The worst were dismal eyesores, obliterating views and puffing smoke.
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"I would never go to see such eyesores," he said.
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The eyesores drove market values down for surrounding properties as well.
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He transforms eyesores into meditations on the internet's impact on public spaces.
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"Speaking of getting rid of racist eyesores," he said during his opening monologue.
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While some space heaters are clunky eyesores, the Airdog keeps things looking sleek.
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Residents here constantly fret about the vacant homes, eyesores that reinforce the city's troubles.
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They were eyesores that took away from the seamless design of a professional costume.
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Whether they're eyesores or cool works of art is for the beholder to decide.
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We don't view parked cars and bus stops as eyesores, even though they're everywhere.
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The city's Brutalist buildings, in contrast, are widely considered eyesores by the general public.
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Unfortunately, the majority of letters I've seen can be summed up in one word: Eyesores.
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" More: "Many of these eyesores are in some of the District's most high-end neighborhoods.
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To the Editor: Housing foreclosures can lead to more divorce, unemployment, crime and neighborhood eyesores.
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Parking garages aren't just low-tech eyesores — they might be urban America's greatest real estate development opportunity.
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"A lot of these old manufacturing sites become eyesores or dangerous to the community," Mr. Griffin said.
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Left untreated, these sites are more than eyesores: They create long-lingering problems including polluted drinking water.
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There were also some major eyesores in the store, like this area we found by the restroom.
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Failing malls, once the center of suburban life and now eyesores, could be converted to data centers.
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The things your mind naturally filters out in the real world become searing eyesores in a still image.
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The Z3 Play's got two eyesores: the huge camera hump and the magnetic contact for attaching Moto Mods.
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I'm not going to recommend any eyesores, but not every pair is worthy of an artsy blog photo.
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Instead, critics say, they are eyesores, covered in digital ad screens and capable of being turned into surveillance posts.
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Stop-work orders have been issued by state and town officials who call them eyesores and distractions to drivers.
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Turbines can be deployed at sea with fewer complaints than on land, where they are often condemned as eyesores.
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And they want a lot of information just so you can own one of these monstrous, not-that-smart eyesores.
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Evaporation farms could also affect recreational activities, such as swimming and fishing, while turning otherwise picturesque places into complete eyesores.
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They say that the cell stations could clutter neighborhoods with eyesores and cost the communities a lot of potential revenue.
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But in real life, things are a bit messier, apartments are way smaller, and charging stations are big blocky eyesores.
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Even if you think most bike racks are eyesores, they're still better than staring at a street jammed with angry, honking motorists.
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They have voiced alarm about the potential sizes of the jails, arguing that they could become eyesores that tower over the communities.
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However, the lower level by far had the most eyesores, like this rash of mostly empty children's clothing racks by the restroom ...
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In my ongoing quest to horrify my girlfriend with eyesores I can introduce to our living room, I have obtained a Razer Turret.
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But more than 10,000 blighted properties have been demolished, removing dangerous eyesores and usually allowing neighbors to buy the vacant lots for $100.
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Over the course of seven months, the city got its end of the bargain, as scores of eyesores were knocked down and carted away.
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Toys are made for your children to have fun and be entertained, but if we're being totally honest, some toys are just downright eyesores.
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During an October visit to Meade, reporters saw some areas of handsome new and historic homes, but also others filled with eyesores and safety hazards.
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They were quick to describe personal vehicles as dockless, free-floating, unshared personal mobility devices that are perfectly acceptable eyesores that crowd already congesting roadways.
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They juice up your devices faster, put less strain on the charging ports, and aren't eyesores in your home the way charging cords can be.
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They're filled with mosaics by the Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor, who traveled from the Windy City to decorate some of our street eyesores with art.
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These eyesores, she learns, are currently in great demand by developers who are buying them from the Air Force and turning them into condos for survivalists.
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The industry is making some important inroads to eliminating these eyesores, however, with under-screen fingerprint readers, and pivoting cameras that can shoot either forwards or back.
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The endless parade of payasos, anchored by ringleader Dirt Williams, boasts a resume of local punk acts including Midlife Chrysler, Super Kill, the Eyesores, and the Adolescents.
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He considered many of the First World War monuments to be eyesores, and sought to restrict the number of World War II memorials to one per borough.
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Finally, mesh systems like Eero, which looks like a sleek white hub with rounded corners, and Google Wifi, which is a white cylindrically shaped device, aren't eyesores.
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These eyesores often ruined my beautiful assortment of carefully curated arm candy, instead making it look like I was headed to the gym or going on a hike.
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Gary Herbert, a Republican who supports fossil fuel development on public lands, initially said he worried that the new leases would bring eyesores too close to the park.
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It seeks to sharply reduce the use of the bags, whose ubiquity and near-indestructibility have made them one of the city's signature eyesores and a serious environmental threat.
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That's not to say all of the buildings are eyesores; there's something oddly charming about the care taken with these details, details that probably are overwhelmingly overlooked in their environments.
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Perhaps the biggest concern is that unlike the red-brick warehouses of yore, it is hard to imagine Amazon's big-box eyesores becoming trendy lofts when the cycle does turn.
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Officials view the crowded, slum-like neighborhoods as fire hazards and eyesores, despite the fact that the migrants do the menial jobs that allow a city like Beijing to function.
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I thought people might be happy to see these eyesores — and the memories of the Khrushchev era and the dystopian realities of communism that went with them — finally meet their demise.
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The country has seen a wave of shared bicycles hit its city streets over the last year causing waste concerns as mountains of misshapen bikes pile up leaving eyesores across China.
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The only eyesores on the phone are the large camera hump (the dual cameras and LED flash arrangement still look like a creepy face) and a magnetic contact on the back.
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The elevated lines were razed in the 22s and 227s, to the delight of many residents who viewed them as noisy eyesores and expected a new subway line to open soon.
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Even if they don't use the sofa as a scratching post or chew your baskets to bits, pets invariably come with accessories like dog crates, litter boxes and other potential eyesores.
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Such projects have run into opposition here over both cost and aesthetics — utilities are typically required to opt for the cheapest sources of power, and communities have resisted plans regarded as eyesores.
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For all the convenience and widespread availability of dockless bike-sharing, it has not been universally welcomed, however, drawing criticism in some areas for the eyesores that result when abandoned bikes pile up.
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Although sometimes dismissed as eyesores, Los Angeles photographer Amir Zaki finds the beauty in the parks' sculpted concrete bowls and plateaus, which for him evoke the work of Land Art pioneer Michael Heizer.
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It posts pictures of such eyesores as defaced subway signs, Dumpsters that are disappearing under mountains of uncollected garbage and even, recently, a man in a kitschy gladiator costume taking a leak in public.
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Kendler glorifies the collected species as garden inhabitants rather than eyesores or nuisances, as well as imagines a futuristic landscape design in which stubborn weeds and other marginal plants are the only flora we have left.
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Last year was traumatic for more reasons than I can count, but chief among them was Starbucks' bullish insistence on terrorizing the American public with confetti-colored eyesores of blended cream-n'-sauce they somehow classified as Frappuccinos.
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Although Trump has (temporarily) moved about 230 miles southwest of Trump Tower, a different group of businesspeople in a different block of Manhattan have pretty much picked up where he left off, describing street vendors as nuisances and eyesores.
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Instead of eyesores, visitors see retrofitted historic buildings like the three-year-old Asbury Hotel, built in a former Salvation Army boardinghouse, and new construction like Asbury Ocean Club, a luxury condominium-and-hotel complex slated to open this summer.
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So against the backdrop of a country scarred by environmental abuses, industrial eyesores, special interests and political corruption — but also a place where "dietrologia," or the belief that a conspiracy always lurks behind the surface, is widespread — they hatched a plan.
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Outside Silicon Valley and other areas that have benefited from the technology boom, what were once the lifeblood of many suburbs have now become eyesores, forests of empty glass and concrete boxes that communities must figure out what to do with.
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The company has installed hundreds of its obelisk-like Link devices in both London and New York, where it has supplanted the the telephone booths and payphone stands that have served alternatively as icons and urban eyesores for generations of metropolitan commuters.
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Though intended to protect passers-by from falling debris, these eyesores known as sidewalk sheds have often become a blight, drawing a barrage of complaints from residents and businesses that they block light and views, attract crime and litter and impede foot traffic along congested sidewalks.
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In 2014 Olmert, now aged 70, was found guilty of two bribery charges: accepting 500,5003 shekels ($129,000) from developers of the Holyland real estate project in Jerusalem, widely regarded as one of the city's worst eyesores, and another 60,218 shekels ($210,24) in a separate land deal.
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In 2014 Olmert, now aged 70, was found guilty of two bribery charges: accepting 500,000 shekels ($129,000) from developers of the Holyland real estate project in Jerusalem, widely regarded as one of the city's worst eyesores, and another 103,000 shekels ($15,500) in a separate land deal.
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READMESpotlighting active minutes over just steps is better for your heart In the wearables space, this ring is a babe among clunky eyesores—but it is not scratch-proofCurrently, it's not available for AndroidBut it's still too expensive for an activity tracker that doesn't afford more data or functionality than its (yes, more ugly) competitors
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Image: EarthFix/FlickrWhile eyesores like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch offer striking evidence of our trash problem, the big technofossil beds of the future will come in the form of landfills, according to a recent paper in the journal Anthropocene:Over geological timescales, the plastics buried in landfill sites may be in part a 'time-bomb' of plastic release.
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The buildings of Le Vele di Scampia, which were described not long ago in one Dwell article as "eyesores of post-war brutalism," were conceived as a huge public housing project accommodating thousands of citizens who were expected to form a family-based community, but were never provided with such important lifelines such as transportation links, recreation areas, and stores, which would help integrate the seven megastructures into the larger city.
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As part of the settlement deal, Verizon was forced to upgrade 54 central offices across the state, replace bad cable, defective equipment, and faulty back-up batteries—and to take down 64,000 double telephone poles or pole stumps, eyesores the union photos also highlighted in Pennsylvania: The settlement is the result of a CWA campaign to pressure the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) to force Verizon to upgrade and repair its legacy broadband networks.
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Whether some constructions are eyesores is a matter of opinion which may change over time. Landmarks are often called eyesores.
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Dietsch, Deborah K. "Replacing D.C. Eyesores." Washington Business Journal. April 6, 2012. Accessed 2012-09-29.
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The Washington Post. September 23, 1966. p. C3. She organized Operation Checkmate,"Citizens to Scout Cardozo Area For Eyesores, Housing Defects". The Washington Post.
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During this time, volunteers were organized into Wards and Block Clubs with Ward Chairmen and Block Captains. The City Beautiful staff grew to include 30 inspectors by 1954 who worked through these organizations to identify and improve eyesores.
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The first segment, "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores", was written by John Swartzwelder, who had previously worked at an advertising agency.Weinstein, Josh (2005). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror VI", in The Simpsons: The Complete Seventh Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
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All trees along the avenue, numbering 182 on the right and 140 on the left, were declared eyesores and removed to accommodate the increase in transportation routes. Current trees on the avenue, which number 390, are the result of replanting between 2007 and 2008.
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" Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said, "'Attack of the 50-Ft. Eyesores' stands as the strongest of the three segments. It doesn’t blast off the screen but it seems imaginative and fun. The Nightmare on Elm Street parody has its moments and comes across as generally entertaining.
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Schaff led two acts as vocalist and songwriter, Reformation and Noel the Coward, and was part of the musical ensemble I Love You and I Miss You. He also played guitar and percussion with The Eyesores, The Iditarod, and Black Forest/Black Sea. Most recently, he was the drumming ape “Dead Chop Chop” in the What Cheer? Brigade.
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In 2014 the Angel Community Garden was created to eliminate eyesores in the area, and encourage bees which are declining. The garden has put along the edge of Sainsbury's car park. It was formed in collaboration with Tonbridge Friends of the Earth and Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council. The project also received some support from some local shopkeepers and residents.
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The building is the only one of 10 structures on Central Atlanta Progress's 2003 list of downtown "eyesores" that has not been renovated or repurposed. Therefore, the building remains on the updated list released in December 2009. The building is included on The Georgia Trust's list of 2011 Places in Peril. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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The show involves a group of six "guerrilla gardeners" attempting to covertly beautify urban eyesores such as abandoned lots or bleak public spaces without being caught by the authorities. Five of the guerrilla gardeners are experienced in landscape and horticulture, while sixth member and host Dave Lawson was hired primarily for his ability to "spin lies to the councils when they turned up".
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The Reichsbahn erected a wooden shed for them at the crossing of Reichsstrasse 28 (now Ulmerstraße). It was mockingly called Südbahnhof ("south station") by the Metzingen population. The local Nazis railed against the building. The Nationalsozialistischen Mitteilungsblatt (“National Socialist Bulletin”) published an article entitled Metzingen wehrt sich gegen Bausünden ("Metzingen resists eyesores"), in which they demanded its demolition, but this did not happen.
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The community gardens in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana were first initiated in the 1980s when oil related-industries were leaving the city. The gardens were developed on indigent properties in an attempt to turn eyesores into attractive, productive spaces that could be useful and could support the surrounding neighborhood.Hannah, A.K.; & Oh, P. (2000). Rethinking Urban Poverty: A look at Community Gardens.
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It is known for its Dixieanne Apartment compound which was condemned by the city because of high crime rates; with the intent of clearing the area of unsightly eyesores as part of the new redevelopment plan. Old North Sacramento is the new description of Del Paso Heights. This area still struggles with high crime and gang activity. The new name does not change it's unfortunate origin.
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Some offer cheap chairs or benches for customers to sit, especially the ones serving late night customers who come to drink soju. , there were approximately 3,100 in Seoul. This number has declined since city officials sought to shut them down, as they are considered by them to be eyesores, illegal and unsanitary.Oh, Esther "Guide to pojangmacha: Why Koreans love drinking in tents" CNN Go. 23 March 2012.
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The towers elicited mixed reactions from the general public when first unveiled. The towers were appreciated by some as modernist architectural icons. However, many Melbourne residents regarded the towers as eyesores and criticised their size and placement. The towers were considered to have cut the city off from the river and also detracted from St Paul's Cathedral and the heritage facades along Flinders Street.
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Some have also diversified to sell kebabs, pizza and fish and chips. Especially popular in poor and ethnic minority neighbourhoods, fried chicken restaurants have been criticised for contributing to urban blight. For instance, Tottenham MP David Lammy thinks the proliferation of chicken joints hampers prosperity in his constituency. Residents in Waltham Forest see them as "eyesores that encourage anti-social behaviour", according to a poll.
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In some areas the recreational building of numerous cairns has obscured the proper use of cairns to mark junctions and crossings. In some areas of the United States, park rangers and land managers must disassemble excess cairns when they become eyesores or when they mislead navigation. Where rocks are scarce poles can be used. Poles are also frequently used to mark ski and snow shoe trails.
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Alec K Redfearn is a musician and composer based in Providence, Rhode Island. He has composed music for dance, theater, and film. His primary instrument is the accordion. Most notable is his body of compositional work for The Eyesores, a genre-bending ensemble of unorthodox instrumentation which spawned in the mid-1990s and whose music spans old-time Americana, Appalachian, folk and Eastern European music.
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An eyesore is something that is largely considered to look unpleasant or ugly. Its technical usage is as an alternative perspective to the notion of landmark. Common examples include dilapidated buildings, graffiti, litter, polluted areas, and excessive commercial signage such as billboards. Some eyesores may be a matter of opinion such as controversial modern architecture (see also spite house), transmission towers or wind turbines.
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Clean-up programmes to improve or remove eyesores are often started by local bodies or even national governments. These are frequently called Operation Eyesore. High-profile international events such as the Olympic Games usually trigger such activity. Others contend that it is best to address these problems while they are small, since signs of neglect encourage anti-social behaviour such as vandalism and fly-tipping.
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 39, 124–129. Rather than coming to the hospital at Shaowu for Western medical care, many Chinese still sought medical attention from such practitioners. Bliss witnessed practitioners who treated cancer by puncturing the skin with gold and silver needles, eyesores with bile from bear gallbladders, malarial fever with uncooked pears, rheumatism with snake meat, and many ailments with ginseng root.
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Groundwater entering the pit is pumped up into the moat. As a quarry becomes deeper, water inflows generally increase and it also becomes more expensive to lift the water higher during removal; this can become the limiting factor in quarry depth. Some water- filled quarries are worked from beneath the water, by dredging. Many people and municipalities consider quarries to be eyesores and require various abatement methods to address problems with noise, dust, and appearance.
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The walls and floors of the lobby are clad in alternating bands of black and purple marble, and the twenty-foot lobby ceiling has a low bas relief pattern in plaster. The building was sold in 1991 and since then has been vacant. The Los Angeles Downtown News named the building one of the "Ten Worst Eyesores" of downtown Los Angeles. It has been declared as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 121.
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The 1920s saw a series of legal battles challenging the ownership of the park and challenging the existence of the park. In 1927, the legal contests came to an end as the City of Detroit condemned many of the park's structures as a blight (contemporary accounts called the buildings "eyesores"), and Electric Park closed permanently. The following year, the buildings were leveled to create a new public park, which eventually became Gabriel Richard Park.
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A refurbishment programme costing over £3.5 million was completed in early 2007. It included a six-month exterior cleaning project, new lobby, landscaping and common areas, and refurbishment of the top ten floors to provide of high spec, air-conditioned office accommodation. A substantial amount of work had already been done to improve the façade of the tower. It was identified in a Channel 4 programme as one of the UK's top eyesores.
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The continued development of the site has brought some criticism from local residents. New buildings - described as "windowless cubes" - are largely considered eyesores, have been accused of interfering with television reception due to their size and metallic structure. The increased work at the site has brought more and more heavy goods vehicles, which now operate heavily during the night. Trailer shunters also operate at night and the company have been approached several times by officials to be told to keep the noise down.
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The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was a response to the 1980 act entitled The Superfund, which forced industries to pay for their own toxic spills and general pollution. President Bush cited in his address, on January 11, 2002, that "American cities have many such eyesores; anywhere from 500,000 to a million brownfields are across our Nation." In turn, this bill was created to put an end to the excess regulations and litigations many entrepreneurs incur when revitalizing dilapidated fields.
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The world's most expensive private islands, The Daily Telegraph It has century-old buildings and tennis courts. The island features in the opening of the famous poem "Skunk Hour" by Robert Lowell: "Nautilus Island's hermit / heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; / her sheep still graze above the sea. / ... Thirsting for the hierarchic privacy / of Queen Victoria's century, / she buys up all / the eyesores facing her shore, / and lets them fall."Robert Lowell, Collected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), p. 191.
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Ever since German reunification, Alexanderplatz has undergone a gradual process of change with many of the surrounding buildings being renovated. Despite the reconstruction of the tram line crossing, it has retained its socialist character, including the much-graffitied "Fountain of Friendship between Peoples" (Brunnen der Völkerfreundschaft), a popular venue. In 1993, architect Hans Kollhoff's master plan for a major redevelopment including the construction of several skyscrapers was published.Dalia Fahmy (May 27, 2014), "25 Years After Communism, Eyesores Spur Landmark Debate" The Wall Street Journal.
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Land recycling helps clean up and revitalize inner cities by returning abandoned, idle, or underused sites to productive use, bolstering community spirit, creating jobs and boosting local tax-revenues. The re-use of land revitalizes communities and renews economic activity, particularly in under-served urban areas. Abandoned, idled, and vacant properties often lie in former industrial and commercial areas, typically in urban and historically disadvantaged areas. These sites can be community eyesores, negatively impacting social and economic development, and often human and environmental health.
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Whilst spacious, the Union building is thought by many to be ugly and out of character compared to the architecture of the rest of the Clifton area, having been mentioned in a BBC poll to find the worst architectural eyesores in Britain. The university has proposed relocating the Union to a more central location as part of its development 'masterplan'. More recently, plans for redevelopment of the current building have been proposed. The 1960s were a time of considerable student activism in the United Kingdom, and Bristol was no exception.
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The first version of the episode was very long, so it featured a very short opening sequence and did not include several trademarks established in previous Treehouse of Horror episodes. "Homer3", pitched by executive producer Bill Oakley, features three dimensional computer animation provided by Pacific Data Images (PDI). In the final scene of the episode, Homer is sent to the real world in the first ever live-action scene in The Simpsons. "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" includes a cameo appearance from Paul Anka, who sings the song "Just Don't Look".
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Initially a women's activity, over time the garden club movement also engaged men, leading in 1932 to the establishment of the Men's Garden Clubs of America organization (now The Gardeners of America/Men's Garden Clubs of America). Garden clubs did not limit themselves to the improvement of members' private gardens. Many clubs took an interest in civic beautification, planting trees along public streets, maintaining flower gardens in public spaces, and campaigning against billboards, which were considered "eyesores". The Garden Club of America began to crusade against billboards in 1919.
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The Schuyler Apartments are a historic apartment building at 275 South Church Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The 13-story concrete, glass, and steel structure was designed by David W. Cecil (1921-2011) and built in 1950. The International style structure, with clean and simple lines, is a fine representative example of post-World War II construction in Spartanburg. Cecil also is known locally for the design of Spartanburg City Hall and the main branch of the Spartanburg Post Office, all three of which were for years considered eyesores.
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People in areas without local broadcast stations or cable television service could obtain good-quality reception with no monthly fees. The large dishes were a subject of much consternation, as many people considered them eyesores, and in the US most condominiums, neighborhoods, and other homeowner associations tightly restricted their use, except in areas where such restrictions were illegal. These restrictions were altered in 1986 when the Federal Communications Commission ruled all of them illegal. A municipality could require a property owner to relocate the dish if it violated other zoning restrictions, such as a setback requirement, but could not outlaw their use.
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People in areas without local broadcast stations or cable television service could obtain good-quality reception with no monthly fees. The large dishes were a subject of much consternation, as many people considered them eyesores, and in the US most condominiums, neighborhoods, and other homeowner associations tightly restricted their use, except in areas where such restrictions were illegal. These restrictions were altered in 1986 when the Federal Communications Commission ruled all of them illegal. A municipality could require a property owner to relocate the dish if it violated other zoning restrictions, such as a setback requirement, but could not outlaw their use.
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"Treehouse of Horror VI" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' seventh season and the sixth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 29, 1995, and contains three self- contained segments. In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores", an ionic storm brings Springfield's oversized advertisements and billboards to life and they begin attacking the town. The second segment, "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", is a parody of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, in which Groundskeeper Willie (resembling Freddy Krueger) attacks schoolchildren in their sleep.
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Aerial view of the Tiburon Peninsula Controversies surrounding development are significant public policy issues facing the town; this condition has endured for at least three decades.Marinrealestateblog.com At the lowest level, any new construction or exterior renovation, commercial or residential, must be approved by the Design Review Board, which often applies stringent criteria to avoid "eyesores" and preserve neighbors' views. More significantly, there remain several large tracts of undeveloped land, virtually all of which have owners who desire to build multiple residences on these properties. Many of these properties, while located on the Tiburon Peninsula, are outside of town boundaries.
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Many new businesses have popped up on land that was once bushy and unused, and have been cleared for building purposes and agricultural use due to an increase in population. It has developed from a quiet village to being quite busy. The recently constructed Berbice bridge has taken some of the life and importance of the old stelling but it still serves as a mode of transportation for people looking for a quick way to get across the river. There are some old buildings in the town that pose a threat to nearby buildings and are eyesores.
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The Waqf began digging a huge hole in the southeastern area of the Temple Mount, without a permit from the Jerusalem municipality or archaeological supervision using tractors and heavy vehicles. This action drew criticism from archaeologists, who said that archaeological strata and artifacts were being damaged in the process and the excavations weakened the stability of the Southern Wall. The excavations are thought to have been responsible for creating a large, visible bulge in the Southern Wall that threatened the structural integrity of the Temple Mount, necessitating major repairs."Temple Mount Repairs Leave Eyesores," Hershel Shanks, September/October 2010, Biblical Archaeology Review.
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The Southport gas holder on Crowland Street was the tallest building on the Southport skyline, visible from as far afield as Blackpool and Parbold. The largest tower was decommissioned in January 2008, due to an environmental risk posed by the storage of oil within it. In September 2008, National Grid announced that two of the three gas towers would be dismantled by August 2009, with the fate of the smallest tower remaining uncertain. The news has met with mixed reactions from local residents, though the gas holder was voted one of the North West's biggest eyesores in a competition run by the BBC.
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The local brewer, which was expanding into a regional footprint, could not afford to treat water as directed, both because of costs, and because the very nature of the Titus Brewery's offerings would have been changed by using treated water. Ironically, brewing, once an important aspect of providing safe drinking water for communities, was done in by a desire to provide safe drinking water. The latest economic controversy to impact the community is the advent of significant wind farms in the region. Seen by local landowners as a prospective source of income, wind farms are embraced as being sources of clean energy by some, and eyesores by others.
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However, some viewers disliked the series' portrayal of the war-fatigued soldiers, criticizing the dirty and undisciplined appearance as "eyesores". The series was also branded a "divide" as many felt marginalized by the series' complex straight play-style dialogues. Some viewers experienced difficulty in understanding dialogues and the messages they conveyed, and often had to go and consult the novel. Many netizens in China have complained about 3 seconds of footage that seemed to be copied straight from the 2001 American movie Pearl Harbor, particularly the aerial combat scenes where specific aircraft are being analyzed and modified to fit into the series' 3D special effects.
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In years past, many vessels docked in the river at the ends of their last voyages were abandoned and sank alongside the docks, creating eyesores and hazards to navigation. Those derelicts have been removed. Invoking the authority of Port State Control, the U.S. Coast Guard vigorously enforces the many international and national regulations regarding safety equipment, construction, maintenance, and manning of ships entering all U.S. ports including the Miami River, virtually eliminating the many dangerously substandard vessels that had sailed from the U.S. in previous years. In recent years, realizing they had common interests, various business entities along the river formed the Miami River Marine Group.
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Once described as "eyesores," the auditoriums became functional, welcoming spaces for school and community use. The first four of the seven planned schools opened in January 2001, serving nearly 3,200 fifth and sixth grade students throughout the district. The intermediate schools not only eased the overcrowding at the elementary and middle schools, but they became models of cost-effective and efficient educational facilities. When the construction accounts closed on the first four intermediate schools, the completed projects were approximately $913,000 under their collective construction budgets. Not only were the buildings under budget, their capacity was increased by 100 students each in anticipation of higher enrollments than originally expected.
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Systematization consisted largely of the demolition and reconstruction of existing villages, towns, and cities, in whole or in part, in order to build blocks of flats (blocuri). In Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), panelák building under communism resulted from two main factors: the postwar housing shortage and the ideology of communist Czechoslovak leaders. In Eastern European countries, opinions about these buildings vary greatly, with some deeming them as eyesores on their city's landscape while others glorify them as relics of a bygone age. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many of the former Eastern Bloc countries have begun construction of new, more expensive and modern housing.
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s a great deal of criticism had been voiced about the Square's appearance, most directed at the City Hall building. What in the 1960s was one of the city's biggest and most impressive architectural designs came to be considered by critics as one of the city's worst eyesores. Plans have been made (most of which have even been approved) to renovate the whole square and City Hall. These include giving City Hall a more modern look to fit in with the many new skyscrapers in Tel Aviv, and the construction of a large underground parking complex underneath the square to alleviate the lack of parking in the area.
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In 2019, floods broke through hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest and wiped out millions of acres of crops. Local water utilities have struggled to keep up with much needed capital improvement projects on one hand and regular repairs and maintenance on the other. Since the 1980s, the number of power outages due to weather events have increased tenfold. Even though many parts of the United States, such as Texas, have seen a renewable-energy boom, transmitting the power generated to the large cities when they are needed most has proved troublesome due to opposition from farmers and other landowners who see high- voltage overhead power lines as eyesores with little benefits for them.
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Criticism on the construction of the C-5–Kalayaan Interchange has been varied, and public reaction has been mixed. It has been argued that the construction of the interchange led to significant public inconvenience, and criticism of the design has varied from being aesthetically unpleasing to, in the words of Lester Dizon of The Philippine Star, being a "public nuisance". Another Star columnist, James Deakin, argued that the location of the elevated U-turn slots was ill-conceived, even calling the interchange one of Metro Manila's worst eyesores. Journalist Korina Sanchez, meanwhile, claimed that the interchange was a PR stunt for Bayani Fernando, who she claims was not used to going unnoticed.
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In late 2006 near the completion of recording Dreamland, Carpenter's son was diagnosed with autism. After coping with this, Carpenter began writing a song cycle for the second part of the trilogy, entitled Boy From Black Mountain. With the departure of Redfearn and McLaren, who wished to focus on their band The Eyesores, Carpenter formed the third incarnation of Beat Circus in 2007, casting himself as the lead vocalist with Paran Amirinazari(violin) and Jordan Voelker (viola) as background vocalists, and introducing a rockabilly-style rhythm section composed of Paul Dilley (upright bass), Andrew Stern (guitar/banjo) and Gavin McCarthy of Karate (drums). In 2008, Carpenter enlisted the producer Sean Slade to record Boy From Black Mountain in Boston.
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Some replaced more distinctive but less profitable building structures, such as single-family Victorian homes.Deegan, Joe (March 16, 2006), Dingbat Eyesores, Loving Eye, San Diego Reader Since the 1950s they have been the subject of aesthetic interest as examples of Mid-Century modern design and kitsch, since many dingbats have themed names and specialized trim. Dingbats are also reviled as socially alienating visual blights; California historian Leonard Pitt said of them, "The dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment building architecture at its worst." From a structural engineering perspective, the "tuck-under parking" arrangement may create a soft story if the residential levels are supported on slender columns without many shear walls in the parking level.
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Many of the buildings in Journal Square include housing stock (such as brownstones, pre-war apartment buildings, and Frame houses), convenience stores, bodegas, and downscale franchises, that Jerremiah Healy, Mayor of Jersey City, has referred to as "ugly old eyesores." The redevelopment of Journal Square has attracted the interest of urban planners, architects, sociologists, and others, many who view its historical, current, and future use as an important indicator of the contemporary understanding of how cities function.JC Museum: (Re)Centering: New Visions for Journal SquareJSQ Redevelopment Plans A proposed development by Kushner Real Estate Group and National Real Estate Advisors, Journal Squared, is planned as a 2.3 million square foot, 3-tower residential complex. The first phase, a 53-story tower, opened in early 2017.
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The major effort to clean up the larger decaying buildings which still stood, and were viewed as eyesores, began in 2005 with the demolition of the dormitory. On September 8, 2005, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority closed a $186,565,000 bond issue on behalf of the State of New Jersey Department of Human Services for the completion of a new, Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, still with a shortage of about 75 beds. Ground was ceremonially broken on November 16, 2005, for the new psychiatric hospital on the Greystone campus, located up the hill across the street from the Ellis complex. The new hospital is two-thirds the size of the Kirkbride building and can house about 450 patients, with another 100 patients living in hospital-run cottages on the grounds around the main building.
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Readers will find themselves feeling sympathetic towards Miss Emily in the beginning but much less for her in the end of the story because of her sinister actions and questionable character. Miss Emily's character symbolizes the fall of the chivalric American South as the industrial, modern South begins to rise The description of the decay of both herself and the house slowing becoming “decaying eyesores” add to the imagery of things associated with Miss Emily. These things help show how the surroundings are advancing and Miss Emily, the symbol of the classic South, is stubborn and does not want change. Her character is described as “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water…her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough”.
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The term "Cheshire Ring" first appeared in the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) Bulletin in 1965, where it was coined as part of a campaign to prevent the abandonment of, and restore navigation to, part of what had been known as the Peak Forest Circular Route between Manchester and Marple. When commercial carrying declined after the Second World War, sections of the Rochdale, Ashton and Peak Forest Canals that make up the urban part of the ring had gradually fallen into disuse, and by the early 1960s were impassable, with little depth of water and many locks in an unusable condition. There was a risk that the canals would be abandoned, and infilled, as they were becoming stinking eyesores. Perseverance by the IWA and the Peak Forest Canal Society paid off, and on 1 April 1974, following restoration, the ring was re-opened to navigation.
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Fochriw’s growth was germinated to a lesser extent by the Rhymney Iron Company’s requirement for ironstone, and to a greater extent by the Dowlais Ironworks’ requirement for coal, the quality of which was so good that it was used directly in the iron making process without the need for its conversion to coke. Over a period of about 130 years, the landscape changed from rural to industrial, and back to rural, as it is today. However, the latter changes did not take place until relatively recently when nearly all the remnants of the coal mining industry were removed from around the village. The memories of the industrial landmarks, or eyesores, that remained following the closure of the Fochriw and South Tunnel collieries are only retained by those of a certain age, and the younger generation no longer have the “experience” of living in a community which is centred on coal.
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The building has been described by the magazine, Country Life, as "dramatically modern and uncompromising", but many people have viewed it less favourably; it was voted number eight in a Country Life poll of Britain's "top ten eyesores". Lord St John of Fawsley remarked that "Basil Spence's barracks in Hyde Park ruined that park; in fact, he has the distinction of having ruined two parks, because of his Home Office building, which towers above St. James's Park". Critic A. A. Gill described the Barracks as the ugliest building in London, and said that Spence "managed to construct vertical bomb damage out of horizontal bomb damage." Critics may not have considered the remit placed on the architect to provide quarters and mess facilities for over 500 soldiers, flats for 120 families and stabling for over 270 horses with the provision of an adequate parade ground so that an entire parade of mounted soldiers could practise together.
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He feared that it could become one of the many "thousands of naff eyesores" of recent public art in Britain, citing the embracing couple at St Pancras station (The Meeting Place), the Dockland's Traffic Light tree, and the proposed Rotherhithe Tunnel 'match-stick man' tribute to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as London based examples. Fellow Times writer Tom Dyckhoff, while calling it "a gift to the tabloids" and a "giant Mr. Messy", questioned whether the Olympic site needed another pointless icon, postulating whether it would stand the test of time like the London Eye and become a true icon to match the Eiffel Tower, or a hopeless white elephant. Suggesting the project had echoes of Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, and especially Constant Nieuwenhuys' utopian city New Babylon, he asked whether Orbit was just as revolutionary or possessed the same ideological purpose, or whether it was merely "a giant advert for one of the world’s biggest multinationals, sweetened with a bit of fun". Rowan Moore of The Guardian questioned if it was going to be anything more than a folly, or whether it would be as eloquent as the Statue of Liberty.
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