The general nature of religious worldviews: Why religious believers are not science-friendly.
The debate between science and religion is a complex one, but I don't want to focus on all the details. I want to explore the underlying reason why many religious believers have difficulty relating to scientific facts and explanations than religious ones. It is not mere stupidity, although many religious believers have displayed ignorance, but something deep. I am not saying that those deep reasons for being uncomfortable with scientific facts are a good reason to reject science (I think it is a bad reason to deny scientific facts), but rather I am trying to provide an insightful explanation to this problem.
Many times, either religious people try to reconcile science with religion or they assert that science and religion are not reconcilable. The problem with this is that it is not really science as a whole that religions are having problem with, but specific theories and descriptions of the world that disturbs them. It is not only evolutionary theory and big bang theory that many religious have problems with, but other scientific understanding of the world such as the fact that neurobiology has no evidence for the "soul" or that the earth is more than 6000 years old. Many other scientific facts and theories contradict religious tenants about the cosmos which brings discomfort to many religious adherents. Despite this, there are many scientists in the United States that are religious, and accept scientific explanations. Other religious believers in Mainline Protestantism also accept scientific explanations since they interpret the bible allegorically.
The relation between science and religion become more complex not only in regards to natural science but also history and other social sciences. History, including modern biblical criticism, has shown that the bible is not necessarily a coherent text but a compilation of books written in different times, which inevitably lead each text to contradict each other. I will not go deep into biblical criticism, but I will say that the results of the scientific method in history and the archeology have not received favorable reception among religious conservatives. Even though the scientific method of history and archeology has successfully found evidence for other historical events, which religious believers are either indifferent to or receptive to, whenever it comes to finding contrary evidence against biblical "accounts" believers react with discomfort and disapproval.
Theologians have insisted in the separation between science and religion, but the separation is not always clear. Religion certainly deals with distinct norms, rituals, holidays, communities, etc. These aspects of religions do not really have much to do with explanations of the natural world, which is not necessarily in dispute with science. But the underpinning or foundational of religions are usually some kind of explanation of reality which human beings inhabit. Somehow these explanations are very much tied into justifying or rationalizing distinct customs, habits, norms, worship, etc than a sophisticated investigation of understanding the natural world. In this respect, religions do not necessarily investigate what the natural world is but have preconceptions about the world that are frameworks for human behavior, attitude, conventions, communities, etc; religious explanations are meant to regulate attitude and behavior of human beings.
While some religions are more metaphysical than others (by metaphysical I meant focusing on the fundamentals quality of reality), many of the metaphysical beliefs always have some relation to human behavior and attitudes. Religion, then, defines the world not only for its own sake but also to delineate the purpose of human actions. I am not saying that religion seeks to control people's behavior in a totalitarian matter (although that does occur), but rather religions display a common human feat: that is to impose intelligible purpose on actions to justify them. We do this many times, in which we formulate or impose a purpose to meaningfully elucidate our behavior. The purpose is not always imposed by rationality but also by desires and motivation. In this sense religion tries to relate human actions to reality, by providing a belief system about reality that can prescribe a general way to impose a purpose to many human behaviors.
An example of this is that in Buddhism there is a metaphysical belief in the Karma/Rebirth. The belief in Karma basically states that there is a causal law about our actions in that consistent negative actions lead us to be reborn in the worse life, while positive actions will lead us to be reborn in a better life. But in the overall scheme any kind of existence leads to suffering, which we all need to transcend. The four noble truth and he eightfold path is prescribed unto human behaviors to achieve a certain state of mind in order to transcend karma. The metaphysical belief about the world (karma) is deeply connected to the prescription of the eightfold path and four noble truths. Likewise in Christianity, the world we inhabit is infested with sin and suffering, and our human nature is incapable of relating to the supreme ruler. The narrative of the fall, existence of God (including Jesus) is beliefs about the history of reality that relates to the human condition to the extent that it meaningfully prescribes certain norms and behavior. When the norms, behaviors, rituals, and customs that are prescribed are followed it becomes an identity for the believers; basically, you are what you do.
Science on the other hand describes the world for its own sake, but provides evidence to prove the description. The description is merely a hypothesis until there is sufficient evidence to support it. The description does not merely describe but also predicts the behavior of nature. In this sense science is impersonal and objective, indifferent to human behaviors. It does not seek to justify human behavior other than the act of scientific investigation and curiosity. Applied science, on the other hand, is not indifferent to the natural world but manipulates the principles of nature in order to develop technologies that maximize the efficiency of human actions. But this application does not seek to describe the natural world but uses the principles already described to benefit human actions.
With this basic difference between science and religion (and I say basic because the difference maybe more complex than it is) it seems that science has the kind of intellectual integrity to understand the world even if reality goes against human preconceptions. Religions on the other hand holds unto the preconceptions not just because it is believed to be true, but those preconceptions are the essence of the believer's identity that normatively regulates behaviors and communal values. To simply introduce the scientific explanation of the world that is supported with overwhelming evidence cannot always appeal to the religious believer, because the mind of the religious believer is primarily focused on the narrative values of their identity which science by its very nature does not appeal to. That doesn't mean that the believer is correct, but it is difficult for the believer to relate to scientific explanations since science only seeks to explain nature for its own sake rather than providing some kind of social-regulating values that religious myths and rituals can provide. That doesn't mean that science can never convince religious believers to accept scientific facts, but it does explain why it is difficult for people to accept scientific facts because their minds are still in the pre-modern and pre-scientific era that emphasizes on explaining the world intelligibly to the extent that it also prescribes human values. Human beings have the tendency to look at nature through human eyes, and this means that the view of the world is anthropocentric in that nature is understood as justifying prescribed values through deities or other supernatural forces. Justifying prescribed values leads to justifying certain sense of identity important to the religious believes. In the world we inhabit, religions express the need to interpret the world meaningfully to the believers such that they can existentially inhabit the world. Science doesn't seem to do that since it seeks to understand the world objectively, not in terms of existential and subjective terms. This isn't necessarily bad for science, since it displays intellectual integrity to understand the world with an open and self-critical mind.
I am not defending religion, but rather explaining why it is difficult for religious believers in general to relate to scientific facts into their worldview. What I explained is that worldviews cannot be merely descriptive but must also be existentially prescriptive (e.g. "What should I do? What is the purpose of what I do?"), and this is something that religions emphasize. I am not saying that this is all what religion is, since religions are more complex to be explained that way. But I do believe that this is the fundamental and underlying reason why religions are attractive to religious believers. I do believe that we all need to try to understand the world in its own terms, not in human terms, to be intellectually honest. I do not think that by doing this we are destroying our motives to do anything in this world, because it's quite obvious that our motives are not always related to impersonal facts about the world. Religions have consistently emphasized the notion that the way world is must justify prescribed human values that many religious people are under the false impression that they cannot live life if they find out that the world they believe they inhabit does not really exist but rather they live in a world indifferent to their actions.


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Alabama Senate Votes to Abolish State Marriage Licenses
The bill would end the requirement that couples obtain marriage licenses from probate judges prior to a wedding. Instead, marriages would be a legal contract, witnessed by a clergy member, attorney or notary public, and filed with the state through the probate office.
Tribune News Service | June 3, 2015
By Mary Sell
A bill that would end judge-issued marriage licenses in Alabama passed the Senate this week and now moves on to the House.
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Senate Bill 377 from Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range, would end the requirement that couples obtain marriage licenses from probate judges prior to a wedding. Instead, marriages would be a legal contract, witnessed by a clergy member, attorney or notary public, and filed with the state through the probate office.
Albritton has said his goal is to get the state out of peoples' lives and prevent Alabama from getting tangled in long-term lawsuits.
The bill passed the Senate 22-3 on Tuesday. One Senator abstained from voting and nine voted "P," not voting or not present. Sens. Tim Melson, R-Florence, and Paul Bussman, R-Cullman, were two of them.
Sens. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, and Larry Stutts, R-Tuscumbia, voted for the bill.
Sens. Bill Holtzclaw, R-Madison, and Sen. Phil Williams, R-Rainbow City, were two of three "no" votes.
Both are military veterans and expressed concerns about a possible negative impact for military couples if they didn't have state-issued licenses.
"It might cause problems for our troops," Williams said later. "(A state-issued license) is more widely accepted."
The bill also changes copying fees charged to the public. According to a fiscal note on the legislation, it would increase costs on individuals -- and revenue for counties -- by changing copying fees.
It will increase receipts to the state General Fund by an estimated $780,000 annually by providing for an additional $20 fee on each marriage contract upon filing of the contract, according to the bill's fiscal note.
Albritton said his bill doesn't change the rules about the current requirements to get married, including age. And it doesn't change the state's ban on same-sex marriages. That may be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court this summer.
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Emma Watson Gives Impassioned Speech About Gender Equality in Davos
–Emma Watson continues to kick ass, talking about women's "astonishingly untapped" potential at the World Economic Forum in Davos today.
–Seth Rogen backed down and apologized for his American Sniper criticism.
–Jennifer Lopez's The Boy Next Door press tour has been like a master class at throwing shade.
–Sean Penn has reportedly filed paperwork to adopt Charlize Theron's son.
–Nikki Reed celebrated fiance Ian Somerhalder's directing gig on The Vampire Diaries by making him the saddest looking cake ever. At least throw some icing on that thing!
-I've given up on Sleepy Hollow because of this season's spiral of suck, but Crane singing karaoke might lure me back.
-Have Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio been hooking up for years now? Ugh.
–Willow Smith posted a FAKE topless pic and the world still freaked out.
-This is Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow at their most tolerable, probably because they barely talk for three whole minutes.
–Ashton Kutcher may be called to testify against a man accused of brutally murdering his girlfriend 14 years ago.
-Fans have signed a petition asking for Adam Baldwin to be disinvited from a Firefly convention after the actor stirred up all that Gamergate crap.
–Sophie Turner (Sansa on GoT) is going to play Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse.
-One of the geeky girls from The Big Bang Theory is stealing all of Fifty Shades' thunder. She has a crazy sex scene in a Sundance movie that people can't stop talking about.
-We keep hearing about Taylor Swift's "strategic" use of friends, this time by Diplo, telling GQ, "Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And she's definitely, there's definitely scary stuff going on." Weirder still, GQ later cut the quote.
–Miley Cyrus admits she can't spell Schwarzenegger, just like most of us. Of course, we're not dating one.
–Hugh Grant is trying to do the rom-com thing again with The Rewrite, but I dig that Marisa Tomei is playing his leading lady.
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Q: Installing Python JSON library onto webserver This question is based on 2 parts I think: (TL;DR at bottom)
1-How do I install libraries or modules for Python onto my webserver? I've already emailed my webhosts to ask if I have permissions to or if they need to, but so far I don't think they know what I'm talking about, so while I'm waiting for the next reply I'll ask here (There's absolutely no information on anything techier than FTP tutorials on their knowledgebase). Python is installed in usr/bin/, and my python scripts have to live in www/cgi-bin to be callable but if i want to add functionality I've no idea beyond this, having never done much back-end stuff like this to my website
2-Does anyone know of a good JSON library for Python 2.3.4? This is the version of Python my webhosts have installed (which i only found out through a system call on a python script), I've seen an old version of simplejson which says it's for this version, but obviously something that I can just upload to call without needing to install would be infinitely more awesome, or maybe there's just something better (I've already enquired about upgrading to 2.6, but I'm not holding my breath)
TL;DR:
Have python 2.3.4 on webserver. Need JSON functionality for my python scripts hosted there. No clue.

A: To answer the 1st part:
Just download the src of the library and put it anywhere. Then, add the path to that directory to sys.path list. That's it. When you import the package, the compiler will be able to find it since it will look at all the dirs in the sys.path list.
Let's say u download the package py-json and put it in /usr/lib/.
Then, in the beginning of your handler module, add:
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/")

then u can import py-json, like:
import py-json

or if u want to import one of its modules:
import py-json.modulename

A: You can use SimpleJSON. Since you run Python 2.3, you can try some old version, because the latest claims to be compatible with Python 2.5.

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Especially In Michigan by Red Hot Chili Peppers
The tainted new librarian
Who fainted when she tucked you in
Let's float away like zeppelins
On stoic gusts of Northern winds Read full Lyrics
Michigan roots run deep for Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In October of 2006, he explained the origin of his song "Especially in Michigan" in an interview with The Press, a daily New Zealand publication: "I have a connection to Michigan. There is something kind of off-the-beaten path and magical about the magic and the medicine that are Michigan. If you get out in the woods and out in those lakes and rivers, under those skies, there is a great sense of strength and wonder." In December 2011, Kiedis references his favorite things about Michigan in another interview with The Press: "Mom's kitchen. An old dirt road along the shores of Lake Michigan. The smell of pine needles baking on the sandy shores of some forgotten bend in a faraway creek."
Overhead sign
Photo: Stevan Sheets, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kiedis was born at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Rapids on November 1, 1962 to John Kiedis and Margaret "Peggy" Noble, joining his two half-sisters, Julie and Jenny, and a half-brother, James. His great-grandfather was from the rain-filled climate of Lithuania, and his great-grandmother had some Indian heritage from the Mohican tribe. His godfather was Sonny Bono. His dad grew up in a very strict Dutch Reformed family and was forced to attend church several times a week for years. These experiences embittered Anthony's father towards organized religion and those "unholy Presbyterians."
John Kiedis couldn't settle down to married life and cheated on Anthony's mother several times, leading to their divorce when Anthony was three years old. His father moved to California to start an acting career. Unsuccessful, he made most of his money selling drugs to celebrities. Kiedis stayed with his mother Peggy in Michigan. They lived on welfare in a poor neighborhood throughout most of his childhood. He would visit his father for two weeks every summer. He described his father's lifestyle as "some kind of psychedelic Disneyland ride" which at the time contrasted sharply against his feeling of "being stuck" in snowy Michigan.
Lamberton Lake, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Photo: RNavigator, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
According to his autobiography Scar Tissue, Anthony developed an interest in music in the fifth grade. He would gather the neighborhood kids and put on shows in his basement. Anthony would pick out a record and they would gather makeshift instruments like brooms and upside-down laundry tubs. Then they would lip-sync and dance to Partridge Family albums, with Anthony always being Keith Partridge. He once convinced his friends that the Partridge Family had agreed to perform live in a friend's basement but that they were shy and would only do so behind a curtain. He charged admission to the concert and then went behind the curtain and played a record instead. He was so charming and adept at lying that his friends never figured out his deception.
Rebelliousness kicked in during his early teens and he eventually convinced his mother to agree to let him live with his father in California. Kiedis idolized his father. He viewed his father's lifestyle as magical and carefree. His father encouraged Anthony to experiment with using and selling drugs. At one point his cocaine and heroin use became so heavy that he would sleep during rehearsals and lacked the motivation to contribute to the band. He was asked to leave. During that time, the band won the LA Weekly Band of the Year award, which prompted Kiedis to quit using heroin. He boarded a plane to Michigan where, upon arrival, his mother, deeply troubled by his unhealthy appearance, drove him directly to a Salvation Army rehabilitation clinic in Grand Rapids. At the time, Michigan had discontinued the use of methadone clinics commonly used to treat heroin addiction. Anthony had no choice but to spend the next twenty days there detoxing cold turkey. This would mark the first time he was completely abstinent from drugs since he was eleven years old. This experience would not last, however, and Anthony would return several times to his mother in Michigan over the next few years to detox after some bad relapses.
The line in the song, "C'mon Huckleberry Finn, Show me how to make her grin," is in reference to longtime friend and beloved band mate Hillel Slovak, whose nickname was Huckleberry Finn. Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988. Unable to deal with his grief, Kiedis did not attend the funeral. Instead, he fled to a remote fishing village in Mexico and binged heavily on drugs. A few weeks later, his friend Bob Forrest convinced him to check into rehab and visit Slovak's grave, which inspired him to get clean.
"Especially in Michigan" is rich in references to the state. "Lions and tigers come running just to steal your luck" refers to two sports teams in Detroit, Michigan. The Detroit Lions football team and Detroit Tigers baseball team are an obsession for fans, despite poor performances year after year. The mitten shaped state nestles next to the Great Lakes teeming with ducks and fish, attracting local fishermen. Swimming in the Great Lakes creates a unique phenomenon for some; as they swear that while swimming underwater, the waves produce the sounds of violins playing. Spiny lobsters living in the lakes use the friction between a soft extension off of the base of each antenna and a sticky-smooth file located on each side of a plate below their eyes to make sound pulses. This produces sound vibrations similar to that of bowed-stringed instruments (like a violin). They also made the sound of a stick on a washboard by rubbing a hard pick over a series of bumps on their shells.
Amtrack with Grand Rapids in Background
Photo: Russell Sekeet, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Red Hot Chili Peppers fans may recognize an early riff in this song, eerily similar to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after breaking up and sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. It is believed to have fallen victim to high waves caused by the "stoic gusts of Northern winds" that Kiedis references in his song.
"Wrap me in your cinnamon" is a metaphor that leaves the listener feeling as though Kiedis is begging for protection, as cinnamon known for its medicinal and healing qualities, as well as its spice. Cinnamon has been used to treat various ailments like indigestion, colds, infections and blood sugar levels. Cinnamon flavored desserts and beverages are also a favorite staple to many Michiganders. The contrast of the sweetness of his childhood home against the bitter Los Angeles party scene perhaps brought Kiedis hope of healing in the midst of tragedy, and he discovers "Life is full of medicine I find it when I'm slippin' in…into Michigan."
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How a Contagious Dog Cancer Spread Around the World
A type of tumor that can pass between dogs is showing researchers how cancer cells evolve.
By Nathaniel ScharpingAugust 1, 2019 8:26 PM
(Credit: Jess Wealleans/Shutterstock)
Thousands of years ago in Asia, a dog got cancer. A single cell underwent a mutation that turned it into the beginnings of a tumor. The dog eventually died, but not before passing on a unique legacy: its cancer cells.
Today, those cells are still growing in dogs across the globe. That's because this particular kind of cancer cell turned out to possess an incredibly rare ability — it could move between hosts.
There are just a few kinds of contagious cancers, those transmissible from one animal to another. Along with dogs, Tasmanian devils, Syrian hamsters and some kinds of marine bivalves round out the list of species who host tumors that can move between hosts like a cancerous parasite.
Now an international team of researchers has analyzed the genetics of the canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) to better understand how these cancer cells have evolved over the span of thousands of years. Along with that, they've been able to gain some insights into the history of the tumor's canine hosts, tracking their path across the seas as companions to sailors. The discovery, published today in Science, is providing valuable information not only about the dogs, but about cancer as well. And tracking how the cells evolve and grow over time could help inform new therapies.
A Cancer That Moves
When a cell becomes cancerous, it is a unique transition, one we don't quite have language for. A part of the body, once one among trillions, has become something entirely different. Tumors aren't normally thought of as organisms, of course. But when a cancer is transmissible, the mechanics of which still aren't well understood, it falls much closer to our definition of a distinct organism than anything else.
"Evolution can make a cancer change into a kind of organism that doesn't behave like a cancer anymore," says Adrian Baez-Ortega, a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University and co-author of the research. "It's a dog cell becoming a different species, which is a parasite of dogs."
The researchers, led by the Transmissible Cancer Group at Cambridge University, refer to their subject as an "obligate conspecific asexual parasite." This means, essentially, that the CTVT tumors must be inside a host to survive and cannot live in anything but dogs. They also reproduce asexually, like bacteria do, by splitting themselves in two. Ultimately, the tumor has transcended its origins as the cells of a dog.
CTVT shows up on dogs' genitalia, and it's usually passed between them during mating, when a few cells get scraped off and end up in another dogs' body. For most cancers, this would be a death sentence — the new host's body would recognize these cells as intruders and kill them off. But CTVT is somehow able to evade detection, or quell any aggressive response.
CTVT can be treated today with chemotherapy, which is usually effective. But the tumors are nonetheless found in dogs around the world.
The researchers think that CTVT's success rests, in large part, on the maritime trade. By comparing 546 samples from around the world, and using a technique known as a phylogenetic tree, they tracked the tumor cells' appearance between and 4,000 and 8,000 years ago in central or northern Asia and its subsequent history. The tumor, and the dogs that carried it, began encroaching on Europe around 1,000 years ago, and then, 500 years ago, jumped to the Americas where it spread rapidly. This time period matches up with the proliferation of maritime trade between Europe and the Americas, and it's a clear sign that canines were taking to the seas as well.
From there, hitching a ride on sailor dogs, CTVT spread to Africa and back around to India, stopping at common shipping destinations like the island of Réunion as it went. Today, this single lineage of cancer cells be found living in dogs all around the world.
But that wasn't the only insight the researchers were able to glean from their genetic dive into the transmissible tumor's history. By tracking mutations, they were able to see when and where various kinds occurred. That let them infer what kinds of conditions the canine hosts were experiencing at various point in time. Dogs at lower latitudes have more mutations from exposure to UV light, for example. It's a way of inferring what sorts of things were going on in the environments ancient dogs inhabited, and with their humans as well, by extension.
But there was one mutational signal they couldn't find an answer for. Called "Signature A", it was some sort of environmental pressure that caused heightened levels of mutations in the tumor cells. But they have no idea what it was. All they know is that it abruptly disappeared about 1,000 years ago, right around when the tumor left India.
Baez-Ortega thinks it was probably something in the environment long ago that doesn't show up now.
"It might have to do with something that the human population was doing at that time," he says. These early humans might have been experimenting with metal alloys, he says, or perhaps been around an environmental carcinogen that's since disappeared.
Cancer Lessons
The final result the researchers pulled from their data is one that might hold the most appeal to cancer researchers today. By tracking the mutational history of the tumor, they were able to see what kind of evolutionary forces were acting on its growth and development over the course of thousands of years. Interestingly, they found that there was little natural selection going, of either the positive or negative kind. Selection is the process that promotes organisms with helpful mutations and weeds out those bad ones — it's the main force behind evolution.
Inside the tumor, however, they saw that mutations just kept piling up randomly, leading over time to a gradual degeneration of the cells' health.
This is in contrast to normal cancer cells, which will mutate as they grow. This evolution can be an important element in a tumor's success, as mutations that help them spread come to dominate.
But the opposite is happening in this transmissible tumor. Baez-Ortega says this is probably because most of the genes the cancer cells carry come from dogs, and those aren't really very helpful to it.
"Most of the genes you would find in a dog, they are not necessary for this cancer to survive," he says. "So, the cancer doesn't need any development or any organs or any neurons, doesn't need cell types."
As a result, the genes coding for those kinds of things are simply excess baggage. The tumor cells are already good at the one thing they needs to survive: dividing over and over again. And it's difficult for natural selection to act on things that aren't used.
But the result, over long periods of time, is that the weight of so many mutations begins to destroy genes, eventually to the point that the cells will have difficulty functioning. This hasn't happened yet to the CTVT cells, but it will someday. Their ignorance of the exigencies of natural selection will catch up to them one day.
Meanwhile, CTVT's unique lifestyle might inform cancer treatments today. Adaptive cancer treatments view the disease not as a problem to removed, but a condition to be managed. The philosophy stems from the fact that some cancers, after treatment, will come back more aggressive than before, because all but the most hardy cells have been killed. By treating cancer on an ongoing basis, shrinking but not destroying it, the tumor will never evolve such malignancy. The result would be a tumor that lives alongside you, kept in check with regular treatment.
"If a cancer has the right evolutionary pressures it can actually coexist with organisms, can actually adapt to be a sort of parasite," Baez-Ortega says.
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Singapore – Implementing Registration Of Geographical Indications.
Legal News & Analysis – Asia Pacific – Singapore – Regulatory & Compliance
The Geographical Indications Act was passed by Parliament on 14 April 2014. The new act will replace the existing Geographical Indications Act when it comes into force. It is not currently in force.
Geographical indications ("GI") are terms that are used to inform consumers that a product comes from a particular place. The new Geographical Indications Act will replace the existing system with one based on registration.
Implementation is linked to the ratification of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement ("EUSFTA"). In her second reading speech, Indranee Rajah, the Senior Minister of State for Law, stated that the following timeline will apply:
The GI Registry will be established only if the EU Parliament ratifies the EUSFTA.
The enhanced protection for all categories of registered GIs will only kick in when the benefits of the EUSFTA is provisionally applied both ways.
Improved border enforcement measures will only be effected within three years after the EUSFTA enters into force.
Overview And Legal Background
As noted above, GIs are terms that are used to inform consumers that a product comes from a particular place. The most common examples come from the category of food and drink. Items such as Xuanwei ham, Blue Mountain coffee, and Kobe beef come obviously to mind, but less obvious examples also abound: Champagne, Port, or Basmati are also indicators of product origin.
Currently, GIs are already protected in Singapore under the Geographical Indications Act, in accordance with the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPS, standards. This provides a two-tiered scheme of protection:
First, all GI products enjoy a basic level of protection where GI labels cannot be used on products which do not come from the place indicated by the GI, if this misleads the public as to the true geographical origin of those products.
For wines and spirits, there is an enhanced level of protection where GI labels cannot be used even if consumers are not misled as to the true geographical origin of the goods in question. One example of this is the use of the term "Bordeaux-like". This may not mislead consumers but is nevertheless not allowed.
The present system does not require GIs to be registered in order to enjoy protection. This has meant, however, that a producer of a particular product will not know whether it enjoys protection as a GI product unless he brings an application in court. This makes the system uncertain and expensive to enforce.
The System For Registration Of GIs
As noted, the new Geographical Indications Act will replace the existing system with one based on registration. Registration will give the holder certainty that a term is recognised as a GI and is therefore entitled to all the protections enjoyed by a GI, without needing to confirm this before the courts.
Registration of a GI will only be allowed for the following specified categories of goods set out in the schedule:
Wines, spirits, and beers;
Cheese;
Meat and meat products;
Seafood;
Edible and non-edible oils;
Fruits and vegetables;
Spices and condiments;
Confectionary and baked goods;
Flowers and parts of flowers; and
Natural gum.
Artisanal non-food products have not been scheduled and, accordingly, products such as Kashmiri carpets or Murano glass would not enjoy the benefit of protection.
The following persons may file an application for registration of a GI:
A person who is carrying on an activity as a producer in the geographical area specified in the application;
An association of such persons; and
A competent authority having responsibility for the geographical indication for which registration is sought.
The GI registration system will be similar to the trade mark registration system and will be a three-stage process:
Application: Among other things, applicants will be required to specify the quality, reputation, or characteristics of the goods in question and how that is attributable to the geographical origin.
Examination: There will be detailed examination of each application to ascertain that they fulfil certain fundamental requirements. These are largely similar to what is mandated under the present Act and TRIPS.
Publication And Opposition: Thereafter, the application will be made public for a period of time. This is to allow third parties an opportunity to object to the registration, for example, on grounds of "generic-ness" (meaning that the GI has become a common name for describing that product in Singapore).
Registration of a GI will last for 10 years initially. Like the trade mark registration system, this can be renewed for further periods of 10 years.
Existing Rights
To protect existing rights, GI registration will also follow the "first in time, first in right" principle. This means that a new application for GI registration may not invalidate a prior conflicting GI or trade mark which already exists. Trade mark owners today using terms similar to GIs being registered will thus not be inconvenienced. However, the GI can still be registered if consent is obtained from the owner of the prior conflicting trade mark. Consequential amendments to the Trade Marks Act will be made to align the current trade marks regime with this position.
There will also be exceptions for existing users of GIs so that their business operations will not be disrupted. For instance, if a person has continuously used a GI term in Singapore for a sufficiently long period of time, or has previously used the term in good faith, he or she may continue to use the term, even if the GI is subsequently registered.
As is currently the case, the following persons may bring an application to court to enforce the GI against an infringer:
any person who sells the goods in Singapore or who supplies the goods in Singapore for the purpose of their being sold by another person in Singapore (a "trader");
a producer of the goods; and
an association of such producers or traders or of such producers and traders.
The court may grant an injunction or damages or an account of profits.
Infringement arises if there is use of a GI in relation to goods which did not originate in the place indicated by the GI, in a manner that misleads the public as to the geographical origin of the goods. In addition, under the new GI Act, there is infringement if the use of the GI constitutes an act of unfair competition. This refers to:
All acts of such a nature as to create confusion by any means whatever with the establishment, the goods, or the industrial or commercial activities, of a competitor;
False allegations in the course of trade of such a nature as to discredit the establishment, the goods, or the industrial or commercial activities, of a competitor; and
All indications or allegations the use of which in the course of trade is liable to mislead the public as to the nature, the manufacturing process, the characteristics, the suitability for their purpose, or the quantity, of the goods.
The enhanced protection that wines and spirits currently enjoy will be extended to all successfully registered GIs. This means that protection is conferred even if consumers are not misled as to the products' true geographical origin.
Owners of all registered GIs will have access to improved border enforcement measures. For instance, they will be able to request that our Customs authorities detain suspected infringing goods which are to be imported into or exported from Singapore. These measures are generally based on those in the Trade Marks Act, with modifications to suit the situations involving GIs.
Our Analysis / Comments
The new Geographical Indications Act will provide rights owners enhanced protection for products having a particular reputation associated with a particular geographical territory. As such protection will however be application based, rights owners should act promptly to file applications for GIs, bearing in mind also that the "first in time, first in right" principle may give rise to concerns where there are competing claims to use a GI.
Chung Nian Lam, Partner, WongPartnership
Jeffrey Lim, Partner, WongPartnership
Regulatory & Compliance International Law Firms in Singapore


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Менструа́льный цикл (от  «месячный "цикл"; ежемесячный») — это регулярное естественное изменение, которое происходит в женской репродуктивной системе (особенно в матке и яичниках), что делает беременность возможной. Цикл необходим для производства ооцитов и для подготовки матки к беременности. Менструальный цикл происходит из-за изменения уровня гормонов. Этот цикл приводит к утолщению функционального слоя слизистой оболочки матки и росту яйцеклетки (что необходимо для наступления беременности). В цикле средней длительности (28 дней) яйцеклетка выходит из яичника примерно на четырнадцатый день; функциональный слой слизистой матки обеспечивает питание эмбриона после имплантации. Если беременность не наступает, функциональный слой эндометрия отторгается, что и называется менструацией.

До 80 % женщин сообщают о наличии некоторых симптомов в течение одной-двух недель до менструации. Общие симптомы включают прыщи,  вздутие живота, чувство усталости, раздражительность и изменения настроения. Эти симптомы мешают нормальной жизни и поэтому квалифицируются как предменструальный синдром у 20-30 % женщин. У 3-8 % они тяжелые.

Первый период обычно начинается в возрасте от двенадцати до пятнадцати лет, момент, известный как менархе. Он может иногда начинаться уже в восемь, и такое начало все ещё может быть нормальным. Средний возраст первого периода, как правило, позже в развивающихся странах и раньше в развитых странах. Типичная продолжительность времени между первым днем одного периода и первым днем следующего составляет от 21 до 45 дней у молодых женщин и от 21 до 35 дней у взрослых (в среднем 28 дней). Менструация прекращается после менопаузы, которая обычно происходит в возрасте от 45 до 55 лет. Кровотечение обычно длится от 3 до 7 дней.

Менструальный цикл зависит от гормональных изменений. Эти изменения меняют с помощью гормональной контрацепции, чтобы предотвратить беременность. Каждый цикл можно разделить на три фазы в зависимости от событий в яичнике (цикл яичников) или в матке (цикл матки). Яичниковый цикл состоит из фолликулярной фазы, овуляции и лютеиновой фазы, тогда как маточный цикл делится на менструацию, пролиферативную фазу и секреторную фазу.

Менструальный цикл характерен для человека, некоторых других приматов, китов.

Менструальный цикл включает три фазы: менструальную, пролиферативную и секреторную.

Длительность менструального цикла
Длительность менструального цикла женщины (в среднем) 28±7 суток.

Продолжительность цикла определяется физиологическими процессами в организме женщины.

Терминология
Менархе — первый менструальный цикл — является центральным событием в период полового развития, указывающим на способность женского организма к размножению. У женщин средним возрастом наступления менархе считаются 12-14 лет, с нормой от 9 до 16 лет: 9 лет — ранняя менархе, после 16 лет — первичная аменорея. Время наступления первого менструального кровотечения зависит от таких факторов, как наследственность, питание, общее состояние здоровья.

Нарушения периода менструального цикла могут быть вызваны различными факторами: от подростковых гормональных колебаний, беременности и других естественных причин до различных внешних и внутренних стрессов.

Прекращение менструаций происходит в возрасте 40—58 лет (в среднем, в 47—50 лет), в период климакса происходит угасание репродуктивной функции. Время наступления менопаузы (климакс — период, характеризующийся нерегулярностью или полным прекращением менструаций) зависит в большей степени от наследственности, однако некоторые заболевания и врачебные вмешательства могут вызвать раннее наступление менопаузы.

Фазы

Процессы, происходящие в течение менструального цикла, могут быть описаны как фазы, соответствующие изменениям в яичниках (фолликулярная, овуляторная и лютеиновая), и в эндометрии (менструальная, пролиферативная и секреторные фазы).

Фолликулярная/менструальная фаза

Менструальная фаза представляет собой кровотечение из полости матки в результате отторжения слоя эндометрия, которое происходит в конце овариального цикла, если не было оплодотворения яйцеклетки. Началом фолликулярной фазы яичника или менструальной фазы матки считается первый день менструации. Длительность фолликулярной фазы, во время которой происходит окончательное созревание доминантного фолликула, довольно вариабельна: при 23-дневном цикле — 9—11 дней, при 35-дневном — 21—23 дня.

Фолликулярная фаза (а вместе с ней и овариальный цикл) начинается с выделения гонадолиберина гипоталамусом, который стимулирует аденогипофиз к секреции небольших количеств фолликулостимулирующего и лютеинизирующего гормонов (фоллитропина и лютропина соответственно). Низкий уровень секреции эстрадиола подавляет секрецию фоллитропина и лютропина, оставляя уровень их секреции относительно невысоким. Тем не менее, под действием фоллитропина в яичниках начинают развиваться несколько фолликулов, из которых становится доминантным фолликул, имеющий наибольшее число рецепторов к фоллитропину и наиболее интенсивно синтезирующий эстрадиол, остальные же подвергаются атрезии. Постепенно уровень эстрадиола растёт, но, хотя низкая концентрация эстрадиола подавляет секрецию гонадотропинов, высокая концентрация эстрадиола, напротив, стимулирует секрецию гонадотропинов, так как она приводит к увеличению выделения гонадолиберина гипоталамусом. Особенно этот эффект заметен для лютропина, поскольку высокая концентрация эстрадиола увеличивает чувствительность к гонадолиберину клеток аденогипофиза, выделяющих лютропин. Кроме того, фолликулы сильнее реагируют на лютропин из-за большего числа рецепторов к этому гормону. Таким образом, в этом случае имеет место регуляция по принципу положительной обратной связи. Итак, фолликул увеличивается в размерах до тех пор, пока не произойдёт резкий выброс лютропина из аденогипофиза. На этом фолликулярная фаза заканчивается и начинается овуляторная фаза.

Овуляторная/пролиферативная фаза

Приблизительно к седьмому дню цикла определяется доминантный фолликул, который продолжает расти и секретирует увеличивающееся количество эстрадиола, в то время как остальные фолликулы подвергаются обратному развитию. Достигнувший зрелости и способный к овуляции фолликул называется граафовым пузырьком. Во время овуляторной фазы, которая длится около трёх дней, происходит выброс лютеинизирующего гормона (ЛГ). В течение 36—48 ч происходит несколько волн высвобождения ЛГ, значительно увеличивается его концентрация в плазме. Выброс ЛГ завершает развитие фолликула, стимулирует продукцию простагландинов и протеолитических ферментов, необходимых для разрыва стенки фолликула и высвобождения зрелой яйцеклетки (собственно овуляция). В то же время снижается уровень эстрадиола, что иногда сопровождается овуляторным синдромом. Овуляция обычно происходит в ближайшие 24 ч после наиболее крупной волны выброса ЛГ (от 16 до 48 ч). Во время овуляции высвобождается 5—10 мл фолликулярной жидкости, в которой содержится яйцеклетка.

Лютеиновая/секреторная фаза

Промежуток времени между овуляцией и началом менструального кровотечения называется лютеиновой фазой цикла (также известна как фаза жёлтого тела). В отличие от фолликулярной фазы, длительность лютеиновой более постоянная — 12 дней (± 2 дня). После разрыва граафова пузырька стенки его спадаются, его клетки накапливают липиды и лютеиновый пигмент, это придаёт ему жёлтый цвет. Трансформированный граафов фолликул теперь называется жёлтым телом. Продолжительность лютеиновой фазы зависит от периода функционирования (10—12 дней) жёлтого тела, в это время жёлтое тело секретирует прогестерон, эстрадиол и андрогены. Повышенный уровень эстрогена и прогестерона изменяет характеристику двух наружных слоев эндометрия. Железы эндометрия созревают, пролиферируют и начинают секретировать (секреторная фаза), матка готовится к имплантации оплодотворенной яйцеклетки. Уровень прогестерона и эстрогена достигают пика в середине лютеиновой фазы, и в ответ на это снижается уровень ЛГ и ФСГ.

При наступлении беременности жёлтое тело начинает вырабатывать прогестерон до тех пор, пока плацента не разовьётся и не станет секретировать эстроген и прогестерон.

Если беременность не происходит, жёлтое тело прекращает функционировать, снижается уровень эстрогенов и прогестерона, что приводит к отечности и некротическим изменениям эндометрия. Снижение уровня прогестерона также усиливает синтез простагландинов. Если яйцеклетка не оплодотворяется, то через некоторое время жёлтое тело подвергается , то есть лизису или структурному разрушению, и более неспособно синтезировать прогестерон и эстрадиол. Регулятором лютеолиза является простагландин . Из-за лютеолиза секреция фоллитропина и лютропина более не подавляется, поскольку более нет отрицательной обратной связи, и секреция этих гормонов начинает возрастать, стимулируя развитие нового фолликула. Уменьшение уровня эстрогена и прогестерона также способствует возобновлению синтеза ЛГ и ФСГ, начинается новый менструальный цикл.

См. также
 Лютеинизирующий гормон
 Фолликулостимулирующий гормон
 Менструация
 Овуляция
 Фолликул яичника

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Sophomores named Nuala Pell Leadership Program fellows for 2015-16 academic year
Twelve sophomores committed to developing their leadership skills have been selected from a competitive field of applicants as fellows in the Nuala Pell Leadership Program for the 2015-2016 academic year at Salve Regina University.
Named in honor of the late Nuala Pell, the wife of U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell and a long-time university trustee, the program aims to build students' leadership skills to be used both in the classroom and in the real world. Participating students will receive specialized leadership training throughout their sophomore years. Based at Salve Regina's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, the program is delivered by core staff of the Pell Center and outside guests.
Students making up 2015-2016 class of Nuala Pell Leadership Program Fellows include: Jenna Abrams of Stamford, Conn., a psychology major; Alessio Ayuninjam of Tiverton, a graphic design major; Tabitha-Anne Bloodsaw, of New York, N.Y., a theatre and philosophy major; Kathryn Clancy of Chelmsford, Mass., an elementary and special education major; Luc Copeland of Kalamazoo, Mich., a nursing major; Brittany Fox of Hopedale, Mass., a history major; Alexis Jankowski of North Atteboro, Mass., a psychology major; Omar Kane of New York, N.Y., a biology/neuroscience major; Jacob Lang of North Attleboro, Mass., a philosophy major; Kay Scanlan of Somersworth, N.H., a psychology major; Devin Smith of Ipswich, Mass., a nursing major; and Amanda Reis of Everett, Mass., a global studies major.
"As a whole, this is a high-achieving group of students who represent a variety of academic majors and bring diverse experiences, ideas and communication styles to the program," said Chelsea Buffington, program director.
The program will include monthly meetings where students engage in topics ranging from leadership theory and leadership ethics to managing change and vision mapping. Each meeting will feature a dinner during which the fellows will engage with an invited leader, organically learning specific pathways to leadership and attributes of successful leaders.
In the fall, the fellows will travel to Washington, D.C. where they will participate in group meetings with a wide variety of leaders, attend a reception honoring the Nuala Pell Leadership Program, and engage in team-building exercises.
Each student will also shadow an Aquidneck Island leader and participate in teams of four in a service project that they design and implement themselves. The students will also attend quarterly luncheons with Nuala Pell Leadership Fellows who have already completed the program. In spring 2016, they will participate in an individual presentation on their shadowing experience and a group presentation on their service project. At the end of the year, students will participate in a reception with all cohorts of the Nuala Pell Leadership Program along with invited leaders.


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The 27 Best Anime Tv Series to Watch on Netflix Now
The Top 27 Best Japanese Anime Tv Shows Available on Netflix to Watch Right Now
What is Netflix? Well, the answer is simple, Netflix is a website that allows us to stream online various tv series, documentaries, various TV shows, movies, and even Japanese animes.
Now Netflix is so popular that it even has 167 million paid memberships in over 190 countries, due to the wide variety of genres and languages. which help Members watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen.
But Today our main focus will be on what are the Best Japanese anime series available on Netflix that you can watch?
well, cheer up because Netflix has a variety of Action-packed adventures, hilarious comedies, inspirational anime stories, from classics to the most new ones, just sit tight, bring your popcorn, and choose what's best for your taste.
So Lets Countdown our List of the best anime on Netflix to Watch...Here We Go!
27. Ajin
Episdoes: 26 / Two Seasons
Studios: Polygon Pictures
Genres: Action, Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Seinen
Watch This Anime On Netflix: Netflix.com
Let's kick off our Netflix Best Anime Series list with Ajin, which is a supernatural anime full of complex ideas about life and death, as well as the dark side of human nature. This series tries to answer the question of What does it mean to truly be human?
Seventeen years ago, the existence of a special species called Ajin was discovered in Africa. They are said to be immortal beings, with several supernatural abilities, that look just like any other human being.
Are these Ajin just random phenomena of nature or were they purposely sent to Earth to destroy it?
Since their first discovery, several other Ajin appearances have been reported worldwide. For the majority of citizens though, these creatures are less reality and more of something you see every once in a while in a textbook or on the news.
This is how it was for the young protagonist of the series, Kei. That was until a sudden turn of events changed his life forever…
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26. Devilman Crybaby
Episdoes: 10
Studios: Science SARU
Genres: Action, Dementia, Demons, Horror, Supernatural
Watch Devilman Crybaby Tv Series Online On Netflix: Netflix.com
Devils cannot take form without a living host. However, they can overcome the demon and make its power their own with their strength, becoming a Devilman. Weak and unassuming, Akira Fudou has always had a bleeding heart. So when his childhood friend Ryou Asuka asks for his help in uncovering devils, Akira accepts without hesitation.
However, to Akira's surprise, the place they go to is Sabbath: an immoral party of debauchery and degeneracy. Amidst bloodshed and death, demons possess the partiers, turning their bodies into grotesque monsters, and begin wreaking havoc. In a reckless attempt to save his best friend. Akira unwittingly merges with the devil Amon and becomes a Devilman, gaining the power to defeat the remaining demons.
Though it grants him great power, this new partnership awakens an insatiable and primeval part of Akira. therefor, Akira works alongside Ryou, destroying those that harm humanity and his loved ones.
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25. Erased
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Genres: Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Seinen
Watch Erased Anime Series On Netflix: Netflix.com
What if you have the power to go back in time and correct whats wrong! well this time travel anime series is dealing with this theme, it's story focuses on Satoru Fujinuma, who is sent back in time 18 years to prevent the events leading to his mother's death, which began with a series of kidnappings in his 5th grade year.
When tragedy is about to strike, 29 year old Satoru Fujinuma finds himself sent back in time before the accident happens. Satoru is a mangaka who will use this powerful yet mysterious experience, which he calls "Revival," to back in time and tries saving many lives. However, when he is wrongfully accused of killing his mom, Satoru is sent back to 18 years in the past. Soon, he realizes that his mother's murder is somehow linked to the abduction and killing of his childhood friend Kayo Hinazuki. now he wants rectify everything.
Boku dake ga Inai Machi focus on Satoru who wants to corrects the wrongs of 18 years ago and while saving those he cares about in the present.
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24. Durarara
Episodes: 49 / Three Seasons
Studios: Brain's Base
Genres: Action, Mystery, Supernatural
Stream Durarara Anime Tv Series Online on: Netflix.com
This Japanese animated series takes place In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest – the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets.
Ryuugamine Mikado has always longed for the excitement of the city life, and an invitation from a childhood friend convinces him to move to Tokyo. Witnessing the Black Rider on his first day in the city, his wishes already seem to have been granted. But as supernatural events begin to occur, ordinary citizens like himself, along with Ikebukuro's most colorful inhabitants, are mixed up in the commotion breaking out in their city.
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23. Blue Exorcist
Episodes: 37 / Two Seasons
Studios: A-1 Pictures
Genres: Action, Demons, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Watch Blue Exorcist Animated Series on: Netflix.com
Are you a Netflix member that love watching great anime shows! Well, you've Just bumped into one of the most significant demon anime with overpowered devil characters, especially if he happens to be the son of Satan!
Rin Okumura may not resemble the cloven-hooved one and doesn't carry a huge devil trident either. He seems like an ordinary teenager in human form. But when he transforms into a demon, twin blue flames hover above his head, his eyes turn blue, teeth sharpen and ears take an elf-like shape.
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As part of a computer graphics university assignment, I was tasked with creating a virtual classroom in WebGL.
You can try it at the bottom of this page to the demo or with the following Link.
Comparing the normal shading to cell shading.
Dynamic lighting allows the ambient lights to be turned to different levels.


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Chesterfield v FC Halifax Town preview
Scott Boden could be in line to face his former club Halifax for Chesterfield
Tom Scargill
FC Halifax Town could extend the gap between themselves and the relegation zone to eight points with a win at Chesterfield on Saturday (3pm).
If Chesterfield win, then the gap between them and Halifax would be just two points. And with Maidstone, the team just outside the bottom four, facing a tough game against promotion-chasing Fylde, The Spireites will be aware than three points could lift them out of the drop zone.
Strikers Scott Boden and top-scorer Tom Denton could both feature against their old club, with Boden in-line to make his Chesterfield debut after joining from fellow National League side Gateshead.
Chesterfield were among the favourites for promotion at the start of the season, but have suffered a nightmare campaign and are languishing in 21st place, with only five wins from 30 league matches.
Chesterfield come into the game off the back of a 2-0 loss at home to Brackley in FA Trophy - in a game for which manager John Sheridan made four changes - and have drawn four out of their last five league games.
Halifax recorded a good 0-0 draw with Salford two weeks ago in a match they should have won, and should be refreshed after having no fixture last weekend.
Town have only scored in one of their last five games - and have gone four-and-a-half hours without finding the net - but have kept three clean sheets in their last five games and have not conceded a goal in the league in just under six hours.
The two sides drew 1-1 at The Shay in October, with Matty Kosylo scoring for Halifax and Denton equalising for Chesterfield.
Saturday's National League fixtures:
Aldershot Town v Eastleigh
Barnet v Sutton United
Barrow v Bromley
Braintree Town v Salford City
FC Halifax Town: Club to sift through applications for manager's job tomorrow
Chesterfield v FC Halifax Town
Dover Athletic v Harrogate Town
Ebbsfleet United v Solihull Moors
Gateshead v Havant & Waterlooville
Hartlepool United v Leyton Orient
Maidenhead United v Boreham Wood
Maidstone United v AFC Fylde
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Marci: Can you tell us more about Bayla Gideon?
Eva: Bayla is a bluestocking (an intellectual or literary woman) with a wry sense of humor. She is obsessed with archeology and natural history. While on an archeological expedition, Bayla finds an ancient Hand of Miriam or a hamsa, a small amulet shaped like a hand and embedded with an eye on the palm. It is a common amulet used to ward off evil or the evil eye.
A sandstorm comes and when it's over, Bayla is embedded with the Hand of Miriam and can now detect evil. On her return to England, she must deal with reading peoples negative thoughts and the ire of other kind creatures. Faced with new danger, Bayla awakens the golem, a clay man, to protect her.
Marci: Does Bayla have any hobbies?
Eva: Before the incident in the desert, she loved going on archeological digs and adventures.
Marci: If Bayla could change anything about his/her life, what would it be?
Eva: She would remove the Hand of Miriam from her palm and return to being normal.
Marci: If your book became a movie, who would be your dream cast? And directed by Peter Jackson.
Joe Manganiello would play Gesher the golem when in human form.
Marci: Do you prefer silence when you write or a noise/music? If music, what did you listen to while writing Hand of Miriam, A Bayla and the Golem Novel?
Marci: Do you find yourself listening to different music depending on what scenes you are writing?
Eva: Yes, all the time. I have quite a playlist on Spotify.
Marci: Milk or dark chocolate?
Marci: Jaguar, Ferrari, Prius, or pick up truck?
Eva: Prius but with a truck for snow days.
Eva: You are making me choose between coffee and wine? Hmm. Coffee. I need to be alert for editing.
Marci: What do you do to refresh and relax?
Eva: Yoga and I work with raptors (hawks and owls).
Marci: Tree house, regular house, or cave?
Eva: Cave but tree house comes a close second.
Marci: History show, DYI shows, sitcoms, CSI type shows, or reality shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians?
Eva: History and science shows. Dracula, Grimm, Downton Abby and The Walking Dead.
Marci: Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Eva: I also write paranormal romance with The Wild Rose Press and Corvallis Press. I work with raptors and I do workshops on animal lore. I will be doing a workshop on Wolf Lore for RWA's July Convention.


UAE: The first of a fleet of fuel cell powered double-deck heritage-style open-top trams is now undergoing tests on the initial section of a line which will serve Emaar Properties' Downtown Dubai development.
Emaar says the tramway will operate between 16.00 and midnight on weekdays and from 15.00 to 23.00 on weekends, providing convenient and easy-to-access transport around the 200 ha Downtown Dubai site as well as being an 'exotic' and 'fun oriented' visitor attraction passing landmarks including Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Mall.
The standard gauge line is being built in three phases which will eventually form a 7 km loop around Downtown Dubai. Phase one will run for 1 km on grassed track in the median of the orbital Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard, with three stops serving The Address and the Manzil Downtown and Vida Downtown hotels. The stops will have an 'aesthetically appealing façade' and air-conditioning.
The double-deck trams are being custom-built by US firm TIG/m under a contract awarded in 2009. They will use fuel cells to generate electricity for traction, with batteries for to recover regenerated braking energy. TIG/m is also installing the plant for producing hydrogen on-site by electrolysis of water.


Michael Jordan Donates $1 Mil to Support Police… BlackLivesMatter RAGE!
It isn't every day that basketball legend Michael Jordan publicly shares his opinion on current events. Unlike WNBA players, his career has actually been centered on basketball. It's hard to find time for whining in between all that superhuman slam dunking.
I have been deeply troubled by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers… I am saddened and frustrated by the divisive rhetoric and racial tensions that seem to be getting worse as of late. We need to find solutions that ensure people of color receive fair and equal treatment AND that police officers – who put their lives on the line every day to protect us all – are respected and supported.
I have the greatest respect for their sacrifice and service. I also recognize that for many people of color their experiences with law enforcement have been different than mine… [I] hope that we can come together as Americans, and through peaceful dialogue and education, achieve constructive change.
I am making contributions of $1 million each to two organizations, the International Association of Chiefs of Police's newly established Institute for Community-Police Relations and the NAACP Legal Defense fund. We are privileged to live in the world's greatest country… If we all work together, we can foster positive change.
Seems pretty reasonable, right? His efforts are noteworthy, barring the fact that the NAACP is a raging dumpster fire most recently orchestrated by a woman in blackface (no, not Shaun King)… It appears that he sincerely cares about both police and blacks. Which, hey, shouldn't be mutually exclusive. His level-headedness is commendable. Right?
No1 was waiting on #MichaelJordan 2 speak out for black ppl or #BlackLivesMatter issues. We know he only speaks when it affects his money.
Michael Jordan "saddened" about black people being killed but he's ANGERED by the HATEFUL and SENSELESS killings of cops. Yep, Uncle Tom.
Let us briefly recap: MJ denounces both the deaths of innocent blacks and police. Donates serious cash to pro-police and pro-black groups. Wants meaningful, pro-American change. Black Lives Matter's response? Scathing, hellfirey inferno of anger. Maybe because MJ doesn't fit the narrative that leftists keep pushing. You know, the one that says blacks can't be successful and friends with the police. Maybe it's because they hate Space Jam. Monsters.