. With symmetry we're talking about one of its features. Whenever I'm talking about other features of beauty, people tend not to challenge me; they say, "Well, yes, of course." But symmetry, they say, "No."
Pasnik: For me, trained as an architect, it was the word in your book that I had the most trouble agreeing with.
Scarry: Right. Once I was at a conference where a philosopher said, "Look, you don't need it. You've got all these other things that make your case. Why even bring it up?" I just had to bring it up because I think it's true. In the realm of architecture, it has to be symmetrical enough that it stands up, that it's safe, that it works. The thrill of it may be that there are ways of designing it so that the dynamism is outpacing the equilibrium. But still it's symmetrical.
Pasnik: Paul Rudolph, a midcentury Modernist who built a lot of concrete buildings, said that any architect who designs symmetrically should only get half the fee! I'm curious that symmetry is so challenged. It's interesting to hear how often you've heard it challenged as well.
There were other concepts that you pulled out in your book that resonated closely with architecture but were less precisely descriptive, like the quality of "generous sensory availability." The decentering that you've talked about — I think of walking into a building and [being] profoundly thrown off your feet — and proportion, and symmetry as in ethical fairness; I found some allegiance in those points. But it is more challenging for me to embrace the word symmetry in its geometric meaning.
Scarry: All the things you mention are things that I believe very strongly. Plato talks about how beauty is bound up with truth and justice, but those things you only find in the other world. Or you find it in this world, but it isn't in the sensory environment.
Pasnik: How does beauty turn us toward justice?
Scarry: It does it in two ways. It doesn't seem like there's an inherent pressure for equal distribution in the realm of justice; otherwise, we could have figured all this out a long time ago. But with beauty, absolutely, it's there in so many different instances, whether it's the Fibonacci series, the arrangement of seeds in the sunflower, or many other things. First of all, that it's in the world to keep reminding us that there is this way of being that involves symmetry and balance. I think of the example of Augustine and De Musica, where he's writing a whole section on the godliness of equality, how God is equality and music is equal measure. The godly is in the symmetry of dance steps, he says. It's in the smoothness of rose petals. It's even in the smoothness of cakes. It's in the iteration of a single color, like the blue of the sky, symmetrical across a patch or an expanse of color. He's not talking about political equality.
Pasnik: It's not a social issue.
Scarry: It's not, yet it's fine that it's not yet a social issue, as far as I know, for Augustine. He's already saying that equality is godly. If you take the fact that many people, starting from the Greeks and probably much earlier, talk about how you have to have punishment symmetrical to crimes, yet here we are, centuries later, and we don't have it figured out at all. We've got mass incarceration, no relation between crimes and punishment. This is all to say that it's aspired to in every definition of justice there is, whether you're talking about equal pay for equal work or about crimes and punishments or about a symmetry in everyone's relation with one another. The idea is there, but the instantiation of it isn't. We even argue about what the instantiation of it would look like; whereas with beauty, we're just flooded with examples, whether it's a bird in flight or one of your dynamic buildings or a staircase or whatever.
Pasnik: Do they call us to be more just?
Scarry: I think definitely, in part through that process of unselfing.
Pasnik: Because we're decentered, we sort of remove ourselves?
Scarry: Yes.
The Music Room (2008). Book pages cut and folded, 49 cm × 29.5 cm.
Image: Abigail Reynolds
Pasnik: There was an interesting structure that I saw in your book, in terms of the relationship of beauty, beginning with a beautiful object, moving to the perceiver's cognitive act of beholding, and ending with a creative act that is prompted by it. And that seems like a recipe for positive things in the world to grow. There is a beautiful act. It triggers something, decenters us, and then encourages us —
Scarry: To create. Socrates' teacher Diotima told him that when you see something beautiful or someone beautiful, it gives rise to a desire to have children. But, she said, it also gives rise to the desire to make poems and philosophic treatises and good laws. Wittgenstein says when your eyes see something beautiful, your hand wants to draw it. And that impulse you can see, even for people who don't think of themselves as artists or architects or creators. They want to replicate it.
Pasnik: Is there a biological imperative in this process of beauty? Or do you see it as more cultural?
Scarry: I think of it as cultural, but you can see in people wanting generations to go on; at times, when there are very depressed circumstances, birth levels go down. So it may well be biological. People in the natural sciences keep pointing out that when insects and birds choose mates, they're often going by what they perceive as aesthetic qualities, including symmetry and color. They say that symmetry wins out over everything, that it's taken as a sign of well-being and health. Mario Livio, who is an astrophysicist at the Hubble Institute, points out this amazing thing, that in the Y chromosome there are more than 50 million sequences, 6 million of which are palindromes: the letters read the same way forward as backwards. He says the reason for that, they think, is to ensure survivability, so that if it's damaged in one direction, it can still be read in the opposite direction.
Pasnik: Fascinating. Yet I can't think of the last time, on a design review in a school that I've been to, somebody used the word beauty as a driving concept or way of thinking. I'm curious how that happened and if you have a defense of beauty or a rallying cry for beauty; is it reemerging in discourse?
Scarry: I think it is, but it was certainly absent in the '80s and '90s. I started teaching a graduate course called "On Beauty" in the early 1990s; it's not that the objects of beauty had no longer been in the literature departments or art history departments, because Keats' poetry is, for sure, beautiful.
Pasnik: It just wasn't discussed with that term.
Scarry: The formal features of the thing tended not to be discussed. I was addressing a problem in the university because that's the area I occupy, but museum directors told me that they had also suffered from decades of this being a taboo. Jim Cuno, who's now [president and CEO] of the Getty [Museum] — he used to be at the Fogg — held sessions with museum directors from all over the country, where we would talk about beauty. Quite a few of them said they felt they had been under a taboo. Then I would speak at architecture schools, and they would say they had been under a taboo. Moshe Safdie FAIA, who's an architect I like very much, once said he felt that it was a vocabulary that had been eliminated. He certainly seems to me somebody who has always been very celebratory of beauty as a life pact. Individual artists, painters would say that it was a kind of banished word.
Red Library (2010). Book pages cut and folded, 33 cm × 58.5 cm.
Image: Abigail Reynolds
Pasnik: Why was beauty evicted from so much discourse?
Scarry: Well, the ostensible reasons that were given often took a form that was manifestly incoherent, in my view. One idea was that "the gaze" was something destructive. For sure, there are instances where somebody looks at somebody and it's predatory, and it's going to lead to something bad in the same way that an eagle looks at its prey. But that is not —
Pasnik: Not the reason to eliminate it.
Scarry: Exactly. The bizarre thing is, you'd be at seminars and everybody would be sitting around looking at each other, talking about how bad the gaze was. And yet, if you didn't look at anybody, you couldn't have a seminar. The even more bizarre thing is that it started getting transferred to things that weren't even human, so that I remember once hearing a lecture where somebody was talking about Keats' reifying flowers by the gaze. And people talk about destroying a painting by the gaze. You think, really? The painting isn't even there for us to look at?
Pasnik: So that's one side of the argument. In your writing, you display that there are competing arguments that almost disprove that.
Scarry: Because the other one was that beauty will distract us from important things. There's always a danger of that. I would rather sit there looking at flowers in my garden than writing about nuclear weapons. Yet it's my belief that doing the one helps you with the other. At the very least we can say that to argue that beautiful things distract, that you're actually hurting things if you fail to give them your regard, that's absolutely contrary to the idea that if you are gazing at the thing you are causing it injury.
There are other things that were equally incoherent. There was one idea — and I think that many people might still say this today — that beauty is middle class, it's bourgeois. That's crazy. Very rich people are very often attentive to beauty, and very poor people are attentive to beauty. I like very much [Sebastião] Salgado's photographs of migrations, which had an accompanying volume called The Children. The reason he did that second volume was because whenever he was taking pictures of 4,000 people in Rwanda or a refugee camp in Tanzania — and those photographs, by the way, were often criticized for being beautiful, even though nobody had been thinking about how many people are just moving over the face of the Earth until Salgado started photographing them — these little children would get in the way of his camera. So he would buy them off by saying, "If you just stay out of my camera, I'll take a portrait of you." So in the accompanying volume, the individual portraits show that no matter how poor, no matter what country they're from — and they're from all different countries — they'll often have an exquisite little necklace on, or . . .
Pasnik: Some object of beauty.
Scarry: Some object of beauty. Or a beautiful head scarf. The idea that the people in their world and they themselves don't care about beauty is just insane.
Pasnik: What are your thoughts on beauty's role as a construct: Do we invent beauty? Do we observe it? Are there things that are determinative, or is it driven by culture? Does it change from era to era, or are there things that you see that are resonant across eras?
Scarry: Sometimes people think that it's a problem that different cultures revere different objects of beauty or discover different sites of beauty. I never understand why people think that's a problem. One of the features of beauty is its plurality. Just think of the problem we'd have if each of us took the same spouse or if each of us wanted to live in an identical house — we would never imagine that. Yet we somehow think it's a problem that there could be these disparate ideas.
Pasnik: So for you, beauty is more malleable and changing.
Scarry: Not only do I think that, but I think people who try to hammer it into a universal that we all have to agree to have a big problem making the argument because it's wrong.
Pasnik: That seemed like a fault in the argument.
Scarry: On the other hand, I do have to say that there are certain objects of beauty that I believe are held in common, such as children's faces and sunrises and sunsets and birds and the beauty of the blue sky. I'm not by any means ruling out the idea that there are shared objects of beauty. But there are huge variations.
Pasnik: You use this great phrase, "the reciprocal, life-giving pact between perceiver and the object." You mention beauty as a perceptual event, all of which seems to limit its time span. It's not necessarily something inherent to an object, but it might be an experience. Something might be fleeting or it might be long term, but there is a sense of time and agreement between, say, a set of parties.
Scarry: There are two different questions in what you're saying. One is the time duration, and the other is the pact. The endurance of the event can be just a matter of seconds, or it can be so enduring that if you come back to it three or 30 years later, it still is beautiful to you. I don't think that the things that only last three seconds aren't valid or real. They may not have the stamina, but I think that they continually moisten and refresh our perceptions. I think that it's the very fact that beautiful things don't endure — a beautiful person dies, a flower dies. One of my students said that goes together very well with the idea of creating. We keep creating because —
Pasnik: It's impermanent.
Scarry: And we have an obligation to the next generation of people to keep it in the world. Some of us do it by teaching, like making sure that The Iliad still gets read, to the next generation. Some of us do it by creating new objects, like new buildings, to put in the world. But the life pact, the second part of the question, absolutely. That seems to me as important as talking about symmetry and explaining why beauty leads to justice. It's because it is affirmative of our perceptual acuity. On the one hand, it makes us feel that we have a place in the world. At the same time, it's decentering. There must be something about us in relation to the Earth that explains why it seems there couldn't be a more perfect Earth. More important is that I think it raises the level of perceptual acuity.
Charcoal (2012). Book pages cut and folded, gold leaf, 31 cm × 43 cm.
Image: Abigail Reynolds
Pasnik: It seems to draw very closely into some of the issues of architecture, but it also seems like it's the generosity of beauty compared to the definition of beauty that is sort of rarefied and far away from you. It's far more powerful a reading of beauty than the arguments of why it was being evicted in the first place or why architects have trouble with it. It's because you think beauty has standards, and codes, and these kinds of constructs. When we think about the issue of taste — I'm not sure that taste has that generosity. There's a construct that to have good taste means it's a structure, that there's a wide agreement around it. What are your thoughts on the relationship between beauty and taste?
Scarry: The argument against taste is we've agreed that there's plurality of beauty. If you start with people's choosing their life partner or even their temporary partner, it would be amazing to think that anyone could prescribe the person they should choose, even in cultures where parents arrange for marriages. So I think there is a problem with taste; it's being prescriptive in an arena where there's plurality of taste.
And yet, remembering that there are these common objects of beauty and that one of the goals is distribution of well-being, then I think that there are lots of objects of beauty that require assistance. That's why we have universities. Some things you have to struggle to see the beauty of.
Is the architect who's trying to wrestle with the subject of taste, is he or she going to accommodate the plurality of taste by having a building that's amorphous and keeps changing every time you turn around? To some extent, buildings can do that. If the Getty Museum and its surrounding grounds [were] in part based on the idea of a national park, it was in part imagining people doing different things or entering and exiting the building in lots of different ways. So there are ways of accommodating plurality, but I think that it comes down more on the side of either having principles of beauty that are already known to be widespread, or if the architects are in the vanguard of seeing some new thing, then they may have to build in a certain education process.
Pasnik: To prepare themselves for beauty, or to understand beauty?
Scarry: Both. For example, in a verbal text, the poet will often give us practice in how to read an easy version of something before we have to read a difficult version of it.
Pasnik: Let's return to perceptual acuity. It seems that is one of the gifts that beauty gives us. It raises our awareness. In many respects it causes us to attend to things that we might not normally. How might architects, in particular, learn from that?
Scarry: Whenever we cross paths with something beautiful, it does cause this heightened awareness. It's suddenly electrifying. When people argue that it steals, robs your attention from something else, I say: Do this experiment the next time you find yourself suddenly ravished or have your breath taken away by looking at something beautiful. What level of perception were you experiencing as you walked down the street? Were you generously looking at people, enjoying them, and thinking, How lovely? Or were you just numb? It raises the standard for what counts as perception because you feel what it is to be fully engaged. Then, either a voice in your head or a friend of yours will say, "Well, you've got to give that same level of perception to this over here, which you didn't originally think was so important." That way, that same perceptual acuity gets transferred to other things.
Pasnik: There is a shift in the language of beauty used from, let's say, classical origins in architecture. Vitruvius talks
about firmness, commodity, and delight — delight is the beauty, firmness is the strength, and commodity is the usefulness. So beauty is the third element. Then there's a shift in Modernism, where there's growing distrust of the word beauty, but it's positioned to grow out of those other characteristics. I wanted to read a quote from Marc-Antoine Laugier; in 1753 his Enlightenment-era Treatise on Architecture underpins a lot of what happens in the early 1900s with Modernist philosophy: "The parts that are essential are the cause of beauty. The parts introduced by necessity cause every license. The parts that are added by caprice cause every fault." There's a kind of integration of beauty with essence, with that kind of essentialness, but also a sense of function. Modernism privileges the expression of the way the building is behaving, the way it's formed, and sees a beauty in that. While beauty in a lot of modern discourse is set aside, it's also even more centralized in a way. It's the kind of term from which things have to grow.
Scarry: That's persuasive. That is really foundational.
Pasnik: It's essentializing, I guess.
Scarry: So it's not in the ornament, it's in the structure.
Centrepoint 1975/1981 (2010). Book pages cut and folded, 27 cm × 15.5 cm. From The Universal Now series.
Image: Abigail Reynolds
Pasnik: For me, the task of beauty as part of architecture would not be defined only as aesthetic. It would not be separated from the task to improve society and other kinds of tasks that architecture has. That would be part of its potential for beauty. That's one of the rich things about the way you interpret beauty in your book. The way I see it as having been banished because it's seen as this extra layer, and Modernism pushes away ornament (but not completely). It does seem that beauty's centrality is the argument you are making that does have a sustained practice in architecture, even with this shift away from the term beauty. That's an interesting inversion that your book draws out.
Scarry: As you were speaking, I thought of being so struck by the St. Louis Pulitzer [Arts Foundation] Museum by [Tadao] Ando because I had never understood that poured concrete could look that way. It seemed like a pearl. Yet there was nothing about it that is removable. Even though we think the building is its structure, it's also all its porousness to light and air and so forth, the kind of aliveness of the thing. It is, again, foundational. It is the ground of aliveness.
Pasnik: You talk about the opposite of beauty as injury. Most people think of the opposite of beauty as ugly. I wrote a book on Boston's concrete Modernism, from the 1960s and '70s, and ugly is a word that's commonly used by the public for this generation of buildings, which I find to be fascinating buildings that are powerful and imaginative. They awaken me in ways that you've described. My perception of them, the pact between me and them, is quite different than maybe the average public version. Is ugliness difficult? Beauty, terrible beauties, how do these fit into the larger picture?
Scarry: My book might have been faulted for not using the word ugliness; I just don't use it. I just don't quite recognize what it is, what the word means. Whereas injury, I very much recognize what it means. Beauty presses us to justice, but the spectacle of injury, which is very close to the word for injustice, can also press us toward justice. These are examples of what I was saying earlier, that for difficult poems or paintings that don't immediately strike every viewer as beautiful, there has to be the work of education that is carried out in a space adjacent to the beautiful thing, like a university.
Pasnik: We're two buildings down from the Carpenter Center, which is a good example.
Scarry: Absolutely. The building itself can teach you.
Pasnik: If you're prepared for it.
Scarry: Just like The Iliad. The 18th book is going to ask you to make incredible pictures in your mind of motion on the shield of Achilles that's going to climax with acrobats doing handsprings. It is one thing to say the words but to actually make a picture of that? Homer gets us to do it by having these things along the way that are much easier forms of making mental images that move. Instead of saying, "The spear flew through the air," he'll say, "The shadow of the long spear flew through the air." It's easier for us to make a picture of a shadow moving through the air because it's so rarefied and lightweight. All that is a rehearsal for Book 18, where we're going to have to do these kinds of tour de force acts of imagining.
Pasnik: Buildings could do the same.
Scarry: Even the edge of the spiral entryway on the Carpenter Center is a way of —
Pasnik: Folding you into it.
Scarry: Staging your own entrance into it, you know? I can imagine that there might be another building in the same genre, where instead of it being done in the entryway, there could be an alcove or a corridor where people in the building get it, and then get it again when they're back in the larger space. ■
Desert Seeds (2015). Book pages cut and folded, 30.5 cm × 18.5 cm.
Image: Abigail Reynolds


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Only 2.5inches tall & cast from resin, a wonderfully sturdy, yet small toy. I'm seriously considering ordering a few more to play around with, see what kind of custom creation I could come up with. Beside the fact I'm indulging in a bit of artwork lately, these can also be stacked, which I find insanely tempting!
I'm hoping to one day hunt down the 'Black Death' skelevex as well. Tragically it was limited to 20, so it's pretty unlikely I'll ever achieve that goal. In the meantime however, I'm quite happy. A lovely little addition to my collection. Expect many more skull toys in the future!