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JAMES CRUZ, Johannie L. EL PAPEL DEL ESTADO EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE: EL CASO DEL TURISMO EN EL CARIBE INSULAR. Cuad. Econ. [online]. 2009, vol.28, n.51, pp.265-281. ISSN 0121-4772.
The discussion about the relevance of state intervention in the market has been recurring in the history of economic thought. But tourism is another example that regulation is not only necessary, but fundamental to correct the asymmetries of a market that is far from fulfilling the assumptions that motivated the theory of individual interest leading to social benefits. The present work tries to emphasize the implications of ignoring the role of the state in building sustainable development, with special emphasis on tourism in the insular Caribbean.
Keywords : tourism; sustainable development; state regulation; Caribbean.


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I am not ashamed to admit that I absolutely adore the film Event Horizon (1997, dir. Paul W. S. Anderson). The tale of a spaceship – the eponymous Event Horizon – reappearing seven years after going missing during its maiden voyage, now seemingly sentient and intent on tormenting and murdering the rescue party sent to look for survivors (of which, naturally, there are none), combines my two major passions other than medieval history: science fiction and future-horror. Over the course of the film it is determined that the ship's experimental Gravity Drive, developed by Dr Weir (a dependable as always Sam Neill) did not, in fact, open up an artificial black hole to Proxima Centauri, but sent the crew headlong into a chaotic hell dimension. 'Libera te tutemet ex inferis' (save yourself from hell) are the words issued by the Event Horizon's original captain, recorded on the salvaged flight log, as he holds out his gauged-out eyes towards the camera.
Film poster for Event Horizon, Copyright 1997, © Paramount Pictures
It transpires that the Event Horizon brought a slither of hell back with it. The crew of the aforementioned rescue ship, The Lewis and Clark, led by Captain Miller (an equally dependable Laurence Fishbourne), come to realise that the Event Horizon, now more than just a hulking metal edifice, is able to make manifest their worst traumas and fears. The breakdown of the boundary between the physical and metaphysical worlds, the unbidden manifestation of unreconciled desires and heartache, is a common conceit in horror-infused science fiction, as seen in Stanisław Lem's Solaris (1972, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky), Michael Crichton's Sphere (1998, dir. Barry Levinson) and the more recent TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novella, Nightflyers (2018). With its pointedly gothic accruements – Paul W. S. Anderson notes that the design of the spaceship was modelled on Notre Dame Cathedral – the malign agency of the Event Horizon lends itself to be analysed via the lens of medieval demonology. That is to say, if the film's narrative leads us to believe that the ship did indeed make an unexpected trip to 'Hell' on its maiden voyage, can the method of its provocations be explored through equally orthodox terms?
The Event Horizon is able to peer into the minds of the Lewis and Clark crew, tailoring its torments accordingly: Dr Weir is haunted by the manifestation of his suicidal wife; Peters (played by Kathleen Quinlan), the ship's medieval technician, is taunted by the child she believes she abandoned. 'It knows my fears, it knows my secrets; gets into your mind and shows you' says Captain Miller, confronted the burning corpse of a former shipmate he was unable to save. In late medieval theology, demons were believed to possess the ability to torment their victims through the manipulation of their sense apparatus. The Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, for example, notes in his De Malo (c.1267–71) that evil spirits were often permitted by God to infiltrate (and manipulate) the internal mechanisms of the human body, subtly altering its humoural makeup in order to cause visions and sensory hallucinations. Of course, the feeling of terror is somewhat perspectival. What may have been horrifying to one person may not have had the same emotional impact on another. How, then, did demons determine the type of hallucinations (or other such sensory effects) to inflict upon their victims? To paraphrase Aquinas's De Malo, it was through the careful and nuanced observation of human signs, activities and behaviours that demons could arrive at an accurate picture of a person's psychological makeup. The expert observational skills of demonic entities belong to a tradition that extends back to the authority of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies (615–30) and Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram (401-15). Orthodox belief taught that devils were unable to see into a person's soul. Only God had that right. Despite this, the body (including the mind) gave up other clues that could be easily exploited. There were myriad ways in which an airy demon could deceive and ensnare the unwary.
"Hell is just a word, the reality is much worse", says the now-possessed Dr Weir during his final confrontation with Captain Miller, just before the aft section of the Event Horizon is pulled into the re-opened black hole, returning once more to the realm of chaos. Although some scholars argue that the film does not actually confirm whether the Event Horizon displays sentience, it is apparent that the manifestation of Weir's dead wife is the avatar through which the ship tempts and ultimately dooms Dr Weir, who, now spiritually enmeshed with his terrible creation, takes on the antagonist's role in the film's climax. If read alongside the works of Augustine, Aquinas et al, the ship displays all the qualities of a seething, contentious demon, especially in the medieval mode. It tests, it torments; it burrows into the anxieties of those it wishes to harm. Some, like Dr Weir, it consumes and takes over. Others, like the unfortunate Technician Peters, it tricks into accidentally killing themselves. Much like the activities of trickster devils recorded in orthodox miracle collections, such as Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum (c.1220), the ship wants to drag its 'new crew' body and soul into Hell. It may be a giant evil spaceship, but the Event Horizon certainly has a medieval way of doing things.
Works Cited:
Thomas Aquinas, The "De Malo" of Thomas Aquinas, ed. by Brian Davies; trans. by Richard Regan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Matt Hills, 'An Events-Based Definition of Art Horror', in Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror, ed. by Steven Jay Schneider and Daniel Shaw (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003), pp. 138–57.
Anna Powell, Deleuze and Horror Film (Ediburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)

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The sharing economy relies on more than just goodwill
The sharing economy, a socio-economic ecosystem of collaborative consumption, is steadily displacing traditional buy-use-discard models. By 2025, sharing economy platforms are expected to hit a combined market worth of $335bn. This expansion can be attributed to a number of different factors. One of the most important drivers has been the availability of disruptive technology. Platforms, apps, and distributed networks have made it possible for people to share, and for entrepreneurs to build businesses around this new economic model. But which technologies have been particularly transformative, and how?
1) Digital supply chain
Businesses have to be able to understand and visualise their supply chains in order to manage them effectively. When it comes to the sharing economy, the most important marker of success is matching supply with demand. Without knowing what inventory or resources are available, where they are, where they have come from, and where they need to go, this is a hard task. As the sharing economy is built on the allocation of resources, this information is hugely important.
The bigger the scale of the business, the more important it is to have a digital supply chain to visualise real time data. WeWork, the largest co-working space provider in the world, utilises a digital supply chain to manage more than 100,000 members working at 463 office locations in 90 global cities.
2) The Internet of Things
Connectivity is imperative to sharing economy platforms, tracking inventory and creating constant feedback loops. Without IoT architectures, it is almost impossible for businesses with remote assets to accurately track and maintain their products.
Bike sharing platforms like Citi Bike in New York and China's Mobike are able to leverage the IoT to track and maintain their cycles. Connecting devices in real time networks makes them easier to locate, preventing theft. Another example is in ride sharing, where machine to machine (M2M) communications enabled by the IoT are vital in building an accurate picture of fleet operation. This also helps to identify and fix faults before they can have a detrimental effect on operations.
3) Big data analytics
Ride sharing apps like Lyft and Uber rely heavily on big data analytics. These companies need to know where their users are, where their drivers are, and a host of other factors that could influence travel routes. Likewise, their customers need to know when and where they can be picked up.
Big data analytics gives businesses the ability to analyse use patterns in historic data, bringing even more efficiency to the services they provide by matching supply with demand. While customer reviews are helpful, they lack the detail and scope needed to provide actionable insights. Through predictive modelling and real time information, sharing economy companies can work out when and where demand is likely to be high. So, if it's raining, and Manchester City has just played Manchester United at the Etihad stadium, Uber knows that demand will soar in that area.
4) Blockchain
Blockchain has faced its fair share of criticism, but is generally thought to bring transparency and trust to transactions and trade. As well as facilitating open, honest exchange, blockchain based cryptocurrencies can give users an automatic, secure payment method that transcends foreign currency boundaries. Another of blockchain's benefits is digital rights management, which details the precise provenance of the goods or services in the transaction. As such, there is no confusion over who owns the goods or service at any given time. It's also possible to track transacted products throughout their lifecycle, leading to more sustainable supply chains.
An example of blockchain in action is the peer to peer energy sharing platform LO3 Energy. The business relies on the smart contracts provided by blockchain to enable the circulation of unused energy within the community.
5) Cloud
Cloud technology and the sharing economy have a reciprocal relationship. On the one hand, the cloud itself is a shared service and has enabled sharing economy businesses and processes through decentralised data storage and sharing. However, on the other hand, the sharing economy has driven the maturity of cloud services by accelerating the transition from ownership to co-ownership.
Sia, for example, is a sharing economy business that allows users to rent out their hard drives. Rather than ride sharing or product sharing, Sia provides storage sharing. It will be interesting to see how the big cloud providers react to storage sharing startups like Sia.
6) Apps
All of the above technologies come together in the form of apps. In fact, it's almost impossible to think of a sharing economy business that doesn't operate via an app. Websites are still hugely important, but in a world saturated by smartphones, apps are key.
One of the biggest challenges that faces the sharing economy is ensuring that shared items and services are treated appropriately. If IoT and blockchain technology isn't available to companies due to their cost or complexity, apps offer a cheaper, simpler alternative. Recommendations and ratings, delivered via apps, can protect against exploitation and build trusted networks regardless of what is being shared. Just look at Airbnb: the sharing economy pioneer is predicated on user reviews. It simply doesn't need to put sensors on all of the homes in its ecosystem, which is probably just as well…
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Thanks to the development of distributed, decentralised networks, the sharing economy has gone from idea to reality. Individuals and businesses alike can take advantage of connected, hyper sensitive networks, tracking their assets and ensuring that sharing is reliable and secure. In the sharing economy, technology isn't necessarily about growth – it's about distribution.
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This is a great time to get ready for your holiday photo shoot or upcoming event. Whether you plan to be outside at the tree farm, or indoor with Santa, you will be sure to find looks to complement and complete your wardrobe.
What is new this season? Well, what isn't?! We have been crushing on anything mustard colored all year and it is still very much on trend. We have some beautiful sweaters, tops, and dresses to offer up as some great options. It's been a go-to color for spring and now it can be your go-to color this fall. Let us not forget green. You'll be green with envy for some cute pieces including a gorgeous dress worn by Miss Josephine herself at the event. I think green is such a classic shade that is fabulous on any skin tone or hair color!
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As I've grown up, I've realized how quickly time flies. Not only am I stunned that I am already a sophomore in college (gulp), but I am that much closer to becoming a "real person" in the "real world." It's crazy how quickly time wastes away, and so does the limited amount of money that is dwindling in my bank account. People aren't kidding when they talk about being a poor college student. That's why I loved one of the pins I found this week; it captivates both of these things.
A dream box is an improved, more inspiring form of a piggy bank. You take any container – a box, a mason jar, an old vase – and put a picture on/ in it that inspires you. It's supposed to be a cause of inspiration for you to save up. Since I am a double major with French at Elon University, I have to go abroad to a French-speaking country. Naturally, it would be my dream to live in Paris for a semester. So I took an old tin box in my house from a store called Fauchon in Paris. Every time I have spare change or am willing to make an investment, I'll add a little money. The tin will remind me what it's for and reinforce my desire to take money out to spend it on something like an iced coffee. I'd much rather save it and spend it on a macaroon in Paris than an iced coffee in America.
I was recently accepted into a program in Paris and will be off for the spring semester of this year. Whenever I get the urge to reach into my dream box, all I'll have to remember is that soon, I'll be in the City of Lights, thankful for this idea that came from a day of procrastination.


text: Tuesday night's Oak Lawn Committee meeting was chockablock with five projects. The first peek will be of the proposed Central Market in the perennial unsuccessful supermarket location on McKinney between the Lemmon split. You may recall it as Albertsons or more recently Minyards. At first glance, this is pretty spanky and cool, but the devil […]Read More


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This is #BMW Drive II.
I woke up quite early in the morning and treated my senses to some countryside goodness. ^^
Feasted my eyes on some good greens and filled my lungs with huge boosts of oxygen.
Didn't stick on falsies because we were about to do a very fun outdoor activity… Guess what!
I canoed before when I was serving for National Service, but that time it was at the beach. This time…
Water rafting!!!
Held on tight to the guys & didn't wanna let go…
Eventually got dragged into the river and started screaming laughing like mad in the cold.
Robb and I were kinda slow paddlers I should say~
A very happy and relaxed Sashi Ambi, our Corporate Communications Manager for BMW Malaysia.
I was the very first few to take the buggy back to our resort. How do you guys tahan wearing wet clothes!?
Cannot also must tahan till I took a shot to remind me of how damp I was.
Took a nice warm shower and dressed up:
Hoola S90! There goes my 1st trip witcha~
Wore my new studded black leggings from Topshop. Well it was new back then lah. Hahahaha
BELUM RAINFOREST RESORT – BELUM!!! If you like a getaway from the city please do come here.
Sunnies are essential when you're driving on a sunny day.
With Shaolin Tiger and Kimberly Cun. <3
#BMW Drive model
Wishing hard that this car was MINE.
This time Robb and I drove the 3 series.
Our group picture @ Belum.
BMW bikes are like Transformers robots.
Briefing on diesel oil.
A lot of people think that Diesel oil is dirty, pollutes the air, BUT the truth is…
It is CLEAN! See the result of this tissue paper experiment?
As far as I remember, we didn't even pump petrol diesel into our tank because one full tank of diesel in this BMW series is enough to take us up from KL to Belum, and from Belum to KL!
Toilet break.
I was in car #1.
Can you see me driving? I can see myself here!
OVER TAKING!!!!! Got that adrenaline pumping ootz ootzz oottzzz
Lunch at Indulgence.
Food art,
delicious desserts,
joyful gifts.
On our way back :
We spotted a beautiful rainbow arch.
Last but not least, this is my idol on the road, Ivan.
Ivan did a splendid job making sure we all came back in one piece whilst having a blast test driving our BMWs.
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All new Carpy.co.uk is here. For legal reasons that we won't go into. We have had to move the site to North Korea. Carpy is a bit like WikiLeaks but without the sexual assault cases, or if your prefer a bit like Brexit. Just less racist. A collective of like minded anglers without the hard sell or fake personalities.
Short short history
Before Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram….In the heady early days of Internet Angling, forums such as CEMEX angling and Carpy.co.uk were a haven for the blossoming internet media extravaganza we see now.
Carpy was founded in 2004 by two anglers in response to arcane forum rules and a need for a free speech! Aimed at like minded people, Carpy quickly built up a good following of individuals with amazing variances in personalities, humour and opinions! Whiling our way at work while logged into Carpy made the days go fast and talk of all things angling and personal ensured you slowly got to know all the members very well. From the harshest of language and attacks to often great life advice, all the members that managed to endure formed a great bond that still carries through today. Great times, before the madness of media personalities took over.
We are now over 12 years old now and some of our members have been with us since the very start, we operate in various forms, Twitter, Instagram and our very ow private Facebook group (Former forum members welcome). And very rarely sometimes manage to meet up and laugh so hard our side hurt. Over the years we have sadly lost a few of our comrades, Bromhead (Glyn Leach), Hippie (Phil Robson). So this site is more in memorial for past members, before the internet was bigger than Trumps hair.


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San Juan Elephant Seals vs. Montgomery Burns: Season 28 World Series Preview
San Juan Elephant Seals (vs. RHP, no DH)
1.) Einar Rivera-CF .319/.392/427
2.) James Rooney-LF .319/.413/.639
3.) Bret Moore-RF .283/.377/.579
4.) Giomar Estrada-1B .324/.427/.568
5.) Fred Piper-2B .233/.310/.447
6.) Anibal Franco-3B .253/.328/.418
7.) Bo Cerda-C .253/.303/.449
8.) William Park-SS .248/.273/.515
Keep your on Pedro Flores. Manager bcpbcp7 did not start him against RHP in interleague play, but his bat may be too strong to keep out of the lineup in the World Series.
Montgomery Burns (vs. RHP, no DH)
1.) Roger Conroy-LF .311/.409/.613
2.) Giomar Bonilla-SS .288/.341/.508
3.) Esteban Diaz-1B .304/.360/.528
4.) Ricardo Bravo-RF .331/.378/.547
5.) Dock Mercedes-3B .339/.396/.534
6.) Jack Hammonds-C .316/.386/.428
7.) Victor Padilla-2B .295/.360/.541
8.) Tito Baldwin-CF .262/.329/.427
As you can see, these are two offensive powerhouses. Let's look at the SP rotations.
San Juan Pitching Rotation (ERA/WHIP/K:BB)
1.) Rondell Wise .365/1.26/119:48
2.) Miguel Gonzalez 3.73/1.22/162:66
3.) Lloyd Brock 4.67/1.39/116:61
At this point it appears San Juan will be going with a three man rotation, though Alex Romo would likely get the nod if they choose to use four starting pitchers.
Montgomery Burns Pitching Rotation
1.) Ezdra Nunez 3.34/1.28/147:52
2.) Shelley Olson 3.10/1.21/176:66
3.) Ismael Park 4.30/1.41/158:55
It also appears Burns will be running a three man rotation, though Pasqual Perez would likely get the call should an extra arm be needed for a start.
These teams are very evenly matched. Burns has the slight edge on offense, while the E-Seals have the slight edge of pitching. In the end, I expect the veteran bat of James Rooney to come through for San Juan, giving the Elephant Seal their first championship in franchise history
Elephant Seals in 7.
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- See Karttikeya.
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. A. Jones and James D. Ryan. 2007.
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The story of the migrating gravestones first caught my attention more than a decade ago when genealogist Dave Hughes showed me some photos of pieces of headstones used as landscaping blocks in Newcastle's Blackbutt Reserve. He told me the stones had been moved by Newcastle City Council from the old cemetery at Christ Church Cathedral in the early 1970s as part of a "clean-up".
I didn't believe him at first, but soon discovered it was true. I contacted the former Blackbutt caretaker Ray Raisbeck who told me he had actually been a leading hand with the council when the cemetery was transferred to council control. The council decided to clear the graveyard.
"We had to use a chainsaw and tractor to get some of the bushes out of the iron fences around some of the graves," Mr Raisbeck said. When he turned over tumbled tombstones, he saw many graves whose occupants had been born before Europeans settled Australia.
The council catalogued and photographed many of the stones in the 1970s before shifting a handful to the cathedral park's eastern end. Many were placed face-up, making them easy to read but also speeding their erosion. Mr Raisbeck, who by then had moved to Blackbutt, said he received many stones from the cathedral which he used for landscaping.
"Some stones were offered to anybody who wanted them and I remember a lovely red granite one, belonging to a Clunes Innes, that was taken to Port Macquarie," he said. "We were making the stonework around the Blackbutt toilets one day when one of the workers placed a stone so you could see a carved pair of crossed hands holding a rose. I told them they'd better turn it around", Mr Raisbeck said.
Mr Raisbeck wrote a paper on the topic of the stones used at Blackbutt, noting that they had come from many places other than the cathedral cemetery.
They included bush rocks collected from roadsides at Seaham in 1967 and used at the reserve entrance. Some of these are very big, but all were loaded on the council trucks by hand. The stone gutter down the steep entrance road came from guttering originally used on the overpass near Waratah Station. At the time Mr Raisbeck was told that these pieces of trachyte had been hand-cut by South Coast prisoners. These pieces were extremely hard and heavy and had to be moved by a tractor with a hydraulic crane.
Stonework from the first section of the old aviary site largely came from a stone house at The Junction which was being demolished in about 1969 to make way for a bakery. Walls continuing to the small dam were mostly made of old kerb and guttering except for a section just above the dam which was old sailing ship ballast, possibly black lava from Hawaii. "They were originally used in the dry stone walls of the King street Rockeries," he wrote. Mr Raisbeck had also been the gardener in charge of the rockeries between 1954 and 1957. He helped load these rocks when King Street was widened in about 1967-69.
Blackbutt's rainforest walls mainly came from the old Wallsend Methodist Church, which was demolished when it appeared in danger of collapse.
Stones around Blackbutt's dams were mainly kerb and gutter stones which were also used near the ranger's cottage. Some large boulders beneath the cliff in the rainforest area came from the council's Merewether quarry.
There used to be a couple of dumps of recycled stones at Newcastle's No.2 Sportsground, and many of these also found their way to Blackbutt. Waratah kerb and gutter stones were transformed by Mr Raisbeck into various barbecues around the reserve and were also used to build the pillars at the Lookout Road entrance and the wall of worked stone that once displayed a guide map to Blackbutt.
"This work was done by the council's stonemason Gordon Myers, who also repaired the King Street retaining walls at the Cathedral cemetery site," Mr Raisbeck wrote.
Headstones from other cemeteries may also have made their way to Blackbutt, including, possibly, some from Mayfield's St Andrew's Church of England. That cemetery was cleared to make way for a church hall.
Mr Col Boundy, of Alderley, Queensland, has described his 1992 search for the gravesites of his great grandparents, John and Alice Boundy. John Boundy and his second wife Dorothy were buried at Sandgate cemetery, but no trace of Alice could be found. Her death certificate indicated she was buried at St Andrew's, Mayfield, but as Mr Boundy discovered, the old graveyard had been cleared as the result of a special Act of Parliament in 1957 to allow the new hall to be built. According to the history of the church, written by Noel and Sue Skimmings, the headstones were taken to Blackbutt Reserve.
Dave Hughes, who has made a close study of a number of Newcastle cemeteries, said some of the Christ Church headstones photographed in near-complete condition in the 1960s were now in pieces in Blackbutt Reserve.
"The tombstone of Samuel Osborne is one I can name immediately," he said.
Mr Eddie Page wrote that the Osborne gravestone had been earmarked in 1966 for preservation and restoration, but had instead ended up at Blackbutt. He believed as many as 30 others similarly earmarked at the time had suffered the same fate. "I would particularly love to find any remnants of the headstone of Henry Chatfield – Captain of the Cawarra. Even though it had quite some historic significance and was in fair condition, the Chatfield headstone wasn't listed as worth retaining," Mr Page wrote.
I visited the Cathedral Park on July 9, 2020, to view some changes the council has made in relatively recent times.


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Public health literature proposes that the Australian alcohol industry–funded organisation DrinkWise is a Social Aspects Public Relations Organisation (SAPRO) that favours industry over public interests by deploying ineffective alcohol harm reduction strategies. This research addresses a gap in the critical public relations literature by investigating these claims through an examination of DrinkWise's source media content. Content and rhetorical framing analysis revealed how the organisation framed the alcohol issue, as well as identifying the messages and message audiences of their media releases. Results supported extant research suggesting that DrinkWise is insulating the alcohol industry against evidence-based public health harm reduction strategies, by engaging in agenda building through industry-friendly framing of the alcohol issue, and dissemination of information subsidies to elites and policy-makers. We discuss the conclusions through a lens of hegemony and develop an argument that DrinkWise media relations is a strategy to maintain a hegemonic individual responsibility ideology.
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Out of Right Field: Recap, takeaways from the Seattle Mariners' 4-1 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates
Wed., Sept. 18, 2019
Kyle Lewis homered for the fifth time in eight major-league games as the Mariners defeated the host Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 Wednesday night in interleague play.
Lewis and Tom Murphy hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning, giving Seattle a 4-0 lead. Dylan Moore had a two-run double in the second for the M's, who won their fourth game in a row.
M's left-hander Tommy Milone (5-9) pitched five scoreless innings of two-hit ball in relief of opener Justin Dunn.
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The Arizona Fall League began play Wednesday, with eight M's prospects on the Peoria Javelinas: OFs Jarred Kelenic and Julio Rodriguez; RHPs Sam Delaplane, Aaron Fletcher and Penn Murfee; LHP Raymond Kerr; and IFs Jose Caballero and Joe Rizzo (taxi squad).
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3.86: The Mariners' ERA in interleague play since it began in 1997, the second-best in the majors to the New York Yankees (3.77).
Our take from Right Field
Dunn, who walked five in two-thirds of an inning in his major-league debut last week, again struggled with his control, walking three in two innings. But he kept the ball down and seemed to get squeezed a bit by the home-plate umpire. He allowed one hit and no runs.
Up next
The M's wrap up the three-game series at 9:35 a.m. Thursday at PNC Park. LHP Yusei Kikuchi (6-10, 5.46 ERA) is scheduled to face Pirates RHP Joe Musgrove (10-12, 4.52).
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Dean and Britta pay tribute to Andy Warhol in Prospect Park
How's this for a birthday celebration on a summer's eve? This past Saturday, indie-rock stalwart Dean Wareham popped the cork on his 46th in Brooklyn's Prospect Park with wife Britta Phillips — as well as Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Nico, and Edie Sedgwick. In truth, Lou & Co. appeared in celluloid form, projected on a screen while Dean & Britta performed their songs for the multimedia project 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests.
A brainchild of the Andy Warhol Museum and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 13 Most Beautiful (available as a DVD) gathers a baker's dozen among some 500 black-and-white films shot by Warhol between 1964 and 1966. For his subjects, the Pop-art maestro recruited both luminaries (Susan Sontag, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg) and unknowns from his Factory acolytes and hangers-on, asking them to sit still and unblinking in front of a tripod-mounted camera for as long as possible. Warhol went on to screen some of the four-minute films as part of his groundbreaking multimedia performance tour de force The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, accompanied by music from the Velvet Underground and Nico. Fittingly, the Warhol Museum invoked the Inevitable by commissioning Wareham and Phillips, veterans of the VU-influenced Luna and seasoned soundtrack composers to boot (The Squid and the Whale), to score the hour-long film compilation.
Equally fitting, the evening in Prospect Park kicked off with Brooklyn's own torch-bearers of throwback psychedelia, Crystal Stilts. Fronted by Brad Hargett — whose vocals recalled Morrissey as his shades and mop of curls all but screamed "young Lou Reed" — the quintet barreled through a pummeling (if sometimes ragged) set of surf-guitar-powered garage punk, goosed by feverish keyboard riffs. The Stilts may not have roused the Prospect Park crowd, perhaps becalmed by the midsummer swelter, but their retro-tinged stylings served as an apt warm-up for Dean and Britta's evocation of Andy Warhol's 1960s.
In contrast to Crystal Stilts' bare-bones ferocity, Dean and Britta launched their set and the film series in understated fashion with the "Richard Rheem Theme," a discofied electro composition as sleek as the coolly handsome Rheem, a wealthy Warhol hanger-on, himself. Things moved into high gear, however, with "Teenage Lightning (and Lonely Highways," D&B's jangly guitar-pop evocation of the equally handsome Paul Johnson, a speed-freak hustler and sometime Edie Sedgwick BF who practically commanded the camera with scowling bravado. (It bears mentioning that Johnson, who was struck by a car in 1982, was one of four screen testees in 13 Most Beautiful who came to an untimely end.) As for the Factory Girl herself, her slightly stunned onscreen affect (she was recuperating from a car crash at the time) juxtaposed hauntingly with the swooshing synthesizer flourishes of "It Don't Rain in Beverly Hills." Equally arresting: a tweedy pre-Easy Rider Dennis Hopper, nodding and laughing over a blues-rock instrumental; and future cult-film queen Mary Woronov, as severely beautiful as Rock 'n' Roll High School's Miss Togar yet with a glint of wry amusement.
Notwithstanding Dean and Britta's precisely tailored compositions, their most memorable musical selections were two covers: For Nico, Britta's folk-rock rendering of Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" offered a honeyed counterpoint to the German chanteuse's almost-robotic version (not to mention Nico's fidgety, restless screen presence). And as Lou Reed in sunglasses nonchalantly chugged a Coke on screen, Dean shed his vocal reserve to growl out the great, obscure VU raver "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore."
After that live-wire moment came a capper of devil-may-care insouciance – a radiant Baby Jane Holzer brushing her teeth and smiling, to the strains of "Knives From Bavaria," Dean and Britta's drolly whimsical song of romantic obsession from 2003's L'Avventura. To wrap up and send parkgoers into the humid night, Dean reached back even further into his musical catalog – to the rousing Galaxie 500 chestnut "Fourth of July." A month late, perhaps, but it worked.
So, Music Mix-ers, who among you trekked to Prospect Park this weekend? And what did you think of 13 Most Beautiful: a poignant if slightly faded curio from a bygone era of glamorous excess, or a salient harbinger of today's metastasizing celebrity culture from an artist ahead of his time? Should the Warhol Museum pull out the Dylan and Sontag screen tests and enlist Dean and Britta to pen a new soundtrack? And just to go out on a limb here, do Dean and Britta rate inclusion in an EW.com gallery of the Hottest Duos in Rock?
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ENMAX is pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Markell and Elise Rees to the ENMAX Board. They bring a combined wealth of experience and knowledge from the electricity industry and financial profession that will serve ENMAX well in its mission to safely and responsibly provide electricity and energy services to people, businesses and communities, and provide value for our Shareholder and the citizens of Calgary.
Eric Markell is founder of Markell & Company LLC, has more than 35 years' experience in the utility and power industry in the areas of corporate finance, accounting, regulatory relations and rate-making, asset acquisition, generation operation and construction, project finance and project development. In 2015, Mr. Markell became a co-founder of Trident Winds LLC, an early stage California offshore wind-development company and is a former senior executive of Puget Energy Inc., and its Washington-based utility subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy. Mr. Markell has been a frequent speaker and panelist on energy matters and has been a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities.
Elise Rees is a strategic senior executive with more than 35 years' experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions with a significant tax focus. She was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network. Having spent 35 years in public practice, Ms. Rees has advised boards and senior management on complex issues and holds experience across a large variety of industries including mining, energy, infrastructure, construction, real estate, retail and distribution. Ms. Rees also has extensive board experience, supporting a number of non-for profit and trade organizations.
In addition, the ENMAX Board and executive team would like to thank long-standing board member Jim Hankinson upon his retirement from the board for his dedication and the strong industry expertise that he brought to our organization. Mr. Hankinson retired after six years of service and ENMAX has benefited greatly from his contributions.
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According to Sky Sports, Chelsea have put England number one Jordan Pickford at the top of their list of replacements for Thibaut Courtois, if as expected the Belgium international joins Real Madrid this summer.
Highly-rated goalkeeper
The Everton goalkeeper is highly-rated, having produced impressive displays for Everton and previous club Sunderland, despite playing behind poor defences at both clubs.
His confident performances for England at the World Cup have raised his profile within the European game. He is now regarded as one of the best up and coming goalkeepers in Europe.
Courtois likely to leave
Courtois is likely to leave Stamford Bridge this summer, with his likely destination Madrid. The Belgian international has less than a year left on his current deal at Stamford Bridge, so the Blues could lose him next summer on a free transfer.
Courtois is a valuable asset, so that looks highly unlikely to happen. That means the Blues will cash-in on the former Atletico Madrid loanee by allowing him to leave for Los Blancos.
Ironically, the Belgian number one criticised Pickford during the World Cup, only to apologise in an interview after one the Red Devils games.
Pickford first choice
The report claims that Pickford is at the top of the Blues list to replace Courtois this summer. He is reportedly ahead of Stoke's Jack Butland and Leicester City's Kasper Schmeichel of prospective replacements for their talented Belgian international.
Any deal to sign Pickford would be a difficult one for Chelsea to complete with just two weeks left in the transfer window. The Toffees are unlikely to be willing to part with the goalkeeper who impressed at this summer's World Cup.
If the Merseysiders are going to sell then it is only likely to be for a massive fee, which would hinder new Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri's plans to strengthen his squad.
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Prism Pear was inspired by a dream. The night before Christmas of 2017, I had a dream about owning a boutique named Prism. The next morning, my mom gave me an eye shadow palette called Prism. I thought it was such an interesting coincidence. My curiosity about the occurrence kept it stuck in my mind.
But where does pear come in? Pears are a cute fruit and I sell cute things. Prism Pear is cute, pretty, and unique.
This shop became under construction in February of 2019. PrismPear.com was purchased in mid- 2018, but work on the online store was pushed back until the offline world slowed down.


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Exploring Arkansas April 2017
It's an almost 100 percent guarantee of seeing bald eagles when you take the eagle excursion at Lake Dardanelle State Park in Russellville. –And that's because eagles nest there year round. The multi use trails at Pension Mountain south of Berryville will take you to historic Johnson Spring which was once the source of the city's water supply. The Rice-Upshaw house near Dalton in the NE corner of Arkansas happens to be the state's oldest known structure, built in 1828. Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales in Lake Village are exactly that, as folks from all over flock to this modest restaurant for not just the tamales, but also the great tasting 'soul' food.


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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. —The Gospel of Thomas
Kathryn, an academic, athletic and social success at her high school, went on to the University of Pennsylvania where she began to consider suicide.
She is not the only one. Always an issue with adolescents, there has been a dramatic spike in anxiety and depression since 2007, and a steady increase in suicide among 15-24 year-olds. Most colleges recognize and react to this epidemic with outreach efforts, expanded counseling center hours, and a designated phone line on campus. Theories as to the causes of this epidemic (helicopter parenting, digital devices, perfectionism, over-indulgence, etc.) have also proliferated.
The dramatic increase in anxiety, depression and suicide in adolescents may also be caused by a culture that emphasizes happiness and success based on ones position on a socio-academic pyramid. In our schools, this obsession generates a number of myths which result in (surprise, surprise) a few winners, many losers, a lot of mediocrity and desperation regardless of where you fall. Myths like:
None of these myths are borne out either by experience or research, and yet our behavior continues to be guided by them. The result is young people who are split off from themselves. If a child graduates from high school having spent most of their psychic energy trying to measure up, their deeper motivations are in the closet. They are left with an executive self alienated from its inner self.Your True Self
But whatever the cause(s), our focus should be wholeness. We humans are Rube Goldbergs trying to make sense, and it's not an easy task. And yet, our inner self is a wealth of information about relationships and knowledge we "forget." You must get in the habit of listening to your inner voice, or "…what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
Young children act as if they know this. Watch children under seven. From birth, children are not bifurcated into a good and a bad self, and they trust in that voice within them that guides them toward what they are making of themselves. They focus on creating, on making friends, on mattering, and understand how much they must learn. Their mistakes, their failures, their conflicts are simply felt as learning experiences. They know that failure is an option and bounce back. Churchill's "Success is failing again and again without losing enthusiasm" is built in. (It wasn't till I was eight that I realized that I was inferior: falling short of my parents' expectations and deficient in school.) But if we adults play our cards right, our children will never lose it.
"Born again," is not something that happens to us once in our lives. It is something we can choose every moment of our lives. When we feel stuck with a problem, frustrated with our performance, alienated, anxious, isolated or mad, we need to get in touch with the voice of our character, our genius, and bring our whole selves to the table.self chasing self's tail
This often feels like doing something unexpected or "silly" or weird. Sometimes it is like "coming out of the closet." Sometimes, as with Kathryn, it IS "coming out of the closet." Also, there are dozens of disciplines from "counting to ten," to going for a long walk, to yoga, meditation and prayer,
Anxiety, depression and suicide are manifestations of the three main human dis-eases: loneliness, boredom and uselessness. The three antidotes are collaborating, creating and contributing. If you, or someone you love, feel down, or depressed or anxious, connect with someone, make something beautiful, or be useful. A steady diet of these three C's will "bring forth that which is within you," and save you—and your children.


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Relic BMX – Clint Reynolds – Home From Home
"After nearly 10 years in Austin, TX Clint and his family now call New Paltz, NY home. We have all seen the haven he has built for himself up there, which came from nothing but his sheer drive and determination to dive into the unknown head first. Although this wonderland he has built seems to be the only thing most of us could dream of, the winters where it is situated don't provide the greatest outdoor riding conditions. We'll miss his presence here in Austin but we can take comfort in the fact that he will be back to visit and quite often too. This footage is from just a few of the great sessions that went down while he was visiting his home away from home last April. Enjoy!" – Ashley Charles / Relic BMX


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The 2017 AIA Convention highlighted developments in smart technology harnessed to connect ideas and spaces, fostering a closer relationship between design and manufacture
Orlando is defined by curves: freeways and slip-roads on the ground, the water-slides, roller-coasters and Ferris wheels of its numerous attractions – garishly illuminated at night – give it a distant approximation to a skyline. Its numerous lakes have defeated any serious attempt to establish that staple of American cities, a grid plan, severely curtailing any chance of having a sense of urbanity. Instead, it is a sea of theme parks with a few vast hotels rising above like crude, banal and ugly rocks, which lap the individual parts of a gigantic convention centre. 'Which side do you want?', our taxi driver asked on our first day, 'you need a cab to get from east to west.'
We wanted the west side, location for the 2017 AIA Convention, rebranded as A'17. Its 14,000 delegates were a few thousand down on last year's in Philadelphia – 'a real city', as some of the black-attired and goatee-bearded among the attendees opined. But whether the host is a 'real city' is not the point of these three-day fests. What matters is the content and the connections between ideas, things, technologies and people that they offer. On this count 2017's outing was pretty successful.
Michelle Obama was the star attraction among the keynote speakers. Her experience of working in planning and regeneration in Chicago lent weight to her comments on cities, essentially that they are messy, complex and expensive and so need investment both public and private. Her comments of the need to include the rights and needs of poor communities in urban development – and the potential for architects to bring this about – were telling. MO is thinking a lot about architecture, these days, incidentally, overseeing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' plans for the Obama Presidential Center.
The roster of keynote speakers also included the foot-stomping Berlin-based African architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, Liz Diller – recently appointed a visiting professor at the Bartlett – a charming pair of graphic designers who work, implausibly, for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize laureate and last year's Venice Biennale curator. Diller added a new twist to the familiar story of New York's High Line, noting how it has become the underpinning for a series of unsavoury marketing campaigns, including one for a new perfume which includes 'the scents of wildflowers, green grass and urban renewal'. After that, a project described by David Delgado and Dan Goods from NASA, about harnessing ham radio operators over the world to develop enough power to send the message 'Hi Juno' to the eponymous spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, seemed almost rational.
The most intriguing point to emerge from the keynotes came from Michael Ford, a panellist in a session compèred by Frances Anderton (who moved from associate editor of the AR to radio stardom in LA). Ford suggested that architecture could be rebased through Hip Hop. As the 'voice of the voiceless', it provides a frame for conceiving architectural practice and profession as more diverse and inclusive. The sort of thing he does in his teaching practice, he explained, is to examine the structural stability of breakdancing, freezing a frame and using it as a starting point for design. If Mrs Obama made a worthy case for an institutional, legal and social framework in which architects and architecture could play a part, Hip Hop could invigorate the whole enterprise.
'Architecture needs to take its place in a recalibration of social beliefs and practices'
How architecture can contribute to social equity was a sinew through the whole programme, but no one identified a 'magic bullet' that might deliver it: instead, and more realistically, architecture needs to take its place in a recalibration of social beliefs and practices. What it offers uniquely is its capability to connect ideas and spaces.
Recognising distinguished members of the profession is an important part of the convention. There were 178 new fellows (the total fellowship is about three per cent of the total of 90,000), IM Pei's 100th birthday was marked and Robert Stern, Postmodernist extraordinaire and former Dean of Yale School of Architecture, deservedly received the Topaz Medallion for his contribution to education. The Institute's Gold Medal was awarded posthumously to Paul Revere Williams, a talented and highly successful architect who became the first African American member of the AIA in 1932. Among his numerous celebrity clients were Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Barbara Stanwyck, some of whom felt so uncomfortable sitting next to a black man when he was explaining his designs that he perfected an upside-down drawing technique so he could sit opposite them.
In parallel the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design has its own awards. These were presented in the Orlando Museum of Art – it was nice to know the city had one – with prizes going to architects who deserve to be better known outside the US, such as Curtis Fentress, David Goodman, and the overall laureates Form4 Architecture from San Francisco, who really were crowned with laurel wreaths.
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Many of the seminars and exhibits showed how new technologies are expanding architecture's scope in many directions. Kone, starting with their new UltraRope – a cable that is 70 per cent lighter than steel and twice as strong, making for faster, taller and more efficient lifts – has brought together four tech devices to re-conceive the passage from front door to destination in a building. The first is smart design, using BIM to eliminate inaccuracy; the second smart controls; the third allows dovetailing of swipe card security with the lifts so you are directed to a lift to your floor; the final is maintenance – all usage is monitored and collected and pooled to monitor conditions, feed an anticipatory regime and diagnose problems before an engineer has to be called out.
Even more far-reaching are developments in VR. Between them, Autodesk, Graphisoft, Bentley and IrisVR are close to developing tools that will allow a seamless system where design, public or client presentation, specification and product selection, transmission of data to subcontractors for fabrication and main contractors for construction management, will all happen within an integration of BIM and VR technologies. By improving communications within the design team, especially between designers and fabricators, the scope for a closer relationship between design and making is vastly enhanced. However, this raises the question of whether using VR too early in the design process will lead clients to fixate on the 'reality' of what they are going to get before it is fully conceived.
All this feeds the opportunities for smart manufacturing. A good example of its advantages was presented by Seattle-based LMN Architects, via the practice's Voxman School of Music for the University of Iowa. A complex building with three auditoria as well as a student commons, rehearsal and teaching spaces, it presented budgetary challenges especially as it was funded from Federal flood relief programmes (a catastrophic Iowa River flood rendered its previous home unusable).
'Materials themselves are also getting smarter'
LMN's interest in smart manufacturing led them to propose a cost-saving measure that also became an architectural feature. As partner Stephen Van Dyck explained, pushing the acoustic envelope above the structure to the roof level in the highest and largest of the auditoria enabled elimination of an expensive layer of concrete, opening the opportunity for a smart suspended ceiling. Experimenting furiously in their model shop to produce data for fabrication while simultaneously convincing an initially doubtful contract manager and client, LMN designed a form that conceals the deep beams, distributes sound well and offers a template for all manner of lighting effects – and so becoming an active tool to enhance performance.
Materials themselves are also getting smarter. An especially eye-catching example is View Dynamic Glass, which adds five micron-thick layers to sheets of float glass which, with a low-voltage charge, can change to various shades of darkness. That reduces glare and solar gain, with one demonstration suggesting that a conventionally glazed foyer could, even with air conditioning, reach 89 degrees Fahrenheit when the outside temperature was 96, though with Dynamic Glass it would be a more comfortable 73, without the visual disruption of blinds or shading. The elimination of these helps to offset the fourfold extra cost of the glass, as does the reduced energy load, but benefits in worker comfort are yet to be fully quantified.
Next year's AIA convention will be in New York, which will go some way to satisfying anyone in need of an urban vibe. But for those whose life is a whirligig of convention centres and theme parks, there were a couple of optimistic harbingers for the future. LMN is working on a couple of convention centres in Cleveland and Washington which integrate the facilities so tightly into the urban fabric that they really do become part of the city. Meanwhile Tomorrowland – a theme park designed by Disney and Grimshaw in Shanghai – shows how advanced manufacturing can bring together the narratives and experiences that Disney wants to offer with a refined architectural aesthetic.
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