The figure skater Adam Rippon sported a glossy black-leather harness across his chest, its chunky straps crisscrossing underneath the lapels of his crisp tuxedo.
On a recent Thursday night at Atco, 18-year-old Nicole Garrano adjusted a safety harness across her narrow frame, tucked her blond ponytail into her helmet and rolled her customized blue Camaro to the top of Staging Lane 1. "Go get 'em, Peaches!" shouted a man working behind the giant rear tires of a red dragster painted with yellow flames.
But Aberdeen is an exception - this is the powerhouse of the Scottish economy - from the oil and gas fields drilled out in the North Sea, to the wind and wave power harnessed across the Highlands.
Then Elin Manahan Thomas performs Handel's Enternal Source of Light Divine as six Paralympians on harnesses fly across the stadium.
As Metallica roared through "Disposable Heroes," daring souls in harnesses soared across the space.
It's like taking Twitter lists and harnessing them across affinity groups inside and across companies, leaving Twitter and its clients to carving up the customer end of the transactions.
For all the talk of harnessing talent across all sectors, the PBR approach, by penalising failure to hit targets, requires participants to assume a considerable degree of risk.
The apex of her set, and the highlight of the night, sees her launch off the stage and with the aid of some careful harnessing, fly across the arena, spinning upside-down and coming within inches of the crowd.
The scene at the start of the episode with Duchovny's character Fox Mulder clinging to the side of the train car was filmed using a harness cabled across the top of the car that was removed digitally during post production.
However, this is not to replace existing activity, but to harness complementarities across the partnership where appropriate.
