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A Tale of Two Seasons: Serena Starts and Wozniacki Finishes
Although the familiar saying states "all good things must come to an end", when it comes to tennis it's not necessarily the case. While the 2010 season is over, in the blink of an eye the new one will commence. Before turning to a fresh chapter, it's important to reminisce and ponder what made this past year noteworthy.
At her first tournament after rejoining the tour, Justine Henin was a finalist in Brisbane. The Belgian followed that result with a run to the final at the Australian Open. In a compelling match, Serena Williams edged out Henin to defend her title and claimed her twelfth career major. Despite Williams' conquest, the road to victory was far from routine. Thus, early indications were Williams would be fighting tooth and nail to retain the number one ranking. Yet, in the end, injury became Serena's speed bump rather than her fellow competitors.
Following Australia, a knee injury caused Williams to put her feet up for a few months. In May, a healthy Serena returned to competition. Subsequent to being stunned in the French Open quarterfinals, Williams successfully defended her Wimbledon title. However, days after her triumph, Serena suffered a freakish foot injury. Initially, the damage seemed inconsequential. But, as the weeks went by, Serena withdrew from tournament after tournament and underwent surgery. Ultimately, Wimbledon proved to be Serena's last event of 2010.
Ironically, Serena's similar fate befell Henin. After being booted in the round of 16 at Roland Garros, Henin turned her focus to Wimbledon the underlying reason for her comeback. With a title at a warm-up tournament before Wimbledon, Henin was a serious contender to capture the sole major which has eluded her. But, after easily carrying the first set against Kim Clijsters, Henin fell on her elbow and eventually loss in the round of 16. What at first seemed an innocuous tumble prematurely terminated Henin's year.
After being upended in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open by Na Li, Venus Williams caught a full head of steam and defended back to back titles in Dubai and Acapulco. Then, Venus made the finals at the Sony Ericsson Open and the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open. Consequently, Venus' ranking peaked at number two. Days after celebrating her 30th birthday, the five time Wimbledon champion stepped on the grass with high hopes for a sixth crown. However, in the quarterfinals, Venus was sent packing by Tsvetana Pironkova. Later at the U.S. Open, Williams watched an opportunity to advance to the final evaporate, going down to Clijsters. Bothered by a knee issue, after New York, Venus sat out the remainder of the season.
No ifs and or buts, Clijsters is back. After besting Henin in the Brisbane final, Clijsters rebounded from an early exit at the Australian Open by thrashing Venus in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open. Although a foot injury prevented Clijsters from participating at the French Open, the following month the Belgian reached the semifinals at Wimbledon. Subsequent to a sensational win in the final in Cincinnati, Clijsters repeated in New York and earned her third U.S. Open title. Clijsters capped the year with the number three ranking and the WTA Championships trophy in Doha.
In placing one's bet at the start of 2010, Maria Sharapova, Henin and Clijsters would have been regarded as the candidates likely to supplant Serena at number one. Instead, Williams was toppled from that spot by a great Dane. Last year, as a runner-up at the U.S. Open, Caroline Wozniacki demonstrated that she is a legitimate rival. With Serena sidelined by injury, Wozniacki scaled up the ranking by winning six tour titles and making the finals in Indian Wells and Doha.
Despite being halted in the round of 16 at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, the quarterfinals at the French Open and the semifinals at the U.S. Open, consistency week in and week out was the key to Wozniacki taking over at number one.
Another individual who had a spring in her step in 2010 is Vera Zvonareva. The Russian followed her first major final at Wimbledon with another at the U.S. Open. Although Zvonareva fell to Serena and Clijsters respectively, because of her phenomenal performance, Zvonareva shot up to the number two ranking.
Other names to come into the spotlight this season include twenty year old Petra Kvitova who stunned Victoria Azarenka and Wozniacki before being knocked out in the Wimbledon semifinals by Serena. Along with Li, countrywoman Jie Zheng advanced to the semifinals at the Australian Open. Perhaps the unlikeliest ones to rise above the fray were veterans Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur.
After beating Henin, Serena and Jelena Jankovic at the French Open, 26 year old Stosur booked her maiden major final spot. With a victory over Wozniacki in the quarterfinals, Schiavone sauntered into the French Open final as a result of Elena Dementieva retiring in the semifinals with a calf injury. First time major finalist Schiavone took full advantage of her good fortune. Less than a month prior to her 30th birthday, Schiavone prevailed over Stosur becoming the first Italian woman to win a major.
In doubles, Serena and Venus triumphed in the finals at the Australian and French Opens while Wimbledon and the U.S. Open were claimed by the new pair of Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova. The number one doubles team of Cara Black and Liezel Huber had an acrimonious divorce in April. With the break up of Huber and Black and injuries affecting the Williams', Flavia Pennetta and Gisela Dulko with six titles and the WTA Championships trophy ended the year as the top doubles team.
For the second consecutive year, Italy dismissed the U.S. to take the Federation Cup. Former French Open champion and world number one Ana Ivanovic redeemed her season by pocketing the Tournament of Champions trophy in Bali and reintegrating herself in the top twenty. Nothing but bad news for former world number one Dinara Safina. Limited by a back problem, Safina hardly played and finished the year ranked 63rd.
At the WTA championships, Dementieva dropped a bomb announcing her retirement after her last round robin match. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist and two time major finalist felt at 29 years of age the time had arrived to seal this phase of her life and move on to another.
It is impossible to dissociate 2010 from 2011 with injury already a factor in the year to come. With her foot still on the mend, Serena proclaimed she will not defend her Australian Open title. As such, the first major of the year will be up for grabs. Will Clijsters seize her first major other than the U.S. Open? Can Wozniacki silence all doubters and show she really belongs at the top spot? Will Zvonareva draw on the positives from 2010 and take the final step to the major's winner circle? Will it be Sharapova or Henin reliving their past success down under? In contemplating the outcome of the Australian Open, the permutations seem infinite. With all these questions, the first major portends that the upcoming season will be a fascinating one to follow.
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Serena Williams Carves Her Place Along Side the Elites with Her 13th Major
Undisputedly, Serena Williams adores the spotlight and Wimbledon is the Oscars of the tennis stage. In the finals at the All England Club, defending champion Williams overpowered Vera Zvonareva, the 21st seed, 6-3,6-2 to win her fourth Wimbledon trophy and her thirteenth major overall surpassing the great Billie Jean King.
Zvonareva was making her debut in the finals at a major and Williams did not rely on first timer jitters to knock out her opponent. In 2004, an intrepid teenage newcomer seeded 13th, Maria Sharapova stunned world number one Williams to take the Wimbledon title. From the very first game, Serena demonstrated that she had learned her lesson. With a backhand down the line winner, Williams held at love to open the match. Showing no nervousness, Zvonareva carried her first game easily. Despite throwing in two double faults and being pushed to deuce the next couple of games, Serena guarded serve to stay ahead 3-2. When Zvonareva's forehand up the line landed out of play, Williams had her first break point. However, Zvonareva forced the miscues from Serena to level the set at 3 a piece. After Serena had no trouble guarding serve, Zvonareva double faulted on game point for deuce. With a nice lob, Serena obtained another mistake from Zvonareva for her second break point of the game. With an incredible running forehand up the line winner, Serena broke for 5-3. Then, on her third set point, Serena caused Zvonareva to flub another forehand to pocket the set.
Under pressure, Zvonareva's troubles multiplied in the second set. By dumping a backhand crosscourt into the net, Serena earned a break point the first game. When Zvonareva's forehand missed its destination, Serena took the initial game. Subsequently, with a backhand volley winner, Serena consolidated for a 2-0 edge. From that point on, Serena never removed her foot from the accelerator. With another smoking running forehand, Serena provoked a forehand miscue from Zvonareva for double break point in the fifth game. Although Zvonareva saved those two, she sent another forehand into the net giving Serena a third chance. This time Williams did not have to strike the ball, by double faulting, Zvonareva gifted her a 4-1 lead. The remainder of the match, Serena surrendered just one point on her serve and with a love game to capture the championship.
After the match, Zvonareva had nothing but praise for her rival "you're a great player and a great champion … you've shown great determination throughout the week". The Russian conceded "I'm a little disappointed . . . [but] Serena did not allow me to show my best". Zvonareva could not manufacture one break point. Williams connected on 66% of her first serves and won 94% of those points. In addition, Serena did not loose a set on as she claimed the title.
Since the pain is still fresh, Zvonareva said it's hard to see the positives. But the Russian admitted that when she reflects in a couple of hours, she will have a better perspective. After all, "I've been dreaming of playing Wimbledon since I was a kid". Considering the hardship that Zvonareva has gone through the last year with her ankle injury, "I was doubting that I was going to ever play". Zvonareva expressed her gratitude to the people who have stuck by her and aided her to arrive at this moment including her surgeon who was present. Indeed, for Zvonareva, there's a ton to be proud of.
Tags: Australian Open, Azarenka, Capriati, Henin, King, Serena
Not So Odd: Serena Acquires Another Aussie Major
Defending champion Serena Williams' proclivity to win the Australian Open in uneven years is well documented. Regrettably for Justine Henin, Serena decided not to stick to tradition in 2010. In the final, Serena blocked Justine 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to claim her fifth Australian Open trophy.
Serena was under the gun from the first game. Williams dumped a forehand into the net to give Henin double break point. But, as she has done over and over this fortnight, with good serves, Serena salvaged a four deuce game. After holding serve, helped by the net, Henin earned another break point with a backhand return winner. Again, Serena erased the deficit with an ace. Supreme at saving break points, Serena captured this five deuce game with an overhead winner for 2-1. Subsequently, aided by a Henin double fault, Serena set up triple break point with a backhand crosscourt winner. Williams capitalized when Henin's forehand went wide. However, due to a rash of errors Williams faced double break point. After saving one with an ace, Serena got a break when a backhand volley winner by Justine was mistakenly judged long; the point was replayed. On the do-over, Serena consolidated for 4-1. Later, Serena handed Justine two chances to get back on serve with a series of miscues. With a forehand crosscourt winner, Justine did just that and went on to equalize the set at 4 all. Yet, after Serena captured her game at love, Justine donated a couple of set points with a double fault and backhand error. When Henin's backhand skinned the net and landed long, Williams secured the first set.
In the second set, Henin and Williams traded roles. The second game, Justine came up with a couple of great serves to obliterate double break point. Afterwards, with a backhand winner, Justine broke Serena at love for a 2-1 edge. Still, the very next game, Henin allowed Williams to level the set. At 2-3, after dismissing another break point, Henin reached a great drop and flicked a forehand volley crosscourt winner for advantage point. When Serena netted another forehand, the set was equalized at 3. Energized, the next game, Henin manufactured a second break opportunity with a backhand volley winner and converted when Williams' backhand traveled long. After Henin consolidated with a love game for 5-3; she broke Serena at love to capture the set.
In the decisive set, Henin opened with a love hold. Then, when Serena's attempt at serve and volley failed, Henin had double break point. Once again, Serena bombed a couple of aces to shovel herself out for 1 all. Subsequently, as Justine's forehand up the line sailed long, Serena arrived at double break point. With a sinking backhand stroke, Serena caused Justine to push the backhand volley into the net, thereby obtaining the break for 2-1. But, with three consecutive forehand errors by Williams, Henin was at triple break point. When Henin crushed a forehand return crosscourt, the set was equalized. Still, with another double fault by Henin and a backhand up the line winner, Serena got another break opportunity. Serena cashed in when Justine bungled an easy backhand crosscourt. Despite pressure from her rival, Serena stretched her lead to 4-2 with a second serve ace. Then, with a dipping backhand, Serena forced Henin into a backhand volley mistake leading to two break opportunities. When Henin's backhand floated long, Williams took a commanding 5-2 edge. Serena sealed the championship with backhand crosscourt winner.
As a former world number one, hopes were high that Henin would do well upon rejoining the tour. Nevertheless, the final of her first two tournaments including a major, even for Henin, that is tantamount to a dream. Just four weeks after returning, Henin will be ranked in the top 40.
In the quarterfinals against Victoria Azarenka, Serena had perhaps the comeback of her career. After being ahead 6-4, 4-0, Azarenka who played spectacularly from start to finish came out on the losing end. This was the hint that this would be yet again Serena's year. Serena becomes the first woman since Jennifer Capriati in 2002 to successfully defend. Williams also ties Billy Jean King with 12 majors.


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Salem Capital Management Inc, which manages about $369.02 million and $158.87 million US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Ncr Corp. (NYSE:NCR) by 28,900 shares to 92,950 shares, valued at $2.15 million in 2018Q4, according to the filing.
Investors sentiment decreased to 0.53 in 2018 Q4. Its down 0.25, from 0.78 in 2018Q3. It dived, as 101 investors sold WFC shares while 748 reduced holdings. 113 funds opened positions while 337 raised stakes. 3.41 billion shares or 1.32% less from 3.46 billion shares in 2018Q3 were reported. Ejf Cap reported 143,000 shares stake. Calamos Wealth Mngmt Limited Liability Corporation invested in 0.11% or 16,544 shares. Bedell Frazier Investment Counseling Ltd Liability Co owns 10,892 shares or 0.21% of their US portfolio. Sanders Limited Company invested in 15.82M shares. Foster Motley owns 73,208 shares or 0.54% of their US portfolio. 104,290 were accumulated by Hoertkorn Richard Charles. Marco Invest Management holds 0.48% or 52,249 shares in its portfolio. Horizon Invs Ltd Liability Corporation stated it has 17,902 shares or 0.04% of all its holdings. Massachusetts-based Boston Advsrs Ltd Company has invested 0.31% in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC). Highland Capital Management Lc has invested 0.84% in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC). Jarislowsky Fraser has 2.86M shares for 0.91% of their portfolio. Viking Fund Ltd Co owns 17,000 shares or 0.22% of their US portfolio. Td Asset Mngmt has invested 0.15% in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC). Leavell Inv Management holds 0.35% or 60,256 shares. 351,098 were accumulated by Rockland.
Since November 23, 2018, it had 0 insider purchases, and 6 selling transactions for $7.80 million activity. BHATT PRAT had sold 33,950 shares worth $1.52M on Friday, November 23. Tan Irving sold $1.36 million worth of stock or 28,000 shares. The insider BURNS M MICHELE sold 4,744 shares worth $209,025. $1.20M worth of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was sold by WEST STEVEN M. $196,324 worth of stock was sold by CHANDLER MARK D on Friday, November 23.
Dupont Capital Management Corp, which manages about $36.48 billion and $4.08B US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Te Connectivity Ltd (NYSE:TEL) by 92,106 shares to 94,512 shares, valued at $7.15M in 2018Q4, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in Great Western Bancorp Inc (NYSE:GWB) by 32,056 shares in the quarter, leaving it with 15,495 shares, and cut its stake in Bank Of New York Mellon Corp (NYSE:BK).
More notable recent Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) news were published by: Nasdaq.com which released: "Has Cisco Systems (CSCO) Outpaced Other Computer and Technology Stocks This Year? – Nasdaq" on April 10, 2019, also Nasdaq.com with their article: "Cisco Systems (CSCO) Outpaces Stock Market Gains: What You Should Know – Nasdaq" published on April 08, 2019, Nasdaq.com published: "The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Netflix, Amazon, Costco, Cisco Systems and Walmart – Nasdaq" on March 25, 2019. More interesting news about Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) were released by: Investorplace.com and their article: "Cisco Stock Is a Great Equity Buy and a Great Growth Buy – Investorplace.com" published on March 18, 2019 as well as Nasdaq.com's news article titled: "Technology Sector Update for 03/18/2019: PXLW, QCOM, VIOT, MSFT, AAPL, IBM, CSCO, GOOG – Nasdaq" with publication date: March 18, 2019.


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Seven APSL Teams Begin 2018 U.S. Open Cup Journey this Weekend
Posted on September 22, 2017 September 23, 2017 by apsladmin
Seven teams from the American Premier Soccer League will begin their U.S. Open Cup journey today as the first round of the open qualifying gets underway.
South Florida FC, Red Force FC, FC Kendall, Boca Raton FC, Hurricanes FC, Miami United, and Inter United will all represent the ever-growing APSL in the national tournament.
Boca Raton FC and Hurricanes FC will kick it off tonight at 7:30 pm at Seacrest Soccer Complex as the two APSL teams will face each other in what will be an exciting matchup.
The action will continue tomorrow as a handful of APSL teams open up the Cup run.
Red Force FC will square off versus FC Ginga at 11 am at Cypress Park.
South Florida FC will face Miami United FC at 5 pm at Brian Piccolo Soccer Park.
Inter United will take on Orlando Storm at 7 pm at Lake Myrtle Sports Complex.
FC Kendall takes on Leu Blacks at Amelia Earhart Park at 8 pm.
"It's exciting to see how our league has grown in the last three years," says Commissioner Bert Mahecha. "We are very proud of all the teams that are participating the Open Cup this season."
If the teams advance past the qualifying rounds, they will await the draw of the MLS, 2nd & 3rd Division teams that will take place in January of 2018 to determine their next opponent.
Although soccer in the United States doesn't have the same history as other countries around the world, the U.S. can still claim the third-oldest continuously running national tournament.
The first U.S. Open Cup, then called the National Challenge Cup, was played in 1914 and has continued every year since. England's FA Cup is the oldest association tournament in the world, beginning play in 1871.
← South Florida scores four to defeat IUA
APSL is recognized as 1 of 16 Elite USASA Leagues in the Nation →

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MARK PASSARRELLO's first experience onstage was in sixth grade, portraying a signer of The Declaration of Independence in a Bicentennial pageant. The fact that he now knows this man was called Stephen Hopkins and came from Rhode Island is a testament to the edifying and enriching power of the theatre (see 1776.) Much later when his senior class read Hamlet aloud, he was told by a fellow student that his rendition of Polonius "really sounded like an old guy." It was the first real inkling that a shy, reserved individual might find a comfortable place at center stage.
Having been continually reprimanded about his eccentric spelling and punctuation, and having bombed out of a middle school choir audition, he was amazed as anyone else, during his college stint, that he was a highly serviceable writer and singer. He balanced academics with staff assignments on his school's paper, and capped a college acting career by being the only non-music major playing a principle role in the opera department's production of The Mikado.
In the more than two decades he ahs been in Columbus, he has appeared in a variety of venues and theatre forms. Prior to the birth of his son and daughter he was an active arts journalist, chronicling the local cultural scene and reviewing plays, film, books and the occasional scenic railway ride. Outside the theatre, he enjoys reading and attempting to write mystery fiction, cooking and consuming food of all sorts, and exerting his green thumb. A long time member of the Columbus Bonsai Society, he is currently serve on their board as Education chair and has presented many classes, workshops and demonstrations about this ancient art form.


The article surveys the scope of satire and suggests its range. It is divided into six sections. The introductory comment (The semantics of music) briefly outlines the fact that music has always been a part of communicative endeavors. The historical background of the semantic issues in music is described (Historical surmises), which is necessary to define satire in music as a specific genre combining features from different musical forms. The third section discusses six areas as the most common contexts of musical satire: 1) satirical music theater works, such as the opera Il Girello by Jacopo Melani, the famous Coff ee Cantata (Schweigt Still, plaudert nicht, BWV 211) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Der Schulmeister by Georg Philipp Telemann, The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, and so on; 2) musical genres associated with satire, either a) within vocal-instrumental music; for instance, opera buffa, Singspiel, operetta, cabaret, vaudeville, and so on, or b) in instrumental pieces, such as capriccios, grotesques, scherzos, burlesques, and so on; 3) individual features or compositional parts related to satire; for example, in a) vocal music, the Satiro in Orfeo by Luigi Rossi, the range of the Orlando character in eighteenth-century opera, who "may be satire, a fool or hero, but never all together" (Harris, 1986, 106), the satirical antihero Matěj Brouček in Leoš Janáček's work, and also Lady Macbeth, and in b) instrumental music, such as the sermon of St. Anthony in Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, his marches, and "low-brow tunes," a number of episodes in Dmitri Shostakovich's works, and so on; 4) works variously related to criticism, such as the work of Eric Satie, Kurt Weill, Luigi Nono, Maurizio Kagel, and Vinko Globokar, as well as Fran Milčinski (a.k.a. Ježek), Laibach, or Bob Dylan; 5) music journalism, from Johann Beer and Louis-Abel Beffroy de Reigny and his popular pieces de circonstance, to nineteenth-century music journalism, George Bernard Shaw, contemporary musical feuilletons, and so on; and 6) folk-music legacy, to which it seems reasonable to add some of contemporary musical-poetic genres of popular culture, especially rap. After delineating the fields in which music has been connected to satire, the relations between them are analyzed in some detail with discussion of the march section in Mahler's Third Symphony (Gustav Mahler and universal satire), Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet (Dmitri Shostakovich and social satire), and Lebič's ingenious Fauvel '86 (Lojze Lebič and gestural satire). The last section of the article offers a typology of the satirical potential in music. Five types of relations between music and language's meanings are considered, as well as five groups of satire-connected levers in instrumental music: 1. Music has certain aesthetic features that evoke a "strange" effect: a) music takes a "neutral," "parallel-world" stance toward the text, without direct involvement in the meaning of the text; b) music "highlights" the sense of the text; c) music "comments" on the text in exposing different "telling details"; d) music tries to negate the text. 2. Musical incorporates certain "coded chips" such as a) motifs from one's own oeuvre; b) motifs from compositions by other authors; c) "encrypted statements," such as the "sign" in Shostakovich: the DSCH motif, the BACH motif, and so on; d) semanticized "cultural gestures," such as Wagner's funeral march in Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet. 3. Musical flow is characterized by a "breach of genres": a) various musical forms; for instance, the symphony and the Lied in Mahler, or b) "low-brow" and "high" styles in Mahler and other composers. 4. Musical flow violates the established cultural norms, not only musical ones, with items such as a) certain cultural position, such as John Cage's 4'33''; b) specific, not only musical, ideology, the Poeme Symphonique by György Ligeti; c) certain cultural norms, as in Marko Mihevc's Hallelujah). 5. The musical stream is hardly connected with concrete musical or broader cultural norms, but its semantic potential emerges out of some "physical cognitive universals," as indicated by programmatic genres and performance indications, such as scherzo, scherzoso, scherzando, grotesque, and burlesque.
Leon Stefanija je izredni profesor na Oddelku za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani in je vodja katedre za sistematično muzikologijo. Svoje raziskovalno delo je usmeril na področje analize glasbenega stavka, novejše slovenske glasbe in sociologije glasbe, kar tudi posreduje na predavanjih in seminarjih. Bil je gostujoči profesor na več univerzah, posveča se tudi spoznavoslovju raziskovanja glasbe. Sodeluje v različnih uredništvih muzikoloških revij in deluje v več strokovno vplivnih organih. Med publikacijami je treba omeniti: »O glasbeno novem: ob slovenski instrumentalni glasbi zadnje četrtine 20. stoletja« (Ljubljana 2001), »Metode analize glasbe: zgodovinsko teoretski oris« (Ljubljana 2004) in »Sociologija glasbe – zgodovina, teorija in metodologija« (Ljubljana 2010).


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Light Up Your Own Star at The Mind Museum
The Vision: "To build a home for science and to make it the FIRST WORLD-CLASS SCIENCE MUSEUM in the Philippines. It will be our defining legacy that will give the next generation the wings to fly against the challenge of a future shaped largely by service and technology. With over 250 inter-active "minds-on" and hands-on exhibits, the museum will be a venue that will present science as entertaining, fun, and engaging." - The Mind Museum, Bonifacio Global City
The Mind Museum (Photo: from their Facebook Page)
After reading about a post about the National Geographics exhibit from Daphne's Diary, what really got me excited is the much anticipated opening of The Mind Museum at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. World-class museums are lacking in our side of the globe and with this amazing high-tech project, we all have something noteworthy to look forward to by the end of 2011, especially the younger generation. I instantly thought of my youngsters as they are now very much aware and fascinated about evolution, the universe, the solar system and other celestial objects. Then recently, I came across Anton Diaz's post featuring the museum and how we can donate and be a part of this wonderful endeavor.
To make the story short, I am now a proud donor with two Solar Stars dedicated to the boy and the girl (well, one is still under my name as I inadvertently skipped the "gift" option, so hopefully they'd consider my request to rename it for my girl -- Update: we got our revised certificates already).
Technically, this certificate should read "lit a star" since I only donated for individual stars and not for a cluster forming a shape, which defines a constellation.
Sample Donor Certificate (actual names will appear)
What is a Solar Star?
"They are burning balls of very hot gas that produce light. When a stars light passes through the atmosphere, it moves around giving the illusion that stars twinkle. Stars appear in clusters and form different shapes that men describe as constellations." - The Mind Museum
Go ahead and light up your own stars, constellations, or planets! Discover and learn more about The Mind Museum (TMM) and be a part in building this extraordinary landmark by sponsoring their virtual exhibits for as low as P1,000.00 (around US$24).
"Every donation is recognized by placing your name in our (The Mind Museum) website; you will receive an electronic "Donor's Certificate" via e-mail and you can post your sponsorship in Facebook. Also, when The Mind Museum opens, your name will be included in the Donors' Marker in our galleries!"
Soon, when we finally get to visit the museum, I would simply ask my kids to look up at the solar system gallery and proudly point to them two shining stars around Venus, which I had lit for them. Now that would be quite awesome don't you think? :)
I have received a thoughtful email in response to my request above, thanks to Ms. Limcaco for being so accommodating.
She further clarified: The solar system virtual exhibit is an exhibit on The Mind Museum web site. When the museum opens, there will be a marker in the Universe Gallery that pertains to all the donors for this exhibit, likewise for those who donated for the virtual northern and southern hemispheres. There will also be a marker for those who donated to the Nature's Basic Ingredients exhibit in the Atom Gallery. There is no actual corresponding exhibit in the museum on the solar system. They do however, have a planetarium where visitors will be able to learn and enjoy the awesomeness of our universe.
TMM recognized my support and I was given this donor badge! Thank you!
The Mind Museum
2/F Bonifacio Technology Center
31st Street Corner 2nd Avenue
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
Tel. (632) 818-3601 / (632) 856-2870
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Gays and Lesbians Still Not Allowed to Legally Wed in Wisconsin
There's good news and bad news for gays and lesbians wishing to legally marry in Wisconsin.
There's good news and bad news for gays and lesbians wishing to legally marry in Wisconsin. After striking down Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage last week, U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb then denied the stay requested by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, but then made a clear (or rather confusing) point that she never indicated that county officials were to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Huh? So you're for marriage equality in theory only, your honor?
So far, about half of the counties in Wisconsin have been handing them out in a flurry and the other half is refusing. It's mass confusion as each county tries to interpret the judge's intent. Read more about that here.
In the hearing documents, Crabb writes:
"I understand defendants' concern that some county clerks have been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples since I issued the June 6 decision, but that is not a result of an injunction by this court. Thus, if defendants believe that a particular county clerk is issuing a marriage license in violation of state law, that is an issue outside the scope of this case.
Plaintiffs have represented to the court that they will provide language for a proposed injunction today. In doing so, plaintiffs should take care to identify what they want each defendant to do. Under Fed. R. Civ. 65, plaintiffs must identify the particular acts they want defendants to perform or refrain from performing. Nuxoll ex rel. Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School Dist. #204, 523 F.3d 668, 675 (7th Cir. 2008) (under Rule 65, injunction "must contain a detailed and specific statement of its terms"). It is clear enough what plaintiffs want the county clerks to do, which is issue marriage licenses. From previous briefs, it is also relatively clear what plaintiffs want defendant Anderson (the state registrar) to do, which is to amend the state marriage forms in accordance with his authority under Wis. Stat. § 765.20(1) so that the forms are inclusive of same-sex couples. However, it is still unclear what specific acts plaintiffs want defendants Walker and Van Hollen to perform or refrain from performing. It is not enough to say that defendants should be enjoined from enforcing unconstitutional laws without identifying the particular acts involved in that enforcement.
Once both sides have had an opportunity to weigh in on the appropriate scope of the injunction, I may enter judgment and determine whether the injunction should be stayed pending appeal."
Crabb is holding another hearing on June 19, and we're crossing our fingers that by then, marriage equality will become the law of the land in Wisconsin.
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Our houses are more than structures of wood, steel, brick and plaster. We shape our homes, and in turn they shape us. A home speaks. These houses we inhabit tell the beautiful and terrible tale of humanity's journey from, and to, home.
History comes to life when we understand it as the story of our exodus from home in eden, our wandering through the desert of hollow humanity, and the Father's breathtaking invitation back to home.
The opening chapter of the book of John tells us Jesus came and tabernacled among us. The tabernacle was the temple tent where God and humanity met, the interface and place of meeting. It was God's house, where you could go to meet Him. Jesus came and 'tented' among us, he set up camp. He walked our trails, set up home and moved into the neighbourhood.
Sometimes out on the road, sometimes travelling from home to home, many of Jesus' teaching stories centred around the home.
It seems the table is the most important piece of furniture in the kingdom of God. And indeed, it's been said that Jesus ate his way through the gospels. The religious purists of his day were scandalised that Jesus ate with sinners. He's still up to it today of course- we sometimes feel his presence in my lounge at home.
But deeper than the home being just a symbol, Jesus claimed to be the very temple home of God Himself. Jesus is called Emmanuel, meaning "God with us". He's the home of God on earth, the place where God and man meet and where we come face to face with YHWH. He is the interface between heaven and earth and the place of atonement for sin.
People who followed him saw the proof: the Spirit of God that once filled their physical temple as a cloud then descended on Jesus in the form of a dove. Later, perhaps glancing around at the impressive stones of Jerusalem's physical temple, Jesus put out a bold challenge: "tear this temple down, and I'll rebuild it in three days." He was speaking of the death and resurrection of God's true temple: his body.
Then after his body ascended into heaven, he sent his Spirit to live in his people. Perhaps just as extraordinarily, just as Jesus is, so in a curious way we have also become this temple-home for God too. We were dead in our sins, but His Spirit came and filled us, bringing us to life as God's living, breathing body on earth, His home made of living stones.
So it's no wonder that for the first Christians the focus of their assemblies was the home. Congregations were "households of faith", with elders appointed in each. When writing letters to churches in each city apostles instructed Christians how they should relate to each other by rewriting their society's existing household codes in light of the gospel. 200 years passed before buildings started being modified specifically for Christian worship, and even then it was a home that was expanded.
Nowadays 'church' is more usually associated with a building than a household. Large congregations and religious buildings have altered the 'church' paradigm into something the early church would probably associate more with an old covenant temple or gathering of the citywide Church than a family household of faith.
Earlier this year we had half our Sunday morning meeting around a big dinner table in our lounge at home. We decked it out nice with tablecloths, roast lamb, decent bread and grape juice, and we all crammed in around the long table. We made the eating a part of our meeting, centering it around the communion meal. With several people around the table asked to read scriptures out loud, I was surprised how profoundly this changed the dynamic of the sermon. The eye-to-eye dialog was ten times more engaging than a monologue delivered from across a stage.
In the early Church the 'agape' feast seems to have been a kind of community meal to which all contributed, and an act of charity for poorer Christians. I consider it a great loss that today's Church has little understanding of the fellowship or sacramental potential of full meals [Also see A Theology of Food – As Easy As Pie].
Following this thread, to the church in Laodicea, Jesus says "I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I'll come in and we'll eat together." (Revelation 3:20).
I believe he's saying the same thing to us. Jesus the carpenter is building his house (John 14:2), but we sometimes try to lock him out of it! If we allow him to take his place at the head of the table, we can have fellowship with him as intimate as a meal with friends.
This works for each of us individually, for specific church "households of faith" and for God's global Church.
When we move into a house, in order to turn it into a home we give it a deep-clean, move furniture around, paint the walls, maybe tear something down, maybe rebuild something else, maybe replace things here and there. In the same way, God is making His home among us. Sometimes He uses a hoover or a paintbrush, sometimes a hammer.
So let's let Him move the furniture around as He wills, even if it sounds like thunder when He does so. Even if we're particularly attached to that tatty sofa.
Let us all find our home as we fit in with the architect's design.
Let us be a home in which God is happy to live.
And let us welcome others home.
The table is already set.
I enjoyed your thoughtfulness in this article. This is a burden of mine here in San Antonio. I am just at a loss for how to get something like a "home thing" kicked off. Pray for me.
Thank you Aaron. Have you read A Theology of Food (linked in the post)? It has some tips you may find helpful. I'll certainly pray for God to lead you.


Whoever owns this van has interesting taste. The checkered roof seem to match the blackout wheels with white sidewalls. Place this on an sherbet-orange Vanagon, and you have a recipe for a memorable van. The sideview mirrors are white, and it has a red sun shade. It's whacky for sure, but glorious in its own right.


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Men's Reproductive Health in the Workplace
Though there is no complete list of reproductive hazards in the workplace, a number of workplace substances have been identified as reproductive hazards for men. Reproductive hazards are substances that affect the ability to have healthy children. Learn more about specific exposures found to have reproductive effects in men and how you can lower your exposures.
Some examples of reproductive hazards include:
Various chemicals and solvents
Legal and illegal drugs
Scientists are just beginning to understand how reproductive hazards affect the male reproductive system. Although more than 1,000 workplace chemicals have been shown to have reproductive effects on animals, most have not been studied in humans. There are over 72 million unique chemicals registered by the American Chemical Society, with about 15,000 new substances added every day, most of which are not tested for reproductive health effects.
Reproductive Health Problems Potentially Associated with Workplace Exposures
The Table below shows examples of reproductive hazards for men in the workplace. Although studies have found that workplace exposures may affect the reproductive system in some men, these effects do not necessarily occur in every worker. Some of the agents listed in the Table are well-known reproductive hazards (such as lead), while the scientific evidence for the others may not be as definitive.
Whether or not an exposure will cause a reproductive problem depends on:
The amount of time you're exposed
The amount of the hazard you're exposed to
How you were exposed. Learn more about how exposure occurs.
How your body reacts to the hazard
These are only examples of hazards. Do not assume that a substance is safe if it is missing from the table.
Table – Examples of Potential Reproductive Hazards1
Examples of Potential Reproductive Hazards
Reproductive problem:
Low Hormone Levels
Some reproductive hazards can change the level of hormones in a man's body. This could affect how sperm are made or the man's sexual performance. insecticides, lead, organophosphate, DDE, manganese, phthalates
Low Number of Sperm
Some reproductive hazards can stop or slow the actual production of sperm. This means that there will be fewer sperm present to fertilize an egg; if no sperm are produced, the man is sterile. lead, diesel exhaust, pesticide, bisphenol A, organophosphate, chromium, paraquat/malathion
Irregular Sperm Shape
Reproductive hazards may cause the shape of sperm cells to be different. These sperm often have trouble swimming or are unable to fertilize the egg. insecticides, lead, carbon disulfide, pesticides, bisphenol A, petrochemical, carbofuran, nickel
Irregular Sperm Genetics
Some reproductive hazards can affect the genetics (DNA) found in sperm. The sperm and egg each contribute 23 chromosomes at fertilization. The genetic information, or DNA, stored in these chromosomes determines what we will look like and how our bodies will function. Radiation or chemicals may cause changes or breaks in the DNA. If a sperm's DNA is damaged, it may not be able to fertilize an egg; or if it does fertilize an egg, it may affect the development of the unborn baby. phthalates, styrene, organophosphate, carbaryl, fenvalerate, lead, benzene
Chemicals in Semen
Hazardous chemicals may collect in the epididymis, seminal vesicles, or prostate. These chemicals may kill the sperm, change the way in which they swim, or attach to the sperm and be carried to the egg. lead, trichloroethylene, boron, cadmium
Low Amount of Semen
On average a man ejaculates about 3/4 of a teaspoon of semen. Some exposures may reduce this to less than 1/2 teaspoon. This may result in the fluid not transporting the sperm to the cervix (opening to the womb) lead, organophosphate, paraquat/malathion
Low Number of Swimming Sperm
Sperm have to swim through much of the woman's reproductive tract. Slow or not swimming sperm reduces the number of sperm available for fertilization. insecticides, diesel exhaust, lead, carbon disulfide, phthalates, pesticides, bisphenol A, fenvalerate, petrochemical, welding, N, N-dimethylformamide, abamectin, paraquat/malathion
Lower Sex Drive
Some exposures may reduce the man's sex drive or libido. This could result in not having intercourse during the women's fertile time. carbon disulfide, bisphenol A
Some exposures affect the ability for a man's penis to be hard enough for sex. bisphenol A, bicycle saddles
Lower Penis Sensitivity
If an exposure reduces the feeling in the penis the man may not be stimulated enough to ejaculate bicycle saddles
Lower Ejaculation Quality
If an exposure limits the ejaculation process sperm cannot reach the cervix (womb opening) and cannot get to the egg. bisphenol A
Can You Expose Your Family to Workplace Hazards?
Your family may never come to your workplace but could be exposed to hazards in your workplace that you may accidentally bring home. This could affect your partner's health, the health of a pregnancy or your children. Many chemicals can be carried to your car or to your home on your skin, hair, clothes, shoes or tool box and expose others in the family. Some infections, including Zika virus, can be passed to sexual partners.
Learn more about how your job can affect pregnancy, breastfeeding and your family's health.
If you'd like to learn how the workplace can affect women's fertility and ability to have healthy children, learn more on our women's reproductive health in the workplace page.
Learn more about how you can lower job exposure.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention and Management of Infertility
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Death by religion
On: October 13, 2014 November 25, 2015 By: Mark
Some years back I wrote about Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, and how I thought it was not only so much crap but dangerous and thoroughly discredited crap as well. It received some modest attention and still gets regular hits.
There are actually a lot of these addictive ideas that are killing us. Arguably capitalism is one of them but there are many others, including communism, fascism, socialism (in its pure form) and today's topic: religion. Lots of people, mostly atheists, have been saying for a very long time that religion is harmful. They have lots of history to prove them right, as so many wars and so many millions of people have died because of religious conflicts.
Two related stories in Sunday's Washington Post brought this home to me. One was the influx of foreign fighters into the conflict in Syria and Iraq, including hundreds of people here in America, to fight a religious war. Related to it was a disturbing article about Anjem Choudary, a Muslim cleric based in London who is a propagandist for the Islamic State. This "state" of course is busy overrunning much of Syria and Iraq not to mention beheading people and selling women into slavery. I zeroed in on this part:
Iraq and Syria, Anjem Choudary says confidently, are only the beginning. The Islamic State's signature black flag will fly over 10 Downing Street, not to mention the White House. And it won't happen peacefully, but only after a great battle that is now underway.
"We believe there will be complete domination of the world by Islam," says the 47-year-old, calmly sipping tea and looking none the worse for having been swept up in a police raid just days earlier. "That may sound like some kind of James Bond movie — you know, Dr. No and world domination and all that. But we believe it."
In other words, none of this peaceful persuasion that Islam is the true faith crap, but lots of war, death and mayhem to make sure we are all compelled to believe his version of the truth. Christians shouldn't feel so smug, after numerous crusades not to mention the Spanish Inquisition in which we tried (and failed) to make the infidels (read: Muslims) believe our version of religious truth.
There is not a major religion out there, including Buddhism that has not killed to promote its values, despite doing so is arguably the greatest hypocrisy against their religion possible. All these centuries later, despite our vast knowledge and understanding of history, despite technology and the Internet, large numbers of us are utterly convinced that only their religion is correct. They are so vested in it that they will wreak literally holy mayhem to make sure their religion, and only their religion is the only one anyone is allowed to believe and practice.
It's quite clear what people like Choudary would do to those of us unenlightened enough not to become Muslims: lop off our heads like they are doing to infidels in Iraq and Syria right now or, if a woman, sell her into slavery. This is, by the way, quite similar to what Columbus did to the natives of Hispaniola shortly after discovering America in 1492, and what Cortez and many other conquerors did to the unenlightened natives of South and Central America as well. Killing infidels with the sword often had the desired effect. The natives were soon proclaiming to believe in Jesus Christ while also working as slaves for their enlightened conquerors. Infidels are going to hell anyhow for refusing to be enlightened, so they might as well be dead, is what passed for their rationalization. Choudary doubtless agrees but worse is working to facilitate the transfer of fighters into Iraq and Syria to spread this sort of enlightenment.
It doesn't seem to matter much what the form of religion is. They all seem to have this fatal flaw, which allows zero uncertainty to come between their religion and their actions. I believe this is because the human species is hardwired toward addiction to memes. And the religious meme is a powerful one: it promises us eternal paradise and the absence of all suffering, forever, in the glory of God if we just do precisely what some people say God wants us to do. People like Moner Mohammad Abusalha, a Florida native, who on May 25 became an American suicide bomber for the cause of Islam. He blew himself up in a Syrian café frequented by Syria soldiers. In his farewell video, Abusalha says:
"You think you are safe where you are in America," he said, threatening his own country and a half-dozen others. "You are not safe."
Doubtless he is enjoying paradise now with his 72 virgins. That should satisfy his sexual desires for a while. Or, much more likely, he is simply dead, another pawn cruelly used in a much larger game of pointless chess. Chess is a game and on some horrific level these religious crusades are games too. Games may be won, but winning them doesn't really change anything. Thanks to conquerors like Cortez and the missionaries that followed him, South and Central America today are suitably enlightened, with Roman Catholicism dominating society there. But it is still as infected with evils as any other religiously "enlightened" state. If you need a recent example, try this one. Or this one.
No religion, no matter how universal, will change the fundamental nature of man. It never has and never will. Choudary and Abusalha are ultimately playing the parts of fools, helping to feed chain reactions of generational war, death, trauma and suffering wholly at odds with the religion they proclaim will solve these problems. The religious meme – the notion that one size of religion can and must fit all – that has been proven over and over and over almost to the point where you can't count anymore as fundamentally false and destructive. Religion in this incarnation is harmful to man, creates chaos and retards the enlightenment these people profess it will bring.
I speak as a cautiously religious man. My own religion, Unitarian Universalism, is creedless so perhaps we have earned an escape clause as a toxic religion. Still, my denomination is hardly free of its own very human evils. A previous minister of my church, for example, was sexually involved with a number of women in our congregation (while married), a scandal some thirty years in our past that still affects our behavior. But Unitarian Universalism at least does not proselytize. We don't assume our religion is the only correct one. This will occasionally drive others nuts. It resulted in some deaths some years back in a congregation in Tennessee, and more recently a very disturbing takeover of a service in Louisiana by some local antiabortion nuts.
So here's my new rules on religion and I hope it is a new meme we can spread:
I will not consider believing in any religion that assumes it has all the answers about the nature of God and how humans must behave
I will not consider believing in any religion that thinks it has succeeded when everyone is believing in its version of truth
I will not consider believing in any religion that cannot peacefully co-exist with other different faiths
I will not consider believing in any religion that has at any time in its past caused religious warfare
I will actively do all I can to civilly and peacefully undermine any religion that promotes any of the above
I will encourage everyone, including you, who may belong to such a faith to leave it
Such faiths are not worthy of the God you claim to worship and are ultimately far more destructive than helpful. Reflect on it. Pray on it. God will tell you it's true.
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Has anyone come across items yet that can help you create filters or bleach or is that not in the game yet?
You need to cut corals to coralchunk with a knife. Then make calcium, find salt to make bleach. Finally the disinfected water bottle. Of course you need emery and metal for the knife.
The difficulty is the time. You have about 12 minutes real time to get all components. Oxygen consumption is drastic without tanks. Best of all suddenly metal is rare and emery seems to have vanished. Finally when I wanted to drink my bottle I couldn't LMB or RMB to do so. Always went red health after about 12 minutes (but doesn't really kill you).
This is why I fear that survival right now will stop you from exploring and force all gameplay into resource hunting. Not funny right now.
when I wanted to drink my bottle I couldn't LMB or RMB to do so.
To drink/eat items assign a key to them -> they'll appear in one of the 5 slots at the bottom, then rmb on that slot.
I think I did assign a key and then RMB, also tried inventory LMB. Both didn't work. Keyassign didn't bring them to appear visually. Did you get it to work?
Yes, just checked it again. Still works.
Now we have another problem. The latest Build has now disabled the sand, and allows you to pass through the ground into open space so the game is unplayable.
When they fix this problem I'll test out your suggestions.
Found out, RMB while pressing Hotkey worked. Metal and emery gone execpt 1 piece each to build knife. Salt too rare to survive any long. And not a single option to relax exploring with that rate of survival. Hope this will get balanced in some time.
Digging sand still works near the lifepod if you don't penetrate the surface.
No, things don't work. Buggy as hell right now. Sometimes I can dig, than I can't. Now eating and drinking don't work. But some metal and emery is there. Salt is much too rare to stay alive. Fish and corals no problem. How about the console codes for restoring values of food and drink? Well I'll have to wait.
Well, the Steam early access is approaching quickly, and I'm sure things are pretty hectic. It'll all settle down a bit after the steam release.
Any ETA on the SteamEA? I'm kind of hoping it won't be torn to shreds by an unforgiving community like most of the other, eh, "experimental" early access titles.
The timing on survival elements is still being worked on. 12 minutes is a bit harsh for starting out in normal mode I think. However when it comes to balancing these kinds of systems its difficult to get it right until everything is in place. Definitely need to keep the feedback on this topic coming.
30 minutes to go from completely full to starving.
45 minutes to go from completely hydrated to fully dehydrated.
Exhaustion or sleep is not currently planned as something you will micromanage.
I try to stay calm, but do you really plan to starve from hunger faster than dehydration? Isn't that absolute the opposite of real life where you would need weeks to starve from hunger and only 3 days to get dehydrated? My personal feedback suggestion would rather favorite a 30 minutes to dehydration and 90 minutes to starvation to let me feel that halfway realistic.
Of course it's more fun to hunt food than to gather resources for drinking water. But that could be compensated by making drinking items refilling more capacity. So to refill to 100% you might need 5 fish, but only 1 bottle water.
I completely agree with your point about the speed of hunger vs hydration. I'll bring this exact thing up in the next meeting. In all of my previously designed survival systems thirst increases faster than hunger.
Remember this is the first iteration. A lot needs to be adjusted still.
If you want more feedback, my first suggestion would be to tie the food and water level to activity. If you do nothing, you have 3 days for dehydration and a week for starvation. Swimming or digging means more rapid food, water and air consumption, while sleeping uses less food and water. So high activity might mean dehydration and starvation in less than a day.
Then weight can be used to increase consumption or slow down swimming or let the player sink in water.
Additionally the human heartbeat could be displayed visually with a heart symbol pulsating or an ECG to let the player feel activity costs.


From MacOS Mojave 10.14, Apple doesn't provide the DMG file directly, so it is difficult for us to setup a bootable disk for Hackintosh or Virtualization. I've found a way to convert MacOS Mojave installer into ISO file and it works.
First thing is to download the installer and save locally. Basically you have to download 3 DMG files and need to tweak them into a single .app file. It's complicated and hacky.
You don't need to do that manually, some guys has created a tool for us to work on this automatically.
Download this macOS Mojave Installer Patch Tool.
This part requires you know how to execute commands from Terminal.
It will create a virtual disk image at tmp/Mojave.
The virtual disk image is attached to mount into /Volumes/install_build.
The createinstallmedia is the tool packed into the Install macOS Mojave.app file that we've downloaded from all above.
Make sure to use correct path and execute command with sudo like above.
After executing command at step 3, it will automatically mount the app file, so now you need to eject it for step 5 below.
After this command, you will see this file ~/Downloads/Mojave.cdr.
Okay, after this you have the file ~/Downloads/Mojave.iso.
You can use this file to create a bootable USB stick or install macOS Mojave on virtualization servers like VMWare or VirtualBox.
Also, clean up the temporary virtual disk image to save spaces if needed.
Credits go to author of this post on Reddit.


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Downtown Oak Ridge plans adopted by city council
by: Melanie Vásquez Russell
Posted: Nov 9, 2020 / 11:36 PM EST / Updated: Nov 10, 2020 / 05:27 AM EST
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Plans to create a "Downtown Oak Ridge" were advanced forward by the city council Monday night.
Councilmembers voted to adopt the city's plans for a proposed downtown district to be located along Wilson Street.
Plan drafted for new Oak Ridge downtown area
The vote on Monday night was the final ordinance adoption, which included the proposal itself as well as the map for the new downtown district. The plan would rezone 14 acres along Wilson Street.
Oak Ridge Community Development says work is underway to try and make property available to developers and hope to be able to issue requests for proposals (RFPs) next year.
Both ordinances adopted. pic.twitter.com/0gl164eLPc
— City of Oak Ridge (@cityofoakridge) November 10, 2020


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REVIEW — "Central Intelligence"
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Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are the odd-couple of comedy. They're an unlikely duo, but they work so well together. From start to finish you can tell the chemistry is genuine between the two, and they both had a BLAST making this flick (you can even check their Instagrams to see that). Throw the two of them into an action comedy that goes over real world issues (bullying, growing up, life vs. expectations), and you have a surprisingly solid and hilarious piece of entertainment. Let it be known that I was not impressed with the trailers, and Kevin Hart has really let me down the past….6 or 7 films.
I'll go ahead and get all my gripes out of the way now. First off, Dwayne Johnson is not the BEST actor, but does that really matter? During this he oversells and undersells certain moments, but at the same time, while it's noticeable, you really don't care because he has so much charisma, and this was never meant to be an award winning film. It's great to see him leading a comedy, instead of just being part of the ensemble, and without him I really don't think this story would have worked at all. Secondly, the story itself moved at an uneven pace. They spent a little too long on certain subjects, and not enough time on other subjects. However, this didn't impact the enjoyment factor as there was rarely a moment you weren't laughing or being intrigued.
You read that last part right. Intrigued! They actually had some twists in this that had me wondering who really was the bad guy, or how something happened. This is surprising for an action-comedy, and really brought this one a step above the others in the genre. Mix in the real life issues they tackled, and you have some writers that really put together something of quality instead of just going for easy laughs. I really appreciated that there were very few dick/fart jokes, as a lot of comedies like to use now-a-days, and also that they kept a slew of cameos under wraps. It's rare you see something, and the cameos are actually surprises as they are intended to be (usually studios spoil everything in the trailers).
At a time when the country is reeling from the terrorist attack in my home town of Orlando, "Central Intelligence" could not be coming along at a better time. It's anti-bullying message and laugh-out-loud comedy is just what we need, and will guarantee it a huge haul at the box office. It deserves every penny. The Rock uses his charm and charisma, and his huge mass, to crush every single scene he is in, and he even dwarfed Kevin Hart, not just in size, but in comedic presence. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart made a terrific duo, and I can't wait to see what they do together next. 4/5
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Los Angeles Lakers superstar forward LeBron James said Monday the door is open for teammate Lonzo Ball to join Nike if he decides to leave Big Baller Brand.
James told Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times he supports Ball, who removed references to Big Baller Brand from his social media pages after he severed ties with company co-founder Alan Foster upon discovering roughly $1.5 million was missing from his personal and business accounts.
"I love the fact that he's taking control of his s–t. I mean, he's, that's what's really, really dope to me. Once I saw that story, I just seen a kid turning into a man. 'This is my career and I'm taking this. I done had enough with—whatever. I done had enough. Whatever. If I'm not going to be successful, I'm not going to be successful on my terms.' I saw a lot of that. We'll see.
The 34-year-old four-time MVP said every young player faces the challenge of trying to find someone to handle their newfound wealth when they arrive to the NBA, and it doesn't always work out, per Ganguli.
Ball was the second overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft out of UCLA. He opted to stay with Big Baller Brand rather than join an established company like Nike or Adidas.
In July 2017, his father, LaVar Ball, wrote a piece for Slam magazine explaining why his sons were supporting the family business from the ground up.
So far, it's unclear whether that includes seeking endorsement offers from Nike and other companies.